Arpin Canoe Restigouche has been renting canoes to tourists on the Restigouche River since 1993. (Shane Fowler/CBC)
In 1993, a struggling sheep farmer in northern New Brunswick
decided to put a few canoes on his front lawn and rent them out to
people looking to explore the Restigouche River.
Those six canoes grew to become a flotilla of 110.
"It just went wild," said Andre Arpin, founder of Arpin Canoe Restigouche.
Today,
the business is the premier tourist destination in that part of the
province, winning national awards and attracting people from around the
globe.
But after 26 years, Arpin said, the wilderness that
surrounds the business and the tourism it fosters is under threat from a
forest industry that is only concerned about sustaining itself.
CBC News New Brunswick Clearcutting and spraying threaten tourism, business owners say
Owners of tourism
businesses in northern New Brunswick say forestry activity has limited
operations for years and is threatening the future. 0:56
Issues with industry
Arpin
spent 2½ decades working with his canoes full time. He hired staff to
guide guests, transport boats and maintain the fleet.
He sold
the business to his daughter a few years ago, but said it continues to
thrive solely because of the untouched wilderness of the river.
He said tourists are looking for the version of Canada they see on postcards, and northern New Brunswick is where they find it.
But as Arpin speaks, his voice is drowned out by the roar of logging trucks from across the river.
Andre
Arpin made a living by showcasing the natural beauty of Restigouche
County. But he says a dominant forestry industry threatens tourism
businesses and the wilderness that draws people to the area. (Shane Fowler/CBC)
From the river you can only see trees, but the booming stutter of transport truck brakes and downshifting is deafening.
"Just behind the trees there is a major road to get all the wood from here to the Quebec border," said Arpin.
"We
would have liked to have campsites nearby, but it's impossible with the
traffic. There's just no opportunity there because nobody would sleep
at night. It's all night."
For Arpin, it's the lost opportunities because of forestry operations that keep the area from taking off.
Andre
Arpin says he'd always hoped to expand his canoe rental business to
include a campground, but says the 'deafening' traffic of logging trucks
won't allow anyone to sleep. (Shane Fowler/CBC)
It's not just campsites. Hiking trails have also been wiped out by logging.
He
said the trail leading to waterfalls on the Gounamitz River has been
obliterated. It's no longer a place he can take tourists.
"It's kind
of nonsense to bring them to see a nice fall when you drive through
clearcut for a while, and it just kind of ruins the whole trip," said
Arpin.
"We didn't think they would have a clearcut the whole
stretch, all the way to the river. But they've just wiped
everything. You were like on the moon."
Andre
Arpin, founder of Arpin Canoe Restigouche, said that when tourists from
other countries travel on the Restigouche River they discover the
Canada they've seen on postcards. (Shane Fowler/CBC)
He said there had been plans to develop a mountain-climbing attraction near Stillwater Brook, along the Restigouche River.
He said there is a steep drop "and there was opportunity there," said Arpin.
"We had to fight in order to save that little portion. And the energy we put in fighting, it took too long."
Preservation attempts drew attention to the area. It was clear cut soon after.
"It just kills all the opportunity to develop another aspect of tourism," said Arpin.
'The smell of the chemicals lasts a week'
An hour's drive away is another tourism hotspot on another northern New Brunswick river.
For
the last 10 years, Guildo Martel has been renting inflatable tubes to
travel down the Little Tobique River just outside Mount Carleton
Provincial Park. For two decades prior to that he rented canoes and
kayaks for use inside the park.
He's fed up with the
disappointment of tourists after they drive through repeated clearcuts.
But he's furious with the spraying of herbicides, such as glyphosate,
which he said literally leaves a bad taste in tourists' mouths.
Guildo
Martel owns and operates Aventure Mont-Carleton Adventure. He said
forestry operations have had a negative impact on his tourism business. (Shane Fowler/CBC)
"The
smell of the chemicals lasts a week," said Martel, adding that
helicopters were spraying just across the road from his business a few
days earlier.
"What do you tell the tourists who sit on the tube on the river and hear and see helicopters spraying chemicals?"
Meanwhile, Martel
said, the mass of clearcuts has dried up smaller streams leading into
the Little Tobique, causing river levels to become unpredictable.
