KIT NUMBER: 162679
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Descendants of Peter Laing "Patrick" Gordon, b. 1799, St. Nicholas Parish, Aberdeen, Scotland. He was the son of John Laing.
Generation 11. Peter Laing "Patrick" Gordon died1 31 March 1866 in Craigmyle House, Kincardine O'Neil, Aberdeen, Scotland. He married 2 3 Jane Robertson daughter of Dr. Andrew Robertson MD and Ann Farquharson 13 April 1848 in Tarland
And Migvie, Aberdeen, Scotland. She was born 4 5 6 November 1829 in Crathie And Braemar, Aberdeen, Scotland and died 26 May 1855 in Hawthorne Cottage, Aberdeen, Scotland.Children of Peter Laing "Patrick" Gordon and Jane Robertson:
2. i John Gordon B:16 April 1849 Craigmyle House, Kincardine O'Neil, Aberdeen, Scotland D: after 1910
3. ii Lt. Andrew Robertson Gordon , RN B:13 February 1851 Craigmyle House, Kincardine O'Neil, Aberdeen, Scotland D: 24 March 1893 Ottawa, Carleton, ON, Canada
iii Arthur William Gordon B:14 September 1853 Craigmyle House, Kincardine O'Neil, Aberdeen, Scotland D: 1894 Port Credit, Peel, ON, Canada
4. iv Leslie Gordon B:18 May 1855 Old Machar, Aberdeen, Scotland D: 5 January 1890 Indian Head, SK, Canada
Generation 2
2. John Gordon was born6 16 April 1849 in Craigmyle House, Kincardine O'Neil, Aberdeen, Scotland and died7 after
1910. He married 8 9 Elizabeth Harrison Jamieson daughter of Capt. Robert Jamieson and Elizabeth Harrison
21 January 1868 in 24 Correction Wynd, Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland. She was born 1847 and died 26 January 1890.Children of John Gordon and Elizabeth Harrison Jamieson:5. i Peter Nelson Gordon
ii Cecilia Jane Gordon
3. Lt. Andrew Robertson Gordon , RN was born6 13 February 1851 in Craigmyle House, Kincardine O'Neil, Aberdeen, Scotland and died 10 24 March 1893 in Ottawa, Carleton, ON, Canada. He married11 7 Mary Elizabeth "May" Parker daughter of Sir Melville Parker , 6th. & last Bt. of Harburn and Jessie Hector 26 June 1872 in Toronto, York, ON, Canada. She was born 13 January 1849 in Cooksville, Peel, ON, Canada and died 19 January 1914 in Craigmyle, Starland, AB, Canada.
Children of Lt. Andrew Robertson Gordon , RN and Mary Elizabeth "May" Parker:
6. i Melville Burgoyne Robertson Gordon , BSc(Engr) B:23 November 1873 Knoyle, Cooksville, Peel, ON, Canada D:
7. ii Arthur Lindsay "Art" Gordon B:19 August 1875 Knoyle, Cooksville, Peel, ON, Canada D: 11 December 1959
iii Robert Gordon B:1876 D: before 1881 Died Young
8. iv Violet May Gordon B:23 July 1878 Cooksville, Peel, ON, Canada D: 20 January 1965 Sidney, BC, Canada
v Constance Emmeline Gordon B:7 December 1880 Cooksville, Peel, ON, Canada D: 6 September 1896
vi Mabel Jessie Gordon B:22 June 1883 Cooksville, Peel, ON, Canada
9. vii Maj. Beaumont Andrew Gordon DSO B:13 August 1886 Cooksville, Peel, ON, Canada D: 19 December 1956
10. viii Florence Ottilie Gordon B:5 November 1887 Knoyle, Cooksville, Peel, ON, Canada D: 9 June 1945
ix (unknown) Gordon B:23 April 1892 of Toronto, York, ON D: 24 April 1892 Toronto, York, ON
4. Leslie Gordon was born12 2 13 18 May 1855 in Old Machar, Aberdeen, Scotland and died7 5 January 1890 in Indian Head, SK, Canada. He married 7 Clara Elizabeth Hector daughter of John Hector , QC and Rose Augusta Parker 16 June 1874. She was born 18 December 1851 in Toronto, York, ON, Canada and died 30 July 1922 in Fort
Qu'Appelle, SK, Canada.Children of Leslie Gordon and Clara Elizabeth Hector:i Clara Rose Gordon B:9 November 1876 Cooksville, Peel, ON, Canada D: 7 March 1878 Cooksville, Peel, ON, Canada
11. ii Albert Leslie Gordon B:13 January 1879 Cooksville, Peel, ON, Canada
12. iii Hon. Percival Hector Gordon QC B:27 January 1884 Qu'Appelle, SK, Canada D: 6 April 1975 Regina, SK, Canada
13. iv Private
v Private M: Private
Generation 35. Peter Nelson Gordon
Children of Peter Nelson Gordon and :
i Private
ii Private
6. Melville Burgoyne Robertson Gordon , BSc(Engr) was born7 23 November 1873 in Knoyle, Cooksville, Peel, ON, Canada and died . He married Jane Elizabeth Kennedy daughter of John Robertson Kennedy and Mary Elgie 22 June 1897 in Church of the Messiah, Toronto, ON, Canada. She was born 13 June 1876 in Dixie, Peel, ON, Canada and died 20 January 1965 in Helensborough, Dunbarton, Scotland.
