Episode 63: J. R. Booth - An Ottawa Valley Lumber King (PT1)

ALGONQUIN DEFINING MOMENTS

Episode 63: J. R. Booth - An Ottawa Valley Lumber King (PT1)

This is the first of two episodes on the life and times of John Rudolphous Booth one of the great Ottawa Valley Lumber Kings in the second half of the 19th C. Much of the content comes, with great thanks and appreciation from Roderick MacKay’s, newly published second edition of a Booth biography called J. R. Booth Lumberman, Railway Builder, Industrialist, Great Canadian, and Influence on Algonquin Provincial Park.

The musical interlude is called The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Rail and comes from the Wakami Wailers’ Un, Deux, Trois Four album