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WrecksdaleWreck • 11 years ago
In the above narration it states the railway came to Byng Inlet in 1912 which is not the case. The CPR began operation in 1908. The CPR's resident engineer during construction, A. J. Isbester married the daughter of the mill manager J. T. Emery. Isbester later purchased Bigwood's tugboat, Julien V. O'Brien for use in marine construction at Thunder Bay.
Financial reorganization of the Holland & Emery included support from Nelson Holland's cousin L. P. Graves, manager of the firm's lumber yard at Black Rock, N.Y. along with Temple Emery's son-in-law Wm. Bigwood and nephew (millwright) James Thissel Emery.
Holland & Emery had purchased the Page mill and also dismantled the mill at East Tawas and relocated it to Byng Inlet. In 1899 Temple Emery came upon finacial hard times after paying for logs that were not delivered. The Page mill was resold in 1899 and the company was reorganized in 1900 with financial assistance from people within the firm.
Merrill and Ring resold the Wahnapitae timber berths to Holland & Emery of East Tawas, a firm that had been towing logs to Michigan from that area since 1885. The Dingley Act of 1897 increased the duty on lumber imported from Canada, but reduced the duty on logs. After Ontario banned the export of uncut sawlogs, Holland & Emery relocated to Byng Inlet.
With the loss of the Anson mill in 1891, Dodge & Co. sold a associated timber berth on the Wahnapitae River to Saginaw lumbermen Merrill and Ring. Their intention was to tow the logs to the Michigan side for sawing, tariff laws of the time made it cheaper to process the logs in Ontario, so they purchased the Page mill in 1892.
From 1964 to 1970 I spent my summer vacation at Lake St. Peter. Back then the rails went to Wallace, then they took up the rails north of Center Rd. by 1965. I didn't find my way to Maynooth station until 1972.
McKenzie Lake North Road from Gunters to Hwy 127 is built on the railbed of the Central Ontario Railway as can be seen in rock cuts along the route. Near Hwy 127 there was a Y track for turning the locomotives.
Railway fever hit Muskoka in 1880 after the The Globe published a motion passed by Toronto Board of Trade urging the Ontario govenment to fund the Ontario & Pacific Jct. Railway. Letters were recieved in Toronto from communities across Muskoka including Hoodstown and Huntsville, but neither town influenced the route of the railway.
Map location is incorrect, change the map view to satellite view and follow the road on the west side of Canoe Lake. The end of the road was the site of the Gilmour Mill and after it was demolised, the second Mowat lodge was built there.
I've heard that McCraney was the site of the Brennan Co. sawmill. After the railway was completed though this area, Brennan relocated to here from near Tioga in Tossorontio, in Simcoe County.
The railway at Cache Lake was part of the grain route from Georgian Bay and lost traffic as a result of 1932 improvements to the Welland Canal. CNR cited the condition of the Cache Lake trestles as an excuse to close through service on the track. An Ottawa newspaper reporter sarcastically reported the line closed as the result of a washout caused by a broken beaver dam.
Cutting rights to the timber around Cache and Rock lakes belonged to Perley and Pattee Lumber Co. and was sold to St. Anthony Lumber Co. before the railway was built. J. R. Booth was big, but he didn't get it all.
Foleyet was established on the route of Canadian Northern Railway in 1915, now Canadian National. The station and roundhouse have been demolished. From 1916 CNR operated a large sawmill a mile west of the station, it became Pineland Timber and closed in 1960. Foleyet is in Greater Sudbury area.
timo explorer, what a great little story. Did you ever consider writing children's books ? I heard this car was acquired by S. S. R. R. and since they do not have a connection to any outside RR track, it was being transported along the old railbed from the CPR at Hwy 9. This is as far as it got.
CN continued service on the line from Ottawa on a daily basis after 1933. The water tank was moved to Barry's Bay where locomotives could be turned. Occasional trips to end of steel were made from there.