Narration and Selected Stills from the Video
Logging by Rail in Algonquin Park
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Fassett, Quebec, was a thriving town of 1,500 people
when the company decided to relocate. |
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In Ontario, near North Bay, a local lumberman Bill Foster
(shown on the left) established a small operation called "Foster's Mill"
about 40 kilometres south east of North Bay on the Canadian National Railroad's
Algonquin Route. |
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The Fassett Lumber Corporation, now under the leadership
of Vice President and Managing Director Sidney J. Staniforth purchased
the site and called it "Fossmill". By August 1924 Fossmill was a hive of
activity as the, railway, mill, boarding house, company store, office and
town site were established. |
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Mill equipment and railway rolling stock were moved from
Fassett to Fossmill. With the Quebec mill closed many employees reluctantly
relocated to this isolated Wasi River valley. |
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