SHEA, Sir AMBROSE, newspaperman, businessman, politician, and governor of the Bahamas; baptized 15 May 1815 in St
. John, the remaining brother in St John’s, died in 1864. In 1870, therefore, Joseph formed a partnership with Robert John Kent*. He
works were the dredging of the Ambrose Channel, which was to provide a new 40-foot-deep entrance to New York’s harbour, and the building of a subway tunnel under the East River for the New York Rapid
Exhibition, held in London in 1883, and travelled there in advance of the commissioner, Ambrose Shea. Six years later he
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McDougall was admitted to practise as an attorney and solicitor in 1847; he entered into partnership in Toronto with Ambrose Gorham, a fellow student. His legal career, however, served mainly to finance his
of a New York syndicate, a course that set him against Ambrose Shea
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