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73-575: In 1902 the Ontario government chartered the Temiskaming & Northern Ontario Railway (T&NO) to connect the towns of New Liskeard and Haileybury on Lake Temiskaming to North Bay on Lake Nipissing . During construction, silver ore was discovered near the Mile 103 post, just southwest of Haileybury. The Cobalt Silver Rush followed, leading to the incorporation of the town of Cobalt in 1906, and

146-524: A Charger locomotive and three Venture passenger cars . The train sets are for the restoration of Northlander train service between Toronto and Cochrane, which would operate four to seven times per week depending on season. There would be 16 stops: Toronto ( Union Station ), Langstaff , Gormley , Washago , Gravenhurst , Bracebridge , Huntsville , South River , North Bay , Temagami , Temiskaming Shores , Englehart , Kirkland Lake/ Swastika , Matheson , Timmins and Cochrane . ONR operates or operated

219-414: A company town. The combined mines behaved more like a "very influential industrial citizen", rather than a single company that dominated all aspects of civilian life. As the worker population grew, these camps started to mesh together as a single town. (Torlone later served as the municipal Chief Administrative Officer.) On July 10, 1911, unusually hot and dry temperatures caused small fires to ignite at

292-554: A familiar sight in the region, but there was little commercial interest due to the area's inaccessibility. The extension of the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway to Cochrane in 1907, allowed prospectors to more easily access the area. This sparked an interest in the region's natural resources, leading to the Porcupine Gold Rush . The first known prospectors were a team led by Reuben D'Aigle . They set out for Porcupine Lake in 1907 and dug several test pits in

365-402: A plan for passenger rail services. In May 2021, the provincial government announced plans for Ontario Northland and Metrolinx to resume passenger operations between Toronto and northeastern Ontario with a 13-stop route to begin service by the mid-2020s. In November 2021, the decision was made to make the new terminus Timmins (previously Cochrane) due to its size and the fact that it serves as

438-489: A population density of 13.9/km (36.1/sq mi) in 2021. In Timmins, according to the 2021 census, 60.26%% of the population reported English as their mother tongue ( Anglophone ), 34.25%% reported French ( Francophone ) as their first language, and 5.49% reported a non-official language, neither English nor French, as their first language ( Allophone ). 50.8% of the population is bilingual in English and French. From

511-524: A railway on this route still desired, the new Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway was incorporated on 17 March 1902, by the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway Act of the Ontario parliament . The railway was to be a provincial Crown corporation overseen by the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway Commission. Construction on the railway started in 1903, and the settlement of Redwater in

584-523: A regional service and distribution centre. The city has a large Francophone community, with more than 50% of the residents bilingual in French and English. Archaeological evidence indicates that the area has been inhabited for at least 6,500 years. The first inhabitants were nomadic peoples of the Shield Archaic culture . At the time of European contact , the area was inhabited primarily by

657-524: A regional transportation hub. A test run was conducted in March 2021, and again in November of 2021 where several northern Ontario mayors, MPPs, and local residents were taken from North Bay to Toronto's Union station. In December 2022, the provincial government announced that it would purchase 3 new train sets from Siemens Mobility Limited at a cost of $ 140   million. Each train set would consist of

730-466: A routing agreement in which ONR would transport CN's freight traffic between Noranda and either Hearst or North Bay. On April 14, 2010, there was news of a proposed Ontario Northland takeover of the controversial Ottawa Valley rail tracks. However, this development never came to fruition. On March 23, 2012, the Ontario government announced that it would begin to wind down the ONTC, citing increased costs to

803-576: A surveyor and cartographer for the Hudson's Bay Company , established a trading outpost at Fredrick House Lake , about 30 km (19 mi) north-east of present-day downtown Timmins. Although beaver fur was plentiful and still in demand in Europe, the trading post was not successful. Nearby competition, and the difficulty of navigating the Abitibi and Fredrick House rivers by canoe, often resulted in

