Gordon Foxbar Perry
Birth: Nov. 28, 1882
Death: May 22, 1964
Burial: Mount Pleasant Cemetery,Toronto

Marjorie Carlyle Perry Pellatt (wife of Col. Reginald Pellatt)
Birth: May 4, 1888
Death: Apr. 17, 1974

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/CAN-ON T-WELLIN GTON/2002-04/1018816567

RootsWeb: CAN-ONT-WELLINGTON-L [WELLINGTON] James Perry family

RootsWeb_ PERRY – click link to see entire Perry family history in Canada (emigrated from Scotland)

(2) James Black Perry, the 2nd son of the pioneer, James Perry, was born in Fergus in 1845 and is so far as know the oldest living native-born “Fergusites”. He has taken a great interest in Fergus, and some years ago published a book called “Yon Toon 0′ Mine”, which has its setting in Fergus. He also published in 1925, “Happenings in a Happy Life” and autobiography for private circulation among his relatives. He was kindly sent the writer permission to use from it whatever material will be of help in connection with Fergus history.

James Perry Black was early interested in military matters and took a course of training in 1865 under General Lowry of the British Army, at the military school in Toronto, where he qualified the command a battalion in the field. In 1866, he led the Fergus Rifle Company to the front of the Finian Campaign, and was awarded the Queen’s Medal and a grant of land by the government for that service. Mr. Perry was active in business in Orilla, Winnipeg and later years in Toronto where he located in 1884. He was a member of the first Council of the new town of Orilla and also of its first curling club. He was treasurer of the East Simcoe Agricultural Society, and Vice President of the Mechanics‘ Institute. For many years, Mr. Perry has been a life member of the Empire Club of Canada, and in 1916-17 served as President of the Club.

Mr., Perry married Phoebe Dickie, the youngest daughter of the late John
Dickie of Dundas. Their family consists of Effie, who married Dr. Charles
Emerson of Indianapolis; James Roy Perry, B.A., the eldest son, died at the age of 27 years at the beginning of a brilliant career; Mary, married Dr. Allan Canfiled of Toronto; Gordon F. Perry, prominent business man of Toronto; Marjorie, married Col. Reginald Pellatt of Toronto.

James Black Perry is a staunch Presbyterian, and his favorite recreations are curling, gardening and an interest in horses.

Pellatt family

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Pellatt

http://casaloma.ca/about_earlyyears.html

http://casalomatrust.ca/index.html

Major-General Sir Henry Mill Pellatt, CVO (January 6, 1859 – March 8, 1939) was a Canadian financier and soldier.

Sir Henry Pellatt was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II’s father King George VI for pioneering his Toronto Electric Company, which brought electricity from Niagara Falls to Toronto.

Between 1911 and 1914, Sir Henry built Casa Loma for his wife, Lady Mary Dodgson-Pellatt. Casa Loma would eventually become a well-known landmark of the city. His summer home and farm in King City later became Marylake Augustinian Monastery.

Pellatt was also a noted supporter of the Boy Scouts of Canada. His first wife, Mary, was the first Chief Commissioner of the Girl Guides of Canada.

Pellatt married twice, first to Mary Dodgson in Toronto in 1882 and, after Mary’s death in 1924, to Catharine Welland Merritt in Toronto in 1927. With his first wife, he had one son, Reginald, who was born in 1885, and who married but had no children.

Much of Pellatt’s fortune was made through investments in the railway and hydro-electric industries in Canada, including the Toronto Electric Light Company. However, legislator Adam Beck launched a campaign against the great industrialists of Canada proclaiming hydro power “should be as free as air”. Through legislative process and by whipping up anti-rich sentiment, Beck was able to successfully appropriate Pellatt’s life work and take his electric companies from him. Beck then led a populist revolt to raise Pellatt’s taxes on his castle, Casa Loma, from $600 per year to $12,000. The strain of losing all of his income, coupled with the usurous increase in property taxes for his large castle led him to rely solely on his real estate investments, which were unsuccessful due to the beginning of WWI. Once The Province expropriated his electrical power generating business, and his aircraft manufacturing business was appropriated by Beck as part of the war effort during World War I, Pellatt was driven near-bankruptcy which forced him and Lady Pellatt to leave Casa Loma in 1923. They therefore moved to their farm at Marylake in King City.

Later he moved to 78 Cresent Rd. in Rosedale where Sir Henry Pellatt lived after losing his castle; Casa Loma. He moved there with wife; Catherine Welland Meritt; whose grandfather built Welland Canal.

Colonel Reginald Pellatt, VD was born in Toronto June 30, 1885, only son of Major General Sir Henry Pellatt and his wife Mary. On 14 October 1908 he married Marjorie Carlyle Perry. They had no children. When he enlisted with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in 1915 he gave his wife’s address (as next of kin) as Casa Loma. Reginald Pellatt died on July 28, 1967.

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(William’s memories)

Perry
– took in my mother as a housekeeper. very understanding even though she never learned English
– born and lived in Rosedale for first year before parents bought their own home on Bedford. I must have been too noisy !
– very generous. When I got my first job as a newspaper boy, he doubled my “salary” that I made for the summer.
– I remember sitting in the Rolls Royce (chauffeur took me for a ride around the block). Two sets of seats in the back facing each other with lots of leg room between the seats.
– when Gordon passed away, he gave $10K to my father. He was even more generous to the chauffeur. He paid off the mortgage to the chauffeur’s house.

My memories are of Casa Loma are of my father (taking me along) to visit the chef at the Pellatt’s. It was the Stables at Casa Loma, where the son lived until the city took it away. After Gordon Perry passed away, Marjorie moved into Gordon’s house in Rosedale on Dale Ave (it no longer exists and has been replaced by condos). My father worked for a few years under Marjorie (he hated it – said she was very demanding), until he passed away from cancer. My mother had to clean out his room at the Rosedale house. She found letters to relatives in China, but ripped them all up in anger. She wanted nothing to do with relatives in China asking for money as it was tight enough already without additional obligations.