Hunt/Umfreville

Wako/Watcomb Station Hunt/Umfreville Station Yonde Station

Hunt Station was located near Sioux Lookout, ON at Milepost 166.6/108.8/167.3/137.4.

Hunt, situated on a peninsula in Jarvis Lake, was the site of one of the water tanks on the line. A station was not initially constructed here during the GTP days, so it was not until 1927 that CN built what is described as a “Special Station.” It is currently unknown what the appearance of this station was and what became of it. In 1928, the name was changed from Hunt to Umfreville, though the reasoning for the switch is unknown. Hunt was one of the few stations that did not follow the alphabetical naming, likely because of the lack of “X” names. It may have been named after Edward Umfreville, who in 1784 was charged with finding a fur trading route from Lake Superior to Lake Winnipeg by the Northwest Company.

The water tank here was removed in the 1950s and the siding in 1990 or 1991. Umfreville remained a station on the line until it was abandoned in 1994.