. Canadian forest industries 1897-1899. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. July, 1S98 THE G^IZJLTDJL IvUMBERMAN 5. When in Ottawa recently it was my privilege to meet Mr. G. B. Perley, the only surviving member of the once prominent Ottawa valley lumber firm of Perley & Pattee. Mr. Perley had hist returned from Mexico, and although in his 75th year, showed no signs of being fatigued by his six days' journey on the train. He takes pardonable pride in referring to the early lumbering operations on the Ottawa, with which 'ie is thoroug
. Canadian forest industries 1897-1899. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. July, 1S98 THE G^IZJLTDJL IvUMBERMAN 5. When in Ottawa recently it was my privilege to meet Mr. G. B. Perley, the only surviving member of the once prominent Ottawa valley lumber firm of Perley & Pattee. Mr. Perley had hist returned from Mexico, and although in his 75th year, showed no signs of being fatigued by his six days' journey on the train. He takes pardonable pride in referring to the early lumbering operations on the Ottawa, with which 'ie is thoroughly acquainted, and relates many an interesting anecdote relative thereto. "For forty years," said Mr. Perley, "our company operated at the Chaudiere, cutting from sixty to seventy- five million feet annually. The river, in the early days, was known as the Grand, and the Icity of Ottawa as By-tbwn. The first water- jpower mill on the Chaudiere was built by Levi jYoung; then came the Bronsons, W. H. Baldwin, jand J. R. Booth. The Gilmours at Chelsea and the Hamiltons at Hawkesbury were among the jfirst to export to the British and South American markets. Owing to the death of the other members of our firm, the business ceased about three years ago, when the old Perley & Pattee mill was sold to J. R. Booth, who had previously lost one of his mills by fire. Since that time my attention has been engaged in winding up the affairs of the ; Mr. Perley's thoughts again reverted to the fifties. "I remember well," he said, "how an employee of the Hamiltons, of Hawkesbury, told of being sent away up the Grand River as shanty clerk to a place called Hull. There, he said, was where we had our shanties. This early shanty site is now surround- ed by some of the greatest sawmilling industries I in the ; * * * A gentleman conversant with European trade, and one who holds strong views as to how the most can be accomplished for the Canadian
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