Ontario Northland
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Formerly called
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Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway Commission |
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| Crown corporation | |
| Industry | Transportation |
| Founded | 1902 |
| Headquarters | North Bay, Ontario, Canada |
| Owner | Government of Ontario |
| Website | www.ontarionorthland.ca |
Coordinates: 46°18′15″N 79°27′34″W / 46.30417°N 79.45944°W
The Ontario Northland Transportation Commission (ONTC), or simply Ontario Northland, is a Crown agency of the Government of Ontario.
ONTC operates freight and passenger services in northern Ontario through its Ontario Northland Railway and Ontario Northland Motor Coach services. It previously operated an airline, NorOntair (shut down in 1996), and a telecommunications company, Ontera (sold to Bell Aliant in 2014).
ONTC traces its history to 1902 with the passage of the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway Act, which received Royal Assent on March 17. The Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway Commission (TNORC) would oversee the construction and operation of the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway (T&NO). The sod was turned less than two months later by Ontario's Commissioner of Public Works, the Honourable Francis Robert Latchford, at Trout Lake on the outskirts of North Bay; North Bay also being the site of the "first spike" driven in construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) 20 years previous.
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