part in politics. He was interested, however, in the promotion

of athletic and outdoor sports for the young. A man of domestic

taste, he found his greatest happiness at his own fireside, doing

everything in his power to promote the welfare of his wife and

children. He held membership in St. Paul’s Presbyterian church

and his life was actuated by high and honorable principles that

made him a thorough gentleman, courteous, kindly and considerate

at all times.

JAMES O’CONNOR.

Prominent in the business and financial life of the city, James

O’Connor was numbered among Montreal’s well known and successful

business men. He was born at St. Alphonse, province of Quebec,

and when a young man in his teens, came to Montreal at which

time his capital was but little more than his energy, pluck and

determination. From the time of his arrival here his attention

was largely concentrated upon business affairs and he wisely

improved his time and opportunities, thus advancing step by step

until he reached the plane of affluence. For many years he had

charge of the wholesale pork packing house on Williams Street and

there laid the foundation for his fortune.

For a number of years before his death, Mr. O’Connor had largely

confined his business activities to the stock market, where he

was a prominent figure. While a man of sound judgment and keen

business sagacity, one of his strongest characteristics was

his great courage and persistency. During the great financial

depression of 1907, when security values were slumping in a

manner that brought financial ruin to many, Mr. O’Connor’s

fortune suffered a large shrinkage. He had confidence in the

future, however, and the pluck to hold on, with the result that

he recouped his losses and added substantially to his fortune,

which was estimated at over a half million dollars at the time of

his retirement.

He was one of the largest individual holders of Dominion Steel

preferred and also an extensive holder of the common stock. He

was likewise a heavy stockholder in the Dominion Coal Company.

All his life he was a man of business, which through careful

attention brought him substantial as well as honorable success.

Mr. O’Connor was a figure that attracted attention and he made

lasting friendships in business as well as in private life.

He was known as a man of his word, and always ready to lend a

helping hand to those less fortunate in life’s battle. Many of

his acts of kindness and substantial assistance were known only

to the recipients. His acquaintance was large and included the

prominent business and public men of his time.

[Illustration: JAMES O’CONNOR]

Mr. O’Connor held membership in St. Anthony’s Catholic church and

in politics he was a conservative. In his habits and tastes, he

was most domestic, finding his greatest pleasure in administering

to the welfare and happiness of his family. The most envious

could not begrudge him his success, so honorably was it won and

so worthily used for the benefit and assistance of others. His

nature was one of extreme generosity and his example is worthy of

emulation.

His sudden death on April 15, 1909, left a widow, a son and two

daughters. James O’Connor is a resident of Montreal; Margaret

resides at home; and Laura Esther is now Mrs. G. F. Hemsley.

Mrs. O’Connor previous to her marriage which took place in St.

Patrick’s church, Montreal, was Miss Catherine Curran, a daughter

of John Curran, a prominent and distinguished citizen of this

city.

HARRIS VINEBERG.

Among the mercantile institutions of Montreal is that of H.

Vineberg & Company, clothing manufacturers for the trade, the

inception and building up of which business is entirely due to

the indefatigable efforts of H. Vineberg. The firm occupies

what is known as Vineberg’s building, eight stories in height.

Hundreds of young men have learned their trade and received their

start in this establishment, and that many of them today occupy

creditable positions in life is in a measure due to the lofty

principles which are the policy of the firm. Many have profited

by Mr. Vineberg’s kindly advice, who took an interest in each

employe of his large enterprise and who, moreover, often helped

them to begin their career in the right direction. Mr. Vineberg

has aided many men who are today prominent in professional life

in the city and has ever taken a deep interest in charitable and

church organizations, having particularly given his aid to those

who came to this country in straitened circumstances in order to

enjoy the privileges of British freedom, British institutions and

the prosperity held out to all who but want to grasp it in the

vast Canadian commonwealth.

Harris Vineberg was born in 1855, on the 25th of December, a

Jewish feast day called Chanuka, in Zidugira, Russian Poland.

Zidugira means Jewish bush, and his ancestors owned the vast

forests in Poland from which this name is derived. It may be

mentioned in this connection that the cable address used by the

house of H. Vineberg & Company today is “Zidugira,” perpetuating

in a manner the memory of that place which gave birth to him and

whence he sallied forth into the world to build his fortune. It

seems that this reverent attitude toward his birthplace, toward

his parents and toward his people has been the guiding star over

Mr. Vineberg’s career, the star which has led him to the goal.

His parents were Lazarus and Malca Vineberg, the former of whom

died in Palestine in 1901 and the latter in 1882.

Their son Harris received a strictly orthodox education from

private teachers. After having mastered the curriculum he

assisted his father in the lumber business for the last two years

which he spent in his native land. However, the young man could

not content himself with the limitations which hedged him in on

all sides under Russian rule and, coveting the opportunity of a

wider sphere of action, he made up his mind to seek that country

under which the greatest personal liberty, the greatest freedom

of thought, the greatest tolerance of religious views prevailed.

With an eye to the practical, he selected that part of the empire

which seemed to him to hold out the greatest opportunity.

In September, 1872, Mr. Vineberg came to Montreal on the

steamship Sarmatian. A brother had broken the home ties with

him and with this brother he worked one year in Glengarry

county, where he acquired a fair knowledge of English. He then

made for Montreal in order to profit by the opportunities

which the fast growing center of population held out and for

seven months he worked in a humble capacity, earning but two

dollars a week. On Saturdays and Sundays he instructed two boys

in the Hebrew language and in this manner earned sufficient

to pay for his board. Quickly accommodating himself, however,

to the new conditions of life, Mr. Vineberg never lost sight

of his purpose and, husbanding his small resources, he strove

eagerly to establish himself in business. He opened a small

store at No. 662 Craig Street, near St. Peter, and devoted his

whole time for one year to that establishment with such good

success that at the end of that period he had to seek larger

quarters on McGill Street, where he remained until 1876, when

removal was made to Lancaster, Ontario. Careful of his profits,

he was there enabled to establish a general country store of

considerable size which he conducted for four years,--years

which brought him added prosperity. Mr. Vineberg has ever held

a warm place in his heart for the little village of Lancaster,

to which he largely credits his commercial education. There he

had already attained such prominence that he was moving in the

best of circles and was associated with and sought out by the

foremost men of that county. In 1880 Mr. Vineberg returned to

Montreal, having definitely decided to engage in the manufacture

of clothing and, beginning in a small way in a private house,

he formed a partnership with G. Burnett under the firm style of

G. Burnett & Company. Although the firm’s policy was such that

it should have resulted in success, it was forced to close out

in 1891 and liquidated in that year. Such means as Mr. Vineberg

had acquired up to that time were swept away by this unfortunate

venture, and when he started again in 1892, tenaciously holding

to his purpose, he had to begin practically without capital.

However, he enjoyed a good reputation and among his personal

following were many who had utmost confidence in his integrity

and ability. He secured the assistance of Mr. Westgate of the H.

B. Knitting Company, and it was this combination which formed

the beginning of Progress brand clothing, under which name the

output of H. Vineberg & Company is favorably known to the trade

in all the Dominion. His thorough understanding of the business,

his capacity for detail, his executive ability and understanding

of human nature led him to the position which he now occupies

at the head of one of the leading establishments of its kind

in the city. The firm was incorporated in 1908 and in 1912 was

transformed into a joint stock company, of which Mr. Vineberg

became the president.

Although Mr. Vineberg’s mercantile interests are large, he has

found time and opportunity to prove himself one of those men

to whom the progress of the city and the welfare of its people

is of foremost importance. Deeply grateful for such success as

has come to him--and in his modest way not at all ascribing it

to his personality, his energy, his patience, his judgment and

industry--Mr. Vineberg welcomes the opportunity of giving to

charitable institutions and of aiding those who strive to make

a success of life. He has never forgotten how he once started

himself--a poor Jewish boy without means and friends--and how he

had to struggle to obtain a place in society. It is therefore

but natural that he shows the deepest understanding and the

greatest sympathy for those who today find themselves in similar

conditions, even if these are not so trying as those which

the young emigrant from the Sarmatian met. Mr. Vineberg is a

director of the Jewish Colonization Institute, engaged in Jewish

communal work. He was president of the Young Men’s Benevolent

Hebrew Society from 1888 until 1892, during which time Baron de

Hirsch sent the first ten thousand dollars with which the Baron

de Hirsch Institute was founded. Before being president of this

society, Mr. Vineberg was a director and in that capacity wrote

to the famous Jewish philanthropist calling his attention to

the needs of such an institution, and it was he who was largely

instrumental in founding the institute at St. Elizabeth Street.

