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Mattagami Cabin

Abandoned Recreational in Timmins, Ontario, Canada

Feb 15 2015

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Recent status Abandoned
Location # 11663

Small cabin found along the mattagami river near timmins. The gps location may not be exact but close. It is somewhere between where grassy river merges with mattagami river and the bridge on wafferboard road. Tucked into the woods just enough that if you blink you may miss it, It's a small log cabin with a newer addition on the back. I have no information on the cabin or the previous owners. There's a water run-off going underneath a portion of the cabin and comes out and into the river washing out the bank.

The entrance to the cabin is a steel door wedged by the mud beneath it leaving it open less than a foot. The cabin itself is made of log, a wafferboard roof covers it. what appears to be the original portion of the cabin seems to have been used at the kitchen, stacks of wood and cutlery can be found. The woodstove obviously hasn't been used in quite some time. The "newer" addition housed a matress but not much else. The roof in the addition is collapsed. Having looked around the cabin there were what may have once been discarded bed frames but not much else interesting. Aside from the small creek that seemed to flow from in the woods under the cabin; the river seemed to be the only way to or from.

Edit:

Information came up from family and friends of the previous owners stating that they believe it was a trappers cabin built in the 40s and later used by Two locals Ron Kiroac and Peanut Rochon to be used as a fishing/hunting cabin. A nearby freshwater spring was purposely diverted to run directly under the cabin and into the river.

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2 years ago

Wow, this definitely was my Dad's cabin! His name was O'Neil (Peanut) Rochon, he passed in 2014. He did have his brother-in-law, my Uncle Ron Kirouac out there with him during hunting, he was much younger and my father treated him like a son and gave him half of his trapline. Our family walked to the boathouse on the Mattagami river almost every weekend when I was growing up, stopped for gas and Kentucky Fried Chicken just by the bridge on our way there and travelled 16 miles by water to spend time here. My father didn't have a driver's licence so there was no need for road access. There was a fresh spring water brook just to the right of it and the water was always ice cold. We had bunk beds at the far back... My father made a swing on the big hill on the left that used to swing over a homemade table and the outdoor jon was partway up the hill on the right....it sure looks like it's had better days. My father was a Hollinger Gold miner and editor and became an electrician later in life. He hunted, fished and trapped all his life and he taught me a lot about the ways of our ancestors, we are Métis. Finding these pics was a real blast from the past, sad to see how decrepit it looks now but it sure brings back a lot of memories, thank you so, so very much for publishing this! Linda Rochon

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9 years ago

Cool little find..