donypee and herbertwibe, thanks to both of you. Yes there is a road to Pickle Lake on my map, and there probably are more smaller ones than what is shown. However, it appears to still be about 200 km away.(Ontario is huge, it is amazing)

I wonder if there is a civil engineer out there that would dare to give a rough estimate of cost per km of building a pretty heavy duty road(or rail) over fairly swampy terrain(it may not all be swampy, I don't know). I am not going to hold you to any estimate you are providing, but I think it would be great to have at least a rough guess/estimate.