Names and numbers
J.R.Booth
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Booth
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History
12 facts
| Date | Statement | Source | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1889-01-23 | Mr. J.R. Booth, Chaudiere lumberman, has purchased for a piling ground about twenty acres of land extending from the line of the C.A.R. Chaudiere extension, north of Concession St., along the south side of Messrs. Perley and Pattee's new lumber yard to St. Louis dam. Mr. Booth's lumber grounds in Rochesterville cover about forty acres. | Ottawa Journal 1889-01-23(A report the next day (Ottawa Free Press, 1889-01-...),Ottawa Free Press 1889-01-24(Says Booth 'recently purchased about twelve acres ...) | |
| 1889-08-27 | Mr. J.R. Booth purchased some 15 acres of land for a piling ground near the St. Louis Dam. He said: 'I begin from below here, extend from the Carling Lake to the Concession line... I have made provision here for ground sufficient to pile all my cut... before the end of the season, I shall have some ten million feet piled here.' By this means he relieves the Chaudiere and lessens the fire risk there, saying he will 'pile there no more'; that ground will be turned into building lots. He also said: 'I intend to build a fire station down here at the end of the lake, and put in a steamer for the protection of this lumber.' A follow-up report (Sept. 5) says it is understood that lumber previously piled in his old Chaudiere-area yard will in future be brought by rail to his new yard near the dam. | Ottawa Journal 1889-08-27(Booth spoke to the Journal reporter on the precedi...),Ottawa Citizen 1889-08-28(Says the two branches into the new grounds will be...),Ottawa Free Press 1889-09-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1890-08-22 | Mr. J.R. Booth has built out into Carling Lake for some hundreds of yards in order to reach deep water, so as to be able to ship his lumber thence by water. He has filled in the space to the bank and made ground for two or three tracks. | Ottawa Journal 1890-08-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1892-08-05≥ | By the issue of August 5, 1892, John Rudolphus Booth had purchased the plant, lumber mill, yards and water power of Messrs. Perley and Pattee at the Chaudiere, the first practical step in improvements to the terminal facilities of the C.A.R. reportedly contemplated by Booth. It was impossible for Booth to extend the C.A.R. to his mill platform except by acquiring the Perley & Pattee mill property; a track could now be extended from the then terminus of the C.A.R. at Bridge street to Booth's lumber yard and across the slides into the mill property. Booth was to take possession of the newly acquired property at the end of the sawing season, and many of Perley and Pattee's employees had received notice that their services would not be required after the following fall. | Ottawa Citizen 1892-08-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1893-08-23 | The Renfrew Mercury reported J. R. Booth's insistence on fast trains for his railway: "Booth's trains will go at sixty miles per hour or he shall have no use for them." Wording as given on the Canada Atlantic Railway site, quoting the Renfrew Mercury. Read from https://sites.google.com/site/canadaatlanticry/people/people-b/john-rudolphus-booth | Mercury 1893-08-23 | |
| 1893-11-03 | A biographical sketch of Mr. J.R. Booth in the Ottawa Evening Journal (reprinted in the Renfrew Mercury) described him as a Canadian, not an American as many believed, born "in Sheffock, county of Waterloo, in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, sixty-five years ago", who came to Ottawa thirty-eight years earlier, saw the possibilities of the Chaudiere's water power and, with the late Mr. Soper, built a small shingle mill on the site of his present big mill. During the hard times of 1874 to 1879 he bought timber limits at auction "right and left" when other limit holders lost courage, and they were worth five times what he paid; "In 1881 he threw himself into the building of the Canada Atlantic and in a very short time the road was constructed and at once took a first place amongst Canadian railways", and those who knew him best said the Parry Sound Railway would be in complete running order from the Sound inside of three years. Birthplace spelling and county are as printed (the Eastern Townships county of Shefford is probably meant); not corrected here. | Ottawa Journal 1893-11-03(Also as reprinted in the Renfrew Mercury; the plac...) | |
| 1896-01-15≥ | On Tuesday night, the Ottawa Board of Trade presented Mr. John R. Booth with an address expressing their appreciation of the inestimable benefit which must accrue to that city and the Dominion from Mr. Booth's energy in building the OA & PS. One gentleman pointed out that of the six and three-quarter millions expended in the construction of the Parry Sound over five millions of Mr. Booth's capital had gone into the scheme. (As reported by 15 January 1896; the source dates the event only relatively.) | Mercury 1896-01-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-09-28 | Mr. Booth said the line would be put through this fall, thus completing a short route from the Great Lakes to the sea-board. He did not expect, personally, to reap any large benefit from its success, but 'as he was going through this world only this once it was some satisfaction to contribute a little to the sum total of human achievement.' Reported speech of Mr. Booth on the return trip of the legislators' special; the statement paraphrases the Citizen's reported-speech account. | Ottawa Citizen 1896-09-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1896-12-18 | Booth declined a citizens' testimonial marking the completion of the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway. He considered the railway only the beginning of the larger enterprise of connecting the west with the east, and anticipated elevator construction and the acquisition of a steamship fleet as the next steps in the scheme. Read from https://sites.google.com/site/canadaatlanticry/people/people-b/john-rudolphus-booth | Huntsville Forester 1896-12-18 | |
| 1904-08-11 | J.R. Booth named director of GTP. The Grand Trunk Pacific is not the Canada Atlantic; filed on Booth personally per the operator (2026-09-28). | Ottawa Journal 1904-08-11(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1910-08-12 | Mr. J.R. Booth did the unusual thing by his men who were thrown out of work by the G.T.R. strike. He gave them full pay, just as if they had been working for him, at a cost to himself of $12,000. The men gathered and gave him a mighty shout of thanks. He told them that he thought he could afford the loss better than they could. | Renfrew Mercury 1910-08-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| J. R. Booth encouraged the development of creameries at Renfrew and Eganville. | leader 1904-06-10 |