. 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

and timber products had begun to drop sharply. In May Robert Wood and Company assigned the barques to Gillespie, Finlay and Company, which agreed to advance £1,500 for their completion and to sell them

railway contract with Robert Gillespie Reid*. Winter and Morine were both closely connected to the Reid interest: Winter had been Reid’s

. 1858 in Toronto, son of Thomas Willing and Jessie Gillespie; m. 1895

railway building. In 1890 a contract had been signed with Robert Gillespie Reid of Montreal to complete the

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

William Gillespie, in 1976 that “if we yield to the temptation of concentrating on today, we will default [on] our major responsibility to our children and to hundreds of millions elsewhere in the world who

, Freeman and Company and John Gillespie in London, John Lean and Company of Bristol, as well as Meeke, Lowndes and Company, Jones and Smedley, and William Harper at Liverpool. Although the reasons for Tod’s

grain and prohibit the entry into the Canadas of American produce. When accused by one Alexander Gillespie of interfering in the electoral process, Sydenham retorted: “If he means that I

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

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

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

, Josiah Bleakley, Jacques Giasson, George Gillespie

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

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

REID, Sir ROBERT GILLESPIE, railway contractor; b

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

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

, along with Josiah Bleakley*, George Gillespie, and

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