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Did you know that Lumberjacks cut timber using bucksaws and similar tools until the mid-1950s, when the use of chainsaw became widespread?

Did you know that in the early 1960s, the mechanization of forestry operations made a major step forward with the use of the first skidders?

Did you know that Hearst once had seventeen big sawmills and that now there are only three? Tembec, Lecours Lumber and Columbia Forest Products.

Did you know that the Lumberjacks who worked at Fontaine Lumber in the early 1940's were payed $3 per thousand feet?

Did you know that the first small sawmills were in operation in the Hearst area in 1918?

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