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Mill Workers
Inside the Kiln Dryers at the Sawmill in Plaster Rock
Inside the Kiln Dryers at the Sawmill in Plaster Rock

Date: April 1971
Creator: Studio Laporte
Source: CDEM Fraser Companies Limited Collection
Collaborator(s): Mr. Martin N. Turgeon

Description: A man is placing boards in stacks with a forklift inside the kiln at the Fraser sawmill in Plaster Rock. This kiln regulated temperature to dry boards before shipping them by train. Picture taken in April 1971.

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