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| − | This sawmill was built by Joe Maillet the as a water powered sawmill in 1870 | + | This sawmill was built by Joe Maillet the as a water powered sawmill on the Meteghan River in 1870. It was soon purchased by the Parker Eakins Company of Yarmouth. The mill was usually known by the name of the manager who ran it for Parker Eakins, so over the years it mill was variously called the Raymond, Hilton, Deming, Saulnier and Comeau Mill. A 2,100 foot spur was constructed about 1890 to connect to the DAR mainline just east of the [[Meteghan Station]]. Flatcars loaded with lumber were loaded at the mill and moved to Meteghan Station for pick up by trains delivering them to [[Yarmouth]] for export. Mill operators sometimes economized by using oxen to shunt loaded flatcars from the mill to the Station. The mill shipped 20 to 30 carloads of lumber by rail in the 1960s. Eventually converting to diesel power, the mill kept the water turbine as a back-up power source making the mill one of the last working water powered mills in Eastern Canada. The mill closed in the 1980s but was restored and opened as a museum in 2001. |
==Gallery== | ==Gallery== | ||
Revision as of 20:28, 9 November 2013
Mile 56.83 at Meteghan on the Yarmouth Subdivison
History
This sawmill was built by Joe Maillet the as a water powered sawmill on the Meteghan River in 1870. It was soon purchased by the Parker Eakins Company of Yarmouth. The mill was usually known by the name of the manager who ran it for Parker Eakins, so over the years it mill was variously called the Raymond, Hilton, Deming, Saulnier and Comeau Mill. A 2,100 foot spur was constructed about 1890 to connect to the DAR mainline just east of the Meteghan Station. Flatcars loaded with lumber were loaded at the mill and moved to Meteghan Station for pick up by trains delivering them to Yarmouth for export. Mill operators sometimes economized by using oxen to shunt loaded flatcars from the mill to the Station. The mill shipped 20 to 30 carloads of lumber by rail in the 1960s. Eventually converting to diesel power, the mill kept the water turbine as a back-up power source making the mill one of the last working water powered mills in Eastern Canada. The mill closed in the 1980s but was restored and opened as a museum in 2001.
Gallery
Footnotes and References
1931 Dominion Atlantic Railway Employee Time Table - June 21, 1931, p. 7
1969 Memorandum of General Information Corporate Info, page 15
