The Town of Hawkesbury, with the valuable cooperation of the federal and provincial governments, is undertaking major projects to replace aging infrastructures, improve services offered to the citizens and the quality of life.

In this section, you will find information on the large-scale project undertaken by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry in 2007 for the clean-up of the wet lagoon of the Canadian International Paper (CIP). In this section, you will find the history and pictures of the CIP plant from its beginning until its full closure in 1985.