CROMARTY TENNIS CLUB - FOUNDED 1902

Cromarty Tennis Club, 65 Cromarty Street, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
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CROMARTY TENNIS CLUB: MY CROMARTY TENNIS HISTORY NOTES

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© Eric Krause, Krause House Info-Research Solutions

Rough Draft Research Notes on the history 
of the Cromarty Tennis Club, Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia 
(and on other Cape Breton Tennis Clubs as they may be encountered in my research)

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KRAUSE HOUSE INFO-RESEARCH SOLUTIONS NOTES

1893 - 1901
 

1893

April 28

Sydney Lawn Tennis Club

Index to Local and Private Acts to 1900

Sydney Lawn Tennis Club, Act to incorporate Sydney Literary Club, Act to incorporate  [Year] 1893  [Cap.] c. 212

http://nslegislature.ca/pdfs/proceedings/ipla_1758-1900.pdf

•  212.   An Act to incorporate the Sydney Lawn Tennis Club ..................575

•  CHAPTER 212

An act to incorporate the Sydney Lawn Tennis Club

Sydney Lawn Tennis Club, Act to incorporate the .... 575

• The Statutes of Nova Scotia, 1893, p. xv and 575 and xvi

• 212   An Act to incorporate the Sydney Lawn Tennis Club ..................575

  • The Statutes of Nova Scotia By Nova Scotia --- 1893, p. 575

                                                  1893                     CHAPTER 212                 56 VIC.                575

CHAPTER 212.

An Act to incorporate the Sydney Lawn Tennis Club.

(Passed the 28th day of April, AD 1893.)

 Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows :

Incorporation.

1. Murray Dodd, Frederick C. Kimber, Edmund T. MacKeen, John A. Young, David A. Hearn, and the other members and associates of the association hereby incorporated, and all who shall hereafter become members thereof, are hereby constituted a body corporate, under the name of the Sydney Lawn Tennis Club, for the promotion of athletics and the physical improvement of its members.

Constitution and by-laws.

2. The constitution and by-laws of the association are constitution hereby declared to be the constitution and by-laws of the said corporation, and the corporation may from time to time alter, add to, and repeal the same, and may make, alter, and repeal by-laws to carry into effect the objects of the association ; such constitution and by-laws and all all alterations thereof shall be invalid until approved by the Governor-in-Council.

3.

... matter, or proceeding before any court, or arbitration, or person or persons having power to hear evidence, a copy of such constitution, and of any by-laws purporting to be certified under the hand of the Provincial Secretary as having been approved by the Governor-in-Council, shall be presumptive evidence of such constitution and by-laws ...

4.

...for the purpose of carrying into effect the purposes of the association, and from time to time amend, alter and repeal the same. Such constitution and by-laws and all alterations thereof shall be invalid until approved by the Governor-in-Council. ...

5. Certain property, how vested.

From and after the passing of this Act all the property, real and personal or mixed, now belonging to or held in trust for the association hereby incorporated, shall vest in and belong to the said corporation, and the said corporation shall be accountable for all the debts, engagements and liabilities of the Sydney Lawn Tennis Club.

Limited liability.

6. No member of the corporation shall be liable in his person  or separate estate for the debts of the corporation, unless he shall have made himself personally responsible therefore.

• The Statutes of Nova Scotia By Nova Scotia --- 1893, pp. xxix, 575-576

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Sydney Lawn Tennis Club

• Journals and Proceedings of the House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia,  Volume 57, 1893, pp. 81, 100, 109, 113, 115, 125-126, 194

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D. A. Hearn

Sydney Baseball Club 1913 - CB County League.

https://www.facebook.com/VintageCapeBreton#!/media/set/?set=a.614150338600031.159818.200452146636521&type=3

