J.R. Booth: Career of a Lumber Baron

Type of resource
Author/collaborator
Title
J.R. Booth: Career of a Lumber Baron
Abstract
The Eastern Townships-born John Rudolphus Booth's (1827-1925) timber and milling operation was by the end of the nineteenth century the largest manufacturer of lumber in the world. Booth controlled 640,000 acres of timber limits throughout the Ottawa River watershed, including on the Coulonge, Noire, Dumoine and Kipawa rivers in West Quebec.
Publication
Archivist
Volume
No. 5
Pages
10-11
Date
1987
Language
en
Citation
Forsyth, Neil. “J.R. Booth: Career of a Lumber Baron.” Archivist No. 5 (1987): 10–11.
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