Moulins de Nipissing Ouest / Mills of West Nipissing

    Each roll of corrugating medium had to be re-rolled and flipped ends before being processed

    While the photograph appears to show a complex process, most other paper mills use computers, sensors and high end equipment.

    By 1966, Abitibi invested $3 million to increase production of the corrugating mill. At that time, the company had 750 employees with a $3.6 million payroll.

    After being in receivership from 1930, the Abitibi Power & Paper Company re-started up its mill in 1946. Construction for the new particle board mill started in September of 1955 and was completed ea

    This dam, one of many in the Sturgeon River watershed, was important at Cedar Lake in Thistle Township.

    Many Field area lumberjacks worked in the pine forests near this park.

    Loaded log sleds were slowed down when going down hill by using this cable and drum contraption. It was used in hilly country because of injury to lumberjacks and horses.

    Jammers were very easy to build as they only needed some cables and pulleys that were connected to logs they could cut on site. Two men could easily operate this very simple piece of equipment powere

    When logs were floated to the Field mill, rivers like the Pike in Bastedo Township were dammed lift the level of water to drive their logs. This was the site of the Pike River dam which connected wit

    Reproduction d'une photo / Reproduction of a photo Les colons ont commencé à défricher la terre des deux côtés de la rivière Sturgeon, autour de 1890: à l'ouest du ruisseau Cache Bay, à l'est de la r

    Reproduction of a photo. De gauche à droite: M. Brawn (graphiste), Edmond Roy, (technicien de laboratoire), inconnu, inconnu. From left to right: M. Brawn (graphic designer), Edmond Roy (laboratory t

    Reproduction d'une photo / Reproduction of a photo

    Reproduction d'une photo / Reproduction of a photo

    Dévidoir à boyau d'incendie de la scierie Mageau Lumber pour la protection contre le feu. / Field Township and Mageau Lumber organized a fire brigade including a water pump in case of fires either in

    Both the mill and the railway were mandatory for the success of the community of Field over 75 years.

    The river provided cheap transportation until the 1960s when they were hauled by trucks.

    Field Lumber harvested very large white pine in the Sturgeon River basin. The Canadian National Railway ran a spur line into the Field Lumber yard.

    Note the houses on Larocque St. on the crest of a hill (left top of forest). This photo is near the Sturgeon River. The white building with a blue roof is the three wood dryers.

    Scierie Field Lumber, usine de rabotage et cour à bois. / The Field Lumber planer, mill and yard.

    Field Lumber also used horses that hauled flat cars that were on a rail system in the yard.