Canada, Britain's largest colony; with a chapter on Newfoundland and Labrador; (1904) (14802872023)

Identifier: canadabritainsla00hayd (find matches)
Title: Canada, Britain's largest colony; with a chapter on Newfoundland and Labrador;
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Haydon, Arthur Lincoln, 1872-
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Publisher: London, Cassell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto



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e shantymen, the regular lumbererswho are engaged in the work pretty well all throughthe year, have set to work to build the shantyfor us. There are many French-Canadians—Pierres, Baptistes, and Michels—among the oldhands, for these descendants of the courairs dc hoismake good woodmen. As ours is a rather large party—forty in all—we arc provided with a long log building with asloping roof. There is only one door, the otherend being closed up. Along one side are ranged the sleeping bunks,one above another. On the other side is the cooks caboose, the cooking fire which is to prepareour meals. Our cook is an old hand, and we knowwe can rely on his bread being light and sweet, andupon an occasional plum duff pudding. Baked pork and beans will be our staple dishduring our sojourn in the woods, with canned beefor fish, rice and tea. The food will have to becarefully portioned out, as we are a long way fromany place whence supplies may be obtained, andthese only come in at intervals.
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Pli..n: ir. Snttlliii ,f >. LUMBERAUNS CAMP ON THE NASHWAAK. I50 CANADA. Beginning Operations. An account given by a Canadian writer, Mr.E. R. Peacock, well describes the lumbermen at work. When the men reach the shanty, he says, they are divided by the foreman into four gangs,each with a boss and a special class of work todo. The best men fell the trees and cut them intologs. Another lot drag the logs to a central pointfor the teamsters, who draw them to the lake orriver, while the green hands make roads andclear away brush before the men who are draggingin the logs. Everything moves with the utmostregularity, and an astonishingly large amount ofwork is done. The logs are all drawn to the nearest lakeor stream, where they are piled on the ice, or onthe bank if the current be too swift for good ice. The food supplies are liauled from the supph^depot by men called coasters, each of whom hasa team of heavy horses and a large sleigh. Theyoften come sixty or seventy miles through thewo