Memorable Manitobans: Thomas Jefferous Beaubier (1830-1915)

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Thomas Jefferous Beaubier
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Farmer, hotelier.

Born in County Wexford, Ireland on 31 January 1830, son of John and Elizabeth Beaubier. The family emigrated to Canada in 1842 and settled in Leeds County, Ontario. He farmed in the area, and also near St. Marys, Ontario, for thirty years and operated a hotel at Park Hill for six years. He came to Manitoba in 1880 and, two years later, opened the Beaubier House at Brandon. He conducted the business until 1891.

On 26 October 1854, he married Elizabeth Jane Cathcart (1834-1932) and they had eleven children: three boys and eight girls, including David Wilson Beaubier and Fedelia Ann Beaubier (1868-1966, wife of William John Young).

He died at Brandon on 24 March 1915 and was buried in the Brandon Cemetery.

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Beaubier Hotel (201 Eighth Street, Brandon)

Sources:

A History of Manitoba: Its Resources and People by Prof. George Bryce, Toronto: The Canadian History Company, 1906.

Death registration, Manitoba Vital Statistics.

“Another prominent old timer is dead,” Brandon Weekly Sun, 1 April 1915, page 9.

Called to the Bar: An Historical Geography of Beverage Rooms in Brandon, 1881-1966 by Doug Ramsey and John Everitt, Manitoba History, Number 56, October 2007.

Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 30 May 2023

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