Born Scotland.   Emigrated to Canada in 1838 to work with the Hudson's Bay Company.  He worked his way up the company and entered politics, made his fortune and was knighted in 1886.  Died  28 Gros...
Person, Commerce, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration, Canada
Kenneth Samson Taylor was born on 25 March 1917 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, the youngest of the four children of Dr Royall Hegetschweiler Taylor (1873-1956) and May Maud Taylor née Holloway (188...
Fur-trader, surveyor and mapmaker. Born Dafydd ap Thomas at Marsham Street, London. He was chosen to be an apprentice to the Hudson Bay Company. Transferring to the North West Company in 1797 he em...
Vicar of Chelsea Old Church 1950-92. From 1986 was a canon of St Paul's. Andrew Behan has researched this man: The Reverend Prebendary Clarke Edward Leighton Thomson was born on 25 April 1919 in ...
The headquarters were at 218 Sussex Gardens from January 1943 to the war's end.
The Ukrainian Canadians who served their country overseas during the Second World War.
From Vancouver, BC, Canada. Aged 27 years.  Buried in the Canadian Military Cemetery at Brookwood near Woking.
Alannah Elizabeth Weston was born in January 1972 in Dublin, Ireland the daughter of Galen and Hilary Weston. Her Wikipedia page gives details of her life.
Businessman Willard Gordon Galen Weston was born in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, his father being a Canadian businessman. Having studied business Weston went to Dublin and set up his own grocery store ...
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