•  Sydney Lawn Tennis Club, Act to incorporate   ...... 1893 .... c. 212

  • Revised statutes of Nova Scotia 1967, Volume 4, p. 167
       

• Murray Dodd (Judge) - 1901 Census - YES - http://automatedgenealogy.com/census/View.jsp?id=18321&highlight=30&desc=1901+Census+of+Canada+page+containing+Murry+Dodd ; 1891 Census - YES -  http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/census-1891/001081-119.03-e.php?&interval=20&pdf=1&image=30953_148112-00130&person_id_nbr=624442&&PHPSESSID=1pqu67in9gmvoo5s7lgsr76l15
   

• Frederick C. Kimber - 1901 Census - NO - 1891  http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/census-1891/001081-119.03-e.php?&interval=20&pdf=1&image=30953_148112-00160&person_id_nbr=625941&&PHPSESSID=pgr46uugetipu2cjjmetlrpnt5 and 1911 http://automatedgenealogy.com/census11/View.jsp?id=71776&highlight=22&desc=1911+Census+of+Canada+page+containing+Frederick+C+Kimber  . Yes -  McAlpine's Nova Scotia Directory 1907-08 http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/directory/page.asp?Place=&Letter=&Page=1240 [Also - Mayor of Sydney plus/minus 1907; of Ingraham & Kimber (h 71 Dorchester Street), Agent, Manager and Superintendant of the Sydney and Louisbourg Coal and Railroad Company; Manager at the Reserve Mine on Cape Breton, plus/minus 1888; F. C. Kimber, Secretary, Esplanade, Cape Breton Yacht Club, 1902 - http://www.krausehouse.ca/krause/images/1902.sid W. A. MacDonald, Plan of the Town of Sydney]
   

• Edmund T. MacKeen  of Sydney - 1891 Cape Breton Census - NO; BUT Edmund I McKeen (Principal Academy) - 1891 Cape Breton Census - http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/census-1891/001081-119.03-e.php?&interval=20&pdf=1&image=30953_148112-00174&person_id_nbr=626604&&PHPSESSID=o5lmekgma35h9adhct85bj33a7 ; Edmind McKeen - 1901 Cape Breton Census - http://automatedgenealogy.com/census/View.jsp?id=22237&highlight=45&desc=1901+Census+of+Canada+page+containing+Edmind+MacKeen
   

• John A. Young (Steamer Agent - [May 17, 1866 - ]) of Sydney - 1891 Cape Breton Census - http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/census-1891/001081-119.03-e.php?&interval=20&pdf=1&image=30953_148112-00138&person_id_nbr=624824&&PHPSESSID=qaij1233mp44dlhje8dos3t2i5  ; John A  Young - 1901 Cape Breton Census - http://automatedgenealogy.com/census/View.jsp?id=18344&highlight=19&desc=1901+Census+of+Canada+page+containing+John+A+Young
   

• David A. Hearn  (Lawyer) of Sydney - 1891 Cape Breton Census - NO [Note: In 1891, he moved his practice to Sydney] ; 1900 - Hearn D A, barrister, solicitor, etc, Merchants Bank bld -  http://www.archive.org/details/cihm_08249 ; David A Herm [David A. Hearn]- 1901 Cape Breton Census - http://automatedgenealogy.com/census/View.jsp?id=22157&highlight=29&desc=1901+Census+of+Canada+page+containing+David+A+Herm ; 1902-Hearn, D. A., Barrister - http://www.krausehouse.ca/krause/images/1902.sid W. A. MacDonald, Plan of the Town of Sydney
   

  • [NOTE: In 1902 Kimber was still playing tennis. Perhaps Young and Hearn were still playing as well in 1902]

• Sydney Lawn Tennis Club; to incorporate  ......... 1893   212 (Page cxxxviii)

  • The revised statutes of Nova Scotia, 1900, By Nova Scotia, Wallace Graham, William Bernard Wallace Published by Queen's Printer, 1900, Volume 2 ?. p. 109

• Revised statutes of Nova Scotia, 1954: being a consolidation and revision of the public general statutes of the province, printed and published pursuant to chapter 9 of the Acts of 1951, the Statute revision act, 1951, Volume 4, ... MORE  - Sydney Lawn Tennis Club, Act to incorporate [year] 1893 [Cap = chapter] 212

