[2] Located in Sudbury District north of Espanola, the township's two main communities and population centres are McKerrow and Lorne.

It situated the mill site next to the Spanish River, which fell to the south of the Canadian Pacific Railway's Sault Ste.

Throughout its history, McKerrow would continue to function as a minor hub for the CPR, befitting its status as a junction connecting the Canadian Pacific Little Current and Webbwood Subdivisions within the Sudbury Division of the Algoma District.

[4] Throughout the mid-20th century, however, passenger service at the station slowly decreased; in 1943, there were two trains per day per direction, with one route going west to Sault Ste.

At various times it functioned as a hotel, bar, coffee shop, and roadside restaurant, but was vacant for a number of years and began to decay.