Page 62 ments. Asphalt paved highways, wide concrete sidewalks and a modern street lighting system make the busi - ness streets pleasantly effcient. Anything that can be bought in the shops of Canada’ s lar ger cit ies may be bought in T immins stores. Prices are as a general rule just about the same as in Southern Ontario, al - though competition in many lines has brought retail prices to a lower level than those obtaining in most other parts of the country . Wholesale, banking, brokerage, in - surance and transportation facilities have been provided to meet the needs of a highly active community . From the log cabin of pioneer days, with its rough tables, hard chairs, crude kitchens and few comforts, to the type of homes now being built in T immins is a long step forward in the short space of a quarter of a century . People were at frst loath to build per - manent homes for they had always before them the grim spectre of Co - balt where, when the price of silver went down precipitately , the bottom dropped out of property values. When it becam e quite clear that the Hollinger Mine was not a 10 or 15 year af fair but as permanent an indus - try as a gold mine can be, a period of healthy home building was begun and has never ceased.” “The job that took in most cases more than two generations to accom plish in other parts of Canada had to be done in T immins in 25 years. A millio n dolla rs in school buildings had to be ;provided in that tim e. Hun - dreds of thousands of dollars went into the building of streets, more into waterworks, sewers and roads. Despite the concentration of capi - tal expenditure , the tax rate has been reasonably low . T immins, like most other municipalities, has had its brief periods of poor government but on the whole the citiz ens have been wise in choosing careful, level heade d men to look after their af fairs. Drawn from the four corners of the earth, the people of T immins make a cosmopolitan city . Not long ago, In - dians were the chief inhabitan ts of the area. The native dress of Finland, Norway , Sweden, Denmark, Germany , Rus - sia and Italy , and the central Euro - pean Nations, though seldom seen on streets today nevertheless turn up at many public af fairs. England, Scotland, W ales and Ireland have contribute d many famili es to the town. Anglo-Canadians and French-Ca - nadians make up the balance of the population. The roster of T immins societies and churches read like a roll call for the League of Nations. Everyone enters into the life of the communit y and it is a rare case indeed in which families from outside Canada have set them - selves apart, refusing to become one with the rest. Those racial prejudices over which most European wars have been fought have disappeared under the friendly infuence of the North.” Log cabins r eplaced by permanent housing and pride of ownership Cont’d from pg. 58 “The Porcupine Camp” 100 Y ears of Mining Page 60