Guildo
Martel says tourists visiting his tube rental company are affected by
forestry operations including clear cutting and herbicide spraying. (Shane Fowler/CBC)
That's
echoed by Arpin, who said the lack of trees has led to flash floods in
recent years. He's had to rescue tourists because flash floods swept
away canoes while they slept along the river overnight.
"It
just raised seven feet and people were on islands and they didn't figure
it would come up that much," said Arpin. "They lost five canoes. There
were 10 people; no canoes to get downriver.
"There was no forest to regulate water flow. So, it puts people at risk some times."
International Trail clear cut
The
thunder of logging trucks, herbicide spray residue and mass clear
cutting can be summed up by northern New Brunswick tourism operators as a
forest industry that has overstepped its bounds.
To them,
nothing showcases the problem more than the clearcutting of the New
Brunswick portion of the International Appalachian Trail.
"It's
a trail that's supposed to be protected," said Samuel Daigle, a
retired family doctor who now is a hiking and kayak guide with
Nepisiguit Adventures based in Bathurst. "In the past some parts of the
trail have been clear cut.
"How can you mark a trail with no trees on it?"
Much
of the trail follows rivers so the trail stays within the buffer zone
where logging companies are not legally able to cut trees. But Daigle
said those clearcuts loom just a few metres away.
Retired
family doctor Samuel Daigle now works with Nepisiguit Adventures and
says he's seen portions of hiking trail clear cut by forest companies. (Shane Fowler/CBC)
"As
soon as the [International Appalachian] trail was marked and everything
was good the companies aimed [for] the trail and cleaned everything,"
said Arpin.
He suspects logging companies target some trails in order to prevent them from becoming potential parks or protected areas.
"They clear
cut everything right away," Arpin said. "So, it's just hard to develop
and go ahead when you're always blocked in your development."
Clear cutting right up to the signature provincial park has also been a blow to tourist expectations.
"People
are disappointed," Daigle said. "Mount Carleton for example. It's a
provincial park, it should be one of the few unspoiled places in the
province. No cell coverage, You're thinking, 'I'm going to be unplugged
and have a pure nature vacation.'
"You're standing on top of
Mount Carleton and, geez, you see a lot of clearcuts. And I've seen
those reactions, it's really disappointing."
Forestry response
There
are a number of forestry companies operating around these tourism
companies, including Twin Rivers Paper Company, Fornebu Lumber Company
Inc., AV Cell Inc., and JD Irving.
CBC News requested an
interview with J.D. Irving Ltd. about the logging truck traffic coming
from its Kedgwick sawmill that Arpin claims is responsible for keeping
his business from expanding.
JDI would not provide an
interview. In a statement, spokesperson Mary Keith did not address the
traffic concerns stating only "we are focused on being a good
[neighbour] and generating year-round jobs."
The company also did not offer a response to concerns about clearcutting hiking trails.
But a
forestry industry advocacy group that represents some of the timber
companies operating in northern New Brunswick said it's open to working
with tourism companies to make some changes.
"I think there's
opportunity to talk and see if there can be minor tweaks or adaptations
to management plans on a year-to-year basis to accommodate where
possible," said Mike Legere, spokesperson for Forest NB.
Mike
Legere, with the forestry industry advocacy group Forest NB, says the
companies he represents are willing to make some changes to their
operations based on feedback from tourism operators. (Shane Fowler/CBC)
Forest
NB represents Fornebu Lumber Company Inc., Twin Rivers Paper Company
and AV Cell, all companies operating on Crown land timber licences in
the area. It does not represent JD Irving, which operates on its own
private land in northern New Brunswick.
"They give
consideration to things like view lines when they're operating," said
Legere. "They don't necessarily have to. But I think to be good
corporate citizens they do consider that and they do want to hear what
the public has to say, including the business community and the tourism
community."
Legere said he's not aware of specific incidents of hiking trails being clear cut, but he said it happens.
He said anyone who comes in contact with herbicide spraying should contact the Department of Energy and Resource Development.
"But
there's no doubt that the forest industry is prominent in New
Brunswick," Legere said. "I mean we're the most forestry-dependent
province in the country based on contribution to GDP."
CBC News
made multiple requests for an interview with someone representing the
Department of Tourism, Heritage and Culture. No one was made available.
In
an emailed statement spokesperson for the department, Jennifer Vienneau
wrote, "No concerns have been brought forward regarding forestry
operations." The remainder of the statement championed the government's
current forestry strategy.
