Swastika, Ontario

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Swastika is a small Canadian community founded around a mine site in Northern Ontario in 1908. Today it is within the municipal boundaries of Kirkland Lake, Ontario. It has frequently been noted on lists of unusual place names. Swastika is a junction on the Ontario Northland Railway, where a branch to Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, leaves the ONR's main line from North Bay, Ontario, to Moosonee. Until 2012, the Northlander passenger railway service between Toronto and Cochrane served the Swastika railway station with a connecting bus service running along Highway 66 into downtown Kirkland Lake.

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