church stands at the intersection of Smith Street and Highway 17, but has been abandoned for decades. The town's historical religious relations have been described as generally harmonious, though an Orange Hall was constructed in 1925 by Levi Pomfrey, an early English settler from Cambridgeshire who had been the town reeve in 1903. The Orange Order (or 'Orangemen') would conduct annual marches on July 12, the anniversary of the Battle of Aughrim, where in 1691 the Protestant forces of William of Orange defeated the Catholic Jacobite forces of James Stuart in their struggle for control of Britain and Ireland. Orange marches would typically end at the Roman Catholic church. In 1907, the town fathers began to petition the Ontario provincial government to fund a road bridge across the Spanish River, as a great deal of lumbering activity was taking place on the other side. This was denied, but in 1908 a bridge was funded and constructed by the Graves Bigwood Company, which also built a set of stables and a barracks and cookhouse across the river for teamsters who were involved in hauling lumber. Graves Bigwood made the decision to relocate their office there from Wahnapitae, and the area became known as the "Headquarters". At the time, McKerrow had not yet come to exist, and the nearest settlement to the west was Espanola. This bridge became a component of the "Soo Road", which ultimately stretched from Sudbury to Sault Ste. Marie as an unreliable patchwork of local roads; this would be improved again around 1923 by the Department of Northern Development. Around 1931, the original bridge across the Spanish was washed away in a flood, and was replaced by a rudimentary ferry service that connected what is now Ferry Street with Headquarters Hill Road. Despite renewed petitions for a new bridge to replace the ferry, the service continued to operate until the late 1960s before discontinuing and effectively severing the connection between Nairn proper and the Headquarters area, which today is connected to Nairn via Highway 17 and Sand Bay Road over a causeway. During the First World War, 35 local men and boys enlisted, which was around 12% of the town's population at the time. Only one was killed: Cpl Roy Harmon, who died in 1918 and is buried at the cemetery in Nœux-les-Mines. 18 or 19 enlisted in the Second World War, with two killed: L/Cpl Lloyd Martin