After decades-long search, northern Ontario man finds vintage vehicle in Larder Lake
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A tale about a taxicab hauling gold and sinking through the ice on Larder Lake, Ont., in December 1937 has captivated a man from that town for decades.
A tale about a taxicab hauling gold and sinking through the ice on Larder Lake, Ont., in December 1937 has captivated a man from that town for decades.
In fact, Jason Ploeger has been looking for the sunken treasure since he was a teenager. He finally found it this summer.
Larder Like, a short drive southeast of Kirkland Lake, is large. On one side of it is the town and on the other was a gold mine that operated in the 1930s, called Martin Bird Mine.
No longer in operation, the mine was only accessible by water during summer and an ice road in the winter.
Ploeger said he was 10 years old when he first heard stories about a taxicab on its way to or from the mine on Dec. 19, 1937, when it fell through the ice.
When he was a teenager, he decided to search for it.
