Northwest First Nations build a future in forestry – Northern Ontario Business

Joint venture deal provides Agoke group jobs, economic benefits to three communities

A walk through the Nakina sawmill in early August got Mark Bell excited.

A decade after the operation had been shuttered, Buchanan Sawmills had reopened the mill in January and was back in business as staff painstakingly worked out the mechanical bugs at the northwestern Ontario sawmill and planer facility.

Of the 60 workers on shift, most were Aboriginal workers drawn from the nearby Aroland First Nation.

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