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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 106. Not illustrated. Chapters: Thorne, Ontario, Cross Lake, Ontario, Achray, Ontario, Brent, Ontario, Tilden Lake, Ontario, Kiosk, Ontario, Temagami North, Ontario, Adanac, Nipissing District, Ontario, Redbridge, Ontario, Yellek, Ontario, Acanthus, Ontario, Balsam Creek, Ontario, Mckenzie Lake, Ontario, L'amable, Ontario, Aylen Lake, Ontario, Gunters, Ontario, Madawaska, Ontario, Murchison, Ontario, Opeongo, Ontario, Wallace, Nipissing District, Ontario, Whitney, Ontario, Alderdale, Ontario, Bonfield, Ontario, Booth's Landing, Ontario, Chiswick, Ontario, Fossmill, Ontario, Grahamvale, Ontario, Grand Desert, Ontario, Marten River, Ontario, Rutherglen, Ontario, Wasing, Ontario, Eau Claire, Ontario, Eau Claire Station, Ontario. Excerpt: Thorne is an unincorporated community within the unincorporated township of Poitras, in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is located in the census division of Nipissing District. A designated place served by a local services board, the community had a population of 254 in the Canada 2006 Census. Thorne is located at the northernmost end of Highway 63, just across the Ottawa River from Temiscaming, Quebec. It is also situated 63 km northeast of the City of North Bay, Ontario. As early as 1942 a number of squatters had established themselves on CIP (Canadian International Paper) property on the Ontario side of the Ottawa River. The small grouping of houses would eventually took the name of Thorneville after C.B. Thorne, a Norwegian born engineer and technical director in charge of building the paper mill for the Riordon Pulp and Paper Co. between 1917-20. After the Second World War owing to a lack of housing lots within the company town site at Temiscaming, CIP decided to establish a secondary town site on the Ontario shore of the river. The company surveyed and serviced housing lots which it then ...
