Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Strathy, Henry George Gordon
Parallel form(s) of name
- H.G.G. Strathy
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
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Description area
Dates of existence
1846 - 1932
History
Henry George Gordon Strathy was born in London, Ontario 1846. He was the son of James Brakenridge Strathy. In 1835, James Strathy went into business in Dundas, Ontario owning various flour and paper mills. They moved back to London, where James Strathy became the District Clerk for the County of Middlesex.
Henry Strathy joined the Bank of Montreal in Hamilton in 1864. In 1866, he joined the 13th battalion to fight the Fenian Raids. In 1867 he moved to Montreal, where he married his wife and lived until his death in 1932.