John Franklin Booth

704 Island Park Drive, one of the most photographed and well-known homes of IPD was home to John Franklin Booth, a highly acclaimed agricultural economist with degrees from the University of Saskatchewan and Ph.D. from Cornell where he also taught for several years.

In 1929, John Franklin Booth returned to Canada to establish the Economics Division of the Department of Agriculture which he directed until his retirement in 1969. He was the author of several ground-breaking books on agricultural economics - especially cooperatives - and acquired numerous honors including an honorary doctorate, a fellowship in the American Agricultural Economics Association, and an OBE. He helped found the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and undertook work for the World Bank.

A summary of his career can be found here.