The logging attraction, established at the north end of town was the result of much hard work, it’s purpose was to create an awareness of the prominent role this industry played not only in this area, but in Ontario and in Canada as a whole.

Loggers Hall Of Fame
 
Photo credit : John Pollock 

From the Gillies Brothers, J. R. Booth, E. B. Eddy, A. J. Murphy, A. B. Gordon, P. J. Grant and the many other industry builders and founders, to all the men and women who worked in the lumber camps and mills, as well as in all forestry based occupations, this  area of the Museum was developed to salute them all. 

Lumber Camp Display

During the annual Heritage Logging Days Festivals, local residents fire up and show visitors the traditional lives and workings of a 1930 logging and sawmill operation.

From the H design bunk house and cookery, fully stocked and furnished, (as if the men were a few minutes away from “chow time,”) to the blacksmiths shop, log jammer and ice house, these displays were designed with the eye, and memories of the genuine lumber jacks of their day.  “No talking signs” in the Cookery, are displayed everywhere as a reminder to the men that the Cookery was for the business of eating and not conversation  which usually bred criticism and inevitably resulted in fights.  Above the whine of the Walter Green sawmill, slicing lumber, your other senses will be inspired, when the well known smell of sawdust from Sawdust City is in the air.