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51-612: The Tramway initially ran east from Howland to Furnace Falls, and the IB&;O began pushing further northeast through Irondale , Gooderham , Wilberforce and Harcourt, then turning east for Bancroft . Construction stopped at Baptiste Lake when the owner died in July 1899. The line was eventually purchased by Mackenzie and Mann in 1909, who connected it to the Central Ontario Railway (COR) outside Bancroft in July 1910. The IB&O leased

102-460: A Domtar plant. The COR was abandoned in 1984. Due to its relatively early abandonment, the IB&O did not see conversion to rail trail , unlike the COR which is now a popular recreational trail. Some sections have been used for roads, but most of it has returned to bush, while some sections were sold to private owners. Iron was first discovered at Blairton at the western end of Crowe Lake in 1816, but

153-662: A town in the North Rhine–Westphalia federal state in Germany , was first surveyed in 1858. Before that, the settlement was called Gull River. Settlers were first drawn to the region (via the Bobcaygeon Road , an original colonization road ), because of its timber resources. The town lies on the banks of the Gull River and during the 19th and 20th centuries, loggers used the river to move timber to sawmills downstream. Since

204-588: A distance of about 225 miles (362 km), with options to build branches northeast to Sault Saint Marie and west-southwest to Brockville . This saw more favourable response from the shareholders, and in 1883 Pusey began surveying the route as far as Bancroft . Notices were placed in November 1884 for construction contacts for this 50 miles (80 km) section. A contract was signed with the Hudson Improvement Company on 15 February 1886. In November 1886

255-465: A lawyer for Mackenzie and Mann's CNoR. He officially took over the IB&O in 1905. In April 1906 CNoR leased the COR, and soon made a bid for the IB&O as well. Lash urged all shareholders to accept, and CNoR took over operations of the IB&O on 16 October 1906. By this time, the COR had opened its line to Bancroft in December 1900, and was continuing north with its own plans to connect to Ottawa via

306-413: A mayor, deputy mayor, councillor at large and four councillors elected on the basis of two for Ward 1 and one each for Wards 2 & 3, who are elected to join the mayor at meetings of Minden Hills Council. The members of council elected in 2022 are: Ontario Highway 35 is the major throughfare passing to the east and connects Minden to neighbouring areas and beyond. A Heliport servicing Minden Hospital

357-399: A mine was not constructed until 1820. An iron smelter was built at nearby Marmora , at the eastern end of the lake, and opened for service in 1823. At the time, the only form of transport was via the waterways to railheads some distance to the west, and this limited shipping to the summer months. The mine changed hands several times before falling into ruin in 1848. A solution was provided by

408-462: A point just short of Irondale. At Irondale it crosses the Irondale River to the north bank. It then runs roughly northeast all the way to Harcourt. At Harcourt the line turns more east-northeast to Hughes, and then east to the final connection with the COR north of Bancroft. A siding split off the line at Furnace Falls to serve the mine, but this was lifted around 1900 when the mine closed, and became

459-415: A road to White Lake. The line spent most of its history ending at Mud Creek, with Baptiste as the major yard site. Here was a station with engine shed, turntable, shops, water tower and coaling yard. There were manually pushed turntables at Myles Junction, Mud Creek and Irondale. After its linking to the COR, the maintenance area was moved to Bancroft. The line was originally counted from its western end at

510-534: Is also located here. The Gull River flooded in April 2013, leading to a state of emergency declaration on April 20. By May 3, officials were predicting another two weeks of abnormally high water levels in the Trent-Severn Waterway system. The excess water that was held back in the reservoir lakes north of Minden was being slowly released and moved through the village so as not to cause increased damage. The use of

561-729: Is home to the Agnes Jamieson Gallery, named after Dr. Agnes Jamieson , the first female coroner in Ontario . The Gallery houses the largest known collection of André Lapine 's work. Both Lapine and Jamieson lived in Minden during part of their lives. The Cultural Centre is also home to the Minden Hills Museum, which includes seven heritage buildings, including a school, a blacksmith shop and a church. R.D. Lawrence Place, an interactive learning centre celebrating Canadian author Ron Lawrence ,

