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“IN IT FOR THE LONG RUN”
its natural resources bringing eras of prosperity to with the arrival of the pulp and paper industry—it
the community through its modern history. was during this time that the town officially got
the name “Marathon”, after the paper company
The town’s first main employer was the railway, Marathon paper Mills of Canada Limited selected
which employed over 10,000 people in the 1880s. this site for the construction of a new pulp mill.
The population ebbed and flowed with economic
development, entering its second boom in the 1940s Marathon was a single-industry town until the
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