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{{Short description|Canadian lumber merchant (1793–1863)}}

'''Ruggles Wright''' ([[1793]] -&ndash; [[August 18]], [[1863]]) was a [[CanadaCanadians|Canadian]] [[lumber]] merchant, the second youngest son of [[Philemon Wright]].<ref name=gard/>

He was born in [[Woburn, Massachusetts]] but moved to Canada with his parents while still young. He later joined the family business in the [[Ottawa River timber trade|timber trade]]. tradeWright also served as [[justice of the peace]] and postmaster during the 1820s.<ref Inname=rpcq>{{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=[[1829Ministry of Culture and Communications (Quebec)|Culture et des Communications Quebec]]|language=fr}}</ref> In 1829, he built the first [[timber slide]] on the [[Ottawa River]] to transport logs past the [[Chaudière Falls]], creating [[RapidPhilemon Island]]s. However, by [[1840]], a competing slide built on the opposite ([[Ontario]]) side of the river had won over most of the business.<ref>{{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}}</ref> He also discoveredtook aon sourcemanagement of the family [[cement]] whichmanufactory wasand usedgreatly inexpanded it during the construction of the [[Rideau Canal]].<ref>{{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}}</ref>

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.<ref name=gard>{{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}}</ref>

In partnership with [[John Egan (Canadian politician)|John Egan]], he operated a [[steamship]] transporting goods on the Ottawa River.

In partnership with [[John Egan (Canadian politician)|John Egan]], he operated a [[steamship]]s transporting goods on the Ottawa River.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

[[Category:1793 births|Wright, Ruggles]]

[[Category:1863 deaths|Wright, Ruggles]]

==External links==

[[Category:Early Canadian business leaders|Wright, Ruggles]]

* [http://www.wrightfamily.ca/ the Wright Family]

==References==

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;Bibliography

{{refbegin}}

*{{Citation

|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

|___location =Ottawa, Ontario

|isbn =

}}

{{refend}}

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[[Category:1793 births|Wright, Ruggles]]

[[Category:1863 deaths|Wright, Ruggles]]

[[Category:19th-century Canadian merchants]]

[[Category:Settlers of the National Capital Region (Canada)]]

[[Category:American emigrants to pre-Confederation Quebec]]

[[Category:People from Woburn, Massachusetts]]

[[Category:Canadian people of English descent]]

[[Category:Immigrants to Lower Canada]]

[[Category:Canadian justices of the peace]]