Karl Brooks Heisey
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|name = Karl Brooks Heisey
|image = Karl Brooks Heisey ca 1935.jpg
|caption = Karl Heisey ca 1936
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|birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1895|5|31}}
|birth_place = Township of Markham, Ontario
|death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1937|12|7|1895|5|31}}
|death_place = City of Toronto, Ontario
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|resting_place = Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto
|other_names =
|occupation = Mining Engineer
|years_active =
|known_for = Discovery and Early Development of Red Lake Mine
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Karl Brooks Heisey (31 May 1895, Markham, Ontario – 7 December 1937,{{cite news |date=8 December 1937 |title=Noted Mine Engineer Karl B. Heisey Dead |page= 12 |newspaper= Toronto Daily Star |location= Toronto |id={{ProQuest|1433959295}} }} Toronto, Ontario) was a Canadian mining engineer and mining executive in the 1930s."Mining Executive Karl Heisey, Dies", Ottawa Citizen, 8 December 1937 Heisey pioneered the exploration and development of the Sanshaw/Red Lake metal deposits located in northwest Ontario. The Red Lake Mine is one of the richest gold mines in the world, still in production today with annual production of 600,000 ounces gold and over 11 million ounces produced to date.{{cite web |url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/grandview-gold-inc-undertakes-ip-133000796.html |title=Grandview Gold Inc. Undertakes IP Survey of Sanshaw-Bonanza in Red Lake to Explore Extension of Historic Mineralization with Goldcorp/Premiere's Bonanza Deposit |accessdate=2017-01-16 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160920192350/http://finance.yahoo.com/news/grandview-gold-inc-undertakes-ip-133000796.html|archive-date=20 September 2016 }}
Early life
Heisey was the son of farmers, Jacob Heisey (1856-1933) and Ida Lehman (1871-1941) and was raised in the Township of Markham, York County, Ontario.{{cite web|url=http://www.uelac.org/Loyalist-Trails/2014/Loyalist-Trails-2014.php?issue=201446|title=UELAC.org - Loyalist Trails newsletter Online edition 2014 Archive|website=Uelac.org|accessdate=14 October 2017}} Heisey family members have farmed in various parts of York Region, including Gormley and Markham Village. The Heisey (originally Heise) family was originally from Lebanon County, Pennsylvania and migrated to Upper Canada in the late 18th or early 19th century.{{cite web
|url=https://www.york.ca/wps/wcm/connect/yorkpublic/4bee682e-0283-4746-a348-058b63a1caf4/Appendix+D-1+-+Cultural+Heritage+Assessment+Final+Existing+Conditions+Report.pdf?MOD=AJPERES|access-date=15 April 2023|website=york.ca|title=Cultural Heritage Assessment. Existing Conditions}}
He enlisted in the Signal Corps of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in 1917, during the First World War.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/personnel-records/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=461550|title = Personnel Record FWW Item|website = Library and Archives Canada|date = 29 June 2016}} Heisey joined the Royal Flying Corps Canada (the training organisation of the British Royal Flying Corps) as a Cadet, flying out of Camp Borden, Ontario in 1918, and was demobilised at the end of the war as a Royal Air Force Second Lieutenant.{{cite web |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31821/page/3257 |title=Memoranda |author= |date=12 March 1920 |work=The London Gazette|issue= 31821 |page=3193|access-date=24 March 2015}} He did not see combat and was a flight instructor. Heisey was of Tunker descent (Brethren in Christ Church) a pacifist German sect of Anabaptism.{{cite web|url=http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/heise/134/|title=Re: Heise's of Ontario, posted - Genealogy.com|website=Genealogy.com|access-date=14 October 2017}}https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/brethren-in-christ
File:RFC Second Lieutenant Karl Brooks Heisey 1920.jpg
Heisey obtained a bachelor's degree in Applied Science from the College of Applied Science (Mining) at the University of Toronto in 1922. He was married to Alice Isabel Smith (1895–1968) in 1927.{{cite web|url=http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~maryc/tor1927p7.htm|title=Toronto 1927, part 7|website=homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com|access-date=14 October 2017}}
Mining career
As both a highly experienced pilot and mining engineer Heisey was well positioned to participate in the Red Lake and Kirkland Lake Gold Rushes in northern Ontario in the 1930s. Red Lake was inaccessible by road until 1947 when Ontario Highway 105 was constructed and the only access prior to then was by boat or plane.{{cite web|url=http://www.thekingshighway.ca/Highway105.htm|title=Ontario Highway 105 History - The King's Highways of Ontario|website=Thekingshighway.ca|accessdate=14 October 2017}} Kirkland Lake had no road access until 1937.{{cite web|url=http://www.thekingshighway.ca/Highway66.htm|title=Ontario Highway 66 History - The King's Highways of Ontario|website=Thekingshighway.ca|accessdate=14 October 2017}}
Heisey engaged in geological surveys for the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources between 1919 and 1922 in Kirkland Lake and West Shinintree and conducted magnetic surveys for discovery of gold with pyrrhotite iron.{{cite web | title=Roches et Mineraux, Report 77 | publisher=Geological Survey of Canada | first=Anna P. | last=Sabina, Queen's Printer | year=2003 | page=196 | url=http://wmsmir.cits.rncan.gc.ca/index.html/pub/geott/ess_pubs/214/214760/mr_77_f.pdf | access-date=2 March 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402101756/http://wmsmir.cits.rncan.gc.ca/index.html/pub/geott/ess_pubs/214/214760/mr_77_f.pdf# | archive-date=2 April 2015 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }}{{cite news | title=Mining Executive Karl Heisey dies | newspaper=Ottawa Citizen | date=8 December 1937 | page=5 | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2194&dat=19371208&id=N3AvAAAAIBAJ&pg=5712,1735014}}{{cite web|url=http://www.geologyontario.mndmf.gov.on.ca/mndmfiles/pub/data/imaging/ARV47/ARV47.pdf|title=FORTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT of the ONTARIO DEPARTMENT of MINES|website=Geologyontario.mndmf.gov.on.ca|accessdate=14 October 2017}}Who's Who in Canada 1936–37 Including The British Possessions in the Western Hemisphere, Edited by E.M. Greene, Twenty-Fifth year of Issue, Published by International Press Limited, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 1937"Mine's President Dies Toronto", Winnipeg Tribune 8 December 1937 p. 17
File:Toburn Mines (Tough-Oakes Burnside Mine 1931.jpg
Following this, Heisey worked as an engineer with Argonaut Mines, Kirkland Lake from 1922 to 1923. In 1924 he was appointed chief engineer of Tough Oakes Gold Mines and the same year he joined the Mond Nickel Company as exploration engineer in the Quebec field. Heisey opened his own office in Kirkland Lake in 1928, coming to Toronto in 1930.
