Show lumber regions of canada these foresters were a lot of rough men not large but muscular and well knit the most of them were of the poorer class either young unmarried men or men who having no land to cultivate must keep their families by their wages in tile tho summer season they worked for the fishing merchants in the gulf of st lawrence the winter they passed at these lumber shanties and during the spring fres freshets fresh bets ets they helped to drive tile the logs they had cut and tho the voyageur voyage ur here also generally holds his place in the front rank explores and reports the quality and quantity of tim in certain I 1 limits or frequently fills the position of boss or at the lowest wields nothing interior inferior to the ax in short his skill and judgment in woodcraft naturally aliv makes make him one of the most valuable hands and such is his love of the woods that in old age lle he will sometimes spend tho the I 1 winter at a camp doing odd jobs mandof many of the voyageurs voya geurs again hold their freedom above any waxes wanes in the fall they load their canoes canoes with provisions and go off in pairs for the winter to compete with the indians as birters and trappers in the remotest wilderness der ness C H farnham I 1 |