Title: Woman Cook in the Woods.

Description: A woman wearing an apron is standing next to a male cook and a man on a sleigh of logs being hauled by a horse.

Source: Provincial Archives of New Brunswick.

Title: New Settler and Family.

Description: A family involved in a “shacking” operation, a family-based mode of production in the woods in which all of the family members assisted in the work.

Source: Annual Report of the Department of Lands and Mines.

Title: Norma's First Camp.

Description: An image of the first camp Norma Tucker cooked in. Norma worked in the woods from 1956 to 1962.

Source: Courtesy of Norma Tucker.

Title: Camp of Édith B. Pinet.

Description: The camp of Édith B. Pinet, who began cooking in the woods when she was just 12 years old.

Source: Virtual Museum of Canada.

Title: Family of Helen Carmichael Dodge.

Description: These images show Helen's brothers and sisters and her father at their camp in the woods. Helen Carmichael Dodge and her siblings grew up in woods of Northern New Brunswick. Her father was a lumberman, and she and her father would move to the lumber camps in the fall and stay until spring, never spending more than one winter in the same camp. Her mother cooked for a crew of men in the camps, seldom seeing another woman.

Source: Helen Carmichael Dodge, My Childhood in the Canadian Wilderness (New York: Vantage Press, 1961).

Title: Loggers, Women and Children in Front of Camp.

Description: A group of loggers with women and children in a camp near Baker Lake around 1915.

Source: The Madawaska Archives (CDEM Collection).

Title: Barbara and Wesley Chase.

Description: Barbara Chase and her husband, Wesley, in the woods. Barbara cooked in the woods for four years beginning in 1945.

Source: Chipman Heritage Project (2007).

Title: Wangan and Crew.

Description: A wangan. Barbara Chase recalled cooking on a wangan while working on the river drive.

Source: Chipman Historical Photo Committee, Chipman: Then and Now. ([Chipman, N.B.]: Chipman Historical Committee, 2002).