Rail Tie Sawmill - Peninsula Harbour
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- A sawmill worker would stand at the top of a jackladder and with his picaroon, pull off the larger logs and send them over to the saws. When they had reached their quota for the season, the sawmill was shut down until the next year. Apparently the paper mill was compensated for these logs. Later years, the horses were replaced by tractors. On one occasion, a sawmill worker was killed standing on a rail-less jackladder.
- Date of Original
- 1945-53
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- M&DHS: 6c
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 48.733888 Longitude: -86.406388
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- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Contact
- Marathon District Museum & Historical SocietyEmail:marathonmuseum@gmail.com
Website:
Agency street/mail address:25 Stevens Avenue
Marathon, Ontario
P0T 2E0
