Extra Credit is video series that examines topics related to history in the Thunder Bay District and exploring that history.

This episode is the fourth instalment in our sub-series on the Grand Trunk Pacific Lake Superior Branch. This time we head northwest of Thunder Bay to Finmark to visit the well-known Flett Tunnel. The tunnel is one of the most popular railway sites in the area and the second longest tunnel in this part of the country behind the Macdiarmid Tunnel (https://youtu.be/6-Hk_SGGrVs). Constructed in 1906, it sadly claimed the lives of three workers as a result of a tragic blasting accident. Heading west from the tunnel, we continued a short distance further west to the site of a “stream tunnel,’ which was constructed circa 1918 and used to re-route the flow of a creek under the grade.

Enjoy!