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-The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Cyclopædia of Canadian Biography, by Various
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-Title: A Cyclopædia of Canadian Biography
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-
- REPRESENTATIVE CANADIANS
-
-
-
-
-[Illustration: RT. HON. SIR R. L. BORDEN. P.C., K.C.M.G., K.C., LL.D.,
- Ottawa]
-
-
-
-
- NATIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL SERIES III
-
-
- A CYCLOPÆDIA
- _of_
- CANADIAN BIOGRAPHY
-
-
-Brief Biographies of Persons Distinguished in the Professional, Military
- and Political Life, and the Commerce and Industry of
- Canada, in the Twentieth Century.
-
-
- _Edited by_
- HECTOR CHARLESWORTH
-
-
-
- TORONTO
- THE HUNTER-ROSE COMPANY, LIMITED
- 1919
-
-
-
-
- PREFACE
-
-
-It is now thirty-three years since the first volume of biographies
-bearing the title “Representative Canadians” was issued by the present
-firm of publishers. In 1886 the scope of the work was unique, so far as
-this country was concerned, for previous volumes of the kind had
-confined themselves to the careers of Canadians who have won fame in
-either a political or military capacity. The aim of the editors of the
-first volume of “Representative Canadians” was to give recognition of
-the emergence of Canada from a colonial to something like a national
-status by recording something of the achievements of those who had
-contributed to the intellectual, industrial and commercial growth of the
-country, as well as of its political leaders. The purpose remained the
-same in the second volume published in 1888, and is once more the
-impulse of the present book.
-
-The vast majority of those whose careers were recorded in 1886 have
-passed away; and the same is true of those who figured in the second
-volume of the series. Consequently, the earlier issues of
-“Representative Canadians” grow every day more precious, for, in many
-cases, they contain the sole records of men who initiated great
-enterprises or furthered important movements which have left a lasting
-mark on the history of Canada. We cannot but think that the reader who,
-thirty or forty years hence, may chance to scan the pages of the present
-volume will gather a very vivid picture of Canada as it was in one of
-the crucial periods of the world’s affairs—a picture in which the
-characters of those Canadians who lived and “carried on” through the
-years of the greatest war in all history may be discerned in the records
-of their lives. There is hardly a page in this book into which the war
-does not enter directly or indirectly in some form or other, by way of
-allusions to services rendered, bereavements endured, or honours gained
-on the field of battle. In that sense the 1919 volume must remain
-unique, and a mine of useful information for students in future
-generations.
-
-Generally speaking, in comparing the biographies of the Canadians of
-to-day with those of 1886 and 1888, the reader gains a sense of this
-country’s continuous expansion. The present century has witnessed a
-marvellous development in the Canadian West, so that in these pages we
-find numerous records showing not merely the commercial, but the
-intellectual, progress of the Provinces West of the Great Lakes—stories
-of brilliant careers built up by men who were mere children in the East
-when the first volume was published. The reader will also note in the
-biographies of business men which abound in these pages, the
-ever-increasing scale on which Canadian commerce and enterprise
-everywhere is conducted, so that what seemed large in 1886 is relatively
-small to-day. Though some of the men whose names figure in the index are
-of less importance than others, all play their part in our complex and
-vigorous social life, and the story of their progress and fortunes
-cannot be really tedious to any sympathetic student of humanity.
-
-TORONTO, 1919.
-
-
-
-
- INDEX
-
-
- Adamson, Alan Joseph, 124
- Adamson, John Evans, 121
- Aikenhead, Thomas E., 47
- Aikins, Lieut.-Col. Sir James Albert Manning, 81
- Allan, John, 98
- Ames, Sir Herbert B., 4
- Ami, Henry M., 142
- Amyot, Lieut.-Col. John A., 299
- Anderson, Alexander James, 126
- Anderson, Frederic William, 75
- Anderson, Prof. George R., 144
- Anderson, James T. M., 65
- Antliff, Rev. James Cooper, 52
- Arkell, Thomas Reginald, 180
- Armstrong, Samuel, 174
- Arnold, William McCullough, 114
- Arrell, Harrison, 52
- Arsenault, Hon. Aubin E., 215
- Ashby, Joseph Seraphin Aime, 127
- Ashton, Major-General Ernest, 270
- Askwith, John E., 106
- Asselin, Major Olivar, 144
-
- Bâby, Wolstan Alexander Dixie, 229
- Bachand, Leonide Charles, 69
- Bailey, Charles Frederick, 218
- Baillie, Sir Frank, 110
- Bain, John, 66
- Ball, Emerson Ewart, 61
- Ball, Robert James, 64
- Ballantyne, James, 145
- Barnard, Sir Frank Stillman, 223
- Barnard, Hon. George Henry, 126
- Barrow, Hon. Edward Dodsley, 205
- Barry, Walter H., 124
- Baskerville, William Joseph, 148
- Bates, Joseph Lever, 165
- Bates, Thomas Nathaniel, 272
- Beach, Mahlon F., 49
- Beaumont, Ernest Joseph, 56
- Bégin, Louis Nazaire, 17
- Beith, Hon. Robert, 40
- Bellemare, Adelard, 125
- Bell, Clarence A. H., 274
- Bell, Hon. George Alexander, 230
- Bell, John Howatt, 74
- Bell, John Percival, 257
- Belcourt, Hon. Napoleon Antoine, 61
- Bender, Prosper, 31
- Bennett, Richard Bedford, 255
- Berthiaume, Arthur, 147
- Best, John, 43
- Bethune, Rev. Charles James Stewart, 76
- Birkett, Thomas, 125
- Black, Henry, 133
- Blair, Lieutenant James K., 273
- Blondin, Hon. Pierre Edouard, 212
- Bole, David W., 221
- Borden, Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Laird, 1
- Boudreau, L. N. H. Rodolphe, 180
- Bowell, Sir Mackenzie, 44
- Bowes, James Leslie Llewellyn, 69
- Bowie, Lieut.-Colonel Henry William, 251
- Bowman, Charles Martin, 275
- Boyd, Leslie Hale, 98
- Boyer, Major Gustave, 90
- Boyer, Louis, 40
- Braden, Norman Short, 250
- Braithwaite, Edward Ernest, 73
- Breadner, Robert Walker, 132
- Breithaupt, John C., 228
- Breithaupt, Louis J., 43
- Brennan, John Charles, 131
- Briggs, William, 68
- Bristow, Michael George, 73
- Brock, Lieut.-Colonel Henry, 70
- Brock, William Rees, 71
- Brodeur, Hon. Louis Philippe, 220
- Bronson, Hon. Erskine Henry, 65
- Bronson, Henry Franklin, 34
- Brossoit, Numa Edouard, 274
- Buchanan, William A., 171
- Buckles, Daniel, 119
- Bulman, William John, 131
- Burgoyne, William Bartlett, 186
- Burpee, Lawrence Johnston, 39
- Bulyea George Hedley Vicars, 143
- Butler, Lieut.-Colonel Thomas Page, 282
- Butterworth, John George Bissett, 256
- Byrne, Daniel J., 129
-
- Callahan, John, 190
- Camaraire, Alfred Frederick, 115
- Cameron, Lieut.-Colonel Sir Douglas, 16
- Campbell, Colin, 103
- Campbell, Donald Grant, 151
- Campbell, William Brough, 234
- Cane, James Gilbert, 111
- Carew, John, 22
- Carson, Hugh, 145
- Cartwright, Lieut.-Colonel Robert, 168
- Casgrain, Philippe Baby, 27
- Cash, Edward L., 157
- Cassils, Charles, 151
- Cave, James G., 138
- Chabot, Lieut.-Colonel John Leo, 63
- Chadwick, Edward Marion, 37
- Chamberlain, Theodore F., 45
- Chambers, Colonel Ernest John, 283
- Champagne, Napoleon, 209
- Chapleau, Maj. Samuel Edmour St. Onge, 47
- Chaplin, James D., 184
- Charlesworth, Hector, 254
- Charlton, William Granville, 64
- Chauvin, Hon. T. Hector, 150
- Chisholm, William Craig, 108
- Choquette, Ernest, 138
- Choquette, Philippe Auguste, 137
- Chrysler, Francis Henry, 80
- Clark, Lieut.-Colonel Hugh, 100
- Clark, John Murray, 78
- Clute, Arthur Roger, 34
- Coats, Robert Hamilton, 104
- Coburn, John W., 123
- Cockshutt, William Foster, 2
- Cody, Hon. Henry John, 109
- Cole, George M., 63
- Cole, Col. Wilmot Howard, 28
- Colquhoun, Arthur Hugh Urquhart, 261
- Commeford, James W., 139
- Conant, Gordon Daniel, 131
- Connolly, Bernard Gervase, 190
- Coombs, Albert Ernest, 64
- Coristine, Major Stanley B., 295
- Corrigan, Ambrose Eugene, 206
- Côté, Narcisse Omer, 221
- Cotton, Major-General W. H., 249
- Cousineau, Joseph Philemon, 192
- Cousins, George Vipond, 159
- Cowan, William Frederick, 84
- Cox, Herbert Coplin, 26
- Coyne, James Henry, 14
- Crannell, Levi, 302
- Creelman, Lieut.-Colonel John Jennings, 185
- Cronyn, Hume, 228
- Cross, Alexander S. G., 151
- Cross, Charles Wilson, 32
- Crossland, E. F., 136
- Crothers, Hon. Thomas Wilson, 90
- Crowther, William H., 190
- Cudmore, Sedley Anthony, 302
- Currie, General Sir Arthur William, 165
- Cutten, George Barton, 193
-
- Dalley, Frederick Fenner, 218
- Dalton, Hon. Charles, 204
- Daniels, Hon. Orlando T., 206
- Dargavel, John Robertson, 133
- Davey, James, 68
- David, Hon. Laurent Olivier, 182
- Davidson, James Wheeler, 191
- Davidson, William McCartney, 225
- Davis, Albert Mayno, 229
- Davis, Aubrey, 176
- Dawson, Arthur Osborne, 32
- De Celles, Alfred Duclos, 66
- Delage, Cyrille F., 195
- Demers, Joseph, 160
- Denis, J. Wilfred, 69
- Denton, Frank, 62
- Deroche, William Paschal, 172
- de Tremaudan, A. H., 76
- Detwiler, Noah Bechtel, 277
- Dewart, Herbert Hartley, 275
- Dickson, Rev. James A. R., 136
- Dinnick, Lieut.-Col. Wilfrid Servington, 193
- Diver, Frederick, 125
- Dobell, Sir Charles Macpherson, 24
- Doherty, Hon. Charles Joseph, 156
- Dollard, Rev. James B., 184
- Donogh, John Ormsby, 161
- Donovan, Albert Edward, 300
- Doughty, Arthur George, 297
- Douglas, James, 32
- Douglas, William James, 195
- Dowling, John S., 176
- Drayton, Sir Henry Lumley, 23
- Drayton, Philip Henry, 276
- Drysdale, William, 186
- Duclos, Arnold Willard, 285
- Duff, Hon. Lyman Poore, 271
- Dunlop, Edward Arunah, 237
- Dunning, Hon. Charles Avery, 216
- Dwyer, William Henry, 72
- Dymond, Allan Malcolm, 41
-
- Earle, Rufus Redmond, 119
- Easson, Robert Henry, 281
- Eddis, Wilton C., 69
- Edwards, John Wesley, 45
- Edwards, Hon. William Cameron, 123
- Elliot, Major-General Harry Macintire, 284
- Elliott, John Campbell, 60
- Ellis, James Albert, 102
- Ellis, John F., 178
- Elson, John Melbourne, 288
- Englehart, Joel Lewis, 173
- Ethier, Joseph Arthur Calixte, 133
- Evanturel, Gustave, 67
- Ewart, David, 174
- Ewing, William, 194
-
- Farris, Hon. John Wallace de Beque, 214
- Farrow, Robinson Russell, 238
- Faulkner, Hon. George Everett, 206
- Ferguson, Hon. George Howard, 196
- Ferguson, Hon. William Nassau, 39
- Fielding, Hon. William Stevens, 279
- Fifield, Albert Frank, 198
- Finlayson, George Daniel, 239
- Finnie, David Maclachan, 179
- Fisher, His Honor Walter George, 185
- Flavelle, William M., 134
- Flint, Thomas Barnard, 79
- Flynn, Edmund James, 263
- Foran, Joseph Kearney, 280
- Forin, John Andrew, 122
- Forman, James C., 247
- Forster, J. W. L., 172
- Foster, Thomas Wilfred, 248
- Foster, Hon. Walter Edward, 254
- Fraleck, Edison Baldwin, 67
- Fraser, George B., 71
- Freiman, Archibald J., 132
-
- Galbraith, Walter Stuart, 147
- Gale, George Charles, 134
- Gale, Robert Henry, 288
- Gariepy, Wilfrid, 127
- Garland, John L., 105
- Garneau, Sir George, 25
- Gartshore, Lieut.-Colonel William Moir, 180
- Gibbon, Arthur Playford, 232
- Gibbons, John Joseph, 69
- Gibson, Brig.-General Sir John Morison, 242
- Gibson, Theron, 27
- Gill, Robert, 289
- Gillespie, Professor Peter, 74
- Girard, A. D., 167
- Girard, Joseph, 31
- Godfrey, Oswald Julius, 149
- Goodeve, Hon. Arthur Samuel, 34
- Goring, C. C., 193
- Gouin, Hon. Sir Jean Lomer, 22
- Graham, Hon. George Perry, 267
- Grange, Edward Alexander Andrew, 74
- Grange, Edward Wilkinson, 39
- Grant, Gordon, 197
- Grierson, Hon. George Allison, 133
- Groves, Abraham, 38
- Guilbault, Joseph Pierre Octave, 34
- Gwatkin, Major-General W. G., 260
- Gwynne, Brig.-General Reginald John, 286
-
- Hackett, Edward, 37
- Hagedorn, Charles Kappler, 116
- Hamilton, Frank Kent, 223
- Hamilton, Ralph Bergen, 189
- Hanna, Hon. William John, 287
- Hannon, James Willson, 159
- Hara, Frederick North, 198
- Hare, Rev. John James, 269
- Harkin, James, B., 174
- Harper, John Murdoch, 129
- Harris, Reginald V., 59
- Harris, William Gean, 175
- Harrison, Nathaniel Isles, 147
- Hastings, David, 75
- Hazen, Hon. Sir John Douglas, 93
- Heakes, Francis Riley, 152
- Hearst, Hon. Sir William Howard, 7
- Heaton, Ernest, 87
- Hebert, Zepherin, 88
- Helmer, Brig.-General Richard Alexis, 265
- Henderson, Alexander, 235
- Henderson, William Andrew, 118
- Henry, David Edouard, 231
- Henry, Hon. George Stewart, 282
- Higinbotham, John D., 143
- Hill, Hamnett Pinhey, 140
- Hinds, Leonard D’Arcy Bernard, 33
- Hocken, Norman Cecil, 195
- Hodgetts, Colonel Charles Alfred, 223
- Hogg, Andrew Brydon, 121
- Hogg, William Drummond, 285
- Honeywell, Major Frederick Henry, 164
- Hook, Thomas, 300
- Hopkins, Arthur George, 150
- Hopkins, Innes, 188
- Hore, George Charles, 134
- Hough, John Atwell, 198
- Hudson, Hon. Albert Blellock, 145
- Hughes, Brig.-General William St. Pierre, 258
- Hunnisett, James Edward, 201
- Hunter, Lieut.-Colonel A. T., 37
- Hunter, Major W. E. Lincoln, 281
- Hurdman, George Charles, 271
- Hutchison, Colonel William, 241
-
- Ingersoll, James Hamilton, 178
- Ingram, George C., 123
- Innes, Hugh Patterson, 199
- Irwin, William Nassau, 234
- Izzard, Dennis Jabez, 95
-
- Jacobs, Samuel W., 89
- James, Edgar Augustus, 178
- Jarvis, Ernest Frederick, 191
- Jenkins, Lieut.-Col. Stephen Rice Jenkins, 213
- Jetté, the Hon. Sir Louis, 10
- Johnson, Hon. Thomas Herman, 238
- Johnston, Ebenezer Forsyth Blackie, 97
- Jones, George Burpee, 95
- Jones, Henry Victor Franklin, 87
- Jones, James William, 161
-
- Kastner, Gideon, 163
- Keefe, R. Daniel, 86
- Kelso, John Joseph, 194
- Kemp, Hon. Sir Albert Edward, 16
- Kennedy, William Costello, 11
- Kent, Joseph, 110
- King, Hon. James H., 195
- King, Hon. William Lyon Mackenzie, 286
- Kyte, George William, 77
-
- Labelle, Alfred Eugene, 158
- Laidlaw, Lorne Nelson, 148
- Landry, Hon. David V., 142
- Langelier, Hon. Sir François-Xavier, 18
- Langley, James P., 44
- Langton, Brig.-General Joseph Graham, 266
- Laurier, the late Rt. Hon. Sir Wilfrid, 3
- Law, Bonnar B., 200
- Lawlor, H. W., 36
- Leblanc, Sir Pierre-Evariste, 159
- Lemieux, Auguste, 35
- Lemieux, Hon. Sir François-Xavier, 12
- Lennie, Robert Scott, 141
- Lennox, Lieut.-Colonel Thomas Herbert, 207
- Leonard, Lieut.-Colonel Reuben Wells, 268
- Lesperance, Albert Paneran, 246
- L’Esperance, Hon. David Ovide, 85
- Levy, Gabriel Herman, 221
- Lighthall, William Douw, 101
- Longley, Hon. J. W., 51
- Lumsden, John, 315
- Lynch, Hon. William Warren, 19
-
- MacAulay, Brock, 157
- Macaulay, John, 101
- Macaulay, Thomas Basset, 99
- Macdonald, Sir Donald Alexander, 225
- MacDonald, Donald D., 175
- Macdonald, John, 50
- MacDonald, Neil S., 48
- Macdonald, Selkirk M., 96
- Machado, Jose Antonio, 211
- Machin, Lt.-Col. Harold Arthur Clement, 203
- Mackay, Hon. Col. Alexander Howard, 191
- Mackenzie, Daniel D., 294
- Mackenzie, Hugh Blair, 158
- MacKenzie, John Angus, 177
- Mackenzie, Norman, 93
- Mackie, George D., 150
- Mackintosh, Charles Herbert, 56
- MacLean, Archie, 86
- MacLean, Hon. John Duncan, 117
- Mann, Alexander Robert, 168
- Marchand, Pierre, 249
- Marcile, Joseph Edmond, 155
- Margeson, Lieut.-Colonel Joseph Willis, 217
- Marnoch, George Robert, 104
- Marsh, Lieut.-Colonel Lorne Wilmot, 88
- Marshall, Lieut.-Col. Kenric Reid, 302
- Marshall, Lieut.-Colonel Noel G. L., 169
- Martin, Hon. William Melville, 231
- Massey, C. D., 53
- Massey, Charles Vincent, 202
- Mather, James, 205
- Matthews, George Sands, 155
- McBrien, Frederick George, 155
- McCarthy, Jesse Overn, 201
- McClennaghan, Stewart, 169
- McConnell, Richard George, 165
- McCorkill, Hon. Justice John Charles, 20
- McCuaig, Clarence James, 111
- McCuish, Robert George, 120
- McCullough, Charles Robert, 48
- McCurdy, Fleming Blanchard, 266
- McEvoy, John Millar, 283
- McFall, Robert James, 298
- McGiverin, Harold Buchanan, 177
- McInenly, William, 60
- McInnes, William, 203
- McKay, Hon. James, 159
- McKeon, Very Rev. Dean P. J., 178
- McLean, Angus Alexander, 240
- McLean, Hon. Daniel, 160
- McLean, Major-Gen. Hugh Havelock, 62
- McMahon, Edward, 89
- McMahon, James Alexander, 259
- McNeeley, John Strachan Lewis, 153
- McNeil, Most Rev. Neil, 175
- McNeillie, James Richardson, 36
- McQuarrie, William Garland, 188
- Meek, Edward, 58
- Meighen, Hon. Arthur, 8
- Merner, Jonathan Joseph, 154
- Middlebró, William S., 87
- Mikel, William Charles, 54
- Mills, Charles Henry, 93
- Miller, Frederick Robert, 213
- Miller, Lieut.-Colonel John Bellamy, 262
- Mitchell, Hon. Robert Menzies, 11
- Mitchell, Hon. Walter George, 245
- Minehan, Rev. Lancelot, 85
- Mondou, Alberic Archie, 153
- Montgomery, Hugh John, 96
- Morehouse, Oscar Emery, 135
- Morgan, Colin Daniel, 52
- Morin, Pierre Alphonse, 270
- Morin, Victor, 75
- Murphy, Hon. Charles, 28
- Murray, Hon. Robert, 252
- Musson, Charles Joseph, 53
-
- Nanton, Sir Augustus Meredith, 183
- Nash, Charles William, 280
- Nasmith, Colonel George Gallie, 263
- Neill, Charles Ernest, 278
- Nesbitt, Arthur Russel, 249
- Nicholls, Lieut.-Colonel Hon. Frederic, 264
- Nicholson, Arthur Edwin, 277
- Nickle, William Folger, 107
- Norcross, Joseph W., 201
- Northrup, William Barton, 250
- Notman, John Charles, 177
- Noyes, John Powell, 257
-
- Odlum, Edward, 141
- O’Hara, Francis Charles Trench, 118
- Oliver, Hon. John, 196
- O’Reilly, His Honor James Redmond, 86
- Owens, Edward W. J., 299
-
- Paisley, James K., 83
- Panet, Lieut.-Colonel Charles Louis, 279
- Paquet, Eugene, 157
- Pardee, Frederick Forsyth, 33
- Pardoe, Avern, 176
- Parent, Hon. Simon Napoleon, 226
- Parmelee, William George, 20
- Parsons, S. R., 246
- Paton, Hugh, 177
- Patrick, John Alexander Macdonald, 120
- Patterson, John Pratt, 61
- Payne, Francis Freeman, 150
- Pedley, Frank, 213
- Pennington, David Henry, 117
- Perley, Sir George Halsey, 205
- Perry, Nathaniel Irwin, 139
- Petrie, Harry David, 275
- Peuchen, Lieut.-Colonel Arthur Godfrey, 121
- Pope, Major William Walter, 82
- Poulin, Stanislas, 101
- Power, William, 161
- Pratt, Edward Courtney, 82
- Price, Samuel, 95
- Price, Sir William, 15
- Pringle, Robert Abercrombie, 105
- Pritchard, Henry Thomas, 215
- Proudfoot, William, 210
- Proulx, Edmond, 161
- Pugh, Thomas James, 181
- Pullan, E., 277
- Pyne, Lieut.-Colonel Hon. Robert Allan, 90
-
- Rawlings, Henry Edward, 197
- Regan, Frank, 189
- Reid, Frank, 85
- Reid, William Brown, 237
- Rhodes, Hon. Edgar Nelson, 13
- Richardson, John, 297
- Riddell, Hon. William Renwick, 82
- Roadhouse, William Albert, 109
- Robb, Thomas, 54
- Robertson, Edward Blake, 184
- Robertson, Hon. Gideon Decker, 240
- Robertson, John Ross, 5
- Robertson, Norman, 94
- Robertson, William John, 91
- Robertson, William Robert, 199
- Robinette, Thomas Cowper, 252
- Roche, Hon. William James, 102
- Roche, Francis James, 292
- Rogers, Albert S., 183
- Rogers, John Morrison, 261
- Rose, George Maclean, 272
- Rose, Hon. Mr. Justice Hugh Edward, 93
- Rose, William Oliver, 188
- Ross, James Gibb, 21
- Ross, John Theodore, 261
- Rowell, Hon. Newton Wesley, 202
- Russell, Adam Lothian, 235
- Rust, C. H., 124
- Rutherford, Colonel Hon. Alexander Cameron, 278
- Rutherford, John Gunion, 226
-
- Saint Cyr, Joseph Fortunat, 98
- Sainte-Pierre, F., 97
- St. Jean, Ulric, 157
- Samuel, Sigmund, 92
- Sauvé, Arthur, 203
- Sayles, Edwin Roy, 164
- Scott, F. Stewart, 183
- Scott, James Guthrie, 30
- Scott, William Duncan, 106
- Seguin, Paul Arthur, 92
- Senecal, Francis Albert, 204
- Sharpe, Samuel Simpson, 100
- Shepherd, Simpson James, 123
- Shier, Walter C., 91
- Shillington, Lieut.-Col. Adam Tozeland, 236
- Shortly, Orville Benjamin, 248
- Shutt, Frank Thomas, 96
- Sifton, Hon. Arthur Lewis, 209
- Sinclair, Robert Victor, 234
- Sinclair, Victor Albert, 94
- Sine, Frederick, 158
- Sloan, Hon. William, 207
- Smart, Russell Sutherland, 259
- Smith, Hon. Ernest Albert, 214
- Smith, John Charles, 92
- Smith, William, 53
- Stapells, Richard A., 219
- Starr, J. R. L., 156
- Stewart, Charles, 99
- Stewart, Dougald, 160
- Street, Lieut.-Colonel Douglas Richmond, 140
- Struthers, James Douglas, 163
- Studholme, Allan, 115
- Sutherland, Donald, 60
- Sutherland, Fred C., 296
- Sutherland, Thomas Fraser, 181
-
- Taschereau, Hon. Louis Alexander, 21
- Taylor, Albert William, 204
- Taylor, Hon. George Edward, 151
- Taylor, Lt.-Col. Hon. George, 296
- Tessier, Auguste Maurice, 111
- Tetreault, Joseph Sylvini, 108
- Thoburn, William, 135
- Thompson, Alfred, 162
- Thomson, Levi, 70
- Thornton, Hon. Robert Stirton, 217
- Todd, John Lancelot, 121
- Tory, John A., 108
- Tourigny, Alfred F. X., 115
- Trahan, Arthur, 103
- Tremeear, William J., 68
- Turgeon, Hon. Adelard, 12
- Turgeon, Hon. William Ferdinand Alphonse, 215
- Turnbull, Walter Renwick, 169
- Tytler, William, 138
-
- Vance, His Honor, George M., 160
- Vaughan, Marshall, 293
- Veale, Philip Henry, 239
- Veniot, Hon. Peter John, 208
-
- Wade, Mark Sweeten, 144
- Wainwright, Arnold, 164
- Walker, William Simpson, 187
- Wallace, Thomas George, 152
- Wallis, Horace, 116
- Ward, Lieut.-Colonel Henry Alfred, 105
- Watson, Brigadier-General Sir David, 162
- Watson, Senator Robert, 295
- Watt, John Ralston, 116
- Webber, John A., 233
- Weichel, William George, 154
- Weir, William M., 158
- Weld, Edmund, 220
- Weld, John, 253
- Wetherell, James Elgin, 222
- Whalen, George Frederick, 192
- White, Arthur V., 55
- White, Gerald Verner, 136
- White, James, 236
- White, John T., 181
- White, Rt. Hon. Sir William Thomas, 13
- Whitney, Edward Canfield, 293
- Widdifield, John W., 115
- Wilkes, Alfred John, 112
- Williams, Herbert Hale, 171
- Williams, Right Rev. Lennox Waldron, 216
- Williams-Taylor, Sir Frederick, 200
- Willis, James E., 264
- Wilson, Henry George Wilberforce, 148
- Wilson, James Lockie, 114
- Wilson, Peter Edward, 168
- Winkler, Hon. Valentine, 208
- Wood, Rev. William Robertson, 253
- Woods, Lieut.-Colonel James W., 146
- Workman, Mark, 113
- Wright, Alexander Whyte, 290
- Wright, George, 149
- Wright, George Craig, 277
- Wright, Harry George, 199
- Wright, William J., 104
- Wrong, Professor George McKinnon, 113
- Wylie, Newton, 294
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- LIST OF PHOTOGRAVURES
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- Askwith, Jno. E, Ottawa.
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- Baillie, Sir Frank W., Toronto.
- Baskerville, W. J., Ottawa.
- Beach, the late M. F.
- Beaumont, E. J., Kitchener.
- Birkett, Thomas, Ottawa.
- Blondin, Hon. P. E., Ottawa.
- Borden, Right. Hon. Sir R. L., Ottawa.
- Bowman, Charles M., Southampton.
- Breadner, R. W., Ottawa.
- Breithaupt, J. C., Kitchener.
- Breithaupt, L. J., Kitchener.
- Brennan, J. C., Ottawa.
- Bristow, M. G., Ottawa.
- Bulman, W., Winnipeg.
- Butterworth, J. G. B., Ottawa.
-
- Cowan, the late W. F., Ottawa.
- Currie, Major-General Sir Arthur William,
- Victoria, B.C.
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- Dwyer, W. H., Ottawa.
-
- Edwards, Senator W. C., Ottawa.
- Englehart, Jacob L., Petrolia, Ontario.
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- Finnie, D. M., Ottawa.
-
- Gale, R. H., Vancouver, B.C.
- Gariepy, Hon. Wilfrid, Edmonton.
- Garland, John L., Ottawa.
- Gibson, Brig.-General Sir John M., Hamilton.
- Gouin, Sir Lomer, Quebec.
- Graham, Hon. Geo. P., Brockville.
- Grant, Gordon, Ottawa.
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- Harris, W. G., Toronto.
- Hebert, Zepherin, Montreal.
- Henry, D. E., Ottawa.
- Hodgetts, Colonel C. A., Ottawa.
- Hunter, Major W. E. Lincoln, Toronto.
- Hutchison, Colonel Wm., Ottawa.
-
- Kennedy, W. C., Windsor.
- King, Hon. W. L. Mackenzie, Ottawa.
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- Laurier, the late Right Hon. Sir Wilfrid
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- Macaulay, T. B., Montreal.
- Machin, Colonel H. A. C., Kenora.
- Mackenzie, John Angus, Ottawa.
- McClennaghan, Stewart, Ottawa.
- McInenly, William, Ottawa.
- McMahon, E., Ottawa.
- Mitchell, Hon. W. G., Quebec.
-
- Parsons, S. R., Toronto.
- Paton, Hugh, Montreal.
- Peuchen, Lieut.-Colonel Arthur, Toronto.
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- Reid, W. B., Toronto.
- Robertson, E. Blake, Ottawa.
-
- Shillington, Colonel A. T., Ottawa.
- Shortly, Orville B., Toronto.
- Sifton, Hon. Arthur L., Ottawa.
- Stapells, R. A., Toronto.
- Sutherland, F. C., Toronto.
-
- Turgeon, Hon. Adelard, Quebec.
-
- Vaughan, Marshall, Welland, Ontario.
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- White, Right. Hon. Sir W. T., Ottawa.
- Whitney, E. C., Ottawa.
- Woods, Lieut.-Colonel James W., Ottawa.
- Wright, George, Toronto.
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- A CYCLOPÆDIA
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- _of_
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- CANADIAN BIOGRAPHY
-
-=Borden, Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Laird, P.C., K.C.M.G., K.C., LL.D.=,
-Premier of Canada (Ottawa, Ont.), eldest son of Andrew Borden and Eunice
-Laird, was born at Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, on June 26, 1854. He was
-educated at Acadia Villa Academy, Horton, and for a time a Professor in
-Glenwood Institute, N.J. His great-great-grandfather went to King’s
-County, Nova Scotia, with early settlers from New England, in 1760, and
-upon returning to Massachusetts gave his land in Nova Scotia to his son,
-the great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch. Upon returning to
-Nova Scotia, Sir Robert studied law and was called to the Bar in 1878.
-He first practised at Kentville, N.S., and later moved to Halifax,
-succeeding the late Sir John Thompson, then Prime Minister of Canada, in
-the firm of Thompson, Graham and Tupper. Before removing to Ottawa he
-was head of the law firm of Borden, Ritchie & Chisholm, of Halifax, and
-for ten years was President of the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society. He
-was made a Q.C. in 1900; an Honorary LL.D. of Queen’s University in
-1903; an Honorary LL.D., St. Francis Xavier University in 1905; an
-Honorary LL.D. of McGill University in 1913. In 1896 he was elected to
-the House of Commons from Halifax in the General Elections, and
-re-elected in 1900, but was an unsuccessful candidate at the General
-Elections in 1904. Upon the retirement of Edward Kidd, M.P., for
-Carleton, Ont., he was elected by acclamation in his stead at the
-by-election held on February 4, 1905, and was re-elected by a large
-majority at the general elections in 1908, when he was also elected in
-Halifax, N.S. He later resigned his Carleton seat, preferring to
-represent Halifax. At the General Elections of 1911, he was again
-returned for Halifax, and continued to represent that constituency up to
-the present time (1918). On February 6, 1901, he was chosen leader of
-the Conservative Party in the House of Commons, and upon the resignation
-of Sir Wilfrid Laurier and his Cabinet on October 6, 1911, following the
-defeat of the Liberal Government on the question of Reciprocity with the
-United States, he was sent for by His Excellency Earl Grey and was
-entrusted with the task of forming a Cabinet. With a very large majority
-at his disposal, he found the task an easy one, and was successful in
-gathering around him men who have since carried on the government of the
-country in one of the most critical periods of its existence. At the
-time the first Borden government assumed office the world war was
-unthought of except as a vague speculation, which few students of world
-finance and world politics believed would ever become a fact, and the
-new Premier did not foresee that before him lay the most difficult task
-that had ever confronted a Canadian Government. In the summer of 1914
-the conflict which ultimately developed into a war between the Central
-Empires and most of the other civilized powers, came like a bolt from
-the blue. On August 4, 1914, there was great curiosity in the
-chancelleries of Europe as to whether the overseas dominions of the
-British Empire would stand behind Great Britain. Germany, on the day she
-started the war, believed that they would not, and it was prophesied in
-Berlin that Canada would seek separation from the Empire. Sir Robert
-Borden at once gave the answer by placing the entire resources of the
-Dominion at the disposal of the Motherland; and on receiving an
-intimation from the late Lord Kitchener, that men were the first
-necessity, immediately called Parliament together to vote the necessary
-money. His government commenced the training and equipment of a first
-volunteer expeditionary force of 35,000, with provision for its further
-extension at need. This expeditionary force was partly trained at
-Valcartier camp, Quebec, and partly at Salisbury Plains, England, and
-first went into action at the second battle of Ypres in the spring of
-1915. In the words of Viscount French, at that time Commander-in-Chief
-of the British forces in France, it “saved the situation” and barred the
-way to the Channel Ports from the Germans. In 1915 Sir Robert, who had
-been honored with the title of G.C.M.G. shortly before the outbreak of
-the conflict, visited Great Britain and France and, convincing himself
-that the struggle would be very long and difficult, pledged Canada to
-provide an aggregate of 500,000 trained men should the need arise. He
-and his government also made arrangements whereby Canadian manufacturers
-should engage largely in the production of munitions, the credits for
-such contracts being financed by the Canadian administration. The same
-policy was pursued in connection with contracts for food supplies, with
-the result that throughout the war there was a continued trade expansion
-and financial opulence that enabled Canada to make sacrifices that would
-otherwise have been impossible to her. During his visits to the front
-Sir Robert kept himself fully in touch with the needs of the Canadian
-army, and resolved to make it a first consideration in all his policies.
-A trip to Great Britain and France in the early part of 1917 convinced
-him that, in view of the dark outlook for peace, it would be necessary
-for Canada to adopt the policy of conscription, which had already been
-reluctantly adopted in Great Britain by Mr. Asquith, and had become the
-policy of the United States, which had recently entered the war. It was
-clear to Sir Robert that this policy could only be effectively imposed
-by consent of both parties in the House of Commons, and on his return to
-Canada in May, 1917, he announced conscription as his policy and an
-abandonment of party government. He was at first stoutly opposed both in
-the ranks of his own party and by his political opponents. Nevertheless,
-after long and patient negotiations he was successful in winning
-practically the entire body of English-speaking Liberals to his way of
-thinking, and conscription carried in the House of Commons in the latter
-part of July, 1917, by the greatest majority ever given so momentous a
-measure. He then proceeded to form a Union Government almost equally
-representative of Conservatives and Liberals. Early in December of 1917
-this government, with Sir Robert as Prime Minister, appealed to the
-people, and was supported by almost the entire mass of English-speaking
-constituencies, giving him the largest majority that any political
-leader has ever enjoyed in this country. As a result of the adoption of
-conscription, Canada was enabled by the time peace was declared to
-fulfil her pledge of sending 500,000 men to aid in the war against
-autocracy—a contribution which has made this country famous throughout
-the world. Already, on January 1, 1912, Sir Robert had been sworn in as
-a member of the Imperial Privy Council, the highest office that up to
-that time had been held in the Motherland by a Canadian. On his arrival
-in London in June, 1918, he was invited by the Prime Minister, Hon.
-David Lloyd-George to become a member of the Imperial War Cabinet, a
-post which he held during the duration of the war. This was followed in
-November of 1918 by an invitation to become one of Great Britain’s
-Imperial representatives at the negotiations preliminary to and
-coincident with the Peace Conference to resolve the disasters of the war
-and at once proceeded overseas. Sir Robert’s Imperial services have been
-such, and his legal attainments are so well known that at the time of
-writing his elevation to the peerage as a colonial representative on the
-legal committee of the Privy Council, which is the Court of Appeal for
-the whole Empire, is being strongly advocated in the Motherland. In his
-private relations Sir Robert is greatly beloved, and though his duties
-have brought him in contact with all the leading figures of Great
-Britain, France and the United States, he is a thorough democrat in
-bearing. His favorite recreation is golf and he has played with many
-world-famous statesmen, though he does not claim to be a champion. He is
-an Anglican in religion and a member of many clubs on both sides of the
-Atlantic. In September of 1889 he married Laura, daughter of the late T.
-H. Bond, of Halifax, and never fails to acknowledge the great aid and
-assistance that has been rendered him by Lady Borden in building up his
-illustrious career. They reside at 201 Wurtemburg St., Ottawa.
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-[Illustration: THE LATE RIGHT HONORABLE SIR WILFRID LAURIER]
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-=Laurier, the late Rt. Hon. Sir Wilfrid, P.C., G.C.M.G., K.C., D.C.L.
-(Oxon.), LL.D.= (Ottawa, Ont.), son of the late Carolus Laurier, P.L.S.,
-and his wife, Marcelle Martineau; born at St. Lin, Quebec, on November
-20, 1841, and educated at mixed schools in his native parish and at
-L’Assomption College. As a law student he entered the office of the late
-Hon. R. Laflamme in 1860, and studied at McGill University; received
-B.C.L. in 1864 and was called to the Bar in the same year; was appointed
-a Q.C. in 1880, and became head of the law firm of Laurier & Lavergne.
-In the earlier years of his professional career he edited and
-contributed to several newspapers. In May 13, 1868, he married Miss Zoe
-Lafontaine. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly for Drummond and
-Arthabaska in 1871, and resigned to contest the same riding for the
-House of Commons at the general elections in 1874, and was elected; was
-sworn in a Privy Councillor and appointed Minister of Inland Revenue in
-the Mackenzie administration, on October 8, 1877, and on going back for
-re-election, was defeated by D. O. Bourbeau, who obtained a majority of
-forty. Later he was elected for Quebec East, a seat vacated by I.
-Thibaudeau, and was re-elected for the same Riding at the general
-elections of 1878, 1882, 1887, 1891, 1896 and 1900, and also elected for
-Saskatchewan, N.W.T., at the general elections of 1896; was re-elected
-to the House of Commons at general elections of 1904 for Quebec East and
-Wright, and elected to sit for Quebec East; in 1908 was re-elected for
-Quebec East, and was also returned for the City of Ottawa, and again
-elected to sit for Quebec East; in 1911 he was elected for both Quebec
-East and Soulanges; and in 1918 for Quebec East. In October, 1878, he
-resigned with the Mackenzie Government, and was elected leader of the
-Liberal Party in the House of Commons in 1887. He issued a call for a
-Dominion Liberal Convention in 1893, which was held at Ottawa. Upon the
-defeat of the Tupper Government at the general elections, June 23, 1896,
-he was called on by Lord Aberdeen, Governor-General, to form a ministry
-on July 8, 1896, on which date Sir Charles Tupper resigned office; was
-sworn in as President of the Privy Council, July 11, 1896, and formed
-his Ministry, July 13, 1896. He was appointed by a sub-committee of the
-Privy Council to arrange for the settlement of the Manitoba School
-Question and an agreement was reached in November of the same year. On
-the occasion of the celebration of Her Majesty Queen Victoria’s Diamond
-Jubilee at London, Eng., June, 1897, he represented Canada, and was
-created a Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St.
-Michael and St. George; was received in audience by the Sovereign and
-accorded the leading place in the great Jubilee State Procession of all
-the Colonial dignitaries. Oxford and Cambridge Universities conferred
-upon him the degree of D.C.L. (hon.) during this visit. He was sworn in
-an Imperial Privy Councillor July 6, 1897; was made an honorary member
-of the Cobden Club, and received from it a gold medal in recognition of
-his services in the cause of international free exchange; was presented
-by the President of France with the Star of a Grand Officer of the
-legion of Honour, at Havre, July 29, 1897, being the highest but one of
-that order; was received in audience by His Holiness the Pope, August
-12, 1897. While in England he succeeded in securing Her Majesty’s
-Government’s assent to the denunciation of the commercial treaties with
-Germany and Belgium, which stood in the way of Canada’s new tariff,
-extending a preference to the United Kingdom. On his return to Canada he
-was accorded public receptions at Quebec, Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa,
-and received from Toronto and Queen’s Universities the honorary degrees
-of LL.D. In November, 1897, he went to Washington in the interest of
-better relations between the two countries, and was a member of the
-Joint Commission which met at Quebec, August 23, 1898, to discuss
-questions affecting jointly Great Britain, Canada and the United States.
-He welcomed the present King, then Duke of Cornwall and York, to Canada
-in September, 1901, and accompanied the Royal Party through the
-Dominion; was invited, and attended, the Coronation of King Edward VII,
-in 1902, sailing June 14, arriving in Liverpool June 21, and in London,
-June 22. The Coronation, fixed for June 26, was postponed on June 24,
-but took place on August 9. On June 30 he attended a Colonial Conference
-at London, and on July 26 received the freedom of the City of Edinburgh,
-and was honored with the degree of LL.D. by the Edinburgh University. He
-was entertained by the City of Glasgow, July 28, visited the continent,
-and sailed for Canada on October 7, arriving at Quebec, October 17, and
-at Ottawa, October 18, receiving a great civic welcome at the City Hall.
-On New Year’s Day, 1904, he was presented by His Excellency the
-Governor-General, with the Fenian Raid medal for services as a volunteer
-in 1866. In 1907 he attended the Imperial Conference at London, Eng., as
-a representative of Canada, and was accorded the freedom of London,
-Bristol, Liverpool and other cities; and in 1911 he attended the
-Imperial Conference in England and represented Canada at the coronation
-of King George and Queen Mary. Following the defeat of his Party at the
-polls on September 21, 1911, on October 6 he tendered the resignation of
-himself and Cabinet to Earl Grey, and advised His Excellency to call
-upon Mr. R. L. Borden, to form a Cabinet. From that date until his death
-on Feb. 17, 1919, he continued to lead the Liberal Party, and in 1917
-celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday. He again led his party in the
-general election of December, 1917, but was defeated owing to the fact
-that many followers had parted company with him on the issue of
-Conscription. Sir Wilfrid’s end came suddenly as a result of an effusion
-of blood to the brain. He was stricken while preparing to go to church
-on Sunday, Feb. 16, and passed away the following afternoon. The death
-of no Canadian had previously evoked such tributes as were printed and
-uttered, not only in Canada, but throughout the British Empire and the
-United States. His remains were accorded the honor of a State funeral in
-Ottawa on Saturday, Feb. 22, 1919, which was the most impressive
-function of its kind known on any continent since the death of Lincoln.
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-
-=Ames, Sir Herbert B., K.B., LL.D., M.P.= (Montreal, Que.), born June
-27, 1863, at Montreal, of which city he has been a life-long resident.
-He is the only son of the late Evan Fisher Ames (who founded the shoe
-manufacturing concern of Ames, Holden & Company in 1856), and of
-Caroline Matilda Brown, his wife, who was a native of New York City. Mr.
-E. F. Ames came to Canada from Conway, Mass., which district he
-represented in the Massachusetts Legislature in 1852. He established
-himself in Montreal, and became one of the leading Canadian
-manufacturers. Sir Herbert Ames was educated in the schools of Montreal,
-subsequently entering Amherst College at Amherst, Mass., graduating from
-there with the degree of B.A. in 1885, and having had conferred on him
-the further title of LL.D. in 1915. When in college he was a member of
-the Alpha Phi Fraternity. In August, 1885, after leaving Amherst, he
-entered the firm of Ames, Holden & Company, at Montreal, remaining in
-that business until 1893. He next interested himself in municipal reform
-and became President of an organization of young men known as the
-Volunteer Electoral League, which body was largely instrumental in
-bringing about the reformation of the City Council. In 1898 Mr. Ames was
-elected a member of the Montreal City Council for St. Antoine Ward, and
-served his constituency for eight years. During that period he was a
-member of the Police Commission, of the Road Commission and for four
-years served as Chairman of the Board of Health. In 1895 Mr. Ames was
-named a member of the Council of Public Instruction of the Province of
-Quebec, which body supervises the entire school system of the province.
-Mr. Ames was first elected a member of the House of Commons, Canada, in
-1904, having a majority of 650. In 1908 he was again elected by 850 of a
-majority, and in 1911 elected for the third time by a majority of over
-2,000; again re-elected in December, 1917. On the formation of the
-Borden Government, in 1911, Mr. Ames was appointed to the important
-position of chairman of the Select Standing Committee on Banking and
-Commerce, to which all bills pertaining to Banks, Trust and Loan and
-Insurance Companies are referred for examination and report. In 1903 he
-was a member of the National Committee to entertain the Chambers of
-Commerce of the Empire, and with them travelled throughout the Dominion.
-In 1909, as representative of the Montreal Board of Trade, Mr. Ames
-attended the meeting of the Chambers of Commerce at Sydney, Australia.
-He has travelled extensively throughout Australia, Japan, Egypt, India,
-Europe, the United States and West Indies, and has given much time and
-attention to the discussion of trade questions, tariff and treaties with
-other countries. In 1896 he wrote and published a monograph entitled
-“The City Below the Hill,” being a sociological study of the District of
-the City of Montreal, in which such questions as wages, rents, health
-conditions, etc., were carefully received. At the request of the
-Department of Commerce and Labor of the United States Government, Mr.
-Ames prepared an article on the same subject which appeared in the
-journals of this department. At the present time Sir Herbert Ames is a
-Director and Vice-President of the Ames, Holden, McCready Company. He is
-also one of the three gentlemen composing the Canadian Board of the
-Gresham Life Insurance Company, and also a Director of the Dominion
-Guarantee Company. He is a member of the Mount Royal Club, the Montreal
-Club, the Montreal Curling Club, the University Club of Montreal, the
-Rideau Club, Ottawa. On May 19, 1890, Mr. Ames was married to Louise
-Marion Kennedy, daughter of Sir John Kennedy, C.E., of Montreal, and
-they occupy a residence on the slopes of Mount Royal. He is an elder in
-the Presbyterian Church, a Director in the Y.M.C.A., a governor in
-several benevolent institutions. At the outbreak of the great War, Mr.
-Ames was asked by His Royal Highness, the Governor-General of Canada, to
-assume the position of Honorary Secretary of the National Canadian
-Patriotic Fund, which provides for the wives and dependent relatives of
-soldiers serving in the armies of the Allies. On behalf of the Fund he
-has visited all parts of Canada, speaking and organizing, and the marked
-success to his initiative and effort. Through this great national
-benefaction there will have been raised and expended during the war
-period no less a sum than $45,000,000. On June 3, 1915, Mr. Ames had
-conferred upon him the Honor of Knighthood by His Majesty the King, and
-in 1916 was made a Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem
-in England. On December 1, 1918, the Government of Canada created by
-Order-in-Council a National War Savings Committee for the encouragement
-of thrift and the promotion of investment of small savings in government
-securities. Of this Committee Sir Herbert Ames has been appointed
-Chairman.
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-
-=Robertson, John Ross=, journalist. The direct descendant of Duncan R.,
-chief of the clan of Robertson of Strowan, 1347; eldest son of the late
-John Robertson, wholesale dry goods merchant, Toronto, and Margaret R.,
-daughter of Hector Sinclair, Stornoway, Island of Lewis, Scotland. He
-was born in Toronto, Dec. 28, 1841, and educated at Upper Canada
-College; married, 1st, in 1871, Maria Louisa (d. Aug., 1886), daughter
-of Edward Earle Matthew Gillbee, Northamptonshire, Eng., grandson of the
-late Rev. Dr. Edward Gillbee, Vicar of Barby, near Rugby, descendant of
-the noted Anthony Gilby, one of the translators of the first edition of
-the Geneva or “Breeches” Bible, 1560; 2ndly, 1888, Jessie Elizabeth,
-daughter of George B. Holland, a prominent insurance man of Toronto.
-While still at college he occupied his spare hours in acquiring a
-knowledge of the printer’s craft, and was a fairly rapid compositor;
-commenced a small office which he established in his father’s residence,
-John St., Toronto, and with a few fonts of type he issued to the boys at
-Upper Canada College a paper under the name of the “College Times,”
-which later took the name of the “Boys’ Times,” a monthly publication
-that existed 1857-60. He also published in succession to the “Boys’
-Times,” during a year at the Model Grammar School, a newsy paper for
-boys called “Young Canada.” Picking up a general knowledge of setting
-type and small job work in city offices, his face was a familiar one in
-the old “Christian Guardian” office, where occasionally he used to work
-off odd jobs, the composition of which he did in his own office; in the
-“Globe” Office, where in 1859, when opportunity offered, he sometimes
-used to feed one of the Hoe single cylinder presses when printing the
-inner pages of the four-page “Globe,” for the inside was always printed
-the afternoon before the morning issue; in the “Leader,” where he at
-times worked off on a small job cylinder Hoe press, the “Grumbler,” the
-weekly that he issued in 1860; the following year he equipped a
-newspaper and job office, and issued “Sporting Life,” the first paper in
-Canada to be devoted to athletic sports, and subsequently continued the
-publication of the “Grumbler,” a weekly satirical paper, at one time
-edited by W. J. Rattray, W. A. Foster, and the late Chief Justice Thomas
-Moss. He worked on the reportorial and advertising staff of the
-“Leader,” when Charles Lindsey and Charles Belford were editors and
-Ephraim Roden, City Editor, continuing at the same time the management
-of his printing office. He also issued for a year, Robertson’s Canadian
-Railway Guide, the first of its kind in Canada, and early in 1865 joined
-the Toronto “Globe” staff as city Editor, in May, 1866, becoming one of
-the founders of the “Daily Telegraph,” a journal that had a high
-reputation among the newspapers of Canada. Owing to political
-complications it ceased publication in 1872. Prior to this, in December,
-1869, Mr. Robertson, then of the “Daily Telegraph,” made a trip to the
-North-West, accompanied by Mr. Robert Cunningham of the “Globe.” They
-travelled by rail from Toronto to the end of steel at St. Cloud, Minn.,
-and there with a French half-breed guide and a two-horse farmer’s
-sleigh, fully equipped, began a journey of about 400 miles over the
-prairie. Snow storms raged and the thermometer ran from zero to 20
-below. The travellers camped every night in the woods along the Red
-River, and arrived in Fort Garry after a perilous journey of ten days,
-to be locked up by the so-called “President” Riel, in Fort Garry for a
-week, and only allowed out to see their friends in the town, under a
-guard. They both secured interesting information, but were ordered out
-of the territory, as Riel thought they were “dangerous characters,” so
-they left Fort Garry for Pembina, U.S., the boundary post, one day when
-the thermometer was about 40 below zero. They declared they would not do
-the trip again for the whole North-West. Mr. Robertson, after the “Daily
-Telegraph” ceased publication, proceeded to London, Eng., where for
-three years he acted as resident correspondent and business
-representative of the Toronto “Daily Globe.” On his return to Canada,
-1875, he assumed the business management of the “Nation,” edited by the
-late Prof. Goldwin Smith. It is said that during his managership of the
-“Nation,” his friend, Mr. Goldwin Smith asked his opinion as to the
-opportunities offered for an independent daily evening paper in Toronto,
-and that this conversation led up to the establishment of the “Evening
-Telegram,” which first saw light in April, 1876. It is said to be the
-only daily paper in Canada that has paid its way from the start. Mr.
-Robertson continued to conduct it until his death, May 31, 1918. “The
-immediate success of this paper,” said the “Globe,” in a sketch of his
-career published during his lifetime, “is ample evidence that he has
-graduated from a good school of journalism. Neither accident or luck had
-aught to do with his success. He launched out in new and original lines,
-and the good fortune that attended his efforts was the outcome of his
-energy, enthusiasm and experience, reinforced by a persistence and
-resource that would admit of no failure; it is these qualities that he
-brings to his every undertaking, and on the “Globe” he left behind him a
-reputation that is worthy of his later achievements.” This was publicly
-demonstrated by his Masonic career and his management of that great
-charity—the Hospital for Sick Children. From the first he has held high
-rank in the Masonic order. He entered the Craft in 1867, and was W.M. of
-his Mother Lodge, King Solomon’s, in 1880-1, and of Mimico, No. 359, in
-1879-80. After having served successively as Grand Senior Warden, as
-District Grand Master of the Toronto District in 1886, he became in 1890
-Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Canada, and was subsequently chosen
-Grand First Principal of the Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Canada, 1894-5,
-and Provincial Grand Prior, Ontario Centre, Sovereign Great Priory of
-Canadian Knights Templar, 1882; was Grand Representative of the Grand
-Lodge of England in Canada, having been appointed to succeed Sir John A.
-Macdonald in that office on the latter’s death, 1891; indeed, every
-honor at the disposal of his fellow-craftsmen had been accorded him. In
-September, 1902, in commemoration of the coronation of His Majesty King
-Edward, the Duke of Connaught (q.v.) then and now Grand Master, was
-pleased to confer the honorary rank of Past Grand Warden of England upon
-several eminent personages, including the subject of this sketch. For
-many years Mr. Robertson was president of the Canadian Copyright
-Association and rendered important services in that regard, and also
-Vice-President and President of the Canadian Associated Press, and Hon.
-President of the Toronto Press Club. He was present, with his wife, by
-invitation, in Westminster Abbey, at the coronation of King Edward and
-Queen Alexandra. As an author of Masonic works, Mr. Robertson is well
-known, having written the “History of the Degree of the Cryptic Rite in
-Canada,” etc. (1888); “History of the Knights Templar of Canada, from
-the Foundation of the Order to the Present Time” (1890); “Talks with
-Craftsmen” (1893); “Freemasonry in Canada,” 2 vols., 1,000 pages each
-(1899). He was a contributor to the U.C. College Memorial Volume, 1893,
-edited the “Diary of Mrs. John Graves Simcoe, wife of the First
-Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, 1792-6” (1911), as a press notice
-said, “The book of the year, a superb work,” and the author and compiler
-of “Robertson’s Landmarks of Toronto” (7 vols.). In 1888 the ambulance
-system in Toronto was unsatisfactory, and with a view to making it
-efficient, he imported from London, Eng., a modern ambulance, fully
-equipped, and presented it to the city. There are about sixty ambulances
-in Canada made from this model. The presentation marked a new era in
-this branch of humane work. He later gave a collection of 4,000 Canadian
-historical pictures to the Toronto Public Library, the largest
-collection of its kind in the world, valued at $150,000. In January,
-1917, he acquired and presented to the Public Library a magnificent
-ornithological collection of birds and game of Canada, done in
-water-color by William Pope, an English sportsman and artist, who
-resided for forty years at Port Ryerse, Ont. This collection of
-water-colors is pronounced by eminent Canadian biologists to be equal of
-and in some respects superior to, the work of Audubon. Mr. Robertson
-later added to this another collection of Canadian birds, exquisite
-reproductions in color of hundreds of birds that are not in the Pope
-Collection, so that the entire collection is unparalleled in Canada. He
-founded and gave three magnificent silver cups, made by eminent British
-silversmiths, from special patterns, for the promotion of cricket,
-hockey and bowling; but it was as chairman of the Board of Trustees of
-the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, that he will be most gratefully
-remembered. For thirty-five years he carried the chief burden of this
-important charitable institution, bringing to its needs not only much
-money of his own, but aiding it with the full force of his powers as a
-financier and organizer. He took an active part in the management and
-visited the Hospital every day. His gifts to the Hospital amounted to
-about half a million dollars during his lifetime, for he completely
-equipped the Hospital buildings on College St. and on Elizabeth St., and
-built and founded, in connection with the Hospital, the Lakeside Home
-for Little Children, at Lighthouse Point, Toronto Island, with an
-accommodation for 250 patients and an entire hospital equipment; here,
-during the summer months, the suffering little ones are won back to
-health and strength with the aid of the cool breezes which sweep across
-Lake Ontario. Included in his benefactions to the Hospital he erected,
-equipped and presented to the Hospital (as a memorial of his first wife)
-a five-storey nurses’ brick residence, containing 125 rooms, which has
-been declared to be the most perfect building of its kind ever erected;
-in July, 1911, he presented to the Heather Club an extension to the
-pavilion for tubercular children in connection with the Lakeside Home.
-He built and established a complete plant for the pasteurization of
-milk, on the Hospital grounds, College St., Toronto, the only one of its
-kind in the Dominion. By his will the whole of his estate will
-ultimately go to this philanthropy. He was an all-round amateur athlete,
-and has been sometimes called “The Father of Amateur Hockey in Ontario”;
-was President of the Ontario Hockey Association, 1899-1905. He sat for
-East Toronto in 1896-1900 in the House of Commons as an Independent
-Conservative, pledged to oppose any Government which would attempt to
-establish separate schools in Manitoba, to support the “National
-Policy,” and to vote for the general good of the country. According to
-Sir Charles Tupper (q.v.) he was in all respects “a model member,” and a
-devoted Imperialist. In religion he was a Presbyterian. In February,
-1917, Mr. Robertson was offered in the New Year’s honors a knighthood
-and a senatorship, both of which honors he gratefully declined. A
-well-known politician said, “It is the first time in the history of
-Canada that anyone declined a knighthood and a senatorship in the same
-day.” He was a member of the National, Victoria and Arts and Letters
-Clubs; Constitutional (Conservative) Club, London, Eng. “A born
-journalist”—“Canada,” of London, Eng.; “A truly independent man”—D.
-McCarthy, Q.C., M.P.; “Possesses a heart as big as that of an
-ox”—Hamilton “Spectator”; “The good angel of many of Toronto’s
-charitable institutions”—Hamilton “Times”; “No man need desire a more
-noble monument than these Hospital buildings, which would keep Mr.
-Robertson’s memory green if all other achievements were
-forgotten”—Toronto “Globe”; “He has risen step by step until he is
-to-day recognized as one of the keenest, most practical and successful
-publishers of the Dominion. The blind goddess had nothing to do with his
-success”—Ottawa “Citizen.”
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-=Hearst, Hon. Sir William Howard, K.C.M.G., K.C., M.P.P.=, Prime
-Minister of the Province of Ontario, was born on February 15, 1864, in
-the township of Arran, Bruce County, Ontario, the son of William and
-Margaret (McFadden) Hearst. His father was a farmer, and the subject of
-this sketch was educated at the public schools of Arran Township and
-later at Collingwood Collegiate Institute. Subsequently he studied for
-the legal profession at Osgoode Hall, Toronto, and was called to the Bar
-of Ontario in 1888. He commenced the practice of law in Sault Ste.
-Marie, Ont., where he became prominent in municipal affairs and active
-as a speaker in the Conservative interest. He was an unsuccessful
-candidate in Algoma East in 1894, but in the Ontario Legislative
-elections in 1902 he helped to organize a group of newly defined
-constituencies in Northern Ontario for Mr. (afterward Sir) James P.
-Whitney, and by his effective methods largely assisted in placing them
-in the Conservative column. When the Whitney Government was formed in
-1905 Mr. Hearst was appointed Government agent in connection with the
-guarantee loan furnished to the Lake Superior Corporation, under the
-provisions of which the Government had a voice in the management of the
-corporation until the loan should be liquidated. In this capacity Mr.
-Hearst proved a business success but resigned the office in 1908 to
-contest the riding of Sault Ste. Marie for the Ontario Legislature. He
-was successful and in September, 1911, when Hon. Frank Cochrane resigned
-the Portfolio of Forests and Mines to become Minister of Railways and
-Canals in the first Borden cabinet, Sir James Whitney tendered the
-vacancy in his cabinet to Mr. Hearst. The latter accepted and was
-re-elected by acclamation by his constituents, whom he has ever since
-continued to represent. On the death of Sir James Whitney in 1914, he
-was asked to form a Government, all his former colleagues accepting
-office under him. He was sworn in as Prime Minister and President of the
-Council on October 2, 1914, this being practically the last official act
-of Sir John Gibson, as Lieutenant-Governor. Following the death of Hon.
-James Duff in December, 1916, he also assumed the post of Minister of
-Agriculture, retaining it for two years until the elevation of Hon.
-George Henry to the cabinet in 1918. In connection with his profession
-as a lawyer he was created a K.C. in 1908 and was elected a bencher of
-the Law Society of Upper Canada in 1912. On February 13, 1917, he was
-created a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George.
-The Premiership of Sir William Hearst has been marked by energetic
-administration and progressive legislation. He took office at a time of
-peculiar difficulty in Canadian affairs, when the great war had been in
-progress for two months and when it was becoming evident that it would
-be necessary for a vast and united effort if it was to be successfully
-prosecuted. Perhaps his most radical step was his act of 1916, to
-prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors throughout the province of
-Ontario. Subsequent orders-in-Council by the Federal government gave
-this act the effect of absolute prohibition. In 1917 he introduced and
-carried an act to confer the Parliamentary franchise on women. Under his
-leadership a comprehensive measure previously enacted providing for
-compensation to workmen for injuries was put into successful operation
-and extended. An important measure of his provides for loans to
-settlers, and he has also taken practical steps to deal with the housing
-problem. The policy of Sir James Whitney and Sir Adam Beck of government
-control and operation of the water powers of the province, known as the
-Hydro-Electric system has been amplified under Sir William Hearst. In
-connection with the war he visited the battlefront to personally
-ascertain the needs of the situation. Under his administration the
-Orpington Military Hospital in England was built as the gift of the
-people of Ontario. As Minister of Agriculture he organized measures for
-increased food production to meet the needs of soldiers and civilians
-overseas; and is taking active measures to assist in reconstruction, by
-helping returned soldiers to settle on the land. In religion Sir William
-is a Methodist. On July 21, 1891, he married Isabella Jane Dunkin of
-Sault Ste. Marie by whom he has four children, Lieutenant Howard Vernon
-Hearst and Lieutenant Irving Hearst, both of whom are on active war
-service; and Misses Isabel and Evelyn Hearst. Sir William resides at
-Toronto.
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-=Meighen, Hon. Arthur, K.C.= (Portage la Prairie, Man.), was born June
-16, 1874, at Anderson, Blanchard Township, Perth County, Ont., and is
-the son of Joseph and Mary Meighen, of St. Mary’s, Ont. He was educated
-at St. Mary’s Collegiate Institute and Toronto University; received
-degree B.A. (Tor.), 1896; graduated with honors in mathematics. Taught
-High School, Caledonia, Ont., 1897-98. After graduating as a Barrister,
-he entered business for himself, 1902, and built up a large practice at
-Portage la Prairie. Bencher Manitoba Law Society since 1908; Bencher of
-Upper Canada Law Society since 1914. Having a capacity for public life,
-at the solicitation of his friends, he accepted the nomination as
-Conservative candidate for the Constituency of Portage la Prairie, Man.,
-and was elected by a majority of 250. In 1904 Mr. Crawford, Liberal, had
-been elected by a majority of 358. In the general elections, September
-21, 1911, when the Laurier Administration was defeated at the polls on
-the question of Reciprocity with the United States, Mr. Meighen was
-again elected by a majority of 675 over his opponent R. Patterson. When
-the position of Solicitor-General became vacant, June 26, 1913, Sir
-Robert Borden invited Mr. Meighen to accept that office, and at a
-bye-election held July 19, 1913, he was returned by acclamation. In
-August, 1917, he became Secretary of State for Canada and Minister of
-Mines, and as such devised and installed the organizations in Canada and
-overseas for the holding of the war election of that year. On the
-formation of the Union Government in the autumn of 1917 he accepted the
-portfolio of Minister of the Interior, and was re-elected by a handsome
-majority at the general elections which ensued. As a parliamentarian he
-has been a success, and is held in high esteem by members on both sides
-of the House. As a debater he is considered one of the ablest, and
-always commands the respect of his colleagues when he rises to speak on
-any important subject. Mr. Meighen was married June 1, 1904, to Jessie
-Isabel Cox, to whom were born three children, Theodore Roosvelt Meighen
-(1905), Maxwell Charles Gordon Meighen (1908), and Lillian Meighen
-(1910). In religion he is a Presbyterian; in politics, a Conservative.
-Clubs, Portage la Prairie, Rideau, Ottawa. Address, 21 Cooper St.,
-Ottawa.
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-[Illustration: MAJOR-GEN. SIR. ARTHUR WILLIAM CURRIE
- Victoria, B.C.]
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-=Cockshutt, William Foster, M.P.=, and Financial Agent (Brantford,
-Ont.), is the son of I. Cockshutt, merchant of Brantford, and E. Foster
-Cockshutt, was born in Brantford, October, 1855, and educated at the
-Brantford and Galt Collegiate Institutes. Mr. Cockshutt’s chief public
-efforts have been exercised in the direction of Imperial Unity and
-Empire Trade development. He has been associated largely with Boards of
-Trade and has attended several Congresses of the Associated Boards in
-London, England, Montreal and Sydney, Australia, and in this direction
-has been able to exercise considerable influence in Empire trade
-co-operation. In the year 1909 he visited in this connection the
-Commonwealth of Australia, making a very extensive tour of that great
-country, and delivering addresses at all the important centres on the
-theme of Empire Trade and Defence, and received much credit for the work
-accomplished there. He also made an extensive tour of India, visiting
-most of the cities of that great member of the Empire, and studying the
-conditions of the country as well as trade matters and has taken part in
-two extended campaigns in Great Britain, addressing many large meetings
-at the important centres, including London, Manchester, Newcastle,
-Portsmouth, Bournemouth, Torquay and many other towns and cities, for
-which he was honored by letter from the then leader of the opposition,
-the Honorable Arthur Balfour. Mr. Cockshutt was a member of the first
-Hydro-Electric Commission of Ontario, appointed by the Municipalities
-and labored in that work for nearly three years. The report of the
-Commission has been a standard reference for development in this line
-ever since, and was really the basis of the development that has taken
-place more recently at Niagara Falls. He has travelled in most of the
-great countries of Europe, made many tours in the United States and the
-West Indies and Mexico, as well as having visited all the principal
-cities of the Dominion and has addressed meetings in a great number of
-them. He was first elected to the House of Commons in 1904, where he
-served until 1908, being defeated in that year and re-elected in 1911,
-and is at present serving throughout the present long Parliament. He is
-ex-President of the Cockshutt Plow Co.; has been six times a delegate to
-Chambers of Commerce of the Empire and is connected with a large number
-of industrial enterprises, particularly in Brantford and also in other
-centres, and has served on many industrial boards. In 1891, married M.
-T. Ashton, daughter of Rev. Robert Ashton of Brantford, Principal of the
-Mohawk Institute and has six children, Ashton, George, Eric, Maude,
-Clarence and Phyllis. In politics he is an Independent Conservative and
-is a member of the Anglican Church; has been a representative of the
-Church of England at many important gatherings and a member of the Huron
-Synod for close on to twenty-five years, been elected and re-elected to
-the Provincial General Synod on many occasions and is still an active
-member of all these Church organizations; is also Chairman of the
-Orphanage situated on the outskirts of Brantford, known as the Jane
-Laycock School; has taken considerable interest in local hospital work.
-Mr. Cockshutt had the honor of being the official representative of
-Brantford at the funeral of King Edward the Seventh; is Hon. Colonel of
-the 125th Battalion, C.E.F., and is a remote relative of the late
-Florence Nightingale, the distinguished woman who did such great work
-for the British Army during the Crimean War and was one of the first
-women to relieve soldiers of their sufferings on the battlefield. Mr.
-Cockshutt took great interest in the recruiting of the 125th Battalion
-at present overseas and has the honor of being the father of three sons,
-all of whom are serving in the army at present and have all reached the
-front at least once. His son, Major Ashton Cockshutt, now of the 125th
-but formerly of the 10th Battalion, 1st Contingent, was a fully
-qualified Lieutenant in the 103rd Calgary Rifles when the war broke out
-and immediately enlisted and went overseas with the first Contingent,
-training during the winter at Salisbury Plain, crossing to France in the
-early spring, saw heavy fighting at St. Julien, Festubert, and Givenchy,
-was wounded on June 6, 1915, and after convalescing at various military
-hospitals was given furlough back to Canada and after a long hard
-struggle regained his health and immediately re-enlisted with the 125th
-Battalion and is now serving at Bramshott Camp. Another son, Lieut.
-George Cockshutt, also enlisted early in the war with the 19th Overseas
-Battalion, was a qualified Officer of the Dufferin Rifles, he served the
-19th at the front for many months and was invalided home in September,
-1916, owing to ear trouble and at the present time is serving with the
-205th Machine Gun Section, and now overseas with 1st Tank Battalion. The
-third son, Lieut. Eric Cockshutt, was at one time Captain of the Cadet
-Corps of Upper Canada College, Toronto, and upon going to McGill
-University, Montreal, later joined the Officers Training Corps of that
-University, was accepted as a candidate at the Royal Artillery School at
-Kingston, March, 1915, and after duly qualifying, trained at Petawawa,
-going overseas from there with a draft, took further training at Ross
-Barracks and Woolwich and then crossed over to France and served with
-the First Divisional Artillery, First Canadian Brigade, and is at
-present serving with the 2nd Howitzers. Mr. Cockshutt is a member of the
-Brantford Golf and Country Club, the National Club, Toronto, and also
-connected with the Empire Club and Imperial Institute. His recreations
-include golf, tennis and skating, and he has spent many summers in the
-Highlands of Canada occupying an extensive tract of land on the shores
-of Lake of Bays.
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-=Jetté, The Hon. Sir Louis=, Chief Justice and late Lieutenant-Governor,
-was born at L’Assomption, P.Q., on January 15, 1836. He is the son of
-the late Amable Jetté, who married Miss Caroline Gauffreau, the daughter
-of a wealthy planter of Guadaloupe, in the West Indies. Finishing the
-full course of study at the College of L’Assomption, he became a member
-of the Provincial Bar, establishing himself as a legal practitioner in
-the city of Montreal, where in a few years he came to be recognized as
-an astute advocate as well as a prospective candidate for political
-honors. In 1870 his legal fame was enhanced by the part he took
-professionally in the famous Guibord Case, and by his service before the
-Privy Council in England in behalf of the Provincial Government of
-Quebec. At length, in 1872, he was elected member for Montreal East,
-defeating Sir George E. Cartier, the French-Canadian colleague of Sir
-John A. Macdonald. When the Liberal Leader, the Hon. Alexander Mackenzie
-was Prime Minister, Mr. Jetté was offered the position of Minister of
-Justice, but accepted in preference a place on the Bench. This he
-retained for twenty years up to 1898, when he was appointed
-Lieutenant-Governor of his native province. While still practising his
-profession in Montreal, he became Professor of Civil Law in Laval
-University and a Dean of its Faculty, having been honored by the same
-with the degree of LL.D., as well as by Bishop’s College University with
-a D.C.L. and by Toronto University with an LL.D. In 1891 he was
-appointed Chairman of the Royal Commission charged with the
-investigation of affairs connected with the Baie-des-Chaleurs Railway,
-finally refusing to agree, however, to the decision of his two
-colleagues. The several other offices he has filled are many and
-important. After his term as Lieutenant-Governor had expired, he was
-given a second term. And at the end of his second term he was appointed
-Chief Justice of the Court of King’s Bench, retiring in 1911. Few
-Canadians have had so many honors conferred upon them as has Sir Louis
-Jetté. These include his university degrees; his knighthood from the
-King of England; his Legion of Honour from France, of which he is a
-Commander; the many addresses he has received from his fellow-members of
-the Bar, as well as from the people; not to speak of his receptions by
-King George and his late royal father, King Edward, and His Holiness the
-Pope. He has been associated with the Société de Legislation Comparée;
-with the Société d’Histoire Diplomatique of Paris (France); was a member
-of the Alaska Boundary Tribunal; a Director of the Montreal Polytechnic
-School; a member of the Council of Public Instruction, and an honorary
-member of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec. In his earlier
-years he was a contributor to certain city journals, having been editor
-of one of them known as “L’Ordre.” His “Observations Relating to the
-Code of Civil Procedure” proves him to be possessed of a wide vision and
-keen insight, both as a lawyer and a literary expositor. The encomiums
-which have been passed upon his services as a public servant go to show
-Chief Justice Sir Melbourne Tait was in no way astray in his high
-estimate of Sir Louis Jetté’s mental culture and administrative
-astuteness, not only as a public speaker, but as a writer and overseer
-of what is in line with justice and dignity of rule. He was married in
-1862, to Miss Bertha Laflamme, daughter of the late Touissant Laflamme,
-and sister of the Hon. R. Laflamme, the distinguished barrister and
-advocate of Montreal. Lady Jetté, who is an authoress in her own right,
-having written a Life of Madame d’Youville, won a further good name for
-herself and her distinguished husband for the hospitalities they were
-always pleased to extend to their guests at Spencer Wood during the two
-terms and more of Governor Jetté’s residence there as Governor.
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-=Kennedy, William Costello=, Member for North Essex in the House of
-Commons of Canada, is a resident of Windsor, Ont., and a prominent
-figure in the oil and gas industry of the Essex Peninsula. He was born
-at Ottawa, Ont., August 27, 1868, the son of William and Julia
-(Costello) Kennedy. While he was yet a boy his parents moved to Toronto
-to reside and he was educated in the Separate Schools and De La Salle
-Institute, of that city. He began his business career in 1887 as a clerk
-in the offices of the London and Canadian Loan and Agency Company,
-Toronto, at that time one of the best known financial corporations of
-the province. With this company he remained until 1897 when he accepted
-an offer to go to Windsor, Ont., and engage in the oil and natural gas
-industry. In 1903 he became President of the Windsor Gas Company and
-continued in that office until 1917. At the present time he has many
-interests in the city of his adoption. He was President of the Board of
-Trade for the years 1909 and 1910, and a member of the Windsor Board of
-Education from 1913 to 1918; and also a councillor of the municipality
-of Ojibway during the same period. From early manhood Mr. Kennedy had
-been a Liberal in politics and in 1917 when Sir Robert Borden formed a
-Union Government and decided to carry out the policy of conscription
-without submitting the question to the Canadian people through the
-medium of a referendum, he was one of those Liberals who stood back of
-Sir Wilfrid Laurier in opposing such a course. Though at the time it was
-supposed that he was facing almost certain defeat he accepted the
-Liberal nomination for North Essex. He was opposed by Col. Wigle, who
-was generally regarded as a very strong candidate. In the two months’
-campaign that ensued Mr. Kennedy made many friends by his sane and
-reasonable methods of electioneering and when the ballots were counted
-on December 17, 1917, it was found that he had been elected by a
-handsome majority, which was not annulled by the vote of the soldiers
-overseas, details of which were received later. During the parliamentary
-session Mr. Kennedy made his maiden speech as a legislator in the budget
-debate, and made a very fine impression on friends and political
-opponents alike by his brilliant handling of financial questions. Old
-parliamentarians were agreed that it was one of the most promising
-initial speeches ever made at Ottawa, and ever since the member for
-North Essex has been regarded as an important factor in the future of
-his party. His recreations are golf and motoring, and he is a member of
-the following clubs: Detroit, Detroit Athletic, Essex County Golf,
-Windsor and Ontario, Toronto. In religion he is a Roman Catholic and on
-May 8, 1907, married Glencora, daughter of George W. Bolton, Detroit,
-Michigan.
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-=Mitchell, Robert Menzies, Hon.= (Weyburn, Sask.), is a native of Port
-Union, Ont., where he was born October 28, 1865, the son of James
-Mitchell, a farmer, and Elizabeth Rodger, his wife. His father came of
-Scottish ancestry, some of whose descendants settled in Canada and some
-in Australia. Madame Melba, the great Australian prima donna, whose
-maiden name was Nellie Mitchell, is a cousin of the subject of this
-sketch. The latter was educated at Orangeville High School and Trinity
-Medical School, Toronto, graduating M.D., C.M. in April, 1892. He at
-once commenced the practice of medicine at Dundalk, Dufferin County,
-Ont., and remained there until 1899, when he settled at Weyburn, Sask.,
-and continued in active practice there until 1907. He was Chairman of
-the Weyburn Public School Board for ten years, and of the High School
-Board for five years. In August, 1908, he was elected to the
-Saskatchewan Legislature as a Liberal for the constituency of Weyburn,
-and has been re-elected at each ensuing election. He was Chairman of the
-Private Bills and Railways Committee of the Legislature for six years,
-and was chosen as Deputy Speaker in 1916. Shortly afterward he was made
-Speaker, and on his return to the House after the general elections of
-1917 was re-elected to that office. Though a Liberal his fairness and
-impartiality in the conduct of debate has made him universally popular
-among politicians of all shades of opinion. He is a member of the
-following fraternal orders: A.F. & A.M., I.O.O.F., and C.O.F.; of the
-Weyburn Club, and the Assiniboia Club, Regina. His recreations are
-football and curling, and in religion he is a Presbyterian. On August
-17, 1892, he married Margaret, daughter of Donald and Flora McKinnon,
-Badjeros, Ont., and his two sons have both served their country with
-honor in the great war. R. C. Mitchell, born July 11, 1893, went
-overseas with the First Canadian Expeditionary Force in 1914, and D. J.
-Mitchell, born February 15, 1895, became a member of the Royal Air Force
-a year or so later.
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-=Lemieux, the Honorable Sir François-Xavier=, Chief Justice of the
-Superior Court of Quebec, was born at Levis on the 9th of April, 1851,
-the son of Antoine and Henriette (Lagueux) Lemieux. From the Levis
-College he entered the Quebec Seminary and afterwards graduated from
-Laval University, in 1872, taking the degree of LL.B. In the same year
-he started on his career as a lawyer in the city of Quebec, taking rank
-almost immediately as an efficient pleader in the criminal courts of the
-Lower St. Lawrence districts. His eloquent fluency and finesse as a
-defender brought him into a lucrative practice; and there were in time
-few prominent cases of criminality brought into court in which his
-services were not sought after. Nor did his legal acumen in winning
-cases arouse any envious feeling against him among his legal brethren,
-since in 1896 he was elected Batonnier of the Quebec Bar, and in the
-following year Batonnier-General of the Provincial Bar. Turning his
-attention to politics, he sat as member of Levis in the Legislative
-Assembly for nine years, and afterwards as member for Bonaventure, for
-three years. As an orator, he has a marvellous faculty on the hustings
-of carrying any large audience with him in his argument. At length the
-widest fame came to him when he was called upon to defend Louis Riel,
-the rebel leader of the half-breeds and Indians in the North-West, in
-1885. The charge of high treason against the culprit was sustained, but
-his legal defender was nevertheless acclaimed as one of the shrewdest
-lawyers that could have been engaged to defend him. Subsequently, in
-1892, he was chosen to defend the Honorable Honore Mercier, Premier of
-Quebec, before the criminal court, under charges of maladministration.
-Mr. Mercier was honorably acquitted. Five years after the subject of
-this biography was appointed Puisne Judge in the district of Arthabaska
-and afterwards in Sherbrooke. From Sherbrooke, he was finally removed to
-Quebec where he holds the office of Chief Justice for the Province of
-Quebec. The literary talents of Sir François have been proven by his
-lectures and essays. His acumen as a judge has been openly acknowledged
-by his professional associates. He is a citizen well worthy the honor
-conferred upon him by King George and by Laval University, in the one
-case of Knighthood and in the other an LL.D. His father-in-law, the late
-Justice Plamondon, was a judge of the Superior Court of Quebec, Miss
-Diana Plamondon becoming his wife in 1874.
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-=Turgeon, The Hon. Adelard, LL.D., C.M.G., C.V.O., Knight of the Legion
-of Honour of France= (Quebec City), President of the Legislative Council
-of the Province of Quebec, and a Governor of Laval University, was born
-at Beaumont in the Province of Quebec, on December 19, 1863. He is the
-son of Mr. Damase Turgeon, and was educated at Levis College and at
-Laval University. Called to the Bar in 1887, he opened a law office in
-Levis, but afterwards entered into partnership in Quebec with the
-prominent legal firm of Roy, Langlais & Godbout. His career as a
-parliamentarian was inaugurated by his election as member for
-Bellechasse in 1890, a constituency which he continued to represent up
-to 1909, when he retired from the Legislative Assembly to take his seat
-in the Legislative Council and assume the high office of Speaker or
-President of that body. While a member of the Assembly his eloquence
-became an attractive feature in the many important debates in which he
-took part, alike as Member and Minister. As an administrator and
-public-spirited citizen, he has taken high rank as a publicist, having
-retained the favor of Bellechasse from term to term for over a decade.
-During the Tercentennial Celebration at Quebec in 1908, he was honored
-by the Prince of Wales, now King George V, and was shortly afterwards
-chosen as one of the members of the National Battlefields Commission,
-which has ever since been engaged in laying out and beautifying one of
-the most spacious public parks in Canada. In 1897 he was called to join
-the Marchand Government as Minister of Colonization, holding the same
-office in the Parent Cabinet, until he was chosen to act as Minister of
-Agriculture and Provincial Secretary. In 1905, the Parent Administration
-was transformed into the Gouin Administration, and in the latter Mr.
-Turgeon accepted the portfolio of Lands and Forests, holding the same up
-to 1909. On resigning his seat in the Assembly as a challenge to some of
-his detractors, he was re-elected against Henri Bourassa by the electors
-of Bellechasse as an acknowledgement of his mature administrative
-abilities, and a warrant to his resuming his place in the Gouin Cabinet,
-as well as preparing the way for his being called to the high office of
-President of the Legislative Council. During his public career, he has
-held many important positions outside of his parliamentary functions,
-among these being President of the Quebec Land Company, Vice-President
-of the Provincial Securities Company, Director of the Quebec Transfer
-and Cartage Company, and member of the Comptoir Mobilier-Franco-Canadien
-Company. He was one of the founders of the Society of L’Union Liberale,
-and prominently connected with various political clubs. In July, 1887,
-he married Miss Eugenie Samson, the daughter of Mr. Etienne Samson, of
-Levis. As President of the Upper Chamber of the Provincial Parliament,
-Mr. Turgeon has his residence within the precincts of the Parliament
-Buildings, wherein his hospitalities form a prominent feature in the
-social life of the community when parliament is in session, as well as
-at other times.
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-
-=Rhodes, Hon. Edgar Nelson, K.C., B.A., LL.B.= (Amherst, N.S.), son of
-Nelson A. Rhodes and Sara D. C. Curry. Born at Amherst, N.S., on January
-5, 1877. Educated at Amherst Academy, Horton Collegiate Academy, Acadia
-University and Dalhousie University. Degrees: B.A., Acadia; LL.B.,
-Dalhousie. Member of the Board of Governors of Acadia University.
-Married, July 12, 1905, to M. Grace, second daughter of Hon. W. T.
-Pipes, K.C., Attorney-General of Nova Scotia. He is the father of the
-following children: Edgar N. Rhodes, Jr., born on April 19, 1906, and
-Helen S. Rhodes, born on October 18, 1907. Appointed a King’s Counsel in
-May, 1916, by the Provincial Government of Nova Scotia. President
-Brooklyn Lumber Company, Ltd.; director Nova Scotia Trust Co., Ltd.;
-British America Nickel Corporation, Ltd.; Amherst Boot & Shoe Company,
-Ltd., and Amherst Pianos, Ltd. Has been, since its inception, a member
-of the Dominion Executive and of the Nova Scotia Executive of the
-Canadian Patriotic Fund; also an Honorary Vice-President and member of
-the Dominion Council of the St. John’s Ambulance Association. First
-elected to House of Commons at General Elections, 1908; re-elected, 1911
-and 1917. Elected Deputy-Speaker at the opening of the 6th session of
-the 12th Parliament, January, 1916. Was one of the Canadian
-representatives at the Imperial Parliamentary Conference in London,
-1916, and accompanied the members of that body on their visit to the
-Munitions plants, The Fleet, and to the front. Elected Speaker of the
-House of Commons, January 18, 1917. Re-elected Speaker at the opening of
-the first session of the 13th Parliament, 1918. Member Rideau Club and
-Country Club, Ottawa. A Unionist. Amherst, N.S.
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-
-=White, Rt. Hon. Sir William Thomas, P.C., M.P.=, Finance Minister of
-Canada, is a Canadian statesman whose meteoric rise to fame during less
-than a decade, has attracted more than national attention. He was born
-at Bronte, Ont., November 13, 1866, the son of James and Elizabeth
-(Graham) White. His father was a farmer and his early education was
-obtained at Oakville public school and Brampton High School. Later he
-entered Toronto University and graduated in 1895 with the degree of B.A.
-and honors in classics. During his university career he won two
-first-class scholarships and a gold medal. Subsequently he took up a
-course of law at Osgoode Hall, Toronto and was called to the Bar of the
-province in 1899, but never practised. During his period as an arts and
-law student he supported himself, first as a reporter on the Toronto
-“Telegram,” where his writings showed singular eloquence and ability;
-and later, as one of the assessors of the Civic Assessment Department.
-The knowledge of real estate values and of financial questions which he
-had gained in the latter capacity, as well as his general abilities, led
-a group of Toronto capitalists to tender him in 1900, the General
-Managership of the National Trust Company, which they had recently
-formed. This post he held for nearly eleven years and during that
-interval attained a high status in the financial community. Though a
-Liberal in politics, he had never been known as an active politician. In
-the summer of 1911, when Sir Wilfrid Laurier, then Prime Minister,
-appealed to the country to ratify the Knox-Fielding pact calling for
-reciprocity in natural products between Canada and the United States,
-Mr. W. T. White, as he was then known, was one of eighteen prominent
-Toronto Liberals who issued a manifesto against the proposals of their
-former political chieftain and decided to support Mr. Robert Borden. He
-himself took the platform against the pact as liable to disturb the
-equilibrium of trade at a time when Canada was enjoying unexampled
-prosperity. The result of this and other appeals was that many thousands
-of voters, previously Liberal, abandoned the party lines and defeated
-the Laurier administration by a large majority. When called upon to form
-a government in the latter part of September, 1911, Mr. Borden felt that
-it was due to the large number of Liberals who had supported him, that
-they should be represented in the Cabinet. On consultation with the
-leaders of the group, known as “Borden Liberals,” they were unanimously
-of the opinion that Mr. White was the best available choice. Despite the
-fact that he was without previous political experience, the Conservative
-Leader decided to offer him the most important portfolio in the Cabinet,
-that of the Ministry of Finance. On Mr. White’s accepting the office, a
-seat was found for him in the House of Commons by the elevation of Mr.
-George Taylor, M.P. for Leeds, and formerly Conservative whip, to the
-Senate. At a by-election held on November 4, 1911, Mr. White was elected
-to Parliament by a considerable majority, despite the fact that the
-election was marked by severe personal attacks on him, because of his
-so-called “desertion” of the Liberal party. Mr. White answered the
-challenge by the statement that he “believed that there was no healthier
-sign of the times than that an honest man should change his party in the
-interests of his country.” His maiden speech in the House of Commons,
-which was delivered on Nov. 29, 1911, was awaited throughout the country
-with great interest, and at once stamped him as one of the coming men in
-Canadian politics. Since then his budget speeches have proclaimed him as
-a financier of masterly intellect. Had Mr. White known in 1911 that the
-task lay before him of financing Canada’s contribution to the
-prosecution of the greatest war the world has ever known, he would
-possibly have declined office. When in 1914, Germany made war against
-all Europe, and Canada decided to support the Motherland, perhaps the
-gravest task of all fell on the Minister of Finance, because up to that
-time Canada had been a heavy borrower from the Motherland, and these
-sources of supply would naturally be cut off if the war continued for a
-lengthy period. In fact, in 1914, many eminent financiers believed that
-the financial resources of the world would not stand the strain of a war
-of more than six months’ duration. The Canadian Minister of Finance
-however laid his plans for a long war; and in addition to the task of
-financing Canada’s magnificent military effort, applied himself to the
-problem of keeping up Canada’s trade at a figure that would enable her
-to continue as a belligerent. He had also the task thrust upon him of
-acting as banker for Great Britain, France, Russia and other
-belligerents, who made the finance department at Ottawa the clearing
-house for their enormous financial dealings with the merchants and
-manufacturers of the United States. During the first year of the war
-Great Britain was able to render financial assistance to Canada and
-others of the overseas dominions; and Mr. White floated some large loans
-in the United States. But it was already apparent that Canada must
-shortly finance herself. In 1916 he visited England and fully acquainted
-himself with the situation, and in the same year was created a Knight
-Commander of St. Michael and St. George, in recognition of his war
-services. Sir Thomas decided to test Canada’s own resources and floated
-a large war loan the bulk of it being taken by Canadian capitalists,
-although a certain number of small investors were also attracted to it.
-Up to 1917, however, there were only about 60,000 holders of Canadian
-bonds in this country. In the summer of 1917, when Canada seemed to face
-a serious financial crisis, Sir Thomas decided to try the experiment of
-a great popular loan to be known as the Victory Loan, on the lines of
-the popular loans floated during the American Civil War, by the
-celebrated financier Jay Cooke. He collected a superb organization,
-embracing all the leading financiers, newspapers and selling agencies of
-Canada and asked the people to lend their government $300,000,000, to be
-spent entirely in Canada for war purposes. The result passed all
-expectations, for the loan was over-subscribed by more than one hundred
-million dollars, and about 875,000 became holders of Victory Bonds.
-Canada was enabled to do this by the fact that Sir Thomas and the Borden
-administration as a whole had, by adopting the policy of financing
-British credits in this country, secured enormous war orders for
-agricultural supplies and munitions for her farmers and manufacturers,
-so that the flow of money during the war reached unexampled heights. The
-first Victory Loan of 1917 was fruitful of good results, because it
-enabled Canada to continue this policy on a more extended scale, so
-that, though this enormous sum was invested in bonds, and added to the
-savings of the people, a few months later the average of deposits in the
-savings banks of the country was larger than it had been before the
-first Victory Loan was floated. In the latter part of 1917 the health of
-Sir Thomas broke down as a result of his stupendous anxieties and
-labors, but after a vacation of several months in California he returned
-to this country restored in health. In the autumn of 1918 he decided to
-float another Victory Loan, asking, as in 1917, for $300,000,000, but
-setting the real objective at $500,000,000. The result was another
-enormous over-subscription, nearly $700,000,000 having been subscribed.
-That such a showing should have been made by a country so limited in
-population as Canada, is the best proof of his skill as administrator of
-the nation’s finances during the most trying epoch in the history of the
-world. So thoroughly has Sir Thomas the confidence of his leader, Sir
-Robert Borden, that when in November, 1918, he left Canada for an
-indefinite absence as a member of the European Peace Conference, he
-appointed the Minister of Finance Acting Prime Minister, to take charge
-of the hazardous task of re-organizing the country on a peace basis. Sir
-Thomas is a profound student and thinker and a public speaker of rare
-ability. Among his activities prior to his removal to Ottawa were those
-of a member of the Board of Governors of Toronto University and Trustee
-of Toronto General Hospital. He is a Methodist in religion, and a member
-of the Rideau Club, Ottawa, and the York and Toronto Clubs, Toronto. On
-Sept. 20, 1890, he married Annie Isabel, daughter of Ellis Silverthorne,
-Jarvis, Ont.
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-=Price, Sir William=, the prominent capitalist of Quebec City, who has
-been engaged in military operations during the European War as Colonel
-of the 171st Battalion, at Valcartier, and later as an officer at the
-front, is a son of Mr. Henry Ferrier Price, who married Miss Florence
-Rogerson. He was born at Talca, Chili, on August 30, 1867. His uncle was
-the Hon. Senator E. J. Price, on whose death he became leading partner
-of the firm of Price Brothers & Company, in 1886. He was educated at
-Bishops College School, Lennoxville, P.Q., and later at St. Mark’s
-School, Windsor, England. He has been prominent in the public life as
-well as the business circles of Quebec, having been a member of
-parliament for one of the electoral divisions of the place and
-afterwards Chairman of the Harbor Commission. It was while he held the
-latter office that he took service as one of the organizers of the
-Valcartier Military Camp, earning high praise from the Governor-General
-and the Militia Department, and finally receiving his knighthood at the
-hands of King George. As Colonel in Command he raised the 171st
-Battalion, which he took over to England in 1916, continuing his
-services with the army as one of the officers of a Railway Construction
-Battalion in France, after the 171st had been absorbed in other
-battalions, in terms of what is known as the Territorial System. No
-citizen of Quebec has earned higher credit for patriotic effort than Sir
-William. Setting aside his many business duties and resigning a
-lucrative government position, he ably fulfilled the duties assigned to
-him as a soldier. The responsible positions he has held as a business
-man and a public-spirited citizen have been manifold. Besides being
-President of the Price Brothers & Company, he has been Director and
-Honorary Chairman of the Union Bank; a Director of the Quebec Railway,
-Light, Heat and Power Company; Vice-President of the Canadian
-Lumberman’s Association; as well as being President of the Metis Lumber
-Company, the Jonquiere Pulp and Paper Company, the Gravel Lumber
-Company, and President of the Canadian Export Co. Nor did his business
-engagements hinder him from taking an active part in civic and
-charitable enterprises to which he has given beneficently of his means.
-At one time he was a Governor of the Jeffrey Hale Hospital, President of
-the Board of Trade, Director of the Trans-Canadian Railway project, an
-energetic supporter of the movement in favor of the National
-Battlefields Park, and President of the Quebec Turf Club. As far back as
-1887, he took a practical interest in local military affairs, having
-been a lieutenant in the Eighth Royal Rifles, and being raised to his
-captaincy before his withdrawal from that company in 1903. As a prelude
-to his activity as a military organizer at the Valcartier Camp, he
-raised two companies for service during the Boer War, and encouraged
-rifle practice by presenting the Price Cup for competition at the
-targets. As a parliamentarian he had a term of three years; but his
-earlier defeat in the Rimouski constituency was repeated by Quebec West
-in 1911. As has been well said of him, he has proved himself to be a
-citizen of whom any community might well be proud. He was married in
-1894, to Miss Amelia Blanche Smith, daughter of Mr. R. H. Smith, another
-of Quebec’s most prominent and worthy lumber merchants. His family
-consists of four sons and two daughters. Sir William has since his early
-days been an enthusiast as a “portageur,” and a keen sportsman. He owns
-two salmon-breeding rivers and extensive hunting grounds. While
-soldiering abroad, he continued head of his firm, which has in its
-employment several thousands of employees.
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-
-=Kemp, Hon. Sir Albert Edward= (Toronto, Ont.), son of Robert Kemp, an
-Englishman, and Sarah A. Kemp, his wife, a Canadian; born at
-Clarenceville, Que., August 11, 1858, and educated at Clarenceville and
-Lacolle Academy. For many years the subject of this sketch has been one
-of the leading manufacturers of Canada, and a successful business man.
-Since 1895 he has devoted considerable time to questions of public
-interest. In 1879 he married a Miss Wilson, of Montreal. He was
-President of the Canadian Manufacturers Association in 1895 and was
-re-elected in 1896. He was elected President of the Toronto Board of
-Trade for the year 1899, and re-elected in 1900. In 1898 he was
-appointed a delegate by the Board to the British Association, at its
-annual meeting held in Bristol, also to the Fourth Congress of the
-Chambers of Commerce of the Empire, held in London, June, 1900. He is a
-member of the Board of Regents of Victoria University, Toronto; a member
-of several Orders, among which is included the Orange Order, and many
-National and Philanthropic Societies. Mr. Kemp was first elected to the
-House of Commons at the general elections in 1900, and again returned in
-1904. In 1908 he was defeated, but was re-elected at the general
-elections in 1911 by a very large majority. Upon the resignation of Sir
-Wilfrid Laurier and his Cabinet on October 6, 1911, following the defeat
-of the Liberal Party at the polls the previous September, he joined the
-Borden Government as Minister without Portfolio, and was sworn in a
-member of the Privy Council for Canada on October 10, 1911. After the
-outbreak of the war he was called upon by his Government to assume many
-important positions, among which was included the Chairmanship of the
-War Supplies Purchasing Commission, a position that required the keenest
-foresight, courage and action, and which practically demanded all his
-time. It later developed that the Government made no mistake in placing
-him at the head of this Commission, and great credit is due him for the
-manner in which he conducted its affairs. Upon the resignation of Sir
-Sam Hughes, Minister of Militia in the Borden Government, in November,
-1916, Mr. Kemp was asked by Sir Robert Borden to accept the position as
-Minister of Militia, and accepted, and on December 14, 1916, was
-re-elected by acclamation by his constituents in East Toronto.
-Subsequently he was asked to accept the post of Overseas Minister,
-resident in London, and in this capacity he served throughout the
-momentous period of 1918, when he was directly in touch with Canada’s
-Army in France. In social life he has many friends, and is always ready
-to receive them in a manner that draws them closer to him. As a public
-man there is a great future before him, and he has won praise for having
-accepted office at the most critical moment in the history of Canada.
-When the greatest war the world has known draws to a close, and the
-history of the noble sons who fought and worked with the Allies in their
-different nations is written, the name of Hon. Albert Edward Kemp will
-come in for a full share of credit for the able and systematic methods
-adopted in helping the Motherland to continue to wave the flag that
-stands for freedom and justice. In religion he is a Methodist.
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-=Cameron, Lieut.-Colonel Sir Douglas, K.C.M.G.=, ex-Lieutenant-Governor
-of Manitoba (Winnipeg, Man.), was born in Prescott County, Ont., June
-18, 1854, the son of Colin and Annie Cameron, and was educated at the
-High School, Vankleek Hill, Ont. He was engaged in farming in the
-Province of Ontario from 1871 to 1880, afterwards moving to Winnipeg, in
-1880. He engaged in various occupations until the fall of 1883, when he
-entered the lumber business under the firm name of Cameron & Company;
-later, Cameron & Kennedy. The business was incorporated as the Ontario &
-Western Lumber Company in 1892, and was later changed to the Rat Portage
-Lumber Company, and he has acted as General Manager since 1892, and
-President since 1894. He is also President of the Maple Leaf Flour
-Mills, a Director of the Northern Crown Bank, and a Director of the
-Manitoba Bridge and Iron Company. In 1902 he was elected to the Ontario
-Legislature for Fort William and Lake-of-the-Woods, and was defeated in
-the general elections of 1905 and 1908; was also an unsuccessful
-candidate for the House of Commons for Winnipeg in the Federal general
-elections in 1908. On August 1, 1911, he was appointed
-Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Manitoba, which office he filled
-with the greatest satisfaction until succeeded by the present incumbent,
-Sir James Albert Manning Aikins, K.B. He was a Councillor for Rat
-Portage in 1891, and Mayor from 1891 to 1894; was appointed a K.C.M.G.,
-December 31, 1913. In 1910 he was appointed Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel
-of the 79th Highlanders, and has been very active in connection with the
-Militia since the outbreak of the war, as well as in Patriotic work. He
-married Margaret Cameron Ferguson, of Vankleek Hill, in 1880, to whom
-were born two sons and one daughter; is a member of the Manitoba Club
-and the St. Charles Country Club, and as a recreation is an admirer of
-horses. Sir Douglas is a staunch Liberal in politics, and is considered,
-by the leaders of his party, as one of the ablest statesmen in Canada.
-In religion he is a Presbyterian and an active worker in Church and
-Social Reform movements.
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-=Bégin, Louis Nazaire, Cardinal Archbishop of Quebec=, was born on
-January 10, 1840. He is the son of Charles Bégin, of Levis, his mother’s
-maiden name having been Miss Luce Paradis. His earlier education was had
-in the schools and colleges of the Quebec district, up to the time of
-his leaving for Europe, to prepare himself as a priest and professor.
-Ordained in Rome in 1865, he returned to Quebec to assume the duties of
-Professor of Theology and Church History in Laval University, with
-collateral duties for a time as Prefect of Studies in what is known as
-Le Petit Séminaire. It was in 1885 he was appointed Principal of Laval
-Normal School at the time that institution occupied the premises of the
-old Chateau Haldimand, over the site of which the spacious Chateau
-Frontenac now extends its massive wings. Three years after, he was named
-Bishop of Chicoutimi, eventually returning to Quebec to take up his
-residence in the Archbishop’s Palace as Coadjutor of Cardinal
-Taschereau, under the title of Archbishop of Cyrene. From 1894 to 1898,
-he continued to be the Administrator of the Archdiocese of Quebec,
-during the declining years of Cardinal Taschereau. On the death of the
-latter, he succeeded him in the See of Quebec, the ceremony of his
-official investiture in 1899 being an historic event of the greatest
-interest to the whole province, as was the later celebration of his
-election as a Cardinal under the title of Saint Vitalis. The details of
-the distinguished ecclesiastic’s career form a brilliant page in the
-annals of Canada. Alike at home and abroad, His Eminence Cardinal Bégin
-has ever been known to fulfil his duty towards his Church and as a loyal
-citizen of Canada. Frequently he has been called to foreign parts to
-share in celebrations, such as the solemn coronation ceremonies of Our
-Lady of Guadalupe at Mexico City, in 1895, where he preached one of the
-memorial sermons, as well as at Rheims, during a like celebration in
-1896, and at Grosse Isle in 1909, when he was the principal speaker at
-the unveiling of the monument erected to the memory of the Irish
-immigrants who had fallen victims to the typhus epidemic in 1847. He has
-also been several times a guest at the Vatican, having enjoyed the
-confidence of the three successive popes, Leo XIII, Pius X, and Benedict
-XV, from the last of whom he received his red hat. He has ever been a
-participant in all the public movements that tended to improve the
-social and educational conditions in his diocese, having taken a leading
-part in the founding of one of the leading newspapers of Quebec, known
-as “L’Action Catholique” and having likewise obtained the restoration of
-the Cathedral Chapter of Quebec, an institution that had become extinct
-from the days of the Conquest. He was prominent in the enterprise of
-unveiling a monument to the memory of Bishop Laval, as he has also been
-in the various efforts put forth towards beautifying the city with parks
-and monumental structures commemorative of historic events. He is a
-Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and has been honored by
-scholastic degrees of the highest merit, bestowed on him by the
-University of Innsbruck, in Austria, as well as those he has received
-from Laval and the Gregorian University of Rome. He virtually began his
-professional career as a teacher of the young, and has never lost his
-zeal in promoting, as a Member of the Council of Public Instruction, the
-reforms that make for a right pedagogy in school and college work. His
-pen has been an active one in adding to the literature to be found in
-the library collections of his Church, such as “La Règle de Foi” and the
-“Culte Catholique” not to speak of his writings on Canadian historical
-topics, as for instance, his “Chronologie d’Histoire du Canada,” his
-pastoral letters on the “Three Hundredth Anniversary of the Foundation
-of Quebec,” and his address on the “Second Centenary of the Death of
-Bishop Laval.” So wide is his knowledge of human affairs, so urbane is
-he in his manner and so just in his decisions, so charitable is he in
-his approach to the two sides of a public question, that he has more
-than once been called upon to act as arbitrator between employer and
-employees. During the many years of his episcopate he has organized over
-fifty new parishes, and has never failed to urge the building of
-spacious churches and school-houses and convents in the most of them.
-The events of his life have been for the most part the events of his
-native province and of Canada as well. Even during his travels abroad he
-always seems to have had in his mind the maturing of a policy of
-betterment for his people, and the fostering of good will among the
-various elements of the populations of Canada.
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-=Langelier, The Honorable Sir François-Xavier=, Statesman, and
-Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec, comes of very distinguished ancestry, and
-is one of the most respected, capable and learned of French-Canadian
-gentlemen, who has taken a leading part in the public life of Canada,
-and by his brilliant achievements, ripe scholarship and administrative
-ability, has served as an inspiration and shining example to all who
-would win a high place in the confidence and esteem of their
-fellow-countrymen. His parents were Louis Sabastien Langelier and Julie
-Esther (Cassault). Paternal ancestor came to Canada from Fresquiennes,
-near Rouen, Normandy, 1652; mother’s family from Granville, France; born
-at Ste. Rosalie, Province of Quebec, Dec. 24, 1838. Educated at St.
-Hyacinthe College and Laval University (LL.B., 1860; LL.L., avec grande
-distinction, 1861; LL.D., 1878), and Paris, France; D.C.L. (honorary)
-Lennoxville, 1903; married, first Feb., 1884, Virginie Sarah Sophie
-(died May, 1891), daughter of the late I. Legare, Quebec; secondly, May,
-1892, Marie Louise, daughter of late Frederic Braun, late Civil Service,
-Ottawa; advocate, 1861; was one of the leaders of the Provincial Bar;
-K.C. (Province Quebec), 1878; also created K.C. by Dominion Government,
-1880 (Marquis of Lorne); Batonnier (district Quebec) 1887;
-Batonnier-General of the Province, 1888; practised his profession
-successfully in the city of Quebec, where he was many years, from 1866,
-a member of the law faculty, Laval University, and subsequently, Dean of
-the Faculty and a member of the Council of the University; was also
-Vice-President of the Canadian Bar Association; President of the
-Institute Canadien and President of the Council of the Arts and
-Manufacturers’ Association; served as Mayor of Quebec, 1882-90; entered
-political life as a Liberal, and a free trader; was in turn a follower
-of Mackenzie, Blake and Laurier; unsuccessfully contested Bagot (Local),
-1871; subsequently successively sat for Montmagny and Portneuf; sat for
-Megantic (House of Commons), 1884-87, and for Quebec Centre, 1887-1898;
-was Commissioner of Crown Lands and Treasurer, successively, in the
-local Administration of Sir H. G. Joly de Lotbinière, 1878-89; one of
-the signers of the address from the Liberal party to the Pope, 1896,
-resulting in the appointment of a Papal ablegate to Canada; a puisne
-Judge of Supreme Court of Province of Quebec, Jan. 14, 1898; delegated
-to perform the duties of the Chief Justice for the District of Quebec,
-June 6, 1906; as Chief Justice, became a member of the Board of
-Arbitrators, appointed 1891, for the settlement of accounts outstanding
-at Confederation between the Dominion and the Provinces of Quebec and
-Ontario; acted as Administrator of the Government of Quebec during the
-absence of Sir L. A. Jetté, 1903; knighted by his late Majesty King
-Edward, 1907; and made a Knight of Grace in the Order of St. John of
-Jerusalem in England in 1912; appointed Lieutenant-Governor, Province of
-Quebec, May, 1911; died February 8, 1915; has served as a Royal
-Commissioner on several occasions; was prominently identified with the
-movement for the organization of the Anti-Alcoholic League and its first
-President, 1907; was also President of the special committee appointed
-in connection with the tercentenary of the foundation of Quebec, 1906.
-Elected F.R.S.O., 1908; President, 1910; in addition to other legal
-productions, is the author of “Traite de la preuve, en matiere civile et
-commerciale,” and of “Cours de Droit Civil de Quebec.” Is the father of
-the following children: Juliette, Braun, who took service in the present
-war, was wounded three times, got the military cross for his bravery,
-and was promoted captain in the 22nd Batt. French Canadians; Françoise,
-Marc and Gerard. His Honor is a member of the following clubs: The
-Quebec Garrison and The Canadian. In religion, a Roman Catholic.
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-=Lynch, Hon. William Warren, B.C., Q.C., D.C.L., LL.D.=, was born near
-the Village of Bedford, County of Missisquoi, Province of Quebec, on
-September 30, 1845. His father, Thomas Lynch, came from the County of
-Cavan, Ireland, about the year 1830. He served during the Canadian
-Rebellion in the Shefford Troop of Cavalry, and died at Knowlton, Brome
-County, on March 19, 1883. His mother, Charlotte R. Williams, was born
-at Stukely, County of Shefford, Province of Quebec, in the year 1805.
-Her parents were descendants of U.E. Loyalists, who came from the State
-of Vermont at the close of the American Revolutionary War. She died in
-1885. Mr. Lynch, after taking advantage of the elementary schools in the
-vicinity of his birthplace, went to Stanbridge Academy in 1858, then a
-most flourishing institution, under the direction of Hobart Butler,
-M.A., where he prepared himself for a university course. During his last
-years at Stanbridge he acted as assistant teacher to Mr. Butler, and
-then entered the University of Vermont, Burlington, in August, 1861, but
-owing to the Civil War, which had shortly before broken out, the
-university course was considerably affected, and Mr. Lynch did not
-continue his studies there. In September, 1862, he entered the Arts
-Course of McGill University, Montreal, having secured one of the
-scholarships offered at a competitive examination. His health failing,
-he was obliged to abandon his studies before the Christmas examinations.
-He then engaged in school teaching in winter, and worked on his father’s
-farm in summer. In 1865 he was admitted to the study of the law, and
-pursued his studies in the office, first of S. W. Foster, of Knowlton,
-and afterwards of John Monk, of Montreal. He took his degree of B.C.L.
-at McGill in May, 1868, and secured the Elizabeth Torrance gold medal,
-and was admitted to practice in June. The following year he commenced
-the practice of his profession at Knowlton, and subsequently removed to
-Sweetsburg, the chef lieu of Bedford District. In the fall of 1870 he
-assumed the editorial control of the “Observer,” which was started at
-Cowansville, an adjoining village, and which became an influential organ
-of public opinion in the district. In June, 1871, during the provincial
-elections, which were then in progress, he went to Knowlton to report
-for his paper the proceedings of nomination day. There were then two
-candidates in the field, and to the surprise of Mr. Lynch, and without
-his interference, both candidates withdrew, and he was declared member
-elect for the County of Brome. During the Fenian troubles of 1866 Mr.
-Lynch took an active part in the formation of a company of volunteers at
-Brome, of which he became lieutenant, and remained such until his
-resignation in 1871. During the Fenian raid of 1870 he was at the front
-with his battalion. In keeping with the promise made to his electors, he
-became a resident of the County of Brome, returning to Knowlton in the
-fall of 1871. He has held successively the offices of school
-commissioner and chairman of that body for a number of years; and was
-also the Mayor of the Township of Brome, and Warden of the County. In
-May, 1874, he married Ellen Florence, eldest daughter of J. C. Pettes, a
-successful merchant of Knowlton, by whom he has two children. He is a
-member of the Masonic fraternity, and was some years since, deputy grand
-master for the District of Bedford. Mr. Lynch early in life identified
-himself with the Conservative party, to which he has ever borne faithful
-allegiance. He took an active part in the political discussions in the
-Legislature of Quebec on the subject of the dismissal of the De
-Boucherville Government, by M. Letellier, and it was upon a motion made
-by him that the Joly Government were defeated on October 30, 1879. He
-was made a Q.C. by the Joly Government in 1879, which was subsequently
-ratified by a similar title conferred upon him by the Federal
-authorities in 1881. When M. Chapleau assumed office as premier of the
-province, he invited Mr. Lynch to the council as Solicitor-General,
-which appointment was subsequently ratified by the electorate of Brome.
-On the abolition of the office of Solicitor-General, Mr. Lynch was
-appointed Commissioner of Crown Lands, on July 31, 1882. In September,
-1887, his constituents tendered him a reception in the shape of a
-picnic, which was attended by a large number of public men, and at which
-a presentation of a handsome sum of money was made to him by his
-political admirers and friends. He then went to Montreal to resume the
-practice of his profession, in partnership with the present Mr. Justice
-Archibald and Mr. Geo. G. Foster, K.C. Shortly after, he was appointed
-by the Dominion Government a Commissioner, in conjunction with the late
-Mr. Justice Burridge, then Deputy Minister of Justice, and Mr. Dingman,
-of the Department of the Interior, to settle the Indian title to certain
-lands in the Township of Dundee, County of Huntington, and continued to
-hold that office during the successive administrations of Messrs.
-Mousseau, Ross and Taillon, and until the defeat of the last-named
-administration in January, 1887. During the session of 1887 he was named
-by the House of Assembly one of the Commissioners to perfect the
-revision of the provincial statutes. He was one of the leaders of the
-Opposition to the Government of the late Honore Mercier until his
-appointment to the bench in July, 1889, as Judge of the Superior Court
-for the District of Bedford, his native district. He has always taken a
-warm interest in educational matters, was twice President of the
-Provincial Association of Protestant Teachers, was for some years a
-member of the Protestant Committee of the Council of Public Instruction,
-and was the first President of the District of Bedford McGill Graduates’
-Society. In June, 1883, the University of Bishops’ College offered him
-the degree of D.C.L., but owing to absence it was not conferred. In
-1904, McGill University gave him the degree of LL.D. He is a devoted
-member of the Church of England and has often been a delegate to its
-synods. Since he became judge he has devoted his leisure to the
-promotion of various matters of local concern, such as good roads,
-historical societies and the Knowlton Conference.
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-=Parmelee, William George, LL.D., D.C.L.= (Quebec City), English
-Secretary of the Department of Public Instruction, and Joint Secretary
-of the Council of Public Instruction of the Province of Quebec, was born
-at Waterloo, in the Eastern Townships, in 1860. He is a son of Rufus E.
-Parmelee, whose father had come originally from the United States. On
-the mother’s side, the subject of this sketch is of Scottish descent. He
-received his early education at Waterloo Academy, finally graduating as
-a teacher from the McGill Normal School of Montreal. He afterward became
-head master of the Model School Department and, later, a Professor of
-the Normal School. Previous to his holding these positions, he had been
-a member of the staff of St. Francis College, Richmond, P.Q., from 1881
-to 1885. From McGill Normal School he was selected for his present
-position in 1891; and for more than a quarter of a century he has been
-in touch with the educational affairs of Quebec. He has proved himself a
-departmental administrator of widely recognized professional acumen. The
-academic honors that have been bestowed upon him from the time of his
-extra-mural course at Queen’s University, from which he graduated in
-1889, stand as an endorsation of his scholarship, these including a
-D.C.L. from Bishop’s College in 1902, and an LL.D. from McGill
-University in 1911. He has likewise been honored by being chosen more
-than once, President of the Teachers’ Association of his native
-province; President of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec for
-three several terms; President of the Young Men’s Association; a
-delegate to the Federal Council of the United Empire Educational League
-in London, England, and later on as a delegate to the Imperial
-Conference on Education in the same centre. Taking an interest in local
-military affairs he was awarded a Captaincy in the 8th Royal Rifles
-Company, and later on received the honorary rank of Colonel. Nor has he
-neglected literary pursuits in his spare moments, having had published
-two of his papers read before the Literary and Historical Society, and
-entitled, “Wolfe as a Man and a Soldier,” and “The Fraser Highlanders.”
-He has also won high literary credit as joint-collaborateur with Dr.
-Arthur Doughty, the Dominion Archivist, in six volumes dealing with the
-“Siege of Quebec.” In 1886 he married Miss Louise Foss, of Waterloo.
-Their family consists of four daughters.
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-=McCorkill, The Hon. Justice John Charles= (Quebec City), was born in
-the town of Farnham, P.Q., on August 31, 1854. His father was Mr. Robert
-McCorkill, of Farnham and the Eastern Townships. His mother’s maiden
-name was Miss Margaret Meighen. His wife is a daughter of the Hon.
-Senator Leonard of London, Ontario, their marriage having taken place in
-1884. From the district elementary school, he entered the classes of the
-McGill Model School, and in time obtained a certificate to teach from
-the McGill Normal School. For a period he acted as Principal of the
-Montreal British and Canadian School, thereafter taking his degree of
-B.C.L. as a preliminary step to his becoming a lawyer. At first he
-became a partner in the Greenshields legal firm, but subsequently
-removed to the Bedford District and finally opened a central office at
-Cowansville. While rising to a high rank as an advocate, he was
-encouraged to enter the political field, and after suffering defeat
-twice in succession, was at length elected to the Legislative Assembly
-as the representative of Missisquoi. In time he was appointed
-Legislative Councillor for the District of Bedford, where he was so
-appreciatively known as a public-spirited citizen and an able lawyer,
-who had held the position of Batonnier of the Bar and other offices of
-rank. In 1903, he resigned his seat in the upper chamber of the
-Provincial Parliament, to become Provincial Treasurer in the Parent
-Administration, and was elected to the Legislature by the Constituency
-of Brome. This office he held for three years, up to the time of his
-appointment as a Judge of the Supreme Court for the District of Quebec.
-While Treasurer, his term was marked by important legislation, such as
-the revision of the taxation laws relating to banking institutions and
-succession duties, which resulted in a surplus for the province of
-half-a-million dollars. After the date of his appointment to the Bench,
-he was made a Joint Commissioner with the Hon. Mr. Mathieu and Mr. L. J.
-Gauthier, to revise the Municipal Code of the Province of Quebec. His
-record as a legal practitioner and advocate, as well as a financier and
-public-spirited citizen, has been a full one, wherever he has resided,
-in Montreal, in the Eastern Townships, or in the city of Quebec. For
-several years he was Mayor of Cowansville, where he was also President
-of the Missisquoi Historical Society. He has been President of the
-Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, and is a member of the
-Council of Public Instruction. Even in military affairs he has taken an
-active part, having been Captain as well as Major in the Militia between
-the years of 1879 and 1887. His literary tastes have expressed
-themselves in the historical papers he has written from time to time.
-Altogether the Hon. Justice McCorkill may truly be spoken of as
-possessing a forceful and clear-visioned personality, able and willing
-always to share in the civic and provincial advancement of the community
-in which he lives or has lived.
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-=Taschereau, The Hon. Louis Alexander= (Quebec City), Minister of Public
-Works for the Province of Quebec, is the son of the Hon. Justice
-Taschereau, who married Miss Josephine Caron, the daughter of the Hon.
-Justice Caron, formerly Lieut.-Governor. He was born on the 5th of
-March, 1867. He was educated at the Quebec Seminary and Laval
-University, graduating as a Licentiate of Law in 1889, preliminary to
-his entering upon his professional career as partner of Sir Charles
-Fitzpatrick, now Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. Later he
-became associated with what is now the legal firm of Taschereau, Roy,
-Cannon, Parent & Casgrain. As a lawyer, Mr. Taschereau came at once to
-be recognized as one of the leading legal practitioners of the district,
-among his successes being the part he took in the Gaynor and Greene
-extradition case in 1902. In addition to his duties as an advocate he
-took part in civic affairs, and for a time held a seat as an alderman of
-his native city. In 1900, he was elected for the constituency of
-Montmorency in the Legislative Assembly, and has continued ever since to
-be its representative. Seven years after, with his skill in debate, duly
-recognized by his parliamentary associates, he was selected to take his
-place in the Gouin Administration as Minister of Public Works and Labor.
-His administrative ability has been in keeping with his statesmanlike
-insight and foresight, and his skill in debate. His advice is ever in
-demand when any legal technicality has to be examined and explained to
-both sides of the Assembly. In fact, he has taken a high place as the
-Premier’s ally in all matters pertaining to the progress of the
-province, while he has won the highest credit within parliamentary
-circles and beyond them, for the efficiency of the Department in his
-charge. He has been a member of the Battlefields Park Commission since
-the day it was organized, and is likewise a Governor of the Catholic
-Church Society. He is a nephew of the late Cardinal Taschereau,
-Archbishop of Quebec. In 1891 he married Miss Adine Dionne, daughter of
-the Hon. E. Dionne, of the Legislative Council of Quebec, by whom he has
-had three sons and two daughters. Altogether he has made a record for
-himself in his native city and province as an able advocate, an astute
-governmental administrator, and a loyal citizen. Sprung from a
-distinguished and talented family, his career as a public man has added
-to its fame.
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-=Ross, James Gibb= (Quebec City), Senator of Canada, was born in
-Carluke, a village of Lanarkshire, in Scotland, on April 18, 1819. He
-came out to Canada in 1832, in company with his elder brother, John
-Ross; and, after attending one of the private schools of Quebec for a
-year or two, he entered the business office of his uncle, Mr. James
-Gibb. At this time the firm of James Gibb & Company was one of the
-largest of the wholesale grocery and provision houses in what has always
-been known as the Lower Town of Quebec; and there the Scottish lad laid
-the foundation of his business career, which was eventually to place him
-among the wealthiest merchants of Canada. In 1843, Mr. Thomas O. Gibb,
-son of Mr. James Gibb, returned to Quebec, after finishing his school
-education in Edinburgh; and in the same year a company was formed in
-which Thomas O. Gibb, John Ross, and James G. Ross were the partners,
-until the first mentioned of the three died in 1845. Eventually, on Mr.
-James Gibb’s death, the two Ross brothers took the business name of Ross
-& Co., and as such continued in active operation up to the year 1868. By
-this time the firm had amplified its business by other branches of
-trading; and in 1868 the older of the two members of the firm withdrew
-to conduct a business of his own, for the most part confined, as it was,
-to the grocery and provision trade. With him was associated his youngest
-brother, Frank Ross. At the time of the Senator’s death, in 1888, the
-firm of Ross & Co. had developed into one of the wealthiest business
-concerns in the country, having depots for the distribution of their
-wares in nearly all the larger cities of Canada and the United States.
-With millions at his command, the sole partner of the firm took an
-active interest in shipbuilding and railroad construction. Nearly every
-branch of industry was enhanced by the money advances of the
-multi-millionaire. The shipping interests, especially, felt the effects
-of his business acumen, especially when he took in charge for sailing
-purposes the ships the building of which he had assisted with advances
-of money, but which, for market reasons could not for a time be sold.
-The railroads which came in for assistance included the Quebec and Lake
-St. John Railway and the Quebec Central, both of which may trace their
-success as paying concerns to the financial foresight of Senator James
-G. Ross, who thus both directly and indirectly aided the colonization of
-the country and its trading interests by the assistance he extended to
-their promoters. Nor was it easy for one so prominent in the commercial
-interests of the ancient capital to refuse to be nominated as a
-candidate for parliamentary honors. On two several occasions he was
-called upon to contest the electoral division of Quebec Centre, once in
-the Conservative interest in 1872, against Mr. Cauchon, afterwards
-Governor of Manitoba, and a second time as an Independent, in 1878,
-against Mr. Malouin. In both instances he was defeated, though
-afterwards he was considered worthy to succeed the Hon. David Price as
-Senator, in 1884. He was unmarried; but in the families of his two
-brothers, John and Frank, he is notably represented to-day by Mr. John
-Theodore Ross, the only son of the former, and Frank W. Ross, surviving
-son of the latter, both of whom have evidently in them the desire
-inherited from their uncle, James G. Ross, to advance the interests of
-their native city. The Hon. Senator Ross was a prominent citizen other
-than in business and political circles. He took an interest in school
-improvements and church advancement. He was for many years President of
-the Quebec Bank, a Director of the Quebec High School, and an elder in
-Chalmers Church. As may well be said of his beneficent uncle, James
-Gibb, Senator James Gibb Ross was a liberal benefactor to the
-institutions of Quebec, both before his death and after it. He
-accumulated his millions in Peter Street, and every Protestant
-institution in the city of his adoption benefited by his wealth in some
-way or another.
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-=Gouin, The Hon. Sir Jean Lomer, K.C.M.G., LL.B., LL.D.=, Premier of the
-Province of Quebec, was born at Brondines, of the County of Portneuf, on
-March 19, 1861. He comes from a French-Canadian stock whose lineage can
-be traced as far back as 1662. His father was J. N. Gouin, M.D., who
-married Miss Victoire Seraphine Fugère in 1852. In his earlier years,
-their son Lomer became a pupil of Sorel College, thereafter entering as
-an under-graduate the College of Levis, and afterwards graduating at
-Laval University. His collegiate honors include the degree of LL.D.,
-received successively from Laval in 1902, from Bishop’s College
-University in 1913, and from Toronto University in 1915. He was called
-to the Bar in 1884, after studying law under the late Sir John Abbott
-and the Hon. B. Laflamme. He had thus been a student under the
-supervision of a Prime Minister of Canada and of a Minister of Justice.
-During his partnership with Judge Pagnuello and the Hon. Premier Honore
-Mercier, whose daughter Eliza he married in 1888, he came into
-prominence in the law courts of Montreal, being finally elected
-Batonnier-General in 1910, after having served a term as Alderman of
-that city, and elected a Member of the Local Legislature. In 1900 he
-became Commissioner of Public Works in the Parent Administration for
-four years. Resigning his place in the Parent Cabinet in 1904, he was
-called to the premiership the year after, holding the portfolio of
-Attorney-General up to the present time. During the general election of
-1916 his administration of public affairs was upheld by a majority never
-before vouchsafed to a Quebec premier; while the list of honors
-conferred upon him since his advent to power is perhaps one of the
-longest on record. He was knighted by the reigning Sovereign of the
-Empire at the Quebec Tercentenary Celebration of 1908, and was made a
-K.C.M.G. in the year 1913. Ever animated with a desire to see his native
-province an advancing factor in the general progress of the Dominion of
-Canada, as well as of the British Empire, he has been diligent in
-promoting the public works that have to be fostered within the counties
-and parishes, as well as in the cities and larger towns, in line with
-the general advancement of the commonwealth. He has done his best to
-improve the educational conditions of the communities, not forgetting
-likewise to improve the highways and the industrial activities all over
-the province. His zeal in establishing and liberally subsidizing
-Industrial Schools and Technical Colleges has become a proverb in all
-the provinces; while, in view of his support of a provincial grant of
-one million dollars to the Canadian Patriotic Fund during the time of
-war, his reputation as a broad-minded Canadian citizen has been placed
-beyond all questioning. Senator David has pronounced a eulogium on
-Premier Gouin that places him in rank with, if not beyond, those who
-have preceded him in the Quebec premiership. Within these war-times he
-has advocated a National War Service in the most fervent terms,
-illustrating Senator David’s estimate of his statesmanship as that of a
-highly capable servant of the State, in his impartial judgment,
-prudence, eloquence, and administrative acumen. His share in the Bonne
-Entente mission to Ontario in 1917, to plead, with others, for a closer
-mutual understanding between the two leading races in Canada, has given
-an éclat to his statesmanship. He would see Canada a unit while aiding
-the mother lands in Europe by force of arms, and thus uphold the
-prestige of the British Empire. And the various offices Sir Lomer Gouin
-has held from the day he entered public life in 1891, indicate the
-strenuous part he has played as a public-spirited Canadian. In 1891, he
-was President of the National Club in Montreal, which was virtually “the
-Executive of the Liberal Party” in the Montreal district. That year he
-was defeated in his first election contest. Six years after he was
-elected representative for the St. James Electoral Division of Montreal,
-and thereafter has been member for his native County of Portneuf. He has
-continued to be a Member of the Council of Public Instruction since
-1898; became President of the American Fish and Game Protection
-Association in 1910; was Chairman of the Ottawa Inter-provincial
-Conference in 1906, and afterwards a delegate to a like Conference in
-1910. As from one “learned in the law,” his edition of the Municipal
-Code is a standard work; while no one has so well at his command the
-details of parliamentary law-and-order as he has, as leader of the House
-of Assembly. The record of his regime is concisely given in a neat
-little volume published in 1916, under the title of “Le Gouvernment
-Gouin et Son Oeuvre.” Another volume referring to the federal subsidies
-in favor of the provinces was published in 1903, giving the amplified
-record of an address delivered by Sir Lomer under the heading of “The
-Actual Question.” These volumes, together with the reports of his
-speeches from time to time, indicate how Sir Lomer Gouin has ever had in
-mind the public interest—seeing to the improving of the conditions in
-his native province, even to the widening out of its area as in the case
-of the annexation of the District of Ungava, building government works,
-and highways, and bridges, and never forgetting to urge it to keep pace
-with its sister provinces in the federacy which includes them all within
-the Dominion of Canada. In seeing to the advancement of the province he
-has in charge as premier, he has made fame for himself as a loyal
-statesman and dignified scholar, duly honored by the King and his
-country’s seats of learning. He was married to Miss Alice Amos, his
-second wife, in 1911. By his first wife he has had two sons—Leon, who
-is practising law in Montreal; and Paul, who is a lieutenant on active
-service.
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-=Drayton, Sir Henry Lumley, K.C., K.B.=, Chief Commissioner, Board of
-Railway Commissioners for Canada, was born in Kingston, Ontario, April
-27, 1869. He is the son of Philip Henry Drayton, who came to Canada with
-the 16th Rifles of England, and Margaret S. (Covernton) Drayton. He was
-educated in the schools of England and Canada. On September 14, 1892, he
-married Edith Mary Cawthra, daughter of the late Joseph Cawthra,
-Toronto, and has three daughters. Sir Henry Drayton was called to the
-Ontario Bar in 1891 and soon became recognized as one of the leaders in
-the legal profession. In September 1893, he was appointed Assistant City
-Solicitor for Toronto, and when he resigned in September, 1900, he was
-presented with a gold watch in recognition of the valuable services he
-had rendered to the city in his legal capacity. He immediately
-(September, 1900), formed partnership with Charles J. Holman, K.C., and
-in January, 1902, was appointed Counsel to the Railway Committee of the
-Ontario Legislature by the Chairman, the Hon. John Dryden. The following
-year he was appointed representative of the Ontario Government for the
-purpose of adjudicating upon and paying, on behalf of the Government,
-the claims of workmen of the different Clergue Companies operating at
-Sault Ste. Marie, and on January 29, 1904, he was appointed County Crown
-Attorney for the County of York, on the recommendation of the Hon. J. M.
-Gibson. In 1905 he was appointed Counsel on Civic Bribery Investigation,
-Toronto, the Civic Investigation Court House in 1906, the Public School
-Board Investigation, and also the Civic Investigation into the Medical
-Health Department. January the 20th, 1908, he was created K.C. He
-resigned his position as County Crown Attorney in 1909, and the
-following year, April 25, 1910, was appointed Counsel for the
-Corporation of the City of Toronto. May 11, 1911, he was appointed as
-representative of the Ontario Government a member of the Toronto Power
-Commission. When on July 1, 1912, he was appointed Chief Commissioner of
-the Board of Railway Commissioners for Canada the Toronto City Council
-presented him with an illuminated album. In July, 1913, he was appointed
-Commissioner to deal with the question of Control of Ocean Freight
-Rates. In 1917 Sir Henry Drayton was appointed a member of the
-Drayton-Smith-Acworth Commission which investigated the Canadian railway
-situation. When the work of the Commission was completed and their
-report presented to the Government, he, as his fee for his able services
-on the Commission, was presented with a cheque for $15,000 by the
-Dominion Government. He refused to accept payment and returned the
-cheque. Acknowledging the receipt of the returned cheque the then
-Minister of Railways and Canals, Hon. Mr. Cochrane, wrote in part as
-follows: “I can assure you that your very patriotic attitude in this
-matter is most sincerely appreciated by the Government at a time when
-every dollar which can be saved is of material importance to the
-successful prosecution of the war.” In very many other ways since the
-war commenced in 1914, Sir Henry Drayton has rendered valuable
-services—financially, as a member of committees and in the direction of
-transportation, supply and other matters. He is ever to the fore to do
-all he can to help Canada successfully bear the burdens—financially,
-commercially and otherwise—that this war has forced her to carry and no
-one has ever rendered such services more freely and willingly. Sir Henry
-Drayton is a member of the Toronto, Toronto Hunt, Ontario Jockey,
-Rideau, Ottawa Royal Golf, Country (Ottawa), Connaught Park Jockey
-(Ottawa), and the Kaministiquia (Fort William) Clubs. His address is 233
-Metcalfe St., Ottawa.
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-=Dobell, Sir Charles Macpherson, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O.= (Quebec City),
-Lieutenant-General of the British Army, is a son of the late Hon. R. R.
-Dobell, lumber merchant, of Quebec, and a grandson of Senator Sir David
-Macpherson, at one time Speaker of the Canadian Senate. He is a native
-of Quebec, having been born on June 22, 1869. Receiving his elementary
-education at the Rev. Canon Von Iffland’s Private School, he became a
-student at the Quebec High School and later at the Charterhouse School
-in England, previous to his entering the Royal Military College at
-Kingston, Ontario. From that institution he graduated in 1890. After
-serving as a Lieutenant in the Hazara Expedition, wherein his bravery
-was mentioned in dispatches and by the award of a medal and clasp, his
-advancement has proceeded steadily with his experience in active
-service. He took part with the International Forces in the occupation of
-the Island of Crete, and was there raised to the rank of Major. During
-the South African War, he joined the Canadian Contingent, and won his
-D.S.O. with other honors, during the several engagements of the
-campaign. In command of a regiment of mounted infantry he shared in
-conflict after conflict with the Boers, taking part in the relief of
-Kimberley, and in the engagements of Paardeberg, Poplar Grove,
-Prefontaine, Johannesburg, Pretoria and Diamond Hill, and many others.
-After serving in Nigeria, he was given the rank of Lieut.-Colonel, his
-name from time to time occurring in the dispatches to the War Office. As
-an interruption to his service in Nigeria, he was called to China during
-the Boxer uprising, and was present at the relief of Pekin by the
-International Forces. On his return from China, he was appointed by the
-War Office to the South African Intelligence Department, and became an
-A.D.C. to the King. Later on he was gazetted as Inspector-General of the
-West African Field Force, with the rank of Brigadier-General, a position
-he was holding when Germany declared war in 1914. Since then he has
-gained further distinction and promotion. With a combined force of
-French and English troops numbering nearly ten thousand, he shared in
-the conquest of the German Colony of the Cameroons, a territory covering
-an area in all of 300,000 square miles. On New Year’s Day, 1916, the
-order of C.M.G. was bestowed upon him by King George, and eventually, at
-the close of the Cameroon Expedition, he received the honor of K.C.B.,
-as well as the Legion of Honor from the President of the French
-Republic, being at the same time gazetted as a Major-General of the
-British Army. A still later event in his career as a “soldier of the
-king” led to his being placed in command as Lieut.-General of the Coast
-Forces that were to advance from the Suez Canal into Palestine.
-Altogether Sir Charles Dobell’s career has been a splendid one. Hailing
-as he does from a district in Canada that has provided several military
-officers of high rank to the forces of the Motherland, his
-fellow-Canadians cannot but be proud of the record made by one of their
-own as a soldier and commander. He was married in 1908, to Mrs. (Elsye
-Bankes) Campbell, daughter of the late Lieut.-Colonel Meyrick Bankes, of
-London, and widow of Captain F. L. Campbell, R.N. His two brothers, Mr.
-William Molson Dobell, lumber merchant, and Mr. Alfred Dobell, advocate,
-as well as his uncle, Mr. William Molson Macpherson, banker, are
-prominent citizens of the city of Quebec.
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-
-=Garneau, Sir George=, formerly Mayor of Quebec City, and one of the
-prominent merchants and capitalists of that city, who has been for many
-years President of the National Battlefields Commission, is a son of the
-late Hon. Pierre Garneau, Member of the Legislative Council of the
-Province of Quebec, and several times member of the Provincial Cabinet.
-On the mother’s side he was a grandson of Mr. Edward Burroughs, the
-Prothonotary. Sir George is a native of Quebec, having been born on
-November 19, 1864. He received his earlier education at the Quebec
-Seminary, afterwards entering as a student the Montreal Polytechnic
-School, where he graduated as Civil Engineer, in 1884. Four years
-afterwards he took the degree of Bachelor of Applied Science in Laval
-University, where for a period he was Titular Professor of Analytical
-Chemistry. For a time he held the position of assistant engineer on the
-construction staff of the Quebec and Lake St. John Railway, previous to
-his being taken in as a partner in his father’s wholesale dry goods
-establishment. Aside from his business pursuits, he identified himself
-with civic affairs, and on being elected alderman, he was chosen as
-Mayor in 1906, and at the close of his term was unanimously re-elected
-for a second term of two years. It was while he was Mayor that he became
-Chairman of the National Battlefields Commission, in 1908. During that
-year there occurred the Tercentennial Celebration of the founding of
-Quebec. In association with Earl Grey, he was prominently identified
-with the supervision of the preliminaries to that Celebration, and has
-since deeply interested himself, with his associate Commissioners, in
-the laying out of the Battlefields Park, which is still in course of
-completion as one of the most striking of Canada’s historic landmarks.
-His zeal as an overseer of that enterprise and the interest he took in
-the events of the Celebration, graced, as it was, by the presence of the
-Prince of Wales, now King George V, and other notables of Canada and the
-Motherland, was signalized by the honor of knighthood at the hands of
-King Edward VII, an honor subsequently supplemented by the President of
-the French Republic, in the bestowal of the Legion of Honor. On the
-creation of the Quebec Public Utilities Commission, in 1910, he was
-appointed member of the same and acting President, the appointment being
-extended for a period of ten years. His career has been marked by the
-holding of many other high positions connected with the progress of his
-native city. For a time he was a Director of the Railway Company, under
-which he had been in his earlier years a civil engineer. He has been
-Director of the Prudential Trust Company, a Director of the Quebec
-Steamship Company, a member of the Advisory Board of the Richelieu and
-Ontario Navigation Company, a Director of the Quebec Land Company, and a
-Governor of Laval University. His brother, the Hon. E. B. Garneau, was
-appointed to the Legislative Council on the death of his father. Since
-the demise of both of them, Sir George has continued to be President of
-the firm of “Garneau Limited.” He was married in 1892, to Miss Alma
-Benoit, daughter of Alphonse Benoit, for many years Secretary of the
-Department of Militia and Defence of Canada. His family consists of five
-sons and three daughters. In these later years Sir George has taken a
-deep interest in the Entente Conferences for the promotion of unity
-between the two distinctive races of Canada; and during the Toronto
-Conference, he was received at a special Convocation of the University
-of Toronto, and had the honor of LL.D. conferred upon him. The ancestors
-of the Garneau family came originally from France in 1663; and the
-subject of this sketch as a French-Canadian, using the French and
-English languages with equal facility, has never failed to acknowledge
-himself as an all-Canadian, devoted to the cause of a common
-Canadianism, under the aegis of the British Empire. He also served in
-the Canadian Militia, from which he retired with the rank of Captain of
-Field Artillery in 1894.
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-
-=Cox, Herbert Coplin= (Toronto, Ont.), son of the late Hon. George A.
-Cox, Senator, and Margaret (Hopkins) Cox, was born at Peterborough,
-Ont., on June 29, 1873, and received his education at Jarvis Street
-Collegiate Institute and Victoria University, Toronto. Mr. Cox was
-trained to business life and in an extensive experience under his father
-early developed aptitude and ability as a financier. In July, 1895, he
-married Louise Bogart Brown, daughter of Charles Brown, Toronto. On
-completing his education Mr. Cox entered the service of the Canada Life
-Assurance Company and rapidly rose to the management of the company’s
-largest branch. He entered into partnership with his father under the
-firm name of George A. & H. C. Cox, in the management of the Eastern
-Ontario and Michigan branches of the company in July, 1899, and became
-sole manager of the business of that territory upon his father’s
-appointment to the presidency. In October, 1912, he was invited to
-accept the presidency of the Imperial Life Assurance Company, where he
-obtained an invaluable experience in executive work. He retired from
-this position in August, 1914, to become President of the Canada Life
-Assurance Company on the death of his brother, E. W. Cox. He also
-assumed the responsibility of various other offices and directorates
-held by his late brother. While, however, his career as an insurance man
-and financier has been such as very few men of his age have attained,
-that represents but one side of a character remarkable for activity and
-public spirit, as well as ability. In movements toward the betterment of
-conditions in the life insurance business Mr. Cox has naturally taken a
-keen interest, but his pursuits outside of business, especially in the
-field of social betterment, are varied and important. He took a deep and
-active interest in the erection of Toronto’s General Hospital, serving
-upon several committees in this connection. He is a director of the
-Toronto Conservatory of Music and is a member of the Music Committee of
-the Metropolitan Church, of which he is also a trustee. He is likewise
-chairman of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and Honorary Colonel of the
-Mississauga Horse. Mr. Cox is President and General Manager of the
-Canada Life Assurance Company, President of the Imperial Guarantee and
-Accident Company, President of the Toronto Savings and Loan Company,
-President of the Provident Investment Company, Vice-President of the
-Central Canada Loan and Savings Company, Director of the Dominion
-Securities Corporation, Director of the National Trust Company, Director
-of the Canadian General Electric Company, Director of the British
-American Assurance Company, Director of the Western Assurance Company,
-Director of the Dunlop Tire and Rubber Company, and Director of the
-Robert Simpson Company. He is a member of the following clubs: Toronto,
-York, Toronto Hunt, Toronto Golf, Mississauga Golf, Royal Canadian
-Yacht, National, Ontario, Arts and Letters. In religion Mr. Cox is a
-Methodist.
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-
-=Carew, John, M.L.A.= (Lindsay, Ont.), born Jan. 5, 1862, at Emily
-Township, County of Victoria, son of John Carew and Jane Wilson, both
-Irish. He was educated at Lindsay Public School. Married, Feb. 11, 1885,
-to Margaret, daughter of Francis and Margaret Kelly, of Red Rock,
-Verulam Township, County of Victoria, and is father of the following
-children: Hazel May, Lieut.-Col. Francis John Carew, Annie, Ethel,
-Gertrude J., Charles Lawrence, Arthur W. and Roberta Grace. Mr. Carew
-has been successfully engaged in the lumber business at Lindsay for
-about thirty years and is a large employer of labor. He is President and
-General Manager of The John Carew Lumber Company, Limited;
-Vice-President of Horn Bros. Woollen Mills; Vice-President Hodgson Bros.
-Chemical Co.; Vice-President The Halton Brick Co.; Vice-President The
-Canada Sand Lime Brick Co. Was elected a member of the Ontario
-Legislature at the general elections in 1914 as the Conservative
-representative for South Victoria. Mr. Carew is a Presbyterian in
-religion, a member of the Masonic Order, and of the Independent Order of
-Oddfellows. He is a Governor of the Ross Memorial Hospital at Lindsay, a
-member of the Board of Education of the town, and President of the
-Lindsay Central Exhibition. Mr. Carew is an enthusiastic member of the
-Lindsay Curling Club. He is recognized as one of the country’s most
-public spirited and progressive citizens.
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-
-=Casgrain, Philippe Baby= (Quebec City), lawyer, parliamentarian and
-author, is of an old and distinguished family, which includes in its
-record besides himself, the late Abbé P. H. Casgrain, of literary fame;
-the Hon. Senator Charles E. C. Casgrain, M.D.; the Hon. Thomas Chase
-Casgrain, the distinguished lawyer and Minister of the Crown, and the
-Hon. Senator J. P. B. Casgrain. The subject of this sketch was born in
-the city of Quebec, on the 30th December, 1826. He is the son of Mr. C.
-E. C. Casgrain, who was at one time the Deputy Commissioner of Public
-Works. His mother’s maiden name was Miss Anne Baby, a daughter of the
-Hon. James Baby, Cabinet Minister. He had his earlier education at St.
-Anne’s College. In 1850 he was called to the Bar, and was given his K.C.
-in his thirty-third year, after being associated as a law-partner with
-the Hon. Mr. Cauveau, the Solicitor-General of his time. After this he
-was given a position as assistant in the Prothonotary’s Office, and was
-later on chosen Clerk of the Circuit Court. Subsequently he was elected
-a member of the House of Commons for the constituency of L’Islet, which
-he continued to represent from term to term for nearly twenty years. It
-was not until 1891 he was defeated by Mr. Georges Desjardins. During his
-parliamentary days he was ever diligent in assuming his share of
-committee work, having taken a prominent part in the Royal Commission
-appointed to investigate the administration of public affairs in the
-constituency of Rimouski. Two years after his defeat in L’Islet, he was
-given the presidency of a second Royal Commission to enquire into the
-affairs of the Montreal and Sorel Railway. During his long term of
-office in the Court House, he gained a prominence as a writer and
-investigator of the traditions that fringed the historical atmosphere of
-his native city. He was elected for a term of two years President of the
-Literary and Historical Society in 1898, and seven years afterwards he
-was chosen for the same position a second time. He also was a member of
-the Navy League, and took an active part in securing the Plains of
-Abraham as a federal asset, thus preparing the way for its becoming a
-permanent acquisition of the National Battlefields Parks Commission. In
-1907 he was elected Vice-President of the Canadian Landmarks
-Association, and was later awarded a diploma from the Royal Society of
-Canada for his zeal in archæological research. The Transactions of the
-Royal Society and of the Literary and Historical Society bear testimony
-to his industry in preparing historical and antiquarian matter for
-publication, which otherwise might have been lost. For instance, he
-successfully located the site of the fountain from which the founder of
-the colony, Samuel de Champlain, had water drawn to supply his
-habitation, as well as the site of the house in which General Montcalm
-lived during his sojourn in Quebec, and the house in which he died; the
-site of the place of abode of Abraham Martin, whose name is perpetuated
-in the name of the historic battlefield; the site of Dumont’s Mill, near
-the baylet curvature of the St. Lawrence known as Wolfe’s Cove; the
-location of Claire Fontaine, that gave its name to the street which, as
-an elevated pathway on the brow of Perrault’s Hill, saw the marshalling
-of Montcalm’s troops in three divisions; besides the locations of many
-other historical landmarks in the Ancient Capital. Learned in the law,
-he was held in high respect as an official of the Palais de Justice. His
-long tenure of office in Parliament and out of it has always been
-characterized by integrity of purpose in dealing with public matters.
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-
-=Gibson, Theron= (Toronto, Ont.), Valuator and Financial Agent, began
-his career as an accountant with John Hogg, dry goods merchant, Guelph,
-Ont., in 1875, after an early education in the Public Schools and
-British American Business College. He was successively, Treasurer of the
-Guelph Lumber Company, 1878-1880; Office Manager, John Hogg & Son,
-Guelph, 1880-1885; Financial Manager, A. R. McMaster & Bro., Toronto,
-1885-1886; Accountant, Freehold Loan & Savings Co., Toronto, 1886-1887;
-Inspector of the same, 1887-1898; and Inspector, Canada Permanent &
-Western Canada Mortgage Corporation, 1898-1903. Since when he has been
-engaged in business on his own account valuing real estate for
-investors, conducting arbitrations, managing estates, in addition to
-negotiating investments and fire insurance. He is interested in State
-Consolidated Oil Co., and a director both of Wm. Cane & Sons Co.,
-Newmarket, and of Fire Insurance Exchange Corporation, Toronto. Mr.
-Gibson has always taken a prominent part in church and benevolent work.
-For some years he was President of the Guelph Y.M.C.A. and Treasurer and
-Member of the Board of the Toronto Y.M.C.A. For thirteen years he has
-been Superintendent of Central Presbyterian Sunday School, and for seven
-years Treasurer of the Ontario Branch of the Dominion Alliance. Since
-1905 he has been a member of the Executive of the Provincial Sunday
-School Association, and is to-day Vice-Chairman of that body, as also a
-member of the Executive Committee and Board of Trustees of the
-International Sunday School Association, and Secretary of that board and
-life member of the Association; Treasurer and Member of the Executive
-Committee, Presbyterian Sunday School Association; Vice-President of the
-Toronto Sunday School Association, and director of the Upper Canada
-Bible Society. He has been an elder in the Presbyterian Church since
-1883. Mr. Gibson was born in Huron County, Ont., February 19, 1852, the
-son of David and Sarah Jane Gibson, and married Mary Jean, daughter of
-the late John Stephen Holmwood, Flamboro W., Ont., September 11, 1877.
-He has five children, David Holmwood, Norman Rothwell, William Ernest,
-Douglas and Jessie Winnifred.
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-=Murphy, Hon. Charles, B.A.= The son of James Murphy of Birr, King’s
-County, Ireland, and Mary Conway, of Limerick, was born in Ottawa,
-December 8, 1863. He was educated in the Separate Schools, the
-Collegiate Institute and Ottawa University (B.A.), and Osgoode Hall,
-Toronto. He is a Barrister-at-law and has been for several years
-honorary solicitor for the Christian Aid Society. In September, 1908,
-upon the retirement from the Cabinet of Hon. R. W. Scott, Secretary of
-State, Mr. Murphy was chosen to succeed him and was sworn in on October
-10. This office he held until the resignation of Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s
-Cabinet, October 6, 1911. He was nominated by the Liberals of Russell
-County as their candidate for the House of Commons, and at the general
-election of 1908 was elected by a large majority. He was re-elected at
-the general election of 1911. He is recognized throughout Canada as one
-of the most persistent advocates of Home Rule for Ireland, and his
-efforts and eloquence have ever been prominently evident in that cause.
-He is a member of the Laurentian, University and Rivermead Golf Clubs,
-Ottawa, and the Ontario Club, Toronto. He is a Roman Catholic, a Liberal
-in politics, and resides at 174 Maclaren Street, Ottawa. His father, the
-late James Murphy, was a well-known contractor and built, among other
-important public works, the Pembina branch of the Canadian Pacific
-Railway.
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-=Cole, Wilmot Howard, ex-M.L.A., Colonel= (Brockville, Ont.), was born
-at Brockville, February 16, 1834. The patronymic Cole is of very ancient
-Saxon origin: It appears in the “Domesday Book.” The public records show
-that in the year 1640, Sir John Cole, of Shenley, in Hertfordshire,
-England, was a landed proprietor. His son, Adam, married and had issue a
-son, Cornelius. This Cornelius Cole emigrated to America in the year
-1708; in 1711 he became a justice of Albany County comprised within the
-limits of what was called “Livingston Manor.” His land was next to that
-of W. T. Livingston, and extended from the Manor House road to Jansens’s
-Kill, or creek, and was one of the finest farms in the Manor. He had
-three sons, named Nicholas, John and Adam. On the breaking out of the
-rebellion, Cornelius Cole and his sons, John and Adam, espoused the
-cause of England, and the sons joined the Royalist forces. As the war
-proceeded the feeling ran so high against the “Tories,” as the Royalists
-were called, and Cornelius Cole, although an old man, was seized and
-imprisoned, where he died a victim of fidelity to Motherland. His
-property was confiscated, and his sons forced to seek a home in the
-wilds of Canada. In 1773 John and Adam Cole with his wife and her two
-brothers, Jonathan, Jr., and Abel Fulford, left with other United Empire
-Loyalists for Canada, and passing up the St. Lawrence, they landed and
-settled in the County of Leeds, in that part now called the Township of
-Elizabethtown, at a point on the River St. Lawrence about five miles
-west of the present town of Brockville, which place is still called
-“Cole’s Ferry.” Here Adam Cole settled, being, as he was frequently
-heard to say, the first person to begin a settlement in the Township of
-Elizabethtown. Some years after the close of the war, Peter, a son of
-John Cole, returned to his grandfather’s old home in Ulster County, to
-ascertain whether he could recover some of the family estate, which had
-been confiscated, but failed, as the authorities had granted the
-property to other persons. Adam Cole’s wife was Thankful Fulford, also
-descended from Loyalist stock. Her father, Jonathan Fulford, sen., with
-the rest of his family came in 1784, and settled in the same
-neighborhood, and left numerous descendants. Adam Cole’s family, in
-1812, consisted of nine sons and seven daughters, besides four who died
-in infancy. Five of the sons served in the War of 1812, the eldest,
-Peter, having assisted in the capture of Ogdensburg, and subsequently
-held the rank of captain. The house of Adam Cole was the general
-headquarters of the military, when they were in that section of country,
-or when moving between Montreal and Kingston. It is related of Peter
-Cole, the eldest son, that in the year 1810, the mail carrier was taken
-sick at his father’s house, and Peter took the mail to Kingston, where
-he received that from Toronto and carried it back to Montreal. At
-Montreal he took charge of the mail for the west, which had been
-accumulating for a month and weighed upwards of sixty pounds, and
-carried it to Kingston. He accomplished the whole trip, going and
-coming, of 430 miles on foot, in fourteen days, and this was in March,
-when the trail most of the way was through the forest and very
-difficult. He received for this service, from the Government the sum of
-fifteen dollars. Abel Cole, who was the youngest son of Adam Cole, died
-December 9, 1893, aged 88 years. His wife, Catherine Seaman, a
-grand-daughter of Caleb Seaman, died Nov. 2, 1893, aged 83 years, being
-one of the sons of Caleb Seaman who was with Lord Cornwallis at York
-Town. Wilmot Howard Cole, second son of Abel Cole, was educated at
-Brockville. He commenced mercantile business in 1855, and continued in
-the same until 1882. The old spirit of loyalty which he inherited,
-prompted him upon the organization of the Volunteer Militia of Canada in
-1855, to become a member of the old “Brockville Rifle Company,”
-commanded by Major Smythe (later of the 100th Regiment, British Army).
-The late Col. James Crawford, William Fitzsimmons (a former postmaster
-of Brockville), the late Samuel Ross, William Morris, Thomas Camm and
-other business men of Brockville, shouldered their muskets and learned
-the drill at the same time. Wilmot Howard Cole filled every position in
-rank from private to colonel of battalion. In December, 1864, he went
-with the Brockville Rifle Company, as lieutenant, to Amherstburg, in the
-County of Essex, remaining there on duty until the following May. In
-November, 1865, the fear of a Fenian Raid was so strong in the vicinity
-of the River St. Lawrence, that the officers of the Brockville Rifle
-Company (who were at the time, the late Col. Crawford in command, Lieut.
-Cole, Lieut. Robert Bowie, and the late Lieut. Windeat), offered their
-services without pay, and to increase their company to 100 men to do
-duty for the protection of Brockville and vicinity, by drilling the men
-and mounting a heavy guard every night, with sentries posted in
-different parts of the town, the men only being paid twenty-five cents
-per day. The offer was accepted by the government and that duty
-performed until the ensuing March, when a large portion of the volunteer
-force were called out, and a provisional battalion formed at Brockville,
-under command of Col. Crawford, Lieut. Cole assuming command of the
-Brockville Rifle Company, with which he remained on duty until the next
-November, part of the time at Brockville and part at Cornwall. Again in
-1870, as major of the 41st battalion, he was on duty at Cornwall during
-the Fenian excitement. On June 28, 1871, he was appointed to the command
-of the 41st battalion; on June 28, 1898, he resigned, having held the
-command for 27 years, and was a member of the active force for 43 years.
-In 1913 the Militia Department honored him with the full rank of
-Colonel. Col. Cole occupied various positions of trust and importance in
-the gift of his fellow-citizens. He was a member of the Town Council of
-Brockville for fourteen years; a director for many years, and president
-of the Johnstown Mutual Fire Insurance Company; a member of the
-Independent Order of Oddfellows for many years, filling various offices
-in the local lodge and also in the Grand lodge and Grand Encampment. He
-was chosen by his brethren to fill the position of Grand Master the year
-the Sovereign Grand Lodge met in Toronto, in September, 1880, who were
-entertained by their Ontario brethren. He always took an active part in
-everything that would advance the interests of his native town. In
-connection with the late Allan Turner, he worked for many years to
-obtain a system of waterworks for Brockville, and in 1881 they organized
-a company, consisting of Allan Turner, John McMullen, Thomas Gilmour,
-George A. Dana, and Wilmot H. Cole, to construct waterworks; and as a
-result of the efforts of these gentlemen, Brockville has now a most
-excellent system of water supply for all purposes. Colonel Cole was
-elected a member of the Legislature of the Province of Ontario for the
-Brockville riding, in the Liberal interest, at the general elections in
-1875, and was a warm supporter of the Mowat Government. He received the
-appointment of Registrar for the County of Leeds in February, 1882. He
-was president of the Brockville Loan and Savings Company. Col. Cole was
-a member of the Methodist Church, and for over fifty years a trustee of
-the Wall Street Church in Brockville, and was looked upon by his fellow
-church members as ready to assist in carrying forward all enterprises
-for the benefit of the church. Col. Cole married Jane Adelaide, youngest
-daughter of the late Abram Philips, of New York. Their family consisted
-of four children, two sons and two daughters. The sons, following the
-traditions of the family, entered the volunteer force very early. The
-elder, Eugene Maurice Cole, was bugler in the Brockville Rifle Company
-in 1866, and did duty with that company whenever on service; he
-subsequently became lieutenant, after which he resigned, having removed
-from Brockville. The youngest son, Capt. George Marshall Cole, was
-captain of No. 4 company, 41st battalion. The latest enterprise which
-Col. Cole had been connected with and will eventually benefit his native
-town more than all the others, was the Brockville, Westport and Sault
-Ste. Marie Railway. The idea of a railway from Brockville to Westport
-had been entertained, and a charter was procured, but nothing further
-was done, and after a time the charter expired. Subsequently, Eugene M.
-Cole, who was in business in New York City, and enjoyed commercial
-relations with gentlemen interested in building railways and other
-public works, conceived the idea that a line of railway from Brockville
-to Sault Ste. Marie would prove an advantageous route in many ways, and
-at the same time benefit his native town. After much labor in gathering
-statistical information, he laid the whole matter before his father, who
-had it brought before the leading men of the County of Leeds, and the
-proposition made that if the municipalities would bear the expense of
-preliminary survey and obtain the charter, and grant aid by way of bonus
-to the extent of $125,000, Eugene M. Cole would work up the scheme and
-obtain the capital and contractors to build at least the first section
-of the road to Westport. This was agreed to, the last bonus by-law being
-passed on July 15, 1885, and work on the construction of the railway
-commenced on January 13, 1886. Although ably assisted by many persons in
-the County of Leeds in connection with the enterprise, the credit of the
-inception of the scheme, and the labor in working it up materially and
-financially, belong to Eugene M. Cole. Colonel Cole died December 13,
-1915, in his eighty-second year, being pre-deceased by his wife by about
-two months.
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-=Scott, James Guthrie=, the prominent railway manager of Quebec City,
-was born in that city on February 13, 1847, the son of Hugh Erskine
-Scott. His mother’s maiden name was Margaret Chillas. The family of the
-Scotts has filled an important place in the community since the days of
-Mr. Scott’s grandfather, who came from Scotland. Mr. Henry S. Scott,
-hardware merchant, was his uncle, and Mr. William C. Scott and Mr.
-Charles Scott, his brothers, all of whom took an active interest in the
-progress of the city, as has their distinguished relative. The latter
-received his early education at the Quebec High School. In his
-seventeenth year he had his first start in business in the offices of
-the Montmorency Lumber Mills, where he eventually became head of one of
-the departments. In 1879, he entered the service of the Quebec and Lake
-St. John Railway, becoming, in time, its general manager and assuming
-the onerous task of having that line completed as far as Chicoutimi and
-extended, under the name of the Great Northern, to Hawkesbury, Ont.,
-across the Ottawa, a distance in all of five hundred miles. But for Mr.
-Scott’s supervisory tact and engineering skill, Quebec would hardly have
-become the important railway terminal that it now is, not only of the
-Canadian Northern System, but of the National Transcontinental. During
-the earlier operations of the Quebec and Lake St. John Railway, Mr.
-Scott and his Board of Directors organized a system of assisted
-colonization that peopled the parishes all along their line, as many as
-from ten to twelve thousand families being induced to take up homesteads
-in the districts opened up for settlement. For twenty-five years Mr.
-Scott was _facile princeps_ in these beneficent operations; and it was
-only when the Canadian Northern Railway Company took over the properties
-supervised by him in 1908, that he decided to retire from office to take
-up other work involving the commercial advancement of his native city.
-In 1916 he was elected President of the Quebec Board of Trade, after
-many years of active service as one of its members, and is also
-President of the British Columbia Skeena Coal Company. For many years he
-has been a member of the Quebec Geographical Society and other
-associations; and his contemporaries can look back with satisfaction at
-the civic progress he awakened as a railway projector and business man,
-and the manufacturing centres he succeeded in locating from the time he
-undertook to complete the Lake St. John Railway. In June, 1908, upon his
-retirement from the management of the railway, he was given a banquet by
-the citizens of Quebec at the Chateau Frontenac, in recognition of the
-enterprising and successful work he had done while completing extensions
-north and west from the city, and at the same time was presented with
-testimonials of value. And in addition to the story of his life as a
-railway manager and projector, Mr. Scott has to his credit twelve years’
-service in the Militia, having been called out to frustrate the advance
-of the enemy in certain border raids near Windsor, Ontario, in 1865, as
-well as to protect Canada from the Fenian Raids, during the four years
-succeeding that date. In 1873 he married Miss Sophy Mary Jackson; and in
-1901 was married, for a second time, to Miss Cordelia Mary Jackson,
-daughter of Dr. Alfred Jackson, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Laval
-University. By his first marriage he has had two sons and a daughter,
-and by his second, one son and one daughter.
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-
-=Bender, Prosper, M.D.=, and Litterateur (Quebec City), was born in
-Quebec on July 30, 1844. He was the son of L. P. Bender, Advocate, his
-mother’s maiden name having been Miss Jane McMillan. His school
-education began at the Quebec Seminary and was continued at Laval
-University, where he went through a successful course in _belles
-lettres_ and collateral studies. Thereafter he entered McGill
-University, where in 1864 he took his degree of M.D. On the following
-year he entered upon his career as a medical man in his native city,
-where, in 1868, he married Miss Amelia Scott, daughter of A. S. Scott.
-At the time of his graduation, the Civil War between the Northern and
-Southern States of the American Republic was nearing its climax, and in
-the excitement of events an opportunity offered itself to the young
-student to mature his skill in surgery and the healing art on the
-battlefield. He was given employment in the army in North Virginia,
-which was then under the command of General Ulysses Grant. As an
-assistant surgeon he remained with that army up to the time of General
-Lee’s surrender, his faithfulness and skill bringing him to the notice
-of his medical associates and eventually to the notice of the General in
-person. After the war, Dr. Bender proceeded to New York to gain further
-professional experience in the hospitals, before entering upon the first
-period of his residence in Quebec as a medical practitioner. During that
-period he came into touch with several of the rising public men of the
-town, who made a kind of literary rendezvous of his residence, much as
-years afterwards the Circle de Dix used to hold their seances out at
-Spencer Wood, under the hospital auspices of Sir Adolphe Chapleau. The
-social gatherings at Dr. Bender’s had no doubt the effect of turning the
-attention of the successful physician to literary work, leading him to
-publish two volumes, respectfully titled, “Literary Sheaves,” and “Old
-and New Canada.” In 1884 he removed to Boston, where he practised as a
-homeopathist, and won a reputation among the literary men of that city,
-as a contributor to the magazines and reviews. Within the last ten years
-preceding his death in 1917, he had his residence again in Quebec.
-During these years he published in amplified form a series of sketches
-about the friends of his earlier comradeship. These sketches embodied
-the characteristics of the brilliant literary guests who had once met
-round his table, and were read with the greatest of interest by the
-public as they appeared from time to time, as an illustration of the
-author’s geniality of spirit and literary acumen. Altogether, Dr.
-Prosper Bender’s professional and literary career stood as a blend of
-duly recognized medical skill and critical literary insight, holding
-always the confidence of his patients and being widely esteemed for his
-bonhomie and intellectuality as a writer of books worth reading.
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-
-=Girard, Joseph= (St. Gideon, Que.), son of Patrice Girard and Marie
-Tremblay, his wife, both French-Canadians. Born at St. Urbain, County of
-Charlevoix, Aug. 2, 1854. Educated at the Seminary of Quebec. Came to
-Lake of St. John in 1880 as a settler, cleared his land and lived on it
-all the time, and has been one of the most progressive and influential
-farmers of the district. Was President of the Dairy Society of Quebec
-Province and President of the School Commission. On April 5, 1875, Mr.
-Girard was married to Emma Cote, daughter of Vitol and Ursule Cote, and
-is the father of the following children: Meridee, Philippe, Tanevide and
-Marie Louise. First elected to the Quebec Legislative Assembly for Lake
-St. John District at the general elections of 1892 and re-elected in
-those of 1897. In 1900 he was elected to the House of Commons at the
-general elections, for Chicoutimi and Saguenay, which includes the local
-riding of Lake St. John; he was re-elected for the House of Commons in
-the general elections of 1904, 1908 and 1911. Mr. Girard is a member of
-the following societies: Dairy Society of Quebec, Agricultural Society
-of Lake St. John and Farmers’ Club of St. Gideon; he is also a member of
-the Automobile Club of Chicoutimi. In religion Mr. Girard is a Roman
-Catholic and in politics is an Independent Conservative.
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-
-=Dawson, Arthur Osborne= (Montreal, Que.), was born at New Borden, N.B.,
-March 28, 1864, son of Richard Dawson and Mary Lockhart, his father
-being a farmer and a grindstone manufacturer. Rev. G. F. Dawson, M.A.,
-St. John, N.B., and W. J. G. Dawson, M.D., Eldridge, Cal., U.S.A., are
-brothers, and Rev. James Henderson, D.D., pastor of the Timothy Eaton
-Memorial Church, Toronto, is father-in-law of Mr. Dawson, who was
-educated at Campbellton, N.B., and Montreal. Married, June 30, Mary A.
-Le Rossignol, step-daughter of Rev. Dr. Henderson of Toronto, mentioned
-above. Five children are the fruit of the union, viz., Ruth, Howard,
-Katharine, Isabel and Olive. Mr. Dawson is a Methodist in religion, a
-Conservative, a member of the Montreal Club and a Justice of the Peace
-for the District of Montreal and connected with the following large
-business enterprises, Vice-President and Managing Director Canadian
-Cottons, Limited; President Belding, Paul, Corticelli, Limited;
-Vice-President D. Morrice Co., Limited; President Inter-provincial
-British Company of Canada, Limited, Toronto; Vice-President Gowland
-Optical Company, Limited, Montreal. Recreations, fishing, tennis and
-boating.
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-
-=Douglas, James= (Hepworth, Ontario), son of James Douglas, Roxborough,
-Scotland, and Isabella Dixon, Lauderdale, Scotland, was born in the
-township of Brant, Bruce County, in August, 1858. Here he spent his
-early days, receiving his education in the public schools. For a time he
-followed farming as an occupation. However, he was inclined towards
-mercantile pursuits and gave up the farm to become a general merchant at
-Dobbington, in the township of Elderslie. The lumbering business
-attracted his attention and he gave up the store for that occupation,
-which was extensively carried on in those early days in Bruce. In 1902
-he moved to the village of Hepworth, where he became Vice-President of
-the Hepworth Manufacturing Co., and also manager. Here he has resided
-ever since, successfully conducting the business he is connected with.
-Beside this he is interested in a number of other enterprises, being a
-director of the Canada Beds Co., of Chesley, and a shareholder in the
-Vincent Steel Process Co., of Detroit. He has always had a love for
-municipal life, and for eight years has served the village of Hepworth
-as reeve in a most competent manner. As a member of the County Council
-he has served on most of the prominent committees, but the Educational
-Committee has always been his favorite. Being a self-educated man, he
-strove hard for the vast fund of knowledge he has acquired. This has
-made him a warm friend toward all branches of education, and he is ever
-ready to forward its best interests. His ripe business judgment has ever
-been recognized by his colleagues in the County Council. He is a man of
-genial disposition and well liked by all. He is a member of Burns Lodge,
-No. 436, A.F. & A.M., Hepworth. In religion he is a Presbyterian, and in
-politics he is a Liberal. He was twice married, his first wife being
-Francis Bradley, daughter of John Bradley, of Greenock township.
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-
-=Cross, Charles Wilson= (Edmonton, Alta.), Attorney-General for the
-Province of Alberta, was born in Madoc, Ont., November 30, 1872, the son
-of the late Thomas and Marie Cross. He was educated at Upper Canada
-College, Toronto University and Osgoode Hall, graduating in 1895 as
-B.A., and the following year as LL.B. He married Annie Louisa, daughter
-of Frederick and Isabella Lynde, in 1900, by whom he has three
-children—Thomas, Helen and Margaret. Becoming a barrister in 1898, he
-has since practised his profession at Edmonton, and is a member of the
-firm of Short, Cross, Maclean, Ap’John & Laidlaw; his present office as
-Attorney-General of the province he has held since 1905, sitting as
-member for Edmonton and Edson in the Legislature. While at college he
-was a famous lacrosse player and is Vice-President of the Canadian
-Amateur Athletic Union for Alberta. He was a member of the Ottawa and
-Quebec Interprovincial Conferences in 1906, is a Liberal in politics and
-a Presbyterian in religion.
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-
-=Pardee, Frederick Forsyth, K.C., M.P.= (Sarnia, Ont.), son of the late
-Hon. Timothy Blair Pardee and Emma K. Pardee, _née_ Forsyth, was born at
-Sarnia, Ontario, on December 29, 1867, and was educated at the Sarnia
-School and at Upper Canada College. He subsequently entered the study of
-Law and graduated at Osgoode Hall, being called to the Bar in 1890. He
-was created a King’s Counsel in 1908, and became head of the law firm of
-Pardee, Burnham & Gurd. In his student days and in the earlier years of
-his professional career he took a keen interest in various athletics and
-was a cricket player of note. He married, on December 31, 1892, Mary E.
-Johnston, daughter of Hugh Johnston, and to them was born one daughter,
-Pauline L. Early in life Mr. Pardee began to interest himself in public
-problems and public affairs, and in 1898, when but 31 years of age, he
-was chosen as Liberal candidate for the provincial riding of West
-Lambton, being elected to the Legislature of Ontario the same year. He
-sat in the Provincial House until 1902, when he was defeated by Hon. W.
-J. Hanna, who subsequently became Provincial Secretary in the first
-cabinet of Sir James Whitney. In the Dominion by-election of November
-22, 1905, made necessary by the death of Dr. Johnston, the sitting
-member, Mr. Pardee was chosen by the electors of West Lambton to
-represent them in the Dominion House of Commons. He was re-elected at
-the general elections of 1908 and 1911. In November, 1909, on the
-nomination of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, then Prime Minister of Canada, he was
-unanimously chosen as Chief Government Whip, and still retains the
-important position of Chief Liberal Whip to the present time (1917). In
-the Dominion Parliament, as well as throughout the country, Mr. Pardee’s
-public work soon won him a position of usefulness and responsibility. He
-is a forceful and effective public speaker, and few public men are so
-universally popular and so highly esteemed. During his parliamentary
-career he has presided over, and served upon, many of the most important
-legislative committees of the House of Commons and Senate. In 1910 he
-was chosen by Sir Wilfrid Laurier to accompany him on his memorable tour
-through the Canadian West, making the first visit with the then Prime
-Minister to the new Pacific port of Prince Rupert. When, in 1911, the
-Administration of Sir Wilfrid Laurier was defeated at the polls upon the
-issue of reciprocal trade in natural products with the United States,
-and the Liberal party passed into Opposition, Mr. Pardee continued as
-Chief Whip and had a large share in the arduous parliamentary and
-organization work which ensued. Following the outbreak of the great war
-it was he who defined in Parliament, amid hearty approval from both
-sides of the House, the patriotic obligations which devolved upon
-Government and Opposition. He devoted his time and energy, both in the
-House and out of it, to patriotic endeavor, addressing recruiting
-rallies and contributing to the various national efforts of service and
-sacrifice. He moved in Parliament for the appointment of a special
-committee to consider national steps to recompense and aid returning
-wounded and maimed soldiers and was named by the House as a member of
-that committee. In 1918 he resigned the post of Liberal Whip and
-supported Sir Robert Borden on the question of Conscription, but
-declined a portfolio in the Union Government. In the general elections
-of that year he was again re-elected for West Lambton by a handsome
-majority. Mr. Pardee is strongly democratic in spirit, and during the
-parliamentary session of 1913-14, made a vigorous plea to the House
-against the indiscriminate bestowal of titles in Canada, and issued a
-warning against the danger of creating a pseudo-aristocracy in this
-young Dominion. In religion he is an Anglican and is a member of St.
-George’s Church, Sarnia.
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-
-=Hinds, Leonard D’Arcy Bernard=, Judgment Clerk of the Supreme Court of
-Judicature for Ontario, born Oct. 19, 1868, at Barrie, Ontario. Educated
-at Barrie Collegiate Institute, St. Michael’s College, Toronto, and
-Osgoode Hall Law School, of Toronto. Past President of the Toronto
-Liberal-Conservative Club. Secretary of the Toronto Branch of the United
-Irish League. Appointed to present office by the Whitney Government in
-1905. Son of the late Bernard Hinds of Barrie, a native of Omagh, County
-of Tyrone, Ireland (whose father, Bernard Hinds, Irish “Aidhne,”
-pronounced Aion, anglicized the name to Hinds, and settled with a large
-family in Vespra Township, Simcoe County, in the year 1842), and Anna
-Leonard, formerly a teacher in the French settlement public school at
-Penetanguishene. Married Pauline Matson, the daughter of R. H. Matson,
-founder of the National Life Insurance Co. of Canada. Holds commission
-as Captain and Paymaster in the 110th Irish Regiment, Toronto, which
-Regiment he was authorized to establish in 1914, by Sir Sam Hughes, then
-Minister of Militia. Captain Hinds largely helped to establish the 208th
-Canadian Irish Bn. C.E.F., in which he was also appointed Paymaster with
-the rank of Captain. He was forced to withdraw from the 208th, on
-account of an injury which he received at Camp Borden. He has one son,
-Paul I. Bernard, who is on active service as an officer in the British
-Expeditionary Force. Captain Hinds is an ardent student of Gaelic
-Literature, Language and Art, and possesses one of the best Erse
-Libraries in Canada. He is a Catholic in religion. Address: Osgoode
-Hall, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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-
-=Clute, Arthur Roger= (Toronto, Ont.), was born in Belleville, Ont., on
-August 24, 1874. He attended the Belleville Collegiate Institute, from
-which he matriculated with honors in 1892, and thereupon entered the
-University of Toronto, from which he graduated as Bachelor of Arts in
-1896, with first-class honors, in the Department of Political Science
-and History, having been awarded during his course one of the Alexander
-Mackenzie Scholarships in that department. In 1901 he received from his
-Alma Mater the Degree of LL.B. He was articled as a student at law to
-his father, the Honorable Justice Clute, in 1896; and studied law at the
-Law School at Osgoode Hall, Toronto, where he obtained first-class
-honors and was awarded a scholarship in each year of his course,
-together with medal upon his call to the Ontario Bar in June, 1899.
