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Building a fish weir in 1936

Black and white photograph (1936): men building a fish weir. Two men on a wooden structure drive stakes into the ground with mallets. Another man on the ground prepares/ handles the materials). Right: ox (transports materials /assists with construction).

Archives de la Côte-du-Sud, Horace Miner Collection.

Men are planting wooden stakes in the ground at regular intervals. These stakes, which were often made of black spruce, formed the basic structure of a fish weir.