The assets acquired from the Finger Lumber Company included the mill facilities in The Pas, one tugboat, two steam barges, and 324 square miles (840 km2) of timber berths along the Carrot and Saskatchewan Rivers.
Around this time, the Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR) began building another rail line south from Hudson Bay Junction.
Since much of the wood for their Red Deer Lake Sawmill had been cut upstream along the Etomami River, the company decided to build a new sawmill and a dam on the Etomami River at the base of the Porcupine Hills within the Porcupine Forest Reserve near to the new rail line.
[6] Sinclar Enterprises started in 1962 as a lumber wholesaler, named after the small town of Sinclair Mills.
[9][6] Sinclar continued to operate Winton Global Lumber until June 2008 when new home construction in the US severely dropped after the end of the 2000s United States housing bubble.
Production was put on hiatus until 2011, when the decision was made to permanently close the Winton Global Lumber plant sites, citing demand as still below half pre-bubble levels.
[6] Sinclar Group Forest Products Engineered Wood and Prefabricated Home Divisions still use the Winton name.