Abbott's Guide to Ottawa and Vicinity/Industries
INDUSTRIES.
A lumber centre from birth, the twin cities still hold their own. On the banks of a mighty river, down which logs and timber must continue to float for many years, there have necessarily arisen mills to deal with the product of the forests on the banks of that river and its tributary streams. The first mill was erected at the Chaudiere in 1853. At the present time the great match factory, paper mills, etc., of the E. B. Eddy Company, the lumber and paper mills of Mr. J. R. Booth, and the lumber mills of the Hull Lumber Company, Gilmour and Hughson, and others testify to the business done. The yearly output of lumber alone is now about three hundred million feet. A visit to the lumber district will be a liberal education to a stranger. The works of the E. B. Eddy Company are said to be the largest of their kind and the most unique establishment under the British flag. Other kindred industries have followed, among them manufactures of pulp, paper, matches, indurated fibre ware, woodwork of all kinds, furniture, pianos, and cars, while a large business is done in the manufacture of tents and army supplies, calcium carbide, bricks, and commercial mica. Last, but not least, that immense industry the manufacture of Portland cement. The harnessing of the unemployed water powers must, in the near future, result in the city being one of the greatest manufacturing centres on the continent.