Heisey was affiliated with numerous other mining corporations throughout his career where he held various roles, some of these corporations include: Manitoba and Eastern Mines Ltd.,{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/36461680/|title=The Winnipeg Tribune from Winnipeg, on September 18, 1928 · Page 21|website=Newspapers.com|accessdate=14 October 2017}} Marquette Long Lac,{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/37323331/|title=The Winnipeg Tribune from Winnipeg, on November 11, 1936 · Page 14|website=Newspapers.com|accessdate=14 October 2017}} and Russet Red Lake Syndicate.{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/39347152/|title=The Winnipeg Tribune from Winnipeg, on October 2, 1937 · Page 23|website=Newspapers.com|accessdate=14 October 2017}} His appointments with these mines included being in charge of surface work, consulting and direction of a new extensive diamond-drilling program, as well as consulting and analysis leading to recommendation of diamond drilling of a section of the property respectively. Heisey also has authorship on an assessment report on Ossian Mines Ltd. for the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines of Ontario; his assessment outlined analysis of the mine as well as recommendations for future work.{{cite web|url=http://www.geologyontario.mndmf.gov.on.ca/mndmfiles/afri/data/imaging/32D05SE0376/32D05SE0376.pdf|title=Ossian Mines Ltd|website=Geologyontario.mndmf.gov.on.ca|accessdate=14 October 2017}}
Sanshaw Gold Mine
File:Sanshaw Gold Mine , mine head , White Horse Island , Red Lake , Ontario ca. 1937.jpg, Karl Jr. wearing hat and Alan Milliken Heisey Sr.]]
Heisey was President of Sanshaw Mines, Limited, incorporated in 1936, which owned claims on White Horse Island, on Red Lake which was first staked by the Sanshaw Mines Syndicate.{{cite web|url=http://www.frontlinegold.com/s/NewsReleases.asp?ReportID=718609&_Type=News-Releases&_Title=Frontline-Acquires-Red-Lake-Mining-Patents-Between-Goldcorp-and-Premier-Gol...|title=Frontline Gold Corp - News Releases - Frontline Acquires Red Lake Mining Patents Between Goldcorp and Premier Gold Property Boundaries - Sat Oct 14, 2017|website=Frontlinegold.com|accessdate=14 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170217073935/http://www.frontlinegold.com/s/NewsReleases.asp?ReportID=718609&_Type=News-Releases&_Title=Frontline-Acquires-Red-Lake-Mining-Patents-Between-Goldcorp-and-Premier-Gol...|archive-date=17 February 2017|url-status=dead}} 15 diamond drill holes were drilled totalling 1160 m in 1936.http://www.geologyontario.mndmf.gov.on.ca/gosportal/goscommand=mndmsearchdetails:mdi&uuid=MDI52N04SW00014 {{dead link|date=October 2017}} He was the manager and driving force of the Sanshaw Gold Mine which was developed on White Horse Island during 1936–7. Heisey's crew uncovered a previously unknown well-mineralized shear and gold vein in 1936 which was the most important discovered up until that time in the Red Lake area."Sanshaw Locates New Shear Zone", The Northern Miner, 10 September 1936 p. 21{{Cite news |title=Brokers' Loans Up|work=The Globe|date=4 September 1936|page=16 |id = {{ProQuest|1350960999}}}}
Operations ceased in September 1937 and Heisey died shortly thereafter in December of that year at the age of 42. Heisey is buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto in a family plot. His parents are buried in Quantztown Cemetery in Markham, Ontario and earlier members of the Heise family are buried in Heise Hill Cemetery in northwest Markham.{{Cite web|url=https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/heise/134/|title=Re: Heise's of Ontario, posted - Genealogy.com|website=www.genealogy.com|accessdate=15 April 2023}}
Gallery
File:Karl Brooks Heisey Red Lake 1935.jpg|Karl Heisey freight canoe 1935
File:Heisey fishing in stream Red Lake summer 1936.jpg|Heisey fishing in stream in Red Lake area 1936
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