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Spinning the Railway Web
The early railways in Victoria county were born of
commercial necessity.
The years from 1820 to 1860 saw the development, in the Kawartha
Lakes basin, of great lumbering enterprises, followed closely by
farming. Cutting off this thriving interior from the Lake Ontario
coast, lay a range of forest ridden sand hills, crossed only by two
or three atrocious bush trails. In the thirties, as we have seen,
abortive efforts were made to bridge the gap by building a Trent
Valley Canal. Greater success attended the activity, twenty years
later, of the builders of railways.
The first three of these railroads, might be
described as "portage roads." The first was built from Lake Ontario
to the Scugog River, and later extended, on a longer portage, to
Georgian Bay. The second crossed from Toronto, on Lake Ontario, to
Coboconk, on the upper Kawartha waters. The third ran from Lake
Ontario to Scugog Lake, and was afterwards carried on to the Scugog
River at Lindsay. All aimed at carrying the trade of this inland
district out into the markets of the outside world.
Victoria County, Ontario
Canada Centennial History, Watson Kirkconnell M.A., 1921
Victoria County
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