Montreal “Star” June 17 1958
C. C. Riordon
Stephen Leacock was the first to go. Now “Carl” Riordon. And so it may be a long time before the corner where they held forth daily in the University Club sparkles again with quite the same wit, probing conversation and not quite such orthodox views as the uninitiated might expect to hear. Where Mr. Leacock’s roots were academic, Mr. Riordon’s were industrual. But between them were the firm bonds of a feeling for history, a love for all that is, and was, Canada, and a sense of humor.
Charles Christopher Riordon was one of a pioneering family in the development of Canada’s great pulp and paper industry. The first family mill in 1862 produced 25 tons of paper monthly. When he sold the Riordon Pulp and Paper Company to Canadian International Paper in 1925, it had large mills at Hawkesbury and Timiskaming. Family properties at one time or another also included both The Mail and The Globe in Toronto. Mr. Riordon was on of the organizers of the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association and its first president and, despite his age–he was 82 when he died during the weekend–was still a director of several financial and industrial enterprises.
(The above is written verbatim from a clipping in the belongings of the late Patsy Bennett)
Hi James.
It’s time I got organised on my family history, now that technology is here to help and people like you have already done a lot of the grunt work. I will go straight up the line where possible from myself, via mother Betty and her mother Elsie Riordon (later Good-Adams) but we do have god relations with Henry and Melodie Yates of Montreal (you should hear him speak French!). He is I believe related to the Riordons via a Bunting connection that I can’t quite work out because every time he tells me, I never seem to take notes. Meanwhile I’m happy to help you with any UK descendants, says he from Australia.