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Categories: Scottish emigrants to pre-Confederation Quebec, 1744 births, Immigrants to the Province of Quebec (1763–1791), Webarchive template archiveis links, Pre-Confederation Canadian businesspeople
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James McGill  James McGill Statue  McGill, James
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James McGill was a Scottish-Canadian businessman, fur trader, land speculator, and philanthropist best known for being the founder of McGill University in Montreal. Wikipedia
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James McGill was a Scottish-Canadian businessman, fur trader, land speculator, and philanthropist best known for being the founder of McGill University in Montreal. Wikipedia
founder of McGill University, Montreal (1744-1813) Wikidata
IS A
homo
ARCHIVES AT
McGill University Archives
Rare Books and Special Collections
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
EDUCATED AT
University of Glasgow
FAMILY NAME
McGill
GIVEN NAME
James
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
OCCUPATION
businessperson
merchant
politician
slave holder
PLACE OF BIRTH
Glasgow
PLACE OF DEATH
Montreal
SEX OR GENDER
male
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James McGill
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James McGill
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James McGill Statue, McGill, James

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