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- 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 of Glasgow, Scotland where Allan Gilmour Sr. started a small timber merchandising business. In 1804 he entered into a partnership with his cousins John and Arthur and formed Pollock, Gilmour and Company. Pollock, Gilmour and Company became ship owners and imported products in Europe and the Baltic region. The Gilmour Lumber Company established its first Canadian branch at Douglastown, New Brunswick, near the mouth of the Miramichi River in 1812. Subsequently, Gilmour opened a sawmill in Trois-Rivières, Quebec. By the 1840s the company was split; with brothers Allan Jr., John and David operating the Quebec City branch, and a younger Allan Gilmour running the Montreal branch under the name Gilmour and Company. They established shipbuilding yards at Quebec City, and Saint John and the Miramichi region of New Brunswick. By the 1840s they commanded a fleet of 130 vessels, one of the largest shipping operations in the world. In 1852 Gilmour and Company constructed a sawmill at the Trent Port location along the Bay of Quinte (now Trenton, Ontario). Over four decades the mill would grow to be the largest sawmill in the world. As Long and Whiteman wrote in their comprehensive study, When Giants Fall: The Gilmour Quest for Algonquin Pine: "The main sawmill stood on the south western part of the property. Two and one-half storeys high, it measured some 30 metres wide and 43 metres long. Piling grounds for lumber were situated to the east and north, and the shipping docks to the south. Railway tracks provided access to both areas from the mill. Along these horses hauled carloads of lumber." (en)
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- 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 of Glasgow, Scotland where Allan Gilmour Sr. started a small timber merchandising business. In 1804 he entered into a partnership with his cousins John and Arthur and formed Pollock, Gilmour and Company. Pollock, Gilmour and Company became ship owners and imported products in Europe and the Baltic region. (en)
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