Photographs, Paintings or Drawings

Title: Portrait of Grace Wood Redpath

Creator: Harris

Archive or Repository: McGill University Archives, McGill University

Title: Amy's calling card

Creator: Unknown

Archive or Repository: Mary Anne Poutanen

Notes: Following contemporary standards of etiquette, Amy Redpath would have left her calling card near the door in the homes of friends she visited, as a reminder of the occasion. “Making calls” was a significant means of communication for Victorian women, like letter writing, and strengthened the ties between and among Square Mile families.

Title: Peter and Grace Redpath

Creator: Peter W. Redpath

Archive or Repository: Redpath Sugar Museum

Notes: Grace and Peter Redpath were close to their Montreal-based nieces and nephews, despite their residency in England. Grace Redpath’s letters are a good source on the family’s reaction to the tragedy.

Title: Redpath Mansion, front view

Creator: Unknown

Archive or Repository: Redpath Sugar Museum

Notes: Both the Redpath house and the David Morrice house, which shows in the background of this photograph, were designed by the same architect, John James Browne. Surrounded by mature trees and ornamental lawns, the stately architecture was typical of Square Mile mansions.

Title: Interior view: the surgical ward with Dr. James Bell and his staff.

Creator: Unknown

Archive or Repository: McGill University Archives, McGill University

Reference Number: PL006590

Notes: The open wards at the Royal Victoria Hospital maximized natural sunlight and ventilation. Dr. Bell, head of surgery at the Vic, was reported to be the surgeon who received J. Clifford Redpath at the hospital the night of the shootings.

Title: Portrait of Lady Roddick, 2nd wife of Sir Thomas Roddick

Creator: Robert Harris

Archive or Repository: Musée McCord Museum

Notes: Robert Harris portrayed Amy Redpath between 1890-1910. Like photographer William Notman, Harris captured for posterity the likenesses of many elite, English-speaking Montrealers. For more information about this image please click here.

Title: Harris Portrait, Grace Redpath

Creator: Robert Harris

Archive or Repository: McGill University Archives, McGill University

Notes: This portrait of Grace Wood Redpath by Robert Harris captures her sympathetic character.

Title: Robert Harris Portrait of Peter W. Redpath

Creator: Robert Harris

Archive or Repository: Rare Books and Special Collections Division, McGill University Library

Notes: This portrait of Peter Whitemore Redpath, like those of other family members, was painted by society artist Robert Harris.

Title: Robert Harris portrait of Peter Redpath

Creator: Robert Harris

Archive or Repository: McGill University Archives, McGill University

Notes: Peter Redpath, J. Clifford Redpath's uncle and Ada Maria Mills Redpath's brother-in-law, was a major donor to McGill University. He remained close to his Montreal-based niece and nephews, despite living in England. Like his niece Amy, nephew Peter and wife Grace, he was painted by society artist Robert Harris.

Title: The wedding of George Drummond Redpath and Alice Stiles Mills

Creator: Unknown

Archive or Repository: Redpath Sugar Museum

Notes: Square-mile family weddings were elaborate celebrations in the late nineteenth century. This image shows one between two elite Montreal families that took place at Shanklin, Isle of Wight, England, on 29 May 1867. Here Ada Maria Mills Redpath and John J. Redpath (visible to the left and right of the bride and groom) celebrate the marriage of her sister, Alice Stiles Mills, to his brother George Drummond Redpath.

Title: Ada Maria Mills Redpath and family

Creator: Unknown

Archive or Repository: Amy Linda Redpath

Notes: Wealthy women spent an extraordinary amount of time at home. Here is a rare family picture of Redpath women; Ada Maria Mills is seated at left.

Title: Survey of MacKay Villas and Grounds on Sherbrooke and Redpath Streets

Creator: John James Browne

Archive or Repository: Archives Nationales du Quebec — Centre d’archives de Montréal

Notes: "Plan referred to in Deed of Sale from Joseph MacKay to Dame Mills wife of John J. Redpath bearing date passed before J.S.Hunter Notary Public the Fourteenth of October eighteen hundred and Seventy--In Test Veritatis."

