" His Campeau Corporation had two main rivals in the residential housing market: Assaly Construction Limited and Minto Developments Inc., the latter owned by the family of future Ottawa mayor Lorry Greenberg.

Jarvis also formed AEmilius Jarvis & Co., earning the friendship and respect of such men as Lord Minto ( Governor General of Canada ), J. P. Morgan, Sir Thomas Lipton, Lord Beaverbrook, Sir Henry Pellatt, and Ned Hanlan.

Public housing belonging to Housing NSW has recently been demolished in the suburb to make way for a new housing estate called One Minto.

In addition to a Minto Place in Rockcliffe, Ottawa and Minto Street in Vancouver and the SS Minto, a famous steamer on the Arrow Lakes, the gold-mining company town of Minto City in the Bridge River Country, est.

Its earliest star performers included singers Ethel Waters, Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Mamie Smith, Minto Cato, and Adelaide Hall ; comedian Tim Moore with his Chicago Follies company ( which included his wife Gertie ); the Whitman Sisters and their Company ; musicians Fletcher Henderson, Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Noble Sissle, Eubie Blake, Joe " King " Oliver, and Duke Ellington ; comics Sandy Burns, Salem Whitney Tutt, and Tom Fletcher ; future Paris sensation Josephine Baker ; songwriter and pianist Perry Bradford, the mime Johnny Hudgins ; dancers U. S. Thompson, Walter Batie, Earl " Snakehips " Tucker, and Valaida Snow ; comic monologuist Boots Hope ; and many others.

By the end of 2010, coal mining in Minto ended when the last coal mining company, NB Coal, closed.

An NB Power subsidiary, NB Coal, was the only mining company left in the Minto area and performed strip mining.

* The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada infantry ( along with The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada Museum ) at Minto Armoury

* Lord Minto, the Governor General of Canada, donates the Minto Cup.

The Minto Cup is awarded annually to the champion junior men's lacrosse team of Canada.

It was donated in 1901 by the Governor-General, Lord Minto, and from 1901 until 1909 awarded to the senior men's champion of Canada.

Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto ( 9 July 18451 March 1914 ) was a British nobleman and politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the eighth since Canadian Confederation, and as Viceroy and Governor-General of India, the country's 17th.

Having succeeded to the earldom in 1891, Macdonald's prediction came true when Lord Minto was named Governor General of Canada in the summer of 1898.

In September 1901, after Queen Victoria's death in January, the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York ( later to become King George V and Queen Mary ) visited Canada, and travelled with Lady Minto to western Canada and the Klondike.

Lord Minto, like his predecessors, travelled throughout the young country – he crossed Quebec, Ontario and western Canada, visiting former battlegrounds where he had served during the North-West Rebellion.

The Earl of Minto as Governor General of Canada.

In 1901, Lord Minto donated the Minto Cup and appointed trustees to oversee its annual awarding to the champion senior men's lacrosse team of Canada ( since 1937 the Cup has been awarded to the junior men's champions ).

On his trip back to Britain in 1904, having finished his term as Canada's Governor General, Lord Minto wrote in his journal "... so our life in Canada is over and it has been a great wrench parting from so many friends and leaving a country which I love, and which has been very full of interest to me ".

* Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto ( 1845 – 1914 ), also known as Viscount Melgund, British politician, Governor General of Canada, and Viceroy of India

* March 1-Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, Governor General of Canada ( b. 1845 )

A townhouse complex called Brentwood Village in Edmonton, Alberta was the first condominium development in Canada ( registered in 1967 ; the first high-rise condominium development was Horizon House built by Minto in Nepean, Ontario and registered in 1967.

* July 9-Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, Governor General of Canada ( died 1914 )

Graham joined the Coldstream Guards in 1893, and from 1898 to 1901 and again in 1902-1904 he served as aide-de-camp to Lord Minto, Governor-General of Canada.

Graham kept a journal of his trip across Canada with Minto to the Klondike Gold Rush in the Yukon in 1900, called Across Canada to the Klondyke, which he later presented to Minto, and which was eventually published.

Shankland's battledress blouse with ribbons and his miniatures are on display in The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada Museum museum at Minto Armoury in Winnipeg.

