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John Rudolphus Booth (April 5, 1827 – December 8, 1925) was a Canadian lumber tycoon 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 ...
One of the giants of the lumber business was J. R Booth, born in Waterloo, Quebec, who arrived in Ottawa in 1857 and lived here until his death on Dec. 8, 1925.
Contemporaries often referred to J. R. Booth as a lumber king, the equivalent perhaps of today’s media moguls. Booth understood the regional economy of the Ottawa valley and its relationship to international trade as well as or better than any of his peers.
Jul 17, 2017 · The Booth, Transportation and Jackson buildings, all eventually expropriated by the federal government and the National Capital Commission, are among his family’s legacies, while a pair of Booth...
- Bruce Deachman
May 28, 2008 · John Rudolphus Booth, lumber manufacturer, railway builder (b near Waterloo, Lower Canada 5 Apr 1827; d at Ottawa, Ont 8 Dec 1925). In 1857 Booth took over a small shingle mill in Ottawa, which he gradually expanded until he held the most extensive timber limits in Canada and was the foremost manufacturer of lumber for American and British markets.
The new businessmen included Levi Young, A. H. Baldwin, F. H. Bronson, E. B. Eddy, W. G. Perley and J. R. Booth. Like many of the Gatineau area pioneers, JR was of Irish origin, from a family who had come first to the United States, and then to the province of Quebec.
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John Rudolphus Booth, 1827-1925. Ottawa’s foremost lumber baron. Section 50½, Lot 1. Born in Waterloo, Québec, on April 5, 1827, Booth came to Ottawa in the 1850s to seek his fortune with a mere nine dollars in his pocket.
