Four-storey tall digester
Description
- Creator
- Gervais, Hubert, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Types
- Photographs
- Photographs
- Description
- 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.
- Notes
- The first pulp and paper mill in Sturgeon Falls (1901-1902) was one of the earliest in Canada. It was built at the site of the present power house on the island in the Sturgeon River. Their two-machine newsprint mill had a capacity of about 23,000 tons of newsprint a year,(75 tons a day) between them.
- Date of Publication
- Jun 2004
- Dimensions
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Width: 6 in
Height: 4 in
- Subject(s)
- Corporate Name(s)
- Weyerhaeuser
- Collection
- Gervais, Hubert
- Language of Item
- English; French
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 46.36679 Longitude: -79.91636
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- Donor
- Gervais, Hubert
- Creative Commons licence
[more details]- Copyright Statement
- Protected by copyright: Uses other than research or private study require the permission of the rightsholder(s). Responsibility for obtaining permissions and for any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Copyright Holder
- Société historique de Nipissing Ouest
- Contact
- Société historique de Nipissing OuestEmail:pn_dp@wnpl.ca
Agency street/mail address:250 chemin Fort Road
Sturgeon Falls ON P2B 2N7
Tél.: 705-753-4716
Fax: 705-753-5476
