1873 Fleming of Dundee
August 6, 2009
Dundee, a small city in Scotland grew prosperous from textile trading in the 1800s and for centuries had been best known for jam-making and shipbuilding. Thanks to the vision of Dundonian, Robert Fleming(the founder of the well-known Scottish wealth management company which still bears his name), Dundee citizens used the investment trust idea to great [...]
William Dow
August 6, 2009
One of Montreal’s important brewers was born on March 27, 1800 in Perthshire, Scotland. William Dow came to Canada around 1919 and opened his own brewery ‘William Dow And Company” in 1834. He became a very wealth business man and invested his money in banks, the railway and real estate. Dow lived in Strathearn House, [...]
Ada Byron
August 6, 2009
Daughter of half Scottish poet, Lord Byron, She wrote a list of instructions for a hypothetical computer theriorized by Charles Baddage thus becoming the world’s first computer programmer. Others called her the first computer scientist.
Robert Burns
August 6, 2009
Born Jan. 25, 1759 in Aryshire, Scotland Famous Poet – Infamous excise man Bonnie Jean Honored at Last Jean Armour, Robert Burns’ long-suffering wife, inspired many of his love poems and songs. She bore many of his children and struggled to raise them after Burns’s death at the early age of 37. Even though Jean [...]
George Buchanan (1506-1582)
August 6, 2009
A tutor of King James V, Mary Queen of Scots and the young King James VI, Buchanan incurred the enmity of Cardinal Beaton by his Latin satires on the friars and was imprisoned for a time. He later fell under the displeasure of the Inquisition in Portugal and was for a time confined in a [...]
Tommy Armour
August 5, 2009
Born in Edinburgh 1895-1968 Armour lost his sight after being injured during the First World War. When he regained sight in his right eye, he decided to make a career out of golf, a sport his enjoyed as a youth. In 1920 he won the French Amateur Championship. In 1920 he became a professional golfer [...]
Hugh Allen
August 5, 2009
A founder of the St. Andrew’s Society of Montreal President of the Merchants’ Bank and founder of the Allen Shipping Lines
William Maxwell Aitken
August 5, 2009
- Lord Beaverbrook Born in the Maritimes of Scottish parents William Maxwell Aitken moved to Montreal in 1907. He was largely responsible for the formation of the Canada Cement Company 606 Cathcart Street. Within a very short time he became a millionaire.
