Description: Walpole Roland, resident of Port Arthur, was a civil and mining engineer and the author or 'Algoma West', published in 1887. The story of his life seemed to be of one incredible adventure after another. Before arriving in Canada, he served in military service and observed the Charge of the Light Briagade in the Crimea, was present at the Seige of Peking, and while in the United States fought for General Custer. At the age of 84, while investigating mining resources, he became lost in the wilds of Northern Ontario, and survived for a month before being rescued.
Subject: Thunder Bay, Ontario, mining, Port Arthur, Walpole Roland
Coverage: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Port Arthur, ~1887
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Publisher: TBPL
Contributor: TBPL
Source: TBPL:P451
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Date: 2003-01-09
Relation: For more about Walpole Roland read 'Under Five Flags' compiled from his diaries by his daugher Marion Roland in 1912.
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