Moulins de Nipissing Ouest / Mills of West Nipissing

    Shortly after the Canadian Pacific Railway pushed its way to Sturgeon Falls in 1882, investors began considering the building of a mill on the Sturgeon River where hydro could generated.

    Photo prise en 2004 durant la démoliton du moulin Weyerhaeuser à Sturgeon Falls. / Photograph taken in 2004 during the demolition of the Weyerhaeuser Mill in Sturgeon Falls.

    The vertical pipes are part of the former Abitibi hardboard press which closed down some years ago.

    The spill dams on the Sturgeon River were built in 1923-24 with a continuous pour of 5,399 cubic yards of concrete in 10 hour shifts. The municipality of West Nipissing bought the hydro dams when Wey

    At 2:45 p.m. November 30th, 2002, the last roll of corrugating med came off the paper machine.

    According to Abitibi records, in May 1950, two 60,000 lb./hr. 300 PSI (pounds per square inch) pieces of equipment were installed. In the same period, a new 50-ton per hour coal handling system was p

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    Copie tirée d'un négatif sur verre / Copy of a glass negative

    Copie tirée d'un négatif sur verre / Copy from a glass negative.

    The jammer was a series of cables and poles that helped lumberjacks load heavy logs with only one horse. The original jammers were easy to make in the bush.

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    Photo original / Original picture

    Photo de groupe des travailleurs du moulin Abitibi, Sturgeon Falls / Group Photo of the Abitibi Mill Workers, Sturgeon Falls

    The flow in the Sturgeon River during its height on May 1, 1979 was recorded by Ontario as being the maximum flow ever in the river which means it was a one in 300 year flood which destroyed the Fiel

    Jacques St. Louis of Sturgeon stands by a new company product that never made it to the market place.

    An 18-wheel wood chip truck dumps its load in the wood yard of the MacMillan Bloedel in Sturgeon Falls. The mill capacity in 1999 was 250 tons of corrugating medium a day. At the same time as the com