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612-705: Is the only airport in Minden. The closest airport is south in Peterborough, Ontario . Minden Hospital provides local health needs, with more advance care to the south in Peterborough or to the north-west in Bracebridge, Ontario . Ontario Provincial Police Haliburton Detachment is located in Minden. Fire services is provided by Minden Hills Fire Department and ambulance by Haliburton County Em's, both located along highway 35. William Gooderham, Sr. William Gooderham Sr. (August 29, 1790 – August 20, 1881)

663-700: The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway , the later of which reached the Pacific in 1914 and had already discovered there was not enough traffic to share with the CP, let alone a third entrant. The CNoR was unable to pay its debts, and approached the government looking for a bailout. Instead, the government took over the company in 1916, merged it with the Canadian Government Railways , and then renamed it all Canadian National Railways in 1918. Service continued as

714-692: The Irondale River in 1874. Myles started construction in 1876 using squared logs supporting horse drawn sledges. Myles borrowed the required $ 60,000 from the Canadian Bank of Commerce , using the mines as security. The wagonway finally opened in 1878 as the Myles Branch Tramway. The interchange with the Victoria, about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) north of Kinmount , became known as Myles Junction. In 1878, Myles shipped 1000 tonnes of ore, and then abandoned

765-487: The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway . This made the original plans for the IB&O superfluous. CNoR provided the funding needed for the remaining 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from Mud Creek to York River, where the IB&O connected with the COR just north of Bancroft on 1 July 1910. The first through train ran the complete route on 12 September. Mackenzie and Mann purchased the IB&O outright, and then used it to lease

816-420: The 1940s the town has become an increasingly popular summer destination given its close proximity to larger cities in southern Ontario . The population grows dramatically during the summer months as a result of tourism. The Minden Times and The Highlander are the local newspapers, and the local post office on Water St. serves residents with lock boxes and three rural routes. The Minden Hills Cultural Centre

867-458: The COR in 1910. In 1911, CNoR officially purchased the IB&O, putting both lines under the CNoR name. The IB&O had been cheaply built and was subject to constant derailments, so the CNoR began upgrading the line while limiting speeds along considerable lengths to only 15 miles per hour (24 km/h). In spite of this, the route was so much more direct that the passenger trip from Bancroft to Toronto

918-523: The COR, and then both were merged with Mackenzie and Mann's Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR) in 1911. CNoR's bankruptcy in 1916 led to the line ultimately becoming part of the Canadian National Railways (CN) in 1923. The route saw little use and was abandoned in March 1960, with the rails lifted by the end of July. Only a short section near Bancroft remained, operating as a spur on the COR serving

969-582: The Cobourg, Peterborough, and Marmora Rail and Mining Company, a reformed version of the Cobourg and Peterborough Railway which had previously gone bankrupt. In 1866, they constructed 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) of railway from Blairton to the Trent River , using the ever extending Trent–Severn Waterway to move the ore by boat to their previous railhead on Rice Lake . This route required several off and on loadings, but

1020-471: The IB&O at Belleville was transferred to Lindsay, and from 1955 trains ran from Bancroft to Lindsay on Tuesdays and Fridays, and returned on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Irondale, Ontario Minden Hills is a township in and the county seat of Haliburton County , Ontario , Canada . It is an amalgam of the townships of Snowdon, Lutterworth, Anson, Hindon and Minden. It is usually referred to as Minden , after its largest community. The township

1071-494: The IB&O officially purchased the Myles Branch Tramway for $ 500 and a note for $ 22,000 due in 12 months. The Bank of Commerce mortgaged the property to the IB&O to provide funding to lay the rails. A $ 17,710 contract was placed with Cooper, Fairman & Co in Montreal to supply 56 pound rails, with $ 8,800 of that to be paid when they received their government subsidies after laying the first 10 miles (16 km) of rail. The line

