a timeline for industrial firsts

time immemorial - teme-augama anishnabeg
1620-1640 european religion (jesuit missionaries visit the fringes of n'daki menan)
1679 fur trading (french post established at the mouth of the montreal and matabitchuan rivers)
1877 native land claims (chief tonene asks the federal government for a treaty)
1879 agriculture (chief tonene encourages his people to take up farming, fearing the white men would kill all the animals)
1880s prospecting (gold found on shore of lake temagami in 1887)
1890s recreational canoeing (particularly temagami, nonwakaming, and lady evelyn lakes)
1901 protected areas (temagami forest reserve established to protect the forest from settlers)
1901 forest fire fighting (rangers patrol the tfr)
1903 youth camping (camp keewaydin established on devil's island)
1904 rail transportation (temiskaming and northern ontario railway reaches temagami)
1904 steamboating (s.s. marie sails from the town of temagami)
1904 lodge-based tourism and cottaging
1906 mining (silver mine on the eastern flank of maple mountain)
1900s logging (started with the clearing of the railway, continued on an ad hoc basis along the rail corridor)
1914 park advocacy (provincial park proposal from associated boards of trade of ontario)
1973 environmental activism (save maple mountain committee formed to oppose ski resort)

what do you take from this?

sources vintage postcards.com
ottertooth
bruce hodgins and jamie benidickson's book, the temagami experience, university of toronto press, 1989