William Richmond McLatchie

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According to Brenda Turner (my long lost cousin) William McLatchie was granted land by the Crown on August 24, 1832, along with Samuel Gooding, John McLatchie (his brother?), Robert Davis, Daniel McIntosh and John Dunlop. William was granted the north half of Lot 26, 3rd rang (concession road), or about 100 acres in West Templeton. William McLatchie was granted the south half of the same lot. this was found in the records of "lands granted by the Crown in the Province of QC from 1763 to 1890, which was found at the Carleton University Library.
In the records of the Parish of West Templeton , there is an entry that William Richard McLatchie was interred in the cemetery in Templeton on 8 Nov 1885 by Methodist Minister, Mr. G.E. Thurton. A witness to the burial was Mr. W. R. McLatchie, presumed to be his son.

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Gillies. Elizabeth (daughter of James Gillies and Helen Stark) was born on 16 Aug 1799 in Kilsyth Parish, Stirlingshire, Scotland; was christened on 28 Aug 1799 in Kilsyth Parish, Stirlingshire, Scotland; died on 21 May 1856; was buried in Cimetiere West Templeton, Gatineau, Outaouais Region, Quebec, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Margaret Sharpley. Margaret was born on 15 Feb 1839 in Canada; died on 7 Jan 1906 in Canada; was buried in Cimetiere West Templeton, Gatineau, Outaouais Region, Quebec, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married Margaret Lumsden 30 April 1873 at New Edinburgh, Carleton County, Ontario.

Son of William Richmond McLatchie and Elizabeth Gillies.

Published in the Calgary Herald, pg. 9
February 5, 1908
Calgary, Alberta

John McLatchie, one of the oldest and best-known Dominion land surveyors in Western Canada, and who has been for the past 30 years connected with the development of the west, died at the Holy Cross hospital Monday.

Mr. McLatchie, who was born near Ottawa and practiced as a surveyor there, came to the west in the employ of the Dominion government in 1872, and for many years was engaged on important survey work connected with the base lines for the subdivision system of the west. In 1878 he gave up surveying and went in for trading with the Indians and he had a post on the Elbow river above the present city of Calgary and was in this district during the winter when Bishop McDougall perished on Nose Hill. Returning to the practice of surveying in 1881 he worked for the Dominion government until 1900, when he moved to British Columbia making Nelson his headquarters.

In 1885 Mr. McLatchie served during the Riel rebellion as a lieutenant in the intelligence corps commanded by J. D. Dennis, now of the C.P.R. staff in Calgary, and was awarded a medal with clasps for the different engagements. In British Columbia Mr. McLatchie carried on many impotant surveys for the government, the railway companies and mining corporations, and he was recognized as the leading member of his profession in Southern British Columbia. Two daughters and a son are left to mourn the untimely demise of their father whose body is being sent to his old home in Ottawa for interment.

Family/Spouse: Margaret Lumsden. Margaret (daughter of George Lumsden and Jeanette Ferrier) was born on 1 Oct 1845; died on 3 Feb 1892; was buried in Beechwood Cemetery, Ottawa, Ottawa Municipality, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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