-Since that time Mr. Clute has practised his profession in the city of
-Toronto, and has acted for several years as examiner at the University
-of Toronto, and at the Law School, and is now also a Lecturer at the
-University of Toronto. In politics he is a Liberal.
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-
-=Goodeve, Hon. Arthur Samuel= (Ottawa), Dominion Railway Commissioner,
-English and Canadian origin, son of Arthur Henry and Caroline Goodeve,
-born at Guelph, Ont., Dec. 15, 1860, where he received his education at
-the Public Schools and Collegiate Institute. A graduate of the Ontario
-College of Pharmacy. Mayor of Rossland, B.C., 1889-1900. Appointed
-Provincial Secretary in the first Conservative Government in British
-Columbia, June, 1903, the McBride Administration; resigned portfolio,
-returned for Kootenay District, in the House of Commons, general
-elections 1908, appointed a member of Timber and Forestry Commission,
-B.C., 1909-10, a Conservative Whip, House of Commons, 1910; resigned
-seat on being appointed a Dominion Railway Commissioner. Married, April,
-1884, Ellen Elizabeth Spence, daughter of James Spence, Toronto; father
-of four boys and two girls. Member of following clubs: Rideau, Ottawa,
-and Rossland, B.C.; and the Masonic order, Blue, Chapter and Commandery.
-A Presbyterian in religion. Before accepting his present office, Hon.
-Mr. Goodeve was recognized as a formidable campaigner and painstaking
-representative.
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-
-=Guilbault, Joseph Pierre Octave, B.A., LL.D.= (Joliette), Notary, was
-born Sept. 3, 1870, at St. Paul de Joliette, Province of Quebec, son of
-Joseph Guilbault and Adelaide Renaud, French-Canadians; educated at
-L’Assomption College, P.Q., and Laval University, Montreal. Married,
-Sept. 20, 1898, Clementine, daughter of Urgel Richard, of St. Jacques de
-L’Achigan, has one son, Fernand, and one daughter, Germaine. For ten
-years Secretary-Treasurer of Commissioners for Schools in Joliette,
-where he practices his profession of a Notary. Elected to the House of
-Commons for the constituency of Joliette in 1911. A Liberal-Conservative
-in politics. Mr. Guilbault has not been defeated—sickness prevented him
-from being a candidate in the election of 1917. In religion Mr.
-Guilbault is a Roman Catholic.
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-
-=Bronson, Henry Franklin= (Ottawa, Ont.), the one man, it has been said,
-who understood the feasibility of converting the large lakes and furious
-foaming falls of the Ottawa River into a channel for the driving of
-saw-logs, was born in the town of Moreau, Saratoga County, New York
-State, on February 24, 1817. His parents were Alvah Bronson and Sarah
-Tinker. Mr. Bronson is of mixed Scottish and Welsh descent, and the
-family, which is now scattered through most of the Northern States, at
-an early period settled in New England. Members of this enterprising and
-clever family were the Hon. Greene C. Bronson, of the New York bench,
-and the Rev. Asa Bronson, who was for many years pastor of the First
-Baptist Church, at Fall River, Massachusetts. The first of the family to
-find his way to Canada was the subject of our sketch, and shortly after
-he came here he led off in the lumber business. H. F. Bronson spent his
-youthful days at Queensbury, Warren County, New York, in the family of
-the late J. J. Harris, and he concluded his education at the Poultney
-Academy, of Vermont. “Young Bronson,” says a reliable authority, “became
-an apt scholar in agricultural sciences, but soon showed a preference
-for woodland foraging, pre-destined, as he was, to become a great
-marauder of pine forests.” In 1840, Mr. Harris, already alluded to,
-purchased extensive pine tracts, erecting mills on one of the upper
-Hudson lakes. He formed a partnership with his young and trusted friend,
-Mr. Bronson, “whose assets consisted of a sound constitution, a resolute
-will, unbending integrity, skill with the hand, and a mind to work.” The
-partnership continued for twenty-two years, and during the last ten
-years of the association, the greater portion of the business
-responsibility fell upon our subject, owing to the failure of Mr.
-Harris’ health. It soon became plain that the pine was rapidly
-disappearing from the upper Hudson; therefore, in 1848, Mr. Bronson
-passed over to Canada, proceeding along the Ottawa Valley till the
-thunder of the Chaudiere Falls burst upon his ears. At once he was
-satisfied that here was an excellent place to begin lumber operations;
-for the timber seemed inexhaustible, and the water power magnificent. He
-returned home, but in 1852 he persuaded Mr. Harris to accompany him to
-the Ottawa Valley. When they reached again the region of kingly pines
-and booming waterfalls, they were everywhere met with testimony from
-river experts, saying that the Ottawa was not suitable for the safe
-driving of saw logs, but Mr. Bronson recommended to his partner the
-purchase of hydraulic lots at the Chaudiere Falls, then held by the
-Crown. At the sale of the lots, made by Mr. Horace Merrill, general
-superintendent of the Ottawa River works, a purchase was made, and here,
-under the personal supervision of Mr. Bronson, their mills were built
-within sound of the thunder of the falls. The mills having been erected,
-Mr. Bronson removed his family to Ottawa, and there they were
-established permanently. The relation of Mr. Bronson to the sawn lumber
-trade of the Dominion of Canada will be better understood when it is
-learned that his was the first movement in the Ottawa District for the
-manufacture of sawn lumber for the United States market. The original
-mill embodied all the modern improvements of the times, including iron
-gates of novel model, a contrivance planned by Mr. Bronson himself, and
-afterwards used in most of the gang saw mills on the Ottawa River.
-Several other gentlemen, stimulated by the enterprise and success of Mr.
-Bronson and his partner, likewise set out for Ottawa; and, after a time,
-chiefly owing to the persistency of Mr. Bronson, a series of costly
-river improvements were constructed, which made the driving of logs upon
-the Ottawa a matter of greater convenience than upon many a smaller
-stream, which has no large lakes to act as a reservoir for checking the
-fury of the spring freshets. In 1864, Mr. Harris retired from the
-business, Mr. Bronson still continuing the extensive manufacture of sawn
-lumber, and owing to his splendid abilities as a manager, his operations
-not alone maintained their ground, but gradually increased. The present
-firm at Ottawa is known as The Bronson Company. Mr. Bronson married, on
-November 5, 1840, Editha E. Pierce, of Bolton, N.Y., and had four
-children. Gertrude, the only daughter, is the wife of Levi Crannell. The
-sons are Erskine Henry, Frank P., and Walter G. The family are members
-of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Bronson, like another great prince of
-business men, Sir Hugh Allan, did not care for political life, and held
-himself aloof from parties, but he was connected with several benevolent
-institutions and business enterprises. In 1889, death called this
-pioneer Canadian lumberman and high-principled citizen. His private and
-social relations had won for him everywhere good will and highest
-regard. Men had learned to esteem the man because of his tested and
-sterling worth. In the commerce of Canada Mr. Bronson’s name will go
-down in history as the first lumberman in the Ottawa Valley to
-manufacture sawn lumber for the American market, and as a pioneer in the
-development of the resources of that section of Canada to the point
-where its principal city was deemed worthy of being named as the Capital
-City of the Dominion. Business courage and keenness of perception were
-required to accomplish these ends, but in more ways than one Mr. Bronson
-had shown himself to be a man of practical vision and rare foresight. To
-men like the late Henry Franklin Bronson, Canada and in particular the
-business life of the Capital, must ever remain in debt.
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-
-=Lemieux, Auguste, K.C., F.R.C.I., LL.B.= Few barristers in Ottawa are
-better known or more popular than the subject of this sketch, who
-occupies offices at No. 30 Rideau Street. Mr. Lemieux was born in
-Montreal, February 20, 1874. His father, H. A. Lemieux, was Inspector of
-Customs for the Province of Quebec until 1911. Some of his elder
-brothers are Hon. Rodolphe Lemieux, K.C., P.C., M.P.,
-ex-Postmaster-General and Minister of Marine and Fisheries in the
-Laurier Cabinet; Dr. L. J. Lemieux, Sheriff of Montreal, and Chairman of
-the Board of Censors of the Province of Quebec, and Dr. Gustave Lemieux,
-M.L.A., for Gaspé, P.Q. Mr. Auguste Lemieux received his education at
-L’Assomption College and St. Mary’s College (Jesuits), Montreal,
-graduated from Laval University with honors and was conferred the degree
-of Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) in 1898. He was called to the Quebec Bar in
-the same year and to the Ontario Bar four years later. In 1908, at the
-early age of 34, he was created K.C., and practised, successfully, his
-profession in Montreal from 1898 until 1902, when he located in Ottawa,
-and has since established a wide and ever increasing clientele in that
-city. His brilliant defence saved Laderoute from the gallows in the
-Bryson murder trial of 1906, and Blondin (charged with murdering Dr.
-Empey) at L’Orignal, in 1910. He was Councillor of the Ontario Bar
-Association from 1910 to 1913; President of L’Institut Canadien
-Français, of Ottawa, 1903 to 1905; President of La Société du Monument
-National, Ottawa, 1909 to 1910; President of the Belcourt (Liberal) Club
-for several years; Vice-President of the Ottawa Reform Association, 1904
-to 1906; President of Le Club Littéraire Canadien Français, Ottawa, 1911
-to 1918. He is a member of the Y.M.C.A., and also a member of the
-Ontario Club of Toronto. Mr. Lemieux has been frequently mentioned as
-candidate for Parliament. He is the author of the work on the Quebec Law
-of Landlord and Tenant and writes frequently for the French and English
-Press. In April, 1914, the French Government, in recognition of Mr.
-Lemieux’s proficiency in French literature, conferred on him the
-decoration of “Officier d’Académie” (Academic Palms), through Monsieur
-Réné Viviani, then Minister of Public Education of France. He was also
-elected, in 1913, Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute of London,
-England, for life. Mr. Lemieux is an eloquent platform speaker and has
-frequently rendered services to his party. He married Esther Barbeau,
-daughter of the late Henry Barbeau, General Manager of the City and
-District Savings Bank and Assistant Receiver-General, Montreal, in
-October, 1899, and has one son and two daughters. He resides at 16
-Somerset Street West.
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-=Lawlor, H. W.= (Hawkesbury, Ont.), was born at Hawkesbury, September
-12, 1863, of Irish and American parentage. The son of Richard Lawlor, of
-Hawkesbury, for many years Coroner of this district, and grandson of
-William Lawlor, for over forty years manager for Hamilton Bros., and
-Sarah Hersey, daughter of Z. S. M. Hersey, a New England pioneer, who
-settled in Hawkesbury shortly after the British-American War of 1812,
-and who at the time of his death was the town’s most prominent citizen;
-he was educated in the Provincial Schools and graduated from Osgoode
-Hall in law in 1890. In 1896, was appointed agent for the Justice
-Department in his district, and has conducted some important litigation
-on behalf of the Crown, the most prominent being the Exchequer Court
-Case of Stewart vs. King, in which the late B. B. Osler made his last
-public appearance. He has been Police Magistrate of Hawkesbury for over
-eighteen years and has never had a conviction appealed or quashed. Has
-been Local Solicitor for the Canadian Northern Railway since the date of
-its construction; is Town Solicitor and also Solicitor for the several
-banking institutions. Has never entered Municipal politics, but has sat
-on the Board of Education; was first President of Hawkesbury Board of
-Trade. Is a Presbyterian and a Liberal-Unionist.
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-
-=McNeillie, James Richardson=, Clerk and Treasurer, County of Victoria,
-Lindsay, Ont., was born in the Parish of Johnstone, Dumfries-shire,
-Scotland, July 18, 1846, and came to Canada with his parents, Rachel
-Kerr and James Richardson McNeillie, public school teacher, in 1853, who
-settled in the County of Durham, where he was educated in the Public
-School. He spent eleven years, from 1861 to 1872, in the village of
-Omemee, where he was associated in the drug business and in municipal
-work with Mr. Thomas Matchett, who was the first member of the
-Legislative Assembly for South Victoria after Confederation. From 1872
-to 1875 he was engaged in the business department of the Montreal
-Telegraph Company at Toronto, but returned to the County of Victoria on
-the invitation of the Hon. S. C. Wood, to become his assistant in the
-office of Clerk and Treasurer. When the latter became Provincial
-Secretary, Mr. McNeillie retained the same position under Mr. Matchett
-from 1875, until his own appointment as Clerk and Treasurer of the
-County, in 1900. When the Ross Memorial Hospital was founded by the late
-James Ross, of Montreal, in 1902, he was appointed a Governor under the
-Act of Incorporation, and is Secretary-Treasurer of the Trust. He is
-also a member of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian
-Church, and was Chairman of the Board of Education of the Town of
-Lindsay for nine years, following on nineteen years’ service as member.
-Always taking an active interest in movements for the betterment of the
-criminal and mentally enfeebled classes of the Province, he was
-President of the Canadian Conference of Charities and Correction for the
-year 1909. In politics he is a Conservative, and in religion a
-Presbyterian. He married Esther (deceased), daughter of William Thorton,
-of Emily, January, 1872; and Loretta, daughter of Ralph Gardiner, of
-Morpeth, 1882. He has three sons, James Kerr, Ralph Gardiner and George
-Gardiner, and one daughter, Alice Gardiner. J. K. McNeillie has been
-successively, Divisional Superintendent of the Canadian Pacific Ry.,
-General Superintendent of the Canadian Government Railways, and now
-Superintendent of the Susquehanna Division of the Delaware and Hudson
-Railway. R. G. McNeillie is Assistant General Passenger Agent of the
-Canadian Pacific Ry. at Winnipeg, Man., and G. G. McNeillie is a member
-of the Albert Kerr Company, Limited, Toronto.
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-
-=Chadwick, Edward Marion, K.C.= (Toronto, Ont.), was born at Cravendale,
-Township of Ancaster, Ont., Sept. 22, 1840, and is the third son of the
-late John Craven Chadwick, Guelph, Ont. He received a thorough
-scholastic training. The bend of his mind being in the direction of the
-law, he pursued his studies therefor, and was called to the Bar and
-associated himself with the late W. H. Beatty, and has been a partner in
-the firms successively formed by him in which many prominent members of
-the legal profession have been partners, during a period of more than
-fifty years, the firms being recognized as among the most important
-engaged in their profession in Ontario. While perhaps it is unnecessary
-to say anything here as to Mr. Chadwick’s ability as an author, we
-cannot refrain from noting the publication of a work entitled “Ontarian
-Families” (1894), being the genealogies of United Empire Loyalist and
-other pioneer families of Upper Canada; he has also been a writer for
-magazines on heraldic subjects, in which he is reputed to be the leading
-authority on this side of the Atlantic. Mr. Chadwick was for a number of
-years an officer in the Queen’s Own Rifles, retiring in 1882, with the
-rank of Major. For the last forty years Mr. Chadwick has been identified
-with church work, being an indefatigable worker, and he at present holds
-the important office of Treasurer of St. Alban’s Cathedral.
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-
-=Hackett, Edward= (Orangeville, Ont.), was born at Ballinasloe, County
-Galway, Ireland, son of the late William and Mary Hackett. He was
-educated at Ranelagh School, Athlone, and at Santry School, Dublin,
-graduating from the Royal University in the Irish Capital in 1905, with
-the degree of B.A., and is recognized as being one of the prominent
-educationalists of the Province of Ontario. Mr. Hackett came to Canada
-in 1908, and before leaving Ireland, was Senior Mathematical Master in
-the Blue Coat School, Dublin, an institution which was established by
-Charles the Second. He attended the Faculty of Toronto University, and
-taught mathematics in the Galt Collegiate Institute for the year
-1909-10, also at Meaford High School for four years (1911-15), and
-succeeded as principal the late Alexander Steele, who had been the head
-of the Orangeville High School for upwards of thirty years, the present
-staff consisting of five teachers and the splendid standing and prestige
-of the school being maintained under his principalship. In 1914,
-Principal Hackett married Winnifred, the daughter of Dr. J. G. Clarke,
-of Meaford. He is a member of the Canadian Club of Orangeville, and
-Chairman of the Public Library Board, and is a member of the Masonic,
-Oddfellows and Orange Orders. He is an adherent of the Church of
-England, and a Liberal-Conservative in politics. Recognizing the
-usefulness of the Cadet movement he has taken the course prescribed for
-instructors and the Orangeville High School Cadets have attained much
-efficiency under his direction. Principal Hackett is a man in the prime
-of life, well informed on all matters of national importance, and gives
-generously of his time and talents in the promotion of the best
-interests of the community, in which he occupies so important a
-position. His chief recreation is motoring.
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-
-=Hunter, Lt.-Col. A. T.= (Toronto, Ont.), was born on the 25th of
-October, 1869, and after having received a thorough primary and
-elementary education at the public and high schools, he entered the
-Toronto University where, in 1890, he had the distinction of having the
-degree of LL.B. conferred upon him. He was duly admitted to the Bar in
-1892 and at once embarked in the active practice of his profession, in
-which, he has been very successful. He maintains a handsome suite of
-offices at 706 Temple Building, Bay and Richmond Streets, where he
-enjoys a large and lucrative practice, his services being constantly
-retained by some of the leading firms and corporations of the city and
-province. Colonel Hunter is prominently identified with the Masonic
-craft, and is an active and influential member of the I.O.F., A.O.U.W.,
-and a Past Master of L.O.L. No. 613. As an author Colonel Hunter is well
-known, and among the works emanating from his pen may be named “Power of
-Sale Under Mortgage,” “Foreclosure Under Mortgage,” and “Real Property
-Statutes.” The Colonel, prior to this war, was courageous in pointing
-out in speeches and contributions to the “Military Gazette,” absurdities
-in our military organization. Colonel Hunter has devoted some time to
-politics and was candidate for the riding of West Toronto in the
-Dominion House, of the McCarthyites in 1896, and of the Liberals in
-1904. In 1914, when war was declared by Germany on England and her
-colonies, Colonel Hunter at once responded to the call to duty, laid
-aside his business and other connections, and went overseas with the 4th
-Battalion C.E.F. On April 23, 1915, he was wounded in the battle of St.
-Julien, but returned to duty in time for the battle of Festubert; after
-this he was placed on duty in England, and later returned to Canada on
-leave of absence; while in Canada he acted as Brigade-Major at Camp
-Borden in 1916. He again returned to England on active service, and in
-February, 1917, was attached to the Princess Patricias on service in
-France and was present with them at Vimy Ridge. He returned to Canada in
-November of same year and has been gazetted Lt.-Colonel of the 12th
-Regt. York Rangers.
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-
-=Groves, Abraham, M.D.= (Fergus, Ont.), was born in the town of
-Peterboro’, on Sept. 8, 1847. He is a son of Abraham Groves, and
-Margaret, daughter of Gideon Gibson, one of the early pioneers of
-Canada, who served through the war of 1812-15, and fought at Lundy’s
-Lane. Mr. Groves came to this country with his parents from the County
-of Wicklow, Ireland, about 1826, and settled in the vicinity of
-Peterboro’. In 1856 Mr. Groves removed to the County of Wellington,
-taking up his abode in the Township of Garafraxa, where he pursued the
-occupation of farmer. During the Mackenzie Rebellion Mr. Groves took
-part on the Loyalists’ side. The fruit of the marriage was thirteen
-children, the subject of this sketch being the second eldest of the
-family. He at first attended the common schools, but afterwards entered
-the High School at Fergus. Some time after leaving school he resolved to
-study medicine, and in 1868 entered the Toronto School of Medicine,
-where he remained until 1871, graduating M.D. in the same year, from the
-Toronto University. After graduation he at once went to Fergus and
-entered into partnership with the late Dr. Munro, under the firm name of
-Munro & Groves, which partnership existed two years. After dissolution
-Dr. Groves practised by himself until 1874, when he took into
-partnership Dr. John Wishart, now lecturer at the Western University, at
-London, Ont., which partnership existed one year, Dr. Wishart then
-retiring. However, again in 1879, he took into partnership Dr. Thomas
-Chisholm, the association continuing for a year. In 1882 he again took
-another partner, Dr. J. F. McMahon, now of Toronto, but this combination
-too dissolved in 1883, and since that time Dr. Groves has singly
-conducted one of the largest practices in Fergus. In 1869 he graduated
-from the old Toronto Military School; in 1882 he was elected to the
-Village council of Fergus, and was re-elected for the years of 1883 and
-1884. He was elected reeve for 1885, but owing to his position of
-surgeon of the county poor house, he could not retain his seat. Dr.
-Groves is largely interested in real estate in the village, owning some
-of the finest buildings there, among which structures may be mentioned
-the Royal Bank building, constructed of brown stone. He is a member of
-the Mercer Lodge, A.F. and A.M., No. 347; is surgeon and member of the
-Oddfellows’ lodge No. 73, and has held all of the offices in that order.
-He is also a member of the Royal Templars, and physician to lodge No.
-124. In 1878 Dr. Groves was appointed physician and surgeon to the Grand
-Trunk Railway at Fergus, which position he still holds. In 1882 he was
-appointed physician and surgeon to the Wellington County House of
-Industry, and this office he still likewise retains. In politics he has
-held aloof from parties, though sincerely interested in the welfare of
-the country. He is a member of the Church of England, and has been
-churchwarden for twelve years of St. James’ Church, Fergus. He married
-in 1874, Jennie, daughter of the late William Gibbon, of Elora, and by
-this lady has a family of two children; she died in 1886. On January 29,
-1910, he married Ethel May Burke, only daughter of the late D. S. Burke,
-Esq., of Fergus. Dr. Groves enjoys the repute of being a very skilful
-surgeon, and he was the first to perform in Canada the operation
-technically known to the profession as _supra pubic lithotomy_. In
-January, 1901, he established, in Fergus, the Royal Alexandra Hospital,
-which has already become widely known throughout Western Ontario. He
-also installed the Fergus and Elora Electric Light Plant, since taken
-over by the Hydro-Electric. In 1911 he was tendered by unanimous vote
-the Conservative nomination for the House of Commons for the South
-Riding of the County of Wellington, but the pressure of his professional
-work prevented his accepting.
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-
-=Grange, Edward Wilkinson= (Ottawa, Ont.), was born at Napanee, July 4,
-1876, a son of Alexander W. Grange and his wife, Annabella Daly;
-educated at Napanee Collegiate Institute and Victoria University, taking
-an Honor Course in Modern Languages at the latter institution, from
-which he graduated with a degree of B.A., in 1899, upon which he took up
-journalism as a profession and has since had a very extended experience,
-serving first on “The Toronto News” for three years, afterwards on “The
-Mail and Empire.” Was in charge of “The Globe’s” Ottawa Bureau and
-contributor to editorial columns. During Mr. Grange’s University course
-he was editor of the “Acta Victoriana,” in his final year; and President
-of Athletic Union and first holder of the college “Athletic Stick”; was
-editor of Eastern Press Service, serving all papers in the Maritime
-Provinces during Parliamentary sessions, made Honorary Lieutenant in
-Canadian Expeditionary Forces and had charge of daily press bulletin
-service to troops Overseas; has been Ottawa correspondent of Toronto
-“Globe” since 1907, also of “The Chronicle,” Halifax; “Telegraph,” St.
-John; “Standard,” London, Eng. Secretary for three years of the
-Parliamentary Press Gallery and President, 1912-13. Resigned from
-“Globe” staff, November, 1918, to engage in special work for government
-branches connected with re-construction problems and also to look after
-private business interests. Mr. Grange is a Liberal and was nominated in
-April, 1915, as Liberal candidate for the House of Commons for the
-riding of Lennox and Addington. Ran as an Independent-Liberal supporting
-Military Service Act in General Election of 1917. Belongs to the
-following clubs: Rideau Club, Rivermead Golf Club and Rideau Aquatic
-Club, Ottawa. He married, in 1915, Marion McDougall, a daughter of the
-late John Lorne McDougall, C.M.G., Auditor-General of Canada, and has
-one son, Edward Alexander McDougall, born June 26, 1917.
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-
-=Ferguson, Hon. William Nassau= (Toronto, Ont.), Judge of the Supreme
-Court of Ontario, Court of Appeals Division, was born in Cookstown,
-Ont., in 1870, the son of Isaac and Emily (Gowan) Ferguson, and received
-his education at Upper Canada College and Osgoode Hall, graduating from
-the latter institution in 1894. He is a brother of Mrs. Arthur Murphy of
-Edmonton—better known by her pen name of “Janey Canuck”—and of Thomas
-R. Ferguson, K.C., of Toronto and Winnipeg. He is also a nephew of the
-late Lieutenant-Colonel T. R. Ferguson, M.P. for South Simcoe, and a
-grandson of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Ogle R. Gowan, M.P. for Leeds
-and Grenville, who founded the Orange Order in Canada; also a cousin of
-the late Hon. Justice Ferguson of the Supreme Court of Ontario. The
-present Mr. Justice Ferguson became King’s Counsel in 1908, was elected
-a Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada in 1916, and received his
-present appointment in the same year. He has always been prominent in
-outdoor sports, having been captain of Upper Canada College and Osgoode
-Hall Rugby teams, President of the Ontario Rugby Union and a Director of
-both the Toronto Baseball and Lacrosse Clubs. Judge Ferguson is a member
-of the following clubs: Albany, Toronto, National, R.C.Y.C., Ontario
-Jockey and Toronto Hunt, and also of the Masonic and Orange Orders. He
-is a Trustee of the Hospital for Sick Children and a member of the
-Executive of the Toronto and York Patriotic Fund, an Anglican in
-religion and a Conservative in politics. His recreations are golf,
-fishing and motoring. “A lawyer in love with law and enamored of common
-sense, the Ontario Judiciary will be strengthened by his ability and
-vigor.”—Toronto “Telegram,” December 9, 1916.
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-
-=Burpee, Lawrence Johnston= (Ottawa, Ont.), the son of Lewis Johnston
-Burpee and Alice DeMill Burpee, was born at Halifax, N.S., March 5,
-1873, and educated at public and private schools. In 1899 he married
-Maud Hanington, daughter of the late Rev. Canon Hanington, of Ottawa,
-and has five children—Ruth, Lawrence, Margaret, Edward and Arthur. He
-is Secretary of the International Joint Commission and has acted as
-private secretary to three successive Ministers of Justice in the
-Dominion Government, and for several years was Librarian of the Ottawa
-Public Library; is the author of several publications, namely: “Canadian
-Life in Town and Country” (1905); “The Search for the Western Sea”
-(1908); “Flowers from a Canadian Garden” (1909); “Fragments of
-Haliburton” (1909); “By Canadian Streams” (1909); “Songs of French
-Canada” (1909); “A Little Book of Canadian Essays” (1909); “A Century of
-Canadian Sonnets” (1910); “Canadian Eloquence” (1910); “Dictionary of
-Canadian History” (1911); “Scouts of Empire” (1912); “Canadian Humor”
-(1911), “Among the Canadian Alps” (1913); “Sandford Fleming, Empire
-Builder” (1915); “Pathfinders of the Great Plains” (1915); “Soldier’s
-Dictionary” (1916); and has in press at the present time, “Journals of
-La Vérendrye” (Champlain Society), and “Fur Traders of the West” (Oxford
-Press). He has also contributed to Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia
-Americana, Canada and its Provinces, Royal Society Transactions, British
-Association, etc.; is a member of the Royal Society of Canada, Royal
-Geographical Society, Société Archæologique de France, American Library
-Institute, Ontario Historical Society, American Library Association,
-Champlain Society, Nova Scotia Historical Society, Historical Society of
-the Mississippi Valley, Bibliographical Society of America. He is a
-member of the Church of England, Conservative in politics, and Captain
-in the Governor-General’s Foot Guards, Ottawa, and the 2nd Depot
-Battalion, E.O.R. Mr. Burpee is a member of the Royal Ottawa Golf Club,
-and also takes a deep interest in chess.
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-
-=Boyer, Louis= (Westmount, P.Q.), the son of a merchant, L. Alphonse
-Boyer, M.P., and Alphonsine Meilluer, and relation of Hon. Arthur Boyer
-and Hon. George Simard; was born in Montreal, Que., January 23, 1872,
-educated at the Normal School, Montreal College and McGill University;
-graduated from Laval and McGill with the degrees of B.A., B.C.L., K.C.;
-was formerly attorney for the city of Westmount and the town of
-Cartierville. Is a member of the Roman Catholic Church, and on November
-3, 1898, married Marie Sophie Alice Mathieu, the daughter of Aimé
-Mathieu, of Montreal, her father being a merchant of that city. They
-have ten children, Jeanne, Marthe, Claire, Simone, Marcelle, Pauline,
-Madeleine, Thérèse, Lucienne and Cécile. Mr. Boyer is a member of the
-following clubs: namely, University, Montreal Reform, Shawinigan Fish
-and Game and the St. George Snow Shoe Club; is a Liberal in politics and
-is well known as a prominent speaker and is in great demand at political
-campaigns. He is a Director of the Franco-American Chemical Co., also of
-the Canadian Inspections and Testing Laboratories, Ltd.
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-
-=Edwards, John Wesley, B.A., M.D., C.M., M.P.=, son of George Edwards of
-the County of Norfolk, England, and Elizabeth Jane Lyon, of the County
-of Frontenac, Ont., the latter being of U.E. Loyalist stock and among
-the first settlers in Frontenac. Born in the County of Frontenac May 25,
-1865, and educated at the Sydenham High School, Ottawa, Normal School
-and Queen’s University, Kingston; graduated from the latter in Arts and
-Medicine in the year 1900. Married August 12, 1890, to Hester Jane
-Purdy, daughter of Robert G. Purdy, and is the father of the following
-children: Edna, John Worden, Sadie, Evelyn, and Elizabeth. Before
-graduating in medicine the subject of this sketch taught school for
-several years, and was County Clerk of Frontenac from 1899 to 1909, and
-Gaol Surgeon of the County Gaol at Kingston from 1907 to 1909. First
-elected to the House of Commons for Frontenac County in the general
-elections of 1908 by a majority of 421, re-elected at the general
-election of 1911 by a majority of 851, and again returned in the war
-time election of 1917 by a majority of nearly 2,000. Doctor Edwards is
-regarded as one of the best informed and energetic of the Conservative
-members of the House of Commons, and was selected as one of the
-Liberal-Conservative whips for Ontario in the Session of 1911 and 1912.
-He is a member of the Executive of the Canadian Order of Chosen Friends,
-and for the past three-and-a-half years has been the Executive Head of
-that Order. He is a prominent Orangeman, being Deputy Grand Master for
-Ontario East. In religion he is a Methodist.
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-
-=Beith, Hon. Robert= (Bowmanville, Ont.), was born on May 17, 1843, of
-Scotch parentage, and is the son of Alexander Beith and Catharine
-McTaggart, of Argyllshire, Scotland, who migrated to Bowmanville many
-years ago. He was educated at the public and private schools of that
-town and later took a commercial course at Day’s College, Toronto. After
-receiving his education he started business life as a farmer, later
-becoming one of the largest stock breeders in Ontario, and has imported
-much of the finest breeding stock in the country during the past
-thirty-five years. As a citizen and public man he is held in the highest
-esteem, and has received the highest honors to be had from his home town
-and surrounding localities. Having ambitions other than business, he
-drifted into public life, and received the nomination as the Liberal
-candidate for the House of Commons for West Durham in 1891 and was
-elected; was re-elected in 1896, and defeated in 1900. In the
-by-election of 1902 he was again elected, and retained his seat up to
-1904, when he voluntarily retired. West Durham has been the scene of
-many hard fought political battles, and at times was contested by men
-high up in the ranks of both political parties, brought in from outside
-places, among whom were the late Hon. Edward Blake and Mr. George Tate
-Blackstock, one of the most learned legal lights in Canada. It has
-always been conceded that Robert Beith was the one man who could win
-West Durham for the Liberal Party. On January 15, 1907, he was summoned
-to the Senate by Sir Wilfrid Laurier, and is recognized as an able
-Senator. He is a bachelor, and in religion a Presbyterian. On all
-occasions, during the world-wide war, he was ready to help Canada do her
-share, and contributed in many ways that will never be known to the
-public at large, in helping the Motherland and her Allies to keep flying
-the flags that stand for freedom against Prussianism.
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-
-=Dymond, Allan Malcolm= (Toronto, Ont.) was born at Brixton, Surrey,
-England, September 25, 1864, came to Canada with his parents in 1869 and
-received his education at Upper Canada College. He studied law in the
-office of Blake, Kerr, Boyd & Cassels, and subsequently with the Hon. A.
-S. Hardy, and Henderson & Small, and was called to the Bar in 1885. He
-practised law in Toronto until 1889, when he entered the service of the
-province as Law Secretary to the Attorney-General; was appointed Law
-Clerk of the Legislative Assembly in 1890. In November, 1890, he married
-Emma Stanton Mellish, Mus. Bac., eldest daughter of the late Rev. H. F.
-Mellish, Rector of Caledonia, Haldimand County, Ontario. Was a member of
-and acted as Secretary to the Commission for the Revision of the
-Statutes in 1897, and the Commission (1906-1914) which prepared the
-Revised Statutes of Ontario, 1914. Was appointed King’s Counsel by the
-Ontario Government in 1902. He is a specialist in the construction of
-Statutes and Parliamentary draughtsmanship, and has been concerned in
-the preparation or revision of most of the important legislation of the
-province since his appointment. Is a member of the Church of England—a
-liberal High Churchman.
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-
-=Coyne, James Henry, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S.C.= (St. Thomas, Ont.), was born
-at St. Thomas, Ont., October 3, 1849. James H. Coyne is the second son
-of William and Christina Coyne, and was educated at the common school in
-his native town, until he was eleven years old, when he passed into the
-Grammar School, then under the charge of the late Mr. (Rev.) Nelson
-Burns, M.A. At fourteen years of age, he matriculated in the University
-of Toronto, carrying off the first general proficiency scholarship, and
-first-class honors in classics, mathematics, French, etc. Owing to his
-extreme youth, he did not enter University College until 1867. He
-devoted himself chiefly to classics and modern languages, and, after
-gaining numerous scholarships and prizes at the University and college
-during his undergraduate course, graduated in 1870, carrying off the
-Prince of Wales’ prize for general proficiency, the gold medal in
-moderns, a silver medal in classics, the French essay prize, and
-first-class honors in history and ethnology. In 1884 he was elected by
-his fellow-graduates a member of the Senate of the University, a
-position he still holds. After graduating, the subject of this sketch
-entered the law office of the late Colin Macdougall, Q.C., at St.
-Thomas; interrupted his law studies for a year to take charge of the
-Cornwall High School, where he was headmaster during the year 1871;
-returned then to Mr. Macdougall’s office for a year, and then removed to
-Toronto, where he served for two years in the office of Bethune &
-Hoyles. He was admitted to the bar in Michaelmas term, 1874, passing
-first without an oral, both as barrister and as attorney; and at once
-entered into partnership with his former principal, Mr. Macdougall, at
-St. Thomas. The law firm of Macdougall & Coyne existed until 1880, when
-it was dissolved. Shortly afterwards, Mr. Coyne entered into partnership
-with J. Mann, under the firm name of Coyne & Mann. The partnership
-continued until Mr. Coyne’s appointment in Dec., 1888, as Registrar for
-the County of Elgin. During the Fenian excitement of 1866, Mr. Coyne
-joined the St. Thomas Rifles, and served during three campaigns in that
-year: First at London, during March, when some thousands of regulars and
-volunteers were brigaded there; then at Port Stanley and Sarnia, in
-June; and finally in camp at Thorold in August, where he acted as
-quartermaster-sergeant to the Provisional Battalion of volunteers, who
-were then brigaded with regulars and other volunteers under Wolseley. He
-holds the Fenian Raid medal. The following year he joined the famous
-University company of the Queen’s Own Rifles, of which he remained a
-member until his graduation, with the degree of B.A., June, 1870. He
-received the degree of M.A. (with honors) Toronto University, 1905, and
-the degree of LL.D. (honorary) from Queen’s University, Kingston, 1909.
-He was a member of the great Reform Convention, at Toronto, in 1883, and
-was selected to speak to one of the resolutions passed by the
-convention. He also attended the Young Liberal Convention of 1885, as a
-delegate. In 1876, owing to a serious illness, he was obliged to give up
-work for a year and a half. Eleven months of this vacation were devoted
-to a visit to Europe, including England, Scotland, Ireland, Belgium, the
-Rhine, Switzerland, France and Italy. On Nov. 21, 1877, Mr. Coyne
-married Matilda, third daughter of the late John George Bowes, for
-several years Mayor, and M.P.P. for the city of Toronto, and is the
-father of four sons and two daughters, viz., James Bowes, Annie
-Christine Elliott, John George Bowes, Margaret Adelaide, Henry Everyll
-Bowes, and William Gordon Bowes. A member of the following clubs and
-societies, viz.: Golf and Country Club, St. Thomas, President Elgin
-Historical and Scientific Institute, which he organized in 1891;
-President The Veterans’ Association, St. Thomas; The University of
-Toronto Alumni Association of the County of Elgin; Honorary President
-The St. Thomas Philharmonic Society; Vice-President and Ex-officio
-Councillor The Ontario Historical Society; Member of the Council of the
-Champlain Society since organization, member of the executive Committee
-of the Board of Management of Alma College, St. Thomas; member of the
-American Historical Association, and of the National Geographic Society,
-member of the Société du Parler Français du Canada, member Methodist
-Historical Society; Canadian Folk-lore Society, St. Thomas Horticultural
-Society, Corresponding member Buffalo Historical Society, member
-Canadian Defence League and the Canadian National Peace Committee; also
-of Committee of Memorial to Heroes of 1812-14 Association; Chairman of
-the Soldiers’ Aid Commission and member of Council of Serbian Committee
-for the County of Elgin and City of St. Thomas. Has held the following
-offices besides those mentioned above: Member of Executive Committee of
-the University of Toronto; President of The Children’s Aid Society of
-the County of Elgin on its organization; President (1882) of the East
-Elgin Reform Association; President (1883) of St. Andrew’s Society;
-President (1905-8) of the Handel Society; President (1909-10) of the St.
-Thomas Operatic Society; Chairman for many years of the Executive
-Committee of Board of Management Alma College. He was one of the first
-vice-presidents of the University of Toronto Alumni Association (general
-organization) and first honorary president of the St. Thomas Liberal
-Club. In 1886 he contested West Elgin at the Provincial general
-elections, but was defeated by A. B. Ingram, by 43 votes. In 1888,
-appointed by the government of Sir Oliver Mowat, Registrar of Elgin, and
-in 1892, at the request of the County Council, Local Master of Titles
-for the County of Elgin and the city of St. Thomas, on the introduction
-of the Torrens System of land registration. In 1897 was elected
-President of the Pioneer and Historical Association of the Province of
-Ontario, founded by the late Rev. Dr. Henry Scadding, and at once
-proceeded to organize it upon a wider basis of membership and with a
-much wider scope, under the name of The Ontario Historical Society
-(incorporated in 1899 by special Act of the Ontario Legislature). The
-presidency of the new society was held by him until 1902, when he was
-succeeded by the late C. C. James. Under the auspices of the Society was
-held, in 1899, the great Historical Exhibition at Victoria College,
-Toronto. In 1906 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He
-was President of Section II (English Literature and History) in
-1910-1911. In 1892 was member of Central Committee for the celebration
-of the Centennial of Upper Canada. Dr. Coyne is a gentleman of
-indefatigable energy, ripe scholarship, and possessed of a fine style
-and his literary investigations have been of great public value.
-Notwithstanding large professional duties, he has delivered many notable
-addresses and is the author of several interesting publications, among
-which may be mentioned, “The Southwold Earthwork and The Country of the
-Neutrals” (1893); “The Country of the Neutrals from Champlain to Talbot”
-(1895); “Presidential Addresses to The Ontario Historical Society”
-(1898-1902); “First Steps in the Discovery and Exploration of Ontario”
-(1899); “A Century of Achievement” (1899) reprinted with some changes
-and additions in Methodist Magazine (1901); “Exploration of the Great
-Lakes (1669-1670), by Dollier de Casson and de Bréhant de Galinée,
-Galinée’s narrative and map with an English version, including all the
-map legends” (1903); “Richard Maurice Bucke,” a sketch (1906); “The
-Talbot Papers with Preface, Introduction and Annotations” (1909);
-“Pathfinders, of the Great Lakes” (1912); “The Indian Occupation of
-Southern Ontario” (1916). In religion Dr. Coyne is a Methodist, and
-finds recreation in golf.
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-
-=Breithaupt, Louis J.= (Kitchener, Ont.), Leather Manufacturer, is
-President of the Breithaupt Leather Company, Limited, with tanneries at
-Kitchener, Penetanguishene and Woodstock, and Secretary of the Hastings
-Tanning Company, Limited, Hastings, Ont. For years Mr. Breithaupt was a
-member of the Berlin—now Kitchener—City Council as Councillor, Deputy
-Reeve, Reeve and Mayor, which last office he held for two years. He was
-also a member of the Waterloo County Council; Warden of the County in
-1898, and a member of the Provincial Legislature of Ontario from 1900 to
-1902. His fellow-citizens, in fact, have honored this representative
-Canadian with practically every office in their gift, he having also
-been Chairman of the Schools and Park Boards, and at various times
-President of what was then the Berlin Board of Trade. He has taken an
-active interest in the work of the local Canadian Patriotic Fund, of
-which he was Vice-President for two and a half years, and afterward
-became President. Mr. Breithaupt was on the first board of the
-Kitchener-Waterloo Hospital and has been a Director of the Economical
-Fire Insurance Company of Kitchener for many years, and also a Director
-and member of the Executive Board of the Mutual Life Assurance Company
-of Canada, whose head office is at Waterloo, Ont. Louis Breithaupt is
-the eldest son of Louis and Catharine (Hailer) Breithaupt, his
-grandfather having come to Waterloo County in 1831, where he was one of
-the earliest manufacturers and built the fifth or sixth house in the
-embryo city of Berlin. At the time of his demise in 1880, after an
-active life, Mr. Louis Breithaupt, Senior, was its Mayor. The subject of
-this sketch was born at Buffalo, N.Y., March 3, 1855, and was educated
-in the Public and Grammar Schools of Berlin (now Kitchener), and in
-Toronto. He married Emma Alvarene, second daughter of the late Benjamin
-Devitt, J.P., ex-Mayor of Waterloo, by whom he has eight children,
-Louise Evelyn, Emma Lilian, Martha Edna, Rose Melvina, Louis Orville,
-William Walter, Catharine Olive and Paul Theodore. Among his clubs are
-the Grand River, Country and Golf, and Kitchener Clubs, of Kitchener,
-and the Ontario, of Toronto. He is a member of the Evangelical
-Association in religion, and an Independent Liberal in politics.
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-
-=Best, John= (Shelburne, Ont.), was born in Australia in 1861, of Irish
-parentage. His father, John Best, was a farmer, and his mother was
-Elizabeth Rolland. The subject of this sketch received his education in
-the public school at Whitfield, in the County of Dufferin, and for many
-years has been prominent in the municipal life of his township and
-county. For 14 years he was a member of the County Council, and for 7
-years President of The Dufferin Fire Insurance Company. In 1909 he was
-selected as successor to the late Dr. L. John Barr, M.P., as the
-Liberal-Conservative candidate for Dufferin in the House of Commons,
-being returned by acclamation in 1911. He was again elected on the
-Reciprocity issue by the large majority of 1,459. Elected in 1917 by
-over 2,600 majority. Mr. Best has proven a most capable and efficient
-representative, being thoroughly well versed in all the problems which
-especially concern his constituents. A practical farmer, he takes a
-lively interest in everything tending to promote the advancement of the
-basic interest industry of agriculture. Realizing the importance and
-advantage of the governmental scheme of Rural Mail Delivery, and its
-necessity and benefit, he advocated its extension and development in his
-own riding, where it has now reached the highest degree of efficiency
-and service. He is also a liberal supporter of Agricultural Societies.
-Mr. Best is well informed on all matters of National importance, and is
-a ready and effective speaker. The inclination and ability for public
-service is a family characteristic, for two of Mr. Best’s cousins are in
-the Imperial Parliament, Mr. James Best, M.P., and Mr. Thomas Best,
-M.P., who represents an Irish constituency. In 1887 Mr. Best married
-Charlotte, only daughter of Mr. Thomas Thompson, of Thornbury, and has
-one son John Chester. The member for Dufferin is prominent in the Orange
-Order, being Past County Master. In religion he is a member of the
-Church of England. Recreations: Motoring and fishing.
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-
-=Bowell, Sir Mackenzie= (Belleville, Ont.). A name universally known in
-Canada is that of the late Hon. Sir Mackenzie Bowell, K.C.M.G.,
-ex-Premier of the Dominion and ex-Leader of the Conservative Party in
-the Senate. He was born on December 27th, 1823, at Rickinghall, Suffolk,
-England, the son of the late John Bowell, a carpenter and builder. He
-came to Canada with his parents, ten years later, the family locating at
-Belleville, Ont., then Upper Canada, which has ever since remained his
-home, and where he was shortly afterwards apprenticed to learn the trade
-of a printer in the office of the Belleville “Intelligencer,” a
-newspaper of which in after years he became editor and proprietor. As a
-young man, Sir Mackenzie became prominent in public affairs. He became
-an Ensign in the Belleville Rifle Company, which he assisted in
-organizing in 1857, and was one of the corps of observation on service
-in Western Ontario during the American Civil War. During the Fenian
-Raids of 1866 he was on service at Prescott. In 1874 he retired from the
-service with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel of the 49th Battalion. He
-also became prominent in the Orange Order and rose to the position of
-Grand Master and Sovereign of the Order for British North America and
-President of the Tri-annual Council of the Orangemen of the World. He
-also took an interest in educational matters and served as Chairman of
-the Public and Grammar School Boards, as Vice-President of the
-Agricultural and Arts Association of Ontario, and as President of the
-Ontario Press Association. A Conservative by conviction, he was a
-candidate in North Hastings for the Canadian Assembly, in 1863. He was
-defeated. In 1867, he was elected to the House of Commons for the same
-constituency and held the seat continuously for twenty-five years, until
-his elevation to the Senate in 1892. He was a member of the select
-committee of Parliament to inquire into the troubles in the North-West
-Territories in 1869-70. When the rebel leader, Louis Riel, was elected
-to the House of Commons, shortly afterwards, the subject of this sketch
-moved his expulsion as a traitor to the Crown. After the Conservative
-victory of 1878, he entered Sir John A. Macdonald’s Cabinet as Minister
-of Customs, and held that portfolio for thirteen years. In that capacity
-it devolved upon him to carry out the new tariff system known as the
-National Policy. On the death of Sir John A. Macdonald, he became
-Minister of Militia in Sir John Abbott’s Cabinet, and on the demise of
-the latter, Minister of Trade and Commerce in Sir John Thompson’s
-Ministry. After the latter’s tragic death at Windsor Castle, England, he
-was called on in December, 1894, to form a Cabinet, which he succeeded
-in doing, taking the portfolio of President of the Council, and on
-January 1, 1895, was made Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished
-Order of St. Michael and St. George. When the Manitoba School question
-arose, he was a strong advocate of justice to the minority, and after
-some differences with his colleagues, he resigned the Premiership on
-April 27, 1896. He was succeeded by Sir Charles Tupper, who paid him the
-compliment of adopting his policy. In 1893, during his incumbency as
-Minister of Trade and Commerce, he went to Australia to promote
-inter-Imperial trade and the laying of an all-British Pacific cable
-between Canada and that continent. Early in 1896 he went to England to
-urge forward the Canadian-Australia or “all-red” cable, now an
-accomplished fact, and sat in the third congress on the subject which
-met in London, England. In 1896 he resumed the active control of the
-“Belleville Intelligencer,” which he had relinquished when he entered
-Sir John A. Macdonald’s Cabinet in 1878. In Belleville he was regarded
-as the “grand old man,” and no Canadian boasted a wider circle of
-friends in the country at large. The amiability of his nature, his large
-intellectual capacity and his ability as a public speaker, marked him
-for distinction. In religion he was a Methodist, and was married in
-December, 1847, to Harriet Louisa, eldest daughter of the late Jacob G.
-Moore, of Belleville. His helpmate died in 1884, and he followed her to
-the grave in 1918. Of nine children born to them, five survive.
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-
-=Langley, James P.= (Toronto), was born in the Provincial Capital on
-June 15, 1864, and educated in Toronto, graduating from the Model School
-in 1877. Son of Aylmer Langley and Alice (Thornber), his father being a
-native of Ireland and his mother born in New York State. The subject of
-this sketch early developed a marked ability as an expert accountant and
-was one of the early members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants
-of Ontario, an institution which has done much to stimulate the study of
-higher accounting and to keep pace with the commercial and municipal
-necessities of the day, and is a Fellow of the Institute so founded. Mr.
-Langley is recognized as a man with a large and intimate knowledge of
-industrial and financial enterprises, and his services are in constant
-requisition by such institutions throughout the Dominion. He is retained
-annually as the auditor of many leading business concerns, and is
-trustee of large estates, his extended experience making his advice
-particularly dependable. Mr. Langley married Carrie, daughter of Nathan
-Brower, of New Jersey, U.S., and has one son, Clarence Aylmer. He is a
-member of the Masonic order and of the Granite and Albany Clubs,
-Toronto. He is also a Justice of the Peace; a member of the Church of
-England. Politically he is a Liberal-Conservative. Recreations, motoring
-and golf. Mr. Langley is one of the best known business men in the
-province and enjoys the confidence of the mercantile community in a
-marked degree.
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-=Chamberlain, Theodore F., M.D.=, only son of Asher A. and Eliza Ann
-Chamberlain. Born at Harlem, County of South Leeds, Ontario, July 6,
-1838. His family came from Birmingham, England, and were in politics,
-Cobdenites. The family crest bears the motto “Sapiens et Fidus.” His
-father was born in Vermont, U.S., Feb. 12, 1810, and came to Upper
-Canada in 1815, locating in the County of South Leeds. After attending
-school at Potsdam, N.Y., he entered the Medical College at Fairfield,
-N.Y., after which he returned to Harlem, South Leeds, and began the
-practice of medicine, which profession he followed with more than common
-success, until his death at Athens, on February 20, 1883. He was Past
-Master of Harmony Masonic Lodge, Leeds, one of the oldest, if not the
-oldest, Masonic lodge in Upper Canada. He was Major in the Eighth
-Battalion, Leeds Militia, was a staunch temperance man, a member of the
-Methodist Church, and always took an active part in politics, from the
-troublous times of the Rebellion of 1836-7 down to the time of his
-death. At the time of the Beverly Election Riots in South Leeds, he
-nearly lost his life at the hands of the Tory Party under the leadership
-of Ogle R. Gowan’s Orangemen. He was one of the deputation from Upper
-Canada who went to the rescue of Lord Elgin at the time of the burning
-of the Parliament Buildings in Montreal in 1849. His connection with the
-Masonic lodge has already been noticed; this lodge he resuscitated at
-Farmersville, in 1859, under the name of “Rising Sun Lodge,” and was for
-several years its Master; was a Justice of the Peace, Postmaster at
-Harlem, and held other positions of trust. Dr. Chamberlain’s mother was
-Eliza Ann Toffey, and was born at Quaker Hill, N.Y., Oct. 15, 1803, and
-died at Athens, formerly Farmersville, on March 20, 1894. The
-grandparents on both sides lived to very advanced years. The doctor has
-one sister, born at Harlem, August 2, 1836, and now living (1913) in
-Toronto. She is the widow of the late J. C. Miller, ex-M.P.P. for Parry
-Sound and Muskoka District, and owner of the Parry Sound Lumber Co. The
-early education of the subject of this sketch was gained from parental
-instruction at night around the old home fireside, and at the Township
-School. He attended the Grammar School at Perth for some months in 1851,
-and then served some two years as clerk in the general mercantile
-establishment of Henry Laishley, at Elgin, where he gained the business
-training and experience that stood him so well in later life. In 1851 he
-served as Lieutenant, under Capt. Wm. J. Smith, and Col. Young, in the
-8th Battalion of Leeds Militia. Later he took up the study of dentistry
-in the office of F. D. Laughlin, Ottawa. After practising his profession
-for some time, he went, in the fall of 1857, to New York City, but
-later, yielding to solicitations of his father, he returned to his home
-in Athens, to take up medicine. He matriculated at Queen’s College,
-Kingston, in 1859, and passed the final examination in March, 1862,
-receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine and Surgery, and his license
-to practice in Canada, from the hands of Governor-General Monk. On the
-13th of April following, Dr. Chamberlain located at Morrisburg, County
-of Dundas, on the St. Lawrence River, and during the succeeding years
-built up a large and lucrative practice. In 1859 he was requested by the
-government of Sir Oliver Mowat to take the Inspectorship of Public
-Institutions of Ontario. The history of the doctor during these years is
-the history of a busy life. Besides following his profession, he served
-as Reeve of his municipality, member of the Counties’ Council, and
-Warden of the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, Justice
-of the Peace, Health Officer, member of the High and Public Board of
-Education, Director of the Agricultural Association, and Director of the
-Parry Sound Lumber Company. Inspector of schools for County of Dundas.
-At the time of the Fenian Raid, he was member of a strong company of
-volunteers under Captain I. N. Rose, Superintendent of the Williamsburg
-Canals, and with other members of the company was out night and day on
-guard at the locks, and in the village, as an attack was daily expected
-to be made by General O’Neal. On the 1st of July, the General with 1,600
-men appeared on the bank of the river opposite Morrisburg. The
-Government of Sir John A. Macdonald, realizing the seriousness of the
-situation, and desirous of keeping informed of O’Neal’s movements,
-appointed a man to keep in touch with O’Neal’s forces, but this man
-failing to accept, Dr. Chamberlain, a strong personal, but not a
-political, friend of Sir John’s, was detailed for this duty. He accepted
-the appointment, and taking his horses and buggy, and accompanied by a
-young man named Leslie Weaver, set out to follow the Fenian force, and
-to report as fully as possible their movements and designs. Crossing the
-river to Waddington, N.Y., on Capt. Murphy’s Ferry, on July 9, he found
-that the Fenians had moved, and he followed them to Malone, about 50
-miles distant, over-taking them about dark. Staying over night and
-having obtained all information possible, he left the next morning for
-Plattsburgh, which place he made that evening. After a wearisome and
-anxious night, he left Plattsburgh for Whitehall, at the foot of Lake
-Champlain, arriving there the next morning, and at Saratoga in the
-evening. He continued the journey to Troy and Albany, and returned
-thence to Ogdensburg, Prescott, and home to Morrisburg. The result of
-this close espionage, and prompt reports by the scouts, and the careful
-guarding of the river, was that the invaders were compelled to abandon
-their design of crossing the river, and to turn their faces to the west.
-The doctor’s services on this occasion were most effective and valuable,
-yet he never applied for nor received land grant, or medal, nor refund
-of his expenditure. In 1879, the doctor, as Warden, was appointed by the
-Counties’ Council, then in session, to go as their representative to the
-eastern boundary of the province, to meet their Excellencies, the
-Governor-General, the Marquis of Lorne, and the Princess Louise, and
-welcome them to Ontario. Later in the year he presented to their
-Excellencies at Government House, Ottawa, an address on behalf of the
-inhabitants of the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry.
-The doctor has always been an ardent politician, an indefatigable
-worker, and a vigorous but generous opponent. He was the candidate of
-the Reform Party for the Legislative Assembly for the county in 1879,
-and was defeated by 81 votes. In 1882, he was again the party candidate,
-this time for the House of Commons, and again defeated by 79 votes.
-Nothing discouraged, he again came before the Electors, in 1886, for the
-Assembly, and was elected by 25 majority. He was defeated next election
-by 28 votes, and again in 1904, was defeated for the Commons. In
-conjunction with his brother-in-law, Mr. W. G. Parish, of Athens, he
-established in the seventies, the first three cheese factories in
-Eastern Ontario. He carried on an extensive drug business in Morrisburg,
-from 1886 to 1873, when he sold it to Messrs. Carman and Brown. In 1871,
-he received the degree of L.R.C.P.S. from Queen’s College, Kingston, as
-well as that of F.B.S. During his practice in Morrisburg he had as
-students, Messrs. Hart, McLean, Howes, Musgrove, Lane, Shibbley,
-Beckstead and McKay, all of whom became successful practitioners. He was
-always a strong advocate of temperance, and a member of the Methodist
-Church. He became a member, under dispensation of the Grand Master, of
-Rising Sun Masonic Lodge, Athens, in 1857, and joined Excelsior Lodge,
-Morrisburg, No. 142, G.R.C., in 1862, and is yet an honorary life
-member, having filled every office in the gift of the lodge, and having
-received various decorations and gold medals. In 1867 he became a member
-of the Grenville Royal Arch Chapter, No. 23, at Prescott. In 1869-70 he
-was elected by the Grand Lodge, District-Deputy Grand Master for St.
-Lawrence District. In 1885 he received the 95 degrees in the Supreme
-Rite of Memphis, known as the Sovereign Sanctuary Degrees. In 1873 the
-doctor explored the country east and north of Lake Superior to the
-height of land, examining for timber and minerals. In 1878 he explored
-the country along the shores of Georgian Bay, the “Soo,” and to the head
-of Lake Nipissing. In 1883 he visited part of the southern, middle and
-western States, including California, Colorado, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico
-and Mexico. In 1889, leaving Montreal, he travelled through the
-North-Western Territories, and Victoria, Vancouver, Puget Sound, and
-Washington Territory. From 1889 to 1904, he acted as one of the
-Provincial Inspectors of Asylums, Prisons, Gaols and Hospitals, serving
-in that capacity until 1904, when he resigned, owing to ill health. In
-1906 he was appointed by the Dominion Government, under the Public
-Health Department, Inspector of all the doctors employed on Public
-Works, from the Red River to the Pacific Ocean. In pursuance of the
-duties of this position, he had to travel distances of from 1,000 to
-1,500 miles at a trip, ford rivers, make his own trail over prairies,
-sleep in a tent wherever night overtook him, in that great lone land. In
-the winter of 1907, he sent in his resignation, and in the spring of
-1908, inspected and estimated the timber on the Dokis Indian Reserve,
-Lake Nipissing. The pine timber on this Reserve was sold by the
-Government at Ottawa in June, and the doctor bought one of the limits,
-and in the fall had buildings, appliances, and materials complete for
-lumbering operations. During the winter he took out, and in the spring
-sent, 2,300 pieces of board timber, for the English market, by way of
-Lake Nipissing to Callender, thence by rail to Kingston, and rafting it
-thence to Quebec. He closed up this deal, and in 1910 went to
-California, visiting by the way, the principal cities in the West.
-During the past 30 years, he has bought and sold large quantities of
-pine timber in Ontario, and prospected for and located mines in the
-Rainy River and Lake-of-the-Woods Districts, and explored almost every
-part of Northern Ontario mining and timber lands. Dr. Chamberlain
-married, in 1862, Annetta, third daughter of Arza Parish, Esq.,
-merchant, Athens. He has one son, W. P., born at Morrisburg on May 19,
-1863, and one daughter, also born at Morrisburg, March 8, 1871. The Dr.
-and Mrs. Chamberlain celebrated their golden wedding on July 3, 1912.
-They had resided in Toronto since 1890, but the lure of his profession
-became too strong, and so the doctor has improved and embellished his
-beautiful residence in Morrisburg, fitted it up with all the latest
-devices and scientific appliances, and is conducting most successfully a
-Sanatorium for the relief and cure of suffering humanity.
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-=Chapleau, Major Samuel Edmour St. Onge=, ex-clerk of the Senate, clerk
-of the Parliaments and master in chancery, was born at Syracuse, New
-York, in 1839. He is the second son of the late Pierre Chapleau, of
-Terrebonne, Quebec, and was educated at Terrebonne College. In 1860 he
-went to the United States, and at the outbreak of the Civil War, in
-1861, entered the regular army of that country and received in
-succession, promotion to the ranks of second lieutenant, first
-lieutenant and Captain of the 16th Regiment of Infantry. He also
-received the rank of brevet-Captain for gallant and meritorious service
-at the battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and that of Major for gallant
-service during the Atlanta campaign and at the battle of Jonesboro,
-Georgia. He was at the battle of Shiloh, at the Siege of Corinth, and at
-the battles of Chickamauga and Chattanooga. He was sent to Memphis in
-1866 during the riots in that city, and in 1868 was in command of the
-troops at Augusta, Georgia, during the riots which took place between
-the whites and the colored people on the occasion of the first election
-of President Grant. He retired from the United States Army, January 1,
-1871, and September 15, 1873, entered the Civil Service of Canada. He
-successively held the appointments of Secretary Department of Public
-Works, Sheriff of the North-West Territories, and Clerk of the Crown in
-Chancery. On January 27, 1900, he was appointed Clerk of the Senate and
-held that position until he retired, in the early part of 1917. In view
-of his long and faithful service in the Senate, Major Chapleau was
-appointed an honorary officer of that house and is allowed entree and
-seat at the table on the occasions of ceremony. He married Caroline K.,
-third daughter of the late Lieut.-Col. G. W. Patten, of the United
-States Army. Major Chapleau declined the honor of C.M.G. tendered to him
-in 1914.
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-=Aikenhead, Thomas E.= (Toronto, Ont.), was born at Toronto, September
-14, 1859, and received his education in that city. In 1873 he entered
-his business career with his father’s firm, which was originally
-established in the year 1830, and conducted for many years by his late
-father, Mr. James Aikenhead and Mr. A. T. Crombie, under the name of
-Aikenhead & Crombie. To-day this firm has some 100 employees, and the
-subject of this sketch is President and General Manager, under the firm
-name of Aikenhead Hardware, Limited, with extensive premises on
-Temperance Street. During the earlier days of Canada there were but few
-hardware houses of such importance, and Mr. Aikenhead set to work to
-build up a business to suit the rapid development of the country and has
-to-day made a reputation for himself as a leader in his own particular
-branch. Besides his business connections he is an ardent worker in
-church circles and a regular attendant of the Timothy Eaton Memorial
-Church. He is a member of the Ontario Club, Toronto Bowling Club, Board
-of Trade and the Ontario Motor League, taking an active interest in the
-good roads campaign of 1910. He is also a director of the Tisdale Iron
-Stable Fittings Co. In looking over the extensive buildings erected in
-Toronto, one can only imagine the important part Mr. Aikenhead has
-played from a business standpoint, and he can truly be classed as one of
-the builders of Canada.
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-=MacDonald, Neil S., B.A., D.Paed.= (Toronto, Ont.), Public School
-Inspector, is the son of the late John F. MacDonald and Mrs. MacDonald,
-formerly of Darlington, now of Toronto. Born in Bowmanville, Durham
-County, Ont., on January 28, 1872, he received his early education in
-Clarke Union Public School and Bowmanville High School. At the end of
-six months in the latter school, he obtained a Third Class Teacher’s
-Certificate, and at the next Departmental Examination he obtained a
-Second Class Certificate and spent several years teaching in the rural
-schools of the Townships of Cartwright, Darlington and Hope. Feeling
-that he had learned all he could in these schools, he returned to
-Bowmanville High School to prepare for honor matriculation into Toronto
-University, and at his matriculation made a splendid record, receiving
-honors in Mathematics, Science, English, History and Geography. He did
-not enter the University, however, but took a year’s course in practical
-teaching in the Ontario Normal College at Hamilton, after which he was
-engaged as Principal in Richmond Hill Public School, where he stayed for
-one year, going from there to Toronto to accept the office of
-Vice-Principal of Ryerson School, which he held for six years, receiving
-while there training in the method of city schools under Principal
-McAllister. Then he was promoted to the Principalship of Duke Street
-Public School and after three years there was once more promoted, to be
-Principal of Cottingham Street Public School. He spent one year here,
-when he was promoted to Bolton Avenue School. Mr. MacDonald held a high
-ideal of success ever before his mind and backed it up with praiseworthy
-perseverance, and he owes his marked success in life to the
-stick-to-it-iveness which is one of his special characteristics. In 1910
-he graduated from Queen’s University with the degree of B.A., very much
-to his credit, for he obtained this degree by private study while
-filling the position of Principal in a city school. Mr. MacDonald
-married Christina Lamb, the daughter of William Lamb, and has one son,
-Donald, born on August 29, 1913. Upon the retirement of Mr. R. W. Doan,
-in June, 1914, Mr. MacDonald became Principal of Dufferin School,
-Toronto, and it has been said of him, “His educational attainments,
-energy and enthusiasm mark him as a man well qualified to fill the
-highest position a School Board may offer.” Besides managing the regular
-school work, he took an active interest in the school sports and cadet
-drill, and his scholars always obtained good standing in these. After
-three years as Principal of Dufferin School, Mr. MacDonald was
-transferred, in September, 1917, to Ryerson School, as Principal in
-succession to the late W. E. Groves. Ryerson School is the school for
-practice teaching in connection with the Faculty of Education. As
-Principal he was chief critic teacher and supervisor of critic teachers.
-In February, 1918, the Toronto Board of Education appointed him Public
-School Inspector in District Five, a position left vacant by the death
-of Inspector W. F. Chapman, B.A. He is a Presbyterian in religion,
-belonging to St. John’s Presbyterian Church, where he is also
-Superintendent of the Sabbath School; a Conservative in politics and a
-member of St. Andrew’s Masonic Society, St. Patrick’s Royal Arch Masons
-and Cyrene Preceptory. In the spring of 1918 the degree of Doctor of
-Pedagogy was conferred upon Mr. MacDonald, and in partial fulfilment for
-the degree he submitted a thesis on “Open Air Schools,” which he has
-recently published.
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-=McCullough, Charles Robert= (Hamilton, Ont.), was born in Bowmanville,
-Ont., Feb. 18, 1865, educated at Private, Public and High Schools,
-Bowmanville, and special schools in Belleville and Toronto. Married in
-1897 to Eola Luxton, second daughter of George and Harriet Luxton, of
-Hamilton. Children: Evan (deceased), Luxton and Kathleen. A member of
-the Canadian Club of Hamilton, and the Hamilton Club, a Fellow of the
-Royal Colonial Institute; Honorary President Assn. of Canadian Clubs,
-teacher mercantile subjects, 1885-1903, founded Federated Business
-Colleges, founded Business Educators’ Assn. of Canada, first President
-of the latter; founder Canadian Club Movement in Hamilton, December 6,
-1892; President Hamilton Canadian Club, 1895 and 1910; together with
-John Cousins founded the General Council of Canadian Clubs and
-Societies, Niagara Falls, N.Y., July, 1905; is President of the Ontario
-Engraving Co., and Hamilton Conservatory of Music; one of the Founders
-and first Governors Art Gallery of Hamilton; represented Collegiate
-Institute on the Board of Education for three years; member of the
-Canadian Manufacturers Assn., ex-Chairman Industrial Committee thereof;
-Vice-President and Chairman of Executive Committee Win-the-War league of
-Ontario, and President Win-the-War League of Hamilton; President Union
-School Club of Bowmanville; gazetted Capt. 91st Regt., Canadian
-Highlanders, 1907, and Lieut.-Colonel, 1916, organized the first
-recruiting league in Hamilton, 1915, has done a great deal to promote
-recruiting throughout the Province, at various points, especially in
-connection with the Canadian Club of Hamilton and the Recruiting
-Committee of the Citizens’ Service League in affiliation therewith.
-Lieut.-Col. McCullough projected Semi-Centennial Celebration of Canada
-for 1917 as far back as 1910. He believes that a mutual respect for, and
-confidence in each other, should be entertained by the great English and
-French-speaking peoples constituting the Canadian nation. Lieut.-Col.
-McCullough has addressed various Canadian Clubs throughout the Dominion
-and has done excellent work in inculcating a robust Canadian sentiment.
-F. D. Monk, K.C., M.P., said a few years ago: “In initiating the
-Canadian Club movement, Mr. McCullough has done a better work than any
-politician since Confederation.” Lieut.-Col. McCullough’s recreations
-are, skating, golfing, canoeing. In religion he is a member of the
-Church of England and of the Church of the Ascension of Hamilton.
-Colonel McCullough was an active, early promoter of a Union,
-non-partizan Government. Made three public speaking tours of District of
-Columbia, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland, 1917-1918, as guest of
-the American Red Cross.
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-
-=Beach, Mahlon F.=, Manufacturer (Iroquois, Ont.), who died January 4,
-1917, at the ripe age of more than eighty-three years, was one of the
-most remarkable self-made men in Eastern Canada and belonged to a family
-which can boast one of the most striking genealogical records in the
-Dominion. The family record shows his lineage back to John Beach, one of
-three pilgrim brothers who migrated from England to New Haven Colony,
-Conn., early in the Seventeenth Century, the two other pilgrim brothers
-being Richard and Thomas. Richard first appears in the New Haven Colony
-in 1638, and was a man of some note in his day. Thomas first appears in
-the records in 1646, and settled in Milford, Connecticut. John is first
-mentioned in the New Haven Colony records, January 4, 1643. Four years
-later he bought “an house lott” there and in 1650 married Mary ——.
-Next we find him at Stratford, Connecticut, where he acquired land in
-1660 and was chosen “Town Crier” in the following years, being allowed
-fourpence “for everything he should crye and every time he cryed.” He
-signed the Articles of Agreement for the Wallingford Plantation in 1670,
-and was granted a “house lott” there in 1671. He appears fourth in a
-list of six persons of “Hiest Rank,” July 29, 1672, and in 1675 was one
-of a committee to establish a Church, dying between the years 1678 and
-1680, the ancestor of a large number of Beaches, scattered over United
-States, Canada and South America. Mahlon Ford Beach, the subject of this
-sketch, was born November 10, 1833, in Oxford Township, Grenville
-County, Province of Ontario, where his father, Mahlon Beach, son of
-David Beach, arriving from New Jersey, was one of the first settlers.
-His Mother, Mercy May, born in New York State, May 12, 1798, was a
-daughter of Lyman Clothier, who migrated to the vicinity and built the
-first mills in what is now known as the Village of Kemptville. Married
-Louise C. Wickmire, of Augusta Township, Grenville County, in 1865, and
-leaves a family of ten boys, all of whom are living, born as follows:
-Charles A., of Cornwall, 1866; Fred. W., of Morrisburg, 1868; Dr. Anson
-W., of Toronto, and Benson C., of Ottawa (twins), 1870; Mahlon W., of
-Kingston, 1872; Howard B., of Iroquois, 1873; D. Easton, of Ottawa, and
-G. Weston, of Winchester (twins), 1875; J. Russell, of Ottawa, 1878; and
-Olin A., of Ottawa, 1882. One daughter, born in 1877, died in infancy.
-Mrs. Beach died in 1907, aged seventy-one years and eleven months, and
-Mr. Beach married Mrs. Hannah M. Barber, of Winnipeg, in 1912, by whom
-he is survived. Although controlling probably a quarter of a million
-dollars at his death, Mr. Beach started life like thousands of other
-poor boys, with only his native industry, wit and enterprise to raise
-him above his restricted circumstances and give his talents a larger
-field of activity. He was a born captain of industry and remarkable in
-many ways, exciting a big influence not only in his community, but
-throughout the county. Possessed of a strong personality, an untiring
-energy, quick perception and bold and fearless in his business
-enterprises, he left his stamp on the community in which he lived and
-his name will always be connected with the village and township of
-Winchester. This place was hardly a settlement when Mr. Beach first came
-there, and when he erected his first mill it was the beginning of a new
-life in the community, as previously the nearest mill was at Iroquois.
-He was educated at the common schools of his native place and set out to
-carve his own fortune early in life. He first worked at the millwright
-business, and in 1856 went to the Township of Winchester, Dundas County,
-where he built a small saw mill, later adding other machinery and
-buildings, such as planing mills, sash and door, and flour mills. During
-the years 1861-1864 he engaged in square timber operations, taking the
-timber to Quebec. In the spring of 1883 he bought a water privilege on
-the St. Lawrence Canal, at Iroquois, and moved there in June of the same
-year, where he commenced a roller flour mill, which was put in operation
-in the fall of 1884. At Mr. Beach’s place in Winchester, where the old
-business is still continued, he saw grow up what is now a flourishing
-village. Between the years 1861-1878 Mr. Beach was connected directly
-and indirectly with the general store business and has always been
-successful in his undertakings. In 1884 his mills at Winchester were
-destroyed by fire, and a number of other valuable buildings, also a
-quantity of sawn lumber, flour and wheat to the amount of about $75,000,
-were all swept away without any insurance to cover the loss. This
-naturally crippled him financially, but nothing daunted, he commenced
-again, rebuilding the mills in a much better manner than before and
-adding a furniture factory to them, thus showing that the spirit of the
-man was bigger than any adversity and that he did not know the meaning
-of failure. He met every obstacle with indomitable faith in himself as
-the biggest asset of human enterprise, which, more than any other, was a
-characteristic of Mr. Beach. He had absolute faith in his own judgment
-and with great capacity and resource he soon recovered his losses. He
-was President of the Beach Foundry Co., Ltd., of Ottawa, and also with
-his son Charles A., established the Beach Furniture Factory, at
-Cornwall. In 1909 he completed a water power development in Iroquois,
-one of the latest and most improved hydro-electric power plants in
-America. In order to carry out this undertaking, he was obliged to
-resort to the European markets for the electrical apparatus. The
-generators came from Sweden, where they were designed and made
-especially for the conditions met with in development. It might truly be
-said that this was the pioneer plant in Canada for the vertical type,
-direct connected to wheel, operating under a low head of water. This
-fact was attested to by many eminent engineers from all over the
-American continent, who inspected the plant after its completion. In
-1910, with his two sons, Benson C. and Charles A., he was interested in
-the development of a 4,000 h.p. Hydro-Electric Power Plant at Hound
-Chute, on the Montreal River, furnishing the first electrical energy
-used in the Cobalt District. Associated with the late Hon. Andrew
-Broder, M.P., he secured in 1882, a charter for the Montreal and Central
-Canada Railroad. With the charter they interviewed Sir Wm. Van Horne, of
-the C.P.R. Asked what they wanted for their charter and expense of
-promoting, the reply was “We want a railroad.” The C.P.R. took over the
-charter, the line was built and now forms part of the main line between
-Toronto and Montreal. Mr. Beach was one of the foremost men interested
-in the erection of the present magnificent Methodist Church at
-Winchester. His public career has been confined to municipal affairs. He
-was warden of the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry for
-the year 1873. In politics he was a Liberal, and in religion a
-broad-minded adherent of the Methodist Church, and opposed to
-ostentation. Even passing his eighty-third birthday, Mr. Beach exhibited
-remarkable vitality of mind and body, being still actively engaged in
-his several interests, but on January 4, 1917, he suddenly passed away,
-the direct cause being due to acute congestion of the kidneys,
-complicated with pneumonia. His useful and successful life will long be
-remembered with respect.
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-
-=Macdonald, John= (Toronto, Ont.), the present head of the great
-wholesale dry goods firm of John Macdonald & Co., of Toronto, is still a
-young man. He bears the name of his father, the founder of the business,
-and was born on the 4th of November, 1863, at the old family homestead,
-Oaklands, a beautiful villa on the hills overlooking the city of
-Toronto. He was educated at Upper Canada College, which boasts the names
-of a very large number of distinguished families on its rolls, and while
-still a lad entered (1880) the great dry goods establishment which then
-bore his father’s name and was founded by him in 1849. Under his
-distinguished father’s guidance he received a sound business training,
-and was thus, on the death of the latter, able to undertake the great
-responsibility devolving upon him. The firm was made a Joint Stock
-Company, of which he was appointed President in 1906. He is a Director
-of the following: Bank of Toronto, Confederation Life Association,
-Toronto Hotel Co., Ltd., Guarantee Company of North America, Millers and
-Manufacturers Insurance Co., Humane Society, Hospital for Incurables,
-Academy of Music. Honorary Governor Toronto General Hospital; member
-Toronto Board of Trade; Chairman Bureau Municipal Research; Trustee and
-Official, Yonge St. Methodist Church; Vice-Chairman, Financial
-Committee; member Defence League. The late Hon. John Macdonald sat in
-the Senate of Canada for several years, and was a most distinguished
-figure in religious and philanthropic work. The subject of this sketch
-is a man of varied interests and wide social popularity, while retaining
-the sound business energy characteristic of his family. In the affairs
-of his alma mater, Upper Canada College, he has taken a deep interest,
-and was one of those public-spirited graduates who took an active part
-in the work of reorganization which a few years ago put it on a sound
-basis and largely increased its usefulness. He is also a member of the
-Methodist Communion, in which his father was so long an eminent figure,
-and has interested himself in the affairs of Yonge Street Methodist
-Church, of which he is a Trustee. He holds the office of Justice of the
-Peace, but fortunately is not compelled to frequently exercise his
-function as a magistrate. Among the commercial organizations with which
-he is identified, may be mentioned the Toronto Board of Trade, in which
-he is prominent in the dry goods section. His is also one of the
-best-known names on the roll of the Commercial Travellers’ Association,
-one of the most powerful organizations in Canada. He is also a member of
-the British Empire League, the object of which is to further the
-progress of an enlightened Imperialism in Canada; of the well-known
-benevolent society, the Ancient Order of United Workmen; of the
-Caledonian Society, to which he belongs by virtue of his Scottish
-descent; and is a member, also, by virtue of the family traditions, of
-the York pioneers; a member also of the Methodist Union College Heights
-Association, Upper Canada College Old Boys’ Association, St. Andrew’s
-Society, and the Canadian Institute. Clubs: York, National, British
-Empire. Like all men of active mind, Mr. Macdonald has a hobby, and in
-his case the hobby is horseflesh. His beautiful home at Oaklands always
-boasts some fine animals in its stables, and he has earnestly devoted
-himself to the improvement of Canadian stock. He was one of the original
-promoters and is a Director of the Annual Horse Show at Toronto, and is
-also an active member of the Horse Breeders’ Association, and of the
-Hackney Horse Association. It will thus be seen that Mr. Macdonald is a
-man of catholic tastes and wide energies. He resides at 116 Farnham
-Avenue, Toronto.
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-
-=Longley, Hon. J. W.= (Halifax, N.S.), Judge of the Supreme Court of
-Nova Scotia. One of the best-known men in Canadian public life, and a
-gentleman who combines literary graces with a practical public spirit,
-is Hon. James Wilberforce Longley, late Attorney-General and
-Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Province of Nova Scotia. Hon. Mr.
-Longley was born at Paradise, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, on January
-4, 1849, the son of Israel Longley and Frances Manning. Like so many
-noted Nova Scotians, he is a descendant of an old New England family,
-and his grandfather, William Longley, came to Nova Scotia from
-Massachusetts in 1760, and settled at Belleisle, in Annapolis County.
-The subject of this sketch attended school first at Paradise and later
-received his education in the higher branches at Acadia University,
-Wolfville, N.S., where he received the B.A. degree in 1871; M.A., 1875;
-D.C.L., 1897; Hon. LL.D. St. Francis Xavier College, Antigonish, N.S.,
-1905. He began the study of law in the office of Hiram Blanchard, K.C.,
-of Halifax, and completed his course with the legal firm of Johnston &
-Bligh; read law with Bethune & Hoyles, Toronto, and W. A. Johnson,
-Halifax, N.S.; he also attended for a term at Osgoode Hall, Toronto, and
-was called to the Nova Scotia Bar at Halifax in 1875, where he
-immediately began the practice of his profession; two years as Bligh &
-Longley; four years with Mr. Motton, and as McCoy & Longley. He quickly
-made a reputation by his ability, and in 1883 was appointed by the
-Provincial Government as one of the commission for the revision and
-consolidation of the Statutes. Journalism had always attracted Mr.
-Longley, and while a law student he had become identified with the
-“Acadian Recorder,” of Halifax, as its chief editorial writer.
-Subsequently he joined the staff of the “Halifax Morning Chronicle,” and
-for some time filled the responsible post of managing editor. Mr.
-Longley’s literary and clear attractive style has borne fruit in
-contributions to many of the leading reviews and periodicals of England
-and the United States. In 1898, “Love,” a religious and philosophical
-essay appeared in book form and has passed through several editions. He
-has also written “Socialism, Its Truths and Errors”; “The Greatest
-Drama”; “A Material Age”; “Canada and Imperial Federation”; “Religion in
-the 19th Century”; “Makers of Canada” (Series); “The Political History
-of Canada” (four volumes complete); “Life of Joseph Howe,” and “Life of
-Sir Charles Tupper.” He was President of the Nova Scotia Historical
-Society and a member of the Royal Society of Canada. Coincident with his
-legal and literary activities, Hon. Mr. Longley has taken an active part
-in politics. He was for some years President of the Young Men’s Liberal
-Club of Halifax, and entered public life in 1882 as member of the Nova
-Scotia Legislature for Annapolis County, which constituency he
-represented until 1905. Two years later Hon. W. S. Fielding, in forming
-his Government, invited Mr. Longley to enter it, and in July, 1884, he
-was sworn in as a Minister without Portfolio. In 1886 he was appointed
-Attorney-General. In 1896 he resigned to enter a contest for Federal
-honors in the House of Commons. Being defeated, his old constituents in
-Annapolis at once re-elected him by acclamation. At the request of the
-Premier, Hon. Mr. Murray, he resumed the duties of Attorney General for
-Nova Scotia, which position he held for over nineteen years. In his
-public capacity, he was a member of the famous inter-Provincial
-Conference at Quebec in 1887, and was one of the prominent figures in
-the historic convention of the Reform Party in 1893, when the platform
-of the then Opposition was struck. As a legislator he has initiated many
-useful provincial measures, embracing important changes in the criminal
-procedure, the abolition of imprisonment for debt, consolidation of
-County Court Procedure and the incorporation of towns. He is a director
-of the British Empire Financial Corporation, and is a great social
-favorite in most of the cities of Canada. Has been a Fellow of the Royal
-Society of Canada and was elected Honorary President. On September 4,
-1877, he married Annie Brown, daughter of Mr. Newton Brown (deceased,
-October, 1899); secondly, Lois Fletcher, daughter of George Fletcher,
-Yorkshire, Eng., April, 1901, and has five sons and one daughter. He is
-a member of the Halifax and Saraquay Clubs; a director of the Home Life
-Association, and received his present appointment in 1905; also a member
-of A.F. & A.M. He was created K.C. by Lord Stanley (afterwards Earl of
-Derby) in 1890.
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-=Morgan, Colin Daniel= (Montreal, Que.), Merchant, is the son of William
-Morgan and Jane Brown; was born at West Linton, Scotland, in 1846, and
-educated at Edinburgh, Scotland. He married Martha Gold, the daughter of
-Hon. Theodore S. Gold, an agriculturist, of West Cornwall, Conn., and
-has four children, Theodore, Marjorie, Henry and Alice. He is a member
-of the Presbyterian Church, and takes his recreation motoring, etc.
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-=Antliff, Rev. James Cooper, M.A., D.D.=, 41 St. Mark Street, Montreal.
-Born February 1, 1844, at Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England. Son of Rev.
-Wm. Antliff, D.D., and Barbara Cooper. Educated at Haslingden Wesleyan
-School and Edinburgh University from which he graduated with the degree
-of M.A., 1873, B.D. in 1874. Left England for Canada by appointment of
-Primitive Methodist Conference, 1878. Professor in Wesleyan Theological
-College, Montreal, for nine years. Received degree of D.D. Victoria
-University, 1887. Member of First Œcumenical Conference. President of
-Montreal Conference, 1891. Secretary of First General Conference of
-Methodist Church. Canadian delegate to Wesleyan Methodist Conference,
-1907. Was editor of Christian Journal for three years; and is the author
-of several illuminating magazine articles on various subjects. Married
-first, Fanny Holden, daughter of John Holden Esq., of Dalbury Lees,
-Derby, England; second, Jane Elizabeth Gooderham, daughter of the Rev.
-Ezekiel Gooderham of York Mills, Ont., has one surviving son, born the
-22nd of March, 1869. Rev. Dr. Antliff has traveled extensively and is a
-man of ripe scholarship.
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-
-=Arrell, Harrison= (Caledonia, Ont.), was born at the Township of
-Onondaga, Brant County, November 14, 1874, son of Samuel Arrell, farmer.
-Educated at Caledonia High School and after matriculating, studied law
-in the office of Mr. Justice Teetzel, Hamilton, and Osgoode Hall,
-Toronto, and was called to the bar in 1898. Married, in 1907, to Eva,
-daughter of H. B. Sawle, of Caledonia, and is the father of two
-children: Alec. and Hugh. Is a member of the Masonic Order, and in
-religion is an Anglican. Politically, he is a Conservative. Was
-appointed Crown Attorney and Clerk of the Peace for the County of
-Haldimand, in June, 1915.
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-
-=Musson, Charles Joseph= (Toronto, Ont.), Publisher, is the President of
-The Musson Book Co., Ltd., and Vice-President of Hodder & Stoughton,
-Ltd. He is the son of Elizabeth and the late Capt. Thomas Musson,
-general merchant and postmaster, Islington, Ont., where he was born on
-September 15, 1869, receiving his education at Islington Public School,
-Streetsville High School and Parkdale Collegiate Institute, Toronto. Mr.
-Musson married Jennie Bird, daughter of the late Wm. Williams, farmer,
-Bowmanville, Ont., and has two children, Ralph Thomas Musson,
-Lieutenant, Royal Garrison Artillery, and Glena Elizabeth Musson. He is
-a life member of the Historical Landmark Society of Canada, and of
-Harmony Lodge A.F. & A.M. Scottish Rite, a 32nd Degree Mason, a Workman,
-and Past Grand Master Canadian Order of Oddfellows. In politics Mr.
-Musson is a Conservative, and in religion a member of the Church of
-England.
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-
-=Massey, C. D.= (Toronto, Ont.). The name of Massey is known throughout
-the length and breadth of Canada, not only on account of the vastness of
-the business interests associated with that name, but because of the
-great philanthropies with which it is also synonymous. As the surviving
-head of the family that has built up Canada’s greatest individual
-industrial enterprise, the figure of Mr. Chester Daniel Massey, the
-subject of this sketch, is doubly fraught with interest. He is the son
-of the late Hart A. Massey, who was the son and successor in business of
-Daniel Massey, the founder of the great establishment for the
-manufacture of agricultural implements now known as the Massey-Harris
-Company, Limited, and has been associated with that business, of which
-he is now the Honorary President, since boyhood. Both the brothers who
-had also been identified with the growth and management of the
-enterprise, Charles A. Massey and Walter E. H. Massey, have also passed
-away. But Mr. Chester D. Massey is splendidly carrying out the
-traditions of the family. He was born on June 17, 1850, in Haldimand
-Township, in the County of Northumberland, Ontario, and received his
-education at the Public Schools of the province. While still a boy he
-entered the business establishment of his father, then centred at
-Newcastle, Ontario. Literally speaking, he has grown up with the
-business, which in turn has grown up with the country (coincident with
-the vast expansion of agricultural enterprise in Canada). In 1879 the
-headquarters of the Massey firm were removed to Toronto, where Mr.
-Massey has resided since the year 1882. In 1884 his eldest brother,
-Charles A. Massey, died, and the duties devolving on him became the
-heavier. The period that has elapsed since then has been one of immense
-expansion, which the firm attained by a judicious policy of amalgamation
-and by extending its agencies not only from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
-but beyond the seven seas in all the corners of the earth. As has been
-intimated, commercial interests do not by any means absorb the entire
-attention of Mr. Massey. He is largely interested in all religious and
-philanthropic movements. He is a member of the Methodist Church, to
-which he is greatly attached, and his voice is at all times valued in
-its councils. He is a Governor of the University of Toronto; a Regent of
-Victoria University, and a Trustee of the Metropolitan Church and the
-Methodist Deaconess Home and Training School, all of Toronto. He is also
-a Trustee of Massey Music Hall, one of the finest buildings that
-unselfish citizenship ever gave to a community. As chief executor of his
-father’s estate, he necessarily takes a deep interest in the valuable
-works of philanthropy which have been carried out under the provisions
-of the will. On March 17, 1886, Mr. Massey was married at Erie, Pa., to
-Miss Anna D. Vincent (deceased, London, England, November 11, 1903), and
-secondly to Miss Margaret Phelps, of Gloversville, N.Y., Jan. 3, 1907;
-has two sons by first wife, Charles Vincent and Raymond Hart Massey.
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-=Smith, William, M.P.=, for South Ontario (Columbus, Ont.), was born in
-the Township of East Whitby, November 16, 1847, is the son of William
-Smith and Elizabeth Laing, his wife, natives of Morayshire, Scotland. He
-was educated at the public school, Columbus, and Upper Canada College,
-Toronto. He was Paymaster of the 34th Battalion for a number of years.
-He has been a Trustee of Columbus Public School for over 21 years. Was
-President of the South Ontario Agricultural Society in 1881. Was Deputy
-Reeve for the Township of East Whitby from 1878 to 1882, and Reeve from
-1883 to 1887. Was Vice-president and President of the Clydesdale
-Association of Canada for a number of years. Is President of the Record
-Board since 1912. Is President of the Maple Leaf Farmers’ Mutual Fire
-Company, and has been since its incorporation in 1896. Is a Director of
-the Dominion Shorthorn Association. He has always taken an active
-interest in municipal and political affairs: Contested South Ontario,
-1882, 1887, 1891, 1892, 1896, 1900 and 1911; successful in 1887, 1892
-and 1911. In politics he is a Conservative and in religion a
-Presbyterian. He was married, May 25, 1880, to Helen Burns, daughter of
-the late James Burns, of the Township of East Whitby. Three children:
-Bessie, Robert B., and Wm. Bruce. Robert B. is senior Major of the
-116th, now in England, and went over with the first contingent in 1914.
-Mr. Smith is a farmer, and takes a great interest in Clydesdale horses,
-Shorthorn cattle and Cotswold sheep.
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-=Mikel, William Charles, K.C., B.C.L.= (Belleville), was born in
-Belleville, Ont., the son of W. V. and Matilda (Wilson) Mikel, a
-descendant U.E.L. family. His great-grandfather fought on the side of
-Great Britain in the American Revolution, after which he came to Canada
-and was granted 300 acres of land in Ameliasburg Township, Prince Edward
-County. Again he fought on the side of the Government forces in
-Rebellion of 1837. The subject of this sketch was educated at Belleville
-High School and the Ontario Business College, Albert College (honors),
-and Trinity University (B.C.L., 1897). Practises law at Belleville; has
-been Crown Prosecutor at Ottawa, Toronto and other places throughout the
-province. Appeared before Legislature and Parliament in several
-important matters, and acted as one of the Counsel for the depositors of
-the Farmers Bank of Canada, when the Government and House of Commons
-approved of payment of over one million dollars to depositors. Served as
-Alderman, Auditor and City Solicitor of the Corporation of the city of
-Belleville; created King’s Counsel, 1908. One of the founders of the
-Ontario Bar Association and President 1911-12; President
-Liberal-Conservative Auxiliary, Belleville; President Ontario Municipal
-Association, 1907-08. Grand Master A.O.U.W., 1914-15-16; President
-Canadian Fraternal Association, 1918-19; P.M. Moira Lodge, No. 11, A.F.
-& A.M., 1st P. Moira Chapter, No. 7, G.R.C.; member King Baldwin
-Preceptory; member L.O.L. No. 274, and Royal Black Knights of Ireland.
-Member of Albany Club, Toronto; a Presbyterian in religion. Formerly
-Captain 15th Batt. A.L.I., volunteered, 1915, for service in the Great
-War, but was rejected. Offered to organize and take command of a
-battalion, not accepted. Secretary Speakers’ Patriotic League at
-Belleville; assisted in recruiting several military organizations for
-service overseas; member of Council of the Win-the-War League, and was
-one of the Committee of the League which presented to Sir Robert Borden,
-August, 1917, the resolutions of the League supporting Union Government,
-conscription and other patriotic measures. Strong supporter of the Union
-Government, and assisted many of the Union Government candidates in the
-election of December, 1917. Married Miss Lillian Ewen, daughter of T. E.
-Ewen, M.A., veteran of the Fenian Raid; has one daughter, Miss Audrey
-Mikel. On July 25 and 26, 1918, he presided over a meeting at Belleville
-called by him, as President of the Canadian Fraternal Association,
-comprised of delegates from a number of Canadian Fraternal Societies
-representing Protestants and Roman Catholics, both English and French
-speaking, for the purpose of promoting a better understanding between
-the English and French speaking Canadians; and again at Ottawa on
-November 28, 1918, he presided over a similar meeting called by him. His
-brother, R. Y. Mikel, served in France with the American Flying Corps in
-the Great War, so that the great-grandsons of the men who fought against
-the American army in the Revolutionary war, served in that army, showing
-how closely the people of the British Empire and of the United States
-have been brought together by this war.
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-=Robb, Thomas= (Westmount, Que.), Manager and Secretary of the Shipping
-Federation of Canada, is Managing Director of the Marconi Wireless
-Telegraph Co., and a Director of George Davie & Sons, Limited. He has
-been employed as Acting Staff Embarkation Officer, with the rank of
-Major, under Generals McDonald and Biggar, and has also rendered
-valuable services to the Marine and Naval Departments in connection with
-the war. Royal Commissioner on Pilotage, 1911; Chairman of Royal
-Commission on Pilotage, 1918, arising out of Halifax disaster.
-Commissioner on Traffic Regulations dealing with explosives, and also
-Royal Commissioner on Commission appointed to investigate labor unrest
-in Shipbuilding industry in Province of Quebec. He was a member of the
-delegation sent to Washington, D.C., in opposition to the proposed Long
-Sault Development, and has been called to that city on several
-occasions, notably in connection with the revision of the American
-Seamen’s Act. He is a member of the American Geographical Society, and
-has delivered an address on “Navigation—Ancient and Modern” before the
-Nomad’s Club, which was subsequently published in pamphlet form, also
-other addresses on Marine subjects. Mr. Robb’s chosen recreations are
-golf and fishing. He is a Justice of the Peace, a Mason, and a member of
-the Canadian Club and Canada Club, both of Montreal. Mr. Robb was born
-in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1863, where he received his education at
-McLaren Academy. Thomas Robb is the son of Ann Thomson and Thomas Robb,
-an able writer. He married Elizabeth Andrew, daughter of James McLaren,
-merchant, of Stirling, Scotland, in 1890, by whom he has three daughters
-and one son, Elizabeth, Mabel, Chrissie, Robert.
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-=White, Arthur V.=, Consulting Engineer, Toronto, Ontario, was born in
-Woodstock, Ontario, August 21, 1871. His father was the late James
-White, Esq., a prominent merchant, well known throughout South-western
-Ontario, and for more than twenty-five years Clerk of the County of
-Oxford, in which office he succeeded his father, who was one of the
-early Scotch pioneers of Woodstock. His mother was Dorothy Jessie
-McLeod, eldest daughter of W. C. McLeod, Esq., one of the most
-widely-known merchants and financiers of pioneer days in Ontario. Mr.
-White’s early education was carried on in the Woodstock Public and High
-Schools, after which he entered the University of Toronto, where he
-graduated from the School of Practical Science with high standing in
-1892. He later obtained from the University of Toronto the degree of
-M.E. (mechanical engineer), being the first graduate of that institution
-to receive this degree. After graduating, Mr. White followed his
-profession in connection with manufacturing establishments in Canada and
-the United States, and for some years was Chief Draughtsman for the
-Canadian General Electric Company, at Peterboro. Subsequently, he was
-Lecturer in Mechanical Drawing and Machine Design at the Toronto
-Technical School. He spent about five years in London, England, as
-engineering expert to Messrs. Brown Brothers, for whom he executed
-important commissions on the Continent, as well as in the United States,
-travelling extensively in connection therewith. August 28, 1901, Mr.
-White married Aidine Squire, eldest daughter of Hon. Watson C. Squire,
-LL.D., of Seattle, Wash., ex-United States Senator from that State, and
-formerly Governor of Washington Territory, and Ida Remington, eldest
-daughter of Philo Remington, Esq., the noted manufacturer of firearms.
-Mr. White has three children—James Arthur, Remington, and Caroline
-Lathrop. Returning to take up his residence in Canada in 1902, Mr. White
-continued his professional work. In 1905, representing the noted
-engineers, Messrs. Ross & Holgate, Mr. White personally canvassed
-leading manufacturers in South-western Ontario respecting power
-requirements and collected much of the field data basic to the
-recommendations of the Ontario Power Commission, the precursor of the
-present Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario. Later he worked
-chiefly upon constructional engineering and devoted considerable time to
-designing in connection with Harbor Works for the Department of Public
-Works, Canada. In 1910, he was engaged by the Commission of
-Conservation, Ottawa, with which he still remains as Consulting
-Engineer. He has reported for this Commission upon the Water Powers of
-the Provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario and British
-Columbia; also upon the St. Lawrence Long Sault Rapids, the Chicago
-Drainage Canal, Niagara Power and other matters. In 1911, he was
-appointed Consulting Engineer representing Canada to the International
-Joint Commission, under the Boundary Waters Treaty, to report jointly
-with the consulting engineer from the United States upon the official
-reference relating to the levels of the Lake of the Woods, including the
-control and utilization of its waters and those tributary thereto. The
-Report upon this subject was completed in 1917 and is a comprehensive
-work to which the engineering press has referred as reflecting great
-credit on its authors. Mr. White has written extensively upon
-engineering subjects, but his principal efforts have been devoted to his
-various reports for the Federal Government. He is regarded as a high
-authority on many questions connected with International waters, and has
-made a special study of Niagara power and the exportation of electric
-energy with its relationship to coal supply. To the important subject of
-Canada’s fuel problem, Mr. White has, for many years, devoted special
-attention. Since as early as 1910, he has contributed valuable articles
-to such periodicals as the “University Magazine,” the “Monetary Times,”
-and prominent engineering and technical journals, as well as to the
-daily press, urging that this subject be viewed and dealt with in its
-broad national aspect, and that Canada take immediate steps to secure
-the greatest possible independence with respect to her fuel supply. Mr.
-White possesses a very comprehensive collection of rare books dealing
-with the early History of Astronomy. He is opposed to the views of
-modern _theoretical_ astronomy as represented by the Copernican System,
-and an article from his pen in the University Monthly, in 1909, entitled
-“The Shape of the Earth,” has excited considerable comment. In religion
-Mr. White is a Protestant. He is non-sectarian, but of strong Christian
-belief and is a staunch supporter of the Scriptures. In politics, as in
-religion, he is independent.
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-=Beaumont, Ernest Joseph= (Kitchener, Ont.), Local Registrar of the
-Supreme Court, is the son of Joseph Wilson Beaumont, D.D., and Louisa
-Beaumont. He was born at Mirfield, Yorkshire, England, February 28,
-1855, and received his early education at “The Grammar School,”
-Sheffield, Eng. Coming to Canada as a young man, Mr. Beaumont practised
-law in Galt, Ont., for twenty-seven years, and served as Town Solicitor
-of that place for eighteen years. He was also a member of the Public
-School Board for 4 years, and late Major of the 29th Waterloo Battalion,
-retiring with rank in 1888. He received his present appointment as local
-Registrar of the Supreme Court of Ontario in January, 1908, is a Roman
-Catholic in religion and a member of the Canadian Order of Foresters.
-Ernest J. Beaumont married Helen McNab, daughter of Benjamin Wood of
-Ingersoll, Ont., and had one son, George Joseph Beaumont, Lieutenant in
-the 11th (S.) Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment, B.E.F., France, who
-died of wounds in France on January 24, 1917.
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-=Mackintosh, Charles Herbert= (Ottawa, Ont.), was born in London,
-Ontario, in 1843; a son of the late Captain William Mackintosh, county
-engineer of Middlesex, Ontario, and Leonora Sophia, daughter of Colonel
-Dickenson of Jamaica, West Indies. Captain Mackintosh came to Canada as
-an attaché of the ordnance branch of the British Army. Mr. Mackintosh
-has led an unusually active life, succeeding in making his way, unaided,
-to positions of honor and influence. He was educated at the Galt Grammar
-School (Tassie’s), and Caradoc Academy (Middlesex Co.), two well-known
-institutions at that time. When the Prince of Wales (afterwards King
-Edward VII) visited Canada in 1860, an ode of welcome from the pen of
-Mr. Mackintosh, then a youth of seventeen, was presented to His Royal
-Highness. Two years later, under the title of “Fat Contributor,” he
-wrote for the London “Free Press,” a series of articles,
-characteristically entitled “Hurry-Graphs.” These attracted wide
-attention, and the entrance of the young writer into journalism was a
-foregone conclusion. He relinquished the study of law, and became,
-first, reporter, and soon afterwards city editor of the “Free Press.”
-Believing that the early history of pioneer life in Upper Canada should
-be heard from the lips of those who had passed through the ordeal, Mr.
-Mackintosh organized a Committee, the result being a Pioneer Banquet, at
-which 400 old settlers from local and distant points were in attendance.
-Col. J. B. Askin, one of the early pioneers acted as chairman, Mr.
-Mackintosh, as the youngest Canadian, acting as Secretary. Subsequent to
-this, he assisted in promoting the Western Fair, which to-day has
-expanded to noticeable proportions. His journalistic career was marked
-by rapid progress. In 1864 he was city editor of the Hamilton “Times.” A
-year later he founded the “Dispatch,” of Strathroy, which he conducted
-until 1873. In 1868 he married Gertrude Cooke, daughter of T. Cooke,
-J.P., of Strathroy. In 1871 he founded the Parkhill “Gazette,” which he
-controlled for some time, while still managing the “Dispatch.” In the
-same year, he unsuccessfully contested North Middlesex as Conservative
-candidate for the local legislature. In 1871 he visited Chicago during
-the fire, and wrote a description of the terrible event; 60,000 copies
-being sold in two weeks. He was also elected a member of the town
-council of Strathroy, in which capacity he exhibited talents, which
-afterwards showed to better advantage in a wider sphere. Believing in
-himself, as all men do who come to the front in human affairs, he
-proceeded to prepare for a higher sphere in public life which he was
-destined to fill. Deciding that the protection system which had long
-been established in the United States, deserved consideration in Canada,
-he accepted the position of managing editor of the Chicago “Journal of
-Commerce.” While resident in the western metropolis, he studied
-carefully the protection system, as well as other issues in the United
-States. He also wrote a graphic account of the United States’ “panic of
-1873.” Returning to Canada, at the request of Sir John A. Macdonald the
-day after his government was defeated in 1873, he declined an editorial
-position on the “Mail”; sold out his interest in the Strathroy
-“Dispatch,” and went to Ottawa, being appointed editor of the Ottawa
-“Citizen,” the Conservative journal of the capital. He at once attracted
-attention, not only because of the vigorous management and writing of
-the “Citizen,” but because of knowledge of public questions. At the
-celebration of the O’Connell Centennial, he wrote a poem which won the
-gold and silver medal over many others submitted. He was an ardent
-protectionist long before the Conservative party accepted that system as
-a plank in their platform, and must be counted as one of the leaders in
-that economic movement. In 1877, the late John Riordon, of St.
-Catharines, urged Mr. Mackintosh to co-operate with him in reorganizing
-the “Mail,” but the offer was again declined. His active interest in
-public affairs, combined with an unusual share of those qualities which
-make men popular with their fellows, caused him to be nominated for the
-Mayoralty of Ottawa in 1879, the result of the election being his return
-by a large majority. He promoted the first Dominion Exhibition, which
-was opened by the then Governor-General, Lord Lorne—afterwards Duke of
-Argyle. In the two succeeding years he was re-elected, and though
-unseated on a technicality after the third contest, was a fourth time
-favored with the support of the people. As Mayor of the Capital of
-Canada, he inaugurated many reforms, which proved of great benefit to
-the city. When retiring from the Mayoralty, the city presented him with
-an address; also, citizens generally passed resolutions and presented an
-illuminated address. In the General Election of 1882 he was one of the
-Conservative candidates in Ottawa for the House of Commons, and was
-elected senior member by a sweeping majority. During his term in
-Parliament, he made several speeches which were notable for keen common
-sense. He spoke but seldom; when he did he always secured an attentive
-hearing. He became President of the Ottawa and Gatineau Valley Railroad,
-now a part of the Canadian Pacific, and was also a Director of the
-Canada Atlantic Railroad, now a part of the Grand Trunk System. Mr.
-Mackintosh resigned his seat for Ottawa in July, 1886, but at the
-request of friends agreed to hold it until the dissolution, which he
-did. The Capital of Canada is no bed of roses for any active or generous
-man, and thus the senior member found it, hence his positive objection
-to being again a candidate at that time. In the General Election of
-1887, Mr. Mackintosh, by the unanimous wish of the Conservative party,
-contested Russell against Mr. W. C. Edwards, the largest lumber
-manufacturer, and most popular Liberal in the County, and was defeated
-by a narrow majority, owing mainly to the feeling against the Government
-among the French-Canadians, aroused by the execution of Riel. He polled
-2,146 votes, or between 400 and 500 more than were ever given to a
-Conservative candidate in that county. The Home Rule and Riel cries
-concentrated at least 1,600 votes solidly against any Conservative
-nominee, the Constituency being largely Catholic. It should be said,
-however, that Mr. Mackintosh was an ardent advocate of and believer in
-Ireland’s right to control her own local affairs. But he had voted in
-favor of Orange incorporation, publicly declaring that such would, in
-the end, ameliorate the bitterness between Protestants and Catholics.
-Mr. Edwards upon a protest was unseated for Russell, and a score of his
-supporters reported for corruption. The Conservative party let the
-matter drop; another election took place with the same result, Mr.
-Edwards (now Senator) being returned. In 1888 Mr. Mackintosh declined to
-accept nomination for the Mayoralty, and also to be a candidate for the
-County of Carleton. In 1890, upon the death of the sitting member, Mr.
-Perley, a requisition was presented, signed by prominent Liberals and
-Conservatives, asking Mr. Mackintosh to be a candidate. There were four
-candidates in the field, but he was elected by over 1,000 majority, and
-was again returned at the General Election of 1891. During this time he
-became interested in the “Lake Manitoba Railway and Canal Company,”
-which subsequently was merged with the Canadian Northern
-Transcontinental Line. His leader, Sir John A. Macdonald, died in June,
-1891, and until Sir John Thompson became Premier, Mr. Mackintosh took
-little interest in political affairs, disposing of his newspaper the
-Ottawa “Citizen.” In October, 1893, he was appointed Lieutenant-Governor
-of the Canadian North-West Territories, then including the Yukon. Before
-leaving Ottawa he was presented with a testimonial and address by the
-workingmen of Ottawa, the Conservative Association, and a dinner
-tendered by the members of the Rideau Club, at which Judges of the
-Supreme Court, Sir John Thompson and other Ministers were present.
-During his term, he organized a Dominion Territorial Exhibition in 1895,
-spoken of as inaugurating a very beneficial settlement in the
-North-West. Prize competition entries reached nearly 8,000 in the
-various departments. It was opened by Lord Aberdeen, then
-Governor-General. On this occasion the city of Regina presented him with
-an oil painting of himself and a complimentary address. In January,
-1898, Mr. Mackintosh resigned his high position, going to British
-Columbia, successfully organizing the British America Mining
-Corporation, of which he was Managing Director, until he resigned, about
-1900. In 1902, when King George V (then Duke of York) visited Canada,
-Mr. Mackintosh, upon behalf of the Miners of British Columbia, presented
-him with unique gold specimens extracted from the western mines. Mr.
-Mackintosh remained in the western province for several years, engaging
-in literary work. In 1908 he was awarded the 1st prize for an essay on
-“British Columbia—Its Resources.” He was for some time in Toronto,
-where (in 1910) he wrote a series of articles for the “Mail and Empire,”
-forecasting Germany as the storm centre of a coming war. In 1911, when
-the Reciprocity issue was before the electors, he wrote a series of
-articles against the proposition, visiting nearly every constituency in
-Ontario, publishing a signed telegram in the “Montreal Star,” the day
-before the election, forecasting the defeat of the Laurier Government
-and allowing them not more than fourteen seats in Ontario. When his
-party returned to power, he accepted a position as Inspector of Customs,
-and has also written many articles on the European War, which broke out
-in August, 1914. In May, 1917, a pamphlet written by Mr. Mackintosh,
-dealing with the Home Rule issue and entitled “Are Ireland’s Problems on
-the Eve of Solution?” attracted much attention, being quoted from at the
-Irish Conference by several delegates. Mr. Mackintosh spends much of his
-time in British Columbia where he is Chairman of the Halcyon Springs
-Company, and is greatly interested in the development of that province’s
-mining resources.
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-=Meek, Edward= (Toronto, Ont.), Barrister, was born in the village of
-Port Stanley, Ontario, on December 27, 1844. His father, James Meek,
-came to Canada at the early age of three years with his parents, in
-1818, from Ballymena, North of Ireland. They settled in the same year in
-Talbot District, and took up a tract of land near Port Stanley, being
-among the earliest pioneers of that part of the country. At the time of
-Edward’s birth his father was a carpenter and builder, but afterwards
-became a partner in a foundry which was carried on successfully for a
-number of years; but a disastrous fire destroyed the whole of the
-extensive establishment, and he returned to his farm, on which he
-remained till his death. Edward received his early education at the Port
-Stanley school, and afterwards at the Grammar School, St. Thomas. After
-leaving school, at the age of seventeen, he was granted a certificate to
-teach, which occupation he followed for three years. He then accepted a
-position as bookkeeper in a grain warehouse, at which he continued for a
-short time only; but thinking a short journey among strangers would
-improve his prospects, he went to Boston and engaged with a publishing
-house of a prominent firm there. After a short sojourn he returned to
-London, Ontario, and there commenced the study of law. In 1873 he
-removed to Toronto, where he continued his studies and finished his law
-course in the office of Harrison, Osler and Moss, three gentlemen who
-afterwards became distinguished judges. He was called to the Bar of
-Ontario in the spring of 1874, and he then formed a partnership with the
-Hon. John O’Donohoe, which continued for four years, when it was
-dissolved. He then opened an office of his own until he formed a
-partnership with the late William Norris, of Woodstock, which lasted
-till Mr. Norris returned to Woodstock. In 1877 he commenced to take an
-active part in the politics of the country, and especially in the
-promotion of the National Policy; in fact, he was one of the originators
-of the word, and travelled over Ontario assisting in the formation of
-political organizations to enable the National Policy party to carry
-their new platform to a successful issue. He continued from that time to
-take an active part as one of the political writers and speakers on the
-platform until the winter of 1884, when he and a number of other
-politicians conceived the idea of forming a coalition government for the
-Province of Ontario, their object being to do away with partyism in the
-local legislature. Others were brought into the scheme who were
-impatient of the slow method of bringing about the change by argument,
-and thought that a sufficient number of the members of the Legislature
-could be secured by offers and promises to at once defeat the Mowat
-Government, when the coalition could be immediately formed during the
-spring session of 1884. The plans were disapproved of by the originators
-of the idea, but the hot heads could not be kept under control, and the
-public know the result of the unfortunate conspiracy case which sprung
-from it, involving those more actively concerned in the long and tedious
-investigation and prosecution before a Royal Commission and in the
-criminal courts. The Royal Commission brought in a divided report, which
-the House never acted upon. The verdict of the jury in the criminal
-court, in the trial of May, 1885, acquitted the accused. Since that time
-Mr. Meek has devoted himself strictly to the practice of his profession
-in Toronto, and the promotion and formation of joint stock and other
-companies. Mr. Meek was joined in marriage, on June 30, 1873, to Anna
-Margaret McBride, daughter of Samuel McBride, of London, Ontario, by
-which union they have issue two sons and one daughter. Mr. Meek and
-family are members of the Church of England. Since the publication of
-the preceding matter in the second edition of “Representative
-Canadians,” about thirty years ago, Mr. Meek has continued to practise
-law in all its branches in the city of Toronto, and is considered a
-well-read lawyer, a sound legal adviser, and a successful practitioner.
-While carrying on his legal practice, during the past twenty-five years,
-he has written many thousands of “Legal Opinions,” published weekly in
-the Saturday edition of the “Mail & Empire” newspaper. These concise and
-clearly expressed statements of the law have been widely read, and
-highly appreciated by many thousands of readers of that journal, and
-have been copied in other newspapers. Mr. Meek has also written and
-published pamphlets; and essays on Legal and Constitutional questions in
-reviews and magazines which have been favorably criticized and commented
-upon—notably two essays comparing our Canadian System of Federalism
-with the American System of Federalism, entitled, “Some Observations on
-the Constitution of the Dominion of Canada,” published in the American
-Law Review of 1895, 1896; “The Legal and Constitutional Aspects of the
-Manitoba School Questions,” published in the “Canadian Magazine” and in
-pamphlet form in 1895; “Political Lessons from the Time of Cicero,”
-“Representative Government and Federalism,” the “Plebiscite”—an answer
-to an Essay published by the late Sir Geo. W. Ross—and other Essays,
-all to be found in the “Canadian Magazine” between 1898 and 1904;
-“Sunday Laws,” published in the “Canadian Law Review” in 1904; “The
-Mistakes made by the Framers of the Constitution of the United States of
-America,” and “Government and Political and Municipal Corporations,”
-etc., published later. In 1913 Mr. Meek published a book of 600 pages,
-entitled, “Business and Law,” which has had a wide circulation. Mr. Meek
-was created a Q.C. in 1896, but for political reasons the patent was
-never issued. He was, however, made a K.C. by the Ontario Government in
-1908. He has recently published a few short poems which have been much
-admired. Now 72, he is in robust health, and his writings are as clear
-and concise, and his forensic abilities as convincing as 30 years ago,
-with the added copiousness and accuracy acquired by long years of
-experience. His eldest son, Mr. Charles S. Meek, is managing director of
-the British Pacific Engineering & Construction Company, of Vancouver,
-where he resides with his family, consisting of a wife and two
-daughters. His second son, Mr. E. J. Meek, is the chief accountant of
-the Canadian Bank of Commerce, and resides in Toronto with wife and two
-children—a son and daughter. Mr. Meek lives at 177 Jamieson Ave., with
-his wife and unmarried daughter, Miss Gertrude Meek.
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-=Harris, Reginald V.= (Halifax, N.S.), Barrister-at-Law, son of Rev.
-Canon V. E. Harris, Secretary, Diocesan Synod of Nova Scotia. Honorable
-W. B. Troop, M.L.A., in Holmes-Thompson Government of Nova Scotia
-(1878-82) grandfather; Honorable Chief Justice Harris, of Nova Scotia,
-uncle; was born March 21, 1881, at Londonderry, N.S.; educated at
-Amherst Public Schools; Trinity College School, Port Hope, Ont., and the
-University of Trinity College, Toronto, from which latter institution he
-graduated with the degree of B.A., 1902 (honors); and also received the
-degree of M.A., Toronto University (1910), and a similar degree from
-King’s University (1911). Barrister and Solicitor, Bars of Manitoba
-(1906) and Nova Scotia (1905). Member of Henry, Rogers, Harris &
-Stewart, Barristers, Halifax, since 1908. Mr. Harris is the author of
-the following publications: “The Governance of Empire” (1910);
-“Organization of a Legal Business” (1909); and is a frequent contributor
-to the press and magazines on Educational, Municipal and Imperial
-subjects. Mr. Harris has taken a large interest in the municipal affairs
-of the city of Halifax, of which he was Alderman (1911-13), and
-Controller (1913-15). He was also Vice-President of the Union of
-Canadian municipalities (1912-13); Vice-President, Union of Nova Scotia
-municipalities (1913-15); Commissioner of Schools, Halifax (1911-14);
-Chairman, School Board, Halifax (1913-14). Appointed Lieutenant 246th
-Overseas Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Forces, September, 1916.
-Captain and District Casualty Officer, Military District No. 6, June,
-1917; District Military Representative (M.S.A.), October, 1917; Chief
-Public Representative, N.S. (M.S.A.), February to October, 1918. Is
-Governor and Treasurer of King’s College, Windsor, N.S.; member of
-Diocesan, Provincial and General Synods of Church of England in Canada;
-member and Secretary Board of Management, King’s College School,
-Windsor, N.S.; member of Council, Halifax Board of Trade (1911-14);
-President Commercial Club, Halifax (1914-15); member of the City Club,
-Halifax, and also a member and Secretary (N.S.) of the Royal Colonial
-Institute. Chairman Halifax Centre St. John Ambulance Association;
-District Superintendent St. John Ambulance Brigade; Esquire, Order of
-Hospital of St. John, December, 1917. In religion, a member of the
-Church of England, and in politics a Conservative. Mr. Harris married,
-June 4, 1907, Ethel W., daughter of Edmund G. Smith, merchant, of
-Halifax, and has two sons, R. Gordon Harris and Arthur St. G. Harris.
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-=Sutherland, Donald= (Ingersoll, Ont.), son of Robert Sutherland and
-Elizabeth Hutchison, both born in the County of Oxford, of Scotch
-parentage; born in West Zorra, Oxford County, April 8, 1863. Educated in
-the local county schools. Married, April 22, 1896, to Minnie Pearl
-Hossack. First elected to the council of North Oxford Township in 1896.
-Reeve during 1897 and 1898; County Commissioner for the Town of
-Ingersoll, North and West Oxford, 1901-2. Elected to represent South
-Oxford in the Ontario Legislature at the general elections held on May
-29, 1902. Election unsuccessfully protested, re-elected at the general
-election, January 25, 1905. Seconded the address in reply to speech from
-the throne at the session of 1907. Defeated by a small majority at the
-general election, June 8, 1908. A candidate at the general election for
-the House of Commons on October 26 of the same year, and again defeated
-by a small majority. Appointed director of Colonization and Immigration
-for the Province of Ontario by the Whitney Government, March 10, 1909,
-when an active campaign was entered upon in Great Britain by provincial
-officers to promote immigration to the Province, and the system of
-advancing assisted passage to farm laborers and domestic servants was
-adopted. Resigned as Director of Colonization, August 8, 1911, to become
-a candidate for the House of Commons at the general elections held on
-Sept. 21, 1911, in response to a unanimous nomination tendered him by
-the Liberal-Conservative Association of the Riding, when he was elected
-over the late representative, and re-elected at the general elections
-held in December, 1917. Moved the address in reply to the speech from
-the throne at the special war session of August, 1914. Mr. Sutherland is
-a practical farmer, and extremely popular with all classes. He was the
-first Conservative elected to represent the riding in the Legislature,
-and also in the House of Commons. He is the father of seven children,
-viz.: Robert Bruce, William Evans, Donald Baikie, James Burleigh, John
-Angus, Jean Elizabeth and Olive Helen. The eldest, Robert Bruce,
-enlisted at 17 years of age and went overseas with the 1st Canadian
-Contingent, served at the front in France and Belgium, 1915-16,
-qualified as pilot in the Royal Air Force and served in Egypt and
-Palestine under Generals Murray and Allenby during 1917-18 until the end
-of the war; promoted to a Captaincy and Flight Commander, and awarded
-the Distinguished Flying Cross for conspicuous gallantry. William Evan
-also enlisted at 18 years, and was a member of the R.A.F. at close of
-war. Mr. Sutherland is a Presbyterian and a member of the Masonic Order.
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-
-=McInenly, William=, Electrical Contractor, was born at Sillery, Quebec,
-January 20, 1874. He was educated at the Quebec Commercial Academy from
-which he graduated in 1888. From 1889 to 1910 he was engaged in the
-lumber business in Quebec, and in 1911 started in the electrical
-machinery business in Ottawa, and at once became General-Manager of the
-“Mac Electric Company,” whose works and offices are at 52 Queen Street,
-Ottawa. While the company has never undertaken the wiring of residences,
-ordinary apartment houses, or accepted any like contracts, it repairs
-anything electrical from an electric iron to a 500 horse-power electric
-motor. Among the principal electrical contracts accepted by the firm and
-carried out to completion are the New Ottawa Gas Company plant, the
-Ottawa Electric Company’s new plant on Middle Street, and the Ottawa Car
-Manufacturing Company plant on Albert Street. Every kind of electrical
-machinery is built by the company—motors, dynamos, generators, etc. Mr.
-McInenly is the son of the late James McInenly, lumber merchant, and
-Ellen M. Paul. On June 19, 1901, he married Miss Norah Ahearn, the
-daughter of the late Maurice Ahearn, who became distinguished as an
-artist, and a brother of Thomas Ahearn, president of the Ottawa Electric
-Railway Company, etc. He has four sons, James, Maurice, Bertram and
-Thomas. He is Chairman of the Electrical Dealers and Contractors
-Association of Ottawa, is a director of Weir & Company, Limited, Ottawa,
-manufacturers of aerated waters; a director and secretary-treasurer of
-the Simmons Printing Company, of Ottawa, and of the Ottawa Electrotype
-foundry. He is connected with the following clubs: The Canadian,
-Laurentian, Rideau Curling and Golf, and the Peckanoc Fish and Game. His
-principal recreations are fishing and curling. In religion he is a Roman
-Catholic. In politics, Independent. His residence is 439 Elgin Street,
-Ottawa.
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-
-=Belcourt, Hon. Napoleon Antoine=, Senator (Ottawa). Parents, Ferdinand
-Napoleon Belcourt and Marie-Anna Clair; profession, barrister-at-law.
-Was born at Toronto, September 15, 1860. Educated at St. Joseph’s
-Seminary, Three Rivers, in arts and Laval University in law. Graduated
-at Laval in Law, Master of Laws, _cum summa dignitate_ 1882. Admitted to
-the Quebec Bar, July, 1882; Ontario Bar, September, 1884. Member of Law
-Faculty, Ottawa University, since 1891. An LL.D. of Ottawa University
-(1895); also LL.D. of Laval University. Crown Attorney for Carleton
-County, June, 1894, to May, 1896. Resigned to become candidate for House
-of Commons. K.C. in Ontario and Quebec Provinces. Founder and First
-President of the Club National d’Ottawa, retaining that office for ten
-years consecutively. Former Vice-President of Ontario Liberal
-Association; first elected to House of Commons at general election,
-1896; re-elected 1900, and general election 1904, his majority being
-nearly 2,000. Elected Speaker of the House of Commons, March 12, 1904,
-and sworn as Privy Councillor, January 11, 1905. Resigned his seat in
-House of Commons and appointed to the Senate November, 1907. First
-President, Ottawa Hunt Club; member, Rideau Club, Ottawa; Reform Club,
-Montreal; Reform Club, Toronto; University Club, Ottawa; President,
-Connaught Park Jockey Club of Ottawa also member of Country and other
-Clubs. Married (1st) Jan. 29, 1889, to Hectorine, eldest daughter of
-Hon. Jos. Shehyn; (2nd) Jan. 9, 1903, to Mary Margaret Haycock, of
-Ottawa. Hon. Mr. Belcourt has taken a prominent part since the inception
-of the war in promoting recruiting and in the work of the Patriotic
-Fund, Red Cross and other kindred war activities. As leader in the
-defence of the French language in the schools of Ontario he has on the
-platform and in many pamphlets, as well as before the Courts of Canada,
-and the Privy Council, earnestly and constantly labored for the
-preservation and propagation of the French language in the Dominion and
-for the development of a spirit of true national unity.
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-
-=Ball, Emerson Ewart= (Chesterville, Ont.), was born October 31, 1880,
-at the Village of Orono, in the County of Durham. Is the son of Edwin
-Ball, of Islington, Ont. Educated at Willowdale Public School, Richmond
-Hill High School, Toronto Junction High School and Humberside Collegiate
-Institute. He then attended Toronto University, graduating in 1906 with
-honors in Modern Languages, and is now Principal of Chesterville High
-School. Was married, July 22, 1908, to Cora M., daughter of John Harris,
-of Whitevale, Ont., and is the father of two children: Dorothy, born
-Mar. 2, 1910, and Gordon, born June 2, 1914. In religion Mr. Ball is a
-Methodist and a member of Trinity Methodist Church, Chesterville. In
-politics he is Independent. Member of Independent Order of Oddfellows,
-Chesterville Lodge, No. 288.
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-
-=Patterson, John Pratt=, President and General Manager of
-Norris-Patterson, Limited, Advertising Agency, 10 East Adelaide Street,
-Toronto, Ontario, was a Councillor of the Town of North Toronto prior to
-its annexation by the city, and is to-day a Justice of the Peace. Mr.
-Patterson is a member of the National Club, the Royal Canadian Yacht
-Club, the Albany Club, Rotary Club, Board of Trade, Canadian Club and
-Empire Club, all of Toronto; in addition to York Lodge, A.F. & A.M., St.
-Paul’s Royal Arch Chapter, the Scottish Rite and the Canadian Order of
-Foresters. He is an ex-member of the Queen’s Own Rifles, a
-Liberal-Conservative in politics and a member of the Church of England
-in religion. The subject of this sketch was born in Toronto, August 18,
-1874; the son of Thomas and the late Jane Williams Patterson, receiving
-his education at Upper Canada College. He married Millie, daughter of
-the late Richard Harold, of Palmerston, June 21, 1893, and had one son,
-Thomas Harold Patterson, since deceased.
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-
-=McLean, Major-General Hugh Havelock, K.C., A.D.G., M.P.= (St. John,
-N.B.), son of Lauchlin McLean and Sophia Marsh. Born March 22, 1855, at
-Fredericton, N.B. Educated at the Grammar School there. Married,
-September 2, 1879, to Jennie Porteous. Children: Colonel C. W. Weldon
-McLean, D.S.O. (two bars), Commanding Divisional Artillery, 9th Scottish
-Division, B.E.F,; W. W. McLean, who served through the war in South
-Africa; Jennie Elise Stetson and Major Hugh H. McLean, Jr., C.E.F. Is a
-Barrister-at-law, senior member of the firm of Weldon & McLean,
-established in 1878. Has a large corporation counsel practice, being
-counsel in New Brunswick for Canadian Bankers’ Association, Bank of
-Montreal, Canadian Pacific Railway Company and a number of other
-companies. Is President and Director of a number of railway and other
-companies. He has been actively associated with the Militia for
-forty-five years. He was for many years Captain and Adjutant of the 62nd
-St. John Fusiliers, and was in command of that Regiment for a long
-period. In 1892 he was appointed to the command of the 12th Infantry
-Brigade, a post which he retained until January, 1911. He raised in
-1911, in New Brunswick, a Regiment of Cavalry of four squadrons (28th
-New Brunswick Dragoons), and was gazetted to the command of this
-Regiment on March 1, 1911; in 1912, appointed to command of Cavalry
-Brigade. In 1878, when war was imminent between England and Russia,
-General McLean raised a company of sixty men and offered his own and
-their services in case of war. For this offer he received the thanks of
-the Imperial Government. In 1885 he was appointed Captain and Adjutant
-of the Regiment raised in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, for
-service in the North-West. In 1890 he went to England in command of the
-Bisley Team. In December, 1899, he offered himself and one hundred men
-for service in South Africa, the men to be raised at his own expense,
-and to consist of guides and trappers. For this he received the thanks
-of the General Officer Commanding. In October, 1901, he was appointed to
-the command of all the troops in New Brunswick assembled at St. John
-during the visit of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cornwall and York. In
-the same month he was in command of a brigade at the Royal Review,
-Halifax. He was in command of the Maritime Provinces Brigade at the
-Tercentenary in Quebec in 1909. He has been President of the Provincial
-Rifle Association since 1900, and has taken a very active interest in
-rifle shooting. In 1905 he raised the St. Andrew’s Boys’ Brigade. He is
-the Vice-President of Canada for the British and Foreign Sailors’
-Society; was appointed by Earl Grey, Honorary A.D.C. Commanded the
-troops sent from Canada to the Coronation of our present King and Queen.
-For this service was promoted to the rank of full Colonel. At the
-commencement of the war was appointed to the command of all Overseas
-Troops in New Brunswick, and then to command of 7th Overseas Brigade.
-Promoted Brig.-General, 1915; promoted Major-General, 1917. Is a member
-of the following Clubs: Union Club, Cliff Club, St.John; Mount Royal,
-Montreal; Rideau Club, Ottawa. First elected to Parliament, 1908, and
-re-elected 1911 and 1917 for the constituency of Royal. A Unionist and a
-Presbyterian. Gen. McLean is of Loyalist descent, and is an ardent
-Imperialist.
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-
-=Denton, Frank, K.C., D.C.L.=, of English (Yorks) origin, son of the
-late William Denton, J.P., and Mary D. (Lucas) his wife, born at
-Richmond Hill, York County, Ont., 1858, educated Richmond Hill and
-Orangeville High School, Collingwood Collegiate Institute, Toronto
-Normal School, Trinity University, B.C.L. 1883, D.C.L. 1893, and Osgoode
-Hall, Toronto. Taught two years as English Master in Cobourg Collegiate
-Institute (when affiliated with Victoria University). Married 1884,
-Elizabeth Clingan, daughter of the late Fleming Clingan, J.P., of
-Orangeville. Has six children. Called to the Bar in 1886, he practised
-his profession with distinction and specialized as a Corporation and
-Commercial lawyer. Took silk in 1899, having for years been head of the
-firm of Denton, Dunn & Boultbee (now Denton, Grover & Macdonald). He
-acted for some time as City Solicitor of Toronto. He has always taken a
-keen interest in public affairs, particularly in education, serving for
-several years as President of the Board of Trustees of the Toronto
-Collegiate Institutes. Has acted as delegate to the annual and general
-conferences of the Methodist Church, of which he is a prominent
-supporter. A fluent and eloquent public speaker, he has been a candidate
-(Liberal) for the Federal Parliament. He is a member of the Masonic
-Order (Past Master), and of the Canadian, National, Ontario and Rosedale
-Golf Clubs. Recreations, golfing and curling. Address, 42 Admiral Road,
-Toronto.
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-
-=Chabot, Lt.-Col. John Leo, M.D., C.M., M.A.= (Ottawa, Ont.), born on
-February 23, 1869, at Ottawa. Son of P. H. Chabot and Marguerite Ethier.
-Ancestors on father’s side were Normans, and one was Admiral, under the
-first Napoleon. His maternal grandfather, Ethier, fought under Drs.
-Nelson and Papineau in 1837. Educated at a Private Academy, Ottawa
-University and McGill University, Montreal, successively, receiving the
-Academic degrees of B.A., M.A., and M.D., C.M. Has successfully
-practised his profession at Ottawa for a number of years. Is Senior
-Surgeon of The Ottawa General Hospital, also Physician and Surgeon to
-the University of Ottawa, and has been Police Surgeon of the City since
-1900. Has always taken a keen interest in athletics, believing that
-clean sports and games make young men more healthy, manly and
-self-reliant. The doctor has been an active supporter of the Canadian
-Militia, holding the rank of Lt.-Col., R.M.S., and still member of the
-5th Princess Louise Guards since beginning of the war; has been acting
-as Officer Commanding, Ottawa General Military Base Hospital; is an
-ex-President of the Old Chirurgical Society; also of the Ottawa Medical
-Society and latterly of the Medico-Chirurgical Society. Was Conservative
-Candidate in Ottawa against Sir Wilfrid Laurier in 1898, and reduced the
-Liberal majority of 1,800 to 630. First elected to the House of Commons
-as one of Ottawa’s representatives at the general elections of 1911, and
-again returned in the general elections in December, 1917, as Union
-Government supporting Win-the-War candidate, defeating Sir Wilfrid
-Laurier by over 5,000. Is interested in several industrial concerns and
-commercial enterprises. Married June 25, 1894, to Mary, daughter of the
-late Edward Devlin, of Ottawa, who died; married in 1916 Miss Hope
-Brunel, daughter of W. H. Brunel, of Ottawa. Dr. Chabot is a member of
-several clubs and societies, including Rideau Club, Ottawa Golf Club,
-Knights of Columbus, Canadian Club, Royal Arcanium, I.O.F., C.O.F.,
-A.O.U.W., L. Institut Canadien, University Club, Fish and Game Club,
-Honorary President Capital Lacrosse Club and City Lacrosse League, and
-ex-President of C.A.A.A. Dr. Chabot is extremely popular in his native
-city and has long occupied a prominent place in the medical, military,
-political and athletic life of the Capital.
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-
-=Cole, George M.=, President and Manager of the Plattsburgh Gas and
-Electric Company, Plattsburgh, N.Y., U.S.A., was born at Brockville,
-Ont., December 31, 1862, his father being W. H. Cole. Receiving his
-early education at the Brockville Public and High School, Mr. Cole
-migrated to the United States in 1887 where, as a contractor, he was
-connected with the construction of several early street railways in that
-country; building the first in Columbia, South Carolina; Ansonia,
-Connecticut; and Newburgh, New York; in addition to an extension to
-existing lines in Brooklyn, New York. Two years later, in 1889, he
-purchased the Plattsburgh Gas Works in partnership with a New York
-capitalist and became the Manager of the business, which position he
-still occupies. So successful was the undertaking that Mr. Cole was
-approached by the owners of the Plattsburgh Electric Lighting Plant with
-the result that the two works were amalgamated in 1890 and very
-considerably enlarged. By this time the old-fashioned horse cars had
-become a thing of the past and George Cole obtained a franchise for the
-construction of a modern street railway, which he built and managed for
-some years in addition to supplying the necessary power for its
-operation. This railway was later purchased by the Delaware & Hudson
-Railway Co., the present owners. To-day the Gas and Electric Company
-controls its particular field in Plattsburgh and vicinity, owning and
-operating two water power developments on the Saranac River, which is
-the outlet of the Upper and Lower Saranac Lakes, among the largest in
-the Adirondacks. Mr. Cole married Emma, daughter of W. H. Chappel, in
-1891, by whom he has two sons, Eugene M. and Howard C. He is a member of
-the Presbyterian Church and a Republican in politics. Among the
-societies of which he is a member are Plattsburgh Lodge 828, A.F. &.
-A.M., Plattsburgh Chapter, No. 39, R.A.M., De Soto Cun. No. 49, K.T.,
-Plattsburgh and Oriental Temple A.A.O.N.M.S., Troy, N.Y.
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-
-=Charlton, William Granville=, Editor and Publisher (Aylmer, Ont.), the
-son of John R. and Emily J. Charlton, one of six children, one girl and
-four boys, all living except one, was born in the Township of South
-Dorchester, January 1, 1868; his earlier education took place at the St.
-Thomas Collegiate Institute, going from there to the Transylvania
-University, Lexington, Ky., and finally to Bethany College, Bethany,
-Va., where he graduated in 1893. He married Martha N. Black, the
-daughter of Martha M. Wells, widow of the late Noris Black and has one
-daughter, Eunice Eva Charlton, born May 13, 1901. Mr. Charlton was
-brought up on a farm and has practically devoted his energies to farming
-most of his life, and almost by his own efforts secured his education.
-He is a member of the Church of Christ, and for twenty-seven years has
-preached the Gospel with little intermission due only to illness. He is
-a great Bible School worker, and has been preaching and teaching
-prohibition for thirty years, and happy to be living to see the fruits
-of his labor in that direction. He has been connected with newspaper
-work since January 1, 1916, when he became editor and publisher of the
-“East Elgin Tribune.” In politics he is a Liberal and in 1913 was chosen
-by that party as a candidate for Federal honors to represent East Elgin
-at the next Dominion Elections.
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-
-=Ball, Robert James, M.P. for South Grey, Ont.= (Hanover, Ont.), was
-born at Allan Park, Township of Bentinck, Ont., on Jan. 15, 1857. Is the
-son of James Ball and his wife, Jane, formerly Jane Cain. Lived on his
-father’s farm till eighteen years of age. Was educated at Hampden Public
-School, Collingwood Collegiate Institute and Ottawa Normal School, from
-which latter institution he graduated with a Second-class Teacher’s
-Certificate, Grade A. On graduating, he taught school for ten years,
-then spent five years as an accountant, three years as a private banker,
-and two years in the life insurance business, when he became a furniture
-manufacturer, which business he has carried on for twenty-two years. He
-is managing director of the Ball Furniture Co., Limited, and also
-director in Morlock Bros., upholsterers; he is also President of The
-Reliance Investment and Developing Co., Ltd., of Hanover, Ont.
-Politically, Mr. Ball has been very active, being three years Municipal
-Councillor of the Town of Hanover, two years Commissioner for the County
-of Grey, two years Reeve of the town of Hanover, and, in 1908, was
-Warden of the County of Grey. In 1908, he was Conservative candidate for
-South Grey against H. H. Miller, and was defeated, but reduced Miller’s
-majority from 316 to 87. In 1911 he was elected to the House of Commons
-over H. H. Miller by a majority of 48. Mr. Ball was married August 11,
-1882, to Mary Jane, daughter of Anthony and Mary Leonard, of the
-Township of Normanby, and is the father of six children: Milton Leonard,
-Austin Elmer, Ethel May, Elma Lilian, Captain Stanley Stafford Ball,
-M.D., and Mabel Lottie. He is a member of the Masonic Order and also of
-the Independent Order of Foresters. In religion he is a Methodist, and
-politically is a Liberal-Conservative.
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-=Coombs, Albert Ernest= (St. Catharines, Ont.), son of John and Susan
-Coombs. Was born on a farm near Richmond Hill in the County of York,
-April 2, 1871. Educated at the public and high school of Richmond Hill
-and at Toronto University, from which he received the following degrees:
-B.A. with honors in classics, 1892; M.A., 1895, and B.Paed., 1897.
-Principal Coombs began his teaching career in 1892 and was principal of
-Richmond Hill High School, 1895-99. Principal of Newmarket High School,
-1899-1909, when he accepted the position of principal of St. Catharines
-Collegiate Institute, which he now holds. He served three years as
-examiner at Normal College, and set papers in History of Education and
-School Management. Is a Past President of the Classical Association of
-Ontario and has frequently acted as Association Examiner. Successively a
-director, Horticultural and Agricultural Societies; member Town Council
-and chairman Public Library Board, Newmarket. Has had considerable
-experience as a lecturer on a variety of subjects. Was formerly in the
-Militia and holds a Captaincy in the 19th Lincoln Regiment and served in
-that capacity on the Welland Canal Protective Force in 1914. Has always
-been opposed to the abolition of written examinations in our educational
-system, and is a strong friend of the Boy Scout movement, being Boy
-Scout Commissioner of St. Catharines district. Married in 1897, to Miss
-Beatrice Elliott, daughter of the late Wm. Elliott, V.S., of Palmerston,
-Ont., and is the father of three children: Alice, born 1899; Adele, born
-1905; Margaret, born 1908. Is a member of the Canadian Club, St.
-Catharines, of which he is a Past President; also is Past Master of the
-Maple Leaf Lodge, A.F. & A.M., St. Catharines, and Past Principal of
-Mount Moriah Chapter; Member of the I.O.O.F. Principal Coombs was
-formerly a long-distance bicycle rider and association football player.
-He now takes a lively interest in lawn bowling. In religion he is a
-Methodist and a member of St. Paul Street Methodist Church, St.
-Catharines. Politically, he may be classed as an Independent-Liberal.
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-=Anderson, James T. M., M.A., LL.B., D.Paed.=, Yorkton, Sask. One of the
-many graduates of the Ontario “little red school-house” who have
-achieved success in their chosen professions is Dr. James Thomas Milton
-Anderson, M.A., LL.B., of Yorkton, Saskatchewan. Dr. Anderson, who has
-won many scholastic honors, is at present inspector of schools for the
-Yorkton district. Dr. Anderson was born at Fairbank, Ontario, July 23,
-1878. His parents were Mary and James Anderson and the present inspector
-of schools had all the advantages of early life on a farm. One must
-consider it an advantage when one remembers the sons of farmers who have
-gone to the top in scholastic circles. The subject of this sketch began
-his education at Public School, S.S. No. 15, York, and went from there
-to West Toronto Collegiate Institute. Going west he won his degree of
-Bachelor of Arts at the University of Manitoba in 1911, when he was
-Silver Medallist in Classics. He gained his LL.B. at the same university
-in 1913, and his M.A. in 1914, completing his preparation for his
-present work by graduating as Doctor of Pedagogy in 1917. Dr. Anderson
-showed rare power of concentration in study as these three degrees were
-obtained extra-murally and he is also a medallist in penmanship and a
-clever cartoonist. His life for the last ten years has been devoted to
-teaching and working among the foreigners who have come to Canada’s
-great “melting pot.” Dr. Anderson is intensely interested in the work of
-assimilation which means so much to Canada’s future as a nation. He has
-published a number of articles on the subject and a book on the
-“Education of the New-Canadian” (J. M. Dent & Sons, Toronto). Dr.
-Anderson, whose mother resides in Saltcoats, Sask., was married on July
-26, 1911, to Edith, daughter of Mrs. M. Redgwick, Grenfell,
-Saskatchewan, and has two children: Byron R., born October 10, 1913, and
-Edith Elaine, born March 31, 1917. In religion he is an Anglican, a
-member of the Orange Order, and President of the School Inspectors’
-Association of Saskatchewan.
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-=Elliott, John Campbell, D.C.L., M.L.A.= Middlesex West (Glencoe, Ont.).
-Son of George Campbell (Irish descent), and Jane Elliott (Scotch
-descent); both parents were born in Canada. Was born at Ekfrid Township,
-Middlesex County, on July 25, 1872; educated at Ekfrid Public School,
-Glencoe High School, and Trinity University, B.C.L. 1898, and Toronto
-University, D.C.L. 1905. Mr. Elliott’s early days were spent on the farm
-where he was born; he took a third-class certificate in 1890;
-second-class in 1891, and Matriculation 1892, and was called to the Bar
-in 1898, having taken a high standard at the Law School at Osgoode Hall.
-First elected to the Ontario Legislature at the general elections in
-1908; re-elected 1911-1914. He is a member of the Ontario Club, and the
-Masonic Order, of which he was Past District Deputy, Erie District; of
-the Sons of Scotland and the I.O.O.F. He is a member of the Baptist
-Church, and a Liberal in politics. Mr. Elliott is recognized as a clever
-lawyer and an able speaker, and enjoys the confidence and respect of the
-members on both sides of the House. He is unmarried.
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-
-=Bronson, Hon. Erskine Henry=, was born at Bolton, Warren County, New
-York, September 12, 1844. He is the son of the late Henry Franklin and
-Edith (Pierce) Bronson, the one man who, coming to Ottawa, Canada, in
-1852, understood the feasibility of converting the large lakes and
-furious and foaming falls of the Ottawa River into a channel for the
-driving of saw-logs, and erecting mills on its banks, placed in
-operation a lumber industry that soon had in its employ hundreds, and
-afterwards thousands of employees. Having received a good education at
-Sandy Hill, N.Y., and at the Grammar School, Ottawa, when quite a youth,
-the Hon. Erskine Henry Bronson, joined his father’s company, The
-Bronson-Weston Lumber Company, and in 1867 acquired an interest in the
-company. In 1870 he became a member of the Ottawa City Council and
-chairman of the Finance Committee, and continued as such until 1878,
-when he retired. For fourteen years he was a member of the Ottawa School
-Board. He is ex-Trustee of Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. Unlike
-his father, who never interested himself in politics, in 1882 Mr.
-Bronson was an unsuccessful candidate to the House of Commons for
-Carleton County, Ontario; but in 1886, having had presented to him a
-petition signed by thousands of the best and most influential residents
-in the Capital urgently soliciting him to become a candidate for the
-local Legislature, he consented to run and was elected by a large
-majority, and re-elected at every succeeding election until 1898, when
-he retired from active political life. In 1890, September 10, four years
-after he was first elected, he joined the Mowat Government without
-Portfolio and held a similar position when the Hardy Government was
-formed. Had he so desired he could probably have remained a member of
-the local Legislature even to this date, as few, if any, in Ottawa were
-or are more appreciated or ever received more popularity than the same
-Hon. Erskine Henry Bronson. The poor of the city, to whom his firm in
-winter time never failed to extend the helping hand in furnishing them
-with winter fuel and in other ways, could never forget, nor overlook,
-his kindly and substantial consideration of their needs and his name
-was, and is to-day, cherished in every home. To others, with whom he
-came in contact, he was always a valuable friend and counsellor, and his
-advice on financial and other matters was eagerly sought and freely
-given. On his father’s decease Mr. Bronson succeeded him as President of
-the Bronson-Weston Lumber Company, in 1889. He was one of the
-inaugurators of the Ottawa Electric Company. Mr. Bronson is President of
-the Bronson Company, Water Power and Manufacturers of Ground Wood Pulp,
-150 Middle Street, Ottawa; President, Ottawa Improvement Company;
-Vice-President, Ottawa Light, Heat & Power Company; President, Ottawa
-Power Company, and a director of the Ottawa Electric Company. In 1874
-Mr. Bronson married Ella H. Webster, of Norfolk, Va. He has one son and
-one daughter. In religion he is a Presbyterian. In politics, a Liberal.
-His residence is 75 Bronson Avenue, Ottawa.
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-=Bain, John=, Journalist, private secretary, civil servant, promoter,
-and now financial broker and departmental agent and customs specialist,
-Castle Building, Ottawa, came to Canada in 1888 and engaged in law and
-newspaper work. Later he was engaged as expert shorthand writer in the
-New York law courts. When the Liberal Party was returned to power in
-1896 he was appointed Private Secretary to the Minister of Customs, Hon.
-Wm. Patterson, and accompanied the Minister to England in 1902, doing
-the secretarial work there connected with the trade questions that were
-discussed at the Colonial Conference. His services were also utilized in
-connection with the trade negotiations with the French Government at
-Paris. He held the position of Assistant Commissioner of Customs of
-Canada for five years, and was Secretary of the Tariff Commission of
-1906-07. He promoted and organized the Canadian Western Natural Gas,
-Light, Heat and Power Company, Calgary. He was appointed Imperial Trade
-Correspondent for Ottawa District for the British Board of Trade in
-1909. Although one of the old, steadfast and prominent Liberals in the
-capital, he joined and became active in the ranks of the Unionist Party
-during the general elections in 1917, and, as publicity director,
-rendered valuable service to the Unionist cause. His pithy paragraphs
-and pointed questions, such as “How would the Kaiser Vote?” which were
-printed in the campaign literature and in the press throughout Canada,
-attracted widespread attention and were used with telling effect by the
-various public speakers during the campaign. Mr. Bain is the son of
-Robert and Agnes Bain and was born at Paisley, Scotland, June 8, 1869,
-where he received his education. April 5, 1899, he married Maude
-Buckley, daughter of P. Buckley, Paris, Ontario, and has two
-daughters—Audrey Maie, born 1900, and Alison Muriel, born 1903. In
-politics Mr. Bain is a Liberal, in religion a Presbyterian. His
-residence is 167 James St. He is a member of the Laurentian Club,
-Ottawa, and the Ranchman’s, Calgary.
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-
-=De Celles, Alfred Duclos, LL.D., F.R.S.C., C.M.G.=, Chevalier of the
-Legion of Honor, General Librarian of Parliament, was born at St.
-Laurent, near Montreal, in 1844, and was educated at Laval University,
-Quebec, where he graduated in letters. He is the son of Augustin D. De
-Celles, a prominent notary, and Agnes Holmes, an American lady. Abbé
-John Holmes, a noted preacher in Quebec, related to O. W. Holmes, was
-his uncle. In October, 1876, he married Eugenie Dorion, daughter of
-Eugene Dorion and Mary Panet, and has one son, Alfred Eugene De Celles.
-He is a distinguished Canadian litterateur and publicist. For a time he
-was a member of the Board of Civil Service Examiners. In 1867, Mr. De
-Celles, on account of ill-health, left the Laval University to take up
-the editorial chair of “Le Journal de Quebec” during Mr. Cauchon’s
-absence in Europe. On the return of the latter he remained connected
-with the paper until 1872, when he entered the “Minerve”, chief
-Conservative paper of the province of Quebec, as editor-in-chief. He
-remained there until 1880, when he was appointed assistant librarian of
-the Parliamentary Library of Ottawa. In 1886, he became joint librarian
-with Mr. Martin J. Griffin. For several years after he entered the
-Library he had charge of “L’Opinion Publique,” a weekly paper published
-in Montreal, chiefly devoted to literature and history. Mr. De Celles,
-in 1896, published a History of the United States under the following
-title: “Les Etats-Unis, origine—institutions—development.” For this
-work he received a prize from the Academie des Sciences Morales et
-Politiques of France. A few years later he wrote in English, the Life of
-Papineau and Cartier, in “The Makers of Canada.” This work was
-subsequently published in French, in an enlarged form, together with a
-Life of Cartier, the three volumes forming a political history of
-Canada. Reviewing Mr. De Celles’ Papineau, the London “Outlook” (Jan.
-13, 1906) summed up this work as follows: “Mr. De Celles has traced this
-out through the quarter of a century in which Papineau was the most
-brilliant, if not the most wise figure in French-Canadian politics, with
-the natural sympathy of a compatriot, though by no means without due
-recognition of his hero’s failings. . . . He has given us an admirable
-picture of a strange and picturesque career. Everyone has heard of
-Papineau, and most Canadians have some idea of his achievements, but
-little probably of his personality.” Mr. De Celles has also contributed
-to “Canada and Its Provinces,” a synopsis of the History of Quebec under
-Confederation and an extensive history of colonization under this title:
-“The Habitant”: and an outline of the municipal system in Lower Canada.
-He has contributed to The Chronicles of Canada the “Patriotes of 1837,”
-a history of the Canadian Rebellion. In 1904, he was named Chevalier de
-la Legion d’Honneur, and in 1907 received the title of C.M.G. In 1884,
-he was received Member of the Royal Society, and since 1903 he has
-occupied the post of President of l’Alliance Française. Mr. De Celles is
-in religion a Catholic, and he resides in Ottawa.
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-
-=Evanturel, Gustave, M.P.P.= for Prescott Co. (Alfred), was born March
-19, 1880, at Ottawa, son of the Hon. Alfred Evanturel and Louisa Lee.
-Father was Speaker of the Ontario Legislature from 1898 to 1902 and
-Minister in the Ross Government from Nov. 22, 1904, to Jan. 25, 1905.
-Educated at Bourget College, Rigaud, and Seminaire de Ste. Therese,
-P.Q., and Laval University, from which latter institution he graduated
-with the degree of B.L. Married, Sept. 26, 1910, Marie Emelia, daughter
-of the late Paul Chevrier, of Vaudreuil. Notary public by profession;
-was President of L’Alliance Nationale, a mutual life insurance company
-of the Court of Alfred, which is called “Cercle Evanturel.” Mr.
-Evanturel has taken an active part in politics since the age of 17
-years, especially in the County of Prescott, which his father
-represented from 1884 until 1905, being the first French-Canadian to
-enter the Ontario Legislature, the first representative of that race to
-be Speaker of the Ontario Assembly, and the first French-Canadian to
-enter the Ontario Government as Cabinet Minister. The subject of this
-sketch was first returned to the Ontario Legislature to represent the
-County of Prescott on December 11, 1911, with a majority of 284, and
-re-elected on June 29, 1914, over two opponents by an increased majority
-of 350, defeating the Conservative candidate by over 1,000. Was Civil
-Servant in the Privy Council Department in 1908, and, on his election as
-a member for Prescott County, when he succeeded his late father, was the
-youngest member of the Assembly. He is an eloquent speaker in both
-French and English, and has been a strong supporter of bi-lingualism on
-the floor of the Ontario Legislature, being the first member of the
-House to open the discussion on the bi-lingual school question during
-the Session of the Legislature in the years 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915,
-1916. He has all the fire and dash of his race and is extremely popular
-on both sides of the House, and throughout Eastern Ontario, where he is
-well known.
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-
-=Fraleck, Edison Baldwin=, was born in the township of Sydney in the
-County of Hastings on the 6th day of February, 1841, being descended
-from United Empire Loyalist stock. His grandfather, Lewis Fraleck, a
-Loyalist, came to Canada; his father, Thomas Tillotson Fraleck, served
-on the Loyalist side throughout the whole period of the war 1812-15,
-being engaged on the Niagara Peninsula. His maternal grandfather was
-Robert Nicholson, a native of Aberdeen, Scotland, and a Major in a
-Highland Regiment, served throughout the American Revolutionary War;
-came to Canada about 1793. The subject of this sketch was educated at
-the Public and High schools and Queen’s University, Kingston, from which
-he graduated with the degree of B.A. in 1863, and was called to the Bar
-1868. Successfully practised his profession at Belleville for many years
-and was appointed Junior Judge for the County of Hastings on December
-28, 1881, which office he filled for some thirty-five years, when he
-retired. Was revising officer for East and West Hastings, and a Judge of
-the Surrogate Court for the County of Hastings for ten years, and a
-member of Queen’s University Council for over twenty-five years. Served
-as Lieutenant in the 49th Regiment 1868-74, and retired retaining rank.
-He was noted as a strong and active writer on all political subjects
-before his elevation to the Bench. Being a keen sportsman, taking a
-lively interest in hunting, fishing, camping and canoeing, Judge Fraleck
-contributed frequently to the “Canadian Magazine,” “Canada Sportsmen,”
-“Forest and Stream,” the result of his experience. He has always been an
-ardent Imperialist and Protectionist. Judge Fraleck has won distinction
-as a ready and fluent speaker, and rendered splendid services as such
-during the Confederation campaign and subsequently. Married August 14,
-1874, to Jane E., daughter of William Judd, of Stirling, County of
-Hastings, and five children were the result of the union: Ernest Leigh
-(died 1909), Charles Cecil, Madeliene, Jessie, and Helen. He is a member
-of the Masonic Order and Orange Order, and in religion is a
-Presbyterian. Politically, the Judge was before his elevation to the
-Bench, a member of the Conservative Party.
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-
-=Davey, James= (Ottawa, Ont). The Ottawa Manager of The Toronto General
-Trusts Corporation; has been with the Company since it was first
-established by the late J. W. Langmuir, in the spring of 1882, and was
-its first accountant. In April, 1917, he celebrated the 35th anniversary
-of his connection with the company. In length of service he is the
-oldest Canadian trust company officer. He has been manager of the Ottawa
-branch of Toronto General Trusts Corporation since 1905. Mr. Davey
-arrived in Canada in March, 1882, after having been for nearly ten years
-in the accountant’s office of one of the largest newspaper publishing
-houses in the West of England. For a period of 15 years he was chief
-accountant of The Toronto General Trusts Corporation, afterwards
-occupying the position of secretary for several years. Subsequently he
-was placed in charge, for a period of three years, of one of the largest
-loan company liquidations in Canada. In January, 1902, Mr. Davey was
-appointed manager of the newly opened branch of The Toronto General
-Trusts Corporation in Winnipeg, and in January, 1905 (shortly after the
-Corporation purchased the business of the Ottawa Trust and Deposit
-Company), Manager at Ottawa. Mr. Davey was born in Alderney, Channel
-Islands, on September 15, 1855, and was educated at the National
-Schools, Alderney, and the Grammar School, Lostwithiel, Cornwall,
-England. His parents were James Davey and Mary Anne Davey. He married
-Caroline Grace Gerrans, daughter of Joseph Gerrans and Mary Gerrans,
-Cornwall, England, and is the father of six sons and daughters—Joseph
-Frederick, Marion Elizabeth, Herbert Gerrans (now deceased), Thomas
-Deslandes, Caroline Grace, Lillian James. Mr. Davey is a member of the
-Laurentian Club, Ottawa, is a Methodist in religion, and an Independent
-in politics. He resides at 430 Maclaren Street, Ottawa.
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-
-=Tremeear, William J.= (Pasadena, Cal.), Counsellor-at-Law, a native of
-Bowmanville, Ont., received his primary education at the public and high
-schools at Oshawa, Ont., and matriculated at Toronto University in the
-class of 1881, taking honors in mathematics and modern languages. He
-afterwards attended the law school of Osgoode Hall, Toronto, and was
-admitted to the Ontario Bar in 1886, and practised in Toronto until
-1918, when he removed to Pasadena, Cal., to take up legal literary work.
-He is the author of several legal works of recognized authority, amongst
-them three editions of an annotated Criminal Code of Canada. He is a
-member of the Masonic Order, the Knights of Pythias and the I.O.F.
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-
-=Briggs, William, D.D.= (Toronto, Ont.), was born in Banbridge, County
-Down, Ireland, educated in Liverpool, England, and came to Canada in
-1859. He preached successfully in Montreal, London, Cobourg, Belleville
-and Toronto. In 1879 he was appointed Book Steward of the Methodist Book
-and Publishing House, a position he holds until July, 1919, when, in
-conformity with a recent enactment placing an age limit on all Methodist
-General Conference officials, he became Book Steward Emeritus. Under his
-management great progress has been made, and the Book Room is, without a
-doubt, one of the most profitable publishing houses in Canada to-day. It
-has grown year after year on a steady basis, and the large number of
-employees engaged is an indication that business must be going on
-regularly to carry a staff numbering in the hundreds. The mechanical
-departments are manned with all the latest devices in machinery and
-everything has been so arranged that the largest publication can be
-turned out on the very shortest notice. To successfully carry so large
-an institution means that great care is exercised by the management.
-Among the trade throughout Canada, Dr. Briggs is credited as being one
-of the most economic and shrewd managers connected with the business.
-The name of William Briggs is a household word throughout the Dominion
-and wherever he goes at the week end to supply a pulpit he is always
-greeted with large congregations. The degree of D.D. was conferred upon
-him by Victoria University. He is a member of the Toronto Board of
-Trade.
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-
-=Gibbons, John Joseph=, Advertising Counsel (Toronto, Ont.), has taken a
-special interest in Patriotic work in connection with the Great War;
-being a member of the Organization of Resources Committee (Ontario), the
-Toronto and York County Patriotic Association, the Canadian Red Cross
-Society, the Belgian Relief Association, and the Canadian War Contingent
-Association. He is Vice-President of the Ontario Motor League; as also a
-member of the National Club, the R.C.Y.C. of Toronto; and the Brantford,
-Lambton and Caledon Clubs. Mr. Gibbons was born in Boston, Mass., March
-15, 1877, and married, May 12, 1909, Helen E., daughter of James G.
-Cockshutt, founder of the Cockshutt Plow Co., Brantford, Ont., by whom
-he has three children—Kathleen, Mary and John Cockshutt. His recreation
-is golf.
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-
-=Bachand, Leonide Charles, M.D.= (Sherbrooke, Que.), son of the late J.
-C. Bachand, N.P. Registrar County of Bagot, Quebec, and nephew of Hon.
-P. Bachand, ex-Treasurer Province of Quebec. Was born at St. Pie, P.Q.,
-October 6, 1854, educated at St. Hyacinthe and Victoria College,
-Montreal; graduated Victoria University, Cobourg, with degree of M.D.,
-1878; married, October 6, 1878, to Marie Agnes Georgine, daughter of
-late H. O. Camirand, of Sherbrooke, P.Q. Practised his profession at
-Coaticook, where he was mayor, President of Board of Trade, Chairman of
-School Commissioners, and also editor and co-proprietor of L’Etoile de
-l’Est; removed to Sherbrooke, 1899; elected Mayor there, 1908; appointed
-Coroner District of St. Francis; President of Medical Board of the
-Sherbrooke St. Vincent Hospital; Specialist in eye, ear, nose and
-throat. Is father of three sons, viz.: Dr. J. D. Bachand, of St.
-Johnsbury, C. E. Bachand, Joint Prothonotary, Sherbrooke, and Leonidas
-Bachand, Notary Public, and Secretary Board of Trade, Sherbrooke. Dr.
-Bachand is a Roman Catholic in religion, and formerly was a Liberal in
-politics.
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-
-=Denis, J. Wilfred= (Nicolet, Quebec), son of Drendonne Denis, was born
-at St. Cuthbert, Cte. Berthier, January 21, 1871. Educated at the
-College of Joliette and Laval University, Montreal, graduating with the
-degree of B.A. Mr. Denis is a Notary Public and Registrar and
-Prothonotary of the Supreme Court. He has been married twice and is the
-father of four children, viz.: Berthe, Germaine, Jeanne and Laure. He is
-a Roman Catholic in religion, and politically a Liberal.
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-
-=Eddis, Wilton C.= (Toronto, Ont.), born in London, England, on
-September 15, 1855, and educated at Merchant Taylors School, Mr. Eddis
-has been a resident of Toronto for many years and is a prominent
-Chartered Accountant, holding the degrees of F.S.A.A. and F.C.A. He
-married Florence I., daughter of John Wyndham, of Dalwood, New South
-Wales, in 1883, and is the father of the following children: John
-Wyndham, Charles Sheppard, Dorothy Wyndham, Mrs. Muriel Greenwood, Mrs.
-Margaret Green, Mrs. Esther Lane. He is a member of the following clubs:
-Albany, Toronto Chess Club, Royal Canadian Yacht Club, also St. George’s
-Society and the Board of Trade, Toronto. In religion he is a member of
-the Church of England and a Conservative in politics. Mr. Eddis is also
-Justice of the Peace. His favorite recreation is chess.
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-
-=Bowes, James Leslie Llewellyn= (Toronto, Ont.), Merchant, was educated
-at Oakwood Public School, Lindsay Collegiate Institute, and Toronto
-University. After graduating from the latter, he started in the
-wholesale produce business in 1902, with the firm of J. A. McLean
-Produce Co., Ltd., of which he assumed the management three years later.
-More recently he formed the Bowes Co., Ltd., which took over the parent
-business as a going concern and in addition to its produce business,
-developed the largest baker, confectioners, and ice cream manufacturers
-supply business in Canada. Its connections extend from Halifax to
-Vancouver, and they are both exporters and importers from all parts of
-the world, besides manufacturing many lines supplied to its own trade.
-Mr. Bowes was born in Oakwood, Ont., on February 26, 1877, the son of
-Margaret Ellen and Thomas Bowes, farmer, live stock dealer and exporter.
-He married Gladys Lansdowne, daughter of W. F. Barber, Guelph, Ont.,
-September 22, 1908, by whom he has two children, Margaret Frances, born
-1909, and Thomas Howard, born 1913. He is a member of the Royal Canadian
-Yacht Club, Scarboro Golf and Country Club, Thistle Team Bowling Club,
-and Cold Creek Trout Club. In politics he is a Liberal, and in religion
-a Methodist.
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-
-=Thomson, Levi= (Wolseley, Sask.), Member of Parliament for Qu’Appelle,
-Sask., is the son of John Thomson and Sarah McMillan, formerly of
-Scotland. He was born near Hillsburgh, in Erin Township, Ontario,
-February 17, 1855, and was educated in common school and Rockwood
-Academy. After legal studies in Toronto he emigrated to the North-West
-Territories in 1882, and engaged in farming near Wolseley, Sask., where
-he now resides. Twelve years later Mr. Thomson commenced the practice of
-law at Wolseley and was appointed Crown Prosecutor in 1897, which
-position he resigned seven years later, but became Agent of the
-Attorney-General of Saskatchewan for Moosomin Judicial District in 1906.
-The future legislator was not long in making himself felt in the public
-life of his community, being elected a member of the Wolseley Rural
-Municipality in 1887, an office which he resigned after three years’
-term only to become Councillor of the Town of Wolseley in 1902-3, and
-finally Mayor, in 1904. In the same year Levi Thomson was the Liberal
-Candidate for the Dominion House in Qu’Appelle constituency, but was
-defeated by the narrow margin of 28 votes. Contesting Wolseley
-constituency for the Saskatchewan Legislature a year later he was
-unsuccessful by the even smaller majority of 20; but finally achieved
-his ambition in 1911, being returned to the Federal House for
-Qu’Appelle, with a handsome majority. Despite political activities, Mr.
-Thomson has always retained his interest in farming and was the first
-President of the Wolseley Agricultural Society when it was organized in
-1885, retaining office for three years, and also Vice-President of the
-Grain Growers’ Association of Saskatchewan in 1907. At present he is
-extensively engaged in farming on his own account, specializing in grain
-and the raising of Clydesdale and grade horses. In 1884 Mr. Thomson
-married Mabel Maud, daughter of the late Hon. W. D. Perley, by whom he
-has five children, Harold F., born in 1885; Allen P., in 1888; Edwin E.,
-in 1890; Florence M., in 1896, and Arthur M., in 1901. Since 1908 he has
-been a member of the Board of Governors of Saskatchewan University, and
-he is also a member of the Independent Order of Foresters and the Royal
-Templars of Temperance. In religion Mr. Thomson is a Disciple of Christ
-or Christian.
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-
-=Brock, Lieut.-Col. Henry=, son of William Rees Brock, M.P., and
-Margaret Anna Diamond. He was born at Guelph, Ont., May 14, 1859.
-Educated at Upper Canada College and The University of Toronto. B.A.,
-B.C.L., D.C.L. Married, June 16, 1891, Anna Maude Cawthra, daughter of
-Henry Cawthra, “Yeadon Hall,” Toronto, Barrister-at-Law. One child
-living, Mildred Cawthra Brock. Is a Barrister-at-Law and for many years
-practised in Toronto as a member of the firm of Cassels, Brock, Kelley &
-Falconbridge. Elected a Director of the W. R. Brock Company, Limited, in
-1904. Succeeded his father as President in 1918. Director of The Western
-and British America Fire Insurance Companies, The British America Coal
-Co., and President of The Stanstead Granite Quarries Company, Limited.
-Was a Member of the Council of the Toronto Board of Trade for eight
-years and President in 1913. On Council of Ontario Associated Boards of
-Trade since its foundation in 1911; President of the Canadian Military
-Institute, 1916, 1917, 1918. An advisory member of the Council of The
-Aviation Club of Canada. In religion he is an Anglican and for many
-years has been Churchwarden of St. James’ Cathedral. Lieut.-Col. Henry
-Brock has had a long period of service in the Canadian Militia and at
-the time of his retirement from the Command of the 10th Royal Grenadiers
-to take a Staff appointment as Chief Recruiting Officer in Toronto was
-one of the Senior Militia Officers in Canada on Active Service. He
-joined the University Company, Queen’s Own Rifles, in July, 1877, and
-was appointed a Lieutenant in October, 1882; Captain, November, 1888. He
-served as a Lieutenant in the North-West Rebellion, 1885, was mentioned
-in despatches for distinguished conduct in the field, and received the
-Medal and Clasp. In 1891 he was posted to the Reserve of Officers and in
-1897 was appointed to the 10th Royal Grenadiers as Captain, becoming
-Brevet Major in 1899, Senior Major in 1907, Brevet Lieut.-Colonel in
-1912, and took over the Command of the Regiment in 1913. He volunteered
-for active service for the Nile Expedition in 1886, and for South Africa
-in 1899. Received Long Service Decoration in 1907. For the late European
-Campaign he volunteered for active service “in any position the
-authorities thought him fit for.” Appointed Chief Recruiting Officer for
-Toronto, July, 1915; Chief Recruiting Officer 2nd Military District,
-October, 1915; Director of National Service 2nd Military District,
-September 30, 1916. Member of Selective Tribunal under Military Service
-Act, October, 1917. Recreations: Reading and, formerly, rifle shooting
-and riding, cricket and football. Clubs: The Toronto Club, Toronto Hunt,
-University Club, Canadian Military Institute, Toronto; The
-Constitutional Club, London, England. Residences: 174 St. George Street,
-Toronto, and Park Place, Oakville.
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-=Fraser, George B.=, Dry Goods Merchant (Montreal, Que.), was born at
-Strichen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, September 29, 1854, and was educated
-in the Old Deer Parish School. He married Rebecca, daughter of John
-Morrison, Montreal, May 11, 1880, their children being Helen Edith and
-James Morrison Fraser. As a Director of Greenshields, Ltd., Montreal, he
-is actively engaged in the largest and oldest dry goods house in Canada.
-He is also a Director of the Bank of Montreal, the Standard Life
-Assurance Company and Hudson’s Bay Insurance Company. Mr. Fraser’s
-public offices include the following: Member of the Montreal Board of
-Trade, President of the Grace Dart Memorial Hospital, Vice-President of
-the McKay Institute for the Deaf and Dumb, Life Governor of the Montreal
-General Hospital, Member of the Board of Management and Life Governor of
-the Western Hospital, Montreal. He is a member of the St. James,
-Montreal and Canadian Clubs, Forest and Stream Club, and of St. Andrew’s
-Society. Is a Presbyterian in religion and a Liberal in politics. His
-chosen recreation is golf.
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-
-=Brock, William Rees=, the late, was born on February 14, 1836, in the
-Township of Eramosa, near Guelph, Ontario. His father Thomas Rees Brock,
-was of an ancient English family who were landed proprietors near
-Colchester in the County of Essex. His mother was Eleanor Thompson,
-daughter of Thomas Thompson, of Rusheen, Queen’s County, Ireland. The
-young couple, aged respectively 17 and 21 years, were married at the
-Parish Church in Guelph and after the ceremony rode on horseback to
-their new home five miles away in “the wild woods.” After a few years of
-life on the farm Mr. Brock was persuaded that a man of his education and
-attainments could do better in the town and he removed to Guelph where
-he held several appointments as Town Auditor, Secretary of the School
-Board, Superintendent of the Government Road and Surrogate Court Clerk.
-In the fall of 1850, while out shooting in the woods, he was
-accidentally shot and died at his residence, Park Place, a few days
-afterwards, aged thirty-eight years, leaving his widow with nine
-children surviving. The stone house he built on the York Road is still
-standing. The subject of this sketch was the second child and eldest
-son. He immediately left the Guelph Grammar School and went into the law
-office of the Hon. Ferguson Blair, where he remained about a year,
-deciding to enter commercial life, in which he achieved so conspicuous a
-success. His first employment was in a general store in Caledonia. About
-1854 he located in Toronto, being engaged with Scott & Laidlaw. He
-married on the 23rd of September, 1857, Margaret Anna, second daughter
-of Captain John Segur Diamond, formerly of Clonenagh, Queen’s County,
-Ireland, who came to Canada in 1834, and served through the rebellion of
-1837 as Adjutant of the 2nd Gore Regiment. Capt. Diamond was at one time
-in the Royal Irish Constabulary and after his arrival in this country
-was engaged in business with Colonel Chisholm, of Oakville, and others,
-as lumbermen and vessel owners. He had died some nine years previously
-to his daughter’s marriage. After his marriage, Mr. Brock went into
-business in Guelph, but later sold out and entered the service of
-McArthur & Co., of Bowmanville, where he remained about four-and-a-half
-years, subsequently went to Ogilvy & Co., Montreal, wholesale merchants,
-was English buyer for that firm for some years; was made a partner and
-came to Toronto in 1871, and opened Ogilvy & Company’s Toronto branch.
-In 1877, in partnership with his brother, J. H. Brock, he started the
-business of W. R. Brock & Brother, at the corner of Bay and Wellington
-Streets, Toronto. In 1879 a partnership was formed with Messrs. F. Wyld
-and H. W. Darling, as Wyld, Brock & Darling. Mr. Darling retired in
-1883, and Mr. Wyld in 1887. The firm of W. R. Brock & Company was turned
-into a joint stock company in 1897. The Montreal branch was started in
-1899, and the branch at Calgary in 1905. Besides being President of the
-W. R. Brock Company, Ltd., he was a director of the Dominion Lands
-Colonization Co., the British Canadian Loan and Investment Co., Toronto
-Electric Light Co., Electrical Development Co., Ontario Accident
-Insurance Co., Toronto General Trust Corporation and the Dominion Bank.
-He was also President of the British American and Western Assurance
-Companies, the Stanstead Granite Quarries Company, London Electric Light
-Company, and the Canadian General Electric Company. Mr. Brock was one of
-the founders of the “Empire” newspaper, Toronto, and served as President
-of the company until its amalgamation with “The Mail” in 1895. For years
-he was President of the Toronto Conservative Association and sat in the
-House of Commons for Centre Toronto in the Conservative interest from
-1900 to 1904. Mr. Brock was also a director and a leading spirit in many
-philanthropic organizations. He was a founder and President of the
-Toronto Humane Society, a life member of the Council of Trinity
-University and of Upper Canada College, and benefactor of both
-institutions. He was a member of the congregation of St. James’
-Cathedral, and from 1883 to 1890 was a churchwarden. His clubs were:
-Toronto Club, York Club, Albany Club, Toronto Hunt Club, Toronto; The
-Rideau Club, Ottawa; and St. James’ Club, Montreal. His surviving
-children are Lt.-Col. Henry Brock, Lt.-Col. R. A. Brock, Mr. W. L.
-Brock, and the Misses Lilian, Gertrude, and Muriel Brock. Mr. Brock died
-at his residence, 21 Queen’s Park, Toronto, on November 1, 1917. He was
-almost eighty-two years of age, and actively engaged in business up to
-within a few days of his death. Although advanced in years Mr. Brock
-retained his keen business acumen right through and served to the last
-in an advisory capacity to the directors of the W. R. Brock Company. By
-virtue of exceptional ability, organizing genius, hard work,
-adaptability, generosity and an appreciative attitude toward those in
-his employment, he was able to develop one of the outstanding mercantile
-houses of the Dominion. He held the esteem of the merchants in
-practically all the primary markets of the world. In Canadian industry
-he was declared to be an international figure. The memory of William
-Rees Brock will long live as a man noted for his commercial integrity,
-splendid philanthropy, and public enterprises. He was endowed with a
-winning personality, and his influence in public affairs was always for
-good. He was a staunch supporter of British Connection, and believed in
-promoting closer trade relations between Canada and the Mother Country.
