Robie Lewis Reid

1866 - 1945  (78 years)

• Name	Robie Lewis Reid
  Birth	3 Nov 1866	Cornwallis, Kings, NS
  Gender	Male
  Census	1871	Centreville, Kings, NS ; age 4, born NS, living with parents
  Census	1881	Centreville, Kings, NS ; age 14, born NS, farmer's son, living with parents
  Census	1901	New Westminster, New Westminster, BC ; age 34, born 3 Nov 1867 in NS, Lawyer
  Census	1911	Vancouver, Vancouver, BC ; age 44, born Nov 1866 in NS, Barrister
  Census	1921	Vancouver, Vancouver, BC ; age 53, born NS, barrister, Ch of Eng, pareents born NS/NS
  Death	6 Mar 1945	Vancouver, BC
  Person ID	I1629	Family Tree | Descendants of Francis & Elizabeth (Peck) Perkins
  Last Modified	24 Oct 2014

  
  

  Father	Gideon Eaton Reid,   b. 29 Sep 1831, Nova Scotia d. 7 Apr 1905, Cornwallis, Kings, NS (Age 73 years)
  Mother	Ruth Ann Cogswell,   b. 20 Apr 1834   d. 31 May 1905, Kentville, Kings, NS (Age 71 years)
  Marriage	14 Jan 1857
  Histories		Gideon Reid Bio in "The History of King's County"
  Family ID	F392	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lilly Eliza Ann Mackenzie,   b. 22 Mar 1867, Kincardine, Bruce, ONT d. 18 Oct 1945, Vancouver, BC (Age 78 years)  [1]
  Marriage	17 Oct 1894	New Westminster District, BC
  Histories		Gideon Reid Bio in "The History of King's County"
  Family ID	F794	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Jul 2011

  
  

• Notes

  From "The History of Kings County, Nova Scotia" Robie Lewis, b. November 3, 1866, studied at Pictou Academy, and in 1882 matriculated at Dalhousie College, winning there a Munro bursary of $150 a year for two years. On account of illness he left college in his second year. In 1887-8 he studied law at Dalhousie, and in 1888-9, at the University of Michigan, where he took the degree of LL.B. He then practiced in the state of Washington until 1892, when he removed to British Columbia, to the bar of which province he was admitted in 1893. From 1893 to 1905 he practised at New Westminster, where he was alderman in 1899-1900, and in the latter year unsuccessful candidate for the Local House, his opponent being the Hon. J.C. Brown, Minister of Finance. In 1899 he was appointed Debenture Commissioner for the city, which office he still holds. He 1906 he went to Vancouver, where the next he formed a partnership with Hon. W.J. Bowser, Attorney General of B.C., and D.S. Wallbridge, In 1907 he was appointed a K.C. Oter members of the Reid family fill useful positions in various parts of Canada

  
  

• Sources

  [S116] Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton, The History of King's County, (Salem, Mass: The Salem Press Company, 1910), pg 801-802.