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Letter, 21 August 1855
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Hew Ramsay was born in 1811 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
He was a bookseller and publisher. He studied Scottish law and worked at the office of a writer to the Signet. In 1832, he moved to Montreal, Quebec. Together with his brother-in-law Andrew Armour, they conducted a bookselling and publishing firm Armour & Ramsay, a large business with branches in Kingston, Hamilton, and Toronto. They published the Montreal Gazette from 1836 to 1843. They were queen’s printers to the Special Council from 1838 to 1840. After their partnership dissolved in 1850, Ramsay conducted the Montreal business until he died in 1857. His son Robert Anstruther Ramsay (1846-1887) was a surgeon.
In 1842, he married Agnes Hunter Armour (1817–1889). He died on February 22, 1857, in Montreal, Quebec.
Letter from Hew Ramsay to John William Dawson, written from Montreal.