-He lived a long, useful, and upright life, an inspiration to others, who
-would merit the approval of their fellows, and the close of a career so
-full of years and honors was regarded as a public loss.
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-
-
-=Dwyer, William Henry=, President of W. H. Dwyer Co., Ltd., general
-grain and produce dealers and exporters, 49 Metcalfe Street, Ottawa, is
-one of the capital’s busiest and most active men. His early life was
-spent on the farm at Thurso, Que., entered the employ of W. C. Edwards &
-Company, Limited, at Rockland, Ont., in 1882, to learn the lumber
-business, in whose employ he remained until May, 1890, when he left this
-company and removed to Thurso, Que., where he operated, successfully, a
-steam ferry and cartage business, which developed in 1902 into a hay and
-grain business, in a small way. The growth of this business made it
-necessary in 1898 for him to move to Ottawa. The increased business,
-occasioned principally by the South African War in 1900 and 1901, made
-it necessary to form a limited company, viz., the W. H. Dwyer Co., Ltd.,
-which was formed in 1901, and since that time has developed to such an
-extent that some years ago offices were opened at Montreal and Fort
-William and, in 1917, a subsidiary company was formed in Winnipeg under
-the name of McGaw-Dwyer, Limited, to take care of the Western business.
-Mr. W. H. Dwyer was born at Bell’s Corners, County of Carleton, Ontario,
-May 6, 1861. He is the son of Dennis and Jane (Hall) Dwyer, and was
-educated at Thurso, Quebec. In 1885 he married Sara McDonald,
-Cumberland, Ontario, and has four daughters. He is President the Dwyer
-Elevator Co., President and Managing Director the Slinn-Shouldis Co.,
-Ltd., Ottawa; President Forwarders, Ltd., Ottawa; Vice-President the
-Saskatchewan Lumber Co., Ottawa; Vice-President Prince Rupert Timber and
-Lumber Co., Ottawa; Vice-President and Managing Director Continental Bag
-and Paper Co., Ottawa; Vice-President Lawrence Dairy Supply Co., Ottawa;
-Vice-President Ottawa Contractors, Ltd., Ottawa; Director McKellar
-Townsite, Ltd., Ottawa; Vice-President McGaw-Dwyer Co., Ltd., Winnipeg;
-Vice-President J. W. Hennessy, Incorporated, Buffalo, N.Y. For the years
-1913-1914 he was President of the Ottawa Board of Trade, and is a life
-Governor of the Protestant Hospital. He has supported the Red Cross and
-Patriotic causes in many ways during the war. He is a member of the
-Laurentian, Canadian and Rivermead Clubs. In politics he is Independent.
-In religion a Methodist, and his address is 91 McLaren Street, Ottawa,
-Ontario.
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-
-=Bristow, Michael George=, son of the late Rev. Ernest Bristow, of St.
-Paul’s Cathedral, London, England, arrived in Ottawa in 1893. He was
-born at Bath, England, in 1879, where his mother still resides. His
-brother, Rev. Walter Bristow, soon after the opening of hostilities in
-the Great War brought about by Germany’s treachery, became Chaplain with
-the Imperial forces and started for France, while his sister Ethel
-offered her services and started to do her share as a nurse in a
-Military Hospital in France. In 1892 Mr. Bristow made Ottawa his home
-and took a position in the Civil Service. Ambitious, and feeling that
-such employment did not offer sufficient possibilities, he resigned and
-went into the typewriter business. Success crowned his first efforts and
-he built up a large volume of trade. In 1897 Mr. Bristow became the
-representative in Ottawa, Ont., of the Underwood Typewriter and dealer
-in typewriters’ supplies. He was one of Ottawa’s best-known business
-men. Being a lover of music, and possessing a fine voice, soon after his
-arrival in Ottawa Mr. Bristow became a member of St. John’s Anglican
-Church choir and, later, its president, and always, when solicited,
-freely gave his services as a singer for patriotic and charitable
-purposes. He was an all-round athlete, and gained fame in cricket and
-bowling; was the founder of the Ottawa Cricket Club, and president of
-the Bowling Club at Chelsea, Quebec; also president of the Chelsea
-Athletic Association. In 1905 he won the Massey-Harris Cup for all
-Canada in the National Tennis Competition, in which he represented the
-Ottawa Tennis Club. With marked ability as an amateur minstrel he
-organized and was head of a local Minstrel troop that has already given
-many concerts of exceeding merit. He was president of the Orpheus Glee
-Club, and a prominent member of the Masonic Order Sports. Before the
-departure of the 207th Battalion for Overseas he arranged a big concert
-for its benefit. To other organizations he rendered similar services,
-and was elected President of the War Veterans’ Choral Society. In 1897
-he married Beatrice Bristow, daughter of Arthur Bristow, who came from
-England and joined the Dominion Civil Service. Three children have
-blessed the union—Joan, Reggie and Marjorie. Mr. Bristow died on
-December 19, 1917.
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-
-=Braithwaite, Edward Ernest= (London, Ont.), President of Western
-University, son of Mark Mell Braithwaite and Elizabeth Eckardt; born at
-Unionville, Ont., March 14, 1865. Educated at Markham High School and
-Toronto University, McGill University, B.A. (with first class honors in
-Philosophy, ’86), Oberlin College, Ohio, (B.D., ’90), University of
-Chicago, and Harvard University, where he obtained the degree of M.A.,
-1901, and Ph.D., 1904. Married, November 10, 1892, to Ida Minnie Van
-Camp, daughter of Rev. Albert and Isabella Van Camp, of Cleveland, Ohio.
-Is the father of the following children: Harold Albert, born August 28,
-1893; Lloyd Mell, born October 22, 1896; Ernest Scott, born December 8,
-1899; Percy Bryant, born March 9, 1905; Carol Isabel, born December 25,
-1906. Dr. Braithwaite is a noted educationalist, and has occupied many
-important positions in the prominent seats of learning in Canada and the
-United States, and has also filled many pastorates, among which may be
-mentioned the following: 1890-95, Pastor St. Louis, Mo. (Fountain Park
-Congregational Church); 1896-97, Graduate Student University of Chicago
-(working mainly with that eminent teacher, the late President Harper in
-the Department of Oriental Languages); 1897-1900, Pastor Tabernacle
-Church, Yarmouth, N.S., and Chairman of the Congregational Union of the
-Maritime Provinces, also Missionary Superintendent for the Provinces of
-Nova Scotia and New Brunswick; 1900-1901, began Ph.D. course in the
-Graduate Department of Harvard University, and at the end of the first
-year was called to Oberlin owing to the illness of Hebrew Professor.
-Returned to Harvard University the following year; 1901-02, Acting
-Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament Literature, Oberlin College, Ohio;
-1902-03, Graduate Student, Harvard University, from which he received
-the degree of Ph.D. in 1904 and was appointed Williams Fellow; 1903-08,
-Pastor of West Somerville, Mass.; 1908-11, Pastor of Northern Church,
-Toronto; 1912-13, Dean of Calgary College, Calgary, Alberta; 1914, was
-appointed President of the Western University of London, which position
-he now holds. Dr. Braithwaite is a member of the Rotary and Canadian
-Clubs, and has been a Liberal in politics although not especially
-identified with any parties. He is Chairman of the Military Committee of
-the C. O. T. C. of the Western University and takes great interest in
-Military matters and all amateur sports. He is also one of the Board of
-Directors of the London Chamber of Commerce and several other local
-organizations.
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-
-=Bell, John Howatt, M.A., K.C.=, Barrister, Summerside, Prince Edward
-Island; was born at Cape Traverse, Prince Edward Island, on the 13th of
-December, 1846. His father, Walter Bell, emigrated from Dumfries,
-Scotland, in 1820, and settled at Cape Traverse. His mother was
-Elizabeth Howatt, daughter of Adam Howatt. Mr. Bell received his
-education at the Prince of Wales College, Charlottetown, Prince Edward
-Island, and at Albert University, Belleville, Ont., at which latter
-institution he took the degrees of B.A. and M.A. He studied law as a
-profession with Thomas Ferguson, Q.C., Toronto, and was called to the
-bar of Ontario in 1874. He then went to Ottawa, and in partnership with
-R. A. Bradley, practised his profession for eight years in that City. In
-1882, Mr. Bell removed to Emerson, Manitoba, and was admitted a member
-of the bar of Manitoba in 1882, and practised in Emerson for two years.
-In 1884 he went to Prince Edward Island, and having passed the necessary
-examination, he became a member of the bar of that Island, and has since
-resided at Summerside successfully engaged in his profession. For four
-years, he represented East Prince in the Federal Parliament, and in
-1915, became a candidate for the Fourth District of Prince in the Local
-Legislature and being re-elected, was chosen Leader of the Liberal
-Opposition. On the 7th of April, 1882, he was married to Helen, daughter
-of Cornelius Howatt, of Summerside, Speaker of the House of Assembly of
-Prince Edward Island. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and a
-member of the Masonic Order.
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-
-=Gillespie, Professor Peter, M.Sc., C.E.= (Toronto, Ont.), was born at
-Grafton, Ont., April 17, 1873, the son of Peter Gillespie, proprietor of
-the Vernonville Flour Mills, who died in 1873, and his wife, Eliza
-Hossack, a native of Cromarty, Scotland, who still survives. Prof.
-Gillespie was educated at the Cobourg Collegiate Institute, the
-University of Toronto and at McGill University, Montreal. His academic
-connection with the University of Toronto began in 1904, when he became
-Demonstrator in Applied Mechanics in the School of Practical Science,
-now the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering. Subsequently he
-became Lecturer and, in 1911, Associate Professor in the same
-Department, the position which he at present occupies. Since 1908 he has
-been a member of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, now the
-Engineering Institute of Canada, is at present a Councillor thereof and
-Chairman of the Toronto Branch. During the years of its active
-existence, 1908-1912, he was President of the Canadian Cement and
-Concrete Association, an organization devoted to the dissemination of
-authentic information concerning the uses of Portland Cement in building
-construction. To the transactions of the Canadian Society of Civil
-Engineers and to the Technical press generally, Mr. Gillespie is an
-occasional contributor. In addition to the duties of his academic
-position, he devotes a part of his time to the practice of engineering
-and as designer or consultant has been identified with engineering
-projects in various parts of Canada. He has of late been actively
-engaged in the training of returned soldiers for the Invalided Soldiers’
-Commission of Canada. In 1910 he married Mary Hope, daughter of Mr. M.
-O. Merritt, U.E.L., of Smithville, Ont., a retired farmer whose forbears
-came from Fishkill, Duchess County, New York, at the time of the United
-Empire Loyalist migration following the close of the American
-Revolutionary War. They have two children, Mary Elizabeth and Robert
-George. In religion Mr. Gillespie is a Presbyterian and in politics
-inclines toward Liberalism. He resides at 358 Davenport Road.
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-
-=Grange, Edward Alexander Andrew=, Toronto, Principal of Ontario
-Veterinary College, 110 University Avenue, Toronto, was born in London,
-England, April 9, 1848. His parents were the late Lt.-Col. George John
-Grange, Sheriff, County Wellington, and Mary, daughter of Capt. Dawson.
-Although born in England, Mr. Grange’s education was obtained entirely
-in this country, first by private tuition, then at Dr. Tassie’s School,
-Galt, Ontario, and finally at Ontario Veterinary College where he
-graduated with the degree of V.S. in 1873, obtaining his M.S. in 1908,
-at Michigan Agricultural College. An ardent Imperialist, Mr. Grange was
-for many years a staff officer of Wellington Field Battery and Brigade
-of Artillery, and is a present member of the Canadian Military
-Institute, the Empire Club and the Canadian Club. In his profession he
-has always distinguished himself. From 1875 to 1882 he was a lecturer at
-Ontario Agricultural College; from 1883 to 1897 he was a professor
-Veterinary Science, Michigan Agricultural College; 1897 to 1899 he was
-principal Detroit Veterinary College; from 1899 to 1908 he was engaged
-in veterinary research work in New York State, and since then has been
-principal of Ontario Veterinary College, Toronto. He is a member of
-numerous veterinary and other scientific societies, a Fellow of
-A.V.M.A., a member of N.Y. Veterinary College Alumni Association, and an
-honorary member of Alpha Phi Society of Cornell. An Anglican in
-religion, Mr. Grange is married to Bessie, daughter of Lt.-Col. James
-Webster, registrar, Wellington County. Their union was blessed with
-three children, James Webster (deceased), Flight Commander E. Rochfort,
-D.S.C., R.N., holder of Croix de Guerre; and daughter, Maynard.
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-
-=Morin, Victor, LL.D.= (Montreal, Que.), is the son of Jean Baptiste
-Morin, a lumber merchant of St. Hyacinthe, was born at St. Hyacinthe,
-Que., August 15, 1865, is a Notary and Professor of Law at Laval
-University, was educated at St. Hyacinthe College, Que., and Laval
-University, Montreal, graduating 1884, 1888, 1909 with the degrees of
-A.B., LL.D.; is the author of several books and articles on historical,
-literary, scientific, social and business subjects, and is a member of
-the Royal Society of Canada, President of the Société Nationale des
-Beaux-Arts, and Vice-President of the Montreal Library Commission,
-President-General of the St. Jean Baptiste Society, President of the
-Association du Notariat Canadien, President Montreal Historical Society
-and Heraldic College, also member of the Antiquarian and Numismatic
-Clubs, of which he is vice-president, besides belonging to the Reform
-Club, Cercle Universitaire, St. Dennis Club, and several others; his
-favorite recreations are the study of books and curios. He is a member
-of the Roman Catholic Church and Liberal in politics; Past Supreme Chief
-Ranger of the Independent Order of Foresters, and member of many other
-fraternal societies. In business circles he is very active, being
-President, Vice-President or Director of several business and financial
-corporations. On January 12, 1893, he married Fannie Cote, the daughter
-of Hon. Daniel Cote, of Biddeford, Maine, and after her death married
-Alphonsine Cote, on May 5, 1896, the daughter of Victor Cote, of St.
-Hyacinthe, Que.; he is the father of the following children, namely,
-Lucien, Reginald, Marc, Andre, Gisele, Claire, Marie, Renee, Roland, Guy
-and Roger, besides two deceased.
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-
-=Hastings, David= (Dunnville, Ont.), is the son of John and Mary Jane
-Hastings, born in Toronto, Ont., October 3, 1860. He received his
-education at the Toronto and Hamilton Public Schools and Hamilton
-Collegiate Institute. Mr. Hastings is the editor and publisher of “The
-Gazette,” the oldest paper in the County of Haldimand, which was
-established in 1852. It is a Conservative journal, published at
-Dunnville. In February, 1915, Mr. Hastings was appointed Police
-Magistrate for the Town of Dunnville and adjoining townships in
-succession to the late Dr. S. W. Brown. He is a member of the
-Typographical Union, the Masonic Order, Independent Order of Oddfellows,
-Independent Order of Foresters and also of the Orange Order. In religion
-Mr. Hastings is a Methodist. He married Rose, daughter of Frederick
-Shepheard, of Toronto, and is the father of two children: Frederick
-Clarke, born April 21, 1896, and Edward George, born Oct. 22, 1900.
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-=Anderson, Frederic William=, of Kamloops, B.C., eldest son of the late
-William Anderson, who was Manager of the J. R. Booth Lumber Company for
-a number of years, was born at Ottawa, September 28, 1883. Educated at
-the Public Schools and Collegiate Institute, Ottawa, and McGill
-University, Montreal, from which latter institution he graduated in 1906
-with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. After
-spending a number of years on large construction works in different
-parts of Canada, Mr. Anderson went to Kamloops, where he actively
-engaged in the live stock industry and farming, and brought to bear upon
-the existing situation his splendid knowledge as a civil engineer, and
-being a keen irrigationist, developed and brought under cultivation
-large areas of land. He organized and was President of the Heffley Creek
-Water Users’ Association. He was elected at the general elections held
-in September, 1914, a member of the Legislative Assembly for the
-Province of British Columbia, as a Liberal over the former member, Mr.
-J. Pierson Shaw, by a majority of 569; was Deputy Whip, session 1917,
-and elected chief Government Whip Session 1918. Mr. Anderson married
-Marion Claire, daughter of George E. Carbould, K.C., ex-M.P., New
-Westminster, B.C., and is the father of two children, Francis Marion
-Carbould and William Patrick. He is a Lieutenant, Canadian Engineers,
-C.E.F.; a member of the Presbyterian Church, and of the Kamloops Club,
-University Club, Vancouver Kappa Alpha Society, and the Masonic Order.
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-
-=de Tremaudan, A. H.=, Barrister (Winnipeg, Man.), was born at St.
-Chrysostome, Quebec, July 14, 1874. His parents are living at
-Montmartre, Sask.; father was a captain in the Franco-Prussian war,
-1870, and is a direct descendant of Sire Beaumanoir, by whom he was
-related to LaFayette, the great French soldier, famous in American
-history. Mr. de Tremaudan was educated at the Clerical College of
-Guérande, France, and at Rennes University, France, from which he
-graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Letters. He is a gentleman of
-fine literary attainments, and has made a special study of all matters
-pertaining to the early history of Western Canada, and the Hudson Bay
-route. He founded and edited for two years (Dec., 1911, to Dec., 1913)
-“The Herald,” published at The Pas, Manitoba, and is chief editor of “La
-Libre Parole,” a French Weekly, published at Winnipeg. Mr. de Tremaudan
-is the author of numerous magazine articles, and brochures, which have
-been favorably received, among which may be noted “The Hudson Bay
-Route,” “Pourquoi Nous Parlons Français,” “Les precurseurs.” A number of
-addresses are in press under the title of “Le Sang Français.” A
-forthcoming work is entitled “The Riel Legend.” On Feb. 18, 1901, Mr. de
-Tremaudan married Madeleine, daughter of the late C. H. Bastien, a
-stained-glass decorative artist, who painted some of the priceless
-windows in the world-famous Cathedral of Rheims, France. His children,
-three sons and two daughters, are: Jean (1903), Alain (1905), Gilles
-(1909), Andree (1906), and Renee (1910). Mr. de Tremaudan is a Roman
-Catholic in religion and a member of “Le Canada” Club of Winnipeg. He is
-a Liberal in politics, has travelled extensively, and is widely read and
-well informed on all questions of National importance; a man of mature
-judgment and ripe experience.
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-
-=Bethune, the Rev. Charles Jas. Stewart, M.A., D.C.L.=, the
-distinguished subject of this sketch, was born at West Flamboro’,
-Ontario, on August 11, 1838. He is the third son of the Right Rev.
-Alexander Neil Bethune second Bishop of Toronto, and Jane Eliza, eldest
-daughter of the late Hon. James Crooks. The Bethune family traces its
-lineage very far back in Scottish and French historical records. The
-first of the name who left Normandy for the British Isles came to
-Scotland in the reign of Malcolm the Third, a contemporary of William
-the Conqueror, in the eleventh century. The first of the family to come
-to Canada was the Rev. John Bethune, a U.E. Loyalist from North
-Carolina, and chaplain to a Highland regiment, who settled with his
-comrades in the county of Glengarry, Ontario, towards the end of the
-18th century. He was the father of the late Bishop of Toronto and Dean
-Bethune, of Montreal, and grandfather of the subject of this sketch.
-Young Bethune was educated at private schools at Cobourg and Upper
-Canada College, Toronto. After leaving the latter institution he entered
-Trinity College, Toronto, and graduated therefrom in 1859 with
-first-class classical honors and the B.A. degree. He took his M.A. in
-1861, and received the honorary degree of D.C.L. from his Alma Mater in
-1883, in recognition of his zealous and worthy services at Trinity
-College School. He was ordained deacon in 1861 and priest in 1862, by
-the late Bishop Strachan of Toronto. He was curate until 1866, with his
-father, then Rector of Cobourg, with the exception of a short period
-spent in England in 1863-64, when he was curate at Carlton, near Selby,
-in Yorkshire. In 1866 he was appointed to the charge of the Credit
-Mission in the County of Peel, Ont., where he was instrumental in
-building the churches at Dixie and Port Credit. In September, 1870, he
-was appointed Head Master of Trinity College School at Port Hope. From a
-very small beginning he raised up this school to be one of the most
-widely known and successful in the Dominion. He had a staff of eight
-assistant masters, about 140 pupils, and large and handsome buildings
-with extensive grounds. He resigned the headmastership in 1899, and
-removed to London, Ontario, where he remained for seven years. During
-the greater part of that period he was curator and librarian of the
-Entomological Society of Ontario. He assisted in forming the London
-Horticultural Society and was its president for two years. Dr. Bethune
-gave much of his attention to scientific pursuits and he is well known
-in the United States and Great Britain, as likewise in Canada, as an
-entomologist. He was one of the founders of the Entomological Society of
-Ontario and its Secretary-Treasurer for seven years. He was president of
-the same society from 1870 to 1875, and has continued since to be a
-member of its council. He was entomological editor of the “Canada
-Farmer” for nine years, and editor of the “Canadian Entomologist” from
-its inception in 1868 to 1873, and from 1887 to 1909, when he was
-elected editor emeritus. He has written a large number of papers on
-Practical and Scientific Entomology in these and other publications, and
-contributed repeatedly to the annual report on insects presented to the
-Legislature of Ontario. He is a Fellow of the American Association for
-the advancement of Science and has attended its meetings at various
-places in the United States, is a member of several Canadian scientific
-societies and a corresponding member of scientific societies in New
-York, Philadelphia, Boston, Buffalo, Davenport, Brooklyn, Halifax, and
-other places. He is also a member of the Corporation of the University
-of Trinity College. He was Honorary Clerical Secretary of the Synod of
-the Diocese of Toronto from 1869 to 1871, and has been repeatedly
-elected a representative of the diocese at the meetings of the
-Provincial Synod in Montreal. He was a delegate from the diocese of
-Toronto to the general synod of the Church of England in Canada at
-Winnipeg in 1896, and was appointed clerical secretary of the Lower
-House in 1902, holding that position at the meetings in Montreal and
-Quebec and resigning at the Ottawa meeting in 1908; elected Fellow of
-the Royal Society of Canada in 1892, and became President of Section 4
-in the year 1900; was one of the original promoters of the Sisterhood of
-St. John the Divine in Toronto and filled the position of Warden for
-some years. On the first of June, 1906, he was appointed Professor of
-Entomology and Zoology at the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph,
-which position he still holds. He assisted in the formation of the
-American Association of Economic Entomologists and of the American
-Entomological Society; of the latter he is one of the original Fellows.
-He was elected President of the Entomological Society of Ontario for its
-Jubilee year, 1913. He is Honorary President of the Wellington Field
-Naturalists’ Club, of the Guelph Horticultural Society and of the
-Trinity College School Cricket Club. Since going to Guelph he has
-published bulletins on insects affecting fruit trees and vegetables of
-which several editions have been issued by the Department of Agriculture
-of Ontario. He has frequently visited England and travelled in the
-United States and Europe. Dr. Bethune has always been a member of the
-Church of England and associated with the “High Church” school of
-thought. He married on April 21, 1863, Alice, second daughter of
-Lieut.-Colonel Forlong, K.H., of Toronto, late of Her Majesty’s 43rd
-Regiment of Light Infantry, and his wife, Sophia, daughter of the Hon.
-Henry John Boulton, of Holland House, Toronto. Mrs. Bethune died in
-July, 1898. Dr. Bethune has four children living. His eldest son, Arthur
-M. Bethune, is Manager of the Hamilton Branch of the Dominion Bank, and
-Reginald A. Bethune is an officer in the Civil Service at Kamloops, B.C.
-The two daughters are unmarried. An earnest and able worker for his
-church, a learned and deeply skilled votary in a wide and important
-branch of science, it has been given to few men whose names are written
-in this volume to accomplish so much and to accomplish it so well.
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-
-=Kyte, George William= (St. Peters, Richmond County, Nova Scotia), son
-of John Kyte, native of Templemore, County of Tipperary, Ireland, and
-Elizabeth Robertson, English parentage, born July 10, 1864, at St.
-Peters. Educated at the public school of St. Peters, and at the
-University of St. Francis Xavier, Antigonish, N.S., from which seat of
-learning he graduated. Studied law in the office of Colin F. McIsaac
-(for several years one of the Transcontinental Railway Commissioners, at
-Antigonish, N.S.), and was admitted to the bar Nov. 16, 1891. Married,
-July 5, 1893, to Tena, daughter of Valentine and Lydia Chisholm, of
-Heatherton, N.S. Appointed Clerk-Assistant of the Legislative Assembly
-of Nova Scotia, in Feb., 1892; re-appointed in 1895, 1898 and 1901;
-appointed Chief Clerk, Dec. 3, 1903. Resigned this appointment to become
-a candidate for the House of Commons for Richmond County at general
-election of 1908 and was elected; re-elected at general election in
-1911. Created a King’s Counsel by the Government of Nova Scotia, April
-16, 1908. Solicitor for the Municipality of Richmond County; school
-trustee for nine years, and is a member of the Board of School
-Commissioners for the County of Richmond. A Roman Catholic in religion
-and a Liberal in politics.
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-
-=Clark, John Murray, M.A., LL.B., K.C.= (Toronto, Ont.), born at St.
-Mary’s, Ont., July 6, 1860, of Scottish descent, his parents being James
-and Isabella Clark. Educated at St. Mary’s Collegiate Institute, Toronto
-University and Osgoode Hall. His career at the University was
-particularly brilliant. He won the prize in Logic awarded by the late
-Professor J. P. Young, the Blake Scholarship on Constitutional Law,
-Economics and Jurisprudence, the McMurrich Medal in Natural Science and
-Gold Medal in Mathematics and Physics, and the prize on Minority
-Representation, graduating with the degree of B.A. in 1882, M.A. 1884,
-LL.B. 1891, and being called to the Bar in 1886, with honours, and
-winning the Law Society’s Gold Medal, since which time he has practised
-in Toronto where he is recognized as one of the leaders of the Bar and
-is head of the firm of Clark, McPherson, Campbell & Jarvis. Has been
-retained as Counsel in a large number of cases of great magnitude and
-importance, such as the Quaker Case, Ontario Express Company, Fisheries
-Case, and the Ophir case, and has frequently pleaded before the Privy
-Council in England. Appointed a K.C. in 1889; in early life was
-Mathematical Master of St. Mary’s Collegiate Institute and for several
-years Examiner in Physics, Toronto University, of which he was appointed
-as Senator in 1892. Is also Vice-President Toronto University Alumni
-Association. Formerly President Mathematical and Physics Society and
-University College Literary and Scientific Society. Few men in Canada
-have exhibited more scholarly attainments than the subject of this
-sketch, whose versatility in Science, Literature, as well as original
-research has been remarkable, and of great benefit. Notwithstanding the
-high place which Mr. Clark occupies in the field of letters and the wide
-knowledge he has of science and literature, he is widely known on
-account of his great abilities as a lawyer which have placed him in the
-front rank of the legal profession in Canada. Many of his cases have
-been of first-class importance and some of them of great public
-interest. Among the first in which he won a signal victory was that of
-Dorland and Jones, the famous Quaker Case from Prince Edward County,
-Ontario. The recent decision of the House of Lords, giving the “Wee
-Frees” the property of the Free Church of Scotland recalls the Quaker
-Case here. Mr. Clark argued before the Supreme Court at Ottawa that the
-Church had the right to make changes in its Constitution, even though
-that Constitution itself did not specifically authorize it to do so. The
-view was adopted by the United Free Church lawyers in Edinburgh in the
-case arising from the union of the Free and United Presbyterian Churches
-of Scotland, and the Court of Session, the High Court of Justice
-sustained that view. The “Wee Free” (as the Free Church minority was
-commonly called), appealed to the House of Lords, and contrary to all
-expectation, won, and obtained possession of the vast property of the
-Church. The situation was so tense that a special Act of Parliament was
-passed to adjust conditions. In quite a number of constitutional cases
-reaching through the Canadian Courts to the Privy Council, Mr. Clark has
-figured, and invariably with success. The same is true regarding
-commercial cases and large mining cases in which a long and extended
-experience has given him such a mastery as few of his compeers possess.
-Quite recently the “Ophir” mining case, which he brought to a successful
-conclusion, through a tedious and tortuous course of litigation, ending
-in the Privy Council, has excited the attention of the legal profession
-and of the public, both because it decided the question of the Indian
-title so far as Ontario is concerned, and because a similar situation is
-becoming acute in British Columbia. Mr. Clark has made several notable
-speeches in England where he is regarded as an accomplished jurist, and
-few men are so well versed in the political and constitutional history
-of this Dominion or more fully seized of its great resources. The London
-“Times” and several other prominent English papers a few years ago
-referred in high praise to Mr. Clark’s speech on “Canada and the Navy”
-delivered before a notable gathering, including Lord Strathcona the late
-High Commissioner for Canada. Mr. Clark is one of the foremost
-mathematical authorities in Canada and his work has been commended by so
-high an authority as Lord Kelvin, while he is regarded both in this
-country and in England as an authority on Constitutional law. He has won
-distinction as an author, and has written several standard works and
-papers, among which may be mentioned “Law of Mines in Canada,” which was
-written in collaboration with the Hon. W. D. McPherson, Provincial
-Secretary of Ontario. “Company Law,” “The Ontario Mining Law,”
-“International Arbitration,” “Canada’s Future and the Empire,” “History
-of the Theory of Energy,” and “The Functions of a great University.” Has
-lectured on the “Value of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council,”
-“Canada and the Navy,” etc. The work on Mining Law referred to is
-recognized as an authority on the subject dealt with, and has been
-highly praised by the Harvard Law Review of the Law Magazine of England
-as well as by the Canadian Press. The “Mining Journal” stated that “the
-book had the impress of clear and legal learning,” and the work has also
-been described as a monument of research, care and industry. Recently
-Mr. Clark has been elected President of the Royal Canadian Institute,
-founded by Sir John Lefroy (whose grandson, Lieut. Lefroy, gallantly
-fell on Vimy Ridge). In referring to the new President’s appointment
-“The Mail and Empire” said: “Mr. Clark well represents the best that we
-have in character, intellect, scholarship and public spirit. A
-distinguished graduate of Toronto University, the new President, far
-from leaving the avenues of learning, as some do when they graduate, has
-ever increased his stores, and has successfully striven not only to
-broaden and deepen his knowledge, but to devote it to the service of his
-fellow-men, as witness Mr. Clark’s strong and convincing advocacy of the
-Canadian Government availing itself of the great scientific attainments
-and progressive scholarship of men like Professors Macallum and
-McLennan. For many years one of the foremost advocates in Canada of that
-great constitutional change in Imperial relations which is to-day being
-forged on the anvil of war, Mr. Clark has been a powerful and sagacious
-leader in that movement on this side of the water. In the prosecution of
-that enterprise he has deservedly won the regard and friendship of some
-of the leading scholars and statesmen of our Empire.” The “Globe,” in
-the course of a favorable review, said that his Presidential Address on
-“The Reign of Law,” “will appeal to thoughtful readers as a scholarly
-contribution to a subject which derives fresh interest from the war.”
-Mr. Clark has given considerable study to the question of our gold
-supply which has proved a potent factor in the financing of the great
-war, and will be even a more important factor in the reconstruction
-period after the war according to the viewpoint of Mr. Clark, who takes
-the position that the increase in the production of gold be encouraged
-in every practical way. Politically, Mr. Clark has always been a member
-of the Liberal Party, and was formerly President of the Young Men’s
-Liberal Club of Toronto, but, in the Federal general elections of 1917
-he supported the Union Government. He favors Canada remaining an
-integral portion of the British Empire, the utmost practicable extension
-of the principle of free trade, and the development of a vigorous
-Canadian National Sentiment. Married first Greta Helen Gordon, daughter
-of Rev. D. Gordon, and sister of “Ralph Connor,” 1890 (deceased 1894);
-second, Annie Macleod Anderson, daughter of late W. N. Anderson,
-Toronto, 1899 (deceased, 1910); third, Caroline Chaplin, daughter of
-late William Chaplin, St. Catharines; has three daughters, i.e., Mary
-Gordon (now Mrs. W. A. Riddell), Margaret Macleod, and Katie H. Burn. Is
-a member of the following clubs: Toronto, Ontario, British Empire
-(London), Engineers’ Club (Toronto), and belongs to A.F. & A.M.
-(Scottish Rite, Zetland). A Presbyterian in religion. Recreation, golf.
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-=Flint, Thomas Barnard, M.A., LL.B., D.C.L.=, Ottawa, Ont., ex-clerk of
-the House of Commons, was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, April 28, 1847,
-and was educated at Yarmouth and Mt. Allison University, Sackville, New
-Brunswick. He received his B.A. in 1867; his M.A. in 1872; also LL.B. of
-Harvard University, 1871. He was called to the Bar in 1872; was
-appointed a commissioner of the Supreme and County Courts in 1873; was
-Sheriff of Yarmouth County from 1883 to 1887, and Assistant Clerk of the
-Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1887 to 1891. In 1891 he was elected
-to the House of Commons and was re-elected at the elections of 1896 and
-1900. He was appointed Clerk of the House of Commons, Nov. 11, 1902, and
-retired from that position at the beginning of session of 1918, owing to
-failing eyesight. In 1903 he received the honorary degree of Doctor of
-Civil Law. He edited the 3rd and 4th editions of Bourinot Parliamentary
-Procedure. In 1874 he was married to Mary Ella Dane, a daughter of the
-late Thomas B. Dane, who for many years was an influential citizen of
-Yarmouth. Personally, Dr. Flint, an honorable man, with high ideals of
-the amenities of public life, liberally educated, and endowed with
-cultivated taste, entirely without prejudice of race or religion, well
-posted on public affairs, an efficient, unassuming, practical man,
-commanded the respect of Liberals and Conservatives alike, both as a
-member of the House of Commons and as clerk. Dr. Flint at one time was
-Vice-President of the Dominion Prohibition Alliance, and was one of the
-founders, and for many years vice-president of the Yarmouth Building and
-Loan Society, a most successful local business. After he was admitted to
-the Bar he rapidly became one of its leaders in his district. As a
-member of the House of Commons Dr. Flint was Chairman of Standing Orders
-from 1898 to 1902. During the Session of 1894-5 he moved resolutions in
-the House of Commons in favor of prohibition. In 1907 he was elected
-President of the Ottawa Literary and Scientific Society. As a speaker,
-Dr. Flint proved to be a leading debater, forceful and pleasing in
-manner, ever giving evidence as an authority on every question which he
-took up. He is of New England ancestry, and the son of the late John
-Flint, ship owner, and Anne (Barnard) Flint. He is an Anglican in
-religion and a Liberal in politics. From 1897 to 1899 he was Grand
-Master of the Grand Lodge of Masons, of Nova Scotia. Upon his retirement
-from the Clerkship of the House of Commons Dr. Flint was by resolution
-of the House made an honorary official of the House and granted an
-annuity in recognition of his public services. He now resides in
-Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.
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-=Chrysler, Francis Henry, K.C.= (Ottawa), is a son of the late Gordon
-Harvey Chrysler and Jane Chrysler, daughter of Captain James Mackenzie,
-R.N., who was on service on Lake Ontario under Commodore James Yee,
-R.N., during the war of 1812. He is a grandson of Colonel John Chrysler,
-of Chrysler’s Farm, for sixteen years member for Dundas in the
-Parliament of U.C. He was born in Kingston, Ont., educated at Bath
-Academy and Queen’s University, Kingston. Married in 1876 to Margaret
-Isabella, daughter of Donald A. Grant, of Ottawa. He became a barrister
-in 1872; K.C., 1890; has practised continuously in Ottawa and is one of
-the leaders of the Bar of Canada, and one of the life Benchers of the
-Law Society for the Province of Ontario. He is Counsel for many railways
-and other corporations. Has declined appointment to the Canadian Bench.
-He acted as Counsel for the Dominion Iron and Steel Company in their
-action against the Dominion Government to recover bounties for the
-manufacture of liquid pig iron; for the Government of Canada in drafting
-and settling the contracts and legislation for the construction of the
-National Transcontinental Railway; for the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
-Company in drafting and settling their mortgages upon which securities
-were issued for the construction of the railway from Winnipeg to Prince
-Rupert; for all the railway companies of Canada in framing and settling
-The Railway Act of 1903, under which the Railway Commission was
-appointed; for various railway companies, principally the Canadian
-Pacific Railway, in the general enquiry before the Railway Commission
-into railway rates in Canada; for the Dominion Express Company in the
-general enquiry into express tolls and contracts; for the Canadian
-Pacific Railway Company upon the general enquiry into telegraph tolls
-and contracts; for the Special Committee of the House of Commons
-appointed to enquire into the question of telephone rates and systems,
-and for the Railway Companies of Canada as Counsel before the general
-committee appointed by the House of Commons in the Session of 1917, to
-revise and consolidate the Railway Act and Amending Acts. He has had an
-extensive experience and practice as a Parliamentary Counsel, before the
-Railway Commission and in the Supreme Court. His clubs are: The Rideau,
-Country and Royal Ottawa Golf, Ottawa; Metis Golf Club, Little Metis,
-Que. His address is 87 Catharine Street, Ottawa. Mr. Chrysler has four
-children, two sons and two daughters. The elder son, Geoffrey Gordon,
-was for some years in the Royal Canadian Regiment of Infantry, retiring
-in 1912, with the rank of Captain. He enlisted for service in the war
-with Germany, going with the first contingent as a Captain in the Second
-Battalion of Infantry, of which he is now a Major. He has been three
-times severely wounded and has received the Military Cross for
-conspicuous valor. The younger son, Philip Harvey, qualified as a
-Lieutenant of Artillery and served in France in the 3rd Divisional
-Ammunition Column from 1915 until October, 1917, when he was discharged
-as being physically unfit for further service. Mr. Chrysler’s elder
-daughter, Margaret Gordon, Mrs. Frederick H. Emra, is married to a civil
-engineer, who is now a Captain, first in the Second Pioneers and
-afterwards in the Engineers, and has been wounded in France. He is now
-doing engineering work for the Royal Navy. His younger daughter,
-Constance Harvey, is married to Dr. Ernest W. MacBride, LL.D., F.R.S.,
-formerly Professor of Biology in McGill University and now Professor of
-Biology in the Royal College of Science, South Kensington, London,
-England, where Professor and Mrs. MacBride with two young sons reside.
-Mr. Chrysler is by temperament a student and has never occupied any
-public office; a prominent member of St. Andrew’s Church, Ottawa, of
-which congregation he is an officer. A lover of music, having been for
-many years an active member and President of the Orchestral Society; a
-keen golfer, golf being his principal recreation. Although for many
-years a leading member of the Liberal Party, he is at present a strong
-advocate of the policy of carrying on the war by means of a united
-Canadian party.
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-=Aikins, Lt.-Col. Sir James Albert Manning, Kt., M.A., K.C.=,
-Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba, was born in Peel County, Ont., December
-10, 1851, the son of Honorable James Cox Aikins, who was appointed a
-Senator at Confederation, and, on December 9, 1869, Secretary of State
-and Registrar General in Sir John A. Macdonald’s administration, and
-afterwards Minister of Inland Revenue, and later in 1882, appointed
-Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Manitoba, and of the District of
-Keewatin, and upon the expiration of his term of office, a second time
-called to the Senate of Canada in 1896, and his wife Mary Elizabeth
-Somerset. Educated at Brampton High School, Upper Canada College and
-Toronto University (B.A., 1875, M.A., 1877), M.A. Ad eundem, Manitoba
-University, studied law in the office of Matthew Crooks Cameron and also
-Mowat, Maclennan and Downey, admitted to the Bar of Ontario, 1878, and
-to the Bar of Manitoba, 1879, in which year he went to Winnipeg, where
-he soon established himself as one of the leaders of the profession in
-the Province and few members of the Western Bar have held more
-responsible solicitorships. Sir James was solicitor and counsel for the
-Canadian Pacific Railway throughout the western division since its
-organization until he withdrew in 1911, to contest the constituency of
-Brandon in the House of Commons, for which he was returned by a large
-majority, retaining the seat until the general elections in 1917, when
-he was succeeded by Dr. H. P. Whidden (Conservative-Unionist). He was
-also counsel for the Dominion Express Co., Imperial Bank, Bank of
-Ottawa, Canadian Fire Insurance Co., Great West Life Assurance Co.,
-Canada Permanent and Western Canada Land Co., Manitoba Northwest Land
-Co., Scottish American Investment Co. He is a director of the Northern
-Trusts Co., the Canada Fire Insurance Co., and numerous other financial
-corporations. From 1879 to 1896 he acted as counsel for the Department
-of Justice, and, in 1880, he was appointed by the Dominion Government
-one of the Royal Commissioners to investigate and report on the
-administration of Justice in the North-West Territories; was chief
-counsel for the Province of Manitoba during the administration of Hugh
-John Macdonald, drafting the Manitoba Liquor Bill, which, on appeal was
-sustained by the Privy Council in England and decided to be
-constitutional, and has been a model for similar legislation in other
-Provinces. Appointed K.C. in 1884, and created Knight Bachelor in June,
-1914, Sir James Aikins is the senior of the Manitoba Bar and President
-of the Canadian Bar Association, President of the Conference of
-Commissioners on Uniformity of Law. Aug., 1916, appointed
-Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba. Was elected bencher of the Law Society
-of Manitoba in 1886, and has filled a large number of other prominent
-positions and offices, i.e., President of Y.M.C.A.; The Canadian Club;
-Chairman, Wesley College, Manitoba; Honorary Bursar, Manitoba
-University; President Law Society of Manitoba. In June, 1912, was
-appointed to represent Canada at the second International Moral
-Education Congress, held at The Hague from August 22 to 27 of that year.
-A director of the Manitoba Agricultural College, Sir James takes great
-interest in all educational matters. Presented silver cup to Manitoba
-Mounted Rifles for general efficiency 1907; appointed Honorary
-Lieut.-Colonel 90th Regiment, Winnipeg Rifles December, 1910; is also
-Col. (Honorary) of the 99th Regiment, Brandon. A Methodist in religion,
-the subject of this sketch has always displayed much interest in the
-affairs of his church; was a member of the 20th Century Thanksgiving
-Fund, and of the Methodist Church Union Committee, and in 1896 carried a
-resolution in Grace Methodist Church, Winnipeg, heartily favoring
-organic union of Presbyterian, Congregational, and Methodist Churches of
-Canada. Sir James has been twice married—(first) to Mary B. McLellan,
-in 1884, (second) to Mary F. Colby, in 1889, and has three children,
-Gordon Harold Aikins, Barrister-at-Law, married to Myrtle Clint; Mary
-Helena Alberta Aikins; Elizabeth Grace Colby Aikins. Sir James has
-always taken a very prominent part in the affairs of the Dominion and
-that the success which has come to him early in life has been the reward
-of merit is generally admitted. He is a strong platform speaker, a
-brilliant advocate and sound lawyer, and at critical periods in the
-country’s history has shown much dominant force as a political factor.
-Sir James is extremely popular with the members of his profession with
-whom he has a Dominion-wide acquaintance, and has received every honor
-at the hands of his fellow-practitioners. He is a member of the
-following clubs: Manitoba, St. Charles Country, Adanac, of Winnipeg,
-Rideau Club of Ottawa, and Brandon Club, Brandon, Manitoba, and head of
-the following law firms: Aikins, Loftus, Aikins and Fisher, and Aikins,
-Loftus, Aikins, Bell and Bridgman, of Winnipeg.
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-=Pope, Major William Walter=, is of United Empire Loyalist descent, was
-born in the County of Compton, in the Province of Quebec, in 1854, and
-educated there. Entered the service of the Boston, Clinton and
-Fitchburgh Railway, Boston, Mass., when a young man, and later he went
-to Belleville, Ontario, where he studied law. Was assistant to the late
-John Bell, K.C., Solicitor for the Grand Trunk Railway, 1881 to 1904,
-when he was transferred to Montreal as assistant to W. H. Biggar, K.C.;
-while at Belleville was alderman for two years, also Major with the 15th
-Regiment, retiring retaining rank in 1909, holds long service
-decoration, also medal with one clasp for the Fenian Raid, 1866. Since
-September, 1909, has been Solicitor and Secretary of the Hydro-Electric
-Commission of Ontario, and is recognized as a man of great practical
-ability. His present address is 117 Bedford Road, Toronto. The Hon. John
-Henry Pope, late Minister of Railways, was an uncle. Mr. Pope married,
-October 20, 1875, a daughter of Stephen White, Belleville, manufacturer,
-and has one son, W. W. Macaulay Pope. He is a member of the Victoria,
-Royal Canadian Yacht Club, Canadian Empire and United Empire Loyalist
-Clubs, Canadian Military Institute, Albany, and the Masonic Order, also
-a member of the Anglican Church and a Conservative. His principal
-recreations are golfing, bowling, and curling.
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-=Pratt, Edward Courtney= (Montreal, Que.), General Manager of The
-Molsons Bank, is the son of George Henry Pratt, of Monteath, Ireland. He
-was born in Ireland, on October 22, 1864, and educated in Dublin. On
-October 16, 1889, he married Edith Augusta White, the daughter of Wm. J.
-White, K.C., of St. Thomas, Ont., and has six children. Is a member of
-the Mount Royal, Montreal and Beaconsfield Clubs, and a member of the
-Anglican Church.
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-=Riddell, Hon. William Renwick= (Toronto, Ont.), Justice of the Supreme
-Court of Ontario, descended from the family of “Riddell of that Ilk,” a
-son of the late Walter and Mary Renwick Riddell; born in Township of
-Hamilton, County of Northumberland, April 6, 1852. Educated Cobourg
-Collegiate Institute and Victoria University; B.A. (1874), Prizeman in
-Chemistry and Mathematics, B.Sc. (1876), LL.B. (1878), L.H.D. (Syracuse
-University), J.U.D. (Trinity University, Hartford), LL.D. University of
-Toronto, McMaster, Lafayette, Northwestern, Wesleyan, Rochester and Yale
-Universities; graduated at Law School, Osgoode Hall. (Gold Medal and
-first in all examinations); called to the bar 1883, elected Bencher Law
-Society of Upper Canada 1891, re-elected until 1906, created a King’s
-Counsel 1904. Successfully practised at Cobourg and Toronto, and on
-removal to Ontario’s capital, enjoyed large counsel practice, civil and
-criminal; was retained during Toronto Municipal Investigation in 1904.
-Before taking up the study of the law was Mathematical Master of the
-Normal School, Ottawa, and afterwards Chairman of the Cobourg Collegiate
-Institute; President, Educational Society, Eastern Ont.; Pres., Alumni
-Association Victoria University, and member of the Board of Regents.
-Senator of Toronto University; a Governor, Western Hospital, Toronto. In
-October, 1906, the subject of this sketch was appointed one of the
-Judges of His Majesty’s Supreme Court for the Province of Ontario, (the
-last to be appointed to the King’s Bench Division), a position which he
-has since occupied with great distinction. His judgments are models of
-beautiful diction, in which the exposition of the law is clear and
-illuminating, while his grasp of the facts makes for that clarity of
-deduction which always characterizes his Lordship’s deliverances. Mr.
-Justice Riddell has been a generous contributor to various American and
-Canadian magazines and law journals, and the author of “The Canadian and
-American Constitutions.” As a lecturer he is recognized as possessing
-high gifts; his ripe erudition and polished style making his addresses
-of more than passing interest. During the past few years, among the
-addresses delivered and magazine articles contributed by His Lordship
-may be mentioned: The Dodge Lectures, Yale University; Robert Fleming
-Gourlay; La Rochefoucauld’s Travels in Canada, 1795; The First Judge at
-Detroit and His Court. Since the outbreak of the war Mr. Justice Riddell
-has taken a deep interest in recruiting and everything tending to
-forward the cause of the Allies and has given very largely of his time
-and great ability, presiding at many meetings and speaking at others in
-the interest of recruiting. A member of the Toronto, York, and Rosedale
-Golf Clubs. Mr. Justice Riddell finds recreation in the study of
-Canadian History, upon which he is an authority. He is Honorary Member
-of the Bar Associations of the States of Georgia, Missouri, Illinois,
-Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin and New York, and of the Lawyers’ Clubs of
-Buffalo and New York; he is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
-and of the Royal Historical Society. He is a Freemason, a Presbyterian,
-and was formerly a Liberal. Married, March 5, 1884, Anna Hester Kirsop
-Crossen, youngest daughter of the late James Crossen and Margaret Hayden
-Crossen, of “Cedar Hedge,” Cobourg.
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-=Paisley, Jas. K.= (Ottawa). One of the best known and highly respected
-citizens in the Capital of the Dominion and in many other parts of
-Canada, both east and west, is the subject of this sketch. Following in
-his father’s footsteps, who owned and successfully ran a popular hotel
-in Orangeville, at an early age he became, and for years remained,
-cashier of the well known hostelry—the Walker House, Toronto. His
-experiences in that popular public resort and his popularity prompted
-aspirations and ambitions which caused him to launch out in enterprises
-of his own, and he soon became proprietor of several of the best hotels
-in the principal cities and summer resorts in Canada. In 1902 he was one
-of the owners of the New Royal in Hamilton where business success and
-increased patronage prompted the owners to remodel it in 1907. He took
-management of the Penetanguishene Hotel at Penetang and made it one of
-the attractive features of the place. He reached out and got management
-of the Sans Souci at Moon River, the Belvidere in Parry Sound, the
-Iroquois Hotel in Toronto, the Victoria Hotel at Aylmer, Quebec, the
-Grand Union, Ottawa, and, with the late Daniel O’Connor, built the
-Temagami Inn at Temagami, Ontario. In each and all these ventures
-success and popularity followed in his train and created for him
-unstinted fame as an enterprising, progressive and popular hotel
-proprietor and manager. And while so actively engaged in the hotel
-business Mr. Paisley, being an enthusiastic lover of the horse, found
-time to give to that noble animal the most assiduous care and attention,
-and much of his time for years was devoted to the purchase, the raising,
-and the training of some of the finest saddle, harness and trotting
-steeds to be found in any part of Canada. They established, for their
-owner, on many a race track and at many a horse show enviable records.
-His Sealskin Joe was one of those that won distinction on the Winnipeg
-racecourse many years ago. Later his saddle horse, Jardie, was accorded
-the admiration of all. Shortly after his arrival in Ottawa, where he
-first established himself as proprietor of the Grand Union Hotel, he
-became interested in such affairs—public, charitable, patriotic and
-social—as had for their goal the prosperity of the city and the
-happiness and betterment of its people, and his many years activity in
-these lines are well marked in the memory of thousands. Mr. Paisley,
-never allowing his enthusiasm for the horse to die, took a keen interest
-in, and became one of the original members of, the Ottawa Hunt Club; was
-Treasurer of the Horse Show while it exhibited here; became Chairman of
-the Construction Committee that built the Connaught Park Jockey Club
-Track, and is now a director and one of the Management Committee of the
-Connaught Park Jockey Club. For years Mr. Paisley has been a Director of
-the Central Canada Exhibition Association, and held the office of
-Vice-President, and for a considerable time was Chairman of the Special
-Attraction Committee. In 1915, owing to the resignation of Mr. Edward
-McMahon, who had held the position of Manager and Secretary of the
-Central Canada Exhibition Association for over twenty years, and to
-replace whose efficient management the Association had to select a
-competent and reliable successor, Mr. James K. Paisley was chosen, with
-the result that up to date the fair has been an increased success
-financially and in attendance. In his management of the Exhibition’s
-affairs he carries with him a geniality and a business acumen that
-attracts, establishes confidence, and produces good results. When the
-Great War broke out, Mr. Paisley’s son, familiarly known as “Pep”
-Paisley, who had graduated from McGill as an architect, enlisted with A.
-Battery, R.C.H.A., as a gunner and was soon, owing to meritorious
-conduct at the front, promoted to a Lieutenancy. His valor and good work
-at the firing line received much praise from his superior officers. Mr.
-James K. Paisley is the son of John Paisley and Mrs. M. J. Kenniston of
-Orangeville, Ontario. He was born in 1858 and was educated in
-Orangeville High School and Rockwood Academy. In 1888 he married Minnie
-Bairdsall Harris, daughter of the late Isaac Harris. He has one son and
-two daughters. His recreations are sports of any kind. He is an active
-member of the Elks, the Knights of Pythias, and the Foresters, and an
-executive member of the Hotelmen’s Mutual Benefit Association of America
-and Canada, Ex-President of the Ontario Hotel Keepers’ Association, and
-Ex-President of the Ottawa Hotelmen’s Association. In religion he is a
-Protestant, English Church. In politics a Conservative, and his address
-is Kenniston Apartments, Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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-=Cowan, William Frederick, The Late=, who died on October 28, 1918, at
-his home in Oshawa, Ont., was long one of the noted industrial and
-financial leaders of Ontario. He was born in 1832, at Fintona, County
-Tyrone, Ireland, the son of Thomas and Charlotte Cowan. In 1841, his
-parents having decided to remove to Canada, he made with them the long
-sailing and overland voyage to Toronto, the journey occupying some
-months. Shortly after the family’s arrival the father died and the
-mother of the subject of this sketch was left with five young children.
-She managed, however, to give her boys a good education at Boyd’s
-Academy, Bay St., Toronto (conducted by the father of the late
-Chancellor Sir John Boyd) and one of the pioneer educational
-institutions of Toronto. On leaving school, W. F. Cowan first found
-employment with “The Colonist,” a newspaper founded by Sir Francis
-Hincks, an eminent statesman of the mid-nineteenth century. Subsequently
-he entered the employ of Alexander Laurie & Co., dry goods merchants, at
-the south-west corner of King and Yonge Sts., Toronto. Later he served
-with Walter McFarland & Co., dry goods merchants, on Market Square, King
-St. East, Toronto, then the heart of the retail district. In 1856 he and
-his brother John founded a dry goods business of their own, at the
-south-west corner of Yonge and Richmond Sts., Toronto. In 1862 he
-removed to Oshawa, establishing a large general store, and with a branch
-at Prince Albert some twenty miles north of the town. A few years later
-he acquired an interest in the A. S. Whiting Mfg. Co. of Cedar Dale,
-manufacturers of scythes, forks, hoes, etc., the firm becoming Messrs.
-Whiting & Cowan. Largely through Mr. Cowan’s modern methods of business
-organization, the wares of this firm became known throughout America;
-and Mr. Cowan was also successful in developing a large market for them
-in Great Britain. In 1872, in conjunction with Messrs. Wood &
-Winterbourne, of Albany, N.Y., he founded the Ontario Malleable Iron
-Co., of which Mr. D. S. Wood was the first president, and on his death
-was succeeded by Mr. Cowan’s elder brother John. On the latter’s death
-Mr. W. F. Cowan succeeded to the Presidency. He had been a director of
-the company since its inception. He was largely instrumental in making
-Oshawa one of the leading industrial centres of the province. In 1893 he
-established Fittings, Ltd., of Oshawa, of which he was also President at
-the time of his death. Altogether his interests furnished steady
-employment to about 1,000 citizens of the town, of which he was
-recognized as the industrial leader. Mr. Cowan’s financial interests
-were even more widely extended. In 1875 he became Vice-President of the
-newly formed Standard Bank of Canada, and in 1883, on the death of the
-President, the well-known capitalist, Hon. T. N. Gibbs, succeeded to
-that office, in which he continued until his demise, making weekly
-journeys to Toronto to attend meetings of the board until within a few
-days of his death. In 1886, in company with Mr. T. H. McMillan, he also
-established the Western Bank of Canada, which, after twenty-six years of
-active life, was amalgamated with the Standard Bank in 1912. Though
-often pressed to enter Federal and Provincial politics, he contented
-himself solely with municipal service and held the post of Reeve of
-Oshawa, and of Mayor, after its incorporation as a town, for some years.
-He was a steadfast adherent of the Anglican Church in religion, and a
-Conservative in politics. In 1864 he married Susan, daughter of the late
-John Groves, a well-known citizen of Toronto. On his death he left one
-son, Mr. Frederick W. Cowan, of Oshawa, who succeeds to his interests,
-and one grandson, Major R. C. Cowan, who has been overseas for the past
-three years.
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-
-=Reid, Frank= (Simcoe, Ont.), Barrister and Solicitor, was born at
-Vittoria, Norfolk County, February 22, 1862, the son of the late
-Archibald Reid, a cabinet maker, and Elspit Shand. He was educated at
-the Vittoria Public School, Simcoe High School and Osgoode Hall. He
-married Katherine C. Ferguson, September 17, 1890, the daughter of the
-late Alexander Ferguson, railway agent, of Simcoe, and has one son,
-Francis Macdonald Reid. In politics he is a Conservative, is a member of
-the Ancient Order of United Workmen and a Mason. Mr. Reid is Town
-Treasurer of Simcoe, a member of the Presbyterian Church, and takes a
-great interest in golf as a pastime.
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-
-=Minehan, Rev. Lancelot= (Toronto, Ont.), was born in Killaloe, County
-Clare, Ireland, son of Michael Minehan and Hanna Skehan. He was educated
-at All Hallows’ College, Dublin, came to Canada in 1884, and was
-ordained at Montreal. Served as Assistant Priest at Thornhill, House of
-Providence, Adjala, St. Helen’s, St. Mary’s, St. Paul’s, St. Michael’s,
-Toronto. Was Chaplain for two and a half years at Penetanguishene,
-transferred to Toronto, and appointed R.C. Chaplain of the Central
-Prison, Mercer Reformatory and Toronto Asylum; later, was pastor at
-Schomberg, Ont., where he spent three and a half years, following which
-he was first parish Priest of St. Peter’s Toronto, where he built a
-splendid new church and where he ministered for over eighteen years; he
-is now parish priest of St. Vincent’s Church, on Roncesvalles Avenue,
-Toronto, which will be one of the finest edifices in Toronto diocese.
-For twelve or more years Rev. Father Minehan has been connected with
-“The Catholic Register,” and has been identified with various
-organizations for the promotion of temperance, social welfare and the
-moral uplift of the city. He is Vice-President of the Ontario Branch of
-the Dominion Temperance Alliance and Vice-President of the Moral and
-Social Reform League. Father Minehan is as famous for his gifts as a
-pulpit orator as for his eloquence as a platform speaker. His magnetic
-personality, frankness and loyalty have given him an assured place in
-the esteem of all classes. He is a man of indefatigable energy, opposed
-to intolerance and bigotry, with a mind fixed on the promotion of the
-highest ideals in all walks of life. He is a frequent contributor to the
-press, and is a writer of force and choice diction. His reverence favors
-a Canadian Navy and the development of a policy of protection under the
-British Flag. He exercises a wide influence both as a clergyman and a
-private citizen, and at his Silver Jubilee, in 1909, was presented with
-many proofs of his personal worth, and great popularity. Of him it has
-been said that he is “truly Catholic in spirit and in service and
-charity.”
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-
-=L’Esperance, Hon. David Ovide= (Quebec City), Member of the Senate and
-Chairman of the Harbor Commission of Quebec, was born in the thriving
-town of Montmagny, in the County of Montmagny, in the Province of
-Quebec. He is the son of Edouard L’Esperance, his mother’s maiden name
-having been Morin. His career as a business man, banker and broker, has
-been a successful one, his connection with sundry influential exploiting
-firms having given him an influence in public circles which has been
-enhanced by his acumen as a parliamentarian. He has been for years a
-Director of the Quebec Railway Light, Heat and Power Co., a Director and
-President of the Quebec Exposition Board, President of the Grande Allee
-Apartments Company, and President of L’Evenement Publishing Company. He
-is President of the Amable Belanger, Ltd., Manufacturing Co., Montmagny,
-and of the General Car & Machinery Works of the same place. His
-prominence as a successful business man and his influence as a
-public-spirited citizen, did not fail to bring him into touch with the
-political circles of the Conservative Party; and in the year 1911 he was
-elected a Member of the Federal Parliament for Montmagny. While a member
-of the House of Commons, his influence as a deliberate speaker and his
-industry as a member of committees were acknowledged by all associated
-with him in parliamentary work; and, when the vacancy occurred on the
-Harbor Commission of Quebec, on the withdrawal of Sir William Price, he
-was selected to succeed the latter as Chairman of that Board. In July,
-1917, he was called to the Senate. His efforts to improve the harbor
-facilities of the port of Quebec have been appreciated and seconded by
-the Federal Government and his associates in office, with due
-recognition of his public spirit and energy by his fellow-citizens and
-the country at large. In 1888, he married Miss Clara Dionne, of Ste.
-Anne de la Pocatiere, of the Province of Quebec. Their family residence
-is on Ste. Genevieve Avenue, and their summer residence at Percé, Co. of
-Gaspé. Mr. L’Esperance has won for himself a prominence in all the
-movements that have had for their purpose the advancement of the city in
-which he has his home. He is a loyal Quebecer. As a Conservative, he has
-won an influential place in his party. And as a philanthropist he has
-won the good opinion of his fellow-men and co-workers.
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-=O’Reilly, His Honor James Redmond=, is the eldest son of the late James
-O’Reilly, Q.C., M.P., and Mary Jane (Redmond), born at Kingston,
-Ontario, February 14, 1862, and educated at Regiopolis College,
-Kingston, Collegiate Institute, Kingston, St. Mary’s (Jesuit) College,
-Montreal, and Queen’s University, Kingston, from which latter
-institution he graduated with the degree of B.A., and Gold Medal in
-Political Economy in 1882. Called to the Bar, May, 1885. Created a K.C.,
-1899, successfully practised his profession at Prescott for several
-years until his appointment as Senior County Judge for Stormont, Dundas
-and Glengarry, in March, 1900. His Honor was formerly a Liberal.
-President of the South Grenville Liberal Association for 13 years.
-Married December 31, 1889, Rose Mary, fourth daughter of the late James
-Bermingham, and is the father of two children: James, born November 16,
-1891, and Wm. H., born December 26, 1896. In religion the Judge is Roman
-Catholic. He resides at Cornwall, Ont., and is a member of the Cornwall
-Club. In earlier years Judge O’Reilly had some military experience,
-being Bombardier in Wellington Field Battery.
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-
-=Keefe, R. Daniel= (Penetanguishene, Ont.), Principal of the High School
-of that town; was born at Iroquois, Ont., June 10, 1877, and is the son
-of Patrick Keefe, a native of Cork, Ireland, who came to this country
-when a child and later settled on the St. Lawrence in the Town of
-Iroquois and became a builder and contractor, erecting a large planing
-mill, installed an electric light plant for the Town and bought the
-waterworks system which was afterwards sold to the municipality.
-Principal Keefe’s mother was of United Empire Loyalist descent. He was
-educated at the Iroquois High School, McGill University, Montreal, and
-the University of Toronto, and the School of Pedagogy, Hamilton.
-Graduated in 1901 with the degree of B.A., Toronto University. On
-graduating, taught successively in the High Schools of Port Elgin,
-Colborne and Gananoque, and was then appointed Principal of the
-Penetanguishene High School, where he has been for over twelve years
-teaching Science and Classics. Principal Keefe has the reputation of
-being one of the best after-dinner speakers in Northern Ontario. Besides
-the father, one brother, W. S. Keefe, a School of Science graduate in
-Electrical Engineering, survives. Principal Keefe has been an active
-member of the Carnegie Library Board, having acted as Secretary and
-Chairman of the Buying Committee for several years. Is President also of
-the Penetanguishene Hospital. Married in 1905 to Ethel Madeline,
-daughter of Norval Manning, of Toronto, and is the father of two
-children, Beverley Hartle, born 1913, and Wilbur Neville, born 1916. He
-is a member of the Masonic order, being Past Master of Georgian Lodge,
-No. 348, and Past Z. of Kichikewana Chapter No. 67, Midland; P.G.S. of
-the Grand Lodge of Canada. Is keenly interested in all manner of sports
-and prominent in Association football, hockey and curling. Has played
-football in the Champion team of Eastern Ontario and the Champions of
-Hamilton District League, winning the Spectator Cup. Has managed several
-hockey teams and is a Past President and Past Secretary-Treasurer of the
-Penetanguishene Curling Club, and has been one of the District Tankard
-Skips for the past four years. In religion, Mr. Keefe is a member of the
-Methodist Church, and politically, a Liberal.
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-=MacLean, Archie=, R.R. No. 4, Paisley, Ont., was born in Bruce
-Township, County of Bruce, in 1868, of Highland Scotch parents, and
-glories in the fact that he has Highland Scotch blood flowing through
-his veins. He attended the public school in the section in which he
-lived until he was about thirteen years of age, when, being the eldest
-of the family, he had to leave school to assist on the farm. His
-ambition for an education was unquenched and he studied at home, and at
-the age of twenty-one took a three-months’ course in the public school,
-secured his matriculation. He went to Port Elgin and Walkerton High
-School and succeeded in creditably securing a second-class certificate.
-He taught school for a few years, but the profession at that time not
-being over-remunerative, he again took up farming, and also engaged in
-grazing and shipping cattle, which occupation he still successfully
-follows. In 1901 he was elected to the Township of Bruce Council, where
-he served for two years. In 1903-4 he was elected to Reeveship of the
-Township. In 1910 he again contested the Reeveship successfully and held
-the office until 1912. This office he did not covet for office sake, but
-being enthused with the true spirit of co-operation for the benefit of
-all he set the log rolling for the establishment of a municipal
-telephone system, for the benefit of nine different municipalities, his
-own native township being the initiating one. This enterprise is now
-looked upon as the greatest example of co-operation in the whole county.
-In his efforts he was ably seconded by men who caught his vision. He is
-at present one of a commission of three, the other two being, D.
-McNaughton, Ex-M.P.P., and J. J. Hunter, who handle the business of this
-system. Mr. MacLean is a man of splendid executive ability, which has
-been shown by his able judgment in all public enterprises with which he
-has been connected. It has been said that the farmer needs ideas. In his
-case he has ideas—big ones—and is not afraid to champion them even in
-the face of strong opposition. He is a leader and a safe one to follow,
-because of his canny Scotch nature. He is a good public speaker and has
-such splendid control of himself that he has never been known to show
-anger even under trying circumstances. In patriotic endeavor he is
-always to the fore, having done his part ably and conscientiously ever
-since the war began. As yet he has not taken unto himself a wife. He is
-a Liberal in politics, and his name has often been mentioned in
-connection with Parliamentary honors. He is a member of Port Elgin
-Lodge, No. 429, A.F. & A.M., Camp McCrimmon, S.O.S., and the I.O.O.F.
-His genial good nature, wide knowledge of municipal affairs and splendid
-physique, make him an outstanding farmer in any company.
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-=Heaton, Ernest= (Toronto, Ont.), born in 1861, at Bellws-yn-Rhos, North
-Wales. Is the son of Rev. Hugh E. Heaton, of Plas Heaton, Denbighshire,
-North Wales. Educated at Marlborough College and University College,
-Oxford (B.A., 1884). Came to Canada on his graduation and was called to
-the bar of Upper Canada at Osgoode Hall, 1887. Successfully practised
-his profession in Toronto till 1892, when he removed to Goderich;
-returned to Toronto in 1900. Now manager of Heaton’s Agency, Toronto.
-Founded a semi-official system of publications, including Heaton’s
-Annual, Heaton’s Provincial Booklets and Heaton’s Handbooks of Canadian
-Resources. Has contributed many articles to Canadian and English
-magazines and is the author of “Canada’s Problem” (1895); “The Trust
-Company Idea and Its Development” (1904); and also editor of the
-“Commercial Handbook of Canada.” Married Grace, daughter of H. G.
-Attrill, of Baltimore and Ridgewood Park, Goderich, and is the father of
-the following children: Helen Grace, born 1891, married Capt. Ruggles
-George; Hugh Attrill, born 1893; Thomas Gilbert, born 1900; Catherine
-Mary, born 1893. Mr. Heaton is a member of the Toronto Golf Club,
-Toronto Hunt Club and Albany Club; is an adherent of the Church of
-England, and has been a delegate to its Synods. He is a Conservative in
-politics.
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-=Jones, Henry Victor Franklin= (Toronto, Ont.), Assistant General
-Manager of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, son of the late Charles S.
-Jones and Helen (MacDougall); mother sister of the late Honorable
-William MacDougall, C.B., one of the “Fathers of Confederation.” Born at
-St. Mary’s, Ontario, September 28, 1871; educated at Toronto; married
-June 4, 1904, Bunella, daughter of the late E. W. Rathbun, Deseronto,
-Ontario. Entered the service of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, December
-13, 1887. Was at head office and New York branch, and manager of the
-London, England branch of this bank. Chairman Editing Committee Journal
-Canadian Bankers Association, member Ontario Provincial Housing
-Committee. He is a member of the City Club and Conservative Club, and
-the Royal Colonial Institute, London, England; Richmond Country Club,
-New York; The York, Toronto, National, Racquet, and the Toronto Golf
-Clubs. Mr. Jones is the father of four children, three girls and one
-boy. His principal recreation is golf, racquets, fishing, shooting.
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-=Middlebró, William S., K.C.= (Owen Sound, Ont.), son of John and
-Margaret Middlebró. Born, October 17, 1868, at the town of Orangeville,
-Ont. Educated at the Owen Sound Collegiate Institute and Osgoode Hall,
-Toronto; called to the Bar, 1892, and created a King’s Counsel in 1910;
-Mayor of the city of Owen Sound, 1889, and 1900. Married, September 2,
-1903, to Laura J. Trethewey, who died April 21, 1907, leaving no
-children; on October 22, 1913, married Pearl Irene, daughter of G. B.
-Ryan, of Guelph, Ont. Mr. Middlebró, who enjoys a large legal practice
-in the city of Owen Sound, was first elected to the House of Commons in
-1908; re-elected in 1911 and again in 1917, by a majority of 2,291, to
-represent the constituency of North Grey. He has been a prominent member
-in the House since his first election to Parliament and has been
-Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee and Chairman of the Special
-Committee appointed to investigate Army boots in 1915, and also chief
-Government Whip of the former Borden Government and of the Union
-Government. Mr. Middlebró is a fluent platform speaker and well versed
-in all questions of National importance. He is a member of the Church of
-England, and belongs to the Sydenham Club of Owen Sound, and has one son
-by his second marriage, William George.
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-=Marsh, Lieutenant-Colonel Lorne Wilmot= (Belleville, Ont.), born at
-Frankford, Ont., June 29, 1871, son of John Secord Marsh and Lydia M.
-(Hunt), U.E. Loyalist descent. Educated at the Public and High Schools,
-Belleville. Matriculant of Toronto University and an Undergraduate.
-Married, February 13, 1894, Euretta M., daughter of John and Isabella
-Smith, Point Fortune, Quebec. Father of one son, John Edward, born June
-16, 1900. Is a member of the Masonic Order and a Past Master, and a
-Member of The Chapter, a Knight Templar, A.O.M.S., also the I.O.O.F. and
-the I.O.F. Interested himself in the Municipal affairs of the city of
-Belleville, and served as Alderman five years, 1903-1907, inclusive, and
-elected Mayor in 1909 and 1910, Took active interest in military
-matters: Served in the ranks of the 15th Argyll Light Infantry.
-Lieutenant, 1898-9; Captain, 1899, and by gradual promotion rose to the
-rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and Commanding Officer of the Battalion. Has
-been a successful manufacturer since 1897, when he took over the
-manufacturing business of the defunct G. & J. Brown Manufacturing
-Company, with the late W. H. Henthorn, which was incorporated in 1908
-and conducts the manufacture incident to a foundry, machine shop and
-boiler shop, specializing in hoisting machinery, steel tanks and general
-contractors’ machinery, and has recently built a $75,000.00 plant to
-take care of the rapidly increasing output. The nomenclature of his
-business is “Marsh Engineering Works, Limited.” Lieutenant-Colonel Marsh
-is a Methodist in religion, and has been classed as an Independent
-Liberal.
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-=Hebert, Zepherin=, President, Hudon, Hebert & Co., Ltd., Montreal,
-Quebec, Wholesale Grocers and Wine Merchants, importing direct from
-manufacturers in Europe, China, Japan, Asia Minor and United States.
-Born in the city of Montreal on February 6, 1866, the son of Charles P.
-and Rose (Busseau) Hebert, the subject of this sketch is in the prime of
-life. Having attended the Catholic Commercial Academy and St. Mary’s
-College, Mr. Hebert received a liberal education, and to this fact,
-marked business ability, which he displayed at an early age, and a
-winning personality are due his rapid rise, and present recognized
-position in the Eastern Metropolis. Mr. Hebert’s business career and his
-advancement is worthy of note. He joined his present firm as clerk in
-1883, when but seventeen years of age; admitted partner ten years later;
-became Director and Assistant Manager, 1906; elected Vice-President,
-1908; President, 1911. This business was established, 1839, under the
-name of E. & V. Hudon; later, V. Hudon, J. Hudon & Co.; Hudon, Hebert &
-Cie, 1883; incorporated under present name, 1906, the late C. P. Hebert
-being first President. They now employ a staff of 170, and have 25
-travelling salesmen constantly visiting all Canada and selling their
-goods from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans; their turn-over ending
-January 31, 1913, was $4,000,000, an increase of $1,000,000 over the
-past two years’ business. For the last twenty-five years Mr. Hebert has
-been a member of the Montreal Board of Trade, second Vice-President in
-1915, first Vice-President in 1916, and in 1917 was accorded the honor
-of being elected President of that influential body, being the first
-French-Canadian upon whom such a signal mark of distinction has been
-conferred. He was appointed a member of the Council in February, 1913;
-elected member Transportation Bureau December, 1913; has held most of
-important offices, Dominion Grocers’ Guild, and is now President;
-Chairman, Prize Committee, Province Quebec; President Montreal Wholesale
-Liquor Association; Treasurer and Governor, Notre Dame Hospital;
-Governor Montreal General Hospital, Governor Laval University. Mr.
-Hebert is a dominant force in the cultivation of harmonious relations
-between the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec, and was one of the
-promoters of the Bonne Entente movement, having presided as Chairman at
-the Conference when the idea was first crystallized, which led to such
-happy results, and is at present a member of the executive. Of broad
-opinions, and liberal views, he has been described as “a thorough-going
-Canadian.” He is an ardent admirer of British institutions, with a fine
-pride of his own race and its splendid traditions. His opinions on
-economic questions, of which he has been a close student, are held in
-the highest regard and his addresses before the Canadian Credit Men’s
-Association on “Credit and Co-operation,” and before the Wholesale
-Grocers’ Guild, on “Evolution of a Credit Plan” were considered masterly
-expositions of the subjects dealt with. Mr. Hebert has had a
-distinguished military career. He served with the 65th Regiment, Mount
-Royal Rifles, as private, 1882; saw active service in the North-west
-Rebellion, 1885; promoted to Sergeant and Captain, and retired with the
-rank of Major, after eighteen years of service. With such a fine record
-he is enthusiastic on the winning of the war, and prominent in all
-undertakings of a patriotic nature. With admirable diction he is able to
-speak English and French, and has all the courtesy and charm of manner
-which characterizes the educated French-Canadian. He married Blanche
-Robidoux, daughter of J. O. Robidoux, Oct. 9, 1894; has two sons,
-Charles P. and Jacques Robidoux, and two daughters, Marielle and
-Gertrude. He belongs to the following clubs: Canadian, Jockey.
-Recreations: General, military affairs. Politics, Independent Liberal.
-Religion, Roman Catholic. Address, Montreal, Quebec.
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-=McMahon, Edward= (Ottawa), arrived in Canada from Ireland in 1882, and
-immediately entered into the real estate business as agent for the
-owners of By Estate. In 1891 he was appointed to the Secretaryship of
-the Central Canada Exhibition Association, and held that position until
-1916, when he retired. During this period he remained in the real estate
-business and was also Secretary-Treasurer for Registered Sale Pure Bred
-Cattle. Mr. McMahon is a member of the firm of Bate & McMahon, builders
-of Connaught Rifle Range, South March (1913), and member of the firm of
-Bate, McMahon & Co., Contractors with the Dominion Government for the
-construction of Valcartier Camp, Quebec; Camp Sewell, Manitoba; and Camp
-Hughes, Alberta; Camp Borden, the largest Military Camp in the world;
-also builders of Aviation Camps, viz., Borden, Mohawk and Leaside, under
-contract with the Imperial Munitions Board. Mr. McMahon is also senior
-member of the firm of E. McMahon & Son, Insurance and Real Estate
-Agents, and is on the Board of Directors of the following companies,
-viz., Dominion Hardwoods, Limited; the Ottawa Construction Company; the
-Standard Paving Company, and the Ottawa Artificial Ice Company. It was
-owing to Mr. McMahon’s marked business and executive ability during the
-twenty-five years that he held the Secretaryship and, practically, the
-General Management, that the Central Canada Exhibition Association, next
-to Toronto, is now the best institution of the kind in Canada. Each
-year, from the time of his appointment, it grew stronger, more
-attractive and more valuable, until to-day it is second only to
-Toronto’s Great Annual Exhibition. Mr. McMahon came to Canada from
-Monaghan, Ireland, where he was born, January 17, 1862. His father and
-mother were Edward McMahon, farmer and accountant, and Jane Mitchell. He
-was educated at the National and Collegiate Schools and graduated with
-honors. He married Susan Jane Haram, daughter of Robert Haram, Ottawa,
-and has two sons and one daughter, viz.: H. E. McMahon, Lillian M.
-McMahon and Robert M. McMahon. He is a member of the Loyal Orange
-Institution and a Mason; is a Conservative in politics and a Protestant
-in religion. He resides at 87 James St. and has offices in the Central
-Chambers.
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-=Jacobs, Samuel W., K.C., M.P.=, senior member of the legal firm of
-Jacobs, Couture & Fitch, Montreal, Que. Has been President of the Baron
-de Hirsch Institute, 1912-1914, and is a member of the Canadian
-Committee of the Jewish Colonization Association of Paris, which
-administers the Baron de Hirsch Fund. He is an Honorary Vice-President
-of the Jewish Publication Society of America, and was a director and
-member of the governing board of the Montreal Reform Club for many
-years. Mr. Jacobs has contributed numerous papers on legal subjects to
-various law Reviews, and is the author of “Railway Law of Canada,” also
-joint editor of Jacobs and Garneau’s Code of Civil Procedure. He was
-born in Lancaster, Glengarry County, Ontario, the son of William and
-Hannah Jacobs, and received his early education at Montreal High School,
-graduating from McGill University in 1893, as B.C.L., with first rank
-honors, and from Laval University in the following year as LL.M. cum
-Laude. He was elected to the House of Commons at the general elections
-in 1917 for the George Etienne Cartier Division of Montreal by over
-6,000 majority, defeating two opponents. In 1906 he was created a King’s
-Counsel. Mr. Jacobs married Miss Amy Stein, daughter of the late Michael
-Stein of Baltimore, Md., in April, 1917, and they have issue one
-daughter, Hannah, born in 1918. He is a member of the Jewish religion,
-and a Liberal in politics.
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-=Boyer, Major Gustave=, son of Benjamin Boyer and Angelique Latour (both
-French-Canadians), born November 29, 1871, at St. Laurent, Jacques
-Cartier County, near Montreal. Educated at St. Laurent College and Laval
-University. Married April 10, 1907 to Pamela, daughter of François
-Rheaume of Montreal. Formerly a public lecturer on agriculture for the
-Quebec Government. Has been connected with both “La Patrie” and “Le
-Canada,” as agricultural editor. Founded the “Echo de Vaudreuil,” 1897;
-was alderman and mayor of the town of Rigaud for nine years. Has had an
-active military career, being Major and Second in Command of the 17th
-Regiment Duke of York’s Royal Canadian Hussars, of which he organized B.
-Squadron in Vaudreuil County, and afterwards organizer and first
-commanding officer of the 33rd Regiment of Hussars, Vaudreuil and
-Soulanges. First elected to the House of Commons as a Liberal at the
-general election of 1904, and re-elected in 1908, 1911, and 1917. Major
-Boyer is recognized as an authority on all matters pertaining to
-agriculture.
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-=Crothers, Hon. Thomas Wilson, B.A., K.C.=, son of William and Nancy
-(Grey), was born at Northport, Prince Edward County, Ontario, January 1,
-1850. Educated at the Public School, Northport, and Albert College,
-Belleville, and graduated from Victoria College with the degree of B.A.
-in 1873, taught public schools in Lennox and Prince Edward for two years
-and was head master of Wardsville High School 1874-75-76. Studied law in
-the office of Foy, Macdonald & Tupper, and Messrs. Bethune, Osler &
-Moss, in 1877-78-79. On being called to the Bar, began practice of Law
-in St. Thomas in 1880 and for a number of years was in partnership with
-Samuel Price, formerly Mining Commissioner for Ontario, under the firm
-name of Crothers & Price. Appointed a K.C. in 1906; contested West Elgin
-as Liberal Conservative candidate for a seat in the Legislative Assembly
-for Ontario at the general elections in 1879, was defeated by the late
-Dr. Cascadden, who was elected by a majority of 7. Was Chairman of the
-Text Book Commission appointed by the Ontario Government in 1906 to
-enquire into the price of Public and High School Text Books, which
-enquiry resulted in the price being very greatly reduced, when he
-declined to receive any emolument for his services; appointed governor
-of Toronto University 1908. First elected to the House of Commons at the
-general elections in 1908 as a Conservative member for West Elgin, and
-re-elected at the general elections in 1911 and sworn in as Privy
-Councillor and appointed Minister of Labor in the Borden Government,
-Oct. 10, 1911. In 1917 elected as a Unionist and retained the portfolio
-of Minister of Labour until November last, when he resigned owing to ill
-health. Upon accepting this office was returned by acclamation. The Hon.
-Mr. Crothers accompanied Premier Borden on his western tour June, 1911,
-and is recognized as a platform speaker of splendid presence and much
-force. Married July 26, 1883, Mary E., daughter of the late Dr. J. A.
-Burns, of St. Thomas. The Minister is a member of the First Methodist
-Church, St. Thomas.
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-
-=Pyne, Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. Robert Allan, M.D., LL.D.=, Minister of
-Education for the Province of Ontario, was born at Newmarket, Ontario,
-October 29, 1853; son of Thomas Pyne, M.D., and Hester Jane Roberts,
-cousin of Field-Marshal Earl Roberts; educated at public schools,
-grammar school and University of Toronto; physician and surgeon; M.B.,
-M.D. College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, of which he was for
-many years secretary and registrar; LL.D. (hon.) University of Toronto,
-1905, and Queen’s University, Kingston. Married Mary Isobel, daughter of
-His Honor Judge Macqueen, County of Oxford; has issue: Mona Aileen,
-Frederick Roberts, Frank Herbert. As a youth played football and cricket
-as member of the Toronto Cricket and Lacrosse Clubs. Practised his
-profession in Toronto and took active part in public affairs as member
-of Toronto School Board, Public Library Board and Toronto Board of
-Health. While resident of Haldimand County served in the 37th Haldimand
-Rifles and was subsequently Assistant Surgeon, Royal Grenadiers,
-Toronto. Having been prominent in politics, was elected to Ontario
-Legislature as Conservative member for East Toronto, at the general
-elections of 1898, and on the redistribution of the city in 1914 was
-chosen to represent North-East Toronto, which seat he resigned in 1918.
-Recently appointed a Governor of the University of Toronto. On the
-formation of the Whitney Administration (1905-1914) was appointed
-Minister of Education, and reappointed to the same office in the Hearst
-Administration (1914—). In 1918 he resigned to give place to Hon. Dr.
-Cody and accepted the post of Clerk of York County. During his term of
-office the educational system was greatly developed, the legislative
-grants to schools largely increased, the policy of cheap text-books
-inaugurated, and a complete organization for technical training and
-agricultural teaching in elementary and secondary schools effected. The
-successful expansion of the Provincial Schools for Deaf Children (at
-Belleville) and for blind children (at Brantford), is due in great
-measure to his encouragement and his knowledge as a physician. In 1915
-he was requested by the Ontario Government to visit England in
-connection with the gift by the province of a Military Hospital for
-wounded soldiers, and gazetted a lieutenant-colonel in the Canadian
-Army. The hospital was built at Orpington, Kent, England, under his
-supervision, and has been pronounced the best equipped and organized
-institution of its kind erected during the war. Has twice visited the
-Canadian forces on the battle line in France. Is prominent in a number
-of societies, including the Masonic Order, the Orange Association, Sons
-of England, etc., etc. In religion a member of St. Paul’s Church of
-England. Clubs: Toronto, Albany, Royal Canadian Yacht, Canadian Military
-Institute, Riverside Athletic Club. Residence, 21 Dunbar Road, Toronto.
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-=Shier, Walter C., M.D.= (Uxbridge, Ont.), is the son of James Shier and
-Mary Ann Mooney, and was born at Leaksdale, Ont., June 23, 1869, and
-educated at one of the Public Schools of Scott Township and the High
-School of Uxbridge, in the County of Ontario, and also at Toronto
-University, graduating in Arts with the degree of B.A. in 1897, and in
-Medicine with the degree of M.B. with honors, in 1907. Doctor Shier’s
-grandfather, John Shier, was one of the early settlers of the Township
-of Brock, where he located in 1827, a little north of the present West
-Brock Anglican Church, and was of Irish Palatine stock. His
-great-great-great-grandfather was driven out of the Palatinate by the
-wars of Louis XIV of France. He left his native country in 1709 and
-among thirteen thousand of his countrymen, threw himself upon the
-generosity of the British Government. After living one summer in
-England, he settled at Balligarane in Limerick County, Ireland, August,
-1709, on the estate of Lord Southwell. The Doctor’s progenitors were all
-of the farming class. The story of the expulsion of his ancestors from
-that portion of France which is now known as the Provinces of
-Alsace-Lorraine, is of absorbing interest. Dr. Shier after considerable
-trouble and research, has traced the history of his forefathers during
-the interesting period referred to, and has written a book entitled “A
-Family from Balligarane,” being a history of the Irish Palatines. Dr.
-Shier was married on the 4th of February, 1908, to Martha Kaufmann,
-daughter of the late Henry Kaufmann, of Wellesley, Ont., and has one
-adopted daughter, Elsie Grace Ball, age 7. He is a member of the
-Oddfellows and of the Masonic Order, being Past Master of Zeredatha
-Lodge, A.F. & A.M., Uxbridge. In religion he is a Presbyterian and a
-Conservative in politics. The Doctor has been Coroner of the County of
-Ontario for some years and Surgeon of the G.T.R. He devotes his
-attention very closely to his profession and specializes on Eye, Ear,
-Nose and Throat, Consultations and Anæsthetics. He is an ardent motorist
-and expert marksman. The Doctor is a man of fine literary tastes and
-exceedingly well posted on all matters of national importance. He
-entertains very decided opinions on public questions and is never afraid
-to have them known.
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-
-=Robertson, Wm. John= (St. Catharines, Ont.), son of John and Emma
-(Rudsdale) Robertson. Father, a Scotch Canadian; mother, a native of
-Yorkshire, England. Born Westmeath, County Renfrew, Ontario, Sept. 12,
-1846; educated Perth High School, Toronto University (B.A. with gold
-medal in metaphysics, ethics and civil polity; silver medal in
-mathematics; 1st honors in history and Prince of Wales prize for highest
-standing in 1873); and Victoria University (LL.B., 1883). Married, 1887,
-Margaret K., youngest daughter of John Junkin, St. Catharines, Ontario,
-for a time assistant to late Professor Kingston, Meteorological Bureau,
-Toronto, and 38 years as chief teacher of mathematics and history, St.
-Catharines Collegiate Institute; for 7 years was examiner in
-metaphysics, ethics, modern history, and political science, Toronto
-University; was also examiner for Upper Canada College and McMaster
-University; was Ontario Representative on the Committee of the Dominion
-Education Association for securing and revising Canada manuscripts from
-a Dominion standpoint, 1892; first President Canadian History
-Association, 1895; founded Robertson Prize in Canadian Constitutional
-History, Toronto University; formerly a Senator Victoria University;
-Pres. Ontario Library Assoc., Mathematics Assoc., and chairman St.
-Catharines Free Library Board, also Vice-Pres. Y.M.C.A. Ont. and Quebec;
-Pres. Canadian Club, St. Catharines, and Pres. Local St. Andrews
-Society. Member of the St. Catharines College Institute Board, Pres. of
-the Local Branch Bible Society. Author, sketch of “Canadian Banking and
-Currency since 1867,” “The Teacher’s Relation to the State,” “A
-Comparison of the Political Institutions of Canada with those of Great
-Britain and Ireland, and with those of the United States,” “The Growth
-of the Canadian Constitution,” “The High School History of England and
-Canada,” “The Public School History of England and Canada,” for many
-years of other authorized Text Books in Ontario and other provinces, and
-of numerous other works of a like nature and reputation. In politics an
-Independent Liberal; a Methodist in religion. A member of the Methodist
-Board of Education, and for 32 years a Delegate to the General
-Conference and member of Superannuation Fund Board of the Church; a
-believer in Free Trade as far as it can be obtained; the development of
-a Canadian sentiment and literature; and the moderation of party
-feeling. Member of the Golf Club, St. Catharines, and of the Canadian
-Club.
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-
-=Seguin, Paul Arthur, B.S., LL.B.= (L’Assomption, Que.), son of Felix
-Seguin and Vitaline Noiseux, both French-Canadians. Born October 2,
-1875, at Charlemagne; educated at L’Assomption College and Laval
-University, from which latter institution he graduated with the degree
-of B.S. and LL.B. Married, October 30, 1899, to Marie Anna Rivest,
-daughter of François Rivest and Delphine McGoun, and is the father of
-the following children: Roland, Rolande, Jeanette, Fernande and Pauline.
-Mr. Seguin is a Notary Public by profession and has been
-Secretary-Treasurer of the town of Terrebonne from 1900 to 1907, and
-Secretary-Treasurer of the Parish of St. Paul l’Ermite from 1907 to
-1912, and now practises his profession at the town of L’Assomption, of
-which town he is the Mayor, and member of the School Board. Mr. Seguin
-was first elected to the House of Commons as a Liberal in 1908 and again
-in 1911, and also at the general elections in 1917. He has always been a
-staunch Liberal and a member of the Roman Catholic Church.
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-=Smith, John Charles, B.A.=, son of William Smith and his wife Sarah
-Josephine Whitlow, was born at Kingston, Ont., November 28, 1875.
-Educated at Kingston Public Schools, Kingston Collegiate Institute, and
-Queen’s University, Kingston, from which latter institution he graduated
-with the degree of B.A. in 1898, with honors in Classics. Mr. Smith
-taught in the Public Schools in Frontenac County, Ont., and was
-subsequently Classical Master in Dutton High School and in Dundas High
-School, afterwards Classical Master and Principal in the Wingham High
-School, and filled a similar position in the Ingersoll Collegiate
-Institute. In 1916 was appointed Inspector of Public Schools for the
-Inspectorate of Elgin East. Married Rose, daughter of John Critchley, of
-Toronto, and has one child, Hugh Cyprian Whitlow. Mr. Smith is a member
-of the Canadian Club and the Masonic and Orange Orders, and of the
-Canadian Order of Foresters. He is an Anglican in religion and a member
-of Trinity Church, St. Thomas, at which city he resides.
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-
-=Samuel, Sigmund=, one of the most interesting of Toronto’s wholesale
-merchants is Sigmund Samuel, son of Lewis Samuel, who, with his wife,
-formerly Miss Kate Sickleman, came to Toronto in 1855, where Mr. Samuel
-founded his iron, steel and metal business, now located at the corner of
-King and Spadina Avenue, Toronto, at 120 Broadway, New York, and 18
-Philpot Lane, London, E.C., England, and is also vice-president of the
-Metallic Roofing Co. of Toronto. It is now the oldest established firm
-in direct succession in Canada in this branch of industry. The present
-head of the firm was born in Toronto on October 24, 1868, and educated
-at the Model School and Upper Canada College, from which he graduated in
-1884. In 1898 he married L. May Mandelson, daughter of L. P. Mandelson,
-a retired merchant of London, England, and their family numbers four:
-Kathleen May, Lewis Sigmund, Norman Sigmund and Florence May. Of Jewish
-religion, in politics Conservative, Mr. Samuel’s chief recreations are
-golf and motoring. He is a member of the York Club, Toronto Hunt Club,
-the Albany, the Lambton Golf and Country Club, the Caledon Mountain
-Trout Club and, in England, of the Carlton Club and the Hanger Hill Golf
-Club. He is also a member of the council of the Art Museum of Toronto.
-Nor is Mr. Samuel neglectful of philanthrophy, for he is a life member
-of the Western Hospital, Toronto, and a governor of the Children’s
-Hospital, Great Ormond St., London, England. Mr. Samuel is truly
-Imperialistic in maintaining his English connections, and maintains his
-English address at 64 Porchester Terrace, London. His Canadian home is
-at 140 Madison Avenue, Toronto.
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-
-=Rose, Hon. Mr. Justice Hugh Edward=, (Toronto). Son of the late Hon.
-Mr. Justice J. E. Rose, LL.D., Judge of the Supreme Court of Judicature
-for Ontario. Born in Toronto the 16th of September, 1869. Educated at
-Toronto Collegiate Institute and the University of Toronto, from which
-latter institution he graduated in 1891 with the degree of B.A., and
-received the degree of LL.B. in 1892. Called to the bar in 1894. Created
-K.C. in 1908. Before his elevation to the Bench, was a member of the
-firm of Fasken, Cowan, Chadwick & Rose. Some time Examiner in Law,
-Toronto University, and one of the examiners of the Law Society of Upper
-Canada. Appointed to the Bench the 4th of December, 1916. Member of the
-following clubs: Toronto Club, and Toronto Golf Club. In religion, Mr.
-Justice Rose is a member of the Church of England.
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-
-=Mills, Charles Henry, M.L.A.= (Kitchener), was born at Clinton, Ont.,
-October 27, 1861; son of Rev. John Mills and his wife, Eliza Coleman.
-Educated at the Grimsby High School. Was President of the Kitchener
-Board of Trade, 1904-5, and Alderman for the City, 1911-12. Has been
-member of the following boards in the City of Kitchener: Parks
-Commissioner, Light and Power Commission, and Collegiate Institute. Was
-first President of the Canadian Club in his home City in 1908. First
-elected to the Ontario Legislature at a by-election, October 28, 1912,
-as the Conservative representative for the constituency of North
-Waterloo and again returned in the General Election of 1914 by a
-majority of 1454, being the largest majority ever given a Conservative
-candidate in the riding. In religion, the member for North Waterloo is a
-Methodist. He married Bernice Mitton, daughter of William J. Mitton of
-Dutton, September 7, 1898, and is a member of the Kitchener and Waterloo
-Clubs and of the following societies: Masonic, Canadian Order of
-Foresters, and Knights of Pythias.
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-=Hazen, Hon. Sir John Douglas, K.C.M.G., K.C., LL.D., O.C.= (St. John
-City and County). Descended from Edward Hazen, who moved from
-Northumberland, Eng., to Massachusetts in 1648, and more immediately
-from John Hazen, who, with his brother William, came from Haverhill,
-Mass., and settled at Portland, New Brunswick, in 1775. Son of the late
-James King Hazen, mother a daughter of the late Hon. John A. Beckwith.
-Maternal grandfather was Provincial Secretary of New Brunswick and
-member of the Legislative Council. Paternal grandfather was an officer
-in H.M. Army, and Sheriff of Sunbury County for over 25 years. Born at
-Oromocto, Sunbury County, New Brunswick, June 5, 1860. Educated at
-Collegiate School, Fredericton, and University, New Brunswick; degrees,
-B.A., B.C.L., LL.D., University New Brunswick. Married Sept. 22, 1884,
-Ada C., daughter of James Tibbits, of Fredericton. Five children:
-Douglas King, Katie Elizabeth, Frances Edith, James Murray (Lieutenant
-C.E.F., died of wounds in France) and Ada A. A barrister-at-law.
-Director of the Eastern Trust Co., Senator of the University, New
-Brunswick and ex-President Alumni Society thereof. Ex-President of the
-Barristers’ Society, New Brunswick. Was Alderman of Fredericton for
-three years and Mayor too. Removed to St. John, 1890. President of
-Horticultural Society. Returned to House of Commons, general election,
-1891, for St. John city and county. In 1891, moved address in reply in
-House of Commons; an unsuccessful candidate 1896; elected to House of
-Assembly 1899-1903 and 1908 (Sunbury County). Chosen 1899 Leader of the
-Opposition. The Opposition Party under his leadership administered a
-crushing defeat to the Robinson Government at the general election,
-March, 1908, and at the close of the polls he found himself at the head
-of a contingent of 31 supporters, as against 12 adherents of the
-government. Upon the resignation of Premier Robinson and his colleagues,
-Mr. Hazen was summoned by His Honor the Lieut.-Governor to form a
-government, which he did, assuming the portfolio of Premier and
-Attorney-General. The Cabinet was sworn in, March 24, 1908, and all the
-members thereof re-elected by acclamation April 7. Retained office until
-Oct. 10, 1911, when he was sworn of the Privy Council and appointed
-Minister of Marine and Fisheries in Premier Borden’s Cabinet. Dr.
-Daniel, the M.P. elect for St. John City and County, retiring, Mr. Hazen
-was placed in nomination and elected by acclamation. Member of
-Inter-Provincial Conference, Ottawa, and of Maritime Provincial
-Conference (1910), attended coronation of King George and Queen Mary
-(1911) as representative of the Province of New Brunswick. Delegate to
-Washington on two occasions in connection with the Hague Award _re_
-North Atlantic Fisheries and delegate to England with Premier Borden,
-_re_ Naval affairs (1912). In the latter part of 1917 he became Chairman
-of the Canadian Section of the International Fisheries Commission to
-settle all outstanding fisheries questions between Canada and the United
-States; appointed Chief Justice New Brunswick November, 1917. Created a
-K.C.M.G. for public services same year. Member of Union Club, St. John;
-Mount Royal Club, Montreal; Rideau Club, Ottawa; Royal Colonial
-Institute, London Eng., and of the following societies: St. George’s,
-Loyalist, New Brunswick, Historical, and Natural History, St. John, N.B.
-Recreation, golf and motoring. Member of St. Paul’s (Anglican) Church,
-St. John, New Brunswick. Address, St. John, N.B.
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-=Sinclair, Victor Albert, B.A., LL.B.=, born May 16, 1872, at
-Tilsonburg, Ont., son of Dr. Lachlin C. Sinclair and Roxilana Nan
-Norman, both Canadians. Dr. Sinclair contested North Norfolk on three
-occasions in the Conservative interests against the late Hon. John
-Charlton. Educated at the Public and High Schools of Tilsonburg, the
-University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall; graduated B.A. in 1892 with
-first-class honors in Political Science and English, took degree of
-LL.B. with honors in 1894; called to the Bar at Osgoode Hall, in 1895,
-receiving medal. Commenced practice at Tilsonburg with W. A. Dowler,
-K.C., as Dowler & Sinclair, has practised alone for past eight years,
-entered Municipal Council of his native town in 1896, and served three
-years as councillor and two years as Mayor, was high school trustee from
-1910 until 1919, member of Council, Board of Trade. President of
-Tilsonburg Conservative Club, President Tilsonburg Horticultural Society
-1910-1919, Vice-President Bowling Club, Vice-President Tilsonburg Shoe
-Company, Limited. The subject of this sketch was first elected to the
-Ontario Legislature for South Oxford at the general elections of 1914 by
-a majority of four over Colonel T. R. Mayberry; on recount this majority
-was increased to five, and on appeal reduced to one. Mr. Sinclair is
-recognized as a valuable member of the Legislature, he was acting
-Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee during the session of 1916, he
-is a member of several fraternal societies, including the Masonic, of
-which he is now Worshipful Master, C.O.F., A.O.U.W., also O.C.H.C., of
-which he is Supreme Leader for Canada, and has made a special study of
-Municipal and Company law. He enjoys a large practice, and is the
-solicitor for several townships in the counties of Oxford, Elgin, and
-Norfolk. Married February 6, 1901, to Gertrude L., daughter of George
-Draper, of Listowel, and is father of two children: Mildred Roxilana,
-and Gertrude Helen. In religion the member for South Oxford is a
-Methodist. His chief recreation is bowling and horticulture.
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-
-=Robertson, Norman= (Walkerton, Ont.), author of “The History of the
-County of Bruce,” and Treasurer of the County of Bruce, Walkerton, Ont.,
-was born on June 27, 1845, in Belleville, Ontario. His father, Peter
-Robertson, was a merchant of Scottish birth and the son of a
-Presbyterian minister, at Kilmaurs, Ayrshire. Mr. Robertson’s mother,
-Sarah Ross, was born in England, although of Highland descent, her
-grandfather being one of those who followed “Bonnie Prince Charlie” into
-England in 1745. Norman Robertson attended the Grammar School at
-Belleville, but left school when only eleven years of age, that he might
-accompany his father and assist him in his business when he came to the
-County of Bruce and settled at Kincardine in 1856. The disadvantage
-arising from leaving school at so early an age was in part overcome by
-private study and tuition. In 1863 he went to Montreal, taking a
-position in a wholesale dry goods warehouse, rising to the position of
-English buyer. In 1877 he returned to Kincardine and took over the
-business of his father, who retired. He was married at Montreal in 1871,
-to Lilla M. Warren, daughter of S. R. Warren, builder of church organs
-at Montreal, and afterwards at Toronto. His family consists of three
-sons and two daughters. In religion Mr. Robertson is a Presbyterian, and
-has been an active worker in Sunday School work for over fifty years. In
-politics he is a Conservative. The position of Treasurer of the County
-of Bruce became vacant in 1887, and Mr. Robertson was chosen from among
-twenty-five applicants. A desire to have put in book form and so
-preserved, the records of the settlement of the County of Bruce, induced
-the County Council in 1896 to offer a prize for a Historical Sketch of
-the County. The sketch prepared by Mr. Robertson carried off, jointly
-with another, the prize. This initial effort was followed in 1906 by a
-volume of 560 pages bearing the title “The History of the County of
-Bruce.” This work has been very favorably commented upon and classed as
-one of the best of the County Histories of the Province that have been
-published. Mr. Robertson was with the Victoria Rifles, of Montreal, when
-that regiment went to the front at the time of the Fenian Raids in 1866,
-and has received his military medal therefor.
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-
-=Price, Samuel, B.C.L.= (Toronto, Ont.), Chairman, Workmen’s
-Compensation Board. Born at Caradoc Township, Middlesex County, Ont.,
-February 16, 1863, son of Richard and Mary (Whiting) Price. Educated at
-local Public School, Strathroy and St. Thomas Collegiate Institutes;
-Trinity University (B.C.L., gold medal); Osgoode Hall (scholarship each
-year, gold medal, 1895). Taught school for some time; read law with
-McLean & Son, St. Thomas, and Magee, McKillop & Murphy, London; called
-to Ontario Bar, September, 1895; practised at St. Thomas; Secretary,
-Elgin Law Association. Royal Commissioner (Ontario) for settlement of
-Cobalt mining disputes, 1905; Mining Commissioner for Ontario,
-1906-1912; Royal Commissioner for inquiry into alleged fraudulent action
-of Fort Frances Lumber Co., and Keewatin Lumber Co., 1909; Commissioner
-_re_ eight-hour day for miners in Ontario, 1912-1913; reported to
-Ontario Government on eight-hour law and drafted Bill (now in force);
-Royal Commissioner to investigate mining labor troubles on Vancouver
-Island, 1913; assisted in general revision of Mining Act of Ontario,
-1908; drafted amendments to mining laws and other Ontario legislation,
-1907-1913; refused Chairmanship of Ontario Railway and Municipal Board;
-engaged (on recommendation of late Chief Commissioner Mabee) in
-consolidation and revision of Railway Act, 1912-1913; recommended by
-late Chief Commissioner Mabee for appointment as a member of Railway
-Board of Canada; appointed to present position Aug., 1914; President
-West Elgin Liberal-Conservative Association, 1904-1905. Member Public
-Library Board. Author “Mining Commissioner’s Cases,” 1910; articles on
-Mining Law, “Canada Law Times” and Journal Canadian Mining Institute,
-1910-1911. Societies: A.F. & A.M., K.P., C.O.C.F., C.O.F. Liberal
-Conservative; Anglican.
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-=Jones, George Burpee= (Apohaqui, N.B.), son of Stephen Jones and Susan
-Eliza, his wife, both Canadians, was born January 9, 1866, at Belle Isle
-Bay, Kings County, N.B. Educated at Apohaqui Superior School. At twelve
-years of age Mr. Jones entered the employ of the late J. A. Sinnott, and
-after six years resigned and accepted the position of General Manager
-with Hugh McLean, of Salmon River, Queens County, in general business
-and lumber. Resigned that position in September, 1889, and commenced
-business in his present stand in Apohaqui and is senior member of the
-firm of Jones Brothers, general merchants and lumber manufacturers, of
-Apohaqui. Is president of the “St. John Daily Standard.” Has been a
-member of the School Board of Apohaqui Superior School for the past 25
-years. First elected member of the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly in
-1908 and re-elected at the general elections in 1912, and re-elected
-general elections in 1917. Is of Loyalist descent and a member of the
-Presbyterian Church. Married August 15, 1888, to Melissa J., daughter of
-William Fowler, and is the father of two children, Colby Herbert and
-Muriel B.
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-=Izzard, Dennis Jabez=, son of James Izzard and Elizabeth Whetstone, was
-born in Norton, Hertfordshire, England. With his parents he came to
-Canada in 1861, and for a time worked as a boy at farming. He secured
-his education in the schools of those early days under the excellent
-teachers who have left their stamp on the men and women of to-day.
-Growing to manhood Mr. Izzard decided to follow contracting and
-building, in which he achieved success for many years. Many of the
-public buildings in Bruce County were erected under his guidance, and
-stand as a monument to his ability. He made Port Elgin his home shortly
-after coming to the County of Bruce, and he has ever been one of its
-leading men. He served as councillor in the village council for a number
-of years. In 1880-81 he served as reeve. Retiring, he was out of
-municipal life until 1890-91, when he again adorned the reeve’s chair.
-In 1909 the people again made him their choice, and he continuously
-represented them from that time until 1918. At the January meeting of
-the Bruce County Council in 1917, he received the marked honor of being
-elected warden of the county, by acclamation, he being the second man in
-the history of the county to have been so honored. He is kindly and
-courteous in disposition, and nowhere has it shown to better advantage
-than in his able handling of public bodies he has been connected with.
-His advice has always been received with the fullest confidence that he
-knows the matters being dealt with from a first hand knowledge. In
-January, 1918, he was chosen by the county council of Bruce as
-superintendent of the good roads of the county. In politics he is a
-Liberal, and his parents were English Methodists. He is fond of curling,
-fishing, shooting, in all of which he is skilful. He is a member of Port
-Elgin Lodge, No. 429, A.F. & A.M. In April, 1891, he married Mrs.
-Frilzinger, Waterloo County. Two children were born, Stewart Elmo,
-deceased, and Miss Pearl E., who resides at home.
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-
-=Shutt, Frank Thomas= (Ottawa, Ont.), son of William D. and Charlotte
-Shutt. Born, London, England, September 15, 1859. Educated at London and
-the University of Toronto, from which latter institution he graduated in
-1885 with honors in Natural Science; M.A., 1886; he also has had
-conferred on him D.Sc. and is regarded as one of the highest authorities
-on Agricultural Chemistry in America. Dominion Chemist and Assistant
-Director Experimental Farms. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of
-Canada, Fellow of Chemical Society (Eng.), Fellow of the Institute of
-Chemistry (Eng.), and Fellow of the American Chemical Society, and also
-Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Since
-1887 he has been Chemist of the Dominion Experimental Farms. Dr. Shutt
-founded the “Cawthorne Medal” in Natural Science, Toronto University,
-and has been examiner in Chemistry there. President of Toronto
-University Graduates’ Club, Ottawa, 1894-5; President of Ottawa Field
-and Naturalists’ Club, Ottawa, 1895; President, Ottawa Schubert Club,
-1896. President Chem. and Phys. Section Royal Society 1916-17. British
-Judge, World’s Fair, Chicago, 1893, and is the author of the reports and
-bulletins of the Dominion Chemists’ Experimental Farm and of many papers
-on original investigations in the Royal Society of Canada. The Doctor is
-a man of fine musical tastes and is especially interested in the organ.
-He finds recreation in pictorial photography.
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-
-=Montgomery, Hugh John= (Wetaskiwin, Alta.), was born on the 31st of
-July, 1876, at Bedeque, P.E.I., son of James Montgomery and Kate
-McFarlane, both Canadians, born of Scotch parents. Educated at the
-Public School, Bedeque, P.E.I., and Charlottetown Business College. Went
-to Wetaskiwin in the Province of Alberta in 1898. Elected to the City
-Council as Alderman in 1905, and served four years and elected Mayor in
-1910. First elected to the Provincial Legislature as Liberal candidate
-for the constituency of Wetaskiwin at a by-election on November 17,
-1914, defeating his opponent by a majority of 501. Re-elected at the
-Provincial general elections of June 7, 1917, by a majority of 817.
-Married December 31, 1903, Adelaide, daughter of Clifford E. Vaughn, of
-Minneapolis, Minn., and is the father of two children: Kenneth Gordon,
-and Lawrence Vaughn. Mr. Montgomery is a successful general merchant. In
-religion he is a Presbyterian.
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-
-=MacDonald, Selkirk M.=, Portage la Prairie, Man. A thorough westerner
-is Selkirk M. MacDonald, Deputy Clerk Crown and Pleas, C.J.D.; Surrogate
-Court Clerk, C.J.D., and County Court Clerk, since November 1, 1903. Mr.
-MacDonald, who succeeded his father, John MacDonald, in the above
-offices, was born in Portage la Prairie on February 1, 1875. His mother
-was Isabella MacKay, a daughter of Selkirk Douglas MacKay, who had the
-distinction of being the first white child born in Manitoba, his parents
-having come to Canada with the Lord Selkirk settlers. Mr. MacDonald is
-not only a westerner by birth and by all his traditions, he was educated
-in Portage la Prairie and has always taken a prominent part in the
-outdoor sports which are such a feature of Western Canadian life. In his
-youth he played hockey and lacrosse with the Victorias of Winnipeg, and
-the Portage la Prairie clubs and was also a member of the famous
-lacrosse club of Victoria, B.C. In bicycling, football, baseball,
-running, jumping he was always prominent, and he finds his greatest
-present recreations in hunting, curling, motoring and trap-shooting. Mr.
-MacDonald is not married, is a Presbyterian in religion, a prominent
-member of the Masonic Society, and a member of the Portage Club, and of
-the Portage Country Club.
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-Oshawa]
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-
-=Sainte-Pierre, F.=, Managing Director and Secretary-Treasurer of Credit
-Canada, Limitée, the largest French-Canadian Bond houses in Canada. Mr.
-Sainte-Pierre was born at Chicoutimi on the 13th December, 1885, a son
-of F. Sainte-Pierre, general merchant, and Josephine Saint-Pierre. He
-was educated at Chicoutimi Seminary and the Commercial Academy of
-Quebec, graduating at Quebec in 1902. As a student, Mr. Sainte-Pierre
-was a frequent contributor to the Society Magazine. He was married on
-7th October, 1913, to Miss Noemi Decary, daughter of the late A. C.
-Decary, N.P., Registrar. He has two children, Helene and Jean
-Sainte-Pierre. He is a member of the Maccabees and a Roman Catholic. Mr.
-Sainte-Pierre is a Liberal in politics, in which he takes a keen
-interest, his name having been suggested as a candidate for
-parliamentary honors on more than one occasion. Mr. Sainte-Pierre is an
-enthusiastic motorist and also keenly interested in motor boating and
-fishing. Having been a dealer in a very large way in municipal
-securities, Mr. Sainte-Pierre has for the past few years given a great
-deal of attention to the improvement of municipal borrowing. He favors
-the appointment of a Government Expert Officer to safeguard and study
-the best methods of borrowing money, realizing that many municipalities
-have not the expert financial knowledge that enables them to decide on
-the most propitious times to float loans, he believes that the suggested
-reforms would be greatly in the interest, not only of the
-municipalities, but of the financial houses that deal in these
-securities. Mr. Sainte-Pierre, as the executive head of Credit Canada,
-Limitée, has been very active in the financing of large school
-municipalities and cities. His firm has handled some of the largest
-issues floated in the Province of Quebec in recent years. He has made
-various suggestions for the improvement of School municipalities in the
-province. Mr. Sainte-Pierre is also well known as an expert accountant,
-and systematizer. He is a member of several fraternal societies and it
-is well recognized that the prominent position obtained by Credit
-Canada, Limitée, is due to the energy and financial skill of Mr.
-Sainte-Pierre.
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-
-=Mackenzie, Norman, K.C.=, one of the leading barristers of the Canadian
-West, is head of the firm of Mackenzie, Thom, McMorran, McDonald,
-Bastedo and Jackson, Regina, Saskatchewan. He was born at Sarnia, Ont.,
-January 27, 1869, the son of John Alexander and Helen Mackenzie. He was
-educated at private schools. Upper Canada College and Osgoode Hall,
-Toronto. He read law in the offices of Morphy, Miller, Levesconte &
-Smythe, Toronto, from 1888 to 1891, and in latter year was called to the
-Ontario Bar. He at once went to Regina, then the capital of the
-North-West Territories, was there called to the Territorial Bar and
-commenced practice. On the division of the North-West Territories into
-Provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan in 1905, he became a solicitor
-entitled to practice in both Provinces by virtue of the Act. Was created
-K.C. in 1907, was elected a Bencher of the Law Society of the North-West
-Territories in 1898, and continued to represent the North-West
-Territories until 1905, and since then the Province of Saskatchewan,
-retiring in 1919 as a Bencher ex-officio under the Act, during which
-period he was at different times President of the Society, served as
-Public Administrator from 1898 to 1910; 1916 to 1918 he was
-Vice-President for Saskatchewan of the Canadian Bar Association. Mr.
-Mackenzie finds his chief recreation in art and in his dogs. He is a
-member of many social organizations including the Assiniboia Club,
-Regina, Wascana Country Club, Regina Golf Club, Manitoba Club, Winnipeg.
-He is a Presbyterian and a Liberal in politics. On May 29, 1909, he
-married Clara Erma, daughter of Henry McMorran of Port Huron, Michigan
-and resides at 2336 Victoria Ave., Regina.
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-
-=Johnston, Ebenezer Forsyth Blackie, K.C.= (Toronto, Ont.), was born in
-Berwickshire, Scotland, December 20, 1850, and received a thorough
-scholastic training in his native country. He came to Canada in boyhood,
-and for a short time looked to farming as an occupation and became also
-interested in educational matters. The bent of his mind being in the
-direction of the law, he pursued the studies thereof, and in 1876 was
-sworn in as a solicitor, and in 1880 he was called to the Bar, and
-practised at Guelph for a few years, where he met with big success. Upon
-receiving the appointment (in 1885) as Deputy Attorney-General and Clerk
-of the Executive Council, he came to Toronto, and held the position for
-four years. He then resumed the practice of his profession and was
-subsequently appointed for three years Inspector of Registry Offices,
-which office, by reason of his increasing practice he was compelled to
-resign in 1894. He has frequently acted as Crown Counsel at the
-Provincial Assizes, being retained in several important murder trials,
-and in that capacity has won distinction and success, by reason of the
-fact that he has perhaps conducted more criminal cases than any man in
-Canada. To cite a complete or anything like a complete list of the cases
-which he has been retained for, would read like a city directory. He was
-a gentleman of pleasing address, yet withal a forceful orator, and had
-the faculty of being in a position through his remarkable tenacity to
-hold the jury and convince them to his way of thinking. He had a ready
-mental grasp, quick and clear conceptions, and was ever ready to see a
-point and turn it to the advantage of his client. In 1887 was appointed
-a Commissioner to enquire into the working of municipal institutions,
-and was president of the Guelph Caledonian Society, and secretary of the
-Reform Association for a number of years. He was appointed as Q.C. by
-the Ontario Government in 1890. Mr. Johnston was senior partner of the
-well-known law firm of Johnston, McKay, Dodds & Grant. He was a
-Vice-President of the Royal Bank of Canada, Chairman of the Standard
-Reliance Mortgage Corporation, Director on several Boards, and President
-of the Chartered Trust Co. He was for some years a Bencher of the Law
-Society. Mr. Johnston passed away January 29th, 1919.
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-
-=Saint Cyr, Joseph Fortunat= (Montreal), one of the well-known lawyers
-of that city, was born at Saint Jean, Quebec, on December 6, 1875, the
-son of Olivier Saint Cyr, clerk, and Rose de Lima Gosseline, his wife.
-He was educated at the College de Montreal and graduated in 1897 with
-the degree of B.A. Studied law at Laval University, where he obtained
-the degree of LL.L. Admitted to the Bar in 1900. He at once commenced
-practice as an advocate in St. John’s, P.Q., in which his talents
-speedily brought him to the fore. He is the author of several legal
-treatises, including “La Loi des Licenses de Quebec”; “La Loi pour
-Tous,” and a Digest of Montreal Law Reports. In 1909 he was appointed
-magistrate for the district of Beauharnois and Iberville, and in 1917
-became Judge of the Sessions of the Peace for the District of Montreal.
-In 1918 he resigned the latter office to take the very important post of
-Chairman of the Montreal Tramways Commission. He is a Liberal in
-politics, a Roman Catholic in religion, and a member of the Knights of
-Columbus. In April, 1910, he married Cecile, daughter of L. G. Dubois
-and has one daughter, Lisette.
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-
-=Boyd, Leslie Hale, B.A., B.C.L., K.C.= (Fort William, Ont.), Chairman
-of the Board of Grain Commissioners for Canada, was born in Montreal,
-July 31, 1873, the son of Andrew and Georgiana Louisa (Hale) Boyd. He
-was educated at Montreal High School and McGill University, graduating
-B.A. in 1894, and B.C.L., 1897. He commenced the practice of law in his
-native city and also took a prominent part in politics and municipal
-affairs. He was alderman for St. George Ward from 1910 to 1917,
-inclusive, and also Life Governor of the Homeopathic Hospital, School
-Trustee, St. Henri; and a member of the Protestant Board of School
-Commissioners, Montreal. On one occasion he unsuccessfully contested the
-St. Lawrence division for the Quebec Legislature as a Conservative
-candidate. His appointment by the Dominion Government to the important
-post of Chairman of the Board of Grain Commissioners for Canada, for
-which his abilities and experience well qualified him, necessitated his
-removal to Fort William. His recreations are golf, curling and fishing,
-and he is a past president of the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association.
-His clubs are the Engineers and Canada, Montreal; the Kaministiquia,
-Thunder Bay Golf and Canadian, Fort William. Mr. Boyd is a Presbyterian
-and unmarried.
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-
-=Allan, John=, Member for the riding of West Hamilton in the Ontario
-Legislature, was born at Guelph, Ont., on May 22, 1856, the son of James
-and Agnes (Rodgers) Allan. His boyhood was spent in the city of which he
-is now an elected representative, and he was educated in the public
-schools there. On leaving school in 1871 he qualified himself for
-mechanical pursuits with William Hancock and John Taylor of Hamilton,
-remaining with them for three years. From 1874 to 1879 he followed his
-trade in the Western States and in the latter year removed to New York
-City. In 1885 he became a builder on his own account in the American
-metropolis and continued there for the next twenty-one years. He
-prospered to an extent that in 1906, at the age of fifty, he was able to
-retire from business and return to the city where he had spent his youth
-and for which he had always cherished a deep affection. His friends
-persuaded him to enter municipal politics in 1908 and he has proven a
-most useful public servant. He was Alderman, 1908-9; Controller,
-1910-12; Chairman of the Parks Board, 1911; Mayor for the years 1913 and
-1914. His regime was marked by businesslike methods and he was popular
-with all classes of the community. In 1914 on the retirement of Sir John
-Hendrie, the present Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario, who had long
-represented the riding of West Hamilton in the Ontario Legislature, Mr.
-Allan was nominated by the Conservative party and elected. As a
-legislator his services as a member of the standing committees of the
-House are especially valued. In religion he is a Presbyterian and is a
-member of the following organizations: Commercial Club, A.F. & A.M., and
-Knights of Pythias. In 1881 he married Catherine, daughter of Conrad
-Euler.
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-
-=Stewart, Charles=, first saw the light of day in the pioneer homestead,
-lot 13, concession 11, Township of Ashfield, County of Huron. His father
-was David Stewart, of Caithness, Scotland, and his mother Mary McLean,
-of Ross-shire, Scotland. In 1842 this estimable Scotch couple set sail
-for Canada, and that same year began their pioneer life on the homestead
-now occupied by the subject of this sketch. To their son they have
-imparted their sterling qualities of character. Charles Stewart received
-his education in the public schools of his native county, but his heart
-was ever in his chosen occupation of farming and he has become one of
-the sterling sons of the soil, proud that he knows how to farm and do it
-well. He is unmarried. Studious by nature, his hobby has ever been
-municipal affairs, and for nine years he was a member of the municipal
-council. Four of these, 1914-15-16-17, he occupied the honored position
-of reeve, retiring in 1918. He was a member of Huron’s County Council,
-and there as in his own council he was ever found leading in movements
-for forwarding the country’s interests. He is an advocate of
-Hydro-Electric and Hydro Radials, feeling that the peculiar geographical
-situation of the township in which he lives can eventually be served by
-these two important public utilities. He is a good debater, states his
-case with Scotch deliberateness, and sticks to his point in the face of
-all opposition, until convinced that there might be some better way than
-the one he advocates. Kindly and generous by disposition, he has friends
-by the score, and has been attested by his continuous representation in
-the council for so many years. He is an ardent admirer of Highland games
-and fond of good driving horses, though of late the automobile has
-superseded his once famous pacer. He is perhaps one of the most
-aggressive farmers in his community, and his name has from time to time
-been mentioned for parliamentary honors, but he has refused to be lured
-into the wider field of political activity. If he should ever run and be
-elected, he will be a distinct asset to the farmers of Canada, because
-he knows what they want. He is a member of Lucknow Lodge, No. 184, A.F.
-& A.M. In politics he is a Liberal, and in religion a Presbyterian.
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-
-=Macaulay, Thomas Bassett, F.I.A., F.S.A., F.S.S.=, of Montreal,
-occupies a high position in Canadian finance, and is besides an
-insurance expert of international fame. He was born at Hamilton, Ont.,
-on June 6, 1860, the son of Robertson and Barbara Maria (Reid) Macaulay,
-and educated at Hamilton and Montreal. He entered the service of the Sun
-Life Assurance Company of Canada at Montreal in 1877 and by 1880, when
-but twenty years of age, he had so qualified himself in the science of
-insurance that he was made Actuary. In 1891 he was appointed Secretary
-of the Company, and in 1898 was elected a Director. In 1906 he became
-Managing Director of the Sun Life and in 1915 President, succeeding his
-late father. Under his direction the company has enjoyed an immense
-expansion on sound and conservative lines, and its President is
-recognized in financial circles the world over as an expert in insurance
-and master of business organization. The head offices are on Dominion
-Square, Montreal, but it has many branches in Canada and other parts of
-the world. Mr. Macaulay is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of
-Great Britain, a Charter Member of the Actuarial Society of America, and
-a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. He was elected Vice-President
-to represent the Actuaries of the United States and Canada at the
-International Congress of Actuaries held at Paris in 1900, and again at
-the Congress held in Berlin, Germany, 1906. He is Past President of the
-Life Insurance Officers’ Association of Canada. His financial interests
-are by no means confined to insurance however. He is a director of The
-National Trust Company of Toronto, a Director of the Dominion Glass
-Company, a Director of the Illinois Traction Company, a Director of the
-Western Railways and Light Company, and a Director of the Barcelona
-Railway, Light and Power Co. Mr. Macaulay has taken a great interest in
-the development of closer relations between Canada and other British
-possessions in North America, and is President of the Canadian and West
-Indian League. The Navy League of Canada, of which Mr. Macaulay is
-Honorary President, has his active support. His chief recreation is
-farming, and his hobby, the breeding of fine stock. In religion he is a
-Congregationalist and has been twice married, firstly in 1881 to
-Henrietta (deceased daughter of O. T. Bragg, New Orleans); secondly in
-1912 to Margaret (deceased), daughter of Rev. William Allen, London,
-England. He has two sons and three daughters, and resides on Westmount
-Boulevard, Westmount, Quebec.
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-
-=Clark, Lt.-Col. Hugh=, born May 6, 1861, at Kincardine Township. A son
-of Donald Clark and Mary MacDougall, both in Argyllshire, Scotland;
-father was a farmer and a school teacher. Mother died in 1909, father
-lived to be over 90 years of age. Educated at the public school and high
-school Kincardine, from which latter institution he graduated in 1887,
-and taught school for three years, 1887 to 1889. In 1890 was editor of
-the “Walkerton Herald,” and in the same year purchased the “Kincardine
-Review,” which he has conducted ever since, with the exception of the
-years 1897 and 1898, when he was managing editor of the “Ottawa
-Citizen.” A member of the Legislative Press Gallery in Toronto, 1900.
-Entered the Militia of Canada in 1892 with a Lieutenant’s commission and
-commanded the 32nd Bruce Regiment as Lt.-Col. from 1906 to 1911. In 1902
-Lt.-Col. Clark was nominated by the Conservative party as candidate for
-the Legislative Assembly for Centre Bruce, and was elected with a
-majority of 5; unseated on petition he was re-elected in February, 1903
-by a majority of 44, and re-elected in 1905 by a majority of 317 and
-again in 1908 by a majority of 356. In 1911 Lt.-Col. Clark resigned his
-seat in the Legislature to contest North Bruce for the Federal
-Parliament and was elected by a majority of 82. Re-elected at the
-general election to the House of Commons in 1917 by a largely increased
-majority, and became Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for External
-Affairs, which he held until November, 1918, when he took over the duty
-of Parliamentary Secretary of Soldiers Civil Re-establishment. Married
-September 24, 1894, to Catherine MacKay, daughter of Dr. H. M. Ross of
-Richard’s Landing, Ont., and has one son, Hugh Stuart Clark. Has a fine
-reputation as a journalist and is regarded as one of the brightest
-paragraphists in the country; he is a particularly effective platform
-speaker and has a clear and convincing style. He is exceedingly popular
-with all classes in the House and is recognized as being straightforward
-in all his election methods and business dealings. He accompanied Sir
-Robert L. Borden in the campaign of 1908 through Ontario, Quebec, New
-Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, and toured the Western
-Provinces with the Premier in 1911. Lt.-Col. Clark is recognized as an
-authority on everything affecting the Militia of Canada and has lectured
-on Imperial defence. He is a Presbyterian in religion and belongs to the
-following orders: A.F. & A.M.; L.O.L.; I.O.O.F.; C.O.F. His principal
-recreations are golfing and bowling. He is a member of the Kincardine
-Club, Albany Club, Toronto, Rideau and Royal Ottawa Golf Club, Ottawa.
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-
-=Sharpe, Samuel Simpson, Lieut.-Col., D.S.O.= (Uxbridge, Ont.), son of
-George Sharpe, of Suffolk, England, and Mary Ann Simpson, of County
-Tyrone, Ireland, born March 13, 1873, at Zephyr, Township of Scott,
-County of Ontario. Educated at Uxbridge Public and High Schools, Toronto
-University and Osgoode Hall; graduated in 1895, degrees B.A. and LL.B.
-Married, August 26, 1903, to Mabel E., daughter of H. A. Crosby and
-granddaughter of Joseph Gould, ex-M.P. for North Ontario. Town Solicitor
-for Uxbridge for ten years. He lived and practised his profession in
-Town of Uxbridge, near the place of his birth, after being called to the
-bar and achieved a large measure of success. Lieut.-Col. Sharpe always
-took a great interest in the militia, and was formerly a member of the
-34th Regiment, in which he attained the rank of Major. On the outbreak
-of the war he organized and recruited the 116th Ontario County Battalion
-and took it to France. He held a fine record for overseas service,
-having won the D.S.O. and having been mentioned in the despatches. It is
-said of Col. Sharpe that he was one of the most popular O.C.’s sent from
-Canada, and he never missed an opportunity of looking after the
-interests of his men. He returned to Canada in the end of May, 1918,
-after having seen much hard service, his health impaired and succumbed
-in a few weeks to a nervous disorder. He was elected to the House of
-Commons in 1898, when he defeated George D. Grant by 200 majority;
-re-elected in 1911, when he defeated Major H. M. Mowat, K.C., nephew of
-the late Sir Oliver Mowat, by 588; was appointed one of the Ontario
-Whips by Rt. Hon. Sir R. L. Borden, prior to the election of 1911, and
-was returned by a large majority at the general elections in December,
-1917, during his absence at the front. Lieut.-Col. Sharpe took an active
-and prominent part in the councils of the Conservative Party after he
-became a member of the House, and was recognized as a good debater, with
-a full knowledge of National affairs. He was a member of the Albany
-Club, Toronto, and the Rideau Club, Ottawa; also a member of the Masonic
-Order, Independent Order of Foresters, Sons of England, and Independent
-Order of Oddfellows. He held the Ontario championship in tennis for two
-years and the undergraduate championship for one year. In religion
-Lieut.-Col. Sharpe was a member of the Methodist Church at Uxbridge.
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-
-=Macaulay, John= (Wiarton, Ontario), Manager of the Dominion Fish Co.,
-head office, Toronto, was born April 13, 1865, at Southampton, Ont. He
-is a son of Donald MacAulay, of Stornoway, Scotland, and Annie MacLeod,
-of the same place. The father was a fisherman and sailor on the great
-lakes. The subject of this sketch received his education in the public
-schools of his native town. Early he began to follow in the footsteps of
-his father, and soon became one of the best fishermen on the lakes. He
-had splendid executive ability, and this with his tenacity of purpose
-soon marked him as a leader in the fishing business. The Dominion Fish
-Co. recognized his business acumen and made him manager of their
-extensive business with headquarters at Wiarton. Here he is one of the
-most highly esteemed citizens of the place. He is a member of Cedar
-Lodge, No. 369, A.F. & A.M., Offanta Preceptory, Owen Sound, and a
-Shriner of Rameses Temple, Toronto. His favorite pastimes are curling
-and bowling. In religion he is a Presbyterian, and in politics a
-Liberal. He was the Liberal standard bearer in the Federal Riding of
-North Bruce in 1917. He married Miss Margaret McLeod, of Ripley, Ont.
-They had a family of three sons and two daughters, Graham, Gordon,
-Irvine, May, and Marie (the first three named are deceased, the two
-latter living).
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-
-=Lighthall, William Douw, K.C., M.A., B.C.L., F.R.S.C., F.R.S.I.=
-(Montreal, P.Q.), one of the most widely known of Canadian publicists,
-was born at Hamilton, Ont., Dec. 27, 1857, the son of William Francis
-Lighthall, Dean of the Notarial Profession in Montreal, and Margaret
-Lighthall. His scholastic career was brilliant; he was gold medallist of
-Montreal High School, and Shakespeare Gold Medallist of McGill
-University. He was called to the Bar in 1881, and has almost ever since
-been a prominent figure in both the literary and public life of Canada,
-due to the fact that he is a man very fertile in ideas. He has an
-international reputation as a municipal reformer, which began with his
-career as Mayor of Westmount, from 1900 to 1903. In 1901, in conjunction
-with the late Oliver A. Howland, Mayor of Toronto, he founded the Union
-of Canadian Municipalities, which has effected a great work of municipal
-improvement in Canada. He was Chairman of the School Commission in his
-city for 1908-9, and is a member of the Royal Metropolitan Parks
-Commission, for the planning of a Greater Montreal. Mr. Lighthall’s
-literary and scientific interests are comprehensive. He was
-Representative Fellow in Arts of McGill University, 1911-3, and he
-originated the Society of Canadian Literature, and the Chateau de
-Ramezay Historical Museum. As an author his works include: “Thoughts,
-Moods and Ideals” (verse), published in 1887; “The Young Seigneur, or
-Nation Making” (a romance), 1888; “Montreal After 250 Years,” 1892; “The
-False Chevalier” (a romance), 1898; “The Glorious Enterprise,” 1902;
-“Canada, A Modern Nation,” 1904; “The Master of Life,” 1910; as well as
-many Ethical, Historical and Literary Pamphlets. He also devised and
-edited “Songs of the Great Dominion,” the most important existing
-anthology of Canadian verse, up to its date of publication, 1891; and
-also selected and edited the volume, “Canadian Poets,” issued in
-connection with the Canterbury Poets series, published in London, Eng.,
-in the early nineties. Mr. Lighthall has also been actively interested
-in military affairs. He served with the College Company, Prince of Wales
-Regiment, Montreal, 1877-8; in the Victoria Rifles, 1881-3, and is a
-member of the Reserve of that battalion. He originated the idea of the
-Great War Veterans’ Association and, in 1915, was a member of the
-Committee of Friends of the Canadian Association of Returned Soldiers.
-He was an ardent advocate of conscription in the Great War and when the
-Government decided to adopt this policy, took the platform in support of
-it. He is a member of many literary, social and scientific societies,
-including the Royal Society of Canada (President, 1910), the Royal
-Society of Literature of Great Britain, the Literary and Historical
-Society of Quebec (corresponding member), the Antiquarian Society of
-Montreal (of which he is President), and the following clubs in his home
-city: Canada, Arts, Montreal, Canadian and University. His recreations
-include the collection of old pictures and camping. He married Cybel,
-daughter of John Wilkes, and has one son, Lieut, W. W. S. Lighthall, of
-the Royal Flying Corps, and 3rd Dorsets, who during the late war saw
-service in France, Flanders, Mesopotamia, Macedonia, and Palestine. Mr.
-Lighthall has a residence, “Chateau-clair,” in Westmount, Que., and a
-summer home, “Highbury,” at Lac Tremblant, Que.
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-
-=Ellis, James Albert= (Ottawa), son of James and Margaret (Hall) Ellis,
-and was born at Accrington, Lancashire, England, June 2, 1864, where he
-also received his education. He came to Canada in 1885, and has resided
-in Ottawa ever since. He was the leader in the establishment of the
-Ottawa Municipal Electric Plant in 1905; Public School Trustee from 1898
-to 1900; Alderman during the years 1901-1903, 1914; Controller, 1915;
-Mayor, 1904-1906, 1913; City Treasurer, 1907-1912; member of Local
-Legislature, 1911-1914. He was appointed Division Court Clerk in 1916
-and a member of the Ontario Railway and Municipal Board, October, 1918.
-Shortly afterwards he was placed in charge of the Housing Scheme of the
-Province of Ontario as Director. Mr. Ellis has been for several years
-Chairman of the Ottawa Hydro-Electric Commission. He was President
-Ottawa Horticultural Society, 1911-1912; President Ontario Municipal
-Association, 1906-1907. He was many years Secretary of the Ottawa
-Conservative Association, and afterwards its President. Mr. Ellis
-married Catherine Fishwick, daughter of James Fishwick, Accrington,
-Lancashire, England, in September, 1884, and has one son and one
-daughter. He is a Conservative in politics and an Anglican in religion.
-His address is 131 Stanley Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario.
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-
-=Roche, Hon. Wm. James, M.D., P.C., LL.D.=, Chairman of the Civil
-Service Commission for Canada, is a native of Clandeboye, Middlesex
-County, Ontario, and was born November 30, 1859. He was educated at the
-public schools of Lucan, Ont., at London Collegiate Institute, Trinity
-Medical School, Toronto, where he studied for three years, completing
-his course at the Western University, London, from which he was the
-first graduate in medicine, and where he also took first class honors.
-The hon. degree of LL.D. was conferred in 1911. This was in 1883, and he
-immediately went to Minnedosa, Manitoba, and engaged in the practice of
-his profession. From 1885 to 1901 he was Territorial Representative for
-his district on the Manitoba Medical Council, and was very popular as a
-physician among the various nationalities that constituted the early
-population of the prairie province. He first entered politics in 1892
-when he was an unsuccessful candidate for the Legislature in the
-Conservative interest. In the Federal Elections of 1896 he was the
-nominee of his party for the riding of Marquette and was elected after a
-stiff contest. His constituents showed their confidence in him by
-returning him to the House of Commons at the general elections of 1900,
-1904, 1908 and 1911. When the recently chosen Parliament met in 1901 the
-Conservative caucus chose him as Whip for the West, a position he held
-until 1910 when he was elected chief assistant Whip for the Conservative
-party in the Commons. On the formation of the first Borden cabinet in
-1911 he was appointed to the portfolio of Secretary of State and was
-sworn in as a member of the Privy Council on October 10 of that year,
-and was re-elected by acclamation. On October 27 he was transferred to
-the portfolio of Minister of the Interior and Superintendent of Indian
-Affairs in succession to Hon. Robert Rogers, who at that time became
-Minister of Public Works. This post he continued to fill until the
-autumn of 1917 when on the formation of Union Government he accepted the
-position of Chairman of the Civil Service Commission of Canada and
-retired from active politics. In 1916 Western University, London, his
-Alma Mater, honored him by making him Chancellor of the institution. Dr.
-Roche is very prominent in the Independent Order of Oddfellows, of which
-he was Grand Master for Manitoba in 1893. In connection with the same
-Order he was a Grand Representative to the Sovereign Grand Lodge at
-Chattanooga, Penn., in 1894, and at Atlantic City, N.J., in 1895. In
-1883 he married Miss Annie E. Cook of Toronto. Though long resident in
-Minnedosa he now by virtue of his public duties makes his home in
-Ottawa.
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-
-=McInnes, William, B.A., F.R.S.C., F.G.S.A.=, Directing Geologist,
-Geological Survey, 37 years ago became a member of the Dominion Civil
-Service. He has advanced step by step from one grade to another, and
-to-day occupies the responsible position of Directing Geologist, to
-which he was appointed in 1915. He has explored geologically Northern
-New Brunswick, Eastern Quebec, Western and Northern Ontario, Northern
-Saskatchewan and portions of the North-West Territories extending to
-Hudson Bay, and he explored and mapped Churchill and Winisk rivers and
-much of the North Country lying between the Canadian Pacific Railway and
-Hudson Bay. Reports of these explorations are contained in the annual
-reports of the Geological Survey of Canada and in separate memoirs. Mr.
-William McInnes is the son of John and Rachael Jane McInnes, and was
-born at Frederiction, New Brunswick, January 1, 1858. He was educated at
-the Collegiate School, Frederiction, and the University of New
-Brunswick, graduating in 1879. The following clubs claim Mr. McInnes as
-a member: the Rideau, Royal Golf and Gatineau Fish and Game. He, is a
-Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Geological Society of America and
-Canadian Mining Institute. His religion is Presbyterian and his
-principal recreation is golf. He resides at the Victoria Chambers, 138
-to 140 Wellington Street, Ottawa, Ontario.
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-
-=Trahan, Arthur, B.S., K.C.= (Nicolet, Que.), born on May 26, 1877, at
-Nicolet, P.Q., son of Narcisse Trahan and Rebecca Rousseau, both
-Canadians. Educated at the Nicolet Seminary (B.S.). Married, Sept.,
-1902, to Josephine R. Dufresne, daughter of H. R. Dufresne, N.P., of
-Nicolet. He is the father of six children: Marie Therese, Madeleine,
-Paul Arthur, Bernard, Jacques and Marcel. Mr. Trahan is an
-attorney-at-law, barrister, solicitor, etc. Was a political candidate
-for the first time at by-election held June 2, 1913, to fill vacancy
-caused by the resignation of Hon. C. R. Devlin elected for two seats,
-and was elected by 870 majority over D. H. Rheault, N.P. Re-elected in
-1916 by acclamation. In November, 1917, resigned seat as member of
-Legislative Assembly to become a Federal candidate. Elected by
-acclamation to the House of Commons. Secretary of the Commission charged
-with the revision, consolidation and modification of the Municipal Code
-of the Province of Quebec (1910-12). In 1912 was appointed a K.C., and
-has been alderman of the town of Nicolet from 1911 to 1919. Moved the
-address in reply to the speech from the throne at the session of 1915 in
-the Quebec Legislative Assembly. Is a Roman Catholic in religion, and a
-Liberal in politics.
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-
-=Campbell, Colin=, Montreal and St. Hilaire, Que., is one of the most
-widely known horsemen of the Dominion and a very prominent figure in the
-social and business life of his province. He is a son of Major Campbell,
-C.B., of Inverawe, Scotland, an officer of Her Majesty’s 7th Hussars and
-a member of the same family as the famous Col. Duncan Campbell, of
-Inverawe, who was on the staff of General Lord Howe at Ticonderoga, and
-whose death in that battle, and the accompanying psychical phenomena,
-form the theme of one of Robert Louis Stevenson’s most thrilling
-ballads. Another relative was Col. de Salaberry, who commanded the
-French-Canadians in their heroic resistance at the Battle of Chateauguay
-in the war of 1812. The mother of the subject of this sketch was, prior
-to her marriage, Miss Duchesnay of Quebec, and he was born at St.
-Hilaire, on May 28, 1860. He was educated at Lennoxville Academy and
-later engaged in business as a merchant with great financial success. At
-the outbreak of the great war he organized and commanded the Mounted
-Section of the 1st Regiment of Reserve Militia, in which he holds the
-rank of Captain. Strong advocate of and keen worker for the “Daylight
-Saving” measure, which was passed in 1918. All legitimate sports have
-from youth claimed his enthusiastic support and he is noted not only as
-a breeder of horses, but as a skilled equestrian. As a steeplechase
-rider of his own horses, he won the Montreal Hunt Cup on four occasions
-and the Allan Cup on three. As an expert on the subject of horses he is
-widely known and has acted as Judge at the Olympia Horse Show, New York,
-as well as at similar events in Boston, Philadelphia and other cities.
-He is a member of the Montreal Board of Trade and of many social
-organizations in that city, including the Mount Royal, St. James,
-Montreal Hunt, Forest and Stream, Montreal Jockey, Canada, and Canadian
-Clubs, as well as of St. Andrew’s Society. He is a Conservative in
-politics and an Anglican in religion. On April 23, 1888, married Mabel
-G., daughter of the late Sir Hugh Allan, K.C.B., of Montreal, by whom he
-has had three children, Enid, Phoebie and Archie (deceased).
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-
-=Coats, Robert Hamilton=, Dominion Statistician and Controller of the
-Census, is one of the live wires in the employ of the Dominion
-Government. At college, in journalism, as an author and a writer on
-economic subjects, and as a Civil Service employee, he has distinguished
-himself and proved his worth. He captured the Bankers’ Scholarship in
-Economics and the Wyld Prize in English at the Toronto University; and
-from the time of his graduation in 1896, taking the degree of B.A. in
-Classics, to the present, he has given tangible evidence of his literary
-and constructive ability. Having served on the staff of the “Toronto
-World” and the Toronto “Globe” from 1898 to 1901, in January, 1902, he
-became Associate Editor of the “Labor Gazette,” the journal of the
-Department of Labor, afterwards editor, and continued in that capacity
-until 1914. On the death of Mr. Archibald Blue, in 1915, he succeeded
-that gentleman as Census Commissioner. Within a brief period afterwards,
-largely as a development of Mr. Coats’ constructive work, the Dominion
-Bureau of Statistics was established by Act of Parliament, and its value
-to the State, under Mr. Coats’ direction, is duly recognized. Robert
-Hamilton Coats is the son of Robert Coats, merchant, and Mary Park. He
-was born in Clinton, Ontario, July 25, 1874, and was educated at the
-Toronto University (B.A., 1896). He is a contributor to the “Journal of
-Economics” and other economic reviews; joint author with R. E. Gosnell
-of “The Life of Sir James Douglas” (Makers of Canada Series), 1908;
-author of “The Labor Movement in Canada,” and of “Special Reports on
-Prices in Canada, 1890-1909-10-11-12 and 13.” In 1912 he was appointed a
-member of the Royal Commission of Official Statistics of Canada, and in
-1914 a member of the Cost of Living Commission. Mr. Coats is a Fellow of
-the Royal Statistical Society of England, of the American Statistical
-Association, of the American Economic Association, and of the Canadian
-Political Science Association. In June, 1905, Mr. Coats married Marie
-Halboister, of Paris, France. For recreation he favors canoeing and
-ski-ing. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church and resides at 176
-Manor Avenue, Rockcliffe Park, Ottawa.
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-
-=Marnoch, George Robert=, President Board of Trade, Lethbridge, Alberta.
-Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, February 19, 1873, son of George R. and
-Barbara Marnoch. Educated at Robert Gordon’s College, Aberdeen. Engaged
-in the commercial side of mechanical engineering, Scotland, and in
-Ceylon, also, in connection with the growing and export of tea, rubber
-and tropical products, and in the supplying of the building and
-engineering requirements of tea and rubber estates, as well as the
-supplying of fertilizers for these crops, 1896-1910; came to Canada,
-1910; President (honorary office) Lethbridge Board of Trade, 1914;
-re-elected 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918 and 1919; Member of Joint Committee of
-Commerce and Agriculture (The Committee of 25 business men and 25
-leading farmers) of Western Canada; Vice-President, Western Canada
-Irrigation Association; vice-chairman (honorary office) Victory Loan
-Southern Alberta, 1917, 1918. Married Harriet Lund Macdonald (deceased),
-daughter of Alexander Macdonald, October 10, 1904; has one daughter.
-Club: Chinook. Independent in politics. Residence, Sherlock Building,
-Lethbridge, Alberta.
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-Hamilton]
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-
-=Wright, William J.=, the late school principal (St. Mary’s, Ont.), gave
-his life for his country while serving in the great war as Lieutenant of
-the 19th Canadian Batt., C.E.F., in France. He enlisted with the 110th
-Perth Batt., in January, 1916, and was transferred to the 19th Canadian
-Battalion October, 1916. He was killed in action on August 18, 1917,
-while fighting against the Prussians in the battle of Hill 70 outside
-Lens, and is buried in the military cemetery at Fosse 10, a short
-distance from Bully-Grenay, France. He was born in Oxford County, Ont.,
-the son of George and Emma Wright, of St. Mary’s, Ont., was educated at
-St. Mary’s Public School and the Collegiate Institute. Then he attended
-Toronto University, graduating in 1896 with the degree of B.A., and in
-1897 was granted the degree of M.A.; was the winner of the Edward Blake
-Matriculation Scholarship and also won the Governor-General’s Gold Medal
-of the Toronto University in 1895. He was Principal of Niagara High
-School from 1904 to 1909 and from there went to Forest, Ont., becoming
-Principal of the High School of that town until 1913, when he became
-Principal of the Collegiate Institute of St. Mary’s, Ont., and at the
-time of his death was Principal-on-leave. Lieut. Wright was a frequent
-contributor to the local papers and the author of articles on Canadian
-literature, and the study of poetry in an American encyclopædia. He was
-married to Mary Edith, the daughter of Mr. David Robertson, of Fenelon
-Falls, and left three of a family. He was a member of the Presbyterian
-Church and an Independent in politics, with a strong leaning towards
-Liberalism; a member of the Niagara Historical Society and fraternally a
-Mason.
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-
-=Ward, Lt.-Col. Henry Alfred=, Judge of the United Counties of
-Northumberland and Durham, is the son of George Charles Ward and Harriet
-Amelia (Brent). His father was fifty-four years Registrar of the County
-of Durham, and of East Durham, when the County was divided into two
-ridings. He was born at Port Hope, Ont., on August 20, 1849, and
-educated in the local schools of his native town; called to the Bar in
-1871, and created a K.C. in 1908, he successfully practised his
-profession in Port Hope for many years and was Mayor for a considerable
-period. Judge Ward is a grandson of Thomas Ward, who came from England
-as Secretary to Attorney-General White, in 1792, settled in Toronto, and
-then went to Port Hope, where he afterwards became judge of the district
-of Newcastle. The subject of this sketch was for a long period in the
-Volunteer Military Service of Canada, joining the Port Hope Rifle
-Company as a private in 1866; became Lieutenant in the 46th Regiment on
-its formation in 1867, and from 1902 to 1909 was Lieut.-Colonel of the
-same, and is now on the reserve of officers. Entered the House of
-Commons as member for East Durham in August, 1885, as successor to the
-late Lieut.-Colonel Arthur T. H. Williams, and represented that
-constituency until 1891; he was again elected in 1900. In 1904 he
-defeated the Hon. A. B. Aylesworth for the County of Durham, and retired
-from political life in 1908. In 1916 he was elevated to the Bench, a
-post for which his experience well qualified him. In referring to
-Lieut.-Colonel Ward the “Montreal Standard” said of him: “A genial
-gentleman, but with perhaps too fine a spirit to make a great success of
-the rough and tumble game of politics.” He is a member of the Masonic
-Order. In religion an Anglican, and a member of St. Mark’s Church of
-Port Hope. He has always taken an interest in amateur sports and was
-President of the Port Hope Baseball Club. Married July, 1895, Annie B.,
-of Savannah, Ga., daughter of Major John C. Booth of the Confederate
-Army, and is the father of two children, Marjorie Lesley and Madeline
-Aylwin.
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-
-=Garland, John L.=, is one of the most prominent business men of Ottawa
-and President of the firm of John M. Garland, Son & Co., Ltd., wholesale
-dry goods merchants, Queen and O’Connor Streets in that city. He was
-born at Ottawa on January 9, 1867, the son of John M. and Isabella
-(McKinnon) Garland. He was educated at Ottawa Collegiate Institute and
-by private tuition in England. In 1884 he began his business career as a
-clerk in the firm founded by his father and of which he is now the head.
-He became Senior Partner, December, 1906. Mr. Garland as a young man
-took a deep interest in military affairs and organized “F” Company of
-the Governor-General’s Foot Guards of Ottawa, in which he held the
-commission of Captain from 1896 to 1903. He is a member of the following
-clubs: Rideau, Ottawa Hunt and Royal Ottawa Golf. In religion he is a
-Presbyterian and in politics a Conservative. On January 18, 1888, he
-married Joanna, daughter of John Hancock, Ottawa, and has three sons and
-four daughters. He resides at 450 MacLaren Street, in the Canadian
-capital.
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-
-=Pringle, Robert Abercrombie, K.C.=, one of the leaders of the Ottawa
-Bar, was born at Cornwall, Ont., December 15, 1855, the son of J. F. and
-Isabella (Fraser) Pringle. He was educated at the public and high
-schools of Cornwall, at Queen’s University, Kingston, and Osgoode Hall,
-Toronto. He was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1881 and practised in
-his native town from 1883 until 1911. In 1906 he was created King’s
-Counsel. In 1911 he removed to the capital and established his present
-practice, and is head of the firm of Pringle, Thompson, Burgess and
-Coté, Barristers and Solicitors, Quebec Bank Building, 122 Wellington
-Street, Ottawa. He has been entrusted by the Federal Government with
-several important commissions, notably that to inquire into news print
-prices and the paper industry generally in 1918. Mr. Pringle has also
-been a prominent figure in the politics of Eastern Ontario and is a
-lifelong Conservative. As candidate for that party he was elected to the
-House of Commons for the riding of Stormont in 1900 and proved one of
-the most useful members of the then Opposition. He was re-elected in
-1904, but defeated at the general elections of 1908. In 1911 he was
-again tendered the party nomination by his own supporters, but having
-decided to enter into practice in Ottawa, declined. As a member of the
-House his courteous bearing and solid attainments made him generally
-liked by colleagues of all shades of opinion. He is an Anglican in
-religion. His chief recreation is motor boating. He belongs to the
-Masonic Order and is a member of the following clubs: Rideau, Royal
-Ottawa Golf and Albany (Toronto). In 1884 he married Ada, daughter of I.
-H. Vanarsdale, and has two sons. He resides at 232 Daly Avenue, Ottawa.
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-
-=Scott, William Duncan=, Superintendent of Immigration for the
-Government of Canada, is one of the best known citizens of this country
-both at home and in other lands. He was born at Dundas, Ont., on October
-7, 1861, the son of James and Margaret (McEwen) Scott. He was educated
-at Dundas High School and subsequently entered a law office with a view
-to qualifying himself for the legal profession. He did not, however,
-complete his studies, for the virgin country of Manitoba, which was just
-then being opened up to the world, called him, as in the case of many
-another young man, from Eastern Canada. He went West in 1881 at the age
-of twenty and entered the service of the Canadian Pacific Railway, then
-in course of construction, and later was employed by the Manitoba
-Government. In 1887 he was appointed Immigration Agent for that
-government with offices at Winnipeg. In 1895 he removed to the city of
-Toronto and continued to act as Immigration Agent for Manitoba in that
-city, incidentally helping to populate the prairie province with many
-desirable settlers. His general knowledge of the resources of Canada and
-his qualities of good-fellowship led to his appointment as Canadian
-Commissioner at the Paris Exposition of 1899; and from thence until 1903
-he acted in a similar capacity at other International exhibitions, at
-which the Government of Canada was represented by displays and bureaus
-of information. In the latter year he was appointed Superintendent of
-the Immigration Branch of the Department of the Interior and removed to
-Ottawa where he has ever since resided. The period of Mr. Scott’s
-appointment was that in which immigration to the Canadian North-West not
-only from Europe but from the United States was at its zenith and he was
-very active in assisting to build up population in the new provinces of
-Alberta and Saskatchewan. In 1911 the post of Chief Controller of
-Chinese Immigration under treaties newly effected with the Government of
-China was added to his duties, and he is now the most important factor
-in all branches of immigration in this country, with a large staff under
-his control. In addition to his official labors he pursues the calling
-of a practical farmer. He is a Presbyterian in religion and his
-recreation is indicated by the fact that he is a member of the Royal
-Ottawa Golf and Laurentian Clubs. He is also a member of the A.F. & A.M.
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-
-=Askwith, John E.=, is Ottawa’s Police Magistrate, to which position he
-was appointed by the Ontario Government, April 23, 1918. Mr. Askwith was
-born in Ottawa and, practically, Ottawa has remained his home to this
-day. For forty years Mr. Askwith was in business as a contractor, both
-on structural and railway work and the Government Bureau, the Halifax
-Armory, and many other public buildings bear testimony to his zeal. He
-has been of considerable benefit and has rendered good services to the
-city of Ottawa in more ways than one. For eleven years he sat in the
-City Council as representative for Rideau Ward. He served as Chairman of
-the Parks Commission and had much to do in the acquisition of Rockliffe
-Park. In 1901 the Conservatives of Russell County selected him as their
-candidate for the House of Commons and, while he met with defeat, he
-gave his opponent a sharp contest. For three years he was President of
-the Association for the Blind and was and is a hard worker in the
-interest of the Protestant Old Men’s Home. His contributions to the
-various Ottawa Public Institutions are numerous and his attentions to
-them so constant and earnest that he is rightfully called an
-unmistakeable philanthropist. Following in his father’s footsteps as an
-enthusiast for Volunteer Military Service, Mr. Askwith served for seven
-years in the Ottawa Field Battery, and on two occasions marched to the
-front in defence of home and country. Even now he walks with the
-military stride. Mr. Askwith was appointed Deputy Magistrate in 1907,
-and since 1916 up to the time when he received his promotion in March,
-1918, had to administer the law alone as during the intervening time
-Magistrate O’Keefe was too ill to attend Court, and no Deputy was
-appointed. In addition, as Deputy Magistrate, Mr. Askwith presided over
-the Juvenile Court, and is doing so even now, and it is owing to his
-sound judgment and fatherly consideration for erring youngsters that a
-vast improvement has taken place in the conduct of the Juveniles in the
-city. In the Police Court as well as in the Juvenile Court he has been
-stern and wise in his decisions. He metes out law and justice with
-common sense and discretion and never allows technicalities or quibbles
-to interfere with his disposal of cases, and he holds the explicit
-confidence of the public. Magistrate John E. Askwith was born of English
-parents, in 1841, and was educated in the Little Red School House in
-Ottawa. On September 26, 1865, he married Annie, daughter of the late
-John Fotheringham, and has two sons, William R. and John F., who is a
-Lieutenant in service in France; he is 36 years old and in 1915 enlisted
-with a company from McGill University to reinforce the Princess Pats,
-but was transferred to a Western Battalion. He went through several
-important engagements in which the Canadian Forces took part, including
-Vimy Ridge; and two daughters Margaret F., and Bessie, who is married to
-O. E. Culbert, Barrister, Calgary. In religion Mr. Askwith is a
-Protestant, and in politics a Conservative. He resides at 24 Alexander
-Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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-
-=Nickle, William Folger, K.C., B.A.= (Kingston, Ont.), was born at
-Kingston, Dec. 31, 1869, son of William Nickle (Scotch), and Ellen Mary
-Folger (American). Educated at private schools, Kingston Collegiate
-Institute, Queen’s University and Osgoode Hall; graduated from Queen’s
-with degree of B.A. in 1892; called to the Bar, Osgoode Hall, 1895;
-member of legal firm of Nickle, Farrell & Day, Kingston. He was twice
-married: first, September 11, 1895, to Agnes Mary, daughter of Joseph
-McAdam, St. Thomas; second, June 6, 1911, to Katharine Louise, daughter
-of Rev. D. D. Gordon, Principal of Queen’s University. Five children,
-William McAdam 1897, Douglas Joseph 1899, Evelyn Marion 1902, Alexander
-Gordon 1916, and Catherine Maclennan Nickle 1918. He is a member of the
-following clubs: Kingston, Country, Yacht, Frontenac, The Rideau, Ottawa
-and the Toronto Club; is also a Mason, Oddfellow and a member of the
-Sons of Scotland. Mr. Nickle takes an active interest in all amateur
-sports. He is trustee of Queen’s University, Governor of Kingston
-Hospital; elected to the Kingston School Board in 1895, City Council in
-1896, and again in 1897, for three years. He was member of the
-Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Kingston from 1908 to 1911, when he
-resigned seat to contest same constituency at the general election for
-the House of Commons, and was elected as the Liberal-Conservative
-candidate, and re-elected at the general elections in December, 1917. He
-is a Presbyterian in religion. The member for Kingston has played a very
-active part in the city of his birth and has been prominently identified
-with the municipal, educational and social life, and has carved a secure
-place in the confidence and respect of his fellow-citizens. He has
-greatly distinguished himself in public life, for which he has displayed
-much talent, and his sterling integrity is recognized by his
-fellow-members in the House of Commons. Mr. Nickle is a forceful
-speaker, with a convincing style and a pleasing and magnetic
-personality. His career in the House of Commons has been marked by a
-spirit of independence and adherence to conviction. In 1913 he took
-issue with the Government on the granting of certain additional aid to
-the Canadian Northern Railway; and maintained that if the people had to
-build the railroads they should own and operate them. His position at
-that time has since been justified overwhelmingly by public sentiment
-and the general course of events. In April of 1918 Mr. Nickle once more
-achieved great prominence as the effective voice of the Canadian people
-in connection with the titles controversy. He introduced a motion in the
-House of Commons requesting that representations be made to the Imperial
-Government that hereafter no hereditary titles should be granted in
-Canada. In a speech replete with convincing historical detail on the
-obsolete nature of hereditary honors he also stated his conviction that
-it would be better if no further titular distinctions of any kind were
-granted, except those of an officiary character. He felt, however, that
-public sentiment on the question was not sufficiently ripe to permit him
-to jeopardize his resolution on the subject of hereditary honors, by
-making it as wide as his personal views would indicate. Subsequently Mr.
-R. L. Richardson, M.P. for Richmond, Manitoba, moved a resolution
-demanding that no titular honors of any kind be granted thereafter. This
-was defeated on the Prime Minister declaring it to be a
-want-of-confidence motion. On this motion Mr. Nickle was placed in the
-peculiar position of having to abandon the Government or his personal
-convictions, but decided to stick by conviction. Another broad principle
-that was discussed as a result of Mr. Nickle’s original motion was
-whether the Government of Canada should not be consulted before titular
-distinctions were conferred by the Crown on Canadians resident in this
-country. The Prime Minister, Sir Robert Borden, announced that he had
-accepted this principle, except in connection with military honors, so
-that Mr. Nickle may be regarded as having materially aided in checking
-an abuse which was becoming a cause of public unrest, by precipitating
-discussion of the matter.
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-=Tory, John A.= (Toronto), one of the leading life insurance men of
-Canada, was born at Guysboro’, N.S., November 17, 1869, the son of
-Robert K. and Anora (Ferguson) Tory. He was educated at the public
-school of his native town, at the Guysboro’ Academy and Halifax Business
-College. He commenced his business career at the age of eighteen as a
-clerk in the establishment of D. G. Kerm, Antigonish, N.S., where he
-remained from 1887 to 1890. In the latter year he joined the staff of A.
-N. Whiten & Sons, Canso, N.S., becoming Manager of the business in 1892.
-His entry into the insurance field was made in 1895 when he became
-Inspector of the Sun Life Insurance Company of Canada for West Indies
-and part of South America. In 1897 he was transferred to Detroit and
-became manager of the company for the State of Michigan where he
-remained until 1908, when he was transferred to the management of the
-Toronto office of the Company. He has been instrumental in widely
-extending the power and influence of the Sun Life in Canada. Mr. Tory is
-keenly interested in all movements for social betterment, and
-particularly in building up a clean and healthy manhood in this country.
-He is a Director of the Y.M.C.A. and also a member of the Social Service
-Commission. He is a member of the following clubs in his adopted city:
-National, Royal Canadian Yacht, Queen City, Canadian, and Empire. His
-recreations are tennis and motoring, and in politics he is a Liberal. He
-is a Methodist and on December 28, 1898, married Abbie G., daughter of
-Dr. Buckley, Guysboro’, N.S., by whom he has two sons. Mr. and Mrs. Tory
-reside at 17 Elm Ave., Rosedale, Toronto, and have a summer home at
-Guysboro’, N.S.
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-=Chisholm, William Craig, K.C.= (Westmount, Quebec), Barrister-at-law,
-was born at Port Hope on August 20, 1864, his parents being His Honor
-Judge Chisholm, of Kitchener, and Mary Craig Chisholm. Educated at Port
-Hope High School and Toronto University, from which latter institution
-he graduated in 1885 with the degree of B.A., and first-class honors in
-Classics. Was created a K.C. in 1908. Mr. Chisholm was Assistant City
-Solicitor of the city of Toronto from 1891 to 1895, when he became City
-Solicitor, and was in private practice in Toronto from 1909 to 1913, in
-which latter year he was appointed General Solicitor for the Grand Trunk
-Railway System. He was a member of the Executive of the Ontario
-Municipal Association from 1907 to 1909. On June 30, 1894, he married
-Gertrude Foster, daughter of the late James Foster, of Guelph, and is
-the father of the following children: Capt. J. F. Chisholm, Royal Air
-Force, D.S.C., D.F.C. (killed in action near Arras Sept. 7, 1918);
-Duncan Gavin, Mary, Helen and Harry. In religion Mr. Chisholm is a
-Presbyterian, and a Conservative in politics. He is a member of the
-following clubs: University, Thistle Curling Club, Kanawaki Golf Club,
-Montreal; University Granite, Toronto; and Rideau, Ottawa. His
-recreations are golf, curling and lawn bowling.
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-=Tetreault, Joseph Sylvini= (Sherbrooke, Que.), Notary Public, was born
-at Ste. Madeleine, County of St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, Feb. 9, 1877, the
-son of Napoleon and Ombeline (Durocher) Tetreault. He was educated at
-St. Hyacinthe Seminary and Laval University and took up practice as a
-notary in Sherbrooke, in 1900. Ever since he has been a prominent figure
-in the social and municipal life of that city. He has represented the
-West Ward in the City Council since 1914 and is very prominent in many
-French-Canadian organizations, taking a strong interest in sports and in
-all measures to promote mutual goodwill among the French and English
-people. He is Grand President of L’Union St. Joseph du Canada, with head
-office at Ottawa, a mutual and benevolent society which has built up a
-membership of 28,000 since 1908 and of which he was a director before
-his promotion to the presidency. He is also a member of the Knights of
-Columbus, of l’Alliance Nationale, and L’Union St. Joseph de Sherbrooke,
-and Secretary of the Chambre de Commerce Canadienne Française du
-District de St. François. He is Major of the 54th Carabineers of
-Sherbrooke, a Roman Catholic and an Independent in politics. On Sept. 4,
-1906, he married Lena, daughter of S. J. and Marie (Simard) Caron, by
-whom he has had three children, Rejane, Marielle and Adrienne.
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-
-=Cody, Hon. Henry John, B.A., M.A., D.D., LL.D.=, Rector of St. Paul’s
-Anglican Church, Toronto, and Minister of Education of the Province of
-Ontario, was born at Embro, Ontario, on December 6, 1868, his parents
-being E. J. Cody and Margaret L. (Torrance). Educated at Galt Collegiate
-Institute and Toronto University, where he had a most distinguished
-career, winning the gold medal in classics, first-class honors in Mental
-and Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity, and Wyld Prizeman in English
-Essay. After graduation, was Classical Master of Ridley College, at St.
-Catharines, then Professor of Church History and Systematic Theology,
-and also lecturer in Latin and examiner in classics, Toronto University.
-Is Rector of St. Paul’s Church, Toronto, and Archdeacon of York, and
-Canon of St. Alban’s Cathedral. Was elected Bishop of Nova Scotia, but
-declined the preferment in 1904. Was a member of the Royal Commission on
-the reorganization of The University of Toronto, 1905-6, and a member of
-The Ontario Commission on Unemployment, 1914-15. One of the founders of
-Havergal Ladies’ College, Toronto. In May, 1918, on the resignation of
-the Hon. Dr. R. A. Pyne as Minister of Education of Ontario, Dr. Cody
-was invited by Premier Hearst to assume the duties of that most
-important portfolio and, on May 23, he was sworn in as Minister of
-Education of the Province and at once took up his duties, and was
-subsequently nominated for the riding of North East Toronto. His
-election was opposed by Sergt. William Varley, a popular soldier, who
-had distinguished himself overseas on active service. Dr. Cody was
-returned by a very large majority. The Minister of Education has special
-gifts for the office he has been called upon to fill. His wide learning
-and eminence as a scholar, his tireless energy and organizing ability,
-caused his selection to be acceptable by all classes and few Canadians
-occupy a more secure place in the confidence, respect and esteem of
-their fellows. Splendidly informed in all great National questions and a
-brilliant orator, his services have been in constant demand. Shortly
-after assuming the duties of his present position, the Minister, at the
-request of the Premier, made a trip overseas and visited the soldiers in
-the firing line for the express purpose of familiarizing himself with
-the conditions existing at the front, with a view to make his Department
-more efficient in the reconstruction period after the war. The Minister
-also conferred with leading educationalists in England and acquired a
-vast amount of useful and necessary information. Hon. Dr. Cody holds the
-rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Canadian Militia, is Senior Chaplain
-of the Queen’s Own Rifles, and is recognized as one of the outstanding
-figures in the Canadian public life. In 1894 he married Florence L.,
-daughter of the late H. E. Clarke, M.P.P., and has one son, Henry
-Maurice Cody, Captain in C.A.M.C.
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-
-=Roadhouse, William Albert=, Deputy Minister of Agriculture for the
-Province of Ontario, was born at Malton, Peel County, Ontario, July 25,
-1880, the son of Neriah and Elizabeth Roadhouse. He was educated at the
-Malton and Brampton public schools and on leaving school became—what so
-many men afterwards famous in many fields of activity have been—“A
-printer’s devil” in the office of the Brampton “Conservator,” where he
-spent six years under Samuel Charters, now member of the House of
-Commons for Peel. While working in the printing department he also wrote
-local items and on leaving the “Conservator,” took up newspaper work,
-joining the staff of the “Evening Telegram” in 1902. While with that
-paper he represented it in the Legislative Press Gallery. Subsequently
-he spent a year in London, England, as correspondent of the Canadian
-Associated Press, “covering” the general election in Britain in 1905-6
-for the Canadian papers. On his return to Canada he rejoined the
-“Evening Telegram” staff and continued as a member of it till June 1,
-1909, when he was appointed Secretary to the Minister and Department of
-Agriculture. During the same year he served as Secretary to the Ontario
-Government Milk Commission. On the retirement of the late C. C. James,
-LL.D., from the position of Deputy Minister, March 1, 1912, Mr.
-Roadhouse was promoted to his present position—being probably the
-youngest man ever appointed a Deputy Minister in the Province of
-Ontario. He has made many addresses and contributed numerous articles to
-the press on the subjects with which he is specially familiar. He
-married, July 3, 1912, Lillian Maud Wyndow, daughter of Wm. Wyndow,
-Toronto. He is a Protestant and a member of the A.F. & A.M. In his
-dealings with the public, Mr. Roadhouse is extremely courteous while in
-the conduct of his department, his guiding idea seems to be clear cut
-thinking and practical action. His address is Parliament Bldgs.,
-Toronto.
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-
-=Poulin, Stanislas, K.C.=, Advocate of St. John’s, Quebec, is a son of
-N. Poulin, farmer, and Marie Surpremant, his wife. He was born at
-Stottsville, Que., on August 2, 1881, and was educated at Montreal
-College, L’Assomption College and Laval University. From the latter
-institution he graduated in 1905 with the degrees of B.A. and LL.L. He
-entered the practice of law in St. John’s shortly after his admission to
-the Bar, and has been solicitor for that city since 1913. In 1916 he was
-appointed King’s Counsel on the recommendation of the Prime Minister of
-Quebec, Sir Lomer Gouin. He has distinguished gifts as a public speaker
-and is a liberal in politics. As a member of that party he was induced
-to run for the Legislature in 1913, but was defeated by a fellow
-Liberal. In religion he is a Roman Catholic, and was married on April
-23, 1907, to Corinne, daughter of Hon. Justice A. N. Charland, Judge of
-the Superior Court, St. John’s, Quebec. He has two children, Claire,
-born June 24, 1909, and Simone, Oct. 26, 1912.
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-
-=Kent, Controller Joseph=, is the Accountant, etc., in the Ottawa River
-Works Office, a branch of the Department of Public Works of Canada. He
-has held that position for many years and is considered by those in
-authority a reliable and painstaking official. He is a Justice of the
-Peace for the County of Carleton, and is Chairman of the Grounds and
-Buildings Committee of the Central Canada Exhibition Association. During
-the years 1911-1912 he represented, as Alderman, Central Ward, in the
-Ottawa City Council, and was elected for the years 1913, 1914, 1916,
-1917, 1918 and 1919, as one of the four Controllers in charge of Civic
-Affairs. For years previous to his aspiring to civic honors he was a
-conspicuous figure in all kinds of sports and was active and skilled in
-the games of lacrosse, football, etc. As an Alderman he was one of the
-men that never faltered in his duty and his value to the city may well
-be judged by the number of years he has been elected as Controller.
-Controller Kent is the son of the late William and Martha (Wallace)
-Kent. He was born in Quebec City on January 28, 1864, and was educated
-in the Public and High Schools. Mr. Kent, in 1885, married Nellie Edna
-Whitney, daughter of Phillip P. Whitney, of Ottawa, Ontario. He is a
-member of the Rideau Curling Club and the Canadian Club, and of the
-C.O.F., A.O.U.W., societies, and Past Master of Civil Service Lodge,
-number 148, A.F. & A.M. His residence is 184 Second Avenue, Ottawa,
-Ontario.
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-
-=Baillie, Sir Frank, K.B.E.= (Toronto), one of the most eminent of the
-younger generation of Canadian business men, and who rendered very
-important service in the matter of munition production during the great
-war, was born at Toronto on August 19, 1875. He is the son of John and
-Marian (Wilton) Baillie, and was educated in his native city. He
-commenced his business career as a clerk in the offices of the Central
-Canada Loan and Savings Company, Toronto, and later became private
-secretary to the eminent capitalist, the late Senator George A. Cox, in
-which capacity he obtained a very close insight into modern methods of
-business organization. In 1896 he was appointed accountant of the
-Central Canada Loan and Savings Company, and was successively promoted
-to Secretary (1898) and Assistant Manager (1901) of the same
-corporation. In 1902 he became General Manager of the newly incorporated
-Metropolitan Bank, being probably the youngest man ever placed in full
-managerial control of a chartered bank in the history of this country.
-In 1903 he founded the firm of Baillie, Wood & Croft, stock brokers, and
-members of the Toronto Stock Exchange. His position as an industrial
-leader began in 1910 with the organization of the Burlington Steel
-Company of Hamilton, Ont., of which he is still President. In 1912 he
-organized the Bankers Bond Company, Limited, Toronto, and in the same
-year the Dominion Steel Foundry Company of Hamilton, Ont. Shortly after
-the commencement of the European War in 1914 he organized the Canadian
-Cartridge Co., Ltd., of Hamilton, of which he is President, to undertake
-the much needed work of manufacturing cartridge cases for the British
-Government. He personally equipped himself with knowledge of the
-technical work of munition making and so successful did he prove as an
-industrial organizer that he was able within two years to return to the
-British Government over $750,000 profits earned from war contracts, as a
-patriotic gift. Subsequently the Canadian Cartridge Company engaged in
-the manufacture of anti-aircraft cases for the United States Government
-on a large scale. In December, 1916, Sir Frank was appointed Director of
-Aviation for Canada, and in the same month acting for the British
-Government, organized and became President of Canadian Aeroplanes,
-Limited, which corporation manufactured aeroplanes for the Royal Air
-Force in Canada and flying boats for the American Government. On January
-9, 1918, shortly after the institution by His Majesty of the Order of
-the British Empire, to honor those who had rendered distinguished
-service in the prosecution of the war, the subject of this sketch was
-created a Knight Commander of that Order. Sir Frank is essentially an
-outdoor man and his recreations include golf, motoring, curling and
-yachting. He is a member of the following clubs: National, Toronto,
-Albany, Lambton Golf and Country, Mississauga Golf and Royal Canadian
-Yacht Club, Toronto; Victoria Club, Hamilton, and Hamilton Golf,
-Hamilton. In politics he is independent and in religion an Anglican. On
-June 8, 1900, he married Edith Julia, daughter of the late Aubrey White,
-C.M.G., for many years Deputy Minister of Lands and Mines for Ontario.
