Raith, Ontario

Raith is a dispersed rural community and unincorporated area in geographic Golding Township in the Unorganized Part of Thunder Bay District in Northwestern Ontario, Canada.^[1]

Raith
dispersed rural community unincorporated area
Raith Location in Ontario
Coordinates: 48°49′19″N 89°55′09″W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Ontario
District	Thunder Bay
Geographic township	Golding
Elevation [2]	488 m (1,601 ft)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern Time Zone)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (Eastern Time Zone)
Postal Code	P0T
Area code	807

Geography

The community lies at the watershed divide between the Great Lakes Basin/Saint Lawrence River drainage basin and the Hudson Bay drainage basin, a fact highlighted by an Ontario Heritage Trust Blue Plaque.^[3][4] The Oskondaga River, on the Great Lakes basin side of the divide, begins at Raith.

Transportation

The community is Ontario Highway 17, at this point part of the Trans-Canada Highway, between Upsala to the northwest and Shabaqua Corners to the south. There are also two railway lines: the Canadian Pacific Railway transcontinental main line, in operation; and the Canadian National Railway Graham Subdivision main line, originally built as part of the National Transcontinental Railway, now abandoned.