part in the suppressing of North-West Rebellion in 1885, doing special

duty with French’s Scouts. Candidate for the Liberal Conservatives,

Dominion General Election, 1896, when defeated by Sir Wilfrid Laurier,

elected as member of the House of Commons for the Constituency of Prince

Albert in 1911, at the General Elections, which seat he resigned on

being appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of Saskatchewan, being

succeeded by Lt.-Col. Samuel James Donaldson, who was elected to fill

the vacancy by acclamation. His lordship has one daughter, Marion. He is

a member of the Church of England and a Free Mason, and a Forester.

Recreations, shooting, riding, tennis and bowling.

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=Hannon, James Willson= (Regina, Saskatchewan), son of Rev. Jas. Hannon,

D.D., a prominent clergyman of the Methodist Church, and Sarah Margaret

Willson; was born at Hamilton, Ontario, October 11, 1870. Educated at

Provincial, Public and High Schools and matriculated with honors in

Classics at Toronto University; subsequently studied law, and was called

to the bar at Osgoode Hall, Toronto. In his earlier years he taught in

Ontario rural schools, but went West in 1898, and has since been largely

identified with the history and progress of Saskatchewan; being

successively Crown Prosecutor of the Old Judicial District of that

Province; Agent of Dominion Lands, and Crown Timber Agent at Prince

Albert, Saskatchewan; and Registrar of Land Titles at Battleford,

Saskatchewan, leaving the latter place in 1909, having been appointed

District Judge at Regina, the Provincial Capital. Judge Hannon married

Emma Orilla, daughter of Charles Campbell Woods, of Toronto, on July 25,

1900. He is a member of the Board of Governors of Regina College, and

also of the Police Commission of that city, and a member of the I.O.F.

In religion Judge Hannon is a Methodist.

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=Leblanc, Sir Pierre-Evariste, K.C.= (Quebec, Que.), Lieutenant-Governor

of the Province of Quebec, comes of an historic family which was among

those driven from Acadia, Nova Scotia, and settled at L’Isle Jesus,

Laval County, Que. He is the son of Joseph Leblanc and Adele Belanger,

born at St. Martin, August 10, 1853, and educated in the Academy of that

place and Normal School of Jacques-Cartier. The present

Lieutenant-Governor was called to the Bar in 1879, and was for several

years a teacher. In 1893 he was created King’s Counsel by Lord Stanley,

of Preston, and was a member of the Provincial Legislature of Quebec

from 1882 to 1908, during which time he was speaker of the Assembly

under the de Boucherville, Taillon and Flynn Governments. His Honor was

appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the province in 1915, and K.C.M.G.,

June 3, 1916. He married Herminie, daughter of Theodore Beaudry and

Catharine Vallee, January 12, 1886, by whom he has three

children—Lieutenant Beaudry Leblanc, C.E.F., Mrs. Juliette L. De Costa,

Buenos Ayres, and Mrs. Arthur Perodeau, Montreal. He is a member of the

Garrison Club, Quebec; Mount Royal, Montreal Hunt, and St. James Clubs,

all of Montreal. In religion His Honor is a Roman Catholic, and in

politics a Conservative.

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=Stewart, Dougald, B.A., M.D., M.P.= (Lunenburg Co., N.S.), born

December 5, 1862, at Upper Musquodoboit, Halifax County, Nova Scotia,

son of John Sprott Stewart, a Scotch-Canadian, and Sarah J. Archibald,

an English-Canadian. Educated at Pictou Academy, Dalhousie College,

University of New York, Degree B.A., 1886, M.D., 1892. Married, October

18, 1892, to Dora Helma, daughter of William T. Kelley, of Shelburne,

N.S.; has two children, Evelyn Jean and Dorothy. On graduation as a

Medical Doctor, he settled in Bridgewater, in 1892, where he has since

had a large practice, was elected member of the Bridgewater Town Council

in 1901, and was mayor for four successive terms, 1907-1910, was a

member of the Board of Trade and elected President in 1910, which office

he held for several terms. In 1911, Doctor Stewart was selected as the

Conservative Candidate for the County of Lunenburg, N.S., in the House

of Commons, and was returned. In his college days, the doctor was

prominent in athletics. He is identified with several fraternal

organizations and societies and is at present Grand Master I.O.O.F. for

the Maritime Provinces. A Presbyterian in religion, and a member of St.

John’s Church, Bridgewater.

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=Demers, Joseph=, born November 11, 1861, at St. Julie, County of

Megantic, Province of Quebec. Son of Edouard Demers, carriage maker, and

Olympe Demers, both French-Canadians. Educated at St. Julie. The subject

of this sketch is emphatically a self-made man and has been the

architect of his own fortune. He started clerking in 1877 with Georges

Turcotte, of St. Julie, and remained with him until 1883, when he

decided to locate at Thetford Mines, which was then only a small village

with a few houses and which has since grown into a thriving centre. In

this place Mr. Demers started a general store and has been very

successful. He was Councillor from 1890 till 1893, Mayor from 1893 to

1895, and Alderman from 1903 to 1905. First elected to the Quebec

Legislature as a Liberal representative for the County of Megantic at

the general elections on May 15, 1912, when he defeated B. H.

Pennington, the former member, by a majority of 401 votes, and continued

to represent the county until 1916. He is a director and promoter of the

Compagnie Hydraulique of St. François. Married September 30, 1885, to

Mary, daughter of Louis Roberge, merchant, of St. Julie, and is the

father of the following children: Leonard, Honore, Jean, Marie Ann,

Antoinette and Gabrielle. Is a member of the Canadian Club and the City

Club, and also of the Knights of Columbus. In religion is a Roman

Catholic.

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Quebec]

=McLean, The Hon. Daniel, M.L.A.=, of Orangedale, Inverness County, Nova

Scotia, is a Presbyterian, a Liberal and a Mason. Born at Whycocomah,

March 22, 1864, he received a good education in the public schools of

his district. He is a son of Donald and Sarah McLean, and a nephew of

the late Hon. James Macdonald, M.P.P. Donald McLean was a farmer and the

Hon. Daniel is a general merchant. From 1894 to 1897 he was a member of

the municipal council. On October 4, 1894, the Hon. Mr. McLean married

Ella C. McPhie, daughter of Angus McPhie, a farmer and blacksmith, of

West Bay, Inverness. They have four daughters, Maud, Ella, Margaret, and

Irma.

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=Vance, His Honor George Montgomery=, Senior Judge of the County of

Simcoe, is a son of William and Elizabeth Vance, of Millbrook, Ont., and

was born in the township of Cavan, County of Durham, on October 4, 1866.

Educated at the Millbrook High School and Osgoode Hall. Studied law in

the office of W. L. Walsh, K.C., Orangeville, now Honorable Justice

Walsh of the Province of Alberta. Called to the Bar in the fall of 1893,

and immediately commenced the practice of law in the Village of

Shelburne, in the County of Dufferin, which he continued with marked

success until 1913, when he was appointed Senior County Judge and Judge

of the Surrogate Court of the County of Simcoe. Before his elevation to

the Bench His Honor took a large interest in the affairs of the Village

of Shelburne and the County of Dufferin both municipally and

politically. He was Reeve and Chairman of the School Board, and took a

large interest in its social and political life. When at the Bar Judge

Vance enjoyed a large practice and was solicitor for several

corporations and townships, and also the village of Shelburne, and has

always taken a prominent part in advocating all educational and

patriotic movements and those calculated to stimulate a strong national

sentiment. A man of large practical experience and a sound lawyer, His

Honor is a fluent and convincing speaker, and his judgments have been

characterized by sound reason and a large vein of common sense. He is an

ardent motorist and has owned and driven a car for several years. He was

married July 2, 1894, to Mary S., daughter of Peter Johnston, and is the

father of two daughters, Lois and Ruth. He is a member of the Anglican

Church. Residence, Barrie, Ont.

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=Power, William=, son of William Power and B. Fitzgerald, his wife, both

Irish, was born in the parish of Sillery, Quebec, February 21, 1849,

educated at the Parochial schools of his native parish. Mr. Power

married July 4, 1881, Susan Winnifred, daughter of James Rockett, Que.,

and has five sons and two daughters. He is a member of the Roman

Catholic Church, and belongs to the Knights of Columbus and the Garrison

Club, and the Fish, Game and Yacht Club of Quebec. He is ex-President of

the Board of Trade of the City of Quebec, President of the La Fontaine

Lumber Company, and Vice-President of the River Ouelle Pulp and Lumber

Company and a member of the firm of W. & J. Sharplen. First elected for

the Constituency of Quebec West in the House of Commons, January 15,

1902, to replace Hon. Mr. Dobell, who died in England. Re-elected at the

general elections of 1904. Defeated in 1908 and again elected at the

general elections in 1911.

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=Proulx, Edmond, M.P.= for Prescott, son of the late Isidore Proulx, who

was M.P. for Prescott County from 1891 till his death, July 28, 1904,

and Philomene Lalande, his wife, both French-Canadians. Born at St.

Hermas, in the County of Two Mountains, Que., on the 21st of May, 1875.

Educated at Bourget College, Rigaud, Que., St. Michael’s College,

Toronto, Ottawa University, and the Law School, Osgoode Hall, Toronto.

Was married January 2, 1907, to Madame Elliott Fraser (_née_ Renee

Audette), daughter of Randolph Audette, of the City of Quebec, wholesale

merchant, and President of La Banque Nationale, and is the father of two

sons, Henri and Marcel, and two daughters, Therese and Cecile. Is a

Public School Trustee of the town of L’Orignal, a member of the

C.M.B.A., Artisans and C.F., and Union St. Joseph of Canada. Has been

Reeve of the town of L’Orignal, and Vice-President of The Ontario

General Reform Association; first elected to the House of Commons as

member for the County of Prescott at the general elections 1904, and

subsequently at the general elections of 1908, 1911 and 1917. Is a

Liberal in politics. In religion Mr. Proulx is a Roman Catholic. He is

very popular among all classes of the community and has a splendid

command of both the English and French languages.

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=Donogh, John Ormsby=, Lumber merchant, Toronto. Was born at Toronto on

the 25th of March, 1854, son of William Donogh and Elizabeth Hayward,

his wife; was educated at the public schools in the Township of Mono and

afterwards in the City of Toronto. Mr. Donogh has been long recognized

as one of the pioneer lumber merchants of the City of Toronto, and for

many years carried on business with Joseph Oliver, formerly Mayor of the

City of Toronto, the firm name being “Donogh & Oliver.” He was

instrumental in organizing and promoting of the Methodist Union of

Toronto and was President for four years. The Union takes charge of all

missionary and church extension work in the provincial capital. For many

years Mr. Donogh has been prominent in the I.O.O.F. and has been past

Grand Master for many years, and at present is Grand Treasurer of the

Order. He was married on Sept. 21, 1874, to Miss Wordley; and is a

member of the National Club of Toronto, a Mason, and an Oddfellow. He is

a man with a large viewpoint and of sterling integrity, and has in the

past supported the Liberal Party. His recreation is golf.

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=Jones, James William= (Kelowna, B.C.), is the son of James and Tryphena

Searles, both Canadians. Was born at Utica, Ont., on September 21, 1869,

educated at the High Schools of Uxbridge and Port Perry, and was a

general merchant in Grenfell, 1894 to 1906. Moved to Kelowna, B.C.,

1907, where he took an active interest in developing a large tract of

irrigated lands in the Okanagan Valley, at Kelowna. Is

Secretary-Treasurer of Central Okanagan Land & Orchard Company of

Kelowna, he is also prominent in mercantile life, being President of

Lawson’s Limited, dry goods and furnishings, also President of McKenzie

Trading Company of Kelowna. Was Mayor of Kelowna for five years,

1912-1917, inclusive, and was elected at the last election as

Conservative member in the British Columbia Legislature for South

Okanagan. Mr. Jones married in 1893, Adam M., daughter of M. T. Bird, of

Grenfell, Sask., and is the father of four children: Ethelwyn, Clarence,

Vivian and Nellie. He is a member of the Masonic Order and also of the

Independent Order of Foresters. In religion he is a Methodist.

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=Watson, Sir David, K.C.B. and Brigadier-General= (Quebec City),

promoted to take command of the 4th Canadian Division of the forces at

the front in April, 1916, is a native of the city of Quebec, having been

born in that city on February 7, 1869. He is the only son of Mr. William

Watson, his mother’s maiden name having been Miss Jean Grant, daughter

of one of Quebec’s well-known merchants of Lower Town. From school and

after some preliminary training in municipal work, he passed into the

“Chronicle” office, when Mr. John J. Foote was manager and proprietor of

the paper, and there worked his way up through the various departments

of journalism, until he finally became the managing director of the

establishment. He has held the office of President of the Quebec Press

Association, and visited London for a first time as a delegate to the

Imperial Press Congress, held in that city in 1908, and a third time as

commander of the 8th Royal Rifles during the royal celebration of 1901.

In the military life of Quebec he has been interested for over twenty

years, and during that time was given promotion step by step until he

was in command of his battalion as its Colonel, a position which he had

held for two or three years before the European War broke out. Having

been selected to take charge of the 2nd Battalion in the 1st Brigade of

the 1st Canadian Division, in August, 1914, he proceeded from the

Valcartier Camp with troops in charge, for their further training at

Salisbury Plains; and, after spending the early winter months there, he

proceeded to the front in January, 1915. He was by this time a Colonel

in full rank. At the seat of war he was continuously engaged as a

commanding officer all during the campaigning up to the summer of 1917,

having taken part with his Division in the operations of Neuve Chapelle,

in March, 1915, as well as in the second battle of Ypres in April, in

the fight at Festubert in May, and that of Givenchy in June. In

recognition of his skill and prudence in these engagements he was

promoted to command the 5th Brigade of the 2nd Canadian Division in the

month of August following, and forthwith as a Brigadier-General, he led

his Brigade in the successive engagements of Wytschaete, Kemmel, and St.

Eloi, during the spring of 1916. Subsequently he was placed in charge of

the 4th Canadian Division and made extended raids in the Ypres salient

and at St. Eloi, and thereafter, for forty-nine days without

intermission, he and his Brigade shared in the exciting engagements

along the River Somme. No less than three attacks were made by General

Watson and his Division, one on the 11th of October, another on the 22nd

of that month, and one on the 18th of November, 1916, all of these

accumulating renown by their intrepid approach on the enemy. Nor was the

commander’s bravery overlooked by the War Office, since General Watson

has come in for special mention in the despatches exchanged between the

general Field Staff and the War Department no less than four times. He

was awarded the high honor of Commander of the Bath, and in 1918 was

further honored by a Knighthood in that order. The record of the

General’s active service at the front is a fitting complement to a

career of over twenty years’ experience in military operations, from the

days of his entering the 8th Royal Rifles, made up of his Quebec

fellow-citizens, to the time of his being a General in full command of

the battlefields of Europe. His career savors of romance. A newspaper

employee, a prominent business man in his native city, a volunteer of

the ranks, a captain, a major, a colonel, and at last a general, form

the grades of a ladder overcome step by step which his fellow-Canadians

cannot but contemplate with pride. It was taken for granted that in the

event of Sir Arthur Currie’s transfer to another command Sir David would

succeed him as Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian army in France.