-He has three sons, Aubrey Wilton, born July 6, 1908, Frank Wilton, born
-November 4, 1913, and James Wilton, born December 1, 1918; and two
-daughters, Marion Wilton, born April 23, 1901, and Edith Wilton, born
-October 1, 1904. He resides at 146 Crescent Road, Toronto.
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-
-=McCuaig, Clarence James= (Montreal, P.Q.), Stockbroker. Born in Quebec
-City September 1, 1855, educated at Ontario College, Picton. Married
-Emma Margaret, daughter of the late J. C. Rykert, Q.C., St. Catharines,
-Ont., and has three sons: Lieut.-Col. D. Rykert McCuaig, D.S.O.,
-Brig.-General G. Eric McCuaig, C.M.G., D.S.O., and Major Clarence N.
-McCuaig. Mr. McCuaig is Honorary Colonel of the 53rd Regiment. In 1896
-he bought a seat in the Montreal Stock Exchange, the firm later becoming
-McCuaig Bros. & Co., in which the three sons are partners. He organized
-the Sherbrooke Railway & Power Company and the Southern Canada Power
-Company, of both of which he was President, but retired from these
-positions to devote himself to the business of the firm during the
-absence of his three sons overseas. He is a director of the Ottawa
-Light, Heat & Power Co., and is a member of St. James, Canada, Montreal,
-Hunt, Forest & Stream, Royal St. Lawrence, and Royal Montreal Golf Clubs
-in Montreal, and of the Rideau Club, Ottawa. He is a Protestant in
-religion and a Conservative in politics.
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-
-=Tessier, Auguste Maurice=, Barrister, Rimouski. Born 20th of July,
-1879, at Rimouski, Que. Son of the Honorable Judge Auguste Tessier of
-the Superior Court, and his wife, Corrine Gauvreau, both
-French-Canadians. His grandfather was the Honorable U. J. Tessier, Judge
-of the Court of King’s Bench, Quebec. Mr. Tessier was educated at Quebec
-Seminary and Laval University, receiving degrees, B.A. (1898), LL.M.
-with very great distinction (1901). Married, February 7, 1907, to
-Yvonne, daughter of Sir Alexandre Lacoste, former Chief Justice Court of
-King’s Bench, Montreal. He is a director of Rimouski Land Co., and the
-Canada and Gulf Terminal Railway Co., Rimouski, and Cie Fonderie de Mont
-Joli. Admitted to the bar July, 1907, having studied in the office of
-Sir Charles Fitzpatrick, Quebec; practised his profession first at
-Richmond, with Hon. P. S. G. Mackenzie, and at Rimouski since 1905;
-senior member of the law firm of Tessier & Cote. Was Crown Prosecutor
-for the District of Rimouski, 1909-1913. Created K.C. in 1912. Is Mayor
-of the parish of Rimouski, Warden of the County of Rimouski, and
-President of the Agricultural Society of the County of Rimouski and has
-been Warden of the County. First elected to the legislature at the
-general elections, 1912, as a Liberal for the riding of Rimouski and
-still continues to represent the County, being re-elected in May, 1916.
-A Roman Catholic in religion, he is the father of two children, Yves and
-Maurice. He is a member of the following clubs: Montreal Reform, Quebec
-Garrison, Snellier Fish and Game Club, Kidgewick Game Club.
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-=Cane, James Gilbert=, 97 Delaware Ave., Toronto, and one of the best
-known business men of that city, was born at Weston, Ont., the son of
-Martin and Nancy (Morrison) Cane. He was educated at Weston Grammar
-School, and as a youth had a thorough business training. Subsequently he
-engaged in the wholesale lumber business on his own account and built up
-one of the most extensive connections in Toronto. As a young man he took
-an active interest in military matters and enlisted in the Royal
-Grenadiers. As a member of that famous regiment he served in the
-North-West Rebellion of 1885. He was present at the actions of Fish
-Creek and Batoche, and was awarded the medal for that campaign.
-Subsequently on the formation of the 48th Highlanders of Toronto he
-became an active member of that battalion. Mr. Cane is a Liberal in
-politics, though he has never been a violent partizan. At the
-legislative by-election for North-West Toronto in 1916 when Hon. W. D.
-McPherson sought re-election, on his elevation to the post of Provincial
-Secretary, Mr. Cane, on account of his universal popularity was induced
-to become a sacrifice candidate in order that the party organization
-might be kept alive. The contest that ensued was one of the cleanest and
-most courteous ever conducted in Canada, the two candidates being on
-terms of personal friendship; and Mr. Cane polled a vote that surprised
-many purely on his personal qualities. Mr. Cane is a Protestant in
-religion and a member of the Masonic Order. He married Margaret B.,
-daughter of the late Andrew Henderson of Toronto, and has ten children,
-James M., Donald A., William, Charles, Gordon G., Nellie, Margaret,
-Annie, Nora and Lillian. Three of his sons, James, William and Charles,
-saw service with the Canadian army overseas in the great war and won
-honorable records.
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-=Wilkes, Alfred John, LL.B. K.C.=, (Brantford, Ont.) is a distinguished
-member of the Ontario bar, and prominent in the commercial and social
-activities of his native City, where he was born on December 15, 1847.
-He is the son of the late Lieut.-Colonel James Wilkes, formerly City
-Treasurer of Brantford. His father was a native of Birmingham, England,
-who came to Canada in 1821, and carried on a mercantile business in the
-City of Toronto until 1823, (muddy Little York then had a population of
-800 and only three brick houses), when he removed to the site of the
-present City of Brantford, continued his business as a general merchant,
-and was for twenty-six years City Treasurer. His mother, Eliza (Elliot)
-Wilkes, was a Canadian by birth. Educated at the Public and High Schools
-of Brantford until the age of sixteen, the subject of this sketch
-matriculated at Osgoode Hall, at the age of sixteen, and commenced the
-study of law, being articled to Hon. S. H. Blake, of the then legal firm
-of Blake, Kerr, and Wells, Toronto, and was called to the bar in 1869,
-heading the list, at the early age of twenty-one. Subsequently the
-degree of LL.B. was conferred on him by Toronto University on passing
-the usual examinations. Returning to Brantford on being admitted to the
-bar, he entered into practice with the late Daniel Brooke, for three
-years. Then, after practising one year alone, he formed a partnership
-with Hon. Arthur Sturgis Hardy, late Premier of Ontario, which continued
-from 1873 to 1898. In 1890 Mr. Wilkes was created a Queen’s Counsel by
-the Ontario Government, a distinction richly merited. In 1894 he became
-Acting County Crown Attorney, and five years afterwards was appointed to
-that office, and on the 3rd of January, 1885, was gazetted Deputy Judge
-of Brant County, acting for the late Judge Jones, once for three months
-and again for six months. Mr. Wilkes enjoys an enviable distinction in
-the legal profession and has long had a large and successful practice;
-was City Solicitor, in partnership with Hon. A. S. Hardy, and later also
-with Lt.-Col. Jones and the present Judge Alex. D. Hardy of Brant County
-from 1873, and only recently resigned on account of advancing years; was
-also solicitor for Waterous Engine Works Company and for late Bank of
-B.N.A., and was and now is solicitor for the Bank of Montreal, with
-which that bank is amalgamated, and many other corporations doing
-business in the City of Brantford. Always taking a deep interest in
-educational matters, Mr. Wilkes was for many years a member of the
-School Board of the City of Brantford, and for four years Chairman. He
-has had an extended military career, was an ensign in the Reserve
-Militia in his early years, and was also for many years a Captain in the
-38th Dufferin Rifles. He assisted in forming the 25th Brant Dragoons, of
-which he was gazetted Lieut.-Col., retiring retaining the rank of
-Lieut.-Col. Mr. Wilkes is a Director of the Royal Loan and Savings
-Company, and Vice-President of the Manufacturers Life Assurance Company,
-and interested in many other large financial institutions. He is a
-Fellow of the Royal Canadian Institute, a Mason, being Past Master of
-Doric Lodge, and has long been prominently identified with the Canadian
-Order of Foresters, having been High Court Solicitor. From 1897 to 1901
-he was Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada. A member of the
-Church of England, and for several years a Churchwarden. Before his
-acceptance of the office of County Crown Attorney he was a Liberal in
-politics. He is a member of the Brantford Club, University Club,
-Military Institute, and the Empire Club, Toronto. Married, June 22,
-1887, to Esther Frances, daughter of Francis H. Haycock, late Collector
-of Customs at Paris, Ontario, and his family comprise Marjorie H. (wife
-of Lieut.-Col. F. Logie Armstrong, O.B.E.), Captain A. Burton Wilkes,
-overseas with the Canadian Army Medical Corps, Captain F. Hilton Wilkes,
-with Royal Canadian Dragoons in France, Captain J. F. Ransom Wilkes,
-late of Military Headquarters Staff, Toronto, now of Can. Siberian
-Expeditionary Force, Vladivostok, Russia, and Miss E. Gwendolyn Wilkes.
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-=Workman, Mark= (Montreal, Que.), was born in Buffalo, N.Y., on August
-4, 1864, the son of Isaac and Sarah (Rosenthal) Workman. He received his
-education in the public schools, and came to Montreal with his father in
-1876, joining with him in the clothing business. The lad became the head
-of the business in 1880, at the remarkably youthful age of sixteen
-years. With unusual business instinct and untiring industry, the young
-Workman piloted his enterprise along the course of steady growth until,
-in 1906, the company of which he remained head was incorporated, and
-expanded until its travellers covered the whole of Canada, from Atlantic
-to Pacific. For nearly twenty years now (1917) the Mark Workman Company
-has been contractors for the British and Canadian Governments for
-military clothing, and has been responsible for many enormous contracts
-during the present war. Beyond the confines of his own business, Mr.
-Workman also found scope for his enterprise and ability. He interested
-himself extensively in Canadian industry, notably the Dominion Steel
-Corporation, of which he is one of the largest shareholders and was
-elected President in 1916. Endowed with foresight and courage,
-attributes which helped to raise him to his enviable position in the
-business world, he believed that the formation of the Dominion Iron and
-Steel Company, with its adjunct, the Dominion Coal Company, would not
-only open the way for a gigantic steel enterprise in Canada which would
-take care of the big domestic business in the Dominion, but also extend
-to other parts of the Empire and to foreign countries. He believed in
-the future of the undertaking, invested money in it, fought it
-successfully through the dark days of its early experience, and won out.
-In 1911 he became a director of the Corporation, and his active interest
-in the management resulted in his being made chairman of the finance and
-selling committees of the directorate. Mr. Workman is also the
-Vice-President of the Federal Parquetry Company, of Lexington, Ky.;
-vice-president of the Jacobs Asbestos Company, Ltd., of Thetford Mines,
-Que., and is interested in the B. Gardner Company, of Montreal. While
-the success that came to Mr. Workman brought him great wealth and
-influence, his business activities did not prevent a generous and
-personal interest in many charitable works, his yearly benefactions to
-worthy causes and individuals being estimated at fifty to sixty thousand
-dollars. He is a life Governor of the Montreal General Hospital and
-other hospitals and charitable institutions, to the funds of which he is
-a liberal contributor. He has given most generously to the Patriotic
-Fund and to the various regimental funds, and was a subscriber to the
-extent of $200,000 to the Canadian War Loan. Mr. Workman is also
-prominent in philanthropic work among the Jewish population of Canada
-and is president and actual upbuilder of the Mount Sinai Sanatorium for
-fighting the white plague. A sample of his deep interest in the race was
-his remarkable response to the appeal of Mr. Leopold Rothschild since
-the outbreak of the war on behalf of Jewish sufferers in Russia. Mr.
-Workman forwarded an immediate cash contribution of $5,000, with an
-appended offer to supplement that gift by the subscription of $1,000 per
-month. Mr. Workman married, when twenty years of age, Miss Rachel Lewis,
-of Syracuse, N.Y., on February 18, 1886. He has one son, Edward, a
-Lieut. in the Canadian overseas army, and four daughters, Mrs. Nathan
-Gordon, of Montreal; Mrs. Harry Rosenthal, of Ottawa, and the Misses
-Nina and Daisy Workman. He is a member of the Masonic and the Royal
-Guardians.
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-=Wrong, Professor George McKinnon, M.A.= (Toronto, Ont.), was born in
-Gravesend, County of Elgin, Ontario, June 25, 1860, is a son of Gilbert
-Wrong, of Aylmer, Ont., and Christina McKinnon. Educated at the
-University of Toronto, from which he graduated with the degree of B.A.,
-1883; M.A., 1896; also Wycliffe College, Oxford University; took Orders
-in the Church of England, 1883, but has since been engaged continually
-in Academic work; succeeded in 1894 the late Sir Daniel Wilson, as
-Professor of History in the University of Toronto. Was a lecturer on
-History and Apologetics and Dean of Wycliffe, 1883 to 1892. Received the
-degree of F.R.C.S., 1908. Appointed a member of the Canadian Historical
-Manuscript Committee, 1887. Is a Senator of Toronto University, and is
-the author of several historical works, among which may be mentioned
-“The British Nation, a History” (1903), “The Earl of Elgin” (1905), “The
-Review of Historical Publications,” “The Crusade of 1883.” Appointed by
-the Canadian Institute a member of the Fleming Electoral Reform
-Committee. Has been a Director of Havergal Ladies’ College, Ridley
-College and the Working Boys’ Home. Is a member of the Royal Historical
-Society, Secretary Champlain Society. In 1886 married Sophia Hume Blake,
-daughter of the Hon. Edward Blake, K.C., M.P., and is the father of the
-following children: Margaret Christian, born 1887, Edward Murray (1889),
-Harold Verschoyle (1891), Humphrey Hume (1894), Agnes Honoria (1903).
-Professor Wrong is a member of the York Club, Toronto; The Golf Club and
-Savile Club, London, England, and is recognized as being one of the
-foremost scholars of the present day.
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-
-=Arnold, Wm. McCullough=, General Manager of the Ottawa Car
-Manufacturing Company, was born at Ottawa, October 26, 1879, and is the
-son of William and Georgiana (Eaton) Arnold. He was educated at Model
-and Public Schools, Ottawa. At the age of sixteen (in 1895) he commenced
-his business life by joining the firm of H. N. Bate & Sons, wholesale
-grocers, as clerk, where he remained for five years. In 1900 he was
-appointed accountant in the firm of T. Lindsay & Co., at that time
-extensive retail dry goods merchants, Wellington Street, Ottawa, and
-remained with the firm for two years. In 1902 he was appointed by the
-then Minister of Customs, Hon. William Patterson, appraiser in the
-Customs Dept., where he remained until 1911. In 1912 he became
-Purchasing Agent for the Ottawa Car Manufacturing Company, and a year
-later was promoted to the position of Assistant General Manager. In the
-early part of January, 1918, Mr. Arnold became General Manager of the
-Company. Aside from the immense business carried on by the Ottawa Car
-Mfg. Co. in the manufacture of cars of all descriptions—wagons, street
-and railway cars, etc.—under Mr. Arnold’s management the company have
-erected, facing on Albert Street, and running back to Slater Street, the
-largest and best equipped and, architecturally, the handsomest garage to
-be found in the Dominion of Canada. It covers a floor space of 60,000
-square feet and holds 300 automobiles. On December 5, 1900, Mr. Arnold
-married Pearl Gladys Ritchie, daughter of William D. Ritchie,
-Rockcliffe, Ont. He has two sons, William Russell and Lewis Arthur, and
-one daughter, Dorothy. He is a prominent member in the A.F. & A.M. and
-the I.O.O.F. Societies, a member of the Canadian Car Manufacturers
-Association, and of the Connaught Park Jockey, the Laurentian and the
-Canadian Clubs. Mr. Arnold is a Presbyterian in religion, and a Liberal
-in politics. His recreations are hockey, lacrosse, bowling and
-automobiling. He resides at 149 First Ave.
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-
-=Wilson, James Lockie= (Toronto, Ont.), is of Scottish ancestry, the
-third son of Robert Wilson and Agnes Logie, was born at Alexandria,
-Ont., November 12, 1856, and educated at the Public and High Schools of
-Glengarry. Is at present Superintendent of Agricultural and
-Horticultural Societies of Ontario, and Managing Director of the Ontario
-Vegetable Growers’ Association. Secretary of Fairs and Exhibitions
-Association; Secretary and Managing Director Ontario Ploughmen’s
-Association, and Secretary Ontario Horticultural Association; was
-President of the Glengarry St. Andrew’s Society; President of the
-Agricultural Society; President of the Farmers’ Institute; President
-Patrons of Industry of Canada; President Farmers’ Association of Canada;
-President Sons of Scotland Athletic Association, Toronto; President
-Burns Literary Society; Grand Master Ancient Order United Workmen; Grand
-Chieftain Sons of Scotland; Director Toronto Playgrounds Association;
-Director Vacant Lots Garden Association; Vice-President American Civic
-Association, Washington; was first President of Ontario Civil Service
-Association; Farmers’ Candidate for Glengarry, House of Commons, 1896,
-his opponent being Colonel R. R. McLennan. The most successful breeder
-of pure-bred cattle (Ayrshires, Shropshires and Berkshires) in Eastern
-Ontario, and a large prize winner at all the leading exhibitions in
-Canada; the author of various official reports. The great success of the
-Fairs and Exhibitions throughout the Province held under the auspices of
-the various Agricultural Societies are in a large measure due to the
-untiring efforts of Superintendent Wilson. The subject of this sketch
-was married to Mary, daughter of late Andrew Hodge, of Cornwall, Ont.,
-and is the father of six: Winnifred May (deceased), Jennie, Margaret,
-Georgina, John Ruthven, winner of Military Cross 1918, and Marion. He is
-a member of the following Clubs and Societies: Empire Club, Toronto, and
-the Canada Lawn Bowling Club, Burns Literary Society, and Ancient Order
-of United Workmen, and Sons of Scotland. In religion he is a
-Presbyterian, and a supporter of the Conservative Party.
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-
-=Camaraire, Alfred Frederick= (St. John’s, Que.), is a son of Joseph
-Camaraire, Superintendent of M.L.H. & P. Co., of Montreal. He was born
-May 12, 1881, and educated at St. John’s Academy and St. John’s High
-School, later taking a commercial course at Montreal Business College,
-to qualify himself for a banking career. He now holds the position of
-Manager of the St. John’s (Que.) branch of the Royal Bank of Canada. He
-still retains affiliations with Montreal and is a Lieutenant in the 87th
-Battalion, as well as a member of the Canadian Club, the Y.M.C.A., the
-Amateur Athletic Association and the Engineering Club, of that city. He
-is also connected with the Knights of Pythias and the Royal Arcanum. In
-religion he is a Roman Catholic and in politics a Conservative. He was
-married in October, 1904, to a daughter of C. D. Hust (retired), of St.
-John’s. His eldest son, Roland, born 1906, was killed by a motor
-accident on Oct. 11, 1918, and he has a second son, Conrad, born 1910.
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-
-=Studholme, Allan= (Hamilton) is of English origin having been born at
-Drake’s Cross, Worcestershire, near Birmingham, England, December 8,
-1846. Son of John and Hannah Studholme. Came to Canada in 1870; went to
-Australia in 1887, returning to the Dominion in 1892. Has always been a
-strong advocate of everything which would advance the cause of Labor,
-and was first elected to the Ontario Legislature for the Riding of East
-Hamilton as a straight Labor candidate, in December, 1906, and
-re-elected 1908, 1911 and 1914. Has refused to identify himself with
-either Party and has preferred to maintain his independence. Bill
-protecting telephone girls from working more than five hours a day was
-framed in 1907 to meet a strike. Strike being settled, bill was
-withdrawn. Favors an eight-hour day for male adults. Is a member of the
-General Executive, Ontario Single Tax League. Has been Vice-President of
-the Social and Moral Reform Council for Canada. Is a Stovemounter and
-member of the Executive of the Stovemounter and Steel Range Makers’
-International Union. Is popular with the members of both sides of the
-House and is recognized as one of the most fearless and independent
-members of the Legislature. Married, April 27, 1874, to Priscilla
-Stearne and is the father of the following children: Foster, married
-Helen Holder; Gordon, married to Josephine Holder; Edward, married to
-Lois Young, and May, married to Earle R. Morrow March 24, 1915.
-Religion, Methodist.
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-
-=Tourigny, Alfred F. X.=, Advocate (Magog, Que.), was born at Batiscan,
-Champlain County, Que., the son of a farmer, L. E. Tourigny and Eugenie
-Trudel, who is a sister of the Honorable F. X. A. Trudel. Deciding to
-get a thorough education, he studied at Three Rivers, Que., and
-graduated with the degree of B.A. He studied law at Laval University,
-and graduated with the degree of LL.B. On August 10, 1898, he married
-Clara Marchand, the daughter of Louis Marchand, manufacturer, of Ste.
-Genevieve de Batiscan, Que., and has eight children—Olivier, Charles
-Edouard, Alfred, Anselme, Henri, Louis, Claire and Ives. In religion he
-is a Roman Catholic and a Conservative in politics, and at the present
-time he is Secretary-Treasurer of the town of Magog.
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-
-=Widdifield, John W.=, Agriculturist (Uxbridge, Ont.), comes from
-Pennsylvania and New Jersey stock and is of United Empire Loyalist
-descent. After he graduated from the Ontario Agricultural College, he
-returned “to the land,” on the farm which had been homesteaded by the
-family for five generations; another branch of the family, the Lundys,
-pioneering on historic soil in the Niagara peninsula during this time.
-He has served as Reeve of Uxbridge Township, as Ontario County
-Councillor, as editor of the “O.A.C. Review,” as Secretary of the North
-Ontario Farmers’ Institute, and as Chairman of the County Committee on
-Agriculture. Mr. Widdifield has been a frequent contributor to the
-press, besides travelling extensively as a lecturer on Agricultural and
-Natural Science topics. In the general elections of 1914 he contested
-North Ontario in the Liberal interests, unsuccessfully, against Hon. W.
-H. Hoyle, Speaker of the Ontario Legislature. At the by-elections for
-the Ontario Legislature in Feb., 1919, as an Independent Farmers’
-Candidate, he again entered the lists, at this time successfully
-contesting the riding with Major Harry S. Cameron. Born in Uxbridge
-Township, March 16, 1869, the son of Watson P. and Annie (Frankish)
-Widdifield, he was educated at the Uxbridge High School and Ontario
-Agricultural College, Guelph, Ont., being admitted to the status of
-A.O.A.C. in 1894, and granted the Degree of B.S.A. by Toronto University
-in the following year. He married Lucy, daughter of Cornelius Dike, July
-3, 1895, and has one daughter, Annie Enid Widdifield, born July 24,
-1896.
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-
-=Watt, John Ralston=, Barrister (Claresholm, Alta.), was born in 1875 at
-Ayr, Scotland, and educated at Ayr Academy, Wimbledon and the Glasgow
-and Cambridge Universities. Graduated in 1896 with the degree of B.A.
-(Cantab.), is a director of the Alberta Agricultural Fairs Association
-and Secretary of Claresholm Agricultural Society; has written on “The
-Turf” and other subjects to various periodicals in Canada, the United
-States and Great Britain under the signature of “Craignorth.” In 1914 he
-was married to Jessie G. Young.
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-
-=Wallis, Horace= (Toronto, Ont.), born in London, England, 1862. Has had
-extensive newspaper experience and understands the work of a practical
-printer in all branches of the craft. Has had a successful career as an
-editor, journalist and parliamentary correspondent, having been editor
-and managing director of “The Quebec Chronicle,” and Associate Editor of
-the “Mail and Empire,” Toronto, for which paper he acted as
-Parliamentary correspondent, 1887-91, and resident Ottawa Correspondent,
-1894-8; presented with silver service by the citizens when leaving
-Ottawa. Resigned position of Associate Editor of “The Mail and Empire,”
-1905, to become Secretary to the Prime Minister of Ontario, and has been
-Deputy Minister of the Department of the President of the Privy Council
-since 1914. Has been President of the Parliamentary Press Gallery at
-Ottawa and Toronto; Vice-President of the Quebec Associate Press.
-Interested in motoring and golfing and identified with the Masonic
-Order. Has taken an active part in the establishment of Temperance
-organizations, and in the promotion of the Prohibition movement. A. F.
-Wallis, Registrar of the Surrogate Court of the County of York, is a
-brother, who has also had a distinguished career as a journalist. Mr.
-Wallis married in 1893, Miss Margaret J. Tripp, of Toronto. He is an
-Anglican in religion and has received many tributes to his worth and
-acknowledgements of the esteem he is held in by his fellow citizens.
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-
-=Hagedorn, Charles Kappler= (Kitchener, Ont.), was born in the County of
-Waterloo, February 5, 1859, son of Ernest A. P. Hagedorn and Mary
-Kappler, his wife. His father was a farmer who came from Hanover,
-Germany, when an orphan of twelve years old, settling in Waterloo
-County, where he worked at farm labor and by his diligence and economy
-acquired land and began farming on his own account, which he continued
-successfully until his death, in 1875. He was one of the early settlers
-of the county, clearing the homestead of 100 acres and endured all the
-difficulties and privations of pioneer life. The subject of this sketch
-was reared on his father’s farm and received a primary education at the
-public schools which was completed at the Normal school, Toronto. In
-1877 Mr. Hagedorn began teaching in the public schools of his native
-county, which he continued until the end of 1884, when he turned his
-attention to mercantile life and acted as travelling salesman throughout
-the Province of Ontario until 1889, when he began the manufacture of
-suspenders and buttons. In 1895 he organized the Berlin Suspender and
-Button Company; in 1900 the present plant on King St. was erected. The
-company was later incorporated and subsequently, when the name of the
-city was changed, it became The Kitchener Suspender Company, Limited.
-The company employs a large number of skilled operators, and their
-product is known favorably throughout Canada. Mr. Hagedorn has given
-fully of his time and ability to his fellow citizens and served as
-Alderman in the City Council for a number of years, acting as Chairman
-of the Original Commission which operated the Electric and Gas Plants
-when these public utilities were taken over by the city. He has been an
-active member of the Board of Trade and was for two years president. Mr.
-Hagedorn is a Presbyterian in religion, and has been Superintendent of
-the Presbyterian Sunday School and an Elder for many years, taking a
-deep interest in temperance work. He has been President of the Waterloo
-Temperance Alliance for a number of years. Mr. Hagedorn was married on
-May 15, 1889, to Emily, daughter of John Cairns, of Kitchener, who was a
-pioneer farmer of North East Hope Township, now retired. He is the
-father of three children, Lloyd Elmo, Grover Cairns, and Edna Aleen.
-Politically he is a Reformer; in business affairs and in his private
-life he is a man of strict probity, and has always displayed promptness,
-reliability and sterling honesty in all his relations with his fellow
-citizens, by whom he is held in the highest esteem. He is well informed
-and is regarded as being a progressive man thoroughly in touch with
-modern progress.
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-=Pennington, David Henry=, one of the prominent lumber merchants of
-Quebec City, formerly a member of the Legislative Assembly, and later a
-member of the Harbor Commission of Quebec, was born in that city on
-February the 14th, 1868. He is a son of William Pennington of Preston,
-England, who for many years lived at Montmorency Falls, while engaged in
-the office of the G. B. Hall Lumber Company. Entering as a junior clerk
-of that company, the subject of this sketch worked his way up to the
-post of general manager of the Company’s branch of operations in the
-Eastern Townships. Eventually buying out the interests of the Company in
-the Townships, he established himself at Lyster, there possessing two
-saw-mills, a large dressing lumber mill, and a pulpwood storing station.
-His business activities were soon felt in the community, making it, as
-they did, an important business outlet on the Grand Trunk Railway route
-between Quebec and Richmond, for the adjacent counties of Lotbinière and
-Megantic. During the twelve years he resided at Lyster he was Mayor of
-the place for nine of them, besides being Warden of the County of
-Megantic. In 1908 he was elected to represent that county in the Local
-Legislature at Quebec, where his intimate knowledge of French as well as
-English, won an influence for him at once. In 1912 he sold his
-properties at Lyster, and returned to Quebec, there to continue his
-successful career as a lumber merchant. During these years there has
-passed through his hands an annual output of from sixty to seventy
-thousand cords of pulpwood alone. He was among the first to export
-pulpwood to the United States, and was one of the promoters of the
-Wayagamack Pulp and Paper Company of Three Rivers. He has been largely
-interested for years in the asbestos industry in the Thetford Mining
-district, and has a large business interest in timber limits on and near
-the Lower St. Lawrence. As a public-spirited citizen he takes high rank,
-having in 1916 been appointed by the Federal Government at Ottawa to the
-highly responsible position of one of the three Harbor Commissioners of
-his native city. He has given two of his sons to the Service of the
-Empire, his eldest, Lieut. Ronald N. Pennington and his younger brother
-Frank, having distinguished themselves with Canada’s “bravest” at the
-front. Mr. Pennington has been married twice, first to Miss S. E. Neil,
-the mother of the two lads just mentioned; and, second, Miss Mary S.
-Stewart, the daughter of the late Duncan Stewart of Inverness. By the
-latter he has one son and one daughter. Mr. Pennington’s mother was born
-in St. John’s, Newfoundland. He is a Warden of the Anglican Cathedral
-and a member of the Board of Trade, being prominent in all the public
-and patriotic movements of the city.
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-
-=MacLean, Hon. John Duncan, M.D.C.M., M.L.A.= (Victoria, B.C.), is a son
-of Roderick A. MacLean and his wife, Effie Mathieson MacLean. Was born
-at Culloden, P.E.I., on November 8, 1875. Educated at Prince of Wales
-College, Charlottetown. Taught school in British Columbia and Alberta
-until 1901, when he entered McGill University, from which institution he
-graduated in 1905, with the degree of M.D.C.M. with Honors in Surgery
-and Pathology. Successfully practised medicine in Arizona, U.S.A.,
-Rossland and Greenwood, B.C. Was a candidate for the first time in the
-Liberal interests at the general Provincial Elections for the Province
-of British Columbia in 1916, when he was elected for the constituency of
-Greenwood, and was subsequently appointed Minister of Education and
-Provincial Secretary for British Columbia, being called to the Cabinet
-on the formation of the new Liberal Government after the election.
-Before taking up his residence in Victoria, the capital, the Hon. Dr.
-MacLean resided at Greenwood, B.C., of which municipality he was Mayor,
-1914-16. He is a member of the Masonic Order, Independent Order of
-Oddfellows, and Knights of Pythias, and in religion is a Presbyterian.
-Married, 1911, to Mary Gertrude, daughter of Joseph Watson of Owen
-Sound, Ontario, and is the father of four children—Jessie Marion,
-Roderick Watson, Elizabeth, and John Angus. The Provincial Secretary is
-a member of the Pacific Club of Victoria and the Greenwood at Greenwood.
-He takes a lively interest in sports, and his principal recreation is
-trap shooting and curling. The Minister’s ancestors were Highland Scotch
-of the Isle of Skye, Inverness. His parents came to Canada in 1834,
-settling in Prince Edward Island, where his father engaged in farming.
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-
-=O’Hara, Francis Charles Trench=, Deputy Minister of Trade and Commerce
-for Canada, and one of the best known citizens of Ottawa, was born at
-Chatham, Ont., November 7, 1870, the second son of Robert O’Hara, Master
-of Chancery in that city, and Maria S. (Dobbs) O’Hara. He was educated
-at the Chatham Collegiate Institute and in 1888 entered the service of
-the Canadian Bank of Commerce. His inclinations led him to literary
-pursuits, however, and in 1891 he left the service of the bank to enter
-newspaper work in Baltimore, Maryland. In this field he showed great
-promise, but in 1896 Rt. Hon. Sir Richard Cartwright, having entered the
-first Laurier cabinet as Minister of Trade and Commerce, persuaded him
-to return to Canada and become his private secretary. Since then Mr.
-O’Hara has continued to reside in Ottawa, and has been a vital factor in
-the Department of Trade and Commerce, of which, since 1908, he has been
-Deputy Minister. He was Superintendent of the Trade Commissioners
-Service, to extend Canada’s markets in various parts of the world from
-1904 to 1911, and from 1908 to 1911 Chief Controller of Chinese
-Immigration. During the late war he rendered very important service as
-Chief Canadian officer in charge of British and United States Import and
-Export Trade Restrictions; until that work was assumed by the War Trade
-Board in 1918. He was also a member of the Ships Licence Committee, the
-Editorial Committee on Government Publications, and officer in charge
-under H.M. Ministry of Munitions of the distribution in Canada of
-Industrial diamonds. Since June, 1918, he has been also Deputy
-Commissioner of Patents. He is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society
-and of the Royal Colonial Institute. In 1907 the late Earl Grey, then
-Governor-General of Canada, induced him to become Honorary Secretary of
-his Musical and Dramatic Trophy Competitions, which for six years did
-admirable service in stimulating public interest in these arts. In
-1914-16 he was Local Officer for Canada for the Dominion Royal
-Commission to inquire into there sources of the Overseas Dominions. Mr.
-O’Hara wields a skilful pen as evidenced by numerous magazine and
-newspaper contributions. He is also a Captain of the Corps Reserve of
-the Governor-General’s Foot Guards. His recreations are golf, fishing
-and shooting, and he is a member of the Rideau, Country and Royal Ottawa
-Golf Clubs, Ottawa. He married Helen R., a daughter of the late Senator
-Corby of Belleville, Ont., and has one daughter. His residence is at 125
-Wurtemburg Street, Ottawa.
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-
-=Henderson, William Andrew=, Barrister, Toronto, Ontario, was born at
-the Provincial Capital on August 10, 1878, his parents being Andrew
-Henderson and Mary Elizabeth (Carpenter). On his mother’s side he is of
-United Empire Loyalist stock. A portion of the Crown grant made to his
-mother’s great grandfather by George the Third, of land in Halton County
-is still in the possession of the family. Educated at the Toronto Public
-Schools, Jarvis Collegiate Institute, Trinity University and Osgoode
-Hall. Studied law under James Milton Godfrey and Thomas Cowper
-Robinette, K.C., and on being called to the Bar in 1908 became a member
-of the firm of Robinette, Godfrey, Phelan and Henderson, and so
-practised until 1913 when he formed a partnership with Austin G. Ross,
-under the firm name of Henderson and Ross, which continued until 1915
-when he practised alone until 1918 when he entered into partnership with
-W. N. Irwin (Henderson & Irwin). Mr. Henderson has achieved a marked
-distinction in his professional conduct of famous criminal cases and has
-probably defended more people, since commencing practice, charged with
-capital offences than any other Ontario Counsel in recent years. Among
-the notable trials which greatly enhanced Mr. Henderson’s fame as an
-able advocate may be mentioned, the baby adoption case, in which Mabel
-Turner was indicted on a charge of murder; Peter Snider, Krystik and
-Strinkaruk, known as the Rosedale mystery; Hassan Neby (Tucker murder);
-Archie McLaughlin (the Uxbridge tragedy); a cause celebre. Mr. Henderson
-has defended no less than nine persons charged with murder and many
-others charged with serious offences and has a wide reputation as a
-successful criminal lawyer. He has held numerous briefs in civil cases,
-particularly those involving Mercantile law, being solicitor for several
-large corporations. A sound lawyer with an incisive style of
-cross-examination, he is able to present the law and the facts to the
-Court or Jury in a convincing and effective manner. An Anglican in
-religion and a Conservative in politics. He is a member of the Masonic
-Order. Married July 6, 1918, to Beatrice Helen, daughter of Donald
-Graham, of Toronto. Mr. Henderson has always been interested in amateur
-sports and prominent in local baseball circles. He is also proficient in
-boxing and swimming. A native of Toronto he is widely known and regarded
-as one of the most prominent and popular members of the Ontario Bar.
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-
-=Earle, Rufus Redmond, LL.B., K.C.=, 1995 19th Ave. West, Vancouver,
-B.C., was born May 8, 1873, in Winchester Township, Dundas County, Ont.,
-the son of Rufus Earle, a farmer, and his wife Catharine Redmond, a
-distant relative of the late John and Major William Redmond, the noted
-Irish parliamentary leaders. He was educated at the public schools of
-Winchester Tp., Morrisburg High School, Ottawa Normal School, and
-Ontario High School Teachers’ Institute, Toronto. He taught school at
-Cass Bridge, Ont., 1892-3, and Morrisburg Model School, 1894-5. In 1896
-he went to Manitoba and was principal of the Killarney High School for
-three years, subsequently entering Manitoba University and taking up the
-study of law with the present Mr. Justice Metcalfe, of the Court of
-King’s Bench, Winnipeg, and the late Hon. J. H. Agnew, Provincial
-Treasurer of Manitoba, Virden. He was called to the Manitoba Bar in
-1904. Removing to Saskatchewan in 1905, he was immediately called to the
-Bar of that province and that of Alberta also. He began practice in
-Battleford, Sask., in partnership with ex-Chief Justice McGuire, of the
-Bench of the North-West Territories, and played a prominent part in
-public affairs. He was elected Mayor of Battleford in 1912, having
-previously served as a member of the School Board and a Director of the
-General Hospital there. In 1914 he was chosen President of the
-Battleford Board of Trade, and military affairs also claimed his
-attention. In 1911-12 he was Provisional Major and O.C. of “D” Squadron
-22nd Saskatchewan Light Horse. He was also a Director of the
-Saskatchewan Anti-tuberculosis League and a Bencher of the Law Society
-of the province. President of the Law Society of Saskatchewan 1917. In
-1918 he removed to Vancouver, where he was called to the bar of British
-Columbia and at once took a prominent place in legal circles. He is a
-member of the Terminal City and Canadian Clubs, Vancouver; of the
-Shaughnessy Heights Golf Club and the Masonic Order. His recreations are
-golf, tennis, swimming, motoring, and all outdoor sports generally. He
-is a Presbyterian in religion, a Liberal in politics, and was married on
-December 26, 1908, to Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Barry, Morrisburg,
-Ont. He has two daughters, Mona Redmond and Marjory Kathleen, and two
-sons, Barry Redmond and Max Redmond.
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-=Buckles, Daniel, K.C.=, Barrister and Solicitor (Swift Current,
-Saskatchewan), was born at Margaree, Nova Scotia, April 11, 1876, son of
-Archie and Bridget Buckles. His father was a farmer. Mr. Buckles was
-educated at the Public Schools of Margaree and Dalhousie University,
-Halifax. On graduation, he taught school for a number of years in Nova
-Scotia. Admitted to the Bar of Nova Scotia, September 24, 1907, and
-successfully practised his profession at Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia,
-until July, 1911, when he removed to Swift Current, and is at present
-head of the firm of Buckles, Donald, McPherson, McWilliam & Thompson,
-which was formed in 1913. Appointed Crown Prosecutor, 1913, for the
-Judicial District, Swift Current. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Colonial
-Institute, 1916. Appointed King’s Counsel 1919. Mr. Buckles, who is a
-Liberal, has taken a prominent part in politics as a speaker and
-organizer, and has been active in Red Cross work, and has addressed
-recruiting meetings in different parts of the Province of Saskatchewan.
-He is deeply interested in educational matters and is a member of the
-Swift Current School Board. On January 4, 1912, he married Edna I.
-Murray, daughter of S. Murray, of Milton, Nova Scotia. He is a member of
-the following clubs and societies: The Canadian Club, Knights of
-Columbus, C.M.B.A., F.O.E. and the Royal Colonial Institute. He is a
-Roman Catholic in religion. His recreations are walking, shooting and
-skating.
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-=Jarvis, Ernest Frederick=, is one of the important officials of the
-civil branch of the Department of Militia and Defence, Ottawa, in which
-he holds the offices of Assistant Deputy Minister and Secretary of the
-Militia Council. He was born at St. Eleanor’s, Prince Edward Island, on
-September 16, 1862, the son of Edward Fitzgerald Jarvis, M.D., and Lucy
-DesBrisay Harding, his wife. He was educated at Summerside, P.E.I., and
-entered the public service of the Dominion on March 23, 1881, before he
-had completed his nineteenth year. In 1892 he was appointed Secretary to
-the late Hon. J. C. Paterson, Minister of the Crown in the cabinets of
-Sir John Thompson and Sir Mackenzie Bowell, and remained with him until
-Mr. Paterson was sent to Manitoba as Lieut.-Governor in 1895. Continuing
-in the civil service Mr. Jarvis was appointed Chief Clerk of the
-Department of Militia and Defence by Sir Frederick Borden in January,
-1903. He became Secretary of the Militia Council on November 28, 1904,
-and Assistant Deputy Minister on September 1, 1908. His expert knowledge
-of departmental organization was recognized when the administration of
-Sir Robert Borden appointed him a member of the Royal Commission to
-inquire into the state of records in the public departments of the
-Dominion, 1912-14. During the late war and the demobilization period Mr.
-Jarvis whose duties were enormously augmented has given proofs of his
-great abilities as a departmental officer. He was appointed a Companion
-of the Imperial Service Order on June 3, 1918. He is an Anglican in
-religion and in 1892 married Ethel Colborne, daughter of the late E. A.
-Meredith, LL.D., of Toronto. He resides at 347 Stewart Street, Ottawa.
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-
-=McCuish, Robert George= (Regina, Saskatchewan), was born at Parkhill,
-Ont., April 12, 1877, the son of Donald John and Flora McCuish. His
-father was a farmer and, the family moving to the West when he was a
-child, Mr. McCuish was educated at Morden (Man.) High School and at
-Manitoba University. In 1898 he joined the staff of the Winnipeg
-“Tribune,” and served as Sporting Editor for some years. From 1901 to
-1905 he published the “Chronicle,” of Morden, Manitoba, and in 1905
-founded the Fort William “Evening Herald,” which he continued to conduct
-until 1907, when he decided to enter the life insurance business in
-Winnipeg. He was Manager of the Ætna Life for two years, and then became
-Manager of the Manufacturers Life, and in 1912-13 served as
-Vice-President of the Dominion Life Underwriters’ Association. In the
-latter year he came East and became Montreal Manager of the
-Manufacturers Life Insurance Company, and on July 1, 1915, accepted the
-position of Manager for Saskatchewan of the Canada Life Assurance
-Company, with headquarters at Regina, a post he at present holds. Among
-the many important offices identified with his name are those of
-President of the Regina Liberal Association; Past President of the
-Regina Life Underwriters; Honorary Life Member and Past President of the
-Western Canada Press Association. He is a member of the Council of the
-Regina Board of Trade. Clubs: St. George and National of Montreal, the
-Wascona Country Club, Regina, and Assiniboia Club, Regina. His
-recreations are curling and golf. He is a Knight of Pythias and a Mason;
-at the present time is Deputy Supreme Chancellor for Saskatchewan of the
-order K. of P., and a P.G.C. of the order for Quebec. He is a
-Presbyterian in religion and on Sept. 14, 1904, married E. Maud,
-daughter of Andrew Macfarlane, for many years Superintendent of the
-William Hamilton Foundry, at Peterboro, Ont. He has one son, Donald
-Emmerson McCuish.
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-
-=Patrick, John Alexander Macdonald, K.C.= (Yorkton, Saskatchewan), one
-of the best known barristers of that province, was born at Ilderton,
-Ont., June 28, 1873, the son of George B. and Alecia Patrick, both
-deceased. His father was a farmer and the son was educated at the
-Collegiate Institute and Model School, London, Ont. Later he took a
-course at the Normal School, Regina, in 1896, and taught school for six
-years, concurrently taking up the study of law with Mr. Gifford Elliott,
-of Yorkton, in 1899. Subsequently, in 1903, he entered the office of
-George W. Watson, Yorkton, and in 1904 that of the late Hon. G. W.
-Brown, ex-Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan. In the latter year he was
-called to the bar and since 1905 has practised in Yorkton. He is at
-present head of the firm of Patrick, Doherty, Killam & Walton. He was
-created King’s Counsel in 1913, is ex-President of the Law Society of
-Saskatchewan and has been a Bencher of that body since 1906. He is also
-a member of the Executive of the Canadian Bar Association. Mr. Patrick
-has also taken a prominent part in public affairs and was Mayor of
-Yorkton for four terms, 1908-9 and 1913-4, and President of the Board of
-Trade from 1910 to 1913, inclusive. Earlier he held the post of Public
-School Trustee from 1906 to 1909, inclusive. He is a Conservative in
-politics and was an unsuccessful candidate for the Legislature at the
-provincial elections of 1917. He is also a member of the Executive of
-the Navy League of Saskatchewan, and of the Executive of the Canadian
-Patriotic Society for that province. In religion he is a Methodist and a
-Governor of Regina College, affiliated with that religious body. He is a
-Past Grand Master for his province of the I.O.O.F., and his recreations
-are big game hunting and farming. On Oct. 15, 1905, he married Sadie
-Pearl, a daughter of the late William A. Hawkins, retired contractor, of
-Yorkton, Sask., and has six children, William Alexander, John Arden,
-Ethel Cecilia, Sadie Alecia, Hugh-Arthur and Mona Ione.
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-Montreal]
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-
-=Hogg, Andrew Brydon=, Barrister (Lethbridge, Alberta), was born at
-Flesherton, Ont., on January 24, 1883. Educated at the Public and High
-Schools of Toronto and Toronto University, at which latter seat of
-learning he graduated with the degree of B.A. in 1904 and in 1916
-received the degree of LL.B. from Alberta University. Studied law with
-the Hon. Arthur Meighen, Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, afterwards
-Solicitor-General of Canada, with whom he subsequently formed a
-partnership, and with whom he practised law from 1908-10, the firm being
-known as Meighen and Hogg. From 1910-14 he practised alone at Carmangay,
-Alberta. In 1914 he formed a partnership with Mr. Russel, the firm name
-being known as Hogg & Russel, removing to Lethbridge in 1916, where he
-practised alone, and in 1917 he formed a partnership with C. F.
-Jamieson, the firm style being Hogg and Jamieson. On May 10, 1917, he
-married Ada Wright, adopted daughter of D. H. Elton, Barrister,
-Lethbridge. He is an adherent of the Presbyterian Church and a
-Conservative in politics, and a member of the Masonic Order. Mr. Hogg’s
-recreations are golf and motoring.
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-
-=Todd, John Lancelot= (Montreal), son of the late Jacob Hunter Todd and
-Rosanna (Wigley) Todd. Was born in Victoria, B.C., December 10, 1876.
-Educated at Upper Canada College and McGill University, B.A., 1898;
-M.D., C.M., 1900; M.R.C.S., London, 1907; D.Sc. (Hon.) Liverpool
-University, 1909; a member of the staff of the Royal Victoria Hospital,
-Montreal, 1901. Sent by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine to Gambia
-Protectorate and to Senegal to study trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness)
-and report on sanitation, 1902. Sent by Belgian Government and Liverpool
-School of Tropical Medicine to Congo Free State to study the same
-disease and report on sanitation of the Free State posts, 1903; Director
-of the Tropical Research Laboratories, Liverpool School of Tropical
-medicine at Runcorn, 1905-7; has published observations on
-trypanasomiasis in men and animals, on spirochactoris (tick fever), and
-on other tropical and insect-borne diseases; decorated commander of the
-Order of Leopold II, by the King of the Belgians in recognition of his
-scientific services, 1905; awarded Mary Kingsley Gold Medal by Liverpool
-School of Tropical Medicine, 1910. Since June, 1907, has been Associate
-Professor of Parasit., McGill University; author of reports and papers
-in association with the late J. Everett Dutton (embodied in the memoirs
-of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and elsewhere). Married M.
-Clouston, a daughter of Sir Edward Clouston, Bart., Montreal. Is a
-member of the Mount Royal Club, University Club, Montreal, and York
-Club, Toronto. Dr. Todd holds the rank of Major in the Canadian Army
-Medical Corps, and is a member of the Board of Pension Commissioners for
-Canada.
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-
-=Adamson, John Evans, B.A.= (Winnipeg, Man.), was born at Nelson,
-Manitoba, on Sept. 9, 1884, and is the son of Alan J. and Julia Adamson.
-He was educated at the public schools of Manitoba and Saskatchewan and
-graduated from St. John’s College, Winnipeg, with degree of B.A. in
-1907. Called to the Bar in 1910. Member of the law firm Adamson &
-Lindsay, Winnipeg. Married Mary Turriff, daughter of Senator J. G.
-Turriff, Ottawa, on April 8, 1912, and is the father of two children. Is
-a member of the Carlton and St. Charles Country Club and also a member
-of the Masonic Order. In religion he is an Anglican and a Liberal in
-politics. His recreations are golf and motoring.
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-
-=Peuchen, Lieut.-Col. Arthur Godfrey=, Capitalist, retired Manufacturer,
-son of Godfrey E. Peuchen and Eliza Eleanor Clarke of Hull, Eng. born in
-Montreal, April 18, 1859; educated in private schools there. His father
-was a Railroad Contractor in South America and built a railroad from
-Laguero to Caracas, Venezuela; his grandfather was manager of the
-London, Brighton and Midland Railway in England. Canada is indebted to
-Col. Peuchen for his ingenuity in being the first man to grasp the
-possibility of utilizing the unmarketable portions of our hardwood
-forests in a scientific way. In travelling he observed that England and
-France had virtually no forests, and knowing that the Canadian lumberman
-was only taking from our woods the flotable timber, leaving the
-unmerchantable coarse hardwood, he conceived the idea of turning this
-waste into the manufacturing of valuable chemicals: Acetic Acid, Acetate
-of Lime, Acetone, Wood Alcohol and Formaldehyde, the latter being so
-important for the successful growing of wheat in Canada, and the former
-for the dyeing industry; also benefited the English War Office by being
-the first man under the British Flag to produce acetone direct from
-wood, which he supplied the Admiralty in large quantities for the
-manufacture of high explosives, such as cordite. Introduced our present
-system of charcoal distribution in paper bags. With Sir Wm. McKenzie and
-others he organized the Standard Chemical Company with a small capital,
-which he gradually through his unbounded energy increased to five
-millions—beginning in 1897 by distilling only 22 tons of wood per day,
-eventually by 1913 this distillation was increased to over 1,000 tons.
-The production of these chemicals meant a tremendous export trade. He
-erected factories at: Fenelon Falls, Deseronto, Longford Mills, South
-River, Sault Ste. Marie, Fassett and Cookshire, and operated factories
-at Thornbury, Parry Sound and Mount Tremblant; erected refineries in
-Montreal, London, England, France and Germany, where crude alcohol was
-shipped and refined; bought and operated blast charcoal furnaces at
-Deseronto, and built one at Parry Sound. Was President and General
-Manager of the Standard Chemical Company from 1897 to 1914. Was active
-in military circles: Lt., Q.O.R., 1888; Captain, 1894; Major, 1904;
-Lieutenant-Colonel, May 21st, 1912. Went to England with the Queen’s Own
-in 1910 as Major, for the Imperial Fall Manœuvres at Salisbury Plain,
-and part of this period was in charge of the regiment under General
-French. Was Marshalling Officer in command of escort of officers of
-Indian Cavalry, Royal Procession, Coronation of King George, 1911;
-Officer Commanding Home Battalion Q.O.R., 1914 and 1915. Officer’s long
-service decoration. Was in the “Titanic,” disaster, of which he was one
-of two only surviving males in Canada. President of the Imperial Land
-Co.; owner, McLaren Lumber Company, of Blairmore, Alberta, which
-controls all the large green timber in Southern Alberta, also saw mills
-and branch retail yards. Clubs: National, Toronto Hunt, Ontario Jockey,
-Life Member Military Institute; ex-Flag Officer and Life Member of Royal
-Canadian Yacht Club, having held the positions of vice and rear
-Commodore. Was owner for several years of the famous yacht “Vreda,”
-which crossed the Atlantic under her own canvas and won more races in
-her class than any other yacht in Canada. Member of St. Paul’s Anglican
-Church and a Governor of Grace Hospital. In politics a Conservative.
-Col. Peuchen has a strong personality, frank and genial in manner, easy
-and interesting in conversation; has crossed the Atlantic 30 odd times
-and travelled extensively in many lands. Recreations, golf, riding,
-yachting. He married Margaret Thompson, daughter of John Thompson, of
-Orillia, 1893. One son, Lieutenant Godfrey Alan Peuchen, Imperial Royal
-Field Artillery, Asst.-Adjt. H.Q. to the 26th Brigade of Artillery
-during the War; daughter, Jessie, married Lieutenant Harry C. Lefroy,
-M.C., of the Imperial Royal Field Artillery. Residence during the War:
-Queen Anne’s Mansions, St. James Park, London, England; summer home,
-“Woodlands,” one of the most picturesque spots on Lake Simcoe.
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-
-=Forin, John Andrew= (Nelson, B.C.), Judge of the County Court of West
-Kootenay, is a son of John Forin, Architect, of Belleville, Ont., where
-he was born on July 20, 1861. He was educated at Albert College,
-Belleville, and at Osgoode Hall, Toronto, and was called to the Bar of
-Ontario in 1885. He saw service in the North-west Rebellion of that year
-as a private in the Queen’s Own Rifles of Toronto, and holds the medal
-and clasp for that campaign. Later he practised in British Columbia and
-received his present judicial appointment in 1896. He still retains his
-connection with military affairs and at the time of writing is Officer
-Commanding of the 107th Regiment, B.C., with the rank of Major. Since
-1915, the Internment camp at Morrissey, B.C., and the guards at the
-Trail, B.C., Smelter have been details of the regiment mentioned. He has
-also devoted some attention to literary pursuits and has published
-essays on legal and sociological subjects. His recreations are curling
-and golf; he is a member of the Nelson and Rossland Clubs and of the
-Scottish Clan Society. In religion he is a Presbyterian, and on May 18,
-1895, was married to Mary, daughter of Peter T. Dunn, merchant, of
-Vancouver, B.C. He has five children, Jean Victoria, Isabel Dunn, John
-Douglas, Peter McLaren, and Mary Edith Forin.
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-=Coburn, John W.= (Nanaimo, B.C.), one of the leading lumbermen of the
-Pacific Coast, was born at Harvey, New Brunswick, the son of A. W.
-Coburn, farmer and contractor, and Elizabeth Messer, his wife. He was
-educated in the public schools of his native province and, later, in
-private schools in British Columbia. As a youth he took up railroading
-and had sixteen years’ experience therein, principally as a passenger
-conductor. Subsequently he went into the lumber business and was
-extremely successful. His interests are now very extensive. He is
-President of the Ladysmith Lumber Co., of Nanaimo; the Ladysmith
-Hardware Co., and of the Last West Lumber Co., which latter corporation
-does retail business in the Western Provinces. He is also a director of
-the Shawinigan Lake Lumber Co. He has shown a progressive and energetic
-spirit in public affairs and is an ex-President of the Nanaimo and
-Ladysmith Boards of Trade. He has also filled the following municipal
-offices: Mayor of Wellington, B.C., and of Ladysmith, B.C. (for three
-terms) and School Trustee and Alderman for three terms, when his
-business interests prevented him continuing in further civic affairs in
-Nanaimo. He is a member of the Masonic Order, is a Presbyterian in
-religion and a supporter of Union Government. On Feb. 8, 1899, he
-married Ellen Cowie (his second wife), a daughter of Alexander Cowie,
-Elora, Ont., by whom he has three children, Wallace, Gordon and Lorna
-Maud.
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-=Ingram, George C., B.A.=, 1167 2nd Ave. N.W., Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan,
-one of the well known business men of that province, was born in
-Aberdeen, Scotland, on October 16, 1867, the son of James and Elizabeth
-(Leith) Ingram. When nine months old his parents emigrated to Tipton,
-Iowa, where the subject of this sketch spent twenty years on a farm. He
-was educated in the local schools of Tipton and later took a course at
-the Northern Indiana Normal School, Valparaiso, Indiana, taking the
-degree of B.A. In 1890 he removed to Minnesota, where he practised as a
-surveyor for two years, after which he founded the Ingram Lumber Co., of
-Sank Centre, Minn., continuing in business there until 1910. In the
-latter year he moved to Saskatoon, Sask., as special representative of
-the Western Retail Lumbermen’s Association, a post he held until 1912,
-when he became General Manager, Director and Secretary of Security
-Lumber Company, Limited, of Moose Jaw, a position he still holds. While
-a resident of the United States he was President (1905-6) of the
-Northwestern Lumbermen’s Association, Minneapolis. He has served as an
-Alderman and is a Liberal in politics. His recreation is golf and he
-belongs to the Prairie Club, Moose Jaw, and to the A.F. & A.M.
-(Shriner). On Sept. 22, 1896, he married Lulu, daughter of the late
-David Wilcox, and has three children, Howard C., Hildred and George L.
-Ingram.
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-=Shepherd, Simpson James=, 614 11th Street South, Lethbridge, Alberta
-Barrister-at-law, is a native of Uttoxeter, Lambton County, Ont., where
-he was born February 6, 1877, the son of James and Mary (Dowler)
-Shepherd. His father was a farmer and he was educated at Forest High
-School, and later at McGill University. He had a brilliant career in the
-latter institution and graduated in 1906 with the degree of B.C.L.,
-capturing a Macdonald travelling scholarship in law. After graduation he
-was thus enabled to spend one year in France, and later decided to
-settle in the West, going to Lethbridge in 1908, when he was called to
-the Alberta Bar and formed a partnership with Mr. W. C. Simmons. The
-latter was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of the province in
-1910, and Mr. Shepherd then formed a partnership with Mr. Allen E.
-Dunlop, previously of the Nova Scotia Bar. Later Mr. George A. Rice
-joined the firm, which is now known as Shepherd, Dunlop and Rice. He is
-a member of the Alberta Returned Soldiers Commission, and of the Chinook
-and Lethbridge Golf Clubs, as well as the Masonic Order. His recreations
-are golf, curling and shooting. He is a Liberal in politics and a
-Methodist in religion. On September 7, 1908, he married Ethel M. S.
-Dixon, daughter of Mr. John Dixon, merchant of Maple Creek,
-Saskatchewan, and has three daughters, Marjorie C., Nancy D., and Joan
-Douglas by name.
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-
-=Edwards, Hon. William Cameron= (Rockland, Ont.), was born in Clarence,
-May 7, 1844, and is a son of the late William Edwards, a native of
-Portsmouth, Eng., who came to Canada about the year 1820, and settled in
-the Township of Clarence, County of Russell, Ont., and his wife Ann
-Cameron, a native of Fort William, Scotland. He was educated at the
-Ottawa Grammar School. Upon the completion of his education he became an
-extensive lumber manufacturer, and his business has grown to one of the
-largest in Canada. He is known as a successful stock raiser, and takes a
-keen interest in agriculture generally, having been President of the
-Russell Agricultural Society for many years. He established the lumber
-firm of W. C. Edwards & Co., in 1868; is a director of the Canadian Bank
-of Commerce; a director of The Toronto General Trusts Corporation,
-Toronto, and many other Toronto corporations and companies. After making
-a success of his own business interests, he was induced to enter
-politics by many of his closest friends, and became the Liberal
-Candidate for the House of Commons for Russell at the general election
-of 1882, and was defeated, but was later elected at the general
-elections of 1891, 1896 and 1900, and became one of the foremost members
-in Parliament, and a very close friend of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the then
-Premier of Canada. In January, 1885, he married Catherine M., eldest
-daughter of the late William Wilson, of Cumberland, Ont., and since
-their marriage they have drawn many warm personal friends to them both
-at Ottawa and their home town, Rockland. At the outbreak of the War in
-1914, between Germany and her Allies, and the British-French-Russian
-Allies, Mr. Edwards displayed much generosity, and gave freely both of
-his time and money in the interest of the Motherland, and continued his
-services until the close of the War. On March 17, 1903, he was summoned
-to the Senate, as a reward for the many sacrifices made by him during
-his political and business life, and has filled the position with marked
-ability.
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-=Rust, C. H., C.E.= (Victoria, B.C.), was born in Essex, England, on
-Christmas Day, 1852; he received a thorough elementary and technical
-education, both in the Mother Country and in Canada. He entered the
-service of the City of Toronto, Ont., as rodman in 1877, and continued
-in that capacity until 1881, when he was promoted to the position of
-assistant engineer, and in 1883 was made assistant engineer in charge of
-sewers. Mr. Rust held this position until 1891, and during his
-incumbency in this office superintended the construction of 150 miles of
-sewer. From 1887 until 1891 he was principal assistant engineer. In 1892
-Mr. Rust was made acting chief engineer, and in July, 1898, he was
-appointed to the office of Chief Engineer of the city, and filled that
-office to the general satisfaction not only of the city, but also of the
-citizens. His work entailed much labor. He had charge of sewers,
-roadways, sidewalks, bridges and waterworks, besides which all routes of
-street cars and style of cars used had to be approved by him. In 1887
-Mr. Rust was elected a member of the Canadian Society of Engineers, and
-in 1901 he became one of its presidents. In 1899 he was elected a member
-of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and was elected one of the
-Vice-Presidents in 1913, and he is very prominent in his profession. In
-the beginning of 1912 Mr. Rust decided to resign the office of City
-Engineer to accept a similar position in the city of Victoria, B.C., and
-upon leaving Toronto he was presented with testimonials from all
-sections of the community showing the high esteem and appreciation in
-which he was held as a public servant and citizen.
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-=Barry, Walter H.= (Montreal, Que.), Merchant, is the son of George
-Barry and Margaret Bond, and relative of Arthur Barry and John A. Barry;
-was born in Toronto, June 14, 1870, and educated at the High School.
-Married Isabel L. Logie, daughter of Robert Logie, a merchant of New
-York, and has one son, Gerald A. Barry, now Lieut. Gerald A. Barry. He
-is a member of the Masonic Fraternity and member of the Royal Victoria
-and Montreal Clubs, attends the English Church. His recreations are
-golf, fishing and curling.
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-
-=Adamson, Alan Joseph=, is the son of John Evans Adamson, of “Kill
-House,” Clifton, County of Galway, Ireland, and Harriette Bell, his
-wife, who was a daughter of the Rev. James Bell, of Baragher, Queen’s
-County, Ireland. He was born at Kill House, Clifton, on August 1, 1857,
-and educated at the High School in Dublin. His father was a landed
-gentleman in Ireland and the proprietor of the Kill estate, and the
-great-grandson of the fifth earl of Carberry. Mr. Adamson married in the
-year 1882, Julia, daughter of Robert Turriff, of Quebec, and a sister of
-J. G. Turriff, M.P. (Assiniboia), and is the father of the following
-children; John Evans and Christopher Arthur, Barristers, Winnipeg, the
-latter of whom was elected as Rhodes Scholar for the Province of
-Saskatchewan, in 1907; Allan Bell, Inspector, Winnipeg; James Douglas,
-Captain C.A.M.C.; Herbert, Lieut. 27th Winnipeg Battalion; Lily, wife of
-Capt. A. S. Bell, Engineer; Harriette, Nurse, Winnipeg General Hospital,
-and Gilbert, St. John’s College, Winnipeg. He is a member of the
-Manitoba Club, the Canadian Automobile Club, and Colonial Institute,
-London, England. He is a member of the Church of England, and the
-Masonic Order, and is a Liberal in politics; represented the
-constituency of Humboldt, in the House of Commons 1904-1908. The subject
-of this sketch was a director of the Northern Bank and of the
-Saskatchewan Valley & Manitoba Land Company. He went originally to
-Winnipeg and embarked in the grain trade in 1883; was
-Secretary-Treasurer of the Manitoba Grand Company in 1896; removed to
-Rosthern in 1899; was largely instrumental in attracting American
-capital and settlers to that region, and while there organized Canadian
-Territories Corporation, of which he was President and Manager. This
-body holds the record for the value of its transactions among all the
-corporations existing in the west. Is an Anglican in religion and
-resides at 160 Mayfair Avenue, Winnipeg, and has also a residence at
-“Carberry Hill” Limona, Florida. His principal recreation is golf.
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-
-=Diver, Frederick= (Toronto, Ont.), was born in London, Eng., and came
-to this country with his parents when a youth. Mr. Diver learned the
-business of electrotyping and stereotyping, engraving, designing and
-“The Art Preservative of All Arts,” namely, printing. Some years ago,
-Mr. Diver established the Central Press Agency, Limited, of which he is
-the President. The head offices of the Company are situated at 110-16
-York St., Toronto, and the Company has large business connections
-throughout the Dominion of Canada. Mr. Diver owes his success to his
-untiring industry, complete knowledge of the details of the various
-branches of the work of his Company, and to his practical business
-ability. His wife died a few years ago leaving her surviving children:
-Lt. F. G. Diver, who was since killed in action at the Battle of the
-Somme on Oct. 21, 1917; Ethel May, now wife of Halsey Wells of Detroit,
-U.S.A., and Victor Diver, Vice-President of the Central Press Agency,
-Ltd. Mr. Diver is a member of the National, Rosedale and Mississauga
-Clubs; of the Masonic Order, and also of the Church of England.
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-=Bellemare, Adelard= (St. Paulin, Que.), was born March 2, 1871, at St.
-Paulin, County of Maskinonge, P.Q., son of François Bellemare and Delima
-Julien, both French-Canadians. His grandfather was a teacher in 1845.
-Was educated at Three Rivers Seminary. Was formerly professor for three
-years at the College de Joliette and St. Laurent. Married, Feb. 2, 1898,
-to Parmelia, daughter of Edmond Bourgeois of Joliet, and is the father
-of six children: Hector, Lucien, Maria, Albert, Jeanne and Cecile. Was
-lecturer for the C. N. d’Economie. Elected to the House of Commons at
-the general elections in 1911, as an Independent Conservative, to
-represent the constituency of Maskinonge. In religion Mr. Bellemare is a
-Roman Catholic.
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-=Birkett, Thomas=, was born in Bytown (now Ottawa), February 1, 1844. He
-is the son of Miles and Elizabeth (Wren) Birkett, who came to Canada
-from Cumberland, England, in 1838, and who saw that he received a good
-education at the Public and Grammar Schools, and that he was thoroughly
-prepared for commercial business life. That their efforts were not in
-vain was shown at an early date, in the rapid and successful progress
-that greeted his efforts and ventures. But, and in addition, they had
-the good fortune to see their son make his mark in School, Municipal,
-Provincial and Dominion and other public affairs and to be elected to
-many public offices of trust where he distinguished himself in various
-ways and established an enviable record for progressive, reliable and
-lasting service. In every public office, to which he was elected he
-devoted the attention and care that was made so evident and pronounced
-in his private business with the result that he not only made good, but
-cemented and enlarged the confidence and esteem of those who had
-selected him as their representative. Whether as director or trustee of
-a public institution, as member of the city council, mayor of the city,
-or as member of Parliament, his conduct was the same and the result the
-same, viz., conscientious devotion to duty attended by successful
-results. Many a time it has been proclaimed, even by those who were
-politically opposed to him, that having rendered to the State the
-continuous and valuable public services that he did, and in a manner so
-effective, that he would long ago have been called to the Canadian
-Senate, and great has been the surprise that he has not been. But being
-still robust in health, mentally and physically, and his activities
-being as marked as they were in former years, it may not be out of place
-to say that a seat in the Senate will be honored by his presence at an
-early date. Having served as an apprentice in the hardware trade to Mr.
-Isaac, in 1866, Mr. Birkett opened a retail hardware store on Rideau
-Street, prospered, and soon had to remove to larger premises. For thirty
-years he kept in the retail business, which year by year assumed larger
-proportions and supplied goods to the many prosperous and wealthy
-manufacturing towns and villages and thriving agricultural districts in
-the Ottawa Valley. Finding the demand for his goods still on the
-increase in 1896 he converted his private firm into a joint stock
-company, of which he became president, his son Thomas M. Birkett,
-vice-president, and other members of the family shareholders, and
-launched into the wholesale business under the title of Thomas Birkett &
-Son Company, Limited, of Ottawa. To-day this wholesale firm is one of
-the most extensive, if not actually the largest hardware house in
-Eastern Ontario and is known from one end of Canada to the other. The
-building forms one of the best business blocks in Ottawa and is most
-advantageously situated, the warehouse doors opening direct on the
-wharves of the Rideau Canal basin. Mr. Birkett served as School Trustee
-from 1869 to 1873; as Alderman, from 1873 to 1878; as Mayor, during 1891
-and 1892. Since 1900 he has been Trustee, Ottawa Collegiate Institute.
-In 1893 he declined nomination to the House of Commons, but in 1900 he
-was elected by a large majority. He ran in 1904 and 1908 and was
-defeated. Mr. Birkett is President, Thos. Birkett, Son & Co., Ltd.,
-Wholesale Hardware Merchants, Canal St., Ottawa; Director,
-Pritchard-Andrews Engraving Co.; Life Director, Carleton County
-Protestant Hospital; Life Director, Protestant Hospital for the aged. He
-was instrumental in erecting the Lady Stanley Institute for Trained
-Nurses; is Honorary Director, Central Canada Exposition Association. In
-1871 he married Mary Gallagher, daughter of Thomas Gallagher. She died
-in March, 1902. In August, 1904, he married Henrietta Gallagher, his
-deceased wife’s half-sister. He is a member of the following clubs:
-Ottawa Hunt, Rivermead Golf (director), and of the A.F. & A.M. (32nd
-degree), the Oddfellows, and St. George’s Societies. His recreation is
-golf. Politics, Conservative. Religion, Methodist, and he resides at 306
-Metcalfe Street, Ottawa, Ontario.
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-=Anderson, Alexander James= (Toronto, Ont.), was born in Adelaide
-Township, Middlesex County, July 1, 1863, and was educated at Strathroy
-High School and Osgoode Hall. Toronto is as famous for its Bar as it is
-in its commercial and manufacturing industry, and in alluding to its
-leading members, prominent mention must be made of the subject of this
-sketch. Mr. Anderson started his professional career with J. S.
-Fullerton & Co., which partnership continued from 1891 to 1897; from
-1894 to 1906 he practised alone; from 1907 to 1909 was a member of the
-firm of Anderson & Gray, and entered his present partnership as senior
-member of the firm (Anderson & McMaster) in 1910. Having municipal
-aspirations, Mr. Anderson was elected to the Council of Toronto Junction
-from 1899 to 1902; was corporation solicitor for West Toronto until the
-amalgamation with the city in 1909, when he was elected alderman to
-represent Ward Seven in the City Council. He was for four years a member
-of the West Toronto School Board, and was elected Chairman of that body
-in 1899. During the elections in 1904 he was unanimously selected by the
-Liberals of South York as the party standard bearer, and though defeated
-he made a very creditable showing at the close of the polls. Mr.
-Anderson has many warm friends and supporters in the western portion of
-the city, and he will show unexpected strength should he again become a
-candidate. He is a Mason and takes an active interest in the welfare of
-the Order.
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-
-=Barnard, Hon. George Henry, K.C.=, Member of the Senate of Canada
-(Victoria, B.C.), is a son of Francis Jones Barnard, a Canadian who went
-to British Columbia from Ontario, when gold was first discovered in the
-Fraser River, in 1859, and shortly afterwards became the founder of the
-stage and express line from Yale, head of navigation on the Fraser, to
-Barkerville, 400 miles to the north. On the famous Yale-Cariboo Road the
-elder Barnard long operated a line of stages and carried the mail to the
-mountain settlements of the district. The maiden name of the mother of
-the subject of this sketch was Ellen Hillman, and he was born at
-Victoria, B.C., Oct. 9, 1868. Sir Frank S. Barnard, K.C.M.G.,
-Lieut.-Governor of British Columbia, is a brother. He was educated at
-Trinity College School, Port Hope, and qualified for the law, entering
-practice at Victoria. He was appointed King’s Counsel on Dec. 24, 1907.
-Senator Barnard took an active interest in municipal affairs and served
-as Alderman, 1902-3. In 1904 he was elected Mayor of Victoria and
-continued in office for two years. He was first elected to the House of
-Commons for that city at the general elections of 1908, as a
-Conservative and was re-elected in 1911. On Oct. 23, 1917, he was
-elevated to the Senate of Canada by the newly-formed Union Government of
-Sir Robert Borden. Senator Barnard is a prominent social figure both at
-Victoria and Ottawa, and is a member of the Union Club, Victoria, the
-Vancouver Club, the Rideau Club, Ottawa and the Constitutional Club,
-London, Eng. He was married on June 5, 1895, to Ethel Burnham, daughter
-of Lieut.-Col. H. C. Rogers, Postmaster of Peterboro, Ont., is an
-Anglican in religion and a Unionist in politics.
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-
-=Ashby, Joseph Seraphin Aime, M.L.A.= (Lachine, Que.), son of George
-Ashby and Eprosime Messier, both French Canadians; was born at Ste.
-Marie de Monnoir, Province of Quebec, April 30, 1876. Educated at the
-college of Ste. Marie de Monnoir. Married Hectorine Ste. Marie, daughter
-of Pierre Zotique Ste. Marie, of Longueuil, Que., and is the father of
-two children, Lucette, born November 7, 1908, and Georgette, born August
-7, 1910. Mr. Ashby is a Roman Catholic in religion, and is a member of
-the Montreal Reform Club, the Order of Catholic Foresters, the Alliance
-Nationale, Union St. Joseph de Lachine, and The Knights of Columbus. Was
-elected to the Quebec Legislature as the Liberal representative for the
-constituency of Jacques Cartier on May 16, 1916. Mr. Ashby is a Notary
-Public by profession.
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-
-=Gariepy, Wilfrid, B.A., B.C.L., K.C., M.L.A.= (Edmonton, Alberta), was
-born at Montreal, P.Q., on March 14, 1877. He is the son of Joseph H.
-Gariepy, for many years a pioneer and leading merchant in the city of
-Edmonton, an alderman and school trustee, and, by the way, a native of
-St. Lin, P.Q., where was also born Sir Wilfrid Laurier. In days gone by
-the Gariepys and the Lauriers intermingled considerably and Sir Wilfrid
-when a boy attended the parish common school along with the grandfather
-of the hero of this sketch. It was only natural that our subject should
-at his birth be christened after the renowned Liberal Leader, who in
-1877 was already in the political limelight. Four generations of
-Gariepys were born and lived on the same homestead at St. Lin, three
-miles from the parochial church. The mother of Mr. Wilfrid Gariepy,
-Etudienne Boissonneault, who is yet living and residing in Edmonton, as
-well as her husband, is a daughter of Noel Boissonneault, one of the
-founders of the Town of Morinville, Alberta, as he came from the
-Province of Quebec with the first contingent of colonists brought west
-in 1891 by the late Father J. B. Morin, one of the most enthusiastic
-colonization agents of his day. Noel Boissonneault was at one time a
-leading Liberal politician in the Eastern Townships and for some years
-was the moving spirit of the St. Onge Gold Mining Company, which did
-business on the Gilbert River in Beauce County, P.Q. A maternal ancestor
-of our subject was among the French-Canadian soldiers who fought for the
-British Crown in 1812. On the other hand it is worth noting that another
-figured in the uprising of 1837-1838, in favor of constitutional
-government, on the shores of the St. Lawrence. Mr. Wilfrid Gariepy was
-educated at the Sisters of Providence Academy, “Le jardin de l’enfance,”
-on St. Denis Street, in Montreal, beginning in September, 1881; at Notre
-Dame College, Côte des Neiges, Montreal, where he spent two years; at
-St. Laurent’s College with the Fathers of the Holy Cross, remaining
-there until January, 1891, when ill-health compelled him to abandon his
-classical studies. He was then in the middle of versification. Deciding
-to turn his activities into other channels, he attended the Montreal
-Business College for some months and afterwards became a clerk in his
-father’s store: first, in general groceries on St. Paul Street,
-Montreal, and later in Edmonton, on Jasper Avenue, to which town the
-family moved in March, 1893. In Montreal, although very young, Mr. W.
-Gariepy indicated his political tastes by being one of the active
-members of the “Club Letellier,” one of the oldest Liberal
-organizations, and also by taking a hand in a mayoralty campaign in
-favor of the Hon. James McShane, the famous “people’s Jimmy,” and by
-working for the Hon. Honoré Mercier and his candidates after the famous
-“renvoi d’office.” In 1893 Edmonton had just become a town, with a
-population of less than 1,000, no modern conveniences, with the
-exception of a rudimentary telephone and electric light system. Needless
-to say, streets were unpaved and there were not even any sidewalks.
-Still the town had a Mock Parliament, and we find our subject a member
-of it, with a portfolio in its government. Mr. W. Gariepy was elected
-one of the secretaries of the Liberal Club and also became, in 1894, at
-its foundation, secretary to the Société de St. Jean Baptiste of
-Edmonton. In 1895, with the Hon. Frank Oliver, who had just been
-selected as Liberal candidate of Alberta, Mr. W. Gariepy made a tour
-north of Edmonton, during which he addressed several meetings. It was in
-September, 1895, that Mr. Gariepy found his health and other
-circumstances such that he was able to return to the St. Laurent College
-to complete his classical course. He stayed in that institution until
-June, 1897, during which period he for one year filled the presidency of
-the Literary Academy of the college. In the rhetoric bacheloriate on
-papers submitted by Laval University, Mr. Gariepy succeeded with great
-honors. He next went to the Seminary of Philosophy with the Sulpician
-Fathers, to follow a two years’ course in philosophy, which gave him the
-degree of Bachelor of Arts of Laval University. He chose the profession
-of law and became articled in Montreal to Mr. Matthew Hutchinson, now a
-judge of the Superior Court, in Sherbrooke. P.Q., with whom he remained
-for three years, in the meantime following the law lectures at McGill
-University, from which institution he received, in April, 1902, the
-degree of Bachelor of Civil Law. In 1901 Mr. Gariepy had the honor of
-being selected by the McGill Faculty of Law to represent it at the Laval
-Law Students’ Banquet, at the city of Quebec.
-
-In the federal and provincial campaigns in 1900, Mr. W. Gariepy for
-several months addressed meetings, spending the bulk of his time in the
-constituency of Terrebonne, at the request of the late Honorables
-Raymond Prefontaine and Jean Prévost. At that period, at the formation
-of a Liberal Students’ Association in Montreal, he was elected its
-Secretary, while the Vice-President thereof was Walter Mitchell, the
-present Provincial Treasurer of Quebec. Having been admitted to the Bar
-of the Province of Quebec in January, 1903, Mr. Gariepy immediately
-secured his enrolment in the Bar of the North-West Territories and
-opened an office in Edmonton on the same spot where years before he had
-been carrying on work as a clerk in his father’s store. In the following
-May a by-election having been called to elect a member for the
-constituency of St. Albert, in the North-West Territories Legislature,
-at a convention, Mr. Gariepy accepted the nomination but for personal
-reasons subsequently withdrew from the contest. For three years Mr.
-Gariepy was a member of the law firm of Taylor, Boyle and Gariepy, the
-senior member being Judge H. C. Taylor, of Edmonton District, and the
-other member, the Hon. J. R. Boyle, now Minister of Education in the
-Alberta Government. From 1907 to 1911, Mr. Gariepy was a member of the
-law firm of Gariepy & Landry, his partner being Mr. Hector Landry, son
-of the late Sir Pierre Landry, of New Brunswick. Mr. Gariepy is now the
-senior member of the firm of Gariepy, Dunlop & Pratt. This firm is among
-the leading firms of the City of Edmonton, and while his present
-political activities prevent our subject from devoting much time to law,
-he has always paid great attention to his law practice. He has had the
-distinction of figuring as leading counsel in two murder cases—one, the
-Gladu Brothers, who were acquitted, and the other the Barrett case, that
-life convict who was condemned to capital punishment after having been
-convicted of wilfully killing with an axe, Deputy-Governor Stedman, of
-the Edmonton Penitentiary. For six years Mr. Gariepy was a member of the
-Separate School Board of Edmonton, being chairman of the commission for
-two years. It was under his chairmanship that the Separate School on
-Third Street was erected. In December, 1906, he was elected an alderman
-of the city of Edmonton, and although running for the first time in the
-city at large, as there are no wards, he came second on the list, the
-first one beating him only by one vote. Two years later Mr. W. Gariepy
-was re-elected, this time at the head of the list, having some 300 more
-votes than the next man. While an alderman he held the chairmanship of
-several important committees and was delegated on two occasions: first,
-to Chicago with ex-Mayor J. A. McDougall, to inspect the automatic
-telephone system, which was eventually to be installed in Edmonton; and,
-second, to Ottawa with ex-Mayor Lee, to interview the Dominion
-Government respecting the Dominion’s contribution towards the
-construction of the C.P.R. high-level bridge between Strathcona and
-Edmonton. It was during Mr. Gariepy’s term of office that the Edmonton
-automatic telephone system was installed; that the street railway system
-was completed and put in operation; and that the C.P.R high-level bridge
-was completed and opened for traffic; and that negotiations for the
-amalgamation of Edmonton and Strathcona were begun. In 1910 Mr. Gariepy
-was chairman of the civic committee that organized such a splendid
-reception as was tendered to Sir Wilfrid Laurier, then Prime Minister,
-on the occasion of his visit to the Capital of Alberta, and it was at
-that time that Mr. Gariepy secured the adoption of a resolution by the
-city council giving to a park the name of “Laurier Park.” Mr. Gariepy
-took a leading part in the federal campaigns of 1904, 1908 and 1911. In
-1909 he was the unsuccessful Liberal candidate in the provincial
-constituency of St. Albert, his successful opponent being also a
-Liberal, as there was no Conservative candidate running. In 1911 he was
-elected Grand Knight of the Edmonton Council of the Knights of Columbus;
-in 1907 he was elected president of the Edmonton Société de St. Jean
-Baptiste; in 1912 he was elected vice-president of the French-Canadian
-Alberta Convention, held in Edmonton, and by that convention was elected
-as the only delegate to represent it at the French-Canadian Congress
-held that year in the city of Quebec; in 1913 he was elected president
-of the Society du Parler-Français of Alberta, and as such presided over
-the French-Canadian congress of Alberta, held at Edmonton in 1914. On
-September 9, 1903, Mr. Wilfrid Gariepy married Albertina Lessard,
-daughter of Jean P. Lessard and Annie Davidson, of Cranbourne, P.Q., a
-sister of the Hon. P. E. Lessard, M.L.A., for St. Paul, and a former
-business partner of Mr. J. H. Gariepy. We may note that Mr. P. E.
-Lessard had previously married Miss Hélène Gariepy, the eldest sister of
-our subject. From the marriage of Mr. W. Gariepy with Miss Lessard have
-been born four children: Hormidas, Marcelle, Wilfrid and George. Mr.
-Gariepy is a member of the Y.M.C.A. and a lieutenant in the 101st
-Edmonton Fusiliers. In 1912 he was elected as president of the Edmonton
-Liberal Association; on March 17, 1913, he was elected a member of the
-legislature for Beaver River. At the first session of that parliament,
-in the following September, he was chosen to make the speech in moving
-the adoption of the Speech from the Throne. On November 28, 1913, he was
-sworn in as Minister of Municipal Affairs, becoming a member of the
-administration headed by the Hon. Arthur L. Sifton. On December 15,
-1913, Mr. Gariepy was re-elected for Beaver River, by acclamation. On
-December 22, 1913, at the Cecil Hotel, as a compliment on his becoming a
-member of the government, his French-Canadian compatriots, numbering
-some four hundred, tendered him a banquet. In September, 1915, Mr.
-Gariepy represented, with the Hon. Mr. Sifton, the Province of Alberta
-at a national tax conference held in San Francisco, California. In
-March, 1913, Mr. Gariepy was made a King’s Counsel for the Province of
-Alberta. In August, 1915, the same honor was conferred on him by the
-Province of Quebec. At the date of writing this biography, Mr. Gariepy
-has been for over five years a member of the Alberta Government and his
-friends predict that he has yet a long public career to fulfil. As
-Minister of Municipal Affairs for Alberta Mr. Gariepy has been
-responsible for the introduction of legislation which has been a
-landmark in the western provinces, namely: The Wild Lands Tax Act and
-the Municipal Hospitals Act.
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-[Illustration: SENATOR W. C. EDWARDS
-Ottawa]
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-
-=Byrne, Daniel J.=, Vice-President and General Manager, Leonard
-Fisheries, Montreal, Que., producers, curers and packers of sea and lake
-foods. Entered the employ of that firm as a lad in 1886, and steadily
-rose to his present responsible position with a reputation as one of the
-leading authorities in Canada on all questions relating to the fishing
-industry. Leonard Fisheries, which started business in 1875, and is now
-one of the leading concerns in its line, was incorporated under its
-present form in 1917, as a result of the consolidation Leonard Bros.,
-Matthews & Scott, and A. Wilson & Son. This was brought about largely
-through the efforts of Mr. Byrne, with the object of effecting economies
-in organization and distribution. The firm has branches in many parts of
-the Maritime Provinces, notably St. John, N.B., and Halifax, N.S. The
-subject of this sketch was born in Montreal, April, 1871, and married
-Mary Louisa, daughter of William Dalt, of Montreal, July, 1900, by whom
-he has one son, John W. In 1915 he was called on to address the
-Conservation Commission at Ottawa on the subject of “Canada’s
-Fisheries.” Mr. Byrne is a member of the following Clubs: The
-Engineer’s, Country and Rotary. He is a Roman Catholic in religion and
-Independent in politics. His recreation is golf, fishing and motoring.
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-
-=Harper, John Murdoch= (Quebec City), the Canadian educationist and
-author, came to Canada in the year of Confederation, 1867, to take
-charge of an Academy in New Brunswick. He was born in Johnstone,
-Renfrewshire, Scotland, on the 10th of February, 1845, the eldest son of
-Robert Montgomery Harper, the founder of the first newspaper published
-in that town. His grand-uncle was Robert Montgomery, who was for many
-years a mill-owner and manufacturer in Johnstone. From school he entered
-the Glasgow E. C. Training College, after taking a Queen’s Scholarship,
-and graduated as a teacher from it with the highest certificate of his
-year granted by the Lords of the Council of Education, London, and with
-special certificates from the Science and Art Department, Kensington.
-After coming to Canada he became a graduate of Queen’s University,
-Kingston, and thereafter received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy,
-from the Illinois University, after completing the three years’
-post-graduate course in the section of metaphysical science. In 1881 he
-was unanimously elected a Fellow of the Educational Institute of
-Scotland, an honor seldom conferred on teachers laboring outside of
-Great Britain. For a time he acted as principal of the Model Schools of
-Nova Scotia, and afterwards as principal of the Victoria High School of
-St. John, New Brunswick. While there he was asked by the Premier of
-Prince Edward Island to become Superintendent of Education in that
-province, which he declined to accept. But when the Victoria School
-buildings were destroyed in the great fire of St. John, he was induced
-to accept the principalship of the Provincial Normal School in
-Charlottetown and the Supervisorship of the City Schools, while St. John
-and its school buildings were being rebuilt. At the end of three years
-spent in inaugurating the new system of schools in Prince Edward Island,
-he was invited, in face of his inclination to return to his former
-position in New Brunswick, to take charge of the Quebec High School as
-its Rector; and, accepting the appointment, he thus became identified
-with the educational interests of the Province of Quebec, where he has
-labored ever since, closing his career as an educationist in active
-service as Inspector of the Protestant Superior Schools of that
-province. While holding that office he entered upon his vocation as an
-author, having been for many years editor-in-chief of the “Educational
-Record,” a contributor to the “Educational Monthly” of Ontario, the
-“Queen’s Quarterly,” and other periodicals, besides being associated
-with Dr. Thomas Morison, of Glasgow, one of the most distinguished of
-the educationists of Scotland, in the compilation of sundry text-books.
-His earlier essays and addresses on “The New Education,” and “Cause and
-Effect in School Work,” led to his issue of “A Manual on Moral Drill,”
-in line with his pleadings for an educative “Mental and Physical Drill”
-in the schools of the day. His plan for a definite moral training is
-thus spoken of by a New York educationist and author of high standing:
-“Dr. Harper’s work is entirely original. It is sound. It is eminently
-practical and it should be most heartily adopted by all who have the
-training of the young in hand, and who earnestly desire that the rising
-generation may develop into a ‘coming race,’ in whom moral rectitude
-will be natural and spontaneous.” As an author, Dr. Harper has had a
-career as full of the best kind of literary work, as has been his career
-as an educationist in advice with his co-workers in school progress
-throughout Canada. The list of the books he has written is all but
-incredibly large. His _chef-d’ouvre_ is unquestionably his drama of
-“Champlain,” which has given him rank, as one critic says, as the
-greatest of our Canadian dramatic poets since the days of Heavysege. The
-late George Murray, of Montreal, a writer of just discrimination,
-claimed that Dr. Harper is one of the most versatile and prolific of
-Canadian litterateurs. A partial list of his literary output from year
-to year includes the following: “The Development of the Greek Drama,”
-“The Chronicles of Kartdale,” “Sacrament Sunday and the Bells of
-Kartdale,” “The Earliest Beginnings of Canada,” “The Montgomery Siege,”
-“The Little Sergeant,” “The Seer of Silver Lake,” “_Domini Domus_, or
-the Chateau St. Louis,” “The Songs of the Commonwealth,” and “A Guide to
-Good Will in the Empire.” Three uniformly bound volumes of his series of
-“Studies in Verse and Prose,” have so far appeared, including “The
-Battle of the Plains,” and “The Annals of the War,” supplementary to his
-“Champlain, a Drama.” With the influence of his earlier years clinging
-to him, he has not failed to produce many pieces that depict the scenes
-of the land of his birth; and his poetic status as a versifier in the
-Doric of the Scottish Lowlands has been duly recognized by Dr. John D.
-Ross in his volume on “The Scottish Poets in America,” as well as by the
-gifted author of the book entitled “The Scot in America.” Dr. Ross pays
-a high tribute to the author of “Sacrament Sunday,” “Saint Andrew’s
-Day,” “The Old Graveyard,” “Auld Jeames and His Crack,” “Horace in the
-Doric,” and others of Dr. Harper’s Scottish odes, in such words as
-these: “Sweet as the note of a bird in the wildwood, strongly embued
-with patriotism, fervent in religious sentiment, eloquent in thought,
-pure in expression, and noble in purpose, form a few of the
-characteristics of Dr. Harper, the Canadian educationist and author.” In
-addition to all this, Dr. Harper is a loyal Canadian. In all his public
-utterances and in the pleadings of his prolific authorship in book or
-magazine or newspaper, he is a Canadian citizen who upholds as a British
-subject the ample patriotism of the British Empire. He has been twice
-married, his first wife’s maiden name having been Miss Agnes Kirkwood,
-daughter of William Kirkwood of Stanley Muir, near Paisley, and his
-second, Miss Elizabeth Hastings, daughter of Andrew Hastings, of St.
-John and step-daughter of William Nossack, a former Mayor of Quebec. His
-family has comprised two sons and five daughters. His grandson, Major
-John Harper Evans, has been a soldier at the front, after his training
-at the Kingston Royal Military College.
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-=Brennan, John Charles.= In 1854, when but a boy, when Ottawa (then
-By-Town) had only some 7,000 inhabitants, when the old Ottawa and St.
-Lawrence Railway was just built—the only line of railway connecting
-Ottawa with other towns at that time—when houses were few and far
-between and when there was no prospect of the place being selected by
-Her Most Gracious Majesty the late Queen Victoria as the Capital of the
-Dominion of Canada, the subject of this sketch became a member of the
-wholesale grocery firm of S. Howell & Co., with which he remained for
-twenty-seven years, retiring from business in 1881. While giving his
-untiring care to the affairs of the firm, and by his energy and business
-tact adding in a marked degree to its advancement—its commercial and
-financial success—Mr. Brennan, with full confidence in the future that
-he perceived was in store for Ottawa, never lost an opportunity to place
-his time, ambition and money in channels leading to its improvement and,
-with other enterprising citizens, exerted his every endeavor to
-stimulate its growth and importance. To-day, with marked pride, he sees
-the seven thousand population increased to one hundred and twenty
-thousand, the once fields and uncared-for lanes converted into
-beautifully paved streets, parks, and gardens, the costly Parliament
-Buildings, standing in all their grandeur upon the hill overlooking the
-Ottawa River; huge commercial, financial and office buildings and
-apartment houses galore facing the eye at every angle, and handsome
-modern residences in abundance. Aside from his other real estate
-holdings, Mr. Brennan, on the corner of Bank and Queen Streets, in the
-very midst of the Capital’s commercial and financial activities, has
-placed that large and solidly-constructed office building, “The
-Trafalgar.” Mr. Brennan has ever taken a keen interest in Ottawa’s
-hospitals, charitable institutions, churches, etc., and has unstintingly
-contributed to their support. Whenever called upon to help advance their
-interests he has freely contributed his quota, and more. During the
-great war, his moral, physical, intellectual and financial aid have ever
-been given to promote the successful operations of the Government, and
-to afford the war workers, the boys at the front and the returned
-soldiers, material help. Mr. Brennan has grown up with the city and
-together both he and it have prospered. Although solicited on many
-occasions to enter into public life he has steadfastly refused, being
-satisfied in his private capacity as a citizen to do his share in making
-general progress his goal. Mr. John Charles Brennan was born at
-Frankville, Ontario, January 23, 1839. He is the son of John and Amelia
-Maria (Howell) Brennan; he was educated in the Public Schools and
-private tuition. June 5, 1899, he married Alice Maud Wilson, daughter of
-Zachariah Wilson of “Clandeboye,” late Collector of Customs at the Port
-of Ottawa. He has one son and two daughters—John Charles, Amelia
-Elizabeth and Jocelyn Maud Wilson. He is a member of the Ottawa Hunt,
-Connaught Park Jockey, the Gatineau Fish and Game, and the Rideau Fish
-and Game Clubs. For recreation he indulges in hunting, fishing and
-travelling. In politics he is a Conservative, in religion a Methodist,
-and his place of residence is 150 Cooper Street, Ottawa.
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-[Illustration: W. BULMAN
-Winnipeg]
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-
-=Bulman, William John= (Winnipeg, Man.), one of the most prominent and
-progressive business men of Manitoba, was born at Toronto on April 5,
-1870, the son of William and Frances (Cable) Bulman. He was educated in
-the Toronto Public Schools and, on leaving school at the age of sixteen,
-learned the art of the lithographer, in which he was employed in his
-native city for six years. In 1892 he went to Winnipeg and founded the
-business of Bulman Bros., Ltd., Lithographers, of which he is President
-and which is one of the most important firms of its kind in Canada. In
-promoting the advancement of Winnipeg he has been indefatigable. He was
-one of the founders of the Winnipeg Industrial Bureau, and was its
-President from 1911 to 1913. He was Hon. Secretary of the Manitoba
-branch of the Canadian Manufacturers’ Association for some years and
-subsequently became 2nd Vice-President for Canada. At the annual
-convention of the C.M.A., held at Winnipeg in the summer of 1918, he was
-elected President of that body, an office which is coveted by all
-Canadian business men. He is also a member of the council of the
-Winnipeg Board of Trade. Mr. Bulman has also been very prominent in
-educational affairs and was for a number of years a member of the
-Advisory Board of the Manitoba Education Department. He has been a
-School Trustee of Winnipeg since 1912 and Chairman of various
-Committees. During the great war he was very active in support of
-patriotic objects, and was Vice-President of the Manitoba Patriotic
-Fund. He is the originator of the Imperial Home Reunion Association,
-which aims at assisting the man who desires to make a home for himself
-in the West to bring the members of his family to this country. This
-idea has had the approval of many eminent Imperial thinkers. He is also
-the originator of the movement for citizenship through the schools, now
-a national one, with a National Conference to be held in August under
-the patronage of His Honor the Governor-General. Winnipeg possesses no
-citizen more popular with all classes of the community and he is
-Honorary President of the Manitoba Conservative Association. He is a
-member of the Carleton and Manitoba Clubs and the National Club,
-Toronto, and his recreations are motoring, motor boating, cruising and
-fishing at his summer home, Kenora, Ont. He is a Methodist in religion,
-and in 1894 married Lily, daughter of Samuel Thompson, of Toronto, and
-has five children, Eileen, Bessie, Dorothy, Lillian and John. He resides
-at 104 Wellington Crescent, Winnipeg.
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-
-=Freiman, Archibald J.=, who conducts one of the leading department
-stores of Ottawa, at 73 Rideau Street, was born at Wirballen, Poland, on
-June 6, 1880, the son of H. and Hannah Freiman. His early education was
-received in Poland, which was supplemented on his coming to this country
-in 1893, by courses in the public schools of Hamilton and at Hamilton
-Business College. He commenced his business career in 1899, by
-establishing the Canadian House Furnishing Company, at Kingston, Ont.,
-in partnership with M. Cramer. In 1902 the business was removed to
-Ottawa owing to the limited possibilities for development in Kingston.
-In 1905, Mr. Cramer’s interest was purchased by Mr. Freiman, Sr., who
-remained in partnership with his son until 1910, when Mr. A. J. Freiman
-bought his father out and has since conducted the business in his own
-name. He has been a pronounced success from the outset and is recognized
-as one of the leading retail merchants of Eastern Ontario. He is an
-orthodox Hebrew in religion and president of the Congregation Adath
-Eshuroon. He is vice-president of the Zionist Federation of Canada; a
-member of the A.F. & A.M., Knights of Pythias and I.O.O.F.; a director
-of Perley Home for Incurables; director of Central Canada Exhibition
-Association; director of Protestant Hospital; member of Laurentian Club
-and Kiwanis Club, Ottawa; and Montefiore and Maimondis Clubs, of
-Montreal. Is an enthusiastic motorist and member of the Ontario Motor
-League. On August 18, 1903, he married Lillian, daughter of Moses
-Bilsky, and has one son and two daughters. He resides at 149 Somerset
-Street, Ottawa.
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-
-=Breadner, Robert Walker=, Commissioner of Taxation of the Department of
-Finance and Dominion Appraiser, Department of Customs, Ottawa, is one of
-the leading economic experts of the Dominion of Canada. He was born at
-Athelstan, Quebec, on January 13, 1865, the son of the late Major Joshua
-and Beatrice Dudgeon (Walker) Breadner. He was educated at the
-Protestant Separate School of his native village, and later at the High
-School of Port Henry, N.Y. He entered the civil service of the Dominion
-in 1884 as a clerk in the Post Office Department, Ottawa. He was
-transferred to the Customs Department in 1892 and in 1894 became chief
-Check Clerk of that branch, a post he continued to hold in connection
-with other duties until 1908. From 1898 to 1906 he also held the
-position of Dominion Appraiser and in the latter year became Inspector
-of Customs, holding the position until 1908. Throughout this period he
-was also a member of the Board of Customs. It will be seen that few men
-had had such a detailed experience in dealing with all the manifold
-questions relating to tariffs, and in 1908 the Canadian Manufacturers
-Association induced him to leave the service of the Government and
-become manager of their Tariff Department. In this position he remained
-for four years. In 1912, because of his expert knowledge, the newly
-formed Borden Government induced him to return to the Civil Service as
-Confidential Tariff Officer, also appointing him to his old position as
-Dominion Appraiser and member of the Board of Customs. When during the
-war the Government decided on its policy of taxing business profits, Mr.
-Breadner was put in charge of the details and has given great
-satisfaction by his efficient organization of the difficult task. In
-addition to his many other duties Mr. Breadner found time to serve on
-the Ottawa Board of Education for four years. He is a member of the
-following clubs: Laurentian, Ottawa; Canada Bowling (Toronto), and these
-societies: I.O.O.F., I.O.F., L.O.L., A.O.U.W., Royal Arcanum. He is a
-Presbyterian in religion and on September 7, 1887, married Nellie,
-daughter of Andrew D. Fraser, Ottawa. He has one son and four daughters,
-and since his duties compelled his removal to Toronto has resided at 41
-Albany Ave. in the latter city.
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-Stewart McClennaghan, Ottawa]
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-
-=Black, Henry=, 2322 St. John St., Regina, Saskatchewan, one of the
-large realty owners of that city; was born in Grenville County, Ontario,
-on February 14, 1875, the son of William John and Elizabeth Black. His
-father, who was a farmer, died when the subject of this sketch was
-twelve years old. His education was obtained in the Grenville Township
-Public School, and as a youth he removed to British Columbia, finally
-settling down in Regina, as a builder and contractor. He is now the
-owner of two blocks of apartments and of a business block in the capital
-of Saskatchewan, and is counted one of her most solid and progressive
-citizens. He has taken an active part in municipal affairs, was alderman
-in 1915-6-7 and Mayor in 1918 and 1919. On Dec. 15, 1910, he married
-Jennie Lanona, daughter of C. W. Barker, and has three children, Henry
-Kenneth, Charles Russell and William Franklin. In religion he is a
-Presbyterian.
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-
-=Dargavel, John Robertson= (Elgin, Ont.), is the son of Robert Dargavel
-and Miriam, his wife, both Scotch, was born May 3, 1864, at the Township
-of Crosby, in the County of Leeds. Educated at the public schools of
-South Crosby. Is a successful merchant, dairyman and farmer. Married,
-September 26, 1870, to Mary Jane, daughter of the late Robert Hopkins,
-merchant, of Newboro. Is President of the Eastern Ontario Dairymen’s
-Association; Clerk of the Township of South Crosby for the past 30
-years; a member of the Elgin School Board for the past 20 years. Is a
-member of the Masonic Order being P.D.D.G.M. for Frontenac District,
-also a member of the I.O.O.F. Mr. Dargavel has three children, viz.:
-Helen, James Sawtell, and Mary. He was first elected to the Ontario
-Legislature as a Conservative at the General Elections of 1905, and
-re-elected at the general elections of 1908, 1911 and 1914. Has been
-Chairman of the Agricultural Committee of the Legislature, where his
-knowledge of agriculture and dairying has been very valuable to the
-Assembly. Has also served on the Prison Labor Committee and the
-Provincial Milk Commission. Is a member of the Church of England and a
-delegate to the Diocesan and General Synods.
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-
-=Ethier, Joseph Arthur Calixte=, was born at St. Benoit (Two Mountains),
-Quebec, May 26, 1868. Son of J. B. Ethier and wife, Julie Boyer.
-Educated at Montreal College. Married, first, Therise Fortier, daughter
-of Dr. L. A. Fortier, and secondly, Hedwidge Fortier, also daughter of
-Dr. L. A. Fortier, and is the father of the following children: Marie
-Therese and Marcelle. Deputy Prothonotary of the District of Terrebonne,
-1888-1895. Crown Prosecutor for the District of Terrebonne; Mayor of the
-Village of St. Scholastique for six years; Secretary-Treasurer of
-Schools, rural municipalities of St. Scholastique and St. Columbin;
-Secretary of “La Compagnie d’Assurance Mutuelle de la paroisse de St.
-Scholastique.” Is a brilliant Advocate and King’s Counsel; is President
-of the Ontario Cobalt Mining Co., Ltd. First elected to the House of
-Commons, June 13, 1896, for the constituency of Two Mountains, Quebec;
-re-elected in 1900-1904 and re-elected by acclamation in 1911. Appointed
-Chairman of Committee on Miscellaneous Private Bills during the Session
-of 1907. Mr. Ethier was again re-elected at the General Election held in
-1917. He is a Liberal and a Roman Catholic.
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-
-=Grierson, Hon. George Allison=, Minister of Public Works, Winnipeg.
-Born, April 11, 1867, at Brantford, Ont. Son of George Grierson and
-Margaret Edmundson. Educated at Brantford, Ont., and Winnipeg Public
-School and Collegiate Institute. Went to Manitoba in 1879, attending the
-Winnipeg Collegiate Institute, 1883-4, obtaining First Class Teacher’s
-Certificate; attended Normal School, 1885, and was the first candidate
-to pass newly authorized First-Class Teachers’ Professional Course,
-1886. Was Principal Minnedosa Public School, 1887-90, 1892-1902.
-Married, December 28, 1892, to Christina, daughter of Samuel Matheson,
-of Kildonan, Manitoba. A member of the Masonic Order and a Veteran
-Oddfellow. Was interested in lacrosse in the earlier days, and at
-present finds recreation in curling. Member of the Presbyterian Church.
-Was Councillor of the Town of Minnedosa for some years and Mayor,
-1914-1915. Was a Liberal candidate for Marquette for the House of
-Commons in September, 1911, but was defeated by Hon. W. J. Roche. First
-elected to Legislature for the Province of Manitoba, in the general
-elections, 1914, as a Liberal candidate for Minnedosa, and re-elected in
-1915. Was Liberal Whip in the Manitoba Legislature during the sessions
-of 1914-15-16. Was re-elected for the Constituency of Minnedosa at the
-last elections and is at present Minister of Public Works in the Norris
-Government. The Honorable Mr. Grierson is a gifted speaker and an
-indefatigable worker, and thoroughly versed in the details of his
-department.
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-
-=Gale, George Charles=, Secretary Gale Manufacturing Company, Ltd.,
-Manufacturers, Toronto, was born in Toronto, where he has for some years
-successfully carried on business, on the 26th of April, 1874. Son of
-James William Gale and Matilda Sophia Pitt. Educated at Jarvis Street
-Collegiate Institute, and Upper Canada College. Married, February, 1907,
-Etta F., daughter of T. B. Taylor, and is the father of one son, George
-Taylor Gale, born May 19, 1913. Mr. Gale always takes a prominent part
-in Amateur Athletics and was actively identified for many years with the
-Toronto Lacrosse Club, being one of the players of that famous
-organization. He is a member of the National Club, Lambton Golf and
-Country Club, and the Victoria Club and also the Masonic Order, being a
-member of Ashlar Masonic Lodge, St. Paul’s Chapter. In religion he is an
-Anglican.
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-
-=Flavelle, William M.=, of Lindsay, Ont., is a sound, progressive
-business man, who has played an important part in the development of
-that section of Central Ontario adjacent to the home town. He was born
-at Peterboro in March, 1853, where he attended the Public and High
-Schools. His parents were John and Dorothea Flavelle; Sir Joseph
-Flavelle, Baronet, of Toronto, is a brother, as also is Mr. J. D.
-Flavelle, of Lindsay, Chairman of the Board of Ontario License
-Commissioners. The subject of this sketch is one of the pioneers of the
-Cold Storage business in Canada. Over thirty years ago he recognized the
-necessity and value of the same as being of untold benefit to the
-country, by means of which dairy and other perishable products of the
-farm could be garnered in the seasons of their greatest production, and
-conserved for future use in the non-producing intervals. The growth of
-the enterprise has been of immense benefit to both producer and
-consumer, as now many commodities, which would not be otherwise
-available, may be freely purchased at any season in the year. The great
-advancement of the business from the first simple storage, when natural
-ice was used as the refrigerator, to the special brick structure
-standing prominently on Lindsay’s main street, equipped with every
-modern device and appliance, is the evidence of one man’s splendid
-vision, business acumen, and sagacity. A natural adjunct to the Lindsay
-Cold Storage Plant has been added in the way of a creamery, the first,
-and one of the finest of its kind in Canada. Here the cream is received
-from the farmers, tributary to the district, tested and manufactured
-into the finest creamery product, to the mutual advantage of the farmer
-and the country in general. In 1886 Mr. Flavelle married Mary Helen
-Aird, daughter of Robert Aird, of Montreal. Six children blessed the
-union, four sons and two daughters, viz.: Aird D., Stewart A., Gordon
-A., Guy A., Jena L. and Helen Grace. He is President of Flavelle,
-Limited, The Victoria Loan and Savings Company, The Lindsay Cemetery
-Company, Dundas & Flavelle, Limited, and a member of the Public Library
-Board. With his varied interests, Mr. Flavelle is a very busy man, but
-finds relaxation and recreation in golf, motoring and boating. He is a
-Methodist in religion, and a Liberal-Conservative in politics. Public
-spirited, with a fine business reputation, he takes more than a passing
-interest in matters of National importance and is keenly concerned in
-all measures which will advance the community in which he has held a
-prominent place for so many years.
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-
-=Hore, George Charles= (Hamilton, Ont.), was born in the Township of
-West Flamboro, County of Wentworth, July 20, 1868, and was educated at
-the West Flamboro Public School, the Hamilton Public Schools and the
-Woodstock Baptist College. His father was Francis William Hore, who came
-to Canada about the year 1837, when quite a young man, in company with
-his parents, brothers and sisters; he was born in Sussex, England, and
-was a grandson of Joseph Hore, of North Mundham, Chichester, Sussex,
-England; his mother was Sophia Fearman, who in the year 1833, with other
-members of their family came to Canada from Norfolk, England, in the New
-York Packet ship “Ontario,” being on the ocean six weeks, and two weeks
-on the Erie canal to Oswego, N.Y., and from that port took passage on a
-schooner to Port Dalhousie; thence to Hamilton in a farmer’s hay rack.
-F. W. Hore, father of the subject of this sketch, was a man of
-exceptional ability and was one of the earlier settlers who helped to
-build up the manufacturing industries of this country to their present
-high position, as is shown by the magnificent factory standing to his
-credit in Hamilton, known as F. W. Hore & Son, Limited, manufacturers of
-Fine Carriage, Waggon and Sleigh Wood-work. Following in his footsteps,
-George C. Hore commenced work in his father’s factory at the age of
-fifteen years, to learn the business, and with the exception of a short
-time at College, has been at it continuously and steadily ever since.
-The Company of F. W. Hore & Son, Limited, are extensive manufacturers,
-and their product is well and favorably known from the Atlantic to the
-Pacific. They have the pleasure of showing in their office, records of
-many first prizes and medals taken in the pioneer days of their
-business, testifying to the quality of their product. They are believers
-in the old saying that “quality will be remembered long after the price
-is forgotten.” The business has been established between forty and
-forty-five years, and Mr. Hore is ably assisted in the management by his
-brother and other officers of the Company. He was married September 21,
-1912, to Miss Emma Lenz, of Hamilton. In religion he is a member of the
-Church of England; in politics, a Conservative, and is fond of outdoor
-sports—being a member of the Victoria Bowling Club and the Hamilton Gun
-Club.
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-
-=Morehouse, Oscar Emery, M.D., M.L.A.= (Upper Keswick, N.B.), son of
-Elisha Morehouse, a farmer (English) and his wife, nee Crouse (Dutch);
-was born at Upper Keswick, on August 5, 1857, and was educated at common
-schools and McGill College (M.D.), (C.M.), Montreal; of U.E.L. stock. He
-has been twice married: (1st) to Alberta, daughter of the Rev. William
-McKiel, of Fairville, N.B., on June 17, 1890, who died in December,
-1902, to whom one child, Dorothy Eunice, was born; (2nd) to Maud,
-daughter of Henry Burtt, of Upper Keswick, N.B., to whom three children
-were born, Elsie Muriel, Oscar Emery, and Alberta Evelyn. Mr. Morehouse
-became interested in public life at an early age, and was first elected
-a member of the County Council in 1896, continuing in that office until
-1903; was Warden of the County Council when the Duke of Cornwall and
-York (the present King George of England) visited Canada, and presented
-him with an address at the public reception given in his honor at St.
-John, N.B. He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of New
-Brunswick on March 30, 1911, with the large majority of 1,215, as a
-supporter of the Hazen Government, and was re-elected with the full
-ticket on June 20, 1912, their opponents losing deposits. He has acted
-as a Coroner in his home locality for the past twenty-five years, and is
-looked upon as a leader in his profession throughout the whole Province
-of New Brunswick. In the year 1890, he organized the first Board of
-Health in York County, and was Chairman of the Board for six years. Mr.
-Morehouse has never been associated with Clubs to any extent, but has
-taken a keen interest in all work connected with the New Brunswick
-Medical Society, as well as the Canadian Medical Association. He has
-taken an active interest in all patriotic work since the outbreak of the
-War (1914), and has given freely of his time and money. His name will
-rank among the first who did their duty at home when the history of the
-War is written for future generations. In religion he is an
-Episcopalian, and in politics a staunch Conservative.
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-
-=Thoburn, William= (Almonte, Ont.), Woollen Manufacturer, Member of
-Parliament and ex-Mayor, came to Canada in the year 1857, from
-Portsmouth, England, where he was born on April 14, 1847, and received
-his early education at Pakenham School, Pakenham, Ontario. He removed to
-Almonte in 1867, and for eleven years was engaged in mercantile
-business. For the last thirty-six years he has been extensively
-interested in the manufacture of woollens, having built up a large
-business and his goods are known the world over. Having made a success
-of his own business affairs, he was persuaded to offer himself as the
-Conservative Candidate for the House of Commons for North Lanark, and
-was first elected in 1908, and re-elected in 1911, and was one of the
-few members in his seat in the Chamber of the House of Commons the night
-of the terrible fire, when that beautiful building was totally
-destroyed, Feb. 3, 1916. Besides his many business and political duties,
-he connected himself with many Boards, and is Vice-President of the
-Ker-Ben Stove and Furnace Foundry; director of the Trusts and Guarantee
-Company, Toronto; director of the Almonte Knitting Company, Almonte;
-life director of the General Hospital, Ottawa, and director of the
-Rosamond Memorial Hospital, Almonte. He served for several years as a
-school trustee and councillor, and was for seven years Mayor, and has
-always taken a keen interest in everything pertaining to the good and
-welfare of the Town of Almonte. Mr. Thoburn is a widower and has two
-children: Annie, married to Percy Jamieson, Almonte, and Mae Elliott,
-married to A. M. May, Toronto. He is a member of the Methodist Church,
-and much interested in Church and Missionary work; a member of the
-Rideau Club, Ottawa, and in politics a staunch Conservative. Mr. Thoburn
-took an active part in patriotic work during the war, and was always one
-of the first citizens in his district to contribute financially and
-otherwise whenever called upon. In his parliamentary duties he is looked
-upon as a man of good judgment and his advice on many matters is often
-sought by his colleagues.
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-
-=White, Gerald Verner= (Pembroke, Ont.), Member of Parliament for North
-Renfrew, Ontario, was born in Pembroke, Ontario, July 6, 1879, the son
-of the late Hon. Peter White, P.C., and Janet Reid White. His early
-education completed at the Pembroke Public and High Schools, Mr. White
-proceeded to McGill University, where he graduated as Bachelor of
-Science in Mining Engineering with the class of 1901. As a native of the
-Upper Ottawa, however, he turned naturally to lumbering for a vocation,
-and his success can be judged from the positions which he now holds as
-President of the Cunningham Lumber Co., of Pembroke, and a director of
-the Pembroke Lumber Co. Mr. White is also President of the Pembroke
-Standard, Ltd., a Director of the Thomas Pink Co., Ltd., of Pembroke,
-and of the Pembroke Woollen Mills. The name of White is one
-distinguished in the public life of the country and Gerald V. White was
-elected to the Federal House of Commons at a by-election, in October,
-1906, for the Constituency of North Renfrew, which had been rendered
-vacant by the death of his father, the Hon. Peter White, being
-subsequently re-elected at the General Elections of 1908 and 1911. Mr.
-White married Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Trites, of
-New Brunswick, and has two daughters and one son, Muriel Elizabeth, Mary
-Jeannette and Gerald Peter. He is a Presbyterian in religion and a
-Conservative in politics. Among the Clubs of which he is a member are
-the Rideau Club, the Hunt Club and the Golf Club, all of Ottawa. The
-Member for North Renfrew takes a strong interest in military matters,
-holding a commission as captain in the 42nd Regiment, Canadian militia,
-and is at present (1917) in England as Lieutenant-Colonel in command of
-the 224th Canadian Forestry Battalion.
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-
-=Crossland, E. F.= (Toronto, Ont.), was born at Port Dover, Ont., in
-1866, was educated at Windsor, N.S., came to Toronto in 1886, and two
-years later he entered the Steele-Briggs Seed Co., Limited, and is at
-the present time the Second Vice-President. Being a man with a practical
-knowledge of this business, he has been a valuable asset to the
-Steele-Briggs Company, and much credit is due him for the high position
-that firm holds in the esteem of the Canadian people to-day. While his
-active business career requires considerable of his time and attention,
-still he is a citizen of more than ordinary worth, and he takes no small
-interest in all measures that have a tendency towards furthering public
-welfare, and is also a worthy friend of both religious and charitable
-enterprises. He is a Dominion Council member of the Brotherhood of St.
-Andrew and an ex-member of the Executive Committee; rector’s warden of
-St. Matthew’s Anglican Church, a member of the Toronto Board of Trade,
-and Masonic Order. Mr. Crossland is a man who makes many friends by his
-pleasing manner. In politics he is a Conservative, but believes that the
-future prosperity of Canada largely depends upon her public men,
-irrespective of their political leanings.
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-[Illustration: ZEPHERIN HEBERT
-Montreal]
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-
-=Dickson, Rev. James A. R., B.D.= (Galt, Ont.), was born in Tranent,
-Scotland, on October 22, 1839. His father was David Dickson, a pious
-man, who was careful of the godly upbringing of his children, and being
-a zealous Free Churchman, instructed them in the standards of that
-church. Mr. Dickson came to Canada in the summer of 1857 to an uncle in
-Brantford, who was engaged in business there, where he resided for some
-time. His uncle attending the ministry of the Rev. John Wood, of the
-Congregational Church, he went with him, and under the faithful
-preaching of Mr. Wood, experienced the great change which altered the
-entire current of his life. He was active in Christian work in the
-Sabbath school and Y.M.C.A., but an irrepressible longing for wider
-usefulness led him to prepare for the Christian ministry. He took
-private lessons in Latin and Greek, attended the Brantford Grammar
-School for several sessions, and in 1860 entered the Congregational
-College of B.N.A. in Toronto, which was then under the principalship of
-Adam Lillie, D.D. While pursuing theological studies here, he attended
-classes in Logic, Hebrew, Latin and Greek in University College;
-mathematics, metaphysics and other subjects being taken up by special
-masters appointed by the board of the Congregational College. In 1864
-the college being removed to Montreal, he attended the McGill College,
-studying zoology, botany and geology under Sir William Dawson, LL.D.;
-Hebrew under Dr. De Sola, and logic, English literature and moral
-philosophy under Canon Leach. He graduated in 1865, and was called to
-the Congregational Church in London, Ontario, where he remained for six
-years. While here he edited for three years _The Gospel Message_, a
-monthly, published in Montreal. He published “Working for Jesus,” which
-is now and has been for the past thirteen years, issued by the American
-Tract Society of New York, and the Religious Tract Society of London.
-Also a 32-page tract, “Saved or Not?” and “Counsels for Young Converts.”
-In June, 1867, he married Isabella E., eldest daughter of Walter
-Fairbairn of London, Ontario. In 1871 he was called to the Northern
-Church, Toronto. Here he remained about eight years, till he changed his
-ecclesiastical relations, returning to the church of his fathers. While
-in Toronto he was honored with the highest position in the gift of the
-Congregational churches, being elected Chairman of the Congregational
-Union, of Ontario and Quebec in 1877. Here he began to write for the
-“Sunday School Times,” “Sunday School World,” and “Canada Presbyterian,”
-to which he has been a frequent contributor. He published “Immediately,”
-“The Rest of Faith,” “Christian Culture,” “A Good Minister of Jesus
-Christ,” tracts which have had an extensive circulation. He was chosen
-secretary of the Upper Canada Tract Society in 1874, which he held until
-1879. On resigning his charge in Toronto, he visited for five months the
-branch societies of the Upper Canada Tract Society. He filled Dr.
-Cochrane’s pulpit in Brantford for three months, while the Doctor was in
-Britain in 1879. While here he was called to Galt, and settled there on
-October 13, 1879. Since his settlement in Galt he has published
-“Expository Bible Readings,” “Working for the Children,” and a tract
-entitled “A Word in Season.” On the regulations being issued for the
-conferring of the degree of Bachelor of Divinity, Mr. Dickson went to
-Montreal Presbyterian College, and passing the examinations proper to
-the degree, took it in March, 1883. The congregation of Galt built for
-him in 1881 one of the handsomest ecclesiastical structures in Canada.
-It is mentioned in “Picturesque Canada.” In 1887 the Religious Tract
-Society of London, England, published a little volume of Mr. Dickson’s
-entitled “How We Are Saved.” In 1891 Mr. Dickson had conferred upon him
-the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), by Wooster University, Ohio,
-one of the great schools of learning belonging to the Presbyterian
-Church in the United States. He attained the degree by a stated course
-of special study in Political Economy and Social Science, and by
-examinations therein. He prepared also a paper to lay before the faculty
-on “Conscience the Living Source of Human Law.” In 1896 the Religious
-Tract Society of New York published a volume by Dr. Dickson, entitled
-“The Truth that Saves and How to Present It.” In 1904 Dr. Dickson wrote
-and published “The History of the Central Presbyterian Church, Galt,”
-bringing the story of the church’s life up to that time.
-
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-
-=Choquette, Philippe Auguste, LL.B.= (Quebec, Que.), Advocate, Senator
-and Judge of the Sessions, Quebec, was born on the 6th of January, 1854,
-at Beloeil, County of Vercheres. His ancestors came from Amiens,
-Picardie, France, in 1643, and settled in Varennes, in the county where
-the subject of our sketch was born. His parents were Joseph Choquette,
-farmer, and Marie Thais Audet. He received his education at St.
-Hyacinthe College, and at Laval University, Quebec, and graduated
-B.C.L., from the latter institution in 1880, having previously taken the
-silver medal given by the then Governor-General, Lord Lorne, receiving,
-in 1899, the degree of LL.D. While he was prosecuting his studies at
-Laval, he acted as private secretary to the late Hon. Honore Mercier,
-then solicitor-general in the Joly administration, and later on Premier
-of Quebec Province. He held for about three years and a half the
-position of commercial traveller in a wholesale boot and shoe
-establishment in St. Hyacinthe, before he began to study law. He moved
-to Quebec in 1887, and entered the office of the Hon. François
-Langelier, then a Member of Parliament and Mayor of Quebec (who died in
-1915 as Lieutenant-Governor), to study law. After being admitted to the
-bar of Lower Canada, in 1880, he removed to Montmagny, where he
-successfully practised his profession. Since 1877 he has been a
-contributor to “L’Union,” of St. Hyacinthe, director of “Le Soleil” in
-1905-06, having before, in 1883, founded “Le Sentinelle,” of Montmagny,
-still existing under the name of “Le Courier de Montmagny.” In 1878 he
-began to take an active part in politics and in 1882 he ran for a seat
-in the House of Commons against A. C. P. R. Landry, now Senator, the
-then Conservative candidate, but was defeated by a majority of 120
-votes. At the general election held in 1887, he again presented himself
-in opposition to Mr. Landry, and this time carried his election by a
-majority of 195 votes, and was re-elected in 1911-1916 by large
-majorities. Mr. Choquette has travelled through the principal parts of
-the United States and Europe. He has been Secretary of the Reform Club
-of the County of Montmagny. In politics he is a strong Liberal, a free
-trader, and in favor of commercial union. In 1898, was appointed a Judge
-of the Superior Court; resigned in 1904 and was called to the Senate. In
-1915 was by the local Government named Judge of the Sessions of the
-Peace for Quebec District. He is an adherent of the Roman Catholic
-Church, but objects to the clergy interfering and mixing in political
-contests. On the 29th of August, 1883, he was married to Marie, daughter
-of A. Bender, prothonotary of the Superior Court, and granddaughter of
-the late Sir E. P. Tache, baronet, A.D.C. to her late Majesty the Queen,
-and one of the promoters of Confederation. As recreations he favors
-music and sports, and has been President of the Quebec Hockey Club from
-1913 to the present time (1917). He resides at 56 Conroy St., Ottawa.
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-
-=Choquette, Ernest= (St. Hilaire, Quebec), son of Joseph Choquette and
-his wife, Thais Lapointe. Born at Beloeil, Vercheres County, Quebec,
-November 18, 1862. Educated at St. Hyacinthe’s College and Medical
-Faculty of Laval University, Montreal, from which he graduated with the
-degrees of M.B. and M.D. Married, October 16, 1889, to Eva Perrault,
-daughter of Dr. Perrault of Beloeil. He has been a frequent contributor
-to various journals and reviews and is the author of several books, his
-chief works being: “Les Ribaud,” “Claude Payson,” “Les Carabinades,” “La
-Terre,” and “Madeline Rabaud.” He has successfully practised his
-profession for many years at St. Hilaire and has been Mayor of his
-parish for a considerable time. First entered the Legislative Council
-for the Province of Quebec as a Liberal on March 14, 1910, as the
-representative of the Constituency of Rougemont. Is a Roman Catholic in
-religion and is the father of the following children: Fernande, Claude,
-Lucas, Yves, and Girard.
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-
-=Cave, James G.= James Gilbert Cave is one of those sterling Canadian
-business men who are the backbone of this country. Mr. Cave was born in
-Weston, Ontario, his parents’ names being Martin Cave and Nancy
-Morrison, and graduated from the Weston Grammar School, after which he
-entered the wholesale lumber business. He married Margaret B., daughter
-of Andrew Henderson, and has ten children: James M., Donald A., William,
-Charles, Gordon G., Margaret, Annie, Nora, Nellie and Lillian, three of
-whom, James, Charles and William, are serving overseas with the Canadian
-forces. Mr. Cave is a Protestant, a Liberal and a Mason, and has been a
-member of the Royal Grenadiers and the 48th Highlanders, serving in the
-North-West Rebellion of 1885. His present address is 97 Delaware Avenue,
-Toronto.
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-
-=Tytler, William, B.A.=, Inspector of Public Schools, Guelph, Ont., was
-born on Jan. 5, 1842, in the Township of Nichol, near Elora, Wellington
-County, Ontario. His father was William Tytler, and his mother, Jane
-Inglis Forbes, aunt of Archibald Forbes, the celebrated special war
-correspondent. Mr. Tytler pursued his educational studies in the town of
-Elora, attending the Grammar school of that place, after he had passed
-the primary departments. A university course was planned, and he
-matriculated at the University of Toronto. His course here was
-characterized by industry, and he was especially distinguished in
-science and classics. He graduated in 1862, taking the gold medal for
-natural sciences. Mr. Tytler has likewise something of a military
-record. He has been a private in the Queen’s Own, Toronto University
-Company, and has been a member of volunteer companies at Carleton Place
-and at Smith’s Falls, Lanark County. The City of Guelph was the first to
-take advantage of the free libraries act; and in 1862, a library was
-established there, Mr. Tytler being secretary and chief worker in
-connection with that institution. He married on the 23rd July, 1879,
-Martha C. Harrison, younger daughter of Milner Harrison, of St. Mary’s.
-He is a member of the Presbyterian Church. We may say that Mr. Tytler at
-once turned his attention to the work of teaching upon graduation; and
-his record has been a very creditable one since he was head master of
-the Carleton Place Grammar School, during 1863 and 1864; of the Smith’s
-Falls Grammar School from 1865 to 1868; of the St. Mary’s High School
-from 1869 to 1874; and was appointed head master of the Guelph
-Collegiate Institute, in February, 1875. Mr. Tytler, it can be said
-without any exaggeration, stands in the front rank of the Canadian
-teaching profession. He is a sound scholar; and he brings both industry
-and enthusiasm into his work. In 1892, owing to ill health, he resigned
-his position, and was soon afterwards appointed Inspector of Public
-Schools for the city of Guelph, a position which he still holds.
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-
-=Commeford, James W.= (Toronto, Ont.), was born in Toronto, April 6,
-1877, and was educated in the public and high schools. Having decided to
-follow life as an electrical engineer and contractor he gave
-considerable of his time in educating himself along those lines and when
-satisfied as to his ability he branched out into business for himself on
-College Street, where he is located at the present time. He has been
-very successful and has to his credit to-day one of the largest
-electrical businesses in the city, carrying a large staff of employees
-the year round. Mr. Commeford was induced to offer himself as a
-candidate for alderman in Ward Four, many citizens believing that his
-expert knowledge as an electrician would be beneficial to the city at
-large, and was defeated by a very small margin, meaning a great loss
-from a city standpoint, owing to the installation of the Hydro-Electric
-System, when his services would have been invaluable. However, youth is
-on his side, and Mr. Commeford will not only be elected alderman, but
-will fill higher offices should he desire the honor. He is widely known
-in yachting circles and acquatic sports, being a member of the Queen
-City Yacht Club, National Yacht and Skiff Club, Alexandra Yacht Club and
-Rochester Yacht Club. He is honorary president of the Lake Sailing Skiff
-Association and President of the Canadian Power Boat Association. He has
-donated the Motor Cycle Championship Cup, and the Long Distance
-Endurance Cup of the Canadian Power Boat Association. Mr. Commeford has
-saved thirty-three lives from drowning in Lake Ontario and received four
-medals from the Humane Society for his brave and timely acts. In
-politics he is a Conservative and an active party man.
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-
-=Conant, Gordon Daniel= (Oshawa, Ont.), Barrister, was deputy Reeve of
-Oshawa, 1914, and Mayor, 1916-1917; Secretary South Ontario Reform
-Association, 1915-1916. He is genial in manner, quick and easy in
-expression, goes straight to the point of things and is likely to be
-heard of in a wider field in the not distant future. Mr. Conant is the
-only son of Margaret and the late Thomas Conant, farmer and journalist,
-Oshawa, who was an extensive traveller and writer, contributing articles
-on travel, history and general subjects to the Toronto “Globe” for
-years. The subject of this sketch was born in Oshawa, January 11, 1885,
-and was educated at the High School of that place, afterwards graduating
-from the University of Toronto in 1905, with the degrees of B.A. and
-LL.B. and from Osgoode Hall in 1912, as Barrister-at-Law. He married
-Verna Rowena, daughter of Senator the Hon. E. D. Smith, manufacturer,
-Winona, Ont., June 25, 1915. He has one son, Douglas Smith, born in
-1914, and one daughter, Verna Genevieve, born in 1916. He is a Methodist
-in religion and a Liberal in politics. Mr. Conant is a member of The
-Thirty and Golf Clubs, Oshawa, Ontario and Royal Canadian Yacht Club,
-Toronto, and of the Masonic Order.
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-=Perry, Nathaniel Irwin= (St. Catharines, Ont.), Rector of St. Thomas
-Church, and Archdeacon of Lincoln and Welland since 1911. Spent fifteen
-months in the British Isles, travelling and studying, where he also
-represented the Colonial and Continental Church Society and the Church
-Missionary Society in different places. He is the President of St.
-Catharines Ministerial Association and Lincoln County Clerical Patriotic
-Association. Until 1913 he was Chaplain of the 2nd Dragoons. His parents
-are Martha and William Perry, farmer, in the Township of King, where he
-was born on February 10, 1867. The Rev. Mr. Perry received his education
-at the Newmarket High School, University of Toronto, and Wycliffe
-College, graduating in Arts as M.A., 1891, and in Theology, 1893. Was
-for some time Joint Editor of Church Record Sunday School Publications
-and wrote both for the “Empire Magazine,” London, England, and the
-“Cambridge Magazine.” On October 12, 1897, he married Jennie B.,
-daughter of Dr. J. H. Harris, Yarmouth, N.S., by whom he has two sons,
-Karl Raymond, born 1900, and Ronald Harris, born 1902. Mr. Perry is a
-clergyman of the Church of England, a member of the Canadian Club, St.
-Catharines, and also of the Masonic, Oddfellows, and Orange Societies.
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-
-=Hill, Hamnett Pinhey=, is a member of the legal firm of Greene, Hill &
-Hill, solicitors for the Bank of Ottawa, the Bank of British North
-America, and other large financial and commercial corporations, and has
-established for himself in the legal profession and in other spheres of
-life in Ottawa, a valuable reputation. Both the Dominion and the Ontario
-Governments recognizing Mr. Hill’s ability as a lawyer, and his
-reliability as such, in 1915 sought his services, respectively, as a
-Royal Commissioner and Official Arbitrator. In that year, owing to the
-charge of the Auditor-General that improprieties had arisen in the
-purchase of coal for the dredges fleet in British Columbia, the Dominion
-Government appointed Mr. Hill a Royal Commissioner to investigate and
-hear evidence _re_ the charge. He performed his duties, on that
-occasion, with marked ability. And in the same year, owing to the many
-disputes that had arisen in the city of Ottawa between the city and the
-owners of land, the Ontario Government appointed Mr. Hill as Official
-Arbitrator and in that capacity he is now employed. He has also, on
-several occasions, been called upon to act as Chairman of Conciliation
-Boards appointed to settle disputes between employers and employees. In
-1918 Mr. Hill was appointed a Special Returning Officer under the
-Military Voters Act with headquarters in Paris. Mr. Hamnett Pinhey Hill
-was born in Ottawa on December 18, 1877, and is the son of the late
-Hamnett Pinhey and Margaret (Christie) Hill. He was educated in the
-Public and High Schools in Ottawa, and the Toronto University (B.A.,
-1898). He read law with McDonald, Shepley, Middleton & Donald, Toronto,
-and was called to the Bar in 1902, when he became a partner in the legal
-firm of Christie & Green, which is now, owing to the death of Mr.
-Christie, known as Green, Hill & Hill. Mr. Hill was President of the
-Canadian Club, Ottawa, during 1907-1908; President of the
-Liberal-Conservative Association, 1912-1914; is a member of the
-Executive of the Board of Trade, and was Honorary Secretary of the St.
-John’s Ambulance Association of Canada for the year 1917. He holds the
-commission of Lieutenant in the Army Service Corps. In 1917 he was
-elected President of the University Club of Ottawa. On September 21,
-1907, Mr. Hill married Beatrice Sarah Lindsay, daughter of the late
-Arthur Lindsay. One son and two daughters have blessed the union. Mr.
-Hill is a member of the Rideau and Royal Ottawa Golf Clubs, and of the
-Sons of England and Orange Societies. His recreation is golf, his
-politics Conservative and his religion Anglican. His residence is 253
-Bronson Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario.
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-
-=Street, Lieut.-Col. Douglas Richmond=, one of the leading figures both
-in the business and military life of the Canadian capital, is a native
-of New Brunswick. He was born at Fredericton, N.B., on June 10, 1864,
-the son of C. F. Street, M.A., formerly of the Finance Department,
-Ottawa, and Lucy Audubon (Kendall) Street. His grandfather was the late
-Hon. J. A. Street, K.C., one of the prominent public men of New
-Brunswick, and for some years Attorney-General of the Province. Col.
-Street’s education was received in the Separate Schools of Ottawa and at
-Ottawa University. On graduation he decided to adopt a business career
-in which he proved very successful; and he is now Secretary-Treasurer of
-the Ottawa Electric Company, Secretary-Treasurer of the Ottawa Gas
-Company, and Secretary-Treasurer of the Consolidated Light, Heat and
-Power Company of Ottawa. Despite his business duties he has long taken
-an active interest in the Canadian Militia. As early as 1893 he was
-gazetted a second lieutenant in the Governor-General’s Foot Guards, the
-crack infantry regiment of Ottawa and became its commanding officer,
-with the rank of Lieut.-Col. in 1908. In that capacity he commanded his
-regiment at the Quebec Tercentenary celebration of 1908, when a large
-body of Canadian troops was assembled to do honor to the Prince of
-Wales, now His Majesty King George the Fifth, and at which Lord Roberts,
-General Pole-Carew and many other distinguished soldiers were present.
-He also commanded his regiment at the Tercentenary Celebration of the
-Discovery of Lake Champlain in Plattsburg, N.Y., and Burlington, Vt., in
-1909. When the late war broke out Col. Street was one of those who
-placed his services at the disposal of the Empire. He organized, trained
-and became Commanding Officer of the 77th Overseas Battalion, which he
-took to England in June, 1916. In the various engagements which followed
-the battalion of Col. Street’s creation rendered most distinguished
-service. Col. Street now commands the 8th Infantry Brigade M.D. No. 3.
-Col. Street is a member of the Rideau Club, the Ottawa Golf, and the
-Ottawa Hunt Club. He is a Roman Catholic in religion and is married to
-Elizabeth Bauld, daughter of John H. Christie, Bras D’Or, Cape Breton,
-N.S. He resides at 12 Range Road, Ottawa.
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-
-=Odlum, Edward, M.A., B.Sc.=, 1710 Grant Street, Vancouver, B.C., is one
-of the most versatile and able citizens of the Coast Province, with a
-wealth of experience such as has fallen to the lot of few Canadians. He
-was born at Tullamore, Peel County, Ont., on November 27, 1850, the son
-of John and Margaret (McKenzie) Odlum. The father was a gentleman farmer
-and a son of Capt. Odlum, one of Wellington’s officers. The subject of
-this sketch was educated at the schools of Tullamore and Goderich, Ont.,
-and later at Victoria University, at a time when it was located at
-Cobourg, Ont. He graduated with the degree of B.A. in 1879, and
-subsequently took the degrees of M.A. and Bachelor of Science. Twenty
-years of his life were spent as educationist, beginning with the common
-schools and rising through all grades to college work as a professor of
-Classics and the Sciences. He was for some years at the head of a large
-college in Tokio, Japan, and his special studies were Botany, Geology,
-Ethnology, History and Prophecy. His scholastic tastes have found
-expression in several important publications, including “God’s Covenant,
-Man,” “A Criticism of Rev. Dr. Campbell’s New Theology,” “The Old Book
-Stands,” “The Cone-shaped Holes of Bandai-San made by Falling Stones.”
-In fact, he is one of the ablest defenders of the orthodox view of the
-Scriptures. In 1899 he gave up his position as an educationist in Japan
-and came to British Columbia, where he speedily established himself as
-an important figure in financial, mining and industrial circles. He is
-Manager of the business of Clapp, Anderson and Odlum, Ltd.; Director
-Mercantile Mortgage Company, Ltd.; and Director of Mills Ross, Ltd.
-Though active in commerce, his pen has been an active one, and much
-newspaper and magazine correspondence has flowed from it in addition to
-the works mentioned. Of late years he has given much study to the
-ancient languages, including the Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Assyrian and
-Egyptian. At present, in his spare moments, he is preparing a
-dictionary, alphabetically arranged, of the Assyrian and also of the
-Egyptian. His recreations are gardening, travel, and writing; he is a
-member of the Orange Order and the I.O.O.F.; is a Methodist and a
-supporter of Union Government. He has been prominent in the municipal
-affairs of Vancouver as an Alderman and has acted as Chairman of the
-Finance, Fire and Light, and Police Committees of the Council. As a
-youth he served for four years in the 36th Peel Battalion and saw
-service in the Fenian Raid of 1866, for which he received the medal and
-the Ontario Government’s land grant of 160 acres. He is a member of the
-Board of the Carnegie Public Library. He was first married in May, 1878,
-to Mary E., daughter of O. W. Powell, by whom he had four sons, Edward
-Faraday, Victor Wentworth, Garnet McKenzie and Joseph Wellesley. Some
-years after her decease he married Martha M. Thomas, Toronto, by whom he
-had two sons, Arthur E. and Oswald. Brigadier-General Victor Wentworth
-Odlum, of the C.E.F., has had a very distinguished career in the war.
-One son was lost in the South African War and another at Ypres, April
-24, 1915. Yet another son is in the 231st Highlanders.
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-
-=Lennie, Robert Scott=, 1737 Matthews Ave., Shaughnessy Heights,
-Vancouver, B.C. Barrister, of the firm of Lennie, Clark, Hooper &
-O’Neill, was born at Smith’s Falls, Ont., on August 16, 1875, the son of
-Rev. Robert and Catherine (Harcus) Lennie. He was educated in the
-schools of Ontario, British Columbia and California. He took up his
-residence in British Columbia at the age of eleven and was called to the
-Bar of that province in 1898. Subsequently he took up practice at
-Nelson, B.C., and continued there until 1910, first as a member of the
-firm of Elliot & Lennie and then of Lennie & Wragge. He removed to
-Vancouver in 1910, when his present firm was formed. Mr. Lennie has long
-been active in the politics of his province and was president of the
-Nelson Conservative Club from 1904 to 1910; and President of the
-Kootenay District Conservative Association, having charge of the
-organization in nine ridings, during the same period. While resident at
-Nelson he was also elected a Bencher of the Law Society of British
-Columbia and was Chairman of the British Columbia Fire Insurance
-Commission, appointed by Order-in-Council, the findings of which in 1910
-were the basis of important legislation. Under the Military Service Act
-of 1917 he was Registrar in charge of the operations of the draft in
-British Columbia. Apart from his legal practice, Mr. Lennie has
-important financial interests. He is a Director of the following
-corporations: Forest Mills of B.C., Ltd.; Silver Ring Mines, Ltd.;
-Nugget Gold Mines, Ltd.; Colonial Trust Co., Ltd.; and New B.C. Lands,
-Ltd. His recreations are golf and motoring and he is a member of the
-following clubs: Vancouver, Union (Victoria), and Shaughnessy Heights
-Golf, and Jericho Country Club. In religion he is a Presbyterian, and on
-Oct. 19, 1898, married a daughter of the late Benjamin Douglas,
-merchant, of New Westminster, B.C., by whom he has three children,
-Robert Douglas, Gerald Scott, and Edith Beatrice Catherine.
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-
-=Landry, Hon. David V., M.D., M.A.=, is a leading and representative
-Acadian, having been born on July 14, 1866, at Memramcook, Westmorland
-County, New Brunswick, the son of Vital J. Landry and Matilda D.
-Cormier, both French Acadians. Educated at the local schools, and the
-University of St. Joseph, N.B., graduating with the degree of M.A., and
-receiving the degree of M.D. from Laval University, Montreal, in 1892.
-Subsequently practised his profession at Buctouche, engaged in
-agriculture and has been a practical farmer on a large scale. Was
-municipal councillor for the parish of Wellington in Kent County, N.B.,
-1899-1900. Elected to the Legislature of his native province
-representing the County of Kent in the general elections of 1908, and
-entered the Hazen Administration on the 24th of March of that year as
-Commissioner for Agriculture and held the same portfolio in the Fleming
-Ministry up to January 22, 1912, when he resigned and accepted the
-portfolio of Provincial Secretary and Treasurer in the Clarke
-Government. Hon. Dr. Landry married, October 6, Annie, daughter of Felix
-Michaud, of St. Leonard, N.B., and is the father of eight children,
-i.e.: Huberta, Germaine, Lionel, Anne, Rosarine, Raoul, Leopold, and
-Alberta. Hon. Dr. Landry, who is a brother-in-law of Pius Michaud, M.P.
-for Victoria-Madawaska, N.B., is a very public spirited citizen and
-recognized as a fine speaker. In religion he is a Roman Catholic.
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-
-=Ami, Henry M., M.A., D.Sc., F.P.S. (Can.), F.R.G.S., F.G.S.=,
-consulting geologist and Palaeontologist, Ottawa, Ontario. Was born at
-Belle Riviere, County of Two Mountains, north of Montreal, Que.,
-November 23, 1858, the son of the Rev. Marc. Ami and Anne Giramaire. He
-received his early education by private tuition, at Ottawa Public and
-Grammar Schools and Ottawa Collegiate Institute, then proceeded to
-McGill University, where he graduated as Bachelor of Arts in 1882;
-receiving his M.A. in 1885, D.Sc. (Queen’s) in 1892, and D.Sc. (McGill)
-in 1902. Mr. Ami won the Redpath Exhibition and three Macdonald
-Scholarships, besides being Dawson Prizeman while an undergraduate at
-McGill, and was for over twenty-nine years a member of the Technical
-Staff of the Geological Survey of Canada (1882-1912), only retiring from
-active government service through impaired health. He has been the
-author of many government reports upon the geology, palaeontology, and
-resources of the Dominion and a contributor to numerous scientific
-magazines and publications. Problems relating to the geology and
-stratography of the lower St. Lawrence, and of the Maritime Provinces,
-have engaged his attention, while, in 1903, he was awarded the Bigsby
-Gold Medal by the Geological Society of London, Eng., for his eminent
-researches and results achieved, especially in the palaeozoic wells of
-Canada, having definitely helped to solve the vexed problems as to the
-age of large areas of carboniferous and other strata in Nova Scotia, New
-Brunswick and other provinces. Mr. Ami has been a Fellow of the
-Geological Societies of London and Switzerland since 1885, and of
-America since 1900. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, of
-the American Association for the Advancement of Science, of the Royal
-Geographical Society, London, the Anthropological Society of America,
-Council of the Archæological Institute of America, and a Director of the
-American School of Archæology. This eminent Canadian is also a member of
-the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada and a corresponding member, or
-member of numerous scientific societies of Canada, the United States and
-Europe. He was for years Editor of the “Ottawa Naturalist,” and for some
-twenty years Associate Editor of the same publication in his special
-field. He studied under the late Sir William Dawson, formerly Principal
-of McGill University, and later wrote a sketch of the life of his
-master; in Europe he carried on researches in Graphalites under
-Professor C. Capsworth, and contributed much to the Bibliography of
-Canadian Geology and Palaeontology, as also on the geography of the
-Dominion, in European and North American publications. Dr. Ami is a
-member of the International Congress of geology and of the Congress of
-Anthropology and Pre-Historic Archæology recently held in Geneva, where
-he represented the Royal Society of Canada. In 1907 he represented
-Canada and the Geological survey at the Centenary Celebration of the
-Geological Society of London, also the Royal Society of Canada on that
-occasion. In 1903 he prepared a special report on the resources of the
-country along the line of the National Transcontinental Railway between
-Quebec and Winnipeg, furnishing the information necessary to Parliament
-in connection with the estimates for that great enterprise. Dr. Ami is
-now in London completing a work on “Canada and Newfoundland,” to form
-part of the Compendium of Geography and Travel, Vol. 1, North America,
-to be published shortly by Edward Stamford, Esq., F.R.S.S., geographer
-to H.M. the King. Since his retirement from Government service he has
-travelled in Europe, Asia and Africa, visited Algeria, Egypt, Palestine,
-Turkey and Greece, paying some attention to geological and archæological
-questions of interest as his health allowed. Dr. Ami married Clarissa
-Jane, eldest daughter of the late G. B. Burland, for many years
-President of the British American Bank Note Company, and has one
-daughter, Marguerite Ami. He is a member of the Rideau Club, Ottawa;
-Golf and Country Club, Ottawa; Hunt Club; Royal Societies’ Club;
-Author’s Club, and Royal Colonial Institute, London, Eng. His amusements
-are, skating, golf, anthropological and geological excursions and
-photography. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church and independent
-in politics.
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-
-=Bulyea, George Hedley Vicars= (Edmonton, Alberta). A genuinely British
-Canadian is His Honor George Hedley Vicars Bulyea, of Edmonton, Alberta,
-Chairman of the Board of Public Utilities Commission for the Province of
-Alberta. Mr. Bulyea is the son of James Albert Bulyea and Jane Blizzard,
-both of United Empire Loyalist descent, and was born, February 17, 1859,
-at Gagetown, Queen’s Co., New Brunswick. His father was a farmer and Mr.
-Bulyea was no exception to the rule that farmers’ sons have brilliant
-careers. Beginning his education at the grammar school, he graduated
-from the University of New Brunswick in 1875, received his honorary
-LL.D. degree in 1910 and his honorary LL.D. from the University of
-Alberta in 1908. In 1885, he married Annie Blanche, daughter of Robert
-T. Babbit, Registrar of Deeds, Gagetown, N.B. Their only child, Percy,
-died in February, 1901. Mr. Bulyea is a Baptist in religion, a member of
-the Edmonton Club, but has had very little time for recreation in the
-manifold duties of his exacting political career. He was elected a
-member of the North-West Council at the general territorial election,
-1894. In 1897 he accepted office as a non-resident member of the
-Haultain-Ross Executive Council, formed October 1, 1897. In January,
-1898, he became Yukon Commissioner for the territorial government and
-from 1898 to 1903 was Minister of Agriculture and Provincial Secretary.
-From 1903 to 1905 he was Minister of Public Works, and in 1905 he became
-the first Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta, a position he filled with
-distinction until 1915, when he accepted his present appointment as
-Chairman, Public Utilities Commission.
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-=Higinbotham, John D., J.P.=, 620 12th Street, Lethbridge, Alberta, is a
-son of Lieut.-Col. Nathaniel Higinbotham, formerly Member for North
-Wellington (Ontario) in the House of Commons, and Margaret (Allan)
-Higinbotham. His grandfather was David Allan, Esq., a prominent citizen
-of Guelph, Ont., and his father after his retirement from politics,
-became Registrar of Wellington County. The subject of this sketch was
-born at Guelph, November 23, 1864, and was educated at the Guelph
-Academy and the Guelph Collegiate Institute, Dr. Tassie’s famous school
-at Galt, Ont., and the Ontario College of Pharmacy, Toronto. In 1884 he
-went to Lethbridge and founded the wholesale and retail business as
-chemist and druggist, which still bears his name. Growing up with the
-city and province he has held a great many important offices. He was
-postmaster of Lethbridge from 1886 to 1910 and is also a Juvenile
-Commissioner for Alberta, a Senator of Alberta University, a Governor of
-Alberta Ladies’ College, and has also been Chairman of the Lethbridge
-School Board, Vice-President of the Board of Trade, President of the
-Citizens’ League, President of the Alberta Pharmaceutical Association,
-President of the Alberta Sunday School Association and Director of the
-Y.M.C.A. He is a Presbyterian and in 1885, when but 21, organized Knox
-Church Sunday School in Lethbridge and has been its superintendent
-continuously from that day to this. He is a man of scholarly tastes and
-has contributed articles to “The Week,” founded by Goldwin Smith;
-“Grip,” the once famous comic weekly, and the “Westminster Magazine.” He
-is an antiquarian, traveller and art connoisseur, and his outdoor
-recreations include lawn tennis, golf and cricket. He is President of
-the Lethbridge Lawn Tennis Club and a member of the Aquatic and Country
-Clubs. He is a supporter of Union Government and a member of the North
-Star Lodge A.F. & A.M., having been District Deputy Grand Master in
-1897. In 1899 he married Anna, daughter of Rev. R. Torrance, D.D., of
-Guelph, Ont., Moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly. His
-children are: Lieut. Harold Torrance, of the 13th Battalion (b. 1894);
-Norman Lindsay (1900), a student of McGill University, Montreal; Helen
-Phyllis, B.A. (Toronto) and R.N. (John Hopkins, Baltimore) (1890);
-Marjorie (1899), of Havergal Ladies’ College, Toronto; and Mary Mewburn
-and Muriel Dryden (twins, 1904).
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-
-=Anderson, Prof. George R.=, University of Toronto, was born in the
-Shetland Islands, Scotland, the son of an artisan, who died while he was
-an infant. Coming to Canada at an early age he was educated at Seaforth
-High School in Huron County, Ontario, and on matriculating at the
-University of Toronto, entered on what was to prove a brilliant
-scholastic career. He graduated with the degree of B.A. in 1893, taking
-honors in mathematics and physics, and received that of M.A. in the same
-institution, 1899. In 1905 Harvard University conferred on him the
-degree of A.M. At present he is a member of the Science faculty of the
-University of Toronto and is professor in charge of the Department of
-Engineering Physics, and is also in charge of the Physics section, at
-the Royal College of Dental Surgeons, Toronto. He has contributed
-extensively to scientific journals. His chief recreations are boating
-and fishing. He is secretary and a member of the Board of Directors of
-the Madawaska Club, which has its headquarters at Go-Home Bay, in the
-Georgian Bay District, where Prof. Anderson has a summer home. In
-religion he is a Presbyterian and was married in 1901 to Margaret,
-daughter of D. D. Wilson, merchant, of Seaforth, Ont.
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-=Wade, Mark Sweeten, M.D.=, 37 St. Paul St., Kamloops, B.C., was born at
-Sunderland, Durham County, England, on November 23, 1858, the son of
-Samuel John and Mary (Sweeten) Wade. The father was a merchant and the
-subject of this sketch was educated at Gainford School, England, and at
-Anderson’s College, University of Glasgow, from which he graduated in
-1882, with the degree of M.D. He first paid a visit to Canada in 1881
-and resolved to make his home in British Columbia, where he settled in
-1883, practising first at New Westminster. In 1884 he was appointed a
-surgeon in connection with C.P.R. construction and continued in the
-service for a year. From 1885 to 1889 he practised at Clinton, in the
-interior of British Columbia, and in the latter year removed to
-Victoria, where he remained until 1895, finally establishing himself at
-Kamloops where he added journalism to his professional attainments. He
-became editor of the “Inland Sentinel” of that town, and also editorial
-writer on the Nelson “News.” In 1904 he purchased the “Sentinel,” and
-continued to conduct it until 1912. He now holds the position of Judge
-of the Small Debts Court and Police Magistrate at Kamloops, offices for
-which his intimate knowledge of British Columbia and its people
-eminently fit him. He is also an ex-Coroner, ex-President of the Board
-of Trade, and ex-President of the Liberal Association. He has been very
-active with his pen and has published a monograph, “The Founding of
-Kamloops,” and a book, “The Thompson Country,” as well as articles in
-“The Fortnightly Review,” “To-day,” “Canadian Courier,” “Canadian
-Magazine” and the Vancouver “Province.” His recreations are motor
-boating and photography. He is an Anglican in religion and a Liberal in
-politics. On March 10, 1886, he married Emma M., daughter of James B.
-Uren, a stockraiser, of Savona, B.C., and Cornwall, England, and has two
-sons, Mark Leighton, born 1889, and Daryl Frederick, born 1892.
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-
-=Asselin, Olivar, Major= (Montreal, Que.), one of the most widely known
-of French-Canadian writers and publicists, was born at Malbay,
-Charlevoix, Quebec, on November 8, 1874, the son of the late Ricule and
-Cedulle (Tremblay) Asselin. He was educated at Rimouski College and
-later became Principal of the Evening School for French-Canadians at
-Woonsocket, R.I. While a resident of the United States he was a frequent
-contributor to the newspapers and shortly after his return to Canada in
-1898, was appointed City Editor of “La Presse,” a post he resigned to
-become private secretary to Sir Lomer Gouin, Prime Minister of Quebec,
-filling this position from 1901 to 1903. In 1902 he founded the
-Nationalist League of Quebec and became President of the Montreal
-Branch, and in 1904 he re-entered journalism by founding “Le
-Nationaliste,” of which he became editor. His articles in this and other
-publications excited widespread attention in Canada, notably his
-brochures, “Feuilles de Combat” and “A Quebec View of Canadian
-Nationalism.” Mr. Asselin was always a man of military enthusiasm and in
-1898 served for a time as a private with the U.S. Army in Cuba, during
-the Spanish-American War. When war broke out between Germany and the
-Entente powers, in 1914, he threw himself heartily into the cause of
-France and Great Britain and helped to organize the 22nd Battalion
-(French-Canadians), which has had a glorious record in France, and in
-which he holds the rank of Major. His own service has been marked by
-great sacrifice and personal bravery, and he is generally regarded as
-one of the coming men in French Canada. On August 3, 1902, he married
-Alice, daughter of Charles LeBoutillier, Gaspé Basin, and has three
-children, Jean, Paul and Pierre. In religion he is a Roman Catholic.
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-
-=Ballantyne, James.= That Ottawa East is now a portion of Ottawa City,
-is largely due to the efforts of Mr. James Ballantyne, Justice of the
-Peace, who, when Ottawa East was a village, was the most active,
-efficient and prominent man in the vicinity. It was he, as one of its
-public men, who looked after the finances, who was active in placing the
-water works system on a paying basis, and to whom credit is due for the
-many improvements that were made in its streets, roadways, parks, and
-other general matters. He took good care of the baby settlement, watched
-and guarded the progress, and succeeded in having it become annexed to
-the city of Ottawa; and now, in his advanced years, he sits contentedly
-in his home and views with delight the rapid progress that is being made
-in the erection of buildings, the handsomely paved streets and the
-increase in population. Mr. James Ballantyne is a member of the firm of
-J. & T. Ballantyne, Coal Merchants, 80 Elgin St., Ottawa. He is the son
-of Francis and Marion (Nichol) Ballantyne, and was born at New
-Castleton, Scotland, May 9, 1835. He was educated at the Public and High
-Schools, and at Queen’s College, Kingston. He started in business with
-J. & T. Ballantyne, manufacturers of woodenware in Ottawa in 1863, and
-in 1890 established the present firm of J. & T. Ballantyne, Coal
-Merchants. At one time he was Manager and Director of the Ottawa East
-Water Co., was a member of the County Council for nine years, and
-Secretary-Treasurer of the Ottawa East Public Schools for fifteen years.
-In 1862 Mr. Ballantyne married Mary Foster, daughter of Adam Foster, of
-Cumberland, England. Two sons and two daughters have blessed the union.
-Mr. Ballantyne is a Protestant in religion, a Liberal in politics, and
-he resides at 54 Main Street, Ottawa East, Canada.
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-
-=Hudson, Hon. Albert Blellock, LL.B., K.C.=, Attorney-General and
-Minister of Telephones and Telegraphs in the government of Manitoba, was
-born at Pembroke, Ont., on August 21, 1875, the son of Albert and
-Elizabeth Hudson. His parents removing to Manitoba, he was educated at
-Portage la Prairie and Manitoba University, Winnipeg, where he took the
-degree of LL.B. He was called to the Bar in 1899, and commenced practice
-in Winnipeg, where his forensic abilities soon attracted attention. He
-is a Bencher of the Law Society and was appointed K.C. in 1914. In that
-year he successfully contested South Winnipeg for the Manitoba
-Legislature as a Liberal candidate and was re-elected in 1915, in the
-contest that resulted in the defeat of the Roblin administration. When
-Hon. Mr. Norris was called on to form a government he invited Mr. Hudson
-to become Attorney-General, a post he has held ever since, discharging
-also the important duties in connection with public control of
-telephones and telegraphs. As Attorney-General he had much to do with
-the cleaning up of political conditions which had become a public
-scandal. He is a member of the Manitoba, Winnipeg Golf and Assiniboia
-Curling Clubs, and is a Presbyterian in religion. In 1908 he married
-Mary B., daughter of the late William Russell, Crown Timber Agent,
-Pembroke, Ont., and resides at 208 Dromore Ave., Winnipeg.
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-=Carson, Hugh=, is one of Ottawa’s most successful merchants and his
-firm—Hugh Carson Company, Limited—has a successful branch at Brandon,
-Manitoba. Starting out in 1886, at Shelburne, Ontario, as a
-harness-maker, in 1890 he went to Ottawa and became connected with the
-well known firm of S. & H. Borbridge, Trunk and Harness Manufacturers,
-Rideau St. Three years later, in 1893, he went into business for himself
-and established a large trade. In 1900 he was burned out, but in 1904,
-having secured his present commodious premises, corner Elgin and Queen
-Sts., he opened up on a larger scale than ever and the business has
-grown to such vast dimensions that orders from all over Canada, and,
-since the war began, from Europe, have compelled the engagement of
-hundreds of extra hands to cope with the situation. Mr. Carson is
-President and Managing Director of the Hugh Carson Company, Limited,
-Manufacturers of Harness, Trunks and Valises, 47 Elgin St., Ottawa, and
-a director of the following companies: Ottawa Dairy Company; Ottawa
-Bakeries, Limited; Laurentian Realty Company, Limited; Canada
-Turpentine, Limited; and Ottawa Cartage Company, Limited. He was born at
-Orangeville, Ontario, February 8, 1868, and is the son of Gilbert and
-Ellen (Little) Carson. For years he was Quartermaster of the 5th
-Princess Louise Dragoon Guards and is now Captain. He has been prominent
-in all kinds of sports and has been a leading figure in rowing,
-yachting, lacrosse, curling and hockey contests. Mr. Carson is a member
-of the Laurentian, the Ottawa Hunt, Rivermead Golf, Jovial Fish and Game
-and Ottawa Motor Boat Clubs. From 1890 to 1898 he was captain of the
-Capital Lacrosse Club, which held the championship for that period. Mr.
-Carson attends the Presbyterian Church. His residence is 324 Cooper
-Street, Ottawa.
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-
-=Woods, Lieutenant-Colonel James W.= (Ottawa, Ont.). Born at Kildare,
-Que., April 10th, 1863, son of Russel Woods, a successful farmer and
-lumberman, whose ancestors were from Kildare, Ireland, and Anne J.
-(Davis) Woods, of Canadian parentage, she being born at Longueuil,
-Montreal. Educated at private schools and Montreal College. At an early
-age entered service of Rankin, Beattie & Co., Montreal, later served
-with A. W. Ogilvie & Company, three years; next associated himself with
-Hodgson, Summer & Co., Montreal. Established business on his own
-account, 1895, and by his own effort and ability has built up the
-largest and most successful contractors’ and lumbermen’s supply house in
-Canada. This progressive concern, now known as Woods Mfg. Co., occupies
-a large factory, covering many acres, at Hull, Que. Besides constructing
-this plant he is also the builder of and owner of the Woods Building,
-now occupied by the Government and housing the Militia Department, also
-the Canadian building adjoining the same, as well as the Roxborough
-Apartments building. All of these splendid structures are of stone and
-modern in every respect. Woods Ltd., and Smart-Bag were merged as
-Smart-Woods Limited (the name being changed in 1918 to Woods Mfg. Co.,
-Ltd.) with Colonel Woods as President, Jan. 1, 1913, with factories at
-Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg and Ottawa. Mr. Woods is one of the most
-active and progressive manufacturers, and a most substantial
-public-spirited and patriotic citizen of the Dominion of Canada. Is
-Vice-President, Canadian Manufacturers Association; President, Ashbury
-College, Rockliffe; and numerous other corporations. President, Ottawa
-Board of Trade, 1907-8, and was active in promoting the welfare of
-Ottawa. Chairman of Citizens’ Committee of Finance that raised a fund of
-$200,000 for the Y. M. C. A. of Ottawa, and one of the most active
-members of that body. President, Carleton General Protestant Hospital;
-President, Woods Mfg. Co., Ltd., largest contractors and Lumbermen’s
-Supply House in Canada; President, Imperial Realty Co.; President,
-Ottawa Uplands, Ltd.; President, Elgin Realty Co.; President, Empire
-Cotton Mills, Ltd., Welland; Lieut.-Colonel of Governor-General’s Foot
-Guards. Was elected an honorary member of famous Guards’ Club, London,
-England, during the time—1909, 1910—he was attached to the Coldstream
-Guards, England’s most exclusive military body. Is permanent Chairman of
-Finance of the Earl Grey Musical and Dramatic Competition, which is held
-in various parts of the Dominion for the purpose of promoting the higher
-forms of musical and dramatic art. Is a great lover of art, and has in
-his collection at Kildare House, Ottawa, examples of most of the
-Barbazon and Dutch schools of art—such men as Corot, Jacques, Daumier,
-Mauve, Israels, L’Hermith, Harupignies, etc. Married Ida E. Edwards,
-daughter of John C. Edwards, Ottawa, Oct. 18, 1893, and has three sons
-and two daughters. The eldest son, Captain J. R. Woods, was the first
-colonial to secure a commission in the household Brigade. He was killed
-in action in the Great War in the battle of the Somme on the 16th of
-September, 1916, receiving honorable mention in the despatches and made
-a captain on the field before he was twenty-one years of age. Captain
-Woods went through many notable engagements and was on active service
-for nineteen months before he met his death so gallantly on the field.
-Lieutenant-Colonel Woods belongs to the following Clubs: Ottawa Hunt
-(was its first president, H.R.H. The Duke of Connaught being Honorary
-President); Rideau Club; Country Club; Mount Royal (Montreal); Toronto
-(Toronto); Manitoba (Winnipeg); York Club, Toronto; Windham, London
-(Eng.); and numerous others. He is Vice-President of the Red Cross;
-President of the British Sailors’ Relief Fund and President of Finance
-of the Patriotic Fund. He is a member of the Church of England and
-Independent in politics. His principal recreations are golf, fishing and
-riding. He has a beautiful summer residence known as “Kildare Lodge,”
-St. Patrick, on the lower St. Lawrence.
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-=Harrison, Nathaniel Isles=, Principal Willis Business College, 139½
-Sparks Street, Ottawa, Ontario, was born in Pembroke, Ont., July 13,
-1877. He is the son of John and Margaret (Isles) Harrison, and was
-educated at the Public and High Schools in Pembroke and Renfrew Model
-School. He taught school in Renfrew County from 1896 to 1898, when he
-engaged in the lumber business in the Ottawa Valley, where he remained
-until 1902. In 1903 he accepted a position as teacher in Willis Business
-College, and left in 1904 to become Chief Accountant for J. Oliver &
-Sons, Ottawa’s extensive furniture manufacturers. In 1906 he went to
-British Columbia and became Secretary and Business Manager of the
-Cranbrook Electric Light Company, Limited; the Water Supply Company,
-Limited, and the Kootenay Telephone Lines, Limited, resigning from
-office in 1910, he branched out as auditor, Accountant and liquidator on
-his own account, at which he remained until 1912, when he returned to
-Ottawa. In June, 1913, he purchased the Willis Business College, of
-which he is now President. On January 20, 1908, Mr. Harrison married
-Helena Scott, daughter of David Scott, Merrickville, Ontario. He has one
-son and two daughters. He is a member of the Canadian Club, Glebe
-Curling Club and Kiwanis Club, the Business Men’s Club, and of the A.F.
-& A.M. society. In religion he is a Methodist. He is an ardent canoeist.
-His recreations are hunting, fishing, curling, canoeing. His address is
-131 Sunnyside Avenue, Ottawa.
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-=Berthiaume, Arthur= (Montreal), one of the best known of
-French-Canadian publicists and who holds the position of President and
-Managing Director of “La Presse,” the most widely circulated newspaper
-published in Canada in either the French or English language, was born
-in Montreal on April 10, 1874. He is the son of the Hon. Treffle and
-Hermina (Gadbois) Berthiaume. He was educated at the Ste. Hyacinthe
-Seminary, St. Laurent College and Laval University, where he graduated
-with the usual degrees. His father designed him for the Bar and he read
-law with Beaudin, Cardinal & Loranger of Montreal. He was called to the
-Bar of the province of Quebec in 1906 and for a time practised his
-profession as a member of the firm of Beaulieu & Berthiaume. At the same
-time he has been connected with “La Presse,” of which Hon. Treffle
-Berthiaume was President, his connection having begun in 1900 when the
-property changed ownership. In 1906 the subject of this sketch was
-appointed General Manager of the newspaper, and in 1915 on the death of
-his father succeeded to the Presidency, abandoning the practice of law
-to devote his whole attention to “La Presse.” Great as was its position
-and influence previously these factors have been greatly extended under
-his fostering care. Not only is it the most widely circulated and
-influential of French language newspapers in Canada but it has a very
-wide following among the many French-Canadians settled in the New
-England States. These fields combined give “La Presse” the premier
-position in the Canadian newspaper field in the matter of circulation.
-The wise and moderate conduct of its columns also give its editorial
-utterances great weight with all classes of the community. In politics
-Mr. Berthiaume is an Independent and in religion a Roman Catholic. He is
-a well known social figure in Montreal and is a member of the following
-clubs: St. Denis, Chapleau, National, Athletique Canadien, Automobile
-(Director) and Engineers. On September 2, 1902, he married Blanche,
-daughter of Nazaire Bourgoin, Montreal and has three sons and one
-daughter. His residence is at 197 St. Catherine Road, Outremont,
-Montreal.
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-=Galbraith, Walter Stuart, M.D., C.M.= (Lethbridge), one of the most
-prominent physicians of Alberta, was born at Guelph, Ont., August 1,
-1866, the son of the late Francis William and Jane Elizabeth Galbraith.
-The father was a well known merchant of that city, and Dr. Galbraith was
-educated at the Public and High Schools of Guelph, and went to Alberta
-in 1891. Subsequently he entered McGill University, Montreal, from which
-he graduated with the above degrees in 1899. He at once commenced
-practise in Lethbridge as a member of the firm of Mewburn & Galbraith,
-but since 1907 has practised alone and includes among his many
-professional activities those of surgeon of the Galt mines. His high
-standing among his fellow practitioners was signalized by his election
-as President of the Council of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of
-Alberta in 1917; and he has been a Senator of the University of Alberta
-since the incorporation of that institution. Dr. Galbraith has also
-played a prominent part in municipal affairs, was Mayor of Lethbridge in
-1907, and has been a member of the Public School Board for nine years,
-holding the post of Chairman in 1912. He is President of the Bow River
-Collieries, Ltd., and a Director of the British Canadian Trust Co., Ltd.
-In religion he is a Methodist, and is a supporter of Union government;
-is a member of the A.F. & A.M. and the Canadian Order of Foresters. He
-also belongs to the Chinook Club, Lethbridge, and his recreation is
-motoring. On August 6, 1901, he married Matilda S., daughter of Oliver
-Gallinger, a farmer of Mediva, Ont., and has four children, Ruth
-Eleanor, Francis Oliver, Jean Alexandra and Aileen Stuart (deceased).
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-=Laidlaw, Lorne Nelson=, Barrister, Medicine Hat, Alberta, was born at
-Kitchener (then Berlin), Ont., on February 6, 1882, and his parents
-subsequently moving to Manitoba, he was educated at Brandon Collegiate
-Institute and Brandon College. He was called to the Manitoba Bar 1908,
-and practised at Brandon, 1908-10. In 1911 he went to Medicine Hat and
-formed the legal firm of Laidlaw & Branchard. Both as a lawyer and a
-business man he quickly achieved a prominent place in the community and
-in 1914 was elected President of the Medicine Hat Board of Trade. In
-religion he is a Presbyterian and in politics a Liberal; is a member of
-the Knights of Pythias and of the Cypress Club, Medicine Hat. His
-recreations are motoring and shooting. On December 7, 1910, he married
-May, the daughter of the late Robert Hall, of Brandon, and has two
-children.
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-=Wilson, Henry George Wilberforce, K.C.= (Indian Head, Sask.), Barrister
-and Solicitor, was born at Arnprior, Ont., on March 31, 1873, the son of
-George and Mary Cecilia Wilson. His father was a merchant, and he was
-educated at Almonte High School, and later qualified for the law at
-Osgoode Hall, Toronto, where he graduated in 1897. He first practised at
-Renfrew, Ont., as a member of the firm of Craig and Wilson, but went to
-Indian Head, Saskatchewan, in 1900, where he not only engaged in his own
-profession but took up farming on an extensive scale. He is in fact one
-of the great agricultural leaders of his province, for he owns and
-personally farms 2,060 acres in the Indian Head district. These
-interests have not prevented him from building up a large legal
-practice. He was appointed King’s Counsel on December 31, 1913, is
-solicitor for the Town of Indian Head, and also for the rural
-municipality of the same name; solicitor for the Bank of Montreal and
-the Union Trust Co., Ltd., and also a member of the High School Board of
-his town. He belongs to the Masonic Order, to the Indian Head and Union
-Clubs, Indian Head, and the Assiniboia Club, Regina. His chief
-recreation is motoring. In religion he is a Presbyterian, and in
-politics a Liberal. On June 21, 1910, he married Elizabeth Cameron,
-daughter of Mr. A. H. Edwards, lumber merchant, of Carleton Place, Ont.
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-=Baskerville, William Joseph=, is the son of George Baskerville by his
-wife, Mary McDonnell, and was born at Townland, Ballyrushen, Tipperary,
-Ireland, October 2nd, 1843. His father was the son of Benjamin
-Baskerville, who was descended from an old Norman family which settled
-in Ireland about the time of William the Conqueror, in 1066. The family
-records were unfortunately destroyed by fire in 1858 and included a
-great deal of matter that would have been of interest to the public. His
-father, George Baskerville adopted the calling of a farmer in Ireland,
-but in 1847 concluded to come to Canada. In the summer of that year he
-landed in Bytown, now Ottawa, and engaged in the trading and grocery
-business. In the fire of 1858 they lost all their household effects, as
-well as whatever savings they had accumulated, and having no insurance,
-the family had to start anew in life, and at the time of their father’s
-death, in 1875, they were again in comfortable circumstances. Their
-mother died in 1867. They had nine of a family. The subject of this
-sketch, William Joseph Baskerville, was the fifth son. He received his
-early education in the common schools, and later at Ottawa College, now
-the University of Ottawa. In 1870 he formed a partnership with his
-brothers, Patrick and George, under the firm name and style of P.
-Baskerville & Bros., carrying on a retail grocery and liquor business
-until the year 1880, when they discontinued the retail, and carried on a
-wholesale business only. The business was carried on until the year
-1904, when his two brothers having predeceased him, he retired. Since
-that he has been engaged in real estate, stocks, and bonds and building
-operations. In the year 1880, although still a partner in the firm of P.
-Baskerville & Bros., he engaged in the contracting business, along with
-James O’Connor and Patrick Cassidy. They were the successful bidders for
-the Locks at Saint Anne’s de Bellevue, which work they completed in
-1884. He was always a keen admirer of good sport, particularly lacrosse,
-and was a Director of the Capital Lacrosse Club from 1892, the year of
-their amalgamation with the Ottawas, until 1898. He was also a Director
-of the Capital Athletic Association until 1901. He is a shareholder in
-the Ottawa Electric Railway, the Ottawa Car Company, Rideau Townsite
-Company, Nipissing Mining Company, Mining Corporation of Canada, the
-Bytown and Aylmer Union Company, the Northern Life Insurance Company,
-the Moose Jaw Electric Railway, the Southern Canada Power Company, Ltd.,
-the Canada Cement Company, the Rosemont Realty Company, the British
-Columbia Permanent Loan, and is director of the Ottawa Electric Light
-Company, the Moose Jaw Electric Railway, the Rideau Townsite Company and
-the Rosemont Realty Company. Mr. Baskerville is a Roman Catholic, and in
-politics a Liberal-Conservative. He resides at 236 Stewart Street, cor.
