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Mill Workers
Workers Feeding Wood on the Conveyor
Workers Feeding Wood on the Conveyor

Date: 1945
Creator: Geraldine Carpernter Studio Inc.
Source: CDEM Fraser Companies Limited Collection
Collaborator(s): Mr. Martin N. Turgeon, Mr. Réal Couturier, Mr. William Brebner

Description: We see workers handling logs with their hands or with pulpwood hooks in 1945. This wood was placed on a conveyor and sent to the woodroom at the Fraser mill of Edmundston. Then the pulpwood was sent to the chipper or cut in 16 inches logs for groundwood.

Subject: New Brunswick, Logging, Pulp Industry, Staff, Edmundston