Russel Brothers Limited OWEN SOUND, ONTARIO Steelcraft Boat Builders
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Canadian List of Shipping 1956: Lacalong [C.171067] registered at Port Arthur; built at Owen Sound in 1939. 47'5 x 12'7 x 5'7; 22 g.t.; 12 n.t.; 99 hp. Owned by Long Lac Pulp & Paper Co. Ltd., Toronto. Canadian List of Shipping 1970: Steel tug Lacalong [C.171067] registered at Port Arthur, Ontario. Built at Owen Sound in 1939. 48'; 22 g.t. Owned by Kimberly - Clark Pulp & Paper Co. Ltd. Bill Breaker Notes: Lacalong [C.171067] registered at Port Arthur; built at Owen Sound in 1939. 50' x 12'7 x 5'7; 22 g.t.; 12 n.t.; 99 bhp. Owned by Pulpwood Supply Co. Ltd., Longlac, Ontario. Owned in 1966 by Kimberley Clark Pulp & Paper Co, Ltd. Owned in 1980 by Canadian International Paper Co. Ltd. Owned 1983 - 1988 by C.I.P. Inc., Montreal. Owned in 1992 by Canadian Pacific Forest Products, Montreal. Registry changed from Port Arthur to Thunder Bay. Canadian List of Ships 1997: Owned by J. A. White and Assoc. Ltd., Ottawa, Ontario. Transport Canada List 2003: Owned by J. A. White and Assoc. Ltd., Ottawa, Ontario. Details for registered vessel LACALONG (O.N. 171067)
Date of suspension: 2004-01-20. Currently (2019) owned by Dan McKay of Sault Ste. Marie.
Longlac Pulp & Paper Co. Ltd. eventually was purchased by Kimberly-Clark Ltd. By 2007, Buchanan owned the Mill in Longlac and therefore owned Pigeon and Glidalong. The mill shop was right beside the Russel Winchboat Pigeon and about two hundred feet from the Glidalong. Longlac boats included a 15' dozer boat named Longlac Junior, winch boats Alec, Glidalong, Grouse, Pigeon and Tauno, apparently only one warping tug Longlac Senior, and full sized tugs Lacalong and Tugalong.
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Top going on in Longlac. 1939.  |
Lacalong in Longlac. Don Loponen's mother on the bow c. 1939. "In 1939, the Company (Kimberly-Clark Forest Products Inc.) employed the Lacalong to row rafts to the south end of Long Lake. The booms opened so that the prevailing wind and current could carry the logs the last 9 miles before the control dam. The Lacalong averaged 3,500 cords per raft. In 1940, a new tug named Tugalong, averaged 4,000 cords." Kenogami Packet, 1995.  |
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Lacalong and a winchboat behind it. Longlac.
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A 50 footer hull just off the rails in Longlac Ontario...
Lacalong (1939) or Tugalong (1940)? Photo from Don Loponen
Lacalong and Tugalong, Longlac, Ont., photo courtesy Don Loponen. Longlac, 1970's maybe. You'll notice the houseboat pulled up on the shore. That was a scow with a bunkhouse on it for the "sweep" crew who worked their way along the shoreline down the lake every summer gathering up stray logs. The logs piled in the background was the stockpile for the slasher. Saw logs went to the sawmill and the rest went into the lake.
Dan McKay notes (April 6, 2008): The tug boat "Lacalong" built in 1939 by Russel Brothers, 47ft, powered by CAT D343 turbo @ aprox 375hp, Jan. 15, 2008, Lac Ste Marie, Quebec, on the Gatineau river. I purchased it about a month ago and plan on moving it to Sault Ste Marie in about a year, it will be heavily modified for racing purposes,and painted yellow...The Lacalong is a sister ship to the Decelles.
Jan. 31, 2009: More Lacalong photos from Dan McKay, the leftmost from 1993,
the rest from the summer of 2008 at Lac Ste Marie, Quebec, on the Gatineau river.
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Lacalong photos courtesy The Great Tug Race (most likely taken by Dan McKay). Dan comments (June 5, 2018): "Lacalong at government dock, Lac St Marie, Quebec, 2009 or so".
Lacalong hull, fall 2016, photo courtesy Dan McKay.
Matthew Carlson comments (Sept. 1, 2019): "The hull has been completely rebuilt...I know the tugs are not there for scrap, only storage. Purvis rents space to certain people for storage of boats. Lacalong is the black hull to the left. It has been completely rebuilt and just needs a bowthruster installed and cabin to be bolted back on the hull and finished inside." A sad sight, the NORGOMA, awaits her fate at the Purvis scrap yard, Aug 26, 2019. KAM in centre. Photo by Fred Miller II.
Lacalong hull in the Purvis yard. Sault Ste. Marie, ON, photo courtesy Isaac Pennock, Dec. 13, 2019. Dan McKay says the cabin is in his driveway.
For more Russel exhibits visit Owen Sound Marine & Rail Museum 1165 1st Ave West, Owen Sound, ON N4K 4K8
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