In addition to his duties in connection with the Benevolent

Hebrew Society for Young Men and the Baron de Hirsch Institute,

Mr. Vineberg was one of those who were most active in promoting

its religious school and he was chairman of the committee having

charge over that department for many years. He is a member of

the Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue and also of the English and

German Synagogue on McGill College Avenue, in which latter he

held the position of secretary for four years. He was one of the

leading and most energetic spirits in moving the synagogue to

McGill College Avenue from St. Constant Street, being at that

time the secretary. He also is a director of the Hebrew Free Loan

Association and a member of every Jewish charitable institution

in Montreal. However, that his charity and his interest in those

who are afflicted is not limited by creed is evident from the

fact that he is a governor of the Montreal General Hospital.

During his long business career Mr. Vineberg has been the mentor

of many of the leading merchants and manufacturers of this city

who began their careers in his employ and who learned their trade

in his place and there laid the foundations of their fortunes.

Hundreds of well-to-do families in Montreal have been able to

establish themselves in comfortable circumstances through their

connection with the house of Vineberg & Company. There are a

number of professional men who occupy an honored place in their

spheres of activities and who are indebted to Mr. Vineberg for

timely help and advice and there are many who are well known in

the city today who reached these shores as emigrants with small

means, and friendless, and who found in him one who was willing

to assuage such troubles as beset them.

Mr. Vineberg is devoting much of his time to the care of his

wife, a sufferer, and it is therefore but natural that he does

not give so much of his time to the active operation of his large

business interests, the management of the house of H. Vineberg

& Company being entrusted largely to the husband of his eldest

daughter. Yet he is still active and his advice is highly valued

and often sought in commercial circles. He is a member of the

Board of Trade and in that connection has always stood for

things which would promote progress and prosperity in Montreal.

He is a member of the Canadian Manufacturers Association and a

director of the Canadian Credit Men’s Association. Although he is

interested in all movements that make for efficient government of

city, province and Dominion, for the highest type of sanitary

system, the best health conditions, the beautification of the

city, he has never actively entered the political arena.

On October 23, 1876, Mr. Vineberg married Miss Lily Goldberg,

daughter of the late Rev. Hyman Goldberg, who for a number of

years was assistant minister of the Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue.

Mr. and Mrs. Vineberg became the parents of three daughters:

Libbie, who married Isidor Cohen, a member of H. Vineberg &

Company; Eva, who married A. J. Hart, president and general

manager of the Hart Manufacturing Company; and Malca, who is the

wife of A. Z. Cohen, a member of the firm of L. Cohen & Sons.

Mr. and Mrs. Vineberg have twelve grandchildren, and it may

be mentioned as illustration of his deep affection for his

family that the pictures of these children adorn the walls of

his private office. When deeply engaged in business thoughts,

these children’s faces, no doubt, smile to him encouragement and

fill him with satisfaction in the knowledge that around him are

growing up generations of his own blood who appreciate and love

him for what he is to them and will honor him for what he has

done to lighten their life’s burdens when they will occupy the

stage of life’s activities.

PHILEMON COUSINEAU, B. A., LL. D., K. C., M. L. A.

As a member of the firm of Bastien, Bergeron, Cousineau, Lacasse

& Jasmin, Philemon Cousineau, K. C., occupies a foremost position

among the legal fraternity of Montreal. Moreover, he has gained

a reputation as a legislator and is considered today one of the

foremost authorities on constitutional law in the province. He

has important commercial interests, and his career has had in

its various aspects a lasting influence upon the growth and

development of the city. He was born at St. Laurent, Quebec, on

October 25, 1874, and is a son of Gervais and Angelique (Grou)

Cousineau.

Philemon Cousineau was educated at Sainte Therese College

and Laval University, from which he graduated in 1896. Being

called to the bar, he began the active practice of law in July

of that year and has ever since continued with increasing

success. He is professor of constitutional and municipal law at

Laval University, which institution of learning conferred upon

him the degree of LL. D., after he had presented a thesis on

Corporations. He has also been for some time king’s counsel and

enjoys a profitable and representative practice.

Mr. Cousineau is extensively interested in industrial and

financial projects which have had to do with the city’s progress,

among them being the Mount Royal Telephone Company, of which he

was president, and previous to its absorption by the Canadian

Light & Power Company he was a director of the Saraguay Light &

Power Company. He is also president of the St. Lawrence Tobacco

Company. He was mayor of the town of St. Laurent from 1904 to

1908 and both as an official and citizen has had no little to do

with the progress of that flourishing town.

In 1897 Mr. Cousineau was united in marriage to Miss Helmina

Gendron, and they have four daughters. In politics Mr. Cousineau

is a conservative and in 1908 was elected to the legislature of

the province of Quebec from the county of Jacques Cartier and

reelected in 1912. He is a trusted counselor of the party and has

done far-reaching work on committees as well as on the floor of

the house. Public-spirited in the most noble sense of the word,

he has ever stood for that which is best for the greatest number.

In 1913 he was delegate of the Canadian government to the general

meeting of the International Institute Of Agriculture at Rome,

Italy.

[Illustration: PHILEMON COUSINEAU]

EDOUARD NAPOLEON HEBERT.

The house of Hébert has been one of the foremost families of the

Dominion since the early dawn of Canadian history. One of the

first Canadian farmers, Louis Hébert, arrived in Quebec with

his family in 1617. Tradition has it that previously he passed

some time in Acadia, where he “was the first to utilize the

salt-water marshes of the Bay of Fundy by building dikes to keep

out the tides.” He continued to cultivate the soil at Quebec and

on February 28, 1626, as a reward to him and an encouragement

to others, the Duc de Ventadour, viceroy of New France, issued

a patent granting Hébert “in fief noble to him and his assigns

forever” a seignorial domain on the River St. Charles, near

Quebec, and confirming to him a concession made by the preceding

viceroy, the Duc de Montmorency. It was expressly stated in the

deed that these grants were made in consideration of Hébert’s

“long and painful labors, perils and expenses, incessantly

supported in the discovery of the lands of Canada and that he is

the head of the first family which has settled and dwelt there

since the year 1600 till now * * * having left his relations

and friends to go and form this commencement of a colony of

Christian people in those lands * * * which are deprived of the

knowledge of God.” Charles Lecroix Hébert, a rich trader and the

first farmer on the island of Montreal, built a residence in

1655 on Jean Baptiste Street, which is still standing and which

is shown in one of the illustrations of this history. Hébert,

named Larivière, was born in 1633 and was a companion in arms of

Dollard and present at the massacre of Long Sault in May, 1660.

Edouard Napoléon Hébert was born in Montreal on March 10, 1874,

and is a son of J. Napoléon Hébert, who was born January 14,

1850. His father, Louis Hébert, the grandfather of our subject,

was born in Quebec in 1810 or 1812 and from that city removed to

Montreal, while his father was the proprietor of the Boulangerie

du Roi (bakery of the king) at Quebec. This establishment was

subsequently continued by one of his sons, a brother of the

grandfather of our subject.

E. Napoléon Hébert, in the acquirement of his education,

attended Montcalm school of this city and subsequently improved

his advantages by a commercial course. He entered upon active

business life in connection with Hudon & Hébert, engaged in the

grocery business, for whom he made customs entries and acted as

assistant cashier. He is now treasurer of the “Twelve Companies”

and largely engaged in the real-estate business, being a young

man of very great ability, pleasant in manners and of sound

judgment. In two years the “Twelve Companies” with which he is

connected have disposed of properties to the value of eleven

million dollars, which gives an indication of the magnitude of

their transactions. Mr. Hébert is considered one of the best

informed men as to realty values here and his advice and judgment

are often sought by large investors and he has in many ways been

instrumental in promoting the growth and furthering the welfare

of his city. He is also interested in a cigar box factory which

gives employment to eighty men.

On July 7, 1891, at Montreal, Mr. Hébert was united in marriage

to Miss Cécilia Drolet and they have become the parents of

twelve children, four sons and eight daughters. The eldest son,

Charles-Edouard, is married and the other three are Armand,

Charles and Jean. The daughters are Gabrielle, Herminie,

Adrienne, Cécile, Marie-Thérèse, Germaine, Gilberte and Paulette.