General Watson married Miss Mary Browning, of Quebec, on September 11,

1893, and has a family of three daughters.

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=Thompson, Alfred= (Dawson City, Yukon Territory), Physician and

Surgeon, son of James A. Thompson and Jane Thompson, both Canadians.

Born June 6, 1869, at Nine-Mile River, Hants County, Nova Scotia.

Educated at Public School by private tutor, and graduated from Dalhousie

University, Halifax, N.S., with degree of M.D.C.M., in 1898. Married

Elsie Miller, daughter of Jacob Miller, of Elmsdale, Nova Scotia, March

7, 1894. Went to Klondyke in 1899 and began practice of his profession;

elected to Yukon Council in 1902. First elected to the House of Commons

at the general elections of 1904, as an Independent. This was the second

election held for the House of Commons in the Yukon, when Dr. Thompson

was opposed by F. T. Congdon, K.C., who resigned the Governorship of the

Territory to contest the seat. Dr. Thompson resigned his seat on the

Yukon Council at the same time. The vote stood: Thompson 2,113, Congdon

1,495, a majority for Dr. Thompson of 618. Nomination was held on

November 18, election on December 16, and the return was received at

Ottawa on March 13, 1915. Retired at end of Parliamentary term and

resumed practice; again elected to House of Commons in 1911 at the

general elections, over his former opponent, F. T. Congdon, K.C., by a

majority of over 450, and again returned at the last general elections

held in the Yukon Territory, which were deferred until December 31,

1917. Dr. Thompson’s election was due to the vote of the soldiers

overseas which he received as the Unionist Candidate. Is a member of the

Masonic Order and of the Zero Club, Dawson, Yukon Territory, and is a

Presbyterian. Father of two children, Alfreda, born December 30, 1904,

and Norman, born August 5, 1909. Dr. Thompson is a supporter of the

Unionist Government and a dominant force in the Yukon Territory, where

he has resided for upwards of eighteen years, and has done much to

promote the growing importance of the district.

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=Struthers, James Douglas, M.D.= (Tiverton, Ont.), first became a member

of his father’s family on April 7, 1886, in the County of Bruce, near

the village of Underwood. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. James Struthers,

of Port Elgin, who for many years were residents of Bruce Township, and

whose farm was one of the best, the owner having brought his splendid

Scotch knowledge into one of the finest settlements in the Dominion,

where success and shrewd business ability crowned his labors. This son

of worthy parents had a longing for knowledge and professional life, and

as a youth was studious in S.S. No. 8, Bruce, having his thirst for

knowledge awakened and developed along proper lines. His next step was

to the High School in Port Elgin, from which he successfully

matriculated. He then went to business college for half a year, which

was followed by duties in railroad office work. While thus employed he

decided that his life work would be that of a doctor. He attended

Toronto University and was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Medicine in

1911. Of a likeable and charming disposition he was ever a favorite at

college, and was honored by his fellow students in the University by

being made Treasurer of the “At Home” Committee of the year ’11. His

Scotch ancestry and faithful application to his profession have made him

friends, and few young men have reached the splendid position he now

occupies. He came back home and settled in the village of Tiverton,

where his practice is large and continually growing. Success has crowned

his ambition, which was to be able to relieve the sufferings of

humanity, and his splendid abilities are often called for in

consultation with his surrounding fellow practitioners, all of whom

esteem him most highly. Determination and decision are two faculties he

possesses. Added to these are a bright and sunny disposition, with a

broad and charitable outlook on life which make for him friends of a

lasting character. He is a member of Tiverton Masonic Lodge, No. 341,

A.F. & A.M., the I.O.O.F., and the C.O.F. In religion he is a

Presbyterian and in politics a Liberal. His friends truly say of him:

“You were aye leal and true, Jamie.”

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=Kastner, Gideon=, of Wiarton, Ontario, son of John Kastner and Margaret

Litt, of Alsace-Lorraine, was born July 8, 1865, in Perth County, Ont.

He received his education in the public and high schools of that county.

At twenty years of age he went to Wiarton, where he engaged in the

lumbering business, which was a thriving industry at that time. He also

followed contracting, building piers and public wharves. In business he

has been exceptionally successful. He had a liking for municipal

politics, and first served in the town council in 1895. He was elected

Reeve of Wiarton in 1910-11, and again in 1915-16-17-18. At the January

meeting of the County Council of Bruce in 1918 he was elected to the

honorable position of warden. His popularity is not solely due to his

genial good nature, but to the fact that he is a keen business man and

takes a deep interest in every enterprise he is connected with. He

served as President of the Wiarton Board of Trade for many years. He has

been Chairman of the Board of Managers of St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church

for a number of years. When the recruiting campaign for the 160th Bruce

Battalion was in full swing Gideon Kastner was one of its whirlwind

supporters. He probably got his enthusiastic military ardour from his

grandfather who served with Napoleon through many campaigns. He is a

loyal supporter of all patriotic movements, lending his energy to every

cause that tends to win the war. His great pastime is bowling. In

politics he is a Liberal. He married Annie Symon, of Wiarton. They have

one son and four daughters, and their home in Wiarton is one of the most

hospitable in the county.

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=Sayles, Edwin Roy=, Editor and proprietor of “The Port Elgin Times,” is

one of the leading men to-day publishing a country newspaper. He was

born in Norfolk County on April 21, 1875. His education was secured in

the public and advanced schools of Courtland and the City of Brantford.

In the latter place he resided for many years. Choosing newspaper work

as his career, he joined the staff of the “Brantford Expositor,” on

which paper he remained for many years. Later he became business manager

of the “Brantford Courier,” and at the time he purchased the “Port Elgin

Times” held this position. On taking possession of the “Times” he at

once put his splendid business ability into the enterprise and

established it upon sound business principles. Under him the “Times” has

become one of the brightest country weeklies in Ontario. He has ideas

which he is not afraid to put forward, and his paper is ever for the

uplift and moral reform of the community which he so ably serves. He is

a splendid platform man, speaking with ease and fluency. He has given

much of his time to the Canadian Press Association, and for three years,

1914-15-16, was chairman of the weekly section of that body. He has also

been on the executive Board of that body for a number of years. He is

Past President of the Bruce County Press Association, and has done much

to improve the standing of the country publisher and place his business

upon the high plane it to-day occupies. He is a member of Port Elgin

Lodge, No. 429, A.F. & A.M., the C.O.F., and the A.O.F. In religion he

is a Baptist, taking a deep interest in the work of that body. In

politics he is a Liberal, with a slight tendency toward radicalism.

Though of many activities he finds time for public service, as has been

evidenced by his arduous work in recruiting and patriotic efforts, which

has claimed so much of the time of busy men. He takes an interest in the

boy scout movement. His pastimes are bowling, shooting, and motoring. He

married Miss M. Galbraith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Galbraith, of

Middlesex County. They have one daughter, Eleanor Jean.

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=Honeywell, Major Frederick Henry, B.A.=, is a prominent Ottawa

barrister and military man who, during the late war, distinguished

himself by serving his country at the front. He was born in Carleton

County, Ont., on Dec. 12, 1877, son of Elkanah and Marie (Baldwin)

Honeywell, and received his education at the public schools of

Westboro’, Carleton County, at Ottawa Collegiate Institute and at

Toronto University. He qualified for the law and after being called to

the Bar established himself in practice at Ottawa, where he is head of

the firm of Honeywell, Caldwell & Wilson, Barristers and Solicitors,

Central Chambers. The firm has a large connection in the adjacent

county, where Major Honeywell still maintains his residence. He has

served as Reeve of Nepean township and as Warden of the County of

Carleton. He has always taken a keen interest in military affairs, and

at the time the war broke out held the commission of Major in the 5th

Princess Louise Dragoon Guards, Ottawa. Offering himself for service

overseas he was appointed Major of the 8th Canadian Mounted Rifles in

the Canadian Expeditionary Force, in which capacity he went to the

front. He was later attached to the 26th Battalion of the British

Expeditionary Force in France, on active service, and participated in

several noted engagements. He is essentially an outdoor man and his

recreations include curling, skating, ski-ing, golf, motoring and motor

boating. He is a Liberal in politics, a Protestant in religion and a

member of the A.F. & A.M. and I.O.F. His residence is at Woodruff,

Carleton County, Ont.

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=Wainwright, Arnold, K.C., B.C.L.=, one of the leading barristers and

publicists of Montreal was born in that city on June 13, 1879, the son

of William and Mary Emily (Arnold) Wainwright. His education was

unusually complete. After a course at Montreal Collegiate Institute he

entered McGill University, from which he graduated in 1890 with the

degree of B.A. and honors and medal in mental and moral philosophy. This

was supplemented by a course in law and in 1902 he obtained the degree

of B.C.L. with a medal. Subsequently he took a post-graduate course at

the University of Montpelier, France. He was called to the bar in 1902

and is now a member of the firm of Davidson, Wainwright, Alexander &

Elder, Advocates, Transportation Building, Montreal. In 1912 he was

created King’s Counsel on attaining the requisite ten years’ service at

the bar. He was elected President of the Junior Bar Association of

Montreal in 1910 and a member of the Council of the Montreal Bar for

1911-12. In addition to being recognized as a brilliant speaker both in

the forensic and political arenas, Mr. Wainwright is a recognized

authority on the academic side of his profession and is Lecturer on the

Laws of Evidence and the Laws of Persons in the legal faculty of McGill

University. In politics he is a Liberal and was a member of the Council

of the Montreal Reform Club, 1910-11. He is an Anglican in religion and

a member of the following clubs: St. James’, University, Beaconsfield

Golf, Country, Canada, and Reform. In 1913 he married Norah, daughter of

William Prentice, Montreal, and resides at 4 Seaforth Ave. in that city.

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=Bates, Joseph Lever=, an Ottawa business man of widely extended

interests, was born at Easton’s Corners, Ont., in 1850, the son of

Nathaniel Bates. He was educated in the public schools of his district

and afterward engaged in the granite business. In 1907 he founded the

International Land and Lumber Company, 283-285 Bank Street, Ottawa, of

which he is President. His other interests include the Presidency of the

British Canadian Industrial Co., Ltd., which maintains offices in

London, England, as well as in this country. He is a member of the

Canadian Club, Ottawa, and of the Masonic Order. In politics he is a

Liberal and in religion a Methodist. On December 21, 1875, he married

Juliet, daughter of Mr. C. J. Lighthall of Montana, and has three sons.

His residence is at 50 McLaren Street, Ottawa.

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=McConnell, Richard George=, Deputy Minister of Mines, and Director of

the Geographical Survey for Canada, was born at Chatham, Quebec, March

26, 1857, the son of Andrew and Martha (Bradford) McConnell. He was

educated at the Caribou Academy and at McGill University, from which he

graduated with the degree of B.A. in 1879, taking first class honors in

Natural Science. On graduation he immediately went to the Canadian West

as assistant to the famous Canadian geologist, Dr. G. N. Dawson, whose

name is immortalized in Dawson City, the capital of the Yukon Territory.

Upon his return to the East in 1881 Mr. McConnell entered the service of

the Canadian Geological Survey and made many explorations in behalf of

the government which resulted in valuable discoveries in Western Canada,

British Columbia and the Yukon. In 1887 and 1888 he headed one of the

most extensive exploratory expeditions on record, traversing almost the

whole country drained by the Stikine, Liard, Mackenzie, Porcupine, Yukon

and Lewis Rivers. The results of his investigations are to be found in

many reports and articles on the Geological and Mineral Resources of

Western Canada. On this subject he is recognized in professional circles

throughout the world as the chief living authority. In fact it is

doubtful whether any man, past or present has acquired such an intimate

first-hand knowledge of the great Sub-Arctic areas of Western Canada. As

a geologist his fame is international, and he is a prominent member of

the Geological Society of America as well as of the Royal Society of

Canada. His recreations are curling and golf and he is a member of the

Ottawa Golf Club. In religion he is a Presbyterian, and was married in

November, 1898, to Jeannie, daughter of E. H. Botterell, Montreal. His

family consists of one son and one daughter, and his home is at

“Edgehill,” Rockliffe, Ottawa.

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=Currie, General Sir Arthur William, C.B., G.C.M.G.=, Commander-in-chief

of the Canadian Army on the Western front during the latter stages of

the great war, was born at the village of Napperton, Middlesex County,

Ontario, December 5, 1875, the son of William Garner and Jane Currie. He

was educated at the public school of his district and later at Strathroy

Collegiate Institute. Going to British Columbia in 1893 when but

eighteen years of age he first engaged in school teaching at Sidney,

B.C. Later he located in Victoria, B.C., and entered on a business

career. At the time the war broke out he was the head of the firm of

Currie & Power, one of the leading real estate concerns of Vancouver

Island. Nearest to his heart, however, were military pursuits, and he

early identified himself with the 5th Canadian Garrison Artillery, in

which he served fourteen years, rising ultimately to the rank of

Lieutenant-Colonel. With him, however, military activity was not merely

a case of dress parades, but a real pursuit. He devoted himself

seriously to the study of modern tactics, not only in connection with

his own arm of the service but infantry as well. He used his influence

to encourage rifle shooting, and from 1907 onward was President of the

British Columbia Rifle Association. On the outbreak of the war followed

by the decision of the Canadian Government to send an Expeditionary

Force to the front, Col. Currie was recognized as one of the most

efficient volunteer officers in this country, and when Sir Sam Hughes

telegraphed him asking him to accept a command he did not hesitate to

offer his services. He was assigned to the command of the Vancouver

Highland Battalion, which trained at Valcartier Camp, and went overseas

in the late autumn of 1914 to complete its training on Salisbury Plain.

The regiment was one of the first Canadian units sent to France, and in

the terrible fighting at St. Julien and Langemarck in connection with

the second battle of Ypres, April, 1915, had its baptism of blood. This

was the engagement of which Viscount French reported to the War Office

“The Canadians saved the day.” In this severe test Colonel Currie won a

reputation for leadership and courage of the highest order which has

distinguished him ever since. He received enthusiastic praise from

General Alderson, the Imperial officer then in command of the Canadian

division, and on the latter’s recommendation was accorded the coveted

D.S.O. and given command of a brigade. His service as brigade commander

proved so completely successful that his work won the attention of the

British Headquarters Staff, and when a reorganization of commands ensued

as a result of the arrival of two new Canadian divisions in the field,

he was elevated to the rank of Major-General and placed in charge of the

First Division of the Canadian Army. In this post he commanded his

division at the Battle of Hooge, when it resisted the full force of the

German assault in what was described as “this particular hell of Hooge.”

