McGill Library
McLennan Library Building3459 rue McTavish
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 0C9
Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Archibald, Isaac Adams
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1823-1893
History
Isaac Adams Archibald was born on April 1, 1823, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
He was a schoolteacher. In 1846, he left Nova Scotia as part of a Presbyterian missionary expedition to the South Seas islands of New Hebrides (now Vanuatu). He taught in Sydney before settling in the Clarence region, New South Wales.
In 1846, he married Eliza Ann McKenzie (1827–1868), and in 1880, he remarried Sarah Turton (1844–1926). He died on October 18, 1893, in Central Cumberland, New South Wales.