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
Robert Gillespie Reid*]. Over the prime minister’s objections, assistance was
Gisborne*], the completion by Robert Gillespie Reid* and his sons of a trans-island railway in 1898, Guglielmo Marconi’s reception of
Robert Gillespie Reid*. He had built most of the transinsular line, now completed, after signing construction and operating contracts with
1888, at the suggestion of prominent Maine politician James Gillespie Blaine, Clergue vied with Russian and British promoters for a long-term monopoly on railways, waterworks, and banking services in
Nov. 1866 in Sydney (Australia), eldest son of Robert Gillespie Reid
afterwards he divested himself of his Nova Scotia operations. He befriended Robert Gillespie Reid* and his sons
the Winter government signed a controversial contract with railway builder Robert Gillespie Reid*, and the Liberals split
service. Carvell charged that Morine, while Newfoundland’s finance minister, had also been on retainer as solicitor for 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
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
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
copies at a pound each, to Robert Gillespie Reid*’s railway company one hundred
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
Crowe*, a Canadian with lumber interests in Newfoundland, and backed by Robert Gillespie Reid*, who was a friend and banker of Sir
.
Throughout the decade, in addition to keeping his lucrative directorships, Fleming remained professionally active. In November 1885, for instance, he and Robert Gillespie
to shield other prominent men; another associate hinted the pamphlet was sponsored by the American secretary of state, James Gillespie Blaine