Saunders*, and Abbé Léon Provancher*. After his death his impressive entomological collections were placed in the Redpath Museum of McGill
applying for an honorarium; he was awarded $100 per annum. He held this appointment until 1892 when the Redpath Library was opened and a permanent librarian engaged
daughters and a son within the next five years. The family lived in an impressive house called Rose Hedge, next door to prosperous sugar manufacturer Peter Redpath, and they also had a country home on Île de
McKay*, Thomas Phillips, and John Redpath*. He himself was responsible for the construction of a dam and four locks at Kingston Mills, a lock
appeal for funds to improve instruction in science. Some of those who responded, including John Henry Robinson Molson and Peter Redpath, pledged $400 each for five years to provide a salary for a professor
Boulton* and John Redpath* among others, and seems to have alienated a number of people. H. H. Killaly continued to befriend him, offering
the basement. In November 1823 contractor John Redpath* was chosen to supply the cut stone, which came from the Tanneries quarry in
Redpaths. Yet the role played by John, his brother Thomas, and his nephew David in the evolution of what Donald Grant Creighton has called the “commercial empire of the St. Lawrence” was important. John
. In April 1844, in response to repeated calls from a group in Montreal headed by John Redpath, Burns began a
Redpath* owned St Paul’s Church in Montreal and only sold it to the trustees on condition that it and its associated school be kept free of the heresies of the “Great Disruption” or the Erskinites
rights and institutions in the province. Dawson’s refusal was also greatly influenced by a gift to McGill from his friend Peter Redpath for the construction and endowment of a museum of natural history
project was the extensive use of civilian contractors, as specified in By’s instructions. Five of those selected for masonry work, John Redpath
mineral collection, which was purchased by McGill College, is at the Redpath Museum (McGill Univ., Montreal), and his herbarium is part of that at Macdonald College in McGill University. James
Redpath*, and Robert Drummond.
In the summer of 1828 there was an epidemic of fever among those employed on the swampy regions of the Rideau waterway
Dougall and his sons James Redpath* and James Duncan, the owners of the Montreal Daily Witness, launched a campaign
, [ed. M. I. (Angus) Rogers] ([Vancouver, 1958]). British Columbia Gazette (Victoria), 27 March 1890: 291; 11 May 1893: 376. Richard Feltoe, Redpath: the history of a sugar
personal involvement in the war effort was diverse. He joined Mackay, Meredith, and Huntley Redpath Drummond to pay for equipment for the Canadian Machine-Gun Corps. As a director of the Bank of Montreal, he
Hays* and John Redpath*. The commission in effect recommended that the chairman be a politician to whom all engineers would be decidedly
of John Irving Roddick and Emma Jane Martin; m. first 2 Aug. 1880 Urelia Marion Fraser McKinnon (d. 1890) in Montreal; m. secondly 3 Sept. 1906 Amy Redpath in Chislehurst (London), England; no children