•  The fourth annual Maritime Provinces lawn tennis tournament was held on the St. John (A.A.) Club grounds on the 22d, 23d, and 24th of August [1893] ... (Joseph T. Whittelsey, editor, Wright and Ditson Official 1894 Lawn Tennis Guide (Boston: Wright and Ditson, 1894),  pp. 140-141). - http://www.archive.org/stream/wrightditsonoff17unkngoog#page/n167/mode/1up 

Postcard Dated 1925 - But The Card Is Earlier

Beaton Institute, Cape Breton University: Towns & Villages: Sydney: 77-167-301

http://www.cbrl.ca/mclennans/business.html

INTERESTING NEW GLASGOW NOTE:

1888

New Glasgow Athletic Association

• In 1888, 2 tennis courts were marked off on the grounds of the N.G.A.A.A.

Eastern Chronicle, July 26, 1888, Volume 47, No. 30, Page 2

https://novascotia.ca/archives/newspapers/archives.asp?ID=8219&Page=201820023&Language=

1894

Rev. Hugh McLeod (1803-1894)

•  Rev Hugh McLeod ... While ministering in Sydney, he became an extensive landowner and entrepreneur; and in his will he dealt specifically with the contents of his luxurious "Sherwood House" his office house, farm implements, carriages, cattle, horses, his Mira Bay coal properties, and an insurance policy for £500 ...[ Laurie C. C. Stanley, The Well-watered Garden: The Presbyterian Church in Cape Breton, 1798-1860 (Cape Breton University Press, 1983),  p. 126.

  After living on the Mira River for several year, he purchased [by 1854] the "Sherwood" property in Sydney  from the late Edmund Dodd, Esq, and moved into the town. He spent the rest of his life on this property ... He passed to his rest and reward on Friday, Jan. the 23rd, 1894 in the 91st year of his age ... [John Murray, History of the Presbyterian Church in Cape Breton  (Truro, N.S. : Printed by News Publishing Co., 1921), p. 70 - http://www.archive.org/stream/thehistoryofthep00murruoft/thehistoryofthep00murruoft_djvu.txt [Hugh McLeod D. D.

  DAVID MACKEEN / R. H. BROWN [RICHARD H BROWN]
   

• David MacKeen (who later became Lieutenant Governor) was General Manager of the Dominion Coal Company; and was co-host with R.E. Browne [R. H. Brown] of the General Mining Association to the major mining convention held at Sydney in early July, 1894. The occasion was an annual joint meeting of the Quebec Province and Nova Scotia mining societies; and the convention's drawing cards were the new Sydney Hotel, local tennis and cricket clubs and a tour of the year old Dominion Coal Company incorporated in Nova Scotia in 1893 ....

• - http://hartlen.org/john/nova_scotia_history/sydney-hotel.html - The Sydney Hotel: "More Paint Than On All The Rest Of The Town" By John Hartlen

   

p. 136

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p. 145

...the officers of the Sydney Club ["professional men's club" - Cricket - Barrack Park later Victoria Park?] and the Tennis Court ..,. pp. 136, 145.

• http://eco.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.8_04198_1/10#10
  r=0&s=1&_suid=1360099549626006453555544611672 - The Canadian mining review : [Vol. 13, no. 8 (Aug. 1894)] , pp. 131-167

• The Summer School of Mining of 1894.

THE Summer School of Mining, under the direction of Prof. R. H. Richards, Prof. H. O. Hofman and Mr. J. P Lyon, was held last year in Nova Scotia. The school consisted of the following members: W. P. Anderson, A. S. Coburn, B. Hodge, E. C. Jacobs, R. H. Lewis, C. E. Locke, G. Moore, C. S. Newhall, M. A. Sears, B. Stoughton, and C. R. Walker.

The party sailed from Boston for Halifax on June 2d, and were received upon landing by Mr. J. E. Hardman, '77, Course III., who, as Manager of the Waverly Gold Mining and Milling Company, gave them the freedom of · the mine for a week for the purposes of studying the practical part of mining, and making experimental tests.

