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      This former Louis Brun garage became one of several restaurants to serve tourists and local residents.

      Many Field area lumberjacks worked in the pine forests near this park.

      Loaded log sleds were slowed down when going down hill by using this cable and drum contraption. It was used in hilly country because of injury to lumberjacks and horses.

      Jammers were very easy to build as they only needed some cables and pulleys that were connected to logs they could cut on site. Two men could easily operate this very simple piece of equipment powered by a horse, or other equipment to pull the cable and lift the logs …

      Course d'automobiles au Carnaval de Field. Les courses et le Carnaval avaient lieu sur lac Clear. / The Field Carnival of 1991 featured car races. The car races and carnival were held on Clear Lake.

      This traveling threshing machine serviced farmers between the town of Cache Bay and Caldwell Township (Verner).

      When logs were floated to the Field mill, rivers like the Pike in Bastedo Township were dammed lift the level of water to drive their logs. This was the site of the Pike River dam which connected with the Sturgeon River.

      Autrefois ferme de Léo Lavigne, sur le chemin Larocque, dans le canton de Field. La grange a été construite en 1940, par Orphala Lavigne, père de Léo. / This barn and stable were part of the Leo Lavigne farm on Larocque St. in Field. The barn was built in 1940 …

      Voyageur Park, a planned outdoor ecology training center was short-lived. It was sold by municipal council when schools and municipalities who said they would attend did not show up. This photo was taken during the 1992 carnival.

      The Knights of Columbus of Field held a family annual summer fish derby on the Sturgeon River.

      There were many wayside crosses in the rural area of West Nipissing.

      Croix du chemin Laurin dans le canton Badgerow. / Wayside Cross on Laurin Road in Badgerow Township.

      The first settlers came to the area in 1893 building their homes on the shores of Deer Lake.

      Field is one of the few communities that still stages a winter carnival.

      De gauche à droite / From left to right: Victor Labelle, Dr. Nicol Patenaude, Normand Filion, Yves Rivest, Gérald Aubin, Polydor Rochefort, Georgette Rochefort, Mgr. Eugène Lacourcière, Paul Vézina.

      Le réseau ferroviaire transcanadien vient donc assurer la survie de la communauté. Des arpenteurs s’affairent aussitôt à jalonner le tracé. Également en 1912, Joseph Vézina déménage sa scierie à l’embouchure de la rivière Pike sur le côté nord de la rivière Sturgeon. / About the same time that surveyors were …

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      Dévidoir à boyau d'incendie de la scierie Mageau Lumber pour la protection contre le feu. / Field Township and Mageau Lumber organized a fire brigade including a water pump in case of fires either in the mill or in the community.