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Astreet in Channing has been named after a pair of pioneers of the subdivision. Flin Flon City Council has agreed to name a gravel road in honour of Alexandre and Mary Desjardins, early settlers of what was once known as Mile 83. "It's an appropriate thing to do," said Coun. Cal Huntley. The road along Schist Lake, between Freedman St. and the Flin Flon Highway, will officially be christened "Desjardins Lane." Fittingly, the road is within a few yards of the Desjardins' first home, an old sawmill building on the the current site of the Channing beach and playground. Local resident Helen Strom, the granddaughter of the Desjardins, had made the request in a recent letter to council. "I believe the Desjardins family are legitimately deserving of this remembrance and recognition since they were the first pioneer family to settle in Mile 83," she wrote, "and then stay on as residents of the Channing community until 1949." Alexandre and Mary Desjardins arrived in Channing in 1927 and soon built and managed a small hotel and restaurant called "Channing House." "In the early days, the train always stopped at the Channing Station," wrote Strom. "Both crew and passengers would disembark and walk the short distance to the Desjardins restaurant." Since 1927, five generations of the Desjardins family have called Channing home.
