(30 July 1893 -28 Oct. 1978), general merchant and prospector. (Tom Bathurst. T. W. Bathurst, Thomas W. Bathurst) Born Dalhousie Mills, GC. Parents: Duncan James Bathurst, general merchant, and his wife Marie (Maria) Harris. He was educated at Lancaster Township Public School No. 12, Bourget College at Rigaud, Que., and Alexandria High School. He was a bank clerk c. 1911-1915, serving in places that included Alexandria, Ont., and Fort George, B. C. He was in the Canadian armed services in WWI, enlisting at Vancouver in March 1915, and leaving the army with the rank of sergeant in June 1919. He went overseas with the 29th Vancouver Battalion, was gassed twice, and received the Military Medal. Following the war, he was a general merchant at Dalhousie Mills, 1919-1923. He was married on 21 April 1920, at St. Patrick’s Church, Ottawa, to Edna Angela Proctor (24 May 1893-8 July 1985), of Quebec City and Alexandria. (Cornwall Freeholder & Cornwall Standard both 29 April 1920) From 1923 to about 1930 he was a gold prospector in Northern Quebec and Northern Ontario, his home at this time being in Ottawa. He was prospecting again in the 1950s, in Northern Quebec and Northern Ontario, the interests of his search at this time including uranium. He was known as the discoverer of the Golden Sidewalk mine (1926), in the Red Lake area of NW Ontario, a gold mine which he operated through his Bathurst Mines Co. While official records and family traditions apparently have no information on the origins of the names, it may be guessed on grounds of proximity to his mining operations that Bathurst Lake and Bathurst Creek in NW Ontario are named after him. Tom Bathurst lived to be one of the last of the heroic and honoured breed of Glengarry prospectors. He is reported to have built the first log cabin on the site of Rouyn, Que. He lived at Dalhousie Mills from the early 1930s till he became a resident of Maxville Manor, Maxville, in the 1970s. He died at the National Defence Medical Centre, Ottawa. (six children) Burial was at St. Margaret’s cemetery, Glen Nevis. He was the brother of Rev. Charles Bathurst, S. J.

Glengarry News 8 Nov. 1978 * sources as for life of Fr Charles Bathurst * obituary of his wife GN 17 July 1985 * private information * GN 26 Nov. 1953 on his recent uranium find near Espanola, Ont.; also for his discoveries, with biog. data, Ottawa Citizen (Evening Citizen) 11 April 1953, 26 Jan. 1963 * letter from, Cornwall Standard 10 July 1919, honouring GC women’s war contribution * D. F. Parrott, Short Stories of Red Lake’s Gold (2nd ed., 1996) 70-72 (portrait) * D. F. Parrott, The Red Lake Gold Rush (6th edn., 1983) 139-141, 150, 155 * Ruth Weber Russell, North for Gold: the Red Lake Gold Rush of 1926 (–) 166 * GC prospectors: Bibliography of Glengarry 200