What is James Whalen?
'''James Whalen''' (April 29, 1869 – June 4, 1929) was a [[Canadians|Canadian]] businessperson and entrepreneur based in [[Port Arthur, Ontario|Port Arthur]], [[Ontario]], now part of [[Thunder Bay]], Ontario, with interests in the forest industries, shipbuilding, dredging, and towing. He began as a timber contractor in the 1890s, he built an impressive business empire in various [[Great Lakes]] marine businesses. With the help of his brothers he was less successful in entering the competitive [[British Columbia]] pulp and paper business that went bankrupt in 1925. He was born in [[Collingwood, Ontario]], April 29, 1869, to Joseph Whalen and Alice Broad, and died in [[Duluth]], [[Minnesota]] June 4, 1929.<ref>Port Arthur News-Chronicle 4 June 1929</ref> His marriage to Laurel Conmee in 1896 allied his fortunes to her father, the formidable Ontario politician and contractor [[James Conmee]]. He constructed the eight storey Whalen building in Port Arthur in 1913.<ref>http://www.thunderbay.ca/docs/hac/5481.doc{{Dead link|date=September 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> ==Companies associated with James Whalen== *[[Western Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company]] *[[Port Arthur Shipbuilding Company]], PASCO *[[Great Lakes Dredging Company]] *Canadian Towing and Wrecking Company *Dominion Towing and Salvage Company *Whalen Pulp and Paper Company (British Columbia) *Canada West Coast Navigation Company *Canada Pebble Company ==References== {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Whalen, James}} [[Category:1869 births]] [[Category:1929 deaths]] [[Category:Canadian businesspeople]] [[Category:People from Thunder Bay]]