Charles Shirreff (businessman)
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Charles Shirreff (businessman)
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Charles Shirreff was an early Canadian businessman and public official. He was born in Leith, Scotland in 1768. In 1817, he migrated to Smith's Creek, later Port Hope, in Upper Canada. He obtained a grant of land in Fitzroy Township in the upper Ottawa Valley and moved there in 1818. He founded the town of Fitzroy Harbour, Ontario on the Ottawa River in 1831 and built a grist mill there. His son, Robert, took the post of deputy surveyor general of woods, which regulated tree cutting on public la
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Canadian businessman and public official
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Shirreff_(businessman)
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2005-10-10T11:17:18Z
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2024-09-01T20:36:22Z
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