Red Lake Road is an
unincorporated place
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and community in
Unorganized Kenora District
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It is geographically the largest division in Ontario: at , it covers 38 percent of the province's area, making it larger ...
in
northwestern Ontario
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,
Canada
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.
It is named for the road, today's
Ontario Highway 105, that runs from the community of
Vermilion Bay in the south to the town of
Red Lake in the north. Red Lake Road is at the junction of Highway 105 with the eastern terminus of
Ontario Highway 609, which runs west to the community of
Quibell and onward to its northern terminus at Clay Lake.
Red Lake Road railway station is in the community. The station is on the
Canadian National Railway transcontinental main line,
between Quibell to the west and
Lash to the east, has a
passing track
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, and is served by
Via Rail
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transcontinental ''
Canadian
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'' trains.
References
Communities in Kenora District
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