| 词条 | Ruggles Wright |
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He was born in Woburn, Massachusetts but moved to Canada with his parents while still young. He later joined the family business in the timber trade. Wright also served as justice of the peace and postmaster during the 1820s.[1] In 1829, he built the first timber slide on the Ottawa River to transport logs past the Chaudière Falls. However, by 1840, a competing slide built on the opposite (Ontario) side of the river had won over most of the business.[2] He also discovered a source of cement which was used in the construction of the Rideau Canal.[3] Wright was married twice: first to Hannah Chamberlain and later to Rosina McDowell. His daughter Hannah, married Joseph Merrill Currier, a lumber baron, in 1868. His son William McKay Wright served in the Canadian House of Commons.[4] In partnership with John Egan, he operated steamships transporting goods on the Ottawa River.[5] External links
References1. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.patrimoine-culturel.gouv.qc.ca/rpcq/detail.do?methode=consulter&id=9381&type=pge |title=Wright, Ruggles |work=Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec |publisher=Culture et des Communications Quebec|language=fr}} 2. ^{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3ZLSf-I0XgIC&pg=PA48 |title=Lumber Kings and Shantymen: Logging and Lumbering in the Ottawa Valley |last=Lee |first=David |pages=48–51 |year=2006 |ISBN=1550289225}} 3. ^{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jeOMfpYMOtYC&pg=PA199 |title=A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland: 1500-1830 |page=199 |last=Skempton |first=A. W |year=2002 |ISBN=072772939X}} 4. ^1 {{cite book |url=http://www.ourroots.ca/page.aspx?id=887015 |title=Pioneers of the Upper Ottawa and the humors of the valley |pages=73–74 |year=1906 |last=Gard |first=Anson Albert}} 5. ^{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xwmvAwAAQBAJ&pg=PR67 |title=Upper Ottawa Valley to 1855 |page=lxvi |year=1990 |ISBN=0773584080 |publisher=McGill-Queen's Press}}
|last = Laberge |first = Edward P. |title = Philemon Wright, a Yankee who helped build Canada. Bytown pamphlet series. |year = 1989 |publisher = The Historical Society of Ottawa |publication-place =Ottawa, Ontario |isbn ={{refend}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Wright, Ruggles}} 9 : 1793 births|1863 deaths|Pre-Confederation Canadian businesspeople|Settlers of the National Capital Region of Canada|American emigrants to pre-Confederation Quebec|People from Woburn, Massachusetts|Canadian people of English descent|Immigrants to Lower Canada|Canadian justices of the peace |
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