His cool and brilliant handling of what was admittedly a critical

situation for all forces on the bloody Ypres salient won him the

unstinted praise of his immediate chief-in-command, General Sir Julian

Byng, and all the other British military experts. The correspondent of

the London “Times” reported that nothing finer was ever seen in warfare

than the manner in which the lines over Maple Cape, Observatory Ridge

and Armagh Wood were held by the troops under General Currie’s command.

Sir Julian Byng in his report said “I am proud of the Canadian troops

under my command. Their behaviour has been magnificent. I have never

known fiercer or more deadly barrage, nor have I seen any troops fight

with more earnestness, courage and cheerfulness.” He especially praised

General Currie’s counter attack with the Canadian division at 1.30 on

the morning of June 13, 1916, on a front of 500 yards extending from

Sanctuary Wood to Hill 60, when heavy losses were inflicted on the

Germans and prisoners taken. The spring of 1917 was marked by glorious

achievement on the part of the Canadian troops, including the captures

of Messines Ridge and Vimy Ridge, and finally attaining the investment

of Lens. In the midst of the spring campaign Sir Julian Byng was shifted

to the command of a British Army. General Currie was at once recognized

as his logical successor and became the Chief-in-Command of the Canadian

Army in the field with four divisions under him. The victory of Vimy

which was heralded throughout the world as a great military achievement,

was generally credited to General Currie’s masterly powers of

preparation and organization. It was in recognition of these services

that His Majesty King George knighted him on the field of Vimy as a

member of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. Earlier still he had

been made a Companion of the Bath. It was on June 19, 1917, that he

assumed the chief command, and one of his first achievements was the

capture of Hill 70 on his own initiative, rendering the important mining

city of Lens, which had been in German occupation for nearly three

years, untenable for military uses by the enemy. General Currie could

have occupied Lens any time during the summer of 1917 that it was deemed

desirable, but owing to the belief of the French Government that its

capture would only result in further destruction, without military

advantage, the word to advance was withheld. Instead, during the autumn

of 1917 General Currie and his army were assigned by Sir Douglas Haig to

one of the most terrible tasks that was ever allotted to a military

force. It was that of taking Passchendaele Ridge in Flanders with a view

to getting to Roulers and cutting off the U-Boat bases of Zeebrugge and

Ostend. Sir Douglas Haig assigned the task to the Canadians because he

believed that under the command of General Currie they had developed

into the best “shock” troops in the world. The Germans on the other hand

believed that Passchendaele Ridge was impregnable, and many military

experts agreed with them; but the U-Boat menace was such that the

attempt was deemed to be justified by necessity. Before the attack

General Currie personally addressed his men, and did not disguise what

they had to face, but so fired them with the spirit of victory that

despite terrible losses they carried the Ridge. It was one of the

tragedies of the war that the Flanders winter closed down so suddenly

that it was impossible to reap the full fruits of victory by advancing

to Roulers. By spring the situation had been absolutely changed by the

great German offensive of March, 1918, and Passchendaele was temporarily

abandoned. This circumstance did not alter the greatness of the original

achievement, attained in obedience to the orders of the Headquarters

command. In the final stages of the war which gave the Allies victory

the Canadian army under General Currie played a role of immortal lustre.

They entered in the fighting in full force on August 8, 1918, and from

thence onward until the signing of the armistice on November 11 victory

after victory crowned their banners. The greatest of their achievements

was perhaps the breaking of the Drocourt-Queant Switch Line, a part of

the great “Hindenburg” defence system, which the Germans had also

boasted was impregnable. When General Currie achieved this victory and

opened the road to Cambrai it was at once recognized by war experts, and

even by German critics, that Marshal Foch’s strategy could succeed in a

much shorter period than had been anticipated if such efforts could be

repeated on other parts of the Allied front. As everyone knows this

prognostication was not falsified. Before the war was over General

Currie and his army had to their credit the capture of Cambrai and of

Valenciennes, two of the most vital points in the German resistance. Two

hours before the armistice was signed General Currie rode as a conqueror

into Mons, the point where the old “contemptibles” of the original

British Army had first shown their prowess against the Germans in 1914.

During the cleaning-up operations following the war, his administrative

abilities have proven most valuable. On New Year’s Day, 1919, his

services were further recognized by bestowing on him the honor of Grand

Cross of St. Michael and St. George, an order in which he was already a

Knight. It must not be forgotten also that in the critical period when

Canada’s maintenance of her forces in France was in doubt, General

Currie’s voice had great weight in determining the action of the people

of this country. He strongly urged on Sir Robert Borden and other

ministers that this country should do everything in its power to help

win the war and meet the condition caused by the falling off of

enlistments, a condition which was threatening the dissolution of his

ever-victorious army. The result was the decision of the Canadian

Government to adopt the policy of conscription. During the election

campaign that ensued he sent the following message to the Canadian

people on behalf of himself and his staff: “We sincerely sympathize with

endeavors to arouse our countrymen to the necessity of remaining united

and firm in their determination to furnish troops in the field all

necessary support. We deeply deplore the fact that the wisdom of doing

so has become a subject for debate and controversy by those at home. If

support is now withheld or even delayed it means that additional burdens

will have to be borne by men already doing the seemingly impossible.”

This message coming from the most eminent of Canadian soldiers and one

who in private life had been a political opponent of the Borden

administration, could not fail to bring thousands of electors to a sense

of their duty to the soldier in the field. There have been rumors that

an effort would be made to induce General Currie to enter Canadian

politics as a Liberal leader on his return from the front, but so far he

has refused to assent to any such proposals. He is an Anglican in

religion and was married in 1901 to Miss L. S. Chaworth-Masters of

Victoria, B.C., by whom he has one daughter. A quiet man of iron

determination and marvellous powers of organization, he is, however,

certain to play a prominent role in the life of Canada in future,

whatever path he may elect to follow.

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=Girard, A. D.=, one of the leading advocates of St. John’s, Quebec, was

born at Ste. Hyacinthe in that province on May 10, 1841, the son of

Michel and Sophie (Cheicoine) Girard. He was educated at Ste. Hyacinthe

College and at St. Mary’s College, Montreal. He qualified for the law

and was called to the Quebec bar (of which he is now one of the honored

veterans) on April 4, 1864. From that year until 1879 he practised alone

at Waterloo, Quebec, and in the latter year removed to St. John’s where

he has ever since resided. Until 1911 he practised by himself but then

took a partner, and the firm of Girard & Demers, which has offices on

St. John’s Street in above named city, is well known throughout the

district. Until his retirement from public life a few years ago Mr.

Girard was a prominent figure in Quebec politics and a supporter of the

Conservative party. He was the candidate of that party for the

Legislature as early as 1875, in the riding of Sheppard. In the

elections of both 1900 and 1904 he contested St. John’s in the same

interest. His counsel has been much sought by the younger politicians of

the day. In religion he is a Roman Catholic and was married on February

13, 1877, to Cordelli, daughter of F. X. Bousquet of Montreal.

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=Wilson, Peter Edward, B.A., LL.B.=, Barrister-at-law, Prince George,

B.C., was born at Bond Head, Ont., August 28, 1871, the son of Charles

Wilson, farmer, and Rachel, his wife. He was educated at Brampton High

School, Toronto University and Osgoode Hall, Toronto, and after being

called to the bar, went to British Columbia in 1896, first practising at

Nelson. In 1905 he was appointed judge of the County Court of East

Kootenay, a post which he held with honor to himself and to his office

until 1912, when he resigned to resume practice at Fort George, B.C.,

where he has ever since resided. He is City Solicitor of that place and

has also filled the offices of President of the Board of Trade and

Chairman of the School Board. During 1917-8 he was a member of the

Exemption Tribunal under the Military Service Act, for the district of

Fort George. He is an Anglican in religion and Independent in politics.

His recreations are gardening and curling. On Dec. 10, 1896, he married

Christine, daughter of George Brown, a gentleman of Maidenhead, Eng., by

whom he has seven children.

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=Mann, Alexander Robert=, 3690 Selkirk Ave., Shaughnessy Heights,

Vancouver, B.C., one of the most prominent business men of the Pacific

Coast and a brother of the famous Canadian railroad magnate, Sir Donald

Mann, is a native of Halton County, Ontario. He was born in the Village

of Acton on July 29, 1861, the son of Hugh and Helen (Macdonell) Mann,

his father being a farmer. He was educated in the public and high

schools of his native place, and had practical experience on the farm

before going to Winnipeg in 1879, where he took up railroading.

Subsequently he engaged in the lumber business at Fort Frances, Ont.,

and in 1890 graduated into railroad construction. Among the various

western lines which he took part in building were the Long Lake branch,

C.P.R. (1890); Calgary and Edmonton Railway (1892-3); Soo Line,

Saskatchewan (1892-3); Cusp and Slocan Railway, B.C. (1893-4); Columbia

& Western Railway (1898); Rainy River Branch, C.N.R. (1899-1901);

Neepawa to McCreary section, C.N.R. (1903-4); Greenway Branch, C.N.R.

(1903-4); James Bay road, Toronto to Sudbury (1904-6); Goose Lake line

C.N.R. (1906-7). From 1895 to 1897 he also handled ore in the Slocan

silver region. From 1898 to 1904 he operated under his own name as a

railway contractor and in the latter year formed the Northern

Construction Company of Vancouver, of which he is still President. He is

also President of the Dominion Products, Ltd., and the Canadian Kelp

Company, Ltd., of Vancouver and a Director of the Winnipeg Aqueduct Co.

He is recognized throughout Canada as a type of the sound, constructive

business man, to which this country owes its rapid development during

the past quarter of a century. He is a member of the Vancouver Club, the

Albany Club (Toronto), and the Carleton Club (Winnipeg), and his chief

recreation is golf. He is a Presbyterian in religion and on June 19,

1908, married Jennie, the daughter of Robert Malton, Owen Sound, Ont.,

by whom he has two daughters.

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=Cartwright, Lt.-Col. Robert, C.M.G.=, one of the most prominent

officers in the Canadian permanent forces, and who, at the time of

writing, is stationed at Military Headquarters, Belmont House, Victoria,

B.C., is a son of the eminent Canadian statesman, the late Sir Richard

Cartwright, K.C.M.G., and was born at Kingston, Ont., Nov. 4, 1860. He

was educated at the Royal Military College, Kingston, in 1881, entered

the service of the Canadian Militia, has been stationed at many of the

military districts throughout Canada, and has steadily risen in rank.

Col. Cartwright is widely known as an efficient, painstaking and

resourceful officer and has seen considerable service. He holds the

North-West Medal, earned in the rising of 1885, and the South African

Medal with four clasps. When the South African war broke out in 1899, he

was Assistant Adjutant-General at Headquarters, Ottawa, and relinquished

his appointment to go as a member of the Canadian contingent. Later he

was given the honor of Companion of St. Michael and St. George. He

established and was commandant of the Canadian School of Musketry, at

Rockliffe, near Ottawa, the value of which has been proven as a training

school for Canadian officers in the present war. Col. Cartwright’s own

duties during the latter years of the war have been those of Musketry

Officer of M.D. No. 11, Victoria, B.C. In addition to his military

activities, he is a successful fruit farmer, and his recreations are

skating, riding, motoring and sailing. He is a Liberal in politics and a

man of advanced opinions, being a member of the Single Tax Association,

the Anti-Poverty League, as well as of the Army and Navy Veterans, and

the Rideau Club, Ottawa. He is an Anglican in religion and was married

on Sept. 20, 1885, to Ivy Marion, daughter of Benjamin Canning Davy,

Kingston, Ont., by whom he has had three children, Marion, Vida Lois and

Francis (deceased in early childhood).

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=Marshall, Lieut.-Colonel Noel G. L.= (Toronto, Ont.), Merchant, is one

of those “British Born” who have carved out for themselves successful

careers in Canada, although, since he was but four years old at the time

of his parents’ removal to this country, his view-point is essentially

Canadian. Born in London, December 30, 1852, the son of Kenric R. and

Charlotte A. Marshall, he was educated in the Public Schools of Toronto

and entered the service of L. Coffee & Company at the age of fifteen.

Subsequently he was employed by George Chaffey Bros., Coal Merchants,

and in 1879 purchased an interest in the C. J. Smith Coal Company. In

1888, Noel Marshall, in company with Sir William Mackenzie, bought out

the entire business and three years later changed the corporate name to

that of The Standard Fuel Company. For the past sixteen years he has

represented the Toronto Board of Trade at the Canadian National

Exhibition, of which he is now Honorary President. Among other business

connections, Mr. Marshall is President of the Faramel Company, Ltd., of

Toronto; and the Dominion Automobile Company, Ltd.; Vice-President of

the Imperial Guarantee and Accident Company; of the Chartered Trust &

Executor Company; Director of the Sterling Bank, Western Canada Flour

Mills Company, Ltd.; Canada Northern Prairie Lands Company, Ltd. Noel

Marshall was a member of the Toronto Board of Education, 1890-91; member

of the Toronto Board of Trade since 1899, and a member of the Council of

that organization for several terms. He was created Knight of Grace of

the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in 1915, and was gazetted Honorary

Lieut.-Colonel in the same year. He is at present Chairman of the

Central Council and Executive Committee, Canadian Red Cross Society;

President of the Open-Air Horse Parade Association; Vice-President of

the National Chorus and Provincial Council, Canadian Boy Scouts; member

of the Ontario Parole Commission; Treasurer, Laymen’s Missionary

Movement of the Church of England; Governor of the Western Hospital,

Toronto; Vice-President of the Hospital for Incurables; member of the

Board, Children’s Aid Society, Orphan Boys’ Home, Working Boys’ Home,

British Welcome League, Imperial Home Re-union, Imperial Daughters of

the Empire, Women’s Welcome Hostel, Georgina Houses, and Bishop Strachan

School. Colonel Marshall married Harriette Isabel, daughter of John

Hogg, M.P., York Mills, Ont., in 1879, who died on December 4, 1904. He

has two sons. Col. Kenric R., D.S.O., and Noel Clifford. He is a member

of the York, National, Albany, Granite and Royal Canadian Yacht Clubs,

all of Toronto. He is a Conservative in politics and an Anglican in

religion.

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=Turnbull, Walter Renwick= (Brantford, Ont.), President of the Turnbull

Cutcliffe Hardware Company, Ltd., was born in Brantford Township, the

son of William Turnbull, his father being a farmer and for many years

the Secretary-Treasurer of the Brant Mutual Fire Insurance Company. He

has served six years as Alderman of the City of Brantford and is

Chairman of the Brantford Municipal Railway Commission. Mr. Turnbull

married Alice Ada, daughter of Wm. Buck, Stove Manufacturer, Brantford,

on December 3, 1890; he has one son—William Archibald. His recreations

are bowling and motoring, being a member of the Brantford Social and

Bowling Club. He is a member of the A.F. & A.M. and a life member of

Doric and Ozias Masonic Lodges. Mr. Turnbull is a Liberal and a

Presbyterian.

