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slide on the Hull side of the river in 1829. He was 

 elected the first member to represent the County of 

 Ottawa in 1830. He died in 1839, and sleeps, an honored 

 memory, in the little cemetery on the Aylmer road. 

 Philomene Wright built his first saw and grist mills in 

 1808 ; they were, unfortunately, burned down, but were 

 rebuilt in 60 days. 



About eighteen years prior to this the first saw mill on 

 the Ottawa had been built at Point Fortune, by a Mr, 

 Story. It boasted one upright saw, and it is recorded 

 that when the man in charge gigged back the carriage 

 for a fresh cut, he would sit down on the log to take his 

 dinner, and was about through by the time the cut was 

 finished. With our present saws the same can be done 

 in four seconds. 



Among our successful lumbermen have been the late 

 James McLaren, of Buckingham ; Peter McLaren, of 

 Perth ; Bronson, Weston & Co., Perley & Patee, J. B. 

 Booth, Alex. Fraser, of Westmeath ; W. Mackey, and the 

 late firm of Hamilton Bros., whose father was one of the 

 first in the trade at Hawkesbury, Ont. Many others 

 have taken an active part in the business, with more or 

 less success. 



West of the Eocky Mountains, Canada, contains vast 

 quantities of valuable timber, the manufacture of which 

 is rapidly increasing, to meet the wants of the Pacific 

 coast and islands. Much of this lumber will find its way 

 east to the treeless prairies. 



As to the Canadian method of lumbering, when circum- 

 stances will permit, we pile or skid before the snow 

 becomes too deep. When the snow is deep we draw 

 direct from the stump to the lake or river. Our style of 

 living in the shanty, and, in fact, the building itself differs 

 in the various parts of the country. Until very recently, 

 particularly in the Lower St. Lawrence, the fare of the 

 shantyman was very primitive, the commonest tea being 



