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Samuel McLaughlin was a photographer based in Ottawa, ON.

The son of Robert and Mary McLaughlin of the village of Enniskillen, located north of Bowmanville, Ontario, Robert Samuel McLaughlin was the founder of the McLaughlin Carriage Company of Oshawa.

Isabel Grace McLaughlin (1903-2002) was an important Canadian modernist painter. She was born in Oshawa, Ontario, to Adelaide Mowbray and Robert Samuel (R.S.) McLaughlin, the founder of the McLaughlin Motor Car Company and the first president of General Motors Canada. Isabel grew up with her four sisters at Parkwood, her family's Oshawa estate. For her final year of secondary school, she moved to Montreal. Isabel then went to Paris where she studied at the Sorbonne (1920-1924) and received a Diplôme de Civílisation Français and a Certificat d’Études Françaises. After leaving Paris, Isabel moved to Toronto and studied at the Ontario College of Art (OCA) under Arthur Lismer (1925-1926). After leaving OCA, she joined the Art Students’ League and continued her studies with Lismer and Yvonne McKague. In her late twenties, Isabel traveled to Paris to study at the Scandinavian Academy (1929-1930). She returned to Toronto a year later. In 1933, Isabel helped found the Canadian Group of Painters (CGP); in 1939, she became the group’s first woman president. Isabel was also an active member of the Heliconian Club, a Toronto-based organization for women engaged in arts and letters. She developed friendships with many prominent Canadian artists, such as A.Y. Jackson, Lawren Harris, Prudence Heward, Gordon Webber, Alexandra Luke, Rody Kenny Courtice, Bobs Cogill Haworth, and Peter Haworth. She traveled extensively, sojourning with her friends and painting landscapes in the American Southwest, the Carribean, and throughout Canada. Isabel is an important figure in Canadian art not only because of her own painting, but also because she was an avid supporter of her fellow artists, both on the individual level and on the community level. Notable among Isabel’s acts of patronage, are her contributions to the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, Ontario. The Gallery, which is named after Isabel’s grandfather, now houses the Isabel McLaughlin Gallery, which boasts a collection of over 3,600 works of art. Despite her continued interest in art, Isabel gave up painting in the 1960s for unknown reasons. Isabel was honoured with several awards for her patronage of the arts and her activity within the art community. She was named a Fellow of the Ontario College of Art (1977), and she was a recipient of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts Medal (1990), the Order of Canada for Visual Arts (1998), and the Order of Ontario (1993). Isabel McLaughlin died at her home in Toronto on November 26, 2002.

George William McLaughlin was in 1869, at Enniskillen, Ontario. His father, Robert McLaughlin, was the founder of The McLaughlin Carriage Company and at the age of sixteen George, along with his brother R. Samuel was apprenticed, as a trimmer in his father's carriage business. Seven years later, in 1892, he and his brother were brought into the Company, by their father, as partners. In 1907 George and his brother, along with George Hezzelwood, formed the McLaughlin Motor Car Company Limited, with Sam as President, George W. as Treasurer, and George H. as Secretary. It was at this time too, that the two brothers entered into a fifteen year agreement with Will Durant, better known as General Motors, to buy Buick engines and other parts from the Detroit-based Buick Motor Company. In 1915, they sold the McLaughlin Carriage Company to Jim Tudhope of Orillia, Ontario, and shortly thereafter they formed the Chevrolet Car Company of Canada. The same names appeared as the chief officers, although in a slightly different order: George W. was President, Sam was Treasurer, and George H. was Secretary. The first Chevrolet rolled off the line in December 1915. In 1918 the decision was made to merge the McLaughlin Motor Car and Chevrolet Car Companies. These in turn would then be merged into Will Durant's conglomerate, with the Canadian arm to be called General Motors of Canada Limited with Sam as President and George Vice-President, a position he held until his retirement from GM in 1924. George William McLaughlin died, 10 October 1942, in Toronto.

Adelaide Mowbray, school teacher, and Robert Samuel (R.S.) McLaughlin, founder of the McLaughlin Motor Car Company and the first president of General Motors Canada, married in 1898. They had five daughters: Eileen was born in 1898, followed by Mildred in 1900, Isabel in 1903, Hilda in 1905, and Eleanor in 1908. The sisters grew up at Parkwood, the family's Oshawa estate.

Robert McLaughlin had his roots in Tyrone County, Ireland. By the mid 1800's he had been "lured" to the Peterborough area of Ontario with the promise of free farm land. In 1867 or so, McLaughlin built himself a horse carriage. So good was his design and craftsmanship that the neighbours asked him to build carriages for them. As knowledge of the quality of McLaughlin's carriage spread, demand increased. In 1869 he founded the McLaughlin Carriage Company in response to the demand for his carriages. In 1876, seeking better access to markets, he moved his business to Oshawa. The company was owned by McLaughlin and two of his three sons, Sam and George, both of whom started at the bottom of their father's carriage business as sweepers. In 1899 the business was temporarily relocated in Gananoque when the business was destroyed by fire. With the advent of the automobile George and his brother, along with George Hezzelwood, formed the McLaughlin Motor Car Company Limited in 1907. For a time the family continued to produce carriages. Then, in 1915, Robert McLaughlin sold the carriage works to Jim Thudhope of Orillia, Ontario. In writing at the time of his difficulty in letting the works go, he simply observed: "[The] gasoline engine [is] at present working a revolution in the horse-drawn vehicle trade."

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H. McLachlan was a student in the School of Mining at Queen's University.

Farmer, tailor and poet, Erin Township, Amarinth Township, Ont.

H.R. McKinley was a photographer based in Yarmouth NS.