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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 ...
- Rosalinda Cook
- December 8, 1925 (aged 98), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- April 5, 1827, Waterloo, Lower Canada
- Beechwood Cemetery, Ottawa
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 ...
17 de jul. de 2017 · Booth was Ottawa's biggest industrialist. Courtesy of the Bytown Museum. It’s difficult to gauge how Ottawa would look today had John Rudolphus (J.R.) Booth not settled in Ottawa in the...
- Bruce Deachman
BOOTH, JOHN RUDOLPHUS, industrialist; b. 5 April 1827 near Waterloo, Lower Canada, son of John Booth and Eleanor Rooney (Rowley); m. 7 Jan. 1853 Rosalinda Cooke (d. 1886) in Kingsey township, Lower Canada, and they had five daughters and three sons; d. 8 Dec. 1925 in Ottawa.
Ottawa River timber trade - Wikipedia. Contents. hide. (Top) Markets. Timber trade. Supplying a winter logging expedition. Sawmills. Timber slides, cribs, rafts. Lumber barons and innovators. Philemon Wright. Henry Franklin Bronson. John Rudolphus Booth. Perley and Pattee. Other lumber companies and people. Legacy. Places within city of Ottawa.
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.
