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21-563: Rainbow District School Board (known as English-language Public District School Board No. 3 prior to 1999) covers a geographic area of more than 14,757 square kilometres (5,698 sq mi) in the heart of the Rainbow Country and is the largest public school board in Northern Ontario. The Board offers English language and French Immersion program to students from Kindergarten to Grade 12. Rainbow District School Board

42-601: A de facto condominium , with all community spaces jointly owned by its residents. An 80-foot fire tower was built on Willisville Mountain in the 1920s by the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests. The tower was run by John Burke in the early years. One day, while he was looking out to spot forest fires from the tower's cupola, he saw a herd of elephants at the bottom of the mountain trail. He called back to headquarters on his bushphone and relayed his sighting. Nobody believed him at first, until locals learned that

63-556: A circus truck had broken down nearby and the elephants inside had escaped. World heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis and singer Bing Crosby are known to have visited the tower and signed its guestbook. The tower can also be seen in the 1960s Canadian television series Adventures in Rainbow Country , which was filmed in the Willisville-Whitefish Falls area. The tower was dismantled in 1986, but

84-412: A day, and lumbering was such physically demanding work that each man could eat between 6,000 to 9,000 calories a day. In one estimation, the average logger consumed 5 pounds (2.3 kg) of food each day. Quality and quantity were important parts of maintaining the health and productivity of the workers. Meat, other foods high in protein, and fats were served in abundance. Sack lunches were provided to

105-474: A population of 0. Lumber camp A logging camp (or lumber camp ) is a transitory work site used in the logging industry. Before the second half of the 20th century, these camps were the primary place where lumberjacks would live and work to fell trees in a particular area. Many place names (e.g. Bockman Lumber Camp , Whitestone Logging Camp , Camp Douglas ) are legacies of old logging camps. Camps were often placed next to river tributaries so that

126-652: A store at Willisville and stocked supplies for sale to the residents and cottagers and for their own use. Later they rented the cabins to tourists who came to enjoy the fishing and scenery. In the early days of St. Augustine’s Mission in Whitefish Falls, The community around the Mission consisted of mostly native people and two white families, namely the John Cameron and the Ernest Willis families. At

147-518: Is situated around the mouth of the Whitefish River at Lake Huron , just downstream from a picturesque waterfall. It is a popular tourist destination in the summer months, and is also the site of the annual La Cloche Art Show. A reunion of the popular Canadian CBC TV show Adventures in Rainbow Country was held here in August 2006. Cast, locals and fans were present. The show was shot in

168-615: Is the administrative headquarters of the Whitefish River Ojibwe First Nations band government . Whitefish Falls ( 46°06′N 81°43′W  /  46.100°N 81.717°W  / 46.100; -81.717 ) is located in the geographic township of Mongowin, in the Sudbury District . Whitefish Falls lies on Highway 6 , and is approximately 20 kilometres south of Espanola and 25 kilometres north of Little Current . Whitefish Falls

189-770: Is the largest school board in Northern Ontario with 30 elementary school buildings and 9 secondary school buildings in Sudbury, Espanola and Manitoulin. The Board also offers other programs - Child and Adolescent Mental Health Program, Cecil Facer School, N’Swakamok Native Friendship Centre, Children's Treatment Centre, O’Connor Park, Applied Behaviour Analysis program, Restart, Simulated Healthy Independent Living Opportunities (SHILO) program, Attendance Centre, Mishko-Ode-Wendam, Northern Support Initiative, Frank Flowers School and Barrydowne College operating at Cambrian College. Notable Alumni: Shania Twain Rainbow Country It

210-537: The Island and the youngest ones at Willisville. Ernest was a Forest Ranger and he and Ada used to portage canoes through the back lakes as far as Killarney checking the area for fires. Before Cameron’s opened a store in Whitefish Falls, Ernest would canoe and portage to Espanola to purchase supplies for his family. When the Algoma Eastern Railway was opened from Sudbury to Little Current, Ernest opened