In his political affiliations Mr. Hébert is a liberal, stanchly

upholding the principles of his party. He is well known in

fraternal orders, in most of which he has held important offices,

being connected with the Independent Order of Foresters and the

Canadian Order of Foresters. He is a member of the L’Alliance

Nationale, of the Club Canadien and the Club St. Louis. His

religious faith is that of the Catholic church and he is

prominent in the church of the Immaculate Conception, in which

for twenty-five years he has been organist. A man of great energy

and vast information as regards his business, Mr. Hébert occupies

a high place among the business men of Montreal and can ever be

found in the front ranks of those who have at heart the welfare

of their city. Although he has never cared to participate in

official life, he gladly supports worthy public enterprises and

enjoys the high respect and regard of all who come in contact

with him in business or social relations.

CHARLES SAMUEL JOHN PHILLIPS.

Many of the organized efforts for benefiting the general

interests of society have felt the stimulus of the cooperation

and indorsement of Charles Samuel John Phillips, whose position

in the business world is that of head of the firm of Morton,

Phillips & Company, stationers and printers. He was born in

Quebec on the 13th of October, 1844, and is a son of the late

Thomas Osmond Phillips, of Quebec, and his wife, Agnes Ritchie

Leslie, a daughter of Dr. S. W. H. Leslie, of the army medical

department. He was but a youth of thirteen when he accompanied

his parents to Montreal, where he has made his home continuously

since 1857, being, therefore, one of the older residents of the

city in years of continuous connection therewith.

It was in Montreal that Mr. Phillips was married in 1873 to Miss

Jessie Amelia Thomson, a daughter of the late William A. Thomson,

and her death occurred in May, 1910.

With the attainment of his majority Charles S. J. Phillips

entered business life and gradually advanced to the position of

head of the firm of Morton, Phillips & Company, stationers and

printers, which business was established in 1869. His activities

have been exerted with energy, force and effectiveness along

other lines, some of which have been of a semi-public and others

of a public character. He was formerly president of the Montreal

Citizens League and of the Montreal Dispensary and is now a

director of the Citizens Association. He is likewise a member of

the Business Men’s League and is a director of the Mount Royal

Cemetery Company. He belongs to the Natural History Society and

is deeply interested in the Boys Home, of which he is honorary

treasurer, and the Boys Farm and Training School at Shawbridge,

Quebec. He has been a student of the important political,

economic and sociological questions and has investigated

conditions which bear directly upon the interests of society at

large in its relation to citizenship and the opportunities which

are placed before the individual for his normal development and

advancement. His religious faith is that of the Baptist church,

and his political belief that of the conservative party. He is

well known as a member of the Montreal and Canadian Clubs. While

the winter months are spent in the city, he has an attractive

summer home, Mes Délices, at Notre Dame du Portage on the St.

Lawrence.

ALEXANDER GEORGE CAMERON.

Alexander George Cameron is one of the younger representatives

of the legal profession in Montreal. Since his admission to the

bar in 1910 he has made continuous progress. He was born in

Winchester, Ontario, May 11, 1884, a son of Alexander and Louise

(Reddick) Cameron, the former a native of Inverness, Scotland,

while the latter is of Canadian birth.

In the public schools of Winchester Alexander G. Cameron laid the

foundation for his education. He was a student in the Morrisburg

Collegiate Institute and received his law training in McGill

University, from which he was graduated B. C. L. with the class

of 1910. He at once entered upon the practice of law. His name

is also well known in the business world, being a director of

several commercial enterprises.

Mr. Cameron is known in military circles, being a captain in

the Fifth Royal Highlanders of Canada. His political allegiance

is given to the conservative party, and he is prominent in club

circles, his membership being in the Royal St. Lawrence Yacht

Club, the Manitou Club, the Kaniwakee Golf Club, the Beaconsfield

Golf Club, the University Club, the Montreal Club and the

Montreal Art Association. He is a Presbyterian in religious

belief.

GILBERT SCOTT.

Gilbert Scott was for many years a resident of Montreal and

a witness of its development and progress. He came to rank

prominently among the representatives of commercial and

financial interests and for an extended period was a member of

the Dow Brewery Company of this city. He was born at Chagford,

Devonshire, England, April 16, 1820. In early life he was a clerk

in a bank in London and came to Montreal in 1845. In the ’60s he

entered into partnership with William Dow, a well known Montreal

brewer and continued in active connection with the business until

his life’s labors were ended on the 9th of June, 1891, when he

was seventy-one years of age. The other members of the firm at

various times were John Harris, A. C. Hooper, J. Philip Scott,

son of Gilbert Scott, Angus Hooper and Major George Hooper.

Capable management led to the continuous growth and success of

the business until the year 1912, when the Dow Brewery became a

part of the National Breweries Company.

Gilbert Scott was connected officially with many large financial

and commercial institutions and was well posted upon financial

and commercial matters, but his fund of knowledge went further

and made him familiar with many other questions and interests

of the day. He was a director of the Bank of Montreal;

senior partner of the Dow Brewery Company; president of the

Intercolonial Mining Company; vice president of the Shedden

Company; a director of the North British and Mercantile Insurance

Company, and of the Canada Sugar Refining Company.

Mr. Scott was married to Miss Janet Cooper of London, England,

who died in 1875. He was survived by one son, James Philip, who

was a member of the Dow Brewery Company from 1876 until his

death, in 1898, and four daughters.

Mr. Scott was a member of St. Paul’s Lodge of Masons and was

always loyal to the teachings and purposes of the craft. He had

vivid recollections of the important points in the history of

Montreal, from the time when he located here in 1845, until his

death. As a man, he possessed many attractive social qualities

and was beloved by a large circle of friends.

JOSEPH RIELLE.

In the long years of an active professional career Joseph Rielle

has made continuous advancement until he stands today not only

as a veteran civil engineer and surveyor, but also as one of the

most capable representatives of his chosen calling in Montreal.

Each year has found him in advance of the position which he

occupied the previous year, because of his developing powers and

growing ability. He was born at Laprairie on the 6th of October,

1833, and received his initial business training with the firm of

Ostell & Perrault, architects and land surveyors, whose service

he entered in 1850 when a youth of seventeen years. He continued

with that firm for four years and then became assistant to Mr.

John Page, chief engineer of public works. He next accepted the

position of assistant engineer to the harbor commission and

eventually entered upon the general practice of land surveying in

Montreal and the surrounding district. He has been connected with

extensive surveys for the Grand Trunk and the Canadian Pacific

Railways and the harbor commissioners of Montreal and in addition

to his general practice has made a number of important hydraulic

surveys. In 1904 he was presented with a testimonial by members

of the society of land surveyors to mark the fiftieth anniversary

of his entry into civil engineering and land surveying.

While this has been his chief life activity, Mr. Rielle has

done important work in other connections. He was formerly

vice president of the Pontiac Pacific Junction Railway, and

he has done much work of a public and semi-public character,

whereby the general interests of the country at large have been

greatly promoted. He was secretary and manager of the Montreal

Turnpike Trust for about fifteen years. He was a member of

the council of Verdun, Montreal, from 1875 until 1900 and was

intrusted with many important public works. He is a life governor

of the House of Industry and Refuge, also of the Montreal General

Hospital, and is president of the Fraser Institute and Free

Public Library of Montreal. His activities have been of a nature

that have contributed largely to the general development and

good, but he has never taken an active part in politics.

[Illustration: JOSEPH RIELLE]

Mr. Rielle married Miss Jeannie T. Goldie of Laprairie, P. Q.,

who was vice president of the Montreal Industrial Rooms and who

died in June, 1904. Mr. Rielle has his home at No. 90 Union

Avenue and is a member of the St. James Club. He has now reached

the advanced age of more than eighty years, but is still active

in his profession and in spirit and interest seems yet a man in

the prime of life.

JOHN STUART BUCHAN.

No phase of life affecting the political and local status of the

province or its educational or moral development fails to elicit

the attention and interest of John Stuart Buchan and seldom

fails to receive his hearty cooperation and support. He is ever

willing to divide his time between his profession and public

service, recognizing ever the duties as well as the privileges

of citizenship and the obligations which devolve upon man in

relation to his fellowmen. He is well known as a practitioner

at the bar and his reputation as a capable lawyer has been well

earned. He was born at St. Andrews, P. Q., October 28, 1852,

the only son of the late William and Katherine (Stuart) Buchan,

of St. Andrews. The family is descended from the old earls of

Buchan. After attending public schools of his native city John

S. Buchan entered McGill University and won his B. C. L. degree

in 1884. He had determined to make the practice of law his life

work, and following his graduation he became an advocate, since

which time he has continued a representative of the Montreal

bar. Here he has worked his way up to leadership and in 1899 was

created a king’s counsel. For almost a third of a century he has

been engaged in practice here, and his ability has long since

placed him in a position of distinction among the leaders of the

legal profession in Montreal. At one time he was a member of the

editorial staff of the Canadian Jurist, and in 1904 he was a

royal commissioner for the revision of the provincial statutes.

