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Irene McKim is a photographer.

Harry McKinlay was a photographer based in Yarmouth NS.

Harry McKinley was a photographer based in Yarmouth NS.

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

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

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

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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."

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.

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.