PUKASKWA DEPOT

NAME: PUKASKWA DEPOT COUNTY: ONTARIO ROADS: 2WD GRID: CLIMATE: Snow in winter BEST TIME TO VISIT: Spring summer or fall

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Hidden away in a small cove on Lake Superior’s northeastern shore, Pukaskwa Depot is the most challenging of Ontario’s ghost towns to reach. So rugged are the hills and shoreline of Ontario’s Pukaskwa area even the railway builders avoided them. But this was a logging area. The only way to send the logs to the mills was to drive them down the rivers to Lake Superior and then boom them over the perilous waters. By 1917 a small village was established in the protection of Imogene Cove near the mouth of the Pukaskwa River. This was Pukaskwa Depot. The village consisted of 23 buildings, including a doctor’s office, and had a population of 400. The great depression of 1929 silenced most of the logging companies and Pukaskwa Depot became a ghost town.

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