Pharmacist, farmer.
Born at Grantown, Scotland on 23 January 1851, son of Alexander Grant and Elspeth Lawson, he completed his primary education at the age of 16 then studied pharmacy, working as a pharmacist for nine years at Grantown before going to Georgetown, British Guiana where he was a pharmacist for another four years.
He traveled through the United States to Nova Scotia where he operated a pharmacy for a year then moved to Winnipeg where he got a job with the Canadian Pacific Railway, working for three years under Joseph Whitehead on the contruction of track to Rat Portage [now Kenora], Ontario. He then joined James Boorman on a journey to Birtle, going to Shoal Lake where he took employment under Robert Scott as a general store clerk and salesman. He purchased 320 acres in Township 17, Range 23 where he raised horses and grew grain. He was a shareholder in the Grain Growers Grain Company.
He died unmarried at Shoal Lake on 27 January 1934 and was buried in the Shoal Lake Cemetery.
The Story of Manitoba by F. H. Schofield, Winnipeg: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1913.
“Octogenarian of Shoal Lake passes,” Shoal Lake Star, 1 February 1934, page 1.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 7 June 2022
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