Infant Jesus Church
Built in 1949, this church was still holding services in the late 1990's.
Deterioration of the structure has sadly made it unsafe for visitors to explore today, but it still stands on its lone peninsula as a significant landmark , a picturesque symbol of local heritage.
Hope still remains locally to one day restore the site.

 

Furs and Forestry

Birch Bark Canoe Monument    
Upon entering the community of Longlac from the west, visitors are met by the monument of a birch bark canoe commissioned to memorialize the history of the Long Lake area including its earliest human inhabitants, the Ojibway peoples, through the height of the fur trade and forestry boom, to its corporation as a town in 1964.

Hudson Bay Company Historic Plaque
Also on site, is an historic plaque depicting the history of the Hudson Bay and North West Company trading posts and their fierce rivalry for control of the trade route in this area.

 

Commemorative Logging Monument
The arrival of the 1930’s, gave way to the beginnings of forestry in Longlac. Trees were harvested in Longlac and driven down river to Lake Superior where the logs were loaded into ships bound for American mills to be processed. A grand statue of the logging horse was commissioned in Longlac to commemorate the hardworking foresters by which Longlac claims her industrial fame. The use of logging horses can still be found in Greenstone today.

 

 

Gold Rush

MacLeod Cockshutt Mining Headframe
Ten gold mines once fuelled a booming economy in Geraldton from 1934-1970. Today, the MacLeod-Cockshutt Mining Headframe has been restored and made an historical landmark in the Municipality of Greenstone, as a symbol of this proud, industrious heritage and a monument to the hardworking miners that laboured here each day and to those who lost their lives in the effort

The Discovery Vein
The exposed “discovery vein”, so named for its significance to the discovery of the gold mines associated with it, extends east from the MacLeod-Cockshutt Mine onto the Hardrock Mine property in Geraldton. Pyrite-rich gold ore in this “discovery vein” was mined underground in the late 1930’s all the way to the surface, resulting in the “Glory Hole” located in the fenced area just south of the MacLeod-Cockshutt Mining Headframe.

 

The Railway

Nakina Old CN Railway Station
In 1923, the community of Nakina was born as a Canadian National Railway station. In honour of their rail heritage, the community restored this original train station in the early 1990’s and now it houses their tourist centre and a wealth of historical information.

Tunnel in Macdiarmid
In 1912, the Canadian National Railway established a line between Longlac and Port Arthur (now the City of Thunder Bay) that ran along the shore of Orient Bay. With railway access and transportation capabilities came the significant development of commercial fishery in MacDiarmid.
This picturesque tunnel now sits as a reminder of those days gone by and offers a historic picnic stop for the whole family.

World’s Largest Snowman
This 35-foot landmark can't be missed greeting visitors upon arrival to the community of Beardmore on the western boundary of the Municipality of Greenstone. Armed with a fishing pole in the summer and a curling broom in the winter months, the snowman represents two of Beardmore's famous past-times, fishing and curling!