Sir Harry Oakes

1874--1943 Excellent!
Prospector-- not Geologist.

"Adventure, fame and fortune all came the way of Sir Harry Oakes, the self-made prospector and mine-finder who transformed Ontario's Kirkland Lake district into one of the world's most famous gold camps."
Adventure! Lake Shore Mine was the first significant of the area.

Lake Shore-- made MAD amount of Gold.

Born American, Maine. went to school there. B.A.!

Roamed the world looking for gold.
Klondike 1899. Alaska, New Zealand, Australia, Mexico... Many more!
Adventure.
"A keen interest in geology"

1910 Went to Cobalt and Porcupine. Heard they were staked.
Anecdote: How he found the strike:
"After hearing about granite-that-might-be-porphyry occurring east of Swastika, he headed off with his prospecting tools and $2.65 in cash. Within days, he found porphyry containing a small, weakly gold-bearing quartz vein outcrop on the south shore of Kirkland Lake, which he arranged to have staked."

1912! Gold! Kept going. Found more stuff.
Then returned to Kirkland Lake.

1918: Tenacity paid off--the Lake Shore Property.
Huge mine.

His career was aptly described by The Northern Miner as "a monument to the opportunities of gold mine prospecting in Canada".