Canfor Fort St. John
Closed 2024Canadian Forest Products Ltd.CanforID 01716
Canfor Fort St. John is a closed softwood sawmill in Fort St John, Canada, owned by Canfor. With a capacity of 489 000 cubic metres of sawn timber per year it is the 11th largest of the 116 sawmills in Canada with a recorded capacity.
Location and logistics
- Location
- Fort St John, British Columbia, Canada
- Site
- Canfor Fort St. John pellet plantpellet plant · 75 000 t/y pellets · closed
Shares the industrial site with the facilities listed. Each is its own record with its own capacity and status.- Nearest port
- Prince Rupert · 642 kmStraight-line distance to the nearest major port. Method
- Rail siding
- Not yet verifiedOpenStreetMap track way/1014989289 ↗, 74 m from the site point. Method
- Nearest railway
- 0.1 km
Map
Capacity and output
- Capacity
- about 489 000 m3/y sawn timberreported as 288 MMBF/y
- Production
- Not reported
- Type
- Softwood
Raw material and products
History and sources
Timeline
- closure2024Permanent closure announced on 4 September 2024 due to the persistent challenge of accessing economic fibre, sustained financial losses, depressed lumber markets and increased US tariffs, with about 500 workers affected across the Fort St. John and Plateau mills.Source ↗
Sources
- otherchecked 2026-07-27cbc.ca ↗
- company websitechecked 2026-09-09canfor.com (archived copy) ↗
- otherchecked 2026-07-30catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca ↗
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- otherchecked 2026-10-18canfor.com ↗
Related facilities
Canfor
Largest in Canada
How to cite
WoodComp (). Canfor Fort St. John (WoodComp ID 01716). WoodComp facility database, version 2026-11. Accessed the date you retrieved it. https://woodcomp.world/id/1716Data © WoodComp, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Attribution required.