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James Bell Forsyth : ウィキペディア英語版 | James Bell Forsyth
James Bell Forsyth (Christmas Day, 1802 - 1 April 1869), was a prominent Quebec merchant and author. In 1831, he built Domaine Cataraqui, Sillery, Quebec. ==Background==
Born at Kingston, Upper Canada, he was the second son of Joseph Forsyth (1764-1813) and his wife Alicia, daughter of Major James Robbins of the Royal Artillery. The Forsyths were an influential merchant family with strong commercial ties to England, Scotland and the colonies. Through his grandparents he was connected to the important London trading house of Phyn, Ellice & Co., a subsidiary of which was Forsyth, Richardson & Co., of Montreal, where two of his uncles, Thomas and John Forsyth, were partners; this firm prospered in the fur trade and expanded into other activities such as the agent and forwarding business. Another of his uncles, James Forsyth, was associated with Lloyd's of London. James bell Forsyth's father, Joseph Forsyth, came to Canada in 1784 as the agent for Forsyth, Richardson & Co., at Kingston, Ontario. Forsyth was educated there and in England.
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