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Log Drive
Drive on Tobique River
Drive on Tobique River

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 logs has moved down the Tobique River on its journey to the Fraser Companies Limited Sawmill in Plaster Rock, N. B., men armed with peavies and pike poles sweep the river to free logs caught on flats and along the banks.

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