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.
![Montreal from Street Railway Power House chimney, QC, 1896 [towards mountain]](../../images/site/345866_1.jpg)
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.
![Montreal from Street Railway Power House chimney, QC, 1896 [towards factory]](../../images/site/345867_1.jpg)
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.