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1122-479: The Irondale Subdivision. The route was little used for much of its history, and the entire line was abandoned on 31 March 1960. A short section west of the wye connection with the COR was used as a spur line to the local Domtar flakeboard plant. The remainder had its rails lifted starting in July 1960. The IB&O ran roughly eastward out of Myles Junction to Furnace Falls, where it turned almost north to

1173-676: The Ontario Disaster Relief Assistance Program totaled 1.8 million dollars by November 2013, in addition to an estimated 2.2 million dollars in insured claims. The township spent $ 370,000 on flood related costs. Residents of Minden Hills were again affected by flooding only four years after the massive flood of 2013. Watershed flooding was at its maximum capacity in the reservoir lakes of the Trent Severn Waterway only to be hit with 129 millimeters of rain in late April, increasing flood levels. A state of emergency

1224-602: The Snowdon Branch Railway to upgrade the Tramway as a true railway. They eventually abandoned the mines and sold them to Parry and Mills from Chicago. Perry and Mills began construction of a pig iron upgrading furnace and then ran out of money, only to have much of it burn down in 1881. Pusey and Howland were able to purchase the remains and form the Toronto Iron Company. On 5 March 1880, Pusey and Howland chartered

1275-510: The T&;N, chartered the competing Victoria Railway with roughly the same goals. The Victoria likewise ran out of money after reaching Haliburton late in 1878. William Myles, "an Irish born coal dealer from Toronto", purchased a share of the Snowdon and began plans to build a railway connection to the Victoria, a little over 6 miles (9.7 km) from the smelters that had been built at Furnace Falls on

1326-578: The Toronto and Nipissing Eastern Extension Railway, with the plan to complete the original T&L route at least as far as the Snowdon Branch and other local mines, and then extend to connect to the Canada Central Railway near Ottawa. However, a downturn in the iron market that year led to the plans being shelved. In the fall of 1881 the T&N began expansion plans of its own, surveying the rest of

1377-470: The Victoria Railway. This was initially known as Myles Junction, but was renamed Kinmount Junction and finally Howland Junction in 1919. A two-story building at this location acted as a house and waiting room, but burned down in 1917. A replacement single-story building remains at the site. Some of the stations along the line were flag stops, but there were many complete stations as well. Irondale station

1428-443: The company began raising the $ 9,000,000 that would be required to complete the line from Orillia to Ottawa. Most of this was funded by a $ 3,750,000 bond issue, although no one outside the existing shareholders purchased any of them. The line joking became known as the "IOU Railway". $ 450,000 of the bonds were used as collateral for loans obtained from J.H. Plummer and Zebulon Aiton Lash , business associates of Howland. Further expansion

1479-482: The founding meeting of Little Trinity Anglican Church , where he later was a warden for 30 years. A marble memorial for Gooderham is mounted on the west wall inside the church. In 1864, he was appointed president of the Bank of Toronto . His son George Gooderham (1830–1905) was a businessman and philanthropist, his grandson George Horace Gooderham was a businessman and politician, and another grandson, Albert Gooderham ,

1530-422: The goal. To solve the problem they loaded a train with ties and rails and started building off the existing endpoint, and then moving the train forward onto the new rails. The rails were then lifted behind the train and placed in front, allowing it to move forward again. In this leapfrog fashion they reached Gooderham and claimed the bonus, but left the train abandoned until further supplies arrived. In April 1887

1581-513: The market, the railway found little profit in the iron business. By this time, woodcutting was reaching a peak in Ontario and the railway found considerable business servicing various sawmills that were springing up in the area. Pusey's death on 18 July 1899 left Lash as the executor of his estate. Lash was the General Manager of Bank of Commerce, who held most of the debt for the line, and was also

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1632-468: The mill as the William Gooderham Company. In 1837, he added a distillery to make efficient use of surplus and second-grade grain. Having taken Worts' son, James Gooderham Worts , under his guidance since Worts' death, they became partners in 1845 and renamed the company as Gooderham and Worts. Expanding their business, they introduced gas for illumination, expanded the use of steam power in

