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Mills near Préfontaine Station in 1923

Old photograph showing the piles of lumber stacked near the railway lines and the Tyler Hardwood Flooring Wood Mills at Préfontaine in 1923.

Source:

Louis Pelletier collection and Archives of the Société d’histoire et du patrimoine de Val-David.

The Tyler Hardwood Flooring Mills at Préfontaine, circa 1923, adjacent to the railway station of the same name. On the left can be seen the Pont Marier over the North River, the mill manager’s house (still in existence) and the parallel tracks where railway wagons are loaded for transporting the wood  to Montreal.