We’re still swimming through Timmins history in this week’s look back.
In 1932, local contractor and business owner Leo Mascioli put in a 92-by-46-foot pool in the area that is now the beach on the Mattagami River. Museum curator-director Karen Bachmann tells us about some of the features.
“He had change rooms there. He had different activities. He is the one that developed that beach area. So you could either swim in the pool or swim on the beach in the river,” she recounts. “And the pool was fed by water directly from the river. So it kind of kept things going, and was really a very, very popular thing. So that went on for a number of years.”
Next Monday: the pool you’ve been waiting to hear and read about all summer.
