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Abstract
The career of Joseph Goodwin King (1844-1910), grain elevator operator at Port Hope and Port Arthur, Ontario, sheds light on many aspects of Canadian agricultural and economic history— the role of railway companies in the grain trade, the decline of Lake Ontario grain ports, the rise of Thunder Bay on Lake Superior as the major Canadian grain port for western Canada, as well as improvements in North American grain cleaning and drying methods, and grain elevator construction.
Résumé
La carrière de Joseph Goodwin King (1844-1910), exploitant d’élévateurs à grains à Port Hope et Port Arthur, en Ontario, éclaire de nombreux aspects de l’histoire agricole et économique du Canada—le rôle des compagnies ferroviaires dans le commerce des grains, le déclin des ports céréaliers du lac Ontario, l’essor de Thunder Bay sur le lac Supérieur comme principal port céréalier de l`Ouest canadien, ainsi que les améliorations apportées aux méthodes de nettoyage et de séchage des céréales, et à la construction des silos-élévateurs en Amérique du Nord.
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Biographical note
Brent Scollie has familial connections to Port Hope, where his great-great grandfather John Fowler, a tireless railway promoter, was managing director of the Port Hope, Lindsay and Beaverton Railway, and to Thunder Bay, where John Fowler’s daughter Anne and her husband George Jacob Scollie moved in 1902. He grew up in Fort William within sight of the large Ogilvie grain elevator and flour mill on the Kaministiquia River. He is a graduate of Queen’s and the University of Toronto and a contributor to the Dictionary of Canadian Biography and the Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society’s Papers and Records.