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Silver Islet is another of Ontario’s best kept ghost towns. It is also one of the oldest. A one time silver mining town on the shores of Lake Superior, a huge deposit of silver was discovered around 1845. There was no easy access to the silver ore [...]
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Some miles southwest of Finland, and near where the North Alger Grade, now a snowmobile trail, runs, sits the remains of Beaver Crossing, also known as Old Illgen City. An old point of call on the Two Harbors-Beaver Bay sleigh road, which ran nea [...]
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