Missonga, Ontario

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Missonga
Railway point
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Missonga
Location in Ontario
Coordinates: 48°23′16″N82°41′26″W / 48.38778°N 82.69056°W / 48.38778; -82.69056 [1]
Country Canada
Province Ontario
District Sudbury
Elevation
[2]
356 m (1,168 ft)
Time zone UTC-5 (Eastern Time Zone)
  Summer (DST) UTC-4 (Eastern Time Zone)
Postal Code FSA
P0M

Missonga is an unincorporated place and railway point in geographic Shenango Township, [3] in the Unorganized North part of Sudbury District in northeastern Ontario, Canada. [1] It is on the Canadian National Railway transcontinental railway main line between the railway point of Oatland to the west and the dispersed rural community of Shawmere to the east, has a railway siding, and is passed but not served by Via Rail transcontinental Canadian trains. Missonga is on Shenango Lake, at a point where Mishionga Creek leaves the lake; Mishionga Creek is a left tributary of the Shawmere River.

History

Missonga is on part of a section of what was originally the Canadian Northern Railway that was under construction from 1912 to 1913.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Missonga". Geographical Names Data Base . Natural Resources Canada . Retrieved 2016-09-11.
  2. Elevation taken at geographic coordinates from Google Maps. Accessed 2016-09-11.
  3. "Shenango" (PDF). Geology Ontario - Historic Claim Maps. Ontario Ministry of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry . Retrieved 2016-09-11.

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