The White & Company store sold canned food, salt, sugar, and flour, . Mining families were allowed to purchase goods from the store on credit, and the miners paid back the store once the mine reopened. Pictured is Ernest Duprez and his grandfather,…
Billy Robinson, airmail carrier, between Montreal and Ottawa. Unknown man in suit and hat is either handing the mail to Robinson or receiving it from Robinson.
Pete Andreini is kneeling by a garden at the Shuler Mining camp in front of a tool shed that was later converted into an automobile repair shed. Gardening was essential to many mining camp families’ overall food supply. A large portion of a family’s…
Darlene Oliver decorating a Christmas tree in the living room of one of the Shuler Mining camp houses. Nearby is their television, which was the first one in the neighborhood, and was often watched my many people in the area at once by setting up…
Miners gathered at the Shuler mining camp tavern after work for a drink, to play cards, and socialize. Children would visit the tavern to buy soda for 5 cents. (Photo -- family behind counter of tavern, left to right: Lucy Lami, Dima Lami, Ferruccio…
