Minaki | |||||||||||
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Location | Minaki, ON Canada | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 49°59′08″N94°40′08″W / 49.98556°N 94.66889°W | ||||||||||
Owned by | Via Rail | ||||||||||
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Structure type | Sign post | ||||||||||
Parking | Yes | ||||||||||
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Opened | 1910 | ||||||||||
Previous names | Canadian National Railway, National Transcontinental Railway | ||||||||||
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Designated | 2011 | ||||||||||
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Minaki railway station is located in the community of Minaki in Unorganized Kenora District in northwestern Ontario, Canada. The station is on the Canadian National Railway transcontinental main line, [1] and is in use by Via Rail as a stop for transcontinental Canadian trains.
The station was designated under the Heritage Railway Stations Protection Act in 2011. The designation notes it was built in 1910 by the National Transcontinental Railway. [2]
Minaki is an unincorporated area and community in Unorganized Kenora District in northwestern Ontario, Canada. It is located at the point where the Canadian National Railways transcontinental main line crosses the Winnipeg River, between Wade to the west and Ena Lake at the east, and was accessible only by rail until about 1960. It was a fuelling and watering point in the days of steam locomotives; now few trains stop in Minaki, though the thrice-weekly Via Rail transcontinental Canadian passenger trains will stop on request at the Minaki railway station.
Savant Lake is an unincorporated place and community in Unorganized Thunder Bay District in northwestern Ontario, Canada.
Minaki Lodge, formerly part of the chain of Canadian National Hotels, was originally built in 1914 by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (GTPR). Located on the route of the National Transcontinental Railway (NTR) at Minaki, Ontario, between Sioux Lookout and Winnipeg, where the railway crosses the Winnipeg River, the rustic resort hotel named Minaki Lodge and the railway station, also called Minaki, is an Ojibwa word that has been variously translated as "beautiful water" or "good land."
Hudson is an unincorporated place and community in the municipality of Sioux Lookout, Kenora District in northwestern Ontario, Canada. It is located on Lost Lake on the English River in the Nelson River drainage basin.
Rice Lake is an unincorporated place and railway point in geographic Rice Township in Unorganized Kenora District in northwestern Ontario, Canada, 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) east of the border with the province of Manitoba.
Ena Lake is the name of a lake and an adjacent unincorporated area and railway point in Unorganized Kenora District in northwestern Ontario, Canada, about 23 kilometres (14 mi) north of the city of Kenora. Formerly a stop on the Canadian National Railway, it is now a small cottage community of approximately 50 seasonal residents and 11 year round residents.
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Red Lake Road railway station is located in the community of Red Lake Road in Unorganized Kenora District in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. The station is on the Canadian National Railway transcontinental main line, between Quibell to the west and Lash to the east, has a passing track, and is in use by Via Rail as a stop for transcontinental Canadian trains. Highway 105 passes to the east of the stop.
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Malachi railway station is located in the community of Malachi in Unorganized Kenora District in northwestern Ontario, Canada. The station is on the Canadian National Railway transcontinental main line, between Copelands Landing to the west and Ottermere to the east, has a passing track, and is used by Via Rail as a stop for transcontinental Canadian trains.
Copelands Landing railway station is located at Copeland's Landing in Unorganized Kenora District in northwestern Ontario, Canada. The station is on the Canadian National Railway transcontinental main line, between White to the west and Malachi to the east, and is used by Via Rail as a stop for transcontinental Canadian trains.
Rice Lake railway station is located at the unincorporated place of Rice Lake in Unorganized Kenora District in northwestern Ontario, Canada. The station is on the Canadian National Railway transcontinental main line, between the Manitoba border, just 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) to the west, and White to the east, and is used by Via Rail as a stop for transcontinental Canadian trains.
Malachi is an unincorporated place and community in Unorganized Kenora District in northwestern Ontario, Canada. It is also the name of the surrounding geographic township. The community is almost exclusively situated on the shores of Malachi Lake.
Ottermere is an unincorporated place and community in Unorganized Kenora District in northwestern Ontario, Canada.
Wade is an unincorporated place and railway point in Unorganized Kenora District in northwestern Ontario, Canada.
Farlane is an unincorporated place in Unorganized Kenora District in northwestern Ontario, Canada.
Richan is an unincorporated place and community in Unorganized Kenora District in northwestern Ontario, Canada.