At the time of his death in 1907, John Waldie, founder of the Victoria Harbour Lumber Company, was identified as "the second largest lumber operator in Canada." A young Scottish immigrant who came to Wellington Square (now Burlington, Ontario) in 1842, he rose to prominence as a wealthy merchant and ship owner. In 1885 he entered the lumber business. Active in local and federal politics, and a friend of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, he invested capital in mills, people and forests.
Local history and genealogical connections are part of the Waldie story, headquartered at Victoria Harbour in Simcoe County. Documentation of the forest that the company logged, their nature, amount and sizes of logs harvested with the descriptions of the forests as they are now, throws new light and shatters some of the current myths.
This little-known story provides insights into days of rampant entrepreneurialism, the world of the lumber barons and the overall impact on our Ontario forests.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- 338.7/634980971317
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- 22
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- 9781550027587 9781770702912
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- HD9564.C34
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- V53 2007eb
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- 1 electronic text (152 p.)
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- Canada
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Table of Contents
- Table of Contents 8
- List of Figures 10
- List of Tables 16
- Acknowledgements 17
- Preface 18
- Chapter I: WHO WAS JOHN WALDIE? 22
- Chapter II: THE LUMBER INDUSTRY JOHN WALDIE ENTERED 34
- Chapter III: THE VICTORIA HARBOUR LUMBER COMPANY 1886–1907 43
- Chapter IV: THE VICTORIA HARBOUR LUMBER COMPANY 1907–1927 87
- Chapter V: WHERE DID THE LOGS COME FROM? 74
- Chapter VI: THE VILLAGE OF VICTORIA HARBOUR 87
- Chapter VII: THE VICTORIA HARBOUR LUMBER COMPANY 1927–1942 97
- Chapter VIII: THE WESTERN WALDIE LUMBERMEN 102
- Epilogue 110
- Appendix 1 Records of Timber Cut by Victoria Harbour Lumber Company 114
- Appendix 2 Records of Timber Cut by Schroeder Mills and Timber in Blair and Mowat Townships, 1917–1926 119
- Appendix 3 List of Quit Claims and Other Property Agreements between Victoria Harbour Lumber Company and Other Parties, 1909–1939 120
- Appendix 4 Amount of Dividends or Special Payments by Victoria Harbour Lumber Company, 1907–1942 124
- Appendix 5 Alligator Tugs Purchased or Used by the Victoria Harbour Lumber Company 126
- Appendix 6 Botanical Names of Tree Species 128
- Appendix 7 Brief Biographies: Other Notable Pine Lumbermen of the Time 130
- Notes 135
- Index 144
- A 144
- B 144
- C 145
- D 145
- E 146
- F 146
- G 146
- H 147
- I 147
- J 147
- K 147
- L 148
- M 148
- N 149
- O 149
- P 149
- Q 150
- R 150
- S 150
- T 151
- U 151
- V 152
- W 152
