Recherche dans la collection - Genealogical notes, with covering letter of 17 January 1967, of John Arthur Steele (b. 1894) of Ottawa, Ontario, relating to several branches of his family: the family descended from Alexander Steel(e) (1785-1837) a shoemaker of Paisley, Scotland, who emigrated to Canada [in 1821] and settled in Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Ontario; the descendants of Charles Coulter (fl. 1799-1816) of Skreen, Sligo County, Ireland, who emigrated to Canada in the early nineteenth century and settled in Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Ontario; the descendants of James Johnstone (1789-1875), of Brig-o'-Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland, who farmed at Almonte, Lanark County, and Underwood, Bruce County, Ontario; and the descendants of Gregor McGregor (ca. 1813-1891), who emigrated from Scotland to Canada in 1833 and settled in Pakenham Township, Lanark County, Ontario