Bangor Sawmill

Mile 56.83 at Meteghan on the Yarmouth Subdivison

History

This sawmill was built by Joe Maillet the as a water powered sawmill in 1870 but soon purchased by the Parker Eakins Company of Yarmouth. It was usually known by the name of the manager who ran it for Parker Eakins so over the years the mill was variously called the Raymond, Hilton, Deming, Saulnier and Comeau Mill. A spur was constructed to the DAR mainline about 1890. Flatcars loaded with lumber were collected from the Meteghan Station for pick up by trains delivering them to Yarmouth for export. The mill sometimes economized by using Oxen to shunt loaded flatcars from the mill to the Station. The mill was eventually converted to diesel power but 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.

Footnotes and References

1931 Dominion Atlantic Railway Employee Time Table - June 21, 1931, p. 7

External Links

Bangor Sawmill Museum website