Charles Shirreff
Charles Shirreff( 26 July 1768 – 5 May 1847) was an early Canadian businessman and public official.
He was born in Leith, Scotland in 1768.
In 1817, he migrated to Smith's Creek, later Port Hope, in Upper Canada.
He obtained a grant of land in Fitzroy Township in the upper Ottawa Valley and moved there in 1818.
He founded the town of Fitzroy Harbour, Ontario on the Ottawa River in 1831 and built a grist mill there.
His son, Robert, took the post of deputy surveyor general of woods, which regulated tree cutting on public lands in Upper and Lower Canada by collecting dues.
Shirreff set up an informal arrangement where he measured the timber at Bytown and Robert collected the dues at Quebec City where the rafts of timber were sold.
Shirreff proposed a new system, which was accepted in 1832, where a system of timber limits was used to control the cutting of trees on crown lands.
A down payment was paid by the lumber company and then the fees were paid in full when the timber was sold.
This system was challenged in 1832 on the Gatineau River due to illegal cutting along the river; this area was exempted from public sale of timber limits.
Although Shirreff protested, the" Gatineau Privilege" remained in place.
A scandal surfaced when the company managing affairs at Quebec went bankrupt; it was discovered that they had been accepting promissory notes rather than bonds, resulting in lost revenue to the provinces.
The Shirreffs were replaced in the Bytown office in 1836.
Charles continued to expand his business interests at Fitzroy Harbour, adding a sawmill and a store.
During the 1830s, Shirreff promoted a plan to connect the Ottawa River to Georgian Bay via a canal.
Shirreff died in Bytown in 1847.
Shirreff
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Mícéal O'Rourke
Míċeál O'Rourke is an Irish pianist who is best known for his recordings of works by John Field.
Born and raised in Dublin, O' Rourke obtained a degree in music from University College, Dublin.
Shortly after graduation, he moved to Paris where he has lived ever since.
On 12 December 1976 he gave his first public recital in France, playing an all- Chopin programme.
He studied piano under Marcel Ciampi, a pupil of Debussy.
O'Rourke has increased the availability of John Field's works considerably through his recordings of all the piano concerti, sonatas, and nocturnes.
In 1994, O'Rourke was awarded the Chopin Medal by the Fryderyk Chopin Society of Warsaw in recognition of his" outstanding Chopin playing".
John Lister (priest)
John Field Lister( 19 January 1916 – 23 August 2006) was an eminent Anglican priest in the latter part of the 20th century.
John Field (Puritan)
John Field( 1545 – 1588), also called John Fielde, was a British Puritan clergyman and controversialist.
Charles Shirreff (painter)
Charles Shirreff( – 1829) was a deaf Scottish painter, specializing in portrait miniatures.
John M'Gilligen
John M'Gilligen was a 17th century Presbyterian minister.
He resisted the demands of the Episcopalian authorities and was imprisoned on the Bass Rock.
His name is sometimes also spelled as John MacKilligen or John M'Killican or John MacKillican or even John M' Gilligine.
John F. Simms
John Field Simms Jr.( December 18, 1916 – April 11, 1975) was a U.S. politician and lawyer from the state of New Mexico.
Roger Field (plant scientist)
Roger John Field is a retired New Zealand plant scientist and university administrator.
He served as the Vice Chancellor of Lincoln University from 2004 to 2012.
John Field (brigadier)
Brigadier John Field,( 10 April 1899 – 12 May 1974) was a senior officer in the Australian Army during the Second World War.
He commanded the 2/12th Battalion in the Middle East and Milne Force and the 7th Brigade in New Guinea.
He later went on to work with the State Electricity Commission of Victoria in large projects at Yallourn and the La Trobe Valley.

Question: Who is older, Charles Shirreff or John Field (Brigadier)?
Answer: Charles Shirreff