. A history of the Scotch Presbyterian Church, St. Gabriel Street, Montreal . the old 78th Regiment, anda relative of Simon Erasers, at St, Anns. And RobertThompson was, it is believed, a brother of David Thomp-son, the astronomer of the North-west, as he wascalled, who discovered the Thompson River in BritishColumbia, and was the first to follow the Columbia Riverfrom its source to the Pacific Ocean. He was subsequentlyemployed exploring the vast regions lying beyond the 112 Columbia Eiver. On the part of the British Grovernment,he was engaged as astronomical surveyor, on the commis-sion for
. A history of the Scotch Presbyterian Church, St. Gabriel Street, Montreal . the old 78th Regiment, anda relative of Simon Erasers, at St, Anns. And RobertThompson was, it is believed, a brother of David Thomp-son, the astronomer of the North-west, as he wascalled, who discovered the Thompson River in BritishColumbia, and was the first to follow the Columbia Riverfrom its source to the Pacific Ocean. He was subsequentlyemployed exploring the vast regions lying beyond the 112 Columbia Eiver. On the part of the British Grovernment,he was engaged as astronomical surveyor, on the commis-sion for defining the boundary line between the UnitedStates and the British possessions, beyond the RockyMountains. This completes the list of the fur traders who lent ahelping hand to the enterprise of erecting the first Pres-byterian Church in this city. They were gentlemen ofremarkable endurance, of tried courage, and clear insight—the pioneers of that grand heritage, the North-west,upon which we have lately entered—and therefore weshould not willingly let their names BENAIAH GIBB. CHAPTER YIII. The remaining subsceibbes to the Building Fund—Benaiah Gibb, Rich-ard DoBiB, James Logan, William Foebes, James Cowie, John andJames McDowall, James Strothbr, Thomas Busby, Hon. JohnMoLsoN, Richard Brooks, John Finlayson, Simon Clarke, DonaldMcKercher, John McArthue, John Fisher, John Hunter, WilliamRussBL, George Stansfield, Jacob Marston, Alexander Simpson,Thomas Sullivan, John Neaglbs, John J. Deihl, Andrew Winklb-Foss, Alexander Robertson, Jonathan A. Gray, John Gray, , Samuel Adams, David Smith and Joseph Howard. Benaiah Gribb, senior, whose portrait appears on theopposite page, subscribed ten guineas in 1*792, and againtwo guineas in 1800, for the building fund. There arefew names entitled to be held in higher honor in Mont-real, than that of Benaiah Gribb, founder of the Gibbfirm, which still carries on business here, in the gentle-mens outfitting line. Although bo
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