Michipicoten Harbour

The fun started in 1900 when Francis Hector Clergue established the Helen Iron Mine 16 kilometres east of the harbour. He also established a rail link which was incorporated under the name Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Railway. Government subsidies arrived in the amount $6400 per mile of track that was laid alongside a two million acre land grant. Work commenced on the line in 1899 and the first link of the Algoma Central Railway was completed and became operational the very next year.