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Mill Workers
Unloading Wood Chips at the Fraser Mill in Edmundston
Unloading Wood Chips at the Fraser Mill in Edmundston

Date: 1958
Creator: Studio Laporte
Source: CDEM Fraser Companies Limited Collection
Collaborator(s): Mr. William Brebner

Description: We see two men unloading a Canadian National freight car of its wood chips, using a pike pole. Those poles were used to push chips out of the bottom of the freight car. Those chips were used to fabricate paper and paperboard.

Subject: New Brunswick, Logging, Pulp, Industry, Workers, Edmundston