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Mr. Réal Levasseur with a Chain Saw Cutting a Hole in the Ice
Mr. Réal Levasseur with a Chain Saw Cutting a Hole in the Ice

Date: 197-
Creator: Studio Laporte
Source: CDEM Fraser Companies, Limited Collection
Collaborator(s): Mr. Léopold Couturier, M. Martin N. Turgeon

Description: From 1955 onward, Fraser hired workers to retrieve wood from the bottom of the Madawaska River during winter. This operation allowed to clean the river and to salvage wood caught at the bottom of the river. Here we see Mr. Réal Levasseur cutting a hole in the ice with a chainsaw in the 1970s. Wood that was salvaged was sent to the Fraser Mill in Edmundston.

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