Shipping will be closed December 24 thru to Jan 4, 2021.
Office will close at 12:00pm noon on Dec. 24th, then closed Christmas Day.
Dec 28, 29, 30 – Office open from 7:00AM to 4:30PM
January 1 – Office Closed
January 4 – 7:00AM regular hours and schedules resume.
This summer Vanderwell Contractors, along with West Fraser, Alberta Pacific, Weyerhaeuser, Canfor and Millar Western, supported the first annual Outland Youth Employment Program (OYEP) in Alberta. Vanderwell, along with the above forestry companies have committed 4 years of funding to support the annual OYEP program in Alberta. This summers’ camp was based out of Lubicon Lake at the Mihkowapikwaniy Cultural Preserve and Camp.
Outland Youth Employment Program (OYEP) is a local, community driven initiative that works towards equity and opportunity for Indigenous Youth through land-based education, training and work opportunities. Developed in 2000 as a forestry training initiative, OYEP has grown a nation-wide opportunity with a network of over 500 graduates from 103 communities across Canada. “
OYEP Website
OYEP is a six week work-experience program, providing training and education where the youth are fully immersed in a natural, resource-based work culture. They achieve various safety and training certificates as well as hands on work opportunities, delivered in a regionally and culturally relevant curriculum.
Vanderwell donated lumber towards a Construction and Building Techniques Project at Mihkowapikwaniy where the youth planned and built a permanent wood shed. The youth toured the Vanderwell mill site and engaged in a session on forestry/sawmill based employment and opportunities.
Vanderwell congratulates the 20 graduates from this year’s program who are representing 13 different Alberta communities. We look forward to continued success of this program within the region and the province of Alberta as it grows in the future years.
*Feature Image: (Left) Youths’ building a woodshed with Vanderwell lumber, (Middle) Vanderwell mill tour, (Right) Closing Ceremony with the OYEP youth graduates
We are pleased to have met the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) requirements in our Forest Management Standard, and our Fiber Sourcing Standard.
The Scope of Certification covers our forest management activities (planning, harvesting and construction, silviculture and transportation) on selected area and volume-based forest tenures, and the fiber sourcing program that acquires roundwood to support our forest products facility located in Slave Lake, AB.
Click here for more information on the SFI Program.
Congratulations to our Woodlands department!
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Our production facilities are located in the Mitsue Industrial Park, which is 12 km east of Slave Lake, Alberta. We manufacture and sell dimensional softwood lumber, shavings, and pellets to our wholesale customers.
CONTACT
Physical Address
44061 West Mitsue Industrial Road, Slave Lake, AB
Mailing Address
PO Box 415, Slave Lake, AB T0G 2A0
Phone Numbers
Main Office: 1-780-849-3824
Main Fax: 1-780-849-2530