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The first timber shipped to Europe from Canada was 



sent from Quebec to Larochelle by Talon in 1667. Lieut. 

 Hocquart shipped timber and boards to Rochefort in L735. 

 In L823, 300 cargoes were shipped from Quebec. 



In the early part of the present century, the Mont- 

 morency mills were established by a Mr. LTsboirne. Mr. 

 Peter Patterson, a ship carpenter by trade, who had 

 spent some time in Russia, became an employee of Mr. 

 Psboirne's, and finally proprietor of the property, and 

 became one of the largest manufacturers of lumber in 

 Canada. Sir John Caldwell established mills at Riviere- 

 du-Loup en Bas and at Etchemin. The late William 

 Price, father of the Hon. J. Price, of Quebec, established 

 large mills at Chicoutimi, St. Alexis, L'Anse-St, dean. 

 St. Etienne, Batiscan, Matane and many other places, 

 leaving an immense business to his sons, which is now 

 conducted by the son before named. The late Allan 

 Gilmour, and relations of the same name, carried on for 

 many years a large business on the North Nation, the 

 Gatineau and Mississippi (Canada), and at Trenton. Ont., 

 the younger branches of the family continuing the 

 business. 



Philomene Wright, one of the first lumbermen on the 

 Ottawa river, came from Woburn, Mass., in the United 

 States, arriving at the Chaudiere Falls — or the Asticou, 

 as called by the Indians — as early as the year 1700. It 

 was not till 1797 that he finally decided to make his 

 home in Canada, and on the 20th of October, 1799, he 

 and two companions pitched upon the site of the future 

 city of Hull. He finally quitted Woburn for Canada on 

 the 2nd of February, 1800. He was accompanied by 

 five families, and had in his train fourteen horses, eight 

 oxen and seven sleighs. The first live was felled OD the 

 site of the homestead on the 7th of March, of the same 

 year. He brought the first square timber from the 

 Ottawa to Quebec in the year L807. He built the first 



