Request to be posted in Ontario -- Muriel ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Newbury" <georgen@ns.sympatico.ca> To: <muriel_davidson@sympatico.ca> Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 8:46 AM Subject: STEWART, Donald McG. - d. Feb 8, 1925 MA Muriel would you plse post this to your Ontario list/s i have another STEWART who owned the Halifax seed company he came from a Quebec/Ontario border community he may have sold the store to Donald thought there might be a connection but, it seems so far, not to be I have no idea where Donald McG. Stewart is buried as i cant seem to find anyone to look for him in the Boston paper there were no further Halifax obit updates thanks George = Tuesday, February 10, 1925 The Morning Chronicle, Halifax, N.S. Donald G. Stewart Word was received in Halifax, Monday morning of the death in the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Hospital, of Donald G. Stewart, aged 65 yrs, Proprietor of the Halifax Seed Company. The late Mr Stewart was well known in business circles throughtout the city. He left Halifax shortly before Christmas, to go to Port Arthur, Ontario. He was returning by way of Boston and was expected in the City shortly. The telegram news of his death gave no further information and arrangements for the funeral were not stated. Mrs Stewart was with her husband. - Monday, February 9, 1925 The Evening Mail, Halifax, N.S. Donald McG. Stewart Word was received in the city today of the death yesterday morning Feb 8th, in Boston of Donald McG. Stewart, proprietor of the Halifax Seed Store, Granville street. Two weeks ago as he was returning from a visit to friends in Port Arthur, he was taken ill and went to the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, for treatment. He passed away at that institution early yesterday morning. He is survived by his wife. The deceased lived in Lanark, Ontario, as a young man and later worked in the Yukon and Brandon, Manitoba. He was also engaged for a time in inspection work for the National Transcontinental Railway, with headquarters in Ottawa. Coming to Halifax at the time of the explosion on reconstruction work, he bought out the Halifax Seed Store. He had travelled a great deal and was widely read. He was a member of the Halifax Curling Club and Rotary Club. - There's no death notice or obituary in the Halifax Herald He isn't buried in any of the Halifax cemeteries that I can find. - Might's, Halifax City Directory, Halifax, N.S. nil for 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921. in 1922, 1923, 1924 lived Coburg Apts, 227 Robie, of Halifax Seed Co. in 1925 nil. -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.9/42 - Release Date: 7/6/05