Children of Melville Burgoyne Robertson Gordon , BSc(Engr) and Jane Elizabeth Kennedy:
i Muriel May Gordon B:25 May 1899 D: 23 October 1904 Dixie, Peel, ON, Canada
14. ii BGen. Melville Burgoyne Kennedy Gordon , DSO, ED, CD, QC, BSc(Engr) B:5 September 1905 Dixie, Peel, ON, Canada D: 7 October 1974 Ottawa, Carleton, ON, Canada
15.iii Private
Child of Melville Burgoyne Robertson Gordon , BSc(Engr) and Marion Frankish:
i Private
7. Arthur Lindsay "Art" Gordon was born7 19 August 1875 in Knoyle, Cooksville, Peel, ON, Canada and died 11 December 1959. He married Lillian Julia Barrington "Lill" Behan daughter of Capt. George Barrington Behan and Julia Cockburn 16 December 1903 in Mimico, Peel, ON, Canada. She was born 8 August 1878 in Toronto, York, ON, Canada and died 9 December 1945 in Delia, Starland, AB, Canada.
Children of Arthur Lindsay "Art" Gordon and Lillian Julia Barrington "Lill" Behan:
i Patricia Julia Gordon B:19 March 1906 Knoyle, Cooksville, Peel, ON, Canada M: Hugh Mortimer D: 18 October 1979
ii Private
iii Constance Pearl Gordon B:7 December 1911 Craigmyle, Starland, AB, Canada M: Private D: 20 October 1939
iv Ottilie Gordon B:7 December 1911 Craigmyle, Starland, AB, Canada D: 15 August 1928 Craigmyle, Starland, AB, Canada
16.v Private
8. Violet May Gordon was born7 23 July 1878 in Cooksville, Peel, ON, Canada and died 20 January 1965 in Sidney, BC, Canada. She married 7 Col. Robert Berry Eaton son of James K. Eaton , Bsc(Civil) 1901. He was born 5 August 1871 in Truro, , NS, Canada and died 13 June 1964 in Sidney, BC, Canada.
Children of Col. Robert Berry Eaton and Violet May Gordon:
17. i Constance May Gordon "Tafel" Eaton B:14 November 1903 Bloemfontein, South Africa D: 23 May 2001 Winnipeg, MB, Canada
18. ii Melville Robert James "Jim" Eaton B:12 September 1905 Cooksville, Peel, ON, Canada D: 1993
19. iii Gordon Vernon Eaton B:20 August 1907 Cooksville, Peel, ON, Canada D: 1991
iv Douglas Barry Eaton B:1911 Craigmyle, Starland, AB, Canada D: 1944 Italy
20.v Private
21. vi Private
vii William Bligh Eaton B:1924 Craigmyle, Starland, AB, Canada D: 9 October 1943 Hanover, Germany
9. Maj. Beaumont Andrew Gordon DSO was born7 13 August 1886 in Cooksville, Peel, ON, Canada and died 19 December 1956. He married Lorraine Cockburn "Puss" Behan daughter of Capt. George Barrington Behan and Julia Cockburn 15 November 1915 in Christ Church, Mimico, Peel, ON, Canada.
