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Mr. Willie Dumont at Purvis Brook
Mr. Willie Dumont at Purvis Brook

Date: 1943
Creator:
Source: CDEM Fraser Companies, Limited Collection
Collaborator(s): Mr. Doris Hébert, Mr. Guy Bouchard, Mr. Léopold Couturier

Description: Mr. Willie Dumont was a logger working in either Camp 23 or 24 along Purvis Brook in Green River in 1943. He cut timber and removed branches with an axe for Fraser Companies. We see him here with a 4-foot long debarked log.

Subject: New Brunswick,Forests, Logging, Tree Felling, Green River, Purvis Brook