Sir Robert Gillespie Reid (12 October 1842 – 3 June 1908) was a Scottish railway contractor most famous for building large railway bridges in Canada and...
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province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The company was founded by Sir Robert Gillespie Reid of Scotland, a businessman who had interests in the development...
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(disambiguation) includes Richie Reid Riley Reid (born 1991), American pornographic actress Robert Reid (disambiguation) Robert Gillespie Reid (1842–1908), Scottish...
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Robert Reid (antiquarian) (1773–1865), Scottish businessman and topographer Sir Robert Gillespie Reid (1842–1908), Scottish railway contractor Sir Robert Reid...
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changes in the weather and this ability allowed him to be employed by Robert Gillespie Reid, whose company built the Newfoundland Railway. MacDougall was paid...
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Newfoundland Railway (section Robert G. Reid)
resident and railway engineer/contractor Robert Gillespie Reid agreed to build and operate the line. By 1892, Reid's workers were approaching the halfway...
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John's Light and Power Company which had been formed originally by Robert Gillespie Reid as the St. John's Street Railway Company in 1896. Those assets included...
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after places in Scotland, the native homeland of Sir Robert Gillespie Reid, founder of the Reid Newfoundland Company. The ships were employed as coastal...
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locally-born former professional footballer from the 1960s and 1970s. Sir Robert Gillespie Reid (1842–1908), railway contractor. James Stirton (1833-1917), locally-born...
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of the modern electric grid.[citation needed] In Newfoundland, Robert Gillespie Reid contracted to operate the railways for fifty years from 1898, though...
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