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=McClennaghan, Stewart.= Who is there in Ottawa that has not heard of,

or does not know, Stewart McClennaghan? Yes! who does not know him? No

one in the city, or for that matter for many miles of country

surrounding the Capital of the Dominion, can be found that does not know

the President and General-Manager of the famous 2 Macs, Limited, dealers

in fine tailoring, hats, furnishings, clothing and boots and shoes, for

men and boys, with entrances on Sparks, Bank and Queen Streets, at the

busy Corner—corner of Sparks and Bank Streets, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Not only is he well known: he is also one of the most popular business

men, social companion, lover of sports, and general good fellow with all

his friends, acquaintances and customers to be found in any community,

and his success in life, and his popularity, are what have sprung from

his open, genial and straightforward conduct towards and with all who

have had the good fortune to come in contact with him ever since he

arrived in Ottawa in 1879 when he became an apprentice in the dry goods

business in which line he served for ten years. Mr. McClennaghan has

held almost every public office in the gift of the citizens of

Ottawa—Public School Trustee, member of the Collegiate Institute Board,

Controller of the City of Ottawa, Chairman of the Carnegie Library

Board, President of the Central Canada Exhibition Association, Justice

of the Peace, Member of the Board of Trade, Chairman of the Boxing

Committee of the Ottawa Amateur Athletic Club, Vice-President of the

Sportsmen’s Patriotic Association, President of the Liberal Conservative

Association, Promoter of the Connaught Park Jockey Club and a member of

the Original Committee who started the Prescott and Ottawa Highway

Scheme which to-day is receiving such prominent attention from all

lovers of good roads and from the Ontario Government—and could have

held them all and been elected to others of equal or even more

importance had he so desired. Whenever he was put forward as a candidate

for any office—public, political, educational, sporting or social, his

election was assured, and when he consented at a most critical time in

the history of Ottawa’s Municipal Administration, to be a candidate for

Controller he polled the largest majority ever secured by any man

running for public office in the city. In addition Mr. McClennaghan is

profoundly patriotic and public spirited and ever since the war started

has been active, energetic and generous in helping forward Canada’s

effort. His son, Lieut. Stewart Lyon McClennaghan served in France with

distinction in the Royal Flying Corps, and his nephew, Lieut. Vivian S.

C. McClennaghan of the Canadian Engineers, son of Mr. James McClennaghan

of the Marine Dept., has been awarded the Military Cross for bravery

while in charge of an important tract which was being heavily shelled

and bombed and completed his task though twice buried by shell fire. In

1889 Mr. Stewart McClennaghan formed a partnership with the late Mr. M.

D. MacKay as merchant tailors under the name of the 2 Macs—McClennaghan

& MacKay. Three years later, in 1892, Mr. McClennaghan bought out Mr.

MacKay and continued in the business until 1904 when he organized a

joint stock company under the name of the 2 Macs, Limited, he becoming

President and Managing-Director. To-day the business is recognized as

one of the largest outfitting establishments in Canada, handling

everything in boys’ and men’s wear, and occupying some 5,000 square feet

of floor space, with a frontage of 100 feet on Bank Street, 66 feet on

Sparks Street, and 33 feet on Queen Street, with the prospects in

evidence that considerably more space will shortly be necessary if the

business continues to expand as it has during the past decade. From 1900

to 1908 Mr. McClennaghan was a member of the Public School Board and was

chairman for two years, and from 1908 to 1911 he was a member of the

Ottawa Collegiate Institute Board from which he resigned to run for

Controller of the City of Ottawa, as above stated. During the existence

of the City’s Publicity Board Mr. McClennaghan was Chairman. Mr.

McClennaghan is Chairman of the Carnegie Library Board and has been a

member of the Board for many years. He is President of the Central

Canada Exhibition Association. His first year of office, 1917,

terminated with the Exhibition showing the largest receipts ever

obtained in the history of the Association. He is a Justice of the Peace

for the City of Ottawa and for the County of Carleton. He is a member of

the Council of the Board of Trade, and has been a member of the Board

for years. In amateur sports Mr. McClennaghan has been prominently

identified for many years. In 1890 he won the gold medal presented by

the Ottawa Amateur Association for the one mile snow shoe championship

of the city. He was President of the Ottawa Bicycle Club and a member of

their racing team. He was Chairman of the Board Committee of the Ottawa

Athletic Club for several years. He is one of the promoters of the

Connaught Park Jockey Club, became Vice-President, and is now Chairman

of the Management Committee. He is Vice-President of the Sportsmen’s

Patriotic Association, and it is he who is responsible for and was one

of the original Committee who started the Prescott and Ottawa Highway

Scheme. From 1916 to 1918 Mr. McClennaghan was President of the Ottawa

Liberal Conservative (now Unionist) Association. Mr. Stewart

McClennaghan is the son of William John (Contractor) and Sarah (Boyd)

McClennaghan and a nephew of Mr. N. K. Boyd, ex.-M.P. for MacDonald,

Manitoba. He was born at Oxford Mills, Ontario, July 14, 1866, and he

was educated at the Ottawa Public Schools. August 19, 1895, he married

Matilda A. Lyon, daughter of the late John G. and Victoria Lyon, of

Ottawa. The union has been blessed with two sons and five

daughters—Lieut. Stewart Lyon, Nora Boyd, Hilda Brook, Ruth Hasley,

Helen Read, Hugh John, Doris Victoria. He is a member of the following

Clubs: Laurentian, Rivermead Golf, Victoria Yacht, Abitibi Fish and

Game, and of the following Societies: Masonic, Oddfellows, Foresters and

Workmen. In religion he is Anglican and in politics Conservative. For

recreation he indulges in golf, hunting and yachting. His military

career was spent in the ranks of the Princess Louise Dragoon Guards. His

place of residence is 330 Cooper Street, Ottawa, Ontario.

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=Buchanan, William A., M.P.= (Lethbridge, Alta.), Publisher, was born in

Fraserville, Peterboro County, Ont., July 2, 1876; the son of Rev. Wm.

Buchanan. His earlier education took place in the Public and High

Schools of Trenton, Brighton and Norwood, Ont. He first became

interested in newspaper work in Peterboro, Ont., and later was News

Editor of the “Evening Telegram,” Toronto, removing from there to accept

the position of managing director of the St. Thomas Journal; remaining

in that position until 1905, when he decided to try his fortune in the

West, locating at Lethbridge, Alberta, where he established and became

publisher of the “Lethbridge Herald,” first as a weekly and, in 1907,

changed it to a daily. For two years he was President of the Alberta and

Eastern British Columbia Press Association, and Director of the Western

Associated Press. He entered politics in 1909, in the Liberal interests,

and was elected as the first member to represent Lethbridge City in the

Alberta Legislature, and became a member of the Rutherford Government in

the fall of the same year. In 1911 he resigned, over a difference of

opinion on a railway bargain, and then contested the Constituency of

Medicine Hat for the House of Commons, defeating the late member, C. A.

McGrath (Conservative) by a majority of 1,500. Mr. Buchanan was a member

of the Special House of Commons Committee on old age pensions and on

redistribution. In the general elections of 1917 he was a candidate as a

Unionist Liberal, and was elected by a majority of several thousand. He

is now Unionist Whip for Alberta. In 1918 he was a member of the party

of Canadian Journalists invited to visit the Western front and Great

Britain. During the war he was actively engaged in patriotic movements,

more especially the Patriotic Fund and Belgian Relief Fund. While living

in Ontario, Mr. Buchanan took a great interest in military affairs and

became Quartermaster of the 25th Regiment, at St. Thomas. He is

interested in all kinds of sports and takes a keen pleasure in golf; was

Secretary and Treasurer of the Ontario Hockey Association during John

Ross Robertson’s Presidency, and was the first Chairman of the Board of

Governors of the Alberta Amateur Athletic Association; is a member of

the Chinook and the Country Clubs of Lethbridge; Ontario Club, Toronto,

and the Laurentian Club, Ottawa. For two years he was President of the

Canadian Club, of Lethbridge. Mr. Buchanan married Alma Maude Freeman,

daughter of Edwin B. Freeman, of Burlington, Ont., and has one son,

Donald W., born April 9, 1908. He is a member of the Methodist Church.

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=Williams, Herbert Hale=, head of the firm of H. H. Williams & Co.,

Toronto, Ont. The name of H. H. Williams is a familiar one in the

Canadian real estate field. For many years now his firm, that of H. H.

Williams & Co., with headquarters in Toronto, Canada, has occupied a

prominent place among the old-established and conservative real estate

businesses of the Dominion. Mr. Williams himself, who is the active head

of the firm, is a native of Toronto. Born on September 21, 1862, he

received his education in the local public schools and the Toronto

Grammar School. For a short time after matriculating from the latter

institution, he studied law in the office of George Morphy, but

presently relinquished the idea of becoming a lawyer in favor of

following a mercantile career. His first employment was obtained in the

office of Taylor Bros., paper manufacturers, Toronto, where for two

years he filled the position of book-keeper. Then he turned his

attention to the lumber business, in the prosecution of which he met

with much success. He succeeded in developing an extensive connection

with the railroads of the country, furnishing them with the timber and

manufactured lumber needed in construction and also built up a

considerable export trade to the United States in clear lumber. In 1886

Mr. Williams withdrew from the lumber business and entered the real

estate field. He founded the firm of H. H. Williams & Co. and began

those operations which have subsequently established his reputation as a

sane, far-sighted and reliable dealer. To give some idea of the extent

and importance of the undertakings which Mr. Williams has handled during

the past few years in Toronto, mention might be made of the following

large transactions, all of which were carried through in their entirety

by the firm of H. H. Williams & Co.: The purchase for the Canadian

Pacific Railway Company of the right-of-way along the Esplanade; the

purchase, also for the C.P.R., of the old Government House property on

King Street, together with three blocks of land extending from Simcoe

Street to Spadina Avenue, south of King Street, in connection with the

establishment of freight terminals; the purchase of the two blocks

bounded by Yonge, Carlton, Church and Alexander Streets, which with

subsidiary properties involved an investment of over five million

dollars; the purchase, on behalf of the Dominion Government, of

properties required for a new general post office, a new railway postal

station and an enlarged customs house; and the purchase of the two

blocks bounded by Yonge, College, Teraulay and Hayter Streets,

comprising nine acres of land in the very heart of Toronto and forming

one of the most important retail locations in the city.

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=Deroche, William Paschal= (Napanee, Ont.), Local Registrar of the

Supreme Court of Ontario, is the son of Paschal and Elizabeth Jane

Deroche, and married on January 1, 1919, Helen Aylesworth Asselstine,

daughter of the late Benjamin Asselstine, of Kingston, Ont. He was born

at Newburgh, Ont., on August 27, 1854, and educated at Newburgh Academy.

After graduation, Mr. Deroche taught school at Deseronto (then Mill

Point) and other places for five years successfully, and began the study

of law in 1878 with his brother, the late H. M. Deroche, K.C., and Judge

Madden, at Napanee, and also with the well-known firm of Beatty,

Blackstock & Co., at Toronto. He was appointed local Registrar of the

Supreme Court of Ontario, Clerk of the County Court and Registrar of the

Surrogate Court in June, 1887, and has been a member of the Public

Library Board in Napanee for several years. Outside of these offices,

however, Mr. Deroche has sought no public honors, devoting his entire

energies and finding his best reward in discharging them to the

satisfaction of the public and the members of his chosen profession. He

is a member of the Anglican Church and a Liberal in politics. Judge

Deroche, W. D. M. Shorey, Barrister, both of Belleville, Ont.; Col.

Alex. P. Deroche, Director of Works and Buildings at Ottawa; and H. M.

P. Deroche, Barrister, of Melville, Sask., are all nephews of Mr.

Deroche. With the possible exception of Chief Justice Sir Glenholme

Falconbridge, of Toronto, all the Judges of the High Court who were on

the Bench when Mr. Deroche was appointed to his present position, are

dead. His brother, H. M. Deroche, K.C., died March 10, 1916.

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=Forster, J. W. L.=, Artist (Toronto, Ont.), was born at Norval, Ont.,

and was educated at the Brampton Grammar School. Of him, an eminent

public man gives us the following: “Canada, though in some senses a

young country, has already produced a group of noted artists, whose

depiction of her landscape and life is helping to make the Dominion

known throughout the world. Among the leaders in this group is John

Wycliffe Lowes Forster, than whom none of our artists has done so much

for our national portraiture. Not only has he painted more of our public

men than any of his contemporaries, but he is the only Canadian artist

who has devoted his whole genius to the painting of portraits. If all

Mr. Forster’s portraits of famous Canadians, which hang in public

buildings and noted homes, were gathered together, they would in

themselves constitute a large national portrait gallery, and this

gallery would be quite representative of the great leaders in all walks

of life. Among our statesmen—Sir John A. Macdonald, Sir Wilfrid

Laurier, Alexander Mackenzie, John Sandfield Macdonald, Sir John

Thompson, Robert Baldwin, Wm. Lyon Mackenzie, William S. Fielding, Sir

George Ross and Sir James P. Whitney, constitute a comprehensive group.

In divinity, such noted personalities as Punshon, Cavan, Carman, Primate

Archbishop Machray, Primate Archbishop Sweatman, Bishop O’Connor,

Milligan, Kellog, Maclaren; in the Judiciary—Chancellors Moss, Boyd,

Meredith and Mulock; in University life—Paxton Young, Geikie, Nelles,

Burwash, Rand, Wallace, Loudon and Galbraith; among noted military

men—Wolfe, Brock, Roberts, Denison, Merritt and Otter; in other

walks—Strathcona, Goldwin Smith, General Booth, Egerton Ryerson, Sir

Sandford Fleming, Senator Cox, Senator Jaffray, MacKenzie King, Sir

Gilbert Parker and George Brown are representative of a brilliant galaxy

preserved to posterity by Forster’s indefatigable genius. Added to his

Canadian clientele, Mr. Forster has in recent years painted many

distinguished portrait subjects in the United States. Born in Halton

County in the middle of the Nineteenth century, of cultivated English

stock, he was reared, like other men of genius, amid the simpler

pursuits of country life, and his pictures are therefore remarkable for

subtle insight into character, and have at the same time the refined

atmosphere of old world culture.”

