TOWN OF ALEXANDRIA
ICING ON THE ST. LAWRENCE RIVER
This snapshot was taken at Wagoner Farm about 1942. John Taylor, of the Dingman Point road, owned the ice saw seen in the foreground. It was mounted on a half of a set of bobs, the term for which escapes us. The saw took some of the drudgery out of sawing the cakes apart. John guided the saw along a grid made by his ice plow, not in the picture, which resembled a cultivator used to dig up weeds between rows in the garden. The saw did not cut all the way through the ice, but left a few inches for the men to walk on the ice field. They used spuds to spud off the cakes as needed.
Nan Dixon
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