CNR Trestle - Chesley Ontario
South Saugeen River
Chesley is one more of Bruce County’s charming
small riverbank communities. Chesley, which was originally known as
Sconeville, took its name from Solomon Yeomans Chesley, an obscure
government official in Ottawa. Developing around mills built on
the North Saugeen River in the 1850s, the community grew rapidly
when the Grand Trunk Railway built steel rails through the village
in 1881.
These are before and after pictures of the
trestle. The town took over responsibility of the trestle and
converted it to a walkway as part of their trails network. The winter pictures were taken Jan 10/2000 with
the summer pictures taken July 21st, 2002
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