When the PSCR was taken over by Booth, the original intention was to have its terminus at Parry Sound. However, the high prices demanded by local landowners prompted him in 1895 to choose a location on nearby Parry Island, away. Early that year, Booth's surveyors trespassed on the Indian reserve to run lines from Rose Point Narrows to the site. Taking advantage of a provision of the "Indian Act" that allowed native-owned land to be expropriated for use as a railway, he pressured the Anishinaabe reserve to sell to the railway. A further was acquired by expropriation in 1899.