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| <tab>Also, however, both before and after the crash of his father’s dairying empire and personal fortunes, D. J. Macpherson was involved in the lumber industries. With his father, he was associated with J. T. Schell in the Alexandria lumber products firm of McPherson and Schell. In 1905, he went with a James R. Fraser to Madawaska to log Fraser’s timberland. (//Glengarry News// 4 May 1905 ) After the early death in 1906 of his brother-in-law the lumberman John D. McArthur, he helped log the Stuart Tract (see Stuarts of the Stuart Tract) on behalf of the estate. From the year 1911, we get the following statement about his lumbering activities, “D. J. Macpherson, proprietor of the South Lancaster Lumber Mill, has completed his drive on the South Branch, in a very satisfactory manner. The timber, being brought down the River Raisin, is quite unique in this part of Canada, being huge sticks of hemlock many of them over 400 years old and is the final clean up of hemlock in old Glengarry. Mr. Macpherson says he is confident there is nothing equal to it east of the Pacific Coast.” (“old Glengarry” here may include Stormont County, home of the Stuart Tract) In 1912, the same newspaper recorded his tribute to the fine elm trees being cut in the McLennan bush north of Summerstown Station, GC. | <tab>Also, however, both before and after the crash of his father’s dairying empire and personal fortunes, D. J. Macpherson was involved in the lumber industries. With his father, he was associated with J. T. Schell in the Alexandria lumber products firm of McPherson and Schell. In 1905, he went with a James R. Fraser to Madawaska to log Fraser’s timberland. (//Glengarry News// 4 May 1905 ) After the early death in 1906 of his brother-in-law the lumberman John D. McArthur, he helped log the Stuart Tract (see Stuarts of the Stuart Tract) on behalf of the estate. From the year 1911, we get the following statement about his lumbering activities, “D. J. Macpherson, proprietor of the South Lancaster Lumber Mill, has completed his drive on the South Branch, in a very satisfactory manner. The timber, being brought down the River Raisin, is quite unique in this part of Canada, being huge sticks of hemlock many of them over 400 years old and is the final clean up of hemlock in old Glengarry. Mr. Macpherson says he is confident there is nothing equal to it east of the Pacific Coast.” (“old Glengarry” here may include Stormont County, home of the Stuart Tract) In 1912, the same newspaper recorded his tribute to the fine elm trees being cut in the McLennan bush north of Summerstown Station, GC. |
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| <tab>For some years, he operated a factory at South Lancaster for making cheese boxes, the company name being St. Lawrence Lumber and Box Company. For the GC-area manufacture of cheese boxes, see also Coulthart family. | <tab>For some years, he operated a factory at South Lancaster for making cheese boxes, the company name being St. Lawrence Lumber and Box Company. For the GC-area manufacture of cheese boxes, see also [[coulthart|Coulthart family]]. |
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| <tab>Whether on a paid or volunteer basis, Macpherson was the caretaker of Cairn Island (see entry for Col. Carmichael) at South Lancaster from 1925 to 1940. He owned the celebrated Moose Head Inn at South Lancaster till 1948, and is said actually to have operated it as an inn; his home was next door. At the time of the death of his brother John A. in August 1953, he appears to have been living at Wales, Ont., west of Cornwall. Robert J. Fraser, who obtained information from him for his //As Others See Us// of 1959, describes him as “long known throughout the county as a man of many enterprises.” By the time Fraser was writing, Macpherson was living in Alexandria. Macpherson died in Cornwall. The burial was at Woodlawn Cemetery, Cornwall. (four or five children, two surviving him) | <tab>Whether on a paid or volunteer basis, Macpherson was the caretaker of Cairn Island (see entry for [[carmichael_lewis_or_louis|Col. Carmichael]]) at South Lancaster from 1925 to 1940. He owned the celebrated Moose Head Inn at South Lancaster till 1948, and is said actually to have operated it as an inn; his home was next door. At the time of the death of his brother John A. in August 1953, he appears to have been living at Wales, Ont., west of Cornwall. Robert J. Fraser, who obtained information from him for his //As Others See Us// of 1959, describes him as “long known throughout the county as a man of many enterprises.” By the time Fraser was writing, Macpherson was living in Alexandria. Macpherson died in Cornwall. The burial was at Woodlawn Cemetery, Cornwall. (four or five children, two surviving him) |
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| <tab>He was married to Mabel Aitken (1873-1960) of Lancaster, GC. | <tab>He was married to Mabel Aitken (1873-1960) of Lancaster, GC. |
