Russel Brothers Limited OWEN SOUND, ONTARIO Steelcraft Boat Builders
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Canadian List of Shipping 1956: Tauno [C.190386] registered at Toronto; built at Owen Sound in 1949. 27'2 x 7'5 x 2�9; 4 g.t.; 3 n.t.; 40 hp. Owned by Long Lac Pulp & Paper Co. Ltd., Toronto. Canadian List of Shipping 1970: Steel tug Tauno [C.190386] registered at Toronto. Built at Owen Sound in 1949. 27�; 4 g.t. Canadian List of Ships 1997: Owned by Kimberly-Clark of Canada Ltd., Terrace Bay, Ontario. John Sperrino Notes: Tauno was named for Tauno Laponen. It was Russel hull 799. Kimberley-Clark company number 240. RBF Notes: On display in Longlac, ON 2003. GAO Notes. See clipping file for pics.
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. |
| 1989 Summerfest clipping supplied by Marcel Beaudoin
June 27, 2012. Compliments of Colette.
The good ship Tauno: David Chapman (left) and James McPherson stand on the Gator boat Tauno. McPherson said about 150 people had rides on Long Lake.
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Summerfest Celebration and the 200th Anniversary of Longlac -
July 1, 2000
The Town of Longlac will be holding its unveiling ceremony of the Forestry Tableau at the Tourism Information Centre. The Forestry Tableau consists of a mural of 4 panels each representing one century of forest contribution, a horse log haul display as well as an original tugboat which was used to transport logs down Long Lake.
Funded by the Canada Millennium Partnership Program, The Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation (the tugboat), the Town of Longlac, Kimberly-Clark Forest Products Inc. and Longlac Wood Industries Inc.
RBF notes: Tauno, on display in Longlac, July 13th, 2003.
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RBF notes: Tauno, Longlac, April 25th, 2006.
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Tauno on display, Visitor Centre, Longlac ON, April 23rd, 2007. (Beside Tugalong).
RBF notes: Tugalong and Tauno are getting pretty beat up here in Longlac, seems the
local youths
don't appreciate their history and are just interested in
breaking windows and doors. 
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Tauno September 9, 2011 - Longlac Ontario Canada. Gerald (Wayne) Prout via flickr. Tauno - Russel Hull 799 - Russel Brothers Steelcraft Winch Boat - Long Lac Pulp and Paper - Longlac Ontario Canada
Along the Trans- Canada Highway 11 in a Northern Ontario community of Longlac Visitors Centre Park is a steel tug called Tauno a Russel Brothers Steelcraft Winch Boat that was built in Owen Sound by Russel Brothers Ltd for Long Lac Pulp and Paper in 1949 and retired by Kimberly-Clark Pulp and Paper in 1999.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/73683441@N07/14423178988/in/photostream/
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Tauno in Longlac ON. Photo by Vivienne Loponen August 7, 2012. Somebody forgot to paint on the boat name after they repainted the boat! |
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Name restored! I had requested to get my grandfather's name re-painted. Photo and comment by Jessi Loponen June 19, 2013. |
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Photo by Jessi Loponen June 27, 2013. |
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Google Earth shot saved by Don Loponen Feb. 2017
Don notes: This gator is on display in Longlac as well. It is now named the Tauno after my father. Having grown up in Longlac from the 1920's on he would know the lake like the back of his hand. When the tugs first arrived he would operate them first for Pulpwood Supply and then Kimberly Clark. Later he became the river and lake drive foreman. When he was the foreman he would travel using the Kimcee speed boat to visit the tugs pulling the rafts down the lake. I remember riding with him on the Kimcee a few times and stopping at the Robert W for lunch. |
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Tauno Loponen on right.
July 2020. Rob Farrow reports: Tugalong and Tauno are sealed up now with welded sheets of steel, can't see inside. Still in Longlac, ON.
Tauno and Tugalong are on display at the Longlac Tourist Information Centre. Situated at 10311 Highway 11, it’s the first building on your left when traveling west from Cochrane or Kapuskasing.
For more Russel exhibits visit Owen Sound Marine & Rail Museum 1165 1st Ave West, Owen Sound, ON N4K 4K8
(519) 371-3333  http://marinerail.com |
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