Editing Lumberjack (section)

== Term ==
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The term '''lumberjack''' is of Canadian derivation. The first attested use of the term combining its two components comes from an 1831 letter to the [[Cobourg, Ontario]], ''Star and General Advertiser'' in the following passage: "my misfortunes have been brought upon me chiefly by an incorrigible, though perhaps useful, race of mortals called lumberjacks, whom, however, I would name the [[Cossacks]] of [[Upper Canada]], who, having been reared among the oaks and pines of the wild forest, have never been subjected to the salutary restraint of laws."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ranawayfromthesubscriber.blogspot.ca/2012/05/occupational-image-lumberjacks.html |title=Occupational Image: Lumberjacks |publisher=Tyler Rudd Putman |date=2012-06-05 |access-date=2013-05-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140308121037/http://ranawayfromthesubscriber.blogspot.ca/2012/05/occupational-image-lumberjacks.html |archive-date=2014-03-08 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The term ''lumberjack'' is primarily historical, and of colloquial contemporary usage; '''logger''' is commonly used by workers in the 21st century.<ref>{{cite web |title=Logging Industry Workers |url=https://www.vault.com/industries-professions/professions/l/logging-industry-workers/history |website=Vault |language=en |access-date=2020-09-24 |archive-date=2020-11-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129140422/https://www.vault.com/industries-professions/professions/l/logging-industry-workers/history |url-status=live }}</ref> When lumberjack is used, it usually refers to a logger from an earlier time before the advent of [[chainsaw]]s, [[feller-buncher]]s and other modern logging equipment. Other terms for the occupation include '''woodcutter''', '''shanty boy'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.foresthistory.org/Publications/FHT/FHT1997/Mukkala.pdf|title=The Shanty Boys|publisher=Forest History Today|date=1997|author=Benjamin C. Mukkala|access-date=16 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160621190607/http://foresthistory.org/publications/fht/FHT1997/Mukkala.pdf|archive-date=2016-06-21|url-status=live}}</ref> and the regional '''woodhick''' of Pennsylvania, United States.{{cn|date=January 2024}} In Australia, the occupation is referred to as '''timber cutter'''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2005/05/17/1369978.htm |title=Govt works towards timber cutter compo |publisher=ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) |date=2005-05-17 |access-date=2010-09-12 |archive-date=2023-04-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230410032029/https://www.abc.net.au/news |url-status=dead }}</ref> or cool cutters.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/ahc/publications/commission/books/ourhouse/qld04.html |title=Our house: histories of Australian homes - Koongalba, The timber getter's residence |publisher=Environment.gov.au |date=2008-08-07 |access-date=2010-09-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101206231220/http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/ahc/publications/commission/books/ourhouse/qld04.html |archive-date=2010-12-06 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>[http://www.forest-education.com/pdf_resources/hispost.pdf] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080719080936/http://www.forest-education.com/pdf_resources/hispost.pdf|date=July 19, 2008}}</ref>

A logger employed in driving logs down a river was known locally in northern North America as a '''river pig''', '''river hog''', '''river rat''',  or '''catty-man'''. The term '''lumberjill''' has been used for a woman lumberjack; for example, the [[Women's Timber Corps]] in Britain during World War II.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/68/a4682568.shtml |title=WW2 People's War - The Lumberjills of Scotland |work=[[BBC History]] |date=2005-08-03 |access-date=2010-09-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130923045052/http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/68/a4682568.shtml |archive-date=2013-09-23 |url-status=live }}</ref>