Grant, Ontario

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Grant is a Ghost town, 25.5 kilometers east of Nakina The town came into being due to the construction of the National Transcontinental Railway in 1913. Established as a divisional point, Grant was 125.11 miles west of Hearst and 131.23 miles east of the divisional point of Armstrong.

The National Transcontinental Railway was 1804.7 miles in length, from Moncton, New Brunswick to Winnipeg, Manitoba. The last spike of the NTR was driven at Grant on November 17, 1913, 1,283.2 miles west of Moncton.

The town of Grant lost its importance as a railway divisional point following the 1924 completion of the Longlac-Nakina Cut-Off, a section of Canadian National Railways main line connecting the Canadian Northern and the National Transcontinental Railway. At that time most of the buildings were removed to the new divisional point at Nakina at Mile 15.9 of the former Grant Sub-Division.

That portion of the former NTR from Hearst to Nakina, became the Pagwa Sub-Division. By 1960, this section track was part of a marginal secondary main line, with little in the way of through freight, or passenger traffic. A 122-mile section of this line between Nakina and Calstock, the route through Grant was abandoned in 1986.