that year by promising to renegotiate an unpopular contract with Canadian railway builder Robert Gillespie Reid

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

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

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

REID, Sir ROBERT GILLESPIE, railway contractor; b

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

silent partner. The dry dock was eventually sold to Robert Gillespie Reid* as part of the 1898 railway contract. A. D. Brown

, son of Thomas Rees Brock and Eleanor Thompson; m. 6 Sept. 1876 Louisa Adelaide Clara Gillespie, and they had 12

* and his brothers Henry Duff and Robert Gillespie offered to build, furnish, and equip a large sanatorium in St John’s as well as 16 smaller ones in the rural districts, which the Newfoundland

government of Newfoundland and was thereby committed to financing the Reid Newfoundland Company [see Sir Robert Gillespie Reid

to shield other prominent men; another associate hinted the pamphlet was sponsored by the American secretary of state, James Gillespie Blaine

. Throughout the decade, in addition to keeping his lucrative directorships, Fleming remained professionally active. In November 1885, for instance, he and Robert Gillespie

Crowe*, a Canadian with lumber interests in Newfoundland, and backed by Robert Gillespie Reid*, who was a friend and banker of Sir

matters. He also concerned himself with the economic and political life of the colony. When the railway contract of 1898 gave virtual control of the economy to Robert Gillespie

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

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

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

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

. 1890 he met with Secretary of State James Gillespie Blaine in Washington and he subsequently went to New York and to Boston and Gloucester, Mass., to explain Newfoundland’s position to various business

service. Carvell charged that Morine, while Newfoundland’s finance minister, had also been on retainer as solicitor for Robert Gillespie