Page 36 who would travel to his farm. Also in 1912, the small mines west of the Dome but also including the last of the big three, McIntyre, want ac - cess to a hospital. They tried to negotiate with the Hol - linger and Dome, which had its own hospital since 1910, to create one big hospital to serve the area but talks failed. It was not until 1916 that Hollinger decided to open its hospital to all the residents of the area. As long as pa - tients could pay . People are always resilient, they fnd solutions to problems, even if illegal. Cont’d from pg. 32 Private hospitals sprang up, even if the defnition of the institution was being stretched. The offcial booklet published in 1962 for the 50th anniversary of T immins mentioned the existence of such op - erations and even named the women who operated two of them. Life for single men working for the Hollinger was equally hard. There were three lar ge bunkhouses on the mine property and when the opera - tion went to shifts, two men, and oc - casionally three men, had to share the same bunk. A company hospital was a necessity because to leave a sick or injured miner in his bunk meant one Shar ed bunks meant T immins mines needed their own hospitals The shift change at Hollinger Gold Mine in the mid 1930s. or even two other miners had no place to sleep. McIntyre was concerned for its em - ployees, living as they did virtually on the doorstep of the mine in Schu - macher . It had a hospital but it was de - stroyed by fre. The Plaza Hotel was then built on the First A venue site. In the 1930s, the McIntyre built a house-offce for a company doctor on McIntyre Road, right across from the McIntyre Community Centre com - plex. T oday it is the T immins Chamber of Commerce offce. A history of the Hollinger company Cont’d on pg. 35 “The Porcupine Camp” 100 Y ears of Mining Page 34