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Thursday, September 20, 2018

Airplanes to the rescue as gold rush fever at Swayze affects Chapleau in 1930s

As gold rush fever hit the Swayze area in the early 1930s, Chapleau became "quite famous", according to a handwritten report included in the Richard Brownlee Papers.

Although the writer of a section called "Chapleau" has great insights into the early years of the community, it does not look like Mr. Brownlee's handwriting.

The article says that prospectors and mining companies "rushed from the United States and all parts of Canada" to Chapleau in the early 1930s during the early years of the Great Depression.

However, there was a major problem.

How were they to get into Swayze? There was no railway or highway leading into the settlement. The only means of entrance to the settlement had been by canoe from Ridout which was a 30-minute train ride on the Canadian Pacific Railway east of Chapleau.


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