Page 38 Contd on pg 39 sota was diminishing W ith a fnancing consortium of six American companies headed by Clevelandbased MA Hanna Com pany T immins raised the necessary capital to build a 560 kilome tre rail road the Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway a shipping termi nal at the port at SeptIles on the St Lawrence and the iron ore mine at a cost of nearly 300 million The project was completed in 1954 and helped spur the construction of the St Lawrence Seaway due to the need for deepwater ships to transport the iron ore directly to steel customers on the Great Lakes The developme nt created tens of thou sands of jobs further develop ment of the Labrador Iron T rough and the foundation of nearby communities of Scheferville and Labrador City When you think of Jules T immins you think of northern development and Canada s future summed a lead ing journalist at the time a ftting Page 38 By Gregory Reynolds Jules R T immi ns may have been born in the shadow of his famous father and uncle but he didn t take long as an adult to make his presence felt on the Canadian mining scene The developme nt of the vast iron ore deposits in the isolated wilderness of northern Quebec and Labrador by Jules T immins 18891971 is one of the greatest mining projects in Cana dian history Part of the lege ndary T immins mining clan his father Henry T imm ins and uncle Noah T immins develo ped the Hollinger Gold Mine Jules gradu ated from McGill University in min ing engineering and began his career as a miner at the Hollinger He became president of Hollinger Consolidated in 1936 after the death of his uncle W ith Hollinger money Jules pur chased the mineral rights to the Unga va region in 1941 and after confrm ing the size of the resource established the Iron Ore Company at the end of the decade to start development While the iron ore was of exceptional high quality and near the surface al lowing for low cost open pit mining the infrastructure and fnancing chal lenges were great At the same time American steel makers in the Great Lakes basin were very concerned that their principle source of iron ore from the Mesabi Range in northern Minne Jules followed Noah and Henry T immins Executive group members and federal ministers SeptIles airport August 24 1951 Bibliotheque et Ar chives nationales du Quebec Centr e dar chives de la CoteNord Ir on Or e Company of Canada Mr Murphy Lionel Chevrier Minister of T ransportation CD Howe Minister T rade and Commerce Duncan McMar tin Jules T immins Pr esident IOC W illiam H Durrell General Manager IOC Joseph H Thompson V icePresident MA Hanna Co Joseph Thompson Jr Henry T immins 1852