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Trans-Taiga Road (2004)

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154 points jason_pomerleau | 1 comments | 03 Jul 25 01:07 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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petesergeant ◴[03 Jul 25 04:27 UTC] No.44451628[source]▶
I find browsing around the map in remote Canada pretty interesting, especially the number of named settlements for which there appear to be absolutely no information or satellite evidence they exist. Take Roggan River: there’s a Wikipedia page claiming it’s a small village, and it’s on Google Maps, but there’s nothing identifiably there, and there’s no further information I can find online. The map is littered with these.
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1. gdbsjjdn ◴[03 Jul 25 12:53 UTC] No.44454510[source]▶
From personal experience, there's over a dozen fly-in communities in the Northwest Territories. No roads, the only way to reach them is snowmobiling in the winter or taking a plane from Yellowknife.

My understanding is that Northern Quebec and Ontario are similar, lots of very small indigenous communities that still follow pre-colonial practices. They would get supplies by plane or by boat. It's not surprising a settlement with 50 people is hard to find on satellite.