Samuel Bastedo (1855 - 1926)

Born 4 Dec 1855 in Hamilton, Wentworth, Canada West

Ancestors

Died 2 Dec 1926 at age 70 in Ottawa, Carleton, Ontario, Canada

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Biography

Samuel Tovel Bastedo was the eldest son of David Tice Bastedo and Sarah Elizabeth Tovel, was born on December 4, 1855.

On October 30, 1884, he married Ida Virginia Straubel (21 Dec 1860 - 18 Nov 1943) ^[1] and had two daughters:

• Agnes Alberta Straubel Bastedo, who m. George Ballantine Coutts of Calgary and had one son, David Bastedo Coutts, and a daughter, Margaret Katherine Coutts; and
• Katherine Tovel Bastedo.

For sixteen years he was private-secretary to Sir Oliver Mowat, Premier and Attorney-General of the Province of Ontario, and afterward to the Honorable Arthur Sturgis Hardy, who named a Township in Ontario "Bastedo" to perpetuate the name. After holding the position of Deputy Commissioner of Fisheries in Ontario for seven years he was appointed by the Government of Canada Commissioner to negotiate with the Provinces for the relinquishment of their fishery rights, and later, in 1908, by the British Government to represent Great Britain on the International Fisheries Commission. He resigned from the Commission to become Superintendent of Canadian Government Annuities; he held this position until his death on December 2, 1926.

Sources

1. ↑ Ida Virginia Straubel Bastedo on Find A Grave: Memorial #154444101

• Herbert Clarence Burleigh fonds - Family files series - Bastedo; Queen's University Archives
• Samuel Tovel Bastedo on Find A Grave: Memorial #154444100 - McEvoy-527 03:41, 12 July 2019 (UTC)