Thus important governmental problems in connection with his

profession have elicited his deep interest and called forth his

abilities.

In 1885 Mr. Buchan was married to Miss Katherine McMartin, the

second daughter of F. McMartin, of St. Andrews. She died in

August, 1894, and in 1896 Mr. Buchan wedded Annie, the eldest

daughter of the late J. H. Henderson, of Montreal.

Mr. Buchan is an attendant of Christ’s Church Cathedral, while

his political faith is that of the liberal party. Political

honors and emoluments have had no attraction for him. His

activities, however, along other lines relating to the welfare

and progress of city and province have been resultant. He acted

as solicitor of the Lord’s Day Alliance of the province for a

time. He was also chosen a life governor of the Montreal Boys

Home in 1911 and many movements having broad humanitarianism as

their basis have received his indorsement. He is likewise the

vice president of the Natural History Society of Montreal. He is

not unknown in literary circles for under the nom-de-plume of

Douglas Erskine he has published “A Bit of Atlantis” and “Some

Notes on Mount Royal,” and various other papers of a scientific

nature. When questions of public welfare are at stake he is never

weighed in the balance and found wanting, and his support of any

project and measure is not the result of a hasty conclusion.

On the contrary he brings to all vital questions the habits of

the lawyer, carefully analyzing and weighing the points in a

situation and then giving his support thereto as the result of a

firm belief in the worth or righteousness of the case.

ARCHIBALD MURRAY CASSILS.

Archibald Murray Cassils, who as a wholesale leather merchant

gained an enviable business standing, while attractive social

qualities won him many friends, was but forty-eight years of age

at the time of his death, which occurred March 6, 1891. He was

born in July, 1843, in Renton, Dumbartonshire, Scotland, a son

of John and Margaret (Murray) Cassils. His education was there

acquired and he remained in his native land until 1856, when he

came to Montreal where a brother was residing. For a number of

years he was engaged in merchandising in connection with the

wholesale leather business, and made for himself an enviable

place in commercial circles, by reason of his enterprise, his

progressiveness and his business integrity. Gradually his trade

grew owing to his capable control of his interests, and success

in a substantial measure rewarded his labors.

In September, 1873, in Montreal, Mr. Cassils was married to Miss

Eva A. Shaw, and they became the parents of three children:

Marcia A., the wife of George P. Butters; William A., who died in

1906; and Angus Shaw Cassils.

Mr. Cassils was a member of the Masonic order and the American

Presbyterian church and his religious belief guided him in all

the relations of life, making him a man of high principle and

kindly spirit, straightforward in action and thoroughly reliable

in all things. While more than two decades have passed since he

was called from this life, he is yet kindly remembered by all who

knew him owing to his gracious presence and his sterling worth.

GEORGE CAMPBELL MACDOUGALL.

George Campbell MacDougall, recognized as one of the ablest

members of the brokerage profession, had not passed the fiftieth

milestone on life’s journey when death called him. He was born

June 6, 1843, in Ringmore, Devonshire, England, a son of Major

MacDougall, who belonged to the King’s Own Borders, and in 1857

came to Montreal. His son, George C. MacDougall, was educated

in the schools of this city, passing through consecutive grades

to the high school and afterward attending McGill University.

Throughout his active business career he was identified with

financial interests. He became a clerk in the Bank of Montreal,

worked his way upward until his experience, combined with his

recognized capability led to his assignment to a responsible

position with the New York city branch of the Bank of Montreal.

He remained in the American metropolis for a few years and while

in New York won several prizes for horsemanship at horse shows

there. He afterward entered the Lounsbury & Tenshaw Brokerage

Company, acquainted himself with the brokerage business and

returned to Montreal, where he formed a partnership with his

brother, Hartland St. Clair MacDougall, continuing in the

brokerage business until his death. The firm gained an extensive

clientage that made the business one of large volume.

Mr. MacDougall was married twice. He first wedded Miss C. J.

Bridges and they had one son, H. B. MacDougall. In 1887, in

Montreal, Mr. MacDougall was married to Miss Mary L. Macdonald, a

daughter of Hon. Donald Alexander Macdonald, a well known figure

in public life, serving as postmaster general in the Mackenzie

administration at Ottawa from 1873 until 1875, and as lieutenant

governor of Ontario from 1875 until 1880. He married Catherine,

daughter of Hon. Alexander Fraser, M. L. C., of Fraserville,

Ontario. To George C. and Mary L. (Macdonald) MacDougall was born

a daughter, Beatrice.

Mr. MacDougall was well known as a sportsman, was an expert

rider and was the owner of some fine horses. He was likewise

a prominent member of many clubs, including the St. James,

Montreal, Jockey, Forest and Stream and Hunt Clubs. His death

occurred March 31, 1892, and although he was then at the

comparatively early age of forty-nine years, he had achieved

distinction in his line of business and as a sportsman had gained

wide friendship among many of the most distinguished citizens of

the province.

JOSEPH CHARLES HECTOR DUSSAULT.

Joseph Charles Hector Dussault, a graduate of Laval University

and thus carefully trained for the profession to which he has

devoted his life, has been actively engaged in the practice

of law in Montreal since 1899. His course has been marked by

continuous progress until he has gained a creditable position

among the forceful, capable representatives of the bar. He was

born at Sherbrooke, Quebec, on the 19th of November, 1876, a son

of N. T. and Malvina (Deseve) Dussault, the former a merchant of

Sherbrooke, who was born there more than seventy years ago and is

still engaged in business in that city. He is well known in the

eastern townships and is recognized as a man of prominence in his

community.

Liberal educational opportunities were accorded Joseph C. H.

Dussault, who pursued commercial and classical courses in the

Seminary of Sherbrooke. Reviewing the broad field of industrial,

commercial and professional activity, he determined upon the

practice of law as a life work and in preparation therefor

entered Laval University at Montreal. On the completion of the

regular law course he was graduated and in 1899 received the

degree of Master of Laws. The same year he was admitted to

practice at the bar of the province of Quebec and entered alone

upon the active work of the profession. Advancement at the bar

is proverbially slow, yet he had as the basis of success broad

and thorough understanding of the principles of jurisprudence and

gradually worked his way upward. After three years he formed a

partnership with J. A. Mercier and in January, 1912, they were

joined by a third partner, P. L. Dupuis under the firm style

of Dussault, Mercier & Dupuis. Mr. Dussault has ever been very

careful in the preparation of his cases. His mind is naturally

analytical, logical and inductive and, therefore, his reasoning

is clear, his argument sound and his deductions clear and

convincing. He is also identified with financial activities as

one of the organizers and directors of the Merchants & Employers

Guarantee & Accident Company.

On the 1st of October, 1906, in Montreal, Mr. Dussault was

married to Miss Alice Dupuis, a daughter of J. O. Dupuis, one

of the founders of Dupuis Freres of Montreal. Her father is

also widely known in political as well as commercial circles,

his opinions carrying weight in party councils. He served as

alderman of Montreal and has been active in molding public

thought and opinion. That confidence is reposed in his business

ability and integrity is indicated in the fact that he was one

of the liquidators of the defunct Ville Marie Bank. Unto Mr. and

Mrs. Dussault have been born three children, Jeanne, Marcelle

and Jacques. The religious faith of the family is that of the

Roman Catholic church. Mr. Dussault is a conservative and strong

protectionist. His interest in politics is not a superficial one,

and he keeps well versed on the questions and issues of the day,

yet political honors and emoluments have no attraction for him.

He finds recreation through his connection with St. Andrew’s

Curling Club, of which he is a charter member. He now has a wide

acquaintance in his adopted city, where his developing powers

have brought him professional success, while sterling traits of

manhood have gained him place among the highly esteemed citizens.

ERNEST R. DECARY.

Ernest R. Decary, senior member of Decary, Barlow & Joron,

one of the foremost firms of notaries in Montreal, occupies a

distinguished professional position, viewed not only from the

extent, but as well from the prominence of his clientele. Mr.

Decary is a native of Montreal and was born on December 9, 1878.

