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Log Drive
The Log River Drive on Little Tobique
The Log River Drive on Little Tobique

Date: 1957
Creator: Studio Laporte
Source: CDEM Fraser Companies, Limited Collection
Collaborator(s): Mr. Léopold Couturier, Mr. Martin N. Turgeon

Description: Drivers used peavies to release and roll the 16-foot logs on the Little Tobique River in the Plaster Rock area. Logs were then driven to the Fraser Companies Limited Sawmill in Plaster Rock, N.B.

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