Indigenous Military history at the Canadian War Museum

CANADIAN TIMBER MEN AT WORK IN SOUTHERN HOLLAND November 1944 Two CMP 2-ton lorries, one from the forestry unit carrying timber, negotiate a mud track in a forest near Deurne. Lumberjacks fell young trees with axes and saws and chop tree trunks in two. A CMP lorry deposits newly- felled logs at the company's sawmill; lumbermen sort the logs out and feed them individually into a belt-driven circular saw which splits the timber down the middle. The logs are then stacked nearby for despatch front-l

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Liberation stories from Canadian veterans and Dutch survivors