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Log Drive
Driver Beaking up the Log Jam
Driver Beaking up the Log Jam

Date: May 1st, 1957
Creator: L. B. Coburn, Studio Laporte
Source: CDEM Fraser Companies, Limited Collection
Collaborator(s): Mr. Martin N. Turgeon

Description: In the spring of 1957, a 16-foot log drive down the Little Tobique River just below Lake Nictau, creates jams; men, armed with peavies, are breaking up the jam, sending the logs on their way to the Fraser Companies Limited Sawmill of Plaster Rock, N. B., some 60 miles away.

Subject: New Brunswick,Forests, Logging, Log Driving, Plaster Rock, Little Tobique River