. Canadian forest industries July-December 1921. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 54 CANADA LUMBERMAN Making Many Specialties From Hardwood Billets How Live Industry in St. Mary's Produces Handles and Hockey Sticks From Hickory, Maple and Rock ElmâProcess in Turning Out Odd-Shapes. In every particular Hue of manufacturing enterprise it is worth that tells, and the house that has the goods, and the company that makes them are the ones who are always sure of an extensive market. This is strikingly illustrated in the St. Mary's Wood Spec
. Canadian forest industries July-December 1921. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 54 CANADA LUMBERMAN Making Many Specialties From Hardwood Billets How Live Industry in St. Mary's Produces Handles and Hockey Sticks From Hickory, Maple and Rock ElmâProcess in Turning Out Odd-Shapes. In every particular Hue of manufacturing enterprise it is worth that tells, and the house that has the goods, and the company that makes them are the ones who are always sure of an extensive market. This is strikingly illustrated in the St. Mary's Wood Specialty Co., Limited, one of the important industries of St. Mary's, Ont. This industry was established in the year 1908. The plant is located on James Street and has C. P. R. and G. T. R. alongside, and comprises substantial stone buildings, and equipped for the manufacture of high- grade wood specialties, such as ice and field hockey sticks, ball bats, Indian clubs, etc. A special department is equipped for the manu- facture of high-grade pick, axe, sledge and small hammer handles, the quality of which, the makers declare, is unsurpassed in Canada. Goods for Both Sport and Work Canadians are a working people, although they dearly love athletics. Hockey is the great winter pastime and baseball the pre- mier summer sport, but the axe, pick and sledge still hold sway over the hockey stick and the ball bat. These instruments furnish as vigorous exercise as "shinny on the ice" or "circuiting the diamond," and also play a larger part in the development of the country, the exploitation of its unrivalled resources and the prosecution of its vast undertakings. The casual reader may wonder what these observations have to do with the woodworking industry. Simply this, that while the plant of the St. Mary's Wood Specialty Co., Limited, has a capacity of 20,000 dozen hockey sticks a year, in the department of more utilitarian agencies of civilization and national expans
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