Blind River Mill, Aerial, Circa 1930
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- The Blind River Mill was sold by J.J McFadden to Carpenter-Hixon out of Minnesota in 1926. Carpenter-Hixon invested $3.5 million dollars and turned it into the largest white pine mill in the world and the largest mill in Canada east of the Rockies. At its peak it boasted a staff of 625 people and in the winter of 1929/30 there were 2700 men in the winter lumber camps along with 900 horses. They harvested
1,120,000 logs that winter.
- Date of Original
- Circa 1930
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- 2088
- Collection
- Sellers Collection
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 46.18336 Longitude: -82.95817
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- Copyright Statement
- Protected by copyright: Uses other than research or private study require the permission of the rightsholder(s). Responsibility for obtaining permissions and for any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Contact
- Timber Village MuseumEmail:museum@blindriver.ca
Website:
Agency street/mail address:180 Leacock St. P.O. Box 628
Blind River, ON P0R 1B0
