Logdrivers

Duration: 15

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1982

Creator: Beacon House Inc

Format: 16mm

Color: Color & B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Documents the excitement and danger of the annual spring log drive, traditional climax to the logging season, one the last river in North America where white pine is driven as it was 100 years ago. With their pike poles and peaveys and oar power pointer boats the riverman herd the logs downstream prodding poking and sometimes dynamiting, till they reach the mill. Up at 5 a.m. for breakfast, up to their waists in cold water by 6, they have first lunch at 11, second lunch at 3, dinner at 7 and bed down at 8. A sage from another time still carried on today., Follows the spring log drive from timber stand to sawmill down the Coulouge River in Quebec, comparing the axes and horse- drawn sleds of the 1920s to modern equipment used today.

Complete Record: Documents the excitement and danger of the annual spring log drive, traditional climax to the logging season, one the last river in North America where white pine is driven as it was 100 years ago. With their pike poles and peaveys and oar power pointer boats the riverman herd the logs downstream prodding poking and sometimes dynamiting, till they reach the mill. Up at 5 a.m. for breakfast, up to their waists in cold water by 6, they have first lunch at 11, second lunch at 3, dinner at 7 and bed down at 8. A sage from another time still carried on today., Color photography intercut with archival footage captures the method, skill and lifestyle of loggers in the Coulonge River area of Quebec, northwest of Ottawa. Archival footage of logging in the 1920's is compared to the present-day log drive and the influence of new technology. In many aspects, however, life in the logging camp is the same as it was a hundred years ago. , Follows the spring log drive from timber stand to sawmill down the Coulouge River in Quebec, comparing the axes and horse- drawn sleds of the 1920s to modern equipment used today.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.