Title: Mrs. J.J. Redpath and Child, Montreal, QC, 1871

Creator: William Notman

Archive or Repository: Musée McCord Museum

Notes: Photographer William Notman shot this portrait of Ada Maria Mills Redpath with her only daughter and eldest child Amy Redpath in 1871. For more information about this image please click here.

Title: Amy (as a child) and Ada Maria Mills Redpath, signed "ARR"

Creator: William Notman

Archive or Repository: Amy Linda Redpath

Notes: Amy Redpath was the eldest child and only daughter of Ada Maria Mills Redpath and John J. Redpath. Following the family tragedy of 1901, she married Thomas Roddick. After her marriage she continued to use both surnames, hence the initials A.R.R.

Title: Opening page diagram from American Nervousness

Creator: Unknown

Archive or Repository: McGill University Library

Notes: This diagram shows American neurologist George M. Beard's outline of "neuresthenia," which he defined as a nervous disease affecting wealthy urban families like the Redpaths. George M. Beard, American Nervousness: Its Causes and Consequenses (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1881).

Title: J.J. Redpath, Montreal, QC, 1881

Creator: Notman & Sandham

Archive or Repository: Musée McCord Museum

Reference Number: II-59823.1

Notes: John James Redpath knew nothing of the tragic death of his wife and son in 1901, as he had died in 1884. He was less interested than his brother Peter in the business of refining sugar. For more information about this image please click here.

Title: Mrs. J.J. Redpath's Group, Montreal, QC, 1881

Creator: Notman & Sandham

Archive or Repository: Musée McCord Museum

Reference Number: II-59824.1

Notes: This is an extremely rare photograph of Ada Maria Mills Redpath and John J. Redpath's five children with the family dog. For more information about this image please click here.

Title: Redpath Museum, McGill College, Montreal QC

Creator: Unknown

Archive or Repository: McGill University Archives, McGill University

Reference Number: PR002670

Notes: Despite its relatively small scale, the Redpath Museum has a commanding presence on the campus of McGill University. It was designed by A.C. Hutchison and A.D. Steele as Canada’s first purpose-built natural science museum.

Title: Mr. Fleet, Montreal, QC, 1886

Creator: Unknown

Archive or Repository: Musée McCord Museum

Reference Number: II-80836.1

Notes: Lawyer Charles Fleet was related to the Redpaths through marriage. Amy Redpath’s diaries record his frequent visits to the family home on Sherbrooke Street West. He appeared as a witness there during the coroner’s inquest. For more information about this image please click here.

Title: Amy's Dance card (front)

Creator: Unknown

Archive or Repository: Redpath Sugar Museum

Notes: Amy Redpath’s dance card has survived for over a century. Dance cards were used at private parties in order to line-up dance partners. Amy’s shows the types of dances performed, and includes a pencil, connected to the card by a silk tie.

Title: Amy's Dance card (back)

Creator: unknwon

Archive or Repository: Redpath Sugar Museum

Notes: Amy Redpath’s dance card has survived for over a century. Dance cards were used at private parties in order to line-up dance partners. Amy’s shows the types of dances performed, and includes a pencil, connected to the card by a silk tie.

Title: Dr. Buller's consulting room, Montreal, QC, 1890

Creator: Wm. Notman & Son

Archive or Repository: Musée McCord Museum

Reference Number: II-93206

Notes: Physicians’ offices looked relatively homelike in the late nineteenth century. Note the choice of furniture, oriental rugs, books, and lighting fixture. The inclusion of a safe illustrates the profitability of urban medicine at this time. For more information about this image please click here.

Title: Miss Redpath, Montreal, QC, 1891

Creator: Wm. Notman & Son

Archive or Repository: Musée McCord Museum

Notes: For more information about this image please click here.

Title: First page of "The Yellow Wallpaper"

Creator: Unknown

Notes: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” recounted the author’s own confinement in a Victorian bedroom. Ada Maria Mills Redpath spent months in her bedroom, according to her daughter Amy Redpath’s diaries. This image is from the first publication of the story in 1892 in The New England Magazine.

Title: Eric Harrington photograph of the Royal Victoria Hospital

Creator: Eric Harrington

Archive or Repository: McGill University Archives, McGill University

Reference Number: PA027096

Notes: Located just above McGill University and the reservoir, the Royal Victoria Hospital opened in 1893. Newspaper reports claimed that J. Clifford Redpath was taken there by ambulance following the shooting in 1901. This photograph was taken by Eric Harrington, whose sister Anna had close ties to Amy Redpath.

