The Canadian mining industry has faced numerous challenges this century, and changing its triumphs since 1915 has been The Northern Miner. The weekly newspaper, which had its start in Cobalt, Ont., is now published out of Toronto. The stories it has covered during the past 75 years formed the subject of a recent address by publisher John Cooke at a luncheon meeting of the Toronto branch of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.
Cooke, who has been with the newspaper for 33 years, provided commentary and used a slide projector and screen to present clippings of major mining stories from the Horne copper discovery in the early 1920s to the large massive sulphide find in Quebec’s Louvicourt Twp. last year.
Whether the discovery was nickel in the Sudbury basin or in northern Manitoba, iron ore in the Labrador Trough area or in northwestern Ontario, lead-zinc in New Brunswick or in the Northwest Territories, copper at Highland Valley in British Columbia or gold at Hemlo, The Northern Miner reported on it.
Tribute was paid by Cooke to the newspaper’s publisher emeritus, Maurice Brown, who was seated at the head table. Brown has served as reporter, editor and publisher throughout his more than 40 years with the weekly.
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