Northern Ontario Is Hiding Something Nobody Talks About

In 1943 the richest man in Kirkland Lake was found beaten to death, burned and covered in feathers, and nobody has ever answered for it. Timmins sits on a hole so deep the water at the bottom has not seen the sky in a billion years. And the top third of the same province — polar bears, saltwater tides, a coast almost nobody has seen — was not Ontario at all until an act of Parliament in 1912. What's beneath YOUR town? Personalized 15-page report — the rock, the name, the vanished places, your town's oldest map → https://hiddenprovinces.com Eighty-eight per cent of Ontario lies north of the French River and holds six per cent of its people. This video drives up through it on Highway 11 and stops at everything the school map left out: the highest ground in the province at Ishpatina Ridge, the old-growth pines of Temagami and the blockade that saved them, the 1935 earthquake on Lake Temiskaming, the Main Break at Kirkland Lake and Harry Oakes, the 1941 strike that wrote Canada's labour law, the Porcupine and the drill hole that wrote America's insider trading law, the Kidd mine, the town the New York Times owned at Kapuskasing and the internment camp that cleared it, the floor of glacial Lake Ojibway and the Clay Belt the province tried to farm for thirty years. Then the road ends. Moosonee, Moose Factory and the oldest English settlement in Ontario, the winter roads, the Victor diamond mine and the $226 royalty year, Polar Bear Provincial Park, the Winisk flood, Wataynikaneyap Power, the two jails of Rat Portage, the Ontario Boundaries Extension Act of 1912, and Treaty 9, whose written text and whose commissioner's diary do not say the same thing. North Bay, Temagami, Kirkland Lake, Timmins, Cochrane, Kapuskasing, Hearst, Moosonee, Moose Factory, Attawapiskat, Peawanuck, Fort Severn, Pickle Lake, Kenora. Figures come from Statistics Canada, the Ontario Geological Survey, Natural Resources Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada and the Privy Council decisions of 1884 and 1991, SEC v. Texas Gulf Sulphur, the Nature 1988 Lithoprobe paper, Sella and colleagues (2007), De Beers' closing statement on Victor, Ontario Parks, Queen's University Archives on the MacMartin diary, and the Superior Court filing of April 2023. Where the record is split, the narration names both figures. Where a claim is a headline rather than a document, the narration says so. Subscribe to The Hidden Provinces — beneath the map.