Title: Opening of the New Library, McGill University, Montreal, 1893, exterior photograph

Creator: Unknown

Archive or Repository: Rare Books and Special Collections Division, McGill University Library

Notes: The opening of Redpath Library at McGill University in 1893 was an elaborate affair.

Title: Opening of the New Library, interior photograph

Creator: Unknown

Archive or Repository: Rare Books and Special Collections Division, McGill University Library

Notes: The opening of Redpath Library at McGill University in 1893 was an elaborate affair.

Title: Plan of the Royal Victoria Hospital from The Builder

Creator: S. Saxon Snell

Archive or Repository: McGill University Library

Notes: British hospital architect Henry Saxon Snell designed a much larger institution for the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal than was actually constructed. His original plan was published in The Builder, 1 July 1893.

Title: Interior, St. John the Evangelist Church, Montreal, QC, about 1896

Creator: Wm. Notman & Son

Archive or Repository: Musée McCord Museum

Reference Number: VIEW-2814

Notes: St. John the Evangelist Church in Montreal was the setting for the private funeral services for Ada Maria Mills Redpath and J. Clifford Redpath on June 15, 1901. For more information about this image please click here.

Title: Montreal from Street Railway Power House chimney, QC, 1896 [towards mountain]

Creator: Wm. Notman & Son

Archive or Repository: Musée McCord Museum

Reference Number: VIEW-2938

Notes: Industrial, commercial and residential architecture was constructed in discreet zones between Mount Royal and the St. Lawrence River. The mansions of the Square Mile are easy to spot because of the greenery and distances between the buildings.For more information about this image please click here.

Title: Montreal from Street Railway Power House chimney, QC, 1896 [towards factory]

Creator: Wm. Notman & Son

Archive or Repository: Musée McCord Museum

Reference Number: VIEW-2944

Notes: William Notman captured the busy and polluted atmosphere of industrializing Montreal in 1896, including the Redpath sugar refinery. For more information about this image please click here.

Title: City Below the Hill (title page)

Creator: Herbert Ames

Archive or Repository: Rare Books and Special Collections Division, McGill University Library

Notes: Herbert Brown Ames' "The City Below the Hill": A Sociological Study of a Portion of the City of Montreal, Canada (Montreal: Bishop Engraving and Print, Co., 1897), was first published as a series of articles in the Montreal Star newspaper. It includes a detailed description of working-class living conditions in Montreal.

Title: The City Below the Hill (page 3)

Creator: Herbert Ames

Archive or Repository: Rare Books and Special Collections Division, McGill University Library

Notes: The City Below the Hill, by Herbert Brown Ames, related the topographical and economic differences in Montreal neighbourhoods such as wealthy Westmount and poor Point St. Charles.

Title: City Below the Hill (page 4)

Creator: Herbert Ames

Archive or Repository: Rare Books and Special Collections Division, McGill University Library

Notes: Herbert Brown Ames described how rich and poor Montrealers occupied completely separate spheres in 1897.

Title: Canada Sugar Refinery, exterior view of new wharf from canal

Creator: Frank Redpath

Archive or Repository: Redpath Sugar Museum

Notes: The Canada Sugar Refinery, later known as Redpath Sugar, located along the Lachine Canal in Montreal, made the family famous. Most of their fortune, however, derived from land holdings in downtown Montreal.

Title: Encircling gunshot wound

Creator: LithAnst v.F. Reichold, Muenchen

Archive or Repository: Osler Library for the History of Medicine

Notes: J. Clifford Redpath’s treatment at the Royal Victoria Hospital following the shooting was never recorded. Contemporary medical texts illustrate the impact of self-administered gun shots to the head. From Eduard,Ritter Von Hoffman, Atlas of Legal Medicine (1898), plate 20.

Title: Diary Extract "Life is a Burden"

Creator: Amy Redpath

Archive or Repository: Rare Books and Special Collections Division, McGill University Library

Notes: Amy Redpath’s diary of 1898 records her daily activities, such as meeting architect Andrew Taylor and attending a hockey game. On these pages, the diarist also notes the deteriorating health of her mother, Ada Maria Mills Redpath.