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876-419: A swelling population reaching 10 to 15,000 by 1911. As the population of all of the towns grew, the need for better transportation between them also grew. The Nipissing Central Railway was granted a federal (Dominion) charter on 12 April 1907, and opened the first portion of the line between Cobalt and Haileybury on 30 April 1910. The route followed King Street out of Cobalt, turning onto the city streets of what

949-477: Is a canoe car, which is in service in the summer as part of the Polar Bear Express passenger train. The car can hold up to 18 canoes. Canoeists can put canoes on this car as part of their baggage, although canoes are often stowed in boxcars. It is the only known train car specifically designed for transporting canoes and kayaks . In 1977, the railway purchased four RAm/DE train sets retired from

1022-584: Is a city in northeastern Ontario , Canada, located on the Mattagami River . The city is the fourth-largest city in the Northeastern Ontario region with a population of 41,145 at the 2021 Canadian census and an estimated population of 44,819 in 2023. The city's economy is based on natural resource extraction. It is supported by industries related to lumbering, and to the mining of gold, zinc, copper, nickel, and silver. Timmins serves as

1095-683: Is located entirely in Ontario , starting at its southern terminus at North Bay , running northward through Cobalt , New Liskeard , Cochrane , and on to its northern terminus at Moosonee on the Moose River, about 19 km (12 mi) south of the shore of James Bay . There is one major branchline running eastward from Swastika through Kirkland Lake and over the Quebec border to end at Rouyn-Noranda . The railway's branch from Swastika to Rouyn-Noranda, including 40 kilometres of track in Quebec,

1168-496: Is operated by a subsidiary , the Nipissing Central Railway . Shorter spur lines also exist running west from Rock Junction to Sherman Mine , south-west from Porquis Junction to Kidd Creek Mine , about 22 km east of Timmins , north-east from Porquis to Iroquois Falls and south from Opaz Junction to Agrium mine site. Several other mining spurs opened and closed with the mines they served. Since 1993,

1241-656: Is today's North Cobalt (the outskirts of Haileybury) and turning downtown before ending at Main Street in Haileybury. The line was purchased by the T&;NO on 20 June 1911. An extension along Lake Timiskaming to New Liskeard opened on 1 November 1912, ending at Whitewood Avenue. In 1914, an existing spur line on the T&NO to Kerr Lake was electrified and joined to the NCR. This section was abandoned in 1924. Interurban operations on

1314-623: The Abitibi Canyon Generating Station was being built on the Abitibi River . Between 1928 and 1930 the railway was extended north at a slow pace. The pace of construction was quickened in 1930 as a make-work project due to the depression. The extension to James Bay was opened on July 15, 1932. The terminus of the railway was at the mouth of the Moose River near the old trading post of Revillon Frères . It

1387-656: The Cree and Ojibwe peoples. The first Europeans to make contact with the local Indigenous peoples were French explorers in the late 1600s. The first attempt at a permanent European presence in the area did not come until 1785, nearly two decades after Great Britain defeated France in the Seven Years' War and took over its territory in North America east of the Mississippi River . Philip Turnor ,

1460-531: The Trans Europ Express by the Dutch and Swiss railways , for use on its Northlander train. However, the experiment was not entirely successful. The locomotives were scrapped in 1984, although the passenger cars survived until the early 1990s. These surviving passenger cars were pulled by rebuilt Canadian locomotives ( EMD FP7 ). The rear end of the locomotives was altered to fit to original cars. With

1533-594: The hemiboreal humid continental climate ( Dfb ). Timmins has cold and snowy winters, being located in Northern Ontario . Temperatures in late summer and autumn tend to be among the coolest for any non-coastal major city in Canada. During the late spring and summer, temperatures can rise considerably, sometimes accompanied by high humidity and unstable air masses. The highest temperature ever recorded in Timmins

