McGill Library
McLennan Library Building3459 rue McTavish
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 0C9
Order, 7 May 1857
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Basil Hall Bell was born in Oldhamstocks, East Lothian, Scotland, in 1809. He arrived in Pictou, Nova Scotia in 1847, where he was a merchant. He was the father of Adam Carr Bell, who was a Canadian politician, and the first mayor of New Glasgow, Nova Scotia.
Order from Basil Bell to James Dawson.