A Cyclopædia of Canadian Biography: Brief biographies of persons distinguished in the professional, military and political life, and the commerce and industry of Canada, in the twentieth century
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A Cyclopædia of Canadian Biography: Brief biographies of persons distinguished in the professional, military and political life, and the commerce and industry of Canada, in the twentieth century
Canada -- Biography
=Gillespie, Professor Peter, M.Sc., C.E.= (Toronto, Ont.), was born at
Grafton, Ont., April 17, 1873, the son of Peter Gillespie, proprietor of
the Vernonville Flour Mills, who died in 1873, and his wife, Eliza
Hossack, a native of Cromarty, Scotland, who still survives. Prof.
Gillespie was educated at the Cobourg Collegiate Institute, the
University of Toronto and at McGill University, Montreal. His academic
connection with the University of Toronto began in 1904, when he became
Demonstrator in Applied Mechanics in the School of Practical Science,
now the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering. Subsequently he
became Lecturer and, in 1911, Associate Professor in the same
Department, the position which he at present occupies. Since 1908 he has
been a member of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, now the
Engineering Institute of Canada, is at present a Councillor thereof and
Chairman of the Toronto Branch. During the years of its active
existence, 1908-1912, he was President of the Canadian Cement and
Concrete Association, an organization devoted to the dissemination of
authentic information concerning the uses of Portland Cement in building
construction. To the transactions of the Canadian Society of Civil
Engineers and to the Technical press generally, Mr. Gillespie is an
occasional contributor. In addition to the duties of his academic
position, he devotes a part of his time to the practice of engineering
and as designer or consultant has been identified with engineering
projects in various parts of Canada. He has of late been actively
engaged in the training of returned soldiers for the Invalided Soldiers’
Commission of Canada. In 1910 he married Mary Hope, daughter of Mr. M.
O. Merritt, U.E.L., of Smithville, Ont., a retired farmer whose forbears
came from Fishkill, Duchess County, New York, at the time of the United
Empire Loyalist migration following the close of the American
Revolutionary War. They have two children, Mary Elizabeth and Robert
George. In religion Mr. Gillespie is a Presbyterian and in politics
inclines toward Liberalism. He resides at 358 Davenport Road.
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