Canadian Heritage

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Log Drive
Driver Handling a Pike Pole
Driver Handling a Pike Pole

Date: 195-
Creator:
Source: CDEM Fraser Companies, Limited Collection
Collaborator(s): Mr. Léopold Couturier

Description: Log drivers are guiding 4-foot logs, using pike poles, to the Log Haul-Up of the Fraser mill in Edmundston during the 1950s. Notice the boat moving about on the Madawaska River. It made sure the booms were intact.

Subject: New Brunswick,Forests, Logging, log driving, Edmundston, Madawaska River