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Originally Posted by footfootfoot

I assumed you were raised there and that led me to wonder how one could escape from a place as rural as that. I can only begin to imagine how many otter pelts it would take to come up with not only trainfare from the hinterlands but also a couch to crash on while you found a job.

I sense a fascinating, if chilly, story.

Neither fascinating nor romantic; I am no female Nanook of the North. Born in Sudbury, grew up in Ottawa; spent a year in Moosonee in payback to the government for a year's worth of loans during medical school. We had a choice of small northern towns but decided to pass on the CNR and Kimberley-Clark ghost towns along Lake Superior's north shore and go somewhere 'interesting'.

It was definitely interesting but not sustainable. A good experience for a year, though. Oh, and the Polar Bear Express (I kid you not, that's the name of the train that comes in three times a week) isn't the only way out. Seven-seater bush planes flew to Timmins regularly, and the 'big plane', the 47-seater, went once a week. The big plane was the only one that ever crashed.

Eta there were no roads in.