Foleyet Buildings

Foleyet was established on the route of Canadian Northern Railway in 1915, now Canadian National. The station and roundhouse have been demolished. From 1916 CNR operated a large sawmill a mile west of the station, it became Pineland Timber and closed in 1960. Foleyet is in Greater Sudbury area.

Back in the 70's I spent a week there one day (yeah, it was that slow). There used to be an old building that housed one of the only two restaurants in town, and from the outside you could see that the roof was bowed but with a distinct point in the middle, imagine a very flattened 'W'. You found out why when you entered. The roof was sagging, and in the centre of the floor was a hydraulic j