Barkentine George E. Corbitt, built at Digby, Nova Scotia, about 1875. From an oil painting that formerly hung in the home of the vessel's owner, the late George E. Corbitt, at Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. Courtesy of George Shaw. Lumbermen and their camp somewhere in the woods of the Miramichi region, New Brunswick, about 1890. From a photograph in the collection of J. Leonard O'Brien.
Spiked tools are peaveys, for handling logs.
From a photograph of the 1890's. Courtesy of J. Leonard O'Brien. Hauling logs to a landing. Yarded logs have been rolled high on the sled by loader sadept with peavey and cross-haul. From a photograph of about 1890, the collection of J. Leonard O'Brien.