Title: Diagnosis by Dr. Lafleur: Tuberculosis

Creator: H.A. Lafleur

Archive or Repository: Redpath Sugar Museum

Notes: Dr. H.A. Lafleur diagnosed J. Clifford's brother Peter Whitemore Redpath with tuberculosis on 16 November 1898.

Title: Mrs. John Redpath's House, Sherbrooke Street, Montreal, QC, 1899

Creator: Wm. Notman & Son

Archive or Repository: Musée McCord Museum

Reference Number: II-129781

Notes: The Redpath home at 1065 Sherbrooke St. West was designed by Montreal architect John James Browne in 1870. For more information about this image please click here.

Title: Mrs. David Morrice’s dining room, Montreal, QC, 1899

Creator: Wm. Notman & Son

Archive or Repository: Musée McCord Museum

Reference Number: II-128253

Notes: The dining room accommodated family meals and elaborate dinner parties. This dining room in the Morrice house may have resembled the Redpath dining room about the time of the tragedy. For more information about this image please click here.

Title: Mrs. David Morrice’s drawing room, Montreal, QC, 1899

Creator: Wm. Notman & Son

Archive or Repository: Musée McCord Museum

Reference Number: II-128252

Notes: Victorian parlours were typically filled with family heirlooms. These social spaces were the setting for women’s “calls” or visits in the afternoon. For more information about this image please click here.

Title: Mrs. David Morrice's bedroom, Montreal, QC, 1899

Creator: Wm. Notman & Son

Archive or Repository: Musée McCord Museum

Reference Number: II-128254

Notes: Victorian bedrooms were crowded by today’s standards. Due to her deteriorating health, Ada Maria Mills Redpath was confined to her bedroom, which may have resembled this one in the house next door. For more information about this image please click here.

Title: Mr. J.C. Redpath, Law graduate, Montreal, QC, 1900

Creator: Wm. Notman & Son

Archive or Repository: Musée McCord Museum

Reference Number: II-133577

Notes: Jocelyn Clifford Redpath graduated from law at McGill University in 1900. For more information about this image please click here.

Title: Chislehurst, England

Creator: Unknown

Archive or Repository: Redpath Sugar Museum

Notes: Chislehurst, the home of Peter and Grace Redpath, is a grand British country house. Amy Redpath married Thomas Roddick there in 1906.

Title: Radiograph of head with bullet

Creator: E. Fleischmann

Archive or Repository: Osler Library for the History of Medicine

Notes: This early X-ray of a head shows a real bullet lodged in the brain. From United States Surgeon-General's Office, The Use of the Rontgen Ray... (1900), plate 11.

Title: Sherbrooke Street at Redpath, Montreal, QC, about 1900

Creator: Wallis & Shepherd

Archive or Repository: Musée McCord Museum

Reference Number: MP-0000.27.66

Notes: Sherbrooke Street was among Montreal’s most fashionable streets. The Redpath mansion was at the north-west corner of Sherbrooke and Redpath Streets. For more information about this image please click here.

Title: Portrait of Dr. Roddick

Creator: Unknown

Archive or Repository: McGill University Archives, McGill University

Reference Number: PL007843

Notes: Thomas Roddick was the Redpath’s family physician in 1901. He served as Dean of Medicine at McGill from 1901-1908, and married Amy Redpath in 1906.

Title: J. Clifford Redpath with dog

Creator: Unknown

Archive or Repository: Redpath Sugar Museum

Notes: J. Clifford Redpath, one of the victims, is shown here with the family dog outside the family home on Sherbrooke Street West in Montreal’s fashionable Square Mile district.

Title: Harold Redpath and family in Georgeville

Creator: Unknown

Archive or Repository: Redpath Sugar Museum

Notes: Harold Redpath, J. Clifford Redpath’s brother, pictured here with his wife Alice Watson and children Betty and John, in the Eastern Townships of Quebec.

Title: Letter from J.C.R. to P.W.R.

Creator: J. Clifford Redpath

Archive or Repository: Rare Books and Special Collections Division, McGill University Library

Notes: J. Clifford Redpath corresponded with his brother Peter, mostly about the family's financial affairs, while Peter was in California for health reasons.

