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Byng Inlet

Byng Inlet Mill

Available Images: Full Size
Accession Number: JM114
Category: Lumbering; Byng Inlet
Description: To move the lumber from the mill to the stacks on the wharves, horses pulled wagons loaded with lumber on tramways. In this photograph, the horses are lined up, waiting for their carts to be loaded. The dressed wood was piled on the docks to dry for up to a year.
Date: 1905-1909
Source: Private collection of John Macfie
Physical Attributes: 16.4cm x 24cm; b/w photograph
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Keywords: lumber; mill; sawmill; logging; operations; saw; tramway; carts; horses; wagon; wood; cut; process; dress; finished; Byng Inlet; Georgian Bay; company; logs; plank; timber; business; industry; commerce; loads; piled; dock; shipping; exporting;
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