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| Ontario whitefish |
2,378 miles
May 20 – I
feel that I’m in a land of ghosts: places that used to be on the planning map,
towns that never were, routes to somewhere else.
On the map,
Whitefish looks like more of a town than anything on the Trans-Canada Highway
(designated Highway 17 in this section).
I didn’t want to stop along a featureless highway, so I left Highway 17
to go through Whitefish, which is located on “Old Highway 17”.
The hamlet
of Whitefish includes a few streets with a postal delivery code that also
includes the community of Den-Lou and some homes at Lake Panache (great name
there!). Whitefish & environs is a
small part of Walden township, which was created by amalgamating the
municipalities of Waters and Drury, Dennison & Graham with the “unincorporated
geographic townships” of Lorne, Louise and Dieppe and parts of the “unincorporated
townships” of Hyman, Trill, Fairbank, Creighton, Snider and Eden. Walden became
the largest “town” by land area in all of Canada! The name "Walden" was chosen as an
acronym of Waters, Lively and Dennison.
In 2001, the
township of Walden was dissolved when the city of Sudbury absorbed the surrounding
countryside and became Greater Sudbury.
On Old
Highway 17, I crossed the Vermilion River on a nondescript highway bridge, but
here’s the remnant of an older bridge.
Looking at the map again, I can see that an older road used to cross
that bridge on the way to someplace else.
Quite the trip you were on there... you really need to understand the mining sector to get deep the rabbit hole with places like the Whitefish village... the entire area is surrounded by township names that reflect the presence of the British Royal family; Princess Louise was married to the Marquess or Lorne.. the prominent land surveyor was Salter and Victoria was the Queen... Tennyson was the Poet Laureate and and so on and so forth.. . the devil is in the details.... you should have stopped at the church at Whitefish village.. the local bell on the lawn tells a piece of the story... ride on....
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