Hello Bill, I do have a William James Petrie in my Petrie line but don't think he is yours. It is interesting that my William James Petrie (b. 1871 Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada m. Eliza Graves 1906 d. 1936 Princeton, Maine. Head foreman for the Great Northern Pulp and Paper Company in Maine) was in the Pulp and Paper industry. While he died in Princeton, Maine in 1936, any of his Petrie relatives in the Maine Pulp and Paper industry would have been naturals to move to the Pacific Northwest with good job prospects in the lumber industry there. My William James Petrie was the son of David Petrie, the brother of my great grandfather, and the individual who left Scotland and started the Canadian branch of my Petrie line. David Petrie b. 4 May 1839 St.Cyrus, Kincardineshire, Scotland ch. 19 May 1839 "Dumbarrow Mill", Dunnichen Parish, Angus, Scotland m. Mary Ann Smallwood 1870 Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada d. 1919. David's birth certificate: father's occupation shown as "Labourer". 1841 census for St. Vigeans: age 2, address Cairnbennet, St. Vigeans, Angus. 1851 Census: "Craig Forfar/Bk?/P50/Ent230/Ferryden Farm - Servant House. David Petrie/son/um/12/Farm Labourer/ [born]Dunnichen". David leaves for military service in the British Army at age 16. Two years later David goes to India where he serves through the Indian Mutiny after which he is sent to Canada. He is given his choice to return to England or to be mustered out in Canada, David chooses to stay in Canada. He marries Mary Ann Smallwood in 1870 at Amherst, Nova Scotia and starts the Canadian branch of Petrie cousins. “David and Mary moved to New Brunswick after having their kids.” [The Rev'd. Stephen Petrie - great grandson of David] ". . . two large groups of Scottish families, from in and around Aberdeen, left there in 1873 and 1874 headed for New Brunswick, Canada. My family migrated, at some point, to Maine. The Scottish settlement in New Brunswick is called the "Scotch" Colony and is composed of Kincardine, Stonehaven, Upper and Lower Kintore, and Bon Accord. Most of the first group in 1873 were from Stonehaven and in 1874 were from Kintore and area. . . There is a book entitled A History of the Scotch Colony, Victoria County, New Brunswick 1873-1998.." [Barbara Petrie Sanborn] From Mary Gunn-Smallwood's work "He was a stone cutter by trade (they must have had child labour in those days). At sixteen years of age he enlisted in the British Army and two years later was sent to India where he served through the Indian Mutiny. From India he was sent with others from his regiment to Saint John, New Brunswick and thence to Fredericton where they were quartered in a church for the winter. In the spring after being sent to Halifax, Nova Scotia he was given a choice of returning to Scotland or receiving his discharge. He took his discharge and went to work on the Intercolonial Railway then being constructed and on which he worked all the way from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Matapedia, New Brunswick near the Quebec border where stone bridges were being built. He helped construct the bridges across the Northwest and Southwest Miramichi Rivers. A few years before he died he was the recipient, at a public meeting in Newcastle, New Brunswick of a memorial trophy made from the copper of Lord Nelson's famous ship. To go back a bit, in the year 1879 a new settlement called "Sugary Settlement" was opened up approximately six miles from Newcastle, New Brunswick. and extending about five miles. The name Sugary came from the number of sugar maples. David and Mary Ann were among the settlers that year. By that time they had four boys, besides Mary Ann's two from her first marriage. [My records say her first husband was Neal Camble and she had two son's by him but the record also say's that the boys went my the name of Petrie. - Joyce Tuckerman] They later had another boy and last of all a daughter - my [Mary Gunn-Smallwood] mother." Hope this helps, Dave Petrie Arden Hills, Minnesota, USA