Pulp and paper magazine of Canada . oks, in the early yearsof the nineteenth century, established at least a dozenmanufactories. Little remains today of what was once athriving village. The old wooden mill houses the plant ofthe Stutt Paper Company, but beyond that only a fewruins mark the spot where some of the earliest industriesin Upper Canada were given their start. there existed another industrial settlement, of which verylittle remains today. This colony was started by an Eng-lishman of the name of marshall Terry, who erected severalmills on the River about the end of the eighteenth cent
Pulp and paper magazine of Canada . oks, in the early yearsof the nineteenth century, established at least a dozenmanufactories. Little remains today of what was once athriving village. The old wooden mill houses the plant ofthe Stutt Paper Company, but beyond that only a fewruins mark the spot where some of the earliest industriesin Upper Canada were given their start. there existed another industrial settlement, of which verylittle remains today. This colony was started by an Eng-lishman of the name of marshall Terry, who erected severalmills on the River about the end of the eighteenth was drowned in 1808 and his property passed into thepossession of John Eastwood and Colin Skinner. Eastwood and Skinner developed the industries alreadyin existence and when they heard of the governmentsoffer of a prize for the first sheet of paper produced in thecountry, determined to enter the competition. They werebeaten out by only a few days. Indeed so close did theycome behind Crooks that the government decided to give. BARBER BROS. PAPER MILL, GEORGETOWN, ONT. An old stone foundation, overgrown with verdure andcrumbling away under the hand of time, is pointed outto the passer-by as being all that is left of the first papermill in what is now known as Ontario. It was one of thelater industries to be started by Mr. Crooks, he havingalready in operation at the Hollow a distillery, foundry,grist mill, oil mill, tannery, edge tool factory, woolen mill,sawmill, potash factory and cooper shop. The paper millwas erected about 1825 or 1826. It was a building about30 by 40 feet in dimensions. The paper was of course madeby hand and to Mr. Crooks belongs the distinction of hav-ing earned the hundred pounds bounty offered by the gov-ernment for having produced the first sheet of it turned outin Upper Canada. Apparently there had been a race for this prize and did not enjoy his victory without a struggle. Onthe banks of the Don River, a few miles above Toronto, them
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