Samuel J. Ritchie

[4] Ritchie then lobbied for a Nickel export tax from Canada, with which to subsidize a smelter and refinery operation.

He was partially successful in 1897 with the passage through Parliament in Ottawa of 60-61 Victoria chapter 17 An Act respecting Export Duties but in order to levy the duty this text required the consent of the Governor-General, which was never forthcoming because Sir Wilfrid Laurier prevented it.

Ritchie finally obtained his dream in 1916: the Big Nickel scandal forced INCO to re-situate its Constable Hook operations to near the hydroelectric power source of Niagara Falls in Port Colborne.

[5][6][7] Ritchie began a $10 million lawsuit in 1893 against Judge Stevenson Burke, ex-Senator Henry B. Payne, H.P.

[1] It was Ritchie's daughter that bequeathed five linear feet of familial photographs to the Western Reserve Historical Society.