-Stewart and Chapel Streets, Ottawa, Ontario.
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-=Godfrey, Oswald Julius= (Indian Head, Sask.), Chartered Accountant, was
-born at Sedbergh, Yorks, England, on October 7, 1875, the son of Robert
-and Margaret Godfrey. His great-grandfather was Julius Cæsar Ibbetson, a
-leading painter of the latter years of the eighteenth century, and his
-grandfather was Rev. Isaac Green, known to annalists as the closest
-friend of the family whose most celebrated member was Samuel Taylor
-Coleridge, the poet. His father was a civil engineer by profession and
-he was educated at King Edward the Sixth’s School at Birmingham,
-England, and later had a thorough training in all branches of
-accountancy. He came to Canada in 1903, locating first at Qu’Appelle,
-Sask., and later founded the firm now known as Godfrey, Heathcote &
-Nicholl, Chartered Accountants, with offices at Indian Head, Medicine
-Hat and Prince Albert. Mr. Godfrey is known as an expert throughout
-Canada, and was President of the Dominion Association of Chartered
-Accountants, 1915-16, and of the Saskatchewan Institute of Chartered
-Accountants 1912-13-14. He was also President of the Saskatchewan Union
-of Municipalities for three years, 1915-16-17. On the practice and
-theory of his profession Mr. Godfrey has written many important
-treatises. His published work, “Municipal Finance and Accounting” has
-been especially valuable as a text book for the guidance of the growing
-municipalities of the West. His recreations are cricket, motoring and
-gardening, and he is a member of the Canada Club, Regina, and the Union
-Club, Indian Head. He is a member of the A.F. & A.M., and in religion an
-Anglican. On July 17, 1905, he married Cecile Maud, daughter of Robert
-Challoner, Warwick, England, and is the father of three boys and two
-girls.
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-
-=Wright, George= (Toronto), is one of the most widely known of
-Canadians, not merely in the hotel trade, with which he is especially
-identified, but in business circles generally. He was born in Glasgow,
-Scotland, November 19, 1866, the son of William Wright of Barrhead and
-Elizabeth (McFayden) Wright of Islay, Scotland, and educated in the
-public schools of his native city. At the age of 12 he joined the
-British Navy, and at 19 entered the merchant marine as an ordinary
-seaman, serving on various seas. He came to Canada from Japan in 1887,
-settling at Vancouver, which remained his headquarters for six years,
-during which he served as steward with the C.P.R. Coast and Hotel
-Service. In 1893 he went to Winnipeg and was there engaged with the
-C.P.R., first in the news department and later with the dining car
-service until 1900. From 1901 to 1904 he was in charge of the C.P.R.
-dining station service at Brandon, Man., which he developed to a high
-point of efficiency; and also conducted hotels on his own account at
-Macleod, Alta., and Oak Lake, Man. In 1904 he purchased the Hotel
-Brunswick, Winnipeg, which he conducted for nearly two years; and in
-1905 purchased the Walker House, Toronto, which has ever since been one
-of his properties. Later he acquired a large interest in the Grand Union
-Hotel, Toronto, and changed its name to the Carls-Rite. Mr. Wright in
-addition to conducting the Walker House is Secretary-Treasurer of the
-Hotel Carls-Rite Co., Ltd.; President of Wright-Carroll Investments,
-Ltd., and Vice-President of Carroll-Wilson, Ltd., Edmonton, Alta. In the
-last week of December, 1918, he was elected Vice-President of the
-American and Canadian Hotel Keepers Association of the United States and
-Canada for the fourth consecutive year. He is also a director of the
-Peterson Lake Mining Co., Ltd. Mr. Wright has of late years taken an
-active part in public affairs. He was the promoter of the First
-Municipal Year Book in Toronto. When in July of 1918 several hundred of
-the civic employees of Toronto went on strike he was appointed by the
-Ontario Government one of the Royal Commission to inquire into the
-grievances and settle the dispute, and was largely effective in reaching
-an amicable solution of the difficulty. He also served as a member of
-the Canada Food Board from 1917 until the close of the war, and was
-able, because of his great practical experience, to render the cause of
-food conservation signal service. In 1918 he was appointed a Member of
-the Hydro-Electric Commission, a most important executive office. He is
-a Conservative in politics and a Presbyterian in religion, and belongs
-to the following organizations: Canadian Red Cross (life member),
-Overseas Club (life), Navy League (life), St. Andrew’s Society (life),
-Caledonia Society (life), Y.M.C.A., Board of Trade, Scarboro Golf,
-Toronto Swimming Club (life), and Caer Howell Bowling Club (life). On
-March 3, 1897, he married Jessie Oswald, daughter of George Motion of
-Nelson, B.C., and has two children, Oswald George, and Jessie Ellen.
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-
-=Mackie, George D.=, City Commissioner (Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan), was
-born at Perth, Scotland, on March 8, 1878, son of James and Jane Mackie.
-Educated at the Perth Academy and the Glasgow Technical College,
-Scotland, where he had a distinguished career, obtaining several
-degrees. Mr. Mackie was married on September 3, 1902, to the daughter of
-John Carnegie, of Edinburgh, Scotland. He is the father of two children,
-Douglas and Victor. Prior to coming to Canada, he was Engineer at
-Crieff, Scotland, 1900-05; Water Works Engineer of Clydebank Water
-Trust, Scotland, 1905-09; The Galt Engineering Company of Winnipeg,
-1910-12; City Engineer at Swift Current, Saskatchewan, 1913-14, when he
-assumed his present position of City Commissioner of Moose Jaw,
-Saskatchewan. Mr. Mackie is a Presbyterian in religion, and a member of
-the Prairie Club of Moose Jaw.
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-
-=Payne, Francis Freeman= (Nelson, B.C.), one of the best known newspaper
-men of British Columbia, is a native of Worcestershire, England, where
-he was born November 8, 1888, the son of E. R. and Helen Freeman Payne.
-He was educated privately and at Bromyard Residential School, and as a
-very young man decided to come to America, finally settling in the
-growing centre of Nelson, B.C., and later becoming manager of the “Daily
-News,” the leading publication of that town, which serves a widely
-extended territory. Mr. Payne is widely popular in his district and a
-keen, progressive young journalist. On August 2, 1910, he married Ruby
-Virginia, daughter of Mr. J. Irving, San Francisco, Cal.
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-
-=Chauvin, Hon. T. Hector=, Judge of the Superior Court of Quebec
-Province, was born at Terrebonne, Que., on October 9, 1862, the son of
-Adolphe Chauvin, merchant, and Luce Limoges, his wife. He was educated
-at Montreal College and Laval University and qualified for the Bar,
-reading law with the firm of Lacoste, Globensky, Baisillon and Brosseau,
-Montreal. On being called to the Bar in 1887, he entered the firm of
-Brooke, Chauvin & Devlin, of Hull, Quebec. He was defeated as
-Conservative candidate for Labelle in 1908, and a few years later was
-appointed to his present position. In September, 1887, he married
-Henriette, daughter of Napoleon and Azelie (Papineau) Bourassa, and has
-five children, Adine (wife of Mr. W. Shanks), Françoise, Gustave,
-Marguerite and Henri. He is a Roman Catholic and resides at 103
-Sherbrooke St. East, Montreal.
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-
-=Hopkins, Arthur George, D.V.M., B.S.A., B.Agr.= (Surbiton,
-Saskatchewan), is one of the great agricultural leaders of that province
-and farms 900 acres of his own. He is also a widely-known expert in
-veterinary science. He was born in London, Eng., March 9, 1869, the son
-of the late George and Sarah (Fairall) Hopkins. His father was
-Superintendent of the Foreign Branch, General Post Office, London, and
-G. Lionel Hopkins, Provincial Auditor for Saskatchewan, is a brother. He
-was educated at St. Mark’s College, Chelsea, S.W., Eng.; Ontario
-Agricultural College, Guelph, Ont.; Ontario Veterinary College, Toronto;
-Iowa State College, Ames, Ia.; and University of Wisconsin, Madison,
-Wis. He came to Canada in 1885, as a farm pupil with John Gardhouse &
-Sons, Weston, Ont., and went to Manitoba in 1891, where he was in
-business at Hartney and Neepawa, prior to locating on his present farm.
-He has held many important professional positions at various times. He
-was assistant in animal husbandry at the College of Agriculture,
-University of Wisconsin, 1889-1901; Editor, “Farmer’s Advocate,”
-Winnipeg, 1901-2, and later, in 1904-5-6; was Veterinary Quarantine
-Officer for Canada in Great Britain, 1902; Chief Veterinary Inspector
-for the Dominion Government, in British Columbia, 1903; and
-Saskatchewan, 1908-10. In 1912 he filled the position of Reeve of
-Fertile Valley, No. 285, Saskatchewan. He is also the author of
-“Veterinary Elements,” a valuable handbook for students and farmers,
-which has run through two editions. As a stock breeder he specializes in
-Shire horses, Shorthorn cattle and Yorkshire swine. On Shorthorns he is
-a well-known authority and has done considerable judging at Stock Shows,
-and has also lectured at Farmers’ Institutes and at the University of
-Saskatchewan on agricultural subjects. He at one time served in the 45th
-Battalion under Col. (now Gen. Sir) Sam Hughes, and holds a commission
-as Lieutenant in the Canadian Army Veterinary Corps. He is an Anglican,
-a Liberal, a member of the A.F. & A.M., I.O.O.F., and the Saskatchewan
-Grain Growers’ Association. He married first (1894) Ellen M. Dewar
-(deceased), by whom he had one daughter, Dorothy M.; secondly (1899),
-Jean S. Habkirk (deceased), by whom he had Leonard P. and Gladys Ellen
-(twins), and George Edward; thirdly (1908), Edith Sealy Jones, by whom
-he had five children, Phyllis, Margery, Geoffrey, Audrey and Betty.
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-
-=Taylor, Hon. George Edward= (Moose Jaw, Sask.), was born near the City
-of Winnipeg, Man., December 27, 1878, his parents being George and Mary
-A. Taylor, of New Liskeard, Ont. Educated at London, Ont., and Osgoode
-Hall, Toronto. Called to the Bar in 1902, created K.C. for the Province
-of Saskatchewan, 1913, and appointed Judge of the King’s Bench, Sask.,
-on March 2, 1918. Judge Taylor married Mabel Cecilia Ryan, daughter of
-the late Charles F. Ryan, on January 1, 1904. He is the father of the
-following children: Mabel Cecilia Moore, George Edward S., Glendolen and
-Dorothy. His Lordship is a member of the Prairie Club of Moose Jaw and
-the Assiniboia of Regina. In religion he is a Presbyterian. He finds
-recreation in golf and motoring. Thomas W. Taylor, ex-M.P.P., of
-Winnipeg, is an uncle.
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-
-=Cross, Alexander S. G.=, 369 Metcalfe Ave., Westmount, Que., is a
-Justice of the King’s Bench for Quebec and was born at Ormstown in that
-province, on August 12, 1858. His father was George Cross, a yeoman, and
-his mother, prior to her marriage, Miss Barbara Brodie. He was educated
-at Stoney Creek High School, Huntingdon Academy and McGill University.
-From the latter institution he graduated in Arts in 1879, and in Law in
-1881, and holds the degrees of B.A. and B.C.L. He is a prominent member
-of the University Club, Montreal, and his chief recreation is
-agriculture. He is a Protestant in religion and was married in 1898 to
-Anna M., daughter of Mr. James J. Buchanan, yeoman, of Dundee, Que. He
-has one son, George E. Cross, born March 14, 1899.
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-
-=Campbell, Donald Grant, M.D.=, one of the leading physicians of
-Montreal, was born in that city on April 21, 1883, the son of Rev.
-Robert Campbell, D.D., one of the most widely known of Canadian
-clergymen. His mother’s maiden name was Margaret Macdonell. He was
-educated in Montreal High School and later entered McGill University,
-where he graduated with the degree of B.A. in 1904. Deciding to follow
-medicine, he remained another four years at the institution, achieving
-the degree of M.D.C.M. in 1908. Ever since he has practised in his
-native city and during the war has held a position in the Army Medical
-Corps, with the rank of Captain. He was married on April 13, 1914, to
-Sophie Edith, daughter of Albert Field, M.D., a well-known physician of
-Barbadoes, British West Indies. Like his father, Dr. Campbell is a
-Presbyterian in religion and in politics is a Conservative. He resides
-at 755 Shuter St., Montreal.
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-
-=Cassils, Charles=, 118 Notre Dame St. West, Montreal, one of the
-prominent capitalists of that city, was born at Renton, Dumbartonshire,
-Scotland, on June 16, 1841, the son of John and Margaret (Murray)
-Cassils. After a sound education in his native country he entered the
-Glasgow Iron Office in 1853, and after twenty years’ experience in the
-iron trade, came to Canada in 1873, becoming a member of the firm of
-Cochrane, Cassils & Company, of Montreal, for many years representatives
-in Canada of the Carnegie Steel Company, of Pittsburgh. His financial
-interests are very wide. He is Vice-President of the Bell Telephone
-Company of Canada; Director, Dominion Bridge Company; President,
-Canadian Transfer Company; President, Structural Steel Company;
-Director, Northern Electric Company; Vice-President, Dominion Bridge
-Company; and Director, Windsor Hotel Company. In social organizations he
-is prominent and has been President of the Montreal Philharmonic Society
-for a considerable period, and is also a past President of St. Andrew’s
-Society. He was Chairman of the St. James Club for some time and is also
-a member of the Mount Royal, Montreal Hunt, Forest & Stream, Montreal
-Jockey and Canada Clubs. He belongs to the Masonic Order, is a
-Conservative in politics and a Presbyterian in religion. He first
-married, in 1865, Agnes Shearer, of Glasgow, who died in 1868, and in
-September, 1876, espoused Ermina Maria, daughter of Senator M. H.
-Cochrane, of Compton, Que. His home is at 753 University Street,
-Montreal.
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-
-=Cousins, George Vipond=, Barrister, Montreal, was born at Ottawa, Ont.,
-on January 16, 1885, the son of Charles and Margaret (Vipond) Cousins.
-His education in its more important phases was obtained at McGill
-University, Montreal, from which he graduated in 1906 and in which he
-holds the degrees of B.A., M.A. and B.C.L. Subsequently he took a course
-at the University of Wisconsin, at Madison, which was followed by his
-appointment as one of the lecturers in history in that justly celebrated
-institution. His scholastic career was marked by the attainment of first
-rank honors in history, political science and economics. Returning to
-Canada he took up the study of law at McGill, obtaining the B.C.L.
-degree as above stated, and has since practised in Montreal. He is a
-skilled and thoughtful writer and the author of various articles on
-economic and legal subjects, and is prominent in the social
-organizations of his province. He is a member of the University, Royal
-Montreal Golf, Royal St. Lawrence Yacht, and Canada Clubs, Montreal; and
-of the Garrison Club, Quebec. During the world war he qualified as a
-Captain at the Royal School of Infantry, Halifax, N.S., in order that he
-might be able to meet the call of his country. In politics he clings to
-the old-fashioned name of Tory, and in religion is a Presbyterian. On
-April 16, 1912, he married Geraldine Osborne Chapman, of Amherst, N.S.,
-a grand-niece of the late Sir Charles Tupper, Bart., at one time Prime
-Minister of Canada, and has two daughters, Ruth Tupper and Beatrice
-Vipond Cousins.
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-
-=Heakes, Francis Riley= (Toronto, Ont.), was born in Toronto, July 30,
-1858, the youngest son of the late Samuel Heakes, of London, England,
-and Elizabeth Isabella Riley, of Birmingham, England. Mr. Heakes’ father
-came to Toronto in 1845 and established a retail dry goods business on
-King Street, opposite Toronto Street. Mr. F. R. Heakes received his
-education in public and private schools of his native city, studied
-architecture in the office of the late Wm. Irving, a prominent architect
-of his time, and practised his profession privately till 1883, when he
-received the appointment of assistant to the late Kivas Tulley,
-architect for the Public Works of Ontario and succeeded that gentleman
-as Chief Architect for the province in 1896. Since that time a very
-large number of Government Buildings have been designed and erected by
-him throughout the province, including Court Houses, Hospitals,
-Educational and Agricultural Buildings, and recently the new Government
-House, which is designed after the French Chateau style, and is a
-splendid example of the architecture of the period of Louis XVIth,
-harmonizing most admirably with its picturesque environment. “In it,”
-writes “Construction,” the architectural journal, in its February
-number, 1916, “the architect has produced a gem that will stand as an
-enduring monument to his professional skill and artistic taste. Citizens
-of Toronto have every reason to be proud of the Official Home they have
-erected for the King’s Representative.” Mr. Heakes’ duties are many,
-varied and onerous, but he attends to them diligently and with marked
-ability. He married Susan Pemberton, the fourth daughter of the late
-Thomas Wood, and has three sons and two daughters. Of his sons, Alfred
-is a manufacturer, while Lieut. Vernon of the R.A.F., and Sergt. Harold
-of the 10th Canadian Siege Battery, have fought for their country and
-world liberty in France. Mr. Heakes is a Presbyterian, a member of the
-Masonic Fraternity and of St. George’s Society. His residence is No. 489
-Euclid Ave.
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-F. C. SUTHERLAND, TORONTO]
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-
-=Wallace, Thomas George= (Woodbridge, Ont.), eldest son of the late Hon.
-N. Clarke Wallace, M.P., ex-Controller of Customs, Grand Master
-Orangemen of British North America, and Belinda Gilmor (Wallace),
-Canadians of Irish descent. Born May 7, 1879, at Ottawa. Educated at
-Woodbridge Public School and Weston High School; general merchant and
-flour miller. Has had distinguished military career. Gazetted Captain of
-the 30th Regiment, Dec. 15, 1897. Resigned commission to go to South
-Africa in the Boer War, as private in the Royal Canadian Regiment (1st
-Contingent) 1899-1900. Was in first engagement the Canadians took part
-in at Sunnyside, 1st January, 1900. Medal with three bars, viz.: Cape
-Colony, Paardeberg and Driefontein. Prominent in the Orange Order, being
-Grand Director of Ceremonies of the Orangemen of British America.
-Anglican, Rector’s Warden of Christ’s Church, Woodbridge. Ranched for
-some time at McLeod, in the Province of Alberta. Well-known athlete,
-football and lacrosse enthusiast. Was Conservative Candidate Centre York
-for the House of Commons in by-election, December, 1907, when defeated
-by 26 votes. First elected to Parliament as representative of Centre
-York, at the general elections 1908, re-elected by 510 in 1911, and
-re-elected at the general elections in 1917 by a majority of 7,300
-votes. Member of the Albany Club, Toronto. Captain Wallace is popular
-with all classes and a most useful member of the House of Commons.
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-
-=Mondou, Alberic Archie, B.A., LL.B.= (Pierreville, Que.), born February
-2, 1872, at St. François du Lac, son of Eusebe Mondou, general merchant
-and farmer, St. François du Lac, and Georgianna Desmarais, both French
-Canadians; educated at Nicolet College and Laval University, Montreal,
-from which he graduated with the degrees of B.A. and LL.B. Married,
-September 16, 1895, to Augustine, daughter of Michel Cardin, of Yamaska,
-Que. Is a Notary Public by profession. President and General Manager of
-the Strathcona Fire Insurance Co.; Vice-President and General Manager of
-the Quebec and Western Canada Land Syndicate, Limited; was Local Manager
-Provincial Bank of Canada at Pierreville, Que., 1902-1911. He was
-elected, May 11, 1897, to the Quebec Legislature for the constituency of
-Yamaska and ran for the House of Commons for the same riding in 1900 in
-the Conservative interest at the general election, but was defeated; he
-was elected at the general election in 1911, retiring in 1917. He is a
-Roman Catholic in religion. Mr. Mondou is Independent in politics, he is
-a member of the Canadian Club of Montreal, and has long been recognized
-as a successful business man of sterling worth, prominently identified
-with various large enterprises.
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-
-=Merner, Jonathan Joseph= (Zurich, Ont.), born in Stanley Township,
-County of Huron, April 2, 1864, son of Gottlieb Merner, a Swiss, and
-Mary Ann Bleam, an American, a nephew of the late Senator Samuel Merner.
-Educated at Public School, Township of Hay, and subsequently went into
-the employ of Mr. D. D. Steinbach, General Merchant, at Zurich, where he
-acquired a good business training. Mr. Merner later embarked on his own
-account as a general merchant in Zurich, where he received his early
-mercantile experience and success has crowned his industrial activities
-and intelligent efforts. In connection with the business, a large
-evaporator and apple jam factory is operated. Mr. Merner also controls
-an extensive farm in the fine Township of Hay, and has large real estate
-interests in Western Canada. He first entered political life in the year
-1911, when he was returned to the House of Commons as a Conservative to
-represent the riding of South Huron, and re-elected at the general
-elections in Dec. 1917. Mr. Merner, with his practical experience as a
-farmer and a merchant, and his large faith in the destinies of the
-Dominion, is most highly regarded by his constituents. On Oct. 3, 1900,
-he married Edith, daughter of Edward Graham, of Goderich, Ontario, and
-has six children, three girls, Minnie, Greta and Beatrice, and three
-boys, Edward, Clare and Borden. In religion Mr. Merner is a Methodist.
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-
-=Lumsden, John.= Ever active, progress followed the efforts of Alexander
-Lumsden, one of the pioneer lumbermen of the Ottawa Valley, and the
-father of John Lumsden, his only son, the subject of this sketch. On the
-death of his father in 1904, John Lumsden came into possession of large
-and rich timber limits in the Temiskaming region and a fleet of steamers
-for the transportation of men and supplies to the camps on the edge of
-Lake Kippewa. Inheriting his father’s energy and vitality and his
-determination to keep ahead of the times, Mr. John Lumsden is ever found
-at the helm directing his business and carefully sees that there is no
-lagging in the performance or execution of the necessary work. The
-lively town of Lumsden Mills, of over 500 inhabitants, lighted by
-electricity and with its planing mills, head offices, large general
-store, church, school, bakery, lumber, boat works and handsome
-homes—the creation of this great lumber industry and owned entirely by
-Mr. Lumsden—is nothing but hustle and bustle from morning till night
-and the abode of a happy and contented people who take great delight in
-watching the wheels of industry spinning and in doing their share
-towards the successful termination of each day’s labor. At his mills
-between 125,000 and 130,000 feet of lumber and 30,000 laths and pickets
-are turned out per day and sent to the piling grounds ready to be
-shipped to the markets of the world—to wherever the demand calls for
-them. While Mr. Lumsden has all these details and commercial and
-financial responsibilities resting upon his shoulders and demanding his
-careful administrative and executive attention he can, and does, find
-time to make his racing establishments truly representative on the
-American turf at Maryland, Saratoga and other places. His horses
-represent a big investment—there are between 20 and 30 of
-them—two-year-olds, three-year-olds, seasoned campaigners, jumpers,
-etc., and most of them are a gilt-edge breeding of British and Irish
-Stock and racers of the swiftest class to whom many prizes and honors
-have fallen. Mr. Lumsden is President, Dominion Explosives, Ltd., La
-Banque Nationale Building, Ottawa; President, Lumsden Lumber Company,
-Ltd., Ottawa; Director, Forwarders, Ltd., Kingston; Director, Caledonia
-Realties, Ltd., Montreal; Director, Security Life Insurance Company of
-Canada; Life Governor, St. Luke’s Hospital, Ottawa, and is closely
-associated with many other philanthropic and business interests. He was
-born at Ottawa, June 24, 1870, and is the son of the late Alexander
-Lumsden, M.P.P., and Margueretta Lumsden, of Scottish descent. He began
-his business career in the lumber business with his father and served
-apprenticeship as a machinist with the Patterson Law of Ottawa. He was
-chief engineer on a lake steamer from 1891 to 1893; was with the Laurie
-Engineering Company, Montreal; associated with his father, 1903-1905. In
-the latter year he went into business for himself. He established
-Dominion Explosives and became President in 1910. He organized the
-Lumsden Mining Co., and became President in 1906; organized the Lumsden
-Lumber Co. and became President, 1913. He is part owner of the Lumsden
-Building, Toronto; sole owner of the town of Lumsden Mills, Township of
-Gendreau, Province of Quebec. A member of the Ottawa Board of Trade;
-Director, Ottawa Horse Shows; offered building at Lake Temiskaming to
-K.E. Memorial Hospital for Consumptives. On May 11, 1905, Mr. Lumsden
-married Emily E. MacPherson, daughter of John MacPherson, Pioneer Mill
-Builder, Chelsea. He is a member of the following Clubs: Laurentian,
-Connaught Park Jockey, Royal Hunt, Rivermead Golf, Ontario (Toronto),
-Wabinini Hunting and Fishing, and of the A.F. & A.M. Society. His
-recreations are motoring, walking, reading. In politics he is a Liberal.
-In religion, a Presbyterian, and he resides at 38 Charles St., Ottawa.
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-
-=McNeeley, John Strachan Lewis=, Police Magistrate, Carleton Place,
-Ontario. Is the son of Joseph L. and Susan McNeeley, and is a
-barrister-at-law by profession. Born in the Township of Beckurth,
-November 28, 1870. Educated at Carleton Place High School and Trinity
-University, Toronto, from which latter institution he graduated with the
-degree of B.A. in 1893, and received the degree of M.A., 1895. Was
-called to the bar in 1897. Married, 1899, to Harriet Helen, daughter of
-the late Wm. Frost of Ottawa, and is the father of the following
-children: Harriet Helen, Madeline, Isabelle, Hilda, Dorothy and Edna
-Marion. He is a member of the Masonic Order and an Oddfellow; in
-religion, he is an Anglican. P.M. McNeeley has occupied his present
-position as Magistrate for the Town of Carleton Place since 1895. He was
-appointed member of the Corporation of Trinity University, Toronto, by
-the Anglican Synod of the Diocese of Ottawa in 1905, which position he
-held for several years. He was elected member of the Board of Education
-of Carleton Place in 1909 and has been a member of the Board ever since,
-being chairman in 1910-11. In politics Mr. McNeeley is a Conservative.
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-
-=Weichel, William George= (Waterloo, Ont.), born at Elmira on July 20,
-1870, son of Michael Weichel and Margaret Schmidt, the subject of this
-sketch is and has been one of the most prominent men in his native
-county for several years, and has been connected with its political,
-commercial and social progress and activities in a large way. He
-received his education at the Public School of Elmira, which place he
-left at the age of twenty to enter the employ of Shurly & Dietrich, saw
-manufacturers, Galt, where, after gaining a thorough knowledge of the
-business, he represented his firm for several years as travelling
-salesman. Later he bought out the hardware firm of J. W. Fear & Co. Has
-been President of the Board of Trade and President of the Canadian Club,
-of Kitchener, and Alderman, Deputy Reeve, and Mayor of the Town of
-Waterloo in 1911, in which year he was elected to the House of Commons
-as Conservative candidate for the riding of North Waterloo, defeating
-Hon. W. L. MacKenzie King, the Minister of Labor, by a majority of 315.
-Since his entry into Parliamentary life Mr. Weichel has greatly
-distinguished himself as a public speaker, and has been especially
-fearless and outspoken in support of the Military Service Act and of the
-Union Government. Mr. Weichel, although of German origin, is very loyal
-to the country of his birth, and to British institutions. In the general
-elections held in 1917 Mr. Weichel was again a candidate, but was
-defeated owing to the peculiar war-time conditions existing in the
-riding he had so brilliantly and faithfully represented. He has a good
-platform presence and speaks with fluency and earnestness in support of
-his convictions, doing everything in his power to promote harmony and a
-good understanding among his constituents and to secure the successful
-termination of the great conflict in favor of the British Empire. Mr.
-Weichel married, on August 19, 1896, Jessie R., daughter of Richard
-Kinsman, of Galt, and has three daughters, Norine, Minota and Audrey. He
-is a member of the Berlin Club and the Waterloo Club. His chief
-recreations are lawn bowling and curling. In religion he is a Lutheran.
-Progressive, loyal, public spirited, with a high sense of duty, a talent
-and taste for public affairs, Mr. Weichel is a credit to his native
-county.
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-
-=McBrien, Frederick George= (Toronto, Ont.), was born at Orangeville, in
-Dufferin County, in the year 1887, son of James C. and Abigail McBrien.
-He removed to Toronto at an early age, where he attended the public and
-high schools, and afterwards embarked in the hardware business,
-establishing a large trade, exhibiting much capacity and securing the
-confidence of the community by his enterprising qualities and fair
-methods. Subsequently he designed and built a large number of residences
-and apartment houses. He was elected as alderman of Ward Six in 1910, at
-the age of 22, being one of the youngest members of the City Council,
-and re-elected in the years 1911, 1912 and 1913. In 1914 he was
-nominated for Mayor, and in an election in which he was opposed by three
-candidates, ran second, polling nearly 18,000 votes. He retired from
-municipal life for two years and was again elected to the City Council
-as a representative of Ward Six in 1916-17. Retiring as Alderman for
-Ward Six, he was nominated as one of the Representatives of Ward three,
-and was elected, and at present is Chairman of the Property Committee.
-Alderman McBrien’s municipal career has been a most useful one and he
-brings to bear on all civic problems, an analytical mind enriched by
-practical experience and a consideration for the taxpayers. He has
-specially interested himself in the welfare of the soldiers at the front
-and their dependents in his home city. A brother, Major Wm. Carson
-McBrien, has been overseas for some time, and won promotion. A good
-platform speaker and a keen debater, Alderman McBrien’s sincerity is at
-all times convincing. In politics he is a Conservative and is identified
-with the Masonic, and Orange Orders and is an Oddfellow. A member of the
-Methodist Church. He is also a Justice of the Peace. On Sept. 9, 1912,
-Alderman McBrien married Irene Zella, daughter of John Edward Jarrott
-and Mrs. Jarrott, of Toronto, and has two children, Frederick George and
-Muriel Irene.
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-
-=Matthews, George Sands= (Brantford, Ontario), born at Lindsay, Ontario,
-February 17, 1867; son of George and Ann Matthews; educated at Lindsay
-Public and High Schools, and graduate of Woodstock College, 1884.
-Married June 25, 1895, to Frances, daughter of Rev. Frederick Ratcliff.
-The union has been blessed by four children: George F., James J.,
-Margaret R., and Howard S. Mr. Matthews has devoted his energies to
-mercantile life and is identified with many large well-known industrial
-enterprises, among which may be mentioned: Matthews-Blackwell, Ltd., of
-which he is a Director, and was Manager at Brantford from 1903 to 1914;
-Vice-President of the Brantford Roofing Co., Treasurer of Niagara Silk
-Co., Ltd. Mr. Matthews was President of the Brantford Board of Trade in
-the year 1911, and Chairman of the Brantford Board Park Commission,
-1910-1914. He is Vice-President of the Brantford Industrial Realty Co.
-and is financially interested in eight of the city of Brantford’s
-leading industries. He took a prominent interest in military matters for
-over 20 years, 1885 to 1906, joining as a private in the 57th Battalion,
-Peterboro Rangers, in which he rose to the rank of Captain. He is a
-member of the National Club, Toronto, and the Brantford Club in his home
-city. In religion he is a Baptist, and in politics an Independent
-Conservative.
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-
-=Marcile, Joseph Edmond= (Acton Vale, Que.), son of Vital Marcile and
-Elizabeth Jacques, his wife. Born at Contrecœur, County of Verchères,
-Que. Educated at Actonia High School and Academy, Que. Married first,
-Sept. 7, 1880, to Melvina Masse, who died March 2, 1884; secondly, Sept.
-9, 1884, to Gracia Courville. Began his mercantile life as a clerk in a
-general store, from 1872-85, and was a dry goods merchant from
-1885-1914, in which latter year he sold out his business and became a
-gentleman farmer and manufacturer, and is at present a shareholder in
-the Acton Biscuit Co., Quebec. Has been Councillor, Mayor and Chairman
-of the School Board of Acton Vale. First elected to the House of Commons
-as the Liberal Representative for the County of Bagot at a by-election
-caused by the death of a sitting member, M. Dupont, when he received
-1,431 votes as against 1,384 cast for his opponent, M. Brodeur.
-Re-elected by the general elections in 1900 by a majority of 156 over
-Honorable L. O. Taillon, and re-elected in 1904, 1908, 1911 and 1917. Is
-the father of the following children: Charlotte, Berthe, Albert,
-Therese, Alice, Gaston, Contran, Philippe, Gertrude, Marie Ange, Gerard,
-and Yolande. He is a member of the following societies: Alliance
-Nationale, Artisans Canadien Français, St. Joseph. Two of Mr. Marcile’s
-sons, Gaston and Philippe, are at the front in the 150th Regiment. In
-religion, the member for Bagot is a Roman Catholic.
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-
-=Doherty, Hon. Charles Joseph, K.C., D.C.L., LL.D.=, son of the late
-Hon. Marcus Doherty, a Judge of the Supreme Court for the Province of
-Quebec and Elizabeth (O’Halloran) Doherty, born at Montreal, May 11,
-1855. Educated at St. Mary’s (Jesuit) College and McGill University,
-Montreal, from which latter institution he graduated with the degree of
-B.C.L., and took the Elizabeth Torrance Gold Medal, 1876, D.C.L., 1893,
-LL.D., Ottawa University, 1895. Married, June, 1888, Catherine Lucy, the
-daughter of Edmund Barnard, K.C., Montreal. Admitted as Advocate, 1887,
-and appointed K.C. under Lord Lansdowne in 1887; ably practised his
-profession in Montreal where he became one of the leaders of the Bar;
-successfully pleaded before the Privy Council in England; was for many
-years Professor of Civil and International Law, McGill University; was
-President University Literary Society; appointed Judge of the Superior
-Court for the Province of Quebec which office he filled from October
-1891, to November, 1906, when he retired. Was a candidate for the
-representation of Montreal West in the Quebec Legislature, December,
-1881, and candidate for the representation of Montreal Centre in Quebec
-Legislature in October, 1886. Defeated both times. First elected to the
-House of Commons for St. Ann’s division, Montreal, in the Conservative
-interests, and at the General elections in 1908; re-elected, 1911, and
-again in 1917. Sworn in as member of the Privy Council for Canada and
-appointed Minister of Justice, October 10, 1911. After accepting office
-was re-elected by acclamation. Presented with a life-size portrait in
-oils by the Montreal Bar, 1907; elected a Governor of Laval University,
-1903; elected Director of La Banque Provinciale, 1907; elected a
-Director of Montreal City and District Savings Bank, 1908; elected
-Director Prudential Trust Company, 1911; elected a Director of the
-Capital Life Assurance Company, 1911; elected President Canadian
-Securities Corporation, 1910; President St. Patrick’s Society, Montreal,
-1903-04; also Director International Truth Society, and a Trustee of St.
-Patrick’s Orphans’ Asylum, Montreal. As a young man was President of the
-Shamrock Lacrosse Club and the Shamrock Amateur Athletic Association;
-formerly President Irish National League, Montreal. A supporter of Home
-Rule for Ireland; was Captain in the 65th Mount Royal Rifles and
-retired, retaining rank in 1887, after serving through the North-west
-Rebellion. He is the father of the following children: Kathleen, Eileen
-Margaret, Elizabeth and Marcus. A Member of the following clubs: Mount
-Royal, St. James, University Club, Montreal, Rideau Club, Ottawa,
-Country Club, Golf Club, Ottawa, Catholic Club, New York. The Minister
-of Justice is recognized by men of all shades of political opinion as an
-honorable man of exceptional ability and energy, and is greatly esteemed
-by all classes for his splendid character, his capacity, probity, worth,
-and public spirit.
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-
-=Starr, J. R. L.= (Toronto, Ont.), was born October 5, 1865, and after
-receiving a thorough primary and Collegiate education at the Collegiate
-Institutes of Collingwood and Whitby, matriculated in 1883. He then
-entered Victoria University, where he obtained honors in classics the
-first two years, and in philosophy the last two years. In 1887 the Alma
-Mater conferred upon him the degree of B.A., and in 1890 the degree of
-LL.B. The same year he was admitted to the Bar, having been articled to
-Mr. W. H. P. Clement, of the well-known firm of McCarthy, Osler, Hoskin
-& Creelman, where he remained for one year, and was for a like period of
-time associated with Mr. Clement. Mr. Starr then embarked in the active
-individual practice of his profession until 1895, when he formed a
-co-partnership under the firm name of Thorne, Warren & Starr which firm
-continued until 1900, when the present well-known partnership of Masten,
-Starr & Spence was formed. Mr. Starr numbers among his large and
-constantly increasing clientele some of the leading corporations of the
-city, his firm being solicitors for the Bank of Nova Scotia and other
-large corporations. Mr. Starr is a member of the National Club and
-Orange Society, and is well-known in Conservative political circles. Mr.
-Starr, in addition to the arduous duties of his profession, for many
-years found time to devote much of his energy to public affairs, sitting
-on the Board of Education for seven years and being twice elected as a
-member of the City Council. While a member of these important bodies he
-was prominent in the agitation for better play grounds for the children
-of the city, and was largely instrumental in bringing about the
-betterment and enlargement of such grounds. Mr. Starr is always in
-earnest in the conduct of his business, and amongst the profession has
-an enviable reputation for honesty and straightforwardness. These
-qualities make the practice of his profession with his fellow-lawyers
-particularly agreeable and friendly, and he is frequently able to settle
-difficult matters where others might fail. He is better known as a
-“settler” of law suits than as a counsel. He is a prominent Methodist
-and very active in church work. In politics he is a staunch Conservative
-and a possible future member of Parliament.
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-
-=MacAulay, Brock=, was born in Southampton, Ont., March 14, 1871. He is
-a son of Donald MacAulay and Annie McLeod, of Stornoway, Scotland. He is
-a merchant in Southampton and also interested in two fishing tugs which
-fish out of that harbor. In the realm of sport the name of Brock
-MacAulay is known from one end of Canada to the other. His two great
-pastimes are bowling and curling. In years gone by he and his great rink
-of curlers have brought honor and fame to Southampton. No big bonspiel
-was complete without these hardy men from the Bruce Peninsula, and they
-demonstrated, under the guidance of Brock MacAulay, that they knew the
-roarin’ game to perfection. When they were not winners, they were
-runners up, and seldom have they returned home without annexing a good
-share of the trophies. In bowling it was the same, and they also brought
-the name of their town to the fore. Brock MacAulay in both games, is a
-skip of rare judgment, and it is in the tight places that his brilliancy
-shines. He seldom fails to draw to the T or kitty when it is required of
-him. He is a good sportsman, and win or lose he has always been noted
-for his great good nature. In private he is a good story teller and an
-interesting companion. He is a member of St. Lawrence Lodge, No. 131,
-A.F. & A.M., of Southampton, the Sons of Scotland, and the I.O.F. He is
-a Presbyterian in religion and a Liberal in politics. He married Miss
-Jean Webster, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Webster, of Lion’s Head.
-They have one daughter, Helen, and one son, Douglas.
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-
-=Paquet, Eugene, M.D.=, born at Agaipt, Lotbiniere County, Que., October
-23, 1867, son of François Paquet, farmer, and his wife, Clarisse
-Bergeron (French-Canadians). Educated at Seminary, Quebec, and Laval
-University, from which he graduated with the degree of M.D. Received his
-degree in 1892, passing with great distinction. He has practised
-medicine at St. Aubert, L’Islet County, since graduation. Elected to the
-House of Commons at the general election of 1894, re-elected in 1908 and
-1911. A Roman Catholic in religion and a Conservative. A frequent
-contributor to “Le Peuple de Montmagny.” Married May 30, 1893, to Elise
-Lafrance at Quebec, a daughter of Victor Lafrance of that city, and is
-the father of one child, Lucienne Paquet, born Nov. 23, 1894.
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-
-=St. Jean, Ulric= (Contrecœur, Que.), is the son of the late Antoine St.
-Jean and was born on April 22, 1869, at Contrecœur. Educated at the
-Model School of his native place where he was for five years President
-of the Commissioners of Schools. Always took an active part in the
-political life of his County before his appointment as Registrar in
-June, 1914, being President of the Liberal Club twice, for Vercheres
-County. Married Marie Joseph Guyon, daughter of Ludger Guyon, and is the
-father of the following children: Jeanne, Annette Simone, Gilberte
-Etiennette. Mr. St. Jean is a member of the Board of Trade in Montreal
-and in religion is a Roman Catholic.
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-
-=Cash, Edward L., M.D.= (Yorkton, Sask.), son of David Cash (English)
-and Elizabeth Eckardt, his wife (Canadian), born December 26, 1849, at
-Markham Village, Ont., where he attended the Public and High Schools,
-afterwards the Victoria University, Cobourg, graduating with the degree
-of M.D. in the year 1871, and being licensed by the Ontario College of
-Physicians and Surgeons the same year. Married, January 10, 1898, Mary
-B. Simpson, daughter of Wm. Simpson. Resided for some years, 1871-1896,
-in the United States, and was elected County Clerk of the District Court
-for Rock County, Nebraska. Commenced the practice of medicine in Yorkton
-in 1897, and soon established a large practice, where he was elected to
-the House of Commons at the general election for McKenzie as a Liberal
-in the general elections of 1908-1911. He is a Congregationalist in
-religion. Dr. Cash is the father of three children, i.e., Abbie Ruth,
-Nellie Katherine, and David E. L. He is a member of the Masonic Order,
-an Oddfellow, A.O.U.W., K.O.T.M., and also of the Canadian Club and
-Yorkton Club.
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-
-=Sine, Frederick= (Sydenham, Ont.), was born at Madoc, Ont., January 24,
-1877, and is the son of George William Sine. Educated at the Collegiate
-Institute of Collingwood and Meaford High School, and Queen’s
-University, Kingston, from which latter institution he graduated with
-first-class honors in Chemistry and Physics, and also received the
-degree of M.A. in 1906; also took the degree of B.Sc. in Geology and
-Mineralogy at the School of Mining, Kingston, 1908. While at Queen’s
-University he was Demonstrator in Chemistry. Mr. Sine taught Public
-Schools in Grey County and Hawkesbury, and High Schools at Hawkesbury,
-Dundas and Sydenham. He married Annie, daughter of James Watson, of
-Dundas, Ont. In religion, he is a member of the Methodist Church, and
-politically, is a Liberal.
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-
-=Labelle, Alfred Eugene=, Brigadier-General, Managing Director of the
-St. Lawrence Flour Mills Co., Montreal, Que. Started in the milling
-business as Secretary to W. W. Ogilvie (the late Canadian Flour King) in
-1884, and rose to the position of local Manager at Montreal, for the
-Ogilvie Mills Co., from which he retired in 1910 to form the present
-company, of which he is Managing Director. General Labelle served as a
-Lieutenant in the North-West Campaign of 1885, was in command of the
-65th Regiment for two terms, 1896-1912, in command of the 12th Infantry
-Regiment, 1912-1916; in command of the Canadian Bisley Team, 1908;
-promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General, 1916; and chairman of the
-Council of the Dominion Rifle Association, 1916-17. He has been
-decorated by the French Government a Commander of the Legion of Honour,
-and also wears the North-West Rebellion Medal and the long service and
-Diamond Jubilee Decorations. General Labelle has been President of the
-Montreal Chambre de Commerce, Director of the Montreal Com. Exchange,
-and several Companies, and a Commissioner of the Harbor of Montreal
-since 1913. He was born at Montreal, August 23, 1866, the son of Hospie
-Labelle and Leocadie Masson, receiving his education in government
-schools and Bishop’s Academy. He married Amelie, daughter of Judge L. W.
-Sicotte, Montreal, April 30, 1890, by whom he has five sons and one
-daughter. He is a member of the following clubs: St. James, St. Denis,
-Montreal, Canadian and Chapleau, all of Montreal. By religion General
-Labelle is a Catholic, and a Conservative in politics.
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-
-=Weir, William M.=, President of the Canada Foundries & Forgings, Ltd.,
-Westmount, Que., was born in Quebec City, July 26, 1873, the son of Mary
-A. McGoldrick and W. E. Weir, Quebec, and graduated from Ottawa
-University. He is a Director of the following companies: Canada
-Foundries & Forgings, Ltd.; Carriage Factories, Ltd.; J. H. McKay Co.,
-Ltd.; Eastern Canada Fisheries, Ltd., and Ateras Wharf & Warehousing
-Co., Ltd., Havana, Cuba. On November 25, 1903, Mr. Weir married Florence
-E., daughter of J. J. Weville, Ottawa, Ont., and has seven children,
-Mary Doris, William Dermand, Marion Lucille, Irene Grace, Florence
-Elizabeth, Joseph Harrison, and Margaret Ruth. Mr. Weir is a Captain in
-the 55th Regt. Irish Canadian Rangers, and a member of the St. James and
-Royal St. Lawrence Yacht Clubs, Montreal, also of the Welland and
-Brockville Clubs. He is a Roman Catholic in religion.
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-
-=Mackenzie, Hugh Blair= (Westmount, Que.), General Manager of the Bank
-of British North America, began his banking career with the Canadian
-Bank of Commerce, at Brantford, Ont., in 1884, and in 1887 joined the
-forces of the Bank of British North America at Brantford; was
-transferred from there to St. John, Que., and then to Montreal, where he
-became Secretary to the General Manager in 1893. He was appointed
-Accountant in London, Ont., in 1894, and Assistant Inspector in 1895,
-which position he held until 1903, when he became Chief Inspector,
-acting in this capacity until he was appointed Manager at Victoria,
-B.C., in 1905. He became Superintendent of Central Branches at Winnipeg,
-in 1907, removing to Montreal in 1909, to the position of Superintendent
-of Branches there, and held this post until 1912, when he was appointed
-to his present office as General Manager. He was born at Ingersoll,
-Ont., December 14, 1867, the son of Venerable Archdeacon C. C.
-Mackenzie, D.C.L., late rector of Grace Church, Brantford, Ont., and
-Helen (Boomer) Mackenzie, and is a brother of Prof. M. A. Mackenzie, of
-Toronto University. His earlier education took place in the Public
-School at Kincardine, Ont., going from there to the Collegiate Institute
-at Brantford, and then to Trinity College, Port Hope, Ont. On October
-11, 1902, Mr. Mackenzie married Maude Marion Weir, daughter of the late
-Oswald Weir, a banker, of Brantford, Ont., and has three children, Amy
-Maxwell, born October 10, 1903; Maxwell Hibbard Weir, born June 30,
-1907, and Malcolm Blair, born April 19, 1913. He is a member of the
-Anglican Church and of the Mount Royal Club, Montreal. For recreation he
-takes an active interest in golf, being a member of the Royal Montreal
-and Kanawaki Golf Clubs.
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-
-=McKay, Honorable James= (Regina, Sask.), one of the Judges of the
-Supreme Court of the Province of Saskatchewan. Before his elevation to
-the bench in 1915, his lordship was a prominent barrister at Prince
-Albert, Sask., and Public Administrator and Official Guardian of the
-Judicial District of Saskatchewan. Registrar of the Diocese of
-Saskatchewan and Solicitor for the same; Director Prince Albert Victoria
-Hospital. Was born in Manitoba, 1862, son of Wm. McKay, Factor in Hudson
-Bay Company. Married 1900, Florence, daughter of J. Lestock Reid.
-Educated at St. John’s College, Manitoba. Winner of Dufferin Medal for
-Ancient and Modern History; University Medal in Classics. Graduated at
-the University of Manitoba (B.A. Honor Classics). Called to the Bar of
-Manitoba, 1886, and to the North-West Territories Bar, 1887; practised
-at Prince Albert, Sask., until elevation to the bench. Was Crown
-Prosecutor for Saskatchewan, 1888-1897; appointed Q.C. in 1894; has been
-Councillor for Prince Albert. Actively engaged with the Militia and took
-part in the suppressing of North-West Rebellion in 1885, doing special
-duty with French’s Scouts. Candidate for the Liberal Conservatives,
-Dominion General Election, 1896, when defeated by Sir Wilfrid Laurier,
-elected as member of the House of Commons for the Constituency of Prince
-Albert in 1911, at the General Elections, which seat he resigned on
-being appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of Saskatchewan, being
-succeeded by Lt.-Col. Samuel James Donaldson, who was elected to fill
-the vacancy by acclamation. His lordship has one daughter, Marion. He is
-a member of the Church of England and a Free Mason, and a Forester.
-Recreations, shooting, riding, tennis and bowling.
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-
-=Hannon, James Willson= (Regina, Saskatchewan), son of Rev. Jas. Hannon,
-D.D., a prominent clergyman of the Methodist Church, and Sarah Margaret
-Willson; was born at Hamilton, Ontario, October 11, 1870. Educated at
-Provincial, Public and High Schools and matriculated with honors in
-Classics at Toronto University; subsequently studied law, and was called
-to the bar at Osgoode Hall, Toronto. In his earlier years he taught in
-Ontario rural schools, but went West in 1898, and has since been largely
-identified with the history and progress of Saskatchewan; being
-successively Crown Prosecutor of the Old Judicial District of that
-Province; Agent of Dominion Lands, and Crown Timber Agent at Prince
-Albert, Saskatchewan; and Registrar of Land Titles at Battleford,
-Saskatchewan, leaving the latter place in 1909, having been appointed
-District Judge at Regina, the Provincial Capital. Judge Hannon married
-Emma Orilla, daughter of Charles Campbell Woods, of Toronto, on July 25,
-1900. He is a member of the Board of Governors of Regina College, and
-also of the Police Commission of that city, and a member of the I.O.F.
-In religion Judge Hannon is a Methodist.
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-
-=Leblanc, Sir Pierre-Evariste, K.C.= (Quebec, Que.), Lieutenant-Governor
-of the Province of Quebec, comes of an historic family which was among
-those driven from Acadia, Nova Scotia, and settled at L’Isle Jesus,
-Laval County, Que. He is the son of Joseph Leblanc and Adele Belanger,
-born at St. Martin, August 10, 1853, and educated in the Academy of that
-place and Normal School of Jacques-Cartier. The present
-Lieutenant-Governor was called to the Bar in 1879, and was for several
-years a teacher. In 1893 he was created King’s Counsel by Lord Stanley,
-of Preston, and was a member of the Provincial Legislature of Quebec
-from 1882 to 1908, during which time he was speaker of the Assembly
-under the de Boucherville, Taillon and Flynn Governments. His Honor was
-appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the province in 1915, and K.C.M.G.,
-June 3, 1916. He married Herminie, daughter of Theodore Beaudry and
-Catharine Vallee, January 12, 1886, by whom he has three
-children—Lieutenant Beaudry Leblanc, C.E.F., Mrs. Juliette L. De Costa,
-Buenos Ayres, and Mrs. Arthur Perodeau, Montreal. He is a member of the
-Garrison Club, Quebec; Mount Royal, Montreal Hunt, and St. James Clubs,
-all of Montreal. In religion His Honor is a Roman Catholic, and in
-politics a Conservative.
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-
-=Stewart, Dougald, B.A., M.D., M.P.= (Lunenburg Co., N.S.), born
-December 5, 1862, at Upper Musquodoboit, Halifax County, Nova Scotia,
-son of John Sprott Stewart, a Scotch-Canadian, and Sarah J. Archibald,
-an English-Canadian. Educated at Pictou Academy, Dalhousie College,
-University of New York, Degree B.A., 1886, M.D., 1892. Married, October
-18, 1892, to Dora Helma, daughter of William T. Kelley, of Shelburne,
-N.S.; has two children, Evelyn Jean and Dorothy. On graduation as a
-Medical Doctor, he settled in Bridgewater, in 1892, where he has since
-had a large practice, was elected member of the Bridgewater Town Council
-in 1901, and was mayor for four successive terms, 1907-1910, was a
-member of the Board of Trade and elected President in 1910, which office
-he held for several terms. In 1911, Doctor Stewart was selected as the
-Conservative Candidate for the County of Lunenburg, N.S., in the House
-of Commons, and was returned. In his college days, the doctor was
-prominent in athletics. He is identified with several fraternal
-organizations and societies and is at present Grand Master I.O.O.F. for
-the Maritime Provinces. A Presbyterian in religion, and a member of St.
-John’s Church, Bridgewater.
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-
-=Demers, Joseph=, born November 11, 1861, at St. Julie, County of
-Megantic, Province of Quebec. Son of Edouard Demers, carriage maker, and
-Olympe Demers, both French-Canadians. Educated at St. Julie. The subject
-of this sketch is emphatically a self-made man and has been the
-architect of his own fortune. He started clerking in 1877 with Georges
-Turcotte, of St. Julie, and remained with him until 1883, when he
-decided to locate at Thetford Mines, which was then only a small village
-with a few houses and which has since grown into a thriving centre. In
-this place Mr. Demers started a general store and has been very
-successful. He was Councillor from 1890 till 1893, Mayor from 1893 to
-1895, and Alderman from 1903 to 1905. First elected to the Quebec
-Legislature as a Liberal representative for the County of Megantic at
-the general elections on May 15, 1912, when he defeated B. H.
-Pennington, the former member, by a majority of 401 votes, and continued
-to represent the county until 1916. He is a director and promoter of the
-Compagnie Hydraulique of St. François. Married September 30, 1885, to
-Mary, daughter of Louis Roberge, merchant, of St. Julie, and is the
-father of the following children: Leonard, Honore, Jean, Marie Ann,
-Antoinette and Gabrielle. Is a member of the Canadian Club and the City
-Club, and also of the Knights of Columbus. In religion is a Roman
-Catholic.
-
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-Quebec]
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-
-=McLean, The Hon. Daniel, M.L.A.=, of Orangedale, Inverness County, Nova
-Scotia, is a Presbyterian, a Liberal and a Mason. Born at Whycocomah,
-March 22, 1864, he received a good education in the public schools of
-his district. He is a son of Donald and Sarah McLean, and a nephew of
-the late Hon. James Macdonald, M.P.P. Donald McLean was a farmer and the
-Hon. Daniel is a general merchant. From 1894 to 1897 he was a member of
-the municipal council. On October 4, 1894, the Hon. Mr. McLean married
-Ella C. McPhie, daughter of Angus McPhie, a farmer and blacksmith, of
-West Bay, Inverness. They have four daughters, Maud, Ella, Margaret, and
-Irma.
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-
-=Vance, His Honor George Montgomery=, Senior Judge of the County of
-Simcoe, is a son of William and Elizabeth Vance, of Millbrook, Ont., and
-was born in the township of Cavan, County of Durham, on October 4, 1866.
-Educated at the Millbrook High School and Osgoode Hall. Studied law in
-the office of W. L. Walsh, K.C., Orangeville, now Honorable Justice
-Walsh of the Province of Alberta. Called to the Bar in the fall of 1893,
-and immediately commenced the practice of law in the Village of
-Shelburne, in the County of Dufferin, which he continued with marked
-success until 1913, when he was appointed Senior County Judge and Judge
-of the Surrogate Court of the County of Simcoe. Before his elevation to
-the Bench His Honor took a large interest in the affairs of the Village
-of Shelburne and the County of Dufferin both municipally and
-politically. He was Reeve and Chairman of the School Board, and took a
-large interest in its social and political life. When at the Bar Judge
-Vance enjoyed a large practice and was solicitor for several
-corporations and townships, and also the village of Shelburne, and has
-always taken a prominent part in advocating all educational and
-patriotic movements and those calculated to stimulate a strong national
-sentiment. A man of large practical experience and a sound lawyer, His
-Honor is a fluent and convincing speaker, and his judgments have been
-characterized by sound reason and a large vein of common sense. He is an
-ardent motorist and has owned and driven a car for several years. He was
-married July 2, 1894, to Mary S., daughter of Peter Johnston, and is the
-father of two daughters, Lois and Ruth. He is a member of the Anglican
-Church. Residence, Barrie, Ont.
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-
-=Power, William=, son of William Power and B. Fitzgerald, his wife, both
-Irish, was born in the parish of Sillery, Quebec, February 21, 1849,
-educated at the Parochial schools of his native parish. Mr. Power
-married July 4, 1881, Susan Winnifred, daughter of James Rockett, Que.,
-and has five sons and two daughters. He is a member of the Roman
-Catholic Church, and belongs to the Knights of Columbus and the Garrison
-Club, and the Fish, Game and Yacht Club of Quebec. He is ex-President of
-the Board of Trade of the City of Quebec, President of the La Fontaine
-Lumber Company, and Vice-President of the River Ouelle Pulp and Lumber
-Company and a member of the firm of W. & J. Sharplen. First elected for
-the Constituency of Quebec West in the House of Commons, January 15,
-1902, to replace Hon. Mr. Dobell, who died in England. Re-elected at the
-general elections of 1904. Defeated in 1908 and again elected at the
-general elections in 1911.
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-
-=Proulx, Edmond, M.P.= for Prescott, son of the late Isidore Proulx, who
-was M.P. for Prescott County from 1891 till his death, July 28, 1904,
-and Philomene Lalande, his wife, both French-Canadians. Born at St.
-Hermas, in the County of Two Mountains, Que., on the 21st of May, 1875.
-Educated at Bourget College, Rigaud, Que., St. Michael’s College,
-Toronto, Ottawa University, and the Law School, Osgoode Hall, Toronto.
-Was married January 2, 1907, to Madame Elliott Fraser (_née_ Renee
-Audette), daughter of Randolph Audette, of the City of Quebec, wholesale
-merchant, and President of La Banque Nationale, and is the father of two
-sons, Henri and Marcel, and two daughters, Therese and Cecile. Is a
-Public School Trustee of the town of L’Orignal, a member of the
-C.M.B.A., Artisans and C.F., and Union St. Joseph of Canada. Has been
-Reeve of the town of L’Orignal, and Vice-President of The Ontario
-General Reform Association; first elected to the House of Commons as
-member for the County of Prescott at the general elections 1904, and
-subsequently at the general elections of 1908, 1911 and 1917. Is a
-Liberal in politics. In religion Mr. Proulx is a Roman Catholic. He is
-very popular among all classes of the community and has a splendid
-command of both the English and French languages.
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-
-=Donogh, John Ormsby=, Lumber merchant, Toronto. Was born at Toronto on
-the 25th of March, 1854, son of William Donogh and Elizabeth Hayward,
-his wife; was educated at the public schools in the Township of Mono and
-afterwards in the City of Toronto. Mr. Donogh has been long recognized
-as one of the pioneer lumber merchants of the City of Toronto, and for
-many years carried on business with Joseph Oliver, formerly Mayor of the
-City of Toronto, the firm name being “Donogh & Oliver.” He was
-instrumental in organizing and promoting of the Methodist Union of
-Toronto and was President for four years. The Union takes charge of all
-missionary and church extension work in the provincial capital. For many
-years Mr. Donogh has been prominent in the I.O.O.F. and has been past
-Grand Master for many years, and at present is Grand Treasurer of the
-Order. He was married on Sept. 21, 1874, to Miss Wordley; and is a
-member of the National Club of Toronto, a Mason, and an Oddfellow. He is
-a man with a large viewpoint and of sterling integrity, and has in the
-past supported the Liberal Party. His recreation is golf.
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-
-=Jones, James William= (Kelowna, B.C.), is the son of James and Tryphena
-Searles, both Canadians. Was born at Utica, Ont., on September 21, 1869,
-educated at the High Schools of Uxbridge and Port Perry, and was a
-general merchant in Grenfell, 1894 to 1906. Moved to Kelowna, B.C.,
-1907, where he took an active interest in developing a large tract of
-irrigated lands in the Okanagan Valley, at Kelowna. Is
-Secretary-Treasurer of Central Okanagan Land & Orchard Company of
-Kelowna, he is also prominent in mercantile life, being President of
-Lawson’s Limited, dry goods and furnishings, also President of McKenzie
-Trading Company of Kelowna. Was Mayor of Kelowna for five years,
-1912-1917, inclusive, and was elected at the last election as
-Conservative member in the British Columbia Legislature for South
-Okanagan. Mr. Jones married in 1893, Adam M., daughter of M. T. Bird, of
-Grenfell, Sask., and is the father of four children: Ethelwyn, Clarence,
-Vivian and Nellie. He is a member of the Masonic Order and also of the
-Independent Order of Foresters. In religion he is a Methodist.
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-
-=Watson, Sir David, K.C.B. and Brigadier-General= (Quebec City),
-promoted to take command of the 4th Canadian Division of the forces at
-the front in April, 1916, is a native of the city of Quebec, having been
-born in that city on February 7, 1869. He is the only son of Mr. William
-Watson, his mother’s maiden name having been Miss Jean Grant, daughter
-of one of Quebec’s well-known merchants of Lower Town. From school and
-after some preliminary training in municipal work, he passed into the
-“Chronicle” office, when Mr. John J. Foote was manager and proprietor of
-the paper, and there worked his way up through the various departments
-of journalism, until he finally became the managing director of the
-establishment. He has held the office of President of the Quebec Press
-Association, and visited London for a first time as a delegate to the
-Imperial Press Congress, held in that city in 1908, and a third time as
-commander of the 8th Royal Rifles during the royal celebration of 1901.
-In the military life of Quebec he has been interested for over twenty
-years, and during that time was given promotion step by step until he
-was in command of his battalion as its Colonel, a position which he had
-held for two or three years before the European War broke out. Having
-been selected to take charge of the 2nd Battalion in the 1st Brigade of
-the 1st Canadian Division, in August, 1914, he proceeded from the
-Valcartier Camp with troops in charge, for their further training at
-Salisbury Plains; and, after spending the early winter months there, he
-proceeded to the front in January, 1915. He was by this time a Colonel
-in full rank. At the seat of war he was continuously engaged as a
-commanding officer all during the campaigning up to the summer of 1917,
-having taken part with his Division in the operations of Neuve Chapelle,
-in March, 1915, as well as in the second battle of Ypres in April, in
-the fight at Festubert in May, and that of Givenchy in June. In
-recognition of his skill and prudence in these engagements he was
-promoted to command the 5th Brigade of the 2nd Canadian Division in the
-month of August following, and forthwith as a Brigadier-General, he led
-his Brigade in the successive engagements of Wytschaete, Kemmel, and St.
-Eloi, during the spring of 1916. Subsequently he was placed in charge of
-the 4th Canadian Division and made extended raids in the Ypres salient
-and at St. Eloi, and thereafter, for forty-nine days without
-intermission, he and his Brigade shared in the exciting engagements
-along the River Somme. No less than three attacks were made by General
-Watson and his Division, one on the 11th of October, another on the 22nd
-of that month, and one on the 18th of November, 1916, all of these
-accumulating renown by their intrepid approach on the enemy. Nor was the
-commander’s bravery overlooked by the War Office, since General Watson
-has come in for special mention in the despatches exchanged between the
-general Field Staff and the War Department no less than four times. He
-was awarded the high honor of Commander of the Bath, and in 1918 was
-further honored by a Knighthood in that order. The record of the
-General’s active service at the front is a fitting complement to a
-career of over twenty years’ experience in military operations, from the
-days of his entering the 8th Royal Rifles, made up of his Quebec
-fellow-citizens, to the time of his being a General in full command of
-the battlefields of Europe. His career savors of romance. A newspaper
-employee, a prominent business man in his native city, a volunteer of
-the ranks, a captain, a major, a colonel, and at last a general, form
-the grades of a ladder overcome step by step which his fellow-Canadians
-cannot but contemplate with pride. It was taken for granted that in the
-event of Sir Arthur Currie’s transfer to another command Sir David would
-succeed him as Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian army in France.
-General Watson married Miss Mary Browning, of Quebec, on September 11,
-1893, and has a family of three daughters.
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-
-=Thompson, Alfred= (Dawson City, Yukon Territory), Physician and
-Surgeon, son of James A. Thompson and Jane Thompson, both Canadians.
-Born June 6, 1869, at Nine-Mile River, Hants County, Nova Scotia.
-Educated at Public School by private tutor, and graduated from Dalhousie
-University, Halifax, N.S., with degree of M.D.C.M., in 1898. Married
-Elsie Miller, daughter of Jacob Miller, of Elmsdale, Nova Scotia, March
-7, 1894. Went to Klondyke in 1899 and began practice of his profession;
-elected to Yukon Council in 1902. First elected to the House of Commons
-at the general elections of 1904, as an Independent. This was the second
-election held for the House of Commons in the Yukon, when Dr. Thompson
-was opposed by F. T. Congdon, K.C., who resigned the Governorship of the
-Territory to contest the seat. Dr. Thompson resigned his seat on the
-Yukon Council at the same time. The vote stood: Thompson 2,113, Congdon
-1,495, a majority for Dr. Thompson of 618. Nomination was held on
-November 18, election on December 16, and the return was received at
-Ottawa on March 13, 1915. Retired at end of Parliamentary term and
-resumed practice; again elected to House of Commons in 1911 at the
-general elections, over his former opponent, F. T. Congdon, K.C., by a
-majority of over 450, and again returned at the last general elections
-held in the Yukon Territory, which were deferred until December 31,
-1917. Dr. Thompson’s election was due to the vote of the soldiers
-overseas which he received as the Unionist Candidate. Is a member of the
-Masonic Order and of the Zero Club, Dawson, Yukon Territory, and is a
-Presbyterian. Father of two children, Alfreda, born December 30, 1904,
-and Norman, born August 5, 1909. Dr. Thompson is a supporter of the
-Unionist Government and a dominant force in the Yukon Territory, where
-he has resided for upwards of eighteen years, and has done much to
-promote the growing importance of the district.
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-=Struthers, James Douglas, M.D.= (Tiverton, Ont.), first became a member
-of his father’s family on April 7, 1886, in the County of Bruce, near
-the village of Underwood. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. James Struthers,
-of Port Elgin, who for many years were residents of Bruce Township, and
-whose farm was one of the best, the owner having brought his splendid
-Scotch knowledge into one of the finest settlements in the Dominion,
-where success and shrewd business ability crowned his labors. This son
-of worthy parents had a longing for knowledge and professional life, and
-as a youth was studious in S.S. No. 8, Bruce, having his thirst for
-knowledge awakened and developed along proper lines. His next step was
-to the High School in Port Elgin, from which he successfully
-matriculated. He then went to business college for half a year, which
-was followed by duties in railroad office work. While thus employed he
-decided that his life work would be that of a doctor. He attended
-Toronto University and was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Medicine in
-1911. Of a likeable and charming disposition he was ever a favorite at
-college, and was honored by his fellow students in the University by
-being made Treasurer of the “At Home” Committee of the year ’11. His
-Scotch ancestry and faithful application to his profession have made him
-friends, and few young men have reached the splendid position he now
-occupies. He came back home and settled in the village of Tiverton,
-where his practice is large and continually growing. Success has crowned
-his ambition, which was to be able to relieve the sufferings of
-humanity, and his splendid abilities are often called for in
-consultation with his surrounding fellow practitioners, all of whom
-esteem him most highly. Determination and decision are two faculties he
-possesses. Added to these are a bright and sunny disposition, with a
-broad and charitable outlook on life which make for him friends of a
-lasting character. He is a member of Tiverton Masonic Lodge, No. 341,
-A.F. & A.M., the I.O.O.F., and the C.O.F. In religion he is a
-Presbyterian and in politics a Liberal. His friends truly say of him:
-“You were aye leal and true, Jamie.”
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-
-=Kastner, Gideon=, of Wiarton, Ontario, son of John Kastner and Margaret
-Litt, of Alsace-Lorraine, was born July 8, 1865, in Perth County, Ont.
-He received his education in the public and high schools of that county.
-At twenty years of age he went to Wiarton, where he engaged in the
-lumbering business, which was a thriving industry at that time. He also
-followed contracting, building piers and public wharves. In business he
-has been exceptionally successful. He had a liking for municipal
-politics, and first served in the town council in 1895. He was elected
-Reeve of Wiarton in 1910-11, and again in 1915-16-17-18. At the January
-meeting of the County Council of Bruce in 1918 he was elected to the
-honorable position of warden. His popularity is not solely due to his
-genial good nature, but to the fact that he is a keen business man and
-takes a deep interest in every enterprise he is connected with. He
-served as President of the Wiarton Board of Trade for many years. He has
-been Chairman of the Board of Managers of St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church
-for a number of years. When the recruiting campaign for the 160th Bruce
-Battalion was in full swing Gideon Kastner was one of its whirlwind
-supporters. He probably got his enthusiastic military ardour from his
-grandfather who served with Napoleon through many campaigns. He is a
-loyal supporter of all patriotic movements, lending his energy to every
-cause that tends to win the war. His great pastime is bowling. In
-politics he is a Liberal. He married Annie Symon, of Wiarton. They have
-one son and four daughters, and their home in Wiarton is one of the most
-hospitable in the county.
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-=Sayles, Edwin Roy=, Editor and proprietor of “The Port Elgin Times,” is
-one of the leading men to-day publishing a country newspaper. He was
-born in Norfolk County on April 21, 1875. His education was secured in
-the public and advanced schools of Courtland and the City of Brantford.
-In the latter place he resided for many years. Choosing newspaper work
-as his career, he joined the staff of the “Brantford Expositor,” on
-which paper he remained for many years. Later he became business manager
-of the “Brantford Courier,” and at the time he purchased the “Port Elgin
-Times” held this position. On taking possession of the “Times” he at
-once put his splendid business ability into the enterprise and
-established it upon sound business principles. Under him the “Times” has
-become one of the brightest country weeklies in Ontario. He has ideas
-which he is not afraid to put forward, and his paper is ever for the
-uplift and moral reform of the community which he so ably serves. He is
-a splendid platform man, speaking with ease and fluency. He has given
-much of his time to the Canadian Press Association, and for three years,
-1914-15-16, was chairman of the weekly section of that body. He has also
-been on the executive Board of that body for a number of years. He is
-Past President of the Bruce County Press Association, and has done much
-to improve the standing of the country publisher and place his business
-upon the high plane it to-day occupies. He is a member of Port Elgin
-Lodge, No. 429, A.F. & A.M., the C.O.F., and the A.O.F. In religion he
-is a Baptist, taking a deep interest in the work of that body. In
-politics he is a Liberal, with a slight tendency toward radicalism.
-Though of many activities he finds time for public service, as has been
-evidenced by his arduous work in recruiting and patriotic efforts, which
-has claimed so much of the time of busy men. He takes an interest in the
-boy scout movement. His pastimes are bowling, shooting, and motoring. He
-married Miss M. Galbraith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Galbraith, of
-Middlesex County. They have one daughter, Eleanor Jean.
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-=Honeywell, Major Frederick Henry, B.A.=, is a prominent Ottawa
-barrister and military man who, during the late war, distinguished
-himself by serving his country at the front. He was born in Carleton
-County, Ont., on Dec. 12, 1877, son of Elkanah and Marie (Baldwin)
-Honeywell, and received his education at the public schools of
-Westboro’, Carleton County, at Ottawa Collegiate Institute and at
-Toronto University. He qualified for the law and after being called to
-the Bar established himself in practice at Ottawa, where he is head of
-the firm of Honeywell, Caldwell & Wilson, Barristers and Solicitors,
-Central Chambers. The firm has a large connection in the adjacent
-county, where Major Honeywell still maintains his residence. He has
-served as Reeve of Nepean township and as Warden of the County of
-Carleton. He has always taken a keen interest in military affairs, and
-at the time the war broke out held the commission of Major in the 5th
-Princess Louise Dragoon Guards, Ottawa. Offering himself for service
-overseas he was appointed Major of the 8th Canadian Mounted Rifles in
-the Canadian Expeditionary Force, in which capacity he went to the
-front. He was later attached to the 26th Battalion of the British
-Expeditionary Force in France, on active service, and participated in
-several noted engagements. He is essentially an outdoor man and his
-recreations include curling, skating, ski-ing, golf, motoring and motor
-boating. He is a Liberal in politics, a Protestant in religion and a
-member of the A.F. & A.M. and I.O.F. His residence is at Woodruff,
-Carleton County, Ont.
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-=Wainwright, Arnold, K.C., B.C.L.=, one of the leading barristers and
-publicists of Montreal was born in that city on June 13, 1879, the son
-of William and Mary Emily (Arnold) Wainwright. His education was
-unusually complete. After a course at Montreal Collegiate Institute he
-entered McGill University, from which he graduated in 1890 with the
-degree of B.A. and honors and medal in mental and moral philosophy. This
-was supplemented by a course in law and in 1902 he obtained the degree
-of B.C.L. with a medal. Subsequently he took a post-graduate course at
-the University of Montpelier, France. He was called to the bar in 1902
-and is now a member of the firm of Davidson, Wainwright, Alexander &
-Elder, Advocates, Transportation Building, Montreal. In 1912 he was
-created King’s Counsel on attaining the requisite ten years’ service at
-the bar. He was elected President of the Junior Bar Association of
-Montreal in 1910 and a member of the Council of the Montreal Bar for
-1911-12. In addition to being recognized as a brilliant speaker both in
-the forensic and political arenas, Mr. Wainwright is a recognized
-authority on the academic side of his profession and is Lecturer on the
-Laws of Evidence and the Laws of Persons in the legal faculty of McGill
-University. In politics he is a Liberal and was a member of the Council
-of the Montreal Reform Club, 1910-11. He is an Anglican in religion and
-a member of the following clubs: St. James’, University, Beaconsfield
-Golf, Country, Canada, and Reform. In 1913 he married Norah, daughter of
-William Prentice, Montreal, and resides at 4 Seaforth Ave. in that city.
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-
-=Bates, Joseph Lever=, an Ottawa business man of widely extended
-interests, was born at Easton’s Corners, Ont., in 1850, the son of
-Nathaniel Bates. He was educated in the public schools of his district
-and afterward engaged in the granite business. In 1907 he founded the
-International Land and Lumber Company, 283-285 Bank Street, Ottawa, of
-which he is President. His other interests include the Presidency of the
-British Canadian Industrial Co., Ltd., which maintains offices in
-London, England, as well as in this country. He is a member of the
-Canadian Club, Ottawa, and of the Masonic Order. In politics he is a
-Liberal and in religion a Methodist. On December 21, 1875, he married
-Juliet, daughter of Mr. C. J. Lighthall of Montana, and has three sons.
-His residence is at 50 McLaren Street, Ottawa.
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-
-=McConnell, Richard George=, Deputy Minister of Mines, and Director of
-the Geographical Survey for Canada, was born at Chatham, Quebec, March
-26, 1857, the son of Andrew and Martha (Bradford) McConnell. He was
-educated at the Caribou Academy and at McGill University, from which he
-graduated with the degree of B.A. in 1879, taking first class honors in
-Natural Science. On graduation he immediately went to the Canadian West
-as assistant to the famous Canadian geologist, Dr. G. N. Dawson, whose
-name is immortalized in Dawson City, the capital of the Yukon Territory.
-Upon his return to the East in 1881 Mr. McConnell entered the service of
-the Canadian Geological Survey and made many explorations in behalf of
-the government which resulted in valuable discoveries in Western Canada,
-British Columbia and the Yukon. In 1887 and 1888 he headed one of the
-most extensive exploratory expeditions on record, traversing almost the
-whole country drained by the Stikine, Liard, Mackenzie, Porcupine, Yukon
-and Lewis Rivers. The results of his investigations are to be found in
-many reports and articles on the Geological and Mineral Resources of
-Western Canada. On this subject he is recognized in professional circles
-throughout the world as the chief living authority. In fact it is
-doubtful whether any man, past or present has acquired such an intimate
-first-hand knowledge of the great Sub-Arctic areas of Western Canada. As
-a geologist his fame is international, and he is a prominent member of
-the Geological Society of America as well as of the Royal Society of
-Canada. His recreations are curling and golf and he is a member of the
-Ottawa Golf Club. In religion he is a Presbyterian, and was married in
-November, 1898, to Jeannie, daughter of E. H. Botterell, Montreal. His
-family consists of one son and one daughter, and his home is at
-“Edgehill,” Rockliffe, Ottawa.
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-=Currie, General Sir Arthur William, C.B., G.C.M.G.=, Commander-in-chief
-of the Canadian Army on the Western front during the latter stages of
-the great war, was born at the village of Napperton, Middlesex County,
-Ontario, December 5, 1875, the son of William Garner and Jane Currie. He
-was educated at the public school of his district and later at Strathroy
-Collegiate Institute. Going to British Columbia in 1893 when but
-eighteen years of age he first engaged in school teaching at Sidney,
-B.C. Later he located in Victoria, B.C., and entered on a business
-career. At the time the war broke out he was the head of the firm of
-Currie & Power, one of the leading real estate concerns of Vancouver
-Island. Nearest to his heart, however, were military pursuits, and he
-early identified himself with the 5th Canadian Garrison Artillery, in
-which he served fourteen years, rising ultimately to the rank of
-Lieutenant-Colonel. With him, however, military activity was not merely
-a case of dress parades, but a real pursuit. He devoted himself
-seriously to the study of modern tactics, not only in connection with
-his own arm of the service but infantry as well. He used his influence
-to encourage rifle shooting, and from 1907 onward was President of the
-British Columbia Rifle Association. On the outbreak of the war followed
-by the decision of the Canadian Government to send an Expeditionary
-Force to the front, Col. Currie was recognized as one of the most
-efficient volunteer officers in this country, and when Sir Sam Hughes
-telegraphed him asking him to accept a command he did not hesitate to
-offer his services. He was assigned to the command of the Vancouver
-Highland Battalion, which trained at Valcartier Camp, and went overseas
-in the late autumn of 1914 to complete its training on Salisbury Plain.
-The regiment was one of the first Canadian units sent to France, and in
-the terrible fighting at St. Julien and Langemarck in connection with
-the second battle of Ypres, April, 1915, had its baptism of blood. This
-was the engagement of which Viscount French reported to the War Office
-“The Canadians saved the day.” In this severe test Colonel Currie won a
-reputation for leadership and courage of the highest order which has
-distinguished him ever since. He received enthusiastic praise from
-General Alderson, the Imperial officer then in command of the Canadian
-division, and on the latter’s recommendation was accorded the coveted
-D.S.O. and given command of a brigade. His service as brigade commander
-proved so completely successful that his work won the attention of the
-British Headquarters Staff, and when a reorganization of commands ensued
-as a result of the arrival of two new Canadian divisions in the field,
-he was elevated to the rank of Major-General and placed in charge of the
-First Division of the Canadian Army. In this post he commanded his
-division at the Battle of Hooge, when it resisted the full force of the
-German assault in what was described as “this particular hell of Hooge.”
-His cool and brilliant handling of what was admittedly a critical
-situation for all forces on the bloody Ypres salient won him the
-unstinted praise of his immediate chief-in-command, General Sir Julian
-Byng, and all the other British military experts. The correspondent of
-the London “Times” reported that nothing finer was ever seen in warfare
-than the manner in which the lines over Maple Cape, Observatory Ridge
-and Armagh Wood were held by the troops under General Currie’s command.
-Sir Julian Byng in his report said “I am proud of the Canadian troops
-under my command. Their behaviour has been magnificent. I have never
-known fiercer or more deadly barrage, nor have I seen any troops fight
-with more earnestness, courage and cheerfulness.” He especially praised
-General Currie’s counter attack with the Canadian division at 1.30 on
-the morning of June 13, 1916, on a front of 500 yards extending from
-Sanctuary Wood to Hill 60, when heavy losses were inflicted on the
-Germans and prisoners taken. The spring of 1917 was marked by glorious
-achievement on the part of the Canadian troops, including the captures
-of Messines Ridge and Vimy Ridge, and finally attaining the investment
-of Lens. In the midst of the spring campaign Sir Julian Byng was shifted
-to the command of a British Army. General Currie was at once recognized
-as his logical successor and became the Chief-in-Command of the Canadian
-Army in the field with four divisions under him. The victory of Vimy
-which was heralded throughout the world as a great military achievement,
-was generally credited to General Currie’s masterly powers of
-preparation and organization. It was in recognition of these services
-that His Majesty King George knighted him on the field of Vimy as a
-member of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. Earlier still he had
-been made a Companion of the Bath. It was on June 19, 1917, that he
-assumed the chief command, and one of his first achievements was the
-capture of Hill 70 on his own initiative, rendering the important mining
-city of Lens, which had been in German occupation for nearly three
-years, untenable for military uses by the enemy. General Currie could
-have occupied Lens any time during the summer of 1917 that it was deemed
-desirable, but owing to the belief of the French Government that its
-capture would only result in further destruction, without military
-advantage, the word to advance was withheld. Instead, during the autumn
-of 1917 General Currie and his army were assigned by Sir Douglas Haig to
-one of the most terrible tasks that was ever allotted to a military
-force. It was that of taking Passchendaele Ridge in Flanders with a view
-to getting to Roulers and cutting off the U-Boat bases of Zeebrugge and
-Ostend. Sir Douglas Haig assigned the task to the Canadians because he
-believed that under the command of General Currie they had developed
-into the best “shock” troops in the world. The Germans on the other hand
-believed that Passchendaele Ridge was impregnable, and many military
-experts agreed with them; but the U-Boat menace was such that the
-attempt was deemed to be justified by necessity. Before the attack
-General Currie personally addressed his men, and did not disguise what
-they had to face, but so fired them with the spirit of victory that
-despite terrible losses they carried the Ridge. It was one of the
-tragedies of the war that the Flanders winter closed down so suddenly
-that it was impossible to reap the full fruits of victory by advancing
-to Roulers. By spring the situation had been absolutely changed by the
-great German offensive of March, 1918, and Passchendaele was temporarily
-abandoned. This circumstance did not alter the greatness of the original
-achievement, attained in obedience to the orders of the Headquarters
-command. In the final stages of the war which gave the Allies victory
-the Canadian army under General Currie played a role of immortal lustre.
-They entered in the fighting in full force on August 8, 1918, and from
-thence onward until the signing of the armistice on November 11 victory
-after victory crowned their banners. The greatest of their achievements
-was perhaps the breaking of the Drocourt-Queant Switch Line, a part of
-the great “Hindenburg” defence system, which the Germans had also
-boasted was impregnable. When General Currie achieved this victory and
-opened the road to Cambrai it was at once recognized by war experts, and
-even by German critics, that Marshal Foch’s strategy could succeed in a
-much shorter period than had been anticipated if such efforts could be
-repeated on other parts of the Allied front. As everyone knows this
-prognostication was not falsified. Before the war was over General
-Currie and his army had to their credit the capture of Cambrai and of
-Valenciennes, two of the most vital points in the German resistance. Two
-hours before the armistice was signed General Currie rode as a conqueror
-into Mons, the point where the old “contemptibles” of the original
-British Army had first shown their prowess against the Germans in 1914.
-During the cleaning-up operations following the war, his administrative
-abilities have proven most valuable. On New Year’s Day, 1919, his
-services were further recognized by bestowing on him the honor of Grand
-Cross of St. Michael and St. George, an order in which he was already a
-Knight. It must not be forgotten also that in the critical period when
-Canada’s maintenance of her forces in France was in doubt, General
-Currie’s voice had great weight in determining the action of the people
-of this country. He strongly urged on Sir Robert Borden and other
-ministers that this country should do everything in its power to help
-win the war and meet the condition caused by the falling off of
-enlistments, a condition which was threatening the dissolution of his
-ever-victorious army. The result was the decision of the Canadian
-Government to adopt the policy of conscription. During the election
-campaign that ensued he sent the following message to the Canadian
-people on behalf of himself and his staff: “We sincerely sympathize with
-endeavors to arouse our countrymen to the necessity of remaining united
-and firm in their determination to furnish troops in the field all
-necessary support. We deeply deplore the fact that the wisdom of doing
-so has become a subject for debate and controversy by those at home. If
-support is now withheld or even delayed it means that additional burdens
-will have to be borne by men already doing the seemingly impossible.”
-This message coming from the most eminent of Canadian soldiers and one
-who in private life had been a political opponent of the Borden
-administration, could not fail to bring thousands of electors to a sense
-of their duty to the soldier in the field. There have been rumors that
-an effort would be made to induce General Currie to enter Canadian
-politics as a Liberal leader on his return from the front, but so far he
-has refused to assent to any such proposals. He is an Anglican in
-religion and was married in 1901 to Miss L. S. Chaworth-Masters of
-Victoria, B.C., by whom he has one daughter. A quiet man of iron
-determination and marvellous powers of organization, he is, however,
-certain to play a prominent role in the life of Canada in future,
-whatever path he may elect to follow.
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-=Girard, A. D.=, one of the leading advocates of St. John’s, Quebec, was
-born at Ste. Hyacinthe in that province on May 10, 1841, the son of
-Michel and Sophie (Cheicoine) Girard. He was educated at Ste. Hyacinthe
-College and at St. Mary’s College, Montreal. He qualified for the law
-and was called to the Quebec bar (of which he is now one of the honored
-veterans) on April 4, 1864. From that year until 1879 he practised alone
-at Waterloo, Quebec, and in the latter year removed to St. John’s where
-he has ever since resided. Until 1911 he practised by himself but then
-took a partner, and the firm of Girard & Demers, which has offices on
-St. John’s Street in above named city, is well known throughout the
-district. Until his retirement from public life a few years ago Mr.
-Girard was a prominent figure in Quebec politics and a supporter of the
-Conservative party. He was the candidate of that party for the
-Legislature as early as 1875, in the riding of Sheppard. In the
-elections of both 1900 and 1904 he contested St. John’s in the same
-interest. His counsel has been much sought by the younger politicians of
-the day. In religion he is a Roman Catholic and was married on February
-13, 1877, to Cordelli, daughter of F. X. Bousquet of Montreal.
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-=Wilson, Peter Edward, B.A., LL.B.=, Barrister-at-law, Prince George,
-B.C., was born at Bond Head, Ont., August 28, 1871, the son of Charles
-Wilson, farmer, and Rachel, his wife. He was educated at Brampton High
-School, Toronto University and Osgoode Hall, Toronto, and after being
-called to the bar, went to British Columbia in 1896, first practising at
-Nelson. In 1905 he was appointed judge of the County Court of East
-Kootenay, a post which he held with honor to himself and to his office
-until 1912, when he resigned to resume practice at Fort George, B.C.,
-where he has ever since resided. He is City Solicitor of that place and
-has also filled the offices of President of the Board of Trade and
-Chairman of the School Board. During 1917-8 he was a member of the
-Exemption Tribunal under the Military Service Act, for the district of
-Fort George. He is an Anglican in religion and Independent in politics.
-His recreations are gardening and curling. On Dec. 10, 1896, he married
-Christine, daughter of George Brown, a gentleman of Maidenhead, Eng., by
-whom he has seven children.
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-=Mann, Alexander Robert=, 3690 Selkirk Ave., Shaughnessy Heights,
-Vancouver, B.C., one of the most prominent business men of the Pacific
-Coast and a brother of the famous Canadian railroad magnate, Sir Donald
-Mann, is a native of Halton County, Ontario. He was born in the Village
-of Acton on July 29, 1861, the son of Hugh and Helen (Macdonell) Mann,
-his father being a farmer. He was educated in the public and high
-schools of his native place, and had practical experience on the farm
-before going to Winnipeg in 1879, where he took up railroading.
-Subsequently he engaged in the lumber business at Fort Frances, Ont.,
-and in 1890 graduated into railroad construction. Among the various
-western lines which he took part in building were the Long Lake branch,
-C.P.R. (1890); Calgary and Edmonton Railway (1892-3); Soo Line,
-Saskatchewan (1892-3); Cusp and Slocan Railway, B.C. (1893-4); Columbia
-& Western Railway (1898); Rainy River Branch, C.N.R. (1899-1901);
-Neepawa to McCreary section, C.N.R. (1903-4); Greenway Branch, C.N.R.
-(1903-4); James Bay road, Toronto to Sudbury (1904-6); Goose Lake line
-C.N.R. (1906-7). From 1895 to 1897 he also handled ore in the Slocan
-silver region. From 1898 to 1904 he operated under his own name as a
-railway contractor and in the latter year formed the Northern
-Construction Company of Vancouver, of which he is still President. He is
-also President of the Dominion Products, Ltd., and the Canadian Kelp
-Company, Ltd., of Vancouver and a Director of the Winnipeg Aqueduct Co.
-He is recognized throughout Canada as a type of the sound, constructive
-business man, to which this country owes its rapid development during
-the past quarter of a century. He is a member of the Vancouver Club, the
-Albany Club (Toronto), and the Carleton Club (Winnipeg), and his chief
-recreation is golf. He is a Presbyterian in religion and on June 19,
-1908, married Jennie, the daughter of Robert Malton, Owen Sound, Ont.,
-by whom he has two daughters.
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-
-=Cartwright, Lt.-Col. Robert, C.M.G.=, one of the most prominent
-officers in the Canadian permanent forces, and who, at the time of
-writing, is stationed at Military Headquarters, Belmont House, Victoria,
-B.C., is a son of the eminent Canadian statesman, the late Sir Richard
-Cartwright, K.C.M.G., and was born at Kingston, Ont., Nov. 4, 1860. He
-was educated at the Royal Military College, Kingston, in 1881, entered
-the service of the Canadian Militia, has been stationed at many of the
-military districts throughout Canada, and has steadily risen in rank.
-Col. Cartwright is widely known as an efficient, painstaking and
-resourceful officer and has seen considerable service. He holds the
-North-West Medal, earned in the rising of 1885, and the South African
-Medal with four clasps. When the South African war broke out in 1899, he
-was Assistant Adjutant-General at Headquarters, Ottawa, and relinquished
-his appointment to go as a member of the Canadian contingent. Later he
-was given the honor of Companion of St. Michael and St. George. He
-established and was commandant of the Canadian School of Musketry, at
-Rockliffe, near Ottawa, the value of which has been proven as a training
-school for Canadian officers in the present war. Col. Cartwright’s own
-duties during the latter years of the war have been those of Musketry
-Officer of M.D. No. 11, Victoria, B.C. In addition to his military
-activities, he is a successful fruit farmer, and his recreations are
-skating, riding, motoring and sailing. He is a Liberal in politics and a
-man of advanced opinions, being a member of the Single Tax Association,
-the Anti-Poverty League, as well as of the Army and Navy Veterans, and
-the Rideau Club, Ottawa. He is an Anglican in religion and was married
-on Sept. 20, 1885, to Ivy Marion, daughter of Benjamin Canning Davy,
-Kingston, Ont., by whom he has had three children, Marion, Vida Lois and
-Francis (deceased in early childhood).
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-=Marshall, Lieut.-Colonel Noel G. L.= (Toronto, Ont.), Merchant, is one
-of those “British Born” who have carved out for themselves successful
-careers in Canada, although, since he was but four years old at the time
-of his parents’ removal to this country, his view-point is essentially
-Canadian. Born in London, December 30, 1852, the son of Kenric R. and
-Charlotte A. Marshall, he was educated in the Public Schools of Toronto
-and entered the service of L. Coffee & Company at the age of fifteen.
-Subsequently he was employed by George Chaffey Bros., Coal Merchants,
-and in 1879 purchased an interest in the C. J. Smith Coal Company. In
-1888, Noel Marshall, in company with Sir William Mackenzie, bought out
-the entire business and three years later changed the corporate name to
-that of The Standard Fuel Company. For the past sixteen years he has
-represented the Toronto Board of Trade at the Canadian National
-Exhibition, of which he is now Honorary President. Among other business
-connections, Mr. Marshall is President of the Faramel Company, Ltd., of
-Toronto; and the Dominion Automobile Company, Ltd.; Vice-President of
-the Imperial Guarantee and Accident Company; of the Chartered Trust &
-Executor Company; Director of the Sterling Bank, Western Canada Flour
-Mills Company, Ltd.; Canada Northern Prairie Lands Company, Ltd. Noel
-Marshall was a member of the Toronto Board of Education, 1890-91; member
-of the Toronto Board of Trade since 1899, and a member of the Council of
-that organization for several terms. He was created Knight of Grace of
-the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in 1915, and was gazetted Honorary
-Lieut.-Colonel in the same year. He is at present Chairman of the
-Central Council and Executive Committee, Canadian Red Cross Society;
-President of the Open-Air Horse Parade Association; Vice-President of
-the National Chorus and Provincial Council, Canadian Boy Scouts; member
-of the Ontario Parole Commission; Treasurer, Laymen’s Missionary
-Movement of the Church of England; Governor of the Western Hospital,
-Toronto; Vice-President of the Hospital for Incurables; member of the
-Board, Children’s Aid Society, Orphan Boys’ Home, Working Boys’ Home,
-British Welcome League, Imperial Home Re-union, Imperial Daughters of
-the Empire, Women’s Welcome Hostel, Georgina Houses, and Bishop Strachan
-School. Colonel Marshall married Harriette Isabel, daughter of John
-Hogg, M.P., York Mills, Ont., in 1879, who died on December 4, 1904. He
-has two sons. Col. Kenric R., D.S.O., and Noel Clifford. He is a member
-of the York, National, Albany, Granite and Royal Canadian Yacht Clubs,
-all of Toronto. He is a Conservative in politics and an Anglican in
-religion.
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-=Turnbull, Walter Renwick= (Brantford, Ont.), President of the Turnbull
-Cutcliffe Hardware Company, Ltd., was born in Brantford Township, the
-son of William Turnbull, his father being a farmer and for many years
-the Secretary-Treasurer of the Brant Mutual Fire Insurance Company. He
-has served six years as Alderman of the City of Brantford and is
-Chairman of the Brantford Municipal Railway Commission. Mr. Turnbull
-married Alice Ada, daughter of Wm. Buck, Stove Manufacturer, Brantford,
-on December 3, 1890; he has one son—William Archibald. His recreations
-are bowling and motoring, being a member of the Brantford Social and
-Bowling Club. He is a member of the A.F. & A.M. and a life member of
-Doric and Ozias Masonic Lodges. Mr. Turnbull is a Liberal and a
-Presbyterian.
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-=McClennaghan, Stewart.= Who is there in Ottawa that has not heard of,
-or does not know, Stewart McClennaghan? Yes! who does not know him? No
-one in the city, or for that matter for many miles of country
-surrounding the Capital of the Dominion, can be found that does not know
-the President and General-Manager of the famous 2 Macs, Limited, dealers
-in fine tailoring, hats, furnishings, clothing and boots and shoes, for
-men and boys, with entrances on Sparks, Bank and Queen Streets, at the
-busy Corner—corner of Sparks and Bank Streets, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
-Not only is he well known: he is also one of the most popular business
-men, social companion, lover of sports, and general good fellow with all
-his friends, acquaintances and customers to be found in any community,
-and his success in life, and his popularity, are what have sprung from
-his open, genial and straightforward conduct towards and with all who
-have had the good fortune to come in contact with him ever since he
-arrived in Ottawa in 1879 when he became an apprentice in the dry goods
-business in which line he served for ten years. Mr. McClennaghan has
-held almost every public office in the gift of the citizens of
-Ottawa—Public School Trustee, member of the Collegiate Institute Board,
-Controller of the City of Ottawa, Chairman of the Carnegie Library
-Board, President of the Central Canada Exhibition Association, Justice
-of the Peace, Member of the Board of Trade, Chairman of the Boxing
-Committee of the Ottawa Amateur Athletic Club, Vice-President of the
-Sportsmen’s Patriotic Association, President of the Liberal Conservative
-Association, Promoter of the Connaught Park Jockey Club and a member of
-the Original Committee who started the Prescott and Ottawa Highway
-Scheme which to-day is receiving such prominent attention from all
-lovers of good roads and from the Ontario Government—and could have
-held them all and been elected to others of equal or even more
-importance had he so desired. Whenever he was put forward as a candidate
-for any office—public, political, educational, sporting or social, his
-election was assured, and when he consented at a most critical time in
-the history of Ottawa’s Municipal Administration, to be a candidate for
-Controller he polled the largest majority ever secured by any man
-running for public office in the city. In addition Mr. McClennaghan is
-profoundly patriotic and public spirited and ever since the war started
-has been active, energetic and generous in helping forward Canada’s
-effort. His son, Lieut. Stewart Lyon McClennaghan served in France with
-distinction in the Royal Flying Corps, and his nephew, Lieut. Vivian S.
-C. McClennaghan of the Canadian Engineers, son of Mr. James McClennaghan
-of the Marine Dept., has been awarded the Military Cross for bravery
-while in charge of an important tract which was being heavily shelled
-and bombed and completed his task though twice buried by shell fire. In
-1889 Mr. Stewart McClennaghan formed a partnership with the late Mr. M.
-D. MacKay as merchant tailors under the name of the 2 Macs—McClennaghan
-& MacKay. Three years later, in 1892, Mr. McClennaghan bought out Mr.
-MacKay and continued in the business until 1904 when he organized a
-joint stock company under the name of the 2 Macs, Limited, he becoming
-President and Managing-Director. To-day the business is recognized as
-one of the largest outfitting establishments in Canada, handling
-everything in boys’ and men’s wear, and occupying some 5,000 square feet
-of floor space, with a frontage of 100 feet on Bank Street, 66 feet on
-Sparks Street, and 33 feet on Queen Street, with the prospects in
-evidence that considerably more space will shortly be necessary if the
-business continues to expand as it has during the past decade. From 1900
-to 1908 Mr. McClennaghan was a member of the Public School Board and was
-chairman for two years, and from 1908 to 1911 he was a member of the
-Ottawa Collegiate Institute Board from which he resigned to run for
-Controller of the City of Ottawa, as above stated. During the existence
-of the City’s Publicity Board Mr. McClennaghan was Chairman. Mr.
-McClennaghan is Chairman of the Carnegie Library Board and has been a
-member of the Board for many years. He is President of the Central
-Canada Exhibition Association. His first year of office, 1917,
-terminated with the Exhibition showing the largest receipts ever
-obtained in the history of the Association. He is a Justice of the Peace
-for the City of Ottawa and for the County of Carleton. He is a member of
-the Council of the Board of Trade, and has been a member of the Board
-for years. In amateur sports Mr. McClennaghan has been prominently
-identified for many years. In 1890 he won the gold medal presented by
-the Ottawa Amateur Association for the one mile snow shoe championship
-of the city. He was President of the Ottawa Bicycle Club and a member of
-their racing team. He was Chairman of the Board Committee of the Ottawa
-Athletic Club for several years. He is one of the promoters of the
-Connaught Park Jockey Club, became Vice-President, and is now Chairman
-of the Management Committee. He is Vice-President of the Sportsmen’s
-Patriotic Association, and it is he who is responsible for and was one
-of the original Committee who started the Prescott and Ottawa Highway
-Scheme. From 1916 to 1918 Mr. McClennaghan was President of the Ottawa
-Liberal Conservative (now Unionist) Association. Mr. Stewart
-McClennaghan is the son of William John (Contractor) and Sarah (Boyd)
-McClennaghan and a nephew of Mr. N. K. Boyd, ex.-M.P. for MacDonald,
-Manitoba. He was born at Oxford Mills, Ontario, July 14, 1866, and he
-was educated at the Ottawa Public Schools. August 19, 1895, he married
-Matilda A. Lyon, daughter of the late John G. and Victoria Lyon, of
-Ottawa. The union has been blessed with two sons and five
-daughters—Lieut. Stewart Lyon, Nora Boyd, Hilda Brook, Ruth Hasley,
-Helen Read, Hugh John, Doris Victoria. He is a member of the following
-Clubs: Laurentian, Rivermead Golf, Victoria Yacht, Abitibi Fish and
-Game, and of the following Societies: Masonic, Oddfellows, Foresters and
-Workmen. In religion he is Anglican and in politics Conservative. For
-recreation he indulges in golf, hunting and yachting. His military
-career was spent in the ranks of the Princess Louise Dragoon Guards. His
-place of residence is 330 Cooper Street, Ottawa, Ontario.
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-=Buchanan, William A., M.P.= (Lethbridge, Alta.), Publisher, was born in
-Fraserville, Peterboro County, Ont., July 2, 1876; the son of Rev. Wm.
-Buchanan. His earlier education took place in the Public and High
-Schools of Trenton, Brighton and Norwood, Ont. He first became
-interested in newspaper work in Peterboro, Ont., and later was News
-Editor of the “Evening Telegram,” Toronto, removing from there to accept
-the position of managing director of the St. Thomas Journal; remaining
-in that position until 1905, when he decided to try his fortune in the
-West, locating at Lethbridge, Alberta, where he established and became
-publisher of the “Lethbridge Herald,” first as a weekly and, in 1907,
-changed it to a daily. For two years he was President of the Alberta and
-Eastern British Columbia Press Association, and Director of the Western
-Associated Press. He entered politics in 1909, in the Liberal interests,
-and was elected as the first member to represent Lethbridge City in the
-Alberta Legislature, and became a member of the Rutherford Government in
-the fall of the same year. In 1911 he resigned, over a difference of
-opinion on a railway bargain, and then contested the Constituency of
-Medicine Hat for the House of Commons, defeating the late member, C. A.
-McGrath (Conservative) by a majority of 1,500. Mr. Buchanan was a member
-of the Special House of Commons Committee on old age pensions and on
-redistribution. In the general elections of 1917 he was a candidate as a
-Unionist Liberal, and was elected by a majority of several thousand. He
-is now Unionist Whip for Alberta. In 1918 he was a member of the party
-of Canadian Journalists invited to visit the Western front and Great
-Britain. During the war he was actively engaged in patriotic movements,
-more especially the Patriotic Fund and Belgian Relief Fund. While living
-in Ontario, Mr. Buchanan took a great interest in military affairs and
-became Quartermaster of the 25th Regiment, at St. Thomas. He is
-interested in all kinds of sports and takes a keen pleasure in golf; was
-Secretary and Treasurer of the Ontario Hockey Association during John
-Ross Robertson’s Presidency, and was the first Chairman of the Board of
-Governors of the Alberta Amateur Athletic Association; is a member of
-the Chinook and the Country Clubs of Lethbridge; Ontario Club, Toronto,
-and the Laurentian Club, Ottawa. For two years he was President of the
-Canadian Club, of Lethbridge. Mr. Buchanan married Alma Maude Freeman,
-daughter of Edwin B. Freeman, of Burlington, Ont., and has one son,
-Donald W., born April 9, 1908. He is a member of the Methodist Church.
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-=Williams, Herbert Hale=, head of the firm of H. H. Williams & Co.,
-Toronto, Ont. The name of H. H. Williams is a familiar one in the
-Canadian real estate field. For many years now his firm, that of H. H.
-Williams & Co., with headquarters in Toronto, Canada, has occupied a
-prominent place among the old-established and conservative real estate
-businesses of the Dominion. Mr. Williams himself, who is the active head
-of the firm, is a native of Toronto. Born on September 21, 1862, he
-received his education in the local public schools and the Toronto
-Grammar School. For a short time after matriculating from the latter
-institution, he studied law in the office of George Morphy, but
-presently relinquished the idea of becoming a lawyer in favor of
-following a mercantile career. His first employment was obtained in the
-office of Taylor Bros., paper manufacturers, Toronto, where for two
-years he filled the position of book-keeper. Then he turned his
-attention to the lumber business, in the prosecution of which he met
-with much success. He succeeded in developing an extensive connection
-with the railroads of the country, furnishing them with the timber and
-manufactured lumber needed in construction and also built up a
-considerable export trade to the United States in clear lumber. In 1886
-Mr. Williams withdrew from the lumber business and entered the real
-estate field. He founded the firm of H. H. Williams & Co. and began
-those operations which have subsequently established his reputation as a
-sane, far-sighted and reliable dealer. To give some idea of the extent
-and importance of the undertakings which Mr. Williams has handled during
-the past few years in Toronto, mention might be made of the following
-large transactions, all of which were carried through in their entirety
-by the firm of H. H. Williams & Co.: The purchase for the Canadian
-Pacific Railway Company of the right-of-way along the Esplanade; the
-purchase, also for the C.P.R., of the old Government House property on
-King Street, together with three blocks of land extending from Simcoe
-Street to Spadina Avenue, south of King Street, in connection with the
-establishment of freight terminals; the purchase of the two blocks
-bounded by Yonge, Carlton, Church and Alexander Streets, which with
-subsidiary properties involved an investment of over five million
-dollars; the purchase, on behalf of the Dominion Government, of
-properties required for a new general post office, a new railway postal
-station and an enlarged customs house; and the purchase of the two
-blocks bounded by Yonge, College, Teraulay and Hayter Streets,
-comprising nine acres of land in the very heart of Toronto and forming
-one of the most important retail locations in the city.
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-=Deroche, William Paschal= (Napanee, Ont.), Local Registrar of the
-Supreme Court of Ontario, is the son of Paschal and Elizabeth Jane
-Deroche, and married on January 1, 1919, Helen Aylesworth Asselstine,
-daughter of the late Benjamin Asselstine, of Kingston, Ont. He was born
-at Newburgh, Ont., on August 27, 1854, and educated at Newburgh Academy.
-After graduation, Mr. Deroche taught school at Deseronto (then Mill
-Point) and other places for five years successfully, and began the study
-of law in 1878 with his brother, the late H. M. Deroche, K.C., and Judge
-Madden, at Napanee, and also with the well-known firm of Beatty,
-Blackstock & Co., at Toronto. He was appointed local Registrar of the
-Supreme Court of Ontario, Clerk of the County Court and Registrar of the
-Surrogate Court in June, 1887, and has been a member of the Public
-Library Board in Napanee for several years. Outside of these offices,
-however, Mr. Deroche has sought no public honors, devoting his entire
-energies and finding his best reward in discharging them to the
-satisfaction of the public and the members of his chosen profession. He
-is a member of the Anglican Church and a Liberal in politics. Judge
-Deroche, W. D. M. Shorey, Barrister, both of Belleville, Ont.; Col.
-Alex. P. Deroche, Director of Works and Buildings at Ottawa; and H. M.
-P. Deroche, Barrister, of Melville, Sask., are all nephews of Mr.
-Deroche. With the possible exception of Chief Justice Sir Glenholme
-Falconbridge, of Toronto, all the Judges of the High Court who were on
-the Bench when Mr. Deroche was appointed to his present position, are
-dead. His brother, H. M. Deroche, K.C., died March 10, 1916.
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-=Forster, J. W. L.=, Artist (Toronto, Ont.), was born at Norval, Ont.,
-and was educated at the Brampton Grammar School. Of him, an eminent
-public man gives us the following: “Canada, though in some senses a
-young country, has already produced a group of noted artists, whose
-depiction of her landscape and life is helping to make the Dominion
-known throughout the world. Among the leaders in this group is John
-Wycliffe Lowes Forster, than whom none of our artists has done so much
-for our national portraiture. Not only has he painted more of our public
-men than any of his contemporaries, but he is the only Canadian artist
-who has devoted his whole genius to the painting of portraits. If all
-Mr. Forster’s portraits of famous Canadians, which hang in public
-buildings and noted homes, were gathered together, they would in
-themselves constitute a large national portrait gallery, and this
-gallery would be quite representative of the great leaders in all walks
-of life. Among our statesmen—Sir John A. Macdonald, Sir Wilfrid
-Laurier, Alexander Mackenzie, John Sandfield Macdonald, Sir John
-Thompson, Robert Baldwin, Wm. Lyon Mackenzie, William S. Fielding, Sir
-George Ross and Sir James P. Whitney, constitute a comprehensive group.
-In divinity, such noted personalities as Punshon, Cavan, Carman, Primate
-Archbishop Machray, Primate Archbishop Sweatman, Bishop O’Connor,
-Milligan, Kellog, Maclaren; in the Judiciary—Chancellors Moss, Boyd,
-Meredith and Mulock; in University life—Paxton Young, Geikie, Nelles,
-Burwash, Rand, Wallace, Loudon and Galbraith; among noted military
-men—Wolfe, Brock, Roberts, Denison, Merritt and Otter; in other
-walks—Strathcona, Goldwin Smith, General Booth, Egerton Ryerson, Sir
-Sandford Fleming, Senator Cox, Senator Jaffray, MacKenzie King, Sir
-Gilbert Parker and George Brown are representative of a brilliant galaxy
-preserved to posterity by Forster’s indefatigable genius. Added to his
-Canadian clientele, Mr. Forster has in recent years painted many
-distinguished portrait subjects in the United States. Born in Halton
-County in the middle of the Nineteenth century, of cultivated English
-stock, he was reared, like other men of genius, amid the simpler
-pursuits of country life, and his pictures are therefore remarkable for
-subtle insight into character, and have at the same time the refined
-atmosphere of old world culture.”
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-=Englehart, Joel Lewis= (Toronto, Ont.), Chairman of the Temiskaming and
-Northern Ontario Railway (owned by the Province of Ontario), is the son
-of Joel and Hannah Englehart, and was born on November 2, 1847, in
-Cleveland, Ohio, and received his education there. He arrived in Canada
-in January, 1869, and soon afterward engaged in the oil business in
-London, Ont., becoming a producer, then a refiner and exporter, with
-offices in New York, and in 1881, when only thirty-four years of age,
-became Vice-President of the Imperial Oil Co., which position he still
-holds. In 1882 he removed to Petrolea, where he became, and still is,
-President of the Crown Savings & Loan Company, of Petrolea, and he is
-also Vice-President of the London & Western Trusts Co.; Director of the
-Bank of Toronto; ex-Governor of Toronto University and President of the
-Petrolea Liberal-Conservative Association, in addition to having many
-other business interests. In 1891 Mr. Englehart married Charlotte
-Eleanor, daughter of the late Thomas Thompson, of Adelaide, Ont., who
-died in 1908, and in whose memory he founded the Charlotte Eleanor
-Hospital in Petrolea in 1910, which is on the site of his old homestead
-and surrounded by thirty-five acres of land. In 1909 he gave an X-Ray
-equipment to St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, and in the following year
-a chime of eleven bells, one of the finest in the Province, to Christ
-Church, Petrolea, and it is safe to assume that his private generosity
-has more than kept pace with his public benefactions. In March, 1905,
-Mr. Englehart was appointed Chairman of the Temiskaming & Northern
-Ontario Railway Commission and his success in developing what he is
-pleased to call “Greater Ontario” has amply justified the late Sir James
-Whitney’s choice in placing him in this responsible position. He has
-been accustomed to business on a large scale, involving powers of
-comprehension, quick perception and careful calculation, and on his
-appointment, turned his ability and experience to good account in the
-service of the Province. He is very much interested in the extension of
-the road and the development of the vast farming, timber and mining
-country it serves, as may be judged from the fact that only eleven times
-during the twelve years he has been Chairman of the Commission has he
-missed his monthly trip over the road, and only once has he taken a
-month’s holiday. He believes that “Greater Ontario” is the biggest asset
-Canada has and is firmly convinced that no spot on the continent affords
-such opportunity for success as the territory traversed by the T. & N.O.
-Railway System and that to which it has not yet extended. In support of
-this claim, Mr. Englehart refers to a series of articles published in
-the “Globe” of August, 1916, which has previously been somewhat
-critical, written by that paper’s farming editor, and giving statistics
-to show that the production both in roots and grain per acre in “Greater
-Ontario” was far in excess of the best returns in the older sections of
-the Province. Mr. Englehart is both the apostle and the prophet of the
-North, enthusiastically proclaiming its unrivalled potential
-possibilities, and as he is better informed on the subject than any
-other man, his statements may be accepted at face value. Mr. Englehart
-is an Episcopalian in religion and a Mason. His clubs are the New York,
-Toronto, Albany, Empire, Toronto Hunt and Ontario Jockey, and the
-London, of London, Ont. Genial, a versatile and convincing
-conversationalist, alert and strong willed, he works actively in the
-immense field he supervises and takes keen pleasure in its development.
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-=MacKenzie, John Angus=, who was born at Guelph, Ontario, October 20,
-1878, was educated at the Public and High Schools, Harriston, and the
-Model School, Guelph, Ontario, and taught school at Hanover, Ontario,
-from 1897 to 1898. From 1899 to 1901 he was assistant to C. M. Hayes,
-General Manager of the Grand Trunk Railway, Montreal. Arriving in Ottawa
-in the latter year he started in business for himself, and to-day is
-President of MacKenzie Limited, Manufacturers of Railway and Lumbermen’s
-Supplies, 132 to 136 Lyon Street, Ottawa, whose trade extends throughout
-Canada and to other parts of the world. From 1903 to 1907 Mr. MacKenzie
-served as Lieutenant of Company A, Governor-General’s Foot Guards. His
-brother, James David MacKenzie was killed on September 28, 1918, while
-fighting at the front in the great World War. Twice before he had been
-wounded and had just returned to the front in France when he met his
-death. Two brothers, W. M. and Thomas, served King and Country, the
-former being gassed and wounded, and a sister, Margaret, served as a
-nurse at the Orpington Hospital, England. Mr. MacKenzie in 1901 married
-Jean Andrew, daughter of Archibald Andrew, one of Ottawa’s most charming
-vocalists, as a result of which he has one son and one daughter. Mr.
-MacKenzie’s father and mother, Kenneth and Mary MacKenzie, reside on
-Melgund Avenue, Ottawa. Mr. MacKenzie is a Liberal in politics, and for
-years was Secretary of Ottawa Reform Association. He is a member of the
-A.F. & A.M. Society. His recreations are fishing and tennis, and his
-place of residence 229 Clemow Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario.
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-
-=Harkin, James B.=, is one of those successful journalists who have been
-selected by the Dominion Government to occupy important positions in the
-service of Canada. In appointing Mr. Harkin to the responsible position
-of Commissioner of Dominion Parks, the Government of Canada made a happy
-selection, and his work in connection with the Government-owned Parks of
-Canada—in his descriptive and handsomely printed and illustrated
-publications, in his general ability for such work and in his careful
-and personal attention to their care and improvement—is well seen in
-the vast improvements that have taken place and in the publicity that
-they have had. When Hon. Sir Clifford Sifton was Minister of Interior in
-1903, he selected Mr. Harkin as his Private Secretary, which office he
-held with that distinguished gentleman until the latter resigned his
-portfolio in 1905. Hon. Frank Oliver, succeeding Sir Clifford as
-Minister of Interior, retained the services of Mr. Harkin until 1911,
-when he appointed him to his present position, viz., Commissioner of
-Dominion Parks. If anything, Mr. Harkin has proven more competent in his
-present position than he was when occupying the position of private
-secretary, and that is saying something. Mr. Harkin was born at Vankleek
-Hill, Ont., January 30, 1875, and received his education in the Public
-School, Vankleek Hill, and at the High School, Marquette, Michigan. He
-became connected with the newspaper work in Montreal in 1892 and served
-on the staff of the Ottawa “Journal” from 1893 to 1900. Mr. Harkin is
-the son of William and Eliza (McDonnell) Harkin, is a member of the
-Ottawa Civil Service and the Rivermead Golf Clubs. He is a Roman
-Catholic in religion and resides at 138 Lewis Street, Ottawa, Ontario.
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-
-=Ewart, David=, Chief Architect of the Department of Public Works,
-Ottawa, was born at Penicuik, near Edinburgh, Scotland, on February 18,
-1843. He was educated in his native place and at the Edinburgh School of
-Art, where he obtained a thorough grounding in architecture. In 1871,
-four years after the establishment of Canadian Confederation, he was
-appointed Assistant Engineer and Architect of the Department of Public
-Works for Canada, and took up his residence in Ottawa. In 1897 he was
-promoted to the position of Chief Architect. In the early days of his
-service he had charge of the completion of the main tower of the
-beautiful Parliament Buildings at Ottawa, which were destroyed by fire
-during the great war. He also took charge of the erection of the
-Canadian buildings at the Paris Exposition, the Chicago World’s Fair and
-at other famous international expositions. He was decorated by the
-French Government, and in 1903 was honored by the King with the Imperial
-Service Order. He was appointed a Member of the Board of Assessors in
-connection with additions to the Parliament Buildings at Ottawa in 1906,
-and was elected a Councillor of the Royal Architects Institute of Canada
-in 1909. In government circles he is looked on as one of the Nestors of
-the civil service. In May, 1877, he married Margaret Segsworth, daughter
-of Segsworth Simpson, Barnsley, Yorkshire, England, and resides at 135
-Cameron Street, Ottawa.
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-
-=Armstrong, Samuel, M.P.P.= (Parry Sound, Ont.), one of the early
-pioneers of the District of Muskoka and Parry Sound, having settled in
-Muskoka in 1862, and Parry Sound in January, 1867. Many miles of the old
-Colonization Roads were made by him for the Government in Parry Sound
-District. He was interested in lumbering and saw mills, also railroad
-contracting, besides keeping a general store at McKellar, Ont., until
-elected M.P.P. for Parry Sound District, December 26, 1886. In May,
-1895, he was appointed Sheriff of Parry Sound, which office he still
-holds; acted as reeve for McKellar Township for twelve years, and is a
-member of the Orange Order and Royal Templars. His parents were Samuel
-and Harriett Hughes Armstrong and he was born in Ireland, town of New
-Ross, County of Wexford, February 24, 1844, and educated at the Public
-Schools of Thorold and Toronto. He was married to Catharine Taylor,
-daughter of John and Elizabeth Taylor, Lanark County, Ont., and has five
-children—Harriett Elizabeth, John Egbert, Frank, Milton Taylor and Mary
-Emma Winnifred. In politics he styles himself an Independent, is a
-member of the Methodist Church and a delegate to the Toronto and
-Winnipeg Conferences.
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-
-=McNeil, Most Reverend Neil= (Toronto, Ont.), Archbishop of Toronto
-since 1912, when he was transferred from the Archbishopric of Vancouver,
-B.C., to which he was appointed in January, 1910, was born at Mabou,
-N.S., November 23, 1851, the son of Malcolm McNeil and Ellen Meagher. He
-was educated at St. Francis Xavier College, Antigonish, N.S.; in 1873 he
-entered the College of the Propaganda in Rome, where he remained for six
-and a half years. He was ordained Priest in 1879, in the Basilica of
-John Latern by the late Cardinal Patrizzi, and in the same year received
-the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Divinity, afterwards
-making a post-graduate course of one year in the University of
-Marseilles, France. He joined the staff of St. Francis Xavier College in
-1880, and was Rector of the College from 1884 to 1891. He became Bishop
-of Nilopolis and Vicar Apostolic of St. George’s, west coast of
-Newfoundland, being consecrated at St. Ninan’s Cathedral, Antigonish,
-1895. During the war Archbishop McNeil especially endeared himself to
-all classes of the community by his active support of all patriotic
-enterprises, no matter what their religious complexion.
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-
-=Harris, William Gean= (Toronto), is one of the pioneers and leaders of
-the metal industry in Canada. He was born in the Muskoka district of
-Ontario on February 17, 1862, the son of William Gean and Mary (Hunter)
-Harris. He was educated in the Toronto public schools and at the age of
-18 started his present business in a small way. It has now developed
-into the Canada Metal Manufacturing Company, Ltd., and is engaged in
-smelting ores, making lead pipe, rolling sheet lead, and the manufacture
-of brass bullets and shells. Its wares are known throughout the Dominion
-of Canada, the result of 30 years of constant expansion and progressive
-methods. The Harris organization is now recognized as one of the
-indispensable factors in Canadian industry of the most diverse aspects.
-In building up this great industry Mr. Harris has for a considerable
-number of years been blessed with the active assistance of his son. By
-instinct a captain of industry his chief recreation in leisure hours is
-the study of the betterment of conditions relating to business in all
-its phases. Mr. Harris is a member of the A.F. & A.M., I.O.F., A.O.F.,
-S.O.E., a Conservative in politics and a Methodist in religion. In 1887
-he married Ada Florence Grove, daughter of George Grove of England, and
-has one son and one daughter. Mr. Harris’s business address is Fraser
-Ave., Toronto, and his home is at 408 Indian Road in that city.
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-
-=MacDonald, Donald D.= (Toronto, Ont.), Public School Principal, son of
-John F. MacDonald and Jean Smith, was born at Bowmanville, Durham
-County, Ont., on July 24, 1874, and received his education at the Clark
-Union Public School, the Bowmanville High School, the Toronto Normal
-School and the Hamilton Normal College. He subsequently took the
-University course in Arts extra-murally and graduated with B.A. degree
-in 1915. He married Laura Stewart, daughter of John Stewart, of Toronto,
-and to them was born one son, Donald Stewart. Mr. MacDonald was one of a
-family of five boys, four of whom entered the teaching profession for a
-time, and one of whom, Dr. N. S. MacDonald, B.A., in addition to
-himself, is still in the profession as one of the Public School
-Inspectors of Toronto. He enjoyed the advantage of being brought up in
-the country, the public school which he first attended being two miles
-distant from his home. When but a lad he determined to follow the
-vocation of teaching and trained himself to this end. He secured his
-Primary and Second-Class Teaching Certificates at the Bowmanville High
-School, and at once embarked upon his career as a teacher, taking charge
-of the public school at Providence, three miles out of Bowmanville, for
-three years. He then entered the course at the Toronto Normal School,
-achieving high academic progress and graduating with honors in 1897. For
-the succeeding three years Mr. MacDonald taught at Audley, near
-Pickering, after which, in order to complete his training, he returned
-to the Bowmanville High School for two years and secured his Senior
-Leaving Certificate. Having subsequently taught in Barrie for four
-months, he was appointed vice-Principal of Annette Street School, West
-Toronto, and three and one-half years later became its principal. During
-the three years he occupied this position, prior to the annexation of
-the Town of West Toronto to the city of Toronto, Mr. MacDonald passed
-the Normal College examination extra-murally, obtaining a first-class
-professional certificate. He was then transferred to the Niagara Street
-School, Toronto, of which he was Principal for over two years, when he
-was promoted to the Principalship of McMurrich School, in which position
-he served for 6½ years. Still carrying on his extensive studies, Mr.
-MacDonald graduated extra-murally in Arts from the Western University,
-and is now qualifying for the degree of D.Paed. In September, 1918, he
-became Principal of the Orde Street Model School, the new practice
-school for Normal School students. Apart from his educational
-activities, Mr. MacDonald has taken considerable interest in public
-affairs. He has been a member of the session of Victoria Presbyterian
-Church for some years. He was the Master of Victoria Lodge, in 1917,
-A.F. & A.M., No. 474, G.R.C. He is also a member of Shekinah Chapter of
-Royal Arch Masons. Mr. MacDonald’s parents were both Scottish. In
-politics he is a Conservative. Mr. MacDonald’s life thus far has been
-much devoted to study along with his regular educational duties.
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-
-=Pardoe, Avern= (Toronto, Ont.), Librarian of the Ontario Legislature,
-spent ten years, after leaving King Edward VI’s Collegiate Grammar
-School, Stratford-upon-Avon, where he was educated, in a law office of
-that place; afterwards doing a little amateur journalistic work in
-England and leaving for Canada in 1872, where he took up land near
-Cecebe Lake, in Chapman Township, Parry Sound District. The following
-year he engaged in journalism in Chicago, but returned to Canada in
-1875, upon invitation to join the staff of the Toronto “Globe,” from
-which he resigned on Mr. Gordon Brown’s retirement in 1883. Being
-invited back by the new editor, Mr. John Cameron, he acted under him as
-Managing Editor until 1889, when he retired from journalism to engage in
-real estate. On the collapse of realty values in Toronto in 1894, he
-entered the service of the Ontario Government and received his present
-appointment four years later. He is a member of the Church of England,
-of the A.F. & A.M., Royal Arch and Scottish Rite, 32. Mr. Pardoe was
-born at Stratford-upon-Avon, Eng., June 26, 1845, the son of William and
-Harriette Pardoe, and married Mary, the daughter of Daniel P. Sprague,
-State Senator, Andover, Conn., in 1876, by whom he has four surviving
-children—Ellen Edith, Avern, William Sprague and Eunice Scoville
-Nicholls.
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-
-=Davis, Aubrey=, Manufacturer (Newmarket, Ont.), and Captain 220th
-Battalion, C.E.F., has been a member of the Committee of One Hundred and
-a strong advocate of Local Option for many years. The son of the Hon. E.
-J. and Margaret Johnston Davis, he holds office as Vice-President of the
-Davis Leather Company, Limited, of which his father is President. Mr.
-Davis was born at King, York County, February 2, 1878, and was educated
-at Aurora High School and Toronto Business College. September 2, 1902,
-he married Etta, daughter of Richard Pettit, of Appin, Ont., by whom he
-has one son, Bruce Pettit Davis. He is a member of the National Club, as
-also of Rameses Temple, Mystic Shrine. In politics he is a Liberal and
-in religion a Methodist.
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-[Illustration: Col. Wm. Hutchison, Ottawa
-Col. A. T. Shillington, Ottawa.]
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-=Dowling, John S.= (Brantford, Ont.), Manufacturer, was born at Bolton,
-Ont., May 16, 1875, the son of Bryan Dowling, a railroader, and Sarah A.
-Dowling. His early education began at the Bolton Public School and then
-at the Toronto Technical School. Settling in Brantford, he soon became
-interested in the welfare of that city and became Alderman in 1915 and
-was re-elected in 1916 and 1917, was chairman of the Railway Committee
-and Chairman of Finance in 1916 and 1917. He is President of the
-well-known firm of John S. Dowling & Company, Ltd. Mr. Dowling takes a
-keen interest in all kinds of sports, especially lacrosse, hockey,
-bowling and tennis, and was one of Canada’s star lacrosse players,
-helping Brantford win many games during the years 1902 to 1905. Was
-prominent player of Tecumseh and Toronto Lacrosse Clubs prior to going
-to Brantford, and was selected by latter club to tour Great Britain in
-1902, which played throughout England and Ireland. Is chairman of
-Brantford Branch of Soldiers’ Aid Commission, having organized the first
-commission in Canada, which later became part of Provincial Soldiers’
-Aid Commission, when latter was created. Under his chairmanship
-Brantford has the name of being the best organized branch in the
-Province. He is Rotary President of the Dufferin Bowling Club and a
-member of the Heather Bowling Club. Is a Mason and also a member of the
-Canadian Order of Foresters. On August 23, 1904, he married the daughter
-of Neil Macmillan, a journalist, of Glasgow, Scotland, and has had four
-of a family—Ian Macmillan, born June 3, 1907; Margaret Faith, born May
-28, 1910, died May 27, 1912; Kathleen Patricia, born March 15, 1913, and
-Phyllis Trimble, born October 13, 1914. Mr. Dowling belongs to the
-Presbyterian Church and is a Conservative in politics.
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-
-=Notman, John Charles= (St. Catharines, Ont.), was born at Thorold,
-Ont., on January 4, 1866. Son of John and Barbara (Ogilvie) Notman.
-Educated at the Public Schools, St. Catharines, and in 1881, entered the
-office of the Welland Vale Manufacturing Co. In 1901 he was appointed as
-Manager of the McKinnon Dash Co., manufacturers of saddlery, carriage
-hardware and malleable iron castings, St. Catharines. He is
-Vice-President of the St. Catharines Steel and Metal Co. Since 1910 he
-has been Water Commissioner of the city. As a clubman he is well known
-in many cities, and he is a member of the St. Catharines City Golf Club;
-Laurentian Club, Ottawa; and the Niagara Club, Niagara Falls, N.Y. In
-religion he is a Presbyterian and a Conservative in politics. In 1896 he
-married Clara Louise, daughter of James Seymour, and has one son.
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-
-=Paton, Hugh= (Montreal, Que.), is President of The Shedden Forwarding
-Co., Ltd., Montreal; Director, Royal Bank of Canada; Bell Telephone Co.;
-Sincennes McNaughton Line, Ltd.; Northern Electric Co., Ltd.; Canadian
-Express Co.; Canadian Transfer Co.; Montreal Trust Co. Born at
-Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland, October 5, 1852, the son of William
-and Mary (Shedden) Paton, he came to Canada in 1871, after an early
-education at Paisley Grammar School, Scotland, and joined his uncle, the
-late John Shedden, a prominent railway contractor of Toronto. Mr.
-Shedden was formerly President of the Toronto & Nipissing Railway and
-built the Union Station, Toronto, in addition to other public works. In
-1873, Mr. Paton removed to Montreal and took up his present business
-under the name of The Shedden Forwarding Co., Ltd., marrying Isabella,
-daughter of the late Andrew Robertson, in 1884. His recreations are the
-turf, farming and travelling, and he has won three Queen’s Plates and
-one Hunt Cup. He is a governor of Montreal General, Notre Dame and
-Western Hospitals; was Honorary Secretary-Treasurer, 1879-1886, and
-Master of the Montreal Hunt, 1887; Honorary Secretary for two years of
-the Montreal Tandem Club; Honorary Treasurer for several years of the
-Province of Quebec Turf Club, Mount Royal Club, and member of the St.
-James’ Club, Montreal; Royal Montreal Golf Club; Montreal Racquet Club;
-Forest and Stream Club, Montreal; Canada Club, Montreal; Montreal Jockey
-Club; Toronto Club, Toronto; Manitoba Club, Winnipeg; Manhattan Club,
-New York; Royal Automobile Club and Junior Athenæum Club, London, Eng.
-Residence, 507 Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal; summer Residence, “The
-Island,” Bord-à-Plouffe, Que.
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-
-=McGiverin, Harold Buchanan= (Ottawa, Ont.), Barrister and Solicitor,
-was elected to the House of Commons for Ottawa in 1908, and chosen as
-Liberal Whip for Ontario in the following year, but was defeated in the
-elections of 1911. Called to the Bar of Ontario in 1893, he is a member
-of the firm of McGiverin, Haydon & Ebbs, and has been Counsel for the
-Great Northern Railway in Canada, also for the Bank of Nova Scotia at
-Ottawa. In spite of a distinguished professional career, however, it is
-as a sportsman that Mr. McGiverin is most widely known, being an
-authority on football and cricket. He represented Canada in
-International Cricket for years; has been captain of the Canadian Team
-for five years and President of the Ottawa Cricket Club for several
-years; also President of the Canadian Cricket Association. He was
-Captain and later President of the Ottawa Football Club, (“Rough
-Riders”), Champions of Canada, and was appointed Canadian Member of the
-Olympic Games Committee in 1908. His clubs are: Rideau, Ottawa Golf,
-Ottawa Country and Connaught Park Jockey, all of Ottawa; the Pilgrim, of
-Philadelphia; also the Marylebone Cricket Club of London, Eng., and Free
-Forresters. Mr. McGiverin was born in Hamilton, Ont., August 4, 1870,
-the son of Lieut.-Colonel William McGiverin, formerly M.P. for Lincoln,
-and Emma (Counsell) McGiverin. He was educated in Public and Private
-Schools, also at Upper Canada College and Osgoode Hall. He married Alice
-Maude, daughter of Hon. C. H. Mackintosh, late Lieutenant-Governor of
-the North-West Territories, September, 1898, and has one son, H. M.
-McGiverin, Cadet Royal Air Force, 1918. He is an Anglican in religion.
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-=Ingersoll, James Hamilton, K.C.= (St. Catharines, Ont.), was born in
-the Garden City on October 8, 1858. Son of James Hamilton and Frances E.
-(Jacobs) Ingersoll. Educated at the Public and High Schools of his
-native city and at Upper Canada College, Toronto. He studied law in the
-office of the late J. C. Rykert, K.C., M.P. Was called to the Bar of
-Ontario in 1883. Mr. Ingersoll is recognized as one of the most
-prominent barristers of the Niagara Peninsula, and enjoys a large and
-lucrative practice and represents many important interests. He is senior
-member of the firm of Ingersoll and Kingstone, which has offices at 24
-James St., St. Catharines. He was created a King’s Counsel in 1908. He
-has many important interests outside his practice and is Vice-President
-of the Security Loan and Savings Co., Ltd., and a Director of the
-Suspension Bridge Company, Niagara Falls. In religion he is an Anglican,
-and a Conservative in politics. He is a member of the Masonic Order. He
-was first married in 1889 to Florence N. Fowler, and secondly, in 1910,
-to Harriet Mary Martin. He has two daughters.
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-=Ellis, John F.= (Toronto, Ont.), born at Mount Pleasant, Ont., on
-November 9th, 1845. Son of John R. Ellis and Janet Carlyle, niece of the
-famous Thomas Carlyle. Educated at local Grammar School and Toronto
-Normal School. Entered into business with John R. Barber in 1876, Paper
-Dealers and Envelope Manufacturers, which concern became subsequently
-known as the Barber-Ellis Limited, 71 Wellington Street West, Toronto,
-having branches at Winnipeg, Calgary and Vancouver, with the
-manufacturing plant at the city of Brantford, Ont. One of the
-Vice-Presidents of the Canadian Reconstruction Association. Was
-President of the Toronto Board of Trade 1902-1904; President of the
-Canadian Manufacturers Association 1898-1900. President of the National
-Club, 1901-1902; President, Caledon Fishing Club 1903-1905;
-Vice-President, Local Branch, Ontario Fish and Game Protective
-Association; one of the Founders of the Commercial Travellers’
-Association; Delegate to the Sixth Imperial Trade Congress, London,
-England, July, 1906; presented to King Edward, 1906. He is a member of
-the National Club, Royal Canadian Yacht Club and Caledon Fishing Club.
-Mr. Ellis is a supporter of the Union Government. In religion he is a
-Methodist. He has given freely of his time and ability to the
-advancement of his home city. Married Emma Maughan, June 7th, 1877,
-daughter of Nicholas Maughan, Toronto Assessment Commissioner; has three
-sons.
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-
-=McKeon, P. J., Very Reverend Dean=, Rector of St. Peter’s Cathedral,
-London, Ont., one of the best loved clergymen of the Roman Catholic
-Church in this country, was born at Merlin, Ont., the son of James and
-Ann (Finn) McKeon. He was educated for the priesthood at the widely
-known seminary of the Basilian Order, Assumption College, Sandwich,
-Ont., whose graduates have rendered unselfish Christian service in many
-parts of the world. Father McKeon was Rector of St. Mary’s Church,
-London, Ont., for twelve years prior to his elevation as Dean and Rector
-of St. Peter’s Cathedral, and during that time established a reputation
-for kindliness, piety and zeal in all good works that was recognized by
-all classes of the community. He has held the responsibilities of the
-Chancellorship of the diocese since August, 1899, being appointed to
-that position by the late Archbishop McEvoy when he became Bishop of
-London. He is known also as one of the best organizers in the diocese of
-London. He willingly participates in the civic activities of his chosen
-city, and is a member of the local Canadian Club, the London Board of
-Trade and of the Knights of Columbus.
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-
-=James, Edgar Augustus=, a Consulting Engineer, was born in the County
-of York, at Thornhill, Ont., August 25, 1874, eldest son of David James
-and Francis M. Jackson. Both parents were also born in York County. His
-father, a nephew of the late Senator David Reesor, is a successful York
-County farmer, who has taken an active part in Grange and Farmers’
-institute work. He represented the Township of Markham in the York
-County Council for some twelve years, and was for some twenty years
-Engineer for the Township of Markham. Educated at the Langstaff Public
-School, the Newmarket High and Model Schools, and the Toronto Normal
-School, the subject of this sketch taught public school at Don, Ont.,
-for two years, after which he entered the Faculty of Applied Science of
-the University of Toronto, securing the degree of B.A.Sc. in 1904, and
-the professional degree of C.E. in 1913. As a student he was active in
-the work of the Engineering Society of the Faculty, and was the
-President of the organization in the years 1903-4. For the period of
-1906 to 1914 he sat on the Senate of the University of Toronto as one of
-the elected representatives of the Graduates. On December 1, 1910, he
-was married to Mary Kate Smith, daughter of William Henry Smith, who for
-fifty years was Principal of the Public Schools, Port Dover, Ont. His
-professional experience includes two years on road work and drainage
-work in Western Canada, and four years on railway construction work with
-the Canadian Pacific Railway. In 1908 he was appointed Managing Editor
-of the “Canadian Engineer,” which publication, under his direction, was
-developed into the leading Canadian Engineering Weekly. Since giving up
-active journalistic work he has been a frequent contributor to the
-technical press. In 1911 he resigned to take the position of Chief
-Engineer of the Toronto & York Roads Commission, an organization charged
-with the improvement of some two hundred and fifty miles of leading
-roads radiating from Toronto. In the Fall of the same year he became a
-member of the newly organized firm of Consulting Engineers, James,
-Loudon & Hertzberg, Ltd., which firm has had charge of important
-engineering works in connection with buildings, bridges, roads,
-waterworks, sewerage and railways, together with industrial plants.
-Moving up through the junior classes, he became, in 1914, a full member
-of the Engineering Institute of Canada, having been made, in 1913, a
-full member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He was a member
-of the original committee of six who met for the purpose of
-re-organizing the Engineers’ Club as a Social and Technical Club, and
-was a member of its first Board of Directors. He is also a member of the
-Ontario Club; the York Pioneer and Historical Society and a life member
-of the Ontario Historical Society; a P.M. of Patterson Lodge A.F. &
-A.M.; P.Z. Victoria Chapter, R.A.M., and a member of Cyrene Preceptory
-and Rameses Temple. In July, 1918, he was appointed D.D.G.M. for Toronto
-Centre District No. 116 A.F. & A.M., G.R.C. He is also a P.C.R. of Court
-Union, A.O.F. In religion both families are Methodist, as is the subject
-of this sketch.
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-
-=Finnie, David Maclachan.= The Bank of Ottawa, now amalgamated with the
-Bank of Nova Scotia, was established in December 1874, with headquarters
-in the Victoria Chambers, Cor. Wellington and O’Connor streets, Ottawa.
-Its authorized capital was $500,000 and its paid-up capital $343,875. An
-unique happening is connected with the founding of this bank, viz., that
-some twelve days before the head office in Ottawa was opened and ready
-for business, a branch office was established in Arnprior under the
-management of Mr. David Maclachan Finnie, who was then a young man of 25
-years and who in 1903, 29 years later, became Assistant General Manager
-and in 1916, General Manager, which position he held up to the time,
-April 30th, 1919, of its amalgamation with the Bank of Nova Scotia. Mr.
-Finnie was, therefore, the first manager of the Bank of Ottawa to do
-business with the public in its solitary branch in Arnprior in 1874,
-when authorized capital of the bank was $500,000, and the last General
-Manager of the bank in 1919, when its Capital was $4,000,000; when its
-reserve fund was $4,750,000; when its branches numbered 95; when it had
-contributed 228 members of its staff to the great cause of liberty in
-the world’s great war; when its total assets were $70,243,000, and its
-liabilities $60,539,000, showing a surplus of just under $10,000,000;
-and when it was paying the shareholders over 12 per cent. on the par
-value of the stock. The Bank of Ottawa, from the start, established a
-high character which it always retained. Its management had a reputation
-invariably for generous dealings with its clients and never more than of
-the late years; and to Mr. Finnie’s affable manner, generous, yet wise,
-consideration of its clients’ requirements and his undoubted ability
-both as a banker and as a financier, the success achieved by the bank
-was considerably attributable. Mr. David Maclachan Finnie was born at
-Peterhead, Scotland, July 10th, 1849. He is the son of Robert and Mary
-(Smith) Finnie, and was educated in the Parish School, Peterhead. At an
-early age he acquired a business and banking experience in the office of
-A. & W. Boyd, Solicitors and Agents in the Union Bank of Scotland,
-Peterhead; in the office of Secretary, West of Scotland Wholesale
-Grocers Association; in the Bank of British North America, London,
-England; Montreal, Hamilton and Arnprior. He is a Director of the Home
-Building & Savings Association; was elected Vice-President of the Ottawa
-Board of Trade in 1909; is Vice-President of the County of Carleton
-Protestant Hospital, and in 1919 was elected by acclamation to the
-Presidency of the Royal Ottawa Golf Club. At the opening campaign on
-behalf of the Canadian Patriotic Fund, Ottawa Branch, he was elected
-Honorary Treasurer, and has remained in that position ever since. There
-was subscribed over $2,000,000, nearly all of which has been paid in. In
-1875 Mr. Finnie married Caroline Nicholson Sterling, daughter of George
-Sterling of Hamilton, Ontario. He was President of the Rideau Club for
-1911-12-13, and is a member of the Country, Ottawa Golf, Ottawa Hunt
-Clubs. In religion Mr. Finnie is an Anglican. His residence is 329
-Chapel Street, Ottawa, Canada.
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-
-=Boudreau, L. N. H. Rodolphe=, who from 1889 to 1907 was Private
-Secretary to the late Right Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, is a son of the
-late Dr. J. B. Boudreau of Doucet’s Landing, Quebec, and Sarah (Fortier)
-Boudreau. He was born at St. Gregoire, Quebec, Sept. 19th, 1865, and was
-educated at Nicolet College and Laval University. In 1893 he married
-Annie, daughter of Thomas Wensley, Ottawa. He accompanied Sir Wilfrid to
-Washington and to London and Paris on official missions. He entered the
-Civil Service in 1896, was appointed Assistant Clerk of the Privy
-Council in 1900, and Clerk of the Privy Council on May 6th, 1907.
-January 1st, 1918, he was knighted a Companion of St. Michael and St.
-George. In religion Mr. Boudreau is a Roman Catholic. He resides at 198
-Stewart Street, Ottawa.
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-
-=Arkell, Thomas Reginald, B.S.A.= (Toronto Ont.), is recognized as one
-of the leading live stock experts of Canada, though still young in
-years. He was born at Arkell, Wellington County, Ont., on March 30th,
-1888, the son of Henry and Jessie (Macfarlane) Arkell. He had an early
-insight into the practical side of his chosen profession from his
-father, who was a prominent sheep-raiser, and had resolved to give his
-son a thorough education in the scientific side of the business. The
-subject of this sketch was educated at the public schools of Arkell and
-Guelph, Guelph Collegiate Institute and the University of Toronto. In
-1908 he graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Scientific Agriculture,
-standing highest in his class for general proficiency and capturing the
-Governor-General’s medal. He first went into journalism and in the year
-of his graduation was appointed agricultural editor of the “Canadian
-Citizen,” Ottawa; and later served for some months as Associate Editor
-of “The Canadian Farm,” Toronto. In 1909 he was appointed Professor of
-Animal Husbandry at the New Hampshire State College and animal
-Husbandman of the Experimental Station in connection with that
-institution. In 1912 he returned to Canada to accept the appointment of
-Chief of the Sheep and Goat Division of the Live Stock Branch in the
-Federal Department of Agriculture. In 1918 he was appointed Manager of
-the Canadian Co-operative Wool Growers, Limited, an association designed
-to benefit wool production in Canada from every point of view. He is
-widely known in connection with this basic industry and is the author of
-numerous papers and pamphlets relating to sheep-breeding and the
-inheritance of bovine characteristics. He is a member of the University
-Club, Ottawa, and of the American Association for the Advancement of
-Science. In 1911 he married Mabel Helen, daughter of William Mahaffey of
-Dover, New Hampshire, and has one daughter, Eleanor Kathleen. He resides
-at 70 Beaty Avenue, Toronto.
-
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-
-
-=Gartshore, Lieut.-Col. William Moir=, is one of the best known
-industrial leaders of Canada, and is Vice-President and General Manager
-of the McClary Manufacturing Co. of London, Ont. His Company is one of
-the Canadian pioneer concerns in the manufacture of stoves and furnaces,
-and has branches at Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Vancouver, St. John,
-Hamilton, Calgary, Saskatoon and Edmonton. Col. Gartshore was born at
-Dundas, Ont., April 3rd, 1853, the son of John and Margaret (Moir)
-Gartshore. The late Mr. John Gartshore was during his lifetime a
-prominent manufacturer of marine machinery, engines, boilers, etc., and
-the subject of this sketch was educated in the public and grammar
-schools of Dundas and at Dr. Tassie’s famous academy at Galt, Ontario.
-In 1873 he joined the staff of the London Car Wheel Company and in 1876
-entered the employ of the McClary Manufacturing Company with which he
-has ever since been connected. Since 1890 he has filled the dual office
-of Vice-President and General Manager. His other business interests
-include a directorship of Ontario Loan and Debenture Co., London. Since
-early manhood he has taken an active interest in military matters and
-holds a first-class cavalry certificate. He entered the militia as a
-volunteer in 1871 and during the North-West Rebellion of 1885 served as
-Junior Major of the 7th Fusiliers, London, for which he wears the
-campaign medal. He was made major in 1884 and in 1892 became Lieut.-Col.
-in command of 1st Regiment of Cavalry, “Hussars,” London. He is now on
-its reserve of officers. Col. Gartshore has also held many important
-public offices. He was Provincial Vice-President of the Canadian
-Manufacturers Association, 1908, and Vice-President for Canada in the
-same organization, 1914-15. He is President and was formerly for some
-years a director of London Fair Association; Chairman of the Victoria
-Hospital Trust; President of the St. John’s Ambulance Association,
-London; President of the Child Welfare Association, London. During his
-many journeys to the motherland he was in 1886 presented to the late
-King Edward VII when Prince of Wales, and in 1905 after he came to the
-throne. In response to the wishes of his fellow citizens he stood for
-Mayor of London in 1916 and was elected. Col. Gartshore is a member of
-the following Clubs: London, London Hunt, and National (Toronto). He is
-also a member of St. Andrew’s Society and his recreations are riding,
-cricket and baseball. In politics he is a Liberal-Unionist and in
-religion a Presbyterian. He was married on Dec. 26th, 1876, to
-Catherine, daughter of Mr. John McClary, the head of the company with
-which he is identified, and has one daughter, Mrs. Edna Cleghorn.
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-
-=White, John T.=, Solicitor to the Treasury for the Province of Ontario,
-is a native of Belleville, Ont., where he was born on July 3rd, 1875. He
-was educated at the public and High Schools of his native town and later
-qualified for the law at Osgoode Hall, Toronto. On being called to the
-bar of this province in 1894 he practised for a time in Toronto. A few
-years ago he was appointed Solicitor to the Treasury for Ontario, a post
-requiring great judgment and knowledge of general conditions. Among the
-duties it embraces is that of collecting the succession duties on the
-estates of deceased persons, the collection of the Corporations Tax, the
-Provincial War Tax, and other sources of Provincial revenue. In the long
-and delicate negotiations which are sometimes necessary in arriving at a
-fair valuation, Mr. White has shown himself very shrewd and tactful and
-has been able to largely augment the revenues of the province without
-making unfair exactions. When the Ontario Government decided a year or
-so after the late war began to impose a tax on amusements, Mr. White was
-also placed in charge of the administration of the new law, a task
-involving great problems of detail which he has successfully
-accomplished. He is an Anglican in religion and a Conservative in
-politics and resides at the Albany Club, of which he is a member, as
-also of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, the Rosedale Golf, and the
-Mississauga Golf and Country Club.
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-
-=Pugh, Thomas James=, one of the successful business men of Toronto, was
-born in Kidderminster, England, January 8th, 1871, the son of Charles
-and Sarah Pugh. He received his first education in public schools in
-England, which on his coming to Canada as a boy, was continued by
-courses in the public and High Schools here. On leaving school he
-adopted commercial pursuits in which he prospered and was finally
-enabled to establish himself as a manufacturer of novelties. He is the
-President of the Pugh Specialty Company, Ltd., with factories at 38 to
-42 Clifford Street, and the wares of his company are well known to the
-trade throughout Canada. He is a member of the Canadian Manufacturers
-Association and of the Toronto Board of Trade. He is a Presbyterian in
-religion and a member of the Masonic order. In politics he is a
-Liberal-Unionist. In 1908 he married Miss Alice Maude Collier, daughter
-of M. Collier, of Hillsburg, Ont., and resides at 87 Erskine Avenue,
-Toronto.
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-
-=Sutherland, Thomas Fraser, B.Sc., E.M.=, Chief Inspector of Mines for
-the Province of Ontario is recognized in his own and other countries as
-one of the leading mining engineers of Canada. He is the son of Rev. J.
-M. Sutherland, B.A., a prominent Presbyterian clergyman of the Maritime
-Provinces, and was born at Pugwash, Nova Scotia, on Feb. 23rd, 1879. His
-professional education was received at Queen’s University, Kingston,
-Ont., from which he graduated in 1904 as a fully qualified Mining
-Engineer with the degree of Bachelor of Science. On graduation he went
-to British Columbia and worked in various gold camps of that province
-and also of Alaska as a practical miner, assayer, operator and
-prospector. For two years he acted as Western representative of a
-prominent New York mining firm with important interests in British
-Columbia. After six years’ experience on the Pacific coast he returned
-to the East in 1910 and was engaged by the Ontario Bureau of Mines in
-1911 as Assistant Inspector at Cobalt, Ont., the centre of one of the
-great silver districts of the world. Subsequently in 1913 he became
-Chief Inspector, and in 1916 was attached as expert to the Royal Ontario
-Nickel Commission to enquire into various problems in connection with
-that important industry. His duties in this capacity required him to
-visit the famous nickel mines of the French colony of New Caledonia,
-which are second only to those of Northern Ontario in extent, and also
-the nickel fields of Tasmania. In connection with his investigations and
-other official duties he is the author of various reports to the Ontario
-Government, which are documents of value to those interested in the
-mining industry, and is also a contributor to technical journals in
-connection with his profession. He is a member of the Canadian Mining
-Institute and in religion is a Presbyterian. In 1908 he married Miss
-Ethel Young and has three children, Jack Fraser, Gordon McRae, and
-Margaret Jean. His home is at 133 St. Leonard’s Ave., Toronto.
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-
-=David, Hon. Laurent Olivier=, City Clerk of Montreal since 1892 and for
-years prominent in the public life of Quebec, is one of the
-distinguished figures in the Senate of Canada. He is a son of the late
-Mayor Stanislas David, a farmer and officer of the Canadian Militia, and
-Elizabeth Tremblay, his wife. Senator David was born at
-Sault-au-Recollect, P.Q., on March 24th, 1840, and educated at Ste.
-Therese College, Quebec. He took up the study of law and while yet a
-student became identified with journalism as one of the founders of the
-newspaper “Le Colonisateur.” In 1870 he in company with M. Mousseau and
-Desbarats founded “L’Opinion Publique” an illustrated weekly, of which
-he became chief editor, and resigned as such because he refused to take
-the responsibility of approving the Pacific scandal. In 1874 he founded
-in company with C. Beausoliel, M.P., and edited “Le Bien Public” and
-later published “La Tribune.” In the seventies he began to win fame as
-the author of many essays and books on French Canadian history, on which
-he is perhaps the greatest living authority. These include “Les
-Patriotes de 1837-8”; “Portraits et Biographies”; “Histoire du Canada
-depuis l’Union”; “Histoire du Canada depuis la Confederation”; “le
-Drapeau de Carillon,” a patriotic drama; “Les Deux Papineau”; “Mes
-Contemporains,” (memoirs); “Souvenirs et Biographies”; “Laurier et son
-temps”; “Melanges Historiques et Litteraires”; “Le Clergé Canadien, sa
-mission et son oeuvre,” and other works. For a short time he filled the
-position of translator to the Quebec Legislature, which he resigned in
-1878 and subsequently practised law in Montreal. In 1892 he became City
-Clerk of Montreal and helped to revise the new charter of that city,
-drafted in 1898. He served as President of the great French-Canadian
-patriotic Society of St. Jean Baptiste in 1887-8, and his pen and tongue
-have always been active in movements for Canadian unity and for the
-intellectual advancement of his own people. He was one of the important
-delegates to the Convention of the French-Canadian people at Nashua, New
-Hampshire, in 1888, and was one of the prime movers in securing the
-erection of the Monument National at Montreal and also that for a
-monument to Montcalm in France. Originally a Conservative in politics he
-left that party to join L’Union Nationale, in the sixties, an
-organization formed to oppose Confederation. Later his ideas on that
-subject mellowed and Confederation having become an accomplished fact,
-he threw in his lot with the newly-formed Liberal party of Dorion,
-Holton and Laflamme. His independence of spirit was shown, however, in
-the fact that he favored the policy of protection for native industries
-in opposition to his party friends. Because of his attitude on that
-question he was obliged to discontinue the publication of the “Bien
-Public.” From the first entry of Sir Wilfrid Laurier into politics he
-became his friend, counsellor and supporter, and during the lifetime of
-that statesman no living man enjoyed more of the confidence of the
-Liberal chieftain. His entry into politics ante-dated that of his friend
-by a few years for he was an unsuccessful candidate for the Quebec
-Legislature in Hochelaga in 1867 and later in 1875. From 1886 to 1890 he
-represented Montreal East in that body, when he voluntarily retired,
-owing to differences with Hon. Honore Mercier, Liberal Leader in the
-Legislature. He had several bills adopted by the Legislature in order to
-improve the condition of the workingman, and especially to prevent the
-seizure of his furniture and wages. He was twice an unsuccessful
-candidate for the House of Commons, first in Hochelaga at the general
-elections of 1878 and in Montreal East at the general elections of 1891.
-He in 1903 was called to the Senate of Canada by the Governor-General,
-the Earl of Minto, on the advice of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, and is
-recognized as one of the sagest and most able debaters in that body. He
-had earlier declined appointment as Lieutenant-Governor of the Northwest
-Territories, though pressed to accept by Sir Wilfrid. He is prominently
-identified with welfare movements like the society for the Protection of
-women and children, Quebec; and the Anti-Alcoholic League, Montreal. He
-is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Knight of the Legion of
-Honor of France (to which he was appointed in 1911.) His attachment to
-the British flag as well as to the interests of his own people has been
-the theme of many of his utterances. He is a Roman Catholic and was
-twice married; first in 1886 to Albina Chenet (died July, 1887);
-secondly to Ludivine Garceau (died, February, 1915). He has had one son
-and nine daughters.
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-
-=Nanton, Sir Augustus Meredith, K.B.=, of Winnipeg, is one of the
-leading financiers of the Canadian West and has been for a considerable
-number of years senior Winnipeg partner in the noted firm of Osler,
-Hammond & Nanton, Investment Brokers and Financial agents of Toronto and
-Winnipeg. He was born at Toronto, May 7th, 1860, the son of Augustus
-Nanton, Barrister, and came from a family that dated from the early
-settlement of that city. He was educated in Toronto and as a young man
-was sent to Winnipeg to take charge of the Western business of Osler &
-Hammond in which he became a partner. He has long been intimately
-connected with the financial life of Manitoba and the West, and his
-widespread interests are indicated by the fact that he is Vice-President
-of the Great West Life Assurance Co., Vice-President of the Osler &
-Hammond Trust Company; President, Winnipeg Electric Co.; Director and
-Chairman of the Canadian Committee of the Hudson’s Bay Company; Director
-of the Canadian Pacific Railway Co.; Director of the Dominion Bank;
-Director of the Northern Trusts Company; Director, Manitoba Bridge &
-Iron Works; Director of the Cockshutt Plow Company; Director of the
-Ogilvie Flour Mills Company; Director of the Canadian Starch Company;
-and Director of the Guarantee Company of North America. Few men have
-been so closely identified with the commercial and industrial
-development of Canada, particularly that section of it in which he
-resides; and when on June 4th, 1917, he was created a Knight Bachelor,
-the honor was universally regarded as well-bestowed. Knight of Grace of
-the Order of St. John of Jerusalem (July, 1914). In connection with the
-Victory Loans of 1917 and 1918, Sir Augustus rendered signal service to
-the Government of Canada, by organizing their flotation in the West,
-with magnificent results. He is a member of the following Clubs:
-Manitoba (Winnipeg); St. Charles Country; Winnipeg Hunt; Mount Royal
-(Montreal); York and Toronto in the latter named city; and Rideau
-(Ottawa). He is a Conservative in politics and an Anglican in religion.
-He is married and has three sons and three daughters, and resides at 229
-Rosyln Road, Winnipeg.
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-
-=Rogers, Albert S.= (Toronto, Ont.), was born in North York in 1860, the
-son of the late Samuel Rogers, founder of the Queen City Oil Co., Ltd.,
-and was educated at the Newmarket High School. He married Mary E.,
-daughter of Joseph E. Elsworth, of New York City, by whom he has two
-sons—J. D. Elsworth and Edward S., and one daughter, Katherine.
-Interested in petroleum and natural gas, Mr. Rogers was Vice-President
-and General Manager of the Queen City Oil Co., Ltd., of Toronto—merged
-into the Imperial Oil Company in 1912—before retiring from active
-business. He is Director of the Imperial Oil Co., Ltd., and
-Vice-President of Harris & Company, Woollen Manufacturers, Rockwood. Mr.
-Rogers is also Chairman and Treasurer of the Board of Management of
-Pickering College, Newmarket, near which he owns and operates a farm
-that affords a country outlook to the students. He is a member of the
-National Club and Lambton Golf and Country Club, of Toronto, as also of
-the Toronto Board of Trade and the York Pioneers. In religion he belongs
-to the Society of Friends.
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-=Scott, F. Stewart, M.P.= (Galt, Ont.), born August 23rd, 1879 at Galt,
-Ont. Son of Frank A. Scott and Mary Stewart, both Canadians. Parents are
-of Scotch parentage. Educated at Galt Public and High Schools. Married
-in April, 1904 to Minnie L., daughter of William Weir, of Galt, Ont.,
-and has three children, Kathleen, Stewart A., and Isobel Scott. He is a
-successful manufacturer and public spirited citizen. He is president of
-the Getty & Scott Limited, Boot and Shoe Manufacturers; President of
-Scott-Chamberlain Limited, Ontario; and President of the Shoe
-Manufacturers’ Association of Canada. Was a member of the Galt Municipal
-Council for seven years, serving two years as Mayor. He is a member of
-The Business Men’s Club and Waterloo County Golf Club. In religion he is
-a Presbyterian. Was first elected to the House of Commons in 1915 as
-Conservative member for South Waterloo and re-elected at the general
-elections in 1917. The member for South Waterloo is a man of many
-activities and large commercial interests in which he displays marked
-energy. He is a good platform speaker and is recognized as one of the
-most progressive and popular citizens of his home city.
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-=Dollard, Rev. James B.=, is one of the most distinguished lyric poets
-of the day, whose residence in this country must be regarded as
-fortunate for the cause of Canadian letters, though he is not a native
-of this country. He was born in Kilkenny County, Ireland, on August
-30th, 1872, the son of Michael Dollard a farmer and Anastasia (Quinn)
-Dollard. He was not without Canadian connections, however, since a grand
-uncle, Bishop Dollard of Fredericton, N.B., had had a distinguished
-career in the Roman Catholic Church in this country. His early education
-was received in Kilkenny and he later qualified for admission to the
-priesthood at the Grand Seminary, Montreal, Canada. He holds the
-scholastic degrees of Bachelor of Theology, Bachelor of Canon Law, and
-Doctor of Letters (Laval University). He was ordained as a priest in
-1896 and his later years have been spent in the city of Toronto, where
-he is now parish priest of St. Monica’s Church, 44 Broadway Avenue.
-Despite the duties of a hard-working clergyman, zealous for the welfare
-of his parish, he has employed his limited leisure in literary activity
-which has won him fame on both sides of the Atlantic. He has published
-three volumes of poems and one book of short stories. His literary work
-is nearly all Irish in theme and inspiration; for he has never forgotten
-the happy days he spent as a lad in the beautiful isle that holds the
-enduring love of so many patriots, whose duties have called them far
-from its shores. The growth of his fame as a lyric poet is the more
-notable in that he is of modest, retiring nature and has never sought
-publicity of any kind. Irish legend and Irish scenery are woven by him
-into the most delicate and rhythmical verse—verse that is instinct with
-music, and alive with lovely imagery. One tribute to him from the pen of
-the late Joyce Kilmer, himself a poet of distinction and prior to his
-death with the American troops at Chateau Thierry, the literary critic
-of the New York “Times,” may be quoted. Of the poem “Fairy Anvils” which
-appears in the volume entitled “Irish Lyrics and Ballads,” Kilmer wrote:
-“Here is some genuine Celtic magic—a beautiful blend of melody and
-fancy. It should be set to music—the words almost carry a tune with
-them—and sung by John McCormack.” The same tribute could be paid to
-many other lyrics by Father Dollard. He is a member of the Poetry
-Society of America and of the Arts and Letters Club, Toronto.
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-
-=Robertson, Edward Blake=, Scotch origin, born at Lanark, Ont., February
-27th, 1877; youngest son of Wm. Robertson and Marian Watt. Went with
-parents to Manitoba in 1879. Educated at Pilot Mound public and high
-schools and Winnipeg Normal Schools. Taught in Manitoba public schools
-for six years. Appointed Chief Clerk for Manitoba in connection with the
-decennial census of 1901. Married on December 25th, 1901, Christina
-Isola, daughter of Wm. Wrixon. Has one son, Blake Roscoe, born November
-2nd, 1902. Resigned from the Dominion service August, 1903, to enter the
-employ of Sir Clifford Sifton in a private capacity. Appointed Assistant
-Superintendent of Immigration in December, 1904, and Assistant Chief
-Controller of Chinese Immigration in October, 1911. In connection with
-his official duties he travelled extensively in Canada, United States
-and Great Britain. Of him the Manitoba Free Press says: “He has been
-recognized for some years as one of the leading authorities on
-immigration in the Dominion, while his administrative ability has been
-generally acknowledged.” Resigned from the Department of Immigration &
-Colonization in February, 1919, to accept a position in Ottawa with the
-Canadian Manufacturers Association. Recreations: fishing, hunting and
-motor boating. Residence 347b Kenniston Apartments, Ottawa. Clubs:
-Laurentian, Canadian and Brittania Boating Club.
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-[Illustration: LIEUT.-COL. JAMES W. WOODS
-Ottawa]
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-
-=Chaplin, James D., M.P.= (St. Catharines, Ont.), was born at Toronto on
-March 20, 1863. Son of William and Harriet Chaplin. Educated at the
-Public Schools and St. Catharines Collegiate Institute, and after a
-thorough business training became a prominent manufacturer in St.
-Catharines. His business interests are very extensive and the companies
-with which he is connected are widely known throughout Canada. He is
-President of the Welland Vale Manufacturing Company, Ltd., which makes
-hand agricultural implements; President of the Chaplin Wheel Company,
-Ltd.; President of the Canada Axe and Harvest Tool Company, and
-President of the Wallingford Manufacturing Company, Ltd. Despite his
-commercial activities he has found time to take a prominent part in
-public affairs. He was a municipal councillor for four years, and in the
-autumn of 1917 was selected as Unionist candidate for the riding of
-Lincoln. At the ensuing Federal elections in December he was elected by
-a handsome majority as a supporter of Sir Robert Borden, and is regarded
-as one of the ablest members of the Ottawa House. Previously he had been
-known as a Conservative and a few years ago was appointed a member of
-the Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park Commission, which has charge of
-the Canadian side of that famous international waterway. He is a member
-of the A.F. & A.M. and of the St. Catharines Club, and Canada Club,
-Montreal. In religion he is a Presbyterian and in 1888 married Edna E.,
-daughter of the late Colin Burgess of Toronto, by whom he has one son
-and two daughters.
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-
-=Creelman, Lieut.-Colonel John Jennings, D.S.O.=, Advocate and
-barrister, Montreal, is one of the most distinguished, of the Canadian
-soldiers who won honors in the late war and also holds high rank in the
-legal profession. He was born in Toronto on Feb. 14th, 1881, the son of
-the late Adam R. Creelman, K.C. one of the leaders of the Canadian bar,
-who became Chief Counsel of the Canadian Pacific Railroad, and one of
-the directors of that corporation. His mother was Margaret Jennings,
-daughter of the late Rev. Dr. John Jennings of Toronto, one of the best
-known pulpit orators of his day. The subject of this sketch was educated
-at Upper Canada College, Toronto, and the University of Toronto, from
-which he graduated with the degree of B.A. in 1904. Subsequently he
-qualified for the law at McGill University, Montreal, and obtained the
-degree of B.C.L. in 1907. This was supplemented by a post-graduate
-course at the University of Grenoble, France. Subsequently he became a
-member of the legal firm of Casgrain, Mitchell, McDougall & Creelman,
-and is now in practice alone with offices in the Dominion Express Bldg.,
-Montreal. He was also Lecturer on Railway Economics at McGill University
-in 1913 and 1914. From early manhood Col. Creelman took an active part
-in military affairs and was a member of the Canadian Coronation
-Contingent in 1911. He was gazetted a Lieutenant-Colonel of the Canadian
-Field Artillery on Oct. 26th, 1912. On the outbreak of the war he at
-once placed his services at the disposal of the Government and went
-overseas as Lieut.-Colonel, commanding the Second Brigade, C.F.A., and
-continued in service until Sept. 9, 1917. During twenty-five months’
-service in France he took part in many notable engagements with the
-Canadian Expeditionary Force and was twice mentioned in despatches. He
-was once officially reported wounded (shell shock) on April 29th, 1915.
-His services were recognized by the coveted Distinguished Service Order
-and the Russian Order of St. Stanislas (3rd class with swords). A
-movement having arisen in Montreal for the betterment of municipal
-politics, he was induced in April 1918, to run for the city council and
-was elected. He has since proven a very valuable member of that body. In
-June, 1918, he was appointed a member of the Protestant Board of School
-Commissioners. His business interests are also extensive, and he is a
-director of several companies. In religion he is a Presbyterian and in
-politics a Liberal, and his recreations are golf, curling and fishing.
-He is a member of the following clubs: Mount Royal, University
-(Montreal), Royal Montreal Golf, Montreal Thistle (curling), Reform
-(Montreal), University (Toronto), and Junior Army and Navy (London,
-Eng.). On June 24th, 1908, he married Katherine Melanie Weekes (died
-Dec. 13, 1918), daughter of Nicholas Weekes of Galveston, Texas, retired
-banker and railway president. He has two children, John Ashmore
-Creelman, born 1912, and Katharine Margaret Creelman, born 1918.
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-
-=Fisher, His Honor Walter George= (Orangeville, Ontario), County Judge
-of the County of Dufferin, was born in Township of Tossoronto, County of
-Simcoe, and is the son of John Fisher. Educated at Collingwood High
-School and McGill University, Montreal. On being called to the Bar in
-1886, he at once commenced the practice of his profession at the Town of
-Alliston, in partnership with W. A. J. Bell, K.C., and continued to do
-with much success until his appointment to the bench in September, 1913.
-Judge Fisher took an active part in the municipal politics of his home
-town, of which he was Mayor. He married Mary Towler and is the father of
-two children, Allan, a member of the Canadian Expeditionary Force at the
-front, and Dorothy, at home. Judge Fisher is a member of the Masonic
-Order and in religion is a Methodist. He has been prominent in all
-movements of a Patriotic and National nature and took a lively interest
-in recruiting the battalion which was identified with the County of
-Dufferin (the 164th). His services have been in great demand at all
-public meetings intended for the purpose of promoting recruiting and the
-national welfare. He is also a member of the Canadian Club of
-Orangeville. The Judge is an ardent motorist and a keen curler, and a
-member of the Orangeville Lawn Bowling Club.
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-
-=Burgoyne, William Bartlett= (St. Catharines, Ont.), one of the best
-known newspaper editors and publishers of Canada, was born in the city
-where he resides, on August 2, 1855, the son of Henry and Martha
-Burgoyne. His father was a builder and contractor and the son was
-educated at the Public Schools of St. Catharines. Leaving at the age of
-12, he shortly afterward entered the printing business, with which he
-has now been connected for upwards of 50 years. In January of 1887 he
-founded the St. Catharines “Evening Star,” and in 1892 became proprietor
-and publisher of the St. Catharines “Daily Standard,” one of the livest
-and most influential newspapers to be found in the smaller cities of
-Canada. Apart from his journalistic activities Mr. Burgoyne has been a
-very active factor in the civic life of his native place. He was
-Alderman in 1895-6, 1898, 1900, 1912-3-4-5, Mayor of the city in 1903,
-and later, in 1916 and 1917. He was also Chairman of the local
-Hydro-Electric Commission, 1916-7, and also of the Local Board of Health
-for the same years. He was Chairman of the St. Catharines Roads
-Commission, 1918, and a member of the Collegiate Institute Board. In all
-efforts in behalf of temperance he has been active for many years. He
-was G.W.P. of the Grand Division of Ontario, Sons of Temperance, 1898-9;
-M.W.A. of the National Division of North America in the same
-organization, 1902-4, and M.W.P. in 1904-6. He represented the National
-Division of North America, S. of T. at the fifty-first session of the
-National Division of Great Britain and Ireland at Hull, England, June,
-1906. His chief hobby is illustrated by the fact that he has been
-President of the St. Catharines Horticultural Society for fifteen years
-(1904 to 1918) and was the first President of the Ontario Horticultural
-Association, 1906-7. He was Chairman of the Daily Newspaper Section of
-the Canadian Press Association in 1908; President of St. Catharines
-Board of Trade, 1911; and a member of the Executive Council, Associated
-Boards of Trade of Ontario, 1914-15. In politics he is a Conservative
-and in religion an Anglican. He was lay delegate to the Synod of
-Niagara, 1917-19 and is a member of the Standing Committee of that body.
-He is a member of many fraternal and benevolent societies, including the
-A.F. & A.M., L.O.A.B.A., C.O.C.F., C.O.H.C., and A.O.U.W. On June 16,
-1880, he married Mary Lavinia, daughter of George and Margaret E.
-Darker, of Thorold, Ont., and has had three children, Clara E., Mary
-Estelle (deceased), and Major Henry B. Burgoyne, O.C. of the 71st
-Battery, Canadian Field Artillery.
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-
-=Drysdale, William=, Appraiser with His Majesty’s Customs, Montreal,
-Que., was born in that city, April 17th, 1847. His father, Adam
-Drysdale, a native of Dunfermline, Scotland, settled in Canada during
-the first half of the nineteenth century and for a long period held a
-post in the civil service conferred on him by Lord Elgin, during the
-period when that celebrated British pro-consul was Governor of the old
-Province of United Canada. The father of Adam Drysdale was one of the
-first persons to engage in the shipping trade between Canada and
-Scotland and was one of the earliest shippers to make use of the Port of
-Montreal. The subject of this sketch was educated at Montreal in the
-private school of Mr. Hicks (who later became the first principal of the
-Normal School in that city), and received a thorough commercial
-training. On leaving school he entered the employ of the late John
-Dougall, who was at that time publishing the “Weekly Witness” and also
-engaged in the book business. The aptitude of young Drysdale was such
-that he was almost immediately placed by Mr. Dougall in charge of the
-book department. After a short time his services were sought by Mr.
-Grafton, another bookseller, with whom he remained as confidential
-manager until 1874 when he founded a book business of his own, which
-became a celebrated institution in Montreal. Owing to his excellent
-training and personal popularity he soon built up a business second to
-none in the Dominion. Mr. Drysdale also rendered a public service in
-publishing a number of Canadian works which are now of great historic
-value. Later he retired from business to accept his present post with
-the Customs Service. As a citizen he gave his support to all movements
-looking to public betterment, and to philanthropic institutions. He is a
-Life Governor of the Boys’ Home and a member of the executive of the
-Natural History Society, Prison Aid Association, Charitable Committee of
-St. Andrew’s Society Canadian Club, Montreal Art Association, Imperial
-Home Re-union Association, Numismatic and Antiquarian Society. He is a
-life member of the Mechanics’ Institute, Governor of the Montreal
-Dispensary, and one of the most active supporters of the Protestant Home
-for the Insane. He has long been a member of the Montreal Board of Trade
-and an elder of the Presbyterian Church, who has frequently been
-commissioner to the General Assembly. Mr. Drysdale was first married in
-1880 to Miss Mary Maltbee Wales, daughter of the late Charles Wales,
-merchant of St. Andrew’s East. The first Mrs. Drysdale died in 1891
-leaving him two sons, William Flockhart Drysdale, Mechanical Engineer
-with the American Locomotive Sales Corporation; and Charles Wales
-Drysdale, Geologist to the Dominion Geological Survey, Ottawa. He was
-married a second time in 1893 to Miss Mary McIntosh of Sherbrooke, who
-died in 1907; and thirdly in 1916 to Miss Jean Parker, daughter of
-Archibald Parker of Glasgow, Scotland. He resides at “The Grosvenor,”
-756 Sherbrooke St., Montreal. Duncan MacGregor Crerar, a New York poet,
-sums up Mr. Drysdale’s character in the following lines:—
-
- Some are while careful of their own affairs,
- And when successfully amassing wealth,
- Who oft-times will withdraw, as if by stealth
- To render good to others unawares.
- Well known to them the haunts of poverty.
- Clothed are the naked, and the hungry fed,
- Oft take they place beside the patient’s bed
- To cheer sad hours; to soothe keen agony.
- These are earth’s salt—they labor with a mind,
- Distress relieving, lessening human woe;
- In all their actions earnest, gentle, kind,
- Leaving sweet impress whereso’er they go.
- Theirs Heaven’s reward; a crown upon each brow,
- Warm hearted DRYSDALE! such a man art thou!
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-=Walker, William Simpson, K.C.= (Montreal, Que.), is the son of the late
-John and Janet Simpson, Scotland, Ont., and was born in Brantford, Ont.,
-April 13, 1849. He was educated at Scotland Grammar School and McGill
-University, from which he graduated with the degree of B.C.L. in 1874,
-and married Sarah, youngest daughter of the late David Perney,
-Waterford, Ont., by whom he has three children, Grace E., Fred. W., now
-Vice-President and Managing Director of the Hudson Bay Ins. Co.,
-Vancouver, B.C., and Helen E. Walker. In his early years Mr. Walker
-taught in the Public Schools of Brant and Norfolk Counties, Ont., and in
-the Montreal Academy, also acting as legal reporter for the “Montreal
-Herald.” Among other offices held by the subject of this sketch at
-various times are those of Secretary of the Royal Commission on the
-Paper Combine; Secretary-Treasurer to the Protestant School
-Commissioners, Town and Parish of Longueuil, Que.; Secretary of the
-McGill University Literary Society; President of the Longueuil Boating
-Club; Hon. President of the Longueuil Cricket Club; Member of the
-Westmount Lawn Bowling Club; First Vice-President of the Caledonian
-Society, Montreal; Treasurer of the Mechanics’ Institute, Montreal; for
-many years Secretary of the Young Men’s Reform Association and latterly
-of the Reform Club, Montreal; a Freemason of high degree, and a P.D.D.
-of both the Independent Order of Foresters and the Canadian Order of
-Foresters. A member of the Church of England. Mr. Walker is a Liberal in
-politics and an “out and out believer in the late Sir Wilfrid Laurier.”
-He was called to the Bar of the Province of Quebec in July, 1874, as an
-Advocate and Barrister, having been articled to Sir Charles Davidson,
-ex-Chief Justice Province of Quebec, and successfully practising his
-profession in the city of Montreal since that time. Has delivered
-lectures and read papers before numerous societies in Montreal, amongst
-others, upon the following subjects: “Nothing New,” “People I Have Met,”
-“Woman as An Inventor,” “Lord Elgin in Canada,” “Scottish Superstition,”
-“Scotsman in Canada,” “What We Want,” “The Fathers of Confederation,”
-“Masonry and Its Philosophy” and “Universal Language.” In 1897 he was
-appointed head of the English Department of Judgments, Superior Court,
-and Deputy Prothonotary of the Superior Court, Montreal. Three years
-later he was appointed Deputy Registrar of the Exchequer Court by the
-Dominion Government, and Commissioner Supreme Court of Canada; was named
-King’s Counsel in 1913, in which year he also received the appointment
-of Registrar of Deeds for the Western Division of the City of Montreal
-(Montreal West) and is, to-day, a Justice of the Peace for the District
-of Montreal. Mr. Walker has been in partnership, successively, with the
-late Joseph Doutre, Q.C., John A. Perkins, Hon, J. E. Robidoux, Hon. M.
-Hutchinson and D. MacMaster, K.C., 90 Arlington Ave., Westmount. “A man
-highly respected”—_Montreal Star_.
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-=Hopkins, Innes=, 3738 Selkirk Avenue, Shaughnessy Heights, Vancouver,
-B.C., Managing Director of the B.C. Marine Limited, one of the oldest
-established ship-repairing firms on the Pacific Coast, is a son of John
-Castell Hopkins, who was born and educated in Edinburgh, a direct
-descendant of Samson Hopkins of Coventry, Co. Warwick, who died in 1662,
-and Sir William Hopkins, Knight of Coventry, Isle of Wight, knighted at
-Whitehall, 1623—Motto, Suavitate. Aut. Vi.—(other particulars see
-“Armory and Lineage of Canada, 1913”). His mother is Trianda Phelia Boyd
-Heu de Bourck, daughter of Rev. W. H. Heu de Bourck of Tiverton,
-England. The subject of this sketch was born at Douglas, Wellington Co.,
-Ont., and was educated in private schools. He has been a resident of
-Vancouver since 1914, at which time he became interested in the B.C.
-Marine Limited. He is also President of the Vancouver Forge Co. Ltd.; a
-member of the Vancouver Board of Trade, Manufacturers Association,
-Employers Association of B.C., Vancouver Automobile Club, Vancouver Club
-and Terminal City Club, and a member of the Masonic Order. His
-recreations are motoring and tennis, and in politics he is a
-Conservative. In religion, Mr. Hopkins is an Anglican, and on Feb. 3,
-1909, married a daughter of Mr. R. W. F. Martin, broker, of Seattle,
-Wash., by whom he has two children, Alice Cecil, born Dec. 13, 1910, and
-Robert Innes, born Oct. 19, 1912.
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-=Rose, William Oliver, J.P., M.D., M.P.P.= for Nelson in the British
-Columbia Legislature, is a native of Lakeville, Prince Edward Island,
-where he was born, February 10, 1870, the son of William and Charity
-(Baker) Rose. His father was a farmer and he was educated at Prince of
-Wales College, Charlottetown, P.E.I., and McGill University, Montreal.
-From the latter institution he graduated in 1898 with the degree of
-M.D.C.M. and was also Holmes Gold Medallist in this year. For twelve
-months he filled the post of Senior House Surgeon at the Royal Victoria
-Hospital, Montreal, and in 1899 went to British Columbia as
-Superintendent of the Kootenay Lake Hospital at Nelson, B.C. In 1900 he
-entered general practice at Nelson as a member of the firm of Rose &
-Hall, Physicians and Surgeons, which subsequently, in 1908, became Rose
-& Hartin, as at present. He was elected Mayor of his city in 1903 and,
-subsequently, in 1907, returned to municipal life as an Alderman, an
-office he has filled ever since. At the Provincial Elections of Sept.
-14, 1916, he was Conservative candidate for the riding of Nelson, and
-carried the constituency. He has been a Justice of the Peace for his
-district since 1903 and for a time was Medical Officer of the 102nd
-Royal Mounted Rifles. His recreations are motoring and boating, and he
-is a member of many fraternal orders including the K.P., L.O.L., S.O.E.,
-C.O.F., I.O.F., B.P.O.E., etc. He is a Baptist in religion and on August
-28, 1901, married Azza Jean, daughter of John Brownell of Worcester,
-Mass. He resides at 907 Vernon St., Nelson, B.C.
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-
-=McQuarrie, William Garland, K.C.=, M.P. for New Westminster, B.C., is
-regarded as one of the most able and aggressive of the younger members
-of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born at Ottawa, July 26th,
-1876, the son of Lachlan and Mary McQuarrie. When he was but a child his
-father, who was a prominent contractor, moved to the West, residing
-first at Winnipeg and later at New Westminster; and the education of the
-subject of this sketch was obtained at the public and high schools of
-those cities. Subsequently he studied law at Osgoode Hall, Toronto, and
-was called to the Bar of British Columbia in 1900. He first practised at
-Ashcroft, B.C., with Mr. Denis (now Mr. Justice) Murphy, but returning
-to New Westminster in 1902, became a member of the firm of Morrison,
-Whiteside, McQuarrie & Briggs, of which the senior partner was Mr. (now
-Mr. Justice) Morrison. Later the firm became known as Martin, Weart &
-McQuarrie, and was headed by Hon. Joseph Martin, K.C., for a time
-Premier of British Columbia and afterward a member for St. Pancras in
-the British House of Commons. Subsequently Mr. F. C. Wade, K.C., the
-present Agent-General of British Columbia in London, became head of the
-firm, which was then known as Wade, Whealler, McQuarrie & Martin. In
-1912 Mr. McQuarrie founded his present firm which is known as McQuarrie,
-Martin, Cassady & Macgowan. Mr. McQuarrie is a well-known expert in
-municipal law and is solicitor for the City of New Westminster and for
-the municipalities of Burnaby, Coquitlam, Delta, Kent and Surrey. He has
-frequently been heard before the Dominion Railway Commission, both in
-British Columbia and at Ottawa, and represented New Westminster in the
-big litigation over the Coquitlam dam, in which the city’s water supply
-was at stake. One of his most notable battles was that in which he
-represented his city and other municipalities in a demand on the
-Canadian Northern Railway for back taxes, in which nearly a quarter of a
-million dollars was involved and in which he was victorious. He has also
-figured as counsel in several important murder and treason trials as
-Crown Counsel. In the latter capacity he has acted very frequently ever
-since 1904 and his abilities as a criminal lawyer have proven
-exceptional. In January of the present year (1919) he was created King’s
-Counsel by the Oliver Government though an opponent of it in politics.
-Mr. McQuarrie is a Conservative Unionist, and was President of the New
-Westminster Federal Conservative Association in 1916 and 1917. In the
-latter year he accepted the Unionist nomination for New Westminster and
-scored a victory at the polls. Since entering the House of Commons he
-has made his mark as a sound and effective speaker and is generally
-regarded as a coming man in Canadian politics. His chief recreation is
-golf and he is a member of the Westminster Club; the Vancouver Club;
-Jericho Country Club (Vancouver); Vancouver Golf and Country Club;
-Rideau Club, Ottawa; Societies: A.F. & A.M., I.O.O.F., and the Sons of
-Scotland. In religion he is a Presbyterian. On Feb. 18th, 1907, married
-Elsie Owen, daughter of D. H. Macgowan, Coal Merchant, New Westminster,
-B.C. His children are Mary F. C., born July 12th, 1908, and Colin D.,
-born Nov. 2nd, 1911. His address is 207 3rd. Ave., New Westminster, B.C.
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-
-=Regan, Frank= (Toronto, Ont.), son of the late Denis H. Regan and Mary
-(Hennessy). Born at Murray Township, County of Northumberland, Ont., on
-November 27th, 1885. Educated at Trenton High School and Osgoode Hall,
-Toronto. On being called to the Bar in 1916, having studied in the law
-office of A. Abbott, Trenton, and Corley, Wilkie & Company, Toronto, he
-entered into partnership with the late Leon LeVernois, the firm being
-known as Regan & LeVernois, which partnership continued until Mr.
-LeVernois left to enter a legal firm in Perth, Ont., in 1918, since
-which time Mr. Regan has practised on his own account. He is well versed
-in commercial law and enjoys a lucrative practice, being solicitor for
-several well known corporations. Mr. Regan is a Roman Catholic in
-religion and a member of the Knights of Columbus and has long been
-identified with the Liberal party. Mr. Regan was a prominent worker in
-all patriotic movements during the war and was an active committee man
-and canvasser in the Red Cross and Sailors appeals and the Victory Loan
-drives. Mr. Regan was a great admirer and a personal friend of the late
-Sir Wilfrid Laurier, and was a representative of the Central Liberal
-Association at the public funeral of the Great Statesman in February of
-1919. He is a member of several Clubs and Secretary of the Central
-Liberal Association. Mr. Regan is interested in the Agricultural
-industry, his father having been a prominent farmer of Northumberland
-County, and finds recreation in motoring, hunting and golf. He is a man
-of good address and remarkable energy and is extremely popular among a
-very large circle.
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-=Hamilton, Ralph Bergen, M.E.= (St. Catharines, Ont.), was born at
-Toledo, Ohio, on April 11th, 1875, son of John Allen and Harriet Hale
-(Rowland) Hamilton. His early education was obtained at the Public
-Schools at Saginaw, Mich., and, deciding to acquire a knowledge of
-mechanical science he took a course at the Polyteknik, Dresden, Germany.
-This was supplemented by an engineering course at Cornell University,
-Ithaca, N.Y., from which he graduated in 1896 with the degree of M.E. In
-the same year he began his professional career as a draughtsman with the
-Buffalo Engineering Co., Buffalo, N.Y., and his successive appointments
-have been as follows: Assistant Engineer, Howard Iron Works, Buffalo,
-1897-8; Assistant Manager Iroquois Iron Works, Buffalo, 1899-1900;
-Acting Manager Packard Electric Co. Ltd., St. Catharines, Ont., 1901;
-Secretary-Treasurer and General Manager, 1901, 1912; and the latter year
-he became President of the Packard Electric Co., Ltd., retaining the
-post of General Manager. He is a former director of the Rochester
-“Times” Publishing Co., and also of the McMillan Springs Co. After
-coming to St. Catharines to reside he soon began to take part in public
-affairs. He was President of the St. Catharines Board of Trade, 1906-7,
-and during the recent war was prominent in the promotion of patriotic
-objects. He was a member of the Finance Committee of the Patriotic
-League, Chairman of the Manufacturers’ Committee of the Recruiting
-League, and was appointed by the Imperial Munitions Board, a special
-representative on investigation pertaining to the manufacture of
-munitions. He is an ex-member of the Executive Board of the Canadian
-Manufacturers Association. In addition to the business interests already
-mentioned he is President of the Precision Manufacturing Company, St.
-Catharines; President of the Cary Safe Co., Buffalo, N.Y., and President
-of the Packard Fuse Co., Ltd., St. Catharines, and President of Canadian
-Standard Products, Limited, St. Catharines. Mr. Hamilton is a member of
-the following Clubs: National, Toronto; University, Buffalo; Alpha Delta
-Phi, New York; Ellicott, Buffalo; Little Saguenay Game and Fish Club. He
-is also a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and an
-Associate of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. In 1899 he
-married Edith Raphael, daughter of Gersham A. Seixas, New York, and has
-three sons and one daughter.
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-=Connolly, Bernard Gervase, M.B., M.C.P.S.O.=, Gen’l Manager of the
-Capital Trust Corporation of Ottawa, and Medical Referee of the Capital
-Life Assurance Co., was born in Trenton, Ont., December 5th, 1865,
-educated at the Roman Catholic Separate School and the High School and
-subsequently graduated with degree of M.B. in 1896 from Toronto
-University. He is the son of Bernard and Catharine (Murray) Connolly.
-Dr. Connolly started life as a teacher in the Public Schools in Ontario
-and later as a teacher in the Institution for the Blind, Brantford,
-where he remained for four years. He followed the Medical Profession at
-Renfrew for seventeen years, where, despite his large practice, he found
-time for various other activities. He was Coroner, served on the
-Collegiate Institute Board, Library Board, Hospital Board, and any
-movement for the improvement of the community got his ready and hearty
-support. Being an enthusiastic Liberal, he was chosen Standard Bearer of
-the Reform Party in the Provincial Elections of 1908, when, although
-defeated, he polled a large vote. In 1906 and 1907 he was Provincial
-Chief Ranger of the Catholic Order of Foresters. He served as Medical
-Officer of the 42nd Regiment of Infantry for some years, retiring with
-the rank of Captain. Since his arrival in Ottawa and as General Manager
-of the Capital Trust Corporation, Dr. Connolly’s career has been
-conspicuously successful. Under his capable management the Capital Trust
-Corporation has made rapid progress and is to-day one of the leading
-financial institutions in the Capital of the Dominion of Canada. In 1900
-he married Anna Mary Devine, daughter of Felix Devine of Renfrew. In
-religion he is a Roman Catholic; in politics a Liberal, and he resides
-at the Roxborough Apartments, Ottawa.
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-=Callahan, John= (Toronto, Ont.), son of Thomas Henry Callahan and
-Henrietta (McKanna) of Wooler, Ont., was born at Murray Township, County
-of Northumberland, Ont., April 7th, 1891. Educated at the Wooler Public
-School, Trenton High School and Osgoode Hall, Toronto. On being called
-to the Bar in May, 1916, he entered into partnership with Messrs.
-Douglas & Gibson, the firm being known as Douglas, Gibson & Callahan,
-which partnership continued until November, 1919, when he commenced
-practice on his own account. Mr. Callahan, although under thirty has
-already attained an assured position in his chosen profession. He has
-paid special attention to Company law and is solicitor for several large
-commercial corporations. Mr. Callahan is a Roman Catholic in religion
-and has for some years been identified with the Liberal party, taking a
-considerable interest in Federal politics. Having a pleasing address and
-good platform ability, his services were frequently requisitioned by his
-leaders. He is a member of the Ontario Club, Knights of Columbus;
-President of The Newman Club and ex-President of the Alumni, President
-of Ward Four Liberal Association. Always interested in amateur sports,
-Mr. Callahan was prominent in football circles. He finds recreation in
-motoring, boating, bowling and golf. Mr. Callahan is related to Senator
-McCall of Australia and Mr. Justice Sharp of the Supreme Court of the
-State of Michigan, U.S.A.
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-
-=Crowther, William H.= (Welland, Ont.), was born at Walsall, England,
-March 10th, 1868, and educated in the Public Schools of that place. Son
-of Job and Sarah Crowther, his father being manager of the Rolling Mills
-at Walsall, England. He is one of the most progressive manufacturers of
-the City of Welland and also operates a farm. Married in October, 1895,
-to Margaret Byers, daughter of Thomas Byers, of Hampden, County of Grey,
-Ont. Father of three sons. William Crowther, the eldest, was killed in
-action in the Great War on October 31st, 1917, at the age of twenty-one.
-As a Lieutenant in the 10th Royal Flying Corps, he was engaged in
-photographing and observation work near La Bassee when he was shot down;
-Wilfred, in the Royal Air Force, was billeted for France when the
-Armistice was signed; Thomas Albert, and a daughter Dora Isabel. Mr.
-Crowther is a Presbyterian in religion and a Liberal in Politics and
-belongs to the following societies: The Masonic Order, Sons of England,
-Ancient Order of United Workmen, Canadian Order of Foresters. He was a
-member of the town Council of Welland for twelve years and was Mayor for
-Welland for two years, 1909-10. Was an active member of the Patriotic
-Campaign Committee during the war and has been largely instrumental in
-contributing to the present prosperity of Welland, being Chairman of the
-Waterworks and Sewers Committees for two years, in each case. Ex-Mayor
-Crowther is recognized as one of Welland’s most public spirited and
-enterprising citizens. His recreations are lawn-bowling, he being a
-member of the Welland Club.
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-
-=Davidson, James Wheeler, F.R.C.S.=, 801 Royal Avenue, Calgary, Alberta,
-is one of the contributing causes of the entente cordiale between Canada
-and the United States. In other words, he is an American who has “made
-good” in Canada, as he has elsewhere. Mr. Davidson was born at Austin,
-Minnesota, on June 14, 1872, his father being C. H. Davidson, a
-newspaper man, and later, a banker. He was educated at Northwestern
-Military Academy, Highland Park, Illinois, where he graduated as Second
-Lieutenant in 1891. Mr. Davidson almost immediately embarked on a career
-of travel and adventure which was to bring him many honors. He was a
-member of the Peary Arctic Expedition of 1893 and 1894, a war
-correspondent for the New York Herald with the Chinese army, and later
-with the Japanese army during the Japanese-Chinese war of 1895-1896, and
-a member of the American foreign service stationed in Formosa, China,
-Manchuria, also American Consul-General at Shanghai and a special agent
-department of state between years 1896-1906. It was at this time that he
-became a member of the “Order of the Rising Sun” (Japanese), an honor
-not often accorded to foreigners. He was granted leave by the Department
-of State to serve on a special mission for the Russian Communication
-Department in Siberia, and was decorated by the Emperor of Japan for
-services rendered the Japanese army in the capture of the capital
-(Taipehfu) of Formosa. Under the Roosevelt administration he was a
-special agent of the Department of State, sent to Manila prior to
-Dewey’s expedition to determine probable attitude of Philippine
-revolutionary party towards Americans. His knowledge of these countries
-enabled him to write an authoritative book on “The Island of Formosa,
-Past and Present,” published by MacMillan & Co. He has also been a
-contributor to the Century Magazine on Siberia and Manchuria. Mr.
-Davidson is now treasurer of the Calgary Colonization Company, and
-Manager Beiseker & Davidson Company, of Calgary. He is a member of the
-Ranchmen’s Club, Calgary; the Manitoba Club, of Winnipeg; the Royal
-Geographical Society; the Explorer’s Club, New York, and the Authors,
-London. He is a Protestant in religion, and professes no political
-creed. In 1906 he married Mabel Lillian Dow, daughter of George A. Dow,
-of San Francisco, president of the George A. Dow Pumping Engine Company.
-He has one child, Marjory Dow, born February 10, 1915.
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-
-=Mackay, Hon. Col. Alexander Howard=, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, is one of
-Canada’s most prominent educationists. Born of Scotch-Canadian parents,
-John Mackay and Barbara Maclean, at North Mount Dalhousie, Pictou
-County, Nova Scotia, on May 19, 1848, Colonel Mackay early demonstrated
-his educational ability. He began his education in the public schools,
-then went to Pictou Academy, to Normal College, and to Dalhousie
-University, from which he graduated with a B.A. degree in 1873. He
-received his degree of B.Sc. at Halifax University in 1880; his LL.D.
-from Halifax in 1892, and from St. Francis Xavier University in 1905. In
-1882 he married Maude Augusta, daughter of Dr. George Moir Johnstone of
-Pictou, N.S., and has two children, George Moir Johnstone and Barbara
-Lois, born in 1883 and in 1886 respectively. Colonel Mackay is a life
-member of the Royal Colonial Institute, London, England; a member of the
-Author’s Club, London, England, and of the Halifax Club, Nova Scotia. He
-is also a member of the Royal Society of Canada and of the Biological
-and Geographic Boards of Canada. In religion he is a Presbyterian, of
-the United Church of Canada, and in politics he is non-partisan, but a
-strong Imperialist. He was made an honorary colonel in 1912 and was a
-member of the Dominion Cadet Committee which had the honor of
-introducing the present military training system into the schools of
-Canada in 1908. Colonel Mackay is now superintendent of education for
-the province of Nova Scotia. He began as a teacher in the public schools
-of Pictou and then became lecturer in biology at the medical college of
-Dalhousie University, and his subsequent career is a long list of
-educational honors. He is Past President of the Educational Association
-of Nova Scotia, of Dominion Educational Association, of Summer School of
-Science for Atlantic Provinces, of Nova Scotia Institute of Science, of
-Section IV. of the Royal Society of Canada; President of Victoria School
-of Art and Design; Vice-President of Simplified Spelling Board; member
-of the Geographic Board of Canada; of the Biological Board of Canada,
-Governor of Dalhousie University, of Halifax Ladies’ College; Senator of
-Presbyterian College; sometime editor of “Dalhousie Gazette,” “Acadia
-Scientist,” “Educational Review”; editor of “Journal of Education,”
-etc., represented the province of Nova Scotia at the official Imperial
-educational conferences of the Education departments of the Empire in
-1907 and 1911. Colonel Mackay has written extensively on educational
-subjects for a number of important magazines and periodicals.
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-
-=Whalen, George Frederick= (Vancouver, B.C.), one of the leading figures
-in the pulp and paper industry of Canada, was born at Fort William,
-Ont., November 13, 1880, the son of Joseph and Alice Whalen. He was
-educated in the Separate School and High School of his native city, and
-commenced his business career in 1899 as a clerk in the Ontario Bank at
-the adjacent town of Port Arthur. After a year’s experience he abandoned
-banking for the lumber business, serving as a clerk in the camps of
-far-western Ontario from 1900 to 1902, and subsequently a Contractor for
-taking out timber from 1902 to 1909. Incidentally he acquired a great
-deal of knowledge of the pulp industry, which at that time was beginning
-to assume large proportions in Canada, and in 1909 he was appointed
-Manager in charge of construction and operation of the Sulphite Mill at
-Mill Creek, British Columbia. In that position he remained until 1917
-when he became Vice-President and General Manager of the Whalen Pulp &
-Paper Mills, Ltd., which has its head offices in the Merchants Bank
-Building at Vancouver, B.C., and engages extensively in pulp and lumber
-manufacture on the Pacific Coast. The importance of this corporation,
-which was organized by the subject of this sketch, may be gauged from
-the figures of its capitalization: common stock $8,000,000; preferred
-stock (cumulative from January 1, 1918) $2,102,500; Fifteen year Six per
-cent. Bonds $2,000,000; Fifteen year Seven per cent. Debenture Stock,
-$1,500,000. Though young in years Mr. Whalen is recognized throughout
-Canada and the United States as one of the most able and progressive
-figures in an industry that enters very largely into the life of every
-community. His recreations are golf, fishing, motoring and hunting, and
-he is a member of the Vancouver, Shaughnessy Golf, and Burnaby Golf
-Clubs. In religion he is a Roman Catholic and on June 1, 1904, married
-Mary Geraldine, daughter of Patrick D. Doran, Kingston, Ont. He has
-three sons and one daughter, and resides at 1251 King Edward Ave.,
-Vancouver, B.C.
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-=Cousineau, Joseph Philemon, B.A., K.C., LL.D.=, of the firm of
-Cousineau and Lacasse, advocates, 90 St. James Street, Montreal, was
-born at St. Laurent, Quebec, in 1874, and is one of the many brilliant
-Canadians of French affiliations who have done so much to enrich the
-legal history of Canada. He is the son of Gervais and Angelique
-Cousineau and was educated at Ste. Therese College, and at Laval
-University, where he secured his B.A. in 1894, his LL.L. in 1896 and his
-LL.D. in 1901. He read law with J. Beauchamp and with C. R. Charles
-Bruchesi. He was called to the Quebec Bar in 1896 and was created King’s
-Counsel in 1909. Like many of his compatriots Mr. Cousineau united law
-and politics. He began his political career as mayor of St. Laurent, an
-office he held from 1904 to 1908. In that year he resigned his mayoralty
-to become member of the Quebec Legislature for the district of Jacques
-Cartier. He was re-elected in 1912 and in 1915 and 1916 was leader of
-the opposition at Quebec. His authorship in 1901 of a brilliant thesis
-“Des Corporations” was possibly one of the determining influences in his
-appointment to the professorship of “Droit Administrative” at Laval
-University, a position he has held since 1903. He is also a member of
-the Canadian and the Chapleau Clubs. In 1897 Mr. Cousineau married
-Helmina, daughter of L. S. Gendron. He has four daughters, Aline,
-Gilberte, Jeanne and Gabrielle. In politics he is a Conservative, and in
-religion a Roman Catholic. He still maintains the family residence at
-St. Laurent.
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-
-=Cutten, George Barton=, of Wolfeville, Nova Scotia, president Acadia
-University, is one of the interesting Canadians who have won educational
-honor in their own country. Dr. Cutten was born at Amherst, Nova Scotia,
-on April 11, 1874. His parents were William Herman Cutten and Abbie Ann
-Trefry, and their early training was doubtless responsible for their
-son’s brilliant career. At twenty-two he won his B.A. degree from
-Acadia, the university he was afterwards destined to govern as
-president; at twenty-three he was B.A. at Yale, and from then on he won
-in rapid succession his M.A. at Acadia, his Ph.D. at Yale, his B.D. at
-Yale, his D.D. at Colgate and his LL.D. at Acadia. In 1898 Dr. Cutten
-married Minnie W. Brown, daughter of John Ingerson Brown and Sophia
-Zwicker of Westfield, Mass., and his four children are Margarita Joy,
-born in 1902; Muriel Grace, born in 1904; Claire, born in 1906 and
-William Francis, born in 1908. Dr. Cutten is a member of two Greek
-letter fraternities, the Phi Sigma Delta, and the Phi Beta Kappa, is a
-Baptist in religion and an Independent in politics, but he is not a
-Pacifist, for he has held two military commissions—Captain in the 219th
-Battalion, and Major in the 246th. Dr. Cutten is the author of a number
-of interesting books: “The Psychology of Alcoholism” (Walter Scott
-Publishing Company, London), “The Psychological Phenomena of
-Christianity,” and “Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing,” both
-published by Scribner’s, New York; “The Case of John Kinsel”
-(Psychological Review), and “The Christian Life in a Baptist Church”
-(Marriott Press, Corning, New York.).
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-
-=Goring, C. C.=, manufacturer, of 172 Markland Street, Hamilton,
-Ontario, is a self-made man, and proud of it. He furnishes one of the
-numerous cases we have in Canada of the farmer’s son who gets well up
-the ladder by persistent, well-directed efforts along one line of
-business. Commencing as an oil salesman on “the road,” Mr. Goring
-eventually had charge of the sales force of a large refinery in New York
-State. From that he went into the jobbing and export department and
-eventually he incorporated a company which has done a successful
-business both in the United States and in Canada. He is now president
-and managing director of the Ontario Lubricating Company, Limited. Mr.
-Goring was born at Homer, Ontario, on March 31, 1878, his parents being
-Ransom Goring and Melissa Cushman. He received a Canadian public school
-education and went directly from school into business. On January 2,
-1907, he married Edith Wildman, daughter of Edwin Wildman, Hamilton,
-Ontario. He has two children, Gladys Irene, born February 15, 1909, and
-Gordon Hamilton, born January 27, 1915. Mr. Goring is a Protestant, a
-Conservative and a Mason.
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-
-=Dinnick, Lieut.-Col. Wilfrid Servington=, one of the leading financiers
-and public men of Toronto, was born at Guildford, England, on July 19th,
-1874, the son of (Rev.) John Dunn and Charlotte Matilda Dinnick. He was
-educated at York School, Brighton, Eng., and came to Canada in 1889. In
-that year he obtained a position in the office of the Provincial Loan
-Company, Toronto, where he remained for two years, joining the Canadian
-Birbeck Investment Security and Savings Co., with which corporation he
-remained until 1895. By the time he was twenty-one he had acquired
-through his natural aptitude for finance a very complete knowledge of
-the Canadian investment field and before he was thirty had become a
-prominent figure in Toronto financial circles. He is at present
-Vice-President of the Standard Reliance Mortgage Corporation, 84 King
-St. East, Toronto; and President of the Sterling Trusts Corporation.
-Notable among his business achievements was that of founding and
-organizing Lawrence Park, one of the exclusive suburban residential
-districts of Toronto, which by virtue of the policy which he adopted in
-the matter of planning and building restrictions, is one of the beauty
-spots of a city renowned for its palatial homes. His services of a
-public character became especially noteworthy during the late war. On
-Dec. 21st, 1914, he organized the 109th Regiment in which he holds the
-rank of Lieut.-Col. This organization largely through the energetic
-methods of Col. Dinnick sent to the front over 200 officers and 5000
-men, who served chiefly in the 84th and 169th Overseas Battalions and
-seven other quotas also. It also contributed the C.D.F. Battalion for
-home defence in Canada. As an organizer of public benefactions Col.
-Dinnick also showed indefatigable energy and organizing talent. He was
-largely instrumental in securing $2,400,000 for the Toronto and York
-Patriotic Fund in 1916; and $3,400,000 for the same object in 1917. He
-was also the organizer of the British Red Cross Appeal in 1915 and
-raised $550,000, which was increased to $740,000 in 1916. He has
-likewise willingly given his services to numerous appeals of a minor
-character, and many organizations have profited by his unique abilities
-in that field. He has been active in support of schemes of civic
-improvement and was the originator of the Back Garden development idea
-in Toronto, which has been blessed with excellent results. He is a
-Conservative in politics, a member of St. Paul’s (Anglican) Church,
-Toronto, and is Honorary Secretary of the Canadian Council of the Pocket
-Testament League. His recreations are Motoring and horse-back riding and
-he is the President and one of the founders of the Lawrence Park Lawn
-Bowling Club. He is also a member of the Albany, National, Toronto Hunt,
-Lambton Golf, Rosedale Golf, and Royal Canadian Yacht Clubs, Toronto,
-and of the A.F. & A.M. In New York on June 16th, 1905, he married Miss
-Alice Louise Conlin and has two sons and two daughters. His residence is
-at Bedford Lodge, Toronto.
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-
-=Ewing, William=, one of the best known of the younger business men of
-Montreal, was born in that city on May 4th, 1884, the son of William and
-Catherine Kinross Ewing. He was educated at Montreal High School and at
-L’Assomption College, L’Assomption, Quebec. On leaving college about
-sixteen years ago he joined the business of his father, who had
-established the firm of William Ewing & Co., Wholesale Seedsmen, at
-Montreal, in 1869. When the firm was re-organized as a joint stock
-corporation with the title of the William Ewing Co., Ltd., in 1913, the
-subject of this sketch became Secretary-Treasurer and also a Director.
-Formerly Mr. Ewing was known on the football field throughout Eastern
-Canada and is President of the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union and
-also of the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association Football Club. He is
-an active member of the M.A.A.A. and also of the Caledonian Society of
-Montreal. His recreations are fishing and football and he has also
-interested himself in military affairs and holds a commission as
-lieutenant in the 1st Regiment, G.G. of C. On July 22nd, 1910, he
-married Isabel Swanson Forbes, a daughter of Mr. George E. Forbes of the
-well-known firm of Forbes Bros., Wholesale Grocers, Montreal. He has two
-children, Isabel Graham, born May 10th, 1912, and William, born Dec.
-26th, 1914. In religion he is a Presbyterian and resides at 329
-Addington Ave., Notre Dame de Grace, Montreal.
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-
-=Kelso, John Joseph= (Toronto, Ont.), Journalist and Social Worker, has
-resided in Toronto since childhood, but was born in Dundalk, Ireland,
-March 31, 1864, son of George and Anna Kelso, descendants of Scotch
-Covenanters. Took up Journalism in 1886 and was for several years member
-of the “Globe” staff. Devoted to philanthropy, has written thousands of
-columns on Social Welfare. Organized Toronto Humane Society in 1886-7;
-Children’s Fresh Air Fund in 1888; Children’s Aid Society, 1891;
-Playgrounds Association, 1908; was mainly responsible for educational
-propaganda leading to passing of Children’s Protection Act by Ontario
-Government, and under its provision was appointed General Superintendent
-of Neglected and Dependent Children, and Inspector of Industrial
-Schools. In its initial stages Mr. Kelso had much to do with the
-inauguration of the Juvenile Court movement, having addressed the Waif
-Saving Congress on the subject at the World’s Fair, Chicago, in October,
-1893. He was also one of the first advocates of Widowed Mothers’ Aid and
-Workmen’s Compensation Boards. In March, 1898, Mr. Kelso addressed the
-Legislature of Manitoba and British Columbia and they unanimously agreed
-to adopt the Ontario system of child protection. In 1905 he visited Nova
-Scotia with the same successful result; in 1908 Saskatchewan, and in
-1913, New Brunswick. All Canada now follows the same methods of carrying
-on Child Welfare work, Mr. Kelso having organized over two hundred and
-fifty Children’s Aid Societies, in addition to Social Settlements, etc.
-Started Canadian Conference of Charities and Correction in 1897 and was
-elected Vice-President; was also elected Vice-President of National
-(U.S.) Conference of Charities in 1902. Represented Ontario at
-Conference on Child Welfare called by President Roosevelt and also at
-International Prison Congress held in Washington. These Conferences led
-to many present-day reforms. In 1903-5 Mr. Kelso performed notable
-service for the Province by emptying the Ontario Reformatory for Boys at
-Penetanguishene and the Ontario Refuge for Girls, by providing homes and
-situations for all the inmates. These institutions were converted into
-Hospitals for the Insane. Is still engaged in the work. Was married,
-1901, to Irene Madden Martin, of Nashville, Tenn., and has two children,
-a son and daughter. Is Elder and S.S. Superintendent of St. James’
-Square Presbyterian Church. He resides at 21 Prince Arthur Ave.
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-
-=Douglas, William James= (Toronto, Ont.), Journalist, is the General
-Manager of the “Mail and Empire,” one of the leading Canadian dailies
-and influential exponent of the Liberal-Conservative thought in Ontario.
-He is a son of the late James S. Douglas, A.M., M.D., Ph.D., and Frances
-Boardman, and was born in Hamilton, N.Y., U.S.A., May 28, 1846. After
-education at Milwaukee, Wis., he came to Canada in 1877, where he has
-held his present position for many years. Mr. Douglas married Eliza,
-daughter of Jeremiah Riordan, Surgeon in the Royal Navy, in 1868, and
-has four children—William, James S., Howard R. and Amy Douglas. He was
-formerly Vice-President of the National Club, and is a Trustee of the
-Toronto General Hospital, and of the Canadian Associated Press, of which
-he was a promoter. A Presbyterian in religion and a Conservative in
-politics. Mr. Douglas numbers among his clubs the National and Albany of
-Toronto, the Rideau of Ottawa, the Caledon Mountain Trout Club and the
-Cuckoo Valley Fishing Club. Is a Justice of the Peace for the County of
-York.
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-
-=Delage, Cyrille F.=, Notary Public (Quebec City, Que.), son of J. B.
-Delage and Mary E. E. Fraser, was born in the above place, May 1, 1869,
-and received his education at Quebec Seminary and Laval University,
-Quebec, from which last he graduated with the degrees of L.B., LL.B.,
-and LL.D. In 1894, Mr. Delage married Alice, daughter of Telesphore
-Boursseau and Celina Genest, by whom he has four children—Paul-Edouard,
-Maurice, Emile, and Marguerite. To-day, this distinguished Canadian
-holds the following public offices: Superintendent of Public Instruction
-for the Province of Quebec; officer d’Acadamie (France); member, Royal
-Society of Canada, French Section; Hon. President of the Quebec
-Provincial Exhibition Commission; President, Canadian Patriotic Fund,
-Quebec Branch; President National War Saving Committee, Quebec Branch;
-Honorary President of Society of Education, Canada; President, Catholic
-Committee, Council Public Instruction, Quebec; Member Protestant
-Committee, Council Public Instruction; and member Conseil des Arts et
-Metiers, Quebec. Council of Agriculture. At the time of his appointment
-as Superintendent of Public Instruction, the “Quebec Telegraph” said
-editorially: “Undoubtedly the Legislature will lose by his disappearance
-from it, but the Province will unquestionably be a large gainer by the
-transfer of his abilities, experience, and congenial tastes to the
-Department of Public Instruction.” A Liberal in politics and a Roman
-Catholic in religion, Mr. Delage is a member of the Canadian and
-Garrison Clubs of Quebec City, in addition to the Union St. Joseph, St.
-Roch; Union St. Joseph, Beauport; Artisans Canadiens-français; Alliance
-Nationale; Royal Arcanum, and the Independent Order of Foresters.
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-=Hocken, Norman Cecil= (Otter Lake Station, Ont.), Lumberman, the son of
-Henry Hocken and Lucina Soper, was born in Bowmanville, Ont., November
-28, 1880, and educated at the Bowmanville Public School. His father
-being in the lumber business, he naturally came much in contact with
-that line of business, so deciding to strike out for himself in 1903, he
-became connected with the Victoria Harbor Lumber Company, and the
-Charlton Sawmill Company, finally going into business for himself and at
-the present time is owner of four sawmills and upwards of fifty square
-miles of timber limits. In politics he is a Reformer and was nominated
-by the Liberal party as their standard-bearer for the constituency of
-Parry Sound, for the House of Commons, to represent them at the next
-Dominion Election. Mr. Hocken is a member of the Methodist Church, of
-the Board of Trade of the City of Toronto, of the Ontario Club, Toronto,
-and of the Masonic Order. He married the daughter of James Kydd, and has
-five children—Bernice, Melvin, Loydd, Ralph and Robert.
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-=King, Hon. James H., M.D., C.M., F.A.C.S.=, Physician and Surgeon,
-Cranbrook, B.C., President, King Lumber Mills, Ltd., Cranbrook, B.C.
-Born Chipman, N.B., January 18, 1872, son of Hon. G. G. and Ester Briggs
-King. Educated St. Martin’s Academy and McGill University. Practised
-Andover and St. John, N.B., 1895-1898. Came to British Columbia 1898;
-practised Cranbrook since. Vice-President Graduates Society, McGill
-University, 1908. Attended World Congress of Medicine and Surgery,
-Budapest, Hungary, 1909, and on this occasion was presented at the
-Austrian Court. Represented Cranbrook, British Columbia Legislature,
-1903, 1907; unsuccessful candidate for Kootenay to House of Commons,
-1911; elected to British Columbia Parliament, September 14, 1916;
-accepted portfolio of Public Works in the new government formed November
-29, 1916; one of the original Founders and Governors of the American
-College of Surgeons at Chicago, 1913. Married Nellie Sadler, Maple View,
-N.B., 1907. Societies: A.F. & A.M., I.O.O.F., K. of P. Liberal, Baptist.
-Residence, Victoria, B.C.
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-
-=Oliver, Hon. John= (Victoria, B.C.), son of Robert Oliver, of
-Derbyshire, England, and Emma Lomas, his wife, of Staffordshire. Was
-born on July 31, 1856, at Hartington, Derbyshire, England. In April,
-1870, his parents, with eight children, of whom the subject of this
-sketch was the eldest, left the Motherland, and eventually settled on a
-farm in Wellington County, Ontario. There he worked on his father’s farm
-in the summer and went to the woods in the winter, and, in his spare
-time, picked up stone masonry. In 1877, the future premier set out for
-Victoria B.C., with only a few dollars in his pocket and no particular
-job in sight. Twenty-three years later he returned to the capital as a
-member of the Legislature, and forty years afterwards he became head of
-the Provincial Government. Shortly after going to British Columbia, Mr.
-Oliver took up land in the Delta municipality, and to-day he is the
-proprietor of one of the finest farms in the province. Mr. Oliver has
-always evinced a genius for public service, and has always taken a keen
-and intelligent interest in public questions. He had not been long in
-the west before he was elected a member of the Delta Municipal Council,
-and was later reeve for several terms. He was first elected to the
-British Columbia Legislature at the general elections in 1900, and
-re-elected in 1903 and 1907. At the general elections in 1909, as leader
-of the Opposition, he contested two constituencies, Victoria and Delta,
-and was defeated in both. A similar experience awaited him in 1911, and
-again in the campaign in 1912. In 1916, upon the formation of the
-Brewster cabinet, he was appointed Minister of Railways and Agriculture.
-On the death of Premier Brewster, after one session in office, Mr.
-Oliver was called upon by the Lieutenant-Governor to form a Government,
-which he did, retaining his former portfolios, besides acting as
-Premier. His reputation as a parliamentarian of the first rank was
-firmly established by the part he played in the exposure of what was
-known as the “Columbia and Western Railway Scandal.” He was chiefly
-instrumental in having grants for some 650,000 acres of coal mining land
-in the Kootenay district cancelled. Premier Oliver was married on June
-20, 1886, to Elizabeth, daughter of William Woodward, of Mud Bay,
-British Columbia. He is the father of the following children: Robert,
-William Arthur, John Thomas, Charles Edward, Joseph, Elizabeth Alice,
-Sarah Ellen, Mildred Emma. Premier Oliver has for years been known as
-“Honest John,” and his long record for probity and fair dealing justly
-entitles him to this distinction. Although somewhat handicapped in early
-life by lack of scholastic training, the Premier was by nature a
-student, and he became a wide reader. He is a man of rugged honesty,
-industrious and aggressive, and enjoys a measure of public confidence
-which is indicated by the title conferred upon him by the people of his
-province. The Premier’s candour and courage are recognized as his
-greatest assets, while his long association with public affairs and
-foremost position in the Liberal party has made his name a household
-word in British Columbia. The Premier possesses sufficient property,
-acquired by his own industry, to make him independent of political
-fortunes. He is undoubtedly one of the most interesting and picturesque
-figures in Canadian public life.
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-
-=Ferguson, Hon. George Howard, B.A., LL.B., K.C., M.L.A.= (Toronto,
-Ont.), son of Dr. Charles Frederick Ferguson (Scotch), and Elizabeth
-Wallace Bell, his wife (Irish). Was born on the 18th day of June, 1870,
-at Kemptville, Ont. Educated at Kemptville High School, Toronto
-University, and Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto. Called to the bar in
-1894. Married April 14th, 1896, to Ella Cumming, of Buckingham, Quebec.
-Was a councillor for three years and a reeve for three years of the
-village of Kemptville. His father, Charles F. Ferguson, M.D.,
-represented the constituency of North Leeds and Grenville in the House
-of Commons from 1893 to 1896, when he retired. First elected to the
-Ontario Legislature at the general elections as the member for
-Grenville, 1905. Re-elected at the general elections 1908, 1911, 1912
-and 1914. A member of the Executive Council of the Hearst Administration
-as Minister of Lands, and Forests and Mines, December 22nd, 1914.
-Re-elected after assuming the office by acclamation, January 7th, 1915.
-He is an Anglican and a member of the Masonic Order; the Odd Fellows;
-Independent Order of Foresters; Orangemen and Maccabees. The Honorable
-Mr. Ferguson is a man of fine address and good oratorical ability. He is
-extremely popular with all members of the Legislature.
-
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-
-[Illustration: Hon. Adelard Turgeon, Quebec.
-R. W. Breadner, Quebec.]
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-
-=Grant, Gordon=, is the son of Peter Grant, a distinguished Civil
-Engineer who was employed on the construction of the Caledonia and Great
-North of Scotland Railways, who came to Canada in 1868, and who was from
-that date to its completion in 1876, employed on the construction of the
-Intercolonial Railway and subsequently on the Canadian Pacific Railway
-until its completion in 1885, and Helen (Gordon) Grant. Mr. Grant was
-born in Dufftown, Banffshire, Scotland, January 2nd, 1865, and came to
-Canada in 1872. He was educated in the Ottawa Business College and the
-Ottawa University. In 1882 Mr. Grant was invited to join the staff of
-his uncle, the late William B. Grant, C.E., who was then Chief Engineer
-of the Great Southern Railway in the Argentina Republic, and remained a
-member of his staff for six years, during which time he was employed on
-the construction of several hundred miles of railway. In 1887 there was
-a severe depression in the public works in that republic and railway
-construction came to a stop. Returning to Canada Mr. Grant was employed
-on the construction of the Sydney extension of the Intercolonial Railway
-until 1890. In July of that year he joined the staff of the late P. A.
-Peterson, then Chief Engineer of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and
-remained with him until July, 1893, when he accepted a position as
-Division Engineer of Construction on the Palm Beach extension of the
-Florida East Railway, and remained there until its completion in 1895,
-when he joined the Construction Department of the Canadian Pacific
-Railway, and was employed on the construction of the Crow’s Nest Pass
-and other Western branch lines until 1905, when he joined the staff of
-Mr. Hugh D. Lumsden, recently appointed Chief Engineer of the National
-Transcontinental Railway Commission. He was appointed Assistant District
-Engineer in May, 1906, Inspecting Engineer over the whole line in May,
-1907, and on the resignation of Mr. Lumsden in July, 1909, was appointed
-by the Government to the position of Chief Engineer and remained in that
-position until the completion of the Railway, when he was, in January,
-1917, appointed consulting Engineer to the Department of Railways and
-Canals, and also had charge of the work of completing the Quebec &
-Saguenay Railway from Quebec to Murray Bay, a very difficult piece of
-railway construction. In December, 1906, Mr. Grant married Katherine
-McCarthy, daughter of William McCarthy, Civil Engineer, and has two sons
-and two daughters. Mr. Grant is a member of the Canadian Society of
-Civil Engineers, a member of the American Railway Engineers’
-Association; and a member of the Rideau, Royal Ottawa Golf and Rivermead
-Golf Clubs. In religion Mr. Grant is a Catholic. His residence is 58
-Sweetland Ave., Ottawa, Ont.
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-
-=Rawlings, Henry Edward=, of 115 Crescent Street, Montreal, is a
-prominent Fidelity and Surety Underwriter in Canada and in the U.S.A.,
-and is the President and Managing Director of the Guarantee Company of
-North America, the “pioneer company” in its particular field on this
-continent. He was born in Montreal on September 25, 1875, the son of
-Edward and Lucretia (Carter) Rawlings, and was educated at Lennoxville
-Academy and in other institutions. His late father, Edward Rawlings, was
-the founder of the Guarantee Company of North America in 1872, and the
-son was brought up with a most complete knowledge of its business. He
-went to the United States in 1897, and entered various branch offices of
-the G.C.N.A. and its affiliated institution, the United States Guarantee
-Company of New York. About 1905 he was appointed Vice-President of the
-American Company and in 1909 returned to Montreal to assume executive
-control of the parent institution, the Guarantee Company of North
-America. At this time he took the title of Assistant-Manager and on the
-demise of his father succeeded him in the positions, President and
-Managing Director. He was also appointed to succeed the elder Rawlings
-as a Director on the Board of the Montreal Telegraph Company. Mr.
-Rawlings’ business duties, which are international in scope have
-engrossed much of his time but he has published one important guide to
-business corporations entitled “How to Prevent Defalcations.” When the
-war broke out he entered the Home Guard as a full private and qualified
-himself by military drill. His recreations are described as “motoring,
-golf, and a little of everything else.” In religion he is an Anglican
-and in politics a Conservative, and is a member of the following Clubs:
-Mount Royal, St. James, Montreal, Montreal Hunt, Forest and Stream,
-Royal Montreal Golf, Beaconsfield Golf, Indoor Tennis Club, Winter Club,
-Automobile Club of Canada, St. Paul’s Lodge, A.F. & A.M. and the Society
-for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Mr. Rawlings was married in
-1907 to a daughter of Hon. James Bunting Snowball, Senator and former
-Lieut.-Governor of New Brunswick, and one of the pioneer lumber
-merchants of that Province. The union has been blessed with two
-children, Margaret Snowball, and Henry Miller Fitzwilliam Rawlings.
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-
-=Hara, Frederick North= (St. Catharines, Ont.), was born in that city on
-April 28, 1856. Son of John and Charlotte A. (Phelps) Hara. Educated at
-the Public Schools of St. Catharines and began his business career in
-1874 as an office boy with S. Atkinson & Sons, Toronto. With said firm
-he subsequently became book-keeper and in 1878 returned to St.
-Catharines to accept a similar position with H. Patterson & Co. In 1884
-he was promoted to the position of office and business manager and in
-1893, when the firm name was changed to E. H. Phelps & Co., he purchased
-a partnership interest in the business and continued to act as business
-manager. In 1901, when the enterprise was re-organized and incorporated
-as the Canada Wheel Works, Ltd., he became its President and General
-Manager. In 1914 another change was effected when an amalgamation was
-arranged with the Windsor Turned Goods Co., Ltd., and the new
-corporation became known as the Canada Pole and Shaft Co., Ltd., of
-which Mr. Hara was appointed and still is President. His other business
-and industrial interests are extensive. He is President of the St.
-Catharines Steel and Metal Company, Ltd.; Vice-President of the Marathon
-Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.; President of the United Gas Co., Ltd.; a
-Director of Industrials, Ltd., St. Catharines; a Director of the Port
-Arthur Wagon and Implements Co., Ltd.; and is also interested as a
-shareholder in many other companies. During the recent war his business
-energy was sought in connection with Red Cross and Patriotic Funds and
-he became an ardent worker and supporter of them, and was a member of
-the local executive in connection therewith. Though on many occasions
-his fellow citizens have desired that he take public office, his only
-experience of the kind was thirty years ago when he served two years as
-a school trustee at Merritton. His recreations are motoring and golf,
-and he is a Past President of the St. Catharines Club; Vice-President
-(1918) of the St. Catharines Golf Club and a member of the Laurentian
-Club, Ottawa. He is also a member of the A.F. & A.M., and is a Liberal
-in politics. On June 5, 1905, he married Emma Catherine, daughter of Mr.
-John Baillie.
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-
-=Hough, John Atwell= (Matheson, Ont.), Police Magistrate, was born in
-Ireland in 1882, and received his early education in England and
-Scotland, but migrated to Canada at an early age. He was appointed
-Mining Recorder, Larder Lake Mining Division, with headquarters at
-Larder Lake, Ont., in March, 1907; four years later, however, the
-boundaries of the Division were enlarged and the head office moved to
-Matheson, where he now resides. As Police Magistrate for the Town of
-Matheson and part of the District of Temiskaming, Mr. Hough was placed
-in charge of all relief work from Ramore to Porquis Junction, after the
-great fire which devastated Northern Ontario on July 29, 1916, and many
-stricken families have reason to be thankful for the energy and public
-spirit with which he discharged this difficult task. John Hough is a
-Conservative in politics and a member of the Masonic Order. By his wife,
-Myrtle, daughter of M. Donaghue of Windsor, Ont., he has two children.
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-
-=Fifield, Albert Frank= (St. Catharines, Ont.), was born at Lowell,
-Mass., on Feb. 8, 1876. Son of Frank and Abie Mary (Cummings) Fifield,
-of Ashland, N.H. Educated at the Public Schools of New Hampshire and
-commenced his business career operating a machine shop in Ashland, in
-1896. This he continued until 1905, when he accepted a position as
-Construction Superintendent of the Jenckes Machine Company, Quebec, and
-has ever since been a resident of Canada. In 1907 he set up business at
-St. Catharines and engaged in buying and selling machinery until 1910.
-He established the Reo Sales Company for the sales of Reo motor cars in
-Canada, and, during this period, organized and fully carried out a coast
-to coast motor trip in a Reo car. This was the first trip of the kind
-made in Canada and Mr. Fifield furnished the car and men. In 1914 he
-organized and became the first General Manager of the Metal Drawing
-Company, Ltd., of St. Catharines. In pursuance of his policy of building
-up new industries in the city of his adoption, Mr. Fifield, when the
-demand came for shells from the British War Office, sold out his other
-interests and engaged in the manufacturing of munitions on a large scale
-with great success. In fact, he was one of the most prominent figures in
-this industry during the Great War. He also organized the American
-Patriotic Fund among former residents of the United States living in St.
-Catharines, part of whose revenues were subsequently diverted to the
-associated charities of the city, of which he was for a time chairman
-and is now a member of the executive. He also served as a member of the
-Executive Committee of the Local Branch of the Canadian Patriotic Fund.
-He is Independent in politics, a Protestant in religion and a member of
-the A.F. & A.M. His recreations are motoring, angling and hunting and he
-belongs to the following clubs: St. Catharines, Niagara (Niagara Falls,
-N.Y.), Buffalo Motor, St. Catharines Golf, and St. Catharines Canoe. On
-May 25, 1904, he married Velma Faunee, daughter of A. N. Linscott,
-Damarscotta Mills, Maine, and has two daughters.
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-
-=Wright, Harry George= (Hamilton, Ont.), Manufacturer, is the surviving
-partner and President of the E. T. Wright Company, Ltd., Tinware,
-founded in 1883, Mr. E. T. Wright having died in 1908, with whose
-passing the firm suffered the loss of a man whose practical knowledge
-and mechanical ability had done much to lay the foundations of the
-present flourishing business. Mr. H. G. Wright is well known throughout
-Canada, having represented the firm for many years on the road, where
-the many friends made in his younger days still know him best as
-“Harry.” Energetic and aggressive, he has always been the life of the
-concern since its inception. Coming as he does of good Devonshire
-fighting stock, it is not surprising to find that two of Mr. Wright’s
-sons are taking an active part in the Great War. Captain George Craig
-Wright, Vice-President of the firm, has just returned from the front,
-having served from the first and being the first officer to enlist in
-the Fourth Battalion of the City of Hamilton in 1914. He was the only
-officer of that battalion left at the battles of Langemarcke and Ypres,
-who was not either wounded, captured or killed. For efficient conduct he
-was promoted to his present rank and, although home on furlough, is
-acting as Brigade Major to the Sixth Brigade on the Niagara Peninsula.
-Mr. Gordon Wright, the Treasurer, has received his commission as a
-Lieutenant in the Thirteenth Royals. The subject of this sketch was born
-at Bethany, Pa., December 11, 1855, the son of Thomas W. Wright, and
-came to Hamilton five years later, where he received his education in
-the Public School and Commercial College. In 1889 he married the
-daughter of George Craig, of R. Hay & Company, Toronto, Ont., and has
-five children—George Craig, Kate, H. Gordon, Phyllis and Jack Edwin.
-Mr. Wright is a Liberal in politics and a Methodist in religion. His
-recreations are golf and bowling, and he is a member of the following
-clubs: Hamilton, Commercial, Royal Yacht and Victoria Curling, all of
-Hamilton, and the Ontario, of Toronto.
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-
-=Robertson, William Robert= (St. Catharines, Ont.), son of James J. and
-Elizabeth Robertson. Was born at Hamilton, Ont., on June 28th, 1875,
-where he received his education. Married September 17th, 1905, to Maud,
-daughter of P. J. O’Neil, of Merritton, Ont., and has one son (William.)
-Is the Superintendent of the Niagara, St. Catharines and Toronto
-Railway, and a member of the Masonic Order, Engineer’s Club, Toronto,
-and St. Catharines Club. Mr. Robertson has always been interested in
-amateur sports and was manager of the St. Catharines Hockey Team
-1908-13; President of the Niagara District Baseball League, 1910-14. He
-has been identified with all patriotic movements and took a leading part
-in raising funds for war purposes. He is Secretary-Treasurer of the
-Soldiers’ Aid Commission; Secretary of St. Catharines Recruiting League
-and was Military Representative on the Conscription Tribunal at St.
-Catharines. Mr. Robertson holds the rank of Lieutenant in the Provincial
-Corps Guides.
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-
-=Innes, Hugh Patterson, K.C.=, Barrister-at-Law of Simcoe, Ont., is a
-prominent figure in the politics of Western Ontario. He is a son of
-William P. and Marion (Livingstone) Innes and was born at Dundas, Ont.
-on Sept. 14th, 1870. His father is an eminent manufacturer and
-capitalist who was one of the pioneers of the canning industry in this
-country, and is now a Director of Dominion Canners, Limited. The subject
-of this sketch was educated at the public and High schools of Simcoe,
-Norfolk county, and studied for the legal profession at Osgoode Hall,
-Toronto. He was called to the Bar of Ontario on graduation in 1893, and
-has since practised at Simcoe, where he acts as Town solicitor and legal
-adviser for the Molsons Bank, Dominion Canners, Ltd., and other
-important institutions. He has also been a public and High school
-trustee for the town and was made a King’s Counsel in 1908. In the
-latter year he was the candidate of the Conservative party at the
-general elections for the Ontario Legislature and was elected.
-Subsequently he voluntarily resigned his seat to become the candidate of
-his party for the House of Commons in the Federal riding of Norfolk and
-was nominated in the spring of 1915, the date of the contest at that
-time being uncertain. In the autumn of 1917, however, after Union
-Government was formed it was necessary for Sir Robert Borden to ask
-certain Conservative candidates to make the sacrifice of withdrawing
-from the field in order to permit the election of prominent Liberals who
-had given their support to Union Government. Mr. Innes was one of these
-and his course in stepping aside assured the election of Hon. W. A.
-Charlton as a Liberal-Unionist representative of Norfolk. Nevertheless
-his election to the Commons at some future day may be regarded as a
-certainty. Mr. Innes is a Presbyterian and a member of the following
-lodges: Norfolk No. 10; A.F. & A.M. and Past Master Ezra Chapter, No.
-23; Royal Arch Masons. On June 29th, 1898, he married Mabel M., daughter
-of His Honor Judge Livingstone of Norfolk County and has eight children,
-Margaret Livingstone; Hugh Paterson, Jr.; Robert T. L.; Helen M.;
-Constance M.; Grace L.; James S.; and Edith V. Innes.
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-=Williams-Taylor, Sir Frederick, LL.D.= (Montreal, Que.), General
-Manager Bank of Montreal, is one of the outstanding figures in the
-financial world of Canada. During his eight years as Manager of the
-Bank’s London, England Branch, Sir Frederick was notably successful in
-financing many Canadian municipal and corporate undertakings in that
-market. Recently his abilities have been devoted to war-time financing
-in Canada. On both sides of the Atlantic, therefore, he has had wide
-experience in the flotation of high-class Canadian issues. In addition
-to being expert in all financial matters, Sir Frederick is possessed of
-marked personality and exceptional social charm. Born at Moncton, New
-Brunswick, October 23, 1863, the son of Ezekiel Moore Taylor and
-Rosalind Beatty. Sir Frederick entered the service of the Bank of
-Montreal in 1878; since then he has been successively Assistant
-Inspector, Head Office, 1897; Joint Manager, Chicago, 1903; Manager,
-London, Eng., 1906, and General Manager, November, 1913. The
-distinguished subject of this sketch was awarded a silver medal by the
-Royal Society of Arts for his paper, “Canadian Loans in London,” before
-the Royal Colonial Institute, 1912; was knighted, 1913, and received the
-honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of New Brunswick,
-1915. As a young man he won distinction in many forms of athletics,
-including rowing, tennis, squash and snow-shoeing. Sir Frederick married
-Jane Fayrer, daughter of Joshua Henshaw, Esq., Montreal, 1888, by whom
-he has one son, Lieutenant Travers Williams-Taylor, 13th Hussars,
-B.E.F., and one daughter, Mrs. Frank Duff Frazier, of 17 West 57th
-Street, New York, N.Y., and “Uplands,” Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass. In
-addition to being General Manager of the Bank of Montreal, Sir Frederick
-is a Director of the Allan Steamship Company, Ltd., and the Liverpool
-and London & Globe Insurance Company, Ltd.; Director and member
-Executive Committee, Royal Trust Company, and Vice-President of the
-Canadian Bankers’ Association. His clubs include Mount Royal, St. James
-and University, Montreal, Que.; Rideau, Ottawa, Ont.; York, Toronto,
-Ont.; Metropolitan and Down Town, New York, N.Y.; St. James, Bath, City
-of London, Ranelagh and Swinley Forest Golf, all of London, Eng. Sir
-Frederick resides at 686 Mountain Street, Montreal.
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-=Law, Bonnar B.= (Yarmouth, N.S.), late member of Parliament for
-Yarmouth County, N.S., was the son of William and Mary A. Law, of
-Yarmouth, and was born in Douglas, Mass., U.S.A., July 29, 1855. After
-graduating from the Yarmouth Public School, Mr. Law entered on a
-commercial career and was one of the successful merchants in his home
-town. For thirteen years he was a Director of the Exchange Bank of
-Yarmouth, until its absorption by the Bank of Montreal, and for six and
-a half years a town Councillor of Yarmouth. Mr. Law was a Director of
-the Canadian Wood Working Co., of the Yarmouth Hospital Society and of
-the Yarmouth Cemetery Co., as well as a trustee of the Yarmouth Public
-Library and of the Yarmouth Y.M.C.A. Mr. Law lost his life in the
-burning of the Parliament Buildings at Ottawa, February 3, 1916. He was
-first elected to the House of Commons at a by-election, December 3,
-1902, to fill the vacancy caused by the appointment of Mr. Thomas B.
-Flint as Clerk of the House of Commons. The fact that the late member
-for Yarmouth County was elected to the House of Commons at Ottawa for a
-fourth term, with the largest majority ever given a candidate from that
-Constituency, testified to the esteem in which he was held by those who
-knew his worth. Mr. Law married Agnes M., daughter of Capt. Joseph B.
-Lovett, and had an only child, Dorothy I. Law. He was a Methodist in
-religion and a Liberal in politics.
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-[Illustration: SIR FRANK W. BAILLIE
-Toronto]
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-=Hunnisett, James Edward= (Toronto, Ont.), Educationist, is the son of
-Frank and Maria Hunnisett, and was born at Toronto, July 14, 1879. He
-was educated at Givens Street Public School and Harbord Collegiate
-Institute, Toronto, also at Hamilton Normal College, graduating in 1899.
-He married Clarice Emley, daughter of Thomas Fussell, construction
-contractor, in 1910, and has one daughter, Jean Eleanor, born in 1912.
-Having obtained a scholarship from the Public School in Toronto that
-gave him free tuition at the High School, Mr. Hunnisett had no
-difficulty in realizing his natural bent for educational work, and was
-appointed Assistant Master at Palmerston Ave. Public School, Toronto, in
-1900. Since then he has been successively, Principal of Cottingham St.
-School, Toronto, 1907-09; Clinton St. School, Toronto, 1909-14, and
-Givens St. School, Toronto, 1914 to date. As member of a former
-championship team in Interfaculty Association Football at Toronto
-University, Mr. Hunnisett has always shown a consistent interest in
-promoting athletic games at the Public Schools of his city, and was
-President of the Toronto Public Schools Athletic Association in 1906.
-Mr. Hunnisett is a Conservative in politics and a Methodist in religion.
-His only fraternal connection is a life membership of St. Andrew’s
-Masonic Lodge, G.R.C. 16. Mr. Hunnisett has always worked along the line
-to make the Toronto Public School System second to none on the
-continent.
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-=Norcross, Joseph W.= (Montreal, Que.), is one of the chief factors in
-the Canadian shipping industry, and though still in his forties has
-built up a very important position for himself in the Canadian business
-world. He was born at Port Colborne, Ont., on May 14th, 1871, the son of
-Samuel R. and Susan (Deeks) Norcross. His father was engaged in Lake
-transportation and the subject of this sketch after an education at Port
-Colborne public school and Welland High School, himself entered the same
-calling. As a mere boy from 1890 to 1892 he ran his own boat, S.S.
-Varuna on the Bay of Quinte. As he grew older he gradually increased his
-interests in connection with transportation on the Great Lakes; on
-extensive amalgamations being effected in 1913, became Vice-President
-and Managing Director of the Canada Steamships, Ltd., the most important
-shipping corporation on Canadian Inland waters, which has much to do
-with the handling of this country’s grain crop, and is also a dominant
-factor in passenger traffic. In addition to the offices named he is
-President of the Canadian Chadwick Metals Co., Ltd.; Vice President of
-the Canada West Coast Navigation Co., Ltd. of British Columbia;
-Vice-President of the Collingwood Shipbuilding Co., Ltd.; Director of
-the Canadian Vickers, Ltd.; Director of the Sterling Bank of Canada; and
-Director of the Cluff Ammunition Co., Ltd. During the late war the
-Government availed itself of his expert talents by appointing him a
-Director of ship construction in connection with the Naval Service
-Department. In that capacity he rendered very valuable service to the
-Canadian community and refused to accept remuneration therefor. He is
-recognized by transportation men everywhere as one of the leading
-shipping experts of this continent. He is widely known in all the cities
-of the Great Lakes and a member of many clubs including the Albany and
-National (Toronto); Travellers’ (London); Montreal and St. James
-(Montreal); Mississauga Golf (Toronto); Cleveland Athletic Club;
-Kaministiquia (Fort William); and Shunia (Port Arthur). He is also a
-member of Montreal Board of Trade, the Toronto Board of Trade and the
-Winnipeg Grain Exchange. He is a Protestant in religion and was married
-on Jan. 2nd, 1895, to Jessie, daughter of John McCullough, Port
-Colborne, Ont., by whom he has two daughters, Jessie Eileen and Helen J.
-Norcross.
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-=McCarthy, Jesse Overn= (Toronto, Ont.), Vice-President and General
-Manager of the Security Life Insurance Co. of Canada, has been somewhat
-prominently connected for twenty-five years with the life insurance
-business of the Dominion and in the field of Social Welfare and Moral
-Reform. Nearly thirty years ago he began giving addresses on Child
-Welfare Problems and on different phases of Social Welfare work and
-legislation, when to speak on these matters was like “a voice crying in
-the wilderness,” and has seen the objects which he so strongly advocated
-accomplished to a remarkable extent in legislative and practical effort
-by the city and province alike. During that time he has given over two
-thousand addresses before churches, Canadian Clubs and municipal
-organizations. His entry into the municipal life of Toronto, first as
-alderman and then as Controller, was due to the adverse conditions
-prevailing at that time in the Isolation Hospital and his desire to see
-a thoroughly up-to-date and efficient Health Department established.
-Outside authorities and those familiar with the situation have stated
-that he was able to strongly interest and influence the Council in all
-health and social problems, so that splendid progress was made during
-the time that he was connected with that body. A Methodist in religion
-and a Liberal in politics, Mr. McCarthy served as Alderman of the City
-of Toronto, 1910-1911, and as Controller, 1912-1914. He is a member of
-the Board of Trade, the Sons of Temperance, the Royal Templars of
-Temperance, the Canadian Order of Foresters, and the Protestant
-Benevolent Society, as also of Parkdale Canoe and Lawn Bowling Clubs.
-Mr. McCarthy is the son of Charles Calahan and Margaret Frances
-McCarthy. He was born in Walpole Township, Haldimand County, Ont.,
-November 10, 1867, and was educated in the Public Schools. He married
-Mary, daughter of James Grant Davis, Jarvis, Ont., August 10, 1892, by
-whom he has two daughters, Lilian Pearl and Mary Vourneen, and one son,
-Jesse Davis.
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-=Massey, Charles Vincent= (Toronto, Ont.), Lecturer in Modern History,
-University of Toronto, and Dean of Residence, Victoria College, Toronto.
-The son of Chester D. Massey, Honorary President of the Massey-Harris
-Company, Ltd, and Anna (Vincent) Massey. Born in Toronto, on February
-20, 1887. Educated at the University of Toronto (B.A. 1910) and Balliol
-College, Oxford (2nd Cl. Mod. Hist. B.A. 1913, M.A. 1918). Married 1915,
-Alice S., daughter of George R. Parkin, C.M.G., D.C.L., Secretary of the
-Rhodes Scholarship Trust, Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England, by
-whom he has two sons, Lionel, born July 2nd, 1916, and Hart, born March
-30th, 1918. Mr. Massey is a Director of the Massey-Harris Co., and of
-the Toronto Housing Co., a member of the Board of Governors, Toronto
-General Hospital, and of the Art Museum, of Toronto, Vice-Chairman of
-the Massey Foundation, a Governor of the Wesleyan College, Montreal, and
-a Director of Ridley College, St. Catharines. He held a commission in
-the University of Toronto contingent, C.O.T.C., 1914-1915, was appointed
-to Headquarters Staff, Military District No. 2, November, 1915, to take
-charge of musketry training, and was promoted temporary Lieut.-Col.
-October, 1916. (Mentioned for services). He was appointed Secretary of
-the War Committee of the Federal Cabinet, January, 1918, and Secretary
-of the Dominion Government Repatriation Committee in December, 1918,
-becoming in March, 1919, the Director of the Committee. He is a member
-of the York, University, Toronto Golf and Arts and Letters Clubs, all of
-Toronto, and of the Savile Club, London, England. A Liberal in politics,
-and a Methodist in religion. Residence, Dean’s House, Victoria College,
-Toronto.
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-
-=Rowell, Hon. Newton Wesley, K.C., M.P.= (Ottawa, Ont.), is the son of
-late Joseph and Nancy (Green) Rowell. Was born in London Township,
-County of Middlesex, Ontario, on November 1, 1867, and was educated at
-the local Public Schools and the Ontario Law School, Osgoode Hall. He
-also holds the honorary degree of LL.D. from The North-Western
-University, Chicago (1915). Called to the Bar in 1891 with honors and
-medal, and created K.C. in 1902; has successfully practised his
-profession in Toronto as head of the law firm of Rowell, Reid, Wood &
-Wright, and has for many years been considered one of the leaders of the
-Bar. He has been a Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada since
-1911, is a Senator of Toronto University, and a Regent of Victoria
-University and very prominently identified with the Methodist Church,
-and with the Laymen’s Missionary Movement, and also with the Christian
-Endeavor movement; formerly Vice-President of the Ontario Dominion
-Alliance. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the House of Commons for
-East York in 1900, and was first elected to the Ontario Legislature for
-the riding of North Oxford in 1911 and re-elected in 1914. Was Leader of
-the Liberal Opposition of the Ontario Legislature from 1911 to October,
-1917, when he entered the Union Government at Ottawa, as President of
-the Privy Council. Honorable Mr. Rowell has a magnetic personality and
-is an exceptionally able platform speaker, and has a splendid grasp of
-all national matters. He has lectured on “Canada’s Future” and other
-national topics, and stands for the highest traditions of public life.
-He is a man of untiring energy and a gift of rare eloquence and a genius
-for public affairs. He has visited the Canadian soldiers in the trenches
-and has brought back messages from the boys at the front which he has
-delivered with much fervor. Honorable Mr. Rowell married, in June, 1901,
-Nellie, youngest daughter of Rev. Alex. Langford, D.D., of Toronto, and
-is the father of three children, William Langford, Mary Coyne and
-Frederick Nealon Alexander. He is a member of the following clubs:
-Rideau, York, National, Ontario, Rosedale Golf Club, Alpine Club of
-Canada. He finds recreation in horseback riding and golf.
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-=Sauvé, Arthur, M.L.A.= (Saint Benoit, Deux Montagnes), is leader of the
-Liberal-Conservative opposition to the government of Sir Lomer Gouin. As
-such he advocates, particularly, the fostering of agriculture and its
-allied industries, as also of those questions of social and political
-economy which most affect his province at the present time. Born at St.
-Hermas, Que., October 1, 1875, the son of Jos. Sauvé, the member for Two
-Mountains was educated at St. Therese College and married the daughter
-of L. de J. Lachaine, Notary Public. His children are Mercedes, Paul,
-Gustave and Pauline Sauvé. He is a Journalist by profession, a member of
-the Club Canadien, and the Club Morin, and a Roman Catholic in religion.
-Mr. Sauvé was elected a Member of the Legislative Assembly of the
-Province of Quebec for the Constituency of Two Mountains, in 1908, by a
-majority of 174, and in 1912 by a majority of 276. In the elections of
-1916 he was returned by acclamation and chosen as Leader of the
-Liberal-Conservative party in the Province.
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-
-=Machin, Lieut.-Col. Harold Arthur Clement, M.P.P.=, who represents the
-riding of Kenora in the Ontario Legislature, is one of the ablest and
-most aggressive members of that body, and has also had a distinguished
-military career in connection with the late war. Although born at
-Rochester, N.Y., on May 9, 1875, he is of English descent, the son of
-Rev. Canon C. J. Machin and Emma M. L. Machin, both of whom were born in
-the Motherland. Col. Machin as a child lived in St. John’s,
-Newfoundland, and later in Port Arthur, Ontario, in both of which cities
-his father served as an Anglican rector. In 1885 he was sent to England
-to be educated at The School House, Beaconsfield, Bucks county. He
-returned to Canada in 1893, and to Rat Portage, now Kenora; that town,
-despite many prolonged absences, has ever since been his home. He
-qualified for the law at Osgoode Hall, Toronto, and, after being called
-to the bar, practised in Kenora, and soon became widely known through
-that region of far western Ontario. Identifying himself with the
-Conservative party, he was first elected to the Legislature in 1908, and
-subsequently returned at the general elections of 1911 and 1914. From
-early manhood he showed military enthusiasm, and went to South Africa in
-1899 as a private in the 1st Canadian contingent under Col. (now Sir
-William) Otter. He served as private and n.c.o. until 1901, when he was
-given a commission in the South African Constabulary. In 1904 he retired
-with the rank of Captain, and returned to Canada, after which he spent
-the open seasons of the three successive years in prospecting for
-minerals in the Chibogomo and Mistissini districts of Northern Quebec.
-When the great war broke out, the old spirit of patriotism and adventure
-came over him again, and in 1915 he raised and became the O.C. of the
-94th Battalion, with headquarters at Port Arthur. He went overseas with
-his Battalion in 1916, and shortly after his arrival in England was
-directed to raise and command the Canadian Labor Battalion for service
-in France. He went to the fighting area with this battalion, and served
-six months at the advanced base and with the 4th British Army between
-Peronne and St. Quentin. In 1917, he returned to Canada on leave, and
-was retained for duty as a member of the Military Service Council,
-established in connection with the Military Service Act. On the
-completion of the work of the Military Service Council in 1918, Col.
-Machin became Director of the Military Service Branch of the Department
-of Justice, under arrangement with the Department of Militia and
-Defence. Both as a legislator and a judicial officer, Col. Machin has
-shown a fearlessness and ability in the expression of opinion that have
-commended him to persons of independent mind, even when in disagreement
-with him. He was one of the few men in the Ontario Legislature with the
-moral courage to assail the defects of the Ontario Temperance Act,
-though it was fathered by the government of which he is the elected
-supporter. His strong utterances against a bigoted attitude toward the
-French Canadians of Quebec and Roman Catholics in general, coming from a
-Protestant of English descent and education, have also been widely
-commended. On December 24, 1918, he was the recipient of an address and
-silver rose bowl from the officials who served with him and under him as
-Director of Military Service in the Department of Justice at Ottawa.
-Their sentiments were voiced by Crown Attorney J. A. Ritchie, who
-referred to him as their “guide, counsellor and friend.” He is a capital
-speaker, and in the Ontario Legislature his speeches are always hailed
-with interest. He is an adherent of the Church of England, and a member
-of the Toronto Club, Albany Club, Toronto Military Institute, and the
-Canadian Mining Institute. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical
-Society of England. On December 8, 1902, he married Miss Ida F. Knight,
-of Horner Grange, West Hill, Sydenham, England, and has two daughters,
-Ida A. K., born Bloemfontein, South Africa, December 7, 1903, and
-Barbara K., born Kenora, Ont., January 7, 1914. Though of late years his
-duties have carried Col. Machin far afield, his permanent residence is
-at Kenora, Ont.
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-
-=Senecal, Francis Albert= (Plantagenet, Prescott County, Ont.), County
-Clerk, is the son of Gedeon Senecal and Rose de Lima Blondin. He was
-born at Lefaivre, Ont., January 23, 1882, and received his education at
-Plantagenet School and Bourget College, Rigaud, and McDonald
-Agricultural College, Ste. Anne de Bellevue. Mr. Senecal has acted as
-Reeve of Plantagenet Township and was elected Warden of the County in
-1914, County Clerk in 1915, and County Road Superintendent in 1916. He
-is the Secretary of the Liberal Association in his riding and is the
-owner of “Mountain Side View Farm,” where he specialized in Ayrshire
-cattle. In 1906 he married Marie Louise, daughter of J. Bte. Lafrosse,
-of Alfred, Ont., and has five children—Alexandrine, Marie Jeanne,
-Madeline, Blaise and Jean Paul. He is a Roman Catholic and a member of
-the I.O.F., C.O.F., St. Joseph and Artisans Canadien Français Societies.
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-
-=Taylor, Albert William, J.P.= (St. Catharines, Ont.), was born in
-Toronto on October 10, 1873, and is the son of the late W. D. and
-Charlotte (Lee) Taylor. His ancestry is Scotch. Educated at the Toronto
-Model School, Jarvis St. Collegiate Institute, Toronto, and Ridley
-College, St. Catharines. He commenced his business career as office boy
-with the wholesale grocery firm of Sloan & Crowther, Toronto, in 1890,
-and was with them for five years, becoming a clerk and then a commercial
-traveller. In 1895 he became an Accountant with the firm of J. Marshing
-& Co., New York, and in 1900 became European representative of the Crown
-Silver Plate Co., London, England. In 1901 he returned to Canada and
-became a member of the firm of Mara & Taylor, stock brokers, Toronto. In
-1910 he went to St. Catharines to take his present position as Auditor
-of the Welland Vale Manufacturing Co., Ltd., manufacturers of hand
-agricultural tools, special forgings and edge tools. He is also Director
-and Treasurer of the Metal Drawing Co., Ltd., and Director and Secretary
-of the St. Catharines Realty and Building Co., Ltd. He is a Justice of
-the Peace for the County of Lincoln, a Director of Ridley College and a
-Trustee of the St. Catharines Tuberculosis Hospital. His recreations are
-golf, angling and shooting and he is a member of the St. Catharines
-Club; the St. Catharines Golf Club, Niagara Club (N.Y.), Albany and
-Royal Canadian Yacht Clubs, Toronto; the Tourilli Fish and Game Club,
-Quebec, and the Big Creek Shooting Club, Toronto. He is a member of the
-A.F. & A.M., a Conservative and an Anglican. On January 5, 1904, he
-married Jessie, daughter of Mr. J. L. Fenton, Decatur, Ill.
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-
-=Dalton, Hon. Charles, M.P.P.=, Minister without portfolio in the
-government of Prince Edward Island, resides at Tignish in that province.
-He was born at Tignish, P.E.I., on June 9, 1850, the son of Patrick and
-Margaret (McCarthy) Dalton, and was educated in the public schools. His
-father was a farmer, and the son has been especially identified with the
-raising of black foxes for the fur trade. He engaged in this business
-upwards of twenty years ago in a legitimate way, before it became a
-field for reckless speculators, and has bred some of the most valuable
-foxes in the world. He is President of the Charles Dalton Silver Black
-Fox Company, Ltd., one of the pioneer companies in this industry. He
-first entered politics 1900, when he was an unsuccessful candidate for
-the Prince Edward Island Legislature. Subsequently, in 1912, he was
-elected for Prince constituency, and became a member without portfolio
-in the Mathieson ministry, since which he has spent a considerable part
-of his time at the capital, Charlottetown. Hon. Mr. Dalton is one of the
-leading capitalists and philanthropists of his province. He gave a
-donation of $60,000 for the erection of a tuberculosis sanitarium at
-North Wiltshire, P.E.I., and also a benefaction of $55,000 to St.
-Dunstan’s University, P.E.I. Another of his public gifts was that of the
-Donald Ambulance, which he equipped for the Canadian Red Cross for use
-at the front during the late war. He is a Roman Catholic in religion,
-and has been honored with a papal knighthood by His Holiness, Pope
-Benedict XV. In politics he is a Conservative, and is a member of the
-Knights of Columbus and of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. On June 30,
-1874, he married Annie, daughter of Michael and Mary (O’Neil) Gavin, of
-Tignish, and has seven children, C. Howard, Joseph Gerald, Winnifred,
-Nora, Zita, Edith, and Irene.
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-
-=Perley, Sir George Halsey= (Ottawa, Ont.), Acting High Commissioner for
-Canada in England, and Overseas Minister of Militia and Defense in the
-Cabinet of Sir R. L. Borden, Premier of Canada, is the son of the late
-W. G. Perley, who represented Ottawa in the House of Commons from 1887
-to 1890, and was senior member of the well-known lumber firm of Perley &
-Pattee. Sir George Perley was born at Lebanon, N.H., in 1857, but coming
-to Ottawa in early youth, received his primary education at the old
-Grammar School of that city, and later attended Harvard University, from
-which he graduated in 1878 with the degree of B.A. In 1900 the present
-Cabinet Minister contested the County of Russell unsuccessfully, and was
-also unsuccessful in a by-election for the County of Argenteuil, held in
-1902. Perseverence, however, and the ability which marked these
-campaigns led to his return for the latter County at the General
-Elections of 1904, since when he has been twice re-elected in 1908 and
-1911. On the re-organization of the Conservative Party Executive, during
-its last session in Opposition, Sir George Perley was chosen as Chief
-Whip, in which capacity he showed such tact and ability as Mr. Borden’s
-Chief Lieutenant, and also in directing the organization for the Ottawa
-Valley District during the Reciprocity Campaign, that the latter, on his
-accession to power, appointed him a Minister Without Portfolio. After
-the death at an advanced age of Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal in 1913,
-Mr. Perley was sent to England to replace him, with the title of Acting
-High Commissioner for the Dominion of Canada, a position which he has
-since filled with such distinction as to earn for him the honor of
-Knighthood. In the re-organization of the Department of Militia and
-Defense, following the resignation of Sir Sam Hughes, Sir George became
-the first Overseas Minister of that Department. He has been for years a
-Director and Vice-President of a number of large lumber companies, and
-is a Director of the Bank of Ottawa. Nowhere, however, has his executive
-ability been more strikingly displayed than in his discharge of the
-duties of Chairman of the Relief Committee in connection with the
-disastrous fire of 1900 that devastated the cities of Ottawa and Hull.
-Sir George Perley married Annie Hespeler Bowlby, daughter of the late W.
-H. Bowlby, K.C., Kitchener, Ont., in 1884 (deceased, August, 1910);
-secondly, Emily Colby White, daughter of the late Hon. Thomas White,
-June 11, 1913.
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-=Mather, James=, is one of Ottawa’s oldest, best known, and most
-accomplished architects, whose handiwork and skill is seen in almost
-every section of Ottawa—in the fine residential, office, department,
-business, and public buildings. Mr. Mather is a Director of Beechwood
-Cemetery; Director, Pritchard & Andrews Co., Ltd., Ottawa. He was born
-at Montrose, Scotland, December 9, 1843, and is the son of James and
-Jane (Low) Mather. He received his education in the Bowman Academy,
-Scotland. In 1872, Mr. Mather came to Canada, since which time he has
-practised his profession in Ottawa. He married Margaret Piper, and has
-one daughter. He is a member of the A.F. & A.M.; is independent in
-politics; has his office at 110 Wellington Street; and resides at 328
-Chapel Street, Ottawa, Ontario.
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-
-=Barrow, Hon. Edward Dodsley, M.P.P.=, Minister of Agriculture for the
-Province of British Columbia, is one of those Canadians of English birth
-who have risen to high position in their adopted country. He was born at
-Ringwood, Hants, England, in 1867, the son of Stephen and Sarah (Barnes)
-Barrow. His father was a farmer, and the subject of this sketch was
-educated at the public schools of his native place. Coming to this
-country, he settled at Chilliwack, B.C., and successfully engaged in
-farming. He became widely known in his district, and at the general
-elections for the legislature in 1916 he was induced to contest
-Chilliwack as a Liberal candidate, and was elected. In 1918, Hon. John
-Oliver, the present Prime Minister of British Columbia, on accepting
-that office, relinquished the ministry of Agriculture, and asked Mr.
-Barrow to enter his cabinet as administrator of that portfolio. Mr.
-Barrow accepted, and his conduct of the office has brought much
-satisfaction to the agricultural interests throughout the province. He
-is a protestant in religion, a Liberal in politics, and a member of
-Ionic Lodge, No. 19, A.F. & A.M. His favorite recreations are hunting
-and fishing. In 1891, he married Millicent E., daughter of Thomas R.
-Knight, contracting builder, of Wickham, Hants, England, and has two
-daughters, Dorothy M. and Hilda G. Barrow. Though compelled by his
-duties to spend much of his time at Victoria, B.C., Mr. Barrow’s home is
-still at Chilliwack.
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-
-=Corrigan, Ambrose Eugene=, is the Managing Director of the Capital Life
-Assurance Company, which he organized in 1912, and which, under his able
-management, has made rapid advancement in the life assurance business in
-Canada, and is now recognized as one of the best and most economically
-conducted companies in the Dominion. In 1913, Mr. Corrigan organized the
-Capital Trust Corporation, and, in 1914, he organized the Anglo-Colonial
-Bureau, London, England. All of these enterprises were organized on a
-remarkably firm basis and with much skill, and their success from the
-start has more than met with the most sanguine expectation. All of them
-are to-day in a flourishing condition, and are growing in both strength
-and prestige as they grow older. In that part of western Ontario, now
-known as Mount Forest, in the vicinity of Nottawasaga Bay and Lake
-Huron, when prairie and forest lands and the adjacent water stretches
-were the only attractions, there being no signs of habitation, and no
-evidence that, in the near future, even a small settlement would be
-established, in 1830, Mr. James Corrigan, the grandfather of the subject
-of this sketch, arriving from Ireland, settled, and became the first
-settler in that vicinity. With indomitable pluck and spirit
-characteristic of his ancestors, he set to work to cultivate the soil,
-to build up a home. The next settlers to arrive were the Martins, the
-ancestors of Premier Martin of Saskatchewan, and then came others and
-others, and more and more land was tilled and houses built until Mount
-Forest became a flourishing agricultural and business centre. But it was
-James Corrigan who set the ball rolling, and sounded the clarion call to
-the others to follow. It was in Mount Forest, May 28, 1881, that Mr.
-Ambrose Eugene Corrigan was born, and at the public and high schools
-there received his first tuition, which was enlarged at the O.A.C.,
-Guelph, Toronto University, and the Ontario Normal School, Hamilton,
-Ont. Starting out at the early age of 23 years, Mr. Corrigan, in 1904,
-became the teacher of mathematics in the Elora High School. In 1905, he
-became attached as a teacher to the Renfrew Collegiate Institute, and,
-in 1906, we find him in full harness on the teaching staff of the Ottawa
-Collegiate Institute. From 1907 to 1911, Mr. Corrigan was manager of the
-Eastern Ontario Branch of the Confederation Life Assurance Company. Mr.
-Ambrose Eugene Corrigan is the son of Michael and Ellen (Murphy)
-Corrigan. In 1909, he married Rosemary Lunny, daughter of James Lunny,
-of Smith’s Falls, Ontario. Five children—three boys and two girls—have
-blessed the union. Mr. Corrigan is a Director of the Newman Club,
-Toronto, of the Anglo-Colonial Bureau, London, England, and
-Vice-President of the Capital Trust Corporation. He is a member of the
-Laurentian and the Rivermead Golf Clubs, and of the Knights of Columbus.
-Golf is Mr. Corrigan’s favorite recreation. In religion he is a Roman
-Catholic. His business office is at 14 Metcalfe Street, and his
-residence 301 Laurier Avenue East, Ottawa, Ontario.
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-
-=Daniels, Hon. Orlando T.= (Halifax, N.S.), son of Wellington Daniels
-and Lavinia Daniels. Born March 20, 1860, at Laurencetown, Annapolis
-County, N.S. Educated at Laurencetown Public Schools, University of
-Acadia College, Wolfville, King’s County, N.S. Married on November 29,
-1893, to Mary L. Muir, and is the father of one daughter, Ethel M.
-Daniels. Barrister-at-law. First elected to Legislative Assembly at a
-by-election on March 6, 1906, for Annapolis County. Re-elected at the
-general elections, June 20, 1906, and at the general elections in 1911.
-Appointed a member of the Executive Council of Nova Scotia without
-portfolio, March 16, 1907. Appointed Attorney-General to succeed Hon.
-Alex. Maclean; resigned to accept nomination for the House of Commons,
-October 10, 1911. He was re-elected in 1917. He is a member of the
-Church of England, and a Liberal.
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-
-=Faulkner, Hon. George Everett= (Halifax, N.S.), son of Thomas and
-Arabella Faulkner (North of Ireland ancestry). Born January 31, 1855, at
-Glenholme, Colchester, N.S. Educated at Glenholme and Pictou Academy.
-Married on October 23, 1883, to Laura Guille Denison, daughter of
-William Denison, M.D., and is the father of two daughters. He is senior
-member of Faulkner & Company, insurance and financial agents, Halifax;
-President of The Maritime Trust Corporation; President of The Nova
-Scotia Furnishing Co., Ltd.; Director Eastern Canada Savings and Loan
-Co.; Director Maritime Telegraph & Telephone Co., Ltd., and other
-corporations. Member Nova Scotia Legislature for Halifax, June, 1906;
-re-elected, 1911; elected Speaker of Legislative Assembly, February,
-1910; re-elected, 1916; appointed to Executive Council for Nova Scotia
-without portfolio, June 28, 1911. President Halifax Board of Trade,
-1908; appointed to the Board of School Commissioners for the City of
-Halifax by the Government of Nova Scotia, 1895. Chairman, Board of
-School Commissioners, 1898. Alderman, Halifax, 1896-1901, serving as
-Chairman, Financial Committee, and on other important committees. A
-Governor, Halifax Ladies’ College; a Governor, School for the Deaf. He
-is a Presbyterian in religion, and a Liberal. He belongs to the
-following clubs: Canadian (President, 1911), City.
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-
-=Sloan, Hon. William, M.P.P.=, Minister of Mines for the Province of
-British Columbia, is also one of the best known capitalists and public
-men of the Pacific Coast. He was born in Wingham, Huron County, Ontario,
-on September 10, 1867, the son of Dr. R. J. and Elizabeth (McMichael)
-Sloan, and was educated in the public schools and at the Collegiate
-Institute, Seaforth, Ont. While he was still a boy, his father removed
-to Shanghai, China, where the elder Sloan still resides. After two years
-in the Orient, the subject of this sketch returned to Canada, locating
-in Victoria, British Columbia, in 1887, and later residing at Vancouver
-and at Nanaimo, B.C. The mining possibilities of the region soon claimed
-his attention, and he was one of the discoverers of the Eldorado Creek
-placer gold deposits in the Yukon territory in the later nineties. His
-enterprise in that country laid the foundations of a substantial
-fortune, and on his return to Victoria, he became Liberal candidate for
-the House of Commons for Vancouver Island at the general elections of
-1900. He was re-elected both in 1904 and 1908, and became one of the
-most popular figures in Ottawa during that period. Shortly after his
-election in 1908, he resigned his seat in order that the late Hon.
-William Templeman, who had been Appointed Minister of Inland Revenue,
-might be elected as his successor. For eight years Hon. Mr. Sloan
-remained in retirement, so far as politics were concerned; but in the
-political upheaval of 1916 he consented to join forces with those who
-were anxious to reform the administration of his province, and was
-elected to the British Columbia Legislature for Nanaimo at the general
-elections of September 14, 1916. On the formation of a new government,
-he was offered, and accepted, the portfolio of Minister of Mines, and
-was sworn in on November 29, 1916. His administration has been noted for
-progressive business management, and the expert knowledge he is able to
-bring to his task. He is married, and has one son, Gordon Sloan. He is a
-member of the Vancouver, Union (Victoria), and Rideau (Ottawa) Clubs,
-and his favorite recreations are hunting and fishing. In politics he is
-a Liberal, and in religion a Presbyterian.
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-
-=Lennox, Lieut.-Col. Thomas Herbert, K.C., M.L.A.= (Aurora, Ont.), son
-of Thos. and Margaret Lennox, both Irish. Born on April 7th, 1869, at
-the Township of Innisfil, County of Simcoe. Educated at the Barrie
-Public Schools and Collegiate Institute and Osgoode Hall, Toronto. Was a
-member of the Town Council of Aurora for three years and of the Aurora
-School Board for six years. Was first elected to the Ontario Legislature
-as the member for North York at the general elections in 1905. For years
-North York was the stronghold of the Liberal Party and its final
-redemption by Lieut.-Col. Lennox gave him an unique place in public
-favor and a strong position in Provincial Politics. He was re-elected at
-the general election in 1908, 1911 and 1914, and is to-day the most
-popular man in the riding. A few years ago the member for North York
-originated the “Lennox Picnic” which has been declared to be the biggest
-affair of its kind in the world. Up at Jackson’s Point on the beautiful
-shores of Lake Simcoe, his constituents and friends hold their annual
-gathering of thirty thousand people. Each year the attendance grows
-bigger and the people throng to it from all parts and it is now
-recognized as being the most popular out-of-door festival of the year.
-Lieut.-Col. Lennox has always taken a keen interest in sports of all
-kinds, particularly lacrosse, and played the game himself. He was
-elected President of the Canadian Lacrosse Association, following which
-he was elected President of The Presidents’ Association. As a sound
-lawyer and an able counsel, Lieut.-Col. Lennox enjoys a large and
-lucrative practice, being solicitor for the County of York, and several
-corporations. He is a Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada and a
-King’s Counsellor. On the outbreak of the war, having had previous
-Military experience as Lieutenant of the Twelfth York Rangers and later
-a Squadron Commander of the Governor-General’s Body Guard, and
-subsequently as Major of an Irish regiment known as the 110th,
-authorized by the Minister of Militia, he undertook the raising of an
-Irish Canadian Battalion. The onerous work of recruiting began on the
-17th day of March, 1915, and no finer body of men ever rallied to the
-colors in so short a time. Men flocked to the standard of the popular
-member for North York, and the battalion, which was known as the 208th
-or “The Irish Fusiliers,” was accompanied overseas by Lieut.-Col.
-Lennox, where they gave a splendid account of themselves. This battalion
-had one of the finest brass and bugle bands in the Canadian forces and
-also the fully equipped Brian Boru Irish War Pipe Band, the first of its
-kind in Canada, made possible by the splendid generosity of Mrs. Ambrose
-J. Small, of Toronto. Lieut.-Col. Lennox was married on June 5th, 1894,
-to Louise, daughter of Edward Meeking, of Barrie, and has one son,
-Herbert Sidney Lennox. He is a member of the following Clubs and
-Societies: Albany, Military Institute; Masonic Order; Sons of England;
-Orange Order; Foresters; Odd Fellows and The Workmen. In religion he is
-an Anglican. Honorable Mr. Justice Lennox, of the Supreme Court of
-Ontario, is a cousin of the member for North York. Lieut.-Col. Lennox
-enjoys a very wide popularity among his fellow legislators, and his
-constituents in North York. He makes friends everywhere and retains them
-by his personal magnetism. He is recognized as one of the best types of
-Canadian manhood, and has spared neither time nor energy to always
-inculcate a strong National sentiment.
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-=Veniot, Hon. Peter John= (Bathurst, N.B.), born October 4, 1863, at
-Richibucto, N.B. Son of Captain Stephen Veniot and Mary Morell, his
-wife, both French. Educated at Pictou Academy, Pictou, N.S., from which
-he graduated in 1882. Married on February 8, 1885, to Cathelene
-Melanson, daughter of Raphael Melanson, of parish of Shediac, N.B., and
-is the father of six children: Dr. C. L. Veniot, married to Mary Leger;
-A. S. Veniot, C.F., married to Jane Gautrear; Dr. J. L. Veniot, dentist;
-Lieut. W. L. Veniot, who went overseas with the 132nd Battalion, married
-to Mina Cote; Lieut. P. J. Veniot, Jr., formerly of the famous 26th
-Battalion; and Francis P. Veniot, attending college. Member of the New
-Brunswick Legislature from 1894-1900. Collector of Customs from
-1900-1911. Elected a member for the constituency of Gloucester at the
-general elections in 1917, and taken into the Foster cabinet, on its
-formation, as Minister of Public Works for the province, and re-elected
-at by-election on April 23, 1917. He is a Roman Catholic in religion,
-and a Liberal. He is a member of the Catholic Mutual Benefit
-Association, Knights of Columbus, Assumption, and Artisans. His
-principal recreations are curling and boating.
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-=Winkler, Hon. Valentine, M.P.P.=, Minister of Agriculture for Manitoba,
-is a public man who has been largely identified with the progress and
-growth of that province. He was born at Neustadt, Grey County, Ont., on
-March 18, 1864, the son of David and Barbara J. (Lang) Winkler. He was
-educated at the public schools of his native village, and as a very
-young man went to Manitoba in the days of its early development,
-settling at Morden, where he became a farmer, and also engaged
-extensively in the lumber business. His friends and neighbours induced
-him to enter politics at an early age, and he entered the municipal
-office, serving as reeve of Stanley. In 1892, the late Hon. Thomas
-Greenway, for some years Premier of Manitoba, induced him to run for the
-riding of Rhineland, now called Morden and Rhineland, as a Liberal, and
-he was elected. He was re-elected at the general elections of 1896 and
-also at those of 1899, though the latter contest resulted in the defeat
-of his party in many constituencies. In 1900, he was induced by Sir
-Clifford Sifton, then the Western leader in the Laurier administration,
-to resign his seat in the Legislature, and contest the riding of Lisgar
-for the House of Commons at the Federal elections of that year. In this
-contest he was unsuccessful, but was immediately re-nominated for the
-Legislature in his old constituency of Rhineland, and was returned at a
-by-election on November 19, 1900, and has ever since continued to hold
-that seat, despite the fact that from 1899 until 1915 his party
-continued in opposition. The general elections of the latter year
-brought the Liberals back to power, and one of the first acts of the new
-Premier, Hon. Mr. Norris, was to send for Mr. Winkler and offer him the
-portfolio of Agriculture in his government. Mr. Winkler accepted, and as
-an administrator has shown himself thoroughly in touch with all
-progressive movements for the benefit of the farming industry. He is
-widely popular with both parties in the Legislature, of which he is the
-oldest member in point of service. On March 31, 1886, he married
-Josephine, daughter of M. B. Rombough, Dominion Land Surveyor, and has
-four children, Howard W., Hazel F., Ruth W., and Josephine R. Winkler.
-His address is the Parliament Buildings, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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-Welland, Ontario]
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-=Champagne, Napoleon.= Controller Napoleon Champagne, barrister, many
-years ago, became well known to the citizens of Ottawa. Well educated,
-talented, aggressive, ambitious and persistent, he has year after year
-kept himself in the public eye, and has been, and deservedly so,
-accorded public recognition. On several occasions he was selected by the
-Conservatives of Ottawa as their candidate for political honors in the
-Federal Parliament, and on each occasion he made a gallant fight to
-achieve success. When, in the early part of 1918, the famous Blue Devils
-of France, those brave fellows who made themselves famous in many
-battles during the terrible world war by their dare-devil conduct,
-reached Ottawa, Controller Champagne was selected to receive and welcome
-them. His address of welcome was one of the finest gems of oratory heard
-during the war. Mr. Champagne is the son of Seraphin Champagne, grocer,
-and Melina Duchene. His brother, Albert Champagne, is the member for
-North Battleford, Saskatchewan, in the House of Commons. He was born in
-Ottawa, May 4, 1861, and was educated in the Christian Brothers School.
-He has been a frequent contributor to both English and French newspapers
-and French magazines. In civic life, Controller Champagne has had a
-phenomenal career. He has served in the City Council as alderman for the
-years 1892-3-4-5-6-9, 1900-1-2-3-4-5-6-7, fourteen years, and as
-Controller for the years 1908-9-10-11-14-15-16-17-18-19, ten years.
-During the latter part of 1908, Controller Champagne, owing to the
-resignation of Mayor Scott to accept a position on the Dominion Railway
-Commission, became acting mayor, and held the office with much dignity.
-Since Controller Champagne first entered into civic life as one of the
-city’s representatives, he has rendered effective service on the
-following committees: Fire and Light, Waterworks, Board of Health,
-By-Laws, Printing, Library, and Finance, of which he was chairman for
-several years. He was also a member of the following special committees:
-Conduit, City Charter, Street Lighting, and Water Power. Controller
-Champagne is a member of the Union St. Joseph Society and the Artisans
-Canadiens Français. Mr. Champagne is a brilliant and successful lawyer,
-and has distinguished himself in several important law cases,
-particularly in two murder cases, in which his handling of the witnesses
-and his ability in cross-examination created quite a stir, and placed
-him in the front ranks of the legal profession in Ottawa. He practises
-law in both provinces—Ontario and Quebec—and has a large clientele in
-each. In 1911, Mr. Champagne was elected to the Ontario Legislature. He
-was slated for, and had he not been defeated at the election of 1914,
-would have become a member of the Provincial Government. He never
-married. In religion he is a Roman Catholic, and in politics a
-Conservative. His law office is at 30 Rideau Street, and he resides at
-184 Osgoode Street, Ottawa, Ont.
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-=Sifton, Hon. Arthur Lewis, M.A., LL.B., D.C.L., K.C.=, was born in St.
-John’s County, Middlesex, Ontario (about six miles from London,
-Ontario), October 26, 1858, of Irish descent. He is the son of the late
-Hon. John W. Sifton, formerly Speaker of the Manitoba Assembly, who, in
-1875, with his family left Ontario for Manitoba, where he executed a
-number of public contracts and conducted an extensive wheat farm near
-Brandon, and Kate Sifton, and a brother of Hon. Sir Clifford Sifton,
-ex-Minister of Interior and Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs in
-the Laurier Cabinet. Mr. Sifton was educated in various public schools,
-in Wesley College, Winnipeg, Manitoba, and in Victoria University,
-Cobourg, Ontario. In 1880 he was awarded his B.A., and in 1888 his M.A.
-and LL.B. degrees. In 1880, Mr. Sifton began the study of law in
-Winnipeg, and was admitted to the bar of Manitoba in 1883. In 1882 he
-was elected a member of the first municipal council, and, the following
-year, in 1883, commenced his legal practice in Brandon, Manitoba. He
-remained in Brandon until 1885 when he removed to Prince Albert,
-Saskatchewan, where for a few years he continued his practice, and then
-removed to Calgary, Alberta, in 1889. In 1898, Mr. Sifton was elected to
-the North-West Assembly. In 1901 he was created a K.C. In the same year,
-having been re-elected a member of the North-West Assembly, Mr. Sifton
-became Treasurer and Commissioner of Public Works in the Haultain
-Administration. In January, 1903, he resigned his portfolio to accept
-the position of Chief Justice of the Superior Court of the North-West
-Territories. In 1905, when the new provinces—Saskatchewan and
-Alberta—were established, Mr. Sifton was appointed Chief Justice of the
-Superior Court of the Province of Alberta. May 26, 1910, when the
-Rutherford government resigned, Mr. Sifton also resigned his position as
-Chief Justice to accept the call of the Lieutenant-Governor of the
-Province to form a new Provincial Government, and was sworn in as Prime
-Minister. He also assumed the portfolios of President of the Executive
-Council, Provincial Treasurer, and Minister of Public Works. In 1911,
-Mr. Sifton attended the coronation of their Majesties King George and
-Queen Mary, and, in June of that year, was presented to King George at
-St. James’ Palace. December, 1911, in addition to the other Cabinet
-portfolios which he held, Mr. Sifton was appointed Minister of Railways
-and Telephones. February 29, 1912, he was appointed a member of the
-Commission of Conservation as one of the representatives from the
-Province of Alberta. At the Provincial election in 1913, he was
-re-elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Vermilion. In
-1917, when, owing to the serious circumstances that had arisen in Canada
-and throughout the world resulting from the effects and requirements of
-the terrible world war that was then raging it was found necessary to
-cut out political party differences, and to have, politically and
-otherwise, a united Canada in the conduct of Dominion political,
-commercial, financial, and all public and private affairs, Mr. Sifton
-consented to join Sir Robert Borden, the Prime Minister, in the
-formation of a Union Government, and resigning his office as Prime
-Minister of the Province of Alberta, was sworn in as Minister of Customs
-in the Dominion Cabinet, which position he still holds. In 1918, Mr.
-Sifton accompanied Sir Robert Borden to the Peace Conference at Paris
-and Versailles, as one of the Canadian delegates to that memorable
-assembly in whose hands was placed arrangements and terms for the
-present and future peace of the world; and it is noteworthy to state
-that while there he rendered distinguished services by his advice and
-otherwise in the preparation and final agreement of terms that were
-placed before the Teutonic nations to accept and sign. On Sept. 20,
-1882, Mr. Sifton married Mary H. Deering, daughter of William Deering,
-of Cobourg, Ontario. He has two children—one girl and one boy—Nellie
-Louise and Lewis Raymond. He is a member of the following clubs:
-Ranchmen’s, Calgary; Edmonton, Edmonton; and the Rideau and County,
-Ottawa. In politics, Mr. Sifton was formerly a Liberal, but is now a
-Unionist, and in religion a Methodist. His office is in Connaught Block,
-Sussex Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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-=Proudfoot, William, K.C., M.P.P.=, for Centre Huron and Leader of the
-Opposition in the Ontario Legislature, is a barrister practising both at
-Toronto and at Goderich, Ont. He was born in Colborne Township, Huron
-County, on February 1st, 1859, the son of Robert and Margaret
-(Darlington) Proudfoot. His mother came from Wicklow, Ireland, and his
-father, a native of Perthshire, Scotland, was one of the family which
-won considerable distinction in Ontario. One of his brothers was
-Vice-Chancellor of Ontario, and another was Rev. Dr. Proudfoot, a leader
-of religious thought. The subject of this sketch was educated in the
-Public and High Schools of Goderich, Ont.; and qualified for the law as
-a student in the office of James (afterward Mr. Justice) Garrow, K.C.,
-and at Osgoode Hall. On being called to the bar in 1880 he commenced the
-practice of law at Goderich, Ont., as a member of the firm of Garrow &
-Proudfoot and he is now head of the firm of Proudfoot, Killora & Cooke
-in that town. He is also a member of the firm of Proudfoot, Duncan,
-Grant & Gilday, barristers and solicitors, Confederation Life Building,
-Toronto, which he joined in 1902. He was created a King’s Counsel in
-1902 and has long been Treasurer and Secretary of the Huron Law
-Association, and is a Bencher of the Ontario Law Society. His business
-interests include Directorship in the Goderich Elevator and Transit
-Company, Ltd. and the Dominion Road Machinery Co’y. Ltd. Despite a large
-practice throughout Huron county Mr. Proudfoot found time to take an
-active part in politics and was for many years President of the West
-Huron Liberal Association. In his younger days his partner, the late Mr.
-Justice Garrow, was long an honored member of the Ontario Legislature,
-and on the elevation of the latter to the bench, the Liberal party
-naturally tendered the nomination to Mr. Proudfoot, who had already
-rendered valuable municipal service as Reeve of Goderich town. He was
-elected for the newly constituted riding of Centre Huron in 1908 and
-re-elected at the general elections of 1911 and 1914. As a member of the
-small band of Liberals sitting opposite to Sir James Whitney he soon
-made his mark in debate and proved one of the most discerning and
-aggressive critics of the Government, though giving his support to wise
-measures. When in 1917 Hon. N. W. Rowell retired from the Leadership of
-the Opposition to enter Federal politics Mr. Proudfoot was his logical
-successor, a decision which was ratified by the Liberal caucus in Jan.,
-1918. The war being then in progress Mr. Proudfoot took the
-statesmanlike position that there should be no party contests during the
-duration of the conflict and agreed to support the Government in all
-reasonable measures looking exclusively to the unification of the
-country for the prosecution of the war. Nevertheless a large body of
-independent support rallied to his support and the signing of the
-armistice found him in a stronger position both in point of followers
-and as a parliamentary leader than when he accepted office. In religion
-he is a member of the Church of England and was married on June 23,
-1886, to Marion F. Dickson. He has two children. Isobel, now the wife of
-Lieutenant E. H. Jordan, who went overseas in October, 1914, was wounded
-twice and invalided home in February, 1919. Lieut. Jordan was with the
-18th Field Battery, saw much service, and was decorated with the M.C.
-Capt. W. Proudfoot, M.C., was a member of the 15th Battalion, was
-wounded several times, and is a member of his father’s legal firm in
-Toronto.
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-=Machado, Jose Antonio, B.A.=, is Vice-President of the American Bank
-Note Company, and Chief Executive Officer of its Canadian Branch, with
-headquarters at 208-228 Wellington Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; and
-is also a Director of the American Bank Note Company, New York. Mr.
-Machado is a son of the late Juan Francisco Machado, gentleman (A.B.
-University of Havana), and Elizabeth Frances Jones, and was born at
-Camaguey, Cuba, January 20, 1862. He was educated in Salem, Mass.,
-U.S.A., and at Harvard University, and graduated as Bachelor of Arts in
-1883. After graduation, Mr. Machado took a special course in mechanical
-engineering, and later acquired his business training in New York City,
-and during that period travelled somewhat extensively in Europe, the
-West Indies, and Mexico. On May 16, 1893, Mr. Machado was married to
-Eleanor Esmond Whitman, daughter of the late Alfred Whitman, merchant,
-of New York City, and a native of Annapolis Royal, N.S. There are four
-daughters and two sons, viz., Eleanor Whitman (now Mrs. Lawrence M.
-Mead), Jose Antonio, Jr., John Zaldivar, Angela Andrews, Salome Cecilia,
-and Theodora. Both sons have been in active service overseas during the
-great war. In January, 1902, Mr. Machado came to Ottawa and took charge
-of the American Bank Note Company’s Canadian plant and business, which
-includes the preparation of the Dominion of Canada bank notes, postage
-stamps, and inland revenue stamps, as well as the larger part of the
-bank notes for the chartered banks of Canada. The company also prepares
-engraved bonds, stock certificates and other securities for various
-Canadian corporations. The business has kept pace with the general
-development of the business of the Dominion, so that additional
-buildings have been erected from time to time, until the plant now
-comprises a large group of modern fire-proof buildings. The plant is a
-model one in every respect, and no expense or thought has been spared
-for the comfort and well-being of the employees of the company. Mr.
-Machado is a member of the Finance Board of the Presbyterian Church in
-Canada; President of the Canadian Association for the Prevention of
-Tuberculosis; a member of the International Committee of the Y.M.C.A.
-New York; a member of the Canadian National Council of the Y.M.C.A., and
-of the Military Committee of same, which has dealt with the Y.M.C.A.
-work of Canadian soldiers at home and overseas; a Vice-President of the
-International Daily Vacation Bible School Association (U.S. and Canada).
-As regards Ottawa activities, Mr. Machado has been for many years
-interested in and President of the Ottawa Anti-Tuberculosis Association,
-which secured the building of the Royal Ottawa Sanatorium for the
-treatment of pulmonary consumption, and is a member of the Board of
-Governors of this institution. He is Hon. President of the Ottawa
-Y.M.C.A.; President of the Ottawa Welfare Bureau, and vice-chairman of
-the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra. Recently, Mr. Machado was appointed a
-member of the Ottawa Housing Commission, formed to take advantage of the
-new legislation of the Province of Ontario for improvement in housing
-conditions. Mr. Machado is a member of the following clubs: Harvard (New
-York), Rideau, Royal Ottawa Golf, Rideau Curling, Lake Bernard Fishing
-Club, and is a Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute, London, England.
-His favorite recreations are golf, fishing, and curling. Several years
-ago Mr. Machado became a Canadian citizen and a British subject. In
-religion he is a Presbyterian, and attends St. Andrews Church, and his
-place of residence is 169 Daly Avenue, Ottawa, Ont.
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-=Levy, Gabriel Herman, B.A., LL.B.=, Barrister, member of the firm of
-Gibson, Levy and Gibson, Bank of Commerce Chambers, 4 Hughson Street
-South, Hamilton, Ont., was born in Hamilton, August 12, 1874, the son of
-Herman Levy, President of Levy Bros. Co., Limited, wholesale jewellers,
-Hamilton, and Camilla Levy, his wife. He was educated at the Central
-School and Collegiate Institute, Hamilton, Toronto University, and
-Osgoode Hall, taking his degree of B.A. at the unusual age of under
-twenty, and that of LL.B. two years later. In the year of his graduation
-he was elected Vice-President of Varsity Literary Society at the last of
-the “old style” contests, which will never be forgotten by those who
-participated therein. He also engaged in post-graduate studies in
-Europe. He studied law with Sir John Gibson, and entered into practice
-in 1898 with the firm of Gibson, Martin & Osborne, and has retained his
-connection with Sir John Gibson under various firm names up to the
-present of Gibson, Levy and Gibson. He is largely engaged in corporation
-practice, the firm being counsel for, among other corporations, The
-Dominion Power & Transmission Co., Limited, Hamilton Street Railway,
-Hamilton Radial Electric Company, Canadian Westinghouse Co., Limited,
-National Steel Car Co., Limited, Landed Banking and Loan Company and The
-F. F. Dalley Corporations, Limited. Mr. Levy is interested in numerous
-enterprises, and is Vice-President of McKittrick Properties, Limited, a
-director of Canada Crushed Stone Corporation, Hamilton Hotel Company,
-Limited, and is Vice-President of Levy Bros. Co., Limited, the oldest
-and one of the most extensive wholesale and manufacturing jewellery
-firms in the Dominion. His reputation as a lawyer and a man is high with
-those who know him; “but,” as an intimate friend facetiously remarked,
-“it’s in bridge whist that he really shines.” And he was in charge of a
-team who held the Canadian Whist Championship for a number of years, and
-was a member of a team of the New York Bridge Whist Club that won the
-Atlantic Whist Trophy, one of the most important contests in America.
-His other recreations are golf, chess and fishing. He married on March
-29, 1909, Blanche Ruth Shire, daughter of Adolph Shire, of Chicago,
-Ill., and has a daughter, Marion Louise, born in 1912, a son, Gabriel
-Herman, in 1915, and a son, John Gibson, in 1919, and enjoys life with
-them at his pleasant home, 193 James Street South. His clubs are
-Hamilton Club, Hamilton Golf and Country Club, Caledon Mountain Trout
-Club, Buffalo Club, Buffalo, N.Y., University Club, Toronto, New York
-Bridge Whist Club. He is a member of A.F. & A.M., Murton Lodge of
-Perfection, Moore Consistory, was T.P.G.M. of Murton Lodge of Perfection
-for years 1908-9. He is independent in politics.
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-=Blondin, Hon. Pierre Edouard=, Senator and Postmaster-General, was born
-at Saint François du Lac, County of Yamaska, Quebec, December 14, 1874,
-and is the son of Louis M. and Elodie (Barnard) Blondin. He was educated
-in the Seminarie de Nicolet and Laval University. In 1900, Mr. Blondin
-was admitted to the practice of the notarial profession, and was
-appointed Clerk of the Circuit Court of County of Champlain. For two
-terms he was alderman in the Grand Mere Municipal Council. Having
-distinguished himself in law and municipal activities, he was nominated
-and elected to the House of Commons in 1908; was re-elected in 1911, and
-became Deputy-Speaker of the House. October 20, 1914, Mr. Blondin was
-appointed a member of the Privy Council of Canada, and was sworn in as
-Minister of Inland Revenue. October 6, 1915, he was appointed Secretary
-of State, and Postmaster-General January 8, 1917. Realizing that the
-serious turn the great world war had taken called for Canada’s best
-efforts to be evident in the firing line, and satisfying himself in the
-decision that all who could should give the best mental and manual
-assistance they possessed to the Entente forces, on March 21, 1917, Mr.
-Blondin resigned his portfolio as Postmaster-General, raised the 258th
-Battalion, of which he became Lt.-Colonel, and with his regiment started
-overseas, where he remained until July, 1918, when he returned to
-Canada. Landing at Halifax, July 8, 1918, Mr. Blondin was accorded a
-cordial reception and hearty congratulations in recognition of the
-valiant services he had rendered while on military duty in France and
-Italy. Having been defeated in his candidature for re-election to the
-House of Commons at the general election in 1917, notwithstanding that
-he had resigned his office as Postmaster-General and had voluntarily
-donned the King’s uniform to serve abroad in the cause and defence of
-Canada and the Empire, on July 21, 1918, on his return to Ottawa, Mr.
-Blondin was requested by Sir Robert Borden to assume his duties as
-Postmaster-General, and to accept a Senatorship in succession to the
-late Senator Sheyn. July 2, 1902, Senator Blondin married Marie Rose
-Buisson, daughter of Louis L. F. T. Buisson, of Saint François du Lac,
-Quebec, and has one daughter. Clubs: Canadian Club of New York, Rideau
-Club, Ottawa. Commander of the Legion of Honor. A Roman Catholic in
-religion and a Unionist in politics, his home address is Ottawa, Ont.,
-and his official address as Postmaster-General, Ottawa, Ontario.
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-W.G. Harris, Toronto]
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-=Pedley, Frank, B.A.=, ex-Superintendent of Immigration and Deputy
-Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs, entered the Civil Service as
-Superintendent of Immigration in 1897, and in 1902 was promoted to the
-position of Deputy Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs, which
-position he held to the end of the Laurier administration and for some
-years after the Borden Government had come into power in 1911, when he
-resigned to resume his practice as a barrister, etc. During Mr. Pedley’s
-terms of office in the public service, Canada and Canada’s great natural
-resources and opportunities, the fertility of the soil, and the millions
-of acres awaiting the attention of the husbandman, and the open door to
-success and happiness that was in store for all who came to Canada to
-help in her development, were made known throughout the world by
-advertising and specially appointed agents and exhibition displays in a
-manner that was never before anticipated, and with the result that the
-peoples from all quarters of the globe, including hundreds of thousands
-from Great Britain and the United States, left to make Canada their
-future home. Mr. Pedley is the son of Rev. Charles and Sarah (Stowell)
-Pedley, of Hanley, Staffordshire, England, and was born at St. John’s,
-Newfoundland, June 25, 1858. He was educated at private schools in St.
-John’s, the public and high schools in Ontario, and at McGill
-University, Montreal, where he graduated in 1886 a B.A., with first
-class honors. He practised law at Toronto until 1897, when, at the
-invitation of Sir Clifford Sifton, he entered the Civil Service. On Aug.
-28, 1895, Mr. Pedley married Helen Louise Hobart, daughter of Sidney and
-Mary Ann Hobart of Cobourg, Ontario. Mr. Pedley is a member of St.
-George’s Society. In politics he is a Liberal. He resides at 483
-Maclaren Street, and his office is at 46 Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario.
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-=Miller, Frederick Robert= (Western University, London, Ont.), son of A.
-F. Miller and Elizabeth Crean. Was born at Toronto. Educated at Jarvis
-Street Collegiate Institute, Toronto, and at the University of Toronto,
-graduating in 1907, holding degrees of M.A., M.B. Was Assistant in
-Physiology in Cornell University for two years. Demonstrator of
-Physiology in the University of Toronto 1907-10. Studied in Munich
-1910-1911, where he obtained the degree of M.D. from the University of
-Munich. Took a post-graduate course in the University of Strasbourg, and
-afterwards spent some time attending clinics in Paris, France.
-Afterwards studied for a year at the University of Liverpool with Prof
-C. S. Sherrington. Was Lecturer on Physiology, McGill University,
-1912-1914. Studied in University of Oxford during summer of 1914.
-Appointed Professor of Physiology at Western University, London, Ont.,
-1914, which position he still fills with distinction. Dr. Miller is an
-Anglican in religion, and holds a commission as Captain in the Canadian
-Army Medical Corps. He has contributed a number of articles to British
-and American journals on physiological subjects. He has travelled
-extensively, visiting the most important educational centres both in
-Europe and America.
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-=Jenkins, Lieut.-Col. Stephen Rice Jenkins, M.D., F.A.C.S., M.P.P.=, of
-Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, during the late war, proved himself
-one of the ablest members of the Canadian Army Medical Corps. He was
-born at Charlottetown on November 12, 1858, the son of John T. and
-Jessie Esther (Rice) Jenkins. His paternal grandfather was Rev L. C.
-Jenkins, and his maternal one, Captain the Hon. Stephen Rice. His father
-John T. Jenkins, M.D., M.R.C.S. (Eng.), was a member of the Canadian
-House of Commons from 1884 to 1887. The subject of this sketch was
-educated at King’s College, Windsor, N.S., and at the University of
-Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, U.S.A., from which he graduated with the
-degree of M.D. in 1884. Returning to Charlottetown, he entered on the
-practice of his profession, and became one of the best known physicians
-in the Maritime Provinces. He is a member of the Dominion Medical
-Council. In 1912, he was elected to the Legislature of Prince Edward
-Island as Liberal-Conservative member for Charlottetown, and was
-re-elected at the general elections in 1915. In September of the latter
-year, he also became a member of the provincial cabinet, without
-portfolio. He was on active service in connection with the late war from
-March, 1915, until his discharge in April, 1919, holding the rank of
-Lieut.-Col. in the Canadian Army Medical Service, and had charge of the
-Military Hospital at Rockhead, Halifax, N.S., in 1915. He was a Roman
-Catholic in religion, a Conservative-Unionist in politics, and a member
-of the Q.G.D., and the Charlottetown Club. In October, 1886, he married
-Ellen J., daughter of Patrick Sweeney, merchant, of Charlottetown, and
-has nine children. His eldest son, Lieut.-Col. John S. Jenkins, D.S.O.,
-had a distinguished career overseas during the late war; also his second
-son, Henry G., served overseas with the 3rd Bn. C.E., 1st Division, as
-Capt.; and his other children are, Mary E., Helen J., Nora I., Margaret
-L., Hilda, Louis C., and M. Stephanie Jenkins.
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-
-=Farris, Hon. John Wallace de Beque, M.P.P.=, Attorney-General and
-Minister of Labor for British Columbia, has for some years been
-recognized as one of the leading lawyers on the Pacific Coast. He is,
-however, a native of New Brunswick, and was born at White’s Cove in that
-province on December 3, 1878. His father, Hon. L. P. Farris, was
-formerly Minister of Agriculture for New Brunswick. The subject of this
-sketch was educated at St. Martin’s Seminary and Acadia University,
-N.B., graduating with the degree of B.A. in 1899. Subsequently, he took
-a course at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating with the legal
-degree of LL.B. in 1902. In connection with both degrees he took honors.
-In the same year he went to Vancouver, British Columbia, and, having
-been called to the bar of the province, commenced the practice of law in
-that city. Within two years he was appointed City Prosecuting Attorney,
-a post he filled from 1904 to 1906. At the same time he became prominent
-in politics, and served as President of the Vancouver Liberal
-Association. In the political upheaval of 1916 he fought strongly for a
-change of government, and himself stood as one of the Liberal candidates
-for the Legislature in Vancouver city. He was elected, and proved one of
-the ablest of the new members that the contest brought into the House.
-In 1917, the Hon. Mr. Brewster, then Prime Minister, asked Mr. Farris to
-take the portfolio of Attorney-General and that of Minister of Labor as
-well, and the latter accepted. Though young in parliamentary experience,
-Mr. Farris is looked upon as one of the coming men in Canadian politics.
-In religion he is a Baptist; and is a member of the Terminal City Club,
-Vancouver, and of the Union Club, Victoria, B.C. He married, in 1905,
-Evelyn F., daughter of Prof. E. M. Keirstead, D.D., of McMaster
-University, Toronto, and has four children, Katherine H., Donald F.,
-Ralph K., and John L. Farris. Mr. and Mrs. Farris, until 1918, made
-their home in Vancouver, but now reside in Victoria, B.C.
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-=Smith, Hon. Ernest Albert, M.P.P.=, Minister of Lands and Mines for the
-Province of New Brunswick, resides at Shediac, N.B., where he is also
-engaged in lumbering and general mercantile business. He was born at
-Shediac on June 20, 1864, the son of Edward J. and Amelia E. Smith. His
-father was formerly a prominent member of the New Brunswick Legislature,
-to which he was elected in 1884, and founded the commercial business now
-carried on by the subject of this sketch. Sir Albert J. Smith, Minister
-of Marine and Fisheries for Canada in the government of Hon. Alexander
-Mackenzie from 1874 to 1878, was an uncle. Hon. E. A. Smith was educated
-in the High School and also at a private school in Charlottetown,
-P.E.I., and originally adopted the profession of dentistry, graduating
-with the degree of D.D.S. in 1887. On leaving college he went to British
-Columbia, where he practised for two years, and subsequently practised
-for a year in New Brunswick. He entered his father’s business in 1891,
-and since 1912 has conducted it under his own name. In 1916, he was
-induced to follow the family tradition and enter politics, and was
-elected to the Legislature as Liberal for Westmorland County, defeating
-Hon. P. J. Mahony, Minister of Public Works. At the general elections of
-1917, he was again elected, and was selected as a member of the Foster
-government, taking over the portfolio of Lands and Mines, for which his
-business experience amply qualified him. He has since given an effective
-business administration to the department which was sorely needed, and
-by his policies has materially added to the public revenues. Sat in Town
-Council, Shediac, for several years as Alderman, and elected Mayor for
-1906 and 1907, by acclamation; President of Liberal Association for
-County of Westmorland from 1894 to 1911; President of Provincial Liberal
-Association several years, which position is still held. He is an
-Anglican in religion, and a Past Master, A.F. & A.M. His recreations are
-salmon and trout fishing and shooting of small and big game. On
-September 30, 1896, he married Euphemia, daughter of Mr. Colin Russell,
-of the Customs Department, Ottawa, and has four children: Gladys, born
-1897; Russell, born 1899; Donald, born 1902; and John, born 1911. Though
-Mr. Smith’s official duties compel his presence in Fredericton, N.B.,
-for the greater part of his time, he still makes his home at Shediac.
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-
-=Turgeon, Hon. William Ferdinand Alphonse, K.C., M.P.P.=,
-Attorney-General of the Province of Saskatchewan, is one of the best
-known leaders of the legal profession in the Canadian West. He was born
-at Bathurst, New Brunswick, on June 3, 1877, the son of Onesiphore
-Turgeon, a French-Canadian journalist, and his wife Margaret Eulalia
-Baldwin, a lady of English descent. Politics comes naturally to him, for
-his father is a member of the House of Commons for Gloucester County,
-New Brunswick, and has long been a prominent figure in the public life
-of that province, while his brother, J. G. Turgeon, M.P.P., is a member
-of the Alberta Legislature. The subject of this sketch was educated in
-New York City, and later at Laval University, Quebec, graduating in Arts
-in 1899 with the degree of B.A., and in law in 1902. Shortly afterwards
-he went to the West, and was called to the bar of Saskatchewan. He also
-became prominent as a leader in the Liberal party, and at a by-election
-on October 12, 1907, was elected to the legislature for Prince Albert.
-At the general elections of August, 1908, he contested two ridings in
-behalf of his party—Prince Albert and Duck Lake. He was defeated in the
-former, but elected to the latter. At the general elections of 1912, he
-stood for the riding of Humboldt, and was successful, and has ever since
-represented that riding. Hon. Mr. Turgeon joined the Ministry of Hon.
-Walter Scott as Attorney-General on September 23, 1907, shortly before
-his first political contest in Prince Albert. He has ever since
-continued to hold that portfolio, and for some years filled that of
-Provincial Secretary as well. His oratorical powers are exceptional, and
-he speaks with equal facility both in French and English. He is a Roman
-Catholic in religion; and on February 18, 1901, married Gertrude,
-daughter of Gerome Boudreau, Petit Rocher, New Brunswick. He has five
-children: Alice, born May 13, 1902; Cecile, February 19, 1907; Wilfrid,
-August 20, 1910; Eveline, November 16, 1913; and Frances Regis, July 12,
-1918. He resides at 2320 Angus Street, Regina, Sask.
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-=Pritchard, Henry Thomas=, who was born in London, England, February 26,
-1852, came to Canada, locating in Ottawa in 1875, and started in
-business as an engraver. Three years later, in 1878, he formed a
-partnership with J. E. Andrews, under the firm name of Pritchard and
-Andrews. Being exceptionally clever engravers, their business so
-increased that in 1897 a joint stock company was formed, and is now
-established and known as “The Pritchard-Andrews Company of Ottawa,
-Limited,” with J. A. Seybold as President and Henry Thomas Pritchard as
-Secretary-Treasurer and Manager, with their head office at 264 Sparks
-Street, Ottawa. Mr. Pritchard is the son of William Pritchard, cabinet
-manufacturer, of Bishopgate Street, London, England, and Elizabeth Ann
-(Thompson) Pritchard, and received his education in a boarding school in
-London. Having served his time to engraving in England, he crossed the
-Atlantic Ocean, and, arriving in Ottawa, Ontario, has made that city his
-home ever since. In 1887, Mr. Pritchard married Margaret Ramsay Black,
-daughter of John Black, of Hamilton, Ontario. Four sons and four
-daughters have blessed the union—Walter, Elizabeth Ann, Harold, Ernest,
-John, Margaret, Emily and Edith. Mr. Pritchard is an Anglican in
-religion and a Unionist in politics. He resides at Eastview.
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-=Arsenault, Hon. Aubin E.= (Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island), son of
-Hon. Joseph O. Arsenault, Senator, and Gertrude Arsenault, his wife.
-Born at Egmont Bay, P.E.I., on July 28, 1870. Educated at St. Dunstan’s
-College, Charlottetown, and St. Joseph’s University, Memramcook, N.B.
-Studied law with McLeod, Morson & McQuarrie, barristers, Charlottetown,
-and with the Hon. (now Sir) Chas. Russell, London, England. Called to
-the bar in 1899, and has successfully practised his profession at
-Charlottetown and Summerside, P.E.I. Was first elected to the
-Legislature of the province of P.E.I. in 1908. On the accession of
-Liberal-Conservative Government in 1911 appointed a member of the
-Government. Re-elected in 1912 and 1915. On elevation of the leader of
-the Government, Hon. J. A. Mathieson, to the Supreme Court Bench of the
-Province, was called on by the Lieutenant-Governor to form a Government,
-which he did, and became President-in-Council and Attorney-General.
-Re-elected in 1917. The subject of this sketch was married on November
-5, 1907, to Bertha R., daughter of Captain Frank Gallant, of Tignish,
-P.E.I., and is the father of six children. He is a Roman Catholic in
-religion, and a member of the Conservation Commission of Canada.
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-=Dunning, Hon. Charles Avery, M.P.P.=, is Minister of Agriculture and
-Provincial Treasurer for the Province of Saskatchewan, and one of the
-youngest and ablest of the public men of the West. He was born at Croft,
-Leicestershire, England, on July 31, 1885, the son of Samuel and
-Katherine (Hall) Dunning. His father was a farmer, and he was educated
-in the public schools of the Motherland. In 1903, as a boy of seventeen,
-he settled in Saskatchewan, and engaged in farming at Beaverdale in that
-province, an industry which he has ever since conducted on a large
-scale. He is one of the most prominent of those who organized the
-movement in the West for the betterment of agricultural conditions, and,
-in 1910, became a Director of the Saskatchewan Grain Growers’
-Association. He was also its Vice-President from 1911 to 1914. In 1911,
-he organized the Saskatchewan Co-operative Elevator Company, and acted
-as general manager of this remarkably successful enterprise from its
-foundation until 1916. From 1911 to 1916, he was a member of the
-Executive Board of the Canadian Council of Agriculture, and, in 1918,
-served on the Canada Food Board organized in connection with the war as
-Director of Food Production. Earlier, in 1913, he was a member of the
-Royal Commission appointed by the Government of Saskatchewan to
-investigate the question of agricultural credits, and also that of grain
-markets in Europe. He has also been a frequent contributor to the press
-on such subjects, his vast fund of expert knowledge making him an
-especially welcome contributor. In 1916, he resigned his position as
-general manager of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Elevators to enter the
-Legislature of that Province. He was elected for the riding of Kinistino
-by acclamation. At the general elections of 1917, he was returned for
-Moose Jaw County. After his first election he was appointed Provincial
-Treasurer in the Martin administration, having been sworn in on October
-20, 1916. Exactly one year later, he was also appointed Minister of
-Railways, and in addition on May 16, 1918, he became Minister of
-Telephones. On the rearrangement of portfolios, February 15, 1919, he
-retained his old portfolio of Provincial Treasurer, and became Minister
-of Agriculture as well, a step that was applauded by the whole farming
-community. He is a Liberal in politics and a Presbyterian in religion,
-and a member of the Assiniboia Club, Regina, and the Wascana Country
-Club. His favorite recreation is golf. On July 3, 1913, he married Ada,
-daughter of John Rowlatt (deceased) of Nassington, Northants, England,
-and has one son and one daughter. His home is at 2150 Retallack Street,
-Regina, Sask.
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-Ottawa]
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-=Williams, the Right Rev. Lennox Waldron, Lord Bishop of Quebec, M.A.
-(Oxon.), D.D.=, is the only son of the late Right Rev. J. W. Williams,
-D.D., fourth Bishop of the same diocese. He was born at Lennoxville,
-while his father was headmaster of Bishop’s College School, on November
-12, 1859. His mother’s maiden name was Miss Anna Maria Waldron. He
-received his earlier education at Bishop’s College School, from which
-institution he went to St. John’s College, Oxford, where he received his
-degree of B.A. in 1882, and his M.A. in 1887. In 1899 he received the
-degree of D.D. from Bishop’s College University. His first charge as a
-clergyman was that of curate in St. Matthew’s Church, of Quebec, while
-the Rev. Charles Hamilton (afterwards Bishop of Ottawa and
-Archbishop)—was its rector. A vacancy occurring in the rectorship of
-that charge, the Rev. Lennox Williams was selected to fill it. In 1899
-he was promoted to be Dean of the Cathedral and Rector of Quebec. In
-1890 he was unanimously elected Coadjutor Bishop of Ontario, but felt
-obliged to decline. On the death of Bishop Dunn, he was elected Lord
-Bishop of the Diocese of Quebec. As a native of the Province of Quebec,
-he has been identified with the religious life of Quebec and the Eastern
-Townships during his lifetime. During his ministry he has always taken
-an active interest in the schools and colleges of the diocese, having
-been for years a member of the corporation of Bishop’s College,
-Lennoxville, Chairman of the Protestant Board of School Commissioners of
-Quebec City, and a Director of the High School. While he was Dean of the
-Cathedral, he was chosen a delegate to the Pan-Anglican Congress held in
-London, England, in 1908; and, in 1910, he again took part in the
-Anglican Church Congress held at Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 1887 he
-married Miss Caroline Annie Rhodes, daughter of the late
-Lieutenant-Colonel William Rhodes, at one time Minister of Agriculture
-for the Province of Quebec. The Bishop and Mrs. Williams had four
-children, viz., James William, who, after taking his degree at Oxford,
-joined the Canadian Army in the great war, and was killed in action at
-the battle of the Somme; Violet Mary; Gertrude, wife of Colonel R. O.
-Alexander, D.S.O.; Sydney Waldron, gentleman cadet at R.M.C., Kingston.
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-=Margeson, Joseph Willis, Lieut.-Col.= (Bridgewater, Nova Scotia) son of
-Otis A. Margeson (English) and Jennie Cahill (Irish). Was born on April
-2nd, 1880, at Harborville, King’s County, Nova Scotia. Educated at
-Berwick High School; the Provincial Normal School, Truro; Acadia
-University, Wolfville; and Dalhousie Law School, Halifax, from which
-latter institution he graduated in 1908 with the degree of LL.B. Was
-principal of Berwick High School 1903-4. Also taught at South Berwick,
-Waterville and Lakeville. Married Sept. 16, 1908, to Mary Gertrude,
-daughter of Duncan McIntosh of Truro, Nova Scotia, and has two
-daughters, Doris Gwendolyn and Olive Gertrude, born Sept. 26th, 1910,
-and Nov. 10th, 1911, respectively. He is a barrister-at-law, and High
-Counsellor of the Independent Order of Foresters. He is also a member of
-the Masonic Order, the Loyal Order of Moose and the Ancient Order of
-Foresters. In religion he is a Baptist. He contested the riding of
-Lunenburg in November, 1909, against the Hon. A. K. MacLean,
-Attorney-General, at a by-election for the Provincial Legislature, but
-was defeated. First elected to the Provincial Legislature at the general
-election June 14th, 1911, and re-elected in 1916 with a largely
-increased majority. He resigned his seat in November, 1917, to contest
-his constituency as a Unionist candidate for the Federal House, but was
-defeated after one of the most bitter contests in the Province of Nova
-Scotia. Col. Margeson polled the largest vote he ever received. His
-opponent was a strong anti-conscriptionist. He has been prominently
-identified with the Canadian Militia, being Lieutenant of the 75th
-Regiment, 1910, Captain in the 25th Nova Scotia Overseas Battalion,
-December 1914, with which unit he went to France. Promoted to the rank
-of Major, June, 1916, and appointed Inspector of Pay Accounts and
-Records, C.E.F. In April, 1917, Lieut.-Col. Margeson was appointed
-President of “The Pay and Allowance Board,” with headquarters at Ottawa.
-In December, 1918, he was promoted Lieut.-Col., and in January, 1919,
-his name was brought to the notice of the Secretary of State for War for
-valuable services rendered in connection with the war. He is a Director
-of The News Company, publishers of “The Daily News” and “The Weekly
-News,” Lunenberg, Nova Scotia. He is also Vice-President of the
-G.W.V.A., Ottawa.
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-=Thornton, Hon. Robert Stirton, M.P., M.B., C.M., LL.D.=, Minister of
-Education for the Province of Manitoba, is one of the educational
-leaders of Western Canada, though not a native of this country. He was
-born at Edinburgh, Scotland, on May 8, 1863, the son of David and Mary
-(Gavin) Thornton. His parents decided that he should adopt the career of
-a physician, and after a good general education in his native city at
-Heriot’s Hospital school, he entered Edinburgh University, and graduated
-in 1884 with the degree of M.B., C.M. In the same year he came to
-Canada, and commenced the practice of his profession at Deloraine,
-Manitoba. He became well-known throughout the province, and, in 1896,
-was elected President of the Manitoba Medical Council; and, later,
-President of the Medical Council of Canada. Among other matters in which
-he interested himself was that of horticulture, a neglected pursuit in
-the western country, and became recognized as a pioneer horticulturist
-of the prairies, and an inspiration to others to adopt such a hobby. He
-became identified with the Liberal party, and, in 1907, was elected to
-the Manitoba Legislature for Deloraine. Though defeated in 1910, he was
-again elected in 1914, and also in the general elections of 1915, which
-resulted in the overthrow of the Roblin administration. He had taken a
-very strong stand against the indifference of the authorities to school
-problems; and when Hon. Mr. Norris was called upon to form a government,
-he entrusted to Dr. Thornton the portfolio of Education, which, under
-the peculiar circumstances of the case, was perhaps the most important
-within the Premier’s gift. In no section of the world is the problem of
-education more difficult, owing to the great number of nationalities
-represented in the numbers of unlettered immigrants that poured into
-Manitoba in the years preceding the great war. With the problem of
-making the children of these newcomers good Canadians, conversant with
-the language and institutions of the land of their adoption, Dr.
-Thornton grappled, in 1915, and three and a half years later it was the
-testimony of the Winnipeg “Tribune,” that the change of government had
-been worth while, if only for what had been accomplished in making the
-schools of Manitoba Canadian. Before he became Minister of Education,
-large numbers of the public schools were nondescript, and breeding
-centres of foreign speech and ideals. In a determined and unflinching
-way, Dr. Thornton put into action, through the machinery of the schools,
-the ideals of true Canadianism, and for the first time enforced the law
-with regard to an English education for every child of school age in
-Manitoba. As a result of his policies, other western provinces have
-followed his example, and many educationists of the western United
-States look to Manitoba’s system of dealing with the foreign problem in
-education as a model. Latterly, Dr. Thornton has taken a strong stand
-against immigration of the old indiscriminate sort, and proclaims the
-doctrine that anyone who comes to Canada must be prepared to shoulder
-all the responsibilities, with the privileges, duties, and rights of
-Canadian citizenship. By the many advocates of these new views he is
-looked up to as a leader. In recognition of his services, Queen’s
-University (Kingston) some time ago conferred on him the honorary degree
-of LL.D. Dr. Thornton is a Presbyterian in religion, and a member of the
-Masonic Order. On April 30, 1889, he married Mary, daughter of Robert
-Johnston, Princeton, Ont., and has no children. He resides at Winnipeg
-and at Deloraine, Manitoba.
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-=Bailey, Charles Frederick=, Agricultural Commissioner for the Province
-of Ontario, is, singularly enough, a native of the Maritime Provinces.
-He was born at Kentville, Nova Scotia, in 1880, and his mother, who
-still survives, is now Mrs. P. Innes of that town. He was educated in
-King’s County High School, Kentville, and had a practical insight into
-agriculture as a lad on a Nova Scotia farm. In 1902 he resolved to
-qualify himself on the scientific side of agriculture and entered
-himself at the Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph, Ont., which holds
-a standard position throughout North America. From 1904 to 1907 he was
-engaged largely in commercial work related to this basic interest of the
-country’s prosperity and returned to the O.A.C. in the latter year. In
-1909 he received from its affiliated Institution the University of
-Toronto, the degree of Bachelor of Scientific Agriculture. At that time
-the Ontario Department of Agriculture was looking about for expert young
-men to carry on the work of agricultural instruction and development and
-on receiving the above degree Mr. Bailey was in June, 1909, appointed
-Live Stock Specialist for Ontario. He brought a great deal of enthusiasm
-and knowledge to bear on his task and in 1912 was promoted to the post
-of Assistant Deputy Minister of Agriculture by the late Hon. James Duff.
-A few years later the office of Commissioner of Agriculture was created
-in order to place a permanent official of expert knowledge in charge of
-policies for the betterment of agriculture in this province. Mr.
-Bailey’s grasp of all the problems of his subject is exceptional and he
-holds a high reputation as an expert in other states and provinces. As a
-young man he was a Captain in the King’s County (N.S.) Regiment, but has
-always eschewed politics. In religion he is a member of the Church of
-England, and some years ago married Louise D., daughter of David Hogg,
-Perth, Ont. He has had three children, of whom one, a boy born in 1915,
-survives. His address is 164 Walmer Road, Toronto.
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-=Dalley, Frederick Fenner=, President of the F. F. Dalley Corporations,
-Limited, Hamilton, Ont., and subsidiaries, was born in Hamilton, April
-11, 1883, the son of Fenner Frederick Dalley (former President of the F.
-F. Dalley Co., Limited), who died in 1913, and his wife, Mabel (Forster)
-Dalley. He received his education at the Hamilton public schools and
-Collegiate Institute. He married Ethel Hazel Gibson, daughter of the
-late Samuel Gibson, of Caledonia, February 21, 1914, and has two sons,
-Fenner Frederick Dalley, born June 1, 1915, and Samuel Gibson Dalley,
-born September 17, 1916. Mr. Dalley is President of the F. F. Dalley
-Corporations, Limited, Hamilton (the parent organization); President
-Dalley Products, Limited, Hamilton; President of F. F. Dalley Co. of
-Canada, Limited, Hamilton; President of F. F. Dalley Co. of New York,
-Inc., Buffalo, N.Y.; President S. M. Bixby & Co., Inc., New York (plants
-Brooklyn, N.Y. and Indianapolis, Ind.); Director and Treasurer The
-Thermokept Products Corporation, New York; Chairman and Treasurer
-Perfect Vacuum Canning Co., New York; and Chairman and Treasurer
-Thermokept, Limited, Hamilton, Ont. As parent Company, the F. F. Dalley
-Corporations, Limited, control in the Dalley Co., founded in 1846,
-manufacturers of the well known “2 in 1” shoe polishes and other
-specialities, and the Bixby Company of New York, founded in 1864, the
-two largest individual manufacturers of shoe polish in America, in
-addition to which they control many other specialities and staple lines.
-The Corporation conducts five factories and eighteen branch offices,
-extending from coast to coast in Canada and the United States. The
-Corporation’s spacious offices are centrally situated at No. 50 James
-Street South. Mr. Dalley’s clubs are: Hamilton, Thistle, Tamahaac, Royal
-Hamilton Yacht, Caledon Mountain Trout, Hamilton Golf and Country,
-Seaview Golf, Absecon, N.J., Buffalo, Buffalo, N.Y., Canadian, New York
-City. He is a member of the Hamilton Board of Trade and of the Canadian
-Manufacturers Association; of St. George’s Society, and the A.F. and
-A.M.; and is an Anglican. Mr. Dalley has a pleasing personality and
-great efficiency, necessary in the direction of a business with such
-extensive ramifications as that of which he is the head. He held a
-commission as Lieutenant in the Thirteenth Royal Regiment in 1906. Golf
-is his chief recreation. His residence is at “Wynnstay,” Ancaster, Ont.,
-on the mountain a short distance out of Hamilton.
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-=Stapells, Richard A.=, is one of the best known figures in the business
-and social life of Toronto, where he was born on February 12, 1879, the
-son of Richard George and Susan (Carruthers) Stapells. He was educated
-in the Toronto Public Schools and commenced his business career with the
-firm of Caldecott, Burton & Spence, from which so many successful
-Canadian business men have graduated. About 1900 he left the employ of
-that firm to pay a visit to England and engaged in the commission
-business in London for some two years. On his return to Toronto in 1902
-he purchased and incorporated the business now known as the McElroy
-Manufacturing Company, Limited, makers of “Royal Garments,” with offices
-at 47 Simcoe Street, Toronto, of which he is President and Managing
-Director. Despite the fact that he is a most successful business man who
-had won success at an age when many men are but on the lower rungs of
-the ladder, Mr. Stapells’ general interests are remarkably wide and his
-artistic tastes exceptional. His chief hobby is music, for which he has
-a great natural talent. As a boy he was an accomplished violinist and a
-member of the Toronto Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by the late Dr.
-F. H. Torrington. At the age of fifteen he was a member of the violin
-section of the great orchestra formed for the Festival in connection
-with the opening of Massey Hall in 1894. Later he obtained vocal
-instruction with the best masters in London, England, and New York, and
-for several years has been baritone soloist of the Church of the Messiah
-(Anglican), of which he is a member, and a lay delegate to the Anglican
-Synod, representing Church of Messiah. He was for some years also a very
-enthusiastic member of the executive of the National Chorus, a
-celebrated Toronto choral organization. In social and patriotic work he
-is equally active. He has long been a prominent member of the Empire
-Club of Canada, Toronto; was one of its vice-presidents in 1913-14 and
-President 1918-19. In the latter capacity he has induced many eminent
-men to come to Toronto and address the public on questions of the day,
-and made the Club one of the most vital organs of opinion in the
-Dominion. He is a life member of York Pioneer and Historical Society;
-life member of St. George’s Society; life member of the Canadian Red
-Cross Society, member of the Executive Committee, Canadian Defence
-League; member of the Executive, Overseas Club, and member of the Navy
-League of Canada, in connection with all of which he was active in
-promoting patriotic movements during the war and the succeeding
-repatriation period. Is a Trustee of Queen’s University. He is also a
-member of the Toronto Board of Trade, member of the Canadian
-Manufacturers Association (an Executive officer thereof in 1914), member
-of the Royal Colonial Institute and the Canadian Institute; a past
-president of the Dufferin School Old Boys’ Association; and belongs to
-the following clubs: Strollers’, National, Royal Canadian Yacht, and
-charter member of the Eastbourne Golf Club. With all his manifold
-activities Mr. Stapells is one of the most affable and well-poised men
-in the city of Toronto. In politics he is a Conservative-Unionist. In
-July, 1902, he married Pauline Edwina, daughter of William C. Harvey,
-and has two sons and four daughters. He resides at 99 Roxborough St.
-East, Toronto, and has a summer home, “Deancroft,” at Jackson’s Point,
-Lake Simcoe, Ont.
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-=Weld, Edmund= (London, Ont.), Barrister, is the member of a well-known
-English county family, his grandfather having been the Rev. Joseph Weld,
-Rector, Tenterden, Kent. His father, the late Wm. Weld, was the founder
-and owner of the “Farmer’s Advocate,” London, Ont. The subject of this
-sketch was born at Delaware, Ont., in 1859, and educated at London,
-Ont., where he became a Barrister, in 1884, and successfully practised
-his profession, as also at Toronto. He has been an Alderman and a member
-of the Public Library Board of his native town, also President of the
-Western Ontario Bowling Association. In 1907 Mr. Weld was appointed to
-his present position as Deputy Clerk of the Crown, Registrar of the
-Surrogate Court and of the County Court, Middlesex County, Ont. He
-married Gertrude Isobel, daughter of Richard Gibson, Delaware, Ont., in
-1890. He has a family of five, viz.: Helen G., Constance G., Rowena G.,
-Hume G., and Stanley G. He is a member of the London Club, a
-Conservative in Politics, and a member of the Church of England.
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-=Brodeur, Hon. Louis Philippe=, is one of the Judges of the Supreme
-Court of Canada, Ottawa, to which position he was appointed August 11,
-1911. Mr. Brodeur was born at Beloeil, Quebec, August 21, 1862. He is
-the son of Toussaint Brodeur, a patriot of 1837, and of Justine Lambert.
-He was educated in the College of St. Hyacinthe, was graduated LL.B. at
-Laval University, and, in 1904, received the degree of LL.D. from that
-university. Called to the bar in 1884, he was in 1899 created a K.C. He
-has written largely for the press, and, in 1896, was editor of “Le
-Soir.” In 1891, Mr. Brodeur was elected to the House of Commons for
-Rouville, Quebec. He was re-elected in 1896, and became Deputy-Speaker
-of the House, and on his re-election in 1900 was appointed Speaker. He
-was re-elected at the next two general elections, viz., in the elections
-of 1904 and 1908. Mr. Brodeur gained much prominence owing to his keen
-knowledge of parliamentary procedure, and while Speaker was noted for
-the able and dignified manner in which he gave his decisions on all
-questions that came before him for solution. Before entering Parliament,
-Mr. Brodeur had gained an enviable reputation in the legal profession,
-and, as a member of the House of Commons—he being a fluent and eloquent
-speaker in both English and French, and one who had studiously labored
-to acquire a masterly knowledge of parliamentary procedure—he soon rose
-in the estimation and confidence of his fellow members; and his
-affability in politics, as in social life, made him a great favorite. In
-1904, Mr. Brodeur was called to the Laurier Cabinet, and was sworn in as
-Minister of Inland Revenue. In 1906, on the death of Hon. Raymond
-Prefontaine, Mr. Brodeur was transferred to the Department of Marine and
-Fisheries, and when the Department of Naval Service was organized he was
-appointed head of it. It was Mr. Brodeur who was the author of the first
-Naval Bill introduced in the Canadian Parliament in 1910, calling for
-the organization of the Navy. It was Mr. Brodeur who introduced in
-Parliament a Bill against the American Tobacco Trust, which proved
-successful in checking the methods the Tobacco Company wanted to employ
-in Canada. The success resulting from the passing of this legislation
-attracted the attention of the people of Canada, and even the United
-States press commented favorably upon it. Taking a keen interest in
-navigation in all Canadian waters, Mr. Brodeur was instrumental in
-having established along the St. Lawrence River innumerable aids to
-navigation which have made that river, night or day, or in fog,
-navigable. In 1907 and 1911, Mr. Brodeur was a member of the Imperial
-Conference at London, and, by Imperial Order-in-Council of August 8,
-1907, Mr. Brodeur was appointed by the King one of the
-joint-plenipotentiaries to negotiate the first treaty which has been
-exclusively negotiated by Canadians or representatives of any other
-sister nations of the Empire, viz., the Franco-Canadian Treaty. In 1909,
-Mr. Brodeur represented Canada at the Imperial Defence Conference, and
-was Canada’s representative to the Washington Conference held in
-pursuance of the decision of the Hague Tribunal on the North Atlantic
-fisheries. Mr. Brodeur was created an officier of the Legion d’Honneur
-in 1908. He is one of the Governors of the Notre Dame Hospital. In 1887,
-Mr. Brodeur married Emma Brillon, daughter of J. R. Brillon, notary, of
-Beloeil. He has four sons and one daughter. One of his sons was during
-the war a Lieutenant in the Imperial Navy. Mr. Brodeur is a member of
-the following clubs: Hunt, Rideau, Rivermead, of Ottawa, Montreal
-(Montreal), Winchester (Montreal), and Country Club of Montreal. He
-resides at 229 Chapel St., Ottawa.
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-
-=Côté, Narcisse Omer, I.S.O.=, Controller of the Lands Patents Branch
-and Registrar of Dominion Lands Patents, Department of Interior, is a
-descendant of Jean Côté, a native of France (being the eighth generation
-of this ancestor residing in Canada), one of the first settlers of
-Quebec, having been married there in 1635, to Anne, daughter of Abraham
-Martin, the owner of a piece of ground in Quebec known as the plains of
-Abraham. Entering the Department of the Interior in the Canadian Civil
-Service in 1879, which Department was then presided over by the late Rt.
-Hon. Sir John A. Macdonald, K.C.B., Prime Minister and Minister of
-Interior, Mr. Côté soon made himself an attentive, valuable and trusted
-employee. He rapidly rose from one station to another until 1904 when he
-became chief clerk, in 1906 registrar of Dominion Land Patents and chief
-of the Lands Patents Branch, and in 1913 controller. Mr. Côté was a
-member and secretary of the Royal Commission on the claims of
-half-breeds in the North-West Territories, now comprising the Provinces
-of Saskatchewan and Alberta, during 1885, 1886, 1887, and chairman in
-1900 of the Royal Commission on claims of the half-breeds of the
-Provisional District of Saskatchewan, and of persons who had served as
-scouts, or otherwise, during the Rebellion of 1885. Mr. Côté is the
-author of many valuable publications, some, if not all, of which will
-remain for all time to come as useful reference for historical,
-parliamentary, and other purposes, and which, as the years pass, will
-increase in value and become indispensable. The following are to be
-found among his literary works already published: “Political
-Appointments, Parliaments, and the Judicial Bench in the Dominion of
-Canada 1867 to 1895,” published in 1896; Supplement thereto up to 1903,
-published in 1903; Volume II. to the original work, for period 1896 to
-1917, published in 1917; “Appendix 1865 to 1867 and Index,” published in
-1918, to his father’s work published in 1866, entitled “Political
-Appointments and Elections in the Province of Canada from 1841 to 1865.”
-The whole series providing an indispensable record for present and
-future reference of public men and public events in Canada during the
-last seventy-six years, 1841 to 1917. Mr. Narcisse Omer Côté, I.S.O.,
-was born in Quebec, September 14, 1859. He is the son of the late Joseph
-Olivier Côté, a notary public for the Province of Quebec, and clerk of
-H.M.’s Privy Council for Canada, and Marie Julie Léocadie Leprobon. He
-was educated at de la Salle Commercial Academy, Ottawa, and the
-University of Ottawa. On the occasion of the coronation of His Majesty
-King George the Fifth, in 1911, Mr. Côté was created a Companion of the
-Imperial Service Order. In 1907, Mr. Côté married Mabel Edna, daughter
-of the late Hon. Désiré Girouard, D.C.L., Puisne Judge of the Supreme
-Court of Canada. For several years, Mr. Côté was connected with the
-Canadian militia; and was formerly captain in the Governor-General’s
-Foot Guards. Mr. Côté is a member of the Rideau Club and the Royal
-Ottawa Golf Club. He is a Roman Catholic in religion and resides at 54
-Russell Avenue, Ottawa, Ont.
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-=Bole, David W.=, President National Drug and Chemical Company of
-Canada, Limited, with head office in Montreal, was born in the county of
-Lambton, Ont., February 15, 1856, the son of James Bole, a farmer, and
-Ann Murdock Bole, his wife. He was educated at the Watford Public School
-and Woodstock College, and graduated from the Ontario College of
-Pharmacy in 1880, and on March 3 of that year married Isabella Lennox,
-daughter of Thomas Lennox, merchant, of Thedford, Ont. He has three
-children, the sons being Frederick H. Bole and David L. Bole, President
-and Managing Director respectively of the Mutual Elevator Co., Fort
-William, Ontario, and a daughter, Florence, wife of W. D. Muirhead, of
-Fort William. Mr. Bole moved to Regina, Sask., in 1882, and established
-the first drug store in the north-west between Brandon, Man., and
-Kamloops, B.C. He was a member of the Provisional School Board in Regina
-before schools were established by law, and also President of the Board
-of Trade. In 1889, he moved to Winnipeg where he established a wholesale
-drug house, and built up an extensive business. He was elected in 1906
-President National Drug and Chemical Co., with head office in Montreal,
-and branches in all of the leading cities of Canada. This company is one
-of the largest drug concerns in the British Empire, employing about
-$5,000,000 active capital. He was elected by acclamation to the Winnipeg
-School Board for eight years, during three of which he was chairman. For
-thirteen years he was a member of the Council of the Winnipeg Board of
-Trade, and one year its President. Mr. Bole was elected member of the
-House of Commons for Winnipeg at the general election in 1904, but
-declined to be a candidate in 1908. Since taking up his residence in
-Montreal, he has accepted no public office, except as a member of the
-Council of the Board of Trade. He is a member of the Montreal Club.
-Presbyterian; Liberal. His address is 34 St. Gabriel St., Montreal,
-Quebec.
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-=Wetherell, James Elgin, B.A.= (Toronto, Ont.), born at Port Dalhousie,
-Ont., September 20, 1851. Son of James S. Wetherell and Jane (Hilts)
-Wetherell, both of U.E. Loyalist descent, his mother being a sister of
-the Rev. Joseph H. Hilts, the well-known pioneer preacher. Mr. Wetherell
-was educated at the Newmarket Public and High Schools and at the
-University of Toronto (B.A. 1877 with medal in classics). After
-graduation he was Professor of Latin for two years at Woodstock College.
-In September, 1879, he became the first Principal of the newly created
-Collegiate Institute at St. Marys. In 1884 he moved to Strathroy, where
-in 1885 he became the first Principal of the newly created Collegiate
-Institute of that town. For five years he was Principal of the Strathroy
-Training Institute for High School teachers. He was President of the
-Ontario Classical Association in 1896, and President of the College and
-High School section of the Ontario Teachers’ Association in 1902. In
-1905 he was elected a Senator of the University of Toronto to represent
-the High School teachers of the Province. This position he resigned in
-1906 when appointed Inspector of High Schools and Collegiate Institutes
-for Ontario to succeed Dr. John Seath. During the ten years of his
-inspectorship he travelled extensively, not only in Ontario, but also in
-the United States and Europe. In January, 1917, he was appointed General
-Editor of Text-Books for the Ontario Department of Education. He has
-edited many High School text-books in Latin and English, as follows:
-Virgil, Book I.; Virgil, Book V.; Cicero, Cato Major; Cicero against
-Catiline; Scott, Lay of the Last Minstrel; Selections from Longfellow;
-Selections from Wordsworth. After visiting Tennyson’s homes and haunts
-he edited in 1890 the first annotated edition of selections from
-Tennyson in Canada—a work which called forth a letter of appreciation
-and thanks from the poet. He has edited also four anthologies: Later
-Canadian Poems (1893); Later American Poems (1896); Poems of the Love of
-Country (1905); and the Great War in Verse and Prose (1919). He is also
-the author of two books, “Over the Sea,” and “Fields of Fame in England
-and Scotland” (1914). He has contributed numerous articles and
-occasional verse to magazines and journals, and was at one time a
-regular contributor of unsigned articles to a Toronto newspaper. He has
-often lectured on educational and literary topics. Mr. Wetherell married
-(1) Rebecca Randle, daughter of William Nason, Weston (died May, 1912);
-and (2) Margaret, daughter of Henry Smith, Thorold. He has three
-children, two sons and a daughter. He is a member of the Canadian Club
-and a charter member of the Champlain Society. He attends St. Paul’s
-Anglican Church.
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-=Hamilton, Frank Kent, LL.B.=, General Manager of the McKittrick
-Properties, Limited, Hamilton, Ontario, was born in Stratford, Ont.,
-March 19, 1887, and received his education in the local public and high
-schools and University of Manitoba, from which he graduated with the
-degree of LL.B. in 1910, and in the following year he graduated as a
-barrister. He married October 6, 1915, Fannie Irene Moodie, daughter of
-Honorary Lieut.-Col. J. R. Moodie, an extensive manufacturer, of
-Hamilton, Ont., and has a daughter, Fannie Margaret, born February 14,
-1917, and a son, Kenneth Moodie, born June 29, 1918. He is a member of
-the Hamilton Golf Club, the Hamilton Club, the Glendale Golf Club, and
-his principal recreations are golf and tennis. He is a Presbyterian, and
-a Unionist-Liberal. With the exception of one year, his boyhood days
-were spent in Stratford, Ontario. This year was spent in Syracuse, New
-York, where his father went in November, 1897, to go into the wholesale
-shoe business. He died there in June, 1898, and his widow and four
-daughters and son returned to live in Stratford. His widow died in
-November, 1913. After matriculating in 1904, Mr. Hamilton spent two
-years in the men’s clothing business at Stratford, and left in May of
-1906 for Western Canada, where he felt the prospects were better for
-working his way through for law. He articled to Norman P. Buckingham,
-then practising at Boissevain, Manitoba. In July, 1908, he went to
-Winnipeg, where he studied for a short time under Lieut.-Col. A. W.
-Morley, and from 1909 till 1911 he studied under the firm of Aikins,
-Robson, Fullerton & Coyne, the senior member of the firm being Sir James
-Aikins, the present Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba. Mr. Robson later
-became Judge of the King’s Bench of Manitoba, and is now general counsel
-for the Union Bank of Canada. Mr. Fullerton is now Judge of the Court of
-Appeal, while J. B. Coyne is one of Manitoba’s most prominent counsel.
-Graduating in 1911, the partnership of Coyne & Hamilton was formed in
-January, 1912, which firm later became Coyne, Hamilton & Martin.
-Successful law practice was carried on under this name until May, 1918,
-when Mr. Hamilton came East to accept the General Managership of the
-McKittrick Properties, Limited, owners of some 700 acres of land within
-the limits of the city of Hamilton, which is now in the course of
-development as a residential area. In the winter of 1904 and 1905 he was
-one of the members of the Stratford Junior Hockey team, which won the
-Junior Championship of the Province of Ontario. In 1910 he was a member
-of the Varsity Hockey team of Winnipeg, holders of the Championship of
-Manitoba. The team challenged for the Allen Cup, emblematic of the
-Amateur Championship of the World, then held by St. Michaels’ of
-Toronto, but spring came before dates could be arranged for a play-off.
-He also belonged to the Law Hockey team, winners of the Inter-Collegiate
-Championship of the University of Manitoba, and though he has given up
-active athletics, still bears the stamp of an athlete. He is tall, fair,
-active, affable and enterprising in a marked degree. The family reside
-at 407 Queen Street South, Hamilton, Ontario.
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-=Barnard, Sir Frank Stillman, K.C.M.G.=, Lieutenant-Governor of British
-Columbia since 1914, is a native of the city of Toronto, but a British
-Columbian since early childhood. He was born on May 16, 1856, the son of
-the late Francis J. Barnard, who settled in that province during the
-Fraser River gold rush of 1859, and brought his family to permanently
-reside there in 1860. The elder Barnard subsequently became one of the
-strongest advocates of Confederation with the Dominion of Canada, and
-later, from 1879 to 1887, sat in the House of Commons as Conservative
-member for the old constituency of Yale-Kootenay. The maiden name of the
-mother of the subject of this sketch was Miss Ellen Stillman. He was
-educated at Hellmuth College, London, Ont. On returning to B.C., he, in
-1879, became associated with the British Columbia Express Company of
-Victoria, B.C., and was promoted to the post of general manager in 1881,
-and president in 1882. For a considerable period he was prominent in
-connection with transportation interests. He was President of the
-Consolidated Railway Company of Vancouver, 1894-96, and Managing
-Director of the British Columbia Electric Railway Company, Limited, of
-London, Eng., 1898-1906. In 1906 he retired from active business.
-Despite his large commercial interests, he found time to devote to
-politics, and in 1886 and 1887 served as member of the Victoria City
-Council. In 1888, he was elected to the House of Commons for the Cariboo
-district as a Conservative, and continued to sit until 1896. His
-brother, Hon. George Henry Barnard, was also at one time a member of the
-House of Commons, and is now a Senator. In 1914, Sir Frank was appointed
-Lieutenant-Governor of the Province, a post he still holds at the time
-of writing, and was later created a Knight Commander of the Most
-Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George. During his term of
-office Sir Frank has been a leader in the patriotic activities in
-connection with the war, and Lady Barnard has proven a most valuable aid
-to him in the important social duties of his office. They were married
-on November 7, 1883, and prior thereto Lady Barnard was Miss Martha
-Loewen, daughter of the late Joseph Loewen, brewer, of Victoria. Sir
-Frank is a member of the following clubs: Union, Victoria; Vancouver,
-Vancouver; Royal Vancouver Yacht; Victoria Golf; Victoria Tennis; Royal
-Automobile, London, Eng.; and the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, Toronto. He
-has no children, and his address is Government House, Victoria, B.C.
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-=Hodgetts, Col. Charles Alfred, C.M.G., M.D.=, sanitary specialist, is
-the third son of the late George Hodgetts, of Toronto, and a grandson of
-the late Lt.-Col. Thomas Hodgetts, of His Majesty’s 24th Regiment, and
-was born in Toronto, August 23, 1859. In 1896, Dr. Hodgetts married
-Elizabeth B. Salter, daughter of W. T. Salter, of St. John’s,
-Newfoundland. She died in March, 1909. He has two sons and three
-daughters. He was educated at the Provincial Model School, Toronto, and
-was awarded the Dufferin Medal at the Ontario College of Pharmacy,
-graduating with honours in 1875, at the Victoria University, graduating
-in 1886 as an M.D., C.M., and subsequently received the membership of
-the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Dr. Hodgetts was
-house surgeon at the Toronto General Hospital 1886-7, and resident
-assistant surgeon at the Stafford Infirmary, England, 1888, and received
-his L.R.C.P., London, 1889. He received the first D.P.H. of Queen’s
-University in 1912. From 1891 to 1904 he was Medical Inspector of the
-Provincial Board of Health and Secretary and Deputy Registrar General of
-the Province of Ontario from 1904 to 1910. In 1910, he was offered the
-M.O.H. of the city of Toronto, but declined the appointment;
-subsequently he was appointed Medical Adviser of the Public Health
-Committee of the Commission of Conservation, with headquarters at
-Ottawa. Dr. Hodgetts has held the Honorary Treasurership of the St. John
-Ambulance Association, and is at present Honorary Secretary; also the
-Honorary Secretaryship of the Canadian Branch of the Red Cross Society
-from the time of its organization, and was most active during the war in
-South Africa, 1899-1900, in carrying out the work in Canada. He resigned
-from the office in 1910, and was elected the first Honorary Life Member.
-Sup. Presdt. Sons of England Ben. Soc., Canada, 1900-1; a Fellow Royal
-Sanitary Institute, 1905; an examiner, Royal Sanitary Institute, 1906;
-Fellow Royal Institute of Public Health; Fellow of the Society of
-Medical Officers of Health of Great Britain; Hon. Vice-President
-Association Public Vaccinators, Great Britain; Member, International
-Commission on Bovine Tuberculosis, 1909; Member, Ottawa Commission to
-investigate the best source of water supply for Ottawa, and to suggest a
-plan of sewage disposal for that city, 1911; Life Member of the British
-Red Cross Society. He has served as 3rd, 2nd, and 1st Vice-President,
-American Public Health Association; Hon. Asst., 1903, Esquire, 1910, and
-Knight of Grace, 1912, Order of St. John of Jerusalem; Past President,
-Conference Executive; Officer, State and Prof. Boards of Health,
-Washington; President, Canadian Public Health Association of Canada,
-1911-12; gazetted Lieut. A.M.C., present rank, Lt.-Col.; a founder and
-charter member of the Canadian Red Cross Society, St. John Ambulance
-Association, and the Canadian Public Health Association; author of
-numerous contributions to the press and of several pamphlets on public
-health. Represented Canada at International Congress on Tuberculosis,
-Washington, 1909; International Congress on Maternity and Child Welfare,
-Berlin, 1911; Conference on Pollution of International Waterways,
-Cleveland, 1912; and British and Overseas Dominion Conference on Child
-Welfare, London, England, 1913. The only medical member of the Trustees
-holding the charter of the Toronto School of Medicine for the Ontario
-Government. He is credited with being one of the foremost public health
-authorities in Canada and, as the “Montreal Gazette” has wisely
-pronounced, is “regarded everywhere as an authority on all subjects
-dealing with public health.” He was prominent with the Conservation
-Commission in urging the creation of a Dominion Department of Health,
-and carried out a campaign for the better housing of the people and for
-town planning. Dr. Hodgetts is thoroughly British, and believes that the
-maintenance of British connection is essential for the continuance of
-Canada’s progress. On mobilization, at Valcartier in August, 1914, O.C.
-in charge of Inoculation Column. Nearly 30,000 troops were inoculated,
-being the largest number ever inoculated on mobilization. In October,
-1914, Dr. Hodgetts was appointed Hon. Canadian Red Cross Commissioner
-overseas, with the rank of Colonel, and left for the front. From London
-he organized and directed the activities of the Society overseas in
-England, France and the countries of the Entente. He was elected a
-member of the Joint War Committee of the British Society and Order of
-St. John of Jerusalem for the full period of his residence overseas. In
-September, 1917, among the birthday honours conferred by King George at
-Buckingham Palace, the C.M.G. was given to Dr. Hodgetts in appreciation
-of his work, he having been mentioned in despatches for distinguished
-service. In April, 1918, he resigned the Commissionership of the
-C.R.C.S., and the Imperial authorities appointed him to the post of
-deputy Commissioner of Medical Service under the Imperial Ministry of
-National Services—one of the highest positions in the medical services
-of the Empire, and he subsequently served in Ireland as Assistant
-Commissioner. Dr. Hodgetts returned to Canada the following December,
-and was enthusiastically received by the members of the Great War
-Veterans’ Association, to whom he had rendered such attentive and
-efficient service overseas, that it had received the personal praise of
-the Commanders-in-Chief of the British and French armies. He received a
-personal letter of thanks from Queen Marie of Rumania, and the badge of
-membership of the Serbian Red Cross for his services to those allies.
-Dr. Hodgetts is a Protestant in religion, and his residence is 238
-Argyle Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Member of the Rideau and
-University Clubs.
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-=Macdonald, Sir Donald Alexander=, the oldest Major-General in the
-Canadian Army, upon whom fell the work of equipping the Canadian Forces
-during the continuance of the war of 1914, is now on the retired list.
-His responsibilities covered a wide field, embracing the clothing and
-equipment of all branches of the service, and in addition the housing,
-feeding, transport, of the mounted and postal services. Having served
-his country faithfully and with marked ability for fifty-four years,
-Major-General Sir Donald Alexander Macdonald, I.S.O., C.M.G., K.B., in
-January, 1918, retired from active service loaded with honours,
-decorations and distinctions, and carrying with him the high estimation
-of the Canadian people and of the Empire at large. The record of his
-devotion to duty and his ability to do those duties that fell to his lot
-will ever hold a prominent place in Canada’s military history. In 1863,
-Major-General Sir Donald Alexander Macdonald first became a member of
-the Canadian Militia when he joined the Rifle Company of Cornwall as
-Ensign. In 1865 he became Lieutenant of the 59th Regiment, and in 1866
-Captain, in which capacity he served during the Fenian raids of 1866. In
-1869 he became Adjutant, and in 1870 served in the Red River Expedition,
-and was awarded a medal and two clasps. In 1871 he became Major, and in
-1877 was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel. Then came in 1885 the
-North-West Rebellion, in which he distinguished himself, and was awarded
-a medal. In 1900 he was promoted to Colonelcy, and, having for some time
-been Chief Superintendent of Military Stores, in 1903 was appointed
-Director-General of Ordnance for Canada, and received the honour of
-I.S.O. In 1904 he was appointed Quartermaster-General of the Canadian
-Militia. In 1908 he was promoted to Brigadier-General, and in that year
-received his C.M.G., for his services in equipping the South African
-Contingent. In 1912 he was made a Major-General, and in January, 1918,
-was knighted by His Majesty King George V. In addition to the other
-distinctions that were accorded him, Sir D. A. Macdonald holds the Long
-Service Decoration and the honour of being the third military member of
-the Militia Council. Major-General Sir Donald Alexander Macdonald is the
-son of the late Alexander Eugene Macdonald, Deputy Clerk of the Crown
-and Registrar of the Surrogate Court of Cornwall, Ontario, and was born
-October 31, 1845, in Cornwall, and educated at the County High School.
-In 1876 he married Mary, the second daughter of Hon. Justice Hugh
-Richardson, formerly of the Superior and Supreme Court of the Canadian
-North-West Territories. He has one daughter, the wife of Lt.-Colonel C.
-L. Panet, Secretary of the Department of Militia and Defence. He resides
-at the Chateau Laurier, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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-=Davidson, William McCartney, M.P.P.= (of Calgary), is one of the
-leading editors and public men of Alberta. He was born at Hillier,
-Prince Edward County, Ontario, on November 12, 1872, the son of James C.
-Davidson, a farmer, and Sarah McCartney Davidson, and was educated at
-the public school of his district, Picton High School, St. Catharines
-Collegiate Institute, and the University of Toronto. From the latter
-institution he graduated in June, 1893, with the degree of B.A., and
-decided to enter newspaper work. His first experience was as a reporter
-on the staff of the Toronto “World” under W. F. Maclean, M.P. A year
-later he was invited to join the staff of the Toronto “Star,” then in
-the early stages of its career, and shortly afterward became its
-representative in the press gallery of the Ontario Legislature. Mr.
