. Canadian forest industries 1892-1893. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Tm CANADA LUMBERMAN Volume XIII. \ NUMBER 3. J CHf\Rf\CTER SKETCH. MR. JAMES MACLAREN Canada's millionaire lumberman—recently deceased. "It is not luck but labor that makes ; 'T'HE German poet Goethe was wont to say: "An honest and vigorous will could make itself a path and employ its activities to advantage under any form of ; A study of the life and work of the late Mr. James Maclaren, whose demise occurred at his home in Bucking
. Canadian forest industries 1892-1893. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Tm CANADA LUMBERMAN Volume XIII. \ NUMBER 3. J CHf\Rf\CTER SKETCH. MR. JAMES MACLAREN Canada's millionaire lumberman—recently deceased. "It is not luck but labor that makes ; 'T'HE German poet Goethe was wont to say: "An honest and vigorous will could make itself a path and employ its activities to advantage under any form of ; A study of the life and work of the late Mr. James Maclaren, whose demise occurred at his home in Buckingham, Que., on Feb. 10, is an illustration of this fact from Canadian history. In his death the lumber trade loses one of the best known and most extensive operators, and the country a leading and enterprising business man. The foremost position he held in a large number of lumber and mining concerns in various parts of the Dominion would seem to show that he did not deem it wise ''to earn' all his eggs in one ; My ventures are not in one bottom trusted. Nor of one place; nor is my whole estate Upon the fortunes of this present year. The deceased was born near Glasgow, Scotland, in 1818, and was 74 years of age when he died. He came to Canada with his parents when quite young. His father, David Maclaren, settled on a farm in the town- ship of Torbolten, Carleton county, where he continued to reside until within a short time of his death. Mr. lames Maclaren spent his early years on the farm, entering into business later as a country store-keeper with his brother John, now dead, in the village of Peche. The Gatineau country was then finely timbered with pine and Mr. Maclaren went largely into the purchase of logs and timber, which he sold to Messrs. Currier &: Dickinson, who at that time owned the New Edinburgh mills. Hon. K. \V. Scott had also an interest in those mills. About the year 1856 Mr. MacLaren bought an interest in this firm, Messrs. Dickinson and Scot
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