Lumberjacks hold a permanent place in Canadian folklore and history. While the practice of felling trees has been taking place for thousands of years — beginning with Indigenous people and …

Lumberjack is a mostly North American term for workers in the logging industry who perform the initial harvesting and transport of trees. The term usually refers to loggers in the era before …

A bûcheron, or lumberjack, was a man who cut down trees in a forest using hand tools such as axes or saws. The logs would then be transported with the ultimate goal of turning them into …

We come across a lumberjack who cuts down thousand-year-old trees in perilous conditions. A tugboat captain dragging behind him a raft of 30,000 tons of ...more. Here is an original …

Nov 16, 2019 · If you were a New Brunswick lumberjack in the 19th century, you'd be heading into the woods just about now to work at a lumber camp for the winter.

At the heart of the economy is the wood that teams of lumberjacks cut from the immense forest. Their job is a dangerous one: if they don’t take it seriously, it could take their lives. We join the...

Lumberjacks hold a permanent place in Canadian history. The practice of felling trees began thousands of years ago with Indigenous Peoples who used stone axes and fire and girdled the …

We join the loggers of British Colombia, Canada as they battle 6-metre-wide trees, 200km an hour winds and a slippy terrain that is also home to grizzly bears. They put their lives on the line...

Nov 3, 2014 · To put it plainly, wood was a really big deal for not just Ontario, but Canada on the whole throughout the 19th century. Fuelled by American expansionism and European …

It was just around the change for the 18th century, but your professional logger — or lumberjack — came to be. Over a lot more than next hundred years, the timber trade-in Eastern Canada …