1850: A Hard-working River

". . . vast quantities [of lumber are] . . . made to descend the course of the Bonne-chere. On our way up the stream, we found it almost entirely blocked up with squared timber, sometimes for miles altogether."
-Alexander Murray, 1853, Geological Survey of Canada

Imagine a bottlebrush cleaning a test tube, and you get an idea of how the log drives must have affected stretches of the Little Bonnechere River.

Listen: Henry McGuey tells Rory MacKay about a Dam Breaking

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