Swastika, Ontario: Harry Oakes and the Tough brothers snowshoe six miles through the dark and -40F cold from Swastika and at midnight start staking the expired Burroughs claims on the "Kirkland Lake Break"; they wear five pairs of pants to keep out the bitter cold, and use a candle in a tin can as a source of light to read their compasses as they stake in the dark. Another prospector, Bill Wright, arrives too late, but stakes neighbouring claims. By 1913, the "Tough-Oakes-Burnside" (Toburn) mine is in full production at a modest rate of 100 tons a day. Oakes will use his profits to develop the Lakeshore Mine in Kirkland Lake in 1917 with Bill Wright."
No, one group I read (well, actually two) have daily "On this day in ...." posts, and this came up today.
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"Jan 8, 1877: Crazy Horse fights last battle
On this day in 1877, Crazy Horse and his warriors--outnumbered, low on ammunition and forced to use outdated weapons to defend themselves--fight their final losing battle against the U.S. Cavalry in Montana.
Though he had escaped decisive defeat, Crazy Horse realized that Miles and his well-equipped cavalry troops would eventually hunt down and destroy his cold, hungry followers. On May 6, 1877, Crazy Horse led approximately 1,100 Indians to the Red Cloud reservation near Nebraska's Fort Robinson and surrendered. Five months later, a guard fatally stabbed him after he allegedly resisted imprisonment by Indian policemen.
January 8, 1915 The first of 64,976 Canadian servicemen to perish
H.G. Bellinger of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry dies at the Ypres salient. First Canadian known to have been killed in WWI. Canada's total casualties stood at the end of the war at 67,000 killed and 173,000 wounded, out of an expeditionary force of 620,000 people mobilized (39% of mobilized were casualties)
January 8, 2001: Bulger killers win anonymity for life
The identities and whereabouts of the two boys who murdered toddler James Bulger in 1993 are to be kept secret for the rest of their lives, the High Court has ruled.
The two boys, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson were age 10 when they abducted, tortured and murdered 2 year old James Bulger in 1993. The two boys were released when they were 18 and were given new identities in undisclosed locations. The ban on identifying the boys only applies to England and Wales."
Swastika, Ontario: Harry Oakes and the Tough brothers snowshoe six miles through the dark and -40F cold from Swastika and at midnight start staking the expired Burroughs claims on the "Kirkland Lake Break"; they wear five pairs of pants to keep out the bitter cold, and use a candle in a tin can as a source of light to read their compasses as they stake in the dark. Another prospector, Bill Wright, arrives too late, but stakes neighbouring claims. By 1913, the "Tough-Oakes-Burnside" (Toburn) mine is in full production at a modest rate of 100 tons a day. Oakes will use his profits to develop the Lakeshore Mine in Kirkland Lake in 1917 with Bill Wright."
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