On Oct. 12, 1842, Robert Gillespie Reid was born in Scotland. He had done well for himself in railway contracting when he won a bid to build part of the Newfoundland Railway. Reid started off as being something of an absentee developer of the railway, though he and his family soon enough became entwined in Newfoundland politics, to the point where one of his sons, William, tried to help oust the Robert Bond government. The senior Reid, though, is credited with sticking to a clear path. There's plenty to read, as it were, in this Dictionary of Canadian Biography entry.
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