Kormak

Although Kormak is still marked on roadmaps today, only three homes remain. However at one time Kormak was a thriving mill town that contained over 200 residents.

In 1942, Oscar Maki and Charles Korpela formed the Kormak Lumber Company and established their first sawmill. The site they chose was at mileage point 107.5, on the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), 35 kilometres east of Chapleau, in the newly renamed Eisenhower Township. The firm built a bunkhouse and a cookery to accommodate the single workers. Others with families built their own homes. Observing this unusual phenomenon, the Kormak Lumber Company supported the move by constructing a few additional homes and furnishing cull wood to be used as building material for newer structures. Maki and Korpela decided to add a large company store to service the new settlement and applied to the government for a school. A post office was opened in the company offices in 1949 and the CPR built a large flag station to accommodate the new influx of travellers.