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Swift RapidsAt lock 43 on the Trent/Severn waterway. The colony of Swift Rapids came into being when the power plant was completed circa 1917 replacing Ragged Rapids generating station 3.2 kilometers up river.It is located on the Trent-Severn Waterway about 32 kilometers north-north-west of Orillia, approximately 26 kilometers up stream from Georgian Bay and the same distance down stream from Lake Couchiching. Would have been between 50 and 60. The children attended a one room school. Also operated by the OWL&P who ...
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