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
Alexander Gillespie Ramsay, former secretary of the Scottish Amicable Assurance Society of Glasgow.
David G. Burley
interest payments due on the provincial debentures held by Thomas Wilson and Company. Through Robert Gillespie*, a merchant familiar with Canadian
representative, George Gillespie*, was Faribault’s agent at Michilimackinac. Faribault obtained a permit to trade in the American Northwest Territory
potash. The partnership continued to expand and by 1800 counted seven partners: Parker and John Gillespie in London; John Mure* in Quebec; Gerrard
1817 Sarah Sharman, by whom he had four sons and three daughters, and in 1842 Catherine Gillespie, née
Mackenzie*, which soon merged with Parker, Gerrard, and Ogilvy. After several changes the firm became known as Gillespie, Moffatt, and Company with
Ellice, Alexander Gillespie, and John Galt*, had been pressing for payment to some Canadian claimants since the summer of 1821. In the fall
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
. 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
to be avoided. He was further disappointed when Robert Gillespie* of London, England, failed to purchase a partnership in the mills for his
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
was absorbed by the Reid Newfoundland Company [see Sir Robert Gillespie Reid*], which at that time was probably the
unrestricted reciprocity with the United States. It was apparent to Macdonald that the American secretary of state, James Gillespie Blaine of Maine, was an expansionist interested in taking over Canada
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
new government, announced on 3 March, were: William Elder, provincial secretary; Thomas Francis Gillespie, president of the Executive Council; Patrick George Ryan, chief commissioner of public
railway contractor Robert Gillespie Reid for the operation of the trans-insular railway. In 1900 Bond
Malcolm and Gillespie. Some four years later he was engaged as a journeyman merchant at Beamsville or Cobourg, possibly representing Malcolm and Gillespie. He then went on to do three years at the Hamilton