Nova Scotia Archives

African Nova Scotians in the Age of Slavery and Abolition

Operating the circular saw at the Anderson sawmill near Hammonds Plains

Anderson and an employee are using the circular saw to cut logs into junks (chunks).

Date: 1949

Photographer: C.R. Brookbank

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives  C.R. Brookbank, Afro-Canadian Communities in Halifax County, Nova Scotia (unpublished MA thesis, University of Toronto, 1949), page 41 (HT431 /B871 /A259) negative number: N-6943

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