This blog contains notes, anecdotes and adventures related to Edmonton's early industries:
Logging on N. Saskatchewan River
Mining
Meatpacking
Brickmaking
LOGGING ALONG N. SASKATCHEWAN RIVER
logging camps upsteeam then loggers conducted log drivesto get logs down to lumber yards in Edmonton
colourful people
fights
near-drownings
here's some assorted notes:
Upas made trip up river to near Fraser's timber limits and near Goose Encampment EB, July 5, 1894
EB, July 5, 1894
the Big Eddy almost drowned several loggers working for Fraser & Co.
the Big Eddy is three miles downstream from Buck Creek, about 100 mils upstream from Edmonton
eddy forms a regular whirlpool at intervals of about half an hour and when the whirlpool is forming, is very dangerous.
Morris Smeltzer one of loggers
they used log canoe to attempt rescue. that also suffered
a different Big Eddy on Sask. River in Saskatchewan
55 kms from village of Cumberland house, Saskatchewan
at Pine bluff?
in Cumberland house delta?
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Mining
Meatpacking
Brickmaking
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