Timmins High and Vocational School - Porcupine Quill Yearbook (Timmins, Ontario Canada)

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10 TT1 The PORCUPINE QUILL Prologue All the worlds a stage. Therefore do we, on gold-not silver-screen Flash epics wrought by dauntless pioneers Who staked this Claim-and thus our First Act ends. The Second shows you many Stopes and Shifts, tThe setting is our Town-the Mine, our School, Knowledge the Cage which carries Seekers therei. To Learnings tools, the Levels spill their loads Of precious Ore. The 'Third Act then outspreads Rocks that may yield a truly rich Assay- Of Sports and Arts and Crafts conglomerate- Borne on the moving Zone of the school year To Agitator and to Crucible. The Surface Showingsf-spring, and winter too,- Act Four portrays to our accustomed eyes, We know them well. But here an Outcrop strange Calls loudly for new tools, new processes Then fades into the gold-illumined screen . . . e e age For imagery strained and lame and halt We crave forgetfulness-'tis but a Fault! iWritten for The Quill fby a member of the teaching staffl Act I Prospecting and Staking the Claim Scene I: CAMP SITES . We the rivers stemming, vexing we and piercing deep the mines within, We the surface broad surveying, we the virgin soil upheaving Pioneers! O Pioneers! -Walt Whitman Romance of Place Names in Northern Ontario 1 It is fascinating to speculate on the origin of of Northern ern Ontario and they had their settlements named before the white men came. Some of these names have been retained. This part of Ontario was called Porcupine because of place names, especially those Ontario. The names given to our towns of Northern Ontario are romantic and interest- ing. Some of these towns assumed their names from Indian loreg others show that those who gave them, loved dearly the homes they had leftg still others were christened by circumstance. Do you know how many of the towns in Northern Ontario got their names? You do not! Then I'll tell you. P The Indians were the first people in North- the many porcupines the Indians found here. Some people dispute this little tale, and say that when some prospectors were travelling over this part of the country in 1909, they caught sight of the lake in the distance. 'I hey could see that in shape it somewhat resembled an immense porcupine, and the surrounding country adopted the name.