. Canadian forest industries 1901-1902. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. m CANADA LUMBERMAN OLUME XXI. 1 UMBER II. J TORONTO, CfVNfVDfl, DBCEMBBR, 1901 /Terms, $ PtR Year \ Single Copies, iu Cents MR. FREDERICK DYKE. The lumber export business has now become one of the chief industries of Canada, the natural resources which the Dominion possesses in this line affording advantages for the pro- fitable investment of capital which are, perhaps, not found to the same extent elsewhere. Eng- lish capitalists have of late been turning th
. Canadian forest industries 1901-1902. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. m CANADA LUMBERMAN OLUME XXI. 1 UMBER II. J TORONTO, CfVNfVDfl, DBCEMBBR, 1901 /Terms, $ PtR Year \ Single Copies, iu Cents MR. FREDERICK DYKE. The lumber export business has now become one of the chief industries of Canada, the natural resources which the Dominion possesses in this line affording advantages for the pro- fitable investment of capital which are, perhaps, not found to the same extent elsewhere. Eng- lish capitalists have of late been turning their attention in this direction, one of the leading firms engaged in the business being Thos. B. Neale & Company, timber and lumber agents and exporters, with head offices at Liverpool, Eng. This firm operate principally in the Maritime Provinces, Mr. Frederick Dyke, of whom a likeness is shown, is their Canadian representee. Their offices are situ- ated at Chatham, N. B., from which point large quantities of spruce deals and other lum- ber are shipped. Although a young man, Mr. Dyke possesses a thorough knowledge of the lumber trade, and particularly of the requirements of the British market. He was born in Liverpool, England, in 1875. At the age of fifteen he entered the Liverpool office of Price & Pierce, of which Mr. Thomas B. Neale was then manager, as apprentice. Upon Mr. Neale taking over the business from Price & Pierce, in 1891, and establishing the firm of Neale, Harrison & Company, - Mr. Dyke was engaged by the latter firm, and in 1896 was removed to their Miramichi office, later becoming the representative in the Maritime Provinces of Thomas B. Neale & Company, who succeeded Neale, Harrison & Company. For the season now closing the shipments by Mr. Dyke from the Miramichi were about 12,000,000 feet of spruce, with some pine and birch, and from the Dalhousie district about 2,000,000 feet. The firm which he represents are also agents for variou
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