North Bay Early Days #3
The area was first explored by Samuel de Champlain.Explorations of the Ottawa and Hudson rivers, Lake Nipissing and Huronia in1615-1616.
Apart from First Nations tribes, voyageurs and surveyors, there was little activity in the Lake Nipissing area until the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1882. The CPR started its westward expansion from Bonfield, Ontario (previously called Callander Station approx. 10 mi.) from North Bay where the first spike was driven into a sunken railway tie.
Bonfield,Ontario was inducted into Canadian Railway Hall of Fame in 2002 as the CPR First Spike location. Throughout the shaping of the confederation plan Canadian representatives had played commanding roles, especially John A. Macdonald , lawyer, businessman, politician, first prime minister of Canada. Parliament endorsed a federal scheme with both English and French majorities in 1865, and in 1866 drafted constitutions for the successor provinces of Québec and Ontario.
Apart from First Nations tribes, voyageurs and surveyors, there was little activity in the Lake Nipissing area until the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1882. The CPR started its westward expansion from Bonfield, Ontario (previously called Callander Station approx. 10 mi.) from North Bay where the first spike was driven into a sunken railway tie.
Bonfield,Ontario was inducted into Canadian Railway Hall of Fame in 2002 as the CPR First Spike location. Throughout the shaping of the confederation plan Canadian representatives had played commanding roles, especially John A. Macdonald , lawyer, businessman, politician, first prime minister of Canada. Parliament endorsed a federal scheme with both English and French majorities in 1865, and in 1866 drafted constitutions for the successor provinces of Québec and Ontario.
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