Local collection

Historical media archive

Photographs, maps, documents and ephemera preserved locally and connected back to the places and stories they document.

The media archive brings together photographs, maps, documents and ephemera stored with SeguinTrail.ca. Each item is connected to the place or story it helps document, with date, source and rights information recorded wherever known.

Preservation-first

Everything displayed here is served locally by SeguinTrail.ca. Outside archive links, where present, are source references rather than image dependencies.

Depot Harbour townsite
Depot HarbourHistoric photograph

Depot Harbour townsite

Historic town view preserved from the original Seguin Trail archive; original source attribution remains incomplete.

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Depot Harbour aerial / overview
Depot HarbourHistoric photograph

Depot Harbour aerial / overview

A broad view useful for understanding the relationship between town, railway and harbour.

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Depot Harbour grain elevator
Depot HarbourHistoric photograph

Depot Harbour grain elevator

One of the harbour grain-handling images preserved from the original site.

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Depot Harbour church
Depot HarbourHistoric photograph

Depot Harbour church

Community building preserved in the original archive.

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Rose Point swing bridge
Rose PointHistoric photograph

Rose Point swing bridge

Vintage bridge image preserved locally from the original site.

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Maple Lake postal artifact
SwordsDocument / ephemera

Maple Lake postal artifact

Envelope and enlarged Maple Lake, Ontario postmark.

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Maple Lake travel flyer
SwordsDocument / ephemera

Maple Lake travel flyer

Tourist/coach/rail advertisement showing Maple Lake as a travel destination.

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White Horse Farm on Highway 518 near Diamond Lake
Diamond LakeSite photograph

The White Horse Farm

Highway 518 near Diamond Lake; remembered by the site author’s family for the old white horse that lingered around the farm.

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Seguin Falls hotel fireplace
Seguin FallsSite photograph

Seguin Falls hotel fireplace

Surviving fireplace/chimney from the King George Hotel site.

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Bridge Out pillars
Bridge OutSite photograph

Bridge Out pillars

Tall concrete piers at the former Seguin River railway crossing.

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Old Nipissing Road interpretive sign
Nipissing RoadSite photograph

Old Nipissing Road interpretive sign

Author photograph preserved from the original website; useful both for its subject and as a record of earlier trail interpretation.

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Diamond Lake map excerpt
Diamond LakeOriginal site map

Diamond Lake / Orrville map excerpt

The old map itself is now catalogued as historical site material rather than treated as disposable artwork.

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Western map excerpt around Falding
FaldingOriginal site map

Falding corridor map excerpt

Derived from the author's original hand-built western trail map and retained as both navigation history and site history.

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Selected terrain elevations along the western OA&PS corridor
Railway engineeringLocal interpretive graphic

Western corridor terrain reference

Locally drawn from selected historical elevation facts so the site can explain the railway profile without reproducing the copyrighted 1964 source page.

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Depot Harbour grain statistics for 1899 and 1900
Depot HarbourPrimary-source reconstruction

Grain traffic, 1899–1900

Locally drawn from Dominion government statistics rather than copied from a secondary graphic.

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Canada Atlantic Railway fleet figures in 1903
Railway operationsPrimary-source reconstruction

Canada Atlantic fleet, 1903

Equipment totals reconstructed from the House of Commons debates.

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1908 passenger timetable reconstruction
Passenger serviceTimetable reconstruction

1908 passenger schedule

End-to-end times redrawn locally from the published historic schedule.

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J.R. Booth with timber
J.R. BoothHistoric photograph

Booth and the timber trade

Historic Booth image preserved from the original site archive and connected to the expanded biography.

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J.R. Booth Railway interpretive sign
Seguin FallsSite photograph

J.R. Booth Railway interpretive sign

Photographed for the original site in 2004; a record of local railway interpretation as well as the sign itself.

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