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Wood Transportation
Man Loading a Sled
Man Loading a Sled

Date: After 1955
Creator:
Source: CDEM Fraser Companies, Limited Collection
Collaborator(s): Mr. Doris Hébert, Mr. Guy Bouchard, Mr. Léopold Couturier

Description: From 1995 onward, Fraser hired workers in winter to retrieve wood from the bottom of the Madawaska River. This allowed a cleaning of the river and salvaging of wood. Here we see a man loading a sled with 4-foot logs. The load was then transported to the Fraser mill in Edmundston.

Subject: New Brunswick, Logging, Lumber, Transportation, Madawaska River