. In 1810 he participated in the capture of Île-de-France (Mauritius) and in the next few years served in the East Indies under Sir Robert Gillespie. Later he served in the 1st Anglo-Burmese War of
silent partner. The dry dock was eventually sold to Robert Gillespie Reid* as part of the 1898 railway contract. A. D. Brown
consciousness. Upon completion of his training as a machinist in Nova Scotia, Bennett found employment in St John’s in the railway shops of the Reid Newfoundland Company [see Sir Robert Gillespie
the Winter government signed a controversial contract with railway builder Robert Gillespie Reid*, and the Liberals split
representative, George Gillespie*, was Faribault’s agent at Michilimackinac. Faribault obtained a permit to trade in the American Northwest Territory
was absorbed by the Reid Newfoundland Company [see Sir Robert Gillespie Reid*], which at that time was probably the
with the governor. If so, it was soon disabused. The occasion was the negotiation in 1898 of a new contract with Robert Gillespie
Nov. 1866 in Sydney (Australia), eldest son of Robert Gillespie Reid
in garrison duty during the War of 1812. White worked with Chevallier and Phillips again in 1816 when he did the carpentry work on a store they were building for the firm of Gerrard, Yeoward, Gillespie
REID, Sir ROBERT GILLESPIE, railway contractor; b
1817 Sarah Sharman, by whom he had four sons and three daughters, and in 1842 Catherine Gillespie, née
personal acquaintance” with American Secretary of State James Gillespie Blaine, he had offered Macdonald his services in Washington to promote reciprocity. Cameron had a summer home at Tadoussac, Que., which
afterwards he divested himself of his Nova Scotia operations. He befriended Robert Gillespie Reid* and his sons
financial difficulty. In January 1821 Desrivières, Richardson, and Thomas Gillespie petitioned the assembly for additional legislative and financial support (the government had already purchased shares worth
to shield other prominent men; another associate hinted the pamphlet was sponsored by the American secretary of state, James Gillespie Blaine
Gisborne*], the completion by Robert Gillespie Reid* and his sons of a trans-island railway in 1898, Guglielmo Marconi’s reception of
,” OH, 63 (1971): 112–30. P[eter] Gillespie, “Cement industry of Ontario,” Ont., Bureau of Mines
papers. UWO, 255 (John Scoble papers); Middlesex County, Court of Chancery files, no.103. [J. G. Birney], Letters of James Gillespie Birney, 1831–1857, ed. D. L
the fall of 1836 Street was empowered to act for Robert Gillespie* in financial and land matters, subject to an agent’s fee of 10 per