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John Redpath (1796 – March 5, 1869) was a Scots-Quebecer businessman and philanthropist who helped pioneer the industrial movement that made Montreal, Quebec, the largest and most prosperous city in Canada.
Redpath newspaper ad, 1916 Redpath's 1947 Divco truck [4]. The business was founded in 1854 in Montreal, Quebec, by Scots-Quebecer entrepreneur John Redpath.Located on Saint Patrick Street on the bank of the Lachine Canal, the sugar refinery complex was the first of its kind in Canada, using sugar cane imported from the British West Indies. [2]
Stonemason John Redpath was a major participant in the construction of the Basilica. The sanctuary originally hosted a large canopy, but because it caused a lighting effect that would blind the congregation, the interior designs were reworked by Bourgeau and Victor Rousselot, the current priest.
John B. Ridpath (/ ˈ r ɪ d p æ θ /; 19 May 1936 – 23 March 2021) [1] [2] was a Canadian intellectual historian. He was an Objectivist and an associate professor of economics and intellectual history at York University in Toronto.
It was also Scots who constructed Montreal's first bridge across the Saint Lawrence River and Henry Morgan built the first department store in Canada that was the envy of the country. Scot settlers founded many of the city's great industries including the Bank of Montreal , Redpath Sugar , and from headquarters they established in Montreal ...
John Redpath in 1836. March 10 – Julia Catherine Beckwith, author (d.1867) [4] May 5 – Robert Foulis, inventor, civil engineer and artist (d.1866) May 8 – Jean-Baptiste Meilleur, doctor, educator and politician (d.1878) June – Thomas Brown Anderson, merchant, banker and politician (d.1873)
McKay was born in Perth, Scotland and became a skilled stonemason.He emigrated to the Canadas in 1817, and settled in Montreal.. He became partners with John Redpath and their firm did the masonry work on the Lachine Canal near Montreal, they then went on to build the locks on the lower section of the Rideau Canal, between the Rideau River and the Ottawa River at Bytown.
Redpath was born in Montreal, Lower Canada, the son of a Scottish immigrant, John Redpath, a director of the Bank of Montreal and a member of the Montreal City Council. Redpath worked in the family's sugar refinery and other businesses in Montreal.