Doherty, Ontario

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Doherty
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Doherty
Location in Ontario
Coordinates: 46°58′29″N79°44′33″W / 46.97472°N 79.74250°W / 46.97472; -79.74250 [1]
Country Canada
Province Ontario
District Nipissing
Geographic TownshipRiddell
Elevation
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325 m (1,066 ft)
Time zone UTC-5 (Eastern Time Zone)
  Summer (DST) UTC-4 (Eastern Time Zone)

Doherty is an unincorporated place and railway point in the municipality of Temagami, Nipissing District, Northeastern Ontario, Canada. [1] It is in geographic Riddell Township and is located at the southwestern corner of Lower Twin Lake on the Ontario Northland Railway. [3] [4] Doherty is at Mileage 63.4 and was the location of a train station in the 1940s. [5] [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Doherty". Geographical Names Data Base . Natural Resources Canada . Retrieved 2017-12-13.
  2. Elevation at coordinates taken from Google Maps. Accessed 2017-12-13.
  3. "CLAIMaps IV". Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines. 2016. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
  4. "Riddell" (PDF). Geology Ontario - Historic Claim Maps. Ontario Ministry of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry . Retrieved 2017-12-13.
  5. "Timiskaming and Northern Ontarion Railway - Main Line". Niagara Rails. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  6. Surtees, Robert J. (1992). The Northern Connection: Ontario Northland Since 1902. Captus Press Incorporated. p. 204. ISBN   0-921801-83-1.