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    The Kipling Baptist Church in Hugel Township. The Kipling Church is quite active. Kipling, is north of the village of Verner.

    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 Weyerhaeuser closed down its mill in the early 2000s.

    The Weyerhaeuser mill, located on Cache Bay Road in Sturgeon Falls, had its own water tower to generate water pressure for fire protection purposes. This water tower, along with the entire mill, were removed in 2004

    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 company installed the truck dumper, approximately 150,000 square feet of yard was ...

    The Abitibi mill, closed during the 1930s and only reopened in 1946. The numbered sections of the yard identifies the different parts of the mill.

    The Smith offices and residence in Field

    La Scierie Vézina etait située sur la rue Desjardins, environ 300 m en amont du pont actuel. / The first Vezina mill was built about 300 metres from today's bridge crossing the Sturgeon River.

    L’usine de rabotage Une usine de rabotage (planing mill) est construite en 1918 environ, près de la voie ferrée du Canadian Northern Railway, à quelque 200 mètres au nord de la rivière Pike. Dans la bâtisse mesurant 60 par 72 pieds, il y a une raboteuse, une scie à ruban ...

    Magasin Lamarre devenu le magasin Field Lumber en 1914. Le magasin Field Lumber était géré par Ubald Lamarre. / The Lamarre Grocery Store became the Field Lumber Store in 1914. The Field Lumber store was managed by former owner Ubald Lamarre.

    Silver Lake had both a dam to control its water and wooden slides to send logs over very difficult routes full of rocks. Lumberjacks came to know when the water was at its highest before sending their sticks down river.Logs cut in Pardo Township were sent via Lake Silver until ...

    Chantier Field Lumber Août-Sep. 1948

    Gare Canadien Nationale, et scierie Field Lumber vus de la rue Jarbeau à Field / View of the Field Lumber mill and the Canadian National Railway station.

    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.

    The plot plan points out emergency entrances to keep contractors and visitors safe while visiting the site. This illustration is very interesting as it captures the location of many buildings that were owned and operated by companies since the early 1900s which includes: Abitibi, McMillan Bloedel and Weyerhaueser.

    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.

    Photo du bureau principal du moulin Weyerhaeuser vers l'est. / Photograph of the Weyerhaeuser main office and part of the mill facing east.

    Heavy construction equipment is knocking the Weyerhaeuser buildings. Weyerhaeuser was the last mill in a string of different owners since the turn of the last century on a site known as Abitibi along the Sturgeon River.

    Filling in the mill site with new earth. When the Weyerhaeuser mill was dismantled and taken away, trucks were kept busy restoring the earth to Ministry of the Environment standards...

    Mill hauled away one load at the time from June to December of 2004.

    La cheminée du moulin Weyerhaeuser à Sturgeon Falls était la dernière structure de l'usine qui à été démoli. / The Sturgeon Falls Weyerhaeuser chimney was the last of the mill to go. Winter was moving into Northern Ontario when contractors started to demolish the chimney at the Weyerhaeuser. When this ...