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Mr. Hugh McKay Sutherland
born February
22, 1843 in New London, P.E.I.,
died August 14, 1926,
Croydon (London) England.
His family having originally come
from Sutherlandshire,
Scotland in 1816.
His father was a Farmer.
His father and family
moved to Oxford County, Ontario,
In 1849, when he was 9 years old, after leaving PEI.
His father died in the spring of 1879.
Here in Ontario, he was educated.
and first became a School Teacher.
He married first Mary Dickie,
Feb 10, 1864,
daughter of Alexander Dickie,
of Brantford, Upper Canada, now Ontario.
She died Oct 11, 1875.
In 1868 he moved to Orillia,
Simcoe County, ON,
and was involved in Lumbering Operations.
In 187 he moved to the West, living in Winnipeg
Remarried 2nd time Dec 10, 1878
to May Banks,
She was born June 1855, in the USA.
Daughter of Hon. R. T. Banks of Baltimore USA.
She immigrated to Canada in 1873.
Married for a 3rd time, Sept 3,
1921
Constance Margaret Denholm
sister to Mrs. C.V. Alloway in Winnipeg.
She died in 1925 in London England,
and like Hugh, her body was brought to Winnipeg for burial.
He lived at 81 Roslyn Road, Sutherland House, in Winnipeg.
torn down in 1958 to make way for apartments.
My father-in-law, Paddy Twomey, actually lived in one of these apartments
a few
years ago, before his death.
Great view of the Red River, and across from
the Manitoba Parliament buildings.
He appears in the 1901 census
with his 2nd wife may and daughter Janet.
1906 census just shows Hugh and May.
But then in 1911 census, his information is shown as unobtainable.
At the time of his death in
1926,
he had 2 daughters living:
Janet Sutherland,
Born Aug 6, 1875 in Ontario.
she married June 8, 1901,
Walter Percy Helliwell of Winnipeg MB
She lived in Calgary AB in 1925.
Her mother would have been Mary Dickie.
Helen Euphemia Sutherland
she married Oct 23, 1890
to Brigadier-General Victor Arthur Seymour Williams.
b-1867 in Port Hope ON, d- Dec 12, 1949 in Toronto ON.
Chief Commander of the Ontario Provincial Police in 1926.
Commissioner 1922-1939.
Helen lived in Toronto ON
Mr. Williams fought in WWI
and was seriously wounded in the face and head,
by German bombing June 3, 1916,
He was with Major-General Malcolm Smith Mercer, who died.
He was a graduate of the Royal Military College, Kingston,
and the Adjutant-General of the Canadian Militia.
He was in command of the
1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th
Battalions of the 8th Brigade
He was captured by the Germans
and became a prisoner of war.
Florence Anna Sutherland,
born ca 1872
Died Dec. 28, 1917 in Winnipeg, age 45.
She married Nov 11, 1899,
to a Mr. Thomas Richard Billett
who lived in Winnipeg.
T. R. Billett remarried Gladys Willan Nov 17, 1923.
Oct 18, 2009- from Lorne
MacFarlane, Dartmouth NS, this update:
I believe there was also another daughter in the family
which you don't show
- Nina Elizabeth Sutherland (Aug 28, 1865 - Aug 26, 1922)
married Thomas Brown Lafferty in Winnipeg on Nov 17, 1887.
They lived in Calgary for a period of time where Lafferty's older brother
was mayor and where their first 2 children were born.
They then moved back to Orillia, ON where 3 more children were born in the
1890's.
The family moved to Seattle, Washington in the early 1900's
and lived there until the 1920's when they moved to BC
where they both died.
Nina Aug 26, 1922 in Naramata, and Thomas May 24,1925 in Vancouver.
Hugh Sutherland was into
everything, and owned it all.
Below is a list of some of his credentials.
I'm not sure if he even knew all he was in charge of.
Superintendent of Dominion
Public Works 1873-1878.
from Lake Superior to the Rockies
While in the job he travelled all over the country,
building all sorts of Government buildings,
in Fort Francis and Battle River to name 2.
Including Mounted Police barracks.
He was in charge of building the locks at Fort Francis.
April 18, 1876
Established the First Saw mill in Winnipeg, in 1878
Between 1879 and 1883, he vastly
increased his holdings,
building large lumber mills at Rat Portage (Kenora) and Winnipeg.
Founded the Rainy River Lumber Company.
President of the Rainy River Lumber Company,
where he made his money to get his start in Manitoba.
July 9, 1879 ad
Elected member of Dominion
Parliament for Selkirk MB
in 1882 for the Liberal party.
President of the Winnipeg and
Hudson Bay Railway and Steamship Company,
incorporated in 1880.
His lifelong dream was a railroad to the Hudson Bay, from Winnipeg.