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=Englehart, Joel Lewis= (Toronto, Ont.), Chairman of the Temiskaming and

Northern Ontario Railway (owned by the Province of Ontario), is the son

of Joel and Hannah Englehart, and was born on November 2, 1847, in

Cleveland, Ohio, and received his education there. He arrived in Canada

in January, 1869, and soon afterward engaged in the oil business in

London, Ont., becoming a producer, then a refiner and exporter, with

offices in New York, and in 1881, when only thirty-four years of age,

became Vice-President of the Imperial Oil Co., which position he still

holds. In 1882 he removed to Petrolea, where he became, and still is,

President of the Crown Savings & Loan Company, of Petrolea, and he is

also Vice-President of the London & Western Trusts Co.; Director of the

Bank of Toronto; ex-Governor of Toronto University and President of the

Petrolea Liberal-Conservative Association, in addition to having many

other business interests. In 1891 Mr. Englehart married Charlotte

Eleanor, daughter of the late Thomas Thompson, of Adelaide, Ont., who

died in 1908, and in whose memory he founded the Charlotte Eleanor

Hospital in Petrolea in 1910, which is on the site of his old homestead

and surrounded by thirty-five acres of land. In 1909 he gave an X-Ray

equipment to St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, and in the following year

a chime of eleven bells, one of the finest in the Province, to Christ

Church, Petrolea, and it is safe to assume that his private generosity

has more than kept pace with his public benefactions. In March, 1905,

Mr. Englehart was appointed Chairman of the Temiskaming & Northern

Ontario Railway Commission and his success in developing what he is

pleased to call “Greater Ontario” has amply justified the late Sir James

Whitney’s choice in placing him in this responsible position. He has

been accustomed to business on a large scale, involving powers of

comprehension, quick perception and careful calculation, and on his

appointment, turned his ability and experience to good account in the

service of the Province. He is very much interested in the extension of

the road and the development of the vast farming, timber and mining

country it serves, as may be judged from the fact that only eleven times

during the twelve years he has been Chairman of the Commission has he

missed his monthly trip over the road, and only once has he taken a

month’s holiday. He believes that “Greater Ontario” is the biggest asset

Canada has and is firmly convinced that no spot on the continent affords

such opportunity for success as the territory traversed by the T. & N.O.

Railway System and that to which it has not yet extended. In support of

this claim, Mr. Englehart refers to a series of articles published in

the “Globe” of August, 1916, which has previously been somewhat

critical, written by that paper’s farming editor, and giving statistics

to show that the production both in roots and grain per acre in “Greater

Ontario” was far in excess of the best returns in the older sections of

the Province. Mr. Englehart is both the apostle and the prophet of the

North, enthusiastically proclaiming its unrivalled potential

possibilities, and as he is better informed on the subject than any

other man, his statements may be accepted at face value. Mr. Englehart

is an Episcopalian in religion and a Mason. His clubs are the New York,

Toronto, Albany, Empire, Toronto Hunt and Ontario Jockey, and the

London, of London, Ont. Genial, a versatile and convincing

conversationalist, alert and strong willed, he works actively in the

immense field he supervises and takes keen pleasure in its development.

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=MacKenzie, John Angus=, who was born at Guelph, Ontario, October 20,

1878, was educated at the Public and High Schools, Harriston, and the

Model School, Guelph, Ontario, and taught school at Hanover, Ontario,

from 1897 to 1898. From 1899 to 1901 he was assistant to C. M. Hayes,

General Manager of the Grand Trunk Railway, Montreal. Arriving in Ottawa

in the latter year he started in business for himself, and to-day is

President of MacKenzie Limited, Manufacturers of Railway and Lumbermen’s

Supplies, 132 to 136 Lyon Street, Ottawa, whose trade extends throughout

Canada and to other parts of the world. From 1903 to 1907 Mr. MacKenzie

served as Lieutenant of Company A, Governor-General’s Foot Guards. His

brother, James David MacKenzie was killed on September 28, 1918, while

fighting at the front in the great World War. Twice before he had been

wounded and had just returned to the front in France when he met his

death. Two brothers, W. M. and Thomas, served King and Country, the

former being gassed and wounded, and a sister, Margaret, served as a

nurse at the Orpington Hospital, England. Mr. MacKenzie in 1901 married

Jean Andrew, daughter of Archibald Andrew, one of Ottawa’s most charming

vocalists, as a result of which he has one son and one daughter. Mr.

MacKenzie’s father and mother, Kenneth and Mary MacKenzie, reside on

Melgund Avenue, Ottawa. Mr. MacKenzie is a Liberal in politics, and for

years was Secretary of Ottawa Reform Association. He is a member of the

A.F. & A.M. Society. His recreations are fishing and tennis, and his

place of residence 229 Clemow Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario.

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=Harkin, James B.=, is one of those successful journalists who have been

selected by the Dominion Government to occupy important positions in the

service of Canada. In appointing Mr. Harkin to the responsible position

of Commissioner of Dominion Parks, the Government of Canada made a happy

selection, and his work in connection with the Government-owned Parks of

Canada—in his descriptive and handsomely printed and illustrated

publications, in his general ability for such work and in his careful

and personal attention to their care and improvement—is well seen in

the vast improvements that have taken place and in the publicity that

they have had. When Hon. Sir Clifford Sifton was Minister of Interior in

1903, he selected Mr. Harkin as his Private Secretary, which office he

held with that distinguished gentleman until the latter resigned his

portfolio in 1905. Hon. Frank Oliver, succeeding Sir Clifford as

Minister of Interior, retained the services of Mr. Harkin until 1911,

when he appointed him to his present position, viz., Commissioner of

Dominion Parks. If anything, Mr. Harkin has proven more competent in his

present position than he was when occupying the position of private

secretary, and that is saying something. Mr. Harkin was born at Vankleek

Hill, Ont., January 30, 1875, and received his education in the Public

School, Vankleek Hill, and at the High School, Marquette, Michigan. He

became connected with the newspaper work in Montreal in 1892 and served

on the staff of the Ottawa “Journal” from 1893 to 1900. Mr. Harkin is

the son of William and Eliza (McDonnell) Harkin, is a member of the

Ottawa Civil Service and the Rivermead Golf Clubs. He is a Roman

Catholic in religion and resides at 138 Lewis Street, Ottawa, Ontario.

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=Ewart, David=, Chief Architect of the Department of Public Works,

Ottawa, was born at Penicuik, near Edinburgh, Scotland, on February 18,

1843. He was educated in his native place and at the Edinburgh School of

Art, where he obtained a thorough grounding in architecture. In 1871,

four years after the establishment of Canadian Confederation, he was

appointed Assistant Engineer and Architect of the Department of Public

Works for Canada, and took up his residence in Ottawa. In 1897 he was

promoted to the position of Chief Architect. In the early days of his

service he had charge of the completion of the main tower of the

beautiful Parliament Buildings at Ottawa, which were destroyed by fire

during the great war. He also took charge of the erection of the

Canadian buildings at the Paris Exposition, the Chicago World’s Fair and

at other famous international expositions. He was decorated by the

French Government, and in 1903 was honored by the King with the Imperial

Service Order. He was appointed a Member of the Board of Assessors in

connection with additions to the Parliament Buildings at Ottawa in 1906,

and was elected a Councillor of the Royal Architects Institute of Canada

in 1909. In government circles he is looked on as one of the Nestors of

the civil service. In May, 1877, he married Margaret Segsworth, daughter

of Segsworth Simpson, Barnsley, Yorkshire, England, and resides at 135

Cameron Street, Ottawa.

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=Armstrong, Samuel, M.P.P.= (Parry Sound, Ont.), one of the early

pioneers of the District of Muskoka and Parry Sound, having settled in

Muskoka in 1862, and Parry Sound in January, 1867. Many miles of the old

Colonization Roads were made by him for the Government in Parry Sound

District. He was interested in lumbering and saw mills, also railroad

contracting, besides keeping a general store at McKellar, Ont., until

elected M.P.P. for Parry Sound District, December 26, 1886. In May,

1895, he was appointed Sheriff of Parry Sound, which office he still

holds; acted as reeve for McKellar Township for twelve years, and is a

member of the Orange Order and Royal Templars. His parents were Samuel

and Harriett Hughes Armstrong and he was born in Ireland, town of New

Ross, County of Wexford, February 24, 1844, and educated at the Public

Schools of Thorold and Toronto. He was married to Catharine Taylor,

daughter of John and Elizabeth Taylor, Lanark County, Ont., and has five

children—Harriett Elizabeth, John Egbert, Frank, Milton Taylor and Mary

Emma Winnifred. In politics he styles himself an Independent, is a

member of the Methodist Church and a delegate to the Toronto and

Winnipeg Conferences.

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=McNeil, Most Reverend Neil= (Toronto, Ont.), Archbishop of Toronto

since 1912, when he was transferred from the Archbishopric of Vancouver,

B.C., to which he was appointed in January, 1910, was born at Mabou,

N.S., November 23, 1851, the son of Malcolm McNeil and Ellen Meagher. He

was educated at St. Francis Xavier College, Antigonish, N.S.; in 1873 he

entered the College of the Propaganda in Rome, where he remained for six

and a half years. He was ordained Priest in 1879, in the Basilica of

John Latern by the late Cardinal Patrizzi, and in the same year received

the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Divinity, afterwards

making a post-graduate course of one year in the University of

Marseilles, France. He joined the staff of St. Francis Xavier College in

1880, and was Rector of the College from 1884 to 1891. He became Bishop

of Nilopolis and Vicar Apostolic of St. George’s, west coast of

Newfoundland, being consecrated at St. Ninan’s Cathedral, Antigonish,

1895. During the war Archbishop McNeil especially endeared himself to

all classes of the community by his active support of all patriotic

enterprises, no matter what their religious complexion.

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=Harris, William Gean= (Toronto), is one of the pioneers and leaders of

the metal industry in Canada. He was born in the Muskoka district of

Ontario on February 17, 1862, the son of William Gean and Mary (Hunter)

Harris. He was educated in the Toronto public schools and at the age of

18 started his present business in a small way. It has now developed

into the Canada Metal Manufacturing Company, Ltd., and is engaged in

smelting ores, making lead pipe, rolling sheet lead, and the manufacture

of brass bullets and shells. Its wares are known throughout the Dominion

of Canada, the result of 30 years of constant expansion and progressive

methods. The Harris organization is now recognized as one of the

indispensable factors in Canadian industry of the most diverse aspects.

In building up this great industry Mr. Harris has for a considerable

number of years been blessed with the active assistance of his son. By

instinct a captain of industry his chief recreation in leisure hours is

the study of the betterment of conditions relating to business in all

its phases. Mr. Harris is a member of the A.F. & A.M., I.O.F., A.O.F.,

S.O.E., a Conservative in politics and a Methodist in religion. In 1887

he married Ada Florence Grove, daughter of George Grove of England, and

has one son and one daughter. Mr. Harris’s business address is Fraser

Ave., Toronto, and his home is at 408 Indian Road in that city.

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=MacDonald, Donald D.= (Toronto, Ont.), Public School Principal, son of

John F. MacDonald and Jean Smith, was born at Bowmanville, Durham

County, Ont., on July 24, 1874, and received his education at the Clark

Union Public School, the Bowmanville High School, the Toronto Normal

School and the Hamilton Normal College. He subsequently took the

University course in Arts extra-murally and graduated with B.A. degree

in 1915. He married Laura Stewart, daughter of John Stewart, of Toronto,

and to them was born one son, Donald Stewart. Mr. MacDonald was one of a

family of five boys, four of whom entered the teaching profession for a

time, and one of whom, Dr. N. S. MacDonald, B.A., in addition to

himself, is still in the profession as one of the Public School

Inspectors of Toronto. He enjoyed the advantage of being brought up in

the country, the public school which he first attended being two miles

distant from his home. When but a lad he determined to follow the

vocation of teaching and trained himself to this end. He secured his

Primary and Second-Class Teaching Certificates at the Bowmanville High

School, and at once embarked upon his career as a teacher, taking charge

of the public school at Providence, three miles out of Bowmanville, for

three years. He then entered the course at the Toronto Normal School,

achieving high academic progress and graduating with honors in 1897. For

the succeeding three years Mr. MacDonald taught at Audley, near

Pickering, after which, in order to complete his training, he returned

to the Bowmanville High School for two years and secured his Senior

Leaving Certificate. Having subsequently taught in Barrie for four

months, he was appointed vice-Principal of Annette Street School, West

Toronto, and three and one-half years later became its principal. During

the three years he occupied this position, prior to the annexation of

the Town of West Toronto to the city of Toronto, Mr. MacDonald passed

the Normal College examination extra-murally, obtaining a first-class

professional certificate. He was then transferred to the Niagara Street

School, Toronto, of which he was Principal for over two years, when he

was promoted to the Principalship of McMurrich School, in which position

he served for 6½ years. Still carrying on his extensive studies, Mr.

MacDonald graduated extra-murally in Arts from the Western University,

and is now qualifying for the degree of D.Paed. In September, 1918, he

became Principal of the Orde Street Model School, the new practice

school for Normal School students. Apart from his educational

activities, Mr. MacDonald has taken considerable interest in public

affairs. He has been a member of the session of Victoria Presbyterian

Church for some years. He was the Master of Victoria Lodge, in 1917,

A.F. & A.M., No. 474, G.R.C. He is also a member of Shekinah Chapter of

Royal Arch Masons. Mr. MacDonald’s parents were both Scottish. In

politics he is a Conservative. Mr. MacDonald’s life thus far has been

much devoted to study along with his regular educational duties.

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=Pardoe, Avern= (Toronto, Ont.), Librarian of the Ontario Legislature,

spent ten years, after leaving King Edward VI’s Collegiate Grammar

School, Stratford-upon-Avon, where he was educated, in a law office of

that place; afterwards doing a little amateur journalistic work in

England and leaving for Canada in 1872, where he took up land near

Cecebe Lake, in Chapman Township, Parry Sound District. The following

year he engaged in journalism in Chicago, but returned to Canada in

1875, upon invitation to join the staff of the Toronto “Globe,” from

which he resigned on Mr. Gordon Brown’s retirement in 1883. Being

invited back by the new editor, Mr. John Cameron, he acted under him as

Managing Editor until 1889, when he retired from journalism to engage in

real estate. On the collapse of realty values in Toronto in 1894, he

entered the service of the Ontario Government and received his present

appointment four years later. He is a member of the Church of England,

of the A.F. & A.M., Royal Arch and Scottish Rite, 32. Mr. Pardoe was

born at Stratford-upon-Avon, Eng., June 26, 1845, the son of William and

Harriette Pardoe, and married Mary, the daughter of Daniel P. Sprague,

State Senator, Andover, Conn., in 1876, by whom he has four surviving

children—Ellen Edith, Avern, William Sprague and Eunice Scoville

Nicholls.

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=Davis, Aubrey=, Manufacturer (Newmarket, Ont.), and Captain 220th

Battalion, C.E.F., has been a member of the Committee of One Hundred and

a strong advocate of Local Option for many years. The son of the Hon. E.

J. and Margaret Johnston Davis, he holds office as Vice-President of the

Davis Leather Company, Limited, of which his father is President. Mr.

Davis was born at King, York County, February 2, 1878, and was educated

at Aurora High School and Toronto Business College. September 2, 1902,

he married Etta, daughter of Richard Pettit, of Appin, Ont., by whom he

has one son, Bruce Pettit Davis. He is a member of the National Club, as

also of Rameses Temple, Mystic Shrine. In politics he is a Liberal and

in religion a Methodist.

