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Unloading Wood Chips from a Freight Car at the Fraser Mill in Edmundston
Unloading Wood Chips from a Freight Car at the Fraser Mill in Edmundston

Date: Dec. 31st, 1970
Creator: Studio Laporte
Source: CDEM Fraser Companies Limited Collection
Collaborator(s): Mr. William Brebner

Description: We see two men unloading a Canadian Pacific freight car using pike poles. Those sticks were used to move the chips to the bottom of the car. Wood chips were used to make pulp and paperboard.

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