On this week’s look at Cochrane’s history, public library archivist Ardis Proulx-Chedore takes us back to the boom times of December, 1910, with passages from the Northland Post.
“The population has grown from nothing two years ago to 12- to 13-hundred now, along with five-thousand transients,” she reads.
Town council set a tax rate of 25 mills, eight of that going to education.
“A councillor commented if the school tax could have ben kept within a reasonable figure, we would have patted ourselves on the back for escaping so easily.”
The municipal portion was intended to support such things are grading the roads and building sidewalks, a jail and a courthouse.
“Councillor also commented ‘I think Cochrane will be at least another North Bay.’”
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