1879 - 1934 (54 years)
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Name |
Charles Preston Douglas |
Birth |
15 Mar 1879 |
Shere, Surrey, England |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
1934 |
Toronto, Ontario, York, Canada |
Person ID |
I86128 |
My Genealogy |
Last Modified |
5 Feb 2015 |
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Notes |
- Charles Preston Douglas, who had traveled for Gilbey's in West Africa and the West Indies, represented in Canada Gilbey's Distillery. W & A Gilbey (Canada) Limited was not formed until 1931, the English firm had been by a London-trained man named Thomas G. Fogden.
He married a Canadian girl and had a son Robert S. Douglas who became general sales manager of W & A Gilbey (Canada) Limited .
Known generally as 'CP', it was Charles Douglas who first suggested that a distillery be built in Canada by Gilbey's.
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