Hydro is an
unincorporated place and former railway point in
geographic
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Barron Township in the
Unorganized South Part of
Nipissing District
Nipissing District is a district
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in
northeastern
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Ontario
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,
Canada
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.
Hydro is located within
Algonquin Provincial Park
Algonquin Provincial Park is a provincial park located between Georgian Bay and the Ottawa River in Ontario, Canada, mostly within the Unorganized South Part of Nipissing District. Established in 1893, it is the oldest provincial park in Ca ...
on
Grand Lake on the
Barron River.
The railway point lies on the now abandoned
Canadian National Railway
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Beachburg Subdivision, a section of track that was originally constructed as the
Canadian Northern Railway
The Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR) was a historic Canadian transcontinental railway. At its 1923 merger into the Canadian National Railway , the CNoR owned a main line between Quebec City and Vancouver via Ottawa, Winnipeg, and Edmonton.
M ...
main line, between
Brawny to the west and
Achray to the east, at a point where a still-operational
Hydro One
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transmission line crossed the line.
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Communities in Nipissing District
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