(died 23 Aug. 1941 in 75th year), businessman. (Kenny Robertson) Born on the North Branch, near Martintown, GC. Parents: Hugh A. Robertson and his wife Flora McLennan, the daughter of Farquhar McLennan. After leaving school, he joined his brother Farquhar in the coal business in Montreal. By comparison with Farquhar, he was a little-known businessman. On Farquhar’s death, he inherited the Bethune-Thompson House from him. “After the death of his brother Farquhar, and the transfer of the coal business, he spent his summers at Williamstown, but having disposed of his residence there, he had latterly been spending some weeks each summer at the home of his boyhood and it was during one of these visits that he passed away.” (obituary, Standard Freeholder) He died at the home of his niece, Mrs Kenneth McRae, North Branch, Martintown. He was unmarried.

Standard Freeholder 25 Aug. 1941 * leaflet, Bethune-Thompson House (n.d.) * Sue Harrington, “Bethune-Thompson House to Be Renovated by Foundation,” Glengarry News 20 May 1987 (includes anecdote about “Mr Kenny” as owner of the house) * Campbell (1990), 684, 699-704