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Tractor Pushing 16-Foot Logs in Little Tobique River
Tractor Pushing 16-Foot Logs in Little Tobique River

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

Description: At this landing of 16-foot logs on the Little Tobique River, men armed with peavies remove the top layer of logs. Here in this photo, a tractor pushes the 16-foot logs stuck together in ice into the river. The logs are being started on their 60 mile drive down the river to the Fraser Companies Limited Sawmill of Plaster Rock, N. B.

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