. 3 Dec. 1833 in Dalzellyie, Kirkoswald parish, Scotland, son of John Brydan and Ann Cooper; m. 1866 Elizabeth Hamilton Dunsmuir
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On 7 May 1915 the Cunard liner Lusitania was torpedoed by a German submarine. The consequent loss of 1,198 lives, including that of James Dunsmuir
River Lumber Company. He was also a director of Canadian Collieries (Dunsmuir) Limited – a subsidiary of the Canadian Northern Railway that had originally been part of the business empire of James
and for the infamous mines of Robert Dunsmuir* at nearby Wellington. Attempts to unionize had met with blacklisting and firings; strikes with
the election he joined 24 other members to support James Dunsmuir in order to pass the estimates and continue
as a mule driver and miner in No.5 Mine, Canadian Collieries (Dunsmuir) Limited. He took part in the UMWA’s unsuccessful strike for recognition in 1912–14, and the first record of his involvement in a
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