Arpin/Pyne

In 1908 the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway had reached its terminus at Cochrane. The railway established a large railway yard and town site. A few short years later in 1913, the National Transcontinental Railway (NTR) built by the Federal Government, intersected the T&NO railway. After 1916 Cochrane was firmly entrenched as a regional centre, colonization of the surrounding land was already begun by the provincial government.