Sydney, Cape Breton, was next visited, the party crossing the straits of Canso and passing along the shores of the Bras Dor lakes. While at Sydney the party, as the guests of Mr. David McKeen, General Manager of the Dominion Coal Company, were given an opportunity to study coal mining and construct a geological map.

Some interesting observations were also made in tracing the supposed course of a coal seam across a promontory.

The party further enjoyed, at Sydney, the hospitality of Mr. Brown, Manager of the Victoria mine, and under his guidance, examined the machinery and methods employed by him.

At different times during the session of the school the party was divided into squads which alternated in performing work above and below ground. Each squad had ten days of field work and the camp life in connection with this was the most enjoyable feature of the trip.

At Cow Bay, through the courtesy of Manager Evans, under the direction of Professor Hofman, the students explored the mines of the Cow Bay Colliery Company and made a survey of a part under the direction of Mr. J. P. Lyon. At the end of three weeks the squads again united at Sydney where the " glorious Fourth" was duly celebrated. Upon the invitation of Colonel Granger and Captain Gragg, the Coxheath Copper Mine was visited, and a delightful Fourth of July dinner, tendered by the Colonel, was partaken of by the Miners.

Mr. R. H. Brown, General Manager of the General Mining Association Coal Mines, entertained the party on the following day, and, under his direction, a tour of inspection of the mines at North Sydney was made.

On the sixth of July, the party started for home and thus ended the Summer School of Mining for 1894. It will long be remembered by the members as one of the pleasanest experiences of their Institute life and too much cannot be said in praise of the gentlemen, who planned and so successfully carried out the trip in every detail ...

• http://tech.mit.edu/V14/PDF/N27.pdf - The Tech, Boston, Massachusetts, April 18, 1895, Volume XIV, Number 27, pp. 273-274.

• NOTE: R. H. Richards = Robert Hallowell Richards, 1844-1945
  NOTE: The summer school also included Cape Breton in 1902: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT AND TREASURER DECEMBER 10, 1902, BOSTON: GEO. H. ELLIS Co., PRINTERS. 272 CONGRESS STREET 1902, p. 35 - The summer school of Mining Engineering was held in Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, thus affording a good opportunity to see the mining of gold and of coal, as well as the coking of coal, the smelting of iron, and the making of steel in open. hearth furnaces ... The instructing staff consisted of Professor Richards, Mr. Locke and Mr. Sawyer, and nineteen students took advantage of the opportunity ... http://dome.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.3/62054/AC0597_001902.pdf

•  NOTE RE 1881: GENERAL MINING ASSOCIATION (limited.) ... R. H. BROWN, Resident Manager, North Sydney, ...

• Prize list and general regulations of the third annual agricultural, industrial, and mechanical exhibition of the Dominion of Canada [microform] : to be held in the Royal Exhibition building and grounds (between Tower Road and Robie Street), City of Halifax, N.S., from 21st September to 30th September, 1881 (1881) - http://archive.org/details/cihm_05843

• NOTE: Richard Brown family fonds; Richard Brown (1805-1882) came to Cape Breton in 1825 to report on the coal mines; became manager at Sydney Mines and remained until succeeded by his son in 1864. Fonds includes extensive information on coal mining on Cape Breton Island (mainly Sydney Mines) and Pictou County. NSARM MG 1, Vols. 151-159A.

• R.H. Brown fonds; Richard Henry Brown (1837-1920) succeeded his father as general manger at Sydney Mines, retired 1901. Fonds includes treatises on coal-mining and stone masonry by his father Richard Brown. NSARM MG 1, Vol. 1695.

• http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/meninmines/resources.asp

• NOTE: Richard Henry Brown was born in Sydney, N.S., the eldest son of Richard and Sibella (Barrington) Brown. He studied at Harvard University from 1860 to 1861 and returned to Sydney where he succeeded his father as general manager of Sydney Mines, retiring in 1901. He was also an amateur photographer and artist. Brown married Barbara Davison (1842-1898) in Pictou, 1864. Their five children were all born at Sydney Mines: twins Margaret (1866-1961) and Elizabeth (1866-1951), Annie (1869-1918), Richard (1872-1928), and Lillian (1878-1967).

