George Henry Yale
He also gave his name to Yaletown village, which he acquired from Lord Samuel Gerrard, president of the Bank of Montreal, and became the second pioneer tanner in Canada.
[1][2] His uncle was Chief trader James Murray Yale, commander of Fort Langley during the Fraser Gold Rush, and his granduncle was Capt.
[3] His cousin Isabella Yale was the daughter-in-law of Sir George Simpson, Governor of the HBC and a large landowner of the Golden Square Mile in Montreal.
Peers from Trinity College, Oxford, and a grandson of Count Julianus Petrus de Linnée, member of a noble family of Brittany.
[6] Grosbois was the brother-in-law of Sir Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Premier of Quebec, and cousin of Louis-Tancrède Bouthillier, who gave the name of his manor "Outre-Mont" to the city of Outremont.
[8][6] Other clients were the trading firm of Henderson, Hooker & Co., dealing with the future Minister of Finance Luther Hamilton Holton, master brewer and horse boat owner, Victor Chenier, brother of patriot Jean-Olivier Chénier, and merchant Henri Monjeau of Longueuil.
[11][12] In 1856, Yale bought land on the Maskinongé River from Samuel Gerrard, Lord of Carufel and Lanaudière, and gave it the name of Yaletown.
[18][12] By 1871, the shop is the largest factory in the region of St-Pierre lake, with steam engines and 30 employees, producing 10,000 black and red leather products, 5,000 skins, and sales of about $50,000, or 20 million dollars in 2024 money in relation to wages.
[19][12][20] Yale acquired it back from his family in 1872, with Maj. Lambert as a partner, and added the company to his portfolio of businesses, now including the village of Yaletown with its fourteen houses.
[25] Yale became the general agent of the Union Mutual Life Insurance Company around 1872, seated at 99 Saint-François-Xavier Street, in Old Montreal.
[39][40][1] Yale later cofounded the Société de Navigation des Trois-Rivières à Montréal, a steam boat shipping company, and became its president.
[1] He goes bankrupt in the early 1880s, not being able to pay back his debts with Banque Ville-Marie, and by 1884, he set up a new shop with his wife Victoire and his grandson Georges Lambert, under G. H. Yale & Company.
[43][15][16] The Galiberts were leading French wine merchants and leather manufacturers, importing their supplies from Bordeaux and Paris, with shop at 156 Saint-Paul Street, now on the site of the Old Custom House.
Yale's house in Louiseville was tied to Hotel Mineau, and in 1895, he would rent it to Carles & Freres Co., manufacturers of wine and beer, as he was now a resident of Montreal.
[48] Under Premier Sir Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, 1st Baronet, Yale was appointed Justice of the Peace on many occasions for Maskinonge County, and was described as an industrialist.
