Paradis Bay is an unincorporated community in the
Canadian
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province of
Ontario
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, located within the
Unorganized, West Part division of
Timiskaming District
Timiskaming is a district and census division in Northeastern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. The district was created in 1912 from parts of Algoma, Nipissing, and Sudbury districts. In 1921, Cochrane District was created from p ...
. It was originally settled by Father Charles Alfred Paradis in 1882, as a model farm for future colonization prospects on Upper Lake Timiskaming.
The community is located along a rural road off
Highway 567, south of
Cobalt
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and near
Lorrain Valley.
Situated on the shores of the lake in Lorrain Township, within two decades nearly 10 farms scattered the area around the bay. A regular steamer stop was established, and a small wharf constructed to ship out and receive goods. With the modest but steady activity a post office was also established in 1915, but closed four years later in 1919.
The little settlement dispersed gradually and nothing remained by the 1950s, and today cottages dot the shoreline where at one time a small scattering of fields lay.
References
Communities in Timiskaming District
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