Career
Baptist first lived in Dorchester County, Quebec where he found employment in the sawmills there. These were owned by Sir John Caldwell and gave him valuable experience for his future endeavours. Greive had died in 1845 and the mill was abandoned.
Shortly after his purchase, the government became heavily involved in the timber industry.
By 1852, a commission led by Étienne Parent was proposing a policy of crown lands grants. Trois-Rivières became the centre of this increased activity and George Baptist one of the important businessmen.
Baptist brought innovation and prosperity to the lumber industry and it made him a prime example of the bourgeois class of Trois-Rivièresearch
