English River, Ontario
English River is an unincorporated place on the border of geographic Corman Township, Kenora District and the Unorganized Part of Thunder Bay District in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. It was a Hudson's Bay Company trading post between 1894 and 1911, and is located where Ontario Highway 17 crosses the English River at its confluence with the Scotch River.
English River is also the name of a nearby railway point, 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) to the southwest and wholly within Corman Township, Kenora District (49°10′27″N 90°51′41″W / 49.17417°N 90.86139°W), constructed as part of the Canadian Pacific Railway transcontinental main line. In 1890 English River station was located at mile 115.4 from Port Arthur.
References
- ^ "Corman" (PDF). Geology Ontario - Historic Claim Maps. Ontario Ministry of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2012-06-22.
- ^ "English River". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 2012-06-22. Infobox coordinates are from this reference.
- ^ "English River". B. 371 (Beaver Lake Portage) to B.395 (Bucke). Hudson's Bay Company Archives. Retrieved 2012-06-22.
- ^ "English River". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 2012-06-22.
- ^ "Railways – Ontario and Quebec" (Map). 1st Edition, 1906, Atlas of Canada. Natural Resources Canada. 1904. Archived from the original on 2012-07-11. Retrieved 2012-06-22.
- ^ Omer Lavallee, Van Horne's Road (Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1974), page 297.
Other map sources:
- Map 13 (PDF) (Map). 1 : 1,600,000. Official road map of Ontario. Ministry of Transportation of Ontario. 2012-01-01. Retrieved 2012-06-22.
- Restructured municipalities - Ontario map #1 (Map). Restructuring Maps of Ontario. Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing. 2006. Archived from the original on 2012-05-05. Retrieved 2012-06-22.
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