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BEFORE THE SETTLERS CAME TO KIPLING IN 1893 | The area around Deer Lake in Huge! Township had been destroyed by fire j and had left charred trees standing and stumps. The pioneers used these f trees to build their log homes and furniture. I have been unable to find dates ; for the fires that covered this area from the Ministry of Natural Resources in ) 1993. Their records do not go back over 100 years. | What I have found has been recorded by the first Land Surveyor in 1882. . | A man by the name of W. O. Johnston P.L.S. was commissioned by the j Court of Crown Lands, Toronto, Ontario to do a survey of the Township of Hugel, in the District of Nipissing of the 15" Day of May 1882. His report . ' of the completed survey is dated October 18, 1882 from Whitby Ontario file : # 1350/82. See report in the History Files of the Kipling History Book. | In part it says that he found one large lake, called Deer Lake, and two much smaller ones of each of which I made a survey. The greater portion of this | Township has been overrun by fire, and the timber all destroyed. Some of [ the North part has also, been burned again, last year (1881). | The North West corner of the Township however, is green bush, which | contains a considerable amount of good pine, but the other timber is not of marketable value, being mostly white birch, small spruce, balsam and | tamarack and some poplar. It has been said that there were a great many large standing old dry "chico" | pines in the township when the pioneers came in 1893. They were what they | used to build their homes and furnishings. They were huge and were also sawed and split for kindling, while the green birch, popular, spruce trees ’ were used for holding the fires longer. The green wood was hard on the | stoves and chimneys as they exuded a black tarâ€"like substance which dripped | and caked the inside of the stove pipes. Many chimney fires were common and unfortunately caused house fires. | atirday, June 28. 1975 o_ M ; . | | : village called Little Scandinavia | pioneer villag j !h}’@;} ""fi‘i?,’ >‘ 10 ‘ a fi‘l., ?v“"’”fi “c‘ TZ‘;;"‘*T@ 64 M v" f., | " o P 4 e o ic > t 5 . ie ~â€" se > e s o â€" S o 0 J|~ ; @2 ts l‘c‘C s M . B P ul -1* 'I_ : â€" M ie o K: " §X .% m ‘ &." e "“ -‘»: M ' ‘: m 5 ‘ j e h L .- | «i qb 0 ~ â€" s 8 ie ~> 1 . h al s ie _ "mm . ... ol 10. â€" Siaep 2e .‘ S M _ prczes o _ * e n . O esaallli 1x3 :": 4 ' t in iss o o l e i ie tradi e es 0." o9 . Ts Leon ; Iso be seen in the background. It was _ Rosene Sr.; 9. Eric Rosene; 10. Hans Whelan; 11. Moberg ooo paniuooonene cdemeayerterouscden fiidecue stt 1 un mwfip%%fiM%%:@ %?;ne; 3. Knute Johnson; Q. Hans Kn'su'ansen;'s. Charlie xfi&?;l(géu‘fig Westine; 18. Annie Johnson and 19. ifi#fifimrs built their homes from these trees. The â€" Johnson: 6. Martin Olson; 7. Hulda Rosene; 8: Mrs. 1 >