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Line 1: {{Short description\|British surveyor of Canada}} ~~'''Robert Bell''' ([[1821]] – February 25, 1873) was a surveyor, journalist and political figure in [[Canada West]].~~ '''Robert Bell''' (1823 – February 25, 1873)<ref>{{cite web \| url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/216105581/robert-bell \| title=Robert Bell (1823-1873) - Find a Grave Memorial \| website=[[Find a Grave]] }}</ref> was a surveyor, journalist and political figure in [[Canada West]]. He was born in [[Ireland]] in 1821 and arrived in [[New York (state)\|New York]] state with his parents . In 1823, they moved to a farm near [[Kemptville, Ontario\|Kemptville]], [[Upper Canada]]. He qualified as a land surveyor for the province in 1843. He moved to [[Bytown]], where he began work as a surveyor. He surveyed the [[Muskoka District Municipality, Ontario\|Muskoka]], [[Haliburton County, Ontario\|Haliburton]] and [[Nipissing District, Ontario\|Nipissing]] areas as part of the government's plan to open up these areas for settlement. In 1849, he purchased the ''[[Bytown Packet]]'' newspaper, (renamed the ''[[Ottawa Citizen]]'' in 1851,) from [[Henry J. Friel]] and [[John Bell (journalist)\|John George Bell]]. In it Bell expounded his ideas for promoting the settlement of the waste lands between Bytown and Lake Huron.<ref>{{cite web\|title=BELL, ROBERT\|url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/bell_robert_1821_73_10E.html\|author=Henri Pilon}}</ref> He helped found the [[Bytown and Prescott Railway]] and later became president. He served on the town council for Bytown and later represented [[Russell County, Ontario\|Russell]] in the [[7th Parliament of the Province of Canada\|7th]] and [[8th Parliament of the Province of Canada\|8th Parliament]]s for the [[Province of Canada]]. He died in [[Hull, Quebec]] in 1873. {{1867 Canadian federal election/Russell}} ==References== {{Reflist}} == External links == * {{cite DCB \|title=Bell, Robert (1821-73) \|first=Henri \|last=Pilon \|volume=10 \|url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/bell_robert_1821_73_10E.html}} *[http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=38945 Biography at the ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online''] {{Authority control}} ~~{{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. -->~~ ~~\| NAME = Bell, Robert~~ ~~\| ALTERNATIVE NAMES =~~ ~~\| SHORT DESCRIPTION =~~ ~~\| DATE OF BIRTH = 1821~~ ~~\| PLACE OF BIRTH =~~ ~~\| DATE OF DEATH = February 25, 1873~~ ~~\| PLACE OF DEATH =~~ }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Bell, Robert}} [[Category:~~1821~~1820s births]] [[Category:1873 deaths]] [[Category:Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from Canada West]] [[Category:British surveyors]] [[Category:Canadian surveyors~~\|Bell, R~~]] [[Category:~~People~~Journalists from ~~Leeds and Grenville, Ontario~~Ottawa]] [[Category:People from Leeds and Grenville United Counties]] [[Category:Ulster-Scottish emigrants to pre-Confederation Canada]]▼ [[Category:Canadian people of Ulster-Scottish descent]] [[Category:Ottawa Citizen people]] [[Category:19th-century Canadian journalists]] [[Category:Canadian male journalists]] [[Category:Ontario municipal councillors]] [[Category:19th-century Canadian male writers]] ▲[[Category:~~Ulster-Scottish~~Irish emigrants to pre-Confederation ~~Canada~~Ontario]] [[Category:Immigrants to Upper Canada]] [[Category:Ontario candidates for Member of Parliament]] [[Category:Candidates in the 1867 Canadian federal election]]