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F.Laura Gienow was born on 30 Jun 1915 in Atikokan.
She was a Clerk in Steep Rock Iron Mines. " I came to Atikokan on August 20, 1943 and lived in camp 6 with Jim. When we moved to Atikokakan, the population was mostly C.N.R people, the rest were construction people. I'm not sure of the number (presumably 300), that is a guess and there were Mckenzie Avenue as far as Zuke Road and Front Street, O'Brien Street, Mercury Avenue from Larson, the high school and a few homes. I said earlier while we were at camp 6, in the bush, Jim worked on a compressor and we got our groceries from the cookery Pitts Constructions). Shortly before we moved to Atikokan they blew the rock cut at Camp 5 or near there, which we watched. Some rocks flew up in the air and people ducked down as they were afraid they would be hit. The paper, Winnipeg Free Press and Star Weekly said chunks of rock flew the size of trucks (which was greatly exaggerated. We moved to town in January 1944 to Mercury Avenue. There was no running water, electricity or telephones. Jim had to haul the water from the river near Larson's). We could not get a washing machine, fridge or numerous other househould appliances. I washed by hand, Jim later dug a well in our yard, which was good water (but hard). When we went down town to go to Mcleod's store on Front Street we cut through the bush from the bridge on O'Brien Street and there were many good times and some sad times. Linda was born February 20,1945. Susan was born November 3,1952. We watched Atikokan grow and we watched it shrink. P.S~I would say it is a good place to live, especially compared to cities. She retired in Atikokan. F.Laura Gienow and Jim had the
following children:
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