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

By 

© 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

INTRODUCTION

The Lawn Tennis Tournament in Toronto. Artist: Patterson, Andrew Dickson, 1854-1930. Date: 03 09 1881.
Canadian Illustrated News. Pagination: vol. XXIV, no. 10, 152. Notes: Drawn by A. Dickson Patterson

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/cin/index-e.html

• These notes are not meant for publication. This page merely serves as place where I can keep my research findings on the Cromarty Tennis Club.. Naturally, not all of these notes may prove useful as some are possible leads which may go no where.

CROMARTY MATTERS

1803

Rev. Hugh McLeod (1803-1894)

• Rev. Hugh McLeod, D.D. was born in the parish of Tongue in Sutherlandshire , in 1803 ... [Charles William Vernon, Cape Breton, Canada, At The Beginning Of The Twentieth Century p. 120]

• Rev. Hugh McLeod, D. D.  ...  Dr. McLeod was born in the parish of Tongue, Sutherlandshire, Scot land, on the 23rd of April, 1803. [John Murray, History of the Presbyterian Church in Cape Breton  (Truro, N.S. : Printed by News Publishing Co., 1921), p. 68 - http://www.archive.org/stream/thehistoryofthep00murruoft/thehistoryofthep00murruoft_djvu.txt ]

John Murray, History of the Presbyterian Church in Cape Breton  (Truro, N.S. : Printed by News Publishing Co., 1921), between pages 70 and 71- http://www.archive.org/stream/thehistoryofthep00murruoft/thehistoryofthep00murruoft_djvu.txt  ]

1850-1860

• In the late 1850’s the game of Real Tennis” or “Royal Tennis” played indoors on a floor of flagstone with tennis balls made of cloth which would rebound off stone or brick walls, was taken outdoors using a vulcanized (process was invented in 1850 by Charles Goodyear) rubber ball  that would bounce on grass.

1851 CENSUS

(Canada East, Canada West,
New Brunswick and Nova Scotia)

The 1851 Census offers a rich source of information about Canada East (Quebec), Canada West (Ontario), New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in the middle of the 19th century

Cape Breton Was Not Included In This Database - Parts of the 1851 Census Did Not Survive

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/archivianet/1851/index-e.html

1854

Rev. Hugh McLeod (1803-1894)

Hugh McLeod, D.D owns Dodd's Sherwood House [Sherwood Estate] by July 4, 1854

Edmund Murray Dodd (1797-1876)

• [Note: Edmund Murray son of the Honorable Justice Dodd. died March 12th 1862 Aged 27 years ...Edmund Murray Dodd (January 9, 1797 – July 27, 1876) was a lawyer, judge and political figure in Nova Scotia. He represented the township of Sydney in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1832 to 1848. ... a lawyer son was shot to death in Sydney by the father of a girl whom he had raped but refused to marry. St. George's Church Cemetery; Dictionary of Canadian Biography - http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=4948 ]

[DODD, EDMUND MURRAY, lawyer, politician, and judge; b. at Sydney, Cape Breton, 9 Jan. 1797, son of Archibald Charles Dodd and Susannah Gibbons; d. at Cow Bay (Port Morien), N.S., 27 July 1876. - Dictionary of Canadian Biography -
http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=4948 ]

Rev. Hugh McLeod (1803-1894) and William MacKenzie McLeod (1854-1932) and Hugh McLeod (1843-1879)

McLEOD, William McKenzie, M.D., J.P. (Cape Breton.)

Third s. of the Rev. Hugh McLeod, D.D., Minister of Sydney and Ex-Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, by Catherine, dau. of the late Rev. Hugh Ross, of Fearn, in Ross-shire, Scotland. B. at Sherwood House, Sydney, C.B., 4 July 1854. Ed. at Sydney Academy, Dalhousie College, Halifax, and at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York. Graduated as Doctor of Medicine at latter institution in March 1875. Unmarried. First returned to Parlt. in Oct. 1879, to fill the vacancy in the representation of Cape Breton Co., N.S., caused by the death of the late member, Hugh McLeod (brother to the present member) A Liberal Conservative, and supporter of the present Administration. —Sherwood, Sydney, Cape Breton, N.S.

