Sunday, October 16, 2011

chopping down trees

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In addition to being the subject of many Paul Bunyan-esque tall tales, Mufferaw is sometimes enlisted as a defender of oppressed French Canadian loggers in the days when their bosses were English and their rivals for work were Irish. In one story, Big Joe was in a Montreal bar, where a British army major named Jones was freely insulting French Canadians. After Big Joe beat the major, he bellowed, "Any more insults for the Canadians?"


A real strongman, a logger in the Ottawa Valley timber trade by the name of Joseph Montferrand lived from 1802 to 1864. French Canadian writer Benjamin Sulte told this man's story in a 1975 book. He also is the subject of a chapter in Joan Finnegan's 1981 book Giants of the Ottawa Valley and her 1983 book Look! The Land is Growing Giants. Bernie Bedore of Arnprior also wrote several books recounting Joe's adventures.











Chopping Down Trees cartoon 4



been chopping down trees.



Chopping down trees to save



Chop Down Trees cartoon 4



man chopping down tree



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of Horace chopping down trees



chopping of old oak trees



So we chopped down a tree.



cutting down tree



but cutting down forests



Wood Cutters gift image 5



chopping down a tree



Logger cutting down tree


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