Byng Inlet, Ontario

Byng Inlet is a ghost town and community in Unorganized Centre Parry Sound District, Ontario, Canada.

It is also the name of the body of water, on which the village is situated, on the south shore of the Byng Inlet a widening of the Magnetawan River, near its mouth on Georgian Bay.

In 1897 the Holland and Emery Lumber Company of East Tawas, Michigan, relocated their mill from Saginaw Bay, to Byng Inlet.

In the early 1900s Holland and Graves expanded their operations, the connection of the Canadian Pacific Railway through the village, offered new markets for their lumber, which prior to 1908, was only shipped by water.

The town currently retains a small permanent population, which is primarily due to the services of nearby Highway 69.

The Graves Lumber Mill, one of the three large lumber mills that made Byng Inlet one of the largest lumber towns in Canada