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John Rudolphus Booth (April 5, 1827 – December 8, 1925) was a Canadian lumber tycoon and railroad baron. He controlled logging rights for large tracts of forest land in central Ontario, and built the Canada Atlantic Railway (from Georgian Bay via Ottawa to Vermont) to extract his logs and to export lumber and grain to the United ...
One of the giants of the lumber business was J. R Booth, born in Waterloo, Quebec, who arrived in Ottawa in 1857 and lived here until his death on Dec. 8, 1925.
28 de may. de 2008 · John Rudolphus Booth, lumber manufacturer, railway builder (b near Waterloo, Lower Canada 5 Apr 1827; d at Ottawa, Ont 8 Dec 1925). In 1857 Booth took over a small shingle mill in Ottawa, which he gradually expanded until he held the most extensive timber limits in Canada and was the foremost manufacturer of lumber for American and ...
The Ottawa River timber trade, also known as the Ottawa Valley timber trade or Ottawa River lumber trade, was the nineteenth century production of wood products by Canada on areas of the Ottawa River and the regions of the Ottawa Valley and western Quebec, destined for British and American markets.
17 de jul. de 2017 · It’s difficult to gauge how Ottawa would look today had John Rudolphus (J.R.) Booth not settled in Ottawa in the early 1850s. Born in the Eastern Townships of Quebec in 1827, Booth came to...
- Bruce Deachman
The second eldest of the five children of an Ulsterman and his wife, John R. Booth was born in the Eastern Townships. Historian William E. Greening reports that as a child he “spent his spare time building miniature mills and bridges along the tiny rivulet that flowed through his father’s farm.”
The life of Canadian John Rudolphus Booth could be a true model for the fiction written by his American contemporary, Horatio Alger. But Booth’s story is about more than the personal success of a man who rose from humble beginnings to wealth and acclaim as a timber baron.
