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                  , Upper Canada, son of Thomas Frood, a farmer, and Barbara Forrest; m. first 18 Aug. 1865 Mary Matilda Biggar (d. 1886) in Hamilton, Upper Canada, and they had two daughters; m. secondly 14
                  Fraser and George Forrest McKay, who did not have enough personal capital to construct Canada’s first primary steel mill. The company was capitalized at $150,000; McGregor and his fellow New
                  the Carmichael yard. Soon after he began to hire his own workers and ironed ships on contract. In 1872 he formed a partnership with George Forrest McKay, a local blacksmith, and established the Hope
                  John M. Browning, chair of the finance committee of Vancouver City Council and also a land commissioner for the CPR and the representative of the directors financing the refinery. Headed by a
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