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Loading Chips in Freight Cars at the Plaster Rock Fraser Sawmill
Loading Chips in Freight Cars at the Plaster Rock Fraser Sawmill

Date: 195-
Creator: Studio Laporte
Source: CDEM Fraser Companies Limited Collection
Collaborator(s): Mr. Martin N. Turgeon

Description: We see a conveyor on the premises of the Plaster Rock Fraser Sawmill, loading wood chips into a freight car in the 1950s. The chips would be transported by the Canadian Pacific Railway to the Edmundston and Atholville Fraser mills.

Subject: New Brunswick,Forests, Logging, Sawmills, Plaster Rock