He received an excellent education, graduating with the degree of

Bachelor of Arts from St. Mary’s Jesuit College and beginning his

business career alone, subsequently joined with him Mr. Barlow

and Mr. Joron, and he has since continued in that relationship.

This firm specializes in railway and bank work and they have come

to occupy a position second to none in Montreal professional

circles.

Mr. Decary personally acts as notary for the Canadian Pacific

Railway, the Canadian Northern and the Dominion and Traders Banks

and the Canadian Express Company, as well as for many other

institutions and corporations.

Although Mr. Decary has never aspired to political office, he

is deeply interested in the growth and expansion of his city

and readily gives of his time and means in support of worthy

enterprises. In politics he is a liberal. He is a member of

the Montreal, Royal Montreal Golf, University, Royal St. Lawrence

Yacht, and Lachine Boating and Canoe Clubs, and has views upon

business and social conditions. Yet a comparatively young man, he

occupies a position of dignity in the life of the city to which

his ripe judgment on matters of a commercial or legal nature

fully entitles him.

[Illustration: ERNEST R. DECARY]

BENJAMIN NAPOLEON LADOUCEUR.

One of the well known legal practitioners of Montreal and a

notary public, Benjamin Napoléon Ladouceur has a clientele both

representative and important. He is yet a young man, barely

thirty years of age, but has demonstrated his ability to capably

handle the most intricate legal problems. He was born on the

15th of January, 1883, at Ste. Marie de Monnoir, and is a son

of Mathias and Azilda Ste. Marie Ladouceur, both natives of

Ste. Marie de Monnoir. The paternal grandfather was Benjamin

Ladouceur, called Martin, his birthplace being Côté des Neiges.

His wife was Cèleste Vient, a native of Ste. Marie de Monnoir.

The grandfather in the maternal line was Jean Baptiste Ste. Marie

and his wife was Henriette Bédard, also natives of Ste. Marie de

Monnoir.

Benjamin Napoléon Ladouceur was educated at the College of Ste.

Marie de Monnoir and took his law degrees at Laval University

in July, 1910. He has since engaged in practice in Montreal and

also acts as notary public. No long novitiate awaited him for he

soon demonstrated his ability along legal lines and now enjoys

an important and lucrative practice. In his political views he

is a nationalist, a party which has for its aim the amelioration

of certain conditions of government which make not for the best

of the masses. In some ways it may be said that it is similar to

the progressive movement in the United States and this movement

has largely for its object a restricting influence upon political

malpractices. Mr. Ladouceur also interests himself along other

public and semi-public lines although he has never cared for

official positions. He is loyal to the city of his adoption and

ever ready to give his share of time and money in promoting her

interests.

WILLIAM RUTHERFORD.

The steps in the orderly progression of William Rutherford

whereby he has reached his present advanced position in business

circles of Montreal are easily discernible and each forward step

has brought him a broader outlook and wider opportunities. Born

in Montreal, April 22, 1864, he is a son of William and Elizabeth

(Jackson) Rutherford, both of whom are of Scotch birth, the

former coming from Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, and the latter from

Biggar, Lanarkshire. They were representatives of the excellent

Scotch type that has done so much for Canada and its substantial

upbuilding. The father was a member of the first council of

Cote St. Antoine, which afterward became Westmount. He was an

enthusiastic curler and greatly enjoyed other outdoor sports.

His interests, however, were largely concentrated upon the

development and management of important business interests. He

founded the lumber firm of William Rutherford & Sons in 1852 and

was largely instrumental in developing it into one of the most

extensive lumber enterprises of Canada.

In the acquirement of his education William Rutherford attended

successively the schools of Cote St. Antoine, the high school

of Montreal and the private school conducted by Hon. E. H.

Springrice. He crossed the threshold of the business world

as a junior clerk with Gillespie, Moffat & Company, general

merchants, and subsequently became a clerk for the Pillow Hersey

Manufacturing Company, owners of rolling mills, etc. Subsequently

he entered the firm of William Rutherford & Sons of Montreal and

upon the incorporation of the company became its treasurer. The

business is today conducted under the style of William Rutherford

& Sons Company, Ltd., dealers in and manufacturers of lumber and

timber. The business is now one of mammoth proportions and in his

official capacity William Rutherford of this review is bending

his energies to administrative direction and executive control.

Into other fields he has also extended his efforts and his

business interests are now of considerable volume and importance,

placing him among the prominent representatives of commercial and

industrial activity in the province. He is now the president of

the Dominion Box Company, Ltd., of the Grier Timber Company and

the Dominion Park Realty Company, Ltd.

On the 16th of May, 1894, in Montreal, Mr. Rutherford married

Miss Ida Bulmer, a daughter of John Bulmer and a representative

of a well known Montreal family. Their children are William J.,

John B., Jean, Andrew S. and Marjorie. Presbyterians in religious

faith, the family hold membership in St. Andrew’s church of

Westmount. Mr. Rutherford is a liberal in politics, conversant

with the leading questions and issues of the day. He has filled

a number of local offices, having been elected alderman of

Westmount in 1908, while in 1910 he was chosen mayor of the

city. In 1913 he was made school commissioner of the city and in

1912-13 was a member of the executive committee of the Canadian

Manufacturers Association. He is also a member of the committee

of St. Andrew’s Society, while along more strictly social lines

his membership is in the Canada, Engineers, Manitou and North

Lake Fish and Game Clubs. His success permits him that leisure

which enables him to enjoy fishing, hunting and other outdoor

and indoor sports, but he is preeminently a business man and one

whose successful methods might be studied by all who wish to gain

prosperity within the legitimate lines of business.

CARL ROSENBERG.

Among the mercantile houses of Montreal the British American

Import Company occupies a place of prominence and importance.

Under this firm style Carl Rosenberg is connected with Canadian

trade interests. Mr. Rosenberg was born in Kishenev, Russia,

on the 15th of July, 1870, a son of Wolf and Bessie (Dachis)

Rosenberg, both now residents of Montreal. The former has now

retired from active business life.

Carl Rosenberg was one of those who did not find the

opportunities which he sought in his native country and, seeking

the benefits of British freedom, selected the Dominion of Canada

for his field of operation and came to Montreal twenty-five years

ago, or in 1889, when a young man of about nineteen years. After

his arrival he went into partnership with a cousin, who had

preceded him to the Dominion and who was engaged in the importing

and dry-goods jobbing business. The name of the firm was

Shiller & Rosenberg and they continued for two years, when the

partnership was dissolved and Mr. Rosenberg became the leading

factor in the establishment of the British American Import

Company, who opened their place of business on St. Paul Street,

Montreal. His ability as a merchant, his ready understanding of

local market conditions and his indefatigable energy led to such

growth of business that in 1909 the firm was enabled to put up a

large building of their own at 516 St. Lawrence boulevard, into

which they moved in 1910. The British American Import Company

occupies a leading place in its line in Montreal and their

reputation is of the highest. Its success is largely due to the

executive ability of Mr. Rosenberg, its founder.

In 1888, when but eighteen years of age, Mr. Rosenberg, while yet

in Europe, was married to Miss Clara Sperling and to them were

born the following children: Hannah, who married Dr. Tannenbaum;

Sarah, now Mrs. Aronson; and Madge, Rose, Sadie, David and Moses.

Mr. Rosenberg is a liberal and, adhering to the faith of his

fathers, he was during 1910-11 a director of the Baron de Hirsch

Institute, but his fast expanding business interests forced him

to relinquish this position. He is a justice of the peace; vice

president of the Herzl Dispensary; a founder and an ex-president

of the Jewish Eagle Publishing Company, holding the latter office

for five years; and a member of Ionic Lodge, No. 54, of the

Masonic order. He is a shrewd and able business man and his name

and that of his firm stand for successful accomplishment in the

trade annals of the city.

REV. ALLAN PEARSON SHATFORD.

Rev. Allan Pearson Shatford, known in Montreal and throughout the

province of Quebec as a forceful and eloquent preacher, holding a

high position in Masonic circles as grand chaplain of the grand

lodge of Quebec and known in this city as most earnest, zealous

and consecrated in his work as rector of the Church of St. James

the Apostle, was born at St. Margaret’s Bay, Nova Scotia, and is

a son of the late James E. Shatford, a resident of Indian Harbor.