Charles Herbert Mackintosh, Canadian Parliamentary companion and annual register (Citizen Print. and Pub. Co., 1881), pp. 184-185

• [William Mackenzie McLeod]  --- B. at Sherwood House, Sydney, CB, 4 July 1854 . Ed . at Sydney Academy

[John Alexander Gemmili, The Canadian Parliamentary Companion (J. Durie & Son., 1883), p. 207

1861

1861 CENSUS

Rev. Hugh McLeod (1803-1894) and William MacKenzie McLeod (1854-1932) and Hugh McLeod (1843-1879)

• In 1861, based on the 1881 census:, the following members of the Rev. Hugh McLeod Family living at home would have achieved the following ages  Hugh Richard (58); Catharine (39); William MacKenzie (6); Annie (3); Catherine (1).  In Diane R. Reid's 1861 census list for Cape Breton - http://www3.sympatico.ca/dr.reid/cbfamilies1861cbc.html - the only Hugh McLeod, as a head of family, appears in both Sydney (page 18) and Mira Ferry (page 32). - Source: National Archives Microfilm M875 - "Head of Household" census, and appears to have been abstracted from the original returns by the enumeration officer."  In 1861, his older son Hugh (18) was likely still at home with the father.

1864

Rev. Hugh McLeod (1803-1894)

•  Church Map of 1864 - Nova Scotia .... Rev. Hugh McLeod DD, Presbyterian Minister ... Sherwood

Between 1850 and 1866, Presbyterian services were held in Little Glace Bay by Rev. Dr. Hugh MacLeod, Minister of Union Presbyterian Church, Mira Ferry; MacLeod had come to Cape Breton in 1849 from the Free Church of Scotland - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Paul's_Presbyterian_Church,_Glace_Bay ] - Harbour Grace, Newfoundland: Rev. Hugh MacLeod, a deputy of the Free Church in Scotland http://hrgrace.ca/history.html

The Presbyterians of Sydney signed a call that went forward to Dr. Hugh MacLeod in 1849. Although few in number, they took steps about that time to organize St. Andrew’s Congregation and to build a church. St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Sydney, was incorporated by an Act of the Provincial Legislature of Nova Scotia in 1849. Messrs. Hugh Munroe, M.P.P.; Donald MacQueen, Barrister; John Ferguson, Merchant; William Turnbull, Merchant; and William Kynoch, were named Trustees. Arrangements were made for the erection of the first church of that denomination on Charlotte St, just north of the Royal Bank of Canada on a lot of land donated by Mr. Murray Dodd. In due course the church was built on a lot of land 40 x 60 feet in 1855 and for 33 years. http://www.bethelpresbyterianchurch.ca/history.htm ]

In 1849 Rev. Hugh MacLeod arrived as a missionary of the free church. He was inducted in august, 1850, as minister of a congregation which included Mira, Sydney, and adjacent places. http://members.tripod.com/~lemac2/index-185.html ]

Sherwood was the name of the house of the Presbyterian minister in Sydney. This has sent many people on wild goose chases, as anyone would think that it must be a place. The manse was called "Sherwood." by George F. Sanborn Jr." - http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/NS-CAPE-BRETON/2002-01/1012536619 ]

[Here is a list of PARISHES in the CAPE BRETON area. All these registers are kept at the BEATON, UCCB  - REV. DR. HUGH MACLEOD, SYDNEY, 1797-1877 - http://searches2.rootsweb.com/th/read/NOVA-SCOTIA/1998-03/0889845857 ]

SHERWOOD

• Reference - Public Archives of Nova Scotia, A. F. Church, A Topographical Map of the County of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and Sydney Town  [Insert], 1864

  • Entire Map (pcx)

  • Entire Map (bmp)

  • Sherwood Crop (bmp)

1864 / 1865

Rev. Hugh McLeod (1803-1894)

•  Rev. Hugh McLeod 1864/1865 - "Sherwood," Fresh Water [Creek] [http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/canadiandirectories  - Hutchinson’s Nova Scotia Directory, for 1864/65]

1868 / 1869

Hugh McLeod (1843-1879) and Rev. Hugh McLeod (1803-1894)

•  Hugh McLeod 1868/1869 -  Hugh McLeod, barrister and Hugh Mcleod, D.D. - [http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/canadiandirectories  - Lovell's Province of Nova Scotia Directory for 1868/1869]

1873

Tennis

• In 1873, the first lawn-tennis ball was made of rubber covered with flannel.

