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| Longlac Senior
Canadian List of Shipping 1956: Longlac Senior [C.190382] registered at Toronto; built at Owen Sound in 1948. 35'2 x 10'l x 4'3; 11 g.t.; 7 n.t.; 138 hp. Owned by Longlac Pulp & Paper Co. Ltd., Toronto. Canadian List of Shipping 1970: Steel tug Longlac Senior [C.190382] registered at Toronto. Built at Owen Sound in 1948. 35'; 11 g.t. Canadian List of Ships 1997: Owned by Kimberley-Clark of Canada Ltd., Terrace Bay, Ontario. Transport Canada List 2004: Registry closed September 15, 1999.
The decision to develop the town of Terrace Bay was first conceived in the early 1940's by the Longlac Pulp and Paper Company. The name was changed to Kimberly-Clark in 1958. 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, and full sized tugs Lacalong and Tugalong. |
OSMRM Collection. From Russel-Hipwell News Dec. 1949 Vol. 1 No. 2
Longlac Senior on left, Longlac Junior on the right.
Longlac Junior at left, probably Longlac Senior at right. Kimberly Clark operation at Terrace Bay, Ontario. Photos courtesy Dave Rutherford.
This has been identified as Longlac Senior by Rick Bryson. Sonny Dampier provided the image (Oct. 2019): "It comes from the Terrace Bay Mill Archived photos from the Mill monthly news letter. I found it on the Terrace Bay Library website which linked to ourontario.ca." EIGHT FOOT LOGS, transported yearly by water from Longlac to Terrace Bay, began to be taken from the Aguasabon River on May 7. A few hours prior to the wood being brought into the working boom area (lower left), where mechanically controlled chains remove logs from the water, the first step in transporting logs to the mill's woodroom, a wood handling crew makes final adjustments to a jet pump and three flow developers. This equipment directs wood to the hauling area. The tug can also be used as a flow developer although its primary jobs are tightening the working boom as logs move toward the hauling area and opening the working boom to allow a continuous but regulated flow of wood to the mill. From K-C News, Vol.1 No.2. http://images.ourontario.ca/TerraceBay/2334267/data
Rick Bryson sent this photo of the Senior being used a a flow developer, Terrace Bay. Rick comments (Oct. 14, 2019): "I ran the tug at Terrace Bay in the late 70's and early 80's. There were four crews, running 24/7. This photo and the one above it are almost at the same spot. No idea where the boats ended up or their hull numbers. The Senior was in rough shape by the time the haul stopped. Kay Cee on the other hand was very well maintained. Pretty sure it had been repowered a few years before the haul ended."
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Kimberly-Clark tug boat. From "50 Years of Committment Equals Success"...Nov. 12, 1998 commemorating fifty years of pulp production. Dave Rutherford Collection. Steve Briggs comments (July 9, 2018): "After searching for Longlac boats (Longlac Pulp & Paper Co. Ltd.) I found only two warping tugs, the Longlac Senior and Kay-Cee. The company also ran a 15' dozer boat named Longlac Junior, winch boats Alec, Glidalong, Grouse, Pigeon and Tauno, and full sized tugs Lacalong and Tugalong."
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