Agate is an unincorporated place and railway point in
geographic
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Kapuskasing Township,
in the
Unorganized North part of
Algoma District
Algoma District is a district and census division in Northeastern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario.
The name was created by an American ethnologist, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793–1864), who was appointed Indian agent to the Ojibwe ...
in
northeastern Ontario
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,
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.
It is on the
Canadian National Railway
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Transcontinental railroad, transcontinental railway Main line (railway), main line between the railway points of Dunrankin, Ontario, Dunrankin to the west and Elsas, Ontario, Elsas to the east, has a Passing loop, passing track, and is passed but not served by Via Rail transcontinental ''Canadian (train), Canadian'' trains. The place is just northwest of Kapuskasing Lake, the source of the Kapuskasing River.
History
Agate is part of a section of what was originally the Canadian Northern Railway that was under construction from 1913 to 1915.
References
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Communities in Algoma District
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