 Booth built both a town site and port, including waterfront freight sheds, a grain elevator, wharves, water towers, pumping stations, offices, a bunk house, hotel, over 100 company houses, a community centre, a school, and several churches.The 1901 census recorded 576 inhabitants in the village, plus 231 on the reservation.The railway accessed Depot Harbour by crossing South Channel between Parry Island and Rose Point on the Wasauksing Swing Bridge.