Let’s start at the beginning Cobalt residents have been able to borrow books from the very earliest days. Then, however, book lending was a commercial venture, not a municipally funded service. Stadelman’s shop on Silver Street sold a variety of...
This is a list of people from out of town who were interviewed in 1972. If you wish to have a copy of the transcript of the interview, click on the name to download a PDF file. In order to better...
This is a list of people from New Liskeard who were interviewed in 1972. If you wish to have a copy of the transcript of the interview, click on the name to download a PDF file. In order to better understand...
This is a list of people from Haileybury and North Cobalt who were interviewed in 1972. If you wish to have a copy of the transcript of the interview, click on the name to download a PDF file. In order to...
To kick things off, here is the list of 194 people from Cobalt who were interviewed in 1972. If you wish to have a copy of the transcript of the interview, click on the name to download a PDF file. In...
Back in 1972, a team of research assistants asked residents of Cobalt, North Cobalt, Haileybury, and New Liskeard a series of questions. The goal of the interview project was to amass as much information as possible about Cobalt’s pioneer days....
COBALT (Staff) — Young women armed with pencils, paper, and tape recorders are fanning out from here, trying to recapture the history of the past. It is all part of the provincial-municipal winter incentive program and designed to aid the...
By: Maggie Wilson Back in 2017, Mayor Tina Sartoretto asked me to help her reboot the Oral History Project. At the time,transcriptions of the 1972 interviews were posted on the library’s website and paper copies were storedon the local history...