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1606-637: The Canadian locomotives, the control car / DVT lost their function. Many passenger cars used on ONR trains today are former single-level GO Transit cars that were extensively refurbished after being used for commuter service around Toronto. In 2004, Ontario Northland purchased ten passenger cars, including dome cars, from BC Rail and has used some of them on the Polar Bear Express service between Cochrane and Moosonee. Timmins Timmins ( / ˈ t ɪ m ɪ n s / TIM -ins )

1679-467: The Dome Mine held meetings about reopening within two days of the fire. The camp was quickly rebuilt with help from various communities around Ontario, and operations soon resumed. The fire burned the thin layers of moss and soil characteristic of a Canadian Shield landscape. This revealed previously unknown veins of gold and other minerals, which helped facilitate economic recovery efforts. Given

1752-661: The Hudson's Bay Company. More than a century later, in 1906, Treaty 9 was signed between Anishinaabe ( Algonquin and Ojibwe ), Omushkegowuk Cree communities, and the Canadian Crown . It required the Mattagami First Nation to move to the north of Mattagami Lake and to cede territory. The presence of gold in the area was long known to the local indigenous people, and the few Europeans who had settled nearby. Outcroppings of gold-bearing quartz were

1825-512: The Lake Timiskaming area. The railway reached Englehart in 1906 and Cochrane in 1909. In the next few years, several branch lines were built. In 1921, construction on a line north to James Bay was started. In 1923, the new Conservative premier of Ontario, Howard Ferguson , halted further construction, saying that it would be unprofitable. For four years the terminus of the line remained at Fraserdale , near Abitibi Canyon , where

1898-537: The McIntyre mines ceased operations having produced around 11 million troy ounces of gold. In 1973, 35 townships covering 3,300 km (1,260 sq mi), including Porcupine , South Porcupine , Schumacher , and Timmins were organized into the City of Timmins. The city's population peaked in the mid 1990s, when the city became a regional service and distribution centre for Northeastern Ontario. However, with

1971-545: The NCR ended on 9 February 1935. When the T&NO built a spur line between Swastika and Rouyn-Noranda , they operated it under the charter of the NCR, thereby avoiding problems with crossing the provincial border (the T&NO was incorporated in Ontario). The company exists to this day as the operator of the T&NO spur. The construction of the line was the subject of a legal challenge, The Attorney-General of Quebec v. The Nipissing Central Railway Company and another ; it

2044-723: The ONR operates a section of the National Transcontinental Railway running west from Cochrane to Calstock . The line was originally chartered as the Lake Nipissing And James Bay Railway in 1884. The original route ran roughly northward from Callander to Moose River on James Bay. However, in 1902, before construction started, the Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR) took over the charter and used it as

2117-479: The Ontario Government announced that it would invest $ 75-million (CAD), into infrastructure and towards resuming service between Toronto and Timmins. Connections with other railway systems are made as follows: There are a series of regular runs including: The railway currently owns about 25 diesel locomotives and roughly 700 items of rolling stock . One of its more unusual pieces of rolling stock

2190-579: The Porcupine area states that a man named Harry Preston slipped on moss and uncovered gold. In some versions of the story, he is responsible for triggering the Porcupine Gold Rush. However, historical records contradict both claims. Harry Preston arrived in the Porcupine area as a part of a team led by Jack Wilson in June 1909, where they discovered a large "dome shaped quartz outcrop". Wilson

2263-417: The Porcupine mining camp at around 3:30pm, and continued as far north as Cochrane . The total number of deaths remains uncertain, with the lowest estimates being 73 and the highest suggesting there were more than 200 dead. A number of people drowned after fleeing into the lake in an attempt to escape the heat and smoke; others were killed by smoke while still trapped underground in the mine. The executives of

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2336-430: The Porcupine settlement. These were initially described as a series of "bushfires", but strong winds spread them into the dry forest and they expanded. Evacuation efforts began on the morning of July 11, with women and children being ferried to the opposite end of Porcupine Lake. The small fires eventually merged, and grew into a single wall of fire, estimated to be at least 32 km (20 mi) wide. The fire destroyed

