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11 February 2025

David March © 2014

JOHN R McGILL

John R McGill was born in Ireland in 1889. Census records indicated that he immigrated to Canada in 1913. Although we were unable to conclusively prove his lineage, there is a good chance that he was John Roland McGill who was born in the 1st quarter of 1889 in Belfast, Northern Ireland to John McGill (b 1851) and Maud (b 1851). If these were his parents, his siblings were: Herbert (b 1888), Alexander Gribbon (1890-1952) and Marcella Maud (b 1893). John Sr was a printing press operator.

In 1916 John R was single and living at the YMCA in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He was a linotype operator for the Phoenix newspaper. He continued to live at the YMCA in 1917 and 1918, but was listed as a Printer for the Phoenix in 1917 and a linotype operator for the Daily in 1918 and 1919. In 1919 he was living at #5 Summerfield Building on Broadway. There was also a John R McGill listed in the Saskatoon Henderson Directories from 1920 to 1922 who was living at 315 115 3rd Ave South. In 1920 no occupation was listed and in the later years he was a druggist at Westside Drug Co.

John may have also lived in Rawley, California from 1930 to 1935 and been in a tuberculosis hospital in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1940. That John R McGill was also a printer for a newspaper with the same vital statistics.

Because the change in profession seems a bit unlikely we are not positive that the man in the later Saskatoon records is the same one who was working for newspapers in the earlier records. However, census records indicated that both men had the same birth year, place of birth and immigration date and they were never listed in the same Henderson Directories so that is good support that they were the same person.

This family tree can be found on Ancestry under the title 3rd Ave McGill Tree.