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The Rev. George Douglas was born in Scotland in 1825 to John and Mary (Hood) Douglas. He emigrated with his family to Canada seven years later, settling in Montreal. Ordained in 1850, his first post was in the West Indies, however, ill-health forced him to return to Montreal in 1852 where he eventually became the first Principal of the newly established Wesleyan Theological College at McGill University. He remained in this position until his death in 1894. In 1854, George Douglas had married Maria Bolton Pearson, much against her father's wishes. Together they had four daughters. Allie, the youngest daughter of George and Maria Douglas, travelled widely throughout Canada and the United States on an evangelical mission with her husband John Arthur Vibert. Mina, the second daughter of George and Maria, helped establish the Old Brewery Mission in Montreal in 1892.

George Vibert Douglas, son of John and Allie (Douglas) Vibert, was born 2 July 1892. He attended McGill University, receiving a B.Sc. in 1920 and an M.Sc. the following year. Upon leaving University, George Douglas served as geologist on Sir Ernest Shackelton's "Quest" expedition (1921-1922) to Antarctica. He returned to Canada in 1932 as the first incumbent in the newly established Carnegie Chair of Geology at Dalhousie University; a position he held until his retirement in 1957. He died on 8 October 1958.

The Drummond family is the line of Capt. Peter Drummond of Jessup's Loyal Rangers.

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Dr. Edwin Robertson was born in Edinburgh Scotland, and attended the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. Robertson worked in his native Scotland until he was hired by Queen's University to be the chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in 1939 where he remained until his retirement in 1968.

The Fairfields were a well-known United Empire Loyalist family. William Fairfield, the first settler, chose the location of the Fairfield homestead near where Amherstview is today when he came to Canada from Vermont in 1784.William Senior was the father of six sons and six daughters, of whom three were born at the Fairfield homestead. Stephen Fairfield, the fifth son of William Senior, and his son and grandson were the only descendants who stayed on the original homestead. During the war of 1812, some interesting family ties provided correspondence between Major Brown of Brownsville, N.Y., husband of Clara, William Senior's youngest daughter, and brother of General Brown who commanded the American forces, and his Canadian in-laws. About 1840, Stephen, now "land-poor" and without Negro help, turned his house into a tavern run by tenants. With an increase in his personal fortune the old house was restored to its original use.

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Descended from Irish, Roman Catholic stock, Declan Foley arrived via Chicago, in the newly settled community of Westport, Canada West, in the early 1850's. He soon established a general store and by the following decade, he had begun, along with several other family members, a thriving mercantile, forwarding, and pharmacy business. With his store located on the banks of Upper Rideau Lake, he was able to provide service to both the agricultural/lumbering and Rideau Canal shipping communities. For nearly seventy years D. Foley and Co. was an important member of Westport's commercial life.

John Protaise Foley, a son of Declan's, opened a law office in Westport, following his graduation from Osgoode Hall in Toronto. For over forty years he maintained a successful general practice, engaging primarily in real estate and estate law. Following his death in 1942, his sister Ursula carried on his affairs, and those of the general store for a lenghty period, as she slowly wound down both interests.

James Foley, a brother of John's, aspired to a clerkship in the Senate, in his early years. Over time his efforts were rewarded as he finally attained the position of Clerk of the Crown in Chancery for Canada, a post he held through the first two decades of the twentieth century. As such, his name appeared as the author of many publications dealing with federal elections and their attendant electoral maps.