Rev. Hugh McLeod (1803-1894)

•  d. sherwood, sydney, Wednesday morn., 23rd April, 7 o'clock, George McLEOD second s/o Rev. Dr. McLEOD, age 26.- May 5, 1873, The Daily Telegraph (Saint John) -  http://archives.gnb.ca/APPS/NewspaperVitalStats/default.aspx?culture=en-CA - Daniel F Johnson's New Brunswick Newspaper Vital Statistics: Volume 33 Number 1911

1874

Tennis

• ENGLAND - In 1874, Major Walter Clopton Wingfield patented a “New and Improved Court for Playing the Ancient Game of Tennis,” which he called “Sphairistike,” soon abbreviated to “Sticky” which then became “Lawn Tennis,” that included plain rubber balls, 4 pear-shaped racquets, a triangular net and was played on a hourglass-shaped court

• NEW YORK - That year Mary Outerbridge set up a Wingfield court at the Staten Island Cricket and Baseball Club (New York), the first  example of “Lawn Tennis" being played in the Americas

1875 - 1879

William MacKenzie McLeod (1854-1932) and Hugh McLeod (1843-1879)

•  From 1875 until 1879, he[William MacKenzie McLeod] practiced his profession in Sydney, ... and was elected MP to succeed his brother, the late Hugh McLeod, to represent the County of ... ] [---  GET MORE FROM William Cochrane, John Castell Hopkins, W. J. Hunter,  The Canadian Album: Men of Canada : Or, Success by Example, in Religion ...

1875 - 1890

•  Tennis began to develop and spread in Canada soon after its popularization in England. J.F. Helmuth formed a club in Toronto that is believed to be the forerunner of the Toronto Lawn Tennis Club (founded 1875). The first Canadian tournament was held at the Montreal Cricket Club in 1878 and the first indoor tournament took place in Ottawa in 1881. The 1880s saw clubs formed in Winnipeg, Man; London, Ottawa, Niagara, and Kingston, Ont; Fredericton and Saint John, NB; Halifax, NS; Victoria and Vancouver, BC; Regina, Sask; Lethbridge and Edmonton, Alta (1891). In 1890 the Canadian Lawn Tennis Association was formed and the first Canadian championships were held in Toronto.

[http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0007917 ]

1876

Tennis

HALIFAX - First public Lawn Tennis courts (Oldest in Canada) was established in the Halifax Public Gardens

Rev. Hugh McLeod (1803-1894)

•  m. Sherwood House, sydney, C.B., 23rd ult., by the bride's father, assisted by Rev. Matthew Wilson of sydney Mines and Rev. David Drummond of Boularderie, Rev. Alexander FARQUHARSON, St. Andrew's Church, sydney / Barbara McLEOD eldest d/o Rev. Dr. McLEOD - December 9, 1876, Watchman (Saint John Newspaper) - http://archives.gnb.ca/APPS/NewspaperVitalStats/default.aspx?culture=en-CA - Daniel F Johnson's New Brunswick Newspaper Vital Statistics: Volume 38 Number 2397

1878 - 1879

Hugh McLeod (1843-1879)

- Date of Birth: 1843;
- Place of Birth: Logie Easter Parish, Ross-shire, Scotland
- Deceased Date (yyyy.mm.dd): 1879.08.05 (36 years old);
- Lawyer Political Affiliation: Liberal-Conservative (1872.10.12 - )

HOUSE OF COMMONS

http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Parlinfo/Files/Parliamentarian.aspx?Item=0bfc2f4b-40d1-4ab8-9cfc-286c19ad7220&Language=E

1879

Hugh McLeod (1843-1879) and Rev. Hugh McLeod (1803-1894)

McLEOD, HUGH, B.A. (Cape Breton.)

Eld. s. of the Rev. Hugh McLeod, D.D., Minister of Sydney and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, by Catherine, dau. of the late Rev. Hugh Ross, of Fearu, Scotland. B. in the Parish of Logie Easter, Rosshire, Scotland, of which his father was then minister. Came to this country when a child, in 1850, with his father and family. Ed. in Sydney Academy, Truro Normal College and McGill Univ., Montreal, where he graduated B.A. Called to the Bar of N.S. in 1868. First returned to Parlt. at last g.e. A Liberal-Conservative. — Sherwood, Sydney, Cape Breton.

