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.
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.
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), Patrick Cassidy, and Jordan Chisholm represent the sixth generation and have been running it since.
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
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.
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, two
Nardi dry kilns (in Tweed), and a
planing mill A planing mill is a facility that takes cut and seasoned boards from a sawmill and turns them into finished dimensional lumber. Machines used in the mill include the planer and matcher, the molding machines, and varieties of saws. In the planing mil ...
.
The 100,000 BF kilns are heated by a 10 foot by 6 feet by 5 feet
bioenergy
Biomass is plant-based material used as a fuel for heat or electricity production. It can be in the form of wood, wood residues, energy crops, agricultural residues, and waste from industry, farms, and households. Some people use the terms biom ...
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).
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 length of a board, one foot wide and thick.
Board foot can be abbreviated as FBM (for "foot, board measure" ...
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