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Log Drive
Drivers Armed with Pike Poles
Drivers Armed with Pike Poles

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 log drive down the Tobique River to Fraser Companies Limited Sawmill in Plaster Rock, N. B., men armed with pike poles sweep the river to free logs caught on shoals and along the banks.

Subject: New Brunswick, Logging, Log Driving,Forest. Plaster Rock, Tobique River