1683-690: The need to ship to market. A small railway boom followed and lasted into the early 1870s as a number of companies started projects attempting to service the mines. Among the many attempts were the Central Ontario Railway out of Trenton , the Belleville and North Hastings Railway a short distance to the east of the COR, and the Bay of Quinte Railway further east. Railways and colonization roads led easier access for prospectors, allowing them to strike out further into central Ontario. New finds were made outside

1734-430: The original Blairton area, areas that the new railways were not well suited to handle. W. Robinson and J.B. Campbell began what was a series of new sources of iron ore on their land near Devil's Creek. It was Campbell who discovered high-quality examples on land belonging to Robert Gibson, but the company formed to exploit this discovery was owned by Robinson and two people from Toronto named Shertis and Savigney. The company

1785-572: The plants and built their own wharf to ship their consignments. By the 1860s, they owned schooners on the Great Lakes. During the 1860s and 1870s, Gooderham was a community and business leader in the Toronto industrial landscape and in transportation and financial services, as well as on the stock exchange, and in the council and the board of arbitration of the Toronto Board of Trade . In the summer of 1842, he participated with Bishop John Strachan in

1836-638: The properties. In 1879 Charles Pusey and his partner Ivatts purchased both the Snowdon and Howland's mines, only to have Ivatts leave for Europe a short time later. Pusey then formed a partnership with Howland, an influential Toronto businessman who had been a founding director of both the Canadian Bank of Commerce and the Imperial Bank of Canada . Both men were interested in railways, and became friends, and later family when Howland's son married Pusey's daughter. To improve operations, Pusey and Howland chartered

1887-423: The reservoir lakes north of Minden to collect water was necessary to avert a threat to the essential utilities of water, hydro and sewage treatment. However, it extended the flood damage area north throughout the entire Gull River Watershed. Many of the properties on those lakes were damaged. Residents of the area were evacuated from their homes on short notice and remained out until mid-May. Claims by residents to

1938-492: The route to Lake Nipissing . However, in December of that year the T&L amalgamated with the Midland Railway of Canada , ending any expansion plans. When the T&LEE shareholders met for the first time on 31 January 1883, nothing much happened. On 25 March 1884, the two rechartered the line as the IB&O, this time planning to use the Snowdon Branch Railway as the basis for a new line running from Orillia to Ottawa ,

1989-551: Was a British-born Canadian distiller, businessman, and banker. He was a founder of the Gooderham and Worts distillery. Born in Scole , Norfolk , England, the son of James and Sarah Gooderham, he immigrated to York, Upper Canada (now Toronto ) in 1832 to invest and partner in a wind-powered flour mill with his brother-in-law, James Worts . Briefly operating as Worts and Gooderham until Worts' death in 1834, Gooderham continued to operate

2040-541: Was a financier and philanthropist. His descendants' significance was not limited to Canada – his great-grandson, Dean Gooderham Acheson , born and raised in Connecticut , would serve as the U.S. Secretary of State . Eldest son William George Gooderham (1853-1935) was also a businessman and operating Mineral Springs Limited (later York Springs Bottling and Okeefe Springs) in Hoggs Hollow near his 1907 home on Yonge Street. He

2091-452: Was a venue of the 2015 Pan Am Games , hosting canoe events. In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Minden Hills had a population of 6,971 living in 3,229 of its 6,019 total private dwellings, a change of 14.5% from its 2016 population of 6,088 . With a land area of 847.37 km (327.17 sq mi), it had a population density of 8.2/km (21.3/sq mi) in 2021. The town's council includes

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2142-459: Was also a two-story building like the one at Kinmount, and it burned down in 1931 or 32, to be replaced by three converted boxcars. Similar stations were built at Gooderham, Wilberforce and Highland Grove. After 1919, the service on both the IB&O and the Grand Trunk became tri-weekly Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and in 1934 to Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. In 1931, divisional control of

