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W.T. Scott owned land in Hinchinbrooke, Quebec, which he sold to Joseph and Jacob Hall in 1818.
Scott was an English-born merchant and landowner in Quebec.
Scott, Robert Balgarnie Young, 1899-
Biblical scholar R. B. Y. Scott was born in Toronto and received his B.A. (1922), M.A. (1924) and Ph.D. (1928) from the University of Toronto. From 1928 to 1931 he was Professor of Old Testament language and literature at the Union College of British Columbia and from 1931 to 1955 at the United Theological College of Montréal. From 1948 until 1955 he taught Old Testament at McGill and served as Dean of the Faculty of Divinity from 1948 to 1949. From 1955 until 1968 he was Professor of religion at Princeton. Scott was a member of the World Council of Churches (1949-1955) and chairman of the Canadian Ecumenical Study Committee (1951-1955). His publications centre on topics in Old Testament languages and Biblical archeology.
She was a teacher. As Louisa Costigan, she obtained a model school diploma from McGill Normal School in 1860. In 1871, she was one of the founders of the Ladies' Educational Association of Montreal and the same year she organized her own school "The Montreal Seminary". From 1875 to 1887, she served as the first Principal of the High School for Girls in Montreal, Quebec. She helped establish the school and create a good reputation for it in Montreal. She was married to Rev. John Scott (1835-), a Methodist minister.
James Scott was born in 1815 in Gospenth, Northumberland, England. The 1851 England Census lists his occupation as Colliery Viewer. He came to Canada, and was the manager of the Albion Mines in Stellarton, Nova Scotia. He died March 11, 1865, in Nova Scotia.