Goshen was a hamlet in McNab Township, now only the names Goshen Road and Goshen Cemetery remain.
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1. Clipping from the Renfrew Mercury (probably early Dec. 1931) with the heading “The Cemetery at Goshen Now in Use for a Century”. Also photocopy of this clipping.
2. Photocopy (and partial clipping) of article by Wanda Blimkie in Renfrew Mercury of Aug. 7, 1985: “Goshen’s railway station once served many area travellers”. Photos of Goshen Women’s Institute founding members and “orchestra” (formed in 1950), general store and post office. Railways. Grand Trunk, Canadian National Railway, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway, Canada Atlantic Railway. Carswell post office. Sons of Temperance, Goshen Corners.
3. Colour photo by Peter Hessel (1988) of the Goshen railway station, which was “retired” to a Morris Miller’s (a farmer’s) nearby property, where it serves as a tool shed.
4. Photocopy of pp. 255-56 of McNab - The Township, showing a different view of the old Goshen railway station.
5. Photocopy of an article by Alan Rayburn, in Canadian Geographic, Dec. 1990/Jan. 1991, re place names of Goshen and Canaan.
6. Photocopy of pages 124-25 of McNab - The Township, regarding Goshen.