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With a model like the successful entrepreneur Sir Samuel Cunard and the prominent scholar, ornithologist and historian Sir James McPherson LeMoine, both descendants of United Empire Loyalists (U.E.L.) who were religiously persecuted and fled the American Revolutionary War for British North America, Frederick John Cribb, Jr., became a successful entrepreneur and a charitable figure.

Before the American Revolution, Cribb Jr.’s maternal ancestors William Kennedy and Mary Butler married in Boston in 1762. During the American War of Independence, they fled to Canada along with the other 60,000 U.E.L. under the guidance and protection of Sir John Johnson. The Kennedy-Butler Family became the pioneers of Douglastown as true Christians. They strived as farmers, fishermen and helpers of their fellow settlers. Among them was Cribb Jr.’s maternal grandmother Geneviève Morris, a descendant of another pioneer of Douglastown, a U.E.L. and sea captain Thomas Morris, originally from County Wexford, Ireland.

Irish on both sides of the family, Frederick John Cribb, Jr.’s, father’s great-grandparents were Thomas Flynn and Bridget Ryan, who married in the 1830s in the Anglican Church of Forteau, Labrador, British Newfoundland.

Born in Montreal to parents married in St. Patrick’s Basilica, Cribb, Jr., was educated at St. Patrick’s High School in Quebec City where his family moved during the 1940s. Then, in 1960, Fred earned a bachelor’s degree from St. Francis Xavier University along with another prominent alumnus The Right Honourable Brian Mulroney, former Prime Minister of Canada.

Like John Theodore Ross, a successful entrepreneur of Scottish ancestry and a great benefactor of Quebec City, Fred was a successful businessman and a well-regarded philanthropist in the Province of Quebec's capital.

Like Ross, Fred was involved significantly in educational, hospitable, charitable and fraternal organizations such as the St. Patrick High School, the St Patrick Church, the Jeffery Hale Hospital and the St. Patrick’s Day Parade of Quebec City to which he brought his generous financial support. His legacies also include his support to the Fraser Recovery Program, a social initiative and an intercultural exchange, the Calgary- Quebec exchange (between the Carnival and the Stampede). In 2013, he was honoured by Heritage Publishing which bestowed upon him The Order of St. Patrick Award at the book launch of The Irish American Tradition in Boston College’s The Honorable John J. Burns Library.