Hymers
Hymers is a farming community in Gillies Township near Fort William, served by a new railway.[1]
It was first called Murdock Siding, then Hymers Crossing, and in 1900 Hymers. Settlers arrived heavily in spring 1900; some camped in the abandoned Beaver and Badger mines and the Halfway House.[1] Lumbering dominated for decades before dairy, hay, poultry, root crops and fruit growing; a cheese factory at Stanley encouraged herd growth.[2] The first store (1900), a blacksmith shop and a boarding house were followed by a church in 1902 and a school in 1901 that grew to nearly 100 pupils by 1906, with a second section and school added in 1909.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Annie Turk, "Hymers – the first sixty years", Papers and Records, vol. III (Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 1975), p. 19. Archived: datum.locker.
- ↑ Annie Turk, "Hymers – the first sixty years", Papers and Records, vol. III (Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 1975), pp. 19–20. Archived: datum.locker.
- ↑ Annie Turk, "Hymers – the first sixty years", Papers and Records, vol. III (Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 1975), pp. 20–21. Archived: datum.locker.