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“Choo, Choo!” Sounding the Whistle in Coboconk

“Choo, Choo!” Sounding the Whistle in Coboconk

By the mid-1950s, railway passenger service had become little more than a tourist attraction. No. 2644,  one of the Canadian National Railway’s N-4-a class of locomotives built in […]
Driving North Along Highway 35 Near Cameron Lake

Driving North Along Highway 35 Near Cameron Lake

This picture – taken in August of 1940 and originally published in the Department of Highways Ontario (DHO) Official Road Bulletin, issued on July 10 1941 – captures […]
Waiting for gas at the White Rose Service Station, Coboconk

Waiting for gas at the White Rose Service Station, Coboconk

Nathan and Gertrude Pearce owned and operated this service station at the northeast corner of Highway 35 and Highway 46 (later Highway 48) in Coboconk, Ontario. Opened in […]
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