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l oros ' ; @LUTE . HLRE? @ute is two miles or so west of the town of Cochrane, @lute is an entirely Englishâ€"speaking community, and ind nine miles north. The road we travel on leaves bday many fine farms are to bepseen where thirtyâ€"five Cochrane at the northâ€"west corner of the town. When years ago all was bush. we reach the road going mnorth, we are on what wos the Boundary Line between Sudbury and Mipissing Districts, OUOf the growth of our Community, much of interest may long before Temiskaming and Cochrane Districts were ' ' 5 \ @ formed. Today it is still known as the "Boundary" road giui:?d in the pages of this Tweedsmuir History of W‘ and is a secondary highway, which, when opened, will > lead us straight to James Bay. (See map, this page) Written by Mes. R. A. Dodds ym «â€" a al j : North of the town of Cochrane, the townships are nine 1938â€"44 C°“Ven°rc§§t§l%§;§i?s IEZ??%};‘EE & miles square. This "Boundary" road is also a townline q* between the townships of Glackmeyer and Clute. Neverâ€" ‘\ fi ifid & theless Clute, in this History, is not & township, but + i me Â¥ a Community, founded in 1914, when a Post Office named “ . f Clute was opened. It was situated one third of a mile p\“%o oao so $ west from the four corners. By this I mean the corner v . where Glackmeyer, Clute, Leitth, and Blount townships . â€" P x all meet. The first Postmaster of Clute Post Office was "A. W." Golding (See story, page 1%) who had owned | ' and operated a store for a few months. So the Communiâ€" / | ty written about in this History takes in part of each of the four townships named, and extends three or four K miles in all directions from the four corners. (See siadd Colle the Tour @ . map, page 2) | ”\/owna\'\lfs o. * Clute lies, therefore, midway between the Frederickâ€" . e€omvimrves mm fuasenermarnfawes nmernn mm 50(0 Tw house River on the west and the Abitibi River on the *h Leiéh. _ east. The land is for the most part rolling, the westâ€" &g&} Blount" ern side of each creek or river being more abrupt than hhoubasin( (ch |Bigh G‘“"“"“(‘" the eastern, proving that the great glacier passed over 1 W“n W,n ' some time ago. Clute is part of the Great Clay Belt, e h‘\ i VHRHNE but not all the land is clay or clay loam, some is also 3 i‘% < ; black muck and muskeg. If&! c . | On the higher land we find such trees as White Birch, p -." y 2 a Poplar, Balm of Gilead, and White Spruce. On the low 4 @ f ‘m"a_"%; . % â€" land, and in the muskegs, we have Cédar, Larch, Black " g & ks f d Spruce, Balsam and Alder. ' a Clute is situated in that part of Ontario where the ‘ Ojibways and Crees lived by their trapping and hunting. L‘ In 190566 the James Bay Treaty was formed. _ Then the ry townships were surveyed and settlers came, but they did 4 K € e . not get so far north as Clute till after the T. & N.0. Imoting ( Railway was built to Cochrane and the Transcontinental ] ® was built through. Surveys for the T. &. No. O.Extension line to Moosonee, on James Bay, were made in 1921, and in 1923 the first \ train ran from Cochrane to Moosonee. On this line is a station "Clute". It is some nine miles north of E‘ns t\um/ Cochrane, but is about three miles east of the communâ€" ity of Clute. When this line was opened, no more did the settlers of Clute see the Indians who annually had New LisHeant t Tem‘s Wa m come to Clute, via the Frederickhouse River with their Aaileyb memananmury . ¢ furs. (See story, page ) NOR\‘HERN dbels . \@/ > Thug Clute passed into a new era. The station of Clute ON{AR[O C has served the people of (Clute as a loading pliace for # pulpwood and lumber. Up to this time the railway has ce de 2e . been of no advantage in sending children to High School on SA [*> 8/ wa and of very little use in going to CGochrane on business : or shopping tours, as passenger trains travel infreâ€" , &* « quently.