Here we are in front of a reconstruction of five logging camps from the 1930s-1940s. The Chantier Gédéon tourist museum shows you the hard work and difficult living conditions in which lumberjacks lived. There are five buildings: the sleepcamp, cookerie, office, jobber, and stable.
Work in the forestry yards usually lasted from October to April. Very early in the fall, the required site for the camps was cleared. The men were building them with wood cut on site. It took no more than seven to ten days to complete all buildings. October to the end of February was the time for tree felling. In March and April, the wood was transported to the water.
In the spring, when the frost thawed, the drave and the flotation of the wood began. The work in the forest ceased. The men would collect their belongings, collect their wages and pay their debts to the clerk. They would then return home.
The hard living conditions on the job sites, the arduous work of lumberjacks, a job that was quite dangerous and the meagre salary of one dollar a day were the reality for his men.