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Loading and Dock Facilities
Waterways, Alberta

The Hudson's Bay Com

pany (Mackenzie River Division)
has the following facilities:

Main warehouse 350 feet b
warehouse 33 feet by 80 feet,

bank and served by double railway track running between

two platforms. Freight is carried from the warehouse or
cars over a double-inclined power

which 2-wheel hand trucks are h
the loads down, and the other for
The waterfront is also served by
edge of the bank to a sheet-piled dock at water’s edge.
Trucks use this road for loading directly to barges. A
stifflegged derrick operated by power hoist is installed on
top of the bank and is capable of swinging loads up to 7
tons from railway cars directly on to barges.

Northern Transportation Company Limited arranged in
1946, to transfer the site of its warehousing operations
from Waterways to the area known as “The Prairie”
between Waterways and Fort McMurray. Arrangements
were made by the company with the Northern Alberta
Railways to retain the railway spur which was installed
there by United States Army Engineers in connection with
~ the Canol Project. Two warehouses having a combined
floor area of 10,920 square feet, and a heavy duty platform
having 26,080 square feet, were under construction for
operation in the spring of 1947. The main railway spur
and siding parallels the warehouses and platforms. A dock
with an area of 15,000 square feet will also be ready by the
spring of 1947. General freight will be handled on 4-wheel
trucks drawn by gasoline-driven warehouse mules and
transported over a roadway from the railway and warehouse
level to dock level. It is expected that considerable freight
can be loaded direct from railway to barge, avoiding the
necessity of warehousing. Plans are being made to install
a crawler-crane capable of handling loads from 3 ton to
10 tons. In addition to the above equipment, two cater-
pillar D-7 tractors with winches have been obtained and
will be used principally for handling marine equipment
launched through the company’s shipyards. The company
is also retaining for emergency the old warehouses, platforms,
and docks, at Waterways.

y 40 feet and secondary
set back from edge of river

“Operated conveyer, over
andled, one track taking
return of empty trucks.
a graded road down the

McInnes Products Corporation Limited has two ware-
houses containing approximately 3,000 square feet of storage
space; docks on river frontage with apron conveyer systems
from water-level lifting 25 feet to warehouse level; and a
ramp for loading heavy equipment.

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Fort Fitzgerald, Alberta

Hudson’s Bay Company (Mackenzie River Division) have
a warehouse, 80 feet by 30 feet, located on the waterfront
immediately behind the dock. The dock is cribbed, heavily
planked, and about 125 feet long. It is served by a road
that enables trucks to be loaded directly from the barges.
At one end of the dock a ramp has been constructed so

that heavy-pieces of machinery can be loaded on tractors
and trailers.

Northern Transportation Company Limited has four
warehouses (three frame and one log) with a total capacity
of 6,000 square feet. Included is a warehouse, 90 feet by
30 feet, built for the Canol Project, which was purchased in
1945. A small platform adjacent to the warehouse can be
used for loading or for the accommodation of freight.

All freight moving through this point is handled over
the Dominion Government dock. The company maintains
three 4-wheel 1!-ton trucks; eight 2-wheel warehouse
trucks; 1 warehouse truck; and a Touracrane having a
lifting capacity up to 10 tons, which was purchased in 1946.

McInnes Products Corporation Limited has no ware

houses. The company uses Dominion Government wharves
for transferring goods.

Fort Smith

Hudson's Bay Company (Mackenzie River Division).
The warehouse of this company is 185 feet by 40 feet and
is located about 100 feet from the waterfront. Loading
and unloading platforms have been constructed between
the warehouse and the retaining wall at water's edge.
Two ramps between the warehouse and the waterfront
are used to load barges. The company’s waterfront extends
for a distance of about 350 feet,

A steel derrick operated by a hand winch with a lifting
Capacity of 5 tons is in use at this point.

Shipyards for the repair and maintenance of floating
and land equipment are maintained at “The Prairie” (Fort
McMurray), Alberta, Gravel Point (Cunningham’s Landing)
below Fort Smith, N.W.T., and Peace River, Alberta.
Prefabricated steel barges and boats are assembled, and
new wooden construction is carried out at these yards.
Permanent launchways are installed at these shipyards to
accommodate vessels during the winter months, the |
being hauled out by power winches.

Northern Transportation Company Limited for a number
of years had two small warehouses capable of accommodating
400 tons at Fort Smith. In 1945 all buildings were removed
to the company’s shipyard at Bell Rock, 9 miles down-
stream on Slave River, where a freight warehouse 200 feet
by 25 feet, a dock 300 feet long, and a dock platform 150 feet
by 75 feet were constructed.

In 1944 the portage road between Fort Fitzgerald and
Fort Smith, known as the Corser-Duncan Road, along with

all equipment, and buildings was purchased by the North-
ern Transportation Company Limited.

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