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Mill Workers
Dam on the Tobique River
Dam on the Tobique River

Date: Sometime after 1906
Creator:
Source: CDEM Fraser Companies Limited Collection
Collaborator(s): Mr. Martin N. Turgeon

Description: Here we see a dam on the Tobique River near the Plaster Rock sawmill. Four men are floating logs using pike poles toward the haul-up of the sawmill built by the Frasers in 1906. Logs would then be barked and sawed into boards in the sawmill .

Subject: New Brunswick, Logging, Sawmill Workers, Plaster Rock