Algoma Customs and Smelting Company,Thessalon, Ontario, 1908
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- Item Type
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- Description
- This is a black and white photo of the Algoma Customs and Smelting Company, Thessalon, Ont. 1908. The building complex is situated by the water with piles of lumber stacked between the foreground complex and some other buildings in the background.
- Notes
- "Algoma Customs and Smelting company - 1908, It was situated near the lakeshore in a small bay where Smelter Bay Aggregate's were located in 1991.
A test run of ore was brought in for processing but the smelter was poorly designed and it did not produce the required product and the project failed.
In 1919 negotiations with Firstbrook Brothers and the Town were undertaken to open a box factory using the smelter buildings. The box factory closed in the early 1930's.
In 1934 some of the buildings were sold to the town and one building was sold at low cost to the Thesalon Curling club to build a rink."
- Inscriptions
- "Smelter, Thessalon, Ont. 1908"
- Date of Original
- 1908
- Dimensions
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Width: 10 in
Height: 7.75 in
- Subject(s)
- Collection
- Local history
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 46.25006 Longitude: -83.5666
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- Creative Commons licence
[more details]- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian law. No restrictions on use.
- Contact
- Thessalon Union Public LibraryEmail:thessalonlib@thessalonlibrary.ca
Website:
Agency street/mail address:187 Main St. Box 549
Thessalon, ON P0R 1L0
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