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| • | Abitibi Canyon is a community on the Abitibi River in northeastern Ontario. Abitibi Canyon is in Northern Unorganized Cochrane District, in Cochrane District.
The Dam - This development was designed by the George F. Hardy Company of New York for the Ontario Power Service Corporation, a subsidiary of the Abitibi Power and Paper Company. The actual construction started in 1930, and was done by the Dominion Construction Company. In July of 1932 work was discontinued and in November 1932, the Ontario Power Service Corporation was placed in receivership until the development was taken over by the Province of Ontario early in 1933.
The Colony - The Abitibi Canyon colony was established in 1930 to house staff and their families working at the Abitibi Canyon generating station. After construction of the station was completed, staff living in the colony operated and maintained the plant. At one point, passengers going to the Canyon colony travelled by rail to the Fraserdale station where they boarded the Hydro train and proceeded for the distance of 5.6 km (3.5 miles) to the colony's siding, or splashed down into a station head pond by small float plane. By 1966, a 74 km (45 mile) road to Smooth Rock Falls was built, ending the sense of isolation.
During the mid-1940's there were about 130 people in the Hydro community which contained 30 permanent homes, four temporary houses and five privately-owned houses. There was also a well-equipped staff house, community hall, an enclosed skating rink, a shooting range, school, hospital, general store, post office and church.
At the time, the high school had a special dispensation from the Ontario Department of Education, making it possible to take pupils from Kindergarten to senior matriculation or Grade 13. In later years, most teenagers were bused to high school in Smooth Rock Falls for Grade 9 and half of them took room and board in Timmins and Kapuskasing for the higher grades.
By the mid-1970's there were 85 families living at the Canyon. The recreation centre had always been the hub of the community. Major indoor facilities now included a three-sheet curling rink, hockey rink, swimming pool, four-lane bowling alley, billiard room, library, gymnatorium with a stage, dressing rooms, a 6 m (20 ft.) screen, kitchen an
Source: [wikipedia: abitibi canyon, ontario]
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