When wood was the main heating fuel, people from Quebec would regularly cross the ice after Lake Temiskaming had frozen over to get to Haileybury. Other people would use the frozen lake to get their fire wood from the surrounding rugged shorline. They would load their sleigh of cord wood drawn by a team of horses and sell the wood to the local Haileybury household. As the horse drawn sligh approched the town of Haileybury, they headed for this natural ramp at the foot of Marcella St. This natural ramp was used as the main "Enterence" into Haileybury. But as time changes everything, coal replaced wood as the main heating fuel. By the 1950's oil and natural gas had replaced coal as the heating source. The Winter Road Enterance into Haileybury was no longer being used and it became obsolete. In about 1957, Haileybury Town Councillor, Jim Whelan (1957-64) who was an avid boater himself, noted the trend of tourists, who were trailering their boats, were using the old Winter Road natural ramp to launch their boats. He suggested to council that the old Winter Road Entrence be converted to a boat launching ramp by "covering the surface with concrete". The rest of the council agreed. In 2001 CE, the town of Haileybury along with the Haileybury Haritage Museum decided to recognize the century long dual purpose of this historic site which led people to and from the town of Haileybury. This "Entrence Winter Road" is didicated in memory and recognition of Councillor James (Jim) Whelen who had spearheaded the boat ramp project which transformed the old Entrence winter road into Haileybury boat, ice-fishing and ski-doo ramp onto Lake Temiskaming.