Sharbot Lake

Located on the Ontario & Quebec mainline between Perth and Havelock,
Sharbot Lake was a crossing point of the Kingston & Pembroke. Both railways became part of the C.P.R.

Old post card dated July 1921. Collection of Doug Birchill

This photograph, while believed to have been taken in the 1950's, might well have been taken decades earlier. Look carefully at the station walls where four ancient oil lamps provided lighting! The lack of electric power was likely due to its remote location to Hydro lines. A Royal Mail box is also located next to the chalk board. Al Paterson