Canadian Forestry Journal, August, igi6 



671 



The Late Mr. John Hendry 



The death in Vancouver on July 

 17th of Mr. John Hendry leaves a 

 great gap in the lumbering and for- 

 estry world. Mr. Hendry, born in 

 New Brunswick seventy-two years 

 ago, went as a young man to the 

 Pacific coast long before the first 

 Canadian transcontinental railway 

 was built. He lived at first at dif- 

 ferent places on the Pacific coast, 

 and even went as far east as Winni- 

 peg, but in all his work and travels 

 his rriind was centred on British Col- 

 umbia. In those days there was, of 

 course, no Vancouver, and his first 

 business location was Nanaimo, and, 

 later. New Westminster. AMiere 

 the centre of population and busi- 

 ness activity was, there was Mr. 

 Hendry, and his acumen and energy 

 soon made him one of the leading 

 men of the province. When Van- 

 couver was located as the terminus 

 of the Canadian Pacific railway Mr. 

 Hendry and his associates extended 

 their operations to, and eventually 

 centred them in, that city. When 

 the great fire of 1886 swept Vancou- 

 ver off the map, Mr. Hendry and 

 those associates, Mr. McNair, Mr. 

 Beecher and Mr. R. H. Alexander, 

 cleared out their big lumber sheds 

 and for some weeks housed many 

 of the homeless therein. They also 

 generously distributed lumber to 

 help the stricken citizens to rebuild. 

 Mr. Hendry was not only in the com- 

 munity, but of the community, liv- 

 ing its life and helping it forward in 

 every way, and the citizens of Van- 

 couver never forgot the part he 

 played. 



How he built up one of the great- 

 est lumber-exporting businesses of 

 the whole Pacific- coast is well known 

 to all Canadian business men, and 

 here it is necessary only to point out 

 that, busv as he was with his manv 



concerns, he was always active m 

 promoting the interests of his fel- 

 low citizens in the capacity of leader 

 and representative. In New West- 

 minster_ he took a deep interest in 

 civic affairs, and, besides serving in 

 other capacities, was mayor and pre- 

 sident of the Board of Trade. He 

 was later president of the A'ancou- 

 ver Board of Trade. 



His Services In Forestry. 



He was president of the Cana- 

 dian Manufacturers' Association in 

 1910, and in crossing over to Eu- 

 rope on business connected with 

 that organization, in doing some 

 service for a fellow passenger, he. 

 slipped on a rug and broke both legs 

 badly at the hip joint. He was at- 

 tended by the ship's surgeon, but, 

 the remainder of the voyage being 

 rough, the bones did not set proper- 

 ly, and, though given the best medi- 

 cal treatment in England, he was 

 never again able to walk without 

 the greatest difficulty, and only 

 with the aid of walking sticks. As 

 Mr. Hendry was a big and portly 

 man, and one who had in earlier 

 years been full of bodily activity, 

 this limitation was a great drawback 

 to him. Nevertheless, he persist- 

 ed in attending to business, which 

 involved frequent and long journeys 

 and in carrying on work of a serni- 

 public character when many other 

 men would have become luxurious 

 invalids. 



Mr. Hendry was president of the 

 Canadian Forestry Association in 

 1912, and it was during his term of 

 office and because of his enthusiasm 

 that the Victoria Convention was 

 held in that year. This Convention 

 coincided with the introduction of 

 the new forestry program b}^ the 



