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Sioux Lookout is a town in Northwestern Ontario, Canada.Located approximately 350 km (220 mi) northwest of Thunder Bay, it has a population of 5,838 people (up 10.8% since 2016), [2] an elevation of 383 m (1,257 ft), [3] and its boundaries cover an area of 536 km 2 (207 sq mi), of which 157 km 2 (61 sq mi) is lake and wetlands.
Ojibway Provincial Park is about 25 kilometres (16 mi) southwest of Sioux Lookout on Highway 72 in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. On Little Vermilion Lake, the park offers swimming, a sandy beach, and muskellunge fishing. It has trails through pine forests and along the lake's shore.
On October 6, 1937, Highway 72 was established, [2] connecting Highway 17 with both Sioux Lookout and Hudson. On the 1938–39 Official Ontario Road Map, the distance from Dinorwic to Sioux Lookout is listed as 48.0 miles (77.2 km), and from Dinorwic to Hudson as 53.0 miles (85.3 km). [7] This routing remained in place until at least 1953. [8]
In 1987, HBC divested the Northern Stores Department to The North West Company. [4] Before roads were built to Red Lake, Hudson was a transportation hub for transshipment, first between trains and boat traffic going north, and later for air cargo as well. By 1929/1930, Hudson had the second busiest cargo airport in North America (after Chicago ...
SAGE dramatically reduced the workload at the stations, cutting staff requirements by well over half. By the later 1950s some were being mothballed as newer systems came on line to the north. Nevertheless, many of the Pinetree stations were kept operational into the 1980s, particularly on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
Pelican Lake is a lake in the Hudson Bay drainage basin in the town of Sioux Lookout and in Unorganized Kenora District in Kenora District, northwestern Ontario, Canada. [1] [2] It is about 8.5 kilometres (5.3 mi) long and 6.3 kilometres (3.9 mi) wide and lies at an elevation of 356 metres (1,168 ft).
Superior Junction is a community in the town of Sioux Lookout, Kenora District in northwestern Ontario, Canada. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is on the Marchington River downstream of Botsford Lake and upstream of the river's mouth at Abram Lake on the English River .
Sioux Lookout Airport (IATA: YXL, ICAO: CYXL) is a regional airport based in Sioux Lookout, Ontario, Canada. The airport opened in 1933. The airport opened in 1933. It was, at the time, the second busiest airport in North America next to Chicago Midway International Airport . [ 4 ]