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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Ottawa]

=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.

* * * * *

=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.

* * * * *

=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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R.A. STAPELLS, TORONTO]

=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.

[Illustration: HON. WILFRID GARIEPY

Edmonton]

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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.

[Illustration: HON. W. L. MACKENZIE KING, C.M.G.

Ottawa]

=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.

[Illustration: L. J. Breithaupt, Kitchener.

Hugh Paton, Montreal.]

=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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=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.

[Illustration: J. G. B. BUTTERWORTH

Ottawa]

=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).

* * * * *

=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.

[Illustration: BRIG.-GEN. SIR JOHN M. GIBSON, K.C.M.G., M.A., LL.D., K.C.

Hamilton]

=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.

* * * * *

=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.

[Illustration: JNO. E. ASKWITH, OTTAWA

THOMAS BIRKETT, OTTAWA]

=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.

* * * * *

=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.

* * * * *

=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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Ottawa]

=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]

=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