Line of road projected- Winnipeg MB, to Port Nelson, Hudson Bay- 650 mi
completed- Winnipeg to St. Laurent on -Lake Manitoba, as of Sept 1887.
President- Hugh Sutherland, Winnipeg, MB
Secretary- J. R. Sutherland, Winnipeg, MB
Land Commissioner-
Edward Philip Leacock, Winnipeg MB
Principal Office and Address- Winnipeg, MB
Hugh Sutherland obtained the first charter of
the Hudson’s Bay Railway,
now Canadian Northern Railway.
ca 1901 became Chief Executive
agent for the Canadian Northern Railway
President Canadian Northern Coal
and Ore Dock Company,
President of The Canadian
Northern Prairie Lands Company.
Corporate Member of the Manitoba Land
Co. Ltd.
Vice-President of the Manitoba
South-Western Colonization Railway,
the first local railway in MB, incorporated in 1879.
It was this railway that was going to extend to the coalfields,
Bought by the CPR in 1884, and it was the CPR
that extended to the coalfields.
If it wasn't for his push, and this local railroad,
the CPR would have bypassed Winnipeg,
and went through Selkirk instead.
His foresight saved Winnipeg,
which ended up to the Railroad Capital of Canada..
President British and North-West
Colonization Company
President of the Prince Albert
Colonization Company
First to develop the Souris Coal
fields, in 1879
barging coal 900 miles to Winnipeg.
President of the Roche Percee Coal Company
1926- Head of the Long and Red
Lakes Mining syndicate.
Director of many Mining
Companies in Ontario
Involved in horse racing as a
Honorary Steward at Whittier park
Member of the Manitoba, the
Carlton and St. Charles Clubs in Winnipeg
Member of the St. Andrews
Society in Winnipeg
Member of All Saint's Anglican
Church in Winnipeg.
Life Governor of the Winnipeg
General Hospital when he died
Nickname "Hudson Bay Sutherland"
He died of heart trouble,
Saturday August 14, 1926
at Croydon, (London) England
age 83
Funeral was held Thursday, Sept
2, 1926, at 3:30PM
at All Saint's Anglican Church in Winnipeg.
He is
buried in St John's Cemetery, Winnipeg MB
Estate Auction Sale,
Oct 25-26, 1926
List is in 2 parts
Would have loved to attend that one!
Most of what is above is what I found
in existing history books.
everything below is what I have now found in old newspaper clippings.
Obviously now, some of the dates don't match.
Some of the info below might not be correct,
but the dates on the paper do not lie.
Mr. Hugh McKay Sutherland, ,
from Winnipeg,
came west, with several men
to see what all the excitement was about for himself.
He actually started to ship coal to Winnipeg in 1879
Some history books say
via log barges
built from trees on the river bank,
on the Mouse, or Souris river as it is known now.
But as you will see below, they used flatboats.
He
was the first to mine the coal, ending up with a 70 ft tunnel.
But the river was not always high enough for the loaded barges/ flatboats.
Also they claimed the coal was not of good enough quality to mine.
Lignite
coal is the least quality of all the coal family.
They obviously had
access to better coal elsewhere.
This scheme failed, but Hugh Sutherland was instrumental
in building the Hudson Bay Railway from Winnipeg north.
Imagine he had plans to ship this coal maybe out on this railroad?
Dec 1, 1879
Looks like now he has had men working at the mine at Roche Percee
through the summer of 1879. Not 1882 as previously thought.
They couldn't spell La Roche Percee is all.
Looks like he used a steamer named Marquette
plus the flat boat barges, used in the shallow waters.
Shipping was to begin in spring 1880.
Hugh Sutherland, Dr. Schultz, P.
J. Brown, David Young,
and George Brown, all of Winnipeg and Ingersoll,
with Hon. R. T. Banks of Baltimore USA,
form a new Company,
The Souris Coal and Fuel Company.
Mr. Banks being his father-in-law
Sept 22, 1880
Sept 24, 1880
Dec 9, 1880
Dec 10, 1880
Jan 23, 1907
President of the Roche Percee Coal Company
Aug 21, 1907
the Roche Percee Mine
Output was 100 cars per day in winter of 1906/07
Output 1907/08 will be 200 cars per day.
Then his last appearance in the area,
May 25, 1923,
He appears at a Mine Owners meeting in Estevan.
in Alfred R. C. Selwyn, LL.D. F.R.S.,
Geological Survey of Canada Report, May 1880,
he says W. D. Sutherland of Winnipeg,
was mining a 5 ft seam, a level 78 feet in length, and 3ft wide.
He states in the report in the spring of 1880
the coal was barged down the Souris River, by Sutherland,
and a large heap of the coal was still piled up when Selwyn arrived.
His mine was at the junction of Short Creek and the Souris River
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