. Canadian forest industries July-December 1920. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. November 15, 1920 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER 43 Pioneer Lumber Days in Rice Lake District Forest Products Built Up Many Communities—Romance of Early Operations when Emoluments from the Timber Trade were Ridiculously Small -By F. H. Dobbin, Peterboro, In a large measure we are all vitally interested in the past history of the lumber industry which holds second place in the activities of Canadian manufacture. When we look at what has been and wh
. Canadian forest industries July-December 1920. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. November 15, 1920 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER 43 Pioneer Lumber Days in Rice Lake District Forest Products Built Up Many Communities—Romance of Early Operations when Emoluments from the Timber Trade were Ridiculously Small -By F. H. Dobbin, Peterboro, In a large measure we are all vitally interested in the past history of the lumber industry which holds second place in the activities of Canadian manufacture. When we look at what has been and what we can now see, we may infer how far along the road we have travelled and how far we have yet to go. Until the inevitable takes place—extinction of limits and paucity of returns, inability to market from points once so accessible, the gradual dwindling of what once supplied opportunity and manufacturing profit. We have it on authority that the membership of a church changes in fifteen years, and that of a business community in twenty. True a few survive, but enough only to leaven the day of opportunity. And so in the lumber business. Men have come and gone, used up the facilities leaving others to step in and make the best of what is left. All this forms a reason for placing before the readers of the '^Canada Lumberman" some account of the industry as it started, developed and rose to commercial distinction in the Midland District of Ontario, in the years that have gone. In the early allocation of boundaries to groups of lands in Upper Canada the section, roughly speaking, from west of Kingston to near Toronto was known as the Newscastle District. Afterwards sub- divided, the section parallel with the shore of Lake Ontario, but inland, was named the Colborne District, and for many years was so repre- sented in the Upper Canada House of Assembly. Out of this allo- cation was afterwards carved the land now comprised in the counties of Northumberland and Durham, Peterb
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