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Leeblain, Ontario

Leeblain is a ghost town in the Canadian province of Ontario, located on the north shore of Gunflint Lake in the Thunder Bay District. Part of the ghost town is located within La Verendrye Provincial Park and is adjacent to the well known Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in the Boundary Waters between Canada and the United States.
==History==
The town was Leeblain〔Carter, Floreen. Place Names of Ontario. London; Phelps Pub, 1984〕 was created back in 1893 as a stop on the Port Arthur, Duluth and Western Railway (mile 83).〔Lovell's Gazetteer of British North America. Montreal; J. Lovell & Son, 1895.〕 Leeblain was named after two Toronto businessmen who were important investors in the railway, A.B. Lee (Rice, Lewis & Son) and Hugh Blain (Eby, Blain & Co.). It was hoped that the town would grow into a “metropolis” because of the business generated by the iron mines immediately across the border in Minnesota that were part of the Gunflint Range. The railway planned for Leeblain to be its major terminal point outside of Port Arthur, with a roundhouse and other maintenance facilities.〔Thunder Bay Daily Sentinel January 6, 1893; Fort William Journal January 7, 1893〕
Located at Leeblain was a framed station that measured 20 by 40 feet and a 1200 foot siding.〔Fort William Journal November 16, 1892〕 There was also a two-storey hotel/trading post, as well as several smaller buildings. The town site was also used as a worker camp during the construction of the railway, and some of the Italian labourers built rock ovens to bake their bread.〔Fort William Journal November 5, 1892〕〔Le Blaine-A Border Ghost Town Minnesota History News, vol.3, June 1962〕 The hotel at Leeblain was operated for a time by Adolph Perras who was previously a businessman in the town of Port Arthur.
With the collapse of the Paulson Mine and the failure of the Port Arthur, Duluth and Western Railway to reach the Duluth and Iron Range Railroad at Ely, Minnesota, there was very little business along Gunflint Lake. The railway was purchased by Canadian Northern Railway in 1899 and the new company stopped running trains past North Lake in 1903.〔(Chronology of the PAD&W Railway )〕 That same year the Government of Canada opened a customs outport at the eastern end of Gunflint Lake under the name "Leeblain," mostly to serve the short railroad known as the Gunflint and Lake Superior that was transporting logs from Minnesota to Port Arthur. The outport closed in 1909 and most of the rails west of North Lake were removed in 1915.〔Sessional Papers of the Dominion of Canada. Statement of Custom Revenue Collected-Ontario: Annual Reports of the Customs Dept 1904-1910〕〔Raff, Willis. Pioneers in the Wilderness Grand Marais; Cook Cty HS, 1981〕

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