Rev. Allan P. Shatford acquired his education in King’s College

in his native province, from which he was graduated B. A. with

first class honors in English literature in 1895 and M. A. in

1898. In the former year he was made curate of the Anglican

church at Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, and served in that capacity

until 1900, during which time he was ordained deacon in 1896 and

priest in 1897. He was transferred from Bridgewater to North

Sydney, Nova Scotia, where he remained as rector until 1906,

moving in that year to Montreal, where he became assistant

rector of the parish of St. James the Apostle. He was promoted

to the position of rector in January, 1912, and still holds

this position which is an important and responsible one, for

the parish is one of the oldest and largest in Montreal. It was

founded in 1864 by Canon Elligood and the first church was built

by Mrs. Phillips on land donated by her. Canon Elligood continued

as rector from 1864 to 1911, dying in December of that year

at the advanced age of eighty-seven. He was succeeded by Rev.

Allan P. Shatford, the present incumbent, who is ably carrying

forward his predecessor’s work, giving his time, attention and

unusual talents to the promotion of the interests of the parish

and the spread of the doctrines in which he believes. There

are about four hundred and fifty families in the congregation,

and the church property is valued at seven hundred and fifty

thousand dollars. Its administration calls for farsighted and

capable work and Mr. Shatford has proved equal to the trust

reposed in him, aiding the trustees in every possible way and

proving his possession of unusual administrative ability and

organizing power. The church has had some of the most famous

ministers in Canada connected with its affairs at different

times, Bishop Dumlin, of the diocese of Niagara, having been at

one time assistant, as were also Bishop Duvernet, of Caledonia,

and Dean Abbott, of Niagara. The affairs of the congregation

are in a most flourishing and prosperous condition, and the

people of the parish find in Mr. Shatford a minister well suited

to their needs, a man sincere and high-minded in his aims, of

scholarly attainments and well directed ability. His sermons show

great force and power, and his lectures have gained him wide

recognition, winning him mention by the Montreal Gazette as “an

accomplished extempore speaker and a preacher of great power.”

Mr. Shatford is well known in Masonic circles, exemplifying in

his life the beneficent teachings of that order. He was grand

chaplain of the grand lodge of Freemasons for Nova Scotia from

1903 to 1906 and since that time has been grand chaplain of

the grand lodge of Quebec province. He was a delegate to the

Pan-Anglican Congress held in London in 1908; a delegate to the

general synod and to the church congress held in Halifax, Nova

Scotia, in 1910, speaking there in a forceful and telling way

upon parochial problems. “Today,” in his opinion, “it is Canada

for the world, and we think of England as the center of an empire

which tends to the solidarity of the human race and the universal

brotherhood of man.”

VICTOR MORIN, LL. D.

Victor Morin, prominent in connection with the legal profession

as a practitioner and as professor of administrative law and

doctor of laws in Laval University, is now at the head of the

firm of Morin & Mackay, notaries of Montreal. His name is also

well known in literary circles and his activities and his

writings have had a far-reaching and beneficial effect upon

public interests. Born at St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, on the 15th of

August, 1865, he is a son of Jean Baptiste Morin and Aurelie

(Cote) Morin. In the acquirement of his education he attended

successively Girouard Academy, the St. Hyacinthe College, from

which he was graduated B. A. in 1884, and Laval University, which

conferred upon him the LL. B. degree in 1888 and that of LL. D.

in 1910. He studied law in the office of Papineau, Morin & Mackay

and was admitted to the practice of the notarial profession in

1888. For a brief period thereafter he was a resident of Acton

Vale, Quebec, but in 1890 returned to Montreal and is now senior

member in the firm of Morin & Mackay. He is also custodian of the

archives of his late partners, D. E. Papineau, C. F. Papineau,

Durand and Morin, whose office was established in 1841. Aside

from his business he has occupied many positions of importance

and of public trust. While a resident of the town of Acton Vale

he was secretary-treasurer of the town from 1888 until 1890.

He has been treasurer of the board of notaries of the province

of Quebec since 1897 and he has various important business

connections. He was president of the Imperial Electric Light

Company from 1899 until 1901, became secretary of the Montreal

Real-Estate Association in 1904 and is now its president. He is

likewise president of the Crédit Métropolitain, of the Caisse

Hypothécaire, of the Montreal Debenture Corporation, of the

Récollet Land Company, and of the Federal Real-Estate & Trust

Company; vice president of the Security Life Insurance Company,

and a director of the Provincial Life and of the Provincial Fire

Insurance Companies. From 1897 to 1910, he was notary to the

corporation of the city of Montreal and resigned this position

in order to run for aldermanic honors. His high standing in his

chosen profession is indicated by the fact that he has been

made professor of administrative law in Laval University and is

regarded as one of the prominent law educators of the country.

His public-spirited citizenship finds expression in active

support of many measures and movements for the public good and

his cooperation can always be counted upon when the welfare

of city, province or country is at stake. He has taken great

interest for many years past in social questions, and is vice

president general of the St. Jean Baptiste Society, the national

association of French-Canadians. He was a director of Montreal

Citizens Association from 1908 until 1910 and his position upon

the temperance question is indicated by the fact that he is now

the general secretary of the Montreal Anti-Alcoholic League.

[Illustration: VICTOR MORIN]

Prominent in the Independent Order of Foresters, Mr. Morin was

its supreme vice chief ranger from 1898 to 1902, and has been

its past supreme chief ranger since 1905; in 1895-6 he edited

and published a paper in the interests of that fraternity called

Le Forestier. Since 1890 he has delivered many lectures to

fraternal societies and no man is better qualified to speak on

the beneficent basic principles of the organization.

His authorship has made Mr. Morin equally widely known. He was

actively interested in the literary work of the Cercle Ville

Marie as its secretary from 1886 until 1888. He is the author of

Vingt Ans Après, the second edition of which was brought forth

in 1909. He is silver medalist of the Ligue Nationale de la

Prévoyance et de la Mutualité, of Paris, France, and honorary

vice president of the Antiquarian and Numismatic Society of

Montreal. His active interest in affairs of vital importance

to the city has been manifest in his capable public service

as alderman of Montreal, to which position he was elected in

1910. His political support is given to the liberal party and

his religious faith is that of the Roman Catholic church. He

is prominent in club circles, is a member of the St. Denis and

Reform Clubs, and is secretary of the Maison des Etudiants. His

library, which is extensive and well selected, furnishes him his

chief source of recreation and interest.

Mr. Morin was married in 1893 at Biddeford, Maine, to Miss

Fannie, daughter of the Hon. D. Cote. In 1896 he wedded

Alphonsine, daughter of Victor Cote, of St. Hyacinthe. They

reside at No. 703 St. Urbain Street with their eleven children,

and spend their summer months in their attractive villa on the

slope of Mount St. Bruno. His life has been so varied in its

activities and so honorable in its purposes as to leave an

indelible impress for good upon the community and through his

professional, business and fraternal connections Mr. Morin has

come to be recognized as one of the leading residents of Montreal.

HUBERT ADOLPHE ELZEAR GRANDBOIS.

Hubert Adolphe Elzéar Grandbois, who since October, 1911, has

been connected with the notarial profession in Montreal, was born

in St. Casimir, Port Neuf district, in the province of Quebec,

on the 15th of January, 1876, a son of Michel Adolphe and Marie

Aurée (Charest) Grandbois, the former a dealer in wood. The son

pursued his classical education in the Seminary of Nicolet,

from which he was graduated in 1895. He afterward entered upon

the study of law in Laval University at Quebec, which conferred

upon him the degree of Bachelor of Laws, in June, 1898. On the

completion of his studies he was admitted to practice as a

notary in the following September and located at St. Casimir,

where he remained in active practice from September, 1898, until

October, 1911. He then came to Montreal, where he has since

remained and has attained high standing among the representatives

of the profession owing to broad and accurate knowledge, close

application and fidelity to the interests of his clients.

Mr. Grandbois was married in the city of his nativity on the 7th

of January, 1899, to Miss Marie Laetitia Belisle, a daughter of

Octave Germain and Marguerite (Daly) Belisle. The children of

this marriage are Marie Marguerite and Marie Laurette Grandbois.

The religious faith of the family is that of the Catholic church,

and Mr. Grandbois has membership with the Chevaliers de Colomb.

JOHN EDGAR.

