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Description
Photo of dirt Main street in Northern Ontario town of Haileybury. Looking down to lake. On left ..Bank of Canada
Ontario law did not allow selling liquor within 5 miles of working mines and Haileybury was half a mile over that limit from Cobalt.
Titled ‘Main Street Haileybury in August 1905’ and ‘3505’
On back, publisher ‘Warwick’s Bro’s & Rutter, Limited, Publishers, Toronto’
Message “Part of Haileybury main street before the fire…”
Postmarked ‘-LEYBURY—18 07’.
Haileybury was formally incorporated as a town in 1904. Marketed to settlers as prime agricultural land, Haileybury had only a handful of residents until the arrival of the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway in the early 1900s, and the subsequent discovery of large silver deposits in neighboring Cobalt in 1903. During the Cobalt Silver Rush, Haileybury became a 'bedroom community' that served the needs of the many miners and, most famously, many mine owners and managers.
