Industry veteran Ron (John) Crabtree

After graduating from Aurora High School, Ron went on to obtain his

Domtar was originaly Howard Smith Paper

degree in industrial engineering from the University of Toronto in 1952. He then embarked on a distinguished career at Strachan Henshaw Machinery in Bristol, England; Howard Smith Papermills in Windsor Mills, Quebec; and Murray Printing (later Southam Murray Printing) in Toronto, Ontario. While at Windsor Mills in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, a co-worker at Canada Paper Co. (a subsidiary of Howard Smith Papermills) noticed that a certain young lady had caught Ron’s eye and introduced him to the love of his life, Marie Denise Allard. They were married in 1956.