This is a posting by a non-subscriber, so if you have information for this person or can in any way help, please send your comments to: [email protected] Cheers, Gwen >Subj: {not a subscriber} Alexander Dill Millar >Date: 1/7/2002 08:49:41 Eastern Standard Time >From: [email protected] (wendy) >To: [email protected] > >I'm looking for details about my grandfather (b. Ireland 1869, em. 1893) who appears >to have lived in Ottawa about 1890-91 working in the lumber business and serving >as a governor general's footguard (if you can do both at the same time) after taking >a course at a military school in Toronto. For two years before that (1888-90) he was >a brakeman on the Canadian Pacific Railway and for four years before that (1884->88) worked for W.H. Thompson, manufacturing cheese. I'd like to know where the >family farm was; my source says only Grenville, Ontario. I'd like to think it was >South Gower but the family came to Canada from Ireland too late for the 1871 >Census and I haven't found a James (great-grandfather) and Mary (Byers) in >subsequent censuses (censae??).