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Robert Randolph Bruce, 1863-1942, was born in St. Andrews, Scotland, and received a bachelor of science degree at Glasgow University in 1886. He worked as a civil engineer and then came to Canada via New York in 1887. He became a surveyor on the Canadian Pacific Railway's (CPR) Crowsnest Pass route. He then went to McGill University for a degree in mineralogy and established himself in mining. In 1897 he moved to Lake Windermere where he bought land and formed the Columbia Valley Irrigation Fruit Lands, Ltd. In 1900 he became CPR land agent for the Windermere district. For a time he was assistant engineer at the Horse Thief Mine, after which he bought and developed the Paradise Mine, a silver-lead mine near the town of Invermere, which he had founded. From 1926-1931 he was lieutenant-governor of British Columbia, and from 1936-1938 he was Canada's Minister to Tokyo. He was married twice, to Lady Elizabeth Northcote, ?-1916, in 1915, and to Edith Molson in 1932. He died in Montreal. For further information see Thomas C. Meredith's article "Boosting in British Columbia : The Creation and Rise of Invermere" in Urban History Review. - vol. 16, no. 3 (February, 1988); and Georgeen Barrass' article "Western Caricatures" in Glenbow [magazine]. -- vol. 4, no.1 (February 1971), p. 4-7.