The unincorporated village of Whitney, Ontario, was established in 1895 as the site for the sawmill of the St. Anthony Lumber Company, of Minnesota, and is named for the general manager of that firm, E. C. Whitney.
The St. Anthony Lumber Company in Minneapolis, was located on the west bank of the Mississippi River, near Saint Anthony Falls. The company officers were: Eldridge M. Fowler of Chicago, president, and Arthur Hill of Saginaw, vice president. Edwin Canfield Whitney, who was born near Morrisburg, Ontario, had moved to the Midwestern United States shortly after the Civil War, working in the lumber trade, he became manager of the ST. Anthony Lumber Company
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