Nakina was first established in 1923 as a station and railway yard on the National Transcontinental Railway, between the divisional points of Grant and Armstrong.

The Nakina base was totally removed shortly after the war.

As a result, the value of Nakina as a railway service community was greatly diminished, to the point where it was no longer a substantial employer in the town.

The Municipality of Greenstone ( pop 5662 ) was incorporated in 2001 and includes Orient Bay, MacDiarmid, Beardmore, Nakina, Longlac, Caramat, Jellicoe and Geraldton.

Following the completion in 1924 of Canadian National Railways's Longlac-Nakina Cut-Off, connecting the rails of the Canadian Northern at Longlac and the NTR, Nakina became the new divisional point, and the buildings from the town of Grant ( 25 kilometers to the east ) were moved to the new Nakina town site.

Its name begins at the confluence of the Inklin and Nakina Rivers, which is the location of the tiny community of Inklin.

It combined the former Townships of Beardmore and Nakina, the Towns of Geraldton and Longlac with large unincorporated portions of Unorganized Thunder Bay District.

Greenstone includes the communities of Beardmore, Caramat, Geraldton, Jellicoe, Longlac, Macdiarmid, Nakina, and Orient Bay.

Nakina and Caramat are entirely exclaved from the rest of the municipality's territory.

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, a proposed ore transport point around Nakina, as part of the Ring of Fire development, may shift the emphasis of local industry from logging back to mining.

* Nakina. Net – Reporting Marks – Unofficial incomplete compilation of reporting marks from the 1920s to the present day, as listed in the Official Railway Equipment Register.

In addition to the Inklin and Nakina Rivers, from which it is formed, other tributaries of the Taku proper include the Tulsequah River.

He found that if he was tired enough at night, he went to sleep simply because he was too exhausted to stay awake.

Dawn would come soon and the night was at its coldest.

And he was fleeing, running -- fleeing his death and his life at the same time.

Then he was on his way at a gallop.

He scuttled in shadow along the east wall of the stockade and then followed the south wall until he was at the rear of the two frame buildings.

A man was standing in the open door of the lighted orderly room a few yards to Mike's left, but he, too, suddenly made up his mind and went racing to join the confused activity at the east end of the stockade.

Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.

She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.

I was nearly thirty at the time.

only the counter at one end was lighted by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly above it.

I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.

This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

Facing the forest now, she who had not dared to enter it before, walked between two trees at random and headed in what she believed was the direction of the pool.

She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.

laughing at a dying man, laughing as a man was beaten to death.

He'd started a fire and put coffee on, and now was busy at the work board of his chuck wagon.

Hank had gathered wood for a cookfire, and his wife was busy at it now.

Tom Horn was soon back at work, giving his secret employers their money's worth.

Haying time was close at hand, and they needed some strong branches to repair a hay rack.

`` It was Brenner's idea '', Jess mumbled, dabbing at his nose.

Seeing them waiting there at the foot of Emigrant Rock was so overwhelming that, for a good minute after they rounded the bend and started down the grade leading toward them, Matilda could not speak at all.

They began play in 1993, sharing Mile High Stadium with the National Football League's Denver Broncos their first two seasons while Coors Field was constructed.

The first of these was the Mile High Center, which compressed the core building into less than twenty-five percent of the total site ; the rest is adorned with an exhibition hall and fountain-dotted plazas.

Jacob Abendana died childless in London in 1695 and was buried in the Portuguese cemetery at Mile End.

One of the first projects he designed at his own firm was Ruhl's Bakery at 7 Mile Rd.

Fort Dearborn was located at what is now the intersection of Wacker Drive and Michigan Avenue in the Loop community area of Chicago at the foot of the Magnificent Mile.

This was especially crucial as in a democratic society, particularly after the Three Mile Island nuclear power station crisis in March 1979, a host of nuclear accidents or well-publicized near misses could have shut down the nuclear fleet completely.

" Subsequently, Admiral Rickover was asked to testify before Congress in the general context of answering the question as to why naval nuclear propulsion had succeeded in achieving a record of zero reactor-accidents ( as defined by the uncontrolled release of fission products to the environment resulting from damage to a reactor core ) as opposed to the dramatic one that had just taken place at Three Mile Island.

Ad Decimum ( Latin for " Ten Mile Post ", literally " at the tenth "), was simply a marker along the Mediterranean coast south of Carthage.

In January 1930, Tracy was approached about a new play called The Last Mile.

" The Last Mile opened on Broadway in February, where Tracy's intense performance was met by a standing ovation that lasted 14 curtain calls.

One of the scouts who saw Tracy in The Last Mile was director John Ford.

The Acts became known as the " Clarendon Code ", after Lord Clarendon, even though he was not directly responsible for them and even spoke against the Five Mile Act.

Manufacturers had entered works cars in rallies, and in their forerunner and cousin events, from the very beginning: the 1894 Paris-Rouen was mainly a competition between them, while the Thousand Mile Trial of 1900 had more trade than private entries.

The world's largest and most valuable gem opal " Olympic Australis " was found in at the " Eight Mile " opal field in Coober Pedy.

This area started from the Vaha ' akolo Road and all the eastern side to Ma ' ufanga which include the Palace of King George Taufa ' ahau Tupou I and seat of Government, as well as all the new settlement of Fasi moe Afi ' a Tungi, Malie Taha ( One Mile ), Ngele ' ia was an old settlement during the civil wars and Taufa ' ahau and his warriors destroy this settlement.

The son of a Jewish scrap yard dealer, Richler was born in 1931 and raised on St. Urbain Street in the Mile End area of Montreal.

At the end of Palmerston Road where it joins the Ladies Mile a plaque on a house records that it was once the home of Fred Jane, the creator of the standard naval reference book Jane ’ s Fighting Ships.

The Green Mile was first published in six low-priced paperback volumes.

The first, subtitled The Two Dead Girls was published on March 28, 1996, with new volumes following monthly until the final volume, Coffey on the Mile, was released on August 29, 1996.

This was part of a larger group of protocols known as Ethernet in the First Mile.

The town was founded in 1893 during the Yilgarn-Goldfields gold rush, and is located close to the so-called " Golden Mile ".

A major piece of this project was completed in 2007 with the new Park Bridge and Ten Mile Hill sections.

His gardener James Gordon was the first to introduce camellias to commerce, from the nurseries he established after Lord Petre's untimely death in 1743, at Mile End, Essex, near London.

The first Seedling Mile was built in 1914 west of Malta, Illinois, but after years of experience the LHA began a design effort for a road section that could handle traffic 20 years into the future.