Robert Reford
Robert Reford may refer to: * Robert Wilson Reford (1867–1951), Canadian photographer, businessman and art collector * Robert Wilson Reford Sr. Robert Wilson Reford (3 August 1831 – 15 March 1913) was a businessman and philanthropist born in County Antrim (Northern Ireland). Reford emigrated to Canada and became one of the most successful businessmen of his generation. Perhaps be ...

Robert Wilson Reford
Robert Wilson Reford (1867–1951) was a Canadian photographer, businessman and art collector. Birth and education Reford was born in the Golden Square Mile, Montreal, the eldest son of Robert Wilson Reford Sr., Robert Wilson Reford and Katherine Sheriff Drummond, daughter of Andrew Drummond of Tredinnock, near Stirling in Scotland. He was educated at Upper Canada College in Toronto and Lincoln College, Sorel-Tracy, Quebec, Sorel, Quebec. Career His father was the founder of the Robert Reford Company, a shipping agency established in Montreal in 1866. In 1888, he began his apprenticeship in business, working as a Purser on board a Thomson Line vessel in the Mediterranean. The following year he was sent to Victoria, British Columbia to act as the assistant manager of the Mount Royal Rice Mills, a company his father had founded in 1882 and which had rice mills in Montreal and Victoria. There he was placed in charge of the Thermopylae, the former clipper ship which Robert Reford ...
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