Hector Authier-

1881-1971
All Abitibi was his cause-- a region. Val D'Or in Quebec.

was a minister of the crown and a mayro.

Helped formed the Read-Authier syndicate.
Val d'or is in Quebec, Canadian shield, near the ontario border.
Lamanque Gold mine. Sigma Mines.
Worked with Abana-- nonmetal mining.
and then Molybdenite Corporation of canada.

Grew up in Montreal--did law at Laval-- Abitibi is a region.
Sure. Not sure how this guy ended up in mining. Though. Probably where Val D'or is.

Pierre Beauchemin

Pierre Beauchemin. 1892--1962.

Quebec. One of French Canada's outstanding mine makers.
So is he the money?
Same region-Abitibi. Right?
Formed a mining company with his brothers in 1927.
Sullivan Group. Also in Amos.
Found gold! Brought in production in 1934.

Then found copper-zinc in the East Sullivan Mines in 1954.
"a campside chat on the river in 1923, with a prospector."

Also involved in Lithium production.
"Canada's Mr. Lithium."

John Paris Bickell

1884--1951

Brokerage f irm-- financier-- became millionaire by 30--
and in 1919-- invested in McIntyre-Porcupine,
Ontario's first gold and major producer.

WWII-- Worked with Airplane supply board getting planes
made for British govt. Worked for Victory aircraft in Canada
on more planes for RCAF.

Philanthropists--gave lots of money, after he died-- had
endowment--which has given massive amounts to Toronto Sick Kids hospital.
Also scholarships for mining endevors.

Born in Molesworth, Ontario (?)
Went to Yukon Goldfields as a young man.
Did buisness in Toronto in early 1900s. Helped finance silver mines in Temiskaming. (?)
Then Timmins region.
Invested early in the McIntyre mine.
Helped make it a rich place.
Also some gold in Quebec; and Silver near Gowganda.



helped make Maple Leaf Gardens! (Toronto)

Matthew James Boylen

1907--1970
"The King of the Minemakers"
New Brunswick guy--worked on the Bathurst area for BM&S

"The exploration effort in the Bathurst area was of historic as well as of economic significance. The discoveries in the area established the use of the ground and airborne electromagnetic methods of searching for deposits and provided conclusive proof of the geological concept of volcanogenic sulphide deposits. These major steps served to steer Canadian exploration toward more scientifically based successes and resulted in a new geological model for mineral exploration that has since been used around the world."

Born in Weston Ontario. Grew up in Alberta.
Went to larder lake-- set up hq and trading post for fur traders. Whoa!

1922-- moved into prospecting in Rouyn in Quebec.
1927 full time prospector.

1934 Gold rush in Sturgeon River Ontario. Made Office in Toronto
1940s-- worked on Dulama Gold mines.
48 Anacon lead mines
50 Montaubun Mines.
United Lead and Zinc Mines.
Advocate Asbsestos in Nfld.

Greatest success was New Brunswick.
50s formed a grabstake.
Financed discovery of metal orebodies--that lead to BM&S.

Frederick M. Connell

1883--1980

Got Inco medal in 1973:
"In recognition of the leading part he has played as a mine-finder and mine-maker, placing his name in the foremost rank of those whose names and accomplishments will always be associated with laying broad and firm foundations to one of Canada's greatest industries."

Worked on a number of famous mines. Let me tell you about them.
And then...

Spencerville Ontario--1906-- graduate from Queen's in Mining Eng.
Worked in Silver exploration in Cobalt;
Porcupine and Kirkland Lake gold rushes.

1920--1929; opened a number of mines Waite Amulet Mines; Central Patricia Gold Mines.

1938 formed the Conwest Exploration group; became all of Connell Mining.
Connell's Conwest.

1945-- teamed with Frobisher-- to make Keno Hill Mining to deal with Silver in the Yukon.
United Keno became largest single producer of silver in Canada.

1950-- took over claim Northern Bc.
Became an asbestos mine.

Oh yeah, and the OBE.

John E. Hammell

1876--1958
An explorer-- pushed the use of Airplanes to explore the north.
"It was Hammell's ambition to "crack open the north," and he did that through his pioneering use of aircraft to move men and materials to areas previously accessible only by dogsled in winter or canoe in summer."

In 20's he formed NAME: Northern Aerial Minerals Exploration.
Made a fleet of aircraft, that pushed the frontier back. Many planes.
Out of this company were the "predesccor companies" of today's airlines.

1915: Backed prospectors on Manitoba Lake: Flin Flon!
Backing them; lead to being one of Canada's biggest: Zinc and Copper ore.

1925. Red Lake. Got use of aircraft to work on a gold discovery there.
Airlifting worked to get the mining property viable for exploration.

