Bruce Mines & Algoma

Company History: The BM&A opened in 1902 with a 17 mile line from the Lake Huron port of Bruce Mines, Ontario north to a connection with the Canadian Pacific at Bruce and on to a copper mine and mill at Rock Lake. Unfortunately, the copper mine was a bust and the BM&A settled in hauling passengers, a bit of northbound coal and a bit of timber and hay. In 1905, a southbound passenger train struck a northbound coal train killing the engineer of the passenger train. The company slipped into receivership the following year and in 1913 was reorganized as the Lake Huron & Northern Ontario Railway. The last train ran on the line in 1921.

Successor/Parent History: In 1913 the Lake Huron and Northern Ontario was incorporated to assume the line which apparently, was erroneously indicated on a map for investors as being completed to Chapleau and thus, 120 miles long! A surveyed route did exist for the remaining 100 miles to the CPR but, it was never used.

The Mond Nickel traffic produced a small profit of $1,600 for the reorganized railway but, it was far from sufficient. The required $35,000 profit per year was elusive and never realized. The last straw came in 1921 when, the Great War over, Mond Nickel closed down and the LH&NO suspended its operations in April.

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