during the 1880s. In the following decade he was attracted to timber prospects in Newfoundland by Robert Gillespie

Mackenzie*, which soon merged with Parker, Gerrard, and Ogilvy. After several changes the firm became known as Gillespie, Moffatt, and Company with

suggests that he was born in the northwest. After living for a time in Cobourg in the 1830s, in 1837 he joined his father’s firm, Gillespie, Moffatt and Company, which was then at the head of Montreal’s

against the French. They also attacked the railway contract Whiteway had signed earlier in 1893 with Robert Gillespie Reid*, the Canadian

Robert Gillespie Reid*. He had built most of the transinsular line, now completed, after signing construction and operating contracts with

George* Gillespie, Thomas Yeoward, and Mure. Functioning through companies or offices in London, Quebec (where Mure directed business), Montreal, and Michilimackinac (Mackinac Island, Mich.), the

with the governor. If so, it was soon disabused. The occasion was the negotiation in 1898 of a new contract with Robert Gillespie

store in Grenville by 1821. His suppliers and backers, almost all in Montreal, included John* and Thomas Torrance, Gillespie, Moffatt and Company

in Toronto. James Newbigging received his early Canadian mercantile training as a clerk in the firm of Gillespie, Moffatt and Company in Montreal. In

of whom had one share. Its affairs in London were confided to Sir Alexander Mackenzie, Gillespie, Parker and Company, the Quebec business to Mure, and Michilimackinac affairs to George

Gisborne*], the completion by Robert Gillespie Reid* and his sons of a trans-island railway in 1898, Guglielmo Marconi’s reception of

, along with Josiah Bleakley*, George Gillespie, and

copies at a pound each, to Robert Gillespie Reid*’s railway company one hundred

,” OH, 63 (1971): 112–30. P[eter] Gillespie, “Cement industry of Ontario,” Ont., Bureau of Mines

REID, Sir ROBERT GILLESPIE, railway contractor; b

 Nov. 1866 in Sydney (Australia), eldest son of Robert Gillespie Reid

Ellice, Alexander Gillespie, and John Galt*, had been pressing for payment to some Canadian claimants since the summer of 1821. In the fall

, Josiah Bleakley, Jacques Giasson, George Gillespie

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

 Robert Gillespie Reid*]. Over the prime minister’s objections, assistance was