Bartlet, Alexander Letters to the Essex Record and Toronto Globe

Authors

Alexander Bartlet

Files

Description

Alexander Bartlet was born on December 31st 1822 in Forgue, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. In 1841, he emigrated to Canada and settled in Amherstburg, Ontario. He worked as a building contractor with his 2 older brothers, James and William, who had emigrated previously. In 1851, he married Helen Noble and in 1853 they moved to Windsor, Ontario. They had 5 children. He became town clerk in 1858 and then police magistrate in 1878. He died December 22nd 1910.

Letters date from 1863 to the late 1860s.

Publication Date

1868

Rights

Public Domain

City

Windsor, Ontario

Keywords

Bartlet Alexander, Bartlet Family, Windsor (Ontario), Forgue (Scotland), Letters, Essex Record (Newspaper), Toronto Globe (Newspaper)

Disciplines

Public History

Comments

The original is held in the University Archives at the Leddy Library, University of Windsor.

To view online at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/BartletAlexanderLettersFinal

Recommended Citation

Bartlet, Alexander, "Bartlet, Alexander Letters to the Essex Record and Toronto Globe" (1868). SWODA: Windsor & Region Publications. 109.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/swoda-windsor-region/109