Diverse business wanted
That
prominence is what concerns all three tourism operators. They say it's
no secret forest companies dominate the northern part of the province,
but none of them are entirely opposed to the industry.
"I
understand that we need to cut wood," said Daigle. "There's a need for
it to cut some, but I feel we're cutting way too much."
They
all say they want a reduction on the dependency of a single industry to
allow for others to grow, including a focus on high-end wood products.
"I
know of people who can make $5,000 or $6,000 out of one tree instead of
cutting hundreds and hundreds of trees," said Daigle.
Arpin agreed. He pointed to suffering outfitters as another casualty of forestry operations.
He blamed the disappearance of whitetail deer in his part of the province on clearcuts. The population has been so low in the area for years that hunting deer is prohibited.
He
believes removing the spraying of herbicides and a reduction in
clearcutting would allow for deer hunting to resume, and outfitters to
offer guided deer hunts in the area.
He pointed to the maple
syrup industry and the harvesting of forest mushrooms as more examples
of businesses that are being squeezed by too much forestry.
"We're losing everything for the profit of one," said Arpin. "That's nonsense for New Brunswick."
David Amos Methinks Dr Daigle, Mr Martel and Mr Arpin should be commended for speaking up N'esy Pas?
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @David Amos: no argument here, David!
Ben Haroldson
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Chalk that up.
Lou Bell JDI spokesman M.K. gives the Kelly Anne Conway approved " alternate facts " !
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Lou Bell: Roger that!
David Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: You tell that to all the guys
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @David Amos: not you!
Daniel Rawlins
The
Canadian and many other country's governments condemn Brazil for the
cutting and burning of the rain forest calling it the lungs of the
planet but all forests in the world are part of those lungs, perhaps we
should clean-up our own backyard before pointing fingers at other
nations.
Carroll
Cameron
Reply to @Daniel Rawlins:
Unlike Brazil, NB requires the replanting of cuts, at least on Crown Land.
Archie Levesque
Reply to @Carroll Cameron: So what's it like sitting in Empire HQ and following CBC stories all day?
Carroll
Cameron
Reply to @Archie Levesque:
I can only imagine that it would be rather nice. Just sitting there with my phone adding a few facts to the thread.
From myself to you, I would suggest that you stay off or get off, the
Irving hate truck. It's dangerous. There's been one wreck after another
since it hit the road this AM.
David Amos Content disabled
Reply to @Carroll
Cameron: Methinks after all these years of dealing with corrupt Feds you
Irving dudes are gonna have a tough time trying to scare me N'esy Pas?
Denis Leblanc
This
is very alarming. The companies should not be allowed to spray
herbicides when there is a risk of the spray reaching people. If the
tourists could actually smell the spray they should have pulled the
spray companies licence. They know very well how far the spray can drift
in airial applications and it should not be allowed to drift on people,
rivers and streams. The ministry of energy and natural resources
development and the spray company like to brag there are no health
hazards with this product WHEN USED PROPERLY. When they are actually
spraying people? rivers? streams? wildlife? possibly rural communities
whether directly by drift or contamination of rivers and streams that
flow through those communities. If spraying glyphosate in NB is safe, it
is the first time a wide spread application of chemicals in NB is safe.
How quickly we have forgotten the DDT and fenitrothion snafus. Is it
possible that nobody ever learned any lessons from this practice?
Daniel Rawlins
Reply to @Denis LeBlanc:
DDT and fenitrothion are insecticides not herbicides it is important
when sensationalizing or making comparisons to know what your talking
about ... unless of course your related to Trump.....
David Amos
Reply to @Daniel Rawlins: Who is Trump to us that he is worth mentioning here?
Daniel Rawlins
Reply to @David Amos:
He is the current king of sensationalism and not knowing what he's
talking about in the world and those who do what he does are also
comparable to him.
Alex Scott NB
is now nothing more than one giant tree farm. The "forestry deal"
signed by the previous Conservative government will leave a black mark
on this province for generations. We gave away our forests for basically
nothing.
Carroll Cameron
Reply to @Alex Scott:
That agreement was signed because the first 25 yr agreement ended. The
province didnt give away anything. Companies have to abide by the rules
or face fines or in the most egregious cases, loss of their licence. So
the 3 companies that hold Crown land licences and the contractors that
have the right to cut wood on the Crown land licences, cannot go crazy
cutting as much wood as the want as each Licence is limited to an annual
allowable cut, on Crown land.
