The Gilmour Lumber Company was one of the giants of the Canadian timber industry. Their involvement in lumbering began modestly in the 1790s in the area...
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Pollok, Gilmour, and Company was a Glasgow-based timber-importing firm established in 1804 by Allan Gilmour, Sr and the brothers John Pollok and Arthur...
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Gilbert. Gilmour attended Ashbury College. The family business was lumber, and Gilmour owned a retail and wholesale lumber firm D.G. Gilmour and Company. His...
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Canoe Lake was first established in 1893 as a logging camp for the Gilmour Lumber Company. From there, logs were driven down the Oxtongue River towards Lake...
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Allan Gilmour Sr. (October 1775 – 4 March 1849) was a Scottish-born lumber merchant and shipowner. Born in 1775, Allan Gilmour Sr. was the son of Allan...
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landscapes along the river.: 262 In the late 19th century, the Gilmour Lumber Company used the river for log driving of timber from the Canoe Lake area...
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New Brunswick, and Gilmour, Rankin & Co. Born in 1782, James Gilmour was the brother of Allan Gilmour, Sr, and the son of Allan Gilmour and Elizabeth Pollok...
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resources to purchase Gilmour Mills in Carleton Place which was expanded to have the capacity to produce 100,000 feet of lumber a day and employing over...
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Ottawa River timber trade (redirect from The Lumber Industry on the Ottawa River)
Chaudier Bronsons & Weston [Lumber Company], 40, 400, Victoria Island (incorrectly listed as Bronson & Weston) Gilmour & Co. 40, 500–1000, 22 Bank (numbers...
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first meeting. Charles Hill has also included the "somewhat awkward" Old Lumber Dam, Algonquin Park as likely being made during the trip. Robson identified...
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