Date: 1896
New machines were obtained, large planets and lathes and drills, until now there is here, in Lachute, one of the best equipped jobbing shops in the country.  Starting in a building 28 x 45, one storey and a horse sweep, they now occupy a large, two-storey building of two wings, one extending towards the river 84 feet, besides outbuildings 105 feet in length, and a power house with fire engine.  Few people have any idea of the quantity of machinery in the paper mill, and will be surpri-ed to learn that McOuat & McRae have supplied forty tons of new work therefor.