Gilmour William McIlquham

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 192749448
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• Occupation: Carleton Place, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Mississippi Hotel owner
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Birth:
Though his monument records his date of birth as 1881 he is recorded as 7 years old on the 1891 Census at Drummond Twp. (c 1883) and as aged 17 years, born 14 May 1883 on the 1901 Census at Carleton Place .
Contributor: Bruce Gordon (48010981)

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Occupation:
Carleton Place Hotel Sale Announced
David Lemay, proprietor of th Kemptville hotel, Kemptville, has purchased the Mississippi Hotel at Carleton Place from Clyde McIlquham for $30,000 and is planning to renovate it and operate it as a hotel.
The Mississippi Hotel was damaged in a fire two months ago. It has been in the McIlquham family for 75 years and is a landmark in Carleton Place.

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Walter married Florence May Bate in 1906. Florence was born on 2 Jul 1888 in Carleton Place, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died on 16 May 1989 in Carleton Place, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in United Cemeteries (Maplewood-St. Fillians-Pine Grove), Beckwith Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Walter married Mary Ann Montgomery in 1877. Mary was born on 29 Aug 1854 in Ontario, Canada; died on 1 Sep 1947 in Carleton Place, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Saint Paul's Anglican Cemetery, Lanark, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died:
"DRUMMOND PIONEER DEAD. Walter McIlquham Died on Tuesday Aged 96 years. The news of the death of a truly pioneer resident of Drummond, Mr. Walter McIlquham, sr., was received in town on Tuesday night. Mr. McIlquham departed this life on Tuesday afternoon in the 96th year of his age. He had been ill a week, suffering from bronchitis. He was one whose life includes all the years of Lanark history, says the Era. Coming over from Scotland with his parents on the ship Commerce [sic - George Canning], he arrived to find Lanark the centre of a vast forest of pine. But to a boy of his years this was but adventure of the sort that appeals to the average British youth. Settling on a favored spot in Drummond Township there was much to be done clearing away those giant obstructions to farming - the pines. Fortune favored and Mr. McIlquham lived to see one of the best homesteads in the whole countryside identified as his own. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1810. When ten years of age he came to this country with his parents, they settling on the farm now occupied by his nephew, Mr. Walter S. McIlquham. Early in life he married Margaret Kerr and to them were born Peter J., now of Mountain Mill, Alta.; Walter, of Carleton Place; John K. and Maggie, of Drummond. His second wife was Elizabeth Rankin, by whom he had five sons and daughters - George, on the homestead; William, in Carleton Place; Mrs. John Neilson, Ramsay; Mrs. Henry Blair, Fitzroy, and Mrs. John Menzies, Carleton Place. The funeral took place to Lanark cemetery on Thursday afternoon at twp o'clock. Mr. McIlquham was a strong man municipally and politically and was well known in the community of Perth."
[Col. 4, Pg. 5; The Perth Courier; Friday, 24 Nov 1905; Vol. LXXII, No. 14]
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Walter married Mary Kerr on 13 Jun 1839 in Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. Mary (daughter of Peter Kerr and Margaret Ford) was born about 1819 in Scotland; died on 13 Jan 1856 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Lanark Village Cemetery, Lanark, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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