Random photos from Atikokan

here are a few photos from Atikokan events and activities taken by the Atikokan Progress.

Random Photos From Atikokan

Some photos from the Arts Centre, some pictures from the Pictograph Gallery, some Chamber of Commerce activities, Arena pictures of figure skating, hockey and ringette and some mud fling pictures and photos.

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Atikokan Progress Archives -   Learn more about the history of Atikokan in the newly updated Atikokan Progress Archives! You’ll find birth anouncements, marriages, engagements, obituaries and timely headlines from the first boom days of Atikokan.

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You’ll now find Atikokan Progress articles from the years 1950, 1951 and 1952. See if your family members are mentioned! Keep checking back as more of our history is added!

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At a Coke Can

Atikokan - At a Coke Can

 

A few years ago, when I was the President of the Atikokan Chamber of Commerce, we were brainstorming about how me might bring move visitors to Atikokan.

Perhaps I’m simple, but - as the rest of the crew got busy thinking of ways we could increase the benefit our community received from the near-by Quetico Park - I thought…

We should get a huge old grain bin from a farm in Manitoba, move it to Main street Atikokan, and paint it like a can of Coca-Cola…. At-a-Coke-Can.

I thought this idea was brilliant!  Tie in with the marketing buzz of a successful world-wide multi-billion dollar business… combined with Mom’s Way marketing and the insatiable desire of photo-opt’s during a family vacation…

All Atikokan needs is the World’s Largest Coke Can.

EVERYONE who is traveling through Northwestern Ontario will make a stop to have their family picture taken beside the Guinness Book Coke Can!

BUT NO.

When I told my idea to the Mayor of Atikokan - I was told “It doesn’t match our Promotional Theme.”

… and I’m thinking… this doesn’t match the theme of ‘Getting More Visitors to Atikokan?’

I don’t know.

I still think the Worlds Largest Coke Can will draw more visitors than the current marketing promotions that Atikokan pays for - and I’m starting an online promotion of the idea.

Are you in?