-Davidson showed a grasp of public issues beyond the ordinary, and during
-the seven years he remained with the “Star” made its legislative reports
-a definite feature of the newspaper. In 1901 the Canadian West was just
-on the verge of the tremendous development which has marked the first
-two decades of this century, and Mr. Davidson resolved to try his
-fortunes there. In 1902 he established himself at Calgary, then a town
-of about 3,000 inhabitants, and founded the “Morning Albertan.” From
-comparatively humble beginnings it has developed into one of the most
-widely known newspapers in Canada. Throughout its career Mr. Davidson
-has retained the position of editor-in-chief and proprietor. He soon
-became prominently identified with the Liberal party in the province,
-and at the Alberta general elections of 1917 was elected to the
-Legislature for the riding of North Calgary. Few members of that body
-have as deep a knowledge of public questions and of parliamentary
-procedure. Mr. Davidson has travelled extensively, and one of his
-favorite pastimes is mountain-climbing. He is a member of St. Andrews
-Golf Club, of the A.F. & A.M., and the I.O.F. He is a Senator of the
-University of Alberta, and a Presbyterian in religion. He has been twice
-married: first, on June 6, 1899, to Christiana Constance Robertson,
-daughter of Rev. James Robertson, D.D., of Toronto, Superintendent of
-Missions for the Presbyterian Church of Canada. She died in March, 1904,
-and on September 10, 1913, Mr. Davidson married Ethel M. Heydon,
-daughter of George Heydon, of Yarmouth Centre, Ontario. He has three
-children, James R., William M., and Marian C. R. Davidson.
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-
-=Parent, Hon. Simon Napoleon, K.C.=, who was Chairman of the National
-Transcontinental Railway Commission from 1905 to 1911, is the son of
-Simon Polycarpe and Luce (Belanger) Parent, of Beauport, Quebec, and was
-born there September 12, 1855. His education was had at the Quebec
-Normal School and Laval University, and between 1881 and 1902 he was
-awarded the following degrees and honours: Laval University, LL.L., with
-Lorne Gold Medal and Tessier Prize, 1881; LL.D., 1902; D.C.L. (Hon.),
-Bishop’s College University, Lennoxville, 1902. In 1881 Mr. Parent was
-called to the Bar, and was created K.C. in 1899. In October, 1877, he
-married Marie Louise Clara, daughter of the late Ambroise Gendron. Four
-sons and four daughters have blessed the union. At present Mr. Parent is
-President of the Quebec Streams Commission for the Province of Quebec.
-When admitted to the Bar, Mr. Parent successfully practised his
-profession in the city of Quebec, and from the start was looked upon as
-a practical man and a good and reliable lawyer. He served as an alderman
-in the Quebec City Council from 1890 to 1904, and was Mayor of the city
-from 1894 to 1905, during which time he built the new City Hall. Largely
-through his perseverance and energetic work, the splendid Quebec Bridge
-was built, and it was he who originated the park at St. Roch, between
-St. Roch and St. Sauveur. Quebec city streets were improved and the
-finances of the city placed on a better footing. Mr. Parent sat in the
-local legislature for St. Sauveur in the Liberal interest from 1890 to
-1905, and served in the Marchand administration as Commissioner of Crown
-Lands, Mines and Forests from 1897 to 1900. On Mr. Marchand’s death in
-the latter year, Mr. Parent was called upon to succeed him as Prime
-Minister of the Province, and held that position up to 1905, when he
-resigned at the request of the Right Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier to accept
-the position of Chairman of the National Transcontinental Railway
-Commission, with headquarters at Ottawa, which Commission had charge and
-control of the construction of the Eastern Division of the
-Transcontinental Railway, extending from the city of Moncton, N.B., in
-the east to the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, in the west, and the
-operation thereof until completed and leased to the Grand Trunk Pacific
-Railway Company. Mr. Parent was President of the Quebec Bridge Company
-from 1897 to 1908, was formerly a director of the Quebec Railway, Light
-and Power Company and the Quebec and Lake St. John Railway. During his
-whole public career, Mr. Parent has held the reputation for being an
-honest and able man; as one of the most industrious administrators of
-modern times; as a man of decision, business and legal ability, and rare
-enterprise in public matters; unassuming, courteous, and practical. A
-Roman Catholic in religion, Mr. Parent has ever been a staunch Liberal,
-and one of the late Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s best and most influential
-supporters. He is a member of the Rideau, Laurentian, and Ottawa Hunt
-Clubs in Ottawa, and of the Garrison Club, Quebec. His Ottawa residence
-is at 485 King Edward Avenue.
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-
-=Rutherford, John Gunion, C.M.G., V.S.=, Ottawa, Honorary Associate of
-the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, Commissioner, Board of Railway
-Commissioners for Canada (Ottawa, Ont.) born at Mountain Cross,
-Peeblesshire, Scotland, on December 25, 1857, son of Rev. Robert
-Rutherford, M.A., and his wife Agnes Gunion. In 1887, he married Edith,
-daughter of Washington Boultbee, of Ancaster, Ont., by whom he has three
-daughters. He was educated at the High School of Glasgow, and later
-spent several years in the practical study of agriculture in the
-counties of East Lothian and Selkirk. Coming to Canada at the age of
-seventeen, he attended the Ontario Agricultural College in 1875 and
-1876, being one of the earliest students at that institution, and later
-gained valuable practical experience in agriculture on the famous Bow
-Park Farm at Brantford, Ontario. In 1879 he graduated from the Ontario
-Veterinary College with honors, winning the gold medal for the best
-general examination, and numerous other prizes. He practised veterinary
-medicine for several years in Ontario, the United States and Mexico, and
-returning to Canada in 1884, settled at Portage la Prairie, Manitoba,
-where he engaged in general practice and horse breeding operations. He
-served as Veterinary Officer with the North-West Field Force under
-General Middleton during the Riel rebellion in 1885, and holds medal and
-clasp for that campaign. During his residence in Portage la Prairie he
-was for several years President of the Horse Breeders’ Association of
-Manitoba and the North-West Territories; President of the Manitoba
-Veterinary Association; President of the Manitoba and Lakeside
-Agricultural Society; the Island Park Racing Association, and the St.
-Andrew’s Society of Portage la Prairie. In 1884 he was appointed
-Veterinary Inspector for the Manitoba Government, an appointment which
-he held until 1892, when he was elected to represent the constituency of
-Lakeside (Portage Plains) in the Manitoba Legislature, in which body he
-was Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture. He was re-elected by
-acclamation in 1896, but after one session resigned to enter Dominion
-politics as representative for the constituency of Macdonald, which then
-comprised over one-sixth of the province of Manitoba. He sat as member
-for this constituency in the Dominion House until 1900, and in 1901 went
-to Great Britain as special Quarantine Officer for the Canadian
-Department of Agriculture. In 1902, he was appointed Chief Veterinary
-Inspector, and in 1904, after organizing the Health of Animals Branch,
-he became Veterinary Director-General. In 1906, he also took over the
-office of Live Stock Commissioner, and in the same and the succeeding
-year organized the present Meat and Canned Foods Inspection Service.
-During his tenure of office many original and radical departures were
-made in connection with the control and eradication of contagious
-diseases among the live stock of the Dominion, the results achieved
-being eminently satisfactory. Under his direction, the work of the Live
-Stock Branch was very considerably extended, and brought into close
-correlation with that of the Health of Animals Branch, joint supervision
-over the work of both branches being in a number of cases exercised by
-the same officers, especially in those provinces farthest from Ottawa.
-In 1908, he went twice to Rome as delegate for Canada to the
-International Institute of Agriculture, and in the same year was
-appointed to represent the Dominion at the International Congress on
-Tuberculosis at Washington, D.C. He was President of the American
-Veterinary Medical Association in 1908-09, and Chairman since its
-inception of the International Commission on the Control of Bovine
-Tuberculosis. He was for several years President of the St. Andrews
-Society of Ottawa, and from 1909 to 1911 President of the Civil Service
-Association of Canada. He was created a C.M.G. in 1910. In May, 1911, he
-resigned from the Dominion service, but at the request of the Government
-retained office until March, 1912. Immediately thereafter, he was
-engaged by Lord Shaughnessy, then President of the Canadian Pacific
-Railway Company, to undertake a campaign for the general development of
-the live stock industry and the encouragement of mixed farming in the
-three prairie provinces. In the organization of the campaign he found it
-advisable to co-ordinate this special work with that of the Company’s
-Department of Natural Resources at Calgary, Alberta, and in the
-following spring (1913) he was appointed Superintendent of Agriculture
-and Animal Industry, a position involving full responsibility for all
-the agricultural operations of the Company, including the educational
-and experimental activities in connection with its irrigation projects
-in Alberta. From 1913 to 1919, he was President of the Western Canada
-Live Stock Union, an organization in the creation of which he was
-largely instrumental, and which comprises in its membership all live
-stock associations and other bodies interested in the production of live
-stock in the four Western Provinces. In December, 1918, his portrait in
-oils was added by the live stock men of Canada to the collection of
-similar pictures of live stock celebrities in the Saddle and Sirloin
-Club of Chicago. He was a member of the Dominion Economic and
-Development Commission, as also a member of the Saskatchewan Royal Live
-Stock Commission, and has since its inception been Chairman of the Joint
-Committee on Commerce and Agriculture. While resident in Alberta he was
-Vice-Chairman of the Provincial Board of Agricultural Education, as also
-President of the Alberta Thoroughbred Horse Breeders’ Association,
-besides holding office in numerous other live stock and kindred
-organizations. He has had exceptional opportunities of acquiring a
-practical knowledge of Canadian agriculture, having actually farmed,
-more or less extensively, in every province of the Dominion except
-Prince Edward Island, his own farm being situated in the Chilliwack
-Valley in British Columbia. He was appointed to the Board of Railway
-Commissioners for Canada in November, 1918, and assumed office in
-February, 1919. Dr. Rutherford is a member of the following clubs:
-Ranchmen’s (Calgary), Rideau (Ottawa), University Club (Ottawa), Royal
-Ottawa Golf Club (Ottawa), and his home address is 218 MacLaren Street,
-Ottawa, Ont.
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-=Breithaupt, John C.=, of Kitchener, Ont., is one of the most widely
-known business men of Canada, and has been particularly identified with
-the leather industry. He was born at Buffalo, N.Y., on February 27,
-1859, the son of the late Louis and Catherine (Hailer) Breithaupt; but
-his parents removed to Kitchener, then known as Berlin, Ont., when he
-was very young. He was educated in the public and high schools of that
-thriving manufacturing city and later at the North-Western College,
-Naperville, Ill., of which despite his Canadian citizenship, he has in
-later life been a Trustee for upwards of twenty years. In Berlin, Ont.,
-he became associated in the tanning business of his father, which of
-late years has grown to great dimensions. He is Secretary of the
-Breithaupt Leather Company, Ltd., with tanneries at Kitchener,
-Penetanguishene and Woodstock, Ont., and President of the Hastings
-Tannery Company, Ltd., with head office at Kitchener and tannery at
-Hastings, Ont. In addition to his widespread commercial interests Mr.
-Breithaupt has shown unselfish activity in public affairs. While his
-city was still known as Berlin he was a member of the Municipal Council
-for six years, first as Councillor, then as Reeve, and later, in 1896-7,
-as Mayor. He has been a member of the Board of Water Commissioners of
-the city since 1899 continuously, and Chairman for every year of that
-period but one. He held the office of President of the Local Board of
-Trade for a term, and is also a member of the Toronto Board of Trade,
-with which he has been connected since 1891. In all municipal movements
-for the betterment of civic government he has been a leader, and his
-voice has frequently been heard in the cause of progress in the province
-at large. He was President of the Berlin and Waterloo Hospital for
-several years and takes a deep interest in religious matters. He is a
-member of the Evangelical Association, and has been a member of various
-Boards and Commissions of the Church, having been delegate to the
-General Conference in 1911 and again elected in 1919 in a similar
-capacity. He is a member of the following clubs: Lancaster, Grand River
-County and Golf, and Ontario Club (Toronto). In 1892 he married Caroline
-C., eldest daughter of the late J. S. Anthes, furniture manufacturer of
-Kitchener, and has six children: John Edward, chemical engineer of the
-various Breithaupt tanneries; Louise Catherine, Carl Louis, who early in
-1919 returned from overseas after two years’ service with the Canadian
-Engineers in France; Freida Caroline, Walter Hailer, and Helena Esther
-Breithaupt.
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-
-=Cronyn, Hume, M.P.=, who represents the city of London, Ont., in the
-House of Commons, was born in London on August 28th, 1864, the son of
-Verschoyle Cronyn, LL.B., K.C., and Sophy Cronyn. The latter was a
-daughter of the late Hon. William Hume Blake, and a sister of the late
-Hon. Edward Blake, formerly leader of the Liberal party in the Canadian
-House of Commons, and later one of the ornaments of the British House of
-Commons as member for Longford, Ireland. The subject of this sketch was
-educated at Dr. Tassie’s famous grammar school, Galt, Ont., and at
-Toronto University, from which he graduated with the degree of B.A. He
-qualified for the law, and in 1889 received the degree of LL.B. from the
-same institution, and in that year was called to the Bar. He at once
-commenced the practice of law at London, and continued therein for the
-next eighteen years. In 1907 he gave up practice to take up the post of
-General Manager of The Huron and Erie Mortgage Corporation, a position
-he still holds in combination with the office of Vice-President. He is
-also General Manager of the Canada Trust Company, London, and a Director
-of the Mutual Life Assurance Company of Canada. Though long identified
-with the Liberal party, both from conviction and family association, Mr.
-Cronyn always declined public honors until the political crisis
-attendant on the adoption of the policy of conscription by Sir Robert
-Borden arose in 1917. Mr. Cronyn was one of many Ontario Liberals who
-decided to support the Prime Minister in forming a Union Government to
-carry out that policy, and when the general elections were announced on
-this issue, accepted the nomination as a Unionist candidate for the
-riding of London. The Laurier Liberals decided to make London one of the
-chief arenas of their battle against conscription, by nominating Mr.
-George S. Gibbons who had also been prominent in the politics of that
-city. After one of the most hotly contested campaigns of that momentous
-election, Mr. Cronyn was elected by a majority of over 4,000. In his
-younger days, he had been prominent in military circles; while a student
-at Toronto University he had enlisted in the Queen’s Own Rifles and
-served with that famous regiment in the North-West Rebellion of 1885,
-taking part in the engagement of Cut Knife Creek, for which he holds the
-medal and clasp. On returning to London, he joined the 7th Fusiliers,
-and served as Major in that battalion from 1899 to 1907, when he
-retired. During the late war he was active in promoting all patriotic
-causes. He is a member of the following clubs: London; London Hunt and
-Country; Toronto; Rideau (Ottawa); Royal Societies and the Zeta Psi
-fraternity. In religion he is an Anglican, and on September 6, 1892,
-married Frances A., second daughter of John Labatt, of London. He has
-three sons and two daughters, and his residence is at 580 Dundas Street,
-London, Ont.
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-Kenora]
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-
-=Davis, Albert Mayno=, President of the McAuliffe-Davis Lumber Company,
-Limited, lumber manufacturers and dealers, with head office on Duke
-Street, Ottawa, and a capital of $300,000, has been in the lumber
-business in Ottawa for over twenty years, first with the Export Lumber
-Company, later as manager of the Chaudiere Lumber Company, and for seven
-years as manager of the McAuliffe-Davis Lumber Company, Limited, of
-which he is now President. Mr. Davis is not only recognized as one of
-the leading retail lumbermen of eastern Ontario, and one with entire
-knowledge of trade conditions in Ottawa and throughout the valley, but
-is known to be one of the leaders among the younger business element in
-the city. In the Company, Mr. Davis has associated with him Mr. W. Allen
-Taft, Jr., of Boston, Vice-President, who is also President of the
-Export Lumber Company; Mr. W. J. Armstrong, Secretary-Treasurer; and the
-following constitute the Board of Directors: Messrs. Albert Mayno Davis,
-W. H. McAuliffe, George I. Dewar, W. A. Taft, and W. Allen Taft. Mr.
-Albert Mayno Davis is the son of C. W. Davis, Burlington, Vermont, and
-Jennie Taft, of the same place, and was born at Burlington, October 3,
-1878. He was educated at the Burlington High School and the University
-of Vermont. June 23, 1903, he married Adele Sylvain, daughter of L. P.
-Sylvain, of Ottawa, Chief Clerk in the Library of Parliament, with which
-he has been connected since 1878. Two daughters and one son—Margaret,
-Philip, and Adele—add joy and lustre to the home. Mr. Davis is a member
-of the Laurentian, Royal Ottawa, Rivermead and Rideau Tennis Clubs. His
-recreations may be classified as outdoor sports. His residence is at 24
-Clemow Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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-
-=Bâby, Wolstan Alexander Dixie=, Collector of Inland Revenue for the
-Division of Hamilton (Ontario), is one of the most widely known and
-respected of Federal Government officials. Moreover, he comes of one of
-the oldest of all Canadian families and his ancestry dates back almost
-to the beginnings of white settlement on the continent of North America.
-He is the son of the late William Duperon Bâby, attorney-at-law and
-sheriff of the County of Essex, Ont., and Christina Jane Wilson,
-daughter of Captain John Wilson, of H.M. Canadian Militia, Amherstburg,
-Ont., and was born at Sandwich, Ont., on April 13, 1858. As a matter of
-record it is important to say something of the ancestry and family
-history of Mr. Bâby. His forefathers came from France in the earlier
-years of French settlement, and settled at Fort Detroit in what is now
-the State of Michigan, but then part of the French domain of Canada.
-Later they moved across the Detroit River, and took up land in what is
-now the town of Sandwich, Ont. The founders of the family on this
-continent were Jacques Bâby de Rainville and his wife, Isabeau Robin, of
-Monteton, in the Bishopric of Agen, France. Jacques was an officer in
-the famous Carignan Regiment and with it came to America in the
-seventeenth century. Subsequently, in 1670, he was married a second time
-to Jehanne Dandonneau de Sables, of which union were born nine children.
-The eldest grandson of this couple was Hon. Jacques Duperon Bâby, who
-was born in 1731, and lived until 1796. While he was still a young man,
-the British conquest of Canada occurred, and Detroit falling into
-British hands in 1760, Jacques Duperon Bâby and his wife, Suzanne de la
-Croix Rheaume (who lived until 1812), became British subjects. In all
-they had twenty-two children. The name of Hon. Jacques Duperon Bâby is
-intimately interwoven with the history of the Essex peninsula. He played
-a prominent part in the defence of the Detroit district during the
-conspiracy of the Indian chieftain, Pontiac, in 1760. He was a man of
-great worth and integrity, who enjoyed the confidence alike of the
-French, English, and Indian population, and consequently was able to be
-of great assistance to the British government in the establishment of
-the new regime. Hon. Jacques Duperon Bâby was the eldest of his many
-children. He was born in 1762 and died in 1833, and held positions of
-honour and influence in the young colony of Upper Canada. Jean Baptiste
-Bâby, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a younger brother,
-and served as Treasurer of the newly-organized County of Essex. Two
-other brothers entered the British army, one, Daniel, rising to the rank
-of Major-General; while four of his sisters married British officers,
-one of whom was Lord Bellingham. The eldest son of Jean Baptiste Bâby
-was William Duperon Bâby, afterward sheriff of Essex, born at Sandwich
-in 1819; and the subject of this sketch was William’s sixth child. Since
-most of the various generations had large families, the Bâby family
-connection in Western Ontario, and indeed throughout America is
-literally enormous, and all have preserved the high tradition of
-“noblesse oblige.” Mr. Dixie Bâby was educated at the Separate Schools
-and at Assumption College, Sandwich, Ont., and at the Christian
-Brothers’ School, Toronto, in 1876. At the age of eighteen he was
-appointed to the Inland Revenue service, and detailed to Rae’s
-distillery as assistant officer to the late Pierre Ramon. He qualified
-himself so well as a vigilant watcher of the government interests in
-connection with the important revenue derived from excise that he has
-since served in many parts of Canada, including Paris, Woodstock, St.
-Catharines, Belleville, Brantford, Portage la Prairie, and
-Berthierville, Que. He was first stationed at Hamilton in 1886 as second
-officer to the late William Donaghy, and in 1890 transferred to
-Berthierville. In 1892 he went back to the Hamilton distillery, and was
-appointed officer in charge in October, 1898. On November 21, 1914, he
-was appointed Collector of Inland Revenue in charge of the entire
-Hamilton division. His duties have always been of a character which
-required expert knowledge as well as rigid probity, and during his
-forty-three years’ service he has won the unfailing confidence of the
-Department, no matter which party was in power. In December, 1880, he
-married Mary McDougall, of Belleville, Ont., who was born April 7, 1861.
-He has had seven children: Christina Caroline, deceased; Julia Fortier
-and Mary Louisa (twins, also deceased); Frances Jeanette, wife of Henri
-Bâby, notary public, Lachine, Que.; John Dixie; George Raymond; and
-Madeline Cecilia. Capt. George Raymond Bâby, M.D., C.M., who was born at
-Berthierville on April 1, 1892, went to France with the McGill
-University 1915 unit, Canadian Army Medical Corps, and was awarded the
-Military Cross for bravery and devotion to duty during the great British
-advance which began August 8, 1918, and only ended when the armistice
-was signed. The other son, John Dixie Bâby, is a civil engineer by
-profession, who assisted in building the Canton Hankow Railway, China.
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-=Bell, Hon. George Alexander=, Chairman of the Local Government Board
-for the Province of Saskatchewan, is one of the pubic administrators of
-the Canadian West, and in an unusual degree the architect of his own
-fortunes. He was born on a farm in Brant County, Ontario, on August 3,
-1856, the son of David and Agnes (Melrose) Bell. He was educated in the
-public schools of Huron County, and continued on the farm until he was
-twenty years old, after which he learned the trade of blacksmith, which
-he followed for the next twelve years, four in Ontario and eight in
-Manitoba. He moved to the latter province in 1880 on the opening up of
-that province by the Canadian Pacific Railway. In 1888 he engaged in the
-agricultural implement business as agent for the Massey-Harris Company,
-and continued therein for the next thirteen years. In 1903, because of
-his exceptional knowledge of the country he was appointed by the
-Dominion Government Homestead Inspector for the Land District of
-Estevan, Saskatchewan, a position he resigned in 1908 to become a
-candidate for the Saskatchewan Legislature, and was elected as a
-supporter of the Liberal administration of Hon. Walter Scott. He was
-re-elected for Estevan in 1912, and called to the Cabinet and sworn in
-as Provincial Treasurer on August 19 of that year. The Government had
-established a system of Government-owned telephones, and this portfolio
-was shortly combined with his duties as Treasurer. In his second
-capacity of Minister of Telephones he was sworn in February, 1913, and
-continued to administer both offices until May, 1918, when he resigned
-from the Cabinet and Legislature to accept the post of Chairman of the
-Local Government Board, an important office, for which his
-administrative capacity and thorough knowledge of Western conditions
-eminently fit him. Mr. Bell is a Liberal in politics, and a Presbyterian
-in religion. He is a member of the Wascana Country Club, Regina (his
-favorite recreation being golf), and of the following societies: A.F. &
-A.M., I.O.O.F., and C.O.F. On December 6, 1883, he married Elizabeth,
-daughter of Johnston and Rachel (Cosgrove) Smith, of Elmwood, Bruce
-County, Ont., and has seven children, George Melrose, Ella Mabel,
-Gordon, Ethel, Grace Agnes, Lorne David, and Harold Alexander Bell. Mr.
-and Mrs. Bell reside at Regina, Sask.
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-=Martin, Hon. William Melville, K.C.=, Prime Minister of Saskatchewan,
-is a native of the village of Norwich, Oxford County, Ont. He was born
-on August 23, 1877, the son of Rev. William M. and Christina (Jamieson)
-Martin, both his parents being natives of Scotland. While he was very
-young his parents removed to Exeter in Huron County, where his father
-served as Minister of the Presbyterian Church for twenty-six years. The
-subject of this sketch was educated at Exeter Public School, Clinton
-Collegiate Institute, and the University of Toronto, from which
-institution he graduated with the degree of B.A. and honors in classics.
-He also attended the Ontario School of Pedagogy to qualify as a High
-School teacher, and subsequently acted as Classical Master at Harriston
-High School for two years, 1899-1901. This however he regarded but as a
-stepping-stone to the practice of law for which he qualified at Osgoode
-Hall, Toronto. On being called to the bar he went to Regina,
-Saskatchewan, and commenced practice in July, 1903. He developed great
-talent not only as a lawyer but as a public speaker, and soon became
-prominent in the Liberal party. In 1906 he was offered the Liberal
-nomination for the House of Commons, for the old riding of Western
-Assiniboia, in succession to Hon. Walter Scott (who had resigned his
-Ottawa seat to become the first Prime Minister of the newly organized
-province of Saskatchewan), but declined. At the general elections of
-1908, however, he yielded to the requests of his friends and accepted
-nomination, being elected by a majority of 708. At the general elections
-of 1911, despite the fact that the Liberal party as a whole met defeat,
-he was elected by the increased majority of 1,730. In all he sat in the
-House of Commons at Ottawa for eight years and although one of its
-youngest members was regarded as one of the most brilliant. In 1916 Hon.
-Walter Scott was obliged to resign the Premiership of Saskatchewan owing
-to ill health and Mr. Martin’s party friends in the West urged that he
-resign from Federal politics and accept the Premiership. He assented and
-at a by-election on November 13, 1916, was returned for Mr. Scott’s
-seat, Regina City, by acclamation. He reorganized the cabinet and framed
-a programme of progressive legislation which proved so acceptable to the
-electorate that at the general election of 1917 his administration was
-sustained by a very handsome majority. In addition to the offices of
-Prime Minister and President of the Council he administers the
-portfolios of Minister of Education and Minister of Railways. His
-educational reforms, covering as they do many problems of extreme
-moment, have been very important, and have attracted wide attention
-throughout Canada, and in the United States as well. Generally speaking
-Saskatchewan legislation under his regime has won fame for progress and
-effectiveness. So widespread is his reputation that on the death of Sir
-Wilfrid Laurier, early in 1919, many, both in the East and West,
-suggested him as the best available successor to the Federal Liberal
-leadership. Many of his friends still predict a Federal career for him,
-although Mr. Martin himself prefers to see his own programme of
-legislation for Saskatchewan carried out before aspiring to a wider
-arena. He is a Presbyterian in religion and a member of the Wascana
-Country Club and the Assiniboia Club. On Sept. 26, 1906, he married
-Violet Florence, daughter of the late Walter Thomson of Mitchell, Ont.,
-and has two sons, Walter M. and Douglas Martin. His home is at 2042
-Cornwall St., Regina, Sask.
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-=Henry, David Edouard=, founder of Henry’s Shorthand School, 209 Sparks
-Street, Ottawa, on January 2, 1913, was born at Clarence Creek, Russell
-County, Ontario, April 24, 1874, his parents being Jacques Henry, a
-farmer, and Aurelie Laviolette. He was educated in Ottawa at the Grey
-Nuns’ Convent and the Christian Brothers’ School. Building it on a sure
-foundation—according to the laws of economics, well equipped, and
-capably managed by experts—Mr. Henry made his school an enviable
-success. At the opening in 1913, the school was located at the corner of
-Bank and Gloucester Streets, and within three months, having outgrown
-its original premises it was removed to its present premises on the
-corner of Sparks and Bank Streets—the Capital’s busy corner—which from
-time to time have been enlarged as the requirements of increased
-attendance demanded until to-day they are some five times the original
-size, and are likely to be enlarged still further at an early date,
-although his school is to-day the largest in Eastern Ontario. When the
-school was transferred from the corner of Bank and Gloucester Streets to
-the corner of Bank and Sparks, Mr. Henry had but 40 day pupils. In 1918,
-the number had increased to 562, which students are to-day holding good
-positions in the Dominion Government offices, manufacturing and
-wholesale establishments, banking houses, etc., all of which bears
-tribute to the high standard of efficiency of the school. For eleven
-years before Mr. Henry went into business for himself, he was in charge
-of the shorthand department of the Willis Business College in Ottawa,
-when S. T. Willis was proprietor. In his school, his staff consists of
-experts in shorthand, typewriting, business penmanship, practical
-English, spelling, punctuation, transcription, correspondence, etc.,
-etc., and those who receive instruction in any one of these receive the
-best that can be had. At the age of 16 years, Mr. Henry was awarded a
-Fourth Form Certificate and honours for composition, spelling and
-penmanship. He acquired a systematic course of self-instruction, studied
-shorthand (French system) and afterwards English, and made himself
-proficient in the Isaac Pitman, Ben Pitman, Graham, Munson,
-Scott-Browne, Beale, Calligraphy (a Canadian production), and the Gregg
-systems. He studied French, English, German, Greek and Latin, and
-received special study in penmanship at the Zanerian College, Columbus,
-Ohio. To acquire a practical business education, he had experience as
-stenographer and bookkeeper with big business firms such as Perkins &
-Fraser, barristers; Alexander Mutchmor, auditor, etc. From 1894 to 1896,
-Mr. Henry made a special study of scientific methods for imparting
-shorthand and typewriting, and during 1895-6 taught shorthand at the
-Capital City Business College, at Ottawa, and had charge of the Y.M.C.A.
-classes for several months. In 1896, he attended the Rochester, New
-York, Business Institute, to acquire a greater qualification for
-teaching, and, in 1899, established a shorthand school, which later he
-closed to join the staff of the Metropolitan Business College at Ottawa.
-For two years, he attended Rev. Dr. McMeekin’s “Ottawa College of
-Oratory,” and gave several successful recitals in the Albert Hall. In
-1899, Mr. Henry corrected a text book on Pitman’s shorthand for Messrs.
-Powers and Lyons, of Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Henry is a graduate of the
-New York College of Phonography; the Phonographic Institute, Cincinnati,
-Ohio; and is the only personal graduate in Canada of the well known
-Gregg School of Chicago. He holds the Scott-Browne’s Certificate. In his
-examination for the Phonographic Institute Teacher’s Certificate, he
-made the highest record, viz., 97.2 per cent., thereby defeating more
-than 700 candidates. Mr. Henry is a member of the Gregg Shorthand
-Association of America, and is the author of two standard works in
-shorthand. Mr. Henry is a Roman Catholic in religion, a Liberal in
-politics, and, for recreation, spends his time motoring. He resides at
-205 O’Connor Street, Ottawa, Ontario.
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-
-=Gibbon, Arthur Playford=, Principal of the Central Business College,
-Hamilton, Ont., is one of Canada’s leading commercial educationists. He
-was born on April 7, 1871, in a log house in the township of Nichol,
-Wellington County, Ont., the son of William and Susan (Reynolds) Gibbon.
-His early education was received in the rural school of his section, and
-later he walked four miles night and morning to attend the High School
-and Model School at Elora. From January, 1892, to July, 1894, he taught
-in rural ungraded schools, after which he returned to the farm for five
-years to care for his father and mother. Deciding to equip himself as a
-commercial teacher he took a course at Stratford Business College, and
-after graduation taught in that institution for six months. In 1901, he
-went to Woodstock, Ont., to take the post of junior commercial teacher,
-and after one year became senior in these subjects. In 1904, he became
-Principal, and under his guidance built up the institution into one of
-the most important of its kind in Western Ontario. In Woodstock he also
-took an active part in public and business affairs. He acted as auditor
-for several large commercial houses, and sat in the municipal council as
-alderman. In the latter capacity his business acumen and sound judgment
-made him one of the most useful of public servants. His faculty for
-acquiring knowledge of every detail of civic business made him very
-valuable in the consideration of measures for the city’s welfare, so
-that when in August, 1909, he decided to leave Woodstock, expressions of
-regret were universal. In Woodstock, also, he became very active in the
-temperance cause, and served as Secretary-Treasurer of the North Oxford
-Prohibition Association. As Treasurer of the local branch of the
-Y.M.C.A., he rendered very important service in connection with the
-erection of new buildings, and he was very prominent in church work as a
-member of the Methodist body. In 1909, he sold his interest in Woodstock
-Business College, and bought Clark’s Business College at Hamilton, Ont.
-When he took charge on January 1, 1910, the attendance at the
-institution was but 34 day and 28 night students. He changed the name to
-the Central Business College, and within a few years his powers of
-organization had built up the attendance to five times the original
-figure. Mr. Gibbon’s chief hobby is Sunday School work, and he has
-served as a religious teacher of the young for over thirty years, in the
-various places where he has lived. His spirit of enterprise and
-attractive personality make him an ideal influence on youth. He is a
-member of the Kiwanis Club, Hamilton, and of the following fraternal
-societies, I.O.O.F., A.F. & A.M., Royal Templars of Temperance, and the
-Orange Order. On November 6, 1901, he married Margaret H. Lacey, and has
-two children, Playford Sutherland Gibbon and Ada Margaret Gibbon.
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-J. C. BREITHAUPT, KITCHENER]
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-
-=Webber, John A.=, Assistant Postmaster, Hamilton, Ont., was born in the
-township of Binbrook, Wentworth County, December 10th, 1861, the son of
-Esau Webber, contractor, Hamilton, Ont., and his wife Isabella (Ledmon)
-Webber. He was educated at the Hamilton Public Schools and Hamilton
-Collegiate Institute, was appointed to the Civil Service as a clerk in
-the Hamilton Post Office, October 24, 1881, advancing steadily till, in
-June, 1918, he was appointed to his present position by the Civil
-Service Commission, an appointment received with general satisfaction by
-the press and business men of Hamilton, and one of the earliest
-important promotions made by the Civil Service Commission. He married on
-June 1, 1886, Helena S. Murray, daughter of John J. Murray (M.D. Trinity
-College, Dublin), of Waterdown, and has two daughters, Ada A., wife of
-R. H. Moore, Cleveland, Ohio, and Charlotte I. Mr. Webber is a member of
-the Canadian Club, President Hamilton Horticultural Society,
-Vice-President Hamilton Garden Club, Director of Ontario Horticultural
-Society, representing Niagara District, member of the Executive Council
-Hamilton Scientific Association, member of the Canadian Order of
-Foresters, life member of Canadian Red Cross, and a sustaining member of
-the Hamilton Health Association (Mountain Sanitary). He is an Anglican,
-and a member of the Executive Board of St. Thomas Church. Outside of his
-agreeable manner, intense activity is Mr. Webber’s outstanding
-characteristic, and his principal recreation seems to be in always doing
-things, and doing them well and cheerfully. Alluding to his appointment,
-“The Civilian” (organ of the Civil Service), says: “In the appointment
-of Mr. John A. Webber as assistant postmaster at Hamilton, we have
-another instance of the application of the merit system as inaugurated
-by the Civil Service Commission. He was appointed to the staff on
-October 24, 1881, and has risen from junior clerk to almost head by
-efficient work, his standing in all Departmental examinations being very
-high. For ten years before his present appointment, he acted as
-Superintendent of the office, filling the assistant postmaster’s place
-during Mr. Matthews’ absence, and while in these positions his courteous
-and prompt attention to the needs of the public made him a host of
-friends in the business world with whom the appointment is very popular.
-As to the staff, the appointment is equally popular, every man knowing
-that under Mr. Webber any grievance is sure of a fair hearing and a just
-decision in the matter.” Mr. Webber’s father was a prominent contractor
-in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s, during which period he erected many public
-buildings and business blocks, among which were St. Mary’s Cathedral,
-Centenary Church, Masonic Hall, Lester Block and hundreds of stores,
-hotels and private dwellings. While carrying on the contracting business
-during the period of food shortage, following the Crimean War, he bought
-and operated a 200-acre farm in the county on which the subject of this
-sketch was born but only remained during infancy. During the Great War
-Mr. Webber took an active part in patriotic, Red Cross and Relief Work,
-and in his long connection as director, and for several years in
-succession President of the Hamilton Horticultural Society. Has
-contributed not a little to the beautifying of home surroundings
-throughout the city. In his connection with the Gordon Club and in the
-eight counties under his jurisdiction as director of the Ontario
-Horticultural Society he did much to stimulate the production of
-vegetables and other foods throughout the district during the war. His
-efforts in the direction received commendation from the President of the
-National War Garden Commissioner, Washington, D.C., for adding to the
-world’s supply of food during the war. Mr. Webber lives at 130 Stinson
-Street, where he delights in Horticulture.
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-
-=Irwin, William Nassau= (Toronto, Ont.), only son of Francis Irwin
-(Irish), for many years Treasurer of the town of Orangeville, county
-town of Dufferin, and Jane (Taylor) Irwin (Canadian). Born at
-Orangeville, Ontario, on November 14, 1863. Educated in the Public and
-High Schools of Orangeville, and Trinity College, Toronto. Studied law
-in office of McCarthy and Walsh, Orangeville, and afterwards with Mowat,
-Maclennan, Downey and Langton, and Maclaren, Macdonald, Merritt and
-Shepley, Toronto, graduating from Osgoode Hall, and called to the Bar in
-September, 1886. A member of the legal firm of Henderson, Irwin and
-Ungaro, Toronto. Married in September, 1893. His only son, James Carter
-Irwin, member of the Princess Patricia Canadian Light Infantry, wounded
-in action in Flanders, died at King George Hospital, London, England,
-July 31, 1916, from effects of his wounds, in his 18th year. Mr. Irwin
-was interested in bicycling, when that sport was at the height of its
-popularity, being President of the Athenaeum Cycling Club, and member of
-the Canadian Wheelmen’s Executive for several years. Member of the
-Church of England and the Orange Order. Interested in journalism. A
-Liberal-Conservative.
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-
-=Sinclair, Robert Victor, K.C.=, Barrister and Solicitor, the son of
-Robert and Elizabeth Morrison (Colville) Sinclair, was born in
-Forestville, New York, May 24, 1861, and at an early age came to Canada
-with his parents and settled in Ottawa, where he received his education
-in the Ottawa Collegiate Institute. He read law with Stewart, Chrysler &
-Gormully from 1880 to 1885, and was called to the bar in the latter
-year, when he went into partnership with Mr. Gormully under the title of
-Gormully & Sinclair, and remained there until 1894, when he retired to
-practise alone. In 1900, he formed a partnership with the late Sir
-Adolphe Caron, the firm being known as Caron & Sinclair, and remained
-there until 1907, when he again retired to practise alone. In 1908 he
-was created a K.C. Mr. Sinclair is recognized in the Ottawa legal
-fraternity as one of the Capital’s most successful barristers. In 1907,
-Mr. Sinclair was elected a member of the Ottawa Stock Exchange. August,
-1887, he married Daisy King, daughter of James W. King, ex-M.P.,
-Director of Penitentiaries. He has one son and three daughters. He is a
-member of the Rideau Hunt Club, and was a member of the executive
-committee in 1907. In religion he is an Anglican, in politics a
-Conservative, and he resides at 237 Wilbrod St., Ottawa, Ontario.
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-=Campbell, William Brough.= The late W. B. Campbell, of Toronto,
-insurance publisher and editor, was of Scottish extraction and was born
-in Shannonville, Ontario (then Canada West), on July 17, 1854. He was
-the eldest of four children who reached maturity. While he was still a
-child, his parents removed with their family to Toronto, where he
-continued to reside until his death. He was educated in the public
-schools, and went to work while still only a lad, serving under his
-father, who held an administrative position in the Toronto office of the
-old Lancashire Fire Insurance Company. About 1880 he joined his father
-in the publication of a monthly insurance journal called “The Budget.”
-From its first issue the new paper was independent in policy and
-aggressive in tone, and its strictures upon some of the loose practices
-of insurance companies, and especially its denunciations of wild-cat
-concerns carrying on a business of plunder in the name of insurance,
-made it a power in its field. A fairly extensive printing business was
-developed as a side line of the business, but ultimately this proved too
-complex a load for the periodical to carry. The result was that other
-people acquired the rights in “The Budget.” But the Campbells, father
-and son, at once came out with a new venture, “The Bulletin,” virtually
-a continuation of the old. In 1905, feeling the need of greater freedom
-in editorial and business policy than his surroundings permitted, Mr.
-Campbell dissociated himself from his father, and began the publication
-of “Office and Field,” a weekly—in its time the only weekly journal in
-the world wholly devoted to life insurance. The world-wide upheaval in
-life insurance business arising from the investigation by a committee of
-the legislature of the State of New York in 1905 threatened the new
-venture with early extinction, but by daring and skilful guidance Mr.
-Campbell brought his craft to success. He demanded and insisted upon
-service of the public as the one justification for life insurance. It
-was largely through his influence that the life insurance agents were
-organized as the Life Underwriters’ Association of Canada, an
-institution which, carrying out the policy which he and other leaders
-laid down, has achieved a splendid success. His work, both as editor and
-propagandist was a distinct factor in making life insurance in Canada
-the great financial and social force it has become. Mr. Campbell was
-married in September, 1887, to Jessie G., eldest daughter of the late
-George Maclean Rose. Of this union there were born two daughters and a
-son. The son, Wilfrid Maclean Campbell answered the call to the colours,
-and served as a private in France and Flanders from February, 1916, to
-the end. He was one of the glorious Canadians at Vimy Ridge, was wounded
-at Hill 70, but returned to the ranks, and was among those who marched
-as victors into Germany. Too great devotion to business broke down Mr.
-Campbell’s health, and after a short illness he died in June, 1914, in
-his sixtieth year.
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-
-=Henderson, Alexander, B.A., K.C.=, is one of the most prominent members
-of the British Columbia Bar, and practises at Vancouver. He was born at
-Oshawa, Ont., in 1861, the son of Alexander Henderson, a native of
-Caithness, Scotland, and Grace (KilPatrick) Henderson, a native of
-Paisley, Scotland. His father, after coming to this country, became
-mechanical superintendent of one of Oshawa’s leading industries, and the
-subject of this sketch was educated at the public and high schools of
-his native town and at the University of Toronto. He graduated from the
-latter institution in 1884 with the degree of B.A., and subsequently
-qualified for the law. He was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1889, and
-two years later decided to take up his residence in New Westminster,
-B.C. He was called to the British Columbia Bar in 1892, and has ever
-since pursued an active legal career. In 1896, he was appointed agent
-for the Minister of Justice of Canada on the mainland of British
-Columbia. In 1898, he was elected to the Provincial Legislature as
-member for the city of New Westminster, and sat for two years. In 1899,
-he became Attorney-General for British Columbia, and in 1901 was
-appointed judge of the County Court of Vancouver, an office he held
-until 1907, when he was appointed Commissioner of the Yukon Territory.
-For four years he lived at Dawson City, and won distinction by his wise
-and able administration. In 1911, he resigned, and resumed the practise
-of law at Vancouver, where he has a large and lucrative practice. He has
-taken an active interest in military affairs, and was formerly major of
-the 6th Regiment, Duke of Connaught’s Rifles, and was placed on the
-Reserve of Officers in 1907. His recreation is rifle shooting, and he
-accompanied the Canadian Bisley Team to England in 1901, acting as
-adjutant. He is a Presbyterian in religion, a Liberal in politics, and a
-member of the Vancouver Club. On September 14, 1895, he married Susan
-Crawford, daughter of William McCraney, of Oakville, Ont., and
-Vancouver, B.C. The latter was a very prominent lumberman, and formerly
-represented Halton (Ontario) in the House of Commons. Mr. and Mrs.
-Henderson have one daughter, Grace Kilpatrick Henderson, and reside at
-1424 Burnaby Ave., Vancouver.
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-
-=Russell, Adam Lothian=, of Vancouver, B.C., is one of the leading
-commercial figures of the Coast province. Like so many others who have
-made their mark in Canada he is a native of Scotland, and was born at
-Alexandria, Dumbartonshire, on March 27, 1864, the son of James and
-Annie (Knox) Russell. He was educated at Glasgow High School and Glasgow
-University, and his business training began in 1882 with the firm of
-Rutherford Bros., in the Scottish commercial metropolis. With this firm
-he remained three years and in 1885 became Manager of the firm of Taylor
-Bros., in Glasgow, in which capacity he remained until 1891. His Glasgow
-training had rendered him familiar with international shipping, and in
-1891 he decided to come to Canada and establish himself at Vancouver as
-a Ship Broker and Commission Agent. In this capacity he continued until
-1901, after which he acquired his present interests. He is now
-Vice-President and Managing Director of Evans, Coleman & Evans, Ltd.,
-Vancouver; and Vice-President of Clayburn, Ltd., in the same city. His
-business offices are 301-304 Credit Foncier Building, Vancouver. He is a
-member of the following clubs: Vancouver, Union (Victoria), Jericho
-Country (Vancouver), British Columbia Golf, Vancouver Athletic,
-Shaughnessy Golf Club, and Royal Vancouver Yacht Club. His favorite
-recreation is golf; he is a member of the Masonic Order and a
-Presbyterian in religion. In 1898 he married Rosamund Bickford of
-Newcastle, England, and has one daughter, Sheila. Mr. and Mrs. Russell
-reside at 1306 Burnaby St., Vancouver.
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-=Shillington, Lieut.-Col. Adam Tozeland, M.D.C.M., M.C.P. & S.,
-F.A.C.S.=, Surgeon, of Ottawa, was born in Prospect, Lanark County,
-Ontario, August 12, 1870. He is the son of Samuel Kerfort and Ann Eliza
-(Poole) Shillington, whose ancestors came to Canada from Ireland in 1812
-and settled in Goulbourn, Carleton County, Ontario. Col. Shillington was
-educated in the public and high schools of Kemptville, Ontario, McGill
-University, Montreal, where he attained the degrees M.D., C.M., M.C.P.&
-S., F.A.C.S., Post Graduate Course, London, England, 1902. Col.
-Shillington has practised in Ottawa since 1894, and was appointed to the
-Medical Board of St. Luke’s General Hospital in 1901, and gynaecologist
-in that hospital in 1913; consulting physician in the Ottawa Maternity
-Hospital, a member of the Canadian Medical Association, and was chairman
-of legislation at the time the Association was incorporated, a member of
-the Ontario Medical Association, and was First Vice-President in
-1913-1914; Association of Officers of the Medical Service of Canada, of
-which he was President in 1913; Ottawa Medical Society, of which he was
-President in 1903; Ottawa Medico-Chirurgical Society, of which he was
-President in 1918; National Geographical Society; Clinical Congress of
-the American College of Surgeons; Fellow, Royal Society of Medicine,
-London, England; Fellow, American College of Surgeons, 1914, and a
-Justice of the Peace for the County of Carleton. Col. Shillington served
-as Lieutenant in the Canadian Army Medical Corps in 1901, as Captain in
-1902, Major in 1904, and as Lieutenant-Colonel in 1911. From 1904 to
-1910 he was Officer Commanding No. 2 Field Ambulance; Administrative
-Medical Officer, M.D. No. 4, in March and April, 1911; represented Army
-Medical Corps of Canada at the Convention of the Military Surgeons of
-the United States at Milwaukee in 1911; was A.D.M.S. at Barriefield Camp
-in 1913. September 22, 1914, Colonel Shillington went overseas with the
-First Canadian Expeditionary Forces in command of No. 2 Canadian
-Stationary Hospital, and the following November (8th) established the
-First Canadian Military Hospital to be opened in the war zone. This
-hospital unit was the first Canadian unit to reach France. On November
-27, 1915, Colonel Shillington was appointed A.D.M.S., of the Canadians
-at Bramshott, England, and in May, 1916, was appointed A.D.M.S.,
-A.M.D.I. to the D.M.S. office. On October 25, 1916, he was appointed
-A.D.M.S., C.T.D., at Shorncliffe, England, and March, 1917, Officer
-Commanding at the Kitchener Military Hospital, Brighton, England.
-February 9, 1918, Colonel Shillington, having served overseas for three
-years and five months, during which time he was mentioned in despatches
-and awarded the “Mons Star,” returned to Canada, and was transferred to
-the C.E.F. Reserve of Officers. Colonel Shillington was married to Ethel
-Florence Jones, daughter of John Henry Jones, of Montreal, July 31,
-1899, and has two sons and one daughter: John T., James G. K., and Ethel
-Maud. Clubs: Rideau, Royal Ottawa Golf, Wawa Keshi Fish and Game, Army
-and Navy of London; Societies: A.F. & A.M. and I.O.O.F. In religion a
-Methodist, in politics a Conservative, he resides at the Bedford House,
-281 Gilmour Street, Ottawa, Ont.
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-=White, James, F.R.G.S., F.R.S.C., M. Eng. Inst. Can., E.=, is the
-Assistant to Chairman and the Deputy Head of the Canadian Commission of
-Conservation, with headquarters in the Temple Building, Metcalfe Street,
-Ottawa. He is the eldest son of David White and Christina, daughter of
-George Hendry, and was born February 3, 1863. In 1888, he married
-Rachel, daughter of Thomas Waddell, and has two daughters. He was
-educated at the Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario. In January,
-1884, he was appointed topographer on the staff of the Geological Survey
-of Canada, and made surveys in the Rocky Mountains during 1884-5. In
-1886, he made surveys in the Madoc, Ontario, gold district; in 1887-90,
-in the Ottawa County, Quebec, phosphate district; and in 1891-93, in the
-Kingston and Pembroke, Ontario, district, and in the latter year was
-employed on the Alaska Boundary Commission. In 1894, he was appointed
-Geographer and Chief Draughtsman to the Geological Survey. In 1899, he
-was appointed Chief Geographer of the Department of the Interior, in
-which branch he organized the map work. In 1907 he made investigations
-respecting fast Atlantic passenger steamships (the All-Red Line), and in
-1909 was appointed Secretary to the Commission of Conservation and
-Assistant Chairman and Deputy Minister in 1913. The following valuable
-publications are to his credit: 1901 and 1915, Altitudes in Canada, 1st
-and 2nd editions; 1903 and 1916, Dictionary of Altitudes, 1st and 2nd
-editions; Maps and Mapmaking in Canada; Derivation of Place-Names in
-Northern Canada, of Quebec, of Thousand Islands, of Rocky Mountains, and
-of Georgian Bay; Treaties and Boundaries affecting Canada; Fuels of
-Western Canada; various other articles, etc.; 1906, Atlas of Canada. For
-recreation, Mr. White takes pleasure in travelling, and he belongs to
-the Authors and the Rideau Clubs. He resides at 450 Wilbrod Street,
-Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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-=Dunlop, Edward Arunah, M.P.P.= (Pembroke, Ont.), born at Pembroke,
-Ont., October 26th, 1876, son of Mary Deacon and Arunah Dunlop,
-ex-M.P.P. Began his business career as clerk for Dunlop & Chapman,
-hardware merchants, Pembroke, in 1892, and in 1897 took charge of the
-business, changing the name to Dunlop & Company. In politics he is a
-Conservative. Declined nomination to the Ontario Legislature for North
-Renfrew in 1899. Was elected at the by-election December 26, 1903, by a
-majority of 598, after a contest of nineteen months, during which time
-the constituency was unrepresented in the Ontario Legislature. This is
-said to be the longest vacancy in the parliamentary records of Canada.
-Was re-elected 1905. Declined nomination in 1908. Re-elected by
-acclamation in 1911, and re-elected in 1914. Was a member of the Town
-Council of Pembroke from 1908 to 1913 inclusive. Is connected with many
-commercial concerns, being President of the Pembroke Lumber Company,
-Steel Equipment Co., Ltd., Pembroke Electric Light Co., Ltd., and
-MacFarlane Neil Mfg. Co. of Fredericton, N.B.; also a director of the
-Pembroke Woollen Mills, Ltd., Massey Lumber Co., Ltd., Pembroke Southern
-Railway, Pembroke Iron Works, Ltd., Superior Electrics, Ltd., Victoria
-Foundry Co., Ltd., Ottawa, and other companies. Is First Vice-President
-of the Canadian Electrical Association for 1919. He is a member of the
-Rideau and Country Clubs of Ottawa and the National and Albany Clubs of
-Toronto. Is a member of the Methodist Church. On June 17, 1908, he
-married Mabel Ferguson, daughter of Donald Ferguson, of Beamsville,
-Ont., and has three daughters.
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-=Reid, William Brown=, President and Managing Director of United Cigar
-Stores, Ltd., of Canada, with head office at 284 King Street West,
-Toronto, Ont., was born in Rothes, Scotland, April 7, 1866, the son of
-Alexander and Helen (Simpson) Reid. His father was an extensive and
-prosperous farmer, and this afforded the subject of this sketch the
-opportunity of exercising in his boyhood his innate love of horses which
-he still retains. While afforded, like other members of his family, all
-the facilities for pursuing the highest educational course, he was
-satisfied with that of the common schools which have produced so many
-successful Scotchmen. He served with the Rothes (Elginshire) Volunteers
-from 1882 till 1888, when he came to Canada, and shortly afterwards
-joined the 48th Highlanders, serving for five years. After leaving
-school he pursued his own inclinations, and before coming to Canada had
-gained practical experience in a general way, besides having
-considerable knowledge along useful technical lines as a reserve to fall
-back on. In 1888, he became connected with the Empire Tobacco Co., with
-which he remained as Toronto representative till 1897, when he
-established in Toronto the wholesale tobacco and Cigar firm of W. B.
-Reid & Co., which was the foundation of the present extensive
-corporation of which he was the originator, and has always been the head
-and controlling genius. The firm was incorporated as the United Cigar
-Stores, Limited, in 1902, with a capital of $20,000, and opened several
-cigar stores in Toronto. In May, 1914, the company’s capital stock was
-increased to $250,000, and the number of stores largely increased and
-extended to outside cities. A year later, United Cigar Stores, Limited,
-of Canada was incorporated with a capital of $3,800,000, with Mr. Reid
-still in full control. The Company now has 164 stores, extending from
-Quebec City to Port Arthur, including 39 in Toronto, 13 in Ottawa, 11 in
-Hamilton, and one or more in almost every important town in the
-province. Remarkable as this achievement is in so short a time, it falls
-far short of the goal set by Mr. Reid, who intends to have stores in
-every city and town of consequence in the Dominion, and no doubt would
-have already made this goal an established fact before now if the war
-had not put a temporary stop to further expansion. Besides operating
-this great chain of stores, the company has two large cigar factories,
-and as a holding company, also controls a chain of Drug Stores with
-about a dozen branches, and a constantly and rapidly increasing
-business. The annual turnover of the cigar stores and cigar factories is
-between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000, all directed by Mr. Reid personally
-from the head office. This immense volume of business enables the
-company to buy goods in such large quantities that it obtains better
-terms than are available by small purchasers, and at the same time
-minimizes the percentage of overhead expenses. Mr. Reid married Edith E.
-Rogers, daughter of A. C. Rogers, Newmarket, Ont., November 8, 1896. He
-is a member of the Toronto and Montreal Boards of Trade, of the
-Scarborough Golf Club, Lakeview Golf, Mississauga Golf and Ontario
-Clubs; member of the A.F. & A.M., a Presbyterian, and independent in
-politics. His chief recreations are bowling and golf. He resides at 42
-Lakeview Ave., Toronto. Mr. Reid is genial in manner, a systematic
-organizer, with sufficient of the imaginative faculty to prompt
-enterprise and enough determination and reserve force to ensure the
-carrying out of anything to which he lays his hand. He was the first man
-in the province of Ontario to place on the market the product of
-Canadian grown tobacco, and the expansion of this business has proven
-his foresight beyond question. The great war made heavy drafts on the
-staff of the Company, but Mr. Reid is too good a Britisher to complain
-of that; in fact, in addition to contributing thousands of dollars to
-patriotic purposes, so strong along this line is he that he never has
-allowed any foreign element to obtain a footing in his company, which he
-says will be strictly Canadian, without outside influence, so long as he
-is at its head—and that means as long as he desires to remain in active
-business.
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-
-=Johnson, Hon. Thomas Herman, B.A., LL.D.=, Attorney-General of
-Manitoba, is a type of those Icelandic Canadians who, going into the
-West in the early days, have done so much for its development. He was
-born in Iceland on February 12, 1870, the son of John and Margaret
-Johnson. When he was a boy of eight years old his father resolved to try
-his fortunes in the virgin country of Western Canada, and settled in
-Manitoba as a farmer, bringing his family with him. The subject of this
-sketch was from early boyhood bent on a professional career. He attended
-the public schools of Winnipeg, and later took a course at Gustavus
-Adolphus College, Minnesota, from which he graduated in 1895 with the
-degree of B.A. As a youth he taught school during the summer in the
-Glenboro district to secure funds to continue his studies during the
-winter. After obtaining his degree he entered the legal offices of
-Richards (afterwards Mr. Justice Richards) and Bradshaw, with a view to
-qualifying himself for the law. He was admitted to the Manitoba Bar in
-1900, and immediately commenced practice at Winnipeg. His abilities and
-knowledge of the different races of Manitoba were such that in 1901 the
-Laurier administration appointed him census commissioner for Manitoba to
-take the decennial census of that year. In 1904 he was elected as member
-of the Winnipeg School Board, and continued to act until 1907, when he
-resigned to stand as Liberal candidate for the Legislature in the riding
-of West Winnipeg. He was successful, and was also re-elected in 1910. At
-the general elections of 1914 he was Liberal candidate in Centre
-Winnipeg, and was again successful. As a prominent member of the
-opposition, he took an active part in the campaign which resulted in
-driving the Roblin administration from office. In 1915, when the
-Liberals, under Hon. Mr. Norris, came into power, he was again elected
-for Centre Winnipeg, and on the formation of the Norris government was
-offered, and accepted, the post of Minister of Public Works.
-Subsequently, he was transferred to the more important portfolio of
-Attorney-General. Mr. Johnson is a fine public speaker, and his
-shrewdness and judgment on all public questions are highly esteemed by
-his fellow citizens and colleagues in the Legislature. He is a Lutheran
-in religion, and his chief recreation is golf. On June 21, 1898, he
-married Aurora, daughter of F. Frederickson, merchant, Glenboro,
-Manitoba, and has three children, M. Ethel, Elswood B., and Cecil F.
-Johnson.
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-
-=Farrow, Robinson Russell=, Assistant Commissioner of Customs, was born
-at Bluevale, Huron County, Ontario, March 7, 1864, and was educated at
-the public schools in Huron. He is the son of Thomas Farrow, (who came
-to Canada from England in 1849, and for years was Superintendent of
-Schools for Wawanosh, Morris and Turnberry, and who, establishing
-himself in business, made progress and prospered as the country advanced
-in population, industry and wealth), and Mary Macdonald, of London,
-Ontario. His father also became popular in the County of Huron, and at
-the general election in 1872 was chosen to represent North Huron in the
-House of Commons. He was re-elected at the general election in 1876, and
-again at the general election in 1882 was the successful candidate for
-East Huron. June 1, 1881, Mr. Farrow first entered the Civil Service of
-Canada in the Customs Department, and May 8, 1907, was appointed
-Assistant Commissioner. In lawn bowling and curling, Mr. Farrow holds a
-prominent station for competency, and is ever sought when championship
-contests are listed. He usually carries his team to victory. He is
-honorary President of the Ontario Lawn Bowling Association; member of
-the Executive of the Dominion Lawn Bowling Association; Past President
-of the Ottawa Lawn Bowling Club; and a member of the Finance Committee
-of the Ottawa Curling Club. In his official capacity as Assistant
-Commissioner, he is one of the busiest men in the Civil Service, and one
-of the most competent, coupled with which there is an ever evident
-promptness in action and courtesy in manner. January 5, 1887, Mr. Farrow
-married Miss R. J. Bradley, daughter of Samuel T. Bradley, a mill owner,
-and Margaret Alexander, of Huntley, Ontario. Mr. Farrow has one
-daughter—Ethel, B.A. (now Mrs. C. H. Bland), whose son, Corpl. C. H.
-Bland, B.A., served during the world war in the 20th Battery, Overseas
-Forces, and was with the army of occupation in Germany; and Bombdr.
-Russell Farrow, who, with the 20th Battery, C.E.S., served in France,
-Belgium, and with the army of occupation in Germany. Mr. Farrow belongs
-to the Laurentian Club, and is a member of the following societies:
-Scottish Rite Masons; A.F. & A.M.; Oddfellows; A.O.U.W.; Canadian Order
-of Foresters; Sons of England. He resides at 7 McLeod Street, Ottawa,
-Ont., and he attends the Methodist Church.
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-
-=Veale, Philip Henry=, Assessment Commissioner for the City of Ottawa,
-was appointed to that position February 5, 1917. He is well known among
-Canadian municipal officials and civic legislators as a reliable
-authority on assessments, both as to the application of the Ontario
-Assessment and Local Improvement Acts, and as to land values, of which
-he has been a close student. Prior to his appointment as Assessment
-Commissioner, there were, besides the Commissioner, an Assistant
-Commissioner; and when Mr. Veale was appointed the latter position was
-abolished, the civic government considering that in the new appointment
-they had secured a man who was competent to perform the duties alone,
-although the responsibilities and duties of the office had increased
-considerably, and were daily increasing. That they were not mistaken is
-amply proved by the fact that the affairs of the Assessment
-Commissioner’s office were never working in such regular clock-like form
-as they are to-day. When Mr. Veale first became an employee in the
-Assessment Commissioner’s Office in 1892, the taxable assessment of the
-city of Ottawa was but $18,236,160, and the population only 43,942. In
-1919—twenty-seven years later—the taxable assessment had increased to
-$114,392,261, and the population to 104,007; and, strange to say, of all
-the aldermen who were in the city council at that time, but one man,
-Alderman (now Controller) Napoleon Champagne, is still in civic life,
-and most of the others have crossed the line and joined the great
-majority. Mr. Veale has contributed largely to newspapers and magazines
-on assessment and other like important subjects, and few, if any, are
-better able to handle such subjects in newspaper discussion than he. It
-was in the re-organization of the civic assessment department in 1892
-that Mr. Veale was appointed to a clerkship. It was not long before he
-was appointed chief clerk, and then Assistant Commissioner; and when Mr.
-William Stewart retired in 1917, Mr. Veale was called upon to assume the
-duties and responsibilities of both offices. Besides being an authority
-on real estate values, Mr. Veale is well known in Eastern Ontario as a
-breeder of White Wyandotte chickens, as a consistent exhibitor and
-prize-winner. At his summer home. River Park, every year he raises
-hundreds of thoroughbred fowl. Mr. Veale is the son of Philip Veale, who
-for many years was manager of the Dominion Fisheries at Ottawa, and Jane
-(Smith) Veale. He was born at Merrickville, Ontario, January 7, 1865,
-and was educated in the public school, New Edinburgh, now a portion of
-Ottawa. On April 27, 1887, Mr. Veale married Emma M. Payne, daughter of
-Abraham Payne, civil servant, Ottawa, resulting in a fine family of nine
-children—seven girls and two boys—Ethel Alberta, Mabel Mildred,
-Kathleen Gwendeline, Philip McDougal, Beatrice Jean, Albert Newell,
-Annie Edna, Lois Evelene, Constance Winifred. Mr. Veale is a member of
-the following clubs and societies: St. George’s, Sons of England, Knight
-of the Maccabees, and St. Matthew’s Church Men’s. In religion he is an
-Anglican, in politics a Conservative, and his recreations are fishing,
-and amateur gardening. His residence is at Woodroffe, Ont.
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-=Finlayson, George Daniel, B.A., A.I.A.=, is the son of Edward
-Finlayson, a farmer who was born at Merigomish, N.S., and Catherine
-(Smith) Finlayson, and a brother of Professor J. N. Finlayson of
-Dalhousie University, Halifax. Mr. Finlayson was born in Merigomish,
-Pictou County, Nova Scotia, December 31, 1882, and received his
-education in the country school, Merigomish, Pictou Academy, and
-Dalhousie University, graduating in 1907 with B.A. and great
-distinction. On May 6, 1907, Mr. Finlayson entered upon his duties in
-connection with the Dominion Insurance Department, and at once became a
-valuable acquisition to the staff of that branch of the Civil Service.
-It was not long before his great ability as an authority on, and his
-general knowledge of, all phases of insurance brought him prominently to
-the notice of the Ottawa authorities and the heads of insurance
-companies throughout Canada, and his promotion, as a consequence, was
-rapid. Seven years later, from the time he entered the service on
-September 1, 1914, and at the early age of 32 years, he was appointed to
-the highest position in the Insurance Department, viz., that of
-Superintendent, which position he holds to-day. In the execution of his
-duties, he is noted for his courtesy to all who seek information from
-him. In 1914, Mr. Finlayson married Isabel M. Grant, daughter of A. M.
-Grant, of Moncton, New Brunswick, and has one daughter, Catherine Smith
-Finlayson, and one son. Mr. Finlayson is a member of the Canadian,
-University, and Riverside Golf clubs. For recreation he indulges in
-tennis, golf and walking. He is a Presbyterian in religion, and his
-residence is 200 Carling Avenue, Ottawa.
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-=McLean, Angus Alexander, LL.B., K.C., Ex-M.P.=, Controller of the Royal
-North-West Mounted Police, since 1917, was born December 17, 1854, at
-Belfast, Prince Edward Island, and received his education at the Prince
-of Wales College, Charlottetown, P.E.I., and Harvard Law School. He is
-the son of William and Flora McLean, both of Prince Edward Island.
-Having read law in the office of the late Chief Justice, Hon. Sir
-William Sullivan, Mr. McLean was called to the bar in 1876, and became a
-partner in the law firm of Sullivan, McLean & Morsen. Afterwards he was
-senior member of McLean & McKinnon, barristers and solicitors, Victoria
-Row, Charlottetown, P.E.I. In June, 1894, he was appointed Q.C., and
-revising officer for East Queen’s, and was elected President of the
-P.E.I. Law Society. For eight years, Mr. McLean was law clerk for the
-P.E.I. Legislature, and was Official Assignee under the old Dominion
-Insolvent Act for five years. During 1888, 1889 and 1900, Mr. McLean
-represented the constituency of Belfast in the P.E.I. Legislature. He
-was a candidate at the by-elections of 1902 and 1904 for the House of
-Commons, and was elected at the General Election of 1904. In the General
-Election of 1908 he was defeated, but in 1911 was elected by a large
-majority. October 15, 1917, he was appointed controller of the Royal
-North-West Mounted Police. In June 14, 1882, Mr. McLean married Leah
-Yeo, daughter of the late John Yeo, of Charlottetown. She died in 1897.
-In 1898, he married Frances H. Longworth, daughter of the late Henry
-Longworth, of Charlottetown. He has two sons, both of whom served with
-distinction in the Overseas forces during the great world war. In
-religion Mr. McLean is a Presbyterian, in politics a
-Liberal-Conservative, and he is a member of the A.F. & A.M.; the
-I.O.O.F.; and the S.O.S. Societies. He resides at 312 Cooper Street,
-Ottawa, Ontario.
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-=Robertson, Hon. Gideon Decker, P.C.=, Federal Minister of Labor, was
-the first actual representative of organized labor to be called to
-either the Dominion Cabinet or the Senate of Canada, He was born at
-Welland, Ont., on August 26, 1874, the son of Gavin E. Robertson and
-Laretto Goring, both native Canadians. His paternal grandfather was a
-native of Scotland, who became a member of the bar and later went to
-Jamaica, where he took an active part in the agitation for the abolition
-of slavery, which became a fully accomplished fact in 1838. In this
-movement Robertson was in correspondence with Clarkson, Macaulay (father
-of Lord Macaulay), Wilberforce and others active in freeing the British
-Empire from this reproach. Later, he came to Canada, where Gavin
-Robertson, father of the subject of this sketch, was born, and where he
-became a farmer and school teacher on the Niagara peninsula. Gideon
-Decker Robertson was educated at the public and high schools of Welland
-and as a youth took up telegraphy in connection with railroad work. A
-strong believer in trades unionism, he soon became active in the Order
-of Railroad Telegraphers, an international body, of which he was some
-years ago elected Vice-President, an office he still holds. His duties
-brought him in contact with the chiefs of organized labor on this
-continent, and he won a high reputation for clear thinking and executive
-ability. In 1917, when Sir Robert Borden decided to abolish party lines
-and form a Union Government, he offered Mr. Robertson a position in the
-Senate and a seat in his Cabinet. The offer was accepted, and in the
-autumn of that year he was sworn in as a member of the Privy Council and
-a Minister without Portfolio. In May, 1918, he was appointed Chairman of
-the sub-Committee of the Council on Labor Problems, and also Chairman of
-the National Registration Board in connection with the war. On November
-7, 1918, he was sworn in as Minister of Labor in succession to Hon. T.
-W. Crothers, who had announced his intention of retiring some months
-previously. The appointment was made just at the psychological moment,
-for the armistice, which had been signed just one week previously,
-created a host of labor problems more serious than Canada had ever
-previously been called upon to face; and only a statesman enjoying
-practical knowledge and the confidence of organized labor could have
-dealt with the situation. In the spring and summer of 1919 he was called
-upon to combat a conspiracy affecting all Canada to introduce a modified
-form of Russian Bolshevism, fathered by the Industrial Workers of the
-World, known as the “One Big Union.” The aim was to unite all existing
-labor organizations in one body, and by sympathetic strikes and a policy
-of terrorism destroy capitalism, and reduce all other classes to
-subjection. This movement came to a head with a general strike called in
-Winnipeg early in May, on the pretext of a dispute between the metal
-workers and their employers. Winnipeg was chosen as a strategic point,
-because of its peculiar geographical position as the chief divisional
-point of three transcontinental railways. The aim was to cut Canada in
-two in the matter of communications, and then by broadening the strike
-Eastward and Westward secure complete control of Canadian transportation
-and industry, after which the movement was to be carried into every
-section of the United States. Senator Robertson himself went to the
-scene of operations, and by his fearless, though moderate handling of
-the situation, and his influence with the saner labor elements, rendered
-the conspiracy abortive so far as the rest of Canada was concerned, and
-fruitless in Winnipeg. He thus secured a triumph for legitimate trade
-unionism, of which he is the chief sponsor in Canada. He is a Freemason,
-a Presbyterian, and in politics a member of the Independent Labor Party.
-On June 10, 1896, he married Mary Berry Hay, daughter of Alexander Hay,
-Watford, Ont., and has six children—Edwin J., John McElroy, Gain
-Elliot, Alexander Lorne, Mabel Letitia, and Alma Lauretta. He formerly
-resided at Welland but his home is now at Ottawa.
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-=Hutchison, Col. William= (Ottawa, Ont.), the subject of this sketch,
-was born in New Edinburgh in 1843, a suburb of the city of Ottawa. He
-was educated in the Public and Grammar Schools. When about seventeen
-years of age Col. Hutchison commenced to learn the Milling business with
-his uncle, the late Thos. McKay, who was then owner of the McKay Mills
-at the Chaudiere and also a partner in the New Edinburgh Mills. At the
-age of twenty Col. Hutchison left for the United States where he
-followed the milling business for several years. On his return he took
-charge of his uncle’s business and shortly afterwards was made a
-partner. In 1885 he was elected to City Council, and served for seven
-years. It was during Col. Hutchison’s service in the City Council that
-the question of the proper drainage of the city attained its greatest
-importance, and it is owing to his keen foresight and wise counsel and
-persistence that Ottawa to-day has the excellent drainage system of
-which it now boasts, and that is but one of the many happenings for the
-benefit, progress and beautification of Ottawa that were brought into
-existence through his instrumentality during his term of office in the
-City’s Civic affairs. From 1888 to, and including the year 1905, a
-period of eighteen years, Col. Hutchison was a member of the Board of
-Directors of the Central Canada Exhibition Association, and from 1895 to
-1905, 10 years, he was President. On retiring in 1906 he was elected
-Honorary President of the Association and has been re-elected to that
-position every year since. Col. Hutchison, with the assistance of
-Messrs. Ahearn and Topper, was instrumental in converting the old horse
-car line to electric, giving Ottawa one of the best street car services
-on the continent. He ran for the Dominion House in 1896, with the result
-that both he and his French colleague, Napoleon A. Belcourt, were
-elected by a sweeping majority. At the time the Conservatives felt that
-they had a serious grievance, but ere long the good-hearted,
-good-natured and genial new Member became the friend and companion of
-both Liberals and Conservatives in the House of Commons. In 1901, when
-Sir Wilfrid Laurier needed a competent man to travel to all parts of the
-world to exhibit Canada’s mineral, cereal and industrial resources, Col.
-Hutchison was asked to accept the position of Canadian Exhibition
-Commissioner. He accepted and since his appointment he has had charge of
-Canada’s exhibits at the following times and places:—1901, Buffalo,
-U.S.A.; 1902, Osaka, Japan; 1903-04 St. Louis, U.S.A.; 1905, Liege,
-Belgium; 1906, Milan, Italy; 1907, Dublin, Ireland; 1908, Shepherds
-Bush, London, England; 1909, Seattle, U.S.A.; 1910, Brussels, Belgium;
-1911-12, Crystal Palace, London, England; 1913, Ghent, Belgium; 1914-15,
-San Francisco, U.S.A.; 1916-17, San Diego, U.S.A. The great world war
-has caused a cessation of the valuable exhibits, but the whole display
-is located in commodious quarters on Wellington St. in Ottawa, under
-Col. Hutchison’s special care, waiting and ready to be shipped at a
-moment’s notice. In 1902 Col. Hutchison was decorated by the Emperor of
-Japan with the Order of the Rising Sun (with rank of Colonel in the
-Army). In 1905 he was decorated by the late King Leopold II. of Belgium,
-with the Order of Leopold, and in 1906 by the King of Italy with the
-Order of the Crown of Italy, in 1910 he was made Commander of the Order
-of the Crown of Belgium by King Albert I. Col. William Hutchison is the
-son of the late Robert Hutchison of Ayrshire, Scotland, who came to
-Canada in 1830 and in New Edinburgh married Mary McKay, niece of the
-late Hon. Thos. McKay, who was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. In
-September, 1874, he married Electa Blanche, daughter of S. T. Willett of
-Chambly, Quebec. Two sons have blessed the union. In religion he is a
-Presbyterian, and in politics a high tariff Liberal. He is also a member
-of the Rideau Club, Ottawa, and his residence is 443 Albert St., Ottawa.
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-=Gibson, Brigadier-General Sir John Morison, K.C.M.G., M.A., LL.D.,
-K.C.=, born January 1, 1842, township of Toronto, in the County of Peel,
-and is therefore a “Peel Old Boy.” His father, William Gibson, a farmer,
-came from Glamis, Forfarshire, Scotland, in 1827. His mother, Mary
-Sinclair, was born in Scotland. Her people had settled in the township
-of Nelson, in the County of Halton. The family removed from Toronto
-township when the subject of this sketch was only eight or nine years of
-age to the County of Haldimand, where he had some experience in the Log
-School House education of the primitive settlements of that County in
-the early 50’s. He afterwards went to the Central School in Hamilton,
-the late Dr. Sangster then being Superintendent and Head Master. In due
-course, and working against great disadvantages, he became head boy of
-the public schools of Hamilton, a position which he maintained until he
-passed the matriculation examination of the University of Toronto in
-1859. As head boy of the school, he with the second boy, was selected to
-open the waterworks system of the city of Hamilton in 1858. His course
-at the University was a very successful one, taking scholarships all the
-way through the various years, and graduating in 1863 as the highest
-honor graduate with the Prince of Wales Prize, then given for general
-proficiency, including honors at graduation, the Silver Medals in
-Classics and Modern Languages, and the prize in Oriental languages,
-including Hebrew, Chaldee and Syriac. After taking his B.A. degree, he
-commenced the study of law in the office of the late Sir George Burton
-in Hamilton, at the same time taking the law course of the University,
-and receiving the degree of LL.B. in 1869 with the gold medal. One thing
-of note in connection with General Gibson’s life is that he has always
-endeavored to repay the educational institutions from which he received
-his education. For many years he was a member of the Board of Education
-in Hamilton, and was its Chairman for two years. During that time the
-Collegiate Institute was brought into prominence as one of the leading
-secondary educational institutions of the country. He served as a
-Senator of the University of Toronto, being elected at the first
-election of graduates in 1873 and re-elected in 1878 and 1883. He
-subsequently founded a general proficiency scholarship for matriculation
-candidates. When a student of the University during the Trent affair, he
-joined the University Rifles, being one of the first to sign the roll of
-that company in 1860. He has been in the Militia ever since, for now
-nearly 59 years, and at the present time is the senior officer in the
-Canadian Force among all who are not following military life as their
-regular occupation. In 1863, he transferred to the 13th, and has served
-from private up through all the ranks to the position of commanding
-officer, which position he held for 9 years, and at the present time is
-the Honorary Colonel of that corps. He was present at Ridgeway as a
-lieutenant. He subsequently commanded the 15th Brigade, having
-headquarters at Hamilton, and later on at the beginning of the great war
-received the rank of Brigadier-General. As a marksman he always has had
-a very high reputation, having been a member Canadian Wimbledon teams in
-1874, ’75, and ’79, being a frequent prize winner, and taking the much
-coveted Prince of Wales prize in the last-named year. He took part in
-several of the early international long range rifle contests with
-British, Australian, and American rifle teams. In 1881 he commanded the
-team which defeated the British team in the competition for the Kolapore
-Cup. He was president for three years of the Ontario Rifle Association,
-was also President of the Canadian Military Rifle League, and from 1893
-for thirteen or fourteen years was President of the Dominion Rifle
-Association. In 1907 he again commanded the Canadian rifle team at
-Bisley. He has also been President of the Canadian Military Institute,
-and was President of the Canadian Red Cross Society from its original
-organization throughout the South African War, and subsequently for a
-period of about 14 years, and has been throughout the recent great war
-one of the most active members of the Executive Board. He was for two
-years President of the Hamilton St. Andrew’s Society. From an early age
-he has been a very prominent Freemason—was Grand Master of the Masonic
-Grand Lodge of Canada during the years 1892 and 1893, being now the
-representative of the Grand Lodge of England, and for nine years was
-Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite
-Masons in Canada. He has always taken a prominent part in politics. As a
-young man he was Secretary of the Hamilton Reform Association, which
-position he held for many years. He was first returned to the
-Legislature in 1879, representing Hamilton for a period of 19 years, and
-afterwards East Wellington for 7 years. He entered the Government as
-Provincial Secretary in 1889, became Commissioner of Crown Lands in
-1896, and Attorney-General in 1899. He was an honorary A.D.C. to their
-Excellencies, Lord Aberdeen and Lord Minto, when Governors-General, and
-in 1897 was selected by the Militia Department to proceed to England in
-connection with the celebration of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee; was
-present by invitation, at the coronations in Westminster Abbey of the
-late King Edward VII, and of the present King George V. He has always
-taken a leading part at the Bar, and was made a Queen’s Counsel in 1890,
-is a Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada, and as a young man was
-an examiner in the Faculty of Law at Toronto University. In 1903 he
-received the honorary degree of LL.D. from that institution, and
-subsequently also from McMaster University. In 1908 he became
-Lieut.-Governor of the Province of Ontario, being the last to occupy the
-old Government House on King Street West, Toronto, continuing for over
-six years. During his term, on the recommendation of His Royal Highness
-the Duke of Connaught, then Governor-General of Canada, he was created a
-Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. As a public
-man he shrank from prominence in the public eye; he was most industrious
-and faithful in the performance of any duties he undertook to discharge.
-He had an excellent training for many years under the greatest of law
-makers this country has ever produced, Sir Oliver Mowat. While a private
-member of the Legislative Assembly he was selected as Chairman of the
-Private Bills Committee, which for fifteen years he presided over with
-eminent ability, fairness and impartiality. During the short period when
-the license branch was under his control some of the most advanced
-measures of temperance legislation were introduced by him, including the
-local option law, the validity of which was stoutly contested, but in
-the end affirmed by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Though
-not himself a practical sportsman, almost immediately after entering the
-legislature he led a movement for better protection of game birds and
-fur-bearing animals, first securing the abolition of spring shooting and
-other improvements in the law, and afterwards the appointment of a Royal
-Commission followed by a thorough revision of the game laws and the
-establishment of a departmental branch, with a chief game warden and
-other provincial wardens entrusted with the enforcement of the laws
-relating to game protection. While Provincial Secretary he was always an
-industrious legislator. The laws relating to Joint Stock Companies were
-thoroughly revised, modernized, and simplified by him. The old laws
-relating to building societies and loan companies were completely
-overhauled, and became the present Loan Corporations Act. It was at this
-time also that he undertook to stem the tide or flood of benefit
-societies, many of them of the fake order, which threatened to inundate
-this Province—a subject of legislation requiring at the time very
-cautious and skilful handling, but which, with the able assistance of
-Mr. J. H. Hunter, M.A., was ultimately put on a very satisfactory
-footing. One of the most important laws of comparatively recent years
-owes to him its existence, and has generally been referred to as the
-“Gibson Act”—the Act relating to neglected and dependent children—and
-the establishment of the Children’s Branch, with Mr. Kelso as its chief
-officer. This law has been most beneficial in its operation, and has
-been followed more or less closely in most of the other Provinces.
-During his comparatively short incumbency as Commissioner of Crown Lands
-he introduced and carried through the House the important legislation
-prohibiting the exportation of saw logs—a measure affecting very large
-interests but meeting the entire approval of the public. He also dealt
-with important changes in the mining laws during a period of great
-mining excitement in the Province. It is probably not generally known
-that while Commissioner of Crown Lands he introduced a short but very
-important measure preventing any absolute alienation by the Crown of
-Provincial water powers, and providing for leasing same for short
-renewable terms of years subject to conditions in the public interest.
-It is somewhat singular that a public man who has often been unfairly
-criticized as a champion of monopolies should never have been credited
-with this act directly aimed against and prohibitive of monopoly. In the
-matter of forest preservation or reforesting, Mr. Gibson aimed at
-carrying out a programme which probably time would justify as the most
-effective and productive policy possible. He aimed at the selection and
-setting apart every year a portion of the Crown domain unfit for
-agricultural purposes as a timber growing reserve. Many such sections in
-Northern Ontario, which have been cut over or burnt over, and now more
-or less covered over by new growth, could be set apart and treated as
-territory to be guarded as timber growing areas. In the Eastern part of
-the Province certain old limits were repurchased from the license
-holders and so set apart, and again another area in Western Ontario. The
-plan of year after year reserving areas in this way would in a
-generation or so result in well defined sections of the Province
-producing a new crop of timber which would not fail to become an
-extremely valuable asset to posterity. It was in Sir John Gibson’s time
-that the first steps were taken for the establishment of the Temagami
-Reserve very effectively carried out by Mr. Davis, his successor. As
-Attorney-General he had, of course, the responsibility of legislation
-generally. The assessment laws had been the subject of investigation and
-report at the hands of two Royal Commissioners, and amid the distressing
-conflict of opinion on the various questions which arise whenever this
-subject is touched, the difficulty of framing a generally acceptable
-measure seemed insuperable. Whatever may be thought of the present act,
-Sir John Gibson’s tact as a legislator was mainly instrumental in having
-it passed through the House, and probably as time has passed and the
-public have become more and more familiar with its provisions it may be
-considered to give general satisfaction. The collection and revision of
-Imperial Statutes in force in this Province in the shape of a brief
-third volume of the Revised Statutes carried out with the aid of a
-committee of the judges has been a boon to law students, and a great
-convenience to the legal profession. (The foregoing facts and
-observations regarding Sir John’s career have been contributed by Mr.
-James Innes Macintosh, who was for several years his private secretary
-when a Minister of the Crown.) He was one of the pioneers, along with
-the late John Patterson and the late John Moodie, in introducing
-Hydro-Electric power and long distance transmission of same in this
-country utilizing surplus water from the Welland Canal, and transmitting
-the power to Hamilton, where very soon many of the industrial and
-electric railways adopted the same, to the great advantage of the
-companies. For many years he was President of the Cataract Power
-Company. He is a Director of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, the Canada
-Life Assurance Company, the Toronto General Trusts Corporation, the
-Toronto Conservatory of Music, the Homewood Retreat at Guelph, the
-Dominion Power and Transmission Company, the Canadian Westinghouse
-Company, and several other industrial companies in Hamilton. He was
-married first in 1869 to Emily Annie, daughter of the late Rolph
-Birrell, of London, who died in 1874; second, in 1876 to Caroline,
-daughter of the late Senator Adam Hope, who died in 1877; and third, on
-May 18, 1881, to Elizabeth, daughter of the late Judge Malloch, of
-Brockville. He had six children, viz., John Gordon Gibson, who died
-shortly after taking his B.A. degree at the University of Toronto;
-Eugenia Elizabeth Emily; Margaret Mary Stewart, wife of Robert S.
-Waldie, of Toronto; Archibald Hope Gibson, Barrister; Captain Colin W.
-G. Gibson, of the Royal Fusiliers, who was twice severely wounded; and
-Francis Malloch Gibson, who went to the front as an officer of the 48th
-Highlanders at the commencement of the war and was killed in action near
-Armentieres. Sir John’s manner is dignified but affable, his style of
-speech clear and precise; in his movements he is deliberate, but with
-the elasticity of well-preserved middle age, while his expression is
-kindly but alert, with evidence of unlimited determination and
-unmistakable inclination and power to lead. When an active officer of
-the Militia he was recognized by his fellow-officers as a master of
-field manœuvres. The beautiful family residence, “Ravenscliffe,” is
-delightfully situated on the lower slope of the mountain, looking down
-Ravenscliffe Avenue, through a vista of stately elm trees.
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-=Mitchell, The Hon. Walter George= (Quebec City), Treasurer of the
-Province of Quebec, was born at Danby, in the County of Drummond. He is
-the son of the Hon. Senator William Mitchell, his mother’s maiden name
-being Miss Dora Goddard. His early education was matured at the Montreal
-High School and at the Bishop’s College school of Lennoxville.
-Thereafter he entered McGill University as an undergraduate, finally
-taking his degree of B.C.L. in 1901. On being admitted to practice at
-the Bar, he became connected with the law firm of Greenshields,
-Greenshields & Heneker. Two years after he became a prominent member of
-the firm of Laflamme, Mitchell and Callaghan, receiving his K.C. in
-1912. In view of his being chosen by the Lieutenant-Governor to assume
-the duties of the Hon. P. S. G. Mackenzie, who had died suddenly, he was
-subsequently elected by acclamation as representative of the
-constituency of Richmond, a county which he continues to represent as
-Member of the Provincial Parliament, after a second election by
-acclamation. Prior to his assuming the office of Provincial Treasurer,
-Mr. Mitchell was in possession of a large and lucrative practice in
-Montreal. While actively engaged with his professional duties, as a
-leading lawyer, he did not fail to take an active interest in political
-affairs, and came into public prominence in the administration of the
-Montreal Reform Club. Through his efforts in co-operation with his
-associate members, new and attractive quarters for that club were
-erected on Sherbrooke Street; and, in 1913, he was chosen, by way of
-reward for his active services, the President of that flourishing
-institution, and in the following year was re-elected to the same
-office. From the date of the famous Drummond-Arthabaska election contest
-in 1910, Mr. Mitchell became more and more intimately identified with
-the political life of the Eastern Townships and its various electoral
-movements. During the winning of the constituency of Drummond-Arthabaska
-back to the Liberal interest in 1910, he was associated with Dr. Beland,
-later a prisoner of war in Germany, and was acclaimed everywhere as an
-eloquent and persuasive pleader in behalf of the naval policy of Sir
-Wilfrid Laurier. In fact, in 1911, it was to a large extent through Mr.
-Mitchell’s influence as an organizer, not to speak of his father’s
-unbroken popularity as a public man, and other influences, that the
-constituency of Drummond-Arthabaska was won over to the Liberal
-interest. As Provincial Treasurer, Mr. Mitchell has made a name for
-himself as a most successful financier, taking a prominent rank almost
-immediately as a parliamentary debater. Nor has he failed to share in
-remedial legislation, whenever such came up for consideration in the
-Provincial Parliament. He has interested himself particularly in
-modifying the Quebec License Law, fathering amendments to that law
-restricting the number of licenses, increasing the license fees,
-prohibiting treating, increasing the age limit, shortening the hours of
-sale, and urging an enactment to abolish the bars on the 1st of May,
-1918, with immediate sanction to the Minister of Militia and Defence to
-declare any or all districts throughout the Province of Quebec “out of
-bounds” for soldiers and sailors. At his instance also the Quebec
-Insurance Act has been amended from time to time, so as to give better
-protection to the public. One of his most notable and highly patriotic
-acts in parliament since the war in Europe began, was his presentation
-of a Bill, asking authority to subscribe out of the public revenues in
-behalf of his native province a million of dollars to the Canadian
-Patriotic Fund—a proposal which met with an instant and unanimous
-approval from both chambers. Under his mature financial advice the
-Province of Quebec has spent millions of dollars in constructing and
-improving highways of nearly every district. And yet so prudently have
-the finances of the province been husbanded under his judicious
-oversight, that the provincial debt has virtually remained as easy a
-burden on the people as it ever has been, notwithstanding the large
-amounts spent on the highways, and the large increase in the grants to
-education, agriculture, and public works. Altogether Mr. Mitchell has
-won the highest credit as a parliamentarian and a financier, enjoying
-the full confidence of his colleagues and of many of his fellow
-legislators, irrespective of party lines. He was married on February the
-4th, 1907, Mrs. Mitchell’s maiden name having been Miss Antonia
-Pelletier. Their family comprises two sons and three daughters.
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-=Lesperance, Albert Paneran= (Montreal, Que.), General Manager, was born
-at Longueuil, Que., on September 17, 1860, and was educated at Longueuil
-and Montreal Business College, he is the Executor of the Estate of Henry
-Hogan, also the Estate Masson; is a Roman Catholic in religion and
-styles himself an Independent in politics; is a member of the Canadian
-Club, Montreal Board of Trade, and Chambre de Commerce, also Governor of
-Notre Dame Hospital. On May 10, 1890, he married Delima Bovin, the
-daughter of Leonard Bovin, a merchant, of St. Hyacinthe, Que., and has
-ten children: Juliette, Henri, Germain, Annette, Arthur, Simmonne,
-Irene, Therese, Suzanne and Paul.
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-=Parsons, S. R.= (Toronto, Ont.), President of the British-American Oil
-Co., Ltd., Oil Refineries, was born in Port Hope, Ont., in 1854. Son of
-William and Margaret (Trick) Parsons. He received his education in the
-Public and Grammar Schools of that town and began business with the firm
-of James Campbell & Son, at that time extensive manufacturing
-stationers, and publishers of Toronto. After six years’ association with
-this firm he removed to Winnipeg and subsequently engaged in the
-wholesale stationery business as senior partner in Parsons, Bell & Co.,
-which afterwards merged with the Consolidated Stationery Co., Ltd., of
-which he was President for a number of years. In 1882 Mr. Parsons
-married Anne Kate Helliwell, daughter of Rev. Thomas Lord Helliwell of
-Winnipeg, and has three daughters, Mrs. Chas. A. Withers, Mrs. Henry F.
-Gooderham, and Mrs. Errol A. Hethrington, all of Toronto. After sixteen
-years of successful business in Winnipeg, Mr. Parsons was compelled to
-leave the northern climate in the interest of his health and returned to
-Toronto where in 1906, along with others, he established the extensive
-business of which he continues the moving spirit. He has always taken an
-active interest in religious, social and philanthropic work and for many
-years has been a director of the Methodist Union. Since 1900 he has been
-Chairman of the Ontario Board of Directors, Canadian Fire Insurance Co.,
-and is a member of the Northern Ontario Fire Relief Committee, and the
-Organization of Resources Committee of the Province of Ontario, also of
-the Ontario Executive of the Bonne Entente at whose meeting in the
-Chateau Frontenac, Quebec, in 1916, he was one of the principal speakers
-and put forward this three-plank platform: First—We ought to live
-together in sincerity, friendship and justice; Second—We ought to
-strive for a cleaner public life; Third—We ought to help maintain the
-integrity and strength of our great Empire. But it is in connection with
-his work in the Canadian Manufacturers Association that Mr. Parsons has
-come most prominently before the public, for though naturally being far
-from an aggressive man, when the burden of office was laid upon him he
-realized his responsibilities to the full and has frequently from the
-platform, in the press and in action given evidence of the reserve force
-that was in him. He was elected for four successive years (1911-1915)
-Chairman of the Transportation Committee of the Association; Second
-Vice-President in 1915, First Vice-President in 1916, and President at
-the Annual Meeting of the Association in Winnipeg in 1917. He was
-Chairman in 1917 of the Committee of Employers of Labor for the Province
-of Ontario to secure men to help in the harvest fields, an organization
-responsible for the saving of many millions in food stuffs. On assuming
-office as President of the C.M.A. Mr. Parsons delivered an inspiring
-inaugural address of a thoroughly business character, but progressive,
-loyal, ethical, liberal and humanitarian as well. In 1918 he was
-appointed a representative of the C.M.A. on the Federal Board for the
-settlement of Labor disputes. Writing of him on this occasion, “The
-Monetary Times” says: “He is a capable, energetic business man, with a
-frank and alert manner that wins confidence. The welfare of the Canadian
-Manufacturers Association is in good hands under his care. He is a type
-of Association President well able to smooth out many of the
-difficulties between capital and labor, having appreciation of the
-problems met by both.” Mr. William Lewis Edmonds writes at the same time
-in “Industrial Canada”: “While Mr. Parsons is strong as a business man,
-and particularly in the quality of executive ability, that is not the
-only direction in which his strength lies. He is a strong man all the
-way round. He is a man of strong opinions and particularly on subjects
-that approach the ethical in character, and having cultivated the habit
-of looking at controversial subjects from the other fellow’s perspective
-as well as his own, it is not a difficult thing to persuade him to
-change his attitude, provided the other fellow is right and he is wrong,
-but when once after carefully weighing the pros and cons, he is
-persuaded that he is right he’ll not surrender principles, although
-where non-essentials are the issue he will readily agree to a
-compromise. In judgment he is sound, and in insight keen and quick.
-Although not connected with either political party, Mr. Parsons takes a
-keen interest in public affairs, and practical movements which have for
-their object a betterment of conditions in state and society have his
-warm, and in many instances, his active sympathy.” Writing in the
-“Toronto Star Weekly,” Arthur Hawkes says: “Mr. Parson’s service in the
-Manufacturers Association has been real service, and not a still hunt
-for glory. In committee he is as cautious as strong, and as strong as
-wise. He looks often before he leaps and he can take a pretty good
-leap—the fundamental condition of which is that he shall have examined
-the jumping-off place and surveyed the spot where he intends to land.
-When he has made up his mind he doesn’t change it, which is because he
-is sound in judgment.” In concluding his quite lengthy sketch and
-referring particularly to Mr. Parsons’ political platform he says: “This
-is a pretty good creed. It is just like Parsons. If you know him you
-know an honest manufacturer, a broad Methodist, and a friend who is with
-you till daylight.” Of him, “Motoring” says: “He presented an excellent
-report to the C.M.A. convention as Chairman of the Special Committee on
-the Co-ordination of recruiting and production. He is a clear thinker
-and speaker and could probably quote from half a hundred authors. He is
-a keen business man and one who puts his best efforts into all he
-undertakes.” Mr. Parsons is not only a clear thinker but an apt phraser
-as may be judged from this clause in his inaugural address as President
-of the C.M.A.: “These are surely days for plain living and high
-thinking, days when there is a compression of life, and days which
-summon all that is heroic within us to stand like men in meeting our
-duties, whether they be personal, social, local or national.” In a
-speech before the Canadian Club of Orillia, in February, 1918, on
-“War-Time Business and Profits” which was endorsed by the C.M.A.
-Executive and published in the principal papers of Canada, Mr. Parsons
-said: “Canadians, let us know each other better, let us understand and
-sympathize with each other’s problems, for in that knowledge lies
-increased production, good feeling between city and country, prosperity
-in reason and fair play to all.” A strong desire for fair play and
-justice to all is the outstanding characteristic of Mr. Parsons’ whole
-attitude towards any question, and, while conservatively progressive he
-is so liberally and humanely so that his influence in the important
-association of which he is President cannot fail to be productive of
-better feeling between employer and employees. In manner Mr. Parsons is
-genial and easy of approach, a good conversationalist, well-read and
-with a ready and apt style of expression, but views every question
-apparently through ethical spectacles—a habit unfortunately not
-generally in vogue. He is a member of the National Club, Canadian Club,
-and Toronto Board of Trade. He is a Unionist in politics, and a member
-of the Methodist Church. His office is the 13th floor of the Royal Bank
-Building and his residence 139 Crescent Road, Toronto.
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-=Forman, James C.= (Toronto, Ont.), Assessment Commissioner, a son of
-the late James Forman, one of the 93rd Highlanders, was born November
-23, 1851, and received his education in the Public and Model Schools and
-British-American Commercial College. He occupied a position in a
-broker’s and insurance office for about two years, and then entered the
-employ of the wholesale dry goods firm of Dobbie and Carrie, remaining
-there for over four years. Mr. Forman, afterwards, while in the employ
-of the late George Warin, was offered a temporary position in the City
-Hall by the late Stephen Radcliff, City Clerk. He was permanently
-appointed in 1878 as Assessment Clerk, and gradually worked his way up
-the ladder until he assumed his present position in 1905, succeeding Mr.
-R. J. Fleming on the latter’s resignation. Mr. Forman has taken a close
-interest in assessment matters, having read papers before the Ontario
-Municipal Association and International Tax Association and is
-frequently selected to represent the City Council at their meetings. In
-1903 he was in close touch with former Attorney-General Sir John Gibson
-in the preparing of the new Assessment Act. In October, 1908, he read a
-paper before the Internation Tax Association on “Business Assessments as
-a Substitute for Personal Property.” He takes the deepest interest in
-town planning and represented the City Council at Philadelphia, May,
-1911, and the Board of Trade at Boston, reading a short paper at the
-latter city in May, 1912. He has prepared a report on the Single Tax
-Situation as he found it in the West, from Winnipeg to Victoria. Mr.
-Forman is in every respect a man who has done his share toward placing
-Toronto on its present high pinnacle of fame, and has won the esteem of
-all citizens by his safe and able administration of the office of
-Assessment Commissioner. He is a man of undoubted integrity, with keen
-instinct and a pleasing countenance. He is a warm adherent, an active
-worker and for several years occupant of the post of “People’s Warden”
-of St. Matthew’s Church, First Avenue. He has refused several flattering
-offers from the leading real estate concerns of this city, preferring to
-remain in his present position.
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-=Foster, Thomas Wilfred= (Kirkland Lake, Ont.), was born in Dundalk,
-County of Grey, Ontario, on February 25, 1885, and educated at the
-public school of that village, his parents being John and Christina
-Foster, who moved to Alberta where the father of the subject of this
-sketch died in June, 1916, at Wainwright. A brother, David Albert,
-enlisted in the 51st Battalion from Edmonton, in the Canadian
-Expeditionary Forces. Mr. Foster carries on the business of a general
-merchant at Kirkland Lake, Ont., of which place he is the Police
-Magistrate and postmaster. He married Mary Greer, daughter of James and
-Sofia Greer, and is the father of the following children: Leonard,
-Ralph, Vivian and Irene. Mr. Foster has been for some years prominently
-identified with the Masonic Order, being Past Master for Porcupine
-Lodge, and also is a member of the Orange Order. In religion, he is a
-Methodist and politically, is a Conservative.
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-=Shortly, Orville Benjamin=, began his career with the Metropolitan Life
-Insurance Company on July 6, 1903. In 1904 he was appointed
-Superintendent of the Ottawa district. Arriving in Ottawa he immediately
-entered upon his duties in that capacity. It was not long before he had
-secured for his company a large number of policy-holders who, as the
-days, months and years passed by, grew larger and larger in numbers
-until, up to 1918, his large and greatly increased staff of employees at
-the head office, The Metropolitan Life Building, corner Metcalfe and
-Queen Streets, Ottawa, and his numerous agents, are kept busily and
-industriously employed. Previous to his arrival in Ottawa the
-Metropolitan Life Insurance Company had failed to make itself well
-established. His advent in the Capital of Canada, however, changed all
-this and activity and progress began and has been in operation ever
-since. As a recognition of the value of his services, in March, 1918,
-the General Management of The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
-promoted him to the Chief Agency for the whole of Canada—a
-well-deserved and well-earned promotion, while he still retained the
-Superintendency of the Ottawa district, which up to the date of his
-promotion controlled no less than forty-three thousand policyholders. On
-October 28, 1918, Mr. Shortly was again promoted by his company, having
-been transferred from Ottawa to take charge of the Toronto district of
-the Metropolitan Life. He resides at 15 Whitney Ave., North Rosedale,
-and his office address is 4 Richmond St. East. Although Mr. Shortly only
-came to reside in Toronto on October 28, 1918, he has already been
-placed on the executive of the Life Underwriters’ Association of
-Toronto; has been made a member of the Association of Life Managers, and
-been elected to membership in the Ontario Club, the Royal Canadian Yacht
-Club, the Canadian Club, and the Scarborough Golf Club. Mr. Shortly is
-the author of several essays on Life Insurance Salesmanship, and has
-given addresses before several Life Insurance associations. He is a past
-President of the Life Underwriters’ Association of Ottawa. He is an
-enthusiastic sportsman. In his earlier days, when he was quite an
-athlete, he was an expert bicyclist and captured many first prizes in
-racing contests. When, in 1914, the terrible war hostilities commenced,
-Mr. Shortly placed his services, such as he could give, at the services
-of the State and forced his way into the midst of the greatest war
-activities in the City of Ottawa. In collecting funds for the several
-patriotic objects, and in helping to make the Victory Loans successful
-he was one of the most active and his services were of inestimable
-value. Prior to engaging in the insurance business Mr. Shortly was
-salesman and manager for Eastern Ontario for the Canadian Typograph
-Company of Windsor, Ontario. He has travelled considerably throughout
-the continent and Europe. On August 27, 1917, Governor Whitman, Governor
-of New York State, appointed Mr. Shortly Commissioner of Deeds for the
-State of New York. Mr. Shortly was born in Peterborough, Ontario,
-Canada, August 13, 1875, and was educated in the Peterborough Public
-Schools. He is the son of Benjamin and Hattie Robertson Shortly. His
-father is a merchant in Peterborough and holds the distinction of being
-in business there longer than any other man. A prominent relative is
-James E. Kavanagh, 3rd Vice-President of the Metropolitan Life Insurance
-Company. On September 28, 1904, Mr. Shortly married Mabel Louise Howe,
-daughter of Etna D. Howe, 24 Whitney Avenue, Toronto, President Northrop
-& Lyman Drug Company. Two children have blessed the union—Orville Dean,
-born August 3, 1905, and John Benjamin, born February 24, 1910. He is a
-member of the Laurentian, Canadian, the Rivermead Golf, and the Wright
-Fish and Game Clubs, of the Board of Trade, the Y.M.C.A., Masonic Order,
-Scottish Rite, Murphy Chapter Rose Croix. For recreation he enjoys golf,
-fishing and hunting.
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-=Cotton, Major-General W. H.= (Toronto, Ont.), commanding 2nd Division
-H.O. at Toronto, was a Lieut.-Colonel Commandant Royal School of
-Artillery, was born in Montreal on January 7, 1848. He is the eldest son
-of the late Henry Cotton, of the civil service of Canada. Henry Cotton
-was the son of William Miles Cotton, of England, and was born in St.
-Petersburg, Russia, in 1817, coming to Canada in 1836, and serving in
-the civil service for upwards of forty years. The late Mr. Cotton
-married in 1847, Eleanor, daughter of David Ross, Q.C., of Montreal, who
-now survives him. David Ross, who died in Montreal in 1837, aged
-sixty-seven, married Jane Davidson, daughter of Judge Davidson, of
-Montreal. Arthur Davidson, afterwards judge, was clerk of the Court of
-Appeals in the Province of Quebec, in 1778, during the period that His
-Excellency Sir F. Haldimand was Governor-General of that Province. John
-Ross, an officer in Wolfe’s army at the taking of Quebec, was the
-great-great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch. W. H. Cotton was
-educated at Toronto and Quebec, receiving a general English education,
-embracing the study of classics. At the time of the organization of the
-schools of artillery, and the permanent corps connected therewith, Col.
-Cotton was then (1871) a Captain in the Ottawa Garrison Artillery,
-having been transferred from the Quebec Garrison Artillery. He was the
-first Captain of A Battery Regt. C.A., and in 1882 succeeded to his
-present appointment on the promotion of Lieut.-Colonel Irwin. He twice
-visited Wimbledon, in connection with the Wimbledon team, in the years
-1871 and 1875. Gen. Cotton is a staunch member of the Church of England.
-He married in April, 1876, Jessie, daughter of the late John Penner, of
-Montreal, and granddaughter of the late Chas. Penner, of Lachine, who
-afterwards resided in Kingston. He has six children living, three sons
-and three daughters, and is a member of Rideau Club, Ottawa, and York
-Club, Toronto.
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-=Nesbitt, Arthur Russel= (Toronto, Ont.), born at Nestleton, County of
-Durham, Ontario, on November 1, 1884. Son of George M. and Letitia
-(Hyland) Nesbitt. Educated at Wellesley School, Jarvis Street
-Collegiate, Trinity College, and Osgoode Hall, Toronto, being called to
-the Bar in 1910. He commenced practising his profession at the
-Provincial capital, where he has achieved a marked degree of success.
-Married on July 16, 1913, to Sadie Harrison, daughter of W. J. Brown,
-broker, of Toronto. Mr. Nesbitt has taken a deep interest in municipal
-affairs, and is at present Alderman for Ward Four of the city of
-Toronto, and Chairman of the Legislative Committee, which position he
-has held for the last two years. He entered the City Council at the
-elections in 1915, when he headed the poll, and has had that distinction
-in the subsequent elections. He is a man of indefatigable energy, and a
-very valuable member of the city council. He has been prominently
-identified for several years with the Liberal-Conservative party, and is
-past Secretary of the Conservative Association of Ward Four of the City
-of Toronto. He is also prominent in fraternal societies. He is a member
-of the Masonic and Orange Orders, being Past-Master of McKinley Lodge,
-L.O.L. He is an Oddfellow, a member of the Independent Order of
-Foresters, and the Canadian Order of Foresters.
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-=Marchand, Pierre= (Ottawa), Controller of Expenditure, Department of
-Interior, when appointed to a position by Sir Clifford Sifton, who was
-then Minister of the Interior, took office as an accountant whose
-talents and ability as such had been well tested and approved on several
-previous occasions. As accountant in the offices of the Lake
-Temiscamingue Colonization Railway at Mattawa, Ontario; in his occupancy
-of a similar position with Leblanc & Lemay, wholesale and retail
-clothiers and gent’s furnishers, and afterwards with D. V. Ranger,
-wholesale merchant at Ottawa, he was always found quick and reliable in
-his work, and, besides gaining and retaining the full confidence of his
-employers, he firmly established himself as an accountant of enviable
-reputation. It was in 1899, owing to the increased and rapidly
-increasing work that the Department of Interior was called upon to
-handle, attributable to Sir Clifford Sifton’s able and progressive
-administration, that Mr. Marchand’s services were secured, and the
-expenditure branch of that Department required carefulness, watchfulness
-and efficiency, and had to be placed in charge of one whose past record
-had stamped on it faithfulness and reliability. Since Mr. Marchand’s
-advent into that part of the Civil Service, the expenditure of the
-Department of Interior has had a painstaking, reliable and efficient
-public official, and one whose ever-attentive industry and care has
-elevated it to a high standard of excellent management. Prior to
-entering the Civil Service, Mr. Marchand was an active political worker
-in the Liberal party’s interests in Ottawa. At one time, and for several
-years, he was Secretary for the Club National, a French-Canadian Liberal
-organization, and was recognized as a strong and effective political
-worker. The late Hon. F. G. Marchand, who became Premier of Quebec, was
-one of Mr. Marchand’s many prominent relatives. Mr. Marchand was born at
-Ottawa, December 25, 1866, and is the son of Amable Marchand and Adelina
-Belair. His father was a prominent accountant, who saw that his son
-received a good commercial and classical education in Ottawa, Montreal
-and Quebec. Mr. Marchand was twice married. On October 6, 1891, he
-married at Ottawa, Josephine, daughter of Mrs. O. Lafleur, a widow. She
-died in May, 1916. On January 10th, 1917, he married in Ottawa, Bertha,
-daughter of P. Girard, whose residence is at Carillon, Quebec. By this
-second marriage, his home is blessed with a son and a daughter, Rosaire
-and Carmen. Mr. Marchand is a member of the Institut Canadien-Français
-and Monument National. In religion he is a Roman Catholic, and he
-resides at 81 Stewart Street.
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-=Northrup, William Barton, K.C., M.A.= (Ottawa, Ont.), Clerk of the
-House of Commons, is an eminent lawyer, and was for many years head of
-the legal firm of Northrup and Roberts, of Belleville, Ontario. For many
-years he sat in the House as the representative for East Hastings,
-Ontario, and was noted for his able debates and the eloquent and
-persistent manner in which he advocated the establishment of divorce
-tribunals where the poor as well as the rich would be accorded fair play
-and justice, and the abolition of the costly Senate procedure, which was
-antiquated, unjust and farcical and unreliable. Mr. Northrup was first
-elected to Parliament at a by-election to fill the vacancy caused by the
-death of Mr. S. B. Burdell, who was returned to Parliament at the
-general election in 1891. He was unsuccessful in his candidature in the
-general election in 1896, but at the general elections of 1900-4-8 and
-1911 he was successful. He did not run in the war election in 1917. In
-1902 he accompanied the Rt. Hon. Sir R. L. Borden on the North-West
-tour. Succeeding Dr. T. B. Flint, M.A., LL.B., D.C.L., he was appointed
-Clerk of the House of Commons in 1918. Like the late Dr. Flint, Mr. W.
-B. Northrup has had a long experience as a member of the House of
-Commons, and is an expert in parliamentary practice. His natural
-geniality and uniform courtesy made him friends on both sides of the
-House. With distinguished ability, grace and dignity he fills the
-position of Clerk of the House of Commons. William Barton Northrup is
-the son of the late A. G. N. Northrup, Deputy-Clerk of the Crown and
-Pleas, County Hastings, Ontario. He was born in Belleville, Ontario,
-October 19, 1856, and was educated at the Belleville Grammar School,
-Upper Canada College, and Toronto University (B.A. with honors 1877,
-M.A. 1878). June 1, 1879, he married Minnie, eldest daughter of the late
-J. E. Procter, Brighton, Ontario. She died June, 1905. In June, 1907, he
-married Mary Schryver, daughter of the late J. C. Fitch, Toronto, and
-relict of F. C. Clemow. He was created K.C. in 1902, bencher Law
-Society, 1906, and was re-elected. In the House of Commons in 1892 he
-moved the address in reply to the Speech from the Throne, and in 1906
-seconded the address inviting King Edward and Queen Alexandra to visit
-Canada. In his youth he was a noted cricketer.
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-
-=Braden, Norman Short= (Hamilton, Ont.), is an electrical engineer by
-profession and one of the industrial chieftains of that city. He was
-born at Indianapolis, U.S.A., on June 15, 1869, the son of James Braden,
-a physician, and Lydia E. Braden. The Braden family are of Scottish
-descent, and his ancestors emigrated from the North of Ireland to the
-United States in the eighteenth century. Mr. Braden was educated at the
-public schools of Indiana and at Whitman College, Walla Walla,
-Washington. After leaving college in 1892 he entered the employ of the
-Jenney Electric Motor Company of Indianapolis, and seven years later
-joined the staff of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company,
-of Pittsburgh. Upon the formation of the Canadian Westinghouse Company,
-Limited, of Hamilton, Ont., in 1903, he moved to the latter city, and
-was appointed manager of the sales department, in charge of the
-commercial electrical development and activities of his Company for the
-entire Dominion. Under his direction the growth of the Canadian
-Westinghouse Company’s business has expanded with great rapidity,
-requiring an increase of capital from $1,500,000 in 1903 to $10,000,000
-in 1918. It gives employment to upwards of three thousand hands, and is
-the largest manufacturer of electrical apparatus in Canada. In 1919, Mr.
-Braden was elected third vice-president of the company with executive
-charge of its commercial organization. The subject of this sketch is
-also identified with another of Hamilton’s leading industries, the B.
-Greening Wire Co., Ltd. On November 29, 1906, he married Mabel, daughter
-of Samuel Owen and Jennie H. Greening. The Greening family have been
-prominent manufacturers of wire products in England since the year
-Columbus discovered America, 1492, and have been established in Hamilton
-since 1858. Of that company Mr. Braden, who entered the family by
-marriage, is now a Director. He is a member of the American Institute of
-Electrical Engineers and of the Jovian Order, and belongs to the
-Hamilton Club, the Rotary Club of his city; the Golf and Country Club;
-the Engineers’ Clubs of Toronto and Montreal; the Electric Club of
-Toronto, and the Transportation Club of New York City. He is a
-Presbyterian in religion, and his recreations are hunting, golf,
-motoring, and motor boating. Mr. and Mrs. Braden have three children,
-Eleanore Greening Braden, William Greening Braden, and Margaret Owen
-Braden.
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-
-=Bowie, Lieut.-Colonel Henry William= (Ottawa, Ont.), Sergeant-at-Arms
-of the House of Commons and a Commissioner of Parliament, is the son of
-the late Captain Alexander Bowie, who, during his lifetime, was one of
-the most popular men residing in the capital of the Dominion of Canada,
-and Esther Shepherd, and was born at Ottawa, November 10, 1862, and
-educated in the public and private schools. In 1892, Lieut.-Colonel
-Bowie married Helen Louise Gouin, daughter of James A. Gouin, who for
-thirty-three years was postmaster for the City of Ottawa. There are five
-children, Guy Gouin, Henry William Shepherd, Louis Alexander, Marion
-Faith, and Adelaide Esther—three boys and two girls. An enthusiast in
-military matters, at the age of nineteen, in 1881, Lieut.-Col. Bowie
-became a member of the Canadian Militia, and qualified at the Royal
-Military College and the Royal School of Artillery, and for several
-years was a member of the Governor-General’s Foot Guards. In 1882
-Colonel Bowie entered the service of the Ottawa River Navigation
-Company, in which his father was Ottawa Manager, and qualified as
-Master, Marine Department, Ottawa, in 1884. From 1891 to 1896, and again
-from 1911 to 1915, Colonel Bowie was Secretary to the Honourable the
-Speaker of the House of Commons, and from 1891 to 1918 (for 28 years)
-served as Deputy-Sergeant-at-Arms in that honourable Assembly. On the
-death of Lieut.-Col. H. R. Smith, I.S.O., C.M.G., J.P., A.D.C., Colonel
-Bowie was recalled from overseas, and, March, 1918, was appointed as
-Sergeant-at-Arms. Shortly after the Great War was declared Colonel Bowie
-made every effort to follow those who had already gone overseas, or to
-join those who were preparing to go, but, owing to official and other
-duties over which he had to preside he was unable to leave until 1916,
-when he went as second major of the 77th Overseas Battalion. In August,
-1916, he became attached to the 60th Battalion in France, but was
-shortly afterwards, October, 1916, called from France to Bramshott,
-England, to command a Provisional Battalion, C.E.F. It was at this time,
-October, 1916, that Colonel Bowie’s eldest son, Lieut. Guy Gouin Bowie,
-left Canada for overseas with the 154th Infantry Battalion, C.E.F.
-Colonel Bowie remained in command of the Provisional Battalion until
-July, 1917, when he was seconded for duty with the Imperial Forces and
-proceeded at once to France. Arriving there he served under the
-Administrative Commandant, Third Army Railheads, as Staff Officer and
-O.C., Railheads Detail Detachment, till recalled to Canada in March,
-1918. In the meantime his son, Lieut. Guy Gouin Bowie, who was born in
-Ottawa, October 10, 1892, followed in his father’s footsteps and had
-quite an eventful military career. He was appointed to the Active
-Militia, G.G.F.G., as Lieutenant on December 15, 1915, and received his
-certificate of qualification from the Officers’ Training School,
-Kingston, on January 20, 1916. On March 5, 1916, he was appointed
-Lieutenant in the 154th Infantry Battalion, C.E.F., and went overseas
-with that battalion on October 20, 1916. Arriving in England, October
-31, he was appointed Lieutenant in the Imperial Land Forces, and on
-January 31, 1917, was transferred from the 154th Battalion to the 6th
-Reserve Battalion at Seaford, Sussex. On August 7, 1917, he was
-transferred to the 21st Battalion, C.E.F., France, and was dangerously
-wounded in front line trenches, Lens sector, December 14, 1917. Arriving
-at Clearing Station, Aubigny, December 14, 1917, he was transferred to
-the 24th General Hospital, Estaples, France, January 1, 1918, and on
-February 6, 1918, was transferred to Prince of Wales Hospital, London,
-England, where he remained until May 6, 1918, when he was invalided
-home. Lieut. Bowie was married October 10, 1916, at Ottawa to Lily
-Wright Brigham, daughter of T. G. Brigham, and has two sons, Thomas Guy
-and James Henry. Col. Bowie is a member of the Wellington Club, London,
-England, and the Royal Ottawa Golf Club, Ottawa. His home address is 82
-Park Avenue, and his official address, House of Commons, Ottawa,
-Ontario, Canada.
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-
-=Robinette, Thomas Cowper, K.C.= (Toronto, Ont.), enjoys an enviable
-reputation as a brilliant criminal lawyer, and as such has appeared with
-success in many famous cases, notably Macwherrel and Caledon wreck cases
-at Brampton, Healey and Blythe at Toronto, Mrs. Kyle at Woodstock, Dr.
-Robinson at Napanee and many others. Mr. Robinette is of U.E.L. descent,
-his family having come from Pennsylvania to Peel County, Ontario, in
-1781. He was born at Dixie, Ont., near Cooksville in 1861, the son of
-the late Josiah Robinette and Esther J. Goodison. Educated at Public
-Schools, Strathroy High School and Toronto University, he graduated from
-the Faculty of Arts in 1884, and from that of law in 1887, with the
-Governor-General’s Gold Medal. He was Silver Medallist in Modern
-Languages and English Prizeman, also holding a Scholarship in General
-Proficiency. Although taking an active part in politics, Mr. Robinette
-has never yet represented any constituency, having contested Centre
-Toronto against E. F. Clarke unsuccessfully in 1904 and again in 1908
-against Edmund Bristol, also North York, in 1911. He married Edith May
-Lindsay, of Pickering Township, Ont., in 1899, and has four sons,
-Thomas, Jr., John, George and Allan, also one daughter, Minnie. Thomas
-Robinette was made K.C. in 1902, a Bencher of the Law Society in 1911
-and 1916; Member of the Royal Colonial Institute, London, Eng., in 1913;
-Director of the Moral and Social Reform League, Toronto, in 1913;
-President of the Methodist Young Men’s Association in 1906; President of
-the University Literary and Scientific Society in 1907; Chairman of the
-Young Liberal Convention, Toronto, in 1885; also Joint Secretary of the
-Dominion Young Men’s Association, formed at Montreal in 1886. Mr.
-Robinette is a Liberal in politics and a Methodist in religion. He is a
-member of the National Club, Ontario Club, R.C.Y.C., Canadian Club and
-Empire Club, all of Toronto, also of the Masonic, I.O.O.F., C.O.O.F.,
-A.O.U.W., and Maccabean Societies. An ex-officer of the Queen’s Own
-Rifles and 34th Regiment, he is to-day engaged in the practice of law at
-Toronto as head of the firm of Robinette, Godfrey, Phelan and Lawson, in
-which J. S. Fullerton, K.C., late Corporation Counsel of Toronto, is
-associate counsel. “As a pleader, energetic, clear and
-painstaking”—“Toronto News.” “Has a trained mind, is accessible to new
-ideas, and has unusual gifts for the exposition and enforcement of his
-opinions”—“Toronto Globe.”
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-
-=Murray, Hon. Robert, K.C.=, Provincial Secretary-Treasurer of the
-Province of New Brunswick, is one of the best known and widely respected
-public men of the Maritime Provinces. He was born at Chatham, N.B.,
-where he still resides, on July 17, 1855, the son of Robert and Jane
-Murray. His father was a millwright, and the younger Robert was educated
-at the Presbyterian Academy in his native town, from which he graduated
-in 1871. At school he had shown himself to be of a naturally studious
-turn of mind, and decided to qualify himself for the bar. He was Police
-Magistrate for the town of Chatham, N.B., from 1887 to 1891, when he
-resigned. For upwards of forty years he followed his profession as a
-barrister in the town of Chatham, and has built up a large practice in
-the County of Northumberland, where he is held in general esteem and
-confidence. Subsequently, in 1902, his standing was recognized when he
-was created a King’s Counsel. In addition, he devoted himself to public
-and municipal affairs, and was identified with the Liberal party. His
-first public service was as a member of the County Council of
-Northumberland, and he was later an alderman of the town of Chatham. In
-1905 he was elected by acclamation in a by-election as one of the
-representatives of Northumberland County in the Provincial Legislature,
-where he served till 1908. During the past few years, there have been
-several political upheavals in the province of New Brunswick, and in
-1917, when the Conservative ministry, headed by Hon. G. Clarke, sought
-the franchise of the people, there was a demand for new men. In that
-contest, Mr. Murray was induced to stand as one of the Liberal
-candidates for Northumberland, which sends four members to the
-Legislature. He was elected, and at the same time the Murray
-administration, of which Hon. J. A. Murray was Premier, was defeated.
-Hon. Walter E. Foster, who was called upon to form a ministry, at once
-sent for Mr. Murray and offered him the portfolio of Provincial
-Secretary-Treasurer, in succession to Hon. D. V. Landry. The offer was
-accepted, and Mr. Murray has since conducted the finances of the
-province to the satisfaction of everyone. From his youth Mr. Murray took
-an active interest in the militia of his district, and retired in 1910
-with the rank of Major, receiving the long service decoration. During
-the late war he played an energetic, useful part in promoting Canada’s
-military and patriotic effort. In religion he is a Presbyterian, and is
-a member of the A.F. & A.M., and the I.O.O.F. His recreations are
-hunting, curling and quoit playing. On June 11, 1889, he married Jane,
-daughter of Simon F. Simpson, of Negnac, Northumberland County, N.B.,
-and has three children, Nina Helen, Vera Alice, and Robert Blaine, all
-of whom are now married. Though his public duties compel him to spend
-much of his time in Fredericton, his home is still at Chatham, N.B., and
-he continues the practice of his profession there.
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-
-=Wood, Rev. William Robertson= (Winnipeg, Man.), General Secretary of
-the Manitoba Grain Growers’ Association. Was born on June 6, 1874, at
-Weir, Orkney, Scotland. Son of William Wood and Margaret Robertson. Came
-to Canada in 1887. Educated at primary school in his native island, and
-at Port Elgin High School, Owen Sound Model School, Toronto University
-and Knox College. From this latter institution he graduated in 1904. On
-his ordination, he served the Presbyterian Church as Minister in
-Dunbarton, Ont., 1904-8; Claremont, Ont., 1908-13; Franklin, Man.,
-1913-16. Opposed Hon. J. H. Howden, Attorney-General for Manitoba, for
-the constituency of Beautiful Plains, Man., and was defeated by
-thirty-two votes. First elected a member of the Manitoba Legislature for
-Beautiful Plains, August, 1915, opposing J. H. Irwin, Neepawa. General
-Secretary of the Free Trade League of Canada, 1916-17. Became Secretary
-of the Manitoba Grain Growers’ Association, August, 1917. Married, in
-June, 1904, to Margaret, daughter of Andrew and Ellen Workman, of
-Rothsay, Ont., and has one daughter, Rhoda Marguerite, born in December,
-1906. In politics Rev. Mr. Wood is an Independent Liberal.
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-=Weld, John=, publisher (London, Ont.), was born on a farm in Middlesex
-County, Ont., on September 7, 1854. His father, the late William Weld,
-son of an Anglican Church clergyman, emigrated from Tenterden, Kent,
-England, in 1843, and made a home for himself amid the forests of
-Delaware Township. After living the life of a pioneer farmer for twenty
-years, he founded “The Farmer’s Advocate” of London in 1866 as a means
-of assisting other settlers who were continually coming to him for
-advice, and it is through his long association with this journal and its
-colleague, “The Farmer’s Advocate and Home Journal” of Winnipeg that the
-subject of this sketch became so widely known. After receiving his early
-education in the London schools, Mr. Weld learned the printing business
-in a local shop and completed his apprenticeship with a short
-post-graduate engagement with a large New York publishing house.
-Returning to Canada, he was attracted by the West, which was then
-opening up for settlers, and he staked his claim in Saskatchewan, where
-he “proved up” on a half-section in 1885. The growth of “The Farmer’s
-Advocate” then necessitated his return to London, where he became
-business manager of the publication until his father’s death on January
-3, 1891. He then became general manager, and when the Wm. Weld Company,
-Ltd., was organized and incorporated in July of the same year, he
-acquired a controlling interest in the firm, which he has since held.
-The first issue of “The Farmer’s Advocate” of Winnipeg appeared in 1890.
-It was edited in the West, but a separate company was not organized
-until July 31, 1905, when The Farmer’s Advocate of Winnipeg, Ltd., was
-incorporated with Mr. Weld as President. A building was erected on
-Princess Street in that year, but it proved inadequate to meet the
-ever-growing requirements of the business, so it was sold in 1911, and a
-five-story concrete, fire-proof building was constructed at the corner
-of Notre Dame and Langside Streets. In order to keep the two
-publications inseparably linked with practical and progressive farming,
-as well as to provide means whereby the editors might keep constantly in
-touch with varying agricultural conditions, a farm was purchased in the
-neighbourhood of London, and, incidentally, a separated portion of this
-is a part of the Weld homestead which has always been owned by the
-family under the original Crown grant. The subject of this sketch spends
-many enjoyable hours on Weldwood Farm, where pure-bred Yorkshire swine
-and one of the largest herds of pure-bred dual-purpose Shorthorns in
-Canada are maintained. The Bryant Press, Toronto, of which Mr. Weld is
-President, was acquired in 1903, and he is also President of the London
-Printing and Lithographing Company, Ltd. He has held various offices in
-the Canadian Press Association, and was the only representative of the
-Agricultural Press to visit Britain and the war zone in company with
-Canadian publishers and editors, the party being the guests of the
-Imperial Government in the summer of 1918. He is a member of the
-Anglican Church, and a life member of the Masonic Order, Tuscan Lodge
-195, A.F. & A.M.
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-
-=Foster, Hon. Walter Edward=, Premier of New Brunswick, is also one of
-the most prominent business men of that Province. He was born at St.
-Martins, N.B., on April 9, 1874, the son of Edward H. and Elizabeth
-(Pattison) Foster, and educated at the public and grammar schools of St.
-John, N.B. As a boy of fifteen he entered the Bank of New Brunswick as a
-junior clerk, and remained in its service until 1899, when he became a
-member of the firm of Vassie & Co., Ltd., wholesale dry goods merchants,
-St. John. Of this firm he is now Vice-President and Managing Director.
-He is also actively connected with transportation and shipping
-interests, and is President of the St. Martins Railway Co. He was
-Vice-President of the St. John Board of Trade in 1906-7, and President
-in 1908-9. He was Third Arbitrator and Chairman of the Conciliation
-Board which successfully settled differences between the longshoremen of
-the Port of St. John and the Shipping Federation, 1913. In the autumn of
-1915 differences having again arisen between the Longshoremen’s
-Association and the shipping companies at St. John, he was appointed
-Chairman of the Conciliation Board by the Minister of Labor of Canada,
-and succeeded in effecting an agreement for two years. Coming as it did
-in the midst of the war, this settlement was of the highest importance
-in a military sense. Hon. Mr. Foster was formerly an officer in the New
-Brunswick Regiment, Canadian Artillery, retiring with the rank of
-Captain in 1903. He has been for a good many years identified with the
-Liberal party, and is a Past President of the Young Liberals Club of St.
-John, but not until comparatively recently did he become a candidate for
-political office. In 1916 the Liberal party in the Legislature decided
-on reorganization, and offered the leadership of the Opposition to Mr.
-Foster. He accepted, and at once threw himself with energy into the task
-of putting the party on a fighting basis. At the general elections of
-February 24, 1917, he was victorious at the polls, and he was shortly
-afterward sworn in as First Minister. His business-like and economical
-administration in a difficult period has given satisfaction to all
-classes of citizens. He is a member of the Union Club, St. John, and was
-President of the Cliff Club, 1915-7. In religion he is an Anglican. On
-January 18, 1900, he married Jehan Mary, daughter of William Vassie, St.
-John, and has one son and three daughters. His residence is at 36
-Cobourg Street, St. John, and his summer residence at Rothesay, N.B.
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-=Charlesworth, Hector=, journalist (Toronto, Ont.), was born at
-Hamilton, Ont., September 28, 1872, the son of Horatio G. and Charlotte
-(McEachern) Charlesworth. He is a Canadian of several generations, some
-of his forbears having come to Quebec after the British conquest in the
-eighteenth century. His maternal grandfather, John McEachern, whose
-parents went to Manitoba with Lord Selkirk’s party, was born at Fort
-Garry on the site of the present city of Winnipeg, in 1811. When he was
-but very young, his parents travelled in canoes through the waterways of
-Northern Ontario to Montreal, and later made their home at Chateauguay
-Basin, Que. Mr. Charlesworth has lived in Toronto since 1876, and was
-educated at Wellesley School and Jarvis Street Collegiate Institute. His
-father was a shoe manufacturer; and in 1887 he was articled as a
-chartered accountant with a view to his ultimately becoming office
-manager of the firm. At seventeen he commenced writing anonymously under
-the _nom de plume_ of “Touchstone” for Toronto “Saturday Night.” In 1891
-Mr. E. E. Shepherd, editor of the journal, inserted an advertisement
-asking the contributor to disclose his identity, and on learning it
-offered him a position on the staff of that journal. He remained with
-Mr. Shepherd for a year, and then resolved to qualify himself by
-practical experience as a reporter. During the next eighteen years he
-worked on several daily newspapers, including “The World,” “The News,”
-and “The Mail and Empire,” of which latter journal he was City Editor
-from 1904 to 1910. Shortly after the reorganization of “Saturday Night”
-as a national weekly he was offered and accepted the post of Assistant
-Managing Editor, which he still holds. Though he has been a copious
-writer on political, financial and social topics, he is perhaps best
-known as a musical and dramatic critic. He acted as Chairman of the
-Board of Judges at the Earl Grey dramatic competitions, Toronto, 1911,
-and of Winnipeg, 1912, and eliminating judge in the Duke of Connaught’s
-competition, 1913. He was also chief judge in the “Collier’s Weekly”
-competition to secure suitable English words for “O Canada” in 1909. He
-has written essays and sketches for many publications, including the
-“International Studio,” the “New York Evening Post,” “Christian Science
-Monitor,” “New York Times,” the “Canadian Bankers’ Journal,” and the
-“Canadian Magazine.” His name appears among the contributors to volume
-one, number one, of the latter publication. He was one of the special
-writers engaged in connection with the Victory Loan Campaigns of 1918
-and 1919, his work being syndicated throughout Canada, and has edited
-and contributed to many Canadian books of reference. His other published
-work includes a treatise on modern methods of treating tuberculosis
-published by the National Sanitarium Association, and the narrative
-introduction to Dr. Herbert A. Bruce’s controversial book “Politics and
-the Canadian Army Medical Service.” In 1900 he was personally thanked by
-the family of the late Robert Louis Stevenson for two sonnets protesting
-against a movement to remove the remains of that author from Samoa,
-which have since been reprinted in the “Oxford Book of Canadian Verse.”
-He was also one of nine accredited Canadian correspondents who
-accompanied the present King and Queen (then Duke and Duchess of
-Cornwall and York) on the Royal tour of 1901, and later reported His
-Majesty’s visit to the Quebec Tercentenary in 1908. On February 15,
-1897, he married Katherine, second daughter of Peter Ryan, Toronto, and
-has two children, Constance Charlotte (born 1904) and Lionel Victor
-(born 1906).
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-=Bennett, Richard Bedford, K.C., LL.B.= (Calgary, Alta.), is one of the
-leading barristers and publicists of the Canadian West. He was born at
-Hopewell, Albert County, New Brunswick, on July 3, 1870, the son of
-Henry J. and Henrietta (Stiles) Bennett. His father was of U.E. Loyalist
-stock, and his mother’s people settled in Canada immediately after the
-British conquest of 1759-60. On both sides Mr. Bennett represents the
-ninth generation born on this side of the Atlantic. He was educated in
-the Public and High Schools of New Brunswick and at Dalhousie
-University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he qualified for the law and
-received the degree of LL.B. He was called to the New Brunswick Bar in
-1893, and for a time practised at Chatham, N.B., as the partner of the
-late Hon. L. J. Tweedie, afterward Prime Minister and
-Lieutenant-Governor of the Province. In 1897 he removed to Calgary, and
-was called to the Bar of the North-West Territories, forming a
-partnership with Mr. (now Sir) James Lougheed, at present Government
-leader in the Dominion Senate and Minister of Civil Re-establishment, a
-partnership which has continued ever since. In 1907, Mr. Bennett was
-created King’s Counsel. In 1898, one year after his arrival in the West,
-he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the North-West Territories
-for West Calgary, and sat in that body until its dissolution in 1905, on
-the granting of autonomy to Alberta and Saskatchewan. In 1909, he was
-elected for his old constituency to the Alberta Legislature, and was
-recognized as the ablest debater in that body. Among his public services
-was the exposure of the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway transaction,
-which led to a change from the Rutherford to the Sifton administration
-and Cabinet reconstruction. At the Federal elections of 1911 he resigned
-from the Alberta Legislature to run for the House of Commons as
-Conservative candidate for Calgary. He was elected, and the same
-campaign placed Sir Robert Borden in power. At Ottawa, Mr. Bennett was
-at once recognized as one of the leading figures on the Government
-benches, and in the trying period which followed the outbreak of the war
-in 1914 proved a source of strength to the administration. Actively
-identified with the Canadian Patriotic Fund and Red Cross Society.
-President of the Alberta Provincial Branch of the latter, member of
-Central Council and of Executive of Patriotic Fund. He accompanied Sir
-Robert Borden to Great Britain and France in 1915 on the occasion of the
-Prime Minister’s first visit of inspection to the Canadian army
-overseas, and later became Chairman of the National Service Commission
-to report on Canada’s war possibilities in men and resources. At the
-general election of 1917 declined re-nomination, but supported Union
-Government. In addition to his renowned forensic abilities, Mr. Bennett
-has a deep grasp of commercial and development questions. Shortly after
-going to the West he became identified with the irrigation projects of
-the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. He resigned his position as
-counsel to that company in Alberta on being elected to the House of
-Commons. He is to-day interested in and director of several industrial
-and financial corporations, including the Metropolitan Life Insurance
-Company of New York. In religion he is a Methodist, and in politics an
-Independent. He is a Bencher of the Law Society of Alberta, Fellow of
-the Royal Colonial Institute, and a member of the following clubs:
-Ranchmen’s and Golf and Country, Calgary; Rideau and Country, Ottawa.
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-=Butterworth, John George Bissett=, Ottawa’s premier coal merchant, was
-born at Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia, in 1848. His ancestors can be
-traced back to the Huguenots of France, whose lives were in constant
-danger in the 16th and 17th centuries, who were constantly involved in
-war, who were persecuted and suffered severely in the reign of Francis
-I. and his successors, and of whom from 25,000 to 30,000 suffered death
-at the massacre of St. Bartholomew, August 20, 1572. In 1685, hundreds
-of thousands of these Puritans went into exile, going to Prussia,
-Holland, Switzerland, England, Scotland, and America, and Mr.
-Butterworth’s ancestors found a resting-place, a place of safety, in
-England, where they remained and industriously added to the wealth of
-the country, and took part in the Peninsular War at the beginning of the
-19th century. Being seafaring, enterprising, and ambitious men, and with
-a desire to make their mark in the new world, where they would have
-large scope to exercise their talents, they left the old country and
-arrived at Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia, where, eventually, they became
-builders and owners of merchant ships and captains in the merchant
-fleet, and married into United Empire families. Tiring of seafaring
-life, and in compliance with the wishes of the sons, and at the
-suggestion of the mother, Mr. Butterworth, Sr., sold out his shipping
-interests and the valuable lands and wharves which he owned at Port
-Hawkesbury, and with his wife and family arrived in Ottawa, which was
-then in its infancy, having been incorporated just one year, previously.
-When they grew up, Mr. Butterworth and his two brothers, E. B. and C. A.
-Butterworth, following in the ambitious footsteps of their ancestors,
-not satisfied with their then existing opportunities for advancement,
-left for the United States, and engaged in business and met with
-success. Their love for the British Empire, however, was still dominant
-within them, and they decided to sell out, return to Canada, and make it
-their future home. In 1874, they entered into business in Ottawa as
-hardware merchants and metal workers, and later, in 1881, started in the
-coal business. Eventually, C. A. and E. B. retired from the coal
-business and continued in the hardware business, while J. G. B., the
-subject of this sketch, retired from both of these and remained alone as
-the coal merchant, which business he has carried on to this day most
-successfully, and which to-day holds the lead of all others. Mr.
-Butterworth has three plants, with large storage capacity sufficient to
-hold at any one time 25,000 tons, and enabling him to constantly carry a
-heavy stock of coal during the summer to provide against delays in
-winter transportation and during the winter season. Over $100,000 is
-invested in these plants. In the severe winter of 1917, had it not been
-for the provision made by and the ability of Mr. Butterworth to supply
-large quantities of coal, there would have been great hardship in not
-only Ottawa, but in Carleton Place, Perth, Almonte, Arnprior, Renfrew,
-and many outside places in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec, to which
-points he was able to and did ship thousands of tons of coal. He, in
-that terrible winter, became the great provider of the people of Ottawa
-and her surrounding neighbours by supplying them with the coal they
-needed. For 1918 he was equally prepared to meet any emergency that
-might arise, but, luckily, the winter was not of a nature so severe as
-that of the previous year. In 1917, in order to cope with all demands
-that were likely to be made, Mr. Butterworth practically took care of
-the coal trade. He took the whole output of the Independent Coal Mine in
-Pennsylvania, shipped the small sizes to N.Y. and N.J. to the textile
-and munitions factories, and the prepared sizes into Canada. In so doing
-he secured large quantities of coal which otherwise could not have been
-obtained, and his foresight and enterprise prevented a serious coal
-famine in Ottawa and the other places before mentioned. The name of John
-George Bissett Butterworth will always be held high in gratitude and
-esteem by the people of Ottawa and of many other cities and towns in the
-Provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Mr. Butterworth is the son of William
-and Matilda Catherine (Bissett) Butterworth. He is President and
-Managing Director of the Ormstown Brick and Terra Cotta Co., of
-Ormstown, Quebec; ex-Vice-President of the Montreal Terminal Railway;
-ex-President of the Capital Power Company, of Deschene; ex-President,
-Ottawa Cartage Company; and ex-President of the Capital Fuel Company. In
-1879, Mr. Butterworth married Elisabeth J. Shaw, daughter of James Shaw,
-Shawville, Quebec, a merchant in that place. He has two sons and two
-daughters—Grace Winifred, John George Hawthorne, Ethel Gertrude, and
-Wilfred Rosamond. One of his sons served as a lieutenant in the European
-War. Mr. Butterworth is an Anglican in religion, and resides at 225
-MacLaren St., Ottawa, Ont.
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-
-=Bell, John Percival=, General Manager of the Bank of Hamilton,
-Hamilton, Ont., is recognized as one of the ablest of Canadian
-financiers. He is a native of the city in which he resides, and from
-early youth has grown up with the institution of which he is now the
-executive head. He was born on June 8th, 1872, the son of John and Jane
-(Park) Bell, and was educated in the public and high schools of
-Hamilton. In 1888, as a lad of sixteen he entered the service of the
-Bank of Hamilton as a junior clerk, and during the ensuing twelve years
-learned every phase of the banking business. In 1900 he was appointed
-manager of the Georgetown branch, and two years later was transferred to
-the Berlin (now Kitchener) branch in a similar capacity. In 1904, he
-became manager of the Brantford branch, one of the most important in the
-territory of the institution, and remained there until 1909, when he
-returned to Hamilton to become manager of the main office in that city.
-In 1914, he was promoted to the position of General Manager on the
-retirement from that position of Mr. James Turnbull, who, by a
-coincidence had become General Manager of the Bank in the same year
-(1888) that Mr. Bell entered its service. The five years of Mr. Bell’s
-incumbency as General Manager have been the most difficult in the
-history of Canadian finance, owing to the disruption caused by the great
-war, and he has proven a brilliant success. He has carried on the policy
-which has specially endeared the Bank of Hamilton to its clientele, by
-caring for the interests of the business man of moderate resources with
-the same zeal as is bestowed on those of the great corporations. Mr.
-Bell is thoroughly in touch with the great and constantly expanding
-business interests of his native city; and his regime has been marked by
-an expansion of the Bank’s Toronto custom, as witnessed in the taking
-over of the great office building and premises of the now extinct
-Traders’ Bank in that city. He was elected a councillor of the Hamilton
-Board of Trade in 1911, and during the war acted as Treasurer of the
-Patriotic Fund for his district. His recreations are golf, bowling and
-curling, and he is a member of the following clubs: Hamilton; Hamilton
-Thistle; Hamilton Jockey; Royal Hamilton Yacht; Hamilton Golf; and the
-Toronto Club (Toronto). In politics he is independent, and in religion
-an Anglican. On Oct. 11th, 1900, he married Rosalind, daughter of Rev.
-Arthur Boultbee, Toronto, and has two sons and three daughters. Mr. and
-Mrs. Bell reside at 78 Chedske Ave., Hamilton.
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-
-=Noyes, John Powell=, Prothonotary Superior Court (Cowansville, Ont.),
-was born at Potton, Brome County, Que., September 15th, 1842, the son of
-Herman B. Noyes and Sarah Powell. Receiving his education in Bangor and
-Fort Covington, N.Y., and St. Mary’s College, Montreal, from which last
-he graduated in 1866, he studied law with the late Hon. L. S.
-Huntington, Q.C., and the late Judge Laframboise. Mr. Noyes practised
-his profession at Waterloo, Que., where he was also editor of the
-“Advertiser,” and meeting with gratifying success became Batonnier of
-Bedford District and K.C. in 1886; also Batonnier-General for the
-Province of Quebec in 1887. In 1889 he was appointed a Royal
-Commissioner to investigate the claim of the Hereford Railway Employees,
-and in 1891 Joint Prothonotary Superior Court, Joint Clerk of the
-Circuit Court, and Joint Clerk of the Crown and Peace for the District
-of Bedford. In 1887 he was nominated for Shefford (Local) Constituency
-in the Liberal interest but withdrew before the contest; his name has
-also been mentioned as a candidate for the Judiciary. Mr. Noyes was the
-first Mayor of the Town of Waterloo and for an extended period
-Secretary-Treasurer of the Stanstead, Shefford & Chambly Railway Co., of
-which he is now a director. He is the author of “Canadian Loyalists and
-Early Settlers in the District of Bedford,” published in 1901, also of
-“Some Pioneers of Shefford,” is a director of the Historical Society of
-Missisquoi, and was elected President in 1904. He has been a Freemason
-since 1866, having been a member of and sat in the Grand Lodges of
-Canada and Quebec; he was grand Superintendent R. A. Masons, Eastern
-Township District, in 1883; Grand First Principal, Grand Chapter of
-Quebec in 1886-7; Deputy Grand Master, Grand Lodge of Quebec, in 1893,
-and Grand Master of the above in 1894. Mr. Noyes married Lucy A.,
-daughter of Joseph Merry of Magog, Que., in 1867, and has six
-children—Egbert S., Jessie C., Laura M., Bertha A., Emily M. and Ralph
-M. Noyes, of whom four survive. In 1913 he was named sole Prothonotary
-of the District of Bedford and in 1916 was tendered a banquet by the
-Judges, Bar and Court Officials of the District on the anniversary of
-his admission to the Bar fifty years before, and of his appointment as
-Joint Prothonotary twenty-five years before.
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-
-=Hughes, Brigadier-General William St. Pierre, D.S.O.= (Ottawa, Ont.).
-On October 19, 1914, authority was granted to Lieut.-Colonel (now
-Brigadier-General) William St. Pierre Hughes to organize an infantry
-battalion to be absorbed into the Second Canadian Contingent for
-Overseas Service. On the evening of May 5, the 21st was given a rousing
-send-off by the citizens of Kingston, Ontario, and the following morning
-the battalion embarked at Montreal on the S.S. Metagama for overseas.
-Ten days later the 21st disembarked at Devonport, England, and on Sept.
-15 it landed on French soil, and, in due time was under fire at
-Messines, Vis-en-Artois, Neuville Villasse, Mercatel, Amiens, Bouley
-Grenier, St. Eloi, Sanctuary Wood, Ancre, Vimy Ridge, Courcelette,
-Mosselmark Village and Polderhook Chateau, Passchendaele, Bapaume,
-Arras, Quichy-le-Chateau, the village of Damery and Parvillers, Cambrai,
-and was one of the first battalions to cross the boundary at Bonn into
-Germany. Before going overseas to serve in the Great War, General
-William St. Pierre Hughes held the position of Inspector of
-Penitentiaries, with headquarters in Ottawa. During his absence at the
-front that office was abolished by Act of Parliament, and the new office
-of Superintendent of Penitentiaries was established. The value to Canada
-of General Hughes’ services as Inspector and as a competent and fearless
-soldier during the war were well known to the Dominion Government, to
-the members of Parliament, and to the general public, and when the
-position of Superintendent was made public, members of Parliament, the
-Press of Canada and the public in general were unanimous in General
-Hughes’ favor, and he was appointed to the position. When he was
-appointed to the position the “Montreal Gazette” said: “One of the
-purposes of the Civil Service Commission is to select for appointment
-worthy and capable men...... A case in point is the selection of
-Major-General Hughes for the position of Superintendent of Dominion
-Penitentiaries...... General Hughes comes of a fighting family in a
-military sense, and the call of the colors has always found in him a
-quick response even in the relatively remote days of 1885...... His
-appointment is still more to be commended by reason of merit and
-experience. He had long service in the Penitentiaries Branch of the
-Department of Justice, in which he rose to the rank of Chief Inspector
-before donning the uniform in defence of the Empire...... The
-responsible duties of the office will be well discharged by one who
-never failed in duty.” Brigadier-General William St. Pierre Hughes,
-D.S.O., Superintendent of Penitentiaries, and brother of Major-General
-Sir Sam Hughes, was born in Durham County, Ontario, June 2, 1863, and is
-the son of John Hughes and Caroline Laughlin. From both sides of his
-family he inherited military tastes, his father being the son of a
-surgeon-major in the Imperial army who spent eighteen years in India,
-and his mother the daughter of Colonel Laughlin of the 10th Royal Irish
-Artillery and the granddaughter of Colonel St. Pierre, one of the most
-famous of Napoleon’s colonels. General Hughes was educated entirely by
-his father until his eleventh year, when he went to Toronto where he
-remained six years. After a year at home he went to Winnipeg, where in
-1885 he enlisted with the famous “Little Black Devils.” During his stay
-in Winnipeg he won the amateur championship of Manitoba and the
-North-West as a one-mile foot runner. After the Rebellion he returned to
-Ontario, spending a year at college in Belleville; then a year in
-Orillia where he played lacrosse with the Orillia team when that team
-won the championship of Ontario; then to Cornwall, where he played with
-the famous Cornwall lacrosse team during its years of national triumph.
-In 1893, General Hughes became Warden’s Secretary and Clerk of
-Industries in the Kingston Penitentiary, taking up what has become his
-life’s work. After filling a number of different positions in
-penitentiary work, during which he took a deep interest in criminology,
-General Hughes became Inspector of Penitentiaries in 1913. With great
-earnestness he started to put into effect many cherished plans for
-prison reform, but the call of 1914 put an end for the time to this
-work. During all the years of prison work General Hughes has kept in
-close touch with military affairs. Starting as lieutenant in the old
-14th Battalion of Kingston, he, in course of time, became
-lieutenant-colonel commanding it, and was also brigade-major of the 7th
-Canadian Infantry Brigade. General Hughes was in the West when war was
-declared, and on his return in September, 1914, hurried to Valcartier,
-but was then unable to get a place in the 1st Contingent, which had
-already been mobilized. He then returned to Kingston and mobilized the
-famous 21st Battalion. He commanded this battalion continuously until
-July, 1916, when he was promoted to the command of the 10th Canadian
-Infantry Brigade, which he commanded in France until the spring of 1917.
-He then returned to England, where he commanded the Canadian area at
-Crowborough until it was taken over by the Imperial army. General Hughes
-then became president of a board for adjusting the financial differences
-between the Imperial and Canadian authorities as regards barrack
-damages, etc., and succeeded in writing off over $225,000 of charges
-made by Imperials against Canadians, and also saving an amount of almost
-$50,000 which was paid to Canadian Paymaster-General by various units in
-settlement of these charges. During his service in France General Hughes
-was awarded the D.S.O., and was twice mentioned in despatches. Owing to
-a reorganization of the Penitentiary Branch, General Hughes was forced
-to return to Canada in the summer of 1918, and was appointed
-Superintendent of Penitentiaries in April, 1919. Prominent relatives of
-General Hughes, besides Major-General Sir Sam Hughes, are Major John
-Hughes and Dr. James L. Hughes, brothers. February 5, 1900, General
-Hughes married Jessie Williams, daughter of William Macleod, of
-Cornwall, Ontario. He has one son and one daughter, Major Laughlin
-Macleod Hughes, R.C.H.A., and Mrs. John S. Gzowski, of Montreal, Quebec.
-General Hughes is a member of the following societies: Masonic, Orange,
-Odd-fellows and Foresters. For recreation he indulges in all-round
-sports and big game hunting. He is a Presbyterian in religion, and
-resides at 155 Stewart Street, Ottawa, Ontario.
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-
-=Smart, Russell Sutherland, B.A., M.E.=, is a member of the firm of
-Featherstonhaugh & Smart, Patent Solicitors, 5 Elgin Street, Ottawa. He
-is the son of George A. and Louise Maud (Walton) Smart, of Toronto. His
-father was a well-known author. Mr. Smart was born at Winnipeg,
-Manitoba, June 20, 1885, and was educated in the Jarvis Collegiate
-Institute, Toronto; Toronto University, 1904; School of Practical
-Science; Queen’s University, 1907; honorary M.E. Toronto University
-1913. In July, 1911, Mr. Smart was called to the Quebec bar, and to the
-Ontario bar in 1914. In May, 1904 he was admitted Patent Attorney. He is
-joint author of “Fisher and Smart on Patents,” and author of “Smart on
-Trademarks.” December 24, 1908, Mr. Smart married Emma Louise Parr,
-daughter of James A. Parr, lumberman, of Ottawa. He has three
-daughters—Helen Louise, Elizabeth, and Jane Clayton. Mr. Smart is a
-member of the Rideau, Rivermead Golf, University (Toronto), and Chemists
-(New York) clubs, and of the following societies: Engineering Institute
-of Canada, Chartered Institute of Patent Agents, and Patent American Law
-Association. For recreation, Mr. Smart indulges in golf and tennis. In
-religion he is a Presbyterian; in politics, independent; and he resides
-at 15 Linden Terrace, Ottawa.
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-
-=McMahon, James Alexander= (Hamilton, Ont.), Treasurer and Managing
-Director, Union Drawn Steel Company, Limited, conducted a Commercial
-College at Beaver Falls, Penn., 1887-1892; was employed with the Swan
-Electric Company, Cleveland, Ohio, 1892-1893, and with the Union Drawn
-Steel Company, of Beaver Falls, Penn., 1893-1905, coming to Hamilton in
-1905, where he established the present business. He is a member of the
-Executive Committee, Hamilton Branch, Canadian Manufacturers
-Association, 1916-17; a member of the Membership Committee of the same
-for all of Canada, of which latter body he was Chairman in 1911; a
-member of the Technical Committee Hamilton School Board, and a member of
-the Hamilton Board of Trade. Mr. McMahon was born in Venango County,
-Penn., December 18th, 1859, the son of John and Margaret (Wolf) McMahon.
-He was educated at the Public Schools of Pennsylvania, and took a
-Commercial Course at Oberlin, Ohio. In 1889 he married Jennie G.,
-daughter of Benjamin F. Beegle, by whom he has one son, Carl A., and one
-daughter, Alma. He is a member of the A.F. & A.M. also of the Commercial
-Club, Royal Hamilton Yacht Club, and Canadian Club, Glendale Golf and
-Country Club, all of Hamilton. In politics he is a Conservative, and a
-Methodist in religion.
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-
-=Gwatkin, Major-General W. G.= (Ottawa, Ont.), has been connected with
-the military system of Canada since 1905. Except for rather less than
-two years—between 1909 and 1911—his service with it has been
-continuous, and he has been intimately concerned alike with the
-preparations which were made for the Great War and with the staff work
-at Headquarters during the course of the war. A Cambridge University
-man, he joined the Manchester Regiment in 1882, and served as Subaltern,
-Adjutant, Company Commander and Second in Command; in 1894 he passed the
-Staff College; and in 1898 he began a long career on the Staff. Early in
-1899 he went to the War Office to work in what ultimately became the
-Mobilization Section, the organ of the War Office which had a great deal
-to do, first, with the rapid and efficient supply of troops to South
-Africa, and afterwards with the careful preparations which enabled the
-regular army to show to such advantage in France. In the War Office
-during this period he served under Colonel (now Lieut.-General) Sir
-Percy Lake. In 1904, General Lake came to Canada to be the first Chief
-of the General Staff, and in 1905 he brought Colonel Gwatkin (who had
-been serving with his regiment in South Africa) to Ottawa to serve as
-Director of Operations and Staff Duties—in other words, to be his
-principal technical assistant. The reorganization of the Canadian
-Militia which followed the South African War was beginning. In the years
-between 1904 and 1914 the Militia force was remodelled, and a staff
-system was founded which proved able to carry through the work of
-raising and sending overseas an army of half a million men. Colonel
-Gwatkin’s services were so highly regarded that the Minister of Militia
-specially asked the War Office for an extension of his services, and he
-remained in Canada, not for the regulation three years, but for four.
-After a period of staff service in England his services were again
-requested by the Canadian Government, and he came to Canada early in
-1911. At that time the military authorities of the Empire had become
-seriously apprehensive of war with Germany, and Colonel Gwatkin’s work
-largely comprised such measures of organization for this emergency as
-were undertaken in the circumstances. In particular he drew up complete
-plans for the raising and despatch of a contingent to England in the
-event of a war in Europe in which Canada might wish to participate. The
-plan drawn up anticipated a large number of the points which arose when
-the war actually came. In November, 1913, he succeeded Major-General C.
-J. MacKenzie as Chief of the General Staff. He was filling this post
-when the war came. The work done in the Militia Department in
-preparation for such an eventuality proved of the utmost service. Cable
-censorship was established, harbours were closed, dangerous points were
-guarded, the transition from peace to a war which the general public had
-not expected was made with remarkable smoothness. When the first
-contingent sailed General Gwatkin was desired by the Government to stay
-at Militia Headquarters to keep the machine working. During the entire
-course of the war he performed enormous labours. To recruit, give
-preliminary training to and ship overseas so large an army meant
-administrative ability of a very high order and the discharge of an
-immense amount of thankless labour. He has done his work to the high
-satisfaction of the Government of Canada, whose principal military
-adviser he has been. It showed its appreciation of his services by
-insisting on retaining him, though the Imperial Government repeatedly
-expressed a desire to recall him for service in Great Britain or France.
-The details of his career are as follows:—Major-General Willoughby
-Garnons Gwatkin, C.B., C.M.G., born August 11, 1859; was appointed
-Lieutenant Manchester Regiment May 10, 1882; Adjutant, Manchester
-Regiment, April 18, 1888, to April 17, 1892; Captain, Manchester
-Regiment, January 17, 1890; Major, Manchester Regiment, April 7, 1900;
-Brevet Lieut.-Colonel, January 6, 1904; Brevet Colonel November 20,
-1907; Major-General, October 21, 1914. Staff appointments—Staff Captain
-Egypt, January 24, 1898, to April 20, 1898; Staff Captain, Headquarters
-of Army, March 11, 1899, to January 10, 1900; D.A.A.G., H.Q. of Army
-(temp.) January 11, 1900 to January 21, 1901; Staff Captain
-(Mobilization) H.Q. of Army, January 22, 1901, to October 14, 1902;
-D.A.Q.M.G. (Mobilization) H.Q. of Army, October 15, 1902, to October 31,
-1903; Director of Operations and Staff Duties (General Staff Officer 2nd
-Grade) Canadian Militia, October 5, 1905, to October 20, 1909; General
-Staff Officer 1st grade Eastern Command, March 5, 1910, to February 28,
-1911; General Staff Officer (Mobilization) 1st Grade Militia H.Q.,
-Canada, July 14, 1911, to October 31, 1913; Chief of the General Staff
-and 1st Military Member of the Militia Council, Dominion of Canada,
-November 1, 1913. General Gwatkin is the fourth son of the late
-Frederick Gwatkin of New Square, Lincoln’s Inn, London, W.C., and Grove
-House, Twickenham, and Louisa Isabella, younger daughter of the Rev.
-Ambrose Stapleton, vicar of East Budleigh, Devonshire. He was educated
-at Shrewsbury School, at King’s College, Cambridge, and at R.M.C.,
-Sandhurst. In 1916 he was created C.B. (Civil), C.M.G. in 1918 and Order
-of St. Sava of Serbia in 1918.
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-=Ross, John Theodore, B.A.= (Quebec), is one of the leading capitalists
-of the city. He was born in that city on Nov. 30, 1862, the son of the
-late John Ross, a prominent merchant and his wife, Anne Runcie. The late
-Senator J. G. Ross was his uncle. He was educated at Quebec High School,
-at Morrin College and at McGill University, Montreal, from which latter
-institution he graduated with the degree of B.A. in 1883. He entered the
-wholesale business firm of his father, known as John Ross & Co., in
-1884, and was admitted to full partnership in 1887, continuing in this
-capacity until 1894 when the firm was liquidated. Since then he has been
-widely engaged in financial and commercial operations. He was elected
-Vice-President of the Quebec Bank in 1897 and President in 1908. On its
-amalgamation with the Royal Bank of Canada some years later he became a
-Director of the latter institution. Among his many other interests is
-that of President of the Chronicle Printing Company, which publishes the
-“Quebec Chronicle,” one of the historic newspapers of Eastern Canada.
-His other commercial interests have at various times embraced the Quebec
-Steamship Company, the Montmorency Cotton Mills Company, the McArthur
-Export Company, The Quebec Improvement Company, the Trans-Canada Railway
-Co., the Pacific Pass Coalfields, Ltd., the Quebec Transport Company,
-the North Pacific Lumber Company. He has also taken a deep interest in
-public and philanthropic affairs. He is a member of the Quebec Board of
-Trade and Chairman of the Quebec High School Board, Vice-President of
-the Literary and Historical Society, Quebec, President of the Society
-for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and President of the Jeffrey
-Hale Hospital. In religion he is a Presbyterian, and in politics a
-Conservative. He is a member of the Garrison Club, Quebec, and his
-recreations are driving and tennis. On April 15, 1896, he married Mabel
-Kate, daughter of John Burstall, Quebec, and has two sons and two
-daughters. He resides on St. Louis Road, Quebec.
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-=Rogers, John Morrison= (Ingersoll, Ont.), physician and surgeon, has
-been active in the Liberal Party for a number of years, being Liberal
-nominee for the Legislative Assembly in his constituency at the present
-time. He is the son of Thomas and Margaret Rogers, and was born at Mount
-Forest, Ont., in 1867, where he received his early education, afterwards
-graduating from Toronto University in 1893. Dr. Rogers married Edythe
-B., daughter of J. B. Hambridge, Aylmer, Ont., in 1902, and has three
-sons: John Reginald, Donald Morrison, and William Parke. He is a member
-of the Ontario Medical Association, Vice-President Western Liberal
-Association, the Ingersoll Curling Club, and the Ingersoll Bowling Club.
-In religion he is a Presbyterian.
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-
-=Colquhoun, Arthur Hugh Urquhart, B.A., LL.D.=, Deputy Minister of
-Education for the Province of Ontario, was born at Montreal on December
-2, 1861, the son of the late Walter Colquhoun (a native of
-Dumbartonshire, Scotland,) and his wife Jane, daughter of William
-Clarke, Niagara, Ont., and relict of Charles Richardson, M.P. He was
-educated at Cornwall Public School, Montreal High School (where he won
-the Murray Medal for proficiency and the Governor-General’s Medal for
-literature and history) and McGill University, from which he graduated
-in 1885 with the degree of B.A., first class honors in English
-literature and history, and the Shakespeare gold medal. During his
-student days he took up the calling of journalism and joined the
-editorial staff of the “Montreal Star” in 1881. In 1883 he was entrusted
-with the post of editor-in-chief of the “Montreal Weekly Star,” and at
-the same time edited the “McGill University Gazette.” In 1886 he went to
-Ottawa and accepted the post of editor of the “Journal” of that city. In
-1887, when the leaders of the Conservative government founded the
-“Toronto Empire” as chief organ of the party, he was appointed assistant
-editor and has ever since made Toronto his home. In 1891, he was
-appointed managing editor of the “Empire” and continued in that capacity
-until its amalgamation with the “Mail” in 1895. In the latter year, he
-entered the growing field of trade journalism with Col. J. B. Maclean,
-and until 1902 edited the “Printer and Publisher” and the “Dry Goods
-Review.” In 1902, he joined the staff of the “Mail and Empire” as
-editorial writer, and early in 1903, when Mr. J. S. (now Sir John)
-Willison reorganized the “Toronto News,” he became news editor of that
-publication, and helped to make the paper temporarily famous for the
-literary distinction and importance of its news columns. From the outset
-of the political career of the late Sir James Whitney, Mr. Colquhoun had
-been his close personal friend and adviser. One of the pledges of that
-statesman while leader of the opposition in the Ontario Legislature was
-a reorganization of the educational system from top to bottom, and
-shortly after his elevation to the post of Prime Minister in 1905 he
-appointed a Royal Commission of distinguished men to enquire into the
-affairs of the provincial university at Toronto. At the request of Mr.
-Whitney, Mr. Colquhoun accepted the position of secretary of the
-commission, and had much to do with the drafting of its report, which
-proved to be one of the most important documents of its kind produced in
-this country. In recognition of his services in this capacity, the
-University conferred on him the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1906. In the
-latter year he was also appointed Deputy Minister of Education, a
-position he still holds, and was largely instrumental in putting into
-effect the reforms promised by Sir James Whitney. In 1908, he was
-offered and declined the post of Chief Librarian of the city of Toronto.
-Among the earlier positions that he held was that of Chairman of the
-Press Committee of the British Association when it met at Toronto in
-1897, an occasion which brought to Canada many of the great scientists
-of that day. He was also elected President of the Canadian Press
-Association for 1906-7. Both before and since his retirement from
-journalism, Mr. Colquhoun has been a frequent contributor, chiefly on
-historical themes, to magazines and reviews, including “The Canadian
-Magazine,” “The University Magazine,” “The British Empire Review,” and
-“Queen’s Quarterly.” On the political history of the provinces of
-Canada, he is a recognized authority; and his published works include
-“The History of Canadian Press Association”; the volume on the Fathers
-of Confederation in “The Chronicles of Canada,” and “Memoir of Senator
-Gowan, C.M.G.” (which he edited). His books are marked by purity of
-diction, and shrewd and moderate judgments on men and events. Mr.
-Colquhoun is a member of the Toronto Club and the Toronto Golf Club, and
-resides at 342 Walmer Road, Toronto.
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-
-=Miller, Lieut.-Colonel John Bellamy=, Manufacturer (Toronto, Ont.),
-President of the Polson Iron Works, Limited, and Parry Sound Lumber
-Company, is the son of John Clausin Miller, Lumberman, Parry Sound,
-Ont., and Adelaide Augusta Chamberlain; was born at Farmersville (now
-Athens), July 26, 1862, and received his education at the Model School,
-Toronto, and Upper Canada College. Following his educational training,
-Mr. Miller entered the lumber business with the Parry Sound Lumber Co.
-as clerk, and while holding this position, mastered every detail of
-lumber manufacturing. In 1883, following his father’s death, John B.
-Miller took complete charge of the business and was made president of
-the Company, which position he still holds. He is also president of the
-Polson Iron Works, Limited, of Toronto, and holds a like position in the
-Polson Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Co. of Toronto. Added to the above Mr.
-Miller is president of the Consumers Box Company of Toronto, and was
-largely instrumental in the formation of the Canadian Lumbermen’s
-Association, of which he is past-president. Mr. Miller holds membership
-in the following clubs: National Ontario, R.C.Y.C., Rosedale Golf,
-Scarboro Golf, Ontario Jockey Club, Canadian Military Institute, Aero
-Club of Canada, all of Toronto; the Rideau Club, of Ottawa; Junior Army
-& Navy Club, London, Eng.; Aero Club of America, New York; Royal
-Colonial Institute, London; Associate of Institute of Naval Architects
-of London, Eng. Mr. Miller was married October 3rd, 1883, to Hannah
-Pollock Hunter. Mrs. Miller died in 1893. By this marriage there were
-two sons, John Clausin Miller and Henry H. Miller. Mr. Miller’s second
-marriage took place September 22nd, 1897, to Jessie Thompson, of
-Longford, Ont., a daughter of the late John Thompson, a prominent
-Lumberman of that place. One daughter survives this union, Margaret
-Lumsden Miller, together with Capt. H. H. Miller, son of the first
-marriage. Mr. Miller has the honor of being Lieut.-Col. of the 23rd
-Regiment of Northern Pioneers, with Headquarters at Parry Sound; is a
-Liberal in politics and his favorite recreations are golf, shooting and
-fishing; resides at 98 Wellesley Street, and has his office at Polson
-Iron Works.
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-
-=Nasmith, Colonel George Gallie= (Toronto, Ont.), who already enjoyed a
-high reputation throughout Canada as a sanitary expert, has won added
-distinction in the European War through brilliant services in his
-special field. He was made Lieutenant-Colonel, August, 1914 (Colonel in
-April, 1917), and Officer Commanding the Hydrological Corps, in which
-capacity he had charge of the purification of the water supply at the
-new Valcartier Military Camp during the mobilization of the First
-Contingent. He was sent to England as adviser in sanitation in charge of
-water purifications with the first contingent. While on Salisbury Plain,
-he was useful in getting the remainder of the contingent inoculated
-against typhoid; in installing a laboratory for the control of
-cerebro-spinal meningitis, and in training men in the purification of
-water. Colonel Nasmith was sent to France in March, 1915, as O.C. No. 5
-(Canadian) Mobile Laboratory, where he conceived the idea of a mobile
-filter unit for purifying any water supply, which has since been adopted
-by the war office, and is now in general use among the British armies in
-France, Mesopotamia, and elsewhere. He was present at the second battle
-of Ypres, and saw the gas being discharged by the Germans for the first
-time. He diagnosed its composition correctly, and reported it to General
-Army Headquarters, recommending the use of masks to cover the face and
-nose, saturated with hyposulphite of soda to absorb the gas. These were
-adopted until experience enabled a more perfect type to be elaborated.
-Other recommendations made by him in regard to gas and water
-purification were also adopted. He was the representative of Canada on
-the War Allies Sanitary Commission which met in Paris during 1916. In
-January, 1916, he was mentioned in despatches, and made C.M.G. for
-services in the field, being decorated by the King. Colonel Nasmith is a
-Baptist in religion, and a Conservative in politics. He is a member of
-the Academy of Medicine, of the American and Canadian Public Health
-Associations, the Arts and Letters Club, and the Engineers Club, of
-Toronto. Obtained the Diploma of Public Health from Toronto University
-in 1918. He has published numerous general papers on foods, milk, water
-purification, and sewage disposal, as well as conducting researches
-which are embodied in the following papers:—“The Hæmatology of Carbon
-Monoxide Poisoning,” “Changes Induced in the Blood of Guinea Pigs in an
-Atmosphere of Coal Gas,” “A Simple Method of Purifying Almost any Water
-Supply,” “A New Type of Trickling Filter,” “A Mobile Filter of Large
-Capacity Suggested for Use in the British Army,” “The Chemistry of Wheat
-Gluten,” and “Wind Driven Currents in the Great Lakes.” He is also
-author of “On the Fringe of the Great Fight,” published 1918, and
-“Canada’s Sons and Great Britain in the Great War,” published 1919.
-Colonel Nasmith is greatly interested in music, painting, and the drama,
-as well as in horticulture and sailing. From 1903 to 1909 he was Chemist
-to the Provincial Board of Health of Ontario, and from 1909 to date
-Director of Laboratories, Department of Health, Toronto. He was born in
-Toronto in 1877, the son of Mungo Nasmith, of Greenock, Scotland, and
-Jane Morrow, of Bath, England. He was educated at Jarvis Street
-Collegiate and the University of Toronto, graduating as a B.A. in 1900
-and as M.A. and Ph.D. in 1903, also receiving the Honorary Degree of
-D.Sc. in 1917 from his alma mater in recognition of his scientific work
-with the British Army in France. Colonel Nasmith married Mrs. Scott
-Roff, Principal of the Margaret Eaton School of Literature and
-Expression, and daughter of the late Rev. James Scott, Owen Sound,
-Ontario, in 1916.
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-=Flynn, Edmund James=, Judge of the Superior Court (Quebec City, Que.),
-is the son of the late James Flynn and Elizabeth Tostivin, and was born
-in Percé, Shiretown of Gaspé County, November 16, 1847. After a
-distinguished career at Quebec Seminary and Laval University, he
-graduated from the latter institution of learning in 1873 with the
-degree of LL.L., receiving the higher honor of LL.D. in 1878. Mr.
-Justice Flynn has been prominent in Provincial politics during a public
-life of some thirty years, during which time he was M.L.A. for the
-constituencies of Gaspé and Nicolet respectively, and held office
-successively as Commissioner of Crown Lands, Minister of Railways,
-Solicitor-General and Commissioner of Public Works in various
-Liberal-Conservative Administrations; from May, 1896, to May, 1897, he
-was Prime Minister of Quebec. From 1897 to 1904, he was leader of the
-Opposition. In 1908, he was candidate for House of Commons in Dorchester
-Co., but was defeated by a comparatively small majority. Between the
-years 1874 and 1914 when he received his appointment as Judge, Mr. Flynn
-was a practising lawyer at the Quebec Bar and Professor of Roman Law in
-Laval, of which University he is to-day Dean in the Faculty of Law;
-having also been Batonnier of the Quebec Bar. A Roman Catholic in
-religion, Judge Flynn married Augustine, daughter of the late Augustin
-Cote, Editor of the “Journal de Quebec,” in 1875, by whom he has had
-eleven children; those surviving are Amelia, wife of Lt.-Col. Chauveau,
-K.C., Edmund, C.P.R. Ticket Agent; Percy, Capt. Adjt., 10th Reserve
-Batt., C.E.F.; and Beatrice. After the decease of his first wife he
-married Cecile Pouliot, widow of Eugene Globensky, of Montreal, in 1912.
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-=Willis, James E.= (Whitby, Ont.), is one of the best known and
-progressive citizens of that town. At present he holds the position of
-police magistrate for the town, but has been identified with public
-affairs in various capacities for some years past. While still
-comparatively young in years, he built up a successful position in the
-business world, and at the time of his appointment to his legal office
-in 1918, filled the office of President of the Whitby Board of Trade. He
-has also taken an active part in municipal affairs, and held the office
-of Mayor of the town for two terms. Another office which he has filled
-with success is that of Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of
-the town. It was while Mayor of Whitby that he became identified with
-the movement to extend the scope and usefulness of the hydro-electric
-system of Ontario. It was the desire of Sir Adam Beck and his chief
-lieutenants that the system already so widely used for manufacturing,
-municipal and domestic purposes should be augmented by a great network
-of radial railways. Under Mayor Willis’s advice, the town of Whitby was
-the first municipality in Ontario to avail itself of these proposals by
-extending municipal support to a hydro-electric radial railway linking
-up Toronto with the towns of Whitby, Markham and Port Perry; and it is
-expected that the road when constructed and put in operation will do
-much for the entire section immediately east of Toronto. Another local
-enterprise which was in the main due to Mr. Willis’s progressive spirit
-was the installing of a sewerage system, which was essential to the
-establishment near the town of Whitby of a great provincial hospital for
-the insane, which, during the war was turned over to the military
-authorities, and was the largest soldiers’ hospital in the Dominion of
-Canada. When the plans which Mr. Willis has done so much to promote are
-carried out, Whitby will have a close suburban connection by electric
-railway with Toronto, and it is expected will become an important
-residential centre for the wealthier families of that city. When the
-late Major Harper, who had formerly served as police magistrate, passed
-away in 1918, the Attorney-General of Ontario appointed Mr. Willis his
-successor; and the choice was applauded not merely locally, but in wider
-circles where the activities of Mr. Willis for the development of Whitby
-had rendered his name familiar. He is recognized as one of the most
-forceful and progressive municipal authorities in Canada. In his younger
-days he took an active interest in outdoor sports, such as foot racing,
-cricket, baseball, and was secretary of the Whitby Curling Club for many
-years, and took part as skip in many Tankard and friendly matches. He
-has been from his youth a reader, and is one of the best posted men on
-general and scientific subjects in his native town. It has been his
-policy to strongly advocate any movement that would be for the good and
-uplifting of the people as a whole; and he has often been heard to say:
-“I wish I could do some lasting good for my fellow man, and leave the
-world a little better than I found it. If I can do no permanent and
-lasting good, I feel that I have lived in vain.”
