Captain Rolland Walpole

[liverpool annie]

Thanks Jim !!

I came across this site but there's no lists been made yet on line ... you have to go there I  think - to look at the death books !! .... I'm still reading it !!

http://www.talesofeloise.com/cemetery.html#

Annie 

[liverpool annie]

I'm getting a little off track here I think .... at the beginning of this thread Daisy found ...

St. Thomas Times-Journal St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada
January through March 1930
27 January 1930
Page 3 c8       

103rd Birthday - Capt. Walpole Roland, 25 Jan 1930

http://www.elginogs.ca/newsindexes/timesjournal/sttj1930janthrumar.htm

So I don't think he died in Detroit !! ..... I need to be looking in St Thomas Ontario !!

AND ........ re - reading ........ it says he observed the Charge ...... so where was he ?? ( unless maybe he belonged to the "Heavy Brigade "  )

http://www.nextlibrary.com/cgi-local/dublincard.cgi?TPL=../html/tbpl/archive/archivedublin.html&Key='40103'

Walpole Roland, resident of Port Arthur, was a civil and mining engineer and the author or 'Algoma West', published in 1887. The story of his life seemed to be of one incredible adventure after another. Before arriving in Canada, he served in military service and observed the Charge of the Light Briagade in the Crimea, was present at the Seige of Peking, and while in the United States fought for General Custer. At the age of 84, while investigating mining resources, he became lost in the wilds of Northern Ontario, and survived for a month before being rescued.

[liverpool annie]

This man is going to drive me doodle alley !!  looks like it's back to square one !!

Linda found this - when I posted on the Canadian board !!

There is an article in The Globe (Toronto) Saturday February 21, 1931, page 3.

OBSERVES 104th BIRTHDAY
Port Arthur, Feb 20 - (Special) -
Captain Wapole Roland, R.E., former-
ly pioneer mining engineer here cele-
brated his 104th birthday yesterday.
He is now in Detroit.

 

[waiteohman]

Just to update this thread. He died in 1931 and possibly March 30.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=296792.msg1793277#msg1793277

[waiteohman]

Hi Annie

Re Book Daisy mentioned - Under Five Flags by daughter Marion. A copy is held with the Superiorland Library Cooperative  Marquette, MI 49855 United States
Source searched: http://www.worldcat.org/advancedsearch
Interlibrary loan might be a possibility Annie. There are also 4 Canadian libraries found to hold it.

Tidbits of info

Canadian Poems and Lays
The Legend of Thunder by H.R.A. Pocock includes a note by Walpole Roland (pages 239-240):
http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/PageView/13998/0271?id=f7eb0e95fb848987

In 1857 possibly in Montreal area:
Appendice du quinzième volume des journaux de l'Assemblée législative de la Province du Canada, depuis le 26 février jusqu'au 10 juin 1857, inclusivement, dans la vingtième année du règne de notre souveraine dame la Reine Victoria, étant la 3me session du 5me Parlement provincial du Canada
http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/PageView/9_00962_15_3/0103?id=f7eb0e95fb848987

Cheers,
Linda

[liverpool annie]

Appendix's fifteenth volume of diaries of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, from February 26 until June 10, 1857, inclusive, in the twentieth year of the reign of our sovereign lady Queen Victoria, is the 3rd session of the 5th Provincial Parliament of Canada

What does this mean do you think ?? ..... interest on investment ? ..... did he give a donation or something ?? 

[waiteohman]

Annie

Equivalent English page:
http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/PageView?id=f7eb0e95fb848987&display=9_00955_15_3+0102

His debenture interest is in the section with the Special Comittee assigned to the Grand Trunk Company
http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/PageView?id=f7eb0e95fb848987&display=9_00955_15_3+0005
Appendix A6-[96] gives fuller information on the Interest Debentures Series A heading:
http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/PageView?id=f7eb0e95fb848987&display=9_00955_15_3+0099

Appendix 6 deals with Champlain and St. Lawrence Railway - First page of Appendix 6
http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/PageView?id=f7eb0e95fb848987&display=9_00955_15_2+0268

Looks like he was a shareholder owning stock with the St Lawrence and Atlantic Company.
 
Linda

[liverpool annie]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Lawrence_and_Atlantic_Railroad

Well ! if he was in Montreal in 1857 .... that's a good sign !! 

They demobbed after the Crimean War in Quebec !! 

Annie 

[JamesW]

Annie;
             There is a book about Eloise as a Poorhouse and Hospital as well as a mental Institution. I P.M.ed you about this book.
                                  Jim