. Canadian forest industries 1903. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. May, 1904 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN 23 OBITUARY. Mr. Claude McLachlin. Mr. Claude McLachlin, who died in New York on the morning of April 19th, was a member of the firm of McLachlin Bros., ot Arnprior, Ontario He was born in Ottawa in 1854, and was the youngest son of the late Daniel McLachlin, one of the pioneer lumber- men of the Ottawa Valley, who as far back as the early forties was heavily interested in the square tim- ber trade, and to some extent in the sawn lumber
. Canadian forest industries 1903. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. May, 1904 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN 23 OBITUARY. Mr. Claude McLachlin. Mr. Claude McLachlin, who died in New York on the morning of April 19th, was a member of the firm of McLachlin Bros., ot Arnprior, Ontario He was born in Ottawa in 1854, and was the youngest son of the late Daniel McLachlin, one of the pioneer lumber- men of the Ottawa Valley, who as far back as the early forties was heavily interested in the square tim- ber trade, and to some extent in the sawn lumber busi- ness in Ottawa. In 1853 Mr. Daniel McLachlin pur- chased the water powers at the mouth of the Mada- waska river and the land on which the town of Arn-. The Late Mr. Claude McLachlin. prior now stands, and in 1857 moved up fiom Ottawa to Arnprior with his family. In 1866 he eiected ihe first saw mill to saw lumber for the American market in that place. In 1869 Mr. Daniel McLachlin retired from business, leaving the work to be carried on by his three oldest sons under the style of McLachlin Bros. Before 1876 two of the members of this firm died and in that jear Mr. Claude McLachlin enteied into partnership with his elder brother, Mr. Hugh F. McLachlin, who survives him, and the business has ever since been carried on under the old name Mc- Lachlin Bros. At the time of the foundation of the new partnership lhe business was entirely a Madawaska one, but as timber became scarcer on that river a large steam saw mill was erected on the bank of the Ottawa at Arnprior, which could be reached with logs from all the tributaries of lhe upper Ottawa as well as from the main river itself. In 1893 the firm found it necessary to meet the demands of their expanded business by building another steam mill a short distance from the first one. Owing to the great extent of the business carried on by the firm of which he was a member, Mr. McLach- lin was of necessity brought into contact with t
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