Thematic Collections
Log Drive
Man Piling Salvaged Wood from the Madawaska River
Date: 1970
Creator: Studio Laporte
Source: CDEM Fraser Companies, Limited Collection
Collaborator(s): Mr. Léopold Couturier
Description: From 1955 onward, the Fraser company hired workers to retrieve wood from the bottom of the Madawaska River in winter. They cleaned the river bottom and salvaged pulpwood. We see a man piling wood that was salvaged from the Madawaska River. This pulpwood will be transported to the Fraser mill in Edmundston.
Subject: New Brunswick,Forests, Logging, Log driving, Madawaska River
Date: 1970
Creator: Studio Laporte
Source: CDEM Fraser Companies, Limited Collection
Collaborator(s): Mr. Léopold Couturier
Description: From 1955 onward, the Fraser company hired workers to retrieve wood from the bottom of the Madawaska River in winter. They cleaned the river bottom and salvaged pulpwood. We see a man piling wood that was salvaged from the Madawaska River. This pulpwood will be transported to the Fraser mill in Edmundston.
Subject: New Brunswick,Forests, Logging, Log driving, Madawaska River
