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2<br> they were ^ principally seated of sterling integrity shrewd and economical, who laid the foundation of Montreals present prosperity The word graft or duplicity was little known among this type of man - namely James Roy M. Jospeh Mackay, James A. Mathisson A Ramsay, Ogilvie Bro, David Torrance, Gilman &, Lyman, Clair, Linton Hooper, Greenshield T90, Wm Darling Wm McGibbon corner notre dame and St. Gabriel Alexander McGibbon Great St. James St and others - <br>      Armstrong was once in the employ of Henry Morgan & McGill at founder of the prest well known Colonial House on St. Catharines St. and assisted that firm to move their stock from McGill st to the corner of Victory square and St. James St.<br>      He had a liberal following of customers from the ^pioneer Scotch and Glengarry farmers to whom he could anme and point out the different clan and family tartans so clear to their Scottish hearts - More of which may be the substance of another story -<br>      For about five years he had a profitable business and had married a successful Western farmers daughter whom he met for the final time in her brother's Dry foods Store on St. Paul St. city of St. Catharines Ont.<br><br>