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| ERECTED BY HERITAGE RENFREW WITH ASSISTANCE FROM THE TOWN OF RENFREW |
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| THOMAS ANDREW LOW 1871-1931 TOM LOW CAME TO RENFREW IN 1889 A POOR BOY. BY HARD WORK AND UNUSUAL FORESIGHT HE HAD BY 1920 ORGANIZED FIVE FINANCIALLY SUCCESSFUL MANUFACTURING COMPANIES. IN 1928 HE UNITED HIS COMPANIES TO FORM RENFREW INDUSTRIES LIMITED. HARD HIT BY THE DEPRESSION AND THE SUDDEN DEATH OF TOM LOW IN 1931 THE INDUSTRIES WERE SOLD BY THE SHAREHOLDERS AS SEPARATE COMPANIES IN 1936. THRICE ELECTED TO PARLIAMENT TOM LOW WAS APPOINTED TO THE CABINET IN 1921 AND IN 1923 WAS MADE MINISTER OF TRADE AND COMMERCE. IN 1918 HE LANDSCAPED THE TOWN PARK WHICH WAS THEN NAMED LOW SQUARE. IN IT HE BUILT THE CENOTAPH BEARING THE NAMES OF RENFREW AND DISTRICT WAR DEAD. |