231-611: The Manitoulin Island. The minister in 1937 was the Rev. Worden Stump. In 2018, Ontario Northland announced a major service expansion west of Sudbury, which included Whitefish Falls as a flag stop. Westbound buses travel onto Manitoulin Island, while eastbound buses travel to Sudbury via Espanola and Nairn. This service ended in 2019. Willisville is on the Charlton-Cranberry-Frood Lake system in

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252-418: The beginning of World War I, more white families were moving into the area and it was decided that there was a need for a school in the Mission area. Chief Keshigobiness, known as Big John and Mr. Ernest Willis who assisted him greatly, worked under great difficulty in procuring a school. They were guided by Bishop Thornloe and finally were able to open a school for those who wished to attend. The first school

273-799: The heart of the La Cloche Mountains . It is named for Ernest Willis, the community's first postmaster who settled the community in 1910. Ernest was originally from the Isle of Wight in England and came to Canada with his Willis family in 1875 aboard the Vicksburg. They settled in Howland Township on Manitoulin Island. Ernest married Ada Humphrey from the Manitouwaning area of the island. Some of their nine children were born on

294-431: The loggers. During peak season, as many as five meals a day could be served. Camp cooks were important to the morale of the workers. In some cases, workers would follow a cook to the camp they were working at each season. In Canada, the long distances to the camps and the closure of most access during the winter led to the development of depot farms that would be built near logging camps to supply cereals and vegetables to

315-703: The mountain still remains a popular place for tourists to climb. McGregor Bay is located on the LaCloche Peninsula within the Manitoulin District. The board's jurisdictional area is counted as three separate designated places in Statistics Canada census data. In the Canada 2016 Census , Willisville and Whitefish Falls had a combined population of 297, while McGregor Bay Part A had a population of 10, and McGregor Bay Part B had

336-418: The new building was erected in 1917. The Willis, Golden & other children from Willisville would walk along a path to the horseshoe curve and down the track to Whitefish Falls to attend school. In 1931, Kathleen Willis and Dewey Golden were the first two students to pass their Entrance exams at the school. Both went on to further studies. According to a community website, the entire community operates as

357-533: The region in 1969. The small church that was called St. Augustine's (Anglican) is now closed, was built by a company by the name of Mc Dermid. George Smyth of Ice Lake on the Manitoulin island, who worked for McDermid, made all the cement blocks by hand. He married Ernest Willis's (Willisville) youngest daughter Kathleen in the Church after it was completed in 1937. The carpenter on the job was Albert Shepherd of

378-579: The saws ), office and camp store . Lumber cut by the lumberjacks was the source of the materials for the buildings, and camps were built in the fall prior to the winter logging season. Most of the lumberjacks would return to their jobs after the logging season, with a few staying on to drive logs in the spring. In the United States, logging camps were phased out after World War II , as work crews could more easily be transported to remote logging sites. Lumberjacks could work upwards of twelve hours

399-406: The winter's log harvest could be floated to the lumbermills in the spring. The requirements of the logging industry involved the creation of a working site and housing from the pristine wilderness . The construction of the logging camp consisted of a transformation of the natural environment to the built environment. Logging was seasonal in nature, with farmers often working as lumberjacks during

420-467: The winter. Camps were placed next to a river so that the logs harvested could be floated to the lumbermills in the spring. By their nature logging camps were temporary work sites used to harvest lumber in remote areas. Once the lumber in a particular area was harvested, the lumberjacks would move on. Primitive sites had two buildings, a cookhouse and a bunkhouse . Larger camps also had an outhouse , barn, blacksmith shop , filer shack (to sharpen

441-408: Was in the home of Big John and opened on October 13, 1916, by Rev S. H. Ferris of Garden River. Mr. Duncan Bell was the first teacher. The school continued until a fire burned down the log house, but a new building was soon found and some 20 children were gathered and taught until a proper school was built. Big John and Ernest walked from one lumber camp to another and begged for lumber or money and

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