David Amos
Reply to @Carroll Cameron: Yea Right
Junkman George Just *think* of the money that is being saved.
No longer do you have to travel to Haiti, or the Amazon, to see clear
cuts and third world conditions, you can simply (and relatively
inexpensively) come to NB.
David Amos
Reply to @Junkman George: Methinks you jest just enough N'esy Pas?
Junkman George
Reply to @David Amos:
Am I "jesting"? How about you try flying over NB just to take a LOOK, get back to me after, ok?
David Amos
Reply to @Junkman George: Methinks you should review your own words and then my reply N'esy Pas?
Carroll Cameron
Reply to @Junkman George:
So what do you think you see? Forests 10, 40, 95% cut?
Junkman George
Reply to @Carroll Cameron:
Specifically:
0 (as in none) old growth.
Acres and acres of clear cut, as in take anything saleable and drop the rest anyway.
As to percentages: 100% of the "easy stuff" is gone (wood harvested on
the flat and level), about 40% of the wood on the hillsides and in the
hollows (the harder stuff).
Carroll Cameron
Reply to @Junkman George:
For now, anyway. Cuts always look bad at first. For some of those areas,
it's probably the second time they were cut, IIRC, from my younger
days. Depending where the cuts are in the province, some areas are slow
to grow trees and other places grow them pretty fast, but, on average,
it takes about 50 yrs for a cut to grow back to a merchanable product.
Shawn McShane What tourists have to say about the 'embarrassing' road to Fundy National Park -CBC
The route is surrounded by sprawling clearcuts, some of which come to
the road's edge. Some are thinly concealed by a line of trees left
standing. Many only stop when they meet the park's borders.
David Amos
Reply to @Shawn McShane: Methinks folks should not be surprised to see my name on the ballot in Fundy Royal again N'esy Pas?
Carroll Cameron
Reply to @Shawn McShane:
That happens when you build a linear dump through land where forests have been cut 2 or 3 times over the past 150 yrs.
Chantal LeBouthi
Welcome to tourists where in nb you will see the devastation and pesticides spraying
David Amos
Reply to @Chantal LeBouthi: Surely you jest
Carroll Cameron
Reply to @Chantal LeBouthi:
Or you could say Welcome Tourists. This is where the lumber to build your homes, your kitchen cupbords, etc., was harvested.
Chantal LeBouthi David Alward is the one who responsible for destroying nb forests
David Amos
Reply to @Chantal
LeBouthi: Methinks it started long before Alward won a temporary mandate
but he certainly did make it worse N'esy Pas?
Archie Levesque
Reply to @Chantal LeBouthi: Started a long time before Alward. Think like Frankie Mckenna
Shawn McShane "We're losing everything for the profit of one," said Arpin. "That's nonsense for New Brunswick."
Nailed it.
David Amos
Reply to @Shawn McShane: YUP
Peter Demerchant McKenna
and Alward should be held criminally responsible for this mess and
every mla in the last 30 yrs should be ashamed in the policies they
voted for. Love the quote from the dnr puppet saying there have been no
complaints about forestry operations, complete bull. As for Mike
Leger..... classic government funded propaganda. Thanks for covering
the news cbc, we all know there is no one else that will.
David Amos
Reply to @Peter demerchant: I wholeheartedly agree Sir
Chantal LeBouthi Conservatives love clear cuts and pesticides and herbicides destroying wildlife birdsongs and fish
Carroll Cameron
Reply to @Chantal LeBouthi:
Didn't we just come through a liberal government's 4 yrs? I dont
remember them putting a "ban" on forestry operations. Could it be that
they love them as well?
Shawn McShane
Reply to @Chantal
LeBouthi: Who flies on Irving private jet? Liberal Fisheries Minister
close relationship with a member of the Irving family puts him in the
appearance of a conflict of interest...judicial appointments...has to
recuse himself...
Chantal LeBouthi
Reply to @Carroll Cameron:
Alward remember him
Shawn McShane
Reply to @Chantal LeBouthi: Remember Gallant election promise to scrap the forest deal?
