John Molson was an English-born brewer and entrepreneur in colonial Quebec,which during his lifetime became Lower Canada. In addition to founding Molson Brewery,he built the first steamship and the first public railway in Canada,was a president of the Bank of Montreal,and established a hospital,a hotel,and a theatre in Montreal. The dynasty he founded,the Molson family,is still a wealthy and powerful force in Canada.
Sir William Mulock was a Canadian lawyer,businessman,educator,farmer,politician,judge,and philanthropist. He served as vice-chancellor of the University of Toronto from 1881 to 1900,negotiating the federation of denominational colleges and professional schools into a modern university.
Sir Hugh Allan was a Scottish-Canadian shipping magnate,financier and capitalist. By the time of his death,the Allan Shipping Line had become the largest privately owned shipping empire in the world. He was responsible for transporting millions of British immigrants to Canada,and the businesses that he established from Montreal filtered across every sphere of Canadian life,cementing his reputation as an empire builder. His home,Ravenscrag,was the principal residence of the Golden Square Mile in Montreal.
Sir Kazimierz Stanisław Gzowski,,was an engineer known for his work on a wide variety of Canadian railways as well as work on the Welland Canal. He also served as acting Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1896 to 1897.
Sir George Airey Kirkpatrick was a politician from Ontario,Canada.
Sir William Cornelius Van Horne,is most famous for overseeing the construction of the first Canadian transcontinental railway,a project that was completed in 1885,in under half the projected time. He succeeded Lord Mount Stephen as president of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) in 1888. He was responsible for launching the sea transport division of the CPR,which inaugurated regular service between Vancouver and Hong Kong in 1891. He also presided over the expansion of the CPR into the luxury hotel business in the 1890s. He was also a prominent member of the syndicate that created the Cuba Railroad Company in 1900. He lived at the Van Horne Mansion in Montreal's Golden Square Mile.
Thomas Simpson Sproule was a Canadian parliamentarian,Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada from 1911–1915,and a member of the Canadian Senate from 1915–1917.
Sir James David Edgar,was a Canadian politician.
John Beverley Robinson was a Canadian politician,lawyer and businessman. He was mayor of Toronto and a provincial and federal member of parliament. He was the fifth Lieutenant Governor of Ontario between the years 1880–1887.
George Albertus Cox was a very prominent Canadian businessman and a member of the Senate of Canada.
Duncan Ian Macpherson,CM was a Canadian editorial cartoonist. He drew for the Montreal Standard and for Maclean's,illustrating the writings of Gregory Clark and Robert Thomas Allen. He is most famous for his humorous political cartoons for the Toronto Star;from 1958 until 1993. His syndicated cartoons appeared in seven other Canadian newspapers,in Time,The New York Times,Chicago Daily News and nearly 150 newspapers across the world.
Henry Starnes was a Quebec businessman and political figure.
Richard Reid Dobell,was a Canadian businessman and politician.
William Harty was a businessman and politician in Ontario,Canada. He represented Kingston in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1892 to 1894 and from 1895 to 1901 and Kingston in the House of Commons of Canada from 1902 to 1911 as a Liberal member.
Lieutenant General Sir Charles Macpherson Dobell was a Canadian soldier who served with the Royal Welch Fusiliers of the British Army.
William Molson was a Canadian politician,entrepreneur and philanthropist. He was the founder and President of Molson Bank,which was in 1925 absorbed by the Bank of Montreal. He was the son of the founder of the Molson family dynasty in Canadian business.
Sir Andrew Thomas Taylor,JP,RCA,FSA,FRIBA was a British architect and councillor. He was born in Edinburgh,Scotland,and practised architecture in Scotland and London before emigrating to Montreal,Quebec,in 1883,where he designed many of the buildings of McGill University. He retired from architecture in 1904 and returned to London,where he served on London County Council from 1908 to 1926. He was knighted for his political services in 1926.
Canadian peers and baronets exist in both the peerage of France recognized by the Monarch of Canada and the peerage of the United Kingdom.
Matilda Ridout Edgar was a Canadian historian and feminist. She was born Matilda Ridout,became Matilda Edgar by marriage,and became Lady Edgar in 1898 when her husband was knighted. The mother of nine children,she turned to historical research and writing when in her forties. She published three books in her lifetime and was working on a fourth when she died. She was active in a number of Toronto-based societies and in her later years was a strong advocate of women's causes.
