Calstock is the northwestern terminus of

Ontario Northland Railway The Ontario Northland Railway is a Canadian railway operated by the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission, a Crown agency (Ontario), provincial Crown agency of the government of Ontario. Originally built to develop the Lake Timiskaming ...

. in Northern

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, Canada, located in the unincorporated geographic township of Studholme in

Cochrane District Cochrane District is a district and census division in Northeastern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. It was created in 1921 from parts of Timiskaming and Thunder Bay districts. In 2021, the district's population was 77,963, with a l ...

. It is located a few kilometres north of

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, at the northern terminus of Highway 663, just south of the Constance Lake First Nation Reserve and about 30 minutes west (via Highway 11) of

Hearst, Ontario Hearst is a town in the district of Cochrane, Ontario, Canada. It is located on the Mattawishkwia River in Northern Ontario, approximately west of Kapuskasing, approximately east of Thunder Bay along Highway 11. At Hearst, Highway 583 extend ...

Employment

Lecours Lumber Company Ltd. operates a sawmill located in Calstock on a long-term federal lease. Lecours is the main employer of the Constance Lake First Nation, with 225 employees at this location. After months of negotiations, on 25 February 2013 Ben Lecours of Lecours Lumber Company Ltd. and Constance Lake First Nation negotiated memorandum of agreements through Regina based mediator Kenneth Gamble regarding Lecours operations on Constance Lake First Nation. The MOAs cover "employment and training for Constance Lake members, and business opportunities for the First Nation businesses" in addition to the land "lease agreement." The Constance Lake First Nation Reserve is one of the nine First Nations in the mineral-rich

Northern Ontario Ring of Fire The Ring of Fire is a vast, mineral-rich region located in the remote James Bay, James Bay Lowlands of Northern Ontario, Canada. Spanning approximately , the area is rich in chromite, nickel, copper, Platinum group, platinum group elements, gold, ...

area, a massive planned

chromite Chromite is a crystalline mineral composed primarily of iron(II) oxide and chromium(III) oxide compounds. It can be represented by the chemical formula of Iron, FeChromium, Cr2Oxygen, O4. It is an oxide mineral belonging to the spinel group. The ...

mining and smelting development project in the mineral-rich area of the James Bay Lowlands. The place is counted as part of Cochrane, Unorganized, North Part in Canadian census data.

References

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