The late John Edgar, who for many years was connected with the

fur industry in Montreal, was born in Woodstock, Ontario, March

12, 1843. During his boyhood the family removed to Hamilton,

Ontario, where his school days were passed. He began his business

career in the provision trade with Folingsby & Williamson in

Hamilton and later came to Montreal as representative of that

firm. Soon after his arrival in this city, or in 1866, he entered

the firm of Greene & Sons Company, wholesale furriers, in

which connection he worked his way upward, eventually becoming

a partner in the business. About the year 1895, when Greene

& Sons Company retired, Mr. Edgar succeeded to the business

which he continued for some years under the firm name of Edgar,

Swift & Company. When Mr. Swift retired Mr. Edgar formed a

partnership with Mr. Charles Coristine under the firm name of

Edgar, Coristine & Company, which relation was maintained for

four years, after which Mr. Edgar continued the business alone

until 1912, when he retired. He was one of the prominent furriers

of the city, developing and building up a business of extensive

proportions, and in commercial affairs his judgment was sound,

his enterprise keen and his diligence unfaltering.

In Montreal Mr. Edgar was united in marriage to Miss Selina

Kidner and unto them were born five children, three sons and two

daughters: John Hamilton, who is connected with the Canadian

Pacific Railway; Frank Clifton, connected with the Royal Bank

of Canada at Montreal; William Dewar, of the custom house of

Montreal; Katie Selina; and Lillian Maud. The death of the

husband and father occurred September 12, 1913, and was the

occasion of deep regret to many with whom he had been closely

associated in business and social circles. In politics he

was a conservative but without aspiration for public office.

He belonged to the Royal Albert Lodge of Masons and was a

faithful member of the Church of St. James the Apostle. In those

connections are indicated the principles which governed his life

and guided him in all of his relations.

CAMILLE TESSIER.

Camille Tessier, a young man possessed of laudable ambition and

determination, is making continuous progress in the field of

his chosen profession--that of the practice of law. He was born

at Berthierville, Quebec, July 26, 1887, a son of Dominique

and Odile (Des Rosiers) Tessier, the former a merchant at

Berthierville. He is descended from French ancestors who landed

here with the pioneers of the country. Like the greater part

of Canada’s first inhabitants, they were farmers and spent

their whole lives in cultivating the lands which they had first

courageously conquered from the wilderness and from the forest on

the north side of the St. Lawrence river, thus contributing in

large measure to the actual prosperity of the country.

Camille Tessier was accorded liberal educational opportunities,

which he improved, thus laying a broad foundation for his

later success. He pursued a course in the commercial college

of Berthierville, was a student in the Seminary of Joliette,

attended St. Mary’s College at Montreal, Laval University at

Montreal, in which he pursued his classical and professional

courses, winning the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws

degrees. He subsequently attended Eastman’s Business College of

Poughkeepsie, New York. As advocate, barrister and solicitor

he is making for himself a creditable position in professional

ranks. He has been a member of the Montreal bar since the 7th of

July, 1910, and the thoroughness and care with which he prepares

his cases and the logic of his deductions have gained him rank

among those who are winning success in the difficult and arduous

profession to which he devotes his energies. He makes a specialty

of commercial law and is a member of the Commercial Law League of

America. He is working his way to success vigorously but quietly

and honestly. Mr. Tessier is a member of the Roman Catholic

church. He was married in Montreal, on the 28th of January,

1913, to Edmee Paquette, and they have one child, Jean Marcel,

born in Outremont on the 28th of October, 1913. His courage and

a laudable ambition of living a life of usefulness to his family

and to his country have brought Mr. Tessier the high regard of

associates and all who know aught of his career.

CHARLES GIDEON HILL.

The life record of Charles Gideon Hill constitutes an

illustration of what the new world has to offer to ambitious

young men. Coming to Canada as an orphan boy, he steadily

worked his way upward, each forward step bringing him a broader

outlook and wider opportunities. He became in time a successful

merchant of Montreal and in later years devoted his time to the

supervision of his invested interests, which included large

property holdings and stock in many financial and commercial

enterprises. He was seventy-six years of age at the time of his

death, which occurred on the 12th of June, 1893, at the old home

at No. 247 Bleury Street, where he had lived for more than half a

century. He was born in England, but lost his father and mother

when quite young, after which he crossed the Atlantic and for

a time resided in New York. He afterward came to Montreal and

gradually he worked his way upward in a business way, realizing

at the outset of his career, that industry and honesty constitute

the foundation upon which success is built. In time he was the

proprietor of a small dry-goods establishment on St. Paul Street

and conducted it successfully for many years, but about 1870,

retired from commercial circles in order to supervise his large

estate which also included the estate of William Galt. From time

to time he became interested in business enterprises, holding

stock in many leading financial and commercial concerns. His

judgment was sound, his sagacity keen and in the control of

important interests he established his position as one of the

leading and capable business men of the city.

[Illustration: CHARLES G. HILL]

[Illustration: MRS. CHARLES G. HILL]

On the 19th of August, 1840, Mr. Hill was united in marriage to

Miss Margaret J. Galt, a daughter of William Galt, who for many

years was one of the leading citizens of Montreal. He engaged in

the tanning business near Glasgow, Quebec, and amassed a very

considerable fortune. Following his death, Mr. Hill retired from

commercial interests to supervise the Galt estate. To Mr. and

Mrs. Hill were born eleven children, eight of whom reached adult

age. These children were: William Galt, deceased; Charles G.,

who also has passed away; Margaret Ewing, the widow of G. M.

Patterson, residing in Cleveland, Ohio; Robert Ewing, deceased;

Adelaide, who married Samuel P. Wigg and resides in Lakefield,

Ontario; Lewis E., deceased; Helena Augusta, residing in

Montreal; Jean Elizabeth, now Mrs. E. A. Hilton; Peter Alexander;

Emma Louise, who married Albert A. Adams and is deceased; and

Dr. Adolphus James Hill, deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Hill devoted the

greatest care to rearing their large family and bestowed upon the

children their tenderest love. Those who grew to adult’s estate

were an honor to the family name and in full measure repaid the

care of the parents, whom they ever held in reverent memory. It

is due to the kind cooperation of Miss Helena A. Hill,--and to

her the publishers are indebted,--that they are able to

present herewith the excellent steel etchings portraying her

parents.

[Illustration: HELENA A. HILL]

Mr. Hill attended services and held a pew in the First Baptist

church and also in the Church of England, in the Cathedral. His

membership was in the latter and his wife, who died in 1882,

was a member of the former. Both were greatly esteemed and an

extensive circle of friends indicated their worth and the high

regard in which they were held.

WALDO W. SKINNER.

Waldo W. Skinner, practicing at the Montreal bar as a member

of the firm of Smith, Markey, Skinner, Pugsley & Hyde, was

born at St. John, New Brunswick, a son of the late Hon. C. M.

Skinner, K. C. His youthful days were largely devoted to the

acquirement of an education in the schools of his native city and

at Upper Canada College, Toronto, and having determined upon the

practice of law as his life work, he entered McGill University

in preparation for the bar, and was graduated B. C. L. in 1901.

In 1913 Mr. Skinner was created a king’s counsel. The year

following his graduation he entered upon the active work of his

profession and his course has been marked by continuous progress.

He is now associated with one of the leading law firms of the

city, Smith, Markey, Skinner, Pugsley & Hyde, and is actively

interested in much important litigation, in connection with which

he is retained as counsel for the defense or prosecution. From

the outset of his career he has recognized the fact that careful

preparation is one of the indispensable elements of success, so

that thorough work precedes his presentation of his cause in the

courtroom. His reasoning is clear and cogent and his arguments

strong and forceful.

In June, 1907, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Skinner and

Miss Loulou Forget, the eldest daughter of the late Hon. L. J.

Forget, senator. Mr. Skinner in his social relations is well

known, being a member of the Mount Royal, St. James and Montreal

Clubs, while his interest in sports is further indicated in

his membership in the Montreal Racquet and Royal Montreal Golf

Cubs. Attractive social qualities render him popular in those

organizations, in which he has gained many friends.

THOMAS ROBB.

Organization is the watchword of the age. Promotion in every

field of endeavor is brought about through the agency of

organized effort and cooperation, and thorough study of each

situation constitutes the basis of effort in this direction. This

spirit and tendency of the age has led to the formation of many

companies or societies for the benefit of business interests and

it is in this connection that Thomas Robb is known, being manager

and secretary of the Shipping Federation of Canada. A native of

Scotland, he was born in the city of Glasgow in the year 1863,

his father being the late Thomas Robb, who for some years was

superintendent of police in Glasgow. Spending his youthful days

in that city, the son pursued his education in the public schools

and in the Glasgow Academy. Mr. Robb came to Canada first in 1883

and spent one year at farming in the Niagara district. Returning

to England he became identified with the shipping interests and

in connection therewith was located at different periods in

Australia, South Africa and New Zealand. He returned to Canada

in 1902 and upon the organization of the Shipping Federation of

Canada, which is incorporated by act of the Dominion parliament,

he was chosen manager and secretary. He still continues in

the dual position, his efforts being of marked value to the

organization in promoting its object and accomplishing its

purpose as he is actively engaged in all matters relating to

navigation and shipping. In 1913 Mr. Robb was appointed member

of the royal commission appointed to inquire into and report

upon the “Law Respecting Pilotage” and its administration in the

pilotage district of Montreal and Quebec.

