Michael_Stones
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I can't remember ever seeing a mortuary in a cemetery before. The place is Fort Francis, Ontario. Cheers, Mike.
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Asher Kelman
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I can't remember ever seeing a mortuary in a cemetery before. The place is Fort Francis, Ontario. Cheers, Mike.
Michael,
Yes, you're right, very unusual. There seems little room for storage of extra coffins. This is a sensible setup!
Hmm, I wonder what they do about the hearse? Do they dispense with it altogether and simply have the "bearers' carry the coffin directly to the grave site?
Asher
Michael_Stones
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I don't know about the use of the mortuary nowadays, Asher. A peep through the window showed a largely empty building.
Fort Francis is (or maybe was) was a paper mill town the length of a bridge away from another paper mill town of International Falls in Minnesota. You can see part of the now idled Fort Francis mill behind the trees to the left of the mortuary.
A mortuary appropriately symbolizes the possible fate of both towns. The Fort Francis mill closed this year with 700 jobs lost. The owners blocked a buyout by a Wisconsin company by its refusal to provide access to timber at a "reasonable price". The International Falls mill this year idled one of its paper processing machines with about 1/3 of the workforce no longer active. Such boom/bust cycles are common in the resource based economy of northern paper mill and mining towns. Some recover, others do not. Whether Fort Francis recovers may largely depend on whether the Ontario government changes its legislation to allow access to timber at lower cost without endangering the economies of other paper mill towns.
Cheers, Mike.
Fort Francis is (or maybe was) was a paper mill town the length of a bridge away from another paper mill town of International Falls in Minnesota. You can see part of the now idled Fort Francis mill behind the trees to the left of the mortuary.
A mortuary appropriately symbolizes the possible fate of both towns. The Fort Francis mill closed this year with 700 jobs lost. The owners blocked a buyout by a Wisconsin company by its refusal to provide access to timber at a "reasonable price". The International Falls mill this year idled one of its paper processing machines with about 1/3 of the workforce no longer active. Such boom/bust cycles are common in the resource based economy of northern paper mill and mining towns. Some recover, others do not. Whether Fort Francis recovers may largely depend on whether the Ontario government changes its legislation to allow access to timber at lower cost without endangering the economies of other paper mill towns.
Cheers, Mike.