Forestry

Normand Lacroix wants to say his company Industries LacWood is very busy, but he doesn’t want too many people to know it.

A black and white aerial photo in Rod McKay's office at Kenora Forest Products taken in the mid-1920s show stacks of lumber piled so high in the yard that workers scaled catwalks to cross over them.

Conrad Tom has a versatile and complicated job Officially, he's listed as an Aboriginal Liaison for Miisun Integrated Resource Management, but he has one core function: building trust.

The forest industry played an instrumental role in the making of Hearst. For more than 90 years, families from across Ontario and Quebec made their way to the small northeastern community of 5,800 and contributed to its rich history.

There is new optimism in Marathon following the creation of the Nawiinginokiima Forest Management Corporation, the first pilot project to be established under the province's overhauled forest tenure system.

Call it a fortuitous Google search for Thunder Bay. An Internet hunt for white birchwood, which led a British Columbia ice cream stick manufacturer to northwestern Ontario, has led to a factory that is now open for business.

If an idled Weyerhaeuser oriented strandboard mill (OSB) in Wawa ever resumes production again, it will be under new ownership.

One of Canada's last great company towns will not go down without a fight, said its sawmill general manager.

To Mayor Lee Kennard, Ignace will always be a forestry town in his heart. Logging has been the historic economic staple of this northwestern Ontario community of 1,400 since the late 1800s.

One of Canada's last great company towns will not go down without a fight, said its sawmill general manager.