Did You Know: The Keewatin-Kenora area was the Flour Milling Capital of Canada in 1916
by Braden Murray
Did You Know:
In 1916 the Keewatin-Kenora area was the flour milling capital of Canada. Between Keewatin’s Lake of the Woods Milling Company and Kenora’s Maple Leaf Milling Company they could produce 13000 barrels of flour a day— that’s over 2.5 million pounds of flour!
That’s a lotta biscuits!
Montreal was in second place with 12500 barrels a day, or 2.4 million pounds of flour.
Photos by Carl Linde
Did you know?
During the Second World War German prisoners of war were brought to the Lake of the Woods area to cut wood for the local mills. Many of the prisoners enjoyed their time in the Canadian wilderness, and a number of them immigrated to Canada when the war ended.