. Canadian forest industries 1897-1899. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Mr. E. Garrow, Webbwood. includes ten townships west, thence south to Lake Huron, between the townships of Shedden and Victoria, taking in the broken front on Lake Huron and Georgian Bay to the boundary be- tween Nipissing and Algoma districts, which is the eastern boundary. Pine, spruce, cedar, tamarac, birch and balsam are found in this sec- tion in large quantities, with separate ridges of maple and hemlock. Mr. Garrow was born in the township of North Dumfrie
. Canadian forest industries 1897-1899. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Mr. E. Garrow, Webbwood. includes ten townships west, thence south to Lake Huron, between the townships of Shedden and Victoria, taking in the broken front on Lake Huron and Georgian Bay to the boundary be- tween Nipissing and Algoma districts, which is the eastern boundary. Pine, spruce, cedar, tamarac, birch and balsam are found in this sec- tion in large quantities, with separate ridges of maple and hemlock. Mr. Garrow was born in the township of North Dumfries, county of Waterloo, Ont., in January, 1848. When six years of age he removed with his father to the county of Huron, McKillop township, where he lived on the old homestead until the year 1868, when it became necessary either to get more land or find some other em- ployment, as several members of the family were verging on manhood. The subject of this sketch determined to learn the millwright trade, and with that object in view, on the 6th of January, 1868, he commenced an apprenticeship of 3^ years with Robert Thompson & Co., afterwards Thomp- son & Williams, of Mitchell. After serving his term of apprenticeship he entered into partner- ship with a fellow millwright and purchased a grist mill and a small saw mill in the village of Belmont, 14 miles south-east of London, and in this connection obtained his first lessons in run- ning a circular saw. At the end of three years Mr. Garrow sold his interest in the property and entered into partnership with his brother, erecting a good saw and shingle mill in the village of Cranbrook, Huron county, this partnership continuing until the first of January, 1880, when he assumed full control. He continued to oper- ate there until the spring of 1885, when a number of portable saw mills were started in the neigh- borhood, and competition became so keen as to . leave no profit in the local trade. Mr. Garrow then transferred the ma
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