Some of the finest miniatures from imperial Mughal albums, called Muraqqa ', are housed in the Chester Beatty Library ; with important paintings from the Late Shah Jahan Album and the Minto Album.

Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier, to whom Shaughnessy was no friend, opposed the idea ; but, Minto made the recommendation anyway, invoking the ire of Laurier and prompting the Prime Minister to draft a policy dictating that all Canadian nominees for honours must be approved by the prime minister before the list was sent to London.

In 1808 he was selected by Lord Minto for the responsible post of envoy to the court of Ranjit Singh at Lahore ; here, on 25 April 1809, he concluded the important treaty securing the independence of the Sikh states between the Sutlej and the Jumna.

When the Marquess of Cornwallis died in 1805, Sir George Barlow was nominated provisional governor-general, and his passion for economy and retrenchment in that capacity has caused him to be known as the only governor-general who diminished the area of British territory ; but his nomination was rejected by the home government, and Lord Minto was appointed.

( Alizai, 1999 ; Lobe, 1987 ; Minto, 2003 )

In 1890, Minto was married to Jessie Glenn ( b. 1870 Salem, Oregon ; d. 1956 Tampa, Florida ).

Wellington — Grey — Dufferin — Simcoe consisted of the County of Dufferin ; the Town of Thornbury, the Village of Dundalk and the townships of Collingwood, Egremont, Osprey and Proton in the County of Grey ; the towns of Collingwood and Stayner, the Village of Creemore and the Township of Nottawasaga in the County of Simcoe ; and the towns of Fergus, Harriston, Mount Forest and Palmerston, the villages of Arthur, Clifford and Elora, and the townships of Arthur, Minto, Nichol, West Garafraxa and West Luther in the County of Wellington.

* Foods: ( Kitchens of India ; Aashirvaad, Minto, Sunfeast, Candyman, Bingo, Yippee, Sunfeast Pasta brands in Ready to Eat, Staples, Biscuits, Confectionery, Noodles and Snack Foods );

Though more highly trusted than Sir David Dalrymple, the Lord Advocate, by the Duke of Roxburghe, he felt this an irksome position, and in 1718 applied to succeed Eliot of Minto on the bench ; but the place was already given to Sir Walter Pringle.

Minto did not feel the depression, or at least did not feel it in the same way as most other places in Canada ; during recession and the Great Depression, Minto was profiting from a coal mining boom.

In addition to the formerly separate towns of Keewatin and Jaffray Melick, the city also includes the neighbourhoods of Norman, Rabbit Lake, Rideout, Pinecrest, Minto and Lakeside.

Lord Minto also took great interest in the development of the Canadian military and emphasized the need for training and professional development.

He was also a prominent judge and politician and served as a Lord of Session ( under the judicial title of Lord Minto ) from 1726 to 1733, as a Lord of the Justiciary from 1733 to 1765 and as Lord Justice Clerk from 1763 to 1766.

Jean Elliot ( April 1727 – 29 March 1805 ), also known as Jane Elliot, was a Scottish poet, and the third daughter of Sir Gilbert Elliot of Minto, Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland.

* Minto City, British Columbia, also known as simply Minto

* John Minto ( Oregon pioneer ), brother of Harry Minto, also a pioneer

Westies were also a common sight in the 1980s in the south-western suburbs such as Minto and Campbelltown

Another later set of lyrics to the song by Jean Elliot of Minto written in 1756 is also in circulation and should not be confused with Rutherford's.

In summer the Minto Fun Days ( also known as the Minto Coal Mining Festival ) is celebrated in June – July, first run in 1972.

The Crown Plaza and the Ottawa Marriott hotels are also located one block north of the station ( on Queen Street ) and the Minto suite hotel is located at the corner of Slater Street and Lyon Street just west of the station.

Eastminto, Myrtlefield, Hansen and Kyngmount were also rejected by one side or the other until consensus was reached with Minto Heights in 1976.

Minto also has a small inland port connected by rail to Port Botany.

Mickey Paea and Tim Lafai also known in minto as good helpers of the Minto Cobras team both players give up their time to help the Minto Cobras out every week in their extra time.

He also served as trustee for the Minto Cup of lacrosse.