Sissiboo Pulp & Paper Co.

Located in Weymouth, the Sissiboo Pulp and Paper Company ran a short line connecting their pulp mill to the DAR from 1919 to 1928. The company began in 1894 as the Sissiboo Falls Paper Company with a mill located at Sissiboo Falls about 8 miles upriver from Weymouth. The company was purchased in 1899 by Charles Burrill of Weymouth who added a second mill at Weymouth Falls, 3 miles above Weymouth. Both mills were acquired in 1904 by G.D. Campbell of Weymouth and then by the British industrialist Frederick Becker of London, England in 1919. Becker had already purchased the Clyde River Pulp Company in Shelburne County and combined the two companies into the Sissiboo-Clyde Pulp and Paper Company. Becker built a 1 & 3/4 mile-long standard-gauge short line from the Weymouth Falls Mill to the DAR mainline in 1919. It operated a small fleet of 0-4-0 saddle tank Porter locomotives and in 1921 the company purchased the DAR's old 2-6-0 locomotive, No. 28. The mill had a capacity of 100 tons of ground pulp a day but averaged about 40 tons a day which was packed in bales and sent by rail from the Weymouth Mill to Digby where it was loaded was loaded on steamers. The company shut down in 1928. Its assets were sold the Mersey Paper Company who used the mill and woodlands, but do not appear to have operated the shortline.

Gallery

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  Sissiboo Pulp & Paper Co. locomotive No. 1 abandoned in Weymouth, circa 1937.

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  Sissiboo Pulp & Paper Co. locomotive No. 1 abandoned in Weymouth, with Sissiboo River in the background circa 1937.

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  Locomotive No. 28, the Dominion Atlantic's only 2-6-0 Mogul.

References

Ralph S. Johnson, The Forests of Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Dept. of Lands and Forests (1986), pages 115, 138-139.

External Links

Handbook of the Canadian Pulp and Paper Industry (1920) p. 100