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The Tramway Creek Generator
June 2009
Dorset, Ontario, Canada

Credits:
Dorset Heritage Museum

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The Tramway Creek Jackladder Turbine
1894 - 1897
Dorset, Ontario, Canada

Credits:
Canadian Heritage Gallery #23023 - Bon Echo Provincial Park

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Gilmour Tramway Model - The Tramway Creek Jackladder
2009
Dorset, Ontario, Canada

Credits:
Dorset Heritage Museum

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Logs then dropped from the Tramway Creek jackladder into the tramway pond. Here the logs were boomed up again and hauled by Alligator tug to the next place where the current could carry the logs.

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Gilmour Tramway Model - The Tramway Pond
2009
Dorset, Ontario, Canada

Credits:
Dorset Heritage Museum

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The Tramway Pond
June 2009
Dorset, Ontario, Canada

Credits:
Dorset Heritage Museum

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Gilmour Tramway Model - The Tramway Pond
2009
Dorset, Ontario, Canada

Credits:
Dorset Heritage Museum

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At this point the logs left the main tramway mechanism and were carried through the river system using the Alligator tugs or the current of lakes and rivers. Many dams and chutes were created to get the logs as smoothly as possible into St Nora Lake. From here the logs were carried through the Trent River system which Gilmour and Co. had used extensively for logs from other areas.

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Norm MacKay discusses the journey a log would take once it was through the Gilmour Tramway
June 2009
Dorset, Ontario, Canada

Credits:
Dorset Heritage Museum

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Route of the Gilmour Log Drive
Ontario, Canada

Credits:
Gary Long

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Black River Diversion
1894 - 1897
Black River, Ontario, Canada

Credits:
The Randy Whiteman Collection

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A log slide on Hollow River.
1894 - 1897
Dorset, Ontario, Canada

Credits:
Dorset Heritage Museum

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The big mill in Trenton was the final destination for a log on the Gilmour drive. Here they would be cut into lumber and shipped either to Great Britain, the USA or domestically.

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The Gilmour and Co Sawmill at Trenton
circa 1900
Trenton, Ontario, Canada

Credits:
The Randy Whiteman Collection