Many hate the winter, many do not. As we endured many bitterly cold days the last month or so, this week we’re taking a look at fond memories about winters from past residents in the Porcupine.
Uly Levinson, a lifetime resident, remembered winters of the past in an interview from 1972. She remembered the sleighs and cutters had heated bricks put in to keep one’s feet warm and big buffalo robes to cover up.
Beatrice Libby recalled winters in her interview from 1976, “In the wintertime everybody with a back yard used to wet it and make skating rinks for the children.”
Ron Mansfield and his wife Lempi shared a memory they had of winters in Porcupine skating on the lake. He described how the lake was like glass with the night sky, and how you couldn’t see what was up or down, “…The stars and the moon, you could see it down there and could see it up there. This was the most amazing thing that ever happened to us as far as skating and being able to see earth and sky. It was terrific. It’s just something in our lives that people don’t have on our lake now.”
Each week, the Timmins Museum: National Exhibition Centre provides TimminsToday readers with a glimpse of the city’s past.
Find out more of what the Timmins museum has to offer here and read more Remember This columns here.
