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      Ce sont les pompiers de Field qui organisaient les parades du Père Noël. / Field Township volunteer firemen have been organizing parades.

      De gauche à droite / From left to right: Pierre Ethier, Jo-Line Paquette et Lisa Paquette.

      This dam, one of many in the Sturgeon River watershed, was important at Cedar Lake in Thistle Township.

      This former Louis Brun garage became one of several restaurants to serve tourists and local residents.

      Course d'automobiles au Carnaval de Field. Les courses et le Carnaval avaient lieu sur lac Clear. / The Field Carnival of 1991 featured car races. The car races and carnival were held on Clear Lake.

      When logs were floated to the Field mill, rivers like the Pike in Bastedo Township were dammed lift the level of water to drive their logs. This was the site of the Pike River dam which connected with the Sturgeon River.

      Autrefois ferme de Léo Lavigne, sur le chemin Larocque, dans le canton de Field. La grange a été construite en 1940, par Orphala Lavigne, père de Léo. / This barn and stable were part of the Leo Lavigne farm on Larocque St. in Field. The barn was built in 1940 …

      Voyageur Park, a planned outdoor ecology training center was short-lived. It was sold by municipal council when schools and municipalities who said they would attend did not show up. This photo was taken during the 1992 carnival.

      The Knights of Columbus of Field held a family annual summer fish derby on the Sturgeon River.

      Field is one of the few communities that still stages a winter carnival.

      De gauche à droite / From left to right: Victor Labelle, Dr. Nicol Patenaude, Normand Filion, Yves Rivest, Gérald Aubin, Polydor Rochefort, Georgette Rochefort, Mgr. Eugène Lacourcière, Paul Vézina.

      Beginning in 1922, Field council counted on the local doctor regarding the postings on houses. When posted, residents could not leave, food had to be brought to them until they were no longer a threat to other residents. Children were also taken out of school if they lived in a …

      Le réseau ferroviaire transcanadien vient donc assurer la survie de la communauté. Des arpenteurs s’affairent aussitôt à jalonner le tracé. Également en 1912, Joseph Vézina déménage sa scierie à l’embouchure de la rivière Pike sur le côté nord de la rivière Sturgeon. / About the same time that surveyors were …

      Dévidoir à boyau d'incendie de la scierie Mageau Lumber pour la protection contre le feu. / Field Township and Mageau Lumber organized a fire brigade including a water pump in case of fires either in the mill or in the community.

      Both the mill and the railway were mandatory for the success of the community of Field over 75 years.

      The river provided cheap transportation until the 1960s when they were hauled by trucks.

      Field Lumber harvested very large white pine in the Sturgeon River basin. The Canadian National Railway ran a spur line into the Field Lumber yard.

      Note the houses on Larocque St. on the crest of a hill (left top of forest). This photo is near the Sturgeon River. The white building with a blue roof is the three wood dryers.

      Scierie Field Lumber, usine de rabotage et cour à bois. / The Field Lumber planer, mill and yard.

      Field Lumber also used horses that hauled flat cars that were on a rail system in the yard.