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    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

    Équipe de démolition de Restoration Environmental Contractors après la démolition du mouline Weyerhaeuser à Sturgeon Falls. / Restoration Environmental Contractors demolition crew after the demolition of the Weyerhaeuser mill in Sturgeon Falls.

    Coal conveyor belt.

    The last bale of OCC (old cardboard) was put on he conveyer at 11:38 a.m. November 30, 2002. L-R: George Guenette, Greg Carello, Ray Marcoux, Alan Gleave, Bob Shank, Dan Mageau, ?, Gaston Daoust, Guy Benoit(sitting on clamp truck), John Brown.

    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 2004 demolition process of the Weyerhaeuser mill started on the paint line building which once housed equipment to finish a successful siding line which was closed down in 1991. Transformers, transistors and other equipment was housed in the building which looks like a huge chimney jutting in the sky ...

    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.

    Main office laboratory

    "Wet-end" of paper machine at the Weyerhaeuser mill in Sturgeon Falls, ON.

    Barrage hydro-électrique sur la Rivière Sturgeon, Sturgeon Falls. / Hydro Dam on the Sturgeon River, Sturgeon Falls. In the early days of paper making, the Sturgeon River water provided energy to mechanically operate grinders and other equipment.

    #2 generator in the powerhouse.

    This image only shows part of a four-storey digester that cooked the pulp when the mill used wood. In the early days,the pulp was further treated before headin to the paper machines where it produced corrugating paper.

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

    Photo du bureau dans le moulin Weyerhaeuser à Sturgeon Falls avant sa démoliton en 2004. / Photograph of the Weyerhaeuser mill office in Sturgeon Falls before its demolition in 2004.

    Une des dernières photos prise du moulin Weyerhaeuser à Sturgeon Falls. / One of last photos taken of the Weyerhaeuser mill before it was demolished in 2004. This photo was taken before a six-month contract that took this mill down and proceeded with an environmental abatment. In 2011, there is ...

    In 1926, a machine tender earned $1.20 an hour, a coal handler was paid .44 cents an hour.

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

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

    Employees service the paper machines around the clock seven days a week.

    Electrical panel