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Whitefish River Valley

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of a company that was called "Northern Lands and Lumber" and is also used to describe a wide area around the village, as well as the local service board that oversees roads and services in much of the valley. The Whitefish River flows through the village on its way toward the
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from Finland in the early 1900s. There were many small dairy farms and fields in Hillside until the 1950s. Hillside had its own train platform along the Port Arthur, Duluth and Western Railway, as well as its own school built in 1914.
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Communities in the Whitefish River Valley include Flint, Harstone, Hillside, Hymers, Leeper, Nolalu, Sellers, and Silver Mountain. Part of the valley is located in the municipalities of
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that flows through it. The valley is home to several small communities that developed when land was opened for homesteading under the
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Education in the valley is provided by the Whitefish Valley School, which is located in Hymers and operated by the
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is a village located on Highway 588. It is located in Lybster geographic township. The term "Nolalu" is an
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line at the turn of the 20th century and many people, particularly those from
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unorganized area
Thunder Bay District
Ontario
Whitefish River
Dominion Lands Act
Port Arthur, Duluth and Western Railway
Finland
Lakehead District School Board
O'Connor
Gillies
local services board
Highway 588
homesteaders
abbreviation
Kaministiquia River
Port Arthur, Duluth and Western Railway
Archive of Nolalu profile at Broadband Canada
Whitefish Valley School
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Thunder Bay District
Ontario
Thunder Bay

Greenstone
Marathon
Conmee
Dorion

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