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    La première écorceuse de billots de la Scierie Field Lumber à l'embouchure de la rivière Pike à Field. / The first Field Lumber log debarker at the mouth of Pike River in Field.

    Scierie volante de Charles French près du barrage de la rivière Pike à Field. / Charles French portable sawmill near the Pike River dam in Field.

    Reconstruction de la scierie Mageau Lumber à Field après l’incendie du 9 octobre 1922. Le moulin fut complètement rasé plus tard par l’incendie du 11 mai 1929. / Reconstruction of Mageau Lumber in Fi

    Reconstruction de la scierie Mageau Lumber après l’incendie de 1929, Field, ON. / Reconstruction of Mageau Lumber after the 1929 fire, Field, ON.

    Scierie Mageau Lumber, reconstruite en 1929, devenue par la suite Field Lumber. / Mageau Lumber’s sawmill, rebuilt in 1929, later became Field Lumber.

    These images were scanned in 1995 for the book Verner: Cent ans d’histoire à raconteur written by Gérald Beaudry, Paulette Bélanger, Claude Goulet, Rita Olivier, Michel Sylvestre and Marcelin Tellier

    Le moulin, Sturgeon Falls / The mill, Sturgeon Falls

    Reproduction d'une photo / Reproduction of a photo

    Document original / Original Document

    Photo original / Original picture

    Reproduction d'une photo / Reproduction of a photo

    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.

    The contractors removed asbestos, lead, mould, and fungus in addition to the environmental cleaning of the site. Much of the piping, pumps and other equipment was sold to other companies.

    Shortly after the Canadian Pacific Railway pushed its way to Sturgeon Falls in 1882, investors began considering the building of a mill on the Sturgeon River where hydro could generated.

    Photo de groupe des travailleurs du moulin Abitibi, Sturgeon Falls / Group Photo of the Abitibi Mill Workers, Sturgeon Falls

    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

    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.

    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.

    The tornado caused over $249,000 in damage to many houses in the village of Field. There was also a death caused by the tornado.