Early Pine Falls Days in 1926 Reminiscences
Pine Falls residents recall the town's 1926 beginnings with Alex McIntosh in charge of clearing the mill site and blasting work. The log store expanded into a commissary and barber shop, while Don McCulloch ran the store post office. The first houses, tent living, and early professionals like Dr. Lansdowne outlined a tight, muddy frontier town through anecdotes of cribs, laundry, and the new hospital emerge.
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Alex McIntosh
Bill Plenderleith
Don McCulloch
Pine Falls
Espanola
John Dean
Pine Falls Paper Mills Birth of a Manitoban Industry
The Manitoba paper industry owes its start to J. D. McArthur who formed the first Manitoba Pulp and Paper Co in 1916. Pulpwood berths and a Pine Falls mill site near Fort Alexander were secured, with local Manitoba firms supplying materials. Construction began 1925, power and communications were established, and the town of Pine Falls grew around the Manitoba Paper Company site with a branch railway completed in 1926.
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Manitoba
J. D. McArthur
First
Manitoba Pulp and Paper Co. Ltd
Manitoba Paper Company Limited
Dominion
Toba
McArthur
Pine Falls
Saskatchewan
Canadian National Railways
Beaconia
Grand Beach
Carter-Hall-Aldinger Co
Winnipeg
Mantoba Power Company
Winnipeg Electric
Great Falls
Manitoba Paper Company
Mani
The
United Church
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By B. T. van Mallen
Miles Gallagher
Bill Martin
Harry Barnes
Charles Harbottle
Captan Watson
E. A. Frayne
W. Watt
L. P. Lansdowne
Leo Shanus
Mr. Shanus
Mah Yee
May Yee
H. J. Barnes
Harry
Alex Frisk
Jack Cumberland
Cook Shack
Mercantile
J. Souka
Phillip Laforte
Mr. McCullough
Jack Phillip
Phillip
Democrat
Jack
Pine Falls Paper Mills
Minister of Finance
Canada
Victory
Canada Savings
Vidler
New Canada Savings
Ember
Beak
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