2193-633: Was also the president of the Bank of Toronto until his death. In 1870, his son Charles Horace Gooderham (1844–1904) built a residence in Meadowvale (now part of Mississauga) – a Georgian Revival manor at 929 Old Derry Road. It was sold in 1884 and is now the Rotherglen School's Meadowvale Elementary Campus, a private Montessori school. Charles Horace Gooderham also built a Queen Anne Revival mansion in Toronto at 592 Sherbourne Street in 1883, which became

2244-521: Was backed by William Gooderham, Sr. , James Gooderham Wortss and Henry Pellatt , who chartered the Toronto and Nipissing Railway (T&N) in 1869 to build a narrow gauge line with the ultimate aim of reaching the Ottawa Valley. After opening as far as Uxbridge in 1871, the contractor walked away from the job, leaving the partially completed line to Coboconk . With the T&N stalled, in 1874, George Laidlaw , who had been instrumental in setting up

2295-511: Was cut to a single day. In 1919, Myles Junction was renamed Howland Junction. Canadian Northern completed its transcontinental line to the Pacific on 23 January 1915, producing a network reaching across the country. Unfortunately the cost of completing the line was enormous, as was the cost of the Mount Royal Tunnel , leaving the company saddled with debts. It also had to compete with two other transcontinental railways, Canadian Pacific and

2346-618: Was formed on January 1, 2001, by combining the townships of Lutterworth, Snowdon, Anson, Hindon and Minden. The primary residential and commercial centre of the township is Minden, located just off Highway 35 ( 44°55′34″N 78°43′33″W  /  44.92611°N 78.72583°W  / 44.92611; -78.72583 ). The township also includes the smaller communities of Blairhampton, Brady Lake, Buller, Carnarvon, Deep Bay, Dutch Line, Gelert, Hindon Hill (abandoned community), Howland, Ingoldsby, Irondale, Kilcoo Harbour, Lochlin, Lutterworth, Miners Bay, and Moore Falls. Minden, named after

2397-487: Was funded by Pusey himself, with the line reaching another 20 miles (32 km) to Wilberforce on 23 November 1893, and another 10 miles to Baptiste in January 1897. By late 1898 the line was at Redmond Bay of Baptiste Lake, only a few miles from Bancroft. The railway reached new mining areas just as it was being discovered that the ore had a high sulphur content, which made it difficult to refine. Combined with lower prices in

2448-580: Was named the Snowden Iron Mine Company and in time it was wholly owned to people associated with Toronto when Robinson sold his share to Henry Stark Howland who lived there. By 1874 the town was growing, with a post office and general store . At the time, everything travelled in and out by wagon on Monck Road . Businessmen in Toronto were becoming interested in capturing some of this traffic for themselves, as well as providing transport for goods they were personally interested in. The first attempt

2499-460: Was nevertheless successful, and by 1870 the Blairton mine was the largest in Ontario. The mine operated with decreasing output until 1883, when it filled in with water and the railway trestle was damaged by ice. By this time several other mines had opened in the area, including the first gold mine at Eldorado in 1866. This led to another wave of prospecting further north, the discovery of new ore, and

2550-535: Was opened in February 1887, including the original 6.75 miles of the Tramway, and an extension to Devil's Creek, which they rechristened Irondale, bringing it to a total of 10 miles. They began operations with two 4-4-0 locomotives purchased from the Grand Trunk Railway . According to one story, the railway was required to reach the town of Gooderham by a certain date in 1886. However, they ran out of rails short of

2601-591: Was put into place on May 6, 2017, for the town of Minden Hills. The Gull River through Minden recorded 5 centimeters lower than the record 2013 flood. A new automated sandbag machine was purchased earlier in March, helping with handling sandbags at a much faster rate for flood relief, with close to 40,000 sandbags being filled by the end of the weekend. Provincial aid was provided after Reeve Brent Devolin had been in contact with Premier Kathleen Wynne . The Ontario Disaster Relief Assistance Program offered reimbursement for homeowners affected. Minden Wild Water Preserve

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