Buildings & Structures Archives | Unravelling the Yarn: The Textile Industry in Arnprior

The Shirt Factory, c 1905

This photograph of the Shirt Factory building, dated two years before it burnt, is the earliest known picture of a manufacturing facility on the current Kenwood site. Little […]

“The Town and The Mill” – The Making of Felts and Blankets

Transcript, as narrated by Andy Clarke: Passing between a series of large cylinders covered with fine wire, the wool is combed out into a wide loose web of […]

The Town and the Mill

‘The Town and the Mill’ shows Arnprior as it was in 1948. The technicolor film was produced at the request of Kenwood Mills, Limited. Narrated by Andy Clarke, […]

1933 Kenwood Mills Staff Photo

This photo shows the staff of Kenwood Mills in 1933, just a few short years after the economic crash. Arnold MacIntyre’s identification of staff members in 2003 was based […]

Kenwood Corporate Centre Today

The front of the Kenwood Corporate Centre, photographed here in the summer of 2021, remains the location of the offices. It now houses many businesses including a dentist’s […]

Kenwood Factory Building Over Time

Combining all the images of the mill used through the Story Pages, this timeline shows the changes made to the building over its 80 plus-year history as a […]

Kenwood Corporate Centre

By an unknown artist, this sketch shows the front of the Kenwood Corporate Centre as it appeared on the front of a booklet covering the history of the […]

Weavexx’ Warwick Plant

After the shutdown of the Arnprior plant, the Warwick, Quebec location took over their felt production. The amalgamation of the two plants would have their production at one […]

Weavexx Arnprior Plant in the 90’s

The Weavexx offices, like Kenwood’s, were at the front of the plant, partly shown here at the right of the image. When Weaxexx took over from BTR, they […]

Huyck Canada Ltd. Arnprior Plant

Taken after 1968 (as the original 150-foot-tall smokestack is missing), this photo shows the plant after the company name changed to Huyck Canada Ltd. The footprint of the […]

Layout of the Kenwood Mills Facility

The floor plan of the mill shows the production areas for felts and blankets. The front of the plant (the leftmost part of the plan) housed the administrative […]

Kenwood House on Harrington Street, Arnprior

This house was one five built for Kenwood in the early 1930s. With a backdrop of the Gillies’ Grove (an old growth forest), these homes were designed with […]