Daniel McLachlin of Houston, Texas is the only son of Hugh Frederick McLachlin and
Jean Alexander McLachlin of Arnprior. Hugh was the eldest son of Daniel McLachlin
who was born at the 'Hill' in 1881 and was active in running the McLachlin Brothers Lumber
Mills in Arnprior. The Daniel McLachlin fonds consist of photgraphic and textual
records relating to the lumber mills and life in lumber camps at the turn of the century.
Two famly history charts and photocopied books and articles about the history of
Arnprior and lumbering are also included in the fonds.
The manuscript Life in Lumber Camps of McLachlin Brothers, Arnprior, Ontario,
written by Charles Macnamara in the 1940's, contains numerous black and white
photgraphs taken between 1900 and 1903.
