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Land surveyer, Peterborough, Ont.

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Wallace Havelock Robb, poet, author, and naturalist, was born in Belleville, Ontario in 1888. After serving in World War I, he entered business until 1921. He then went to the United States as a writer and bird photographer. An encounter with Edward, Prince of Wales, encouraged Robb to return to Canada in 1925. He settled on five hundred acres of property, which he called Abbey Dawn, where he established a sanctuary for all birds, including birds of prey, which was open to the public and attracted many visitors. For many years he wrote wild life stories for a number of Canadian periodicals. Robb also had a great interest in native culture, archeological finds of native artifacts, and he studied the Mohawk language. Several of his writings were based on native tradition. In 1948, Robb was adopted by blood rite by Mohawks of the Kente and made Great White Eagle and Pine Tree Chief of the Iroquois. Wallace Havelock Robb died in 1976.

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Gerald Stevens was an historian and researcher. He died in 1981. He published works documenting early Canadian artifacts, from furniture to glass. His large and definitive study of Canadian glass was finished but not published. It was left to Ralph Hedlin and Heidi Redekop, to collate and edit the manuscript, provide the photographs of the pieces he had identified and push the work forward to completion.

Thomas Swanston, of Scottish descent, was a fur trader and employee of the Hudson’s Bay Company for twenty years, 18 of which were spent in the Mackenzie River District, until retiring in 1880. Based on archival notes, he was most likely born in 1849 though whether this occurred in Canada or Scotland is unclear as he travelled from the UK with his mother and three sisters in the summer of 1855, at the age of 6, to rejoin his father in Canada, an employee of the HCB. A note makes reference to his mother and ‘children’ having arrived in Aberdeen, Scotland in the autumn of 1852 from Moose Factory making it reasonable to assume he may have been born in Canada. As an adult he is described as a ‘wealthy and prominent citizen’ who ‘lived in a state with a great many servant in a fine house with extensive grounds and stables, altogether in the manner of an English country gentleman’. He and his wife, who was part Cree, had ‘a great many children’ though all but one passed away early in life. His only surviving child was a daughter named Frances who married a Red River colony McBeth, a family that had settled at Prince Albert during the 1870’s and were distantly related to the author Rev. R.G. McBeth.

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