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13 May 2024  
 

Contested Territory: Transformation of the Woods

Life and Work in Stanley Parish at the Time of the Great War

ILLUSTRATIONS

Title: Map.

Description: Northern York County, New Brunswick.

Source: Map Drawn by Mike Bechtold.

Title: Daniel MacMillan (1863-1960).

Description: Daniel MacMillan, a York County farmer and labourer, chronicled the hardships of rural working-class life in his diaries written between 1912 and 1928.

Source: Courtesy of Marion Burnett.

Title: MacMillan Family.

Description: Daniel MacMillan with Edith, his niece, and her children.

Source: Courtesy of Marion Burnett.

Title: Fraser's Mill in the Early 1920s.

Description: “September 22, 1919 – Jim went back to his job in the mill and Charle started down to Fraser's [mill] today” .

Source: Provincial Archives of New-Brunswick, P145/62.

Title: Lumbermen at Work.

Description: Lumbermen at work with peavies on a log jam during a drive on a New Brunswick river.

Source: Provincial Archives of New-Brunswick P126/15.

Title: War on the Home Front.

Description: Goose Lane Editions, Fredericton has published a book based on the diaries of a farmer and rural labourer in York County, New Brunswick.

Source: Goose Lane Editions.