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Equally unsettled and surrounded by trees was a place called Comaplix. Directly across the arm from Thomson's Landing and although it had a name, there was little else present but a mill and some bunkhouses. Modified and expanded, the Kootenay Lumber Co. mill, one felt, could only succeed, given the huge tract of first-growth timber yet to be harvested from the Fish River Valley. This North Country looked destined to be the commercial centre of the Arrow Lakes. It was an exciting beginning to a pioneering era

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Comaplix Mill
1898
UPPER ARROW LAKE