. Canadian forest industries January-June 1923. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CANADA LUMBERMAN 51 lumbering and logging scenes on the Ottawa and Gatineau rivers were thrown upon the screen. They were exciting and showed the wild, rollicking, devil-may-care life of the woodsman forty years â ago, when some high old times were characteristic of the calling. Then there was often hard drinking and free fights, but these are already things of the past and the better class of lumberjack to-day are steady-going, industrious chaps who have
. Canadian forest industries January-June 1923. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CANADA LUMBERMAN 51 lumbering and logging scenes on the Ottawa and Gatineau rivers were thrown upon the screen. They were exciting and showed the wild, rollicking, devil-may-care life of the woodsman forty years â ago, when some high old times were characteristic of the calling. Then there was often hard drinking and free fights, but these are already things of the past and the better class of lumberjack to-day are steady-going, industrious chaps who have families and save their money for home and its comforts. Of course, there are exceptions but these only go to prove the rule that a great change has taken place in the class and nature of the help engaged in the woods. In the daily press recently an old-timer gave the following in- teresting reminiscences, which along with those of Capt. Dollar, are particularly apropos: " 'Taint like that now," exclaimed a grizzled bushman from Northern Ontario as he sat in a Toronto picture show the other day and viewed the above portrayal. He was gazing at the old- time camboose in which the shantymen used to live. "But I mind them cambooses when I was a young feller forty-year ago," said he. "They was just log buildings with a big hole in the centre of the roof to let the smoke out; and a big, open fire built on a pile of sand, held in place by logs. There was two or three rows of bunks around the sides. All we had to eat in them days was Chicago pork in barrels, and beans, and bread and tea, and molasses. We never seen sugar, nor coffee, nor butter nor jam, and we got pie once a weekâon ; "That's how it was when I first went to work in the bush in the fall of 1882, back north of Penetang," quoth the veteran. "Weren't no kicking about the grub like there is to-day. Boys, but them beansâbaked (all night in the hot sandâtasted good, an
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