• http://webarchives.nsarm.gov.ns.ca/webcat/request/Action?SystemName=Nova+Scotia+Archives&UserName
  =wa+public&Password=
  &UniqueID=6000_20067_20067_44&TemplateProcessID
  =6000_20067_20067&PromptID=&ParamID=&TemplateProcessID=6000_20067_20067&PromptID=&ParamID=&CMD_(DetailRequest)[0]=&ProcessID=6000_20062(0)&KeyValues=KEY_1682

• NOTE: Sydney Mines, C. B, Mayor. - R. H. Brown
  Councillors.—John Haggerty, Wm. Burchell. Robert Way, Lewis W. Johnstone, M D., Henry Vickers, Thomas Peck
  Clerk -John Carey. Stip. Magistrate - David Hartigan. -

• http://archive.org/details/cihm_29701 - Belcher's farmer's almanack for the province of Nova Scotia, Dominion of Canada for the year of Our Lord 1894 [microform] (1894)

• NOTE: Little Glace Bay ... residence ... David McKeen, M.P., manager of the Dominion Coal Co.,

  • The Sydney Hotel, Sydney, Cape Breton, the premier vacation resort of the north [microform] (1894) - http://archive.org/details/cihm_13956

1896

Tennis

• Maud C. Cooke, Social etiquette, or, Manners and customs of polite society: containing rules of etiquette for all occasions... (London, Ont. : McDermid & Logan, 1896.) Tennis etiquette is described on the following pages:  57 268 269 304 365. See Early Canadian on line at:  http://www.canadiana.org/ECO 

1897

Rev. Hugh McLeod (1803-1894)

• Donald McMillan, In memoriam : sketches of the lives of Rev. Matthew Wilson, A.M., Rev. Alex Farquharson, and Rev. Hugh McLeod, D.D., with reports of their funeral services   (Pictou, N.S. : Advocate Book and Job Print, 1897).

Hugh Ross (1870-1938)

• Commisioners for Giving Relief to Insolvent Debtors and for the Taking Affidavits to Hold Bail 1897 pg. 163-166 Cape Breton County: Sydney: ... Hugh Ross  [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/NS-CAPE-BRETON/2000-12/0975688130 ]

Sporting Goods

McAlpine's Nova Scotia Directory, 1890-97. Containing an Alphabetical Directory of Each County, and a Separate Directory of the Cities and Provincial Towns. Also a Directory of the Magdalen Islands and St. Pierre de Miquelon. A Business Directory of All Advertisers and Subscribers, with an Appendix of Useful Information and Indexes. -- Halifax : D. McAlpine & Son, [1890?]. 1502 p. -- Printed by Nova Scotia Printing ,  Sydney, Cape Breton County, p. 1190

1899

History

• Construction of the steel plant started on July 1, 1899 with a sod turning ceremony – and two years later, in December of 1901, the plant was producing steel.

http://www.sysco.ns.ca/esa4_0.htm

•  Prior to the year 1899, Sydney claimed a population of but three or four thousand. But in that year the Dominion Iron and Steel Company decided t o establish their plant here. Then followed the “boom” . The old peaceful town was changed into a veritable beehive of industry. Shacks and huts went up as if by magic ; for crowds of laborers, skilled and unskilled, were required, and these workmen must have places of abode. In three years the Dominion Iron and Steel Co. were exporting their product. [ http://vre.upei.ca/uasc/fedora/repository/vre:rw-batch2-1150/OBJ/07__The_Pittsburg_of_Canada__p_30-32.pdf - "The Pittsburg of Canada" in St. Dunstan's Red And White, St. Dunstan's College, Volume 1, No.2, March, 1910, p. 30.

