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Silver Islet

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Silver Islet refers to both a small rocky island and a small community located at the tip of the Sibley Peninsula in northwestern Ontario, Canada. [1]

11 relations: Alexander H. Sibley, Coal, Jane Urquhart, Lake Superior, Ontario, Sibley Peninsula, Sleeping Giant (Ontario), Sleeping Giant Provincial Park, Tanglefoot (band), The Underpainter, Vanning.

Alexander H. Sibley

Alexander Hamilton Sibley (October 17, 1817-July 10, 1878) was the president of the Silver Islet Mining Company which operated a silver mine on the Sibley Peninsula in northwestern Ontario, which was purchased from the Montreal Mining Company after they had decided the mine was an "engineering nightmare" and sold it to Silver Islet Mining for $225,000.

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Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.

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Jane Urquhart

Jane Urquhart, Order of Canada OC (born June 21, 1949) is a Canadian novelist and poet born in Little Long Lac, Ontario.

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Lake Superior

Lake Superior (Lac Supérieur; ᑭᑦᒉᐁ-ᑲᒣᐁ, Gitchi-Gami) is the largest of the Great Lakes of North America.

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Ontario

Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and is located in east-central Canada.

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Sibley Peninsula

The Sibley Peninsula is a long and wide peninsula in Ontario, Canada, on Lake Superior.

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Sleeping Giant (Ontario)

The Sleeping Giant is a formation of mesas and sills on Sibley Peninsula which resembles a giant lying on its back when viewed from the west to north-northwest section of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.

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Sleeping Giant Provincial Park

Sleeping Giant Provincial Park, established in 1944 as Sibley Provincial Park and renamed in 1988, is a park located on the Sibley Peninsula in Northwestern Ontario, east of Thunder Bay.

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Tanglefoot (band)

Tanglefoot was a folk band from Ontario, Canada.

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The Underpainter

The Underpainter is a novel by Jane Urquhart that won the 1997 Governor General's Award for English-language fiction, and in the same year was a finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.

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Vanning

Vanning is a type of ore dressing by which ores are washed on a shovel.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Islet

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