David and Mary Thomson were
Scottish
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*Scottish English
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immigrants from
Westerkirk
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,
Dumfrieshire
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...
,
Scotland
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, and they were the first official
Europe
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an settlers in what later became
Scarborough Scarborough or Scarboro may refer to:
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* Scarborough (surname)
* Earl of Scarbrough
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,
Ontario
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.
David Thomson (1760–1834) and Mary Glendenning Thomson (1767–1847) arrived in
Upper Canada
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in 1796, landing in
Newark, Upper Canada
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, then went to
York, Upper Canada
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.
David Thomson worked as a stonemason, but they moved to Scarborough in 1799 by acquiring farmland.
He and his brother Archibald (who arrived in Canada in 1773) expanded their land holdings in Scarborough, becoming one of the most important families in the area. The Thomsons are buried at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church near their Thomson Settlement, in what is now known as
Thomson Memorial Park
Thomson Memorial Park is a midsize park at 1005 Brimley Road in the Scarborough district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the site of the Scarborough Historical Museum and includes historical houses from the 1790s that once belonged to the fou ...
.
Descendants of Archibald Thomson include the late
Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet
Roy Herbert Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, (5 June 1894 – 4 August 1976) was a Canadian-born British newspaper proprietor who became one of the moguls of Fleet Street in London.
He first came to prominence when he was selling radios in ...
, his son
Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet
Kenneth Roy Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet (September 1, 1923 – June 12, 2006), known in Canada as Ken Thomson, was a Canadian/British businessman and art collector. At the time of his death, he was listed by ''Forbes'' as the richest per ...
and grandson
David Thomson, 3rd Baron Thomson of Fleet
David Kenneth Roy Thomson, 3rd Baron Thomson of Fleet (born 12 June 1957) is a Canadian/British hereditary peer and media magnate. Upon the death of his father in 2006, Thomson became the chairman of Thomson Corporation and also inherited his fa ...
.
See also
*
David and Mary Thomson Collegiate Institute
David and Mary Thomson Collegiate Institute (sometimes called David and Mary Thomson, DMT, DMTCI, Thomson CI or Thomson) is a semestered English-language high school in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Located in the Bendale neighbourhood of the former ...
, built in 1958 near their original settlement and on land farmed by the Thomson family
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1760 births
1767 births
1834 deaths
1847 deaths
Thomson family
Canadian people of Scottish descent
Canadian people of English descent
People from Dumfries and Galloway
People from Scarborough, Toronto
Pre-Confederation Ontario people