Charles B. Ross (1875 or 1877 or c. 1879-February 28, 1935)

• Rockaway Lodge No. 23, Sydney N.S. (Cape Breton.) Instituted July 26, 1899 ... July 26, 1900 ... H. H. Sutherland, F. A. Dunbrack, C..H. Woodill, and Charles B. Ross, were among the original petitioners, and were afterwards admitted ... [William D Kennedy, Pythian History , Part 2, 1904, p. 757 - http://books.google.com/books?id=KtuoyPfNViwC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0 ] - [The Fraternal Order of Knights of Pythias and its members are dedicated to the cause of universal peace. Pythians are pledged to the promotion of understanding among men of good will as the surest means of attaining Universal Peace.  The Fraternal Order of Knights of Pythias was a great international fraternity which was founded in Washington, DC, February 19, 1864, by Justus H. Rathbone  - http://www.pythias.org/about/about.html ]

1900

Sydney Lawn Tennis Club

• The Revised Statutes of Nova Scotia, 1900: Volume 2, Prepared and Published Under the ...  71 Sydney Lawn Tennis Club; to incorporate 1893 212 ...

ca. 1900

Original             Larger

1901

• Ist issue, Continuation of Morning Post [Sydney Daily Post, March 28, 1901]

North Sydney Tennis Club

• The North Sydney Tennis Club is mentioned [Sydney Daily Post, April 30, 1901]

Rev. Hugh McLeod (1803-1894) and Donald McDonald

• Property transfer "Heirs of Hugh McLeod to Donald McDonald, $1" [Sydney Daily Post, May 11, 1901]

Donald McDonald

• [Note: According to McAlpine's Nova Scotia Directory, 1890-97, p. 1193, there were three Donald McDonalds in Sydney at the time: carpenter, home Townsend; carpenter, home, Wentworth Creek; and general dealer, business and home North Esplanade AND according to the 1901 Census: carpenter, age 66 - http://automatedgenealogy.com/census/ViewFrame.jsp?id=22133&size=large&highlight=6 (Sydney (Town/Ville) Z-2 Page 11]; blind, age 61 - http://automatedgenealogy.com/census/ViewFrame.jsp?id=22221&size=large&highlight=50 (Z-4 Page 29); ;teamster, 19 - http://automatedgenealogy.com/census/ViewFrame.jsp?id=22256&size=large&highlight=41 (Z-5 Page 18) However note: There is also a Donald M McDonald Family that included a Donald A McDonald. Donald M, age 66, was a carpenter and his son was aged 21 was a pipe fitter - http://automatedgenealogy.com/census/ViewFrame.jsp?id=22233&size=large&highlight=18 (Z-4 Page 41) AND Donald J McDonald, age 18, was a clerk - http://automatedgenealogy.com/census/ViewFrame.jsp?id=22235&size=large&highlight=41 (Z-4 Page 43). A remote possibility is that this was the Rev. Donald McDonald (July 21, 1855; Attended Sydney Academy,; Presbyterian College, Halifax, graduate, 1887 - John Murray, History of the Presbyterian Church in Cape Breton  (Truro, N.S. : Printed by News Publishing Co., 1921), pp. 88-89. http://www.archive.org/stream/thehistoryofthep00murruoft/thehistoryofthep00murruoft_djvu.txt ]

Howard S. Ross (1872-post 1926)

• "A meeting of those interested in Lawn Tennis and in carrying on the old club will be held in Mr. Howard Ross's [Howard S. Ross] office (Ross Block), on Friday evening May 31, at 7:30" [Sydney Daily Post, May 30, 1901]

[Ross Block]

The Canadian Architect and Builder, Volume 14, No. 158, February, 1901

[http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/cab/ ]

Hugh Ross (1870-1938) and Howard S. Ross (1872-post 1926)

• Ross & Ross Barristers, Solicitors and Notaires, money to loan, Offices 5, 6 and 7, Ross Block  - Hugh Ross, Lt. B; Howard S. Ross. B.A., Lt. B [Sydney Daily Post, June 1, 1901]

