Abstract of interview with Chipman, N.B. resident (age 74), 1 July, 1982.

002 : In the woods at age eight. Chopping right- and left-handed. He could chop both ways by the age of ten. Worked at various spots throughout the years. No logs were hauled out. Always hauled to a stream for the drive to Chipman. Walked down the shore with the logs. Catamarans carried four or five men, who poled among the logs. Often logs would completely block the stream and the jam had to be broken. Men would ride the logs downstream when the jam broke. Dangerous. Often made rafts of logs, which were towed by boat to the mill.

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058 : Entering the woods in the fall (Mid-Sept., early Oct.) Stayed in tents while building the camp (about two weeks). "Hovel" built for the horses. Logs constituted the floor of the camp; levelled by an adze. Bunks; brush from woods made up matresses. Barrels of food; hogshead of molasses.

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106 : Lumbering accidents. Many men cut themselves with axes. Had to travel perhaps 25-30 miles by team to get to a doctor. "We had three doctors here [in the 1930s] : Dr. Armstrong, Dr. H. B. Hay and Dr. Nugent." His step father, Henry Ackerman, broke his leg one winter. They were about ten miles from the railroad, in woods, and there was no train until the next morning. Some men cut ash into splints and Cecil set his leg and bound it. He went out the next morning, but was back in two weeks time, on crutches.

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