Joseph Bell Forsyth (1830-1913)

He was born at Quebec City, Lower Canada. He was educated in Quebec at Dr Lundy's Classical School and Bishop's College University, Lennoxville, before continuing his studies in Paris. For many years he was a commission merchant and broker for the timber trade before his appointment as Collector of Customs at Quebec. He was said to be as popular with the French-Canadians as with the old countrymen and he was successively elected Mayor of Cap-Rouge where he lived at "Redclyffe". He was Colonel in command of the Queen's Own Canadian Hussars, first raised and commanded by his grandfather, Mathew Bell, in 1810. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas B. Anderson, President of the Bank of Montreal, by his wife, Ann, daughter of John Richardson, Montreal's pre-eminent businessman in the early 1800s.