Register entry 161 - Adolphe Boissevain
Visited the Bell Farm on April 6, 1885 - Adolphe Boissevain (1843-1921) was the head of the Dutch banking firm, Boissevain and Co, which partly financed the Canadian Pacific Railway construction in the 1880s and introduced the sale of CPR shares into Europe. Boissevain's land company had considerable holdings in the North-West. Boissevain, Manitoba is named after him.
(Part of a party of financiers who visited the Bell Farm on April 6, 1885 including: Adolphe Boissevain, George Harris, John Tupper, Gerrit Vis, and Daniel Boissevain.)
SOURCES:
"Manitoba Daily Free Press", April 6, 1885: "A party of Dutch capitalists consisting of Messrs. Boissevain of Amsterdam,President of the Netherlands Land Co., W. Vis, J.C. Jolles, St Paul, John Tupper, New York, and W.C. Harris, Boston arrived in the city on Friday night in a special car. They left for the west yesterday morning to examine the lands of the company along the CPR. Mr Jolles is well known in the city and his many friends were pleased to see his smiling face once more."
"Manitoba Daily Free Press" January 12, 1885 - news article refers to an impromptu dinner on the eve of "Is. C. Jolles" departure to "reside in St. Paul".
http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1511/3.html
http://archive.org/stream/mywindowsonstree00mavouoft#page/314/mode/2up
http://archive.org/stream/vanhorneletterb03canagoog#page/n16/mode/2up
http://archive.org/stream/lifeandworksirw00vauggoog#page/n268/mode/2up pg 241
Photo: Boissevain Family Archives, located in the Municipal Archives of Amsterdam.
RESEARCH BY:
Michelle Cabana, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan