Ramsay, George

George Ramsay was born in Scotland on 22 October 1770. He became ninth Earl of the hereditary estates of Dalhousie, and on 12 April 1820, he was appointed governor-in-chief of British North America. He was the man who first conceived the strategy of establishing a settlement at the entrance of the Rideau canal. He returned to England in 1828, where he died on 21 March 1838 at the age of 68 [Brault 1946, Haig 1975, Burroughs 1988].