Children of Maj. Beaumont Andrew Gordon DSO and Lorraine Cockburn "Puss" Behan:
i Private M: Private
ii Private
iii Private
iv Georgina Barrington Gordon B:19 March 1925 D: 26 November 1966
22.v Private
vi Private
10. Florence Ottilie Gordon was born7 5 November 1887 in Knoyle, Cooksville, Peel, ON, Canada and died 9 June 1945. She married 7 Walter Frederick Brandon Rubidge C.E. O.L.S. son of Charles Marter Rubidge 5 October 1910 in St. John's Church, Dixie, Peel, ON, Canada. He was born 20 September 1886 in Winnipeg, MB, Canada and died 12 June 1930 in Hopewell, Port Credit, Peel, ON, Canada.
Children of Walter Frederick Brandon Rubidge C.E. O.L.S. and Florence Ottilie Gordon:
23.i Private
24.ii Reginald Lindsay Leslie Rubidge B:13 November 1913 D: September 1991
25. iii Thomas Gordon Rubidge B:16 July 1919 D: 30 January 1989 San Bernardino, CA, USA
26.iv Beaumont Charles Rubidge B:14 September 1923 D: 5 September 1988
Generation 4
11.BGen. Melville Burgoyne Kennedy Gordon , DSO, ED, CD, QC, BSc(Engr) was born7 5 September 1905 in Dixie, Peel, ON, Canada and died 7 October 1974 in Ottawa, Carleton, ON, Canada. He married Jessie Barrett Russel daughter of Corson Loudon Russel and Edith Emily Barrett 4 July 1927 in St. Paul's Anglican Church, Toronto, York, ON, Canada. She was born 20 November 1905 in Madoc, Hastings, ON, Canada and died 13 December 1986 in Oakville, Halton, ON, Canada. He married Sheila Frances Lillian Mary Ramsay May 1948 in Georgetown, Peel, ON, Canada. She was born 24 April 1903 in , , GB and died 19 October 1991 in Ottawa, Carleton, ON, Canada.
Children of BGen. Melville Burgoyne Kennedy Gordon , DSO, ED, CD, QC, BSc(Engr) and Jessie Barrett Russel:
27. i Major Melville Laird Gordon , CD B:9 February 1928 Ottawa, Carleton, ON, Canada D: 13 October 2004 Ottawa, Carleton, ON, CAN
28.ii Jessie Diane Gordon , RN B:20 November 1930 Ottawa, Carleton, ON, Canada D: 30 March 1997 Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, York, ON, Canada
12. Private
Children of Private and Private:
29. i Private
ii Private
iii Private
iv Private M: Private
Generation 5
13. Major Melville Laird Gordon , CD was born 9 February 1928 in Ottawa, Carleton, ON, Canada and died 13 October 2004 in Ottawa, Carleton, ON, CAN. He married Private daughter of Major Edward James Ashton , DSO and Beatrice Minnie Embree 30 December 1953 in Christ Church Cathedral, Ottawa, Carleton, ON, Canada.
Children of Major Melville Laird Gordon , CD and Private:
30.i Private
31.ii Private
32. iii Private
33. iv Private
14. Jessie Diane Gordon , RN was born 20 November 1930 in Ottawa, Carleton, ON, Canada and died 30 March 1997 in Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, York, ON, Canada. She married Private son of Claude Martyn Kent and Susan Ann Hawke 19 September 1953 in Oakville, Halton, Ontario, Canada.
Children of Private and Jessie Diane Gordon , RN:
i Private M: Private
34. ii Private
Generation 6
15. Private
Child of Private and Private:
i Private
16. Private
Children of Private and Private:
i Private
ii Private
17. Private
Children of Private and Private:
i Private
ii Private
18. Private
Child of Private and Private:
i Private
Children of Private and Private:
i Private
ii Private
19. Private
Children of Private and Private:
i Private
ii Private
Generation 5
20. Private
Children of Private and Private:
i Private
ii Private
iii Private
Generation 4
21. Private
Children of Private and Private:
i Private M: Private
ii Private
iii Donald Gordon B: Calgary, AB, Canada M: Private D: December
iv Private
v Georgina Barrington Gordon B:19 March 1925 D: 26 November 1966
22. Constance May Gordon "Tafel" Eaton was born7 14 November 1903 in Bloemfontein, South Africa and died 23 May 2001 in Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
Children of Ronald Moffatt Virtue and Constance May Gordon "Tafel" Eaton:
