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To Each Their Own

Two drivers carefully balance themselves while steering logs at the bottom of a waterfall.

Appartenance Mauricie Société d’histoire régionale, Le Nouvelliste Fonds

Drivers took considerable risks to transport enormous amounts of wood to the mills. In 1942, the Compagnie de flottage du Saint-Maurice had sent about 55,000 logs down the river, or 85 million cubic feet of wood.