Frank Kushick

Related or Connected To: Gordon Kushick

Related How: Brother

Related or Connected To: Henri Bazelot, Laura Bazelot

Related How: Good friends

Related or Connected To: Gus Weidman

Related How: Good friends

Description or Context: Frank and Gordon helped set Gus up with his first trap line at Ghost River and regularly got together to visit over the years.

He is buried in Buckingham at St. Andrews Cemetery in Buckingham, QC. You can view a photo of his grave stone via the source link below.

He was written up in several Canadian and American papers including The New York Times on June 19, 1929 for witnessing a meteor falling. SAULT STE. MARIE,' Ont., June 18 (Canadian Press).-A strange tale was brought down to “The Soo" to- day from Michipicoten Island by Frank Kushick, a prospector, who said a huge meteor “about the size of a ship" fell into Lake Superior close to the island at 10 o'clock on the night of June 11. The meteor illuminated the island brilliantly and created a rumbling noise which was heard at Puckasaw and Pipe River, twenty and twelve miles away respectively, for two minutes after it fell. Kushick's story is supported by his brother, Gordon, and Augusta Weidman, camped about two miles away on the island. The meteor fell between the island and the mainland, and there appeared to be two balls of fire, either following the meteor closely or attached to it. The air was full of sparks, he said. Quite a sea arose after the meteor struck the water. The rumbling noise is believed to have been caused by boiling water. A copy of an article in the Morning Leader, Regina Sask is sourced below.

Worked for several years as a foreman of a logging camp on the Pukaskwa River. He was active in recruiting staff from his hometown of Buckingham, QC. Dr. MacCallum recounts this memory: "Well, we all came down here (Buckingham) first and met the foreman, this Mr. Kushick, Frank Kushick. He went around the country-side. He was a German himself and he went all through - there's a German settlement up the river - and got quite a few of the German boys and some of the French boys to sign up."

Harold Lund shared a story of Frank and Gordon saving Gus Wiedman's life after finding him in his cabin with a bad infection. "The Kushick brothers had a trapline that adjoined his territory, and they'd stop in to see him about once a winter. They travelled by dog team or snowshoes. One spring they found him in his cabin. He had sat down and put his head back, and got pricked by a dirty or rusty nail, and got an infection. He stayed right there until he wasn't even able to get out. So Gordon and John Kushick packed him out of there and sent him off to Thunder Bay, where he was in the hospital quite a long- time. When he left the hospital he kind of retired and came down to the Sault and stayed with me. He was some man, really tough. I called him Tarzan."

Places: Otter Cove