Chisholm Lumber is a lumber company located in
Roslin, Ontario, Canada. It has operated the
Chisholm's Mill since 1857, has five subsidiaries, and employs 40 staff along with dozens of contractors.
It has been operated by six generations of the Chisholm family.
History and ownership
Chisholm Lumber was founded in 1857 when William Fraser Chisholm purchased the Shipman’s Flour and Sawmill, on the banks of the
Moira River
The Moira River is a river in Hastings County in eastern Ontario, Canada. It travels from its source in the centre of the county to the Bay of Quinte at the county seat Belleville .
Name
Originally named the Sagonaska River by the indigenous peo ...
.
Since 1857, the mill has been known as
Chisholm's Mill.
The fifth generation of the Chisholm family, Doug Chisholm and his cousin Paul Chisholm bought the company from their fathers in 1981 and ran it until 2010.
Peter Chisholm (President) and Jordan Chisholm represent the sixth generation currently running the operation.
Marking its 150th anniversary in 2007, the company donated a 1.5 acre plot of land and $20,000 of lumber to
Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI), generally referred to as Habitat for Humanity or Habitat, is a U.S. non-governmental, and tax-exempt 501(C)(3) Christian nonprofit organization which seeks to build affordable housing. The international ...
.
A fire destroyed the Chisholm's Mill in 1944
and a 2004 fire, which destroyed the kilns.
Replacement kilns were installed in 2005.
Assets and activities
The company is located on a 25-acre ranch; assets include two
sawmills
A sawmill (saw mill, saw-mill) or lumber mill is a facility where logs are cut into lumber. Modern sawmills use a motorized saw to cut logs lengthwise to make long pieces, and crosswise to length depending on standard or custom sizes (dimens ...
, two
Nardi dry kilns (in Tweed), and a
planing mill
A planing mill is a facility that takes cut and Wood drying, seasoned Wood, wooden boards from a sawmill and turns them into finished dimensional lumber. Machines used in the mill include the Thickness planer, planer and matcher, the Moulding plan ...
.
The 100,000 BF kilns are heated by a 10 foot by 6 feet by 5 feet
bioenergy
Bioenergy is a type of renewable energy that is derived from plants and animal waste. The Biomass (energy), biomass that is used as input materials consists of recently living (but now dead) organisms, mainly plants. Thus, Fossil fuel, fossil fu ...
burner fuelled by sawdust & shavings byproduct from the mills.
In 2007, the company employed more than 30 employees,
and as of 2018 it employed 40.
As of 2018, the company has five subsidiaries, including a sawmill, a retail lumber yard, a forest management company, a residential design-and-build company,
and a wholesale hardwood kiln dried division (kilns located in
Tweed, Ontario
Tweed is a municipality located in central-eastern Ontario, Canada, in Hastings County.
History
The Municipality of Tweed is an amalgamation (politics), amalgamated municipality comprising the former Tweed, Ontario (village), Village of Tweed a ...
).
It opened the custom home building division in 2007.
As of 2007, the company produced five million
board feet
The board foot or board-foot is a unit of measurement for the volume of lumber in the United States and Canada. It equals the volume of a board that is in length, one foot in width, and in thickness, or exactly liters.
Board foot can be abbrev ...
of wood;
approximately 80% hardwood and 20% pine. The hardwood is sold worldwide and the pine is generally re-manufactured in their planing mill and sold through the Chisholm Lumber retail store in Roslin, Ontario.
References
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External links
Official website
1857 establishments in Canada West
Sawmills
Timber industry in Canada
Forest products companies of Canada