Great Lakes Waterfront Trail, which is also a part of the Trans Canada Trail, runs through the township. In the west end it follows a paved shoulder along Highway 17, then has an on-road section following Old Nairn Road, Minto Street, and McIntyre Street, then continues along once entering Greater Sudbury. Utilities The community has a piped water system, which was installed in 1995. Healthcare There is a medical clinic and pharmacy in Nairn Centre. The nearest hospital is in Espanola. Education Reading Camp Nairn is historically notable as the place where Alfred Fitzpatrick, then the local Presbyterian minister, created a Reading Camp in 1899 in order to teach literacy to local lumber workers. This would grow into the Labourer-Teacher movement, where ordinary workers living and working in remote lumber camps and communities would teach literacy to their fellow workers in a peer fashion. This revolutionary educational movement ran counter to many contemporary ideas around education, but was wildly successful and later grew into Frontier College, a decentralized literacy organization which is now based in Toronto. Fitzpatrick's Reading Camp is today commemorated with a sign placed at the entrance to Nairn Centre along Highway 17. Public school A small log schoolhouse was constructed on Front Street by the early settlers in 1895. This schoolhouse was the site of the first town meeting in 1896. In the early years it was known as Rural School No. 1 Nairn and Lorne. By 1925, the school had sixty students, and the decision was made to hire a second teacher and split the school into two classes, which were initially separated only by a curtain. By 1926, the existing school had been renovated and expanded into a new two-room school, which incorporated parts of the original structure. This new school featured two entirely separate classrooms, as well as a large basement containing the teachers' room and boys' and girls' play rooms for the students, along with the furnace and coal room. By this time it was known as the Nairn Public School. By 1965, the school had once again become too small for the student population, so the facilities were again renovated with the addition of a third classroom in the basement, taking the place of the old boys' play area. This would soon change, however, as a new school was constructed and would open in 1966. With its attached gymnasium, the new school