Canadian Forestry Magazine, October, ic)2o. 483 



Paper- Making in Canada 



By A. L. Dawc, Secretary Canadian Pulp and Pap'er Assoc. 



Paper has been made in Canada for belongs the distinction of having- earned 

 more than a century. From he records a bounty of £100 offered by the Govern- 

 that are available at the present time it ment for the first sheet of paper manu- 

 - would appear that the credit for the first factured in Upper Canada, 

 paper mill belongs to what used to be Simultaneously, on the banks of the 

 known as Lower Canada. Bouchette's Don River, a few miles from Toronto, 

 "Topography of Canada" states that John Eastwood and Colin Skinner were 

 Canada's first paper mill was established working to obtain the same honor. They 

 at St. Andrews, Quebec, in 1803. It succeeded in producing paper just a few 

 was ,from all accounts, started by a party days after James Crooks, so close, in 

 of Americans who obtained concessions fact, that the Government rewarded 

 from the seigneurs. The second mill in their efforts by remitting the dutv on 

 Lower Canada appears to have been es- the paper-making appliances which they 

 tablished at Bedford Basin, near Halifax, had imported from the United States. 

 in 1818, by R. A. Holland, publisher of The subsequent histor^- of the pioneer 

 the Hahfax Record. efforts is not recorded.' Little develop- 

 In 1825. in a little village known as ment appears to have taken place until 

 Crook's Hollow, was erected the first 1840. when the brothers Taylor erected 

 paper mill in what was then L'^^pper Can- a mill in the same neighborhood. This 

 ada. This was a small building, about was expanded by the addition of a se- 

 30 X 40 feet, in which paper was made cond mill two miles above the first, and 

 by hand. To Mr. Crooks, its founder, later ])v a third. These mills manu- 



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