Virginiatown and Kearns

Museum and Tourist Center  

McGarry Tourist Information Center

And McGarry Heritage Home

Formally known as the Larder / McGarry Tourist Information Center And McGarry Heritage House. The Corporation of the Township of Mcgarry purchased Larder Lake's share of the building from the township of Larder Lake. This purchase allowed the town of Larder Lake to build their own tourism center and increased the costs to mcgarry residents by increased taxes, maintaince, heat and employees. When constructed part of the building was built on another property.

The McGarry Tourist Centre housed in a magnificent model of a logged home, serves the communities of Virginiatown and Kearns, (commonly called V-Town). Previously known as the Larder - McGarry. The Tourist Center Is quite unique in that it serves both as a Tourist Centre and Virginiatown Heritage House. On the outside of the centre are several items of interest. One of them is an impressive 3 metre high replica of the first Gold Coin ever minted in Canada (see below)

Services

*** Summer season:

• Open 7 days a week, 9am. to 9pm., July 1st to September 6th

*** Fall, Winter and Spring seasons:

• Appointments can be made to view the Tourist Centre in the Fall, Winter & Spring seasons. e-mail or Phone 1-(705) 634-2231, 1-(705) 634-2321 Save your phone call and e-mail to give a rough estimate of arrival or 1-(705) 634-2145 ((township office)) and local contact # will be given to you.

*** Travel Counseling

*** Maps and Brochures

*** Information on Regional Events and Attractions

*** Recreational Vehicle Parking

*** Rest and Picnic Area

*** Pay Telephone

This impressive 3 metre high replica of one of the first Gold Coin's ever minted in Canada. The real Gold coin actually contained gold metal produced by the Dr. Reddick Larder Lake Mines Limited, produced from their 20-stamp mill and it actually represents the first five dollar gold piece minted in Canada.

Area Attractions 

*** Virginiatown Heritage House:

• Offers the visitor many items of interest, one of which is the infamous Kerr Addision Mine model, which shows the levels and ore zones of the former Kerr mine, which at one time was the richest Gold ore deposit in north America and highly ranked in the world producing over 10,000,000 ounces of gold (Au.) Also inside there is many more mining items along with local art and craft

*** Heritage Gold Trail:

• Showing some of the underground mining equipment, used both in the past and present. Such things as: man car, clam, ore car, slusher and much more to numerous to mention.

*** Lions Club, McGarry Park (Bear Lake -- Camping)

*** Raven Beach Park (Larder Lake -- Camping)

*** Boat Launches: Virginiatown and Larder Lake

*** Larder Lake Waterfront

*** Mount Cheminis (under web construction)

*** Local Arts and Crafts

*** Real Diamond Drill Core May be purchased

• (Drill Core is supposed to be logged and recorded and kept forever. It is unknown if this diamond drill has gold or is mineralized with gold or any other valuable mineral as it was abondaned. Since the exact location of this drill core is unknown, it is of no use to Geogolists as they cannot tell where it came from.)

*** Larder River Provincial Park Canoe Route

*** Ontario Map (12kb) showing location, with links to area Fishing, Hunting and Snowmobiling Maps

****** (((under construction)))

This is a very detailed map of northeastern Ontario. It shows all of the hwy's, secondary roads, cities and towns, rivers, lakes, railways, etc. in Northern Ontario.

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