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Log Drive
Fishing Wood on the Madawaska River
Fishing Wood on the Madawaska River

Date: 1970-1972
Creator: Studio Laporte
Source: CDEM Fraser Companies, Limited Collection
Collaborator(s): Mr. Léopold Couturier

Description: From 1955 onward, Fraser hired workers to retrieve wood from the bottom of the Madawaska River during winter. They cleaned the river and the recuperated the pulpwood caught at the bottom of the river. Wood was then hauled to the Fraser Mill in Edmundston. Picture taken in the early 1970s.

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