The Larder Lake Station of the T. and N.O. Railway was the site of a million dollar silver robbery. The community became a ghost town when the silver market died and the railway stopped its passenger service. The town clustered around the station with hotels, bars, boarding houses, cabins for miners, and had a population of 250 souls. To be seen today are the streets, empty yards and a few surviving homes of the company townsite. Submitted by: Henry Chenoweth

Update: 1) It was Gold, not Silver that brought people to the Larder Lake camp. 2) The Silver market had nothing to do with the demise of Larder Lake Station, it was the fact that people lived mostly in the Town of Larder Lake (It was founded as Larder City ), and the closure of the Crown Reserve Mine as well the Canadian Goldfields Mine (both mines later became the Omega Mine). Workers were brought the 3 kilometres by bus to work at the Omega when it opened. 3) The true name for Larder Lake Station was Crown City, named after the Crown Reserve company who worked the near by Crown Reserve Mine. 4) The two houses noted are still occupied. One house was owned by the Railway, the other by the Mine. Today they are private homes. Cheers, David LaRocque