35. i Private
36. ii Private
23. Melville Robert James "Jim" Eaton was born7 12 September 1905 in Cooksville, Peel, ON, Canada and died 1993.
Child of Melville Robert James "Jim" Eaton and Edna Daken:
i Private
24. Gordon Vernon Eaton was born7 20 August 1907 in Cooksville, Peel, ON, Canada and died 1991.
Children of Gordon Vernon Eaton and Marjory Login:
i Private M: Private
ii Private
25. Private
Children of Private and Private:
i Private
ii Private
iii Private
iv Private
26.
Private
Children of Private and Elizabeth Savary:
37. i Private
ii Private
Generation 5
27. Private
Children of Private and Private:
i Private
ii Private
iii Private M: Private
38. iv Private
28. Private married Norman Mackie 19 November 1960 in Winnipeg, MB, Canada. He died 1974.
Child of Norman Mackie and Private:
39. i Private
Generation 6
29. Private
Children of Private and Private:
i Private
ii Private
30. Private
Child of Private and Private:
i Private
Generation 5
31. Private
Children of Private and :
i Private
ii Private
Generation 4
32. Private
Children of Private and Private:
i Private
ii Private
33. Private
Children of Private and Private:
i Private
ii Private
iii Private
Children of Private and :
i Private
ii Private
iii Private
34. Reginald Lindsay Leslie Rubidge was born 13 November 1913 and died September 1991.
Children of Reginald Lindsay Leslie Rubidge and Annie Violet Kellett:
i Private
ii Private
iii Private
iv Private
35. Thomas Gordon Rubidge was born 16 July 1919 and died 30 January 1989 in San Bernardino, CA, USA.
Child of Thomas Gordon Rubidge and Private:
i Private
Child of Thomas Gordon Rubidge and :
i Private
36. Beaumont Charles Rubidge was born 14 September 1923 and died 5 September 1988.
Children of Beaumont Charles Rubidge and Private:
i Private
ii Private
40. iii Private
Generation 5
37. Private
Children of Private and Private:
i Private
ii Private
Generation 3
38. Albert Leslie Gordon was born14 13 January 1879 in Cooksville, Peel, ON, Canada.
Children of Albert Leslie Gordon and Winnifred Laing:
i Private
ii Private
39. Hon. Percival Hector Gordon QC was born 27 January 1884 in Qu'Appelle, SK, Canada and died 6 April 1975 in Regina, SK, Canada. He married Harriette Sarah Kennedy daughter of John Robertson Kennedy and Mary Elgie 7 October 1908. She was born 20 October 1880 in Dixie, Peel, ON, Canada and died 27 September 1959 in Regina, SK, Canada.
Child of Hon. Percival Hector Gordon QC and Harriette Sarah Kennedy:
41. i Private
40. Private
Children of Private and :
i Private
ii Private
iii Private
Generation 4
41. Private married FL. Hugh Lockhart Gordon son of Col. Harry Duncan Lockhart Gordon D.S.O. K. St. J. V. D. and Kathleen Mary Hamilton Cassels 27 November 1937 in Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada. He was born15 27 September 1907 in Toronto, York, ON, Canada and died 16 17 18 14 August 1940. She married Francis Kendrick Venables son of Private and Private 22 June 1951 in Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada. He was born 16 September 1916 in Toronto, York, ON, Canada and died 9 February 2000 in Ottawa, Carleton, ON, Canada.
