Talk:James McGill

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=picture== That guy is George Washington.--Manfariel (talk) 11:05, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Confusion about spouse identification and birthdates
There seems to be some inconsistencies in the identification of James McGill's spouse:


 * The infobox says: "Spouse(s): Charlotte Trottier Desrivières, née Guillimin"
 * The Family Life and Burnside Place section states: "In 1776, James McGill married Marie-Charlotte (1747-1818), the widow of Joseph-Amable Trottier Desrivières (1732-1771)."
 * The caption for the image of a woman with the same name as the Spouse(s) portion of the infobox states: "Charlotte Trottier Desrivières (b.1723), the aunt of McGill's stepsons; daughter-in-law of Jacques Testard de Montigny"

So the caption gives a birthdate for "Charlotte" that is 24 years before the birthdate for "Marie-Charlotte".


 * If "Marie-Charlotte" and "Charlotte" are the same person, then one of the birthdates is incorrect, and the text should indicate that "Marie-Charlotte" is commonly referred to as "Charlotte"
 * If they are different people, then the infobox needs to be corrected and the caption for the woman's image should be aligned with some other information about the relationship of the woman in the text of the article.

Dan Scott (talk) 15:30, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

Slaveholder
Wow. The cited fact that McGill was a slaveholder just zips on by with only one brief, offhand mention that's buried way, way down near the article's end. Can someone with access to the source material elaborate on this? This slaveholder is someone a major university was named after.... 70.172.123.185 (talk) 01:41, 13 December 2023 (UTC)