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Logging Operations

Log-Pickers

Available Images: Full Size
Accession Number: Ca1630
Category: Lumbering; Logging Operations
Description: "A log that had been felled, skidded, sleigh-hauled, driven down a river, then boomed up and towed...represented a considerable investment, and was worth retrieving." (John Macfie, "Parry Sound Old Times") Log-pickers would rescue stranded logs and return them to the mill, and they were paid well for their services.
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Source: CT
Physical Attributes: 8.7cm x 12.2cm; b/w photograph
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Keywords: lumbering; logging; operations; pickers; rescue; stranded; salvage; transport; logs; sawlogs; company; export; lumbermen; Carling;
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