- Longlac, Ontario
Longlac is a community in
Ontario ,Canada , in the Thunder Bay District ofNorthern Ontario . It is in the municipality of Greenstone. The population of the community hovers around 1748.Longlac is located on Long Lake, 320 kilometers east of
Thunder Bay, Ontario and adjacent to the native reservation community of "Little Long Lac". It lies approximately halfway betweenToronto, Ontario andWinnipeg, Manitoba . Long Lake was inhabited by theOjibwa prior toEurope an contact. In the 17th century the site became part of the fur trading route used byvoyageur s, and later theHudson's Bay Company and theNorth West Company .In 1914 the
Canadian Northern Railway was built through Longlac, as part of theLake Superior route from Port Arthur to Hornepayne and eastern Canada. TheCanadian Northern was absorbed by Canadian National Railways in 1918. Following the 1924 completion of Canadian National'sLonglac-Nakina Cut-Off , connecting the tracks of the Canadian Northern at Longlac with the formerNational Transcontinental Railway at Nakina, eastern Canadian rail traffic to or fromWinnipeg and beyond, was routed over the rails of the NTR west of Nakina. This is the route through Longlac used by theCanadian National Railway today.Longlac was connected to Highway 11 in 1942.
It has a large
forestry industry, as well as a growingtourism industry.
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