People/miner, prospector

Stanley Siscoe (Stanislaw Szyszka)

Stanley Siscoe (Stanislaw Szyszka) (1891–1935), miner, prospector, from Poland. Linked to gold.

The lucky break

Arrived in Canada in 1907 with 25 dollars as a general labourer, worked in the Cobalt and Porcupine mines, and with other Polish miners registered claims on an island in De Montigny Lake in Quebec, later called Siscoe Island.1

The downfall

He died sometime between 23 and 26 March 1935 on the frozen surface of Matchi-Manitou Lake.1

Legacy

Formed the Siscoe Mining Syndicate and later Siscoe Gold Mines Limited, whose capital stock rose to five million shares by 1930.1

Story cards

Sources

  1. SISCOE, STANLEY EDWARD (Stanislaw Szyszka) Dictionary of Canadian Biography

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Super Pit, Kalgoorlie by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0; Underground mining equipment by Kaupo Kikkas, CC BY-SA 4.0. Pictures: Gold prospectors constructing a long box with a filter for panning gold. Process print after H.M. Paget, 1899., Henry Marriott Paget (Public Domain Mark 1.0).