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Lumbering
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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logs towed in rafts or booms (def. 3) from one place to another.
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1927
Lumbering began in Tracadie soon after 1800. At first the people worked at preparing white pine tow timber. This could not be shipped from Tracadie, but had to be formed into rafts and towed along the shore to Miramichi to be exported.