2409-757: The Sandy Falls Golf Club, the McIntyre Community Building and the Timmins Snowmobile Club. Snowmobiling impacts the Timmins economy, as tourists travel from all over North America to explore area trails. Hollinger Park is one of the city's main recreational spaces. The park is divided in two sections, the north side being the public park area, with the south side having a regulation sized baseball diamond and two soccer fields for more organized outdoor recreational endeavours. The baseball park has been home to

2482-610: The Second World War, around a third of the city's population were enlisted into the armed forces. Timmins had its own bomber squadron known as "Porcupine Squadron No. 433", a heavy bomber unit of No. 6 group RCAF in Skipton-on-Swale , England . Timmins' economy suffered slightly during this period as women were prohibited from working in mines under the Ontario Mining Act, leaving no one to replace

2555-574: The Timmins Men's Baseball League since 1985. Former Timmins resident Shania Twain played a concert at Hollinger Park on July 1, 1999. An estimated 22,000 people attended the outdoor concert. The Pioneer Museum is located 39.5 km (24.5 mi) northeast of the city centre in Connaught , a community of 400 people. Nearby communities include Barbers Bay, Dugwal, Finn Road, Hoyle, Ice Chest Lake, McIntosh Springs and Nighthawk. Local history in

2628-587: The Timmins area, as described by a journalist for TPA: Before six o’clock on Monday morning, the news had reached Timmins that the Armistice had been duly signed and the fighting was thus over for the present. Timmins at once commenced to celebrate and kept it up all day and most of the night. First, the fire bell rang; then all the other bells and all the steam whistles joined in the chorus, the outgoing T&NO train adding its due quota of joyful noise. Flags and decorations were brought out, and from an early hour in

2701-545: The Timmins camp quickly surpassed the Porcupine and Schumacher camps in population. Timmins was incorporated as a municipality on January 1, 1912. In November 1912, 1,200 members of the Western Federation of Miners Local 145 held a strike at all three mines in response to a proposal to lower their wages. Mine operators hired gun thugs, who fired on the picket line and were ordered out by the provincial government. After months without work, many men chose to leave

2774-536: The area in 1910. They began purchasing shares of local mines, and bought Benny Hollinger's share from him. Around the same time, Scottish businessman Sandy McIntyre discovered the McIntyre Mine near Pearl Lake, four miles away. Hollinger Mines was incorporated later that year with five equal partners consisting of Noah and Henry Timmins; Duncan and John McMartin (also brothers); and Mattawa attorney David Dunlap . A popular founding myth of Timmins and

2847-480: The area two months after Wilson's team. According to Gilles's report, while he inspected D’Aigle’s abandoned work, Hollinger was looking at some nearby quartz when he peeled back a bit of moss, revealing a large vein of gold. I was cutting a discovery post and Benny was pulling some moss of rocks a few feet away when he suddenly let a roar out of him and threw his hat at me. At first, I thought he has gone crazy but when I came over to where he was, it wasn’t hard to see

2920-495: The basis for a new line running northwest from Parry Sound to Sudbury , with an additional line running from Parry Sound south to Toronto . The section running south to Toronto opened on November 6, 1906. The northern section was completed in 1908, although by this time it had been rechartered as part of the Canadian Northern Ontario Railway (CNOR). With the original plans having been dropped, and

2993-547: The company to purchase new coaches and refurbish rolling stock for the Polar Bear Express . This decision was supported by other members of Provincial Parliament after the auditor general's review cited that it would have cost the taxpayer $ 820 million instead of saving $ 265.9 million over three years had the divestment proceeded. In December 2020, the province released the draft transportation plan for Northern Ontario which recommended continuing to move forward on

