Road Trip #2 Pioneer Days in the Madoc area

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Road Trip #2 Pioneer Days in the Madoc area

GAUEN CEMETERY

Henry Gauen was trapped in the Arctic ice for two years on the Investigator as the McClure expedition searched for the Franklin Expedition.

JOHN WEIR FOOTE

The only chaplain in World War II to receive the Victoria Cross, John Weir Foote was born and raised in Madoc.

MACKENZIE'S MILLS

Water-powered mills were a vital necessity in the lives of pioneering settlements.... READ MORE

MADOC, 385 ARMY CADETS

With war threatening n Europe in 1913, a cadet corps was formed in Madoc from the student body of the high school.

MADOC, FOUNDING OF

Mills constructed about 1832 by Donald MacKenzie, a Belleville merchant, and the ironworks erected by American entrepreneurs Uriah Seymour and John Pendergas... READ MORE