Heritage & Culture.
The Abitibi Power and Paper Company laid out Iroquois Falls as a planned company townsite in 1912 around its newsprint mill on the Abitibi River. The mill operated through to the December 2014 closure under Resolute Forest Products — more than a century of continuous newsprint production at a single boreal-Clay-Belt site.
The brief.
The Abitibi Heritage Hall and the Iroquois Falls Pioneer Museum at Ansonville hold the mill-era and pioneer-era artifacts and the photographic record of the company-town years. The Town of Iroquois Falls itself was formed in 1971 by the amalgamation of the Town of Iroquois Falls (the original Abitibi mill townsite), the Township of Calvert, and the unincorporated communities of Ansonville, Montrock, and Porquis Junction — Porquis Junction historically a CN / Ontario Northland railway divisional point.
Museum and Heritage Hall hours run on a seasonal schedule; check the Town of Iroquois Falls page before visiting.
4. places.
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Abitibi Heritage Hall
Town-listed mill-era and pioneer-era heritage collection in Iroquois Falls.
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Iroquois Falls Pioneer Museum (Ansonville)
Pioneer-era artifacts and the photographic record of the company-town years.
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Iroquois Falls planned company townsite
The 1912 Abitibi Power and Paper street-grid record, walkable from town centre.
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Porquis Junction
Historic CN / Ontario Northland railway divisional-point community, amalgamated into the Town in 1971.
Today's read.
Cold but firm — winter-ready conditions · light winds · clean air.