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3066-577: The divestment. They indicated that the ONR provides a fundamental link to many remote and rural communities and provides freight transport to many companies, including mining and forestry, allowing them to thrive. They indicate that the government maintained its funding to the GO Transit network in Southern Ontario and it is important to not forget about the important service the ONR provides to Northern Ontario residents. In February 2014,

3139-415: The early 1970s the Timmins synagogue was closed due to a decrease in the town's Jewish population. Some of the main tourist attractions within the city include: The Timmins Museum and National Exhibition Centre, Cedar Meadows Wilderness Tours, Mount Jamieson Resort (formerly known as Kamiskotia Snow Resort), Porcupine Ski Runners Cross-Country Trails and Chalet, Hollinger Golf Club, Spruce Needles Golf Club,

3212-422: The enlisted miners. In the 1950s, Mattagami 71, the reserve of the Mattagami First Nation was once again relocated, this time to its present day location, south of Mattagami Lake. By the mid 1960s, the majority of the original mines had depleted their gold content and mines began to close. Hollinger Mine was closed in 1968, having produced nearly 20 million troy ounces of gold. Twenty years later in 1988,

3285-410: The exception of a slight bump in 2011, the population has been consistently declining. Rail service to Timmins was discontinued in 1990, but is expected to return within the next decade. The last of the original three mines to close was the Dome Mine, which was closed in 2017, after 107 years of operation, and about 17 million troy ounces of gold produced. Timmins is near the northern periphery of

3358-421: The fire, and the need to replace housing as well as serve newly arrived refugees from the Porcupine camp, Noah Timmins to began planning a townsite at the Timmins camp. The first lots went up for sale on September 4, 1911, ranging in price from $ 5 to $ 10 ($ 135-$ 265 in 2024) for residential lots, and from $ 75 to $ 1,000 ($ 2,000-$ 25,000 in 2024) for commercial lots. Migrants were attracted to the new lands for sale, and

3431-470: The following passenger services: In June 2007 the Polar Bear Express was expanded from a seasonal excursion service to a year-round passenger train, replacing the Little Bear mixed freight/passenger train, which had operated 3 days per week. The new train carries some equipment not commonly found on passenger trains, including chain cars (flat cars) for passenger vehicles and boxcars. In April 2022

3504-567: The foundation of the city, Jewish emigrants , mostly from Russia and Eastern Europe came to the town in order to work in the mines industry. In 1917 Rabbi Yaakov Schulman arrived in the city and was in charge of religious needs, such as kosher meat . In 1925 there were 200 Jews living in the city. In that year the Jewish community was officially established. The community was not isolated and maintained good relationships with non-Jews, especially emigrants from Russia and Eastern Europe, who spoke

3577-521: The government and stagnant ridership. ONR passenger train service between Toronto and Cochrane (the Northlander ) was withdrawn and replaced with an augmented bus service, and all of the corporation's assets were to be sold off. On August 16, the Ontario Government announced that Northlander train service would end on September 28, 2012, and Ontera will be sold off. Northern Ontario municipal leaders had continued to express their fears regarding

3650-457: The growing mining camp "Timmins", after his uncle, Noah Timmins , who was then the President of Hollinger Mines. Two more settlements were founded by competing mines: The "Porcupine/Dome" camp was situated on Porcupine Lake, and owned by Dome Mines . "Schumacher" camp was situated on Pearl Lake, and owned by McIntyre Mines. Joe Torlone noted in his dissertation that Timmins was never truly

3723-481: The less than 2,000 total residents at the time. The miners were coveted by the Canadian Expeditionary Force for their ability to dig trenches, and experience with handling explosives. News of the war and letters from soldiers abroad were frequently published in the town's local newspaper, The Porcupine Advance (TPA). After receiving news of armistice , major celebrations were held all around

