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Pulp Mills
Platform of Barked Wood at the Edmundston Fraser Mill
Platform of Barked Wood at the Edmundston Fraser Mill

Date: Jan. 1977
Creator: Studio Laporte
Source: CDEM Fraser Companies Limited Collection
Collaborator(s): Mr. William Brebner

Description: At the end of the wood room, we can see a barking drum in January 1977. 4-foot logs were barked and then transported on this platform to the groundwood room. However, we notice that some logs are not completely barked. They will be returned to the barker.

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