[Source: CANADIAN PARLIAMENTARY COMPANION AND ANNUAL REGISTER, 1880. EDITED RY C. H. MACKINTOSH ESTABLISHED, 1879. OTTAWA ], p. 200

Hugh McLeod (1843-1879) and Rev. Hugh McLeod (1803-1894)

•  MCLEOD, HUGH, M.P , b. In Logie Easter, Ross-shire, Scotland. Mr. McLeod was the eldest son of Rev. Dr. McLeod, Presbyterian Minister of Sydney, C. B., and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Canada, whom he accompanied to this country in 1850 when yet very young. He was educated at the Sydney Academy, at Truro, and McGill, at the latter of which he obtained the degree of B.A. Called to the Bar of N. S., in 1868, he was returned in the Conservative Interest to represent Cape Breton In the House of Commons at the general election of 1878, and d. eleven months afterwards, on 5th Aug.

[Source: The Dominion Annual Register and Review for the Thirteenth Year of the Canadian Union 1879 - Page 414]

William MacKenzie McLeod (1854-1932)

McLEOD, WILLIAM MACKENZIE

- Date of Birth (yyyy.mm.dd): 1854.07.04
- Place of Birth: Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Deceased Date (yyyy.mm.dd): 1932.06.13 (77 years old)
- Occupation: Physician
- Political Affiliation: Liberal-Conservative (1879.10.23 - )

HOUSE OF COMMONS

Constituency	Date of Election (yyyy.mm.dd)	Result
Cape Breton, Nova Scotia	1882.06.20	Defeated
Cape Breton, Nova Scotia	1879.10.23	Elected

http://www2.parl.gc.ca/ParlLigner/Highlighter.aspx?Query=
MCLEOD+WILLIAM+MACKENZIE&lang=e&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww2.parl.gc.ca%
2fParlinfo%2fFiles%2fParliamentarian.aspx%3fItem%3d43a56d30-69b2-4ef2-8541-600a8393e1ca%26Language%3dE 
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Breton_(electoral_district)

William MacKenzie McLeod (1854-1932) and Hugh McLeod (1843-1879)

William Mackenzie McLeod (July 4, 1854 – June 13, 1932) was a Canadian physician and politician.

Born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, McLeod was educated at Sydney Academy and Dalhousie University. He took his medical course in New York City at Bellevue Hospital Medical College graduating in 1875. In 1889 and 1890 he also took special courses in the diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat at New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital. From 1875 until 1879, he practiced his profession in Sydney, when he entered the political field and was elected to the Canadian House of Commons succeeding his brother, Hugh McLeod, to represent the riding of Cape Breton. A Liberal-Conservative, he was defeated in 1882. In 1883, he was appointed Medical Superintendent of Quarantine at Sydney. In 1886, he organized the Sydney Battery of Field Artillery (Canadian Militia), of which he was the Major in command.

He was president of the Cape Breton Medical Society, and a member of the Nova Scotia Medical Society. In religion he was a Presbyterian.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Mackenzie_McLeod

William MacKenzie McLeod (1854-1932)

Hugh McLeod (1843-1879) and Rev. Hugh McLeod (1803-1894)

1880

William MacKenzie McLeod (1854-1932) and Rev. Hugh McLeod (1803-1894) and Hugh McLeod (1843-1879)

McLEOD, WILLIAM McKENZIE, M.D., J. P. (Cape Breton.)

Third S. of the Rev. Hugh McLeod, D.D., Minister of Sydney and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, by Catherine, dau. of the late Rev. Hugh Ross, of Fearn, in Rosshire, Scotland. B. at Sherwood House, Sydney, C.B., 4 July 1854. Ed. at Sydney Academy, Dalhousie College, Halifax, and at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York. Graduated as Doctor of Medicine at latter institution in March 1875. Unmarried. First returned to Parlt. in Oct. 1879 to fill the vacancy in the representation of Cape Breton Co., N.S., caused by the death of the late member, Hugh McLeod, (brother to the present member). A Liberal-Conservative and supporter of the present Administration - Sherwood, Sydney, Cape Breton, N.S.

