family, lumbermen, of Dundas County. Several generations of the Cook family were prominent in the lumber trade. The life of James William Cook (1820-1875) by J.K. Johnson in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography (X, 195-196) although brief includes notices of other members of the family and is in effect a condensed history of the family. The Cooks were involved in the lumber trade on the Castor and South Nation Rivers and in the Muskoka and Algoma areas. Their lumber rafts went down the St. Lawrence past GC. The impressive Cook mansion of Edgehill Hall was built six miles east of Morrisburg. In 1872 the Cook lumbering firm, Cook and Brothers, in partnership with the Glengarrian McArthur Brothers firm, of Toronto (see Alexander, John, and Peter McArthur) obtained cutting rights to over 900 square miles of timber on the north shore of Lake Huron. (Dictionary of Canadian Biography XII, 577) Duncan Morrison the lumberman “was associated with the Cooks for many years.” (Morrison’s obituary, Vankleek Hill Review 1 March 1907) There may be an allusion to the Cook lumber family in the description given by W. J. Styles of what he called “The Great Trek” of 1870, when “hundreds of the farmer-class” from Dundas and Stormont counties migrated to new areas further west in Ontario. Especially, he says, they went to the Muskoka area at the urging of certain Cook brothers who were born in Dundas County but established in the Muskoka area. (Standard Freeholder 10 May & 1 Nov. 1941) The Cooks were not a GC family, but they have relevance to the Glengarry lumber trade.

Standard Freeholder 25 Sept. 1943 on Cook family, the lumber rafts and Edgehill Hall * SFH 20 & 22 Aug. 1956 on Edgehill Hall (description, illust.)* Rose, i, 114-115, 661 * Morgan (1898) 207, Morgan (1912) 255 * anecdote about the Cook family, Butternuts and Maple Sugar 218