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    On Lache Pas / We Won’t Quit On March 19th, 2001 the Conseil catholique Franco-Nord school board held a public meeting in the Ste-Marie school gymnasium in Field to announce the school’s closure when classes ended in June of that year. It would be an understatement to say that the ...

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

    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.

    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

    Environmental abatement was carried out in 2004 at the Weyerhaeuser site. The mill site was cleaned up from June to December of 2004.

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

    Electrical panel

    Paper was weighed and stamped with this equipment (notice weigh scale) in the front of the photo.

    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.

    Main office laboratory

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

    Coal conveyor belt.

    Mill hauled away one load at the time from June to December of 2004.

    #2 generator in the powerhouse.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.