We proudly present our book list. Purchases from the gift shop go a long way to help. You can also download the book list as a PDF.
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Claybelt Chronicles
In 2006, we started interviewing our Temiskaming seniors to capture their stories and help keep the history of the area alive with as many first-hand accounts as possible. These books contain interviews with seniors who have connections with the pioneer families who first came to the area between the 1880s and 1940s.
Claybelt Chronicles Volume One
Memories from Temiskaming seniors.
Claybelt Chronicles Volume 2
Memories from Temiskaming seniors.
Claybelt Chronicles Volume 3
Memories from Temiskaming seniors.
Claybelt Chronicles Volume 4
Memories from Temiskaming seniors.
Claybelt Chronicles Volume 5
Memories from Temiskaming seniors.
Claybelt Chronicles Volume 6
Memories from Temiskaming seniors.
Claybelt Chronicles Volume 7
Memories from Temiskaming seniors.
Claybelt Chronicles Volume 8
Memories from Temiskaming seniors.
Claybelt Chronicles Volume 9
Memories from Temiskaming seniors.
Claybelt Memories
We realized that we had missed some of the stories from the previous generations. Although many of them had passed on, fortunately some of them had written memoirs which were generously shared with us by them and/or their families. In addition, starting in 1992 the museum had interviewed several seniors, and their stories have also been included in these books.
Claybelt Tapestry
Claybelt Tapestry Volume 1
Little-known or forgotten happenings, endeavours and businesses in early South Temiskaming.
Claybelt Tapestry Volume 2
Further happenings, endeavours and businesses in early South Temiskaming.
Claybelt Tapestry Volume 3
Further happenings, endeavours and businesses in early South Temiskaming.
Other local histories
Either reprinted with permission, or acquired for the museum.
Agricultural Temiskaming 1910
A reprint of the 1910 book used to draw settlers to Temiskaming.
Cobalt Mining Times Remembered
By William (Bill) Sutton. Stories from the Cobalt mining camp.
Easter Water
By Sara Lee Burke. History of the period and a way of life far removed from today.
The Great Fire of 1922, A Centennial Retrospective
By Deborah Ranchuk for the Haileybury Heritage Museum. First-person accounts of one of the ten worst disasters in Canadian history.
Harley Township Through The Years
The township, its hamlets, and family stories.
Hilliard School Reunion July 2, 2016
Compiled for the reunion in 2016, with photos and memories.
The History of Hilliard 1910–2004
Settlement and homesteading, lumbering, agricultural development, schools, lot history, and voices from Hilliard Township.
I’d Do Most Of It Again
By Ron Bailey. $30.00
Immigrant in Porcupine and his later Journal
By Magne E. Stortroen. $30.00, as listed on the current book list.
“I’ve Got To Stop Here Until I’m Called For” A History of Hudson Township
Compiled by Norman R. Hawirko and Margaret Arnott.
Kerns Township
A history of Kerns Township compiled by the Milberta Community Women and the Little Claybelt Homesteaders Museum.
A Place Called Krugerdorf
By Herb Kruger. $20.00
Learning 9 to 4
Early Rural Schools in Temiskaming, compiled by the Little Claybelt Homesteaders Museum.
Memories From Milberta Alexander Memorial United Church
By Jim Runnalls.
Milberta S.S.#1A Kerns 1900–1961
History of the school, teachers, photographs, and sixty years of school life.
Northern Calling, The Northern Telephone Story
By John R. Hunt.
Stephen Lafricain, The Grand Old Man of the River
By Bruce W. Taylor. $15.00
We Were There, McCool School, Kerns Township
Memories from a reunion in August 1992.
