Seguin Falls

Seguin Falls is a ghost town and unincorporated place on the Nipissing Colonization Road in the township of Seguin, Parry Sound District in northeastern Ontario, Canada.

History

The portion of the Nipissing Road at Seguin Falls was opened to winter traffic by 1873 and passable to wheeled vehicles by 1875, and became the main route of travel between Lake Rosseau and Lake Nipissing and points in between. The Nipissing Road lost its importance following the completion of the railway between Gravenhurst and Callander in 1886, and most of this section of the colonization road fell into a state of disrepair. The village of Magnetawan was, by this time, more easily accessed from Burk's Falls.

It was not until a decade later that Seguin Falls developed as a village. During construction of the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway, completed in 1896, a station was established where the line crossed the Nipissing Road. The importance of that portion of the former colonization road was restored as an access point from Seguin Falls to Magnetawan and remains as an active route for automobile traffic, to this day.