George Hope Bertram was a Canadian

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 businessman and politician.

Born in Fenton Barns, Scotland

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 to Hugh Bertram and Isabella Mack, Bertram emigrated to join his brother John in Canada in 1865. After opening a hardware store in Lindsay, Ontario

Lindsay, Ontario

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, he moved to Toronto

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 in 1876. A prominent businessman, Bertram was elected to federal parliament as a member of the Canadian House of Commons

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 for Toronto Centre

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 in a 1897 by-election. Bertram's daughter, Christine Mabel married William Henry Moore

William Henry Moore

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, a writer and lawyer who also became a Member of the Canadian House of Commons from Ontario. A Liberal

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, he died in office in 1900 and is buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery

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, Toronto.

His brother John

John Bertram

John Bertram was a businessman and a Member of Parliament in Canada.Bertram was born at Fenton Barns, near Dirleton, Scotland, to Hugh Bertram and Isabella Mack. John emigrated to Canada in 1860. He married Helen Shiells in Almonte Ontario and settled in Peterborough, Ontario where he was a...

also served in the House of Commons.