Iroquois Falls at the edge - Karin Wells's documentary, "Resolute"

When the Toronto Blue Jays won the World Series in 1992, The Globe and Mail wanted to celebrate - with a blue front page of the sports section. A call was made to Iroquois Falls and overnight, Number 8 paper machine at the Abitibi mill turned out the blue newsprint.

They tell that story with pride today in the town. They talk about the time that Abitibi was the largest pulp and paper company in the world. Iroquois Falls - population 4500 - was where it all began. Not long before Christmas, Resolute Forest Products, the newest corporate incarnation of Abitibi, announced the ending. A final shutdown.

For the first time in a hundred years, there will be no cloud of steam hanging over Iroquois Falls, no hum of the mill. And now another old company town, another single resource community, is thrown back on its heels. The women at the Legion Bingo, the town councillors, the millwrights and the paper makers, are all forced to confront harsh economic realities and, in the middle of a northern Ontario winter, to scramble for ideas of re-invention.

Karin Wells went to Iroquois Falls - 10 hours north of Toronto. Her documentary is called Resolute.