Sydney Lawn Tennis Club and Howard S. Ross (1872-post 1926)

• "A meeting of the Sydney Lawn Tennis Club will be held in Mr. Howard Ross' [Howard S. Ross] Office Tuesday evening June 4 at 8' O'clock. All those interested in the promotion of lawn tennis are invited to be present" [Sydney Daily Post, June 4, 1901]

Hugh Ross (1870-1938)

• A Golf match on the Victoria links was held between the bankers and the lawyers. The clergy have challenged the bankers. Hugh Ross represented the lawyers [Sydney Daily Post, July 12, 1901]

Tennis and North Sydney Lawn Tennis Club

• "The Celebrated ~ Good-Year Glove Tennis Shoes (with White Soles) ~ for Ladies and Gentlemen. American make. Sydney Agency, H. H. Sutherland & Co Merchants Bank Block" were advertised [Sydney Daily Post, August 3, 1901]

• Population of Sydney: 2,427 (1891); 9,908 (1901) [Sydney Daily Post, August 22, 1901]

• The North Sydney Lawn Tennis Club will hold their annual ball on November 28th [sic] [Sydney Daily Post, November 7, 1901]

• For the convenience of those wishing to attend the dance given by the North Sydney Tennis Club, this evening, the Ferry-Co. will have a return boat at the conclusion of the dance [Sydney Daily Post, November 21, 1901]

• Tennis Club Annual Ball ... Brilliant Social Event at North Sydney ... The Royal Albert Artistically Decorated - Handsome Costumes Worn ... [Extensive Article follows] ... the floor, which was in excellent condition, was divided off in a novel and striking way into tennis courts, with racquets neatly stretched in the corners ... the programs, which were obtained from Forbes' printing establishment of this town were printed in blue and gold, and suitably decorated with a tennis game on the back ... [numerous names follow] [Sydney Daily Post, November 23, 1901]

James Ross

• T. D. Regehr, "Ross, James, capitalist (b at Cromarty, Scot 1848; d at Montréal 20 Mar 1913). A professional engineer, Ross was associated with the construction of numerous railways and was manager of construction of the mountain division on the main line of the CPR. After the completion of that work he became the leader of a small but very successful consortium of railway contractors that included Herbert Holt, William Mackenzie and Donald Mann. Together they built numerous branch lines on the prairies, in Ontario and Québec, and the CPR's so-called "Short-line" across the state of Maine. When depressed social conditions led to a slowdown in Canadian railway construction work, Ross and his associates undertook the reorganization, electrification and expansion of the street railways in Toronto, Montréal, and subsequently in other cities in Canada, the US, the UK, Mexico, South America and the Caribbean. In 1901 he undertook a major and controversial reorganization of the Dominion Coal Co and the Dominion Iron and Steel Co, both located in northern Cape Breton Island. Subsequent suits between the shareholders and directors of the 2 companies became one of Canada's most protracted and controversial legal business conflicts. Ross was a patron of several art societies and donated substantial sums to various hospitals. He became an avid yachtsman, and his yacht, the Glencairn, won several racing trophies." The Canadian Encyclopedia, 2005, Historica Foundation of Canada

• In 1901, Whitney sold control of Dominion Coal Company to a prominent Montreal capitalist, James Ross, and during this time the Dominion Iron & Steel Company was also delivered to Canadian interests, both controlled by Ross and his associates until 1903, when control of the Steel Company was acquired by J.H. Plummer [James Henry Plummer (1848-1932), Torontonian,  financier, assistant general manager of the Bank of Commerce, D.C.L., President, Dominion Steel Corporation] ‎of Toronto. For the next seven years, these two companies, Dominion Coal Co. and Dominion Steel Co., quarrelled until in 1910, Plummer won and the merger gained control over the Cumberland Railway & Coal Co.[ http://www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625/railways.html  ]

