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RobertMorrill circa 1930.TheCollingwood-basedMorrillCompanywas known for
hockey stick and skimanufacturing as well as shipbuilding.The skiswere custom-
made from ash, and for an extra $3, you could request steel edges.The skills from
buildingwooden vessels translatedperfectly to ski andhockey stickmaking.
This photowas likely taken in the 1940s or '50s.The first shipment for thenew grain elevator arrived inSeptember 1929with228,000bushels of American grain via the steamer
Munising
.Grain service stopped in1993, ending64 years of operation for the cement elevator and123 years of grain trade inCollingwood.
TheThornburyPowerDam as seen in1888.