Title: "Casa Loma" leter PWR to JCR

Creator: Peter W. Redpath

Archive or Repository: Redpath Sugar Museum

Notes: J. Clifford Redpath corresponded with his brother Peter, mostly about the family's financial affairs, while Peter was in California for health reasons.

Title: "Casa Loma" letter P.W.R. to J.C.R.

Creator: Peter W. Redpath

Archive or Repository: Redpath Sugar Museum

Title: "Casa Loma" letter P.W.R. to J.C.R.

Creator: Peter W. Redpath

Archive or Repository: Redpath Sugar Museum

Title: Receipt for bar examinations

Creator: Unknown

Archive or Repository: Redpath Sugar Museum

Notes: This receipt shows that two days before his death, J. Clifford Redpath paid a deposit to the Montreal Bar association, apparently planning to take his examinations for the bar in July 1901.

Title: "Tragedy in Montreal"

Creator: Unknown

Archive or Repository: McGill University Library

Notes: The New York Times report on the Redpath tragedy was front-page news. New York Times, 14 June 1901, page 1.

Title: "Mother and Son Dead: Mysterious Shooting in the Redpath Family"

Creator: Unknown

Archive or Repository: McGill University Library

Notes: The Redpath tragedy of 1901 made front-page news across Canada. Newspaper reports on the event, however, varied considerably. The Globe (Toronto), 14 June 1901, page 1.

Title: "A BLOOD-SOAKED TRAGEDY"

Creator: Unknown

Archive or Repository: Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec

Notes: French newspapers in Montreal reported the Redpath tragedy. The daily (then weekly) paper "La Patrie" was widely read from 1879-1978. La Patrie, 14 June 1901, page 1.

Title: Coroner's Report-Ada Mills Redpath (verso)

Creator: Cour du Coroner

Archive or Repository: Archives nationales du Québec

Notes: The Coroner's report contains eyewitness testimony concerning the death of Ada Maria Mills Redpath.

Title: Coroner's Report-Ada Mills Redpath (page 1)

Creator: Cour du Coroner

Archive or Repository: Archives nationales du Québec

Notes: Coroner's Report-Ada Mills Redpath (page 1).

Title: Coroner's Report-Ada Mills Redpath (page 2)

Creator: Cour du Coroner

Archive or Repository: Archives nationales du Québec

Notes: Coroner's Report-Ada Mills Redpath (page 2).

Title: Coroner's Report-Ada Mills Redpath (page 3)

Creator: Cour du Coroner

Archive or Repository: Archives nationales du Québec

Notes: Coroner's Report-Ada Mills Redpath (page 3).

Title: Coroner's Report-Ada Mills Redpath (page 4)

Creator: Cour du Coroner

Archive or Repository: Archives nationales du Québec

Notes: Coroner's Report-Ada Mills Redpath (page 4).

Title: Coroner's Report-Jocelyn Clifford Redpath (verso)

Creator: Cour du Coroner

Archive or Repository: Archives nationales du Québec

Notes: The Coroner's inquiry into the death of Jocelyn Clifford Redpath took place on the same day and time as that of his mother Ada Maria Mills Redpath.

Title: Coroner's Report-Jocelyn Clifford Redpath (page 1)

Creator: Cour du Coroner

Archive or Repository: Archives nationales du Québec

Notes: Coroner's Report-Jocelyn Clifford Redpath (page 1).

Title: Coroner's Report-Jocelyn Clifford Redpath (page 2)

Creator: Cour du Coroner

Archive or Repository: Archives nationales du Québec

Notes: Coroner's Report-Jocelyn Clifford Redpath (page 2).

