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WrecksdaleWreck • 11 years ago
Schroeder Mills & Timber Co. contracted the sawmilling to Lauder, Spears and Howland. Lauder and Spears previously owned a sawmill at Wilberforce and L.B. Howland former manager of the IB&O insisted on building a railway from Pakesley to the new mill at Lost Channel.
The CPR railway between Sudbury and Bala was opened to traffic in June 1908 and 11 months earlier between there and Bolton.
In the above narration it states the railway came to Byng Inlet in 1912 which is not the case. The CPR began operation in 1908. The CPR's resident engineer during construction, A. J. Isbester married the daughter of the mill manager J. T. Emery. Isbester later purchased Bigwood's tugboat, Julien V. O'Brien for use in marine construction at Thunder Bay.
Financial reorganization of the Holland & Emery included support from Nelson Holland's cousin L. P. Graves, manager of the firm's lumber yard at Black Rock, N.Y. along with Temple Emery's son-in-law Wm. Bigwood and nephew (millwright) James Thissel Emery.
Holland & Emery had purchased the Page mill and also dismantled the mill at East Tawas and relocated it to Byng Inlet. In 1899 Temple Emery came upon finacial hard times after paying for logs that were not delivered. The Page mill was resold in 1899 and the company was reorganized in 1900 with financial assistance from people within the firm.
Merrill and Ring resold the Wahnapitae timber berths to Holland & Emery of East Tawas, a firm that had been towing logs to Michigan from that area since 1885. The Dingley Act of 1897 increased the duty on lumber imported from Canada, but reduced the duty on logs. After Ontario banned the export of uncut sawlogs, Holland & Emery relocated to Byng Inlet.
With the loss of the Anson mill in 1891, Dodge & Co. sold a associated timber berth on the Wahnapitae River to Saginaw lumbermen Merrill and Ring. Their intention was to tow the logs to the Michigan side for sawing, tariff laws of the time made it cheaper to process the logs in Ontario, so they purchased the Page mill in 1892.
kev7716 • 11 years ago
I remember this place i use to go camping at a park just up the road called Grundy Lake.
NikiFM • 11 years ago
Passed this on a roadtrip yesterday...and also tried to close a few doors...don't want it deteriorating any quicker than it has to :)
ground state • 11 years ago
You definitely took a somewhat 'low key' location and elevated it with some creative and interesting shots! Loved the perspective in many of these.
mike6639 • 11 years ago
As Tim says in the description, this isn't an abandoned location anymore.....but a very cool place to see. The Midlothian Castle was built out of a 19th-century derelict farmhouse.
timo explorer • 11 years ago
Went past this station a few days ago. Looks very much in the same condition as your 2008 photos, maybe with a few more broken windows. There is an active house across the road keeping an eye on things.
crb705 • 11 years ago
They are all torn down and piled into a nice tidy pile of concrete. I was very dissapointed when we finally came accross it. I asked at the museum in Perry Sound when we were there and the girl there confirmed that what we found was the avro testing buildings
quiksilver • 11 years ago
pretty awesome that you found the family history like that. Really cool read.
Wonderful history of the occupants, well done.