Ignace, Ontario
Ignace is a railway town in Northwestern Ontario on the Canadian Pacific line between Fort William and Kenora.[1]
It was established as a railway divisional point in 1883 and incorporated as a town in September 1908, with W. H. Cobb as first reeve; its first church building, Emmanuel Anglican Church, was dedicated on 8 October 1911, and Knox Presbyterian Church was built in 1912. Highway 17 opened through the town in 1935; in 1970 Ignace became the townsite for Mattabi Mines, and its population rose to about 2,300 within four years. Emmanuel Church housed a joint Anglican–United ministry from 1976 and was de-consecrated in 1987. The local history is told in Elinor Barr's Holy Corner (1997).[2]
References
- ↑ Elinor Barr, "Holy Corner: The Role of Religion in Ignace, 1883-1919", Papers and Records, vol. XXV (Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 1997), p. 14. Archived: datum.locker.
- ↑ Elinor Barr, "Holy Corner: The Role of Religion in Ignace, 1883-1919", Papers and Records, vol. XXV (Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 1997), pp. 4–14. Archived: datum.locker.