David Amos
Reply to @Chantal LeBouthi: So do liberals
Carroll Cameron
Reply to @Chantal LeBouthi:
Yes I remember him. Is that supposed to mean something?
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Carroll Cameron: he signed away whatever was left of the forest.
Chantal LeBouthi You can thanks the conservatives for killing NB forests and wildlife
Worst anti environment poeples in nb
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Chantal LeBouthi: no truer words were ever spoken!
Carroll Cameron
Reply to @Chantal LeBouthi:
So the conser. did all this in the short time they've been in power? Give me a break.
You also conveniently forget the benefits, that, you and every NBer get
from forestry. You use it and live in it every day of your life, and
quite happily too. So spare us you biased condemnation of it.
Shawn
McShane
Reply to @Carroll Cameron: New Brunswick flooding pinned on deforestation.
CBC New Brunswick takes a closer look at the role deforestation and
clear-cutting may have had in the province's record-breaking flood.
Some benefits.
David Amos
Reply to @Marguerite
Deschamps: Methinks you wish to forget that it was your heroes Mckenna
and Graham who changed the primary source of wood from private woodlots
to Crown land and that when the clear cutting of our assets began in
earnest N'esy Pas?
Carroll Cameron
Reply to @Shawn
McShane: Do you enjoy you what you live in, the papers you use in your
life, besides the ones you use for your bodily functions? Do you enjoy
sitting down in a chair or the couch? How about kitchen and bathroom
cupboards or clothing? The poles along city streets and highways that
carry power to your home are very important at least to me anyway. Then
we come to the GDP and what the loss of the forestry sector would mean
for the province. There are many more benefits then the few I named
above.
With regard to the spring flooding, I'm sure you are aware of the
increase in severity of storms. The earth can only absorb so much water,
so more severe flooding happens. Frozen ground is another hindrance to
earth absorbing water also.
Marguerite Deschamps Looks to me like New Nouveau-Brunswick is the Little Brazil and Amazon of the northern hemisphere.
David Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Methinks you should thank Frank McKenna and Allan Graham for that N'esy Pas?
Marguerite Deschamps The
queen must not be amused! We were always told that the land belongs to
her which is why we call it crown land. Time for her to put the baron of
Bermuda in his place! Ifhe will not give an interview; will she?
Marguerite Deschamps
We need a Robin Hood in the Restigouche Forest.
David Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Methinks you watch too much TV and don't read enough legal arguments N'esy Pas?
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @David Amos:
what's the point? We will never get to be such imminent legal scholars
like you, Me Amos! When do you expect to get your Q.C?
Ben Haroldson I'm surprised there isn't a group litigation against spraying in NB.
David Amos
Reply to @Ben Haroldson: Methinks if only one person needs to sue in order to have the same effect N'esy Pas?
Reply to @David Amos:
So instead we get "Fiddles" in Fat Fred City.
David Amos
Reply to @Junkman George: YUP BTW I just got off the phone with Mr Miller and he thanked me for the comment
Marguerite
Deschamps
Reply to @David Amos: if he was in your riding, would he vote for you? You might reach 60 votes and close-in to James Risdon.
David Amos
Reply to @Marguerite
Deschamps: Methinks if Mr Miller decided to to run in his riding he
could win No liberal has thrown his hat into the ring since your buddy
TJ Harvey decided to quit N'esy Pas?
Bill Miller, builder of Miller canoes and founder of Fiddles on the Tobique, works on a canoe in his shop in Nictau. (Harry Forestell/CBC)
The path to Bill Miller's workshop is rutted and brown, the grass worn away by three generations of Miller men.
For
96 years Bill, his father and his grandfather before him have travelled
the short distance to a ramshackle shed, where they crafted the canoes
that carry the family name — sleek wooden vessels carved from the spruce
and cedar harvested from the surrounding woods.
Past a door
covered with licence plates from around the world sporting witty asides —
"I KNU 2" — you'll find 74-year old Miller, sporting a lush white
beard, usually hunched over a jig, the form he uses to mould and create a
new canoe, like a shoemaker's last.
Bill Miller is a third-generation canoe builder at Miller Canoes. (Harry Forestell/CBC)
"I
have the most wonderful job in the world," says Miller. "I like it so
much I'd do it for free if I could make a living at it."
