To: Chas. who wrote (524 ) 1/25/2003 9:05:22 PM From: E. Charters Read Replies (1) | Respond to Ontario's highway 11 was put in through Kirkland Lake, past Timmins to Long Lac, Geraldton, Beardmore, on to Thunder Bay. It is more used by truckers than Highway 17 which was touted as the Trans Canada. All those towns had one thing in common. They are or were all gold mining towns. Highway 17 was finished in the mid fifties. The last stretch of highway 11 before that but it was part dirt road. I can remember travelling with my parents across Canada in the 50's and we had to go through the States to hook up with Western Canada. It is a young country. One of Murdoch Mosher's partners still had a gas station at Jellicoe in the eighties. Before the Trans Canada went in he used to make a killing. Mosher gave his name to the McLeod Mosher gold mine in Geraldton, and his brother, Alec Mosher, had his hand in deals on 20 gold mines and made a million a year from staking an Iron Mine, the Griffiths, that I worked at in the 70's. I met Alec about 18 years ago in Kirkland Lake when I was working on a property called the Federal Kirkland for Karl Forbes. Alec was half deaf from working in stopes on drills without mufflers, and you had to shout to talk to him. He was driven about in a late model Cadillac. His boxer-bodyguard accompanied him everywhere, and just gunned off all and sundry with eyes as cold as a Penguin's gonads. Apparently there was the odd deal that did not go the way Alec's partners thought it should. Me dad met Alec in toronto a few years before when they both were admiring the same tie in shop window on Yonge Street. My dad recognised the name. He got a stock tip for the meeting and Denison mines went from 50 cents to 90 bucks a share. About 8 or so years later I am in competitive skiing in the north and who is beating me down the hills in slalom but a kid called Rheinhart Mosher. He had more money in his stretch pants than I had in all my ski equipment. Grandson or son I don't know.
