Canadian grocer January-June 1892 . d at the old Upper CanadaCollege. Previous to forming thiscompany, he was partner and book-keeper of the Yorkville and CarltonBrick Manufacturing Co. C. Fortier was born in theold town of Amherstburg in 1854,and was educated at the school inthat town, at LAssumption Collegeat Sandwich, and upon coming toToronto in 1870 took a course atthe old Mechanics Institute. Hisfirst employment was with the gro-cery house of Spry & Murdoch, 135Yonge street, then with the To-ronto Tea Company, managed byWm. Adamson. He was afterwardsfour years in the Toronto pos
Canadian grocer January-June 1892 . d at the old Upper CanadaCollege. Previous to forming thiscompany, he was partner and book-keeper of the Yorkville and CarltonBrick Manufacturing Co. C. Fortier was born in theold town of Amherstburg in 1854,and was educated at the school inthat town, at LAssumption Collegeat Sandwich, and upon coming toToronto in 1870 took a course atthe old Mechanics Institute. Hisfirst employment was with the gro-cery house of Spry & Murdoch, 135Yonge street, then with the To-ronto Tea Company, managed byWm. Adamson. He was afterwardsfour years in the Toronto postoffice, and six years in the Post-office Inspectors Offices, both hereand in Barrie. Mr. Peter was bornat Canterland, Montrose, Scotland, ley, Toronto, and was with them seven has travelled from one end of Canada tothe other, and has several times made suc-cessful trips to the North-west, both forSmith & Keighley and for his own three young men bought out, oneyear ago, the old business of Wm. Hessin,. i^g^fe can turn out. Mr. Booth is the financialhead, and has charge of the office, andthrough his hands pass all orders comingin from the travellers. Mr. Fortier hascharge of the manufacturing and the ware-house, and Mr. Peter represents the Com-pany west of Toronto. It is easy to account for the won-derful successthat hascrownedtheirefforts, when the training that theseyoung men received previous totheir forming this Company is con-sidered. Mr. Booth is a thoroughaccountant, and the other two hav-ing a good knowledge of the gro-cery trade, with which their busi-ness is largely done, are able tobring their experience into prac-tical use. The Company is repre-sented in Hamilton by Mr. CyrusKing, who is meeting with successfar beyond their Martin and Robertson aretheir agents in British Columbia,Messrs. Tees &Perssein Winnipeg,and Messrs. Newman & DeWolfin Halifax, Nova Scotia. Theyhave two travellers constantly onthe road east, one north
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