Edmund Henry Horne

He was most famous for being the founder of Noranda, a mining and metallurgy company originally from Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Canada.

In 1908, Horne caught wind of the silver discoveries in Cobalt, Ontario and travelled back to the area.

Results of three subsequent trips to the Quebec township proved disappointing, but had the tenacity and prospector's instinct that refused to be downed.

The series of operations culminating in the incorporation under the Laws of Ontario of Noranda were started in August, 1922, when claims staked by Edmund Horne in Rouyn Township, Quebec, were optioned by a syndicate formed a few months previous for the purpose of exploring promising areas, the acquirement of claims and the general development of mining properties.

Edmund and his wife Anna lived at Monte Vista, their 1,000-acre (4.0 km2) farm on Grand Lake, on the outskirts of Enfield.

Although it has no longer used as a school since 2000, it is now a community centre which houses various businesses such as dance and exercise classes as well as a daycare.

A few years after Edmund's death, Anna gifted their estate of Monte Vista to the Oblates of Eastern Canada.