Portland Flouring Mills – Rennie’s employer
Our article, Alfred Herbert Rennie – biography, the Hongkong Milling Company and his suicide, includes the following information:
The troubled career of Alfred Hebert Rennie is remembered in a former coastal village at JUnk Bay (now Tseung Kwan O) in Kowloon, where he opened a flour mill in early 1907. Scion of a well known Ontario family, Rennie was educated at Hamilton Grammar School and Upper Canada College, Toronto. He became confidenrial secretary to the Premier of Manitoba and was able to secure a substantial loan for the province from Britain.
He left Canada for Hong Kong in 1890 and there acted very successfully as sales representative for the American company, Portland Flouring Mills. He became a member of the Hong Kong Club as well as partner of Sir Paul Chater and Hormusjee Naorojee Mody, whom he persuaded to invest in his project to build a flour mill at Junk Bay.
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- OC’s birth to an empire: The Portland Flouring Mills 8th January 2014
- Olympic/The Portland Flouring Mills Company – The Oregonian [?] newspaper article 1st January 1904
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