McKechine

Robert McKechnie, a leading business man of Dundas, was born in. Glasgow, Scotland, June 16, 1834, and is a son of Robert McKechnie, senior, who was from Ireland, and Margaret Waters, a native of Scotland. In 1842 the family emigrated to Canada West, and settled at Dundas, where our subject was educated in a school taught by Robert Spence, afterwards Postmaster-General of the Province of Canada. Here young McKechnie learned the pattern makers trade of John Gartshore, of the old Dundas foundry; worked for him several years as a journeyman mechanic after finishing his apprenticeship, and in 1861 started in … Read more