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| Unidentified Russel Boats
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
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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
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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
For more Russel exhibits visit Owen Sound Marine & Rail Museum 1165 1st Ave West, Owen Sound, ON N4K 4K8
(519) 371-3333  http://marinerail.com |
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