[Source: C. H. Mackintosh, editor, Canadian Parliamentary Companion and Annual Register,  (Ottawa, 1880), p. 207]

1881

The Lawn Tennis Tournament in Toronto. Artist: Patterson, Andrew Dickson, 1854-1930. Date: 03 09 1881.
Canadian Illustrated News. Pagination: vol. XXIV, no. 10, 152. Notes: Drawn by A. Dickson Patterson

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/cin/index-e.html

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Rev. Hugh McLeod (1803-1894)

• page 162, #108 Thomas W. Publicner (?), 25, barber res. Sydney, birth Dartmouth parents James & Elizabeth, painter Flora Buchanan, 22 res. Sydney, birth Sydney parents William & Margaret, farmer Aug. 9, 1881, Sherwood by license, Presbyterian Rev. Hugh McLeod, D.D. witnesses: Thomas Harold, Annie C. Inuggah (?)

• page 185, #62 Daniel Buchanan, 40, farmer res. Grand Lake, birth St. Ann's parents Murdoch & Christian, farmer Effie McKinnon, 26 res. Moire, birth Moire parents Donald & Janet, farmer Sept. 16, 1884, Sherwood by banns, Presbyterian Rev. Hugh McLeod witnesses: Sandy McKinnon, Jno McPherson

• http://www3.sympatico.ca/dr.reid/Sept2001MarriageCB.htm

1881 CENSUS

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/census-1881/001049-100.01-e.php

Rev. Hugh McLeod (1803-1894)

Catharine McLeod

William McLeod [William MacKenzie McLeod] - (1854-1932)

Annie McLeod

Catharine McLeod

John Knot McLeod [[J. K. McLeod (1863 or 1864-)]]

Thomas C McLeod

Depey McKay

Name: McKay, Depey

Sex: F

Age: 40

Place of Birth: Scotland

Religion: Can Presby

Ethnic Origin: Scotch

Daniel Ferguson

1877-1882

Tennis

• ENGLAND - The modem game of lawn tennis, using a rectangular court and a set of rules that are essentially the game we know today, was finally and firmly established with the first Wimbledon Championships in 1877 and the evolved specifications of 1882

1877

Tennis

• HALIFAX - "Among the excellent houses of entertainment of the public is the popular Waverley Hotel [Completed  as a house in 1866; renovated as a hotel in 1876] ...the Misses Romans thoroughly understand management of an establishment of this kind. The building is large, three storey with a frontage of 150 feet...the grounds are beautifully and tastefully laid out and contain five lawn tennis and croquet lawns...a staff of courteous assistants ever at hand...accommodation for one hundred guests...this popular house is certainly one of the best in the City."  [ Our Dominion, 1887]
   

•  LAWN TENNIS, a modified form of the old game of Tennis (q. v.), has recently become a popular pastime alike for ladies and gentlemen. The ground on which it is played is a strip of turf (sometimes asphalt), 78 feet in length by 30 in width at the extremities. Across the center extends a net 5 feet high, stretched from poles 24 feet asunder. Lines are drawn marking the boundaries, and dividing each of the portions of ground separated by the net lengthwise into a right court and a left court. Any number of players may join; but the best game is played by two or four persons. The player who begins stands just on the back boundary of the right court on his side, and must strike the ball with his racket so that it shall fall over the net into the nearer part of the right court diagonally opposite him. His opponent there is bound to strike back the ball after the first rebound. It is then returned again by the first player, either before it touches the ground ('volleyed ') or after the first rebound; and the first player continues to play till he fails to return the ball, sends it without the boundaries, or commits some of the other ' faults' recognized by the rules; when his opponent takes his turn. - Henry A. Powell , Chambers's Encyclopaedia: a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people ..., Volume 5‎, (New York: Collier, 1887), p. 72

1885

Tennis

• LAWN-TENNIS TOURNAMENT, MARITIME PROVINCES  — The St. John (N.B.) Lawn-Tennis Club has seen but two seasons, yet it now has a membership approaching seventy-five. The second tournament under its auspices was held September 15, 16, 17 [1885]. Although competition was open to all clubs of the Maritime Provinces, the players were chiefly from Halifax and St. John ...

