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    The river provided cheap transportation until the 1960s when they were hauled by trucks.

    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.

    Note the houses on Larocque St. on the crest of a hill (left top of forest). This photo is near the Sturgeon River. The white building with a blue roof is the three wood dryers.

    ...Scierie Field Lumber, usine de rabotage et cour à bois...

    Field Lumber also used horses that hauled flat cars that were on a rail system in the yard.

    Waste wood and shavings were fed into a furnace that produced steam to drive an electric generator that powered the saws and other equipment at nearly no cost.

    mbre des chaudières à vapeur de la scierie Field Lumber. / René Larocque in the Field Lumber steam boiler chamber....

    Field Township officials visit Field Lumber.

    ...Poinçon de la scierie Field Lumber sur une grume qui a été dans la rivière pendant au moins 75 ans. / Field Lumber brand on the butt of a boom log which had been in water for 75 years....

    ...Déchiqueteur de la scierie Field Lumber. / Field Lumber's chipper....

    Bâtisse sur le bord de la rivière Pike abritant une pompe actionnée à la vapeur servant à la protection de la cour à bois de Field Lumber de 1943 à 1960. / Field Lumber installed a steam driven fire

    The three Field Lumber kilns dried their lumber quickly. When they could send their wood early to the market place, they would reap the benefits.

    Steam-powered Field Lumber closes down each winter and men go into the bush to cut logs for the coming season.

    ...L'atelier d'affûtage de la scierie Field Lumber. / The Filing Room at Field Lumber....

    From 1994 to 1998 the failing Field Lumber mill was mostly stopped in a bankruptcy. In 1998, it all ended with a spectacular fire which was followed by scavengers who came in daily to pick up metal a

    ...Zotique Mageau, fondateur de la scierie Field Lumber. / Zotique Mageau was the founder of Field Lumber....

    ...Nous croyons que c’est la scierie Field Lumber construite sur le site actuel en 1917 et qui a brûlé le 9 octobre 1922. / This photo is believed to be the actual first mill, Field Lumber that was built in 1917 and was destroyed

    Ottawa lumber baron J.R. Booth built this dam on Pike River which connects directly to the Sturgeon River. It was at this intersection that the Mageau and Field Lumber companies located their operati

    This particular cut in Fell Township in Crystal Falls was also called Mageau and Field Lumber. Fell had very large trees that could be five feet at the butt, towering 120 feet high.

    This ox-bow became known as Lac Boisvenue because it was located near the Boisvenue farm and operations.