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BirthMale; 20 Sept 1852; Penetanguishene, Ontario, Canada
Death11 Feb 1941, age 88; Toronto, Canada
OccupationSurveyor for Canadian Pacific Railway
ResidenceCanada
Father
Mother

Gravestone, Lauchlan Alexander Hamilton b.1852

Spouses:

1        Married, 1880
Name
BirthFemale; About 1858
Death Oct 1881, age about 23
Death MemoAfter giving birth
Burial Oct 1881; Beechwood Cemetery Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
ResidenceCanada
Marriage 15 Sept 1880, York, Ontario, Canada
Child (1):Isobel Ogilvie HAMILTON (1881 - 1962)

2        Married, 1888
Name
BirthFemale; 26 Sept 1862; Stockton, Middlesborough, UK
DeathAfter 1941, age about 78
EducationMason Science College, 1882-83, Birmingham UK
ReligionAnglican
ResidenceCanada
Father
Mother

Constance Eaton BODINGTON (b.1862)

Marriage 10 April 1888, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
No children recorded on this database

Notes for Lauchlan Alexander HAMILTON

CPR land commissioner and surveyor who established prairie town sites near US/Canadian border. 1883: Vancouver; surveyed and named streets. 1885: surveyed CPR English Bay to Hastings Street. 1886: surveyed Liverpool area after fire of 13 June 1886. Proposed Stanley Park and laid out perimeter. Noted amateur photographer. Hamilton Street named for and by him.

Notes for Isobel LEASK

First wife of Lauchlan Alexander Hamilton.

Sources

176.  Email, Ann Johnston, 2 December 2007
350.  Document, Ann Johnston, 2 December 2007
372.  Document, Vancouver City archives
393.  Public archive, Peter Vessey, 02 April 2021, Former students of the University of Birmingham and its predecessors

Person record last updated: 26 April 2023

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