Swastika... was there first.

Swastika is the name of a rail junction town in Northeastern Ontario, just west of Kirkland Lake. It sure raises eyebrows for travelers sitting on the Northlander Train when it stops outside the Swastika station. But the town has an interesting history in that it was named after the Swastika gold mine in 1908. Some years later when the Nazi’s rose to power, they adopted the ancient Sanskrit swastika symbol as their own and it became forever tainted. During World War II, there was a push to have the name changed, but the local townspeople refused, saying theirs was an honourable little town that had been around long before the Nazis and would indeed survive long after.