[Illustration: Col. Wm. Hutchison, Ottawa

Col. A. T. Shillington, Ottawa.]

=Dowling, John S.= (Brantford, Ont.), Manufacturer, was born at Bolton,

Ont., May 16, 1875, the son of Bryan Dowling, a railroader, and Sarah A.

Dowling. His early education began at the Bolton Public School and then

at the Toronto Technical School. Settling in Brantford, he soon became

interested in the welfare of that city and became Alderman in 1915 and

was re-elected in 1916 and 1917, was chairman of the Railway Committee

and Chairman of Finance in 1916 and 1917. He is President of the

well-known firm of John S. Dowling & Company, Ltd. Mr. Dowling takes a

keen interest in all kinds of sports, especially lacrosse, hockey,

bowling and tennis, and was one of Canada’s star lacrosse players,

helping Brantford win many games during the years 1902 to 1905. Was

prominent player of Tecumseh and Toronto Lacrosse Clubs prior to going

to Brantford, and was selected by latter club to tour Great Britain in

1902, which played throughout England and Ireland. Is chairman of

Brantford Branch of Soldiers’ Aid Commission, having organized the first

commission in Canada, which later became part of Provincial Soldiers’

Aid Commission, when latter was created. Under his chairmanship

Brantford has the name of being the best organized branch in the

Province. He is Rotary President of the Dufferin Bowling Club and a

member of the Heather Bowling Club. Is a Mason and also a member of the

Canadian Order of Foresters. On August 23, 1904, he married the daughter

of Neil Macmillan, a journalist, of Glasgow, Scotland, and has had four

of a family—Ian Macmillan, born June 3, 1907; Margaret Faith, born May

28, 1910, died May 27, 1912; Kathleen Patricia, born March 15, 1913, and

Phyllis Trimble, born October 13, 1914. Mr. Dowling belongs to the

Presbyterian Church and is a Conservative in politics.

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=Notman, John Charles= (St. Catharines, Ont.), was born at Thorold,

Ont., on January 4, 1866. Son of John and Barbara (Ogilvie) Notman.

Educated at the Public Schools, St. Catharines, and in 1881, entered the

office of the Welland Vale Manufacturing Co. In 1901 he was appointed as

Manager of the McKinnon Dash Co., manufacturers of saddlery, carriage

hardware and malleable iron castings, St. Catharines. He is

Vice-President of the St. Catharines Steel and Metal Co. Since 1910 he

has been Water Commissioner of the city. As a clubman he is well known

in many cities, and he is a member of the St. Catharines City Golf Club;

Laurentian Club, Ottawa; and the Niagara Club, Niagara Falls, N.Y. In

religion he is a Presbyterian and a Conservative in politics. In 1896 he

married Clara Louise, daughter of James Seymour, and has one son.

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=Paton, Hugh= (Montreal, Que.), is President of The Shedden Forwarding

Co., Ltd., Montreal; Director, Royal Bank of Canada; Bell Telephone Co.;

Sincennes McNaughton Line, Ltd.; Northern Electric Co., Ltd.; Canadian

Express Co.; Canadian Transfer Co.; Montreal Trust Co. Born at

Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland, October 5, 1852, the son of William

and Mary (Shedden) Paton, he came to Canada in 1871, after an early

education at Paisley Grammar School, Scotland, and joined his uncle, the

late John Shedden, a prominent railway contractor of Toronto. Mr.

Shedden was formerly President of the Toronto & Nipissing Railway and

built the Union Station, Toronto, in addition to other public works. In

1873, Mr. Paton removed to Montreal and took up his present business

under the name of The Shedden Forwarding Co., Ltd., marrying Isabella,

daughter of the late Andrew Robertson, in 1884. His recreations are the

turf, farming and travelling, and he has won three Queen’s Plates and

one Hunt Cup. He is a governor of Montreal General, Notre Dame and

Western Hospitals; was Honorary Secretary-Treasurer, 1879-1886, and

Master of the Montreal Hunt, 1887; Honorary Secretary for two years of

the Montreal Tandem Club; Honorary Treasurer for several years of the

Province of Quebec Turf Club, Mount Royal Club, and member of the St.

James’ Club, Montreal; Royal Montreal Golf Club; Montreal Racquet Club;

Forest and Stream Club, Montreal; Canada Club, Montreal; Montreal Jockey

Club; Toronto Club, Toronto; Manitoba Club, Winnipeg; Manhattan Club,

New York; Royal Automobile Club and Junior Athenæum Club, London, Eng.

Residence, 507 Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal; summer Residence, “The

Island,” Bord-à-Plouffe, Que.

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=McGiverin, Harold Buchanan= (Ottawa, Ont.), Barrister and Solicitor,

was elected to the House of Commons for Ottawa in 1908, and chosen as

Liberal Whip for Ontario in the following year, but was defeated in the

elections of 1911. Called to the Bar of Ontario in 1893, he is a member

of the firm of McGiverin, Haydon & Ebbs, and has been Counsel for the

Great Northern Railway in Canada, also for the Bank of Nova Scotia at

Ottawa. In spite of a distinguished professional career, however, it is

as a sportsman that Mr. McGiverin is most widely known, being an

authority on football and cricket. He represented Canada in

International Cricket for years; has been captain of the Canadian Team

for five years and President of the Ottawa Cricket Club for several

years; also President of the Canadian Cricket Association. He was

Captain and later President of the Ottawa Football Club, (“Rough

Riders”), Champions of Canada, and was appointed Canadian Member of the

Olympic Games Committee in 1908. His clubs are: Rideau, Ottawa Golf,

Ottawa Country and Connaught Park Jockey, all of Ottawa; the Pilgrim, of

Philadelphia; also the Marylebone Cricket Club of London, Eng., and Free

Forresters. Mr. McGiverin was born in Hamilton, Ont., August 4, 1870,

the son of Lieut.-Colonel William McGiverin, formerly M.P. for Lincoln,

and Emma (Counsell) McGiverin. He was educated in Public and Private

Schools, also at Upper Canada College and Osgoode Hall. He married Alice

Maude, daughter of Hon. C. H. Mackintosh, late Lieutenant-Governor of

the North-West Territories, September, 1898, and has one son, H. M.

McGiverin, Cadet Royal Air Force, 1918. He is an Anglican in religion.

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=Ingersoll, James Hamilton, K.C.= (St. Catharines, Ont.), was born in

the Garden City on October 8, 1858. Son of James Hamilton and Frances E.

(Jacobs) Ingersoll. Educated at the Public and High Schools of his

native city and at Upper Canada College, Toronto. He studied law in the

office of the late J. C. Rykert, K.C., M.P. Was called to the Bar of

Ontario in 1883. Mr. Ingersoll is recognized as one of the most

prominent barristers of the Niagara Peninsula, and enjoys a large and

lucrative practice and represents many important interests. He is senior

member of the firm of Ingersoll and Kingstone, which has offices at 24

James St., St. Catharines. He was created a King’s Counsel in 1908. He

has many important interests outside his practice and is Vice-President

of the Security Loan and Savings Co., Ltd., and a Director of the

Suspension Bridge Company, Niagara Falls. In religion he is an Anglican,

and a Conservative in politics. He is a member of the Masonic Order. He

was first married in 1889 to Florence N. Fowler, and secondly, in 1910,

to Harriet Mary Martin. He has two daughters.

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=Ellis, John F.= (Toronto, Ont.), born at Mount Pleasant, Ont., on

November 9th, 1845. Son of John R. Ellis and Janet Carlyle, niece of the

famous Thomas Carlyle. Educated at local Grammar School and Toronto

Normal School. Entered into business with John R. Barber in 1876, Paper

Dealers and Envelope Manufacturers, which concern became subsequently

known as the Barber-Ellis Limited, 71 Wellington Street West, Toronto,

having branches at Winnipeg, Calgary and Vancouver, with the

manufacturing plant at the city of Brantford, Ont. One of the

Vice-Presidents of the Canadian Reconstruction Association. Was

President of the Toronto Board of Trade 1902-1904; President of the

Canadian Manufacturers Association 1898-1900. President of the National

Club, 1901-1902; President, Caledon Fishing Club 1903-1905;

Vice-President, Local Branch, Ontario Fish and Game Protective

Association; one of the Founders of the Commercial Travellers’

Association; Delegate to the Sixth Imperial Trade Congress, London,

England, July, 1906; presented to King Edward, 1906. He is a member of

the National Club, Royal Canadian Yacht Club and Caledon Fishing Club.

Mr. Ellis is a supporter of the Union Government. In religion he is a

Methodist. He has given freely of his time and ability to the

advancement of his home city. Married Emma Maughan, June 7th, 1877,

daughter of Nicholas Maughan, Toronto Assessment Commissioner; has three

sons.

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=McKeon, P. J., Very Reverend Dean=, Rector of St. Peter’s Cathedral,

London, Ont., one of the best loved clergymen of the Roman Catholic

Church in this country, was born at Merlin, Ont., the son of James and

Ann (Finn) McKeon. He was educated for the priesthood at the widely

known seminary of the Basilian Order, Assumption College, Sandwich,

Ont., whose graduates have rendered unselfish Christian service in many

parts of the world. Father McKeon was Rector of St. Mary’s Church,

London, Ont., for twelve years prior to his elevation as Dean and Rector

of St. Peter’s Cathedral, and during that time established a reputation

for kindliness, piety and zeal in all good works that was recognized by

all classes of the community. He has held the responsibilities of the

Chancellorship of the diocese since August, 1899, being appointed to

that position by the late Archbishop McEvoy when he became Bishop of

London. He is known also as one of the best organizers in the diocese of

London. He willingly participates in the civic activities of his chosen

city, and is a member of the local Canadian Club, the London Board of

Trade and of the Knights of Columbus.

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=James, Edgar Augustus=, a Consulting Engineer, was born in the County

of York, at Thornhill, Ont., August 25, 1874, eldest son of David James

and Francis M. Jackson. Both parents were also born in York County. His

father, a nephew of the late Senator David Reesor, is a successful York

County farmer, who has taken an active part in Grange and Farmers’

institute work. He represented the Township of Markham in the York

County Council for some twelve years, and was for some twenty years

Engineer for the Township of Markham. Educated at the Langstaff Public

School, the Newmarket High and Model Schools, and the Toronto Normal

School, the subject of this sketch taught public school at Don, Ont.,

for two years, after which he entered the Faculty of Applied Science of

the University of Toronto, securing the degree of B.A.Sc. in 1904, and

the professional degree of C.E. in 1913. As a student he was active in

the work of the Engineering Society of the Faculty, and was the

President of the organization in the years 1903-4. For the period of

1906 to 1914 he sat on the Senate of the University of Toronto as one of

the elected representatives of the Graduates. On December 1, 1910, he

was married to Mary Kate Smith, daughter of William Henry Smith, who for

fifty years was Principal of the Public Schools, Port Dover, Ont. His

professional experience includes two years on road work and drainage

work in Western Canada, and four years on railway construction work with

the Canadian Pacific Railway. In 1908 he was appointed Managing Editor

of the “Canadian Engineer,” which publication, under his direction, was

developed into the leading Canadian Engineering Weekly. Since giving up

active journalistic work he has been a frequent contributor to the

technical press. In 1911 he resigned to take the position of Chief

Engineer of the Toronto & York Roads Commission, an organization charged

with the improvement of some two hundred and fifty miles of leading

roads radiating from Toronto. In the Fall of the same year he became a

member of the newly organized firm of Consulting Engineers, James,

Loudon & Hertzberg, Ltd., which firm has had charge of important

engineering works in connection with buildings, bridges, roads,

waterworks, sewerage and railways, together with industrial plants.

Moving up through the junior classes, he became, in 1914, a full member

of the Engineering Institute of Canada, having been made, in 1913, a

full member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He was a member

of the original committee of six who met for the purpose of

re-organizing the Engineers’ Club as a Social and Technical Club, and

was a member of its first Board of Directors. He is also a member of the

Ontario Club; the York Pioneer and Historical Society and a life member

of the Ontario Historical Society; a P.M. of Patterson Lodge A.F. &

A.M.; P.Z. Victoria Chapter, R.A.M., and a member of Cyrene Preceptory

and Rameses Temple. In July, 1918, he was appointed D.D.G.M. for Toronto

Centre District No. 116 A.F. & A.M., G.R.C. He is also a P.C.R. of Court

Union, A.O.F. In religion both families are Methodist, as is the subject

of this sketch.

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=Finnie, David Maclachan.= The Bank of Ottawa, now amalgamated with the

Bank of Nova Scotia, was established in December 1874, with headquarters

in the Victoria Chambers, Cor. Wellington and O’Connor streets, Ottawa.

Its authorized capital was $500,000 and its paid-up capital $343,875. An

unique happening is connected with the founding of this bank, viz., that

some twelve days before the head office in Ottawa was opened and ready

for business, a branch office was established in Arnprior under the

management of Mr. David Maclachan Finnie, who was then a young man of 25

years and who in 1903, 29 years later, became Assistant General Manager

and in 1916, General Manager, which position he held up to the time,

April 30th, 1919, of its amalgamation with the Bank of Nova Scotia. Mr.

Finnie was, therefore, the first manager of the Bank of Ottawa to do

business with the public in its solitary branch in Arnprior in 1874,

when authorized capital of the bank was $500,000, and the last General

Manager of the bank in 1919, when its Capital was $4,000,000; when its

reserve fund was $4,750,000; when its branches numbered 95; when it had

contributed 228 members of its staff to the great cause of liberty in

the world’s great war; when its total assets were $70,243,000, and its

liabilities $60,539,000, showing a surplus of just under $10,000,000;

and when it was paying the shareholders over 12 per cent. on the par

value of the stock. The Bank of Ottawa, from the start, established a

high character which it always retained. Its management had a reputation

invariably for generous dealings with its clients and never more than of

the late years; and to Mr. Finnie’s affable manner, generous, yet wise,

consideration of its clients’ requirements and his undoubted ability

both as a banker and as a financier, the success achieved by the bank

was considerably attributable. Mr. David Maclachan Finnie was born at

Peterhead, Scotland, July 10th, 1849. He is the son of Robert and Mary

(Smith) Finnie, and was educated in the Parish School, Peterhead. At an

early age he acquired a business and banking experience in the office of

A. & W. Boyd, Solicitors and Agents in the Union Bank of Scotland,

Peterhead; in the office of Secretary, West of Scotland Wholesale

Grocers Association; in the Bank of British North America, London,

England; Montreal, Hamilton and Arnprior. He is a Director of the Home

Building & Savings Association; was elected Vice-President of the Ottawa

Board of Trade in 1909; is Vice-President of the County of Carleton

Protestant Hospital, and in 1919 was elected by acclamation to the

Presidency of the Royal Ottawa Golf Club. At the opening campaign on

behalf of the Canadian Patriotic Fund, Ottawa Branch, he was elected

Honorary Treasurer, and has remained in that position ever since. There

was subscribed over $2,000,000, nearly all of which has been paid in. In

1875 Mr. Finnie married Caroline Nicholson Sterling, daughter of George

Sterling of Hamilton, Ontario. He was President of the Rideau Club for

1911-12-13, and is a member of the Country, Ottawa Golf, Ottawa Hunt

Clubs. In religion Mr. Finnie is an Anglican. His residence is 329

Chapel Street, Ottawa, Canada.

