In July 1894, an Act to Charter the Montreal, Ottawa and Georgian Bay Canal passed without a ripple of concern in North Bay. The Canadian Northern Railway was subsequently built to North Bay in 1913. During construction of the T&NO, silver was discovered at Cobalt and started a mining frenzy in the northern part of the province that continued for many years.
North Bay was selected as the southern terminus of the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway (T&NO) in 1902, when the Ross government took the bold move to establish a development road to serve the Haileybury settlement. Murray Street is named after the Murrays. Bourke Street is named after John Bourke. The land west of Klock Avenue (Algonquin Avenue) was known as the Murray block. More importantly, Bourke developed the western portion of North Bay after purchasing the interest of the Murray Brothers from Pembroke, who were large landholders in the new community. North Bay was incorporated as a town in 1891. In 1882, John Ferguson decided that the north bay of Lake Nipissing was a promising spot for settlement. McIntyre was uncle to John Ferguson, who staked out future North Bay after getting assurance from his uncle and Worthington that it would be the divisional headquarters and a location of some importance. He remained with the CPR for about a year until he left the company.
Worthington continued on as the construction superintendent for the CPR past Bonfield. Duncan McIntyre and his contractor James Worthington piloted the CCR expansion. It then proceeded cross-country towards its final destination, Bonfield. It then followed a westward route along the Ottawa River passing through places like Cobden, Deux-Rivières, and eventually to Mattawa at the confluence of the Mattawa and Ottawa Rivers. The CCR started in Brockville and extended to Pembroke. The CCR was owned by Duncan McIntyre who amalgamated it with the CPR and became one of the handful of officers of the newly formed CPR. That was the point where the Canada Central Railway (CCR) extension ended. Īpart from Indigenous people, voyageurs and surveyors, there was little activity in the Lake Nipissing area until the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) in 1882. The site of North Bay is part of a historic canoe route where Samuel de Champlain took a party up the Ottawa River, through present-day Mattawa, on to Trout Lake and via the La Vase Creek to Lake Nipissing. North Bay is the gateway to Northern Ontario.
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