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About Robert Hoyle
- Robert Hoyle (September 16, 1781 – February 15, 1857) was a businessman and political figure in Lower Canada. He was born in Lancashire, England in 1781 and came to New York state in 1806.
- Hoyle supplied lumber to Lower Canada.
- After he declared loyalty to Britain during the War of 1812, he was forced to abandon his property there and he settled in the Richelieu valley near Lacolle.
- His brother Henry was leasing the seigneury of Lacolle.
- Hoyle became involved in farming and the lumber trade there.
- He also operated a ferry service across the Richelieu River.
- Hoyle served in the local militia, becoming lieutenant-colonel during the Lower Canada Rebellion, and also served as justice of the peace.
- He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada for L'Acadie in 1834.
- He voted against the Ninety-Two Resolutions.
- In 1832, he married Elizabeth B.
- Nye, who was the sister of some important local merchants; his first wife Pamelia Wright had died seven years earlier.
- In 1834, he was named customs collector at Stanstead and, in 1835, registrar for L'Acadie County.
- Hoyle retired from his duties as customs collector in 1844. He died at Lacolle in 1857 and was buried in Champlain, New York.
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