ROSBOROUGH, WILMER BRYDONE (1888-1967)

ROSBOROUGH, WILMER BRYDONE, Presbyterian minister, Loggieville, 1915-17; b. Sheet Harbour, N.S., 20 Dec 1888, s/o the Rev. Samuel Rosborough and Anna Stirling Jack; m. 1915, Edith Marie Kirk, of Antigonish, N.S.; d. Montreal, 27 Jun 1967.

A nephew of both the Rev. James Rosborough and Elizabeth Jack, the wife of W. Millet Salter, Wilmer B. Rosborough was educated at Dalhousie University (BA 1909) and trained for the ministry at the Presbyterian College in Halifax. He was stationed at Mulgrave, N.S., until 1915, when he was called to Loggieville. He was twenty-seven years old at that time, and he was married nine months later. He resigned and left at Christmas 1917 to assist a maternal uncle, the Rev. T. Chalmers Jack, DD, of North Sydney, N.S., who had become seriously ill.

Rosborough was subsequently based at Pictou and Amherst, N.S., respectively until 1929, when he became the United Church minister in Lachute, Que. With the exception of a year in Hamilton, Ont., he spent the rest of his ministerial career at Lachute. He retired there in 1954 and remained a resident until his death in hospital in Montreal in 1967. He was survived by his wife, Edith M. Kirk, and two daughters.