Grant is a Ghost town, 25.5 kilometers east of Nakina The town came into being due to the construction of the National Transcontinental Railway in 1913. Established as a divisional point, Grant was 125.11 miles west of Hearst and 131.23 miles east of the divisional point of Armstrong. A street corner in the ghost town of Bodie, California. ... Nakina is a community of approximately 500 in the Town of Greenstone in the Thunder Bay District in Northern Ontario, Canada. ... -1... Hearst (2001 census population 5,825) is a town in the Canadian province of Ontario. ...

The National Transcontinental Railway was 1804.7 miles in length, from Moncton, New Brunswick to Winnipeg, Manitoba. The last spike of the NTR was driven at Grant, on November 17th 1913, 1,283.2 miles west of Moncton. Moncton (46°6′ N 64°46′ W) is the second largest city in the Canadian province of New Brunswick and is at the heart of the fastest growing urban area in the province. ... Motto: Template:Unhide = Unum Cum Virtute Multorum (One With the Strength of Many) Location City Information Established: 1738 (Fort Rouge), 1873 (City of Winnipeg) Area: 465. ... 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ...

The town of Grant lost its importance as a railway divisional point following the 1924 completion of the Longlac-Nakina Cut-Off, a section of Canadian National Railways main line connecting the Canadian Northern and the National Transcontinental Railway. At that time most of the buildings were removed to the new divisional point at Nakina at Mile 15.9 of the former Grant Sub-Division. CN redirects here, as its the most common usage of the abbreviation in Canada; for more uses, see CN (disambiguation). ... Canadian Northern Railway logo or herald (used pre-1960) The Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR) is a historical Canadian railway. ... -1... Nakina is a community of approximately 500 in the Town of Greenstone in the Thunder Bay District in Northern Ontario, Canada. ...

That portion of the former NTR from Hearst to Nakina, became the Pagwa Sub-Division. By 1960, this section track was part of a marginal secondary main line, with little in the way of through freight, or passenger traffic. A 122-mile section of this line between Nakina and Calstock, Ontario, the route through Grant was abandoned in 1986. Hearst (2001 census population 5,825) is a town in the Canadian province of Ontario. ... Nakina is a community of approximately 500 in the Town of Greenstone in the Thunder Bay District in Northern Ontario, Canada. ...