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Old Photograph Townhead Of Greenlaw Scotland
Old photograph of cottages, horse and cart and people in Townhead Of Greenlaw by Castle Douglas Threave Castle, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Thomas Gibson was born in Greenlaw on 8 January 1825 he son of Thomas Gibson and his wife Helen Lunham. He was educated at the free church school in Greenlaw. He went to Canada West in 1854 and worked for Howick Township for 7 years. He represented Huron North in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1871 to 1874 and Huron East from 1875 to 1898. He was a Liberal. The township of Gibson, now part of the Township of Georgian Bay in the Muskoka District, was named after him. He died in January 1901 and is buried in Wroxeter, Ontario.
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