Blind River is a town situated on the North Channel of Lake Huron in the Algoma District, Ontario, Canada. Image File history File links Ontario-blindriver. ... The Great Lakes from space; Lake Huron is the third from the left. ... Algoma District is a district and census division in Northeastern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. ...

The town has about 3500 inhabitants. Its history as a lumber town is commemorated in the Timber Village Museum. Blind River was the site of the largest white pine mill in Canada with an annual capacity of 120,000,000 board feet (280,000 m³) of lumber (an output it never reached in actual production.) Its main businesses nowadays are tourism, fishing, lumbering, and uranium refining. Transportation links are Highway 17 (part of the Trans-Canada Highway in Ontario), the Huron Central Railway operating on the leased Canadian Pacific Railway line that runs through the town, and a town-owned marina servicing pleasure craft. It also provides services to the surrounding communities through its District Health Centre, two high schools and three elementary schools, and a variety of merchants and service industries. Lumber is the name used, generally in North America, for wood that has been cut into boards or other shapes for the purpose of woodworking or construction. ... Binomial name Pinus strobus L. Eastern White Pine (Pinus strobus) is a large pine native to eastern North America, occurring from Newfoundland west to Minnesota and southeasternmost Manitoba, and south along the Appalachian Mountains to the extreme north of Georgia. ... General Name, Symbol, Number uranium, U, 92 Chemical series actinides Group, Period, Block n/a, 7, f Appearance silvery gray metallic; corrodes to a spalling black oxide coat in air Atomic mass 238. ... There are several roads named Highway 17. ... Trans Canada Highway over Canada Map The Trans-Canada Highway is a federal-provincial highway system that joins all ten provinces of Canada. ... The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR; AAR reporting marks CP, CPAA, CPI), known as CP Rail between 1968 and 1996, is a Canadian Class I railway operated by Canadian Pacific Railway Limited. ...

The current mayor is Bob Gallagher.

The town was named after the nearby Blind River. The Blind River is a river in the Algoma District of central Ontario which empties into the North Channel of Lake Huron at the town of Blind River. ...

External links

• Blind River Website

Blind River is celebrating its Centennial in 2006.