Title: Letter from Grace Redpath to Peter and Amy Redpath (page 1)

Creator: Grace Redpath

Archive or Repository: Rare Books and Special Collections Division, McGill University Library

Title: Letter from Grace Redpath to Peter and Amy Redpath (page 2)

Creator: Grace Redpath

Archive or Repository: Rare Books and Special Collections Division, McGill University Library

Title: Letter from Grace Redpath to Peter and Amy Redpath (page 3)

Creator: Grace Redpath

Archive or Repository: Rare Books and Special Collections Division, McGill University Library

Title: Letter from Grace Redpath to Peter and Amy Redpath (page 4)

Creator: Grace Redpath

Archive or Repository: Rare Books and Special Collections Division, McGill University Library

Title: Telegram from J.R. Redpath

Creator: n/a

Archive or Repository: Rare Books and Special Collections Division, McGill University Library

Title: Letter from Anna Harrington to Amy Redpath (page 1)

Creator: Anna Harrington

Archive or Repository: Rare Books and Special Collections Division, McGill University Library

Title: Group portrait: group of doctors visiting Dr. Bell at his farm at Saraguay

Creator: Unknown

Archive or Repository: McGill University Archives, McGill University

Reference Number: PR023853; Photo includes Dr. Bell and Dr. Roddick

Notes: Prominent physicians such as Dr Bell and Dr Roddick were associated with McGill University.

Title: Canada Sugar Refinery Co., employees

Creator: Unknown

Archive or Repository: Redpath Sugar Museum

Notes: The employees of the Redpath family’s sugar refinery posed for this photograph in 1904.

Title: Canada Sugar Refinery Co., engraving

Creator: Unknown

Archive or Repository: Redpath Sugar Museum

Notes: This engraving of the Canada Sugar Refining Co. looks south from Montreal to the factory on the Lachine Canal. At the rear is the St. Lawrence River and the hills of the St. Lawrence lowlands.

Title: "The Summit House Mystery" (cover)

Creator: Unknown

Archive or Repository: UCLA Department of Special Collections

Notes: Published in the United States as "The Summit House Mystery" (New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1905), Lily Dougall’s story appears to mix the Redpath case with the famous Lizzie Borden double-murder case of 1892 in Massachusetts.

Title: "The Summit House Mystery" (title page)

Creator: Unknown

Archive or Repository: UCLA Department of Special Collections

Notes: Lily Dougall wrote a “fictional” account of the Redpath tragedy. How much did she know? Lily Dougall, "The Summit House Mystery, or The Earthly Purgatory" (New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1905).

Title: Amy's marriage to Dr. Roddick at Chislehurst

Creator: Unknown

Archive or Repository: Rare Books and Special Collections Division, McGill University Library

Notes: Amy Redpath and Thomas Roddick married at Chislehurst, England, in 1906; this was Amy's first marriage and Roddick's second. Roddick was 22 years older than Amy.

Title: Epilepsy as the result of a perforating bullet wound

Creator: Unknown

Archive or Repository: Osler Library for the History of Medicine

Notes: This cut-away drawing shows a bullet lodged in the brain of a victim with epilepsy. The coroner’s inquest concluded that J. Clifford Redpath shot himself while experiencing an epileptic seizure. From Keen, William W., "Surgery, Its Principles and Practice.... " (1906), p. 248.248

Title: David Morrice Sr. house, 10 Redpath St., Montreal, QC, about 1909

Creator: Unknown

Archive or Repository: Musée McCord Museum

Reference Number: MP-0000.2345.9

Notes: Both the Redpath home and its immediate neighbour, the Morrice house, were designed by Montreal architect John James Browne. For more information about this image please click here.

Title: T.W. Boyd & Son, Montreal, Sporting Goods, catalogue (page 38-39)

Creator: T.W. Boyd & Son

Archive or Repository: Stewart Museum

Notes: The “smoking gun” from the Redpath double shooting of 1901 has not survived. We know about guns of that time period from sales catalogues such as these from Montreal sporting goods retailer T.W. Boyd & Son's 1910-11 catalogue.

Title: Bookplate, McGill University Library

Creator: Unknown

Archive or Repository: Rare Books and Special Collections Division, McGill University Library

Notes: Lady Roddick is one of the important donors to the McGill University Library collections. This bookplate memorializes her two brothers who died at the beginning of the twentieth century, Peter Whitemore Redpath and Jocelyn Clifford Redpath.

Title: "Ode: Perfect in Thy Promise"

Creator: Amy Redpath Roddick

Archive or Repository: Rare Books and Special Collections Division, McGill University Library

Notes: Amy Redpath Roddick’s tribute to her brother J. Clifford Redpath portrayed little sense of blame for the double shooting.

