Declaration of Succession by Peter Whiteford Redpath Esq. et al
9 October 1901
Declaration of Succession
By
Peter Whiteford Redpath Esq. et al
affecting the
Albert Buildings Lot No 913 St Antoine Ward
ON THIS DAY the ninth of October in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and one.
BEFORE CHARLES CUSHING, the undersigned Notary Public for the Province of Quebec, residing and practising in the City of Montreal.
APPEARED MISS AMY REDPATH, Spinster, fille majeure et usant de ses droits, and PETER WHITEFORD REDPATH, Esquire, both of the said City of Montreal,
WHO declared to me, the said Notary:
That their brother, the late Jocelyn Clifford Redpath deceased, in his lifetime of the said City of Montreal, Esquire, departed this life on the thirteenth day of June last (1901) intestate and unmarried.
That his father, the late John James Redpath and his mother, the late Dame Ada Maria Mills, predeceased him, the said Jocelyn Clifford Redpath; the said John James Redpath having departed this life on the fourth day of June, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and the said Dame Ada Maria Mills (Mrs. Redpath) having departed this life on the thirteenth day of June last (1901) before her said son.
That the said Appearers together with Harold Mills Redpath of Georgeville in the said Province of Quebec, Esquire, and John Reginald Redpath of Pincher Creek in the District of Alberta in the Dominion of Canada, Esquire, were with the said late Jocelyn Clifford Redpath the only children issue of the marriage of the said late John James Redpath and the said late Dame Ada Maria Mills, and the said four first named children are consequently the sole heirs-at-law and legal representatives of the said late Jocelyn Clifford Redpath.
That the immovable property hereinafter described was acquired jointly by the said late John James Redpath and the Executors of the Estate of the late John Redpath from George Winks and William Macdougall by Deed of Sale passed before J.S. Hunter, Notary, the fourteenth day of October, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, registered the seventeenth day of the same month under the No. 103196 M.W.
That by subsequent Deed passed before W.deM. Marler, Notary, the third of November, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, registered the eleventh day of the same month under No. 107580 M.W., it was declared that the said late John James Redpath was the proprietor of nine-twenty-seconds of the said immovable property and the Estate of the late John Redpath owned the remaining thirteen twenty-seconds of said property.
That by his Last Will and Testament executed in holograph form the twentieth of November, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and duly proved and Probate thereof granted by the Superior Court at Montreal on the eleventh of June, eighteen hundred and eighty-four and which said Will and Probate were registered in the Registry Office for the Registration Division of Montreal West together with a Notice of Immovable on the twenty-sixth of November eighteen hundred and ninety-two under the respective Nos.123144 and 123145; the said late John James Redpath bequeathed the usufruct of his property to his said wife and the ownership thereof to their children.
That in consequence of the death of the said late Dame Ada Maria Mills, the Substitution created by the Will of the said late John James Redpath has opened and by the death of the said late Jocelyn Clifford Redpath, his share in the said immovable has devolved upon his said brothers and sister and that, therefore, the said Miss Amy Redpath, Peter Whiteford Redpath, Harold Mills Redpath and John Reginald Redpath are now the absolute owners and co-proprietors equally of the said nine-twenty-second parts of the said immovable property, which property is known and designated as follows, to wit: —
That certain lot of land forming the South West corner of McGill and St. James Streets in the said City of Montreal known and designated by the number nine hundred and thirteen (No.913) on the Official Plan and in the Book of Reference of the St. Antoine Ward, containing an area of about fifteen thousand eight hundred superficial feet, English measure, with the buildings thereon known as the “Albert Buildings”.
WHEREOF ACTE.
DONE AND PASSED at the said City of Montreal on the day, month and year first herein written under the number thirty-five thousand three hundred and thirty and signed by the said Appearers with and in the presence of the said Notary after due reading hereof.
Signed:
P.W. Redpath
Amy Redpath
C. Cushing