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Wood Transportation
Loading Wood on a Truck
Loading Wood on a Truck

Date: 197-
Creator: Studio Laporte
Source: CDEM Fraser Companies Limited Collection
Collaborator(s): Mr. Léopold Couturier

Description: From 1955 onward, Fraser hired workers to salvage wood from the bottom of the Madawaska River during winter. This allowed a clean-up of the river and the recuperation of logs caught at the bottom of the river. This wood was then transported to the Fraser mill in Edmundston.

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