Russel Brothers Limited OWEN SOUND, ONTARIO Steelcraft Boat Builders
| Tomiko
Canadian List of Shipping 1956: Tomiko [C.178017] registered at Owen Sound; built at Owen in 1947. 27'2 x 7’6 x 2'9; 4 g.t.; 3 n.t.; 30 hp. Owned by Abitibi Power & Paper Co. Ltd., Iroquois Falls, Ontario. Canadian List of Shipping 1970: Steel tug Tomiko [C.178017] registered at Owen Sound; built at Owen Sound in 1947. 27’; 4 g.t. Canadian List of Ships 1997: Owned by McKenzie Forest Products Inc., Thunder Bay, Ontario. RBF Notes: No Longer Registered in Canada in 2003. On the beach in front of McKenzie Forest Products mill in Hudson, ON on May 17, 2003, Hull 672. See also the special section Logging on Lake Abitibi. Tim Olaveson Sr. comments (Feb. 13, 2019): "Makes sense that the Tomiko ended up in Hudson. Abitibi owned a sawmill in Hudson at one time and probably got the boat when Iroquois Falls closed their marine division." |
Hudson ON, May 19, 2004.
Robert Poncho Nadon comments (May 7, 2015): "When I was a little one, I used to go with my grandfather on the Tomiko. They were the putt-putt boats I called them. They were used to push the logs around into the booms. The bigger boats like the T. Gibbens and the Clark B. Davis pulled the booms back to the falls. They used to pile the 8 foot logs at Eades, ON and in the spring time they pushed the piles of logs into the river where they woud float out into the lake with the current."
Hudson ON, May 17th 2003.
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