- Grant, Ontario
Grant is a
Ghost town , 25.5 kilometers east of Nakina The town came into being due to the construction of theNational Transcontinental Railway in 1913. Established as adivisional point , Grant was 125.11 miles west of Hearst and 131.23 miles east of the divisional point of Armstrong.The National Transcontinental Railway was 1804.7 miles in length, from
Moncton, New Brunswick toWinnipeg, Manitoba . The last spike of the NTR was driven at Grant onNovember 17 ,1913 , 1,283.2 miles west of Moncton.The town of Grant lost its importance as a railway divisional point following the 1924 completion of the
Longlac-Nakina Cut-Off , a section ofCanadian National Railways main line connecting theCanadian Northern and theNational Transcontinental Railway . At that time most of the buildings were removed to the new divisional point at Nakina at Mile 15.9 of the former Grant Sub-Division.That portion of the former NTR from Hearst to Nakina, became the Pagwa Sub-Division. By 1960, this section track was part of a marginal secondary main line, with little in the way of through freight, or passenger traffic. A 122-mile section of this line between Nakina and Calstock, the route through Grant was abandoned in 1986.
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