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==Galligo family==
As per [https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/onhistory/2007-v99-n1-onhistory04967/1065795ar.pdf ''From Immigrant to Establishment''], Peter was the first Black theology student at Upper Canada College in 1837, and mentored by Bishop [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Strachan John Strachan] (1778-1867), who was the first Anglican Bishop of Toronto. Strachan hired him in 1840 to compile the first census of Toronto's Black population. His father was a "successful York St. merchant" who founded the Gallego Flour Mills which exported product to South America, and was based in Richmond before emigrating to Canada. Peter and his friend Edward de St. Remy founded an abolitionist newspaper for the British-American Anti-Slavery Society, as per John Lorinc's 2018 article "[https://www.thestar.com/life/first-census-of-toronto-s-black-population-in-1840-counted-525-people/article_bc4efc23-25b6-5b0a-8280-e37ffea0908b.html First Census...]. He took several trips to Jamaica in the early 1840's encouraging voluntary emigration. From +1870-1881+, he was employed as a teacher. 1870 @ 1418 Poplar, Richmond, VA; 1874 @ 2015 NW 11th, D.C.; 1874-1881 @ D.C. * P. Galligo Peter Gallego @ 214 S.W. 7th St. '''+1878-1880+'''(b. 1814 Richmond, [[Virginia|VA]] - d. 1883 Kingston, [[Jamaica]])* Catherine Sharten Gallego (b. 1831 Ireland; m. 1869 Manhattan, NYC, NY)
==Gordon family==