clay70
15 years ago
15 years ago
Hotspur (ghost town)
Highlands East, Ontario
Other nearby Locations Minden Hills
ground state
10 years ago
10 years ago
The Howlin' Wolf
Algonquin Highlands, Ontario
clay70
15 years ago
15 years ago
Kennaway (ghost town)
Dysart Et Al, Ontario
clay70
15 years ago
15 years ago
Irondale (ghost town)
Minden Hills, Ontario
clay70
14 years ago
14 years ago
Hindon Hill (Drowning Tragedy)
Algonquin Highlands, Ontario
Howland Junction
Abandoned Railway in Minden Hills, Ontario, Canada
Jul 27 2011
| Recent status | Abandoned |
| Location # | 2991 |
Once a whistle stop on the Irondale, Bancroft and Ottawa Railway, this small village also housed a roundhouse to transfer train cars from the main CNR line to the I.B.&O. line.
Further research shows that parts of the original trestle bridge over Kendrick Creek is still in place a little north of this settlement. Also, the remnants of the roundtable can still be found in the woods, near the station.
Albums
Comments
Please log in to leave a comment
IB&O railway was built by Charles Pusey and Howland Jct. was named for his son-in-law Lucien B. Howland, Manager of the railway until it was taken over by Canadian Northern.
I don't think there was ever an enginehouse there, but there was a turntable. IB&O was taken over by Canadian Northern Railway in 1913, while the Victoria Railway was owned by Grand Trunk. It all came under Canadian National after 1921, but until then they were two independent railways.
Gotta love this lonely former flagstop...Too bad the others on the IBO are all gone..
the roundtable is there, such as it is, mostly just a hollow in the ground with some rotting timbers along one edge. You can sort of make out where it was, but not much to see.
is the old roundtable accessible from the trail? I got an itch to check that out.
12 years ago
Messrs. Spears & Lauder operated a sawmill at Wilberforce from 1904. After IB&O was taken over by CNoR, Lauder, Spears and Howland built the Key Valley Railway in the Parry Sound District. The end of one story is the start of the next.