From here the boxcars were moved by locomotive number 51
to the company siding on the CNR., to be picked up by a freight train.
(End of the Fassett movie film.)
By 1933 the depression had crippled the lumber industry.
The Fassett Lumber Corporation was the only company operating in
the Park. In early June 1934 a CNR train wreck in Fossmill, killing a transient
rider, was a foreboding of more trouble to come.
Later that year, on Sunday afternoon, August 26. the mill
burned to the ground dealing the death blow to Fossmill. Engine number
51 and a steam loader, were lost when the engine house burned. Sidney Staniforth
fought to rebuild the mill but the company's financial backers refused.
In 1936 Mr. Stanifoth established the Staniforth Lumber
Company purchasing J. R Booth’s limits at Kiosk in Algonquin Park
20 kilometers east of Fossmill. Soon a mill was built and logs where
being cut again. Trucks where now employed to haul the logs so a Company
railway was no longer needed.
