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Line 1: {{no footnotes|date=January 2017}} {{Infobox Officeholder | honorific-prefix = The Hon. Line 28 ⟶ 30: '''Robert Mackay''' (February 24, 1840 – December 25, 1916) was a [[Canadians|Canadian]] businessman and statesman. An 1855 emigrant to [[Montreal]], [[Canada]] from his birthplace in [[Caithness]], [[Scotland]], Robert Mackay got his start working at the [[Morgan's|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 Robert Mackay was president of [[Herald Publishing Company]], vice-president of the [[Bell Canada|Bell Telephone Company of Canada]], and sat on the [[board of directors]] of [[Canadian Pacific Railway]], [[Royal Bank of Canada|Royal Trust Company]], [[Bank of Montreal]], [[Montreal Light, Heat & Power|Montreal Light, Heat & Power Company]], [[Dominion Textile|Dominion Textile Company, Limited]], and others. A member of the [[Liberal Party of Canada]], he twice ran unsuccessfully for the [[Canadian House of Commons]] as the [[Liberal Party of Canada]] candidate for the St. Antoine, Quebec riding in the [[Canadian federal election, 1896|1896]] and [[Canadian federal election, 1900|1900 Canadian federal elections]]. In 1901, he was appointed by [[Wilfrid Laurier|Prime Minister Laurier]] to the [[Canadian Senate]] where he served until his death on [[Christmas Day]] in 1916. Robert Mackay is interred with his wife Jane in the [[Mount Royal Cemetery]] in Montreal. His daughter, [[Cairine Wilson|Cairine Mackay Wilson]], became the first woman appointed to the Canadian Senate. His home in Montreal's [[Golden Square Mile]] was demolished in 1930. His brother [[Hugh Mackay (Quebec politician)|Hugh]] served in Quebec's Legislative Council. | |||