born in Dalbeatie, Scotland - emigrated initially to Pennsylvania when he was an infant with his father, step mother and siblings. His mother died shortly after giving birth to him, and his father remarried in the same month that his mother died. He had 9 siblings - 5 from his father's first marriage and 4 - 1/2 siblings from his father's second marriage to Mary Patton. Many of the family settled in in the Orillia/Huntsville Ontario area when they came to Canada. The Tait family was very affluent in the area - owning Shingle Mills among other businesses. He lived in Manitoba for several years - where several of his children were born, but relocated to Vancouver with family, and extended family. He travelled back and forth between Vancouver, BC and the Orillia, Ont are where he had business interests. He and several of his brother's and Uncle's were among other things - what today we would term as "real estate developers."
William Lamont Tait, lumberman and financier, opened Rat Portage Lumber, a shingle and saw mill on False Creek.
Tait's Shaughnessy mansion, Glen Brae, was one of the first homes in North America to have an elevator (his wife was in a wheelchair) it is now Canuck Place. He was the first business person in False Creek to hire East Indians, and people from the False Creek Indian Reserve.
He and is wife had 9 children: The oldest 6 children born in Ontario: James, Edward, Arthur, Albert, Olive, Ethel and the youngest 3 children born in Manitoba: Chester, Melville & Edith Jane
William Lamont Tait, lumberman and financier, opened Rat Portage Lumber, a shingle and saw mill on False Creek.
Tait's Shaughnessy mansion, Glen Brae, was one of the first homes in North America to have an elevator (his wife was in a wheelchair) it is now Canuck Place. He was the first business person in False Creek to hire East Indians, and people from the False Creek Indian Reserve.
He and is wife had 9 children: The oldest 6 children born in Ontario: James, Edward, Arthur, Albert, Olive, Ethel and the youngest 3 children born in Manitoba: Chester, Melville & Edith Jane
born in Dalbeatie, Scotland - emigrated initially to Pennsylvania when he was an infant with his father, step mother and siblings. His mother died shortly after giving birth to him, and his father remarried in the same month that his mother died. He had 9 siblings - 5 from his father's first marriage and 4 - 1/2 siblings from his father's second marriage to Mary Patton. Many of the family settled in in the Orillia/Huntsville Ontario area when they came to Canada. The Tait family was very affluent in the area - owning Shingle Mills among other businesses. He lived in Manitoba for several years - where several of his children were born, but relocated to Vancouver with family, and extended family. He travelled back and forth between Vancouver, BC and the Orillia, Ont are where he had business interests. He and several of his brother's and Uncle's were among other things - what today we would term as "real estate developers."
William Lamont Tait, lumberman and financier, opened Rat Portage Lumber, a shingle and saw mill on False Creek.
Tait's Shaughnessy mansion, Glen Brae, was one of the first homes in North America to have an elevator (his wife was in a wheelchair) it is now Canuck Place. He was the first business person in False Creek to hire East Indians, and people from the False Creek Indian Reserve.
He and is wife had 9 children: The oldest 6 children born in Ontario: James, Edward, Arthur, Albert, Olive, Ethel and the youngest 3 children born in Manitoba: Chester, Melville & Edith Jane
William Lamont Tait, lumberman and financier, opened Rat Portage Lumber, a shingle and saw mill on False Creek.
Tait's Shaughnessy mansion, Glen Brae, was one of the first homes in North America to have an elevator (his wife was in a wheelchair) it is now Canuck Place. He was the first business person in False Creek to hire East Indians, and people from the False Creek Indian Reserve.
He and is wife had 9 children: The oldest 6 children born in Ontario: James, Edward, Arthur, Albert, Olive, Ethel and the youngest 3 children born in Manitoba: Chester, Melville & Edith Jane
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