A canal was dug from a mine on the east shore of Upper Rock Lake, to Stonehouse Lake in the background, to this pond and to continuing on the lower right to bring phosphate ore to the CNoR rail siding here in 1910. The CNoR had just been built from Napanee to Ottawa. Phosphate was used as fertilizer. It did not last long.

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A canal was dug from a mine on the east shore of Upper Rock Lake, to Stonehouse Lake in the background, to this pond and to continuing on the lower right to bring phosphate ore to the CNoR rail siding here in 1910. The CNoR had just been built from Napanee to Ottawa. Phosphate was used as fertilizer. It did not last long. by Steve Manders
Near Photos

Near Photos of Ontario at [44.511319, -76.423516]

Crystalline marble rock from one of the largest landslides in southern Ontario that occured on the right side of the trail about 1914 is exposed as some is used for repair work to the Cataraqui Trail, by the Cataraqui Region Conservation Authority. The CNoR rainway and trail are built along an ancient 10 km. long fault line with uplifted granite on the west side. by Steve Manders
A canal (shown on the right) was built parallel to the CNoR railway in 1910 for barges to bring phosphate from an Upper Rock Lake mine to a railway siding here. Some heavy wood timbers with heavy iron in it can be found, but the area appears to have been burried by a lot of heavy rock subsequently removed from the cliff on the west side of the tracks. by Steve Manders
A major land slide occured here several years after the opening of the CNoR railway in 1912 blocking the tracks. A large steam shovel removed the rock from the right, piled it on the siding on the left. The rock was used to repair a major washout in 2016, 200 m. to the north. The grey marble rock slid off the red granite hill on the right, along an ancient fault line. by Steve Manders
Steve Manders's Other Photos

Other photos taken by Steve Manders

Old Rockport School House. School Section # 14, 1925 to 1965. Now Rockport Recreation Hall. by Steve Manders
Entering Brewers Mills Locks on the Rideau by Steve Manders
Old one room school. Roxborough Township SS # 17, 1870 to 1950. This is part of the Lost Villages Museum. by Steve Manders
St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, founded in 1820. The first chruch was destroyed by fire in 1887 and was replaced in 1889. Sir John A. McDonald was on the Board of Managers, he and this congregation founded Queen's University as a theology college. by Steve Manders
Wellington Town Hall and Lions Club, built as the Wellington Public School in 1882. by Steve Manders
There are many of these old stone walls inside city blocks in downtown Kingston. by Steve Manders