Charles Cobbold Farr

Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, June 2, 2022

1. Charles Cobbold Farr Marker

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(by Anthony Cobbold, 2006)  Excerpt:  "C C", as he was known throughout his life, was the third

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son of Rev. John Farr and Emily Caroline Cobbold. Born 29th May 1851 in Suffolk, CC was a restless fair-haired child with a strong predilection for risky exploration who ran, jumped and climbed to adolescence via Haileybury School.

He arrived in Ontario in 1871 enduring a tough few years before joining the Hudson Bay Company in 1874 to become a depot manager. The mining boom arrived with the railway in 1903 and Haileybury was incorporated and officially named after CC's school. The new town also adopted the school's motto "Sursum Corda".

Ontario law did not permit the sale of liquor within 5 miles of working mines. Conveniently Haileybury was half a mile over the limit. That's where the mining companies wanted their offices and that's where the hotels and stores were built. Expansion was underway but sadly, the business part of the town was substantially destroyed by fire in 1906; but by the following year the population was over 4000, the property assessment topped $2 million and four storey buildings were rising from the ashes to accommodate the officials, the lawyers and the bankers.

CC was influential during these developments through public office and his newspaper, The Haileyburian which left its readers in no doubt as to which projects were favoured. For recreation CC enjoyed his motorboat the Jinnie M, often accompanied by his faithful four-legged companion O'Dawg. By 1912 Haileybury was the judicial seat and CC had built his stately home on West Road overlooking the lake. Two years later after a short illness he died there on November 25th, 1914.

Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, June 2, 2022

2. Charles Cobbold Farr Sculpture

“C.C.” and his faithful four-legged companion O'Dawg.

(Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Haileybury, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada)  Excerpt:  In 1889, Charles Cobbold Farr left his employment with the Hudson Bay Company and moved his family to a clearing along the shore of Lake Temiskaming known as Humphrey's Depot. This spot was also known by its Algonkian name, Matabanick, an ancient native portage whose name roughly translates “place where the trail ends.”

C.C. Farr's dream was to establish a community, which he would name Haileybury after the school he attended in England. In 1893 he wrote a pamphlet entitled “The Lake Temiscamingue District” which he distributed to encourage settlement. Haileybury's early growth was slow, but with the advent of the railway, the discovery of silver in 1903, and the establishment of the Cobalt Mining Camp, Haileybury experienced a population explosion. Haileybury's Lakeshore Road came to be known as Millionaire's Row in reference to the many mine owners, managers and other professionals who built their majestic homes along Lake Temiskaming's shore. By 1904 the Town was incorporated and in 1912 Haileybury was declared the Judicial Seat for the District of Temiskaming.

Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, June 2, 2022

3. Charles Cobbold Farr Monument

Excerpt:  Sculpture honoring the man of influence: this work of art is from the sculptor Ernie Fauvelle.
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In 1889, the Town of Haileybury was founded by Charles Cobbold Farr. The town was named after his former school in England at the Haileybury and Imperial Service College. Farr came to the area six years prior as an employee of the Hudson’s Bay Company at Fort Témiscamingue. His duties allowed him to explore the shores of this sizable lake. Charles had thoughts of cultivating the land and bringing in settlers, but this created a conflict with his employers who were focused strictly on the fur trade. To chase his dream, he was forced to leave the Hudson’s Bay Company. He approached the provincial government to pitch a development agenda for Temiskaming. Specialists came to study to the soil, terrain, forest and waterways. In the meantime, Charles was tasked with producing a pamphlet to be printed and circulated to potential settlers.

Excerpt:  Temiskaming Shores is a city in the

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Timiskaming District in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. It was created by the amalgamation of the town of New Liskeard, the town of Haileybury, and the township of Dymond in 2004.

Haileybury is the seat of Timiskaming District. Haileybury was founded in 1889 by Charles Cobbold Farr, who named the newly founded town after the Haileybury and Imperial Service College, his former school in England. Haileybury was formally incorporated as a town in 1904. Marketed to settlers as prime agricultural land, Haileybury had only a handful of residents until the arrival of the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway in the early 1900s, and the subsequent discovery of large silver deposits in neighboring Cobalt in 1903.