. Canadian forest industries July-December 1923. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 46 CA X ADA LUM BER M AN Mr. Booth on His Annual Holiday Mr: J. K. Booth, of Ottawa, Canada's most widely known and most active aged lumberman, has gone to Madawaska where he will enjoy his annual holiday. IN I r. Booth is in his usual good health and during his stay in the north country will meet many old friends. He is acquainted with hundreds of employes in all kinds of work there and every year he looks forward to his holiday in the midst of old. Joh
. Canadian forest industries July-December 1923. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 46 CA X ADA LUM BER M AN Mr. Booth on His Annual Holiday Mr: J. K. Booth, of Ottawa, Canada's most widely known and most active aged lumberman, has gone to Madawaska where he will enjoy his annual holiday. IN I r. Booth is in his usual good health and during his stay in the north country will meet many old friends. He is acquainted with hundreds of employes in all kinds of work there and every year he looks forward to his holiday in the midst of old. John R. Booth, Ottawa friends. He will make his headquarters in his private car and his staff includes a highly trained chef, and two trained nurses. Although he is 96 years of age, Mr. Booth is in constant touch with the affairs of J. R. Booth, Ltd. His health during the summer was not very good, but he is now fully recovered and is looking- forward to enjoy- ing his vacation thoroughly. Talks on Richness of North Country His Honor. Harry Cockshutt, Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario, delivered a stirring address recently before the members of the Tor- onto Board of Trade, on his recent trip to Moose Factory on James Bay under the heading "Impressions of the Far North," dealing with the forest and timber resources and the pulp industry. His Honor expressed unbound confidence in the future of that portion of the country which he had just visited and its unrivalled richness and potentialities. He offered the suggestion that as a means to inspire Torontonians with a true sense of Northern Ontario's importance, it would be an excellent thing for the Board of Trade to send a delegation to travel over much the same territory as was covered by Prime Minister Ferguson and himself upon their recent journey. He added that as sure as the went to the Pacific, so would the ; Railway be extended to Hudson. A resolution was unanimously carried by the Board calling upon th
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