Canadian Heritage

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Log Drive
Drivers on the Madawaska River
Drivers on the Madawaska River

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

Description: A log driver is guiding 4-foot logs, using a pike pole, to the Haul Up of the Edmundston Fraser Pulp Mill in in the 1950s. Notice the boatman making sure the booms are intact and pushing logs to the loggers.

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