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Edmunston, NB Five shots all from the Fraser Mill, 1940s to 1972, showing a winch boat with a very distinctive cabin. One shot shows "LAURENCE" on the port cabin wall.

 

Tugboat on the Madawaska River. Date: After 1940 Source: CDEM Fraser Companies, Limited Collection Collaborator(s): Mr. Doris Hébert, Mr. Guy Bouchard, Mr. Léopold Couturier Description: We are here at the Fraser mill in Edmundston on the Madawaska River. A tugboat circulates along the river banks to retrieve logs that ran aground on the banks.
source: Knock on Wood: The forest at the heart of the madawaskayan social and cultural heritage in Acadie

 

Drive on the Madawaska River Date: 195- Creator: Geraldine Carpenter Studio Inc. Source: CDEM Fraser Companies, Limited Collection Collaborator(s): Mr. Léopold Couturier Description: We see a haul-up located along the Madawaska River. Pulpwood was placed on it to be brought up into the Fraser Mill in Edmundston.
source: Knock on Wood: The forest at the heart of the madawaskayan social and cultural heritage in Acadie

 

Tugboat on the Madawaska River Date: After 1940 Creator: Source: CDEM Fraser Companies, Limited Collection Collaborator(s): Mr. Doris Hébert, Mr. Guy Bouchard, Mr. Léopold Couturier Description: Here we are on the site of the Fraser Mill in Edmundston on the Madawaska River. A driver is guiding pullwood logs toward the haul-up of the mill. The tugboat circulates along the river banks to retrieve logs that were caught.
source: Knock on Wood: The forest at the heart of the madawaskayan social and cultural heritage in Acadie

 

Salvaging Wood from the Madawaska River Date: 1972 Creator: Studio Laporte Source: Cdem Fraser Companies, Limited Collection Collaborator(s): Mr. Léopold Couturier Description: Salvaging wood from the Madawaska River in 1972. Wood that sunk at the bottom of the river caused pollution. For that reason, environment laws required that Fraser companies clean up the Madawaska River after the last spring drive in 1967. This crane was used to dredge the wood from the river bottom and to deposit the logs in the boats.
source: Knock on Wood: The forest at the heart of the madawaskayan social and cultural heritage in Acadie

 

PC3-51 DRAVE sur la rivière Saint-Jean, en juillet 1948.
http://www.umce.ca/biblio/cdem/photos/PC3-51.jpg

 

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