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-[Illustration: ORVILLE B. SHORTLY, TORONTO
-WILLIAM MCINENLY, OTTAWA]
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-
-=Nicholls, Lieut.-Colonel The Hon. Frederic= (Toronto, Ont.), Dominion
-Senator; born in England, November 23, 1856. He received his education
-at Stuttgart, Wurtemburg, Germany, and came to Canada in 1874, where he
-organized the first electric company—The Toronto Incandescent Electric
-Light Company—which adopted the first underground system of electric
-distribution in Canada. Senator Nicholls was elected President of the
-National Electric Light Association of America in 1896, being the only
-Canadian to hold that honor, and has since been elected an honorary
-member. He was for seven years Secretary of the Canadian Manufacturers
-Association, and founded the “Canadian Manufacturer,” of which he was
-editor and proprietor until 1893. Senator Nicholls is President and
-General Manager of the Canadian General Electric Company, Toronto;
-President and General Manager of the Canadian Allis-Chalmers, Limited;
-President of the Canadian Sunbeam Lamp Co.; President of the Toronto &
-Hamilton Railway Company; Vice-President of the Dominion Coal Company;
-Vice-President of the Dominion Iron & Steel Co.; Vice-President of the
-Dominion Steel Corporation; Vice-President of the Electrical Development
-Co. of Ontario; Vice-President of the Sao Paulo Tramway, Light & Power
-Company; Vice-President of the Toronto & Niagara Power Company;
-Vice-President of the Toronto Power Company; Vice-President of the
-Toronto Railway Company; Vice-President of the Toronto & York Radial
-Railway Company; Director of the British American Assurance Company; of
-the Canadian Lake & Ocean Navigation Company; of the Confederation Life
-Association; of the Niagara, St. Catharines & Toronto Railway Company;
-of the Toronto Electric Light Co.; of the Toronto Hunt, Limited, of the
-Western Assurance Company, and of The United States Fidelity and
-Casualty Company. In 1890 Senator Nicholls was President of the Toronto
-Press Club; in 1893 President of the Athenæum Club; in 1911 F.R.C.L.,
-and in 1914 gazetted Honorary Lieut.-Colonel. He is Consul for Portugal;
-life member of the Toronto Board of Trade; Honorary Member of the
-Canadian Press Association; Member of the Executive Committee Canadian
-Manufacturers Association; and a Justice of the Peace. Appointed to the
-Senate January 20, 1917, and is Chairman of the Standing Committee on
-Finance of the Senate. In 1875 he married Florence, daughter of
-Commander Graburn, who died in 1909. He had two sons on active service:
-Captain Walter Nicholls, who went overseas with the first contingent,
-served in France, and after being invalided home was Senior Supply
-Officer at Shorncliffe, and Lieut. Fred Nicholls, attached to the Horse
-Transport. Two sons-in-law, Capt. J. E. Proctor and Capt. J. B. Allen,
-and five nephews also served in the overseas forces. Senator Nicholls’
-recreations are hunting, fishing, motoring, yachting and golf. Among his
-clubs are the Bankers’ Club of America, New York; the York Club, the
-Toronto Club, Toronto Hunt Club, Albany Club, Engineers Club, Ontario
-Jockey Club, Rosedale Golf Club, Toronto Golf Club, Scarborough Golf and
-Country Club, and the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, Toronto, Ont.; the
-Hamilton Golf and Country Club; Caledon Mountain Trout Club; the Mount
-Royal Club, Montreal; the Rideau Club, the Country Club, Ottawa; the
-Manitoba Club, Winnipeg. Since the outbreak of the war he has devoted
-himself to patriotic work, and is a member of the Executive Committee of
-the General Council of the Canadian Patriotic Fund; Vice-President and
-Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Toronto Branch of the
-Canadian Red Cross Society; and President of the Toronto Municipal Loan
-Association, a society formed to relieve distress.
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-=Helmer, Brigadier-General Richard Alexis, C.M.G.=, entered the Canadian
-Militia in 1883 as a private in the ranks of the 43rd Regiment, D.C.O.R.
-Eight years later he was made a Lieutenant, and in 1896 was appointed
-Captain. In 1899, he was promoted to the rank of Major. In 1885, General
-Helmer graduated as a chemist for the Province of Ontario, and in 1886
-for the Province of Quebec. He successfully practised his profession in
-Hull, Quebec, up to 1904, when he retired therefrom. He was energetic,
-popular, and progressive, and for twelve years was alderman and twice
-mayor (1896 and 1900) of the city of Hull. April 27, 1906, be was
-appointed Deputy Assistant-Adjutant-General for Musketry on the
-Headquarters Staff, and Assistant Adjutant-General for Musketry, October
-1, 1908, which post he held until May 17, 1910, when he was appointed a
-Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant-Adjutant-General. On January 1, 1911,
-he was appointed Director of Musketry, and February 24, 1916,
-Director-General of Musketry. This latter post he still holds, together
-with that of Acting-Director of Military Training, to which he was
-appointed September, 1914, and that of Commandant of the Canadian School
-of Musketry, to which he was appointed in 1907. General Helmer has for
-years been prominent in rifle shooting in Canada, and has many fine
-trophies to prove his skill. In 1899, he was Adjutant of the Canadian
-Rifle Team at Bisley. In 1903, Adjutant of the Canadian Palma Team at
-Sea Girt. In 1907, Adjutant of the Canadian Palma Team at Ottawa, and in
-1912, Commandant of the Canadian Palma Team at Camp Perry. General
-Helmer is the eldest son of the late Nathaniel and Melissa (Johnson)
-Helmer, of Ottawa. He was born in Russell, Ontario, October 12, 1864,
-and was educated at Ottawa and Toronto, Ontario. He married Elizabeth I.
-Hannum, of Hull, Quebec. Their only child and son, Lieutenant A. H.
-Helmer, Canadian Artillery, was killed in action, May 2, 1915. General
-Helmer is in possession of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces long service
-medal, and for services rendered in the great war was awarded the C.M.G.
-in 1918. He is a member of the Laurentian Club, and resides at 122
-Gilmour St., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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-
-=McCurdy, Fleming Blanchard, M.P.= (Halifax, N.S.), Financier, began
-business in the service of the Halifax Banking Company, Truro, N.S., in
-1890, which he left in 1901 to embark in financial business under the
-firm name of F. B. McCurdy & Company, which has seven branch offices at
-the present time. He is a Past President of the Halifax Board of Trade,
-was elected to the House of Commons in 1911, and was appointed
-Parliamentary Secretary of the Department of Militia and Defence, July,
-1916. His recreations are fishing, hunting, and motoring. Among his
-clubs are the Halifax City; Wanderers A.A.C., of which he is an
-ex-President; Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron; Halifax Golf; Halifax
-Automobile Association (ex-President); St. James, Montreal; Royal
-Automobile, London, Eng.; Rideau, Ottawa; and Royal Ottawa Golf Club.
-Mr. McCurdy was born at Old Barns, County Colchester, N.S., February 17,
-1875, the son of James and Amelia J. (Archibald) McCurdy, and was
-educated in the public schools. In 1902 he married Florence Bridgman
-Pearson, daughter of the Hon. B. F. Pearson, M.P.P., Halifax, and has
-two sons. Mr. McCurdy is a Conservative and a Presbyterian.
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-
-=Langton, Brigadier-General Joseph Graham=, Paymaster-General of the
-Militia Department, Ottawa, is the son of Thomas Langton, a merchant,
-and Fannie McKim Langton, and was born at Toronto, October 14, 1868,
-where he received his education in the public schools and the Jarvis
-Street Collegiate Institute. He has had an extensive military career,
-and has served continuously in the active militia of Canada since 1886.
-He joined the Queen’s Own Rifles in May, 1886, and served continuously
-until December, 1896. He served for two and a half years as regimental
-drill instructor, and in 1895 organized the Queen’s Own Rifle Cyclist
-section. In 1897, he received a commission as Lieutenant in the 20th
-Lorne Rifles, was promoted as Captain in 1898, and held appointment as
-Adjutant until 1903. He was selected by Militia Headquarters to organize
-No. 2 Company Canadian Army Service Corps, and in 1903 at Niagara Camp
-commanded the first Army Service Corps unit to go under canvas in
-Canada. In June, 1905, he was appointed Senior Army Service Corps
-Officer, Western Ontario Command, on the Staff of Brigadier-General W.
-D. Otter, C.B., and held that appointment until June, 1911, when the
-tenure of appointment expired. In 1898, he instituted the first
-regimental system of messing at the Canadian Militia Training Camps at
-Niagara Camp. At the Tercentenary Celebration at Quebec, July, 1908, he
-was appointed as Deputy-Assistant-Quarter-Master-General, and had charge
-of the railway transportation of troops. A field order issued by the
-late Lord Roberts conveyed the congratulations of the present King, then
-the Prince of Wales, to the late Sir Frederick Borden on the success of
-the transport arrangements. General Langton instituted the first use of
-mechanical transport by the Canadian Militia at the Fall manœuvres at
-Toronto in October, 1910. He was appointed railway transport officer for
-mobilization of the first Canadian contingent at Valcartier in August,
-1914, and in co-operation with Sir William Price had charge of the
-embarkation of the first contingent at Quebec in September of the same
-year. In December, 1915, he was appointed Inspector of Supplies and
-Transport for the Second Divisional Area, and by Order-in-Council,
-February, 1916, he was attached to the Staff of the Inspector-General
-and appointed as Chief Supply Inspector for Eastern Canada. In the
-following June he was appointed as Deputy Inspector-General. February 8,
-1918, he was appointed as Paymaster-General and as a member of the
-Militia Council. As Deputy Inspector-General, General Langton had
-supervision over receipts, supplies, stores, clothing, accounting,
-regimental funds, mess accounts, and canteen funds. In the matter of
-canteens, General Langton is recognized as the leading authority in
-Canada on their administration. The booklet of rules for the management
-of canteens, regimental funds, etc., issued by the Militia Department as
-a text-book for the troops, was prepared by him. The branch under his
-administration effected a saving during the war of over one million
-dollars without depriving the troops of anything to which they were
-entitled. In his capacity as Paymaster-General he has entire charge of
-the finances—separations allowance and assigned pay branch of the
-Militia Department, etc. General Langton is Vice-President of the
-Military Service Department of the Young Men’s Christian Association.
-This department was first attached to the Canadian Military Camps at
-Valcartier in August, 1914, by General Sir Sam Hughes on the
-recommendation of General Langton. In recognition of his services
-General Langton has been recommended for distinguished services in
-Canada. Until he entered upon his duties as Deputy Inspector-General,
-General Langton has been engaged in banking and other financial
-pursuits. General Joseph Graham Langton, on Oct. 7, 1891, married
-Margaret J., daughter of John Pearey, contractor, of Toronto. Five
-children have blessed the union: Percy (deceased), Ernest Pearey
-(deceased), Olive V., Joseph McKim, and Florence Margaret. General
-Langton is a member of the Rideau Club (Ottawa) and of the Canadian
-Military Institute (Toronto), Ashlar Lodge A.F. & A.M., No. 249, and St.
-Paul’s Royal Arch Chapter, No. 65, Toronto. His recreations are curling
-and lawn bowling. In religion an Anglican. His address is Militia
-Department, Ottawa, Ontario, Can.
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-
-=Graham, Hon. George Perry= (Brockville, Ont.), is one of the leading
-public men of Canada, and a former cabinet minister. He was born on
-March 31, 1859, at Eganville, Ont., and is of Irish descent. He was
-educated at Iroquois and Morrisburg High Schools in the St. Lawrence
-Valley. He early became identified with journalism, and as editor and
-manager of the Brockville “Recorder,” made it one of the best known
-provincial papers in the Dominion. An earlier newspaper enterprise of
-his was the Morrisburg “Herald,” which he successfully conducted for
-eleven years; and he was for a short time associate editor of the Ottawa
-“Free Press.” As a young man, Mr. Graham became identified with the
-organization of the Liberal party in his district, and was in great
-demand as a platform speaker. Entry into public life was a logical
-outcome of his career as a moulder of public opinion. During his
-residence in Morrisburg, Ont., he was Reeve of the village and a member
-of the County Council, and in 1894 the Liberals nominated him for the
-riding of Dundas against no less an opponent than J. P. Whitney,
-afterwards Prime Minister of Ontario. At the general elections for the
-Legislature in 1898 he was Liberal candidate for Brockville, and was
-more successful, securing election by a substantial majority. He at once
-achieved a prominent position in the Legislature owing to his wit and
-skill as a debater. Those were the days when Mr. Whitney was making his
-long and ultimately successful fight for the overthrow of the Ross
-Government, and the former contestants in the riding of Dundas
-frequently crossed swords in debate. At the Legislative elections in
-1902, Mr. Graham was re-elected for Brockville, though his party
-suffered heavy losses elsewhere, and on November 25, 1904, on the
-resignation of the late Hon. J. R. Stratton from the post of Provincial
-Secretary, he was called to the cabinet as his successor. At the general
-elections of the ensuing winter he was again returned for Brockville,
-but the Ross Government, of which he was a member, was defeated. On
-January 25, 1907, the Liberal caucus elected him leader of His Majesty’s
-loyal opposition, but he served in that capacity for only one session of
-the Legislature. In August of 1907, Sir Wilfrid Laurier induced him to
-abandon the provincial field, and offered him the portfolio of Railways
-and Canals in the Federal cabinet. He was sworn in as a member of the
-Privy Council on August 29, and on September 18, 1907, was elected by
-acclamation to the House of Commons for the Federal riding of
-Brockville. He continued as Minister of Railways for four years, and
-took an active part in the organization of his party in Ontario. In
-September, 1911, the Laurier administration was defeated at the polls.
-Mr. Graham was elected in a by-election in South Renfrew, and for the
-next six years continued to sit in opposition as the desk-mate of Sir
-Wilfrid Laurier. He did not seek re-election at the general elections of
-1917, but has retained active connection with the Liberal party, and in
-many quarters his name was urged as the fitting successor of Sir Wilfrid
-Laurier in the party leadership. In addition to his journalistic and
-political activities, Mr. Graham is widely known in connection with
-fraternal insurance organizations. He was Grand Master of the Ancient
-Order of United Workmen for two years, and for a considerable period a
-member of the Finance Committee of that body. He is President of the
-Travellers’ Life Assurance Company of Canada, a Director of the Canada
-Foundries and Forging Company, Vice-President of Delaney Forge Company,
-and President of the “Recorder” Printing Company. In religion he is a
-Methodist. In 1882, he married Carrie, a daughter of Nelson Southworth,
-Morrisburg, Ont., and had two sons, Captain Perry M., who died some
-years ago, and Captain W. N., who was killed in the Great War.
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-
-=Leonard, Lieutenant-Colonel Reuben Wells=, Corps of Guides (St.
-Catharines, Ont.). Born at Brantford, Ont., February 21, 1860, son of
-the late Francis Henry Leonard (one time Reeve of the town of Brantford
-and Warden of the County of Brant) and Elizabeth, daughter of the late
-Captain Richard Catton. He was educated at the Brantford Collegiate
-Institute and Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, from which
-latter he graduated in 1883, winning the Silver Medal.
-Lieutenant-Colonel Leonard has had a wide experience in several branches
-of his chosen profession of engineering, having occupied positions of
-increasing importance in railroad, hydro-electric, and mining
-development. After completing his education in 1883, he took service
-with the Canadian Pacific Railway as instrumentman on surveys and
-resident engineer on construction of the Lake Superior Division. At the
-outbreak of the North-West Rebellion in 1885 he was appointed Staff
-Officer of Transport, and served in other capacities during the
-uprising. After the Rebellion he re-entered the service of the Canadian
-Pacific as engineer of surveys and construction in Manitoba and Ontario.
-From 1886 until 1890, he was chief engineer of the Cumberland Railway
-and Coal Co., in Nova Scotia. 1890-1891 he was again with the Canadian
-Pacific Railway on surveys of important branch lines in Ontario, Quebec,
-and British Columbia. In 1891-92 he was engaged in railway contracting.
-In 1892-93 he was in charge of the construction of the first
-hydro-electric development at Niagara Falls, Ont., for the Park and
-River Railway Co. In 1893-94 he was engineer-in-charge of railway
-surveys for the Canadian Pacific Railway. From 1895 until 1899 he was
-chief engineer and manager of construction of the St. Lawrence and
-Adirondack Railway, and of the Montreal and Ottawa Short Line (C.P.R.)
-respectively, and consulting engineer for the Canadian Rutland Railway.
-His next step was again in the field of mining engineering, being
-engaged as engineer with the Lake Superior Corporation in developing
-their iron and nickel mines in the Sudbury and Michipicoten districts.
-In 1900, he returned to railroading as chief engineer and manager of
-construction of the Cape Breton Railway. From 1902 to 1904, he was
-engineer in charge of the construction of a hydro-electric plant at
-DeCew Falls, near St. Catharines, for the Hamilton Cataract Power Co.,
-and in 1905-06 he was engaged in similar work at Kakabeka Falls, near
-Fort William, for the Kaministiquia Power Co. In 1905, when silver was
-first discovered in Northern Ontario, Colonel Leonard was one of the
-first prospectors in the Cobalt district and staked the Buffalo mine,
-and in the following year he acquired a controlling interest in the
-Coniagas mine, and promoted the Coniagas Mines, Ltd., of which he is
-President. This mine has been one of the largest and most consistent
-producers of silver ore in the rich Cobalt district, and during its ten
-years of operation has produced 25,000,000 ounces of silver, and is
-still one of the few silver-producing mines of Canada. In 1908 a
-subsidiary company—the Coniagas Reduction Co., Ltd., was formed
-primarily for the purpose of treating ore from the Coniagas mine, but a
-large custom trade has also been developed in the smelting and reduction
-of cobalt ores for the production of silver and lesser products. In
-1911, Lieutenant-Colonel Leonard was selected by the Dominion Government
-for the position of Chairman of the National Transcontinental Railway
-Commission at Ottawa, with jurisdiction over the construction of the
-Government Railway from Moncton, N.B., to Winnipeg. This position he
-occupied, at much personal sacrifice, until the practical completion of
-the railway in 1914. Next to the mining industry, Colonel Leonard’s
-principal interest would appear to lie in the direction of the steel
-business, as his name appears on the directorate of several industries
-engaged in the manufacture of steel and steel products. He has recently
-promoted the organization of a new steel company, under the name of
-Electric Steel and Engineering Ltd., which is an amalgamation of several
-engineering enterprises in which he is interested, and whose different
-lines of manufacture he found could be co-ordinated to advantage. He is
-also a Director of the Toronto General Trusts Corporation. It may be
-said here that he is one of those men of business who are not content to
-be Directors in name only, but who believe in the principle that a
-Director should take a part in the actual direction of the enterprises
-with which he permits his name to become identified, and in conformity
-with this rule he has consistently declined to accept office as Director
-of commercial enterprises when he felt he was not in a position to give
-the necessary time and attention to the affairs of the business. Colonel
-Leonard has always taken a keen interest in the welfare and advancement
-of the engineering profession, and is an active member and past
-vice-president of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers and the
-Canadian Mining Institute; President Engineering Institute of Canada,
-1919-20. He has always been the friend of the young engineer, and ever
-ready to lend a hand in helping him along the road to success. He is
-also a past corresponding member of the Council of the Institute of
-Mining and Metallurgy, London, England, and a member of the American
-Institute of Mining Engineers. Member Institution of Civil Engineers,
-London, England. In spite of his many business activities, he finds time
-to devote to educational interests, and is a close student of all
-questions involving the well-being and good government of the State. He
-is a true Imperialist and advocate of closer unity between the component
-parts of the Empire; and any movement which promises to assist in
-attaining this end has his moral and financial support. He is a member
-of the Board of Governors of the University of Toronto; the Kingston
-School of Mining; Wycliffe College, Toronto; and Ridley College, St.
-Catharines, Ont. He has recently established scholarships under “The
-Leonard Foundation” in several of these Institutions to assist in the
-education and support of sons of clergymen, school teachers and officers
-and men of the Canadian and Imperial army and navy who require
-assistance in order to complete their education. His other benefactions
-are widely distributed and unheralded, and it is safe to say that few
-appeals on behalf of deserving objects are made to him in vain. A
-characteristic which strikes one forcibly is his ability to quickly
-analyse and grasp the essentials of things, and this faculty enables him
-to get through a large amount of work in a limited time, and also to
-readily appreciate the merits or demerits of things, whether in
-business, politics or the various public movements with which he may be
-asked to become identified. Since the outbreak of war, he has given much
-of his time and means to patriotic movements and other work tending to
-promote Canada’s whole-hearted participation in the war.
-Lieutenant-Colonel Leonard is in command of No. 2 Detachment, Corps of
-Guides. He is a member of the Mount Royal Club, Montreal; Rideau and
-Country Clubs, Ottawa; National Club and the Engineers’ Club, Toronto,
-and the Tourilli Fish and Game Club, Quebec. He is an ardent advocate of
-all outdoor sports, especially in the woods. He is an independent in
-politics, and in religion an Anglican. Married in 1889 to Kate Rowlands,
-daughter of the late John Rowlands, of Kingston, Ont.
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-
-=Hare, Rev. John James, M.A., Ph.D.=, Principal Emeritus of Ontario
-Ladies’ College (Whitby, Ont.), is one of the most distinguished of
-Canadian educationists. He was born in Nepean township, Ontario, on
-October 3, 1847, the son of Robert and Barbara (Shillington) Hare. His
-early education was received in the public school of his district, and
-later he entered Victoria University, at that time situated at Cobourg,
-Ont., with a view to entering the Methodist ministry. He graduated in
-1873 with the degree of B.A., winning first prizes in metaphysics,
-Hebrew, Scripture and debating, also a scholarship for highest standing
-in his sophomore year. In 1876, he qualified for the M.A. degree of his
-alma mater, and subsequently was awarded the degree of Ph.D. by the
-Illinois Wesleyan University. Incidentally he had served as a public
-school teacher for two years, and was ordained for the ministry in 1873.
-For one year he served as a pastor at London, Ont., but in 1874 was
-appointed principal of the Ontario Ladies’ College at Whitby, Ont., an
-institution founded for the education of Methodist young women, but by
-no means exclusively denominational. That position Dr. Hare held
-continuously for forty-one years. In 1915 he resigned, and was appointed
-principal emeritus. In 1879 he became governor as well as principal. In
-the conduct of the institution he has shown rare executive ability, and
-to this asset, combined with his indefatigable energy and spirit of
-devotion to the interests of his pupils, the great success of the
-college is attributable. During his regime, the institution was four
-times enlarged by the addition of Ryerson Hall, private residence with
-connecting passage, Frances Hall, gymnasium, swimming pool and hospital
-to provide against an outbreak of a contagious disease. By a vast number
-of Canadian women, some of whom are now in middle age, the name of Dr.
-Hare is held in honor and veneration. His educational attainments were
-some years ago recognized by his selection as examiner in geology by the
-University of Toronto. In September, 1874, he married Katherine
-Isabella, daughter of the late Rev. D. C. McDowell, a well-known
-Methodist divine, and has one son. Mrs. Hare was for some years lady
-principal of the college, and discharged the duties of her position with
-efficiency. His recreations are riding, driving and tennis; and in
-politics he is an independent. His permanent address is 164 Bird Ave.,
-Miami, Florida.
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-=Morin, Pierre Alphonse= (St. John’s, Quebec), Prothonotary Superior
-Court, was born in St. François, Montmagny, 1st August, 1855, and
-educated at Montreal College and McGill University, graduating with the
-degree of B.C.L. He is the son of Louis Edouard Morin and Catherine des
-Trois Maisons, and married Rachel, daughter of the late Senator J. O.
-Villeneuve, ex-Mayor of Montreal, by whom he has eight children, Paul,
-Josephine, Louise, Suzanne, Villeneuve, Lucie, Madeleine and André.
-After practising as an Advocate for some time Mr. Morin became editor
-and proprietor of “Le Canada Français,” a Liberal paper which is still
-in existence, and with which he retained his connection until receiving
-his present appointments as Prothonotary of the Superior Court of
-Iberville, and Clerk of the Crown and of the Peace, and of the Circuit
-Court of the District of Iberville, Com. per dedimus potestatem and
-Commr. in Extradition. He is a Past Grand Knight of Columbus, a Roman
-Catholic in religion and a Liberal in politics.
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-
-=Ashton, Major-General Ernest, M.D., C.M.G.=, is one of those Canadian
-soldiers who won high rank and distinction during the great war, but was
-originally a physician by profession. He was born at Brantford, Ont., on
-October 28, 1875, the son of Rev. Robert and Alice Mary Ashton. His
-father was formerly Principal of the Mohawk Institute, Brantford, and
-incumbent of His Majesty’s Chapel of Mohawks. He was educated for the
-calling of a physician at Trinity Medical School, and graduated in 1898
-with the following degrees and honours: F.I.M.C., M.D., C.M. of Trinity
-University, and was medallist of both Trinity Medical School and Trinity
-University. On graduation he became house surgeon of the Hospital for
-Sick Children, Toronto, holding that position for one year, after which
-he was appointed superintendent of the Muskoka Cottage Sanitarium, near
-Gravenhurst, Ont., remaining there for two years. In 1901 he returned to
-Brantford, Ont., and built up a large general practice. He also entered
-municipal politics and served as alderman and as a member of the Board
-of Education. He was one of the Board of Governors of Brantford General
-Hospital and the Brantford Sanitarium. The volunteer militia likewise
-claimed much of his energy and enthusiasm, and he holds a first class
-school of infantry certificate. When but eighteen years of age he joined
-the Dufferin Rifles of Brantford as second lieutenant, and was gazetted
-on January 20, 1893. He became a full lieutenant in September of that
-year; Captain on August 7, 1896; Major, December 29, 1902; and
-Lieutenant-Colonel on January 8, 1907, being at that time one of the
-youngest militia commanders in Canada. On completing his five years’
-tenure on January 7, 1912, he gave up his command, and was transferred
-to the Reserve of Officers of the Canadian Militia. The following year
-he was returned to the active list on the organization of the 13th
-Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery, and raised and on July 1, 1913,
-assumed command of the 32nd Howitzer Battery, C.F.A., with the rank of
-Lieutenant-Colonel. On the outbreak of the great war in the following
-year he at once offered his services, and on January 2, 1915, was
-appointed to raise and organize the 36th Battalion, C.E.F., and within
-six months had so effectively performed his task that he was able to
-proceed overseas with his battalion on June 19, 1915. On arrival in
-England, the organization was broken up and sent to France as
-re-inforcements for other battalions; and its commanding officer was
-appointed Brigadier of the 9th Reserve Infantry Brigade, and promoted to
-the rank of Colonel. On November 7, 1916, he was appointed O.C. of the
-Canadian Training Division, and about the same time acted as one of the
-Board headed by Surgeon-General Sir William Baptie to investigate the
-charges preferred by Colonel Herbert A. Bruce against the organization
-of the Canadian Army Medical Corps. On March 16, 1917, he became
-temporary Brigadier-General and on April 2 of that year was appointed
-General Officer Commanding of the 15th Canadian Infantry Brigade. His
-valuable services were the subject of official mention on February 24,
-1917 and August 7, 1917. In the autumn of that year he was recalled to
-Canada, and on January 1, 1918 appointed Acting-Adjutant-General and
-Major-General. At the same time he received the honour of C.M.G. from
-His Majesty the King. On June 8, 1905, General Ashton was married to
-Helen Margaret, daughter of Oswald Weir, banker, of the Bank of North
-America, Brantford, Ont.; he has one child, Amy Corcaire Ashton. He is
-an Anglican in religion, and in politics a man of strongly Imperialistic
-leanings. He is a member of the Rideau Club, Ottawa, and the Ottawa Golf
-Club.
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-
-=Duff, Hon. Lyman Poore=, is one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of
-Canada, and one of the mostly widely-known of Canadian jurists. He was
-born at Meaford, Ontario, on January 7, 1865, the son of Rev. Charles
-and Isabel (Johnstone) Duff. He was educated in the public and high
-schools of the province and at the University of Toronto, from which he
-graduated with the degree of B.A. in 1887 and first class honors in
-mathematics and metaphysics. He also took up the study of law at Osgoode
-Hall, Toronto, and received the degree of LL.B. at Toronto University in
-1889. For a time he was teacher of mathematics at Barrie Collegiate
-Institute, but was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1893, and in the same
-year to that of British Columbia in 1895. He first practised in Fergus,
-Wellington County, Ont., for two years, and in 1895 removed to Victoria,
-B.C., where he built up a large and important practice. He was created a
-King’s Counsel in 1901, and in that year represented the province of
-British Columbia in the famous Deadman’s Island case. In 1903, he was
-one of the counsel in the enquiry into the Columbian and Western land
-subsidies, a matter which attracted a great deal of attention on the
-Pacific Coast at that time. In 1903, he had the honor of being
-associated as counsel with the late Hon. Edward Blake, K.C., and the
-late Christopher Robinson, K.C., in representing the Dominion of Canada
-before the joint high commission on the Alaskan Boundary dispute, which
-sat in London, England. He received appointment as Puisne Judge of the
-Supreme Court of Canada in 1904, and in 1906 was elevated to his present
-position as one of the Justices of the Supreme Court at Ottawa. In that
-capacity he had made important decisions on questions of the highest
-moment, and in 1918 was appointed as supreme authority in connection
-with appeals against the operation of the Military Service Act. He is a
-man of strong and striking personality as well as of the highest
-judicial attainments, and in many quarters it has been suggested that he
-leave the bench to enter political life, which, however, holds out no
-attraction for him. When in private practice he was a Liberal, and for a
-time held the position of President of the Victoria Liberal Club. He is
-a member of the Rideau Club, Ottawa, Ottawa Country Club, Union Club,
-Victoria, B.C., Vancouver Club. In July, 1898, he married Elizabeth
-Eleanor, daughter of Henry Bird, Barrie, Ont, and resides on Goulborn
-Ave., Ottawa.
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-
-=Hurdman, George Charles, M.P.P.=, is a prominent lumberman of Ottawa,
-and one of the representatives of that city in the Ontario legislature.
-He was born in Ottawa on September 23, 1870, the son of George and Agnes
-C. (Fraser) Hurdman. On both sides he is of United Empire Loyalist
-stock, and is of Irish and Scottish descent. He was educated at the
-public and Model schools of his native city, and as a lad of nineteen
-became connected with the wholesale lumber industry, with which he has
-ever since been identified. He first entered the service of Beull, Orr,
-Hurdman & Co., with which he was connected for five years; after which
-he was associated with the lumber firm of Shepherd and Morse, Boston,
-Massachusetts, for another five years. In 1899 he established the
-Hurdman Lumber Company, Limited, of which he is the head. He has offices
-in Canada Life Building, Ottawa, and conducts an extensive wholesale
-business. He is also Secretary-Treasurer of the Canada Quarries and
-Construction Co. of Ottawa. From earlier manhood, Mr. Hurdman has taken
-a strong interest in public affairs, and was for several years an active
-officer of the executive of the Liberal party in Ottawa. At the general
-elections for the Ontario Legislature in June, 1914, he was the
-candidate of his party for the riding of Ottawa West, and succeeded in
-defeating his opponent, ex-Mayor Ellis, a strong candidate, by a safe
-majority. As a member of the opposition he has proved most useful, his
-counsel being especially valued in committee work, and in the party
-caucus. He has also taken an active interest in military affairs, and as
-a young man served with the 43rd Regiment, Ottawa, and Carleton Rifles.
-When the war broke out in 1914, he decided to resume military service,
-and qualified as an officer in the Princess Louise Dragoon Guards, which
-sent many recruits to the front. He is a Methodist in religion, and a
-charter member of the Laurentian Club, Ottawa, and his chief recreation
-is horsemanship. On June 21, 1899, he married Katherine, daughter of
-Thomas J. Lynton, Ottawa, and has three sons, George Charles, Thomas
-Lynton, and Herbert Russell Hurdman. He resides at 412 Daly Ave.,
-Ottawa.
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-
-=Bates, Thomas Nathaniel=, is one of the leading business men of Ottawa,
-and holds the position of Vice-President and Manager of the
-International Land & Lumber Company, of 285 Bank Street, in that city.
-He is also Vice-President of the British Canadian Industrial Company,
-Limited. He was born at L’Orignal, Ontario, in 1881, and is a son of
-Joseph Lever Bates. He was educated at the public and high schools of
-Hawkesbury, Ont., and as a lad of nineteen went into the insurance
-business as an agent for the New York Life Insurance Company at Ottawa.
-He proved one of the most successful writers of policies that this
-country has produced, and in 1904 made the Canadian record for his
-company by obtaining one hundred and seven applications for insurance in
-the space of thirty-five days. He was appointed Superintendent of
-Agencies for the company, and continued in that position until 1907. In
-that year the International Land and Lumber Company and the British
-Canadian Industrial Company were organized, and he was connected with
-them from their inception. Under his energetic and enterprising
-direction, they have developed a large and substantial business. In
-politics Mr. Bates is a Conservative, and in religion a Methodist. He is
-a member of the Laurentian Club; the Britannia Boat Club and the
-Canadian Club, Ottawa. On September 21, 1909, he married Maud, daughter
-of Thomas Askwith, Ottawa, and has two sons. Mr. and Mrs. Bates reside
-at 248 O’Connor Street in the capital.
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-
-=Rose, George Maclean=, President and Manager of the Hunter-Rose
-Company, Limited, Toronto, comes of a family which has been identified
-with the printing and publishing industry in Canada since the
-pre-Confederation era. He was born at the city of Quebec on October 30,
-1865, the son of the late George Maclean Rose and his wife, Margaret
-Levack Manson, both natives of Caithness, Scotland. Sir Oliver Mowat,
-the famous Liberal statesman, who was for nearly a quarter of a century
-Prime Minister of Ontario, and held other very important public offices,
-was a cousin of the late Mrs. Rose. The subject of this sketch was
-educated at the Model School and the Wellesley School, Toronto, and
-later took a course at the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, with a
-view to embarking in a career of scientific agriculture, a project
-subsequently abandoned. He began his business career with the Williams,
-Greene & Rome Company, Ltd., manufacturers of men’s wear at Kitchener
-(then Berlin), Ont., and became secretary and a director of the company.
-Severing connection with the enterprise, he went to New York, and was
-engaged in business there for ten years, returning to Canada in 1902 to
-join the Hunter-Rose Company, established many years previously by his
-father. He acted as secretary of the company for two years, and in 1904
-became President and Manager, the position he holds to-day. The
-Hunter-Rose Company is one of the historic commercial concerns of
-Canada. Its founder, the late George Maclean Rose, was a native of Wick,
-Caithness, who, as a young man in Scotland acquired complete familiarity
-with every phase of the printing and publishing business. In the middle
-fifties he came to Canada, and settled in Montreal, but in 1857 went to
-London, Ont., and in company with the late Hamilton Hunter established
-the printing firm of Hunter & Rose. This partnership was, however,
-short-lived, and in 1859, Mr. Rose joined forces with the late Samuel
-Thompson, of Toronto, who had received the contract to execute the
-printing for the parliament of Canada. This necessitated removal to
-Quebec, at that time capital of Canada. It shortly became necessary for
-Mr. Thompson to retire from business, and to carry on the work of
-government printing Mr. Rose formed the firm of Hunter-Rose & Company,
-in the ancient capital, taking into partnership Robert Hunter, a
-practical accountant. The completion of the parliament buildings at
-Ottawa in 1865 and the establishment of the government there,
-necessitated removal to that city, which remained the headquarters of
-the firm for several years. Confederation, in the meantime, having
-become an established fact, Hon. John Sandfield Macdonald, the first
-Premier of Ontario, induced Mr. Rose to establish a branch in Toronto,
-to take charge of the provincial printing. In 1871, Mr. Rose came to
-Toronto to reside permanently, and since that time the name Hunter-Rose
-& Company has been identified with the commercial life of Toronto. In
-1877, Mr. Robert Hunter died, and Mr. Rose became sole proprietor. The
-firm was incorporated under its present name in 1895. Government
-printing ceased to be the staple of its business many years ago, and
-book publishing became a very important part of its activities. From its
-plant have been issued many reprints of the leading authors of the past
-and present century. Incidentally, it may be mentioned that the first
-volume of “Representative Canadians,” edited by the late George Maclean
-Rose, was published in 1886. The present head of the company, who has
-carried on the historic traditions of the firm, is a member of the
-Canadian Manufacturers Association and of the Toronto Board of Trade. As
-a young man, he took a deep interest in military matters, and was a
-Lieutenant in the 48th Highlanders of Toronto, when that regiment was
-first established. He was also a lacrosse enthusiast, and played with
-the old Ontarios of Toronto and the Crescents of Brooklyn, N.Y. His
-present recreation is golf, and he is a member of the Ontario Club, the
-Simcoe Club, the Lakeview Golf Club, and the Ontario Jockey Club. In
-religion he is a Unitarian, and in politics independent.
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-=Blair, Lieutenant James K.= (Ottawa, Ont.), who was killed in action at
-the Somme October 2, 1916, was born September 11, 1890, at Truro, Nova
-Scotia, the only son of Lieutenant-Colonel H. C. Blair, Inspector of
-Customs, Ottawa, and Grace Ewart Blair. He received his education in the
-common schools of Truro, and was a commercial traveller when he enlisted
-at Saskatoon as a private on the outbreak of the war. He was married
-early in 1916 to Dulcie, daughter of Captain Brooks of the Indian Army,
-and Mrs. Brooks, and is survived by one son, James K. Blair, whom he
-never saw. After enlisting, he trained with the 28th Battalion in
-Winnipeg, and on receiving a commission in February, 1915, joined the
-46th Battalion at Moose Jaw, and left for England with a draft from the
-battalion in July, 1915. He qualified at Hythe as a musketry instructor,
-and was attached in that capacity to the 32nd Reserve Battalion, where
-he served for one year. He went to France on August 2, 1916, where he
-joined the 2nd Canadian Entrenching Battalion, and then went to his old
-battalion the 28th. The following extract from a letter written by the
-Commanding officer of the 28th is a tribute to Lieutenant Blair’s
-military abilities:—“Poor Jimmie Blair never had a chance to do more
-than show he had the grit to stick the worst the Boche could do. He
-joined us when we were on our way south, and fitted easily into the very
-happy family our mess then was. He did what he had to do well, and gave
-entire satisfaction. As our Battalion was then in a high state of
-efficiency, that is a good recommendation to any officer. In the big
-attack of September 15, we only took in half our officers, and
-Lieutenant Blair was left out, so he did not get the chance which two of
-the officers of his company got, and which resulted in the award to them
-of the M.C. We went in again on September 24-25, and Blair’s platoon was
-in the centre, and was subjected to very severe shelling during all of
-which he carried himself coolly and bravely, and came through in good
-shape. After a couple of days back we went in again on another sector to
-hold. Blair’s company was in Kenora trench, just where it joins Regina
-trench, of which so much has been said in the papers. This was really a
-communication trench, but had to be held on account of the command it
-gave us for future operations. It was, however, badly enfiladed, and we
-had practically all our casualties there. The battalion we relieved had
-just captured it, and it was subjected to a good deal of shell fire, and
-it was during one of these poor Blair was killed by a small shell which
-landed in the bay in which he was posted. I gave orders that his body be
-brought out for burial, but a heavy rain and resulting mud, together
-with the exhausted condition of our men, made this impossible. He was,
-therefore, given a soldier’s grave near where he fell, and on ground
-which should be considered sacred to Canadians, as many of our officers
-and men had fallen, and have fallen since, before Regina trench was
-finally captured. He died, therefore, as so many have, just ”holding the
-line,“ nothing spectacular; just a matter of duty well and bravely done
-under very trying circumstances. He gave promise of doing well, but he
-was not given the opportunity which the real attack gives. His people,
-however, will have the satisfaction of knowing that he did his duty
-well, bore himself bravely in the face of fire, and died like a
-soldier.” Another officer friend. Captain Quinan, writes:—“I well
-remember Jim when he left England for France, as full of spirits as old
-Allan Richardson before him, who, too, has been killed. Jim was full of
-life, and only asked for a chance to help to avenge his chum. He will, I
-assure you, always remain in my memory as ‘Jim,’ a very fine and gallant
-gentleman.” He was a Presbyterian and a Liberal Conservative. Lieutenant
-Blair was very proud of the Canadians, and in a letter to his parents,
-said;—“The Canadians have no black marks against them, and do not
-intend to have.” He had a high reputation both as an instructor and as a
-soldier. One of Lieutenant Blair’s ancestors, Captain William Blair,
-fought at the siege of Louisburg in 1745, and his father joined the
-militia.
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-=Bell, Clarence A. H.= (Toronto, Ont.), Clerk in Chambers, Supreme Court
-of Ontario, Osgoode Hall, son of Alexander Bell, M.D., whose father,
-James B. Bell, was for many years Registrar of the County of Lanark at
-Perth. Born at Oshawa, May 3, 1869, removing shortly thereafter to
-Lakefield, Co. Peterborough. Educated at Lakefield public school and
-Peterborough Collegiate Institute. He married Louise Ella, daughter of
-the late John Brown, of Lloydtown, June 24, 1893, and has two children,
-Sybil Irene and Arthur Armstrong (formerly a signaller in France). He
-entered the Department of Attorney-General under the late Sir Oliver
-Mowat, May, 1887, and was transferred to the Central Office, Osgoode
-Hall, 1896, receiving the appointment of Clerk in Chambers, June, 1917.
-Mr. Bell is an active member of many fraternal societies, being P.C.,
-Knights of Pythias; High Chief Ranger, Independent Order of Foresters;
-representative on several occasions at the National Fraternal Congress
-of America; member of Ionic Lodge, A.F. & A.M. and St. Patrick’s
-Chapter; member Royal Arcanum; Chosen Friends; L.O.L. and Preceptory,
-R.B.K. For many years he has been active in church work (Anglican
-Church), being a member of the Executive Committee, Diocese of Toronto;
-Dominion President for several years of Anglican Young People’s
-Association; Secretary of Diocesan Lay Readers’ Association; President
-many years of Progressive Bible Class—at one time one of the largest
-Bible classes in Canada. He is publisher of the “Circuit Guide,” a
-compendium issued half-yearly for the use of judges and lawyers. To the
-average man, the above-mentioned associations would appear almost
-sufficient to occupy his spare time; but not so with Mr. Bell, whose
-activity seems almost infinite, for he is an enthusiastic student of
-astronomy and the history of ancient Egypt, upon both of which subjects
-he has given frequent lectures. But the safety-valve of his unusually
-active life is probably to be found in the even balance he maintains
-between mental, social, and religious pursuits on the one hand, and an
-ardent—always ardent and active in everything—love of wild animals,
-wild birds, wild flowers, camping, woodmanship and canoeing, at which he
-is an expert. All his available holidays are spent near nature’s heart
-at his summer house in the northern part of Peterborough County where he
-breathes in ozone, puts on tan, relaxes and strengthens his muscles, and
-augments his optimism in preparation for the following season of busy
-city life. His city residence is 563 Gladstone Avenue.
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-=Brossoit, Numa Edouard, K.C.= (Valleyfield, P.Q.), son of Thomas
-Brossoit, K.C., Advocate, and Rose Anne Sabourin, daughter of late Dr.
-Moise Sabourin of Beauharnois, P.Q. He is brother-in-law of Hon. Justice
-Wilfred Mercier; G. A. Marsan, K.C., Advocate; Ludger Codebecq, K.C.,
-Advocate, and Dr. Charles Ovide Ostiguy. Was born at Melocheville on the
-23rd of August 1875. Educated at the Seminaire de St. Hyacinthe and
-McGill University, Montreal, from which latter institution he graduated
-in June, 1897, with the degree of Bachelor of Civil Law. Married to
-Hectorine Mailloux, daughter of late Ovide Mailloux, Architect of the
-City of Montreal, on the 26th day of September, 1899. His wife died on
-the 31st day of October, 1915. Mr. Brossoit is the father of the
-following children: Laurette, Hermance, Irma, Pauline Eliane and
-Marcelle. He belongs to the Knights of Columbus Council 1180, 4th Degree
-Member; Catholic Order of Foresters; Canadian Order of Foresters;
-Alliance Nationale; Artisans; Union St. Pierre, and Union St. Joseph. He
-is Vice-Provincial Chief Ranger of the Provincial Court of Quebec of the
-Catholic Order of Foresters. He is one of the promoters—and is
-Vice-President—of the society, “The Fonds de Secours des Foresters
-Catholiques de la Province de Quebec,” organized on the 17th day of
-January, 1917 and duly incorporated on September 19, 1918. He is a Roman
-Catholic in religion and a Liberal in politics. He practised his
-profession with his father, the late Thomas Brossoit, K.C., from 1897 to
-June, 1905, and since the death of his father in that year he has
-practised alone. He has a large practice and is an advocate. King’s
-Counsel April, 1914. For many years he was one of the editors of “La
-Revue de Jurisprudence” and is a contributor to “Le Progres de
-Valleyfield.” Was Crown Attorney for the District of Beauharnois in
-1907; Revisor of Electoral List for the city of Valleyfield since 1915
-and Recorder of the City of Valleyfield since June 28th, 1909. His
-principal recreations are motoring, yachting, hunting and fishing.
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-
-=Petrie, Harry David=, is one of the leading barristers and financiers
-of Hamilton, Ont. He was born at Oakville, Ont., in 1869, the son of
-Adam and Margaret (Paterson) Petrie. He was educated at the Simcoe
-(Ont.) High School and the Ontario Law School, Toronto. He read law with
-C. E. Barber of Simcoe in 1888, and was called to the Ontario Bar in
-1893. In 1898 he formed a legal partnership with Lieut.-Colonel
-Atkinson, M.P.P., at Simcoe, which continued until 1902, when he removed
-to Toronto, and for two years practised as partner of the late Hon. S.
-C. Biggs, K.C. Since 1904 he has practised in Hamilton, and has offices
-at 28 James Street. During his residence in Simcoe, he was a town
-councillor from 1900 to 1902, but has not since been a candidate for
-public office. His commercial and financial interests in the Hamilton
-district are very wide. He is Vice-President of the Ontario Yarn
-Company, Ltd., and also very extensively interested in real estate. He
-is director of the following realty companies:—Graham Land Company,
-Ltd.; the Oakwood Realty Company, Ltd.; the Oakley Heights Realty
-Company, Ltd.; Bronte Heights, Ltd.; Beechwood and Company, Ltd.;
-Roxboro Gardens, Ltd.; Lawrence Park, Hamilton, Ltd.; and several other
-land and building companies. He is a member of the Royal Arch Masons,
-and of the following clubs:—Commercial, Fernleigh Bowling and Athletic;
-Canadian (Hamilton), and Country (Burlington). In politics he is a
-Liberal, and in religion a Presbyterian. In 1896 he married Laura,
-daughter of the late Jonathan Ellis, Port Dover, Ont., and resides at
-322 Queen Street, Hamilton.
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-
-=Bowman, Charles Martin, M.P.P.= (Southampton, Bruce County, Ont.), is
-one of the veteran members of the Ontario Legislature. He was born at
-St. Jacobs, Waterloo County, Ont., the son of Isaac Bowman, M.P. and his
-wife, Lydia Erb, on May 7, 1863. He is of Swiss descent, and his father
-represented North Waterloo in the House of Commons for several years. He
-was educated at the public school, St. Jacobs and at the High School,
-Berlin (now Kitchener), Ont. In 1880 he removed to Southampton, Ont.,
-and engaged in the tanning business under the firm name of Bowman &
-Zinkan, in which he continued until 1900. From 1880 until 1890 he was
-also President of the Southampton Lumber Company, Limited, operating on
-the Bruce peninsula. He was engaged in the contracting business for
-twelve years, and from 1904 to 1910 was President of the Great Lakes
-Dredging Company, Limited, of Port Arthur, during which he carried out
-in the harbour of Fort William the largest contract for dredging ever
-awarded in Canada. He is a director of the Bell Furniture Company, Ltd.,
-Southampton; of the Stevens Hepener Co., Ltd., manufacturers of brushes
-and brooms, Port Elgin, Ont., and of the Durham Furniture Co., Ltd.,
-Durham, Ont. In 1894-5 he was a member of the Southampton Council, and
-afterward Reeve, and was also President of the Southampton Board of
-Trade, 1894-5. In 1898 he was nominated for the Legislature in the
-Liberal interest for the riding of North Bruce, and elected. Despite the
-vicissitudes of his party, he was re-elected at each succeeding
-election—1902, 1905, 1908, 1911 and 1914. As a member of the Standing
-Committees of the Legislature dealing with private and municipal
-measures, he has rendered much valuable service. In 1911 he was chosen
-Opposition whip by the Liberal caucus, a position he resigned in 1919.
-He was also named for the leadership of the party in the Legislature,
-but declined. He has long been a prominent member of the Executive of
-the Ontario Reform Association, and presided over the Liberal convention
-held at Toronto in July, 1919, at which Mr. H. H. Dewart, K.C., was
-elected leader. On October 20, 1886, he married Lulu, daughter of Julius
-Hesse, Howell, Michigan, and has one son and two daughters. He is a
-Methodist in religion, and a member of the A.F. & A.M., the I.O.O.F. and
-the Ontario Club, Toronto. His recreations are curling and bowling.
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-
-=Dewart, Herbert Hartley, K.C., M.P.P.= (Toronto), son of the late Rev.
-Edward Hartley Dewart, D.D., formerly editor of the Christian Guardian,
-and was born in St. John’s, Quebec, November 9, 1861. He received his
-education in Toronto at the Model School and Toronto Collegiate,
-graduating from the University of Toronto with B.A. degree in 1883. He
-was called to the Bar in 1887, and created a K.C., in 1899. He was for
-several years examiner in English at the University of Toronto, and was
-elected a Senator of the University in 1906. He has been counsel in many
-big criminal trials, and was junior counsel with B. B. Osier, K.C., in
-the Ford and Hyans murder trials. Later he prosecuted for the Crown,
-being appointed Crown Attorney for the County of York in 1891. He held
-this position until 1904, when he resigned to engage in general counsel
-work. He was engaged in many big trials, both criminal and civil.
-Notable among these were the defence of Carrie Davies and McCutcheon
-brothers. He was also retained in big inquiries, and as Liberal counsel
-at the small arms ammunition inquiry at Ottawa, had interesting passages
-with Sir Sam Hughes. He has also written and spoken on law matters.
-These are regarded as authoritative, and attracted much attention in
-legal circles. Mr. Dewart has been actively interested in politics for
-many years, although he has been a member of Parliament but a short
-time. Mr. Dewart’s first official connection with the Liberal party was
-in 1887, when he was President of the Young Men’s Liberal Club in
-Toronto. He held this position also the following year. His first
-attempt to get into the active arena as a member of Parliament was in
-1904, when he contested South Toronto in the Liberal interest. He was
-defeated by A. C. Macdonell (now Senator) by a majority of 409. The next
-attempt was in 1911, when he was defeated in Centre York by Tom Wallace,
-M.P., but was successful in 1916, when he contested Southwest Toronto
-for the Legislature. He was a familiar speaker “on the hustings”
-throughout Ontario for years previous, and had taken a keen interest in
-Liberal organizations. As a lawyer he is famous throughout Canada, and
-has been in some of the biggest cases in the history of the courts.
-Success came in the by-election in Southwest Toronto for the Legislature
-in 1916. The seat had previously been Conservative by a majority of
-about 4,000. Mr. Dewart, running against Mr. James Norris, turned this
-into a Liberal majority of over 600. It was the first time in many years
-that Toronto had elected a Liberal. Mr. Dewart represents this riding in
-the Legislature at present. Since entering the House he has been one of
-the foremost in its affairs, and has tackled the Government on many
-problems. His speeches on the nickel question have received attention
-all over the Dominion. At the big Liberal Convention in Toronto in June,
-1919, Mr. Dewart was selected as the Provincial Liberal Leader, by a
-most decisive majority, succeeding William Proudfoot, K.C. The new
-Liberal Leader is a speaker of logic and grace. His genial personality
-has made him many friends. He is also a good debater, as would be
-expected after a long and successful legal career. Mr. Dewart is senior
-member of the firm of Dewart, Harding, Maw & Hodgson, a Bencher of the
-Law Society of Canada, and also a member of the Bar of Manitoba. He
-married Emma Smith, daughter of the late H. B. Smith, of Sparta,
-Ontario. Mr. Dewart lives at No. 5 Elmesley Place, Toronto, and has a
-country place near Uxbridge.
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-
-=Drayton, Philip Henry, K.C.=, Official Arbitrator and Chairman of the
-Court of Revision for the city of Toronto, was born in Barbados, West
-Indies, the son of Henry Drayton, a landed proprietor, and Jane
-(Holinsed) Drayton. He was educated in England by private tuition at
-Cheltenham College and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, from
-which he graduated with honours. On leaving Sandhurst, he was appointed
-to a commission in the 16th Regiment, from which he exchanged into the
-Royal Canadian Rifles. On their disbandment by the Imperial Government,
-he commanded a company in the Army Service Corps at Woolwich, England.
-Having sold out his commission, he spent some time on his estate in the
-West Indies, then came to Canada and studied law with the well-known
-firm of Bethune, Osier and Moss. During his student career he achieved
-the remarkable record of winning a scholarship in each of four
-successive years. On graduating, he entered into partnership with the
-late W. B. McMurrich, who was Mayor of Toronto in 1881-2. He
-subsequently practised for a number of years as head of the firm of
-Drayton & Dunbar, and was appointed to his present position in
-September, 1907. He first married Margaret Coverton, daughter of C. W.
-Coverton, M.D., by whom he had two sons and four daughters, the eldest
-son being Sir Henry Drayton, K.C., formerly Chief Commissioner of the
-Board of Railway Commissioners for Canada, and now Minister of Finance
-at Ottawa. In 1907, he married Isabel Griffith, daughter of the late W.
-E. Griffith, of the Ontario Civil Service, the issue being one daughter,
-deceased. For some time he was alderman for old St. Thomas’ Ward, and
-for three years chairman of the Board of Health. He was six years
-lecturer and examiner of the Ontario Law School. He is a member of the
-Sons of England and of St. George’s Society, of which he is a
-past-president. His position as official arbitrator is very onerous and
-responsible. While at college and in the military, Mr. Drayton was an
-ardent devotee of athletics, and won many prizes in different classes of
-sport, still retaining his reputation as a crack shot. His recreations
-are fishing and shooting. The family reside at 296 St. George Street,
-Toronto.
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-[Illustration: JACOB L. ENGLEHART
-Petrolia, Ontario]
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-
-
-=Wright, George Craig= (Hamilton, Ont.), Manufacturer, was born in
-Hamilton, January 11, 1891, the son of H. G. Wright, manufacturer, and
-Kate Wright. He was educated at the Hamilton Collegiate Institute,
-graduating from there in 1908. In 1910 he became Lieutenant of the 13th
-Royal Regiment and, when the war broke out, enlisted with the First
-Contingent in the 4th Battalion and served continuously in France from
-February 11, 1915, until wounded in April, 1916. He went to the front as
-a Lieutenant and was made a Captain, April 23, 1915. Since July 5, 1916,
-he has been employed on Staff work in Canada. Mr. Wright is a member of
-the Barton Lodge of Masons, attends the Centenary Methodist Church, and
-belongs to the Hamilton Golf and Country Club.
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-
-=Detwiler, Noah Bechtel= (Kitchener, Ont.), was born June 3, 1858, at
-Roseville, Waterloo Township and County, Ontario, the son of the late
-Rev. Enoch R. Detwiler, preacher and farmer of that place, and Abigail
-Bechtel. He received his education in the public schools and then took a
-course in a Toronto Business College. He married, December 14, 1880,
-Mary, the daughter of the late Jacob Y. Shantz, manufacturer in Berlin
-(now Kitchener), and a pioneer in the development of the Canadian
-North-West in the eighties and early nineties, and has one son and three
-daughters—Elden, Doctor of Osteopathy, London, Ont.; Lenora and Ethel
-at home, and Elizabeth, the wife of Prof. Herner, of Manitoba
-Agricultural College, residing in Winnipeg. Mr. Detwiler is a
-Protestant, worshipping with the United Brethren in Kitchener. In
-politics he is a real Independent, favoring no party, but always for to
-support the right man and the right principles if fortunate enough to
-have the opportunity of doing so. He was an early advocate of public
-ownership and his brother, D. B. Detwiler, of Kitchener, is the pioneer
-Hydro promoter in Canada, and is President of the Algoma Power Co.,
-Ltd., and Chairman of the Great Waterways Union of Canada, and the proud
-father of two sons, with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in France. Mr.
-Noah B. Detwiler is actively engaged as President and Treasurer of the
-Hydro City Shoe Manufacturers, Limited, with office and works at No. 117
-Weber Street, and as Secretary-Treasurer of the Algoma Power Co., with
-head office in Kitchener and plant at Michipicoten, Ont. When not
-engaged in business, Mr. Detwiler’s pursuits lie very largely along the
-line of social and religious work. He has been a director of the
-Y.M.C.A. for many years, also for a long time Sunday School
-Superintendent. Is local Secretary of the Social Service Council of
-Canada, and has always been an advocate of temperance. His reputation
-for good judgment and reliability is shown by his being executor or
-trustee for several estates, and while Mr. Detwiler is mild and affable
-in manner his clear cut style shows that confidence in him will not be
-misplaced. The family reside at No. 105 Queen Street North, where at
-this point the environment is quite in harmony with its name.
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-
-=Pullan, E.= (Toronto, Ont.), wholesale merchant, was born at Telz,
-Russia, in 1866, the son of Bernard and Emily Pullan. Leaving home at
-the early age of fourteen, he went to England and migrated to Canada
-four years later, where he worked in different capacities for two years
-in various parts of Western Ontario, and started in his present business
-of dealer in paper stock and sterilized wiping rags in 1888. Mr. Pullan
-married Bertha, daughter of Abraham Helman, by whom he has ten children:
-Martha, Harry, Joel, Dora, Bessie, Jennie, Rita, Gordon, Helen, and
-Emmanuel. He is a Hebrew in religion, independent in politics, and a
-member of the Board of Trade, of the Jewish Board of Arbitration and of
-the United Hebrew Charities, all of Toronto.
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-
-=Nicholson, Arthur Edwin, O.A.A.=, of 46 Queen Street, St. Catharines,
-Ont., is one of the leading architects of the Niagara peninsula. He was
-born at Buffalo, N.Y., on June 22, 1881, the son of Edwin Charles
-Nicholson and his wife Alice Richings. The father was a builder and
-contractor, and the subject of this sketch was educated at the public
-schools of St. Catharines. Deciding to adopt the profession of
-architect, he went to Toronto in 1901, and on October 14 of that year
-was articled for three and a half years to the firm of Gordon &
-Helliwell, architects of that city. His articles expired in April, 1905,
-and on the eighth of May in that year he was admitted to membership in
-the Ontario Association of Architects. Returning to St. Catharines he
-has built up a large and lucrative practice and designed many of the
-handsomest buildings and residences in his district. He is a member of
-the Public School Board in that city, and belongs to the Masonic order,
-the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Sons of England. In
-religion he is an Anglican, and on June 12, 1906, married Viola,
-daughter of Archibald MacGregor, a manufacturer, of 236 St. Clarens
-Avenue, Toronto. He has two daughters, Alice and Viola.
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-
-=Rutherford, Colonel, The Hon. Alexander Cameron, K.C., B.A., B.C.L.,
-LL.D.=, Barrister-at-law (Edmonton, Alta.), is recognized as one of the
-chief citizens of the Province of Alberta. He was born at the village of
-Osgoode, Carleton County, Ont., on Feb. 2nd, 1857, the son of James
-Rutherford, a farmer, and Elizabeth (Cameron) Rutherford. He was
-educated at the Public School, Metcalfe High School, Woodstock College
-and McGill University. From the latter institution he graduated in 1881
-with the degrees of B.A. and B.C.L. In addition he holds the honorary
-degree of LL.D. in three universities, McGill (Montreal), 1907; McMaster
-(Toronto), 1907; and the University of Alberta, 1908. He was called to
-the Bar of Ontario in 1885 and first practised at Ottawa as a member of
-the firm of Hodgins, Kidd & Rutherford. In 1895 he decided to go to the
-West and located in Strathcona (now South Edmonton) where he became
-Solicitor and Secretary-Treasurer of the Municipality, and
-Secretary-Treasurer of the School Board, offices he held for a
-considerable number of years. He was elected to the Legislative Council
-of the Northwest Territories in 1902 and was Deputy Speaker of that body
-from 1902 to 1905. In the latter year the Province of Alberta having
-been created he was elected to the Legislature and became the first
-Premier of that Province on Sept. 2nd, 1905, administering also the
-portfolios of Provincial Treasurer and Minister of Education. He
-represented Alberta at the Inter-provincial Conference of Premiers held
-at Ottawa in 1906, and was delegate to the Imperial Conference on
-Education in London, England, 1907. He was responsible for the
-foundation of the University of Alberta and has been a member of its
-Senate since its establishment; in 1912 he represented it at the
-Conference of the Universities of the Empire in London, Eng. On May
-26th, 1910, he resigned his position as Premier owing to a division in
-the ranks of the Liberal members of the Legislature, although as leader
-he had carried the general elections of 1905 and 1909. Under his regime
-as Premier all Provincial institutions were established as in the older
-Provinces of Canada, and in addition to the University he founded a
-Normal college for teacher-training. He also encouraged railway
-expansion and the development of the agricultural and coal-mining
-industries, and since 1909 has been a member of the Conservation
-Commission of Canada. In 1916 he was appointed a Director of the
-National Service Board of Canada and he is also Honorary Colonel of the
-194th, Edmonton Battalion, a Highland Battalion of the C.E.F. He is a
-member of the Edmonton Hospital Board and of the Board of Public
-Welfare, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and the Royal
-Colonial Institute. His business interests are wide. He is
-Vice-President of the Great Western Garment Co., Ltd., Edmonton; and a
-Director of the Great West Permanent Loan Co.; Canada National Fire
-Insurance Co., the Imperial Canadian Trust Co., and other financial
-institutions. He is a Liberal in politics, a Baptist in religion, and a
-member of the A.F. & A.M., I.O.O.F., I.O.F., and St. Andrew’s Society.
-In 1888 he married Mattie, daughter of the late William Birkett of
-Ottawa, Barrister-at-law, and has two children, Cecil, who served
-overseas in the late war as a Lieutenant of artillery, and Miss Hazel
-Rutherford. His recreation is motoring and he is a member of the
-Edmonton Club and the Canadian Club of his city.
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-
-=Neill, Charles Ernest= (Montreal, Que.), General Manager of the Royal
-Bank of Canada, with Head Office at Montreal, was born at Fredericton,
-N.B., on May 27th, 1873, the son of James Stewart and Eliza Caroline
-Neill. He was educated by Dr. G. R. Parkin in the Collegiate School of
-his native town and graduated in 1889. After receiving his education he
-entered the banking business, and has risen to his present high position
-by promotion. He was Manager of the Royal Bank at Vancouver, B.C.;
-Supervisor of B.C. Branches; Chief Inspector Montreal; in 1907 was
-appointed Assistant General Manager, and in 1916 to his present
-position. To gain such rapid promotion in one of the largest banking
-institutions in the British Empire means something, and no person will
-dispute the qualifications of Mr. Neill to fill the same. He is a man
-with a large vision, knows business life thoroughly and has keen
-foresight and action. In October, 1901, he married Mary Louise Crerar,
-daughter of John Crerar, K.C., of Hamilton, Ont., and has no issue. Mr.
-Neill is a member of the following clubs:—St. James, Mount Royal,
-Forest and Stream, Montreal Hunt, Royal Montreal Golf, Montreal Curling,
-M.A.A.A., all of Montreal. Since the outbreak of the war Mr. Neill has
-taken an active part in all Patriotic work and has devoted much time and
-given freely of his money on all occasions. In religion he is a
-Presbyterian and resides at 503 Sherbourne St. West.
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-
-=Panet, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Louis= (Ottawa, Ont.), son of the
-late Colonel the Honorable Charles Eugene Panet, who was for many years
-Deputy Minister of Militia and Defence, and one of a very distinguished
-French-Canadian family, which has given many distinguished soldiers,
-judges and legislators to the service of Canada. Born at Quebec City on
-December 15, 1870. Moved to Ottawa five years later, when his father,
-who had been a member of the Senate of Canada, resigned that position to
-accept the above-named office. Educated at Ottawa University, and at the
-age of nineteen entered the Civil Service of Canada as a junior in the
-Department of Militia and Defence. In 1904, Sir Frederick Borden,
-Minister of Militia and Defence, appointed Colonel Panet his private
-secretary, in which capacity he acted for seven years, attending three
-Imperial conferences in London, Eng., with his chief. In 1898, he became
-Secretary of the Canadian Defence Committee. In 1908, he was appointed
-Secretary of the Department. The outbreak of the war added enormously to
-Colonel Panet’s responsibilities, and he was officially mentioned in
-despatches for services rendered in Canada during the war period,
-1914-1919. At present he holds the office of Secretary of Department of
-Militia and Defence and of President of the Pensions and Claims Board.
-In 1912 he was appointed President of the Board of Enquiry _re_ claims
-of applicants for the Fenian Raid Volunteer Bounty. Among his brothers
-are Brigadier-General A. E. Panet, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., Royal
-Engineers, Imperial Army; Brigadier-General H. A. Panet, C.B., C.M.G.,
-D.S.O., Royal Canadian Artillery; Brigadier-General E. de B. Panet,
-C.M.G., D.S.O., Royal Canadian Artillery; Lieutenant-Colonel A. de L.
-Panet, Canadian Ordnance Corps; and Lieutenant-Colonel A. H. Panet, of
-the same branch of the service. A. P. E. Panet, another brother, is a
-barrister. The subject of this sketch was married on October 25, 1899,
-to Muriel, daughter of Major-General Sir D. A. Macdonald, Kt., C.M.G.,
-I.S.O., etc., and has one son. He is a Roman Catholic in religion, and
-his recreations are shooting, fishing, and golf. He is a member of the
-Royal Ottawa Golf, Ottawa Country, and Ottawa Hunt Clubs. His private
-address is “The Roxborough,” Ottawa.
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-
-=Fielding, Hon. William Stevens, LL.D., D.C.L., P.C., M.P.=, one of the
-leading Liberal statesmen of Canada, was born at Halifax, N.S., November
-24, 1848, the son of Charles and Sarah (Ellis) Fielding. He was educated
-in the public schools of Halifax, and at the age of sixteen entered the
-office of the “Chronicle” of that city as a reporter, and ultimately
-became managing editor, a post from which he retired in 1884. He early
-developed a rare talent as a public speaker, with a special aptitude for
-the handling of financial topics. At the Nova Scotia elections of 1882
-he was elected to the Legislature for Halifax County as a Liberal, and
-two years later became Premier and Provincial Secretary. He was
-successful in carrying his party to victory in the general elections of
-1886, 1890 and 1894, gaining an ever-increasing fame as an orator and
-administrator. When Sir Wilfrid Laurier, became Prime Minister of
-Canada, after the Federal elections of 1896, he induced Mr. Fielding to
-leave the provincial arena and become Minister of Finance in his
-cabinet. The new Minister was elected to the House of Commons for the
-riding of Shelburne and Queens by acclamation on August 2, 1896, and was
-re-elected at the general elections of 1900, 1904, and 1908. In 1911, he
-was personally defeated in the contest which resulted in the general
-defeat of the Laurier administration on the reciprocity issue. The great
-historic act of Mr. Fielding’s career as Minister of Finance was his
-establishment of an Imperial British trade preference in 1897, which has
-since become a permanent factor in Canadian tariff policies, and which
-won him fame throughout the Empire. In 1907, he also negotiated a
-reciprocity treaty in certain commodities with France; and during the
-fifteen years that he was Minister of Finance was a notable figure at
-Colonial and Imperial conferences in London. In 1910, he conducted on
-behalf of Canada the negotiations with President Taft to avert tariff
-war between Canada and the United States, and in the spring of 1911 was
-one of the commissioners who negotiated the reciprocity agreement with
-the United States, which, in the following September was rejected at the
-polls, and which became known as the Knox-Fielding pact. On the defeat
-of the Laurier administration, he re-entered journalism as President and
-Editor-in-Chief of the “Journal of Commerce,” Montreal. In 1917, he
-returned to politics as an Independent Liberal, supporting the Union
-Government on the question of conscription, and was elected by
-acclamation for his old constituency. At the National Liberal Convention
-of August, 1919, his election to the party Leadership was strongly urged
-by supporters in all parts of Canada; and despite his reluctance to
-accept the honour he was only defeated by the narrow majority of 38 in a
-poll at which more than 900 votes were cast. In religion Hon. Mr.
-Fielding is a Baptist, and on September 7, 1876, married Hester,
-daughter of Thos. A. Rankine, of St. John, N.B., by whom he had four
-daughters and one son. He resides at 286 Charlotte Street, Ottawa.
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-=Nash, Charles William= (Toronto, Ont.), Provincial Biologist, is an
-Englishman who came to this country to engage in farming, and was called
-to the Manitoba Bar in 1883. Since January, 1899, he has been a Lecturer
-in Biology of the Farmers’ Institutes Bureau, Department of Agriculture,
-Ontario, and is Biologist of the Provincial Museum, Department of
-Education. He has been a frequent contributor to Canadian Magazines, as
-also to “Farming World,” of which he was Associate Editor, writing
-regularly for many years under the title “Nature About the Farm.” Among
-other publications he is the author of “Birds of Ontario in Relation to
-Agriculture” (5th edition, 1913); “Check List, Birds of Ontario”; “Birds
-of the Garden”; “Ways of the Woodcock”; “Passing of the Pigeons”;
-“Migration of Birds”; “Humming Birds of Ontario”; “Wild Fowl of
-Ontario”; “The Bass of Ontario”; “Farmers’ Handy Book”; “Manual of
-Vertebrates of Ontario”; “Fishes of Ontario”; “Reptiles and Batrachians
-of Ontario”; “Mammals of Ontario”; and “Fishes of Toronto Region.” He
-has presented collections of Birds and Fishes of Ontario to the
-Provincial Museum, and is a member of the American Ornithologists’
-Union; as also a Director of the Entomological Society of Canada. Mr.
-Nash was born at Bognor, Sussex, Eng., August 15, 1848, the son of Wm.
-H. and Louisa L. H. Nash, and received his education in England and the
-Isle of Jersey. He married Harriette B., daughter of Judge E. C.
-Campbell, Niagara, February, 1877, and has two daughters, Mrs. Eleanor
-E. Lacey and Mrs. Isabella L. Sweatman. He is an Anglican in religion,
-and a Conservative in politics.
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-
-=Foran, Joseph Kearney, K.C., Litt. D., LL.B.=, Montreal and Ottawa, is
-one of the legal staff of the House of Commons, and also one of the
-leading litterateurs of Canada. He was born at Aylmer, Que., on
-September 5, 1857, the son of John Foran, a prominent lumberman, and his
-wife, Catharine F. Kearney. The latter was a lady of pronounced literary
-talent, and in her younger days was on the staff of the Dublin “Nation.”
-After coming to America, she for a time edited the “Ladies’ Literary
-Journal,” of Philadelphia. The subject of this sketch was educated at
-St. Joseph’s College, now known as Ottawa University, graduating in
-1877. He then entered Laval University, Quebec, to equip himself for the
-practice of law, and in 1880 received the degree of Bachelor of Laws.
-During this three-year term he also obtained practical experience of his
-profession in the offices of Andrews, Caron, Andrews and Fitzpatrick, of
-which the late Sir Adolphe Caron and Sir Charles Fitzpatrick, formerly
-Chief Justice of Canada, were members. From 1880 to 1883, he practised
-law at Aylmer, Quebec, but in the latter year ill-health compelled him
-to spend three years in the woods of the north. In 1886 he was
-sufficiently restored in health to return to civic conditions, and for
-two years he acted as secretary to the Speaker of the House of Commons.
-He also became active as a writer of poems, essays and other forms of
-literary effort which were accepted by numerous Canadian and American
-publications, and in 1891 he became editor of the “True Witness,” of
-Montreal, which won an honorable place in Catholic journalism by the
-literary distinction of its contents and the breadth of its outlook. At
-the same time he began to acquire fame as a speaker and lecturer, and
-has been heard in many parts of Canada and the United States. His
-addresses are marked not only by rare eloquence, but by a spirit of
-toleration that makes them acceptable in all assemblages. In 1894, the
-University of Ottawa conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Letters,
-and his address on that occasion won tributes from the Earl of Aberdeen
-and other distinguished men who were present. He also speaks with equal
-facility in French and English. He has published a number of volumes,
-including “Obligations,” a legal treatise; “Poems and Lyrics”; “Simon
-the Abenakis,” a novel; “The Spirit of the Age,” an historical and
-philosophical essay; and “Irish Canadian Representatives.” The latter
-publication won high tributes from both Sir John A. Macdonald and Sir
-Wilfrid Laurier. He is a strong advocate of the cause of Irish freedom
-and in 1882 drafted the first Home Rule resolution presented in the
-House of Commons, for which the late Hon. John Costigan stood sponsor.
-In 1902 he entered the office of the Secretary of the Law Branch of the
-House of Commons as English translator; in 1908 he became Assistant Law
-Clerk; and in 1912, when the Parliamentary Counselship was created he
-was attached as Legal Officer to the Law Branch. In 1911 he was created
-King’s Counsel, and in 1914 appointed a Commissioner of the High Court
-of Ontario Dr. Foran is a Roman Catholic in religion; and in 1892
-married Louisa, eldest daughter of the late Edwin Davis of Ottawa, who
-built many of the lighthouses on the Great Lakes. Mrs. Foran is a lady
-of literary culture who has been of great assistance to her husband in
-his work. They have two surviving children, Lieut. Herbert P. Foran, a
-student of McGill University, and Miss Ethel U. Foran.
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-John L. Garland, Ottawa]
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-
-=Easson, Robert Henry= (Toronto, Ont.), is one of the most prominent
-figures in the musical manufacturing industry of Canada. He is
-Vice-President of the Otto Higel Company, Ltd., manufacturers of piano
-actions and keys and pneumatic actions for player-pianos, with factories
-at King and Bathurst Streets, Toronto, and also Vice-President of the
-Otto Higel Company, Inc., of New York City, N.Y. With its Canadian and
-American branches, this enterprise is one of the largest industries of
-its kind in America. He is also President of the Canada Action & Key
-Company, Ltd., Toronto. Mr. Easson was born in Toronto, January 10,
-1873, the son of Robert F. Easson, one of the pioneer telegraphers of
-this country, identified with the Great Northwestern Telegraph Company
-from its earliest days, and his wife, Millicent Easson. He was educated
-at the Toronto public and high schools, and began his business career as
-cashier and office assistant in the firm of M. & L. Samuel, Benjamin &
-Company, wholesale hardware merchants, Toronto, in 1890. He continued
-with this firm for ten years when he became manager of the Audit
-Department of Jenkins & Hardy, assignees and chartered accountants,
-Toronto. In 1904, he retired from that position to associate himself
-with the growing business of the Otto Higel Company, and became
-Vice-President in 1906. Since then the business of the Company has been
-greatly extended. The musical industries of Canada are now splendidly
-organized institutions for the development of music in the home, and Mr.
-Easson has been one of those most influential in bringing about this
-spirit of co-ordination. He is a member of the National Club and the
-Royal Canadian Yacht Club, and also of the Masonic order. In politics he
-is a Liberal, in religion a Presbyterian, and his recreations are
-bowling and motoring. On December 28, 1904, he married Winnifred,
-daughter of the late John Garvin, and has two sons and one daughter. He
-resides at 407 Palmerston Boulevard, Toronto.
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-
-=Hunter, Major W. E. Lincoln=, of Hunter & Deacon, Barristers and
-Solicitors, 2 Toronto Street, Toronto, was born in London, Ont., January
-13, 1870, the son of Rev. W. J. Hunter, M.A., D.D., and Mary J.
-(Robinson) Hunter. He was educated at Hamilton Collegiate Institute and
-Osgoode Hall, graduating as barrister at the age of twenty-one. He
-joined the firm of Ince & Hunter, 1891, continuing this connection for
-four years, when he became associated with former Mayor A. R. Boswell,
-K.C., who is now Superintendent of Insurance for the Province of
-Ontario. He formed his present partnership in 1900. In 1901, he was
-appointed Census Commissioner for Centre Toronto. He married June 1,
-1904, Mary Edith, daughter of Henry Smith, Superintendent of
-Colonization Roads, Toronto, and has four daughters—Kathleen, Madeline,
-Norah and Aileen. He is an ex-Vice-President of Centre Toronto Reform
-Association, and ex-President North Toronto Liberal Club. He is the
-author of “The Woman in Blue,” a satirical novel published in 1895. His
-military career began at an early age, and he was gazetted Lieutenant in
-the 10th Regiment, Royal Grenadiers, in 1901, became Captain in 1907,
-and Major 1915, being now second in command. When war broke out, he at
-once became active in every way at his command, speaking constantly at
-recruiting meetings, associating in many other military and patriotic
-activities. For two years he was constantly in khaki, and for nearly a
-year was in command of Filtration Guard, with over 300 men under him. In
-his patriotic work, he had a most enthusiastic associate in Mrs. Hunter,
-who is Regent of the Royal Grenadier Chapter, I.O.D.E., whose efforts on
-behalf of the boys overseas were unceasing and indefatigable. On August
-18, 1919, a formal ceremony took place in the Armouries, when the colors
-of the Regiment were handed over to Major Hunter, who accepted them on
-behalf of the Regiment, from Major Andrew Duncanson, D.S.O., commander
-of a guard of 100 men, all of whom had been overseas. These colours were
-carried by the guard of honour for the Prince of Wales, Colonel in Chief
-of the Regiment, on his visit to Toronto in August, 1919. Major Hunter
-has large real estate interests in the city. He is a member of the Royal
-Canadian Yacht Club, the Ontario Club, Military Institute, Mississauga
-and Scarboro Golf Clubs, Lake Shore Country Club, Toronto, and the
-Junior Army and Navy Club, London, England. He is a Liberal and an
-Anglican. The family reside at 113 Walmer Road, Toronto.
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-
-=Henry, Hon. George Stewart, M.P.P., B.A., LL.B.=, Minister of
-Agriculture for the Province of Ontario, is not only a practical farmer
-but an agricultural expert of wide academic training. He was born at
-King Township, York County, Ont., on July 16, 1871, the son of William
-and Louisa Henry, the mother’s parents being from Ulster, as was also
-his father. The subject of this sketch was educated at the public
-schools of Toronto, Upper Canada College and the University of Toronto,
-of which he holds the degrees of B.A. and LL.B. He also spent a year at
-the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, Ont., and though equipped for
-a professional career decided to adopt the vocation of farmer in East
-York, near Toronto. In this field he proved himself extremely
-successful, and as a young man took an active part in the public affairs
-of his district. He was a member of York Township Council from 1903
-until 1910, holding the position of Reeve during the last four years of
-that interval. This carried with it membership in the York County
-Council, and in 1909 he was elected by his colleagues warden of York, an
-old and historic office. A vacancy in the Ontario Legislature for the
-riding of East York necessitated a by-election, and he was nominated in
-the Conservative interest. He was returned at the head of the poll on
-September 8, 1913, and at the general elections of the following June
-was again successful. In the spring of 1918, Sir William Hearst, Prime
-Minister of Ontario, invited him to enter the Ontario cabinet as
-Minister of Agriculture, a portfolio he had himself filled for some
-months after the death of the late Hon. James Duff. This necessitated a
-by-election in the summer of that year. Mr. Henry was again elected for
-East York, for the third time in five years. In that office he has
-pursued a vigorous progressive policy, not only with regard to the
-development of agriculture in the outlying districts, but in stimulating
-production in the older settlements. He has also been a leader in the
-Good Roads Movement; he is a member of the Toronto and York Roads
-Commission, and is Secretary-Treasurer of the Ontario Good Roads
-Association. He was also a prominent figure in the All-Canada Roads
-Conference held at Quebec under the Presidency of Sir Lomer Gouin in
-May, 1919. In addition to conducting a farm of a model character, Mr.
-Henry is President of the Farmers’ Dairy Company, Ltd., of Toronto. He
-is a Methodist in religion, and on January 29, 1902, married Anna Ketha,
-daughter of Rev. F. W. Pickett, of the Toronto Methodist Conference. He
-resides at Todmorden, on the outskirts of Toronto.
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-=Butler, Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Page, K.C., B.C.L.=, is one of the
-leading advocates of Montreal, where he practises at 81 Union Avenue. He
-was born at Kingsey, Que., on August 3, 1845, the son of the Rev. John
-Butler, M.A., and educated at the University of Toronto and McGill
-University, Montreal, taking the B.C.L. degree in 1865 and receiving
-that of D.C.L. in 1880. During 1862 and 1863, he acted as Private
-Secretary to Sir John Abbott, afterward Prime Minister of Canada, and at
-that time Solicitor-General of Quebec Province. He was called to the
-Quebec Bar in August, 1866, and created Queen’s Counsel in 1887. He was
-first associated with the firm of Rose (late Sir John Rose) & Ritchie,
-Advocates, Montreal, and later with the late E. J. Hemming, Q.C., at
-Drummondville, Que. After residing at Melbourne, Que., for a time, he
-returned to Montreal in 1870, where he has ever since practised. Until
-1881 he was in partnership with the late John Monk, and since then has
-practised for the most part alone. He was Councillor for the
-municipality of Longueuil from 1874-77, and also served as School
-Trustee there. Col. Butler long took an active part in military affairs,
-and commanded the Prince of Wales’ Regiment from 1889 to 1898. He
-organized and became the first president of the Montreal Amalgamated
-Rifle Association and the Montreal Military Institute. In politics he is
-a Conservative, and in religion an Anglican, having been a member of the
-Diocesan and Provincial Synods over thirty years. In Free Masonry, he
-was Grand Master in 1894, and has been for many years Chairman of the
-Committee on Jurisprudence of the Grand Lodge of Quebec. In August,
-1870, he married a daughter of the late Valentine Cooke, of
-Drummondville, Que., and his home address is 52 Fort Street, Montreal.
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-
-=McEvoy, John Millar, B.A., LL.B.= (London, Ont.), is one of the best
-known barristers in the Western section of the province, and a man of
-unusual scholastic attainments. He was born at Caradoc, Middlesex
-County, in 1864, the son of A. M. and Sarah (Northcott) McEvoy—his
-father coming of a family in County Down, Ireland. He was educated at
-the Strathroy Collegiate Institute, the University of Toronto, and the
-Ontario Law School, taking the B.A. degree in 1892 and LL.B. in 1893. As
-a student, he was a marked man among the faculty, because of his
-originality of mind and intellectual power, and on graduation was
-elected a Fellow in Political Science at Toronto University, and in that
-capacity taught Canadian constitutional history there. On the retirement
-of Prof. W. J. Ashley, who had been at the head of the Political Science
-Department, he was placed in temporary charge pending the arrival of
-Prof. Mavor, the new incumbent from Scotland. He afterward continued as
-lecturer under Prof. Mavor for one year. At this period he was a
-prolific writer of pamphlets and magazine essays. He is the author of
-“The Ontario Township: a History of the Growth of Municipal Institutions
-in the Province,” printed under Government auspices as the first of the
-Toronto University studies in political science. He also wrote an “Essay
-on Currency and Banking,” which was awarded the Ramsay Scholarship and
-printed at the request of the leading bankers of Canada. Another essay
-of his on “Karl Marx’s Theory of Value” was declared by Prof. Ashley to
-be the ablest exposition of the abstract theory of value that it had
-been his good fortune to have heard or read on any occasion. At the
-invitation of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, he
-contributed a series of articles to their publication, “Annals,” upon
-subjects of economic and historical importance—to Canadians especially.
-On giving up his academic career in the middle nineties he returned to
-Middlesex County, and settled down to the practice of law in London,
-Ont., where he has ever since resided. As a barrister, he has been
-identified with many important cases. He was associated with the late E.
-F. B. Johnston, K.C., in the defence of Gerald Sifton, charged with the
-murder of his father, which ran through three trials and finally
-resulted in the acquittal of the accused. He was also associated with
-Mr. Johnston and Mr. W. R. (now Justice) Riddell, K.C., as one of the
-counsel for Hon. J. R. Stratton in the Royal Commission to investigate a
-charge of attempted bribery, preferred by the late R. R. Gamey, M.P.P.
-for Manitoulin. This was a political _cause célèbre_, and resulted in a
-victory for the defence. For a quarter of a century, Mr. McEvoy has been
-intimately associated with the fortunes of the Liberal party in his
-district. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the House of Commons in
-East Middlesex in the general elections of 1904, and for London in the
-general elections of 1911. At the Ontario elections of 1908 he also
-contested the London seat against Sir Adam Beck, but was defeated. Mr.
-McEvoy is a strong advocate of the tariff-for-revenue-only principle and
-of an Anglo-Saxon alliance, and is a member of the Ontario Club,
-Toronto, a headquarters of Liberalism. In 1894 he married a daughter of
-John Anderson, of East Williams, Ont. He has one son, Captain A. M.
-McEvoy, of the C.E.F., and one daughter, Miss Gladys, at home.
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-=Chambers, Col. Ernest John.= Col. Ernest John Chambers, Gentleman Usher
-of the Black Rod, was appointed to that position March 1st, 1904. He is
-the son of Edward Thomas and Louisa Percy (Davies) Chambers and was born
-in Penkridge, Staffordshire, England, April 16th, 1862, coming to Canada
-in 1870. He was educated at the Prince Albert School, St. Henri, Quebec,
-and the Montreal High School. Col. Chambers belongs to the same family
-as Captain Chambers, R.N., who commanded the flotilla on Lake Champlain
-during the Revolutionary War with the now United States of America.
-Captain Chambers, afterwards Admiral, served as a midshipman under
-Captain Cook at the great siege and taking of Quebec. Another of the
-same family was an officer in the British Army, took part in most of the
-fighting in the Niagara Peninsula, 1812-13, and was taken prisoner.
-When, February 3, 1916, fire destroyed the Parliament Buildings at
-Ottawa, the Black Rod, the emblem of authority carried by the Gentleman
-Usher of the Black Rod, was burnt, and Col. Chambers was ordered to
-procure a new one. The new emblem, which was subscribed for by the
-members of the United Kingdom Branch of the Empire Parliamentary
-Association, is similar to the Black Rods of the House of Lords and the
-Senates of Australia and South Africa, is made of ebony with the “Lyon”
-crest, butt piece and knob of solid gold, and bears wreaths of maple
-leaves. The shield is engraved with the royal monogram, and the butt
-piece contains a sovereign of the year 1904, when Col. Chambers was
-appointed, and the coin is to pass to his family as an heirloom. In 1885
-Col. Chambers acted as field correspondent for the “Montreal Star”
-during the Riel insurrection, and served as a volunteer galloper to
-General Middleton at Batoche and Fish Creek, and wears the medal and
-clasp, the Long Service Medal, and the Colonial Auxiliary Forces
-Officers’ Decoration. He participated in the operations against Big
-Bear’s band of Indians. In 1888-9 Col. Chambers was Managing-Director
-and Editor of the “Calgary Herald,” and for two years was joint
-proprietor and editor of the Canadian “Military Gazette.” Since 1912
-Col. Chambers has been Secretary of the Canadian Branch Empire
-Parliamentary Association. Since 1908 he has been editor of the Canadian
-Parliamentary Guide. He has done good work in the field of Literature
-and is the historian of several of our most distinguished Canadian
-Regiments. In fact he has been a prominent and clever contributor to a
-variety of publications on Parliamentary, historical, military, hunting
-and yachting subjects. He is the author of many books on historical and
-military subjects. He was connected with the Canadian Militia for many
-years. When but a boy Col. Chambers commanded the Montreal High School
-Cadet Rifles. Later, in 1902, he became Captain and Adjutant of the 6th
-Fusiliers, Montreal, now the Grenadier Guards of Canada. In 1910 he was
-appointed District Intelligence Officer, Montreal, with the rank of
-Captain in the Corps of Guides and was promoted to Major in 1911,
-Lieut.-Col. in 1915, Colonel in 1917. In August, 1914, at the outbreak
-of the great war, Col. Chambers was appointed Censor at the Military
-Headquarters in Ottawa, and July 15th, 1915, Chief Press Censor for
-Canada, and continued to perform his duties as such. In the discharge of
-his duties he proved an ideal officer, and his name was brought to the
-attention of the Secretary of State for War for distinguished service.
-August 31, 1898, Col. Chambers married Bertha Macmillan, of Kingston,
-Ontario. He has one son and one daughter. He is a member of the Royal
-Ottawa Golf, the Rivermead Golf and the Coulonge Fish and Game Clubs.
-For recreation he indulges in shooting, fishing, yachting, and golf. He
-resides at 325 Daly Ave., Ottawa, Ontario.
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-=Elliot, Maj.-General Harry Macintire, C.M.G.=, Master-General of
-Ordnance, Headquarters Staff, Ottawa, is one of those officers
-originally trained in the Imperial Army, who did much to create the
-machinery which enabled Canada to play her part as a fighting element
-from the earlier stages of the great war. He is a son of General Elliot,
-a retired officer of the Imperial Army, and was born at Bangalore,
-India, where his father was at that time stationed, on December 3, 1867.
-He was educated at Carshalton School, England, and the Royal Military
-Academy, Woolwich. He was gazetted as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal
-Artillery, February 17, 1888, and a Lieutenant three years later. He was
-promoted to the rank of Captain in the Royal Artillery on August 17,
-1898. He saw active service in South Africa 1900, and China (Boxer
-Rebellion) 1900-1901. On return to England he was appointed Instructor
-in Gunnery, Chatham (Eng.), in 1901, and on June 1, 1905, was made an
-Instructor of the First Class, continuing in that capacity until March
-29, 1906, when he was attached to the Military Forces of Canada as
-Instructor in Gunnery. He continued in that capacity until March 29,
-1909. On June 9, 1908, he was promoted simultaneously to the rank of
-Major in the Royal Artillery (Imperial) and the Canadian Permanent
-Forces. He returned to England in 1909, and was stationed in Ireland
-till 1911. On May 1, 1911, he became Director of Artillery on the
-Headquarters Staff, Ottawa. He was promoted to the rank of
-Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel, on June 9, 1912, and became
-Assistant-Adjutant General of Military District No. 2 (Toronto) on March
-1, 1913. On May 17, 1915, he became full Colonel, and on March 31, 1916,
-was appointed Master-General of Ordnance with the rank of
-Brigadier-General. On November 29 of the same year he became temporary
-Major-General. During the war he was for a short time on active service
-overseas, and was honoured by his Majesty with the decoration of a
-Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George.
-On January 10, 1899, General Elliot married a daughter of Dr. W. N.
-Wickwire, of Halifax, N.S. Mrs. Elliot died in 1911, leaving four
-children—Irene (b. 1900, died 1916), William (b. 1902), Aileen (b.
-1905), Violet (b. 1908). His favourite recreations are riding and
-golfing, and he belongs to the Army and Navy Club (London, Eng.) and the
-Rideau and Country Clubs (Ottawa). In religion he is an Anglican.
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-=Duclos, Arnold Willard, B.A., B.C.L., K.C.= (Ottawa, Ont.),
-Deputy-Registrar of the Exchequer Court of Canada, is the son of Rev. R.
-P. Duclos (Canadian) and Sophie Jeanrenaud, of Geneve, Switzerland. He
-was born at Ste. Hyacinthe, Quebec, April 7, 1873, and was educated at
-the High School and McGill University, Montreal, and graduated in arts
-in 1894 and in law in 1897, and received the degrees of B.A. and B.C.L.
-Called to the Quebec Bar in 1898, he practised in Montreal for a short
-time and then left for Ottawa, where he practised with Mr. Henry Aylen,
-K.C., under the firm name of Aylen & Duclos, barristers, advocates,
-etc., and was associated with Mr. Aylen in several important cases in
-the districts of Ottawa and Pontiac. He was made a King’s Counsel in
-1911. In 1915, Mr. Duclos joined the legal firm of Devlin & Ste. Marie,
-Hull, Quebec, and in 1918 assisted, in various professional capacities,
-in the matter of exemptions in the Central Court of Appeal (Judge Duff).
-In January, 1919, he started to practise alone, and in the following
-June was appointed Deputy-Registrar of the Exchequer Court of Canada,
-and Official Law Reporter of the Exchequer Court Reports. Mr. Duclos
-practised before the Supreme and Exchequer Courts, and acted as counsel
-in divorce matters before the Senate Divorce Committee. From 1905 to his
-appointment as Deputy-Registrar, he was Assistant-Editor of Official
-Reports of the Province of Quebec. He also revised and edited the sixth
-edition of “How Canada is Governed,” by Sir J. G. Bourinot. Having
-previously held various other offices, in 1918 Mr. Duclos was elected
-President of the Ottawa Valley Graduates Society of McGill. He is an
-officer of the University Club of Ottawa, President of St. Andrew’s
-Church Choir; a Director of the Ottawa Choral Society, and a prominent
-figure in the several musical organizations of Ottawa, and is a member
-of the Rideau Lawn Tennis Club. Hon. Mr. Justice Duclos is a brother.
-September, 1900, Mr. Duclos married Grace Van Dusen, daughter of the
-late Thomas J. Gillelan, of the American Bank Note Company. They have
-two daughters, Elise Adrienne and Madeleine G. For recreation, he takes
-pleasure in tennis, fishing, and music. He is a Presbyterian in
-religion, and his residence is 152 James Street, Ottawa, Ontario,
-Canada.
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-=Hogg, William Drummond, K.C.=, barrister-at-law, Ottawa, is one of the
-most distinguished figures in Canadian legal circles. He was born at
-Perth, Lanark County, Ont., on February 29, 1848, the son of David Hogg,
-a prominent furniture manufacturer of that town. His father was a son of
-Lieut. David Hogg, of Edinburgh, Scotland, who became an officer of the
-Royal Artillery, and in that capacity took part in the siege of
-Copenhagen, and was present at the Battle of the Pyramids, the Battle of
-the Nile, and other historic engagements of the Napoleonic wars. James
-Hogg, the Scottish poet and the “Ettrick Shepherd” of “Noctes
-Ambrosianæ,” was a relative. David Hogg (who died in 1882) came to
-Canada just fifty years previously and became one of the pioneer
-settlers of Lanark County, where, at the village of Perth, he
-established the industry above-mentioned. The mother of the subject of
-this sketch, Isabella Inglis, was a native of Clackmannan, Scotland, who
-came to Canada in 1831 and settled with relatives in Lanark village.
-These relatives were the Hall family, with branches in many parts of
-Upper Canada, and whose name is identified with the early history of
-such towns and cities as Peterboro, Sarnia, Brockville, and Perth. She
-died in 1881. Mr. Hogg was educated at the High School, Perth, Ont., and
-commenced the study of law in the office of E. G. Malloch, Crown
-Attorney for Lanark County. Subsequently, he spent several years in the
-offices of Paterson, Bain & Paterson, Toronto, and was called to the
-Ontario Bar at Hilary term, 1874. He commenced practice at Ottawa in
-1875 in partnership with the late Daniel O’Connor. For some years after
-the death of the latter he practised alone, but on the admission of his
-son to the Bar the firm became Hogg & Hogg. The practice of Mr. Hogg has
-largely lain in the Supreme and Exchequer Courts of Canada, and he is a
-recognized authority on questions of prerogative and constitutional law.
-Though a Conservative in party leanings, he has never sought political
-office, and one of the convincing proofs of his professional standing is
-the fact that during the Liberal _régime_ of Sir Wilfrid Laurier his
-services were frequently sought in connection with important and
-intricate Government litigation. He is a member of St. Andrews Society
-of Ottawa, and was for many years solicitor of that body. He has also
-had the honour of being elected by his fellow barristers a Bencher of
-the Law Society of Upper Canada and is now a life Bencher of that
-Society, and was some years ago created King’s Counsel. When the late
-James Bethune, K.C., of Toronto, a relative by marriage, passed away, a
-long friendship of the most intimate personal, and professional
-character was severed. Mr. Hogg holds very strong views on the subject
-of temperance, and at various times held all the executive offices of
-the Sons of Temperance. He married Louisa Agnes, daughter of Dr. Charles
-Rattray, of Cornwall, Ont., and has two sons. His business address is
-the Trust Building, Ottawa.
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-=Gwynne, Brigadier-General Reginald John, C.M.G.=,
-Deputy-Adjutant-General for Canada, Headquarters Staff, Ottawa, is a
-native of the motherland, but has been intimately identified with the
-marvellous development of Canada’s military power during the past few
-years. He was born in London, England, on September 16, 1863, the son of
-the late J. E. A. Gwynne, J.P., F.S.A., F.R.S., etc., of Folkington
-Manor, Polegate, Sussex, England, and his wife, Mary Earle Purvis. He
-was educated at Cheam, Eton, and Pembroke College, Oxford. After coming
-to Canada, he became identified with the Active Militia of this country,
-and commanded the 16th Horse, a Western organization, from 1907 to 1911.
-In 1911 and 1912, he was in command of the 7th Cavalry Brigade, and in
-1913 he was appointed to the Headquarters Staff at Ottawa as Director of
-Cadet Services for the Dominion. In 1914, the year of the outbreak of
-the great war, he became Director of Mobilization, with the rank of
-Brevet-Colonel and in that capacity performed very important services in
-connection with the organization of Canada’s overseas forces. In 1916,
-he was promoted to the rank of Director-General of Mobilization, a post
-he filled until the close of the war, and in the following year raised
-to the rank of Brigadier-General. In 1919 he was appointed
-Deputy-Adjutant-General for Canada. In recognition of his services he
-was created by His Majesty a Companion of the Most Distinguished Order
-of St. Michael and St. George. On May 16, 1894, he married Mary Mayall,
-daughter of S. Taylor, J.P., and Janet Mayall Taylor, of Hathershaw,
-Oldham, England, and has one daughter, Evelyn Violet. In religion he is
-an adherent of the Church of England, and he is a member of the Rideau
-Club, Ottawa.
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-=King, Hon. William Lyon Mackenzie, C.M.G.= (Ottawa, Ont.), Leader of
-the Liberal Party of Canada, was born at Berlin (now Kitchener), Ont.,
-on December 17, 1874, the son of John King, K.C., and his wife, Isabel
-Grace, daughter of William Lyon Mackenzie. He was educated at Toronto
-University (B.A. 1895; LL.B. 1896; M.A. 1897), the University of
-Chicago, and Harvard University (A.M. 1898; Ph.D. 1909). He was one of
-the first Canadian students to specialize in social science. For a time
-he was a reporter on various Toronto newspapers. In 1900, when Sir
-William Mulock, then Postmaster-General in the Laurier Cabinet,
-established the Federal Department of Labour, Mr. King was chosen as
-Deputy-Minister to organize it. In 1908, he was elected to the House of
-Commons for the riding of North Waterloo, and subsequently was promoted
-by Sir Wilfrid Laurier to the post of Minister of Labour. He was
-defeated, in company with the majority of Liberal candidates, in the
-Federal elections in 1911. During his years of service in the Labour
-Department, Mr. King was responsible for much important permanent
-legislation with regard to industrial disputes, immigration, and the
-opium traffic, and served on numerous Royal Commissions on matters
-pertaining to Labour and to the problem of Oriental Immigration. On
-different occasions, he represented Canada on important missions to
-England. In 1909, he was appointed by the Imperial Government one of the
-British representatives on the Anti-Opium Commission, which met at
-Shanghai, China. In June of 1914, he was appointed Director of an
-Investigation of Industrial Relations under the auspices of the
-Rockefeller Foundation. In this position, he was instrumental in
-bringing about better relations between employers and employees in the
-coal mines of Colorado, where for years there had been serious
-industrial strife. Throughout the period of the War, he rendered a like
-service to several other of the largest industries in America engaged in
-the production of war necessities. His researches were subsequently
-incorporated in a volume entitled “Industry and Humanity,” which has
-obtained international recognition as one of the most searching and
-advanced considerations of an all-important question. Mr. King has
-always maintained his connection with the Canadian Liberal Party. From
-1911 to 1914, he was President of the Ontario Reform Association. In
-December, 1917, he was the Liberal candidate in North York. At the
-National Liberal Convention, held in Ottawa, August, 1919, he was
-elected Leader of the Liberal Party in succession to the late Sir
-Wilfrid Laurier. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a
-member of the following clubs—Rideau (Ottawa), Ontario (Toronto),
-Century (New York), Harvard (Boston and New York). He is a Presbyterian
-in religion and unmarried.
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-=Hanna (the late), Hon. William John, K.C., M.P.P.= (Sarnia Ont.), was
-born in Adelaide township, County of Middlesex, Ont., on October 13,
-1862, the son of George and Jane (Murdock) Hanna. The son of a farmer,
-he was educated at the local schools and soon developed great capacity
-as a student, and decided to put himself through for the legal
-profession, graduating from Osgoode Hall, Toronto. He was called to the
-Bar in 1890, and commenced the practice of law as a barrister at Sarnia,
-Ont., eventually becoming head of the firm of H. Le Sueur and McKinley
-of that place, and was created a K.C. in 1908. He soon became active
-with the Conservative party, and in 1896 became the candidate of that
-party for the House of Commons in West Lambton against the late Justice
-Lister, and was defeated. His party still had confidence in him, and in
-1900 he was again nominated for the Federal House and again defeated,
-West Lambton always having been a great Liberal stronghold. Two years
-later, in 1902, Mr. Whitney, then leader of the Opposition in Ontario,
-in looking for a strong man to help him in Western Ontario, prevailed
-upon Mr. Hanna to run for the Provincial Legislature and undertake the
-work of organizing Western Ontario. He accepted, made an amazing
-turnover in that portion of the Liberal stamping grounds, was elected,
-and came to Toronto in 1905. When the Conservative government came into
-power, Mr. Whitney invited him to become one of his cabinet, and he
-chose the portfolio of Provincial Secretary, as in this position his
-duties would neither come in contact or conflict with the position he
-held as chief legal adviser to the largest oil corporation in Canada.
-His public life was free from reproach of mixing up private interests
-and friendships with his public duties, and as a legal practitioner an
-extraordinary fact is recorded of him: that while representing one of
-the most important corporations in the country, no case he had to handle
-ever went into court; he had a singular and commendable theory that it
-was the duty of a lawyer to keep his clients out of court. He was
-elected again to the Ontario Legislature in 1908 and 1911, and appointed
-a member of the Inter-Provincial Conference held at Ottawa in 1910. His
-desire for a rest and to complete his great work in connection with his
-pet hobby of prison reform led him to decline a portfolio when the
-Hearst government was formed, although he remained in the cabinet as
-minister without portfolio; and in connection with his services as a
-public servant in Ontario, it may be said that, though not a
-prohibitionist by conviction, he was the most efficient administrator of
-the liquor license system that this country has ever known. He created
-the machinery for the administration of the prohibition law, which has
-proved as effective as was possible. His natural taste for politics did
-not die out on his retirement from office, and he became one of Sir
-Robert Borden’s most trusted private advisers on public policy. He
-perfected a system of prison reform which, perhaps, is the most sensible
-and humane prison system in the world; in fact, his ten years or more of
-service given to the Province of Ontario as administrator of its public
-charities, its license laws, its prisons, asylums, and other
-institutions, constitute a record so progressive and enlightened that
-the full value of his services will long continue to be recognized by
-sociologists with a habit for research. In 1917, Sir Robert Borden
-induced him to accept the post of Food Controller of Canada; and Mr.
-Hanna at once applied himself to the task of organizing that department,
-making his single aim the increase of production and the conserving of
-foodstuffs in order to ensure a steady supply to the soldiers in the
-field and the civilian populations of Britain, France and Italy. He
-encountered great difficulties owing to the misapprehension of the
-public, which demanded a reduction of prices, a measure that, by
-increasing consumption, would have defeated the above-named object. He
-however, refused to be moved by popular clamor, and in co-operation with
-Mr. H. H. Hoover rendered great service toward relieving the overseas
-populations of the danger of starvation. His exertions told on his
-physique, and early in 1918 he resigned this office, leaving it well
-organized for his successor. On the retirement of Mr. Walter C. Teagle
-from the post of President of the Imperial Oil Company to become
-President of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, Mr. Hanna was
-elected his successor. In that capacity, he, in December, 1918,
-introduced the Industrial Relationship plan in all the plants of the
-Company from coast to coast, and also a series of sickness, death and
-insurance benefits for workmen. Grief at the death of his only son,
-Flight-Lieutenant Neil Hanna, who was killed by accident in Italy in
-November, 1918, a few days after the signing of the armistice,
-undermined his health, and on March 20, 1919, he died suddenly while on
-a vacation in Georgia. When he was borne to his last resting-place at
-Sarnia, his funeral was attended by public men from all parts of Canada
-and many sections of the United States. The late Mr. Hanna was twice
-married: first to Jean J. Neil, who died in 1891, leaving one son, the
-late Neil Hanna; and secondly to Maud McAdams, by whom he had two
-daughters. In religion he was a Methodist, and a member of many
-important clubs and philanthropic organizations.
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-
-=Gale, Robert Henry=, one of the leading public men of Vancouver, of
-which city he has been a resident for nearly a decade, is a native of
-the city of Quebec. After an excellent business training in the ancient
-capital of Canada, he went to British Columbia in 1910, and located at
-Vancouver. He engaged in business as a contractor, and is at present
-manager of the British Columbia Contractor’s Supply Company, Limited,
-one of the largest enterprises of its kind in the province. Less than
-five years ago he entered municipal politics, and was elected alderman
-for 1916 and 1917. His services during his comparatively brief term on
-the City Council made him so widely popular that his friends urged him
-to run for Mayor in 1918. He accepted the nomination, and in January of
-that year was elected over the retiring mayor, Mr. Malcolm McBeath, who
-had sought re-election, by a majority of 300, the largest ever given to
-a mayoralty aspirant in the history of Vancouver. In January, 1919, he
-was re-elected by acclamation, it being generally conceded that it would
-be futile for any rival to contest the office with him. In April of
-1919, the provincial government of which Hon. John Oliver is the head
-appointed him to the newly-created office of Public Utilities
-Commissioner for British Columbia. By the tax-paying public, the
-appointment was considered an admirable one, because of the high
-capacity Mr. Gale had revealed as a municipal administrator. The Great
-War Veterans’ Association, however, made a vigorous protest on the
-ground that all new offices within the gift of the government should go
-to returned soldiers. The Oliver administration deemed it necessary to
-yield to the agitation, and cancelled the appointment of Mr. Gale,
-accepting the nominee of the G.W.V.A., Lieutenant-Colonel Retallick, a
-civil engineer by profession, who had rendered excellent service
-overseas. Under the circumstances, the cancellation of the appointment
-was in no sense a reflection on the character or capacity of Mr. Gale.
-In politics the latter is a Liberal, but has never sought election as a
-political candidate. During the general strike that was started in
-Vancouver during the early summer of 1919 as an outgrowth of a general
-strike at Winnipeg and other Western towns, Mr. Gale showed great tact
-and firmness in handling a very difficult situation, so that the attempt
-to disorganize municipal government and upset the present economic
-system was of comparatively brief duration.
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-
-=Elson, John Melbourne= (St. Catharines, Ont.), was born in Byron, Ont.,
-Dec. 25th, 1880. Son of George and Charlotte (Wilkin) Elson. Educated at
-London, Ont., Collegiate Institute and Western University of that city.
-He entered journalism in 1903 as a member of the staff of the London
-“News,” since merged, and thereafter his rise was rapid. Shortly joined
-the staff of the Montreal “Gazette” and in 1905 during the late Joseph
-Chamberlain’s Tariff Reform Campaign he went to Great Britain to study
-political and economic conditions and wrote special articles thereon to
-Canadian papers. On his return to Canada he became a member of the staff
-of the Toronto “Globe” and in 1907 was appointed editor of the Toronto
-“Sunday World.” Subsequently in 1909 he became Assistant Managing
-Director of the World Publishing Company, and in 1910 purchased the St.
-Catharines “Evening Journal” which he has ever since conducted. Mr.
-Elson is a terse and gifted writer, with a wide fund of information. He
-has travelled considerably on this continent and abroad, and is a gifted
-public speaker. When acting as a newspaper correspondent he secured the
-only interview granted by Baron Komura, the Japanese plenipotentiary,
-who negotiated the peace treaty between Japan and Russia at Portsmouth,
-New Hampshire, except the official statement given to the Associated
-Press in the United States. Since becoming a resident of St. Catharines,
-he has been active in public affairs, and in patriotic objects like the
-Red Cross and the Canadian Patriotic Fund. He was elected Mayor of St.
-Catharines, Jan. 1st, 1919, by an unusually large majority. He is a
-member of the Council of the Board of Trade; and has served as President
-of the St. Catharines Canadian Club, and was for seven years President
-of the Lincoln County Liberal Association. He was formerly
-Vice-President of the Niagara District Hydro Radial Union, and has been
-an active member of Soldiers’ Aid Commission ever since it was organized
-in St. Catharines in the early part of war. He is a member of the
-Masonic Order. In 1911 he published a brochure, “Reciprocity, The
-Outcome of Evolution” which had a wide circulation in Canada and the
-United States. For two years he was a member of the Collegiate Institute
-Board. Was made member of the Advisory Council of the Repatriation
-Committee of the Dominion of Canada. In religion he is an Anglican and
-in September, 1907, married Wilhelmina M., daughter of W. M. Faulds of
-Mount Brydges, Ont., and has two children: a son and a daughter.
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-=Gill, Robert=, of Ottawa, a gentleman well known to the seniors of
-Canadian finance, is one of the best known citizens of the Canadian
-capital, where he has resided since 1876. He has been especially
-identified with the history of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, of which
-institution he was a trusted officer for over forty years. He was born
-at Dundas, Ont., on September 30, 1851, the son of William and Alison
-(Sanderson) Gill, both his parents being of Scottish Border origin. He
-was educated at Upper Canada College, Toronto, and entered the service
-of the Bank of Commerce at the age of nineteen. This was in 1870, and
-the Bank was but three years old. In its expansion during the next few
-years Mr. Gill actively participated; his promotions were rapid, and in
-1874 he was appointed manager of the Galt, Ont., branch. In 1876 he was
-transferred to the Ottawa branch, which was regarded as one of the most
-important in the Bank of Commerce chain of agencies. In 1880 he was
-appointed an Inspector of the Bank and retained that position until 1887
-when he was appointed Manager of the Ottawa branch, which had attained a
-very important position in the financial life of the capital. Under his
-regime it attained a wide expansion of business and he continued to
-direct its affairs until 1911, when he retired on pension after
-forty-one years’ service. During his career with the Bank of Commerce he
-proved himself not only a practical banker with a complete understanding
-of the needs of the business community, but an able thinker and essayist
-on financial questions. Among his publications was one on the subject of
-Post Office Savings Banks reprinted in the “Canadian Banker’s Journal”
-for the use of the United States Currency Commission. Since his
-retirement from active business he has lent his services and influence
-to the promotion of patriotic and other objects of public welfare, and
-during the late war was Vice-President of the Executive of the Ottawa
-branch of the Canadian Patriotic Fund. He is also a Life Governor and
-Vice-President of St. Luke’s Hospital in that city, and in June, 1916,
-was appointed a member of the Military Hospitals Commission. From 1899
-to 1906 he was honorary captain and paymaster of the Governor-General’s
-Foot Guards. He is a prominent figure in the social life of his chosen
-city, and in 1914 was elected President of the Rideau Club of Ottawa, a
-position he still holds at the time of writing. He is also a member of
-the following other clubs: Country (Ottawa), St. James (Montreal), York
-(Toronto), Ottawa Golf, R.C.Y.C. (Toronto) and the Constitutional
-(London, Eng.). He is a Past President of the Ottawa Literary and
-Scientific Society, member of St. Andrew’s Society (Ottawa), the Royal
-Canadian Institute and the Archæological Society of America, and a life
-member of the Royal Colonial Institute (England). His recreations are
-golf and angling; in religion he is an Anglican and in politics, a
-Conservative. Mr. Gill was first married on September 20, 1881, to
-Caroline, daughter of John Gilmour of “Marchmont,” Ottawa, by whom he
-has one surviving son, Major Allan Gilmour Gill, who during the late war
-commanded the 45th Battery, Canadian Field Artillery, overseas. This
-lady passed away on April 19, 1884, and Mr. Gill married again on
-November 20, 1899, Anna Louise, daughter of the late W. R. Thistle, by
-whom he has three sons, Henry Robert Thistle, Evan William Thistle and
-Francis Egan Thistle. His permanent residence is at 281 O’Connor Street,
-Ottawa, and he has a summer residence, “Gillcairn,” at St. Andrew’s,
-N.B.
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-=Wright, Alexander Whyte=, late Vice-Chairman Workmen’s Compensation
-Commission of Ontario, was born in the township of Markham, York County,
-Ontario, December 17, 1847, the son of George and Helen (Whyte) Wright,
-who came to Canada from Glasgow, Scotland, some years previously. He was
-educated in the public schools of New Hamburg, and after a short time in
-a drug store, learned the woollen business, later engaging in the
-woollen manufacturing business at Linwood, Waterloo County, and
-subsequently in Preston, St. Jacobs and Guelph. At an early age he
-joined the 29th Battalion, and responded to the call to arms for the
-Fenian raid. When the first Riel rebellion broke out he joined the Red
-River Expedition under General Sir Garnet Wolseley (afterwards British
-Commander-in-Chief Earl Wolseley), serving as a sergeant. On returning
-he rejoined the 29th Battalion as sergeant-major. In his later teens and
-early twenties he had quite a local reputation as a fine lacrosse player
-and fast runner. He had always been a great reader and taken an interest
-in politics, and in 1873 left the woollen business to become a reporter
-on the Guelph “Herald,” soon after being engaged as editor of the
-Orangeville “Sun.” He next edited the Stratford “Herald,” then the
-Guelph “Herald.” In 1878 he came to Toronto as editor and joint
-publisher of “The National,” making it an ardent advocate of the
-national policy, which the late Sir John A. Macdonald had adopted as his
-platform after having been urgently pressed to do so by a deputation
-consisting of the late Hon. Isaac Buchannan of Hamilton the late William
-Wallace, M.P. for Simcoe, the late John Maclean (father of W. F.
-Maclean, M.P. of the “World”), the late Thomas Cowan of Galt, the late
-W. H. Fraser and Mr. Wright. During the election campaign, he wrote many
-articles in the “National” that were extensively quoted by the
-Conservative press. Shortly after his return to power, Sir John A.
-Macdonald wrote Mr. Wright a letter in his own hand, in which he
-said:—“I wish to thank you most sincerely for your splendid work in the
-campaign which has just ended so satisfactorily. Your speeches and
-writings did more, I believe, than anything else to convert the people
-to protection. I only had the good fortune to hear you once—in the
-amphitheatre—but I was then struck with your wonderful grasp of the
-question and the extraordinary fund of information you possessed, and no
-less struck with the admirable way in which you marshalled your facts
-and presented your arguments. I hope to be able to express my gratitude
-to you in a more substantial way, and will be delighted if you will give
-me an opportunity to do so.” Mr. Wright returned to Guelph in 1879 as
-editor and joint publisher of the “Herald.” The proposed Government
-agreement for the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway did not meet
-with Mr. Wright’s approval, and, as the “Herald” had always been a
-Conservative paper, he gave up his interest in it, and wrote a series of
-articles published in the “Mercury,” advocating its being built and
-owned by the Government and paid for by a national currency—not notes
-or promises to pay, but bills of different denominations, reading “Legal
-tender for all debts, public and private.” He called a meeting to
-explain his plan in Guelph city hall, which was packed. At the
-conclusion of his address he moved a resolution calling on the
-Government to adopt the plan. On sitting down, the late Mr. Donald
-Guthrie—father of Hon. Hugh Guthrie, and at that time member of the
-legislature—arose and said that he had attended for the purpose of
-opposing the scheme, but Mr. Wright’s explanation had so clearly
-demonstrated its feasibility and incalculable value that he was
-converted to it, and had much pleasure in seconding the resolution. On
-those in favour being asked to raise their hands, the audience, with the
-exception of one man, rose to their feet and cheered for several
-minutes. In thanking the audience for their almost unanimous endorsation
-of this plan, Mr. Wright declared that the one exception was an
-unlooked-for further compliment. For his independent thought and action
-the “Mail” undertook to read Mr. Wright “out of the party.” Sir John A.
-Macdonald wrote Mr. Wright, repudiating its assumed authority,
-recognized his right to personal opinion, good standing as a
-Conservative, and assured him of his personal friendship, and continuing
-said: “I have read a report of your speech at Guelph, and, while I am
-sorry you saw occasion to make it, I confess I was struck with the plan
-you outline for the building of the railway. Possibly, under different
-conditions it might be practicable, but do not think it could be carried
-out now.” His ideas, however, were over a generation in advance of the
-people’s desire for public ownership, and, as a consequence private
-capitalists draw some $40,000,000 in bond interest and dividends yearly,
-besides adding large sums to reserve, which the people pay; while the
-people are out a huge land and money bonus, have neither the national
-railway nor a national currency, but instead a huge octopus of
-capitalists that dominates our legislation and is an ever-watchful and
-valiant defender of “vested rights”—whether rightly or wrongly
-obtained. Mr. Wright was invited to speak at the convention of the U.S.
-Greenbackers in Chicago in 1880, and accepted, as well as during the
-subsequent campaign. He returned to Toronto in 1881, and became
-editorial writer on the “World.” The following year he became Secretary
-of the Canadian Manufacturers Association, continuing till 1886, when,
-owing to the lines of cleavage between capital and labor becoming
-marked, he resigned and established the “Labor Reformer,” the first
-paper in Canada to advocate public ownership and a workmen’s
-compensation act. While secretary of the Canadian Manufacturers
-Association he drafted a factory act which he urged the Dominion
-Government to pass, providing equal protection and conditions to the
-workers in all provinces, as well as for manufacturers against unequal
-labor conditions. This the Government failed to adopt. The draft,
-however, was made the basis of the Factory Act passed by the Ontario
-Government shortly after; but this, of course, could give no protection
-to the Ontario manufacturer (and indirectly to the workers as well)
-against the longer hours and lower labor conditions obtaining in the
-Province of Quebec. In 1886, he was appointed Dominion Government agent
-for the Antwerp and the Indian and Colonial Exhibitions, and acted as
-one of four commissioners representing Canada in London at the latter.
-In 1887, he represented Toronto District Assembly at the General
-Assembly of the Knights of Labor, and was the first Canadian elected
-member of the General Executive Board, and immediately after was
-appointed editor of the “Journal of the Knights of Labor,” Philadelphia,
-official organ of the order, continuing to hold both positions till
-1892, when he removed to New York as editor of “The Craftsman.” In 1896,
-he was appointed by the Laurier Government special commissioner to
-investigate and report on the sweating system in Canada, and was
-subsequently asked by that Government to investigate and report on the
-Japanese difficulties in British Columbia, but was unable to accept.
-From 1898 to 1904, he was organizer of the Conservative party in
-Ontario, engaging in three campaigns, being in charge of the campaign
-that resulted in Sir James Whitney becoming Premier. For a number of
-years he was president of the Canadian Public Ownership League, which
-did valuable work in educating the public as to the advantages of the
-idea now so firmly rooted in the Province of Ontario. He was a candidate
-for the Ontario Legislature in West Toronto, on the public ownership
-platform in 1908, but was defeated in the three-cornered contest. In
-1910-11, he spent about eight months in Britain writing and speaking in
-the interest of Imperial preferential trade. On the Ontario Government
-in 1914 constituting a commission to put in operation the Workmen’s
-Compensation Act, Mr. Wright was appointed Vice-Chairman of the Board,
-his appointment said to be the last in which Sir James Whitney took any
-personal interest. The appointment met with the unanimous approval of
-organized labor. During the recruiting campaign, Mr. Wright took a very
-active and effective part in speaking throughout the city and elsewhere.
-He married, January 26, 1876, Elizabeth R., eldest daughter of the late
-Robert Simpson, at that time of Guelph, but formerly and latterly of
-Toronto. Mrs. Wright died in 1913. He is survived by his daughter, Mrs.
-W. E. Hunter of Toronto, a grandson and granddaughter, and a brother,
-Daniel W., of Cashmere, Washington, U.S. For some time he had been
-troubled with blood pressure and in September, 1918, sustained a slight
-stroke at his place in Niagara-on-the-Lake, where he delighted in birds,
-flowers, and fruit, in the cultivation of which he was well versed. In
-April he had a severe attack of neuritis, which, together with heart
-trouble, resulted in his death, June 12, 1919, at his home, 105
-Macdonnell Avenue, Toronto. Of him, Dr. James L. Hughes wrote: “A. W.
-Wright was a vitally progressive force in Canada for half a century. He
-was a true democrat who recognized the right of women as well as men to
-freedom. Few men of his time so fully represented and so powerfully
-expressed justice and consideration for others as the basis of
-brotherhood. He was a charming comrade, a faithful friend, and an
-eloquent orator. All who knew him were better for his influence. No man
-could think a mean or base thought in his presence.” In a touching
-letter to Mrs. Hunter from Washington, D.C., T. V. Powderly, formerly
-General Master Workman of the Knights of Labor, wrote, in answer to a
-notification of Mr. Wright’s death:—“It was withheld from me until this
-morning; for a good reason, I suppose. . . . Anyway, I want to remember
-your father as I last saw him at my home here four years ago. His going
-was a blow to you and all his friends. He drew his sunshine from no
-niggard store, and spread more of it across life’s dark pathway than any
-man I ever met. His picture, framed, had a vase of Marie Pavia roses
-before it this morning. I understood—for your father gave that rosebush
-to me thirty years ago, and when we moved here from Scranton in 1899 we
-took it with us; we call it Marie Pavia Wright. I have known your father
-for forty years, and though for part of that time we were officially
-associated in the K. of L., our friendship was confined within no
-official band. . . . For years I had a dream. It was that some day I
-could so manage as to live close to your father and John Devlin. D. died
-a year ago. Perhaps we may live together yet—who knows? Soon I shall
-take up the journey they have begun, and when that hour comes I hope it
-may be said of me as I now say of your father:—
-
- “Out through the portals of death he passed
- To that ultimate, Unknown land;
- The chart of right and of deeds well done,
- Held in his cold, dead hand.
- For the words he traced to his latest breath
- Are unclouded by wrong or ruth;
- And stamped on all, as he met his death,
- Was the seal of love and truth.”
-
-Writing in the “World,” W. F. Maclean, M.P., said “The late A. W. Wright
-was an able man who played a leading part in making the destiny of
-Canada. . . . He had wit, a beaming way, and a radiant kind of
-sociability.” The “Hamilton Herald” said:—“Few Canadians of the last
-generation contributed more to the upbuilding of Canada than A. W.
-Wright. Much of the success of the Workmen’s Compensation Act is due to
-his sagacity and clear, swift insight. As a newspaper writer Alex.
-Wright was one of the most forceful of his time. As a platform speaker,
-when dealing with a subject with which he was familiar, he was
-unsurpassed. He had bright, incisive style and a talent for keen
-analysis. He was at his best when heckled. He courted interruption, for
-no one could get the better of him in a clash of wits.” In a review of
-his career, “Saturday Night” spoke of him as “a man of remarkable
-intellectual powers and charming personality,” and of his youth, “he
-made a hobby of economics and by the time he was thirty was recognized
-as one of the ablest writers and speakers on such subjects in this
-country.” When nickel was discovered in Ontario he urged on the
-government to establish a customs smelter to treat it, to sell at cost
-to actual users of it in Canada, and to place a heavy export duty on it,
-thereby giving Canadians a great advantage in manufacturing high-grade
-machinery of nickel steel, thus greatly stimulating industry here, and
-assuring Canada millions of dollars annually from export duty on nickel
-which outsiders must have at any cost. Instead of this a foreign concern
-was given a practical monopoly to refine Canadian nickel in the U.S.
-with the right to sell to Germany or any other enemy of Canada and the
-empire. Both as writer and speaker he was keenly analytical, logical,
-and constructive in his chosen style, but in dealing with an unfair
-opponent he was equally at home in using forceful denunciation, bitter
-irony, scorching sarcasm, or ludicrous burlesque, while in flashing and
-apt repartee he was unrivalled. He was widely read in prose and poetry,
-and, possessing a remarkable memory and facile power of expression, was
-a charming conversationalist, usually the centre of a group of
-appreciative auditors in any informal gathering. As raconteur he was
-inimitable. Continual optimism, constant cheerfulness, and unvarying
-kindliness were his outstanding characteristics, and won for him the
-friendship of all who knew him.
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-
-=Roche, Francis James= (Toronto, Ont.), Clerk of Assize of the Supreme
-Court of Ontario, was Conservative candidate for Parliament in West
-Ontario in 1900, as also for North Toronto 1904, opposing Sir William
-Mulock, then Postmaster-General. He practised law in Toronto for several
-years, and served as a member of the Collegiate Institute Board of
-Trustees of Toronto from 1902 to 1905. He was appointed Official Referee
-of the Supreme Court in 1914. Mr. Roche was born at Whitby, Ont.,
-October 10, 1865, the son of John R. Richmond Roche, M.A., and Sarah
-Danford Bryan Roche. He was educated at the Toronto Collegiate Institute
-and University College, graduating as B.A. in 1886 and as M.A. with
-honours in Natural Sciences in the following year. He married Lena,
-daughter of Hon. Theodore Bruere, attorney-at-law, St. Charles, Mo.,
-U.S.A., and State Senator of Missouri, November 28, 1894. Mr. Roche is a
-Past-President of the United Irish League of Toronto, and is a member of
-the Canadian Military Institute and Empire Club of Toronto. He joined
-“K” Company, Queen’s Own Rifles in 1882, and served later in the
-Cavalry, retiring in 1910 from the Governor-General’s Body Guard with
-the rank of Major. An Anglican in religion and a Conservative in
-politics.
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-
-=Whitney, Edwin Canfield= (Ottawa, Ont.), one of the leading capitalists
-of that city, and especially identified with the Canadian lumbering
-industry. He was born at Williamsburg, Ont., in the St. Lawrence Valley,
-on October 29, 1844, the son of Richard Leet and Clarissa Jane (Fairman)
-Whitney. The Whitney family is of United Empire Loyalist stock and
-descended from Henry Whitney, who came to New England from
-Herefordshire, England, in 1640. The late Sir James Whitney, Prime
-Minister of Ontario from 1905 to 1914 was an elder brother of the
-subject of this sketch. Edwin Canfield Whitney was educated at the
-public schools of his district, and subsequently moved to Minneapolis,
-Minn., where he engaged in the lumbering industry, and in the course of
-years built up a substantial fortune. He later removed to Ottawa, where
-he engaged in the lumber business as General Manager of the St. Anthony
-Lumber Company, Ltd., until 1912, when he retired from active business
-with the winding up of the company. He is also Vice-President of the
-Crow’s Nest Pass Coal Company. He was also one of the directors of the
-Keewatin Flour Mills Company, Ltd. He is a Director of the Bank of
-Ottawa and of the Toronto General Trusts Company, Ltd. The
-philanthropies of Mr. Whitney have been of a most enlightened character.
-He is one of the Governors of Protestant General Hospital, Ottawa, and
-in 1905 erected at an expense of $68,000 and presented to the University
-of Toronto a residence for male students. In the same year he was
-appointed a Trustee of the University Residence Fund, and in 1906 became
-one of the Governors of the University proper. Among his other gifts to
-the institution have been a valuable collection of works on Egypt and
-its antiquities, now in the University library. In 1911, he made a
-standing offer of $30,000 toward the erection of a general hospital in
-Ottawa, if the balance of the required sum could be raised. The
-good-heartedness and generosity of Mr. Whitney in connection with
-charities is indeed proverbial with all who know him, and during the
-great war his gifts to patriotic and other funds were on a generous
-scale. In association with Mrs. Whitney, he gave $5,000 to Trinity
-University (of which his brother, Sir James Whitney, was a distinguished
-graduate), and also a memorial church to the Anglican parish of
-Williamsburg, Ont., of which he was a member when a boy. Mr. Whitney is
-an adherent of the Anglican communion, and has on many occasions been a
-delegate to the Synods of that church. In March, 1879, he married Sarah,
-widow of the late Glossop McQuire, C.E., and daughter of the late J. P.
-Chrysler, M.P.P. Mrs. Whitney is also interested in philanthropic
-effort, and has been especially active in the Ottawa Humane Society. In
-politics Mr. Whitney is an independent. He is a member of the Masonic
-order and of the Country and Hunt Clubs, Ottawa.
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-
-=Vaughan, Marshall= (Welland, Ont.), is one of the leading business men
-of the Niagara peninsula, and was born at Elcho, Gainsboro township,
-Lincoln County, Ont., on March 16, 1884. His father was Wilford Vaughan,
-and his mother’s maiden name was Orpha Augusta Evans. The Vaughans and
-the Evans were United Empire Loyalists, who came to Canada from New
-Jersey and Virginia after the American Revolution, and the names in both
-cases indicate Welsh descent. The subject of this sketch was educated at
-Smithville Collegiate Institute, and later commenced his business career
-in Welland, where his firm deals extensively in wholesale seeds and are
-growers, re-cleaners and exporters of those commodities. Mr. Vaughan has
-also taken an active part in the municipal affairs of Welland. He had
-the honour of being elected Mayor of that municipality for 1917, the
-year in which it achieved the status of a city, and on July 1, of that
-year presided over the inauguration proceedings in connection with that
-happy event. He also filled the office of Mayor for the year 1918,
-having been re-elected by acclamation. He takes an active part in all
-movements for the advancement of Canada from every standpoint, and is
-especially interested in proposals to obtain increased agricultural
-production. Mr. Vaughan is an Anglican in religion, and a
-Conservative-Unionist in politics, and during the great war was the
-representative of the Royal Flying Corps for the promotion of recruiting
-in his district. He is a member of the Masonic and Orange orders, and
-also of the Knights of Pythias, and belongs to the Welland Club, the
-Temple Club, the Country Club of Lawrence County, N.Y., and the Buffalo
-Automobile Club. On December 13, 1911, he married Evelyn Maud, daughter
-of Albert House, of Ancaster, Ont.
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-
-=Wylie, Newton= (Toronto, Ont.), Journalist and Student of and Lecturer
-on Social and Political Economy and Affairs, son of John H. Wylie and
-Mary Jane Bernhardt, was born on September 12, 1892, at Toronto, and
-received his education at the Orangeville High School, Calgary Normal
-School, University of Toronto and Harvard University, graduating in
-1917. When but a boy in his early student days, he interested himself in
-public affairs, and early gave evidence of talent both as a writer and a
-public speaker. Mr. Wylie is noted particularly for his work as a
-prohibition propagandist. He was the chief instrument in organizing the
-Ontario Young Manhood Association, which in 1914 presented a petition
-signed by 10,000 young Conservatives in Ontario to the late Sir James P.
-Whitney, then Prime Minister of the Province, asking provincial
-prohibition, and which contested unsuccessfully the constituency of
-Parkdale in the general election of June in that year. Mr. Wylie is also
-credited with having originated the Citizens’ Committee of One Hundred,
-of which he became General Secretary, and organized the six months’
-whirlwind campaign throughout Ontario which resulted in the passing of
-the Ontario Temperance Act in March, 1916. Previous to that he had
-participated in the provincial prohibition campaign in Alberta in 1915,
-touring that Province and speaking in all the chief cities, as well as
-invading some of the mining districts. Mr. Wylie is a close personal
-friend of “Billy” Sunday, and has spoken on “No Booze” in the noted
-evangelist’s tabernacles in Trenton, Baltimore, and Boston. For some
-years he was a member of the staff of the “Globe,” Toronto, and wrote
-over the pseudonym of “Will Silo.” He has also contributed to several
-other newspapers and magazines. Twice since the outbreak of the war he
-offered his services to the army, but each time was rejected on account
-of injuries received in a serious automobile accident in 1913. He has,
-however, taken a prominent part in recruiting work, giving his services
-freely as a speaker and as an organizer in various schemes for raising
-funds, especially in connection with the 126th, 182nd and 201st
-Battalions. He is a member of the following clubs:—Canadian Club,
-Toronto Board of Trade, Walt Whitman, Harvard Union, Toronto Press Club,
-Toronto Canoe Club, Ontario Young Manhood Association, Citizens’
-Committee of One Hundred, Canadian Suffrage Association, National
-Brotherhood Federation, Social Service Council of Canada, Canadian Red
-Cross Society, Canadian Patriotic Fund Association, Y.M.C.A., A-R Men’s
-Association. In religion Mr. Wylie is a Presbyterian, and in politics an
-independent.
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-
-=Mackenzie, Daniel D., M.P.= for the riding of North Victoria, Cape
-Breton, Nova Scotia, is one of the most prominent representatives of the
-Liberal party in the House of Commons, and served as Parliamentary
-leader of that party following the death of Sir Wilfrid Laurier in
-February, 1919, until the return to the House of Hon. W. L. M. King, the
-leader elected by the National Liberal Convention which assembled in the
-summer of the same year. He was born on January 8, 1859, at Lake
-Ainslie, in the heart of the Highland Scottish settlements of that
-island, the son of Duncan and Jessie (McMillan) Mackenzie. He was
-educated at the Public Schools and at the Sydney (C.B.) Academy, and
-became a barrister and attorney-at-law, practising at North Sydney. He
-early became prominent in politics, and has been a most successful
-candidate. In nearly a score of elections, municipal, provincial and
-federal, where he has been a candidate, he has never met defeat. He
-served as Commissioner of Schools for Cape Breton for a time, and was
-elected ten times to the Municipal Council of North Sydney, serving as
-Mayor for five years. He was elected to the Nova Scotia Legislature in
-1900 as a Liberal, and again at the general elections of 1901. Prior to
-the general elections for the House of Commons in 1904, he resigned his
-seat in the Legislature to become a Federal candidate and was elected.
-He resigned, and was appointed Judge of District No. 7, County Court of
-Nova Scotia, on February 16, 1906, continuing in that office until
-October 15, 1908, when he retired and became again a candidate for the
-House of Commons. He was elected, and was equally successful at the
-general elections of 1911 and 1917. When the House assembled after the
-latter contest, he was the chosen desk-mate of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, then
-leader of the Opposition; and on the death of that statesman was elected
-by the Liberal caucus to the Parliamentary leadership. At the National
-Liberal Convention of August, 1919, he unwillingly allowed his name to
-go before the delegates chosen to elect a leader, yielding to pressure
-from his Scottish friends in Nova Scotia, but on the election of Mr.
-King extended to the latter his heartiest co-operation and support. At
-the conclusion of the regular Parliamentary session of 1918-9, he had
-the honour of seconding Sir Robert Borden’s resolution of thanks to the
-Canadian troops who had fought and died on the battlefields of France
-and Flanders. In religion he is a Presbyterian, and on January 28, 1891,
-he married Miss Florence N. McDonald, by whom he has one son, Charles
-Russell Mackenzie, born May 5, 1895. His home is at North Sydney, C.B.
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-=Coristine, Major Stanley B.=, is a member of the Board of Pension
-Commissioners for Canada, with headquarters in Ottawa, and had a
-distinguished career in the great war. He was born at Montreal, Que.,
-the son of James Coristine, a prominent business man of that city; was
-educated at the Royal Military College, Kingston, Ont., from which he
-graduated in 1906, and also took a course at McGill University,
-Montreal. After graduation he was for a time connected with James
-Coristine & Co., Ltd., but on the outbreak of the war immediately
-offered himself for service overseas, and on September 10, 1914, was
-gazetted Captain of the 5th Royal Highlanders of Montreal, becoming
-Adjutant of the regiment on October 1 of that year. On permission being
-granted to organize the 42nd Battalion, R.H.C., he was appointed
-adjutant for the period of organization and when the Battalion went
-overseas was at his own request placed in command of a company. The 42nd
-Battalion was transferred to France in October, 1915, and took part in
-much heavy fighting. In June, 1916, during the heavy fighting at Ypres,
-known as the “June show” he was seriously wounded and after two months
-in hospital was sent home to Canada. In April, 1917, he was discharged
-as permanently unfit for further service at the front, and in May of
-that year was appointed Secretary of the Pensions Board of Canada. He
-showed a very exceptional capacity for dealing with the problems which
-came before the Board, and his military record gained him the confidence
-of the many injured soldiers with whom his duties brought him in
-contact. In 1918 he was appointed a Commissioner to fill the vacancy
-created on the Board by the resignation of Major J. L. Todd, and the
-choice was generally approved in military circles throughout Canada. He
-is a Protestant and a member of St. Paul’s Lodge, A.F. & A.M. His
-recreations are golf and tennis, and he is a member of the following
-clubs: St. James and University, Montreal; Rideau, and Country, Ottawa.
-In 1909 he married Nina, daughter of John McLean, Montreal, and has
-three sons: Philip, born 1910; Edward, born 1912; and James, born 1918.
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-=Watson, Senator Robert=, moved from Ontario to Portage la Prairie,
-Manitoba, in 1876, where he built a mill, and later built another mill
-at Stonewall. He prospered, became popular, and was well received and
-appreciated by the entire community, irrespective of politics. Owing to
-his enterprising activities, his generosity, and his sympathetic and
-tangible conduct towards those less fortunate than he, he was soon
-elected to the Municipal Council, and as a councillor was instrumental
-in the adoption of municipal measures that aided in a marked degree the
-progressive and harmonious state of affairs in that thriving town. The
-Provincial Government and the Province’s representative in the House of
-Commons had been Conservative from the time, July 15, 1870, the Province
-entered Confederation, and with the return of the Conservatives to power
-at Ottawa in 1878, and Hon. John Norquay as Prime Minister, President of
-the Council, and Provincial Treasurer at Winnipeg, and four Conservative
-spokesmen for the Province occupying seats in the House of Commons, the
-young Province was but a helpless political toy in the hands of those
-who were elected to, and should have, looked after its best interests.
-Suffering for want of proper railway facilities, the situation became
-unbearable. Led by Hon. John Norquay, Provincial railway charters were
-being issued, only later to be disallowed by the Dominion Government,
-all of which, while the public was being led to believe differently, was
-fully understood and agreed upon beforehand by both Governments.
-Something had to be done to save the Province, and to place it on a
-higher plane. An agitation arose, several indignation meetings were held
-and finally, in the town of Portage la Prairie, the Provincial Rights
-Party was born, and Robert Watson, Portage la Prairie’s millwright,
-became the ideal candidate of the party to carry the banner for
-Marquette at the general Dominion election. In each of the five Manitoba
-Dominion constituencies (a new constituency for the Province had been
-created by the Dominion Government), a Provincial Rights Party candidate
-was nominated, and three of the five were elected, Winnipeg and
-Provencher, with Captain Thos. Scott and Joseph Royal, remained
-Conservative, but Lisgar, Marquette and Selkirk, with A. W. Ross, Robert
-Watson and Hugh Sutherland, became Provincial Rights constituencies. Out
-of these three, however—Ross, Watson and Sutherland—from and including
-1882 and 1887, Mr. Watson was practically the only Liberal member in the
-House of Commons west of Lake Superior, and he is just as true and
-reliable to-day as he was when he first entered political life in 1882.
-Senator Robert Watson is the son of the late George Watson, of
-Edinburgh, Scotland, who came to Canada in 1847, and his wife Elizabeth
-McDonald, of Inverness-shire, Scotland. He was born at Elora, Ontario,
-April 29, 1853. In 1876, he moved to Manitoba, and was elected to the
-House of Commons for Marquette at the general elections in 1882, 1887
-and 1891. He resigned to accept the portfolio of Minister of Public
-Works in the Greenway Administration, 1892, and was elected at the
-general elections of that year to the Legislature for Portage la
-Prairie, and again at the general election of 1896. At the general
-election of 1899 he was defeated. January 29, 1900, he was summoned to
-the Senate. July, 1880, Senator Watson married Isabella, daughter of
-Duncan Brown, of Lobo, Ontario. He is a Presbyterian, and his home
-address is Portage la Prairie, Manitoba.
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-=Sutherland, Fred C.=, Stock Broker, 12 King St. East, Toronto, was born
-March 17, 1880, in West River, Nova Scotia, and received his education
-at Pictou Academy. He entered his present business in 1909 and became
-actively engaged in the development of Northern Ontario’s natural
-resources, being instrumental in bringing in hundreds of thousands of
-dollars for the advancement of mining interests in the districts of
-Porcupine, Kirkland Lake, West Shining Tree and Fort Matachewan. The
-firm of F. C. Sutherland & Co. is one of the largest of its kind in
-Canada, besides its large and finely appointed head office, having
-branch offices in Montreal, Boston, Springfield, Buffalo, Detroit and
-New York. He has surrounded himself with a staff of the most capable
-mining experts, and his sound judgment, based on first-hand information
-has proven of great value to his large clientele of investors. Though
-his time is constantly in demand by his clients and the investing public
-as well as in directing both internal and external affairs of his
-extensive interests he is invariably genial and unruffled, having the
-happy faculty of being able to divert his attention rapidly from one
-subject to another yet keeping closely in touch with each till disposed
-of. He is a member of The Board of Trade, the Lambton Golf Club, a
-Protestant, a Unionist in politics and the possessor of an unusually
-pleasing personality.
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-=Taylor, Lt.-Col. Hon. George= (Gananoque), the second son of the late
-William Taylor and his wife Ann Graham, both of the north of Ireland.
-Was born at Lansdowne, County Leeds, Ontario, March 31, 1840, and has
-been for years one of the most popular figures in the public life of
-this Dominion. Educated in the Public Schools of Lansdowne, the Hon. Mr.
-Taylor began life in the mercantile business as a clerk in a country
-general store at the age of eleven years, where he worked for £1 a
-month, and continued with the same firm as partner over twenty-five
-years. On retiring from the mercantile business above mentioned, the
-Hon. Mr. Taylor re-organized the Ontario Wheel Company, to manufacture
-carriage wheels, and has been President of the Company for thirty years.
-He has been Reeve of Gananoque for seven years, and Warden of the United
-Counties of Leeds and Grenville, of which he was County Auditor, 1881.
-Was first elected to the House of Commons as a Conservative candidate
-for the County of Leeds in the general elections of 1882, and was
-re-elected at every general election held since up to 1911 when he
-resigned his seat to create a vacancy for Sir Thomas White, who had been
-appointed Minister of Finance in the Borden Cabinet. During his long
-parliamentary career Hon. Mr. Taylor was chief Whip of the Conservative
-party for twenty-five years under Sir John A. MacDonald, Sir John
-Abbott, Sir John Thompson, Sir Mackenzie Bowell, Sir Charles Tupper and
-Sir Robert Borden. Shortly after his retirement from the House of
-Commons, on November 17, 1911, the subject of this sketch was summoned
-to the Senate, and since his appointment to the Upper Chamber has taken
-an active part in its deliberations. On retiring from the House of
-Commons, he received a handsome testimonial of esteem from his
-colleagues. Hon. Mr. Taylor, during his career in public life, has
-always received the good will of all classes of citizens. He is the soul
-of good humor, broadminded, generous and a liberal gentleman, and has
-been called “The John Hampden” of this Dominion. He is the Honorary
-Colonel of the 156th Battalion of Leeds and Grenville and President of
-the Peace River Land Company and a member of the following societies:
-Orange, Masonic, Oddfellows, United Workmen, Royal Arcanum and
-Foresters. Senator Taylor was married on September 10, 1863, to Margaret
-Ann Latimer, daughter of James and Ellen Latimer and ward of Major James
-Kirker of Gananoque. They celebrated their golden wedding Sept. 10,
-1913. Mrs. Taylor died Mar. 12, 1917. Mr. Taylor afterwards married
-Lilian Coleman, daughter of the late Mr. Anson Clark Coleman and his
-wife Hannah Witton, of Delta, both Canadians of English descent.
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-=Richardson, John= (Toronto, Ont.), was born in Scarboro Township,
-County of York, Ontario, in 1843, on the farm of his father, the late
-Ezekiel Richardson. He received his education at the Public School,
-Scarboro Village, at the Grammar School, Markham Village, and at
-Victoria College, Cobourg. After completing his education he returned to
-his old home and engaged in the business of farming until 1894. Early in
-life he took an active interest in public affairs in his native
-township. In 1875 he was induced to accept nomination and was a
-successful candidate for a seat in the Township Council and was
-re-elected for nineteen years consecutively, three years as Councilman,
-two years as Deputy Reeve and fourteen years as Reeve. In 1885 he was
-elected Warden of the County of York, the highest municipal position in
-the County. The City of Toronto and the County of York are united for
-judicial purposes. Mr. Richardson was for many years Chairman of the
-Legislation Committee and as such had much to do with framing
-legislation beneficial to the Metropolitan City and County. In December,
-1894, he retired from the Reeveship of Scarboro, he having been elected
-by the constituency of East York as their representative in the Ontario
-Legislature, which position he held for ten years, being re-elected in
-1892 and 1902. He was a Liberal in politics and was a supporter of the
-administrations of Sir Oliver Mowat, Hon. A. S. Hardy and Sir George W.
-Ross. In 1902 he lost his health, the strenuous life of a politician was
-too severe for him. In 1904 he was compelled to forego his political
-ambitions and withdraw from political life. In December of that year Sir
-George W. Ross, then Premier of Ontario, appointed him to the position
-of Clerk of the County Court of the County of York, which position he
-held until his death. Mr. Richardson’s father emigrated from the North
-of Ireland in 1824, and settled in Scarboro. In 1831 he married Miss
-Mary Hunter, an English girl. Their descendants being five sons and four
-daughters. James and Ezekiel, who were ordained Methodist Ministers, and
-Joseph and Samuel, who graduated in medicine, now deceased. Three
-sisters survive—Mrs. A. Barber, Bowmanville; Mrs. E. Draper and Mrs. H.
-Aylard, of Toronto. He was a Director of the York Fire Insurance Co., a
-member of the Acacia Lodge A.F. & A.M., and a Methodist in religion. He
-was a philanthropist, in a quiet way, many owing their success in life
-to his generosity. By his honest and straightforward actions in both his
-political and private life, he won the confidence and respect of the
-community at large. Mr. Richardson died at Toronto, in September, 1914,
-after a very active career.
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-=Doughty, Arthur George, M.A., C.M.G., Litt.D., LL.D., F.R.S.C.,
-F.R.C.I.=, Archivist for the Dominion of Canada, is perhaps the greatest
-living authority on Canadian history, and a scholar of international
-repute. He was born at Maidenhead, England, on March 22, 1860, the son
-of William John Doughty. He was educated at the public schools,
-Maidenhead, Lord Eldon College, London, New Inn Hall, Oxford University,
-and Dickenson College, Carlisle, when he was awarded the M.A. degree in
-1890. Ten years later he became Docteur de Lettres of Laval University,
-Montreal, and in 1912 received the Honorary Degree of LL.D. at Queen’s
-University, Kingston, Ont. As a young man Dr. Doughty contemplated
-entering the Church, and was engaged in religious work at All Hallows
-Mission, Southwark, London, and in other institutions. Circumstances,
-however, altered this intention and in the nineties he came to Canada
-and was engaged for a time in commercial pursuits at Montreal, utilizing
-his leisure for literary work. In 1897 he was appointed Private
-Secretary to the Minister of Public Works at Quebec, and in 1899-1901
-served in a similar capacity with the Provincial Treasurer of Quebec. In
-the latter year he was appointed joint librarian of the Quebec
-Legislature, and on May 16, 1904, became Dominion Archivist and Keeper
-of the Records for Canada, with headquarters in the Archives Building,
-Ottawa. His indefatigable labors in that office have raised it to very
-large importance. In 1907 he was appointed a member of the Canadian
-Historical Manuscripts Commission, and in 1908 a member of the literary
-committee of the Quebec Battlefields Commission. In 1909 he became a
-member of the Dominion Geographic Board. One of the greatest historical
-services he has been able to render Canada was at the conclusion of the
-great war in 1918 when he went to Great Britain and France and secured a
-magnificent collection of war trophies as the permanent possession of
-Canada, to be apportioned among various Canadian cities. Dr. Doughty
-early acquired rare skill as an illuminator on vellum and decorated the
-book presented to the present King and Queen on their visit to Quebec in
-1901. He is also an expert in shorthand, and has published an edition of
-Tennyson’s “In Memoriam” in that script. At the same time he has been
-prolific in many forms of literary effort, as the following list of
-publications shows: “The Life and Works of Lord Tennyson,” 1893; “Rose
-Leaves,” 1894; “The Song Story of Francesco and Beatrice,” 1896; “Nugæ
-Canoræ,” 1897; “The Site of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham,” 1918;
-“The Siege of Quebec,” in six volumes, 1901-2 (written in collaboration
-with George W. Parmalee); “The Struggle for Supremacy,” 1905; “Documents
-relating to the Constitutional History of Canada” (with Prof. Adam
-Shortt), 1907; “The Cradle of New France,” 1908; “Index and Dictionary
-of Canadian History” (with L. J. Burpee), 1911; joint editor of “Canada
-and Its Provinces,” in twenty-two volumes; joint editor of “Documents
-Relating to the Constitutional History of Canada from 1791 to 1818,”
-published 1914; Editor of General Knox’s “Journal of Campaigns in North
-America,” published in three volumes by the Champlain Society, 1914;
-“The Acadian Exiles,” 1915; “A Daughter of New France,” 1915. Dr.
-Doughty has also contributed to the Encyclopedia Brittanica,
-Encyclopedia Americana, the Catholic Encyclopedia, and to many magazines
-and historical journals. His lighter efforts have included the libretto
-of a comic opera “Bonnie Prince Charlie.” He is a member of the Canadian
-Society of Authors, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Fellow of the
-Royal Colonial Institute, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of
-Great Britain, and a member of the Literary and Historical Society of
-Quebec. In 1905 he was honored with the decoration of C.M.G. He married,
-first, Bertha Van Kehrweider, in June, 1886, who died January, 1910;
-secondly, Kathleen Rathbun Browne, daughter of George A. Browne,
-Montreal, in June, 1911. In religion he is a Roman Catholic, and is a
-member of the Rideau Club, and the Ottawa Golf Club. He resides at 490
-Wilbrod St., Ottawa.
-
- * * * * *
-
-=McFall, Robert James, B.A., A.M., Ph.D.=, of Ottawa, Ont., is one of
-the best known economists and statisticians of Canada. He was born at
-Somerset, Nova Scotia, on January 7, 1887, the son of Rev. Thomas
-McFall, a Reformed Presbyterian clergyman, and his wife, Anna Lyons. His
-education was remarkably complete. After studying at the public schools
-of Nova Scotia he went to Geneva College, Beaver Falls, Penna.,
-graduating with the degree of B.A. in 1912. This was followed by
-post-graduate courses at Glasgow University, Scotland, and Columbia
-University, New York City. He took a scholarship at the latter
-institution in 1913, and in 1914 captured the Garth Fellowship in
-Political Economy—a much-coveted honor. He received the degree of A.M.
-in 1914 and Ph.D. in 1916. For two years, 1915-17, he had charge of the
-work in Transportation and Commerce in the Department of Economics at
-the University of Minnesota, and in 1917 returned to Canada to become
-Chief of the Internal Trade Division, Dominion Bureau of Statistics, at
-Ottawa. In August of that year he also became statistician of the Canada
-Food Board, an office he held until February, 1919. He served also as
-Cost of Living Commissioner from May, 1918, to August, 1919, when the
-work of this office was merged in that of the Board of Commerce. During
-his tenure of office as Cost of Living Commissioner Dr. McFall proved
-most efficient and won high encomiums for his fearless performance of
-his duties. Among his publications is a valuable treatise on the
-transportation question “Railway Monopoly and Rate Regulation,”
-published in 1916 by Longmans, Green & Company. In addition to various
-official reports he has written numerous magazine and newspaper articles
-on the subject of transportation and food supplies, for American and
-Canadian publications. He is a member of the American Economic
-Association and of the Canadian Club, Ottawa. In religion he is a
-Presbyterian, and in politics, independent. On September 29, 1917, he
-married Marjorie, daughter of Rev. E. S. Carr, D.D., Peoria, Ill., and
-has one daughter, Alice, born November 6, 1918. His residence is at 353
-Frank St., Ottawa.
-
- * * * * *
-
-=Amyot, Lieut.-Col. John A., C.M.G.=, Deputy Minister of the Federal
-Department of Public Health, Ottawa, is an authority on the subject of
-public sanitation and the prevention of disease. He was born at Toronto
-on July 25, 1867, the son of John F. Amyot, a railroad man, and his
-wife, Sophie Féré. He was educated at the separate schools, St. Thomas,
-Ont., Assumption College, Sandwich, Ont. and at the University of
-Toronto, from which he graduated with the degree of M.B. in 1891. He was
-immediately appointed a house surgeon of Toronto General Hospital,
-serving for one year; and from 1892 to 1900 was Demonstrator in
-Pathology on the University of Toronto Medical Faculty. From 1894 to
-1898 he was Assistant Surgeon at St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, and
-from 1898 to 1900, Surgeon. Among other professional offices he filled
-were those of Lecturer in Comparative Physiology at the Ontario
-Veterinary College, 1898-1908; Director of the Laboratory of the
-Provincial Board of Health, Ontario, 1900-1918; Associate Professor of
-Pathology, University of Toronto, 1900-09, and Professor of Hygiene at
-the same institution, 1909-1918. A year before the outbreak of the great
-war he had become identified with the Canadian Army Medical Corps and
-held the commission of D.A.D.M.S. (Sanitation) for the 2nd Canadian
-Divisional Area, from 1913 to 1915. In that capacity he had much to do
-with preserving the health of large bodies of troops who were placed in
-training in that area after the outbreak of the war in 1914. In the
-spring of 1915 he went to England on staff of No. 4 Can. Gen. Hospital,
-was made officer in charge of Sanitation, 2nd Canadian Division whilst
-in England, and in the latter part of that year was transferred to
-France as O.C. of the Sanitary Section of the 1st Canadian Division. In
-1916 he became Chief Adviser in Sanitation with the Canadian Army Corps
-in France, and later in the same year was seconded to the Imperial
-forces as D.A.D.M.S. (Sanitation) with the 2nd British Army in France.
-From 1916 to 1918 he was also Consultant in Sanitation with the Canadian
-Overseas Forces, England. The low percentage of deaths from communicable
-disease in the British and Canadian armies during the war, was regarded
-as miraculous when compared with the statistics of all past wars, and to
-this desirable condition, which greatly aided in the victory,
-Lieut.-Col. Amyot is considered as having largely contributed. He was
-twice mentioned in despatches for service under fire while in France in
-1916, and three times won similar recognition for his zeal in combatting
-disease among the troops in England. In recognition of his abilities he
-was personally decorated with the C.M.G. by His Majesty. In July, 1919,
-he was appointed by the administration of Sir Robert Borden, Deputy
-Minister of the newly created Department of Public Health, and entrusted
-with the work of organizing it on modern lines. Col. Amyot’s writings
-include various papers on questions of public health published in Canada
-and the United States. He has also collaborated on Technical commissions
-in connection with the United States and Canadian Public Health
-Associations, and the Ontario and Canadian Medical Associations. He is
-also a co-director of the International Waterways Commission, and in
-that capacity has conducted investigations on the pollution of the
-waters of the Great Lakes. He is a Roman Catholic in religion and a
-member of the Toronto Board of Trade, the University and Canadian Clubs,
-Toronto, and the Faculty Union of Toronto University. On May 21, 1895,
-he married Mary J. Keller, daughter of Francis and Mary (Stuart) Keller,
-Whitby, Ont., and has five sons and two daughters, John Francis, Gregory
-Féré, William Keller, Joseph, Mary, Francis and Sophie. His residence is
-at Slater St., Ottawa.
-
- * * * * *
-
-=Owens, Edward W. J., K.C., M.P.P.= for South-East Toronto, has
-represented that constituency for two parliaments, having been
-re-elected by a handsome majority at the general elections in 1914. He
-was born in Dublin, Ireland, and received his early education there, in
-Manchester, England, and in the Forrest City. He became a student-at-law
-in the office of Cronyn and Greenlees, of London, and shortly after
-passing the bar removed to Toronto, where he joined the firm of Leys,
-Reid and Owens, the head of the firm being the late John Leys, Q.C.,
-M.P.P. He later practised for a number of years by himself, subsequently
-forming the firm of Owens, Proudfoot, and Cooke, with offices at 32-34
-Adelaide Street East. He is now head of the firm of Owens and Goodman at
-the above address, and enjoys an extensive and constantly growing
-practice. His manner is extremely affable, never ruffled, and constantly
-active. Since coming to Toronto, he always took an active part in the
-Conservative interest, and for years was President of the Central
-Conservative Association before being elected member of the Legislature.
-He can speak well and to the point when occasion demands, but has earned
-the reputation of taking up less time on the floor of the house than any
-other member of equal ability. He is unmarried, but has none of the
-crotchety characteristics sometimes attributed to the bachelor of middle
-age.
-
- * * * * *
-
-=Hook, Thomas, M.P.P.= for South-East Toronto was born in England, and
-when a very small boy came to Canada with his parents about the time of
-Confederation. The family settled in London, Ont., where his father
-engaged in business as a contractor. The firm of Hook and Toll built the
-Military School in London as well as other buildings well known in that
-city and vicinity. On leaving school, the subject of this sketch spent
-three years in the office of E. Jones Parke, Q.C., and then joined the
-staff of the Dominion Savings and Investment Society. He resigned his
-position in this company some twenty years ago, and removed to Toronto,
-where he became engaged in the real estate business, which he still
-conducts at 79 Victoria Street. At an early age he took great interest
-in politics, and on his arrival in Toronto soon became a well known and
-active worker for the Conservative party in the city. For years he held
-different offices in the local Conservative organizations, and in 1907
-he was elected President of Ward 3 Conservative Association, holding
-that position for the unprecedented period of seven years, till elected
-to his present position in 1914 for seat “B” in South-East Toronto by a
-large majority. During the war he was untiring in his recruiting
-efforts. He is a fluent and forceful speaker, with marked executive
-ability, a genial manner, and sociable disposition. Though a straight
-party man, he is independent and outspoken, and may be expected to leave
-the impress of his personality on the Legislature in the not distant
-future. The family—including a son recently returned from service
-overseas—reside at No. 1 Rathnally Ave.
-
- * * * * *
-
-=Donovan, Albert Edward, M.P.P.=, representative of the riding of
-Brockville in the Ontario Legislature, is one of the most widely known
-publicists of that province, and is also known throughout the Dominion
-as an insurance expert. He was born at Portland, Leeds County, Ont., on
-February 5, 1859, the son of John and Margaret Donovan. His grandfather
-was a native of Tipperary, Ireland, who adopted the profession of law,
-and coming to Canada settled at Forfar, Leeds County, where he became
-the first legal practitioner in that district. His father was a mechanic
-and ship’s carpenter. The subject of this sketch was educated at the
-public and high schools of Athens, Ont., and afterward taught school for
-a number of years. Subsequently, he entered the life insurance business,
-and became one of the most successful writers of policies in America. In
-the early nineties, he represented the Sun Life Assurance Company of
-Canada in Great Britain for two years, and subsequently returned to this
-country to associate himself with the Mutual Life Insurance Company of
-New York, the oldest Company of its kind in America. He was appointed
-Superintendent of Agencies for the Maritime Provinces, with headquarters
-at Halifax, and subsequently moved to Toronto as Superintendent for
-Ontario. In 1905 he became manager for this province, a position he
-still holds. He has become largely identified with the financial
-interests of the province, and is one of the greatest authorities on
-life insurance as an investment proposition in this or any other
-country. The sum total of the policies he has written would run into
-millions, and many of them have reached large sums like $100,000 or
-$200,000. After moving to Toronto, he still maintained a home at Athens,
-Ont., where he became largely interested in agriculture, and at one time
-owned farm property in the Brockville district. It was because of his
-loyal attachment to the county of his birth that in 1905 the
-Conservatives of Brockville riding tendered him the nomination for the
-Legislature in opposition to the sitting member, Hon. George P. Graham,
-at that time a member of the Ross Government. Though his party was
-successful at the polls, Mr. Donovan was unable to overcome the personal
-following of Mr. Graham in the Brockville district. Subsequently, in
-1907, when Mr. Graham retired from the Ontario Legislature to join the
-Laurier cabinet at Ottawa, Mr. Donovan was again nominated and at a
-by-election in October, 1907, was successful in redeeming the riding by
-a large majority. His victory was the more signal, inasmuch as
-Brockville had sent a Liberal member to the Legislature at every
-election for many years, and was regarded as impregnable by that party.
-Though on each occasion strongly opposed, Mr. Donovan was again elected
-by large majorities at the general elections of 1908, 1911 and 1914.
-From the occasion of his first speech in the Ontario Legislature, he has
-been recognized as an important factor in the deliberations of that
-body, his fine oratorical gifts being as marked as the sound
-intellectual quality of his deliverances. On many occasions regret has
-been expressed that Mr. Donovan’s business interests have precluded his
-accepting cabinet preferment. During the late war he turned his
-abilities as a speaker to patriotic uses, and is credited with having
-recruited more men for the Canadian army than any other member of either
-the House of Commons or the various legislatures of this country. His
-efforts covered the entire province of Ontario, and in the year 1915 he
-individually secured the enlistment of 1,260 soldiers. Personally, he is
-popular with men of all shades of opinion, and is a member of the Albany
-Club, Toronto, the Brockville Club, and the Canadian Club, Toronto, and
-of the Executive of the Empire Club of Canada. In religion he is a
-Methodist, and is a member of the A.F. and A.M. and the I.O.O.F. He
-married Ella B., daughter of Duncan Fisher, and has two sons, Albert
-Edward and John Alexander, and one daughter, Helen M. Donovan. His
-residence is at 284 Huron Street, Toronto.
-
- * * * * *
-
-=Crannell, Levi=, is one of the leading lumbermen of Ottawa, with
-interests that embrace both Canada and the United States; and has also
-played a prominent part in public affairs at the Canadian capital. He
-was born in Albany, N.Y., on October 7, 1842, the son of Henry and Eliza
-Crannell. His father was a prominent lumberman of the ante-bellum period
-in New York State, and the subject of this sketch was educated in the
-public schools of Albany, with a view to taking up the same line of
-activity. At the time he attained manhood, Ottawa was, as now, a centre
-of the lumbering industry. Coming to Canada many years ago, Mr. Crannell
-became associated with the business now known as the Bronson Company,
-Limited, ground wood pulp and lumber manufacturers, Ottawa, of which he
-is still an active partner. This company is the offspring of an old
-lumber firm established at Bytown (the early name of Ottawa) in 1852 by
-J. J. Harris and Henry Franklin Bronson, both of whom came from the
-United States to operate newly-acquired timber limits. Mr. Harris
-retired in 1864, and for over forty years thereafter the business was
-carried on under the name of the Bronson and Weston Lumber Company,
-until the present title was adopted. Mr. Crannell threw himself heart
-and soul into the aspirations of the young Canadian nation, and became a
-naturalized citizen in 1875. His interests have expanded with the times,
-and now include California as well as the Ottawa Valley. A good many
-years ago, foreseeing the growth of the redwood industry on the Pacific
-Coast, he acquired timber properties there, and twelve years ago the
-Little River Redwood Company, of Budwinkie, California, commenced
-manufacturing operations. Of this company Mr. Crannell is President, and
-other members of the Bronson firm directors and shareholders. By this
-industry Budwinkie has been turned into a happy and flourishing
-industrial centre. Direct railroad connections with the mills have been
-established, and handsome houses built by the company for all employees,
-married or single. For the latter class, the company operates a
-community dining room, at which from 350 to 400 meals are served daily.
-It is evidence of the growing international importance of the redwood
-industry that over one-third of the company’s manufactured product is
-exported to other countries, and the demand both foreign and domestic is
-constantly growing. It is a cedar of exquisite quality, and in its
-finished condition makes a very handsome article. The American interests
-of Mr. Crannell have not prevented his playing an important part in
-public life. He served as alderman from 1889 to 1892, and sat on the
-following municipal committees: Water Works, Board of Health, Printing,
-Fire and Light, and Court of Revision. When nominated for mayor of that
-city in 1896, his requisition paper was signed by over one thousand
-ratepayers, representing all creeds and classes. His integrity, energy
-and independence of thought are proverbial among those who know him, and
-he is generous in his contributions to philanthropic objects. The
-benefactions of the Bronson firm since its earliest days are well known,
-and have brought cheer and happiness to hundreds of poor homes at
-Christmas time and during hard winters. Mr. Crannell has been an
-especially good friend to the Orphans’ Home, the Old Men’s Home, and,
-indeed, all hospitals and charitable institutions in Ottawa owe much to
-his generosity and initiative. He has twice been married: on the first
-occasion on November 11, 1863, to Julia A. Woolcott, and secondly, on
-January 26, 1876 to Gertrude E., daughter of the late Henry F. Bronson,
-of Ottawa. He has three sons, Edward Wilber, Alfred Raymond, and Levi
-Wilfrid, and two adopted daughters, Edith L. and Jennie G. Crannell. In
-religion he is a Presbyterian, and in politics a Unionist.
-
- * * * * *
-
-=Cudmore, Sedley Anthony, B.A.= (Oxon.) is Chief of Educational
-Statistics in connection with the Dominion Bureau of Statistics at
-Ottawa. He was born at Millstreet, County Cork, Ireland, the son of
-Thomas Gardiner Cudmore and his wife, Caroline Ellen Sedley. His
-maternal grandfather, Lt.-Col. Anthony Gardiner Sedley was Governor of
-the Military Knights of Windsor, a Royal appointment of high
-distinction. The subject of this sketch was educated at public schools
-of Ireland, and later at the public and high schools of Brampton,
-Ontario, the University of Toronto, where he graduated with the degree
-of B.A. in 1905, and the University of Oxford, where he took a
-post-graduate course and obtained the degree of B.A. in 1907. On his
-return from Oxford, he was appointed Assistant Professor in Political
-Economy at the University of Toronto, and in 1919 was selected for the
-above-named office in connection with the Dominion Bureau of Statistics.
-Mr. Cudmore has been active with his pen in connection with economic
-subjects. He is the author of “Economics for Canadian Students,”
-published by the Shaw Correspondence School of Toronto, and has been a
-contributor to the “University of Toronto Review,” the “Review of
-Historical Publications,” the “Canadian Magazine,” and other important
-journals. In 1910, he married Phoebie Amelia Magee, B.A. (Tor.), a
-daughter of John James Magee, well known as a High School teacher at
-Port Hope and Uxbridge, and has one son, James Sedley Cudmore, born
-1916. He is a member of the University of Toronto Faculty Union, and his
-favourite recreations are cycling and tennis. In religion he is an
-Anglican, and in politics a Conservative.
-
- * * * * *
-
-=Marshall, Lieut.-Col. Kenric Reid, C.M.G., D.S.O.=, is the eldest son
-of Hon. Col. Noel Marshall, capitalist of Toronto, and his wife, H. T.
-Hogg (deceased), born in Toronto, October 13, 1880. He was educated in
-private schools and Upper Canada College. At the age of nineteen he
-began his business career with the Standard Fuel Co., of which his
-father was president, and continued active connection with that company
-till the war broke out. He married, October 20, 1909, Marion J.,
-daughter of Angus Kirkland, Esq., banker (deceased). He has one son,
-Peter K. Marshall. On the outbreak of war Colonel Marshall, who was then
-a junior Captain in the 48th Highlanders, proceeded overseas with the
-15th Battalion, but was unable to accompany his unit to France owing to
-an attack of pneumonia, contracted on Salisbury Plains, which rendered
-him unfit for general service for the greater part of 1915, though he
-was able to perform light duties in France and England for part of that
-year. In May, 1916, he was passed fit for duty, shortly after being
-appointed Staff Captain to Brigadier-General Lord Brooke’s Brigade in
-the newly-formed 4th Canadian Division, and served under this officer
-until Lord Brooke was wounded in September, 1916, and the 12th Canadian
-Infantry Brigade came under the command of Brigadier-General J. H.
-MacBrien, C.B., etc. Colonel Marshall served with General MacBrien
-through the Battle of the Somme, and for his part in this operation
-received the Distinguished Service Order. In the early part of 1917 he
-was promoted to the rank of Major, and given an appointment under the
-late Major-General Lipsett, who commanded the 3rd Canadian Division.
-After some nine months’ service with this distinguished commander he was
-recommended as qualified to fill the appointment of Adjutant and
-Quartermaster-General of a division, and was subsequently promoted to
-that post in the 4th Canadian Division under Major-General Sir David
-Watson, K.C.B., and given the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, being one of
-the first officers who had not passed through the Staff College at
-Camberley to become a first-grade Staff Officer in the field. Lt.-Col.
-Marshall remained throughout the balance of the campaign in the above
-capacity receiving the C.M.G. for his part in connection with the
-battles of 1918. He was mentioned in despatches on three occasions.
-Lt.-Col. Marshall is President of the Standard Fuel Co. of Toronto,
-founded fifty years ago, at present doing a large retail business
-throughout Ontario. He is fond of outdoor life, and is a member of
-several prominent clubs, The Toronto Hunt, National, Rosedale Golf, etc.
-He is an Anglican and Conservative. His favorite recreations are farming
-and polo. His city residence is 97 Glen Road, and his country home and
-farm at Dunbarton. Col. Marshall is an alert business man, with a very
-pleasing personality.
-
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-=Transcriber’s Notes:=
-
-Punctuation and obvious type-setting errors have been corrected without
-note. Other corrections are as noted below.
-
-page vii, Cave, James G., 138 was added to the book index
-page vii, Chrysler, Francis Henry, 81 ==> Chrysler, Francis Henry, 80
-page viii, Elson, John Mebourne ==> Elson, John Melbourne
-page viii, Gouin, Sir Jean Lomer, 26 ==> Gouin, Sir Jean Lomer, 22
-page ix, Johnson, Ebeneazer Forsyth ==> Johnston, Ebenezer Forsyth
-page ix, Jones, James William, 116 ==> Jones, James William, 161
-page ix, Macauzay, Thomas Basset ==> Macaulay, Thomas Basset
- also relocated in index from after MacLean, Hon. John Duncan
-page ix, Lieut.-Col. Kenrie Reid ==> Lieut.-Col. Kenric Reid
-page 1, Honorary LL.D., St. Francois-Xavier ==> Honorary LL.D., St.
- Francis Xavier
-page 10, The enconiums which ==> The encomiums which
-page 22, in rank, if ==> in rank with, if
-page 39, Toronto Hunt, as also ==> Toronto Hunt, and also
-page 69, he has two children ==> he has three children
-page 75, member of N.V. Veterinary ==> member of N.Y. Veterinary
-page 80, their mortgagees upon ==> their mortgages upon
-page 86, Z. of Kichiekewana Chapter ==> Z. of Kichikewana Chapter
-page 93, Regina, Wascana County Club, ==> Regina, Wascana Country Club,
-page 94, History, St. Johns, N.B. ==> History, St. John, N.B.
-page 97, a student, Mr. Saint-Pierre ==> a student, Mr. Sainte-Pierre
-page 97, Helene and Jean Saint-Pierre ==> Helene and Jean Sainte-Pierre
-page 97, Saint-Pierre is a Liberal ==> Sainte-Pierre is a Liberal
-page 97, occasion. Mr. Saint-Pierre is ==> occasion. Mr. Sainte-Pierre is
-page 97, securities, Mr. Saint-Pierre ==> securities, Mr. Sainte-Pierre
-page 97, these securities. Mr. Saint-Pierre ==> these securities. Mr.
- Sainte-Pierre
-page 97, province. Mr. Saint-Pierre is ==> province. Mr. Sainte-Pierre is
-page 97, skill of Mr. Saint-Pierre. ==> skill of Mr. Sainte-Pierre.
-page 97, Johnston, Ebeneazer Forsyth ==> Johnston, Ebenezer Forsyth
-page 118, Commerce, pursuaded him ==> Commerce, persuaded him
-page 125, son of Francais Bellemare ==> son of François Bellemare
-page 129, notably St. Johns, N.B. ==> notably St. John, N.B.
-page 143, Alberta Pharmacal Association, ==> Alberta Pharmaceutical
- Association,
-page 161, on September 31, 1869 ==> on September 21, 1869
-page 180, is 329 Chaple Street, Ottawa ==> is 329 Chapel Street, Ottawa
-page 191, and from St. Francois Xavier ==> and from St. Francis Xavier
-page 250, B. Greening Wire Coy. ==> B. Greening Wire Co.
-page 258, Messines, Vis-en-ertois ==> Messines, Vis-en-Artois
-page 264, Scarborough Golf and County ==> Scarborough Golf and Country
-page 264, Hamilton Golf and County ==> Hamilton Golf and Country
-page 271, Beull, Orr, Hurdman & Coy., ==> Beull, Orr, Hurdman & Co.,
-page 271, Quarries and Construction Coy. ==> Quarries and Construction Co.
-page 288, Elson, John Mebourne ==> Elson, John Melbourne
-page 295, James Coristine & Coy., Ltd., ==> James Coristine & Co., Ltd.,
-page 298, “Nugae Canorae,” 1897 ==> “Nugæ Canoræ,”
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