Samuel Edward Weir Q.C. (1898-1981), a man both loved and reviled with scorn, was born in London, Ontario. Descended from pioneer stock, with roots in both Ireland and Germany, Samuel Weir possessed incisive wit, exceptional intelligence and a passionate zest for any subject that caught his eye. Over a period of sixty years he built an extraordinary collection of approximately one thousand works of outstanding art and sculpture.
This extensively researched biography of a talented yet quixotic lawyer who contributed much to Canada’s heritage begins in the early 19th century and covers well over a hundred years of our nation’s growth, until his death at his home, River Brink, in Queenston, Ontario.
Today, River Brink is the gallery in which The Weir Collection is exhibited and housed.
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 709/.2
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
- General Note
- Includes index Originally published: Toronto, Ont. : Natural Heritage/Natural History, 1998 Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 1896219403 9781770704299
- LCCN
- N5230.C3
- LCCN Item number
- W456 1998eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaBNVSL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (312 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00603215 (OCoLC)287641598 (CaOOCEL)410613
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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Table of Contents
- Table of Contents 6
- Acknowledgments 8
- Introduction 10
- 1 The Weir Family 12
- 2 The Bawtenheimer Family 26
- 3 An Impoverished Beginning 41
- 4 His Early Years Of Practice 60
- 5 The Young Politician And The Emerging Collector 73
- 6 Sam The Master In His Own Firm 85
- 7 An Interest In Art Broadens 91
- 8 The Early Years Of War 99
- 9 The War And Sam's Deepening Concern For His Father 102
- 10 Taxes And The Little Man 109
- 11 Achievement, Prominence and Success 115
- 12 Art Invester, Avid Horticulturalist and Businessman 120
- 13 The Library And The Growing Collection 126
- 14 A Summer Trip To Remember 136
- 15 A Turning Point In The Weir Collection 143
- 16 London, Wall Street And Possibly Paris 173
- 17 Advice, Personal Grief And Canadian Art 184
- 18 Family And Friends 193
- 19 A Fraud Case, A Foundation And A Floundered Relationship 198
- 20 The Plague Of Ill Health 209
- 21 From The Centennial Year To The Shaping Of River Brink 214
- 22 Knowledge And Experience 222
- 23 River Brink And Domestic Tranquility At Last 228
- 24 Sam's Last Romantic Fling 245
- 25 A Time Of Frustration 262
- 26 Letters and More Letters 267
- 27 The Angel Arrives And The Marriage Ends 272
- 28 The Final Days 278
- The Weir family 282
- Archibald Weir 282
- James and Susannah Sutton Weir 283
- Robert and Martha Sutton Weir 284
- Richard and Margaret Moir Weir 285
- The Bawtenheimer (Badenheimer) Family Johann Peter Badenheimer 286
- Sources 287
- Credits for Illustrations 290
- Index 293
- A 293
- B 294
- C 295
- D 297
- E 297
- F 298
- G 298
- H 299
- I 300
- J 300
- K 301
- L 301
- M 302
- N 304
- O 304
- P 305
- Q 306
- R 306
- S 307
- T 308
- U 309
- V 309
- W 310
- Y 312
- Z 312
- About The Author 313