Children of FL. Hugh Lockhart Gordon and Private:
42. i Private
ii Hugh Donald Lockhart Gordon B:2 August 1940 Regina, SK, Canada D: 10 August 1961 Sault Rapids, MacKenzie River, NWT, Canada
Child of Francis Kendrick Venables and Private:
43. i Private
Generation 5
42. Private
Children of Private and Private:
i Private
ii Private
Child of Private and Private:
i Private
43. Private
Children of Private and Private:
i Private
ii Private
Sources
1. Records of Old Aberdeen MCCCXCVIII - MCMIII Volume II: 232 (56) Here are interred the Bodies of James Gordon of Seaton, John Gordon his son, Richard Gordon his grandson, who died 9th of November 1763 aged 77. Mary, wife of Richard, who died 6th November 1782. And Sarah Gordon their daughter, who died 12th May 1827, aged 80. Also of John Gordon of Craigmyle, who died 9th July 1830, aged 82. Mary his wife, who died 9th NoV 1831, aged 80. And of Jane Robertson, wife of Peter Laing Gordon, of Craigmyle, who died 25 th May 1855, aged 26 years. The said Peter Laing Gordon, who died 31 st March 1866, aged 67 years. Jessie Isabella Macbean, his second wife, who died 17th November 1874, aged 44 years.
2. IGI Record
3. Marriage Record Extract, 1820 - 1854, Tarland & Migvie, Aberdeen, Scotland: Source Call No.: 0993301 / Printout Call No.: 6902859
4. IGI Record/British Isles: C111834
5. Birth or Christening Record Extract, 1763 - 1854, Crathie & Braemar, Aberdeen, Scotland: Batch C111834 Jean ROBERTSON
Sex: F
Event(s):
Born: 6 Nov 1829
Crathie And Braemar, Aberdeen, Scotland
Parents:
Father: Andrew ROBERTSON
Mother: Anne FARQUHARSON
6. Birth or Christening Record Extract, 1815 - 1854, Kincardine O'Neil, Aberdeen, Scotland: Source Call No.: 0993334 / Printout Call No.: 6902732
7. The Moltke of the British Navy. Some Account of His Ancestors - Part V
8. EXTRACT OF AN ENTRY IN A REGISTER OF MARRIAGES 1861 - 1921 SCOTLAND
9. Marriage Record Extract, 1861 - 1921, Saint Nicholas, Aberdeen, Scotland: Batch number: M111681 John GORDON
Sex:
M
Marriage(s):
Spouse:
Elizabeth JAMIESON
Marriage:
21 Jan 1868
Aberdeen, Saint Nicholas, Aberdeen, Scotland
Source Information:
Batch number: M111681
10. Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online 1891 - 1900 1891-1900 (Volume XII)
GORDON, ANDREW ROBERTSON, naval officer, businessman, civil servant, and hydrographer; b. 13 Feb. 1851 in Aberdeen, Scotland; m. Mary Elizabeth Parker, and they had several children; d. 24 March 1893 in Ottawa.
Andrew Robertson Gordon was educated in Aberdeen and joined the Royal Navy in 1863. Promoted lieutenant in 1871, he retired in October 1873. By August 1872, however, he had immigrated to Canada, settling in Cooksville (Mississauga), Ont., and had married the daughter of Melville Parker, the deputy reeve of Toronto Township and later warden of Peel County. During the late 1870s Gordon and Parker, in partnership, operated an oil refinery near the village.
In 1880 Gordon was appointed deputy superintendent of the Meteorological Service in the federal Marine and Fisheries Department, effective 1 August [see George Templeman Kingston*]. Located at the service’s central office in Toronto, he was engaged in inspecting weather observation stations and in advising Superintendent Charles Carpmael on the development of the service. Gordon travelled to stations in Quebec and around the Gulf of St Lawrence in the summer of 1881, and subsequently made proposals that the service should undertake a magnetic survey of the gulf. Two years later he toured southern Manitoba and the northwest in order to make recommendations to the department regarding the extension of the service’s activities to that part of the country. Prior to this time there had been only four weather stations west of Winnipeg and they reported irregularly; the service wished to establish new stations along the telegraph line being built with the Canadian Pacific Railway. As a result of Gordon’s report, several stations were authorized and opened within two years.
Although Gordon continued as deputy head of the Meteorological Service, he became increasingly involved in other activities of the department, beginning in the summer of 1884. That year he was appointed to head the first Canadian expedition to Hudson Bay after confederation, which was to ascertain for what period of the year Hudson Strait was navigable. This investigation was necessary to deal with demands from western Canada for a railway to Hudson Bay, at the mouth of either the Nelson or the Churchill River.
