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Forestry Workers
Icing the Roads to Ease Transport
Icing the Roads to Ease Transport

Date: 194-?
Creator:
Source: CDEM Fraser Companies, Limited Collection
Collaborator(s): Mr. Léopold Couturier, Mr. Guy Bouchard, Mr. Doris Hébert

Description: In winter, loggers used sleds to carry water which they poured on the roads where the sleds would pass. The surface thus had an ice coating which facilitated transportation of wood hauled by the horses.

Subject: New Brunswick, Logging, Foresters