by lcmuseum@shaw.ca | May 20, 2020 | History of Lake Country, Thomson, Duane
This is the third in a series of blogs exploring the logging history of Lake Country, this one focussing on transporting logs to the Munson and Simpson mill in Winfield in the 1927-9 period. Large logs were preferred because the end-use was to make knot-free Applebox...
by lcmuseum@shaw.ca | Apr 23, 2020 | History of Lake Country, Thomson, Duane
The donation of historic photographs by Pete Simpson to the Lake Country Museum has led me to examine the circumstances behind the building of a sawmill in Winfield in 1927. These photographs were of the Munson and Simpson mill located on the Beaver Lake Road. For...
