Algoma Mills Algoma Mills () is located between the North Channel and Lauzon Lake, near the township's western boundary with
Blind River. The
Algoma Mills Water Aerodrome serves the community. Algoma Mills was founded in 1860 when a mill was built at the mouth of the Lauzon Creek by Alfred Lauzon, who also built a wharf, tramway, dam, and a log slide, as well as houses for him and his workers. By 1881, the mill was property of the
Canadian Pacific Railway that used the site for the construction and operation of their railroad to
Sudbury. From 1905 to 1910, Algoma Mills was CPR's major transshipment port for coal. 200,000 tons of coal arrived there annually to be shipped by rail to
North Bay, Sudbury,
Sault Ste. Marie,
Cartier, and
Mactier. In 1927, the CPR closed the Algoma Mills station.
Moiles Mills Moiles Mills () is a
ghost town. It was established as a lumber town in April 1889 and burned down in 1918. The former townsite is now the site of John Island Camp, a children's summer camp operated by the
YMCA.
Serpent River Serpent River () is located at the junction of highways
17 and
108. It formed in the 1950s due to the opening of uranium mines in
Elliot Lake, but declined once those mines closed in the early 1990s. was established in 1882 when the Cook Brothers Lumber Company built a
sawmill at this location. The mill operated until 1906 when it was sold to Waldie Brothers Lumber Company. With the mill no longer in Cook's ownership, Spragge (the original name of the township in which it is located), was adopted as the name of the community. Waldie Brothers in turn sold the mill to McFadden and Malloy in 1913. Over time a small village with a school, hotel, barbershop, general store was created, and by 1926 the community had a population of about 300 people. Sawmill activity was terminated in Spragge in the early 1930s following a disastrous fire, which eliminated the mill, lumber inventory, docks and most of the town. The town subsequently revived with the discovery of
uranium and
copper deposits in the area, leading to a thriving
mining industry. == Demographics ==