Rosslyn
Village
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Rosslyn
Village seems to be the concentration of what is a tiny little farm belt just
west of Thunder Bay. With corn and hay and dairy
operations, the area is reminiscent of the towns of the 
Temiskaming
claybelt (just replace Earlton’s giant buffalo with a cow-on-a stick, of course.)
Rosslyn is blessed not only with farming prospects, but also with big, weird
statue things. This is Highway 11, after all.
Most noticeable to the new visitor is Rosslyn’s cow-on-a-stick. Found at the old Canada feed station site on Highway 11, the white cow peers expressionless across the highway at a height of about 30 feet.
Rosslyn Village is also home to two moose hunter figures. A few kilometres before the turn off to the town, the wooden ‘statues' of brothers Mike and André Allen stand against Highway 11. Being on someone’s private property I didn’t venture further, so their meaning is thus unknown to me. Maybe they are northern Ontario's version of a nutcracker?
Of course, Rosslyn Village wouldn’t be northern Ontario without a woodpile, which is visible on the south side of the highway.
Rosslyn
Village is also notable as it is the first place that I almost locked my keys
in the car. Having driven from Timmins to Thunder
Bay and visiting each and every possible thing in between, I thought I
had perfected the art of pulling a u-turn, dashing from the car, snapping
a photo, and jumping back in. Rosslyn was the first instance where I contemplated
leaving my keys in the ignition. After having paid homage to the cow-on-a-stick,
I returned to my car to find my door locked shut thanks to Thunder Bay’s crazy winds. Relievingly,
the keys were in my pocket.
The town of Rosslyn Village itself is actually a few kilometres off Highway 11, and considering I had driven more than a 1000 kilometres in the past two days I decided that I’d had enough detours for the time being and continued back to Thunder Bay.
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