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Log Drive
Salvaging Wood
Salvaging Wood

Date: After 1955
Creator:
Source: CDEM Fraser Companies, Limited Collection
Collaborator(s): Mr. Doris Hébert, Mr. Guy Bouchard, Mr. Léopold Couturier

Description: From 1955, Fraser hired workers to pull logs caught at the bottom of the Madawaska River. This allowed cleaning the river and salvaging wood. We see a horse with a sled and two men on the Madawaska River piling wood to be transported to the Fraser mill in Edmundston.

Subject: New Brunswick,Forests, Logging, Log driving, Green River