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3796-509: The morning, groups of boys and girls were out with their horns, whistles and tin pan bands. After the noon hour, the crowds began to gather in the main part of the town, one of the chief centres of interest being Marshall-Ecclestone’s window where an effigy of the Kaiser was displayed. The effigy was made by the Hollinger carpenter staff and was an unusually clever piece of workmanship. The form

3869-457: The municipality of Temagami began as a small request stop when the railway reached the area of the Lower and Upper Redwater Lakes. As it passed by Long Lake, near the 103 mile marker, the largest silver rush in Canada was sparked by workers looking for trees for railway ties. The town of Cobalt grew out of the fortunes of silver taken from the grounds . By 1905, it reached New Liskeard in

3942-474: The new premier of Ontario, Kathleen Wynne , met with northern community leaders and the head of the company and union to discuss the future of the company. They decided the union and management would present a reconstruction plan to the government for consideration. In late February 2014 a report to restructure the ONTC was delivered to the Minister of Northern Development and Mines. The proposal detailed how

4015-450: The organization could be modernized both culturally and in job reductions through attrition. The report was well received by the minister who appreciated how management and labour come together to explore options for the corporation. In April 2014 the provincial government concluded the company would remain in public hands. However, Ontera (its telecommunication division) would be sold off to Bell Aliant . The government would reinvest in

4088-407: The post being unsupplied. Frederick House Post was functionally abandoned in 1812, when a man named Capascoos killed all 12 of the trading post's staff, as well as looted and damaged the building. Capascoos was never caught, and the building was never rebuilt. However, temporary log shelters were put in place nearby to facilitate fur trading until 1821, when the post was officially declared closed by

4161-519: The railway soon became a major factor in the economic growth of the province. After decades of difficult construction through the Canadian Shield , workers reached James Bay in 1932. While blasting the route through the shield, geologists discovered deposits of valuable minerals such as gold , silver , copper and nickel . The railway also made it possible to exploit the timber resources of Northern Ontario . Its north–south mainline

4234-407: The reason. The quartz where he had pulled the moss off looked as though someone had dripped a candle along it, but instead of wax, it was gold we saw. Don’t let anyone ever tell you that the original Hollinger discovery left any doubts of its importance. When we pulled the moss three feet out of the ground and away the quartz stood out, about six-feet wide with splattered over it for about 60 feet along

4307-675: The same initials. The Ontario railway often had boxcars misdirected in the United States , while receiving invoices that should have gone to Texas . The railway's name was changed to the Ontario Northland Railway on April 5, 1946, when a bill amending the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway Act received assent. Three new mines were opened in Northern Ontario in the 1960s. Sherman Mine in Temagami

4380-404: The same languages they did. Only in the 1930s were actual community institutions built, such as a synagogue and a school. Since 1928 the Jewish community has held an annual Purim ball. The ball was mixed: Jews and non-Jews, men and women. Part of the ball was a beauty pageant named malkat Ester . The Jewish population peaked around the 1950s, when it included around 160 families. In

4453-519: The season he had found a "dome" of quartz that contained large veins of gold stretching several hundred feet in length and 46 m (150 ft) in width. This section was later exploited and developed as the Dome Mine . Wilson advised Hollinger & Gillies that all the good sites in a 10 km (6.2 mi) radius had been claimed, so the duo went slightly further west. There they stumbled upon D'Aigle's abandoned test pits and tools. While Gilles

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4526-534: The settlement; only 500 miners returned to work in July 1913. The strike won the men a nine-hour workday and a pay increase. In 1917, a dam was built at Kenogamissi Falls, downriver from Mattagami Lake, to provide power to Timmins and the surrounding area, Mattagami Lake was consequently flooded. A recruitment campaign for soldiers during the First World War was successful in enlisting around 600 men out of

4599-414: The surrounding area, but none of them had near the amount of gold which D'Aigle's team was seeking. They eventually abandoned their tools in the last pit they dug, approximately 8 km west of Porcupine Lake, and returned home. Two years later in 1909, a prospector duo consisting of Benny Hollinger and Alex Gillies arrived in the Porcupine region. They met up with another group, led by Jack Wilson. Earlier in

