Logging camps were usually established in August or September and functioned throughout the winter months. Buildings were constructed with readily available materials and typically had five main buildings - cookery, sleep camp, office, stable, and a blacksmith.

Lett's bush camp supplied cut logs for the Thessalon Lumber Company in the early 1900s.

Some of the loggers were settlers who worked in the lumber camps during winters and farmed during the summers.

The life of a lumberman was not easy. Men were measured by their productivity, "with loggers counting their daily cut in hundreds of pieces". Days were long, sometimes starting before dawn and could extend into the night.

Monthly wages were low by today's standards ranging from $13 for a chore boy to $50 for a cook, $60 for a foreman, and typically $1/day for all others plus board.

Here is a view of the Thessalon River full of logs moving towards Lake Huron where they were shipped out, or were directed to the mills located along the waterfront for processing.