The Timiskaming Mission

Photo by Alan L Brown - Posted July, 2006

Plaque Location

The District of Timiskaming
The Town of Cobalt
South on Highway 567 (Silver Centre Road) from North Cobalt
20 km to Old Mission Road then 4 km east to the end of the road

Coordinates: N 47 17.136 W 79 28.010

Plaque Text

In 1836 a Catholic mission was established directly across the lake at Fort Timiskaming, a Hudson's Bay Company post, where by 1842 a chapel had been completed. The mission was moved to this site in 1863 and a presbytery was constructed by the Oblates who had commenced missionary work in the region in 1844. A second presbytery was built here in 1867. The Grey Sisters of Ottawa, who had arrived the previous year, then established the first hospital of the Timiskaming District in the old presbytery. In 1878 a frame church, known as St. Claude's, was completed. However, in 1887 the mission was moved to the growing agricultural settlement of Ville Marie in Quebec.

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Posted September 12, 2011
This plaque is somewhat difficult to get to - the road is basically a camp road, single lane, gravel. Not recommended in the winter, but a beautiful location in the summer. It will actually catch you off guard as you come down the highway (which is mostly dirt and gravel itself). A good place for a picnic, if you are so inclined.
Dave

Posted March 25, 2011
This plaque sits on a peninsula some 300 m opposite Fort Témiscamingue National Historic Site, a unit of the national park system. While divided by a modern provincial boundary, the two locations are linked historically. The fort harkens much further back than the Ontario mission of 1836, to the fur trade of the 1600s and 1700s, and the French and British quest to dominate a continent.
Wayne

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