In the 1861 Scottish Census, Ebenezer is seen to be employed as a Tinsmith in Edinburgh, but in 1863 he emigrated to Montreal, Canada, where, in 1865, he married a Margaret Adamson who had been born in Peebles on the 31st of October, 1838 to James Adamson [Quay Porter in Leith] (1794, Stobo-1875, Edinburgh) and Margaret Smeal (1810, Peebles-1869, Leith). However, it is clear that Ebenezer and Margaret had met in Leith prior to her subsequent emigration to Montreal in 1865, as the Adamson family had moved from Peebles to Leith around 1840. Margaret Adamson's grandparents were William Adamson [Farmer] and Jane Baird; and, William Smail (Merchant) and Agnes Wilkie - all four from Peebles.
Ebenezer and Margaret raised their family at a house in Cadieux Street in Montreal. The name of Cadieux Street was changed during the nineteen-thirties, but a house of the type they had in that location still stands at 3460 de Bullion Street. Ebenezer worked for a time with a firm of plumbing wholesalers in Montreal, and then spent forty years in the insurance business.
He served with the Montreal Garrison Artillery for five years and was present with them when the 'Fenian' raid at Trout River, near Huntingdon, Quebec, was repelled in 1870.
He took a keen interest in the Caledonian Society of Montreal, and his recital of Rabbie Burns' "Tam O' Shanter" at a family Christmas party, when he was eighty-eight, is remembered as an outstanding occasion.
He also enjoyed writing poetry, and some of these efforts appeared in the Montreal press from time to time. Then, later, a collection from his verses, "Ramblings in Rhymeland", was published in 1918 to mark his upcoming eighty-first birthday in 1919. It is a small volume of a bit more than one hundred pages of unpretentious poems and song lyrics; and it also contains four photographs, including one of himself and a grand-daughter, Molly.
Ebenezer and Margaret raised their family at a house in Cadieux Street in Montreal. The name of Cadieux Street was changed during the nineteen-thirties, but a house of the type they had in that location still stands at 3460 de Bullion Street. Ebenezer worked for a time with a firm of plumbing wholesalers in Montreal, and then spent forty years in the insurance business.
He served with the Montreal Garrison Artillery for five years and was present with them when the 'Fenian' raid at Trout River, near Huntingdon, Quebec, was repelled in 1870.
He took a keen interest in the Caledonian Society of Montreal, and his recital of Rabbie Burns' "Tam O' Shanter" at a family Christmas party, when he was eighty-eight, is remembered as an outstanding occasion.
He also enjoyed writing poetry, and some of these efforts appeared in the Montreal press from time to time. Then, later, a collection from his verses, "Ramblings in Rhymeland", was published in 1918 to mark his upcoming eighty-first birthday in 1919. It is a small volume of a bit more than one hundred pages of unpretentious poems and song lyrics; and it also contains four photographs, including one of himself and a grand-daughter, Molly.
In the 1861 Scottish Census, Ebenezer is seen to be employed as a Tinsmith in Edinburgh, but in 1863 he emigrated to Montreal, Canada, where, in 1865, he married a Margaret Adamson who had been born in Peebles on the 31st of October, 1838 to James Adamson [Quay Porter in Leith] (1794, Stobo-1875, Edinburgh) and Margaret Smeal (1810, Peebles-1869, Leith). However, it is clear that Ebenezer and Margaret had met in Leith prior to her subsequent emigration to Montreal in 1865, as the Adamson family had moved from Peebles to Leith around 1840. Margaret Adamson's grandparents were William Adamson [Farmer] and Jane Baird; and, William Smail (Merchant) and Agnes Wilkie - all four from Peebles.
Ebenezer and Margaret raised their family at a house in Cadieux Street in Montreal. The name of Cadieux Street was changed during the nineteen-thirties, but a house of the type they had in that location still stands at 3460 de Bullion Street. Ebenezer worked for a time with a firm of plumbing wholesalers in Montreal, and then spent forty years in the insurance business.
He served with the Montreal Garrison Artillery for five years and was present with them when the 'Fenian' raid at Trout River, near Huntingdon, Quebec, was repelled in 1870.
He took a keen interest in the Caledonian Society of Montreal, and his recital of Rabbie Burns' "Tam O' Shanter" at a family Christmas party, when he was eighty-eight, is remembered as an outstanding occasion.
He also enjoyed writing poetry, and some of these efforts appeared in the Montreal press from time to time. Then, later, a collection from his verses, "Ramblings in Rhymeland", was published in 1918 to mark his upcoming eighty-first birthday in 1919. It is a small volume of a bit more than one hundred pages of unpretentious poems and song lyrics; and it also contains four photographs, including one of himself and a grand-daughter, Molly.
Ebenezer and Margaret raised their family at a house in Cadieux Street in Montreal. The name of Cadieux Street was changed during the nineteen-thirties, but a house of the type they had in that location still stands at 3460 de Bullion Street. Ebenezer worked for a time with a firm of plumbing wholesalers in Montreal, and then spent forty years in the insurance business.
He served with the Montreal Garrison Artillery for five years and was present with them when the 'Fenian' raid at Trout River, near Huntingdon, Quebec, was repelled in 1870.
He took a keen interest in the Caledonian Society of Montreal, and his recital of Rabbie Burns' "Tam O' Shanter" at a family Christmas party, when he was eighty-eight, is remembered as an outstanding occasion.
He also enjoyed writing poetry, and some of these efforts appeared in the Montreal press from time to time. Then, later, a collection from his verses, "Ramblings in Rhymeland", was published in 1918 to mark his upcoming eighty-first birthday in 1919. It is a small volume of a bit more than one hundred pages of unpretentious poems and song lyrics; and it also contains four photographs, including one of himself and a grand-daughter, Molly.
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MARGARET ADAMSON / WIFE OF E. BAIN / born OCT 2ND, 1838 DIED JUNE 9, 1914 / EBENEZER BAIN / BORN FEB 28, 1838 DIED OCT 7, 1929
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William Russell 1870 - 1870
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