. Canadian forest industries 1909. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER 29 Death Summons Leading Lumbermen Ex-Mayor Daniel W ilson of Collingwood Sud- denly Called—H. H. Strathy Succumbs to Typhoid Daniel Wilson, ex-mayor of Collingwood, one of the meet prominent and highly esteemed lumbermen of the Georgian Bay district, died suddenly in Toronto on Thursday, Dec. 2nd, having been seized with apoplexy. He was staying at the Iroquois hotel, an 1 had been complain- ing for several days of a headache. On Wedne
. Canadian forest industries 1909. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER 29 Death Summons Leading Lumbermen Ex-Mayor Daniel W ilson of Collingwood Sud- denly Called—H. H. Strathy Succumbs to Typhoid Daniel Wilson, ex-mayor of Collingwood, one of the meet prominent and highly esteemed lumbermen of the Georgian Bay district, died suddenly in Toronto on Thursday, Dec. 2nd, having been seized with apoplexy. He was staying at the Iroquois hotel, an 1 had been complain- ing for several days of a headache. On Wednesday night he retired in apparently good health, but about noon he was heard to be breathing heavily in his room and was found to be in a vers7 critical condition. The physician decide ! to send him to a hospital, but Mr. Wilson expired before he could be taken to the ambulance. The body was removed by relatives to the home in Collingwood. Mr. Wilson, as head of the firm of Wilson Brothers, of Collingwood, Out., commenced business in a modest manner and continued so suc- cessfully that at the time of his death he had developed the company until it possessed one of the most complete and up-to-date planing mills and woodworking plants in Canada. He was born in Collingwood in 1861 and received a common school education. He began work at the age of 14 in the shingle, heading and stave factory of George Buck & Company. At 17 he went to learn lumber graling at Christie, Kerr & Company's mill, where he remained for three years, working in the mill in summer and in the woods in winter. Then he spent two years with Peck & Son, of Duluth. sorting and piling lumber and working in the. The Late Ex-Mayor Daniel Wilson of Cohiugwood. woods, river driving and rafting. For the next three years Mr. Wilson was with Geo. Buck & Company, grading in summer and scaling in win- ter. Next he spent a year with George Gall, of Toronto, as lumber in- spector. In 1887, towards the end of
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