Thomas McLeay Gardner (1794-1854)
Col. Thomas McLeay Gardner, of Huntington, Quebec
He had been unsuccessful as a farmer at Aberlady in the East Lothians near Edinburgh before emigrating in 1827 to Huntingdon, Quebec, where he bought 400-acres and built a house at what would become Athelstan. He was the maternal grandfather of the Montreal press baron, Lord Atholstan.