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Opened in 1992, the Algonquin Logging Museum is located by the park's east gate. [16] A 1.3 kilometres (0.81 mi) trail features a recreated logging camp, a steam-powered amphibious tug called an " alligator ", logging equipment and interpretive panels about logging industry activities in the park.
As the logging areas in the present Algonquin Park were used up, the work focused more on the Madawaska area, and Booth moved to the town. [4] With the abandonment of the Nosbonsing and Nipissing Railway (N&N) in 1912, another of Booth's lumber railways, the N&N charter was used for the Egan Estates, although it was rarely referred to this way. [5]
John Rudolphus Booth (April 5, 1827 - December 8, 1925) was a Canadian lumber tycoon and railroad baron.He controlled logging rights for large tracts of forest land in central Ontario, and built the Canada Atlantic Railway (from Georgian Bay via Ottawa to Vermont) to extract his logs and to export lumber and grain to the United States and Europe.
The Whitney and Opeongo Railway (W&OR) was a logging railway in Ontario, Canada. It ran from Opeongo Lake to Whitney, where it connected to the Canada Atlantic Railway (CAR), running a total distance of about 14 miles (23 km). It opened in 1902 and closed in the 1920s with the end of major logging operations in the area.
The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway, or OA&PS, is a historic railway that operated in central and eastern Ontario, Canada, from 1897 to 1959.It was for a time the busiest railway route in Canada, [1] carrying both timber and wood products from today's Algonquin Provincial Park areas, as well as up to 40% of the grain traffic from the Canadian west from Depot Harbour at Parry Sound ...
A static alligator, William M. is preserved at the logging museum in Algonquin Park. Another, named Fairy Blonde is preserved at the Wakami Lake Provincial Park near Chapleau, Ontario. An Alligator tugboat called the Missinaibi is on display in the Canadian Museum of Civilization. Surviving remains of an alligator tug have been the subject of a ...
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The Drive is an oil-on-canvas painting of 1916–17 by the Canadian artist Tom Thomson.It depicts the logging industry in Algonquin Park.A frequent subject of Thomson's work, the painting shows timbermen directing sawn logs down a canal towards the Ottawa River.