. Canadian forest industries January-June 1922. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CANADA LUMBERMAN 47 The New President is "Birch King of Canada Some Interesting Information Regarding A. E. Clark, of Toronto, Who Will Guide Destinies of Canadian Lumbermen's Association for Coming Year. A. E. Clark, Toronto Who now heads the 0. L. A. Alfred Edward Clark, of Tor- onto, the newly elected pres- ident of the Canadian Lumber- men's Association, although of English extraction, came, as he says, within two days of being a thoroughly-seaso
. Canadian forest industries January-June 1922. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CANADA LUMBERMAN 47 The New President is "Birch King of Canada Some Interesting Information Regarding A. E. Clark, of Toronto, Who Will Guide Destinies of Canadian Lumbermen's Association for Coming Year. A. E. Clark, Toronto Who now heads the 0. L. A. Alfred Edward Clark, of Tor- onto, the newly elected pres- ident of the Canadian Lumber- men's Association, although of English extraction, came, as he says, within two days of being a thoroughly-seasoned, directly descended Irishman. Time decreed that he should be born on March 19th in 1880 instead of on St. Patrick's Day. However, he has managed to get along in spite of this handicap and attain the highest position in the gift of the Canadian lumber ; Mr. Clark is vice-president and managing-director of Edward Clark & Sons, Limited, Toronto, one of the largest wholesalers and distributors of hardwood lumber in Canada. The subject of this reference first saw the light of day in the village of Bri- gden, Lambton County, where his father, Edward Clark, was for many years engaged in sawmill and timber operations, taking out considerable quantities of oak, elm and hickory for ship work and bending stock. Considerable of the out- put of the mill was despatched to Marine City, Mich., and Sarnia, where it was used in the building of vessels. Mr. Clark, Sr., loves to recall associations of the trade of forty and fifty years ago, when he took out white oak sills for the con- struction of the locks on the old Welland Canal. These sills were among the finest specimen of timber ever sawn in Western Ontario, being 24 x 24 inches and 36 feet in length. Previous to moving to Lambton County, the Clark family lived in Dundas, where they cleared a bush farm and supplied bridge tim- ber, ties and other material to the railway then being built from Hamilton to Caledonia and
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