Ogahalla, Ontario

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Ogahalla
Location of Ogahalla in Ontario
Coordinates: 50°05′41″N85°50′58″W / 50.09472°N 85.84944°W / 50.09472; -85.84944
CountryCanada
ProvinceOntario
RegionNortheastern Ontario
District Cochrane
Part Cochrane, Unorganized, North
Elevation
259 m (850 ft)
Time zone UTC-5 (Eastern Time Zone)
 • Summer (DST) UTC-4 (Eastern Time Zone)
Postal code FSA
P0L
Area codes 705, 249

Ogahalla is an unincorporated place and railway point in geographic Barlow Township [1] [2] in the Unorganized North Part of Cochrane District in northeastern Ontario, Canada. [3]

It is on a now abandoned portion of the Canadian National Railway main line originally constructed as the National Transcontinental Railway transcontinental main line, [4] between the railway points of Lynx to the west and Blanche to the east, 4 kilometres (2 mi) west of where the line crossed the Kenogami River. It is also on Ogahalla Creek, part of the James Bay drainage basin, which flows via the Atikasibi River to the Kenogami River.

A now abandoned airfield, created by the Department of National Defence [5] in the mid-1930s in part using 22,632 person-days of unemployment relief labour, [6] lies to the north of the place. A Frontier College instructor was located at the construction camp. [5] The airfield became in the late 1930s part of a string of emergency landing sites for Trans-Canada Air Lines (today Air Canada) to support their transcontinental flight operations. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "Barlow" (PDF). Geology Ontario - Historic Claim Maps. Ontario Ministry of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry . Retrieved 2011-08-24.
  2. ↑ Restructured municipalities - Ontario map #2 (Map). Restructuring Maps of Ontario. Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing. 2006. Retrieved 2011-08-24.
  3. ↑ "Ogahalla". Geographical Names Data Base . Natural Resources Canada . Retrieved 2011-08-24.
  4. ↑ McQuay, D F (1983). "Northern Ontario Engineering Geology Terrain Study 17 - Windigo Bay Area" (PDF). Ontario Geological Survey. p. 16. Retrieved 2011-08-24.
  5. 1 2 "MG28, I 124 - Finding Aid No. 736 / Instrument de recherche no 736" (PDF). Frontier College Fonds. National Archives of Canada. 2003. p. 418. Retrieved 2011-08-24.
  6. ↑ "Unemployment Relief Work Camps 1932–1936" (XLS). Historical Atlas of Canada Online Learning Project. p. 9. Retrieved 2011-08-24.
  7. ↑ Beitler, Stu (2009-05-08). "Armstrong, ON Airliner Crash On Landing, Feb 1941". GenDisasters. Archived from the original on 2013-01-03. Retrieved 2011-08-24. Transcribed from "Twelve die in TCA crash - Six of victims from Winnipeg". Winnipeg Free Press . 1941-02-06.
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