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6 unusual facts about Bowater


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Bowater acquired additional Canadian interests in the late 1990s when they bought Avenor (formerly Canadian Pacific Forest Products).

Bowater Mersey Paper Company Limited

In 1956 the estate of Izaak Walton Killam sold the company to Bowater which renamed the company Bowater Mersey Paper Company Limited in 1959.

Changes to the corporate structure and ownership of parent company Bowater saw that company's name evolve to become AbitibiBowater Inc in 2007 and Resolute Forest Products in November 2011.

Bowaters Paper Railway

In 1969 a time and motion study by the then owners, Bowater, resulted in the closure of the railway.

Eric Hammond

He served his apprenticeship as an electrician with the Bowater paper company, and in 1950 was called up for national service, serving for two years with the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.

Sittingbourne and Kemsley Light Railway

The line was formerly owned by Bowater, the paper making firm, and was used to carry raw materials and finished products between Ridham Dock and the company's two mills, one at Sittingbourne and the other at Kemsley.


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Bowater baronets

His son, Sir Eric Vansittart Bowater (1895-1962), was Director-General of the Ministry of Aircraft Production between 1940 and 1943 and was knighted in 1944.

Calhoun, Tennessee

Calhoun is centered around the junction of U.S. Route 11, which connects the town to Athens to the north and Charleston and Cleveland to the south, and State Route 163 (Bowater Road), which connects Calhoun to U.S. Route 411 in Delano to the east and Interstate 75 and Meigs County to the west.

Churchill Falls Generating Station

In 1953 British Newfoundland Development Corporation (Brinco) was formed by the Rothschilds and six partners: two paper companies: Bowater and Anglo-Newfoundland; a manufacturer, English Electric; and mining concerns Rio Tinto, Anglo American and Frobisher.

Edward Bowater

In 1839, Bowater married Emilia Mary, the daughter of Colonel Michael Barne.

Pocket wilderness

Pocket wilderness is a name used by Bowater corporation and the State of Tennessee for any of several tracts of Bowater-owned private land on and near the Cumberland Plateau that the company set aside beginning in 1970 "for preservation in its natural state, with no logging or development other than hiking trails permitted within its boundaries" and registered as Tennessee state natural areas.

Port Hope Simpson

New economic activity took place between 1962 and 1968 as Bowater picked-up the pioneering venture laid down by John Osborn Williams, Sir John Hope Simpson and the Labrador Development Company.

Sir Noël Bowater, 2nd Baronet

Anne Patricia Bowater (b. 3 July 1925), educated at Westonbirt School, married on 21 April 1954 Group Captain Randolph Stuart Mills, who was decorated with the award of the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) and gained the rank of Group Captain in the service of the Royal Air Force, son of Captain Randolph Henry Mills, of Northampton, Northamptonshire, and had issue


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