4672-423: The vein. D'Aigle had worked the property and cut many trails through the bush but by a queer quirk of luck, one of his trails from the test pit passes the richest part of the vein at a point where he could have easily reached out and touched it with his hand. Additionally, historians generally agree that expansion of the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway, which connected Central Ontario to Northern Ontario ,

4745-426: Was 39.4 °C (103 °F) on July 12, 1936. The coldest temperature ever recorded was −45.6 °C (−50 °F) on February 1, 1962. In the 2021 Canadian census conducted by Statistics Canada , Timmins had a population of 41,145 living in 17,886 of its 19,390 total private dwellings, a change of -1.5% from its 2016 population of 41,788. With a land area of 2,955.33 km (1,141.06 sq mi), it had

4818-731: Was decided in favour of the railway by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in 1926 Temiskaming %26 Northern Ontario Railway The Ontario Northland Railway ( reporting mark ONT ) is a Canadian railway operated by the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission , a provincial Crown agency of the government of Ontario . Originally built to develop the Lake Timiskaming and Lake Nipissing areas,

4891-457: Was inspecting the abandoned pits, Hollinger pulled a bit of moss from a nearby quartz outcropping and revealed a large vein of gold. Gillies later noted that he had found a boot print pressed into some moss covering the gold vein. This print was believed left by one of D'Aigle's team two years before. They had departed unaware of the large vein under their feet. Two Mattawa shopkeeper brothers, named Noah Timmins and Henry Timmins , arrived in

4964-425: Was instrumental in triggering the Porcupine Gold Rush because it made the area accessible. The Canadian Pacific Railway expansion to was also critical, as it enabled travellers from Toronto to go directly north instead of taking a time-consuming detour around Eastern Ontario . A company town was founded near modern-day Gillies Lake , to house Hollinger Mines employees. Mine manager Alphonse "Al" Paré named

5037-404: Was made of wood, the limbs and body being perfectly formed and the face and head well-shaped. It was more than life-size and very life-like. Dressed in long boots, brass helmet, iron crosses and shining sword, the wooden Kaiser was stuffed with oakum, ready for the flames. The Great Depression did not adversely affect the economy of the area, and jobs were available in mining and lumber. During

5110-527: Was named Moosonee , from the Cree meaning "at the moose". A name change for the railway was first proposed in 1942 by Arthur Cavanagh , who was chairman of the commission between 1940 and 1944. He noted that it would have the advantage of associating the railway with the province, not just the District of Timiskaming . A name change would also avoid confusion with the Texas and New Orleans Railway , which had

5183-500: Was opened in 1968, Adams Mine in Kirkland Lake in 1963, and Kidd Creek Mine in Timmins in 1967. The Ontario Northland Railway built spurs to serve these mines. In 1993, CN applied to abandon sections of its underused former National Transcontinental Railway mainline across northern Ontario (it had previously abandoned the portion of the line between Calstock and Nakina in 1988). The portion between Calstock and Cochrane

5256-543: Was said to have been the first to notice gold as the Sun struck the quartz. As I was examining the seams in the quartz, about twelve feet ahead of me I saw a piece of yellow glisten as the sun struck it. It proved to be a very spectacular piece of gold in a thin sean of schist... when the boys came back we got out the drills and hammers, and that night had about 132 pounds of very spectacular specimens The only comparable mention of moss comes from Hollinger and Gilles, who arrived in

5329-479: Was sold to ONR. In December 2000, the Ontario government announced that it would be privatizing the railway. CN submitted a bid in March 2002, and in October the government gave it exclusive rights to negotiate a purchase of the railway. However, the deal fell through on July 2, 2003, over the government's insistence on job guarantees, and the railway remained in public hands. On February 25, 2005, CN and ONR signed

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