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      Photo du bureau dans le moulin Weyerhaeuser à Sturgeon Falls avant sa démoliton en 2004. / Photograph of the Weyerhaeuser mill office in Sturgeon Falls before its demolition in 2004.

      The first pulp and paper mill in Sturgeon Falls (1901-1902) was one of the earliest in Canada. It was built at the site of the present power house on the island in the Sturgeon River. Their two-machine newsprint mill had a capacity of about 23,000 tons of newsprint a year,(75 …

      The Weyerhaeuser mill, located on Cache Bay Road in Sturgeon Falls, had its own water tower to generate water pressure for fire protection purposes. This water tower, along with the entire mill, were removed in 2004

      Ottawa area lumber magnate J.R. Booth also used the Sturgeon River to send his annual timber cuts to his mills. This trek could last up to two years. He worked in the area doing the first cut of pine in the Sturgeon River basin.

      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 du bureau principal du moulin Weyerhaeuser vers l'est. / Photograph of the Weyerhaeuser main office and part of the mill facing east.

      Heavy construction equipment is knocking the Weyerhaeuser buildings. Weyerhaeuser was the last mill in a string of different owners since the turn of the last century on a site known as Abitibi along the Sturgeon River.

      Filling in the mill site with new earth. When the Weyerhaeuser mill was dismantled and taken away, trucks were kept busy restoring the earth to Ministry of the Environment standards.

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

      La cheminée du moulin Weyerhaeuser à Sturgeon Falls était la dernière structure de l'usine qui à été démoli. / The Sturgeon Falls Weyerhaeuser chimney was the last of the mill to go. Winter was moving into Northern Ontario when contractors started to demolish the chimney at the Weyerhaeuser. When this …

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

      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.

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

      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.

      Photograph of the Weyerhaeuser Mill warehouse in Sturgeon Falls before it was demolished in 2004. / Photo de l'entrepôt du moulin Weyerhaeuser à Sturgeon Falls avant sa démolition en 2004.

      Photograph of the Weyerhaeuser Mill taken in Sturgeon Falls in 2004 before its demolition. / Photo du moulin Weyerhaeuser prise à Sturgeon Falls en 2004 avant sa démolition.

      Une des dernières photos prise du moulin Weyerhaeuser à Sturgeon Falls. / One of last photos taken of the Weyerhaeuser mill before it was demolished in 2004. This photo was taken before a six-month contract that took this mill down and proceeded with an environmental abatment. In 2011, there is …

      The vertical pipes are part of the former Abitibi hardboard press which closed down some years ago.

      #2 generator in the powerhouse.

      Barrage hydro-électrique sur la Rivière Sturgeon, Sturgeon Falls. / Hydro Dam on the Sturgeon River, Sturgeon Falls. In the early days of paper making, the Sturgeon River water provided energy to mechanically operate grinders and other equipment.