From Sawdust to Ashes

A history of the early days of the former Town of Charlton (now part of the Municipality of Charlton and Dack) which is located near Englehart in Northern Ontario. Charlton had a bright few years as a logging centre but was almost entirely destroyed in the Great Fire of 1922. The late Kevin Ryan, a local stone mason, describes how the community coped with the fire and its aftermath and how it slowly regained some of its former lustre. Before the fire more than 2000 people lived in Charlton, by 2010 the population had reached about 300.