Geraldton

Geraldton is a town in Ontario and the is populace 1893 in 2012. Geraldton is located in northwestern Ontario on the Canadian National Railway, 282 km northeast of Thunder Bay. Established inside the early Nineteen Thirties attributable to the Little Long Lac gold rush, the metropolis derived its call from its 2 co-founders, mining entrepreneurs J.S. FitzGerald and Joseph Errington. It become incorporated as a town in 1937.

At the height of the boom within the later 1930s, Geraldton acted as a provider centre to a dozen gold-mining camps as well as to the developing pulpwood industry in the place. The major mine changed into the Macleod-Cockshutt, which in its nearly 30-year lifestyles extracted extra than $49 million of gold. Its closure inside the past due 1960s contributed to the slow decline in Geraldton's population from a excessive of 3588 in 1965. In 1998 Geraldton changed into amalgamated with the city of Longlac and surrounding townships into the metropolis of Greenstone.