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

      The spill dams on the Sturgeon River were built in 1923-24 with a continuous pour of 5,399 cubic yards of concrete in 10 hour shifts. The municipality of West Nipissing bought the hydro dams when Weyerhaeuser closed down its mill in the early 2000s.

      At 2:45 p.m. November 30th, 2002, the last roll of corrugating med came off the paper machine.

      According to Abitibi records, in May 1950, two 60,000 lb./hr. 300 PSI (pounds per square inch) pieces of equipment were installed. In the same period, a new 50-ton per hour coal handling system was put into operation.

      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.

      The jammer was a series of cables and poles that helped lumberjacks load heavy logs with only one horse. The original jammers were easy to make in the bush.

      Ce sont les pompiers de Field qui organisaient les parades du Père Noël. / Field Township volunteer firemen have been organizing parades.

      Photo de groupe des travailleurs du moulin Abitibi, Sturgeon Falls / Group Photo of the Abitibi Mill Workers, Sturgeon Falls

      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

      The Abitibi company widened this chasm in the Sturgeon River to let the annual spring freshet waters of the river flow to Lake Nipissing following the ravaging 1979. The widening of the Sturgeon River rock-cut under the Canadian Pacific Railway bridge lessened yearly flood conditions for the Abitibi mill.

      The flow in the Sturgeon River during its height on May 1, 1979 was recorded by Ontario as being the maximum flow ever in the river which means it was a one in 300 year flood which destroyed the Field village and took away the Crystal Falls bridge.

      Jacques St. Louis of Sturgeon stands by a new company product that never made it to the market place.

      An 18-wheel wood chip truck dumps its load in the wood yard of the MacMillan Bloedel in Sturgeon Falls. The mill capacity in 1999 was 250 tons of corrugating medium a day. At the same time as the company installed the truck dumper, approximately 150,000 square feet of yard was …

      While the photograph appears to show a complex process, most other paper mills use computers, sensors and high end equipment.

      By 1966, Abitibi invested $3 million to increase production of the corrugating mill. At that time, the company had 750 employees with a $3.6 million payroll.

      After being in receivership from 1930, the Abitibi Power & Paper Company re-started up its mill in 1946. Construction for the new particle board mill started in September of 1955 and was completed early spring 1956. Notice how low the Sturgeon River level of water was at the bottom of …

      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 …

      Maison abandonnée à Kipling. / Abandoned house in Kipling.

      This dam, one of many in the Sturgeon River watershed, was important at Cedar Lake in Thistle Township.