The first expedition, which sailed from Halifax in the Neptune in July under Gordon’s command, established five observation stations along the strait and one on the Labrador coast. A wintering party of three men was left at each station, their prime responsibility being to observe and record the formation, break-up, and movement of ice. Meteorological and tidal observations and, at one station, magnetic observations were also recorded. Gordon commanded expeditions in the summers of 1885 and 1886 aboard the Alert to take more summer observations, replace the wintering parties, and, in 1886, dismantle the stations and remove them along with the personnel. In his reports Gordon concluded that navigation through Hudson Strait was limited to the July–October period, with the best conditions in August and September. He argued forcefully that the Nelson River estuary was no place for a port but that Churchill had all the natural attributes of a great port and “should be the terminus of the proposed railway.” With a view to exerting greater Canadian control on the Arctic frontier, he urged the regulation of whale hunting. Other members of the expeditions, including Robert Bell*, published accounts on the geology, the flora and fauna, and the Inuit of the north.
During the winter seasons with the Meteorological Service in Toronto, Gordon became involved in several activities which indicated he was no ordinary public servant – certainly not by late-20th-century standards. In 1884 he appealed with little success to Frederic Newton Gisborne, the head of the government’s telegraph service, to pay a larger salary to his brother Leslie, a telegraph agent and weather observer in the northwest. Although an active worker for the Conservative party, he had trouble with his department when, early in 1885, he hired James Gordon Mowat, a knowledgeable climatologist and newspaperman but unfortunately a political opponent of the government, as a special assistant to write an account of the Canadian climate. Gordon was forced to let him go within a few months, before the report could be completed. In the spring of 1886 he corresponded with his minister, George Eulas Foster*, seeking action, if necessary, to ensure the legality of the marriage Gordon had performed as a ship’s captain the previous summer on Hudson Bay between missionary Joseph Lofthouse and his fiancée from England. Despite being a public servant, Gordon associated with Conservative politicians: he sold livestock from his Cooksville farm to his former minister, Archibald Woodbury McLelan*, in 1886 and the following year, before the federal election, participated openly at meetings in Peel. Gordon was ambitious, but his goal, to become a deputy minister, was never achieved, though not for lack of attempts to use his political friends.
Following the Hudson Bay expeditions he was again absent each summer from the Meteorological Service, serving in command of the fisheries protection fleet on the east coast. On 14 Oct. 1891 he was appointed nautical adviser and commander of the fleet. Suffering from consumption, he was transferred from active duty in 1892 and supervised the fisheries patrol from Ottawa, where he died the following year. He was buried at St Peter’s Church (Anglican) in Springfield, near Cooksville.
Morley K. Thomas
Andrew Robertson Gordon’s accounts of his three expeditions to Hudson Bay were published in Ottawa both as separate monographs and as appendices to the annual reports of the federal Dept. of Marine and Fisheries (from 1884 the Dept. of Marine). They appeared under the following titles: Report of the Hudson’s Bay expedition, under the command of Lieut. A. R. Gordon, R.N., 1884 (1885) (Annual report, 1883–84, app.30); Report of the second Hudson’s Bay expedition . . . 1885 (1886) (Annual report, 1884–85, app.29); and Report of the Hudson’s Bay expedition of 1886 . . . ([1887]) (Annual report, 1885–86, app.27). The departmental reports also appear in Can., Parl., Sessional papers, 1885, no.9; 1886, no.11; and 1887, no.15.
AO, RG 22, ser.224, reg.H (1892–94): 135; Toronto Township, abstract index to deeds, concession 1 N.D.S., lot 17; deeds, vol.10, nos.1021–23 (mfm.). Can., Environment Canada, Atmospheric Environment Service, National Headquarters (Toronto), Meteorological Service, superintendent’s letter-books; A. R. Gordon, letter-books, 1880–93; Dept. of Marine, Meteorological Service, Annual report (Ottawa), 1880–93 (issued both separately and in the Annual report of the department itself). Brampton Conservator (Brampton, Ont.), 30 March 1893. Ottawa Citizen, 25 March 1893. Alan Cooke and Clive Holland, The exploration of northern Canada, 500 to 1920: a chronology (Toronto, 1978). Dominion annual reg., 1884: 392.
