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Log Drive
Moving the Logs over  the Shallows
Moving the Logs over the Shallows

Date: June 10th, 1955
Creator: L. R. Coburn, Studio Laporte
Source: CDEM Fraser Companies, Limited Collection
Collaborator(s): Mr. Martin N. Turgeon

Description: After the main drive of the logs down the Tobique River on its journey to Fraser Companies Limited Sawmill in Plaster Rock, N. B., men armed with pike poles sweep the river to free logs caught on shallows and along the banks.

Subject: New Brunswick,Forests, Logging, Log driving, Plaster Rock, Tobique River