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Description
Nice photo postcard with two photos: one of the railway station, the other with view down street to Lake TImiskaming.
A fire in 1906 leveled much of the business district.
Postmarked ‘HAILEYBURY DE 13 06 ONT.’ on a 2 cent King Edward VII stamp, and mailed to West Ealing England.
Light smudge on back.
(Red text is an electronic watermark that is not physically part of the photo for sale)
Haileybury was founded in 1889 by Charles Cobbold Farr, who named the newly founded town after the Haileybury and Imperial Service College, his former school in England. Haileybury was formally incorporated as a town in 1904. Farr encouraged settlement in the area, penning his own promotional pamphlet, entitled "The Lake Temiskamingue District", in an effort to attract new settlers to the region. 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.
