Walter E. Booth was born November 28, 1873 in Toronto, Canada, son of George Booth and Myrtilla Cormelia Smith. He attended Model School, Jarvis Street Collegiate and the University of Toronto. He started in business on the editorial staff of the Detroit Tribune and the Chicago Journal. He returned to Toronto in 1900 and entered the manufacturing business, joining his father in the Booth Copper Company. That company became the Booth Coulter Copper and Brass Company, of which he was the head from1919 to1923. In 1898 he married Clara M. Gray of Detroit and they had five children: Florence Maria Booth; Walter Gray Booth; Lawrence Harman Booth; Josephine Ella Booth; and Katherine Clara Booth. At the time of his death he was president of the W.E. Booth Company, working with his son, L. Harman Booth. He spoke five languages, English, French, German, Italian and Russian. Walter E. Booth died on October 27, 1934. This scrapbook was assembled by the Walter E. Booth family of Toronto and passed down to Susan Harman Booth Norberg. Susan Norberg is the daughter of Lawrence Harman Booth and Norma Evelyn Lindsay; granddaughter of Walter E. Booth and Clara Gray, and great granddaughter of George Booth and Myrtilla Cormelia Smith. George was the younger brother of Henry Wood Booth, the father of George Gough Booth.