11. Ontario Marriage Registrations 1869 - 1925 Ontario Archives: 1872 / Peel County / Vol 23/ Pg 151 Andrew Robertson GORDON, 23, gentleman, Scotland, Toronto Tp., s/o (not given), married Mary Elizabeth PARKER, 21, Cooksville, same, d/o Melville & Jane. Witn: Leslie GORDON & Clara Elizabeth HECTOR, addresses not given. June 26, 1872 St.John's Church, Dixie.
12. IGI Record/British Isles: C119061
13. Birth or Christening Record Extract, 1815 - 1854, Old Machar, Aberdeen, Scotland: Source Call No.: 6035516 / Printout Call No.: NONE
14. 1881 Canadian Census: FHL Film 1375888 NAC C-13252 Dist 140 SubDist A Div 2 Page 37 Family 187+ 1891 Canadian Census:
Census Place: Toronto, Peel, Ontario, Canada
Source: FHL Film 1375888 NAC C-13252 Dist 140 SubDist A Div 2 Page 37 Family 187+
Sex Marr Age Origin Birthplace Occ Religion
Leslie GORDON M M 26 Scottish Scotland Oil Refiner Church of England
Clara GORDON F M 25 Scottish O Church of England
Albert L. GORDON M 2 Scottish O Church of England
15. Gravestone, St. James Cemetary, Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada
16. Trinity College School Old Boys at war, 1899-1902, 1914-1918, 1939-1945 (1948): Pg. 20 GORDON, H. L.
Gordon, Hugh Lockhart C22-'25), was born September 27, 1907, at Toronto, Ontario. He entered the Senior School in September 1922 and in his final year became a member of the top set of the Fifth Form. In football, he proved to be a highly competent and dependable outside wing, winning his first team colours. On leaving T.C.S. he was admitted to the Royal Military College of Canada and after a successful career there went on to Trinity College, Toronto. At the end of his first year he left to study Chartered Accountancy, passing his examinations success-fully. For some years he was a member of the firm of Clarkson, Gordon, Dilworth and Nash in Montreal.
He was commissioned in the R.C.A.F. at the outbreak of war and won promotion to Flying Officer. He was posted to British Columbia and on August 14, 1940, while being flown to Patricia Bay as Equipment Officer, he was killed when his plane crashed into the sea near Courtney, British Columbia.
17. Canadian Virtual War Memorial: https://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=collections/virtualmem/Detail&casualty=26 In memory of
Flying Officer
HUGH LOCKHART GORDON
who died on August 14, 1940
Military Service:
Service Number: C/1864
Age: 32
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Additional Information:
Son of Colonel H. D. L. Gordon, D.S.O., and Kathleen Cassels Gordon. Husband of Helen Gordon, of Rockcliffe Park, Ottawa, Ontario.
Commemorated on Page 13 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
Burial Information:
Cemetery:
OTTAWA MEMORIAL
Ontario,Canada
Grave Reference: Panel 1. Column 1.
Location:
The Ottawa Memorial stands on the north-eastern point of Green Island in the City of Ottawa. Overlooking the northern branch of the Twin Falls of the Rideau River, it commands a panoramic view of the Ottawa River and the Gatineau Hills beyond.
The Memorial commemorates those of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth who lost their lives while serving in units operating from bases in Canada, the British West Indies and the United Sates of America, or while training in Canada and the U.S.A., and who have no known graves.
The main feature of the Ottawa Memorial is a sculptured terrestrial globe in bronze, 3 metres in diameter, on a base formed by three bronze beavers rising from the centre of an ornamental pool. The globe, of open lattice-work corresponding to the lines of latitude and longitude, on which the land masses are super imposed in low relief, is crowned by the Air Forces emblem of a bronze eagle with outspread wings.
Two curved screen walls faced in limestone, bearing cast bronze panels on which the names appear, face inwards towards the globe. They are placed slightly off centre to allow a clear view through the Ottawa Memorial from the central steps on Sussex Drive and from the wide pathway. Two Air Force crest exist in the paving between the screen walls.
A dedicatory inscription, in English on one screen wall and in French on the other, is incised in the stonework between the bronze name panels, which reads as follows:
1939 - 1945
In honoured memory of the men and women of the air forces of the British Commonwealth and Empire who gave their lives in Canada, in the United States of America and neighbouring lands and who have no known grave.
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