Mink Lake is an
unincorporated place and former railway point in
geographic
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Pentland Township in the
Unorganized South Part of
Nipissing District in
northeastern
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Ontario,
Canada.
Mink Lake is located within
Algonquin Provincial Park at the eastern end of Mink Lake in the
Amable du Fond River
The Amable du Fond River is a river in Nipissing District, in Northern Ontario, Canada.
The river is named after Amable Dufond, a Native hunter and trapper who lived in this area in the mid-19th century. At one time, the river was used to transp ...
drainage basin.
It lies on the now abandoned
Canadian National Railway
The Canadian National Railway Company (french: Compagnie des chemins de fer nationaux du Canada) is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States.
CN i ...
Alderdale Subdivision
The Canadian National Railway Alderdale Subdivision was a railway line in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. It originally opened in 1915 as a part of the Canadian Northern Railway's transcontinental mainline. It connected Brent in the east with Cap ...
, a section of track that was originally constructed as the
Canadian Northern Railway main line
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Transportation
Railway
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, between
Ascalon to the west and
Daventry to the east.
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Communities in Nipissing District
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