Duncan McIntyre (23 December 1834 – 13 June 1894) was a

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businessman from

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noted for his participation in the

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of 1880 and as a founder of the

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Company of Canada. The

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was owned by McIntyre who amalgamated it with the CPR and became one of the handful of officers of the newly formed CPR. The CCR started in

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and extended to Pembroke. It then followed a westward route along the

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passing through places like Cobden, Deux Rivieres and eventually to Mattawa at the confluence of the Mattawa and Ottawa Rivers. It then proceeded cross-country towards its final destination,

. McIntyre and his contractor James Worthington led the CCR expansion. Worthington remained with the CPR for about a year until he left the company. McIntyre's nephew, John Ferguson, staked out the future

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after getting assurance from his uncle and Worthington that it would be the

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and a location of some importance. The CPR started its westward expansion from

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(previously called Callander Station) where the first spike was driven into a sunken railway tie. Bonfield, Ontario was inducted into Canadian Railway Hall of Fame in 2002 as the CPR First Spike location. That was the point where the Canada Central Railway extension ended.

Family

He married Jane Allan Cassils and they were the parents of four sons and three daughters, *William McIntyre *John McIntyre *Duncan McIntyre *Charles McIntyre *Mary Fisher McIntyre. She married her first cousin, Archibald Arthur Hodgson (1869-1960), one of the five well-known sons of Jonathan Hodgson (1827-1914) and Margaret Cassils. Their son, Duncan, married Hylda, daughter of

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, of

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. *Margaret McIntyre, married R. Archibald Snowball, of

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. He was a younger son of The Hon.

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. Their only child, Robbie, died unmarried at

. *Jane McIntyre, married Lewis Reford, son of Robert Wilson Reford (1831-1913).

Residence

In the 1880s, McIntyre commissioned architect William Thomas to design a residence for him on a ten-acre plot within the

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. Known as ''Craguie'', the mansion was demolished in 1930. In 1947, his family donated the land to

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, for an area known as McIntyre Park. In 1965, the university completed construction of the

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, named in his honour. The McIntyre site is also home to the Stewart Biological Sciences Building.

References

External links

Biography at the ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online''Photograph: Duncan McIntyre in 1862. McCord MuseumPhotograph: Duncan McIntyre in 1880. McCord MuseumPhotograph: Duncan McIntyre in 1891. McCord Museum
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mcintyre, Duncan Businesspeople from Montreal Pre-Confederation Quebec people Pre-Confederation Canadian businesspeople Scottish emigrants to pre-Confederation Quebec People from Stirling (council area) 1834 births 1894 deaths Canadian Pacific Railway people Burials at Mount Royal Cemetery