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    The North Lake Station was located approximately 86 miles from Port Arthur, at Mile Post 71.0 on the Port Arthur Duluth and Western Railway line. The station was abandoned by 1916. The railway was in

    Canadian National Railway ticket issued to Mrs. Marander to take the train to market twice per month, from the stop at Wolfe to Fort William in 1938.

    This multipressure locomotive was designed in Montreal at Montreal Locomotive works in 1928. These locomotives were assigned road numbers 5900 through 5919. These were part of the Selkirks, a name ch

    CPR '5468' represents a high pressure oil-fired, heavy freight locomotive. It is one of the last class freight steam locomotives built new for a Canadian Railway. It is currently under lease to the S

    With 65 engines, Canadian Pacific owned the second largest North American fleet. The first, delivered in 1929, were standard engines, but beginning in 1937 they were streamlined and used primarily fo

    View of the Canadian Pacific Railway station at Loon Lake, Ontario.

    View of a Canadian Northern Railway locomotive on a turntable at the company's roundhouse at Port Arthur, Ontario, ca 1905. The engine is no. 442.

    A train steams into the Heron Bay Station on a crisp winter day. This station burned down in 1953 and a new station was built across the road, near the present day McCuaig General Store. The second s

    Photograph showing the village of Jackfish, Ontario, circa 1889. Jackfish began as a fishing village in the 1870's. In 1884, the CPR began using Jackfish as a landing for construction supplies. Along

    Located approximately 15 miles west of Marathon, this view is looking east towards the town. As faithful passengers on the Canadian, one of the highlights of each trip was going through the tunnels,

    This coloured postcard reveals the beauty surrounding the Big Pic River and Heron Bay on the shore of Lake Superior. Possible hazards of the road were dramatized one late October day when a 'Eulid' t

    With the end of World War II, the men returning from the war, the men who were released from POW camps, and Europeans wishing to stay in Canada, were all well received by the town of Marathon. In thi

    Originally, water for the town had to be drawn from the lake. It needed to be heavily chlorinated. Later water from an artesian well, behind the town was found to be clean, safe and provided a suffic

    Not much is known about this particular photo. However, you can get an idea of what the ironwork installed on the CPR bridge, built later,over the Big Pic River near Heron Bay, Ontario would have loo

    Photo of the CNR Station at Stevens, Ontario on a brisk -42 degree Fahrenheit. A steam locomotive pulls into the depot for the Marathon paper mills of Canada. Other stops along the way included Hears

    Railroaders would have to dig into their memory to recall the above scene. The name on the train in the photo reads 'North Pacific Manitoba'. The roundhouse or turntable was used at the C.N.R. shops

    The focal point of the Heritage Square in Rainy River Ontario is the '4008', a 2-10-2 Sante Fe type steam locomotive built by Dunkirk in Montreal, 1916. This locomotive was used to haul 65 cars of fr

    An earlier glimpse of the C.N.R. depot in Rainy River. Rainy River was the division point between Thunder Bay and Winnipeg. The dimensions of the 129'x30' depot is unique as it has the absence of a b

    This image can be found in the biography, "Agnes Macphail and the Politics of Equality" by T. A. Crowley. Crowley's book identifies the woman on the left as Mrs. E.C. Murray [Edna Lounds], and the wo

    Referred to "The Military Arms of Canada" by The Upper Canada Historical Arms Society and "The British Military Longarms 1715-1815' by D.W. Bailey.