Word: atikokan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...giant shovel dipped and took a three-ton bite of rich, iron-bearing earth. Steep Rock Mine was open at last. The men who saw this happen in the wilderness near Atikokan, Ont. knew they were seeing economic history in the making...
What Steep Rock will ultimately mean to Canada, no one yet can say. Some Canadians have already talked optimistically of "a great metropolis in the bush of Atikokan, where great smelters will belch smoke. . . ." This much is sure: the Dominion, hitherto dependent on the U.S., now has a large iron ore supply of its own. This does not mean Canada will now supply fully the furnaces of its own young but lusty and growing steel industry. But it does mean that Canada will become, for the first time, an iron-ore exporter. And no longer will Canada have to import...
...Most of its 125 billion gallons of water will then be pumped out, its bottom stripped for open-pit mining. The Canadian Government has already appropriated some $5,000,000 for the erection of power lines and the financing of a railroad spur to lead from Steep Rock to Atikokan, which has rail connections with Lake Superior...
...impossible," gloats Gold ("magazine of Canada's North") "that a very few years from now may witness the founding of a great metropolis in the bush of Atikokan, where great smelters will belch smoke and flame into the northern sky, and a river of iron will flow into the industrial channels of Canada and perhaps all over the world...
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