Greenstone, Ontario
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| Municipality of Greenstone Municipalité de Greenstone |
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Municipal office of Greenstone in Geraldton
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| Motto: "Spirit of the North" | ||
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 Greenstone
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| Coordinates: 50°00′N 86°44′W / 50.000°N 86.733°WCoordinates: 50°00′N 86°44′W / 50.000°N 86.733°W | ||
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 Ontario
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| District | Thunder Bay | |
| Formed | 2001 | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Renald Beaulieu | |
| • Federal riding | Thunder Bay—Superior North | |
| • Prov. riding | Thunder Bay—Superior North | |
| Area | ||
| • Land | 2,767.19 km2 (1,068.42 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 348.40 m (1,143.04 ft) | |
| Population (2016) | ||
| • Total | 4,636 | |
| • Density | 1.7/km2 (4/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | EST (UTC-5) | |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) | |
| Postal code FSA | P0T | |
| Area code(s) | 807 | |
| Website | www.greenstone.ca | |
Greenstone is an amalgamated town in the Canadian province of Ontario with a population of 4636 according to the 2016 Canadian census. It stretches along Highway 11 from Lake Nipigon to Longlac and covers 2,767.19 square kilometres (1,068.42 sq mi).
The town was formed in 2001, as part of a wave of community amalgamations under the Progressive Conservative government of Ontario. It combined the former Townships of Beardmore and Nakina, the Towns of Geraldton and Longlac with large unincorporated portions of Unorganized Thunder Bay District.
It is the administrative office of the Animbiigoo Zaagi'igan Anishinaabek First Nation band government.
Greenstone includes the communities of Beardmore, Caramat, Geraldton, Jellicoe, Longlac, Macdiarmid, Nakina and Orient Bay. Nakina and Caramat are entirely exclaved from the rest of the municipality's territory.
Geraldton
Beardmore
Longlac
Nakina
T.L. Taunton, Geological Survey of Canada, noted gold in quartz fragments around Little Long Lac in 1917. Similarly, Tony Oklend found ore in a boulder during World War I. However, it wouldn't be until 1931 that Bill "Hard Rock" Smith and Stan Watson would stake 18 claims along 3 veins. Tom Johnson and Robert Wells filed claims based on gold appearing in Magnet Lake quartz outcrop and the presence of bismuthinite. The Bankfield Gold Mine developed from these claims. In 1932, Johnson and Oklend staked 12 claims at Little Long Lac. Fred MacLeod and Arthur Cockshutt filed 15 claims near Smith's.
Nakina was first established in 1923 as a station and railway yard on the National Transcontinental Railway, between the divisional points of Grant and Armstrong. Nakina was at Mile 15.9 of the NTR's Grant Sub-Division. Following the completion in 1924 of Canadian National Railways's Longlac-Nakina Cut-Off, connecting the rails of the Canadian Northern at Longlac and the NTR, Nakina became the new divisional point, and the buildings from the town of Grant (25 kilometers to the east) were moved to the new Nakina town site.
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