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John Rudolphus Booth
John Rudolphus Booth (April 5, 1827 – December 8, 1925) was a Canadian lumber king and railroad baron. He controlled logging rights for large tracts of forest land in central Ontario, and built the Canada Atlantic Railway (from Georgian Bay via Ottawa to Vermont) to extract his logs and to export lumber and grain to the United States and Europe. In 1892, his lumber mill was the largest operation of its kind in the world.
He was familiar with all aspects of his industry, and one observer noted:
==Early life==
J. R. Booth was born on a farm at Lowes near Waterloo (Shefford County) in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. His parents, John and Eleanor Rowley Booth, Irish immigrants, had a number of children (variously reported as 5, 6 and 8). J. R. Booth left the family farm at the age of 21 and got a job as a carpenter with the Central Vermont Railroad.
In 1852 he married Rosalinda Cooke and moved to the Ottawa valley. His first business venture was a machine shop in Hull, Quebec which later burned down. After first working as a carpenter by day, and making shingles by night for the Wright family,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url = http://visionchaudiere.ca/brief-history/canadian-achievement-the-captains-of-industry/ )〕 he opened a successful shingle factory, accumulating enough money to lease (and then buy) a small sawmill near the Chaudière Falls. He established his own lumber company and won the contract to supply wood for the Parliament buildings at the new Canadian capital in Ottawa, Ontario, selected by Queen Victoria in 1858.
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