At one time, Manitoulin Island agriculture was a major source of livestock for the province. Much of the livestock destined for the slaughter houses of Ontario was shipped through the large Manitoulin Livestock Co-operative stockyards in Little Current. These stockyards were located on the east side of the stock track. In 1930, the stock track was an eight hundred and forty four foot spur aligned in a north-south direction. The spur lead off the tangent side of a number 9 rigid frog switch about 800 feet south of the swing bridge. The stock track was laid entirely with 80 pound rail with an intermediate switch stand guarding the entrance to this spur, which like all the spurs in Little Current was actually owned by Algoma Eastern Terminals Limited.
\The stockyards were a set of multipen yards which in 1930 measured sixty five feet along the siding and stretched back sixty four feet. The pictures shown here, taken during 1976, show the stockyards in a unused derelict condition. The pens were probably removed sometime during the 1980s.
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