Volunteers building an archive of information on David Collins are looking for photographs of the late Métis trapper.
A committee is working to erect a cairn in memory of Collins near Neighbours of the North Park by the fall.
The committee is simultaneously assembling an archive of data pertaining to Collins, who is credited with showing prospector Tom Creighton the location of the ore body that spawned Flin Flon.
The archive is to become part of the Flin Flon Heritage Project, an online repository of local history.
Anyone with photos of Collins is asked to drop them off to The Reminder at 14 North Avenue or email them to news@the
reminder.ca. Hard copies of photos will be scanned and returned to the owner.
Any photos we receive will be forwarded to the committee.
Collins died on May 27, 1931 and was buried at Bakers Narrows. Historians believe he showed Creighton the outcroppings of the Flin Flon ore body in either 1914 or 1915.
