Abstract of interview with Chipman, N.B. resident (age 73), 24 June, 1982.

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229 : Lumbering. The men all went to the woods in October. The married men would come out once in a while; the single men wouldn’t come out till Christmas.

236 : Tools abd working conditions. He remembers the cross-cut saw and axe. They would work daylight thill dark. They would work for as low as $20 a month [in the 1930s]. […]