PROSPECTOR IN BIRCHBARK CANOE
Prospectors, such as this fellow in a birchbark canoe, had been sniffing around the area since the turn of the 20th century, often erecting crude log cabins or tent camps in a rugged and often inhospitable land, searching for the elusive “motherlode” that INCO discovered only much later in 1956 after exhaustive exploration. (Circa 1920s. Photographer unknown.)