. Canadian forest industries July-December 1922. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CANADA LUMBERMAN 41. Fifty-Five Years in Lumber Business and Still Going Strong Recalling the Days when Mill Run White Pine Sold at Eight Dollars and a Teamster and His Horses Worked in the Bush for Two Dollars a Day Minus Board. Wm. Laking, Hamilton, Ont. A connecting link of the present with the past, Mr. Wm. Laking, of Hamilton, is one of the few landmarks in the lumbering line who has not been carried away by the pass- ing years. Fifty-five years in
. Canadian forest industries July-December 1922. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CANADA LUMBERMAN 41. Fifty-Five Years in Lumber Business and Still Going Strong Recalling the Days when Mill Run White Pine Sold at Eight Dollars and a Teamster and His Horses Worked in the Bush for Two Dollars a Day Minus Board. Wm. Laking, Hamilton, Ont. A connecting link of the present with the past, Mr. Wm. Laking, of Hamilton, is one of the few landmarks in the lumbering line who has not been carried away by the pass- ing years. Fifty-five years in the lumber business and still going strong. With brisk step, a winning smile and cheerful disposition, he was one of those who enjoyed every minute of the annual outing of the Ontario Retail Lumber Dealers' Association up the Great Lakes in June last. Although he was the oldest man in the party of nearly two hundred, yet in many respects he was the youngest for it was a pleasure to see him walk the decks and chat with his many friends, on the prom- enade deck and in the dining room. He well remembers when good, mill run pine lumber sold at $8. to $10. per M. and a teamster and his horses could be hired for $ a day, the man boarding both himself and his team. It was no unusual occurrence for Mr. Laking himself to drive oxen for skidding pine logs in East and West Flamboro Townships, Wentworth County, when the snow was deep and the thermometer many degrees below zero. He was not afraid of work or long hours, and such a thing as overtime never entered his mind. ' An Englishman by birth, Mr. Laking first saw the light of day on October 11th 1845 in Lincolnshire and is, consequently, in his 77th year. He is the youngest of a family of twelve, and when seventeen years of age made up his mind that he would come to Canada where a brother had already located in East Flamboro Town- ship, not far from Hamilton. Mr. Laking had no money, having borrowed the necessary funds to pay his pa
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