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Ocean Falls is situated at the head of Cousins Inlet, near Bella Bella, B.C. |
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Base digital map courtesy of the National Atlas Information Service, Natural Resources Canada, Government of Canada. |
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The Bella Coola Pulp and Paper Company was impressed by this site because of its easy access to large amounts of clean fresh water for pulp making from the enormous waterfall and from the lake above the falls. |
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Section of Premliminary Map, Bella Coola, 1924 B.C. Government Lithographed Regional Map series, 1911 - 1991 |
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The Company decided to build a pulp mill and create a town where the workers could live. The saw mill was operating as early as 1909 and the pulp and paper mill went into production in 1917. |
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| Ocean Falls Townsite and Mill, 1912, I-50579 |
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People moved to Ocean Falls because they could get jobs logging trees in the forest, and turning the fallen trees into lumber in the saw mill and into paper at the pulp mill. |
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Hand Loggers Skidding Logs out of the Forest, 1906, Detail of E-04870 |
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No. 5 Paper Machine, Ocean Falls Pulp Mill, 1926 I-48519 |
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A Japanese Crew Stacking Pulp on the Mill Dock, 1922, Detail of I-47857 |
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| The Paper Produced, Detail of I-27210 |