Title: "Ode: Because He Lived"

Creator: Amy Redpath Roddick

Archive or Repository: Rare Books and Special Collections Division, McGill University Library

Notes: Amy Redpath Roddick memorialized her brother Peter Whiteford Redpath in verse. Peter died in California of tuberculosis less than a year after his brother and mother were shot.

Title: Dr. Roddick Obituary in the "Canadian Medical Association Journal"

Creator: Unknown

Archive or Repository: McGill University Library

Notes: CMAJ Vol. 13 (1924), p. 296.

Title: Amy's Will

Creator: Amy Redpath Roddick

Archive or Repository: Rare Books and Special Collections Division, McGill University Library

Notes: In her will of 1925, Amy left an annual income and all her clothing to the family servant, Rose Shallow.

Title: Rose Shallow and Amy Roddick in Egypt

Creator: G. Georgoulas

Archive or Repository: Amy Linda Redpath

Notes: The relationship of Amy Redpath and the family servant, Rose Shallow, was extraordinarily close. The women are shown here in Egypt.

Title: Lady Roddick in her livingroom, Montreal, QC, 1930

Creator: Wm. Notman & Son

Archive or Repository: Musée McCord Museum

Reference Number: II-297450

Notes: Amy Redpath Roddick lived in the family home until her death in 1954. This image shows her some twenty years after the shootings. For more information about this image please click here.

Title: 1065 Sherbrooke from east side

Creator: Unknown

Archive or Repository: Amy Linda Redpath

Notes: This image shows the Redpath house from the east, along Sherbrooke Street West. As the building was demolished in 1955, photographs of the house are extremely valuable.

Title: Rose Shallow and Amy Redpath Roddick in wheeled chair

Creator: Unknown

Archive or Repository: Rare Books and Special Collections Division, McGill University Library

Notes: Amy Redpath (shown seated) and Rose Shallow were extraordinarily close. She also had Rose’s remains transferred to the family grave in Mount Royal Cemetery in 1944.

Title: "The Iroquois Enjoy A Perfect Day" (Title Page)

Creator: Unknown

Archive or Repository: McGill University Library

Notes: Amy Redpath Roddick’s poems were published by her cousin’s firm, John Dougall & Son.

Title: Lady Roddick's Home to Go on Block Today, "The Montreal Daily Star", 14 June 1954

Creator: Unknown

Archive or Repository: McGill University Library

Title: Roddick Gates, McGill University

Creator: Annmarie Adams

Archive or Repository: A. Adams

Notes: The Roddick Gates are the main entrance to McGill University from busy Sherbrooke Street West. The gates were commissioned by Amy Redpath Roddick in memory of her husband, Thomas George Roddick, Dean of Medicine from 1901-1908.

Title: Gravesite Image

Creator: Brenton Nader

Archive or Repository: Brenton Nader

Notes: The Redpath family gravesite in Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal, accommodates the remains of Ada Maria Mills Redpath, J. Clifford Redpath, Amy Redapth, and family servant Rose Shallow.

Title: Inscription on Ada Maria Mills Redpath's gravesite.

Creator: Brenton Nader

Archive or Repository: Brenton Nader

Notes: Inscription on Ada Maria Mills Redpath's gravesite.

Title: Inscription on Amy Redpath Roddicks gravesite.

Creator: Brenton Nader

Archive or Repository: Brenton Nader

Notes: Inscription on Amy Redpath Roddick's gravesite.

Title: Inscription on Rose Shallow's gravesite

Creator: Brenton Nader

Archive or Repository: Brenton Nader

Notes: Rose Shallow is memorialized at the Redpath family grave in Mount Royal Cemetery.

Title: Inscription on J. Clifford Redpath's gravesite

Creator: Brenton Nader

Archive or Repository: Brenton Nader

Notes: Inscription on J. Clifford Redpath's gravesite.

Title: Redpath Family Monument, Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal

Creator: Brenton Nader

Archive or Repository: Brenton Nader

Notes: The Redpath family monument in Montreal’s Mount Royal Cemetery marks the resting place of several Redpath family members, including John Redpath. It is located adjacent to the monument for Ada Maria Mills, John James, Amy, Peter Whiteford, and Jocelyn Clifford Redpath.