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Memories Of Allen Wood Products

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In 1912 Mickle & Dyment, one of Ontario's largest lumber firms, built a new steam-powered sawmill on the south shore of Cameron Lake, near the mouth of the Fenelon River. By the late 1920s, the river drives were coming to an end with the advent of trucks. In 1928, about the same time that the last drive made its way down from Haliburton, George R. Allen purchased the old sawmill. Allen Wood Products soon became one of Canada's leading manufacturers of wooden toys, as the other parts of the business fell by the wayside.

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Memories Of Allen Wood Products

This story is part of our partnership with Maryboro Lodge The Fenelon Falls Museum and was written by Glenn Walker. With Bob Allen, Steve Allen, Peter Graham, Julie Mcginnis, James Mullen, Cecil Young, Don Young, Ivan Carpenter, Jim Webster and Jim Taggart. KAWARTHA LAKES-In the nineteenth century as European immigrants settled in the Kawarthas, most families were farmers, but the largest businesses were harvesting and exporting the virgin pines…

3 months ago·Kawartha Lakes, Canada
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