The
workshop is crammed with a lifetime's worth of wood shavings, pots of
dried resin and sad, broken canoes awaiting repair. Miller, who usually
spends hours alone here, is delighted to have an audience. He's waving a
smooth, thin, white cedar rib through the air as he talks.
"It
takes about 25 minutes to make each rib. By the time I go out and pick a
board out of the board pile and bring it in here ... takes about 22
minutes to make each one."
Broken canoes lie ready to be repaired in the shop where generations of Miller men have worked. (Harry Forestell/CBC)
He
should know. Miller has been warping, twisting and tacking wood into
canoes for 47 years now. He figures he's made close to 500 for buyers
from around the world.
"There's one in South Africa and there's
five or six in Fairbanks, Alaska. There's Miller canoes in England,
there's one in France, I have a boat downstairs that belongs to a fellow
in Norway."
Miller is known for more than his canoes. He's also
the founder of Fiddles on the Tobique, a local music festival that drew
hundreds to the river for a day of music on the water. This will be the
first summer in 25 years that the Tobique will be silent.
A mute protest, says Miller, over the clear cutting that has scarred the surrounding landscape.
Licence
plates from all over the world decorate the inside of the door leading
into the Miller Canoes shop that's been in business since 1925. (Harry Forestell/CBC)
"With
the clear cutting going on, they're taking the vast numbers of trees
that I need to build canoes off, and just cutting them, they're just
randomly cutting them and hauling them to the mill."
Miller
admits he probably has enough wood piled near his workshop to satisfy
his needs for the next few years, but he is upset with how he feels
clear cutting is affecting the environment and the once-unspoiled view
from the river.
After two consecutive years of flooding in the
lower St. John River valley, Miller is convinced clear-cutting is
contributing to the problem.
The Miller Canoes shop is filled with lots of old signs and tools. (Harry Forestell/CBC)
"They're
taking away the trees that hold the moisture and the water levels
rise. How come all that flooding we had in the St. John River this year
and last year. Where do you think all that flooding is coming from? It's
loss of trees."
Just down the road about half a kilometre is an
area Miller uses to illustrate his point. It is a mess of dried,
bleached waste wood, the detritus left behind after trees has been
harvested.
Just looking at it seems to fuel Miller's resentment.
"I'm
not very proud to live here anymore. I'm not proud to even be a New
Brunswicker or even a Canadian when I'm representing people who come to
Fiddles on the Tobique and we don't have anything to show them."
Clear cutting has changed the face of the province, even near the
slopes of Mount Carleton, a provincial park and the highest peak in New
Brunswick, just down the road from Miller's place in Nictau.
The blocks are difficult for the untrained eye to see, screened as they
are by a thin green border left standing. Aerial images taken over the
area in the past few years show the large blocks of land, up to 100
hectares, shorn of trees and left lying fallow until they can be
replanted.
The Conservation Council of New Brunswick says Miller has a point.
This aerial shot shows the Little Tobique River with clearcuts all around it except for a thin green border along the riverbank. (Contributed)
"The
way we're cutting our forests today is a contributor to what we're
seeing happening in the intense spring freshets," says the council's Jon
MacNeill.
We're looking at photos of clear-cut blocks around the Little Tobique, a tributary of the Tobique River.
"In
2015 the auditor general released a report, and in that she found that
in the last 20 years, 80 per cent of the harvesting of Crown land in New
Brunswick was being cut by clearcut."
Bill
Miller says clear cutting has changed the face of the province, and
he's not happy about it, going as far to cancel the Fiddlers on the
Tobique festival in protest. (Contributed)
MacNeill
hastens to add that this is all done according to regulations. No laws
are being broken. The lumber firms harvesting wood here are following
the rules.
That does little to temper the mood of Bill
Miller. He's spent his life making boats that give people access to the
province's rivers. If the view from there is of blocks of clear-cut
forest, then what's the point?
"People from all over the world
came to Fiddles on the Tobique, people from all over. And to encourage
people to come to the Tobique and look at all the clearcut, all the
devastation, the land crap, it looks a mess."
Harry
Forestell is the host of CBC News New Brunswick at 6. He worked in
London as journalist from 1995 to 2000 and from 2005 to 2008 as CBC's
European correspondent for Newsworld.
Licence
plates from all over the world decorate the inside of the door leading
into the Miller Canoes shop that's been in business since 1925. (Harry Forestell/CBC)
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