Robert Mackay (February 24, 1840 – December 25, 1916) was a Canadian businessman and statesman.Mackay was born in Caithness, Scotland. An 1855 emigrant to Montreal, Canada from his birthplace in Caithness, Mackay got his start working at the Henry Morgan & Company department store. He then went to work for Mackay Brothers wholesalers, owned by his uncles. Highly successful in business, he became a close business associate of powerful Montreal entrepreneurs: Rodolphe Forget, stockbroker; Herbert S. Holt, President of the Royal Bank of Canada; and Vincent Meredith, President of the Bank of Montreal. Wikipedia
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