Graham, Horne & Company
| Graham, Horne & Company | |
|---|---|
| Graham, Horne & Co. | |
| Type | Company |
| Founded | 1883 |
| Jurisdiction | Fort William, Ontario |
Graham, Horne & Company (fl. 1894) was a lumber manufacturing company based in Fort William, Ontario.[1]
Graham, Horne & Company operated a large lumber manufacturing plant in Fort William, located on Front Street. The company's saw and planing mills had a combined capacity of 100,000 board feet per day and employed approximately 125 men. Their lumber products were shipped to Manitoba and the Northwest.
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The firm was formed by John T. Horne and George A. Graham. A museum archive sketch dates its start to 1883 and describes its Fort William sawmill, on the Kaministiquia River, as one of the first in the region;[2] the Thunder Bay Museum's exhibit says Graham and Horne set up one of the area's first sawmills as early as the 1870s, then branched into shipping and real estate.[3] Horne and Graham, Graham's brother Donald and two cousins ran the business, which shipped lumber across the Northwest and later expanded to Vermilion Bay and the Rainy River District.[4] The lumber operation was bought out by the Pigeon River Lumber Co. near the end of the 1890s, and by about 1900 the large mill formerly used by Graham, Horne & Co. belonged to that company and employed more than 200 men.[2][5] The partners carried on land and timber business as Graham, Horne Ltd. into the 1910s, and held real estate through the Fort William City Investment Company; the Graham and Horne Block in Fort William carried their name.[6][4]
Directory listings
| Year | Name as listed | Details | Address | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1884 | Graham, Horne & Co., saw mills, Kaministiquia river | saw mills, Kaministiquia river | p. 222[7] | |
| 1884 | Graham, Horne & Co., lumber dealers, South Water, foot Park | lumber dealers, South Water, foot Park | p. 292[8] |
References
- ↑ Case's Directory of Fort William, Port Arthur and the District of Thunder Bay, May 1894, pp. 22, 37, 41, 160.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Archeion, "J.T. Horne/G.A. Graham fonds" (A 62), biographical sketch. Original page; archived: datum.locker.
- ↑ Thunder Bay Museum, "Graham and Horne", Historical Figures virtual exhibit. Original page; archived: datum.locker.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 City of Thunder Bay, "Fort William Mayors". Original page; archived: datum.locker.
- ↑ "Thunder Bay, Ontario: Historical Booklet, circa 1900", Ontario History. Original page; archived: datum.locker.
- ↑ Thunder Bay Museum, "J.T. Horne / George A. Graham fonds" (finding aid, A62). Original page; archived: datum.locker.
- ↑ Henderson's North West Gazetteer and Directory, 1884 (Henderson Directories Limited), p. 222.
- ↑ Henderson's North West Gazetteer and Directory, 1884 (Henderson Directories Limited), p. 292.