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Originally Posted by wave46
It's unpleasantly cold in winter and hard to farm much beyond Hearst and Sudbury in Ontario, so I could see settlement petering out for those reasons.
I've done the drive from Hearst to Thunder Bay. There's not too many places in this country that are as remote as that drive is, especially the strip from Hearst to Longlac.
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My wife is descended from people who were part of the first waves of farmers in that part of Ontario. Must have been a tough life.
Then the regional economy quickly shifted toward forestry and mining.
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