Dishnish | |
Settlement Type: | Railway point |
Pushpin Map: | Canada Ontario |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Ontario |
Coordinates: | 48.8553°N -83.7175°W |
Coordinates Footnotes: | [1] |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Ontario |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Algoma |
Subdivision Type3: | Geographic township |
Subdivision Name3: | Legge |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Elevation Footnotes: | [2] |
Elevation M: | 327 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone1: | Eastern Time Zone |
Utc Offset1: | -5 |
Timezone1 Dst: | Eastern Time Zone |
Utc Offset1 Dst: | -4 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal Code FSA |
Postal Code: | P0M |
Dishnish is an unincorporated place and railway point in geographic Legge Township,[3] in the Unorganized North part of Algoma District in northeastern Ontario, Canada. It is on the Canadian National Railway transcontinental railway main line between the Dispersed Rural Community of Minnipuka to the west and the railway point of Fire River to the east, has a passing track, and is passed but not served by Via Rail transcontinental Canadian passenger trains. The place is on Dishnish Creek, a left tributary of the Fire River.
Dishnish is part of a section of what was originally the Canadian Northern Railway that was under construction from 1912 to 1913.
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