• OUTING: AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF RECREATION, VOLUME V11, October, 1885 - March, 1886 (New York: The Outing Publishing Company, Limited, [1886]), December, 1885, No.3, p. 358 - http://books.google.ca/
  books?id=5h0uAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA358&dq=Maritime+Provinces+lawn+tennis+
  tournament&hl=en&ei=sDVTIHcF8Kt8AbN79zbAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=
  result&resnum=2&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=
  Maritime%20Provinces%20lawn%20tennis%20tournament&f=false

1889

Tennis

• CHARLOTTETOWN - The Charlottetown Lawn Tennis Club adopted its constitution and elected its first president on 14 May 1889. This original constitution had three categories of members, active (all male players), associate lady players who could play but had no say in the management of the club, and honorary members. This would undergo changes several times over the years. Before the end of the month two other clubs, the Micmac Tennis Club and the Fitzroy Tennis Club, had amalgamated with the Charlottetown Club. The club very quickly got down to electing new members, amending the constitution, and planning dances, social events, and entertainments to bring in money to finance the care and improvement of the courts and the new club house which was built in 1891 at the courts in Victoria Park. Much time was spent in the arrangement of tournaments both locally and in affiliation with Maritime and Canadian tennis associations. From 1912 to 1915 the courts were turned into clay courts and in 1957 discussions were underway for asphalt surfaces. [ http://www.archivescanada.ca/english/search/  - Public Archives and Records Office of Prince Edward Island]

1890

Tennis

•  In 1890 the Canadian Lawn Tennis Association was founded. [Encyclopedia Canadiana‎, 1975]

•  In 1890 the first annual Maritime Provinces lawn tennis tournament was held, grounds of the Truro Lawn Tennis Club, August 5 and 7.

Wright & Ditson officially adopted lawn tennis guide, 1891, pp. 202-203 - Google Books

1890

http://www.national.gallery.ca/sva/ns/cap_01/pg_11e.htm

1890 - 1897 [1890-1894]

Rev. Hugh McLeod (1803-1894)

• Reverend Hugh McLeod, presbyterian, h Great George -------
  [http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/canadiandirectories/001075-119.01-e.php?&d_id_nbr=5841&page_id_nbr=5518&interval=20&&type=1&&PHPSESSID=eeqs2c0jdmj9ujjj3q12k9vv21  ]
  - McAlpine's Nova Scotia Directory, 1890-97

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

• Howard S. Ross and Hugh Ross are not mentioned in Sydney in McAlpine's Nova Scotia Directory, 1890-97  --------  [http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/canadiandirectories/001075-119.01-e.php?&d_id_nbr=5841&page_id_nbr=5518&interval=20&&type=1&&PHPSESSID=eeqs2c0jdmj9ujjj3q12k9vv21  ]

1891 Census

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/census-1891/001081-100.01-e.php?PHPSESSID=p3p08bo6plr2og7987t6l0i7t0

Howard S. Ross (1872-post 1926) and Charles B. Ross (1875 or 1877 or c. 1879-February 28, 1935)

Name: Ross, Howard S.

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/census-1891/001081-119.03-e.php?&interval=20&pdf=1&image=30953_148112-00108&person_id_nbr=623386&&PHPSESSID=p3p08bo6plr2og7987t6l0i7t0 

[Note: Charles B. Ross (1875 or 1877 or c. 1879-February 28, 1935) died in  Glace Bay, Nova Ssotia and was buried in  the Hardwood Hill Cemetery, Sydney. He was the son of  A. C. Ross, Sydney. - Cape Breton Post, March 1, 1935]

Hugh Ross (1870-1938)

1891

•  There is capital lawn-tennis and foot-ball playing in Charlottetown, where was held the first tournament of the Maritime Provinces Lawn-Tennis Association ...

Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts, The Canadian Guide-Book, The Tourist's and Sportsman's Guide to Eastern Canada and Newfoundland ... (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1891), p. 196 (Tennis played in Fredericton, p. 149), (Tennis played in Pictou, p. 205), (Tennis played in Halifax, p. 225), and (Tennis played in Fredericton, p. 249).

1892

MARITIME PROVINCES LAWN TENNIS TOURNAMENT - 1892

AUGUST 9-11

St. John Daily Sun, July 12, 1892, p. 8 - Google Books

Halifax, August 9

No one from Cape Breton participated in this tournament

St. John Daily Sun, August 10, 1892, p. 8 - Google Books

See also: St. John Daily Sun - Aug 11, 1892, p. 5; St. John Daily Sun - Aug 12, 1892, p. 8; St. John Daily Sun - Aug 15, 1892, p. 8