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Roper Galloway
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General merchant.
Born at Polmont, Scotland on 4 July 1855, son of William and Agnes Galloway, he came to Canada in 1875, settling at Ontario where, for a few years, he worked in the dry goods business.
He came to Manitoba in 1881 with his brother William Galloway and established a general store at Gladstone under the name of Galloway Brothers. A large part of their business was providing meat to railway construction companies. In 1909, they sold the store to two of their sales staff and William operated a cattle ranch while Roper moved to Winnipeg.
On 5 September 1882, he married Margaret Erb Gowanlock (1855-1922) of Paris, Ontario. They had two daughters: Nina Elizabeth Galloway (1883-1963, wife of Frederick Todd Cadham) and Margaret Agnes Galloway (1885-1966, wife of Henry Oliver McDiarmid). He served as a member of the Gladstone town council for twenty years and as Mayor of Gladstone (1903-1907).
He died at Brandon on 10 November 1924 and was buried in the Brandon Cemetery.
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Galloway Brothers Department Store (37 Morris Avenue, Gladstone)
Ontario marriage registration, Ancestry.
Birth registration [Margaret Galloway], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
A History of Manitoba: Its Resources and People by Prof. George Bryce, Toronto: The Canadian History Company, 1906.
“Gladstone mourns beloved pioneer,” Gladstone Age, 28 September 1922, page 1.
Death registrations [Margaret Erb Galloway, Roper Galloway], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Roper Galloway passes on,” Gladstone Age, 13 November 1924, page 1.
“Dr. Henry O. McDiarmid, Brandon specialist dies,” Winnipeg Free Press, 5 January 1952. [Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Scrapbook B10]
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
We thank Sandy Jasper for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 5 February 2024
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