Born in Ontario. Was a professional Boxer. Newspaper reproter.
Was a financier. Made mines.
Did well.

Joseph H. Hirshhorn

1900--1981
Good quote:
He was an unabashed promoter and entrepreneur who announced his arrival with a full­page advertisement in The Northern Miner, entitled "My Name is Opportunity and I Am Paging Canada."

Born in Latvia. Raised in Brooklyn. Ah, like that comics generation.
Sold newspapers. Jewish? Went to Wall Street. Made a fortune.
Got interested in Canadian Gold.

Met some prospectors. Made some money off Gold.
Did financing for a Kirkland Lake gold mine.
Did financing for Doug Wright Dome mine in Porcupine.

Big deal? Did the money for the Blind River Uranium of Elliot Lake.
1949-- teamed up with Franc Joubin to explore it.
Got some Uranium in Saskatchewan near Athabaska.
Then a Gold mine called the La Ronge Copper Gold.
But main deal was the Blind River Uranium-- financing what would be 8 uraniums.
Lots of money--> economists guess he added 30 BILLION to Canada.
Nice.

Donald MacDonald Hogarth

1878--195-
Deadwood. War guy.
WWI. went from enlisted to Brigadier General.

Worked on resources of the North.
Became a politician too-- for Port Arthur in Ontario.
Helped found Ventures organziation with LIndsey, MacAlpine and Errington.
Financier and director of it.
Led to a number of Ontario gold mines.

Big deal was Steep Rock. A big mine.
Got the money for it. An essential War time industry.
And got support from govt to make it viable.

Quotations: "Right from his first involvement with Steep Rock, Hogarth was the dominant personality in the project," wrote Bruce Taylor in his book Steep Rock: The Men and the Mines. "In spite of being in poor health in his later years, he was the driving force behind the Steep Rock project, and even at times from a hospital bed he dealt stubbornly and successfully with problem after problem. He took considerable pride in the Steep Rock development, considering it his most memorable achievement, perhaps because he had been told that it could not be done. `The greatest day of my life,' he said, `was the day the first shipment of ore from the Errington open pit started down the track to the ore docks.'"

Robert John Isaacs

1905--1997 East Coast!

New Brunswick discovery-- lead-zinc deposit--
became Brunswick mining and smelting/ later Noranda.
Mining \Engineer/financing. Nfld.

Born Thornbury. On. bgan prospecting.
went for mining engineering at u of t.
1931. joined prospecting company.

Teamed up with James Boylen. Partnership. for 25 years.
He was the engineer manager-- Boylen was the financier promoter.

1952. Brunswick story. Heard about the lead/zinc.
In the Bathurst area. Developed the area.
Began mine in Bathurst. Big contracts. Got noticed.
Worked in NF.d. Did a copper mine too.
And in Quebec a zinc silver.

Thayer Lindsley

1882--1976
This is a high praise.
"Thayer Lindsley, the father of such mining giants as Falconbridge Ltd., Ventures Ltd. and Frobisher, has been described as the greatest mine finder of all time."
Founded Falconbridge. And many more.

Born in Japan. Dad was an exec for CP railway but an American.
Went back to US-- engineering at Harvard. then moved to Canada.
1924 Staked claim of Iron in Oregon.

1928 Founded Ventures Ltd-- a holding company. Falconbridge Nickel was a Ventures subsidiary.
1928 Sherritt Gordon Mines also came out--partnership between Lindsley and Jowsey (another inductee).

Was president of both Ventures and Falconbridge until 1956. Long term you know.
1962--Ventures was absorbed by Falconbridge--but he stayed on longer as director emeritus.
So... he was just an executive it seems.

Good quotes from a 1966 book-- is it The Mine Finders?
He published it... did he write it?

Described as a "Geological genius" good pop up quotes.

Viola R. MacMillan

1903-1993
Viola is incredible-- she had "2 careers"
1--as a successful prospector and developer alongside her husband.
2--as a powerhouse behind PDAC--making it from a group of 100 into a vital
organization--national and scope--big yo. Big.

1. So they found lots of minerals.
Ontario--found deposits in Timmins area. Pit Gold. Base metals.
ViolaMac mines--Sandon Area of Bc. silver/lead.
Saskatchewan, Beaverlodge area; Lake Cinch Uranium.

2. Began as secretary of the lobby group--became president before wwII--
and served same roll from that time until 1966. Nice--that's when they'd sing the song.
Involved with the war effort-minerals. Metals Control Commission.
Helped save Gold industry-- with gold measure act. in the 50s and 60s.

Born in Muskoka.
Visited brother in Cobalt silver mine.
"Women were considered unlucky underground and were unwelcome."
married in 1923. Exciting life. There's way more on her.

HAVE TO DO MORE ON HER.

