Item 0001 - Letter from John Egan & Co., 16 October 1844

John Egan & Co. was a timber company founded by John Egan (1811-1857), an Irish businessman and politician who lived in Aylmer, Lower Canada. Egan's co-founders included the timber exporter Henry LeMesurier, William Henry Tilstone, and Havilland LeMesurier Routh. John Egan & Co.'s primary trade was in red pine and they constructed timber slides in Upper and Lower Canada on the Quyon, Petawawa, and Madawaska rivers. In the 1840s, the company expanded to the management of several sawmills and launched a steamer transportation system to compete with existing steamship lines. John Egan died in 1857 and a significant portion of his lumber operations were sold to John Rudolphus in 1867. John Egan & Co. was sold to James Bonfiled and Robert Turner in 1868.