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=Boudreau, L. N. H. Rodolphe=, who from 1889 to 1907 was Private

Secretary to the late Right Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, is a son of the

late Dr. J. B. Boudreau of Doucet’s Landing, Quebec, and Sarah (Fortier)

Boudreau. He was born at St. Gregoire, Quebec, Sept. 19th, 1865, and was

educated at Nicolet College and Laval University. In 1893 he married

Annie, daughter of Thomas Wensley, Ottawa. He accompanied Sir Wilfrid to

Washington and to London and Paris on official missions. He entered the

Civil Service in 1896, was appointed Assistant Clerk of the Privy

Council in 1900, and Clerk of the Privy Council on May 6th, 1907.

January 1st, 1918, he was knighted a Companion of St. Michael and St.

George. In religion Mr. Boudreau is a Roman Catholic. He resides at 198

Stewart Street, Ottawa.

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=Arkell, Thomas Reginald, B.S.A.= (Toronto Ont.), is recognized as one

of the leading live stock experts of Canada, though still young in

years. He was born at Arkell, Wellington County, Ont., on March 30th,

1888, the son of Henry and Jessie (Macfarlane) Arkell. He had an early

insight into the practical side of his chosen profession from his

father, who was a prominent sheep-raiser, and had resolved to give his

son a thorough education in the scientific side of the business. The

subject of this sketch was educated at the public schools of Arkell and

Guelph, Guelph Collegiate Institute and the University of Toronto. In

1908 he graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Scientific Agriculture,

standing highest in his class for general proficiency and capturing the

Governor-General’s medal. He first went into journalism and in the year

of his graduation was appointed agricultural editor of the “Canadian

Citizen,” Ottawa; and later served for some months as Associate Editor

of “The Canadian Farm,” Toronto. In 1909 he was appointed Professor of

Animal Husbandry at the New Hampshire State College and animal

Husbandman of the Experimental Station in connection with that

institution. In 1912 he returned to Canada to accept the appointment of

Chief of the Sheep and Goat Division of the Live Stock Branch in the

Federal Department of Agriculture. In 1918 he was appointed Manager of

the Canadian Co-operative Wool Growers, Limited, an association designed

to benefit wool production in Canada from every point of view. He is

widely known in connection with this basic industry and is the author of

numerous papers and pamphlets relating to sheep-breeding and the

inheritance of bovine characteristics. He is a member of the University

Club, Ottawa, and of the American Association for the Advancement of

Science. In 1911 he married Mabel Helen, daughter of William Mahaffey of

Dover, New Hampshire, and has one daughter, Eleanor Kathleen. He resides

at 70 Beaty Avenue, Toronto.

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Brockville]

=Gartshore, Lieut.-Col. William Moir=, is one of the best known

industrial leaders of Canada, and is Vice-President and General Manager

of the McClary Manufacturing Co. of London, Ont. His Company is one of

the Canadian pioneer concerns in the manufacture of stoves and furnaces,

and has branches at Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Vancouver, St. John,

Hamilton, Calgary, Saskatoon and Edmonton. Col. Gartshore was born at

Dundas, Ont., April 3rd, 1853, the son of John and Margaret (Moir)

Gartshore. The late Mr. John Gartshore was during his lifetime a

prominent manufacturer of marine machinery, engines, boilers, etc., and

the subject of this sketch was educated in the public and grammar

schools of Dundas and at Dr. Tassie’s famous academy at Galt, Ontario.

In 1873 he joined the staff of the London Car Wheel Company and in 1876

entered the employ of the McClary Manufacturing Company with which he

has ever since been connected. Since 1890 he has filled the dual office

of Vice-President and General Manager. His other business interests

include a directorship of Ontario Loan and Debenture Co., London. Since

early manhood he has taken an active interest in military matters and

holds a first-class cavalry certificate. He entered the militia as a

volunteer in 1871 and during the North-West Rebellion of 1885 served as

Junior Major of the 7th Fusiliers, London, for which he wears the

campaign medal. He was made major in 1884 and in 1892 became Lieut.-Col.

in command of 1st Regiment of Cavalry, “Hussars,” London. He is now on

its reserve of officers. Col. Gartshore has also held many important

public offices. He was Provincial Vice-President of the Canadian

Manufacturers Association, 1908, and Vice-President for Canada in the

same organization, 1914-15. He is President and was formerly for some

years a director of London Fair Association; Chairman of the Victoria

Hospital Trust; President of the St. John’s Ambulance Association,

London; President of the Child Welfare Association, London. During his

many journeys to the motherland he was in 1886 presented to the late

King Edward VII when Prince of Wales, and in 1905 after he came to the

throne. In response to the wishes of his fellow citizens he stood for

Mayor of London in 1916 and was elected. Col. Gartshore is a member of

the following Clubs: London, London Hunt, and National (Toronto). He is

also a member of St. Andrew’s Society and his recreations are riding,

cricket and baseball. In politics he is a Liberal-Unionist and in

religion a Presbyterian. He was married on Dec. 26th, 1876, to

Catherine, daughter of Mr. John McClary, the head of the company with

which he is identified, and has one daughter, Mrs. Edna Cleghorn.

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=White, John T.=, Solicitor to the Treasury for the Province of Ontario,

is a native of Belleville, Ont., where he was born on July 3rd, 1875. He

was educated at the public and High Schools of his native town and later

qualified for the law at Osgoode Hall, Toronto. On being called to the

bar of this province in 1894 he practised for a time in Toronto. A few

years ago he was appointed Solicitor to the Treasury for Ontario, a post

requiring great judgment and knowledge of general conditions. Among the

duties it embraces is that of collecting the succession duties on the

estates of deceased persons, the collection of the Corporations Tax, the

Provincial War Tax, and other sources of Provincial revenue. In the long

and delicate negotiations which are sometimes necessary in arriving at a

fair valuation, Mr. White has shown himself very shrewd and tactful and

has been able to largely augment the revenues of the province without

making unfair exactions. When the Ontario Government decided a year or

so after the late war began to impose a tax on amusements, Mr. White was

also placed in charge of the administration of the new law, a task

involving great problems of detail which he has successfully

accomplished. He is an Anglican in religion and a Conservative in

politics and resides at the Albany Club, of which he is a member, as

also of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, the Rosedale Golf, and the

Mississauga Golf and Country Club.

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=Pugh, Thomas James=, one of the successful business men of Toronto, was

born in Kidderminster, England, January 8th, 1871, the son of Charles

and Sarah Pugh. He received his first education in public schools in

England, which on his coming to Canada as a boy, was continued by

courses in the public and High Schools here. On leaving school he

adopted commercial pursuits in which he prospered and was finally

enabled to establish himself as a manufacturer of novelties. He is the

President of the Pugh Specialty Company, Ltd., with factories at 38 to

42 Clifford Street, and the wares of his company are well known to the

trade throughout Canada. He is a member of the Canadian Manufacturers

Association and of the Toronto Board of Trade. He is a Presbyterian in

religion and a member of the Masonic order. In politics he is a

Liberal-Unionist. In 1908 he married Miss Alice Maude Collier, daughter

of M. Collier, of Hillsburg, Ont., and resides at 87 Erskine Avenue,

Toronto.

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=Sutherland, Thomas Fraser, B.Sc., E.M.=, Chief Inspector of Mines for

the Province of Ontario is recognized in his own and other countries as

one of the leading mining engineers of Canada. He is the son of Rev. J.

M. Sutherland, B.A., a prominent Presbyterian clergyman of the Maritime

Provinces, and was born at Pugwash, Nova Scotia, on Feb. 23rd, 1879. His

professional education was received at Queen’s University, Kingston,

Ont., from which he graduated in 1904 as a fully qualified Mining

Engineer with the degree of Bachelor of Science. On graduation he went

to British Columbia and worked in various gold camps of that province

and also of Alaska as a practical miner, assayer, operator and

prospector. For two years he acted as Western representative of a

prominent New York mining firm with important interests in British

Columbia. After six years’ experience on the Pacific coast he returned

to the East in 1910 and was engaged by the Ontario Bureau of Mines in

1911 as Assistant Inspector at Cobalt, Ont., the centre of one of the

great silver districts of the world. Subsequently in 1913 he became

Chief Inspector, and in 1916 was attached as expert to the Royal Ontario

Nickel Commission to enquire into various problems in connection with

that important industry. His duties in this capacity required him to

visit the famous nickel mines of the French colony of New Caledonia,

which are second only to those of Northern Ontario in extent, and also

the nickel fields of Tasmania. In connection with his investigations and

other official duties he is the author of various reports to the Ontario

Government, which are documents of value to those interested in the

mining industry, and is also a contributor to technical journals in

connection with his profession. He is a member of the Canadian Mining

Institute and in religion is a Presbyterian. In 1908 he married Miss

Ethel Young and has three children, Jack Fraser, Gordon McRae, and

Margaret Jean. His home is at 133 St. Leonard’s Ave., Toronto.

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=David, Hon. Laurent Olivier=, City Clerk of Montreal since 1892 and for

years prominent in the public life of Quebec, is one of the

distinguished figures in the Senate of Canada. He is a son of the late

Mayor Stanislas David, a farmer and officer of the Canadian Militia, and

Elizabeth Tremblay, his wife. Senator David was born at

Sault-au-Recollect, P.Q., on March 24th, 1840, and educated at Ste.

Therese College, Quebec. He took up the study of law and while yet a

student became identified with journalism as one of the founders of the

newspaper “Le Colonisateur.” In 1870 he in company with M. Mousseau and

Desbarats founded “L’Opinion Publique” an illustrated weekly, of which

he became chief editor, and resigned as such because he refused to take

the responsibility of approving the Pacific scandal. In 1874 he founded

in company with C. Beausoliel, M.P., and edited “Le Bien Public” and

later published “La Tribune.” In the seventies he began to win fame as

the author of many essays and books on French Canadian history, on which

he is perhaps the greatest living authority. These include “Les

Patriotes de 1837-8”; “Portraits et Biographies”; “Histoire du Canada

depuis l’Union”; “Histoire du Canada depuis la Confederation”; “le

Drapeau de Carillon,” a patriotic drama; “Les Deux Papineau”; “Mes

Contemporains,” (memoirs); “Souvenirs et Biographies”; “Laurier et son

temps”; “Melanges Historiques et Litteraires”; “Le Clergé Canadien, sa

mission et son oeuvre,” and other works. For a short time he filled the

position of translator to the Quebec Legislature, which he resigned in

1878 and subsequently practised law in Montreal. In 1892 he became City

Clerk of Montreal and helped to revise the new charter of that city,

drafted in 1898. He served as President of the great French-Canadian

patriotic Society of St. Jean Baptiste in 1887-8, and his pen and tongue

have always been active in movements for Canadian unity and for the

intellectual advancement of his own people. He was one of the important

delegates to the Convention of the French-Canadian people at Nashua, New

Hampshire, in 1888, and was one of the prime movers in securing the

erection of the Monument National at Montreal and also that for a

monument to Montcalm in France. Originally a Conservative in politics he

left that party to join L’Union Nationale, in the sixties, an

organization formed to oppose Confederation. Later his ideas on that

subject mellowed and Confederation having become an accomplished fact,

he threw in his lot with the newly-formed Liberal party of Dorion,

Holton and Laflamme. His independence of spirit was shown, however, in

the fact that he favored the policy of protection for native industries

in opposition to his party friends. Because of his attitude on that

question he was obliged to discontinue the publication of the “Bien

Public.” From the first entry of Sir Wilfrid Laurier into politics he

became his friend, counsellor and supporter, and during the lifetime of

that statesman no living man enjoyed more of the confidence of the

Liberal chieftain. His entry into politics ante-dated that of his friend

by a few years for he was an unsuccessful candidate for the Quebec

Legislature in Hochelaga in 1867 and later in 1875. From 1886 to 1890 he

represented Montreal East in that body, when he voluntarily retired,

owing to differences with Hon. Honore Mercier, Liberal Leader in the

Legislature. He had several bills adopted by the Legislature in order to

improve the condition of the workingman, and especially to prevent the

seizure of his furniture and wages. He was twice an unsuccessful

candidate for the House of Commons, first in Hochelaga at the general

elections of 1878 and in Montreal East at the general elections of 1891.

He in 1903 was called to the Senate of Canada by the Governor-General,

the Earl of Minto, on the advice of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, and is

recognized as one of the sagest and most able debaters in that body. He

had earlier declined appointment as Lieutenant-Governor of the Northwest

Territories, though pressed to accept by Sir Wilfrid. He is prominently

identified with welfare movements like the society for the Protection of

women and children, Quebec; and the Anti-Alcoholic League, Montreal. He

is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Knight of the Legion of

Honor of France (to which he was appointed in 1911.) His attachment to

the British flag as well as to the interests of his own people has been

the theme of many of his utterances. He is a Roman Catholic and was

twice married; first in 1886 to Albina Chenet (died July, 1887);

secondly to Ludivine Garceau (died, February, 1915). He has had one son

and nine daughters.

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=Nanton, Sir Augustus Meredith, K.B.=, of Winnipeg, is one of the

leading financiers of the Canadian West and has been for a considerable

number of years senior Winnipeg partner in the noted firm of Osler,

Hammond & Nanton, Investment Brokers and Financial agents of Toronto and

Winnipeg. He was born at Toronto, May 7th, 1860, the son of Augustus

Nanton, Barrister, and came from a family that dated from the early

settlement of that city. He was educated in Toronto and as a young man

was sent to Winnipeg to take charge of the Western business of Osler &

Hammond in which he became a partner. He has long been intimately

connected with the financial life of Manitoba and the West, and his

widespread interests are indicated by the fact that he is Vice-President

of the Great West Life Assurance Co., Vice-President of the Osler &

Hammond Trust Company; President, Winnipeg Electric Co.; Director and

Chairman of the Canadian Committee of the Hudson’s Bay Company; Director

of the Canadian Pacific Railway Co.; Director of the Dominion Bank;

Director of the Northern Trusts Company; Director, Manitoba Bridge &

Iron Works; Director of the Cockshutt Plow Company; Director of the

Ogilvie Flour Mills Company; Director of the Canadian Starch Company;

and Director of the Guarantee Company of North America. Few men have

been so closely identified with the commercial and industrial

development of Canada, particularly that section of it in which he

resides; and when on June 4th, 1917, he was created a Knight Bachelor,

the honor was universally regarded as well-bestowed. Knight of Grace of

the Order of St. John of Jerusalem (July, 1914). In connection with the

Victory Loans of 1917 and 1918, Sir Augustus rendered signal service to

the Government of Canada, by organizing their flotation in the West,

with magnificent results. He is a member of the following Clubs:

Manitoba (Winnipeg); St. Charles Country; Winnipeg Hunt; Mount Royal

(Montreal); York and Toronto in the latter named city; and Rideau

(Ottawa). He is a Conservative in politics and an Anglican in religion.

