logging history north western ontario.avi 

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The largest (thus usually the oldest) trees were cut first as they provided the greatest amount of lumber per tree. I don't know the specifics of Ontario lumber history, but in Michigan where I am from, most of the white and red pine regions of Michigan were completely cut during a seventy year span of roughly 1840-1910. Believe it or not, the men with those two-man crosscut saws could cut the large trees in approximately 15 minutes. Hauling logs year-round by sleds in the winter, rivers in the spring, and railroad in the summer and fall, meant the trees could be cut the entire year. So in a 10 hour day, two men could potentially cut 40 trees a day, 6 days a week (240 trees a week), and say they work 11 months (they may not work when it is the spring mud season), so say 44 weeks a year, that means those two men may cut down 10,560 trees by themselves. Now multiply that by 30,000 (the approximate number of men who worked in the forests in Michigan in the year 1885) and you can see how the original old growth forests disappeared. That number by the way would be 316,800,000 trees cut in a year.

Look John Rudolphus Booth. Extraordinary man, lived until his 90s, built/owned Bay of Quinte RR, Ottawa Arnprior & Parry Sound RR and more.

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*** Where the men were men, and the women were too! lol