Canadian Heritage

Thematic Collections

Wood Transportation
Wood Transported by Horses and Sleds in the Plaster Rock Region
Wood Transported by Horses and Sleds in the Plaster Rock Region

Date: 1940
Creator:
Source: CDEM Fraser Companies Limited Collection
Collaborator(s): Mr. Martin N. Turgeon

Description: We see sleds loaded with 4-foot debarked logs being transported by horses in the winter of 1940. Loggers cut 20-foot logs into 16-foot logs and then sent the 4-foot logs to the Fraser pulp mill in Edmundston by train.

Subject: New Brunswick, Logging, Lumber, Transportation, Plaster Rock