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Over a century of givingHow a pharmacist turned mining speculator became Santa Claus for hundreds of Timmins children

How a pharmacist turned mining speculator became Santa Claus for hundreds of Timmins children

By Tijana Mitrovic

June 29, 2020

Courtesy of Columbus Library

For over a hundred years, the children of Timmins’ Schumacher neighbourhood have received a little something under their Christmas trees from a special benefactor, a mining entrepreneur named Frederick W. Schumacher.

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