He is married and has three sons and three daughters, and resides at 229

Rosyln Road, Winnipeg.

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=Rogers, Albert S.= (Toronto, Ont.), was born in North York in 1860, the

son of the late Samuel Rogers, founder of the Queen City Oil Co., Ltd.,

and was educated at the Newmarket High School. He married Mary E.,

daughter of Joseph E. Elsworth, of New York City, by whom he has two

sons—J. D. Elsworth and Edward S., and one daughter, Katherine.

Interested in petroleum and natural gas, Mr. Rogers was Vice-President

and General Manager of the Queen City Oil Co., Ltd., of Toronto—merged

into the Imperial Oil Company in 1912—before retiring from active

business. He is Director of the Imperial Oil Co., Ltd., and

Vice-President of Harris & Company, Woollen Manufacturers, Rockwood. Mr.

Rogers is also Chairman and Treasurer of the Board of Management of

Pickering College, Newmarket, near which he owns and operates a farm

that affords a country outlook to the students. He is a member of the

National Club and Lambton Golf and Country Club, of Toronto, as also of

the Toronto Board of Trade and the York Pioneers. In religion he belongs

to the Society of Friends.

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=Scott, F. Stewart, M.P.= (Galt, Ont.), born August 23rd, 1879 at Galt,

Ont. Son of Frank A. Scott and Mary Stewart, both Canadians. Parents are

of Scotch parentage. Educated at Galt Public and High Schools. Married

in April, 1904 to Minnie L., daughter of William Weir, of Galt, Ont.,

and has three children, Kathleen, Stewart A., and Isobel Scott. He is a

successful manufacturer and public spirited citizen. He is president of

the Getty & Scott Limited, Boot and Shoe Manufacturers; President of

Scott-Chamberlain Limited, Ontario; and President of the Shoe

Manufacturers’ Association of Canada. Was a member of the Galt Municipal

Council for seven years, serving two years as Mayor. He is a member of

The Business Men’s Club and Waterloo County Golf Club. In religion he is

a Presbyterian. Was first elected to the House of Commons in 1915 as

Conservative member for South Waterloo and re-elected at the general

elections in 1917. The member for South Waterloo is a man of many

activities and large commercial interests in which he displays marked

energy. He is a good platform speaker and is recognized as one of the

most progressive and popular citizens of his home city.

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=Dollard, Rev. James B.=, is one of the most distinguished lyric poets

of the day, whose residence in this country must be regarded as

fortunate for the cause of Canadian letters, though he is not a native

of this country. He was born in Kilkenny County, Ireland, on August

30th, 1872, the son of Michael Dollard a farmer and Anastasia (Quinn)

Dollard. He was not without Canadian connections, however, since a grand

uncle, Bishop Dollard of Fredericton, N.B., had had a distinguished

career in the Roman Catholic Church in this country. His early education

was received in Kilkenny and he later qualified for admission to the

priesthood at the Grand Seminary, Montreal, Canada. He holds the

scholastic degrees of Bachelor of Theology, Bachelor of Canon Law, and

Doctor of Letters (Laval University). He was ordained as a priest in

1896 and his later years have been spent in the city of Toronto, where

he is now parish priest of St. Monica’s Church, 44 Broadway Avenue.

Despite the duties of a hard-working clergyman, zealous for the welfare

of his parish, he has employed his limited leisure in literary activity

which has won him fame on both sides of the Atlantic. He has published

three volumes of poems and one book of short stories. His literary work

is nearly all Irish in theme and inspiration; for he has never forgotten

the happy days he spent as a lad in the beautiful isle that holds the

enduring love of so many patriots, whose duties have called them far

from its shores. The growth of his fame as a lyric poet is the more

notable in that he is of modest, retiring nature and has never sought

publicity of any kind. Irish legend and Irish scenery are woven by him

into the most delicate and rhythmical verse—verse that is instinct with

music, and alive with lovely imagery. One tribute to him from the pen of

the late Joyce Kilmer, himself a poet of distinction and prior to his

death with the American troops at Chateau Thierry, the literary critic

of the New York “Times,” may be quoted. Of the poem “Fairy Anvils” which

appears in the volume entitled “Irish Lyrics and Ballads,” Kilmer wrote:

“Here is some genuine Celtic magic—a beautiful blend of melody and

fancy. It should be set to music—the words almost carry a tune with

them—and sung by John McCormack.” The same tribute could be paid to

many other lyrics by Father Dollard. He is a member of the Poetry

Society of America and of the Arts and Letters Club, Toronto.

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=Robertson, Edward Blake=, Scotch origin, born at Lanark, Ont., February

27th, 1877; youngest son of Wm. Robertson and Marian Watt. Went with

parents to Manitoba in 1879. Educated at Pilot Mound public and high

schools and Winnipeg Normal Schools. Taught in Manitoba public schools

for six years. Appointed Chief Clerk for Manitoba in connection with the

decennial census of 1901. Married on December 25th, 1901, Christina

Isola, daughter of Wm. Wrixon. Has one son, Blake Roscoe, born November

2nd, 1902. Resigned from the Dominion service August, 1903, to enter the

employ of Sir Clifford Sifton in a private capacity. Appointed Assistant

Superintendent of Immigration in December, 1904, and Assistant Chief

Controller of Chinese Immigration in October, 1911. In connection with

his official duties he travelled extensively in Canada, United States

and Great Britain. Of him the Manitoba Free Press says: “He has been

recognized for some years as one of the leading authorities on

immigration in the Dominion, while his administrative ability has been

generally acknowledged.” Resigned from the Department of Immigration &

Colonization in February, 1919, to accept a position in Ottawa with the

Canadian Manufacturers Association. Recreations: fishing, hunting and

motor boating. Residence 347b Kenniston Apartments, Ottawa. Clubs:

Laurentian, Canadian and Brittania Boating Club.

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=Chaplin, James D., M.P.= (St. Catharines, Ont.), was born at Toronto on

March 20, 1863. Son of William and Harriet Chaplin. Educated at the

Public Schools and St. Catharines Collegiate Institute, and after a

thorough business training became a prominent manufacturer in St.

Catharines. His business interests are very extensive and the companies

with which he is connected are widely known throughout Canada. He is

President of the Welland Vale Manufacturing Company, Ltd., which makes

hand agricultural implements; President of the Chaplin Wheel Company,

Ltd.; President of the Canada Axe and Harvest Tool Company, and

President of the Wallingford Manufacturing Company, Ltd. Despite his

commercial activities he has found time to take a prominent part in

public affairs. He was a municipal councillor for four years, and in the

autumn of 1917 was selected as Unionist candidate for the riding of

Lincoln. At the ensuing Federal elections in December he was elected by

a handsome majority as a supporter of Sir Robert Borden, and is regarded

as one of the ablest members of the Ottawa House. Previously he had been

known as a Conservative and a few years ago was appointed a member of

the Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park Commission, which has charge of

the Canadian side of that famous international waterway. He is a member

of the A.F. & A.M. and of the St. Catharines Club, and Canada Club,

Montreal. In religion he is a Presbyterian and in 1888 married Edna E.,

daughter of the late Colin Burgess of Toronto, by whom he has one son

and two daughters.

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=Creelman, Lieut.-Colonel John Jennings, D.S.O.=, Advocate and

barrister, Montreal, is one of the most distinguished, of the Canadian

soldiers who won honors in the late war and also holds high rank in the

legal profession. He was born in Toronto on Feb. 14th, 1881, the son of

the late Adam R. Creelman, K.C. one of the leaders of the Canadian bar,

who became Chief Counsel of the Canadian Pacific Railroad, and one of

the directors of that corporation. His mother was Margaret Jennings,

daughter of the late Rev. Dr. John Jennings of Toronto, one of the best

known pulpit orators of his day. The subject of this sketch was educated

at Upper Canada College, Toronto, and the University of Toronto, from

which he graduated with the degree of B.A. in 1904. Subsequently he

qualified for the law at McGill University, Montreal, and obtained the

degree of B.C.L. in 1907. This was supplemented by a post-graduate

course at the University of Grenoble, France. Subsequently he became a

member of the legal firm of Casgrain, Mitchell, McDougall & Creelman,

and is now in practice alone with offices in the Dominion Express Bldg.,

Montreal. He was also Lecturer on Railway Economics at McGill University

in 1913 and 1914. From early manhood Col. Creelman took an active part

in military affairs and was a member of the Canadian Coronation

Contingent in 1911. He was gazetted a Lieutenant-Colonel of the Canadian

Field Artillery on Oct. 26th, 1912. On the outbreak of the war he at

once placed his services at the disposal of the Government and went

overseas as Lieut.-Colonel, commanding the Second Brigade, C.F.A., and

continued in service until Sept. 9, 1917. During twenty-five months’

service in France he took part in many notable engagements with the

Canadian Expeditionary Force and was twice mentioned in despatches. He

was once officially reported wounded (shell shock) on April 29th, 1915.

His services were recognized by the coveted Distinguished Service Order

and the Russian Order of St. Stanislas (3rd class with swords). A

movement having arisen in Montreal for the betterment of municipal

politics, he was induced in April 1918, to run for the city council and

was elected. He has since proven a very valuable member of that body. In

June, 1918, he was appointed a member of the Protestant Board of School

Commissioners. His business interests are also extensive, and he is a

director of several companies. In religion he is a Presbyterian and in

politics a Liberal, and his recreations are golf, curling and fishing.

He is a member of the following clubs: Mount Royal, University

(Montreal), Royal Montreal Golf, Montreal Thistle (curling), Reform

(Montreal), University (Toronto), and Junior Army and Navy (London,

Eng.). On June 24th, 1908, he married Katherine Melanie Weekes (died

Dec. 13, 1918), daughter of Nicholas Weekes of Galveston, Texas, retired

banker and railway president. He has two children, John Ashmore

Creelman, born 1912, and Katharine Margaret Creelman, born 1918.

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=Fisher, His Honor Walter George= (Orangeville, Ontario), County Judge

of the County of Dufferin, was born in Township of Tossoronto, County of

Simcoe, and is the son of John Fisher. Educated at Collingwood High

School and McGill University, Montreal. On being called to the Bar in

1886, he at once commenced the practice of his profession at the Town of

Alliston, in partnership with W. A. J. Bell, K.C., and continued to do

with much success until his appointment to the bench in September, 1913.

Judge Fisher took an active part in the municipal politics of his home

town, of which he was Mayor. He married Mary Towler and is the father of

two children, Allan, a member of the Canadian Expeditionary Force at the

front, and Dorothy, at home. Judge Fisher is a member of the Masonic

Order and in religion is a Methodist. He has been prominent in all

movements of a Patriotic and National nature and took a lively interest

in recruiting the battalion which was identified with the County of

Dufferin (the 164th). His services have been in great demand at all

public meetings intended for the purpose of promoting recruiting and the

national welfare. He is also a member of the Canadian Club of

Orangeville. The Judge is an ardent motorist and a keen curler, and a

member of the Orangeville Lawn Bowling Club.

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=Burgoyne, William Bartlett= (St. Catharines, Ont.), one of the best

known newspaper editors and publishers of Canada, was born in the city

where he resides, on August 2, 1855, the son of Henry and Martha

Burgoyne. His father was a builder and contractor and the son was

educated at the Public Schools of St. Catharines. Leaving at the age of

12, he shortly afterward entered the printing business, with which he

has now been connected for upwards of 50 years. In January of 1887 he

founded the St. Catharines “Evening Star,” and in 1892 became proprietor

and publisher of the St. Catharines “Daily Standard,” one of the livest

and most influential newspapers to be found in the smaller cities of

Canada. Apart from his journalistic activities Mr. Burgoyne has been a

very active factor in the civic life of his native place. He was

Alderman in 1895-6, 1898, 1900, 1912-3-4-5, Mayor of the city in 1903,

and later, in 1916 and 1917. He was also Chairman of the local

Hydro-Electric Commission, 1916-7, and also of the Local Board of Health

for the same years. He was Chairman of the St. Catharines Roads

Commission, 1918, and a member of the Collegiate Institute Board. In all

efforts in behalf of temperance he has been active for many years. He

was G.W.P. of the Grand Division of Ontario, Sons of Temperance, 1898-9;

M.W.A. of the National Division of North America in the same

organization, 1902-4, and M.W.P. in 1904-6. He represented the National

Division of North America, S. of T. at the fifty-first session of the

National Division of Great Britain and Ireland at Hull, England, June,

1906. His chief hobby is illustrated by the fact that he has been

President of the St. Catharines Horticultural Society for fifteen years

(1904 to 1918) and was the first President of the Ontario Horticultural

Association, 1906-7. He was Chairman of the Daily Newspaper Section of

the Canadian Press Association in 1908; President of St. Catharines

Board of Trade, 1911; and a member of the Executive Council, Associated

Boards of Trade of Ontario, 1914-15. In politics he is a Conservative

and in religion an Anglican. He was lay delegate to the Synod of

Niagara, 1917-19 and is a member of the Standing Committee of that body.

He is a member of many fraternal and benevolent societies, including the

A.F. & A.M., L.O.A.B.A., C.O.C.F., C.O.H.C., and A.O.U.W. On June 16,

1880, he married Mary Lavinia, daughter of George and Margaret E.

Darker, of Thorold, Ont., and has had three children, Clara E., Mary

Estelle (deceased), and Major Henry B. Burgoyne, O.C. of the 71st

Battery, Canadian Field Artillery.

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=Drysdale, William=, Appraiser with His Majesty’s Customs, Montreal,

Que., was born in that city, April 17th, 1847. His father, Adam

Drysdale, a native of Dunfermline, Scotland, settled in Canada during

the first half of the nineteenth century and for a long period held a

post in the civil service conferred on him by Lord Elgin, during the

period when that celebrated British pro-consul was Governor of the old

Province of United Canada. The father of Adam Drysdale was one of the

first persons to engage in the shipping trade between Canada and

Scotland and was one of the earliest shippers to make use of the Port of

Montreal. The subject of this sketch was educated at Montreal in the

private school of Mr. Hicks (who later became the first principal of the

Normal School in that city), and received a thorough commercial

training. On leaving school he entered the employ of the late John

Dougall, who was at that time publishing the “Weekly Witness” and also

engaged in the book business. The aptitude of young Drysdale was such

that he was almost immediately placed by Mr. Dougall in charge of the