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Grinder in the Groundwood Room at the Edmundston Fraser Mill
Grinder in the Groundwood Room at the Edmundston Fraser Mill

Date: August 13th, 1970
Creator: Studio Laporte
Source: CDEM Fraser Companies Limited Collection
Collaborator(s): Mr. Réal Couturier, Mr. William Brebner

Description: We see millstones in the groundwood room at the Edmundston Fraser pulp mill,on August 13th, 1970. The millstone was made of a cement stone with an abrasive crown held in place by a grindstone. It crushed and ground 4-foot logs that had been previously barked.

Subject: New Brunswick,Forests, Logging, Pulp mills, Edmundston