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The Big Kinosoo: Origin of the Legend – Chapter 1 of 6
The Big Kinosoo: Origin of the Legend – Chapter 1 of 6
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Cold Lake, Late 1800s
The following short excerpt is taken from a story by J.B. Minoose1, a friend of our family, Dave and Laura McNeill. We lived not far from Mr. Minoose and his family while our family was at the Martineau River logging Camp in the mid-1940’s. This was followed by two years at North Bay (Smith Place) on the North side of Cold Lake, then two years at Marie Lake which was 15 miles west of North Bay (reference Family Stories 1940 -1965). The Minoose story appears in Treasured Scales of the Kinosoo, a history of families in Cold Lake edited by Laura Dean Skarsen. Laura Dean Skarsen, was sister-in-law of our step-father, Wilfred Skarsen and our mother Laura Isabel Skarsen (McNeill) (Wheeler). J.B. Minooses (standing, second from right in photo) spoke of his life in Cold Lake:
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