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    A view of a rail tie sawmill at Peninsula Harbour in Marathon, Ontario. A company from Nipigon would arrive by train with their horses in time for the spring rafting season. They would set up their s

    A view of the rail tie sawmill at Penninsula Harbour, Marathon, Ontario. As part of an agreement with the Canadian Government and CPR, the mill had to do the de-watering process and provide logs for

    A sawmill worker would stand at the top of a jackladder and with his picaroon, pull off the larger logs and send them over to the saws. When they had reached their quota for the season, the sawmill w

    This is a black and white spring photo of the powerhouse for the Holcombe sawmill. The photo shows a one story stone building with a flat roof. Power lines are attached to the building and the water

    This is a black and white photo of the Thessalon Lumber Mill located in Nesterville, circa 1910. The mill is situated at the waters edge with the jack ladder extending down for easy loading of raw lu

    Notes accompanying this and other photos of this mill operation indicate the first mill was built in Nestorville about 1907-08 and the last mill burned down in 1927.