1951 log jam on the Sturgeon River at the Abitibi mill
Description
- Creators
- McNeill, John, Photographer
- Gervais, Hubert, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- 1951 log jam on the Sturgeon River at the Abitibi mill. The log jam was the J.B. Smith Co. Ltd. logs. The river discharge at that time was 20,500 cu. ft. per second.
- Notes
- This photo was taken above the Abitibi dams. Once the logs were released they floated down the Sturgeon River where they were boomed up in Lake Nipissing. Tugs towed the logs to the J.B.Smith mill in Calendar.
- Date of Original
- 14 April 1951
- Dimensions
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Width: 10 in
Height: 8 in
- Subject(s)
- Corporate Name(s)
- Abitibi
- Collection
- Gervais, Hubert
- Language of Item
- English; French
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 46.3692774579363 Longitude: -79.9346419366455
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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
- La 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
