Where is Larchwood?

Latitude: 46.34.20 N

Longitude: 81.17.53 W

The old station and section houses south of town on the CPR mainline are long gone . But for a period of time there was an operating station with an agent and two section houses that provided homes for two CPR section men and their families . Departing Sudbury , the train travelled north to the

History :CPR Spawns Sudbury



photo from about-art-decor.com
Sudbury at 4 yrs old









     A CPR railway work camp was set up in Ste. Anne des Pins in 1883 to begin the next stretch of the westward push .

  Prior to this , trade in furs was in full operation . Ojibwe villages of the area  were in the network that fed furs into the system that flowed east to Montreal .Since the area was further inland a post was not established close by . The nearest Hudson Bay Posts