Shawmere | |
Settlement Type: | Dispersed Rural Community |
Pushpin Map: | Canada Ontario |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Ontario |
Coordinates: | 48.3394°N -82.5419°W |
Coordinates Footnotes: | [1] |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Ontario |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Sudbury |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Elevation Footnotes: | [2] |
Elevation M: | 314 |
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 |
Shawmere is an unincorporated place and dispersed rural community in geographic Oates Township,[3] in the Unorganized North part of Sudbury District in northeastern Ontario, Canada. It is on the Canadian National Railway transcontinental railway main line between the railway point of Missonga to the west and the compact rural community of Foleyet to the east, has a passing track, and is passed but not served by Via Rail transcontinental Canadian trains. Shawmere is on the Shawmere River, part of the James Bay drainage basin.
Shawmere is on part of a section of what was originally the Canadian Northern Railway that was under construction from 1912 to 1913.
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