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From the Timmins Museum: ************************* A celebration of twenty-five years of business for the Dalton’s Company. Mr. Dalton is the large man at the right hand side of the photo wearing white and holding the horse.

Above, a vehicular voyage back in time. Below, the caption, courtesy the Timmins Museum. ************************* Timmins Garage The fine staff (and cars) from Timmins Garage, located at Spruce and Algonquin.

This week we bring you yet another view of a familiar intersection.

Check out that woodwork! The Connaught Hotel certainly was grand, but don't bother looking for it. It burned nearly a century ago. Oh well, at least the Timmins Museum still has photos like the one above.

If you want to get prickly about it, Porcupine used to be called Golden City, and this is what it looked like back in 1910. The following is from the Timmins Museum: ************************* View of Golden City (now Porcupine) in 1910.

This photo of the Hollinger Mine dates back to 1936. That’s less than three decades after a young barber named Benny Hollinger lifted up some moss and made history.

From the Timmins Museum: ************************* Hollinger refinery foreman Ken Stubbs with a group tour at the mine in this undated photo.

It's a drug store. That much we know. But which one? From the Timmins Museum: ************************* A drugstore from downtown Timmins – sometime between 1932-35.

Below are listed the members of the 1915 South Porcupine Junior Hockey Team, which is pictured above. ************************* 1915 South Porcupine Junior Hockey team Standing: W. Deacon, centre; J. Costello, defense; N. Levine, centre; F.

From the Timmins Museum: ************************* The Porcupine area was paralyzed by a strike at the mines in the winter of 1912. Strikers’ parade in South Porcupine, December 1912.