Peter Munk

1927--Alive

Founder and builder of Barrick Gold. Wow he's rich.

Immigrant from hungary in 1927
1952--electrical engineering u of t.

1983-- Bought stake in Alaskan mine and Renabie mine in Ontario. Gold.
Camflo in Quebec. Technical team: Robert Smith (see bio)
Nevada. bought more gold property.
it all went up in value--this was the Goldstrike mine.

Made powerful mining and financing moves.
Went international.
Big business man.
Philanthropist.

Not much more known about hte man.

Paul Penna

1922--1996
mine maker. executive.
AgnicoEagle. looking for gold in Canada.
Born in Toronto.
Started as a broker/financier.
1962--took over Agnico, a Cobalt area Silver mine.
turned it around and made it great.

then switched to gold in Quebec at Dumagami.
Did a big mine there called LaRonde. Ore and Copper.
dug up lots of gold.

Don't learn much about this guy, just his digging programs.
Finally did stuff
in Kirkland Lake / Larder Lake area.

Stephen B. Roman

1921--1988
In 1977-- was The Northern Miner's first Man of the Year. Anecode?
Good quote there too: because Stephen Roman has graphically shown that Canadian money and expertise can compete very successfully with anyone in the world."
Own company-- Denison Mines, Largest uranium sales by a uranium producer.
It's GLOBAL now too. Became huge. (is still owned by Canadians? curious).
Anecdote--began as an immigrant picking tomatoes.
Denison--began from uranium mines in Elliot Lake, ON.in 1953.
He became an owner-- just buying up shares-- and becoming the biggest shareholder.
Frank Joubin-- discovered the Elliot Lake uranium--"Was the cork in the bottle for Steve Roman. He opened the bottle and the genie appeared."

"That globe-spanning empire now includes, in addition to its uranium interests, coal mining in British Columbia, potash mining in New Brunswick, and oil and gas production in Greece, Egypt, Spain, Italy and Western Canada"

Seymour Schulich

1940--Alive
Financier. Made something called royalty investing. company builder. philanthropist.
Schulich--I've heard of him--there's stuff named after him around here.
OH YEAH... it's that school up at YORK... Hmmn.

He was born in Montreal--went to McGill.
Then he went to school--did business... did business analysis
from like the 60s on...
Came up with this idea--which... is still I don't really get.
But it expanded around the world and made a lot of people a lot of money.
Helped Barrick Gold. And their Goldstrike mine.
Has given a large amount of money to schools. 150 million away. that's a bit.
Is he a billionaire then?
What's his company then.


So he's a mining investor. But what's his company?
Newmont Mining. Newmont Capital. Franco-nevada

Noah Timmins

1867--1936
Wow--he's a big deal here. Seriously. He's the mining MAN.

One of the founders of the Cobalt mine (LaRose, Silver)
and Hollinger gold mine in Timmins.

Tonnes of stories about this guy.

Noah and Henry. Born in Mattawa Ontario.
Prospectors.
Timmins first bought the share in the Cobalt mine. that was the big deal.
Then they both moved away to Montreal and married a pair of sisters. Whoa.
One of their nephews told them about a gold discovery in Porcupine by Benny Hollinger.

Anecdotes here.
They set out for Porcupine--and invested in the mine--and then they incorporated with it.
Became the Hollinger mine in 1910 60 years life. Humungous. The largest single Gold mine in Canadian history.

Timmins was born from the community there.
Was able to be organized there.

1924--gave money for Noranda in Quebec.
And mother mines across country (quebec, yellowknife, NWT, manitoba)

Arthur W. White

1911--1992
Arthur White was a financier, ran 50 companies, millions of dollars, and develped companies in Ontario's Red Lake-- Campbell Mine. Arthur White Mine.

Born in Guelph. Began in insurance.
Moved into investment-- his own investments in things like mining.
Lost money. Made partnership. Worked on exploration and development funding.
Mining capital. Exploration capital, you know.

Red Lake Gold rush was in 1940s.
Campbell Mines-- president. Still in operation.
Made many other mines--diversified it. Lots of other companies.

Harold Madison Wright

1908-1997
Western Mining. Did a lot in the Yukon. Nearly 50 years of mining.


Geologist. Metallurgist. Then he went to be a field engineer. Engineer. that supplied the Northwest.
Wright Engineers-- founded in 1947, supplied mining equipment.

Big projects:
Bethlehem Copper mine -- 1962. Ashcroft Bc.

In 1951. Formed Western Mines--for silver. Bought a whole lot of properties in BC.
Buttle Lake, Vancouver Island.

1980-- Westmin resources.

So he's an engineer. businessman. Geologist. financier guy. Oh yeah, and an athlete. Olympian!