Author: Leon-A. Robidoux
Synopsis: The 1800s—the era of the timber trade in Ontario and Quebec—lumber camps supplied logs to sawmills or forwarding companies, workers built rafts of the felled timber, and raftsmen were hired to take them down the Ottawa and St. Lawrence Rivers to the Port of Quebec, where they were disassembled and the timber shipped to England. The author brings to life the story of the raftsmen, whose work helped shape Canada and then faded into history.
Genre: Historic Non-fiction, Biography
Published in: 2008
No. of Pages: 197
ISBN: 9781896754383