Joseph Montferrand
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Joseph "Jos" Montferrand was a French-Canadian logger, strongman, and folk hero of the working man and was the inspiration for the legendary Ottawa Valley figure Big Joe Mufferaw.
Drawing of Montferrand by W. M. Macdonnel
Headstone of Joseph Montferrand
Statue of Mufferaw in Mattawa, Ontario.
Lumberjack
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Lumberjack is a mostly North American term for workers in the logging industry who perform the initial harvesting and transport of trees. The term usually refers to loggers in the era before 1945 in t
Joseph Montferrand
…Joseph "Jos" Montferrand (French: ; born Joseph Favre ; October 25, 1802 – October 4, 1864) was a French-Canadian logger, strongman, and folk hero of the working man and was the inspiration for the legendary Ottawa Valley figure Big Joe Mufferaw. Joseph Favre, dit…
A lumberjack c. 1900
Jigger Johnson (d. 1935), the fabled Maine woodsman whom historians Stewart Holbrook and Robert E. Pike call "the last lumberjack"
A Maine logging camp in 1906