• ... [James Ross] He became the owner of a large block of shares in the coal company, and after the promotion of the Dominion Iron and Steel Company in 1901 he became a director. As it was obvious that the interests of the two concerns would, if steel turned out a success, be very much bound up, Mr. Ross increased his holdings in coal until, in the same year, the Steel Company was launched, his interest became paramount, and he was placed in the position of being able to dictate the policy of the company. Having retired from active participation I [sic in] many of the interests which made his earlier career such a busy one, he determined to give his personal attention to the development of his Cape Breton interests and with that object in view he accepted the office of vice president of the Dominion Coal Company and managing director of the Dominion Iron and Steel Company in 1901. ... It might be interesting to note here that both the small half rater and the large steam yacht were named in memory of the large full-rigged ship Glencairn, which was owned and commanded by his late father, Captain John Ross, of Cromarty. ... Mr. Ross was well known in club circles, holding membership in the Mount Royal Club, St. James Club, Forest and Stream Club, Canada Club, Montreal Hunt Club, Montreal Jockey Club, Montreal Racquet Club and Montreal Curling Club; Rideau Club of Ottawa; Manitoba Club of Winnipeg; Toronto Royal Canadian Yacht and York Clubs of Toronto; Union Club of St. John, New Brunswick; Halifax Club of Halifax, Nova Scotia; New York Yacht and Manhattan Clubs of New York; Royal Cape Breton Yacht Club of Sydney, Nova Scotia; and the Constitutional Club of London, England ...[http://www.rootsweb.com/~qcmtl-w/RossJames.html (JAMES ROSS 1848-1913 From: "Montreal, Pictorial and Biographical" Pub. by The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Montreal, 1914)]

• William Gilles Ross [no relation to James] become  Director of the Dominion Iron and Steel Co. c. this time [http://www.rootsweb.com/~qcmtl-w/RossWilliamG.html   ]

• James Ross was born at Cromarty, Scotland in 1848. He was educated at Inverness Academy in Scotland, followed by studies in engineering in England. His professional career began as a junior engineer on several railway, harbour, and waterworks projects in Great Britain ... [http://www.histori.ca/teachers/lessonPlans/step_hist/ross_text.html  ]
      

• James Leveson Ross headed the syndicate which purchased the Dominion Coal Company from Henry Melville Whitney in 1901. He moved to Sydney with his wife and built a large estate called Dumbroe on King’s Road. [West Side, 76 or 100 King's Road]. The estate included a massive house with a large waterfront tennis court.

  By 1910 he resigned from the Dominion Coal Company to retire and spend more time with his family. He died on September 20, 1913 in Montreal. All of his property was left to his only son, John, or Jack Ross.

  Jack Ross had little interest in life on Cape Breton and his parents had been using Dumbroe as a summer property.  ...

  https://www.saltwire.com/cape-breton/lifestyles/vanessa-childs-rolls-the-ross-hospital-and-the-evolution-of-care-100615086/

Along with homes in the United States, England, Jamaica and Montreal, Ross built his home at 100 Kings Rd. for $30,000 in 1905. It was named Cromarty after his family’s ancestral home in Scotland. The Martin Arms hotel in Sydney is built around that home and one room is preserved to this day and used as the hotel’s dining room. ....

• https://www.pressreader.com/canada/cape-breton-post/20080426/282187941746629

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1901 CENSUS

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/census-1901/index-e.html

Sydney Population

• The census of 1901 gave Sydney's population as 9,909: Charles William Vernon, Cape Breton, Canada, At The Beginning Of The Twentieth Century: A Treatise of Natural Resources and Development Edition, Nation publishing co., 1903, p. 14. 

For the Sydney 1901 census, (Sub Districts Number Z-1, Z-2, Z-3, Z-4, Z-5):
See: http://automatedgenealogy.com/census/DistrictSummary2.jsp?districtId=28

SYDNEY, DISTRICT 28, SUB DISTRICT NUMBER Z-1, MICROFILM T-6448

Image: http://automatedgenealogy.com/census/EnumerationDistrict.jsp?id=1457

Hugh Ross (1870-1938)

Notes for WILLIAM ROSS: Published on Friday, February 4, 1944