In 1891 Mr. Robb was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth

McLaren, a daughter of Andrew McLaren. Their religious faith

is that of the Presbyterian church and Mr. Robb belongs to St.

Andrew’s Society. He is a justice of the peace for Montreal and

district. He is likewise a member of the Engineers Club and of

the Canadian Club and has gained the warm friendship of many in

both organizations.

HON. JOHN JOSEPH CURRAN.

Hon. John Joseph Curran, barrister, jurist and orator, whose

life record was an honor to the land of his ancestors and to the

land of his birth was born in Montreal, February 22, 1842, his

parents being Charles and Sarah (Kennedy) Curran, both natives of

Ireland, the former born in County Down and the latter in County

Wexford. Emigrating to the new world they retained the intense

love of native land, so characteristic of the Irish race and

instilled the same deep attachment into their son, who with his

increasing age and powers gave freely of his time and talents for

the benefit of Erin’s green isle.

In the pursuit of his education Judge Curran attended a Jesuit

school and St. Mary’s College at Montreal, where he entered upon

a classical course. He afterward became a student in St. Joseph’s

College at Ottawa and in 1891 the University of Ottawa conferred

upon him the LL. D. degree. In the continuance of his education,

he entered McGill University as a student in the law department

and won his D. C. L. degree in 1862. It was in the spring of 1859

that he began preparation for the bar, reading at times under

the direction of such distinguished lawyers as Bernard Devlin,

Hon. T. J. J. Loranger and Andrew Robertson, K. C. While pursuing

his classical courses he cultivated a taste for literature and

oratory and in his student days developed the natural gifts that

in course of time made him one of the foremost Canadian orators.

It was also in his early manhood that he joined the Irish

national movement and thus his life was taking shape along those

lines which were to make him a power in moulding the history of

province and country.

The year following his graduation from McGill, or in 1863, he was

called to the bar of Quebec. No dreary novitiate awaited him.

Almost immediately his talents won him recognition and he gained

prominence as one of the younger members of the profession, by

the important part which he took in the conduct of a number of

notable criminal cases, including the Shehan, Havern, Kehoe and

Considine murder cases and the Dunbar, Brown, Kearney and T. F.

O’Brien frauds.

It is said that he had no superior in the conduct of election

cases. He was successful in the Devlin-Ryan, Tansey-Malone and

the James McShane-Loprairie contests and all these drew to

him the attention and favorable comment of the profession. He

was equally capable in the practice of civil law and was the

legal representative of some of the largest contractors of the

continent including men prominent in business in New York, Ottawa

and Montreal. His legal counsel was sought by men of prominence

again and again. Probably his last appearance as an advocate was

when he represented the Dominion government in an arbitration

with the province, the case being heard in the city of Quebec

about 1894.

Judge Curran was created a king’s counsel by the Marquis of

Lorne and was appointed secretary of the commission for the

codification of the statutes of the first De Boucherville

government. He was called to judiciary honor when made a puisne

judge of the superior court, December 5, 1892. He was appointed

solicitor general in the ministry of Sir John Thomas and

continued to hold that office after Sir Mackenzie Bowell became

premier. A contemporary writer said, “on the occasion of his

appointment his lordship was congratulated by the press without

distinction of party, both on public and personal grounds in

acknowledgment of his ‘indefatigable efforts to promote the

interests of his constituents’ and he was presented in 1890,

chiefly by citizens in Montreal, with a purse of seven thousand

dollars.” Judge Curran remained upon the bench for fourteen years

and proved himself the peer of the ablest jurist who has gained

the superior court bench. There were those who opposed him in the

beginning, but all came to acknowledge his capability, his record

being a credit and honor to the bench. His opinions were models

of judicial soundness and his record as a jurist was such as any

man might be proud to possess.

Politically his lordship was a liberal-conservative and he

rendered valuable service to his party. He was elected by a large

majority for Montreal Center to the house of commons in 1882,

1887 and again in 1891, and upon his appointment to the solicitor

generalship of Canada in 1892 he was reelected by acclamation.

On the organization of a law faculty in connection with the

University of Ottawa in 1892 Judge Curran was appointed to one

of the legal chairs and elected vice dean. He was also a member

of the senate of that university and president of its Alumni

Association. As an orator he swayed all by his eloquence. He

gained high rank as a lecturer and was frequently called upon to

address public gatherings.

In religious faith Judge Curran was a most earnest Catholic and

was ever watchful of opportunity to assist those of his faith

in public or in private. While his health permitted he never

failed to appear annually with his colleagues of the bench and

bar in the Tete Dieu procession and his piety and devotion in

the closing years of his life were an encouragement to the old

and an edifying example for the young. As a Canadian his life

work was one of conciliation and he strove to promote harmony

between all creeds and colors. He accepted invitations to address

gatherings of foreign colonists, and the Jews, Germans and

Italians knew him well, while among the people of his nationality

he was not only loved but respected. He yielded to none in the

breadth of his sympathy and generous desire for the union of all

denominations in the best and noblest objects. Following his

elevation to the bench he said “that as a public man it had been

his constant aim to bring about the union of hearts and minds

among all creeds and classes,” and “he was satisfied that if we

desired to have a prosperous country with a happy and contented

people we could only secure those blessings by all creeds and

classes uniting together for one common end, ‘the advancement

and welfare of Canada and the empire.’” In August, 1896, Judge

Curran was elected a delegate to the Irish Race convention,

which met in Dublin in September of that year. He had previously

been president of St. Patrick’s Society of Montreal and prior to

his elevation to the bench was one of the directors of the True

Witness Publishing Company. After his trip to the old country in

1907 the Burns Club honored him with an invitation to a banquet

and to respond to a toast to the memory of Robert Burns. On

rising to speak he said, that all had become brothers the world

over since men of such intense love for Old Scotia had, here in

our happy Canadian home, called upon a descendant of old Ireland

to do honor to the name and fame of Scotland’s greatest bard.

There are few, indeed, who have greater love for the land which

shelters their race than had Judge Curran. He was perfectly

familiar with Irish history, was a reader of Irish literature

and a lover of Irish music, and he was an ardent and unflinching

advocate of home rule.

In 1865 Judge Curran married Mary Elizabeth, the youngest

daughter of the late Patrick Brennan of Montreal. His third son,

Francis Joseph Curran, following his graduation from Manhattan

University of New York and McGill University of Montreal, was

called to the bar of his native province.

Something of the position which Judge Curran occupied in public

regard is indicated in works written of him ere his demise, which

occurred on October 1, 1909. Morgan in his volume of Canadian

Men and Women said, “by the Irish community of Montreal he was

regarded as one who had stood the test of devotion to their

common fatherland, but it is to Canada that he has given his

best service and by his fellow-Canadians, without distinction of

origin or creed, he is held in the highest esteem and honor.”

A Montreal citizen wrote of him, “he bears a character without

reproach and is as popular in legal and political circles as

he is respected.” The Montreal Gazette said editorially, “no

constituency in Canada has ever had a representative who gave up

more of his time, his talent and his energy to the promotion of

its interests than did Mr. Curran during the thirteen years he

has enjoyed the confidence of his electors. His genial kindly

nature, his large-heartedness, his conspicuous liberality

of mind, absolutely free from every trace of bigotry, and

his splendid oratorical powers caused him to be in constant

requisition whenever men were gathered together in the promotion

of worthy objects for the discussion of public affairs or the

advancement of the material and social welfare of the country.”

The Montreal Herald concluded an admirable eulogy with the

following paragraph: “Unselfishness and genuine consideration

for others, probably explained his personal popularity and his

political success. He used to say that the man in public life

erred in dodging office seekers. ‘When I saw one who looked as if

he wanted to get at me I always went to him first, and gave him

his chance to speak,’ he once explained. He gave freely of his

presence where he thought a good cause could be served, or a good

example be set. He did his duty, as he saw it, without flinching.

He was a good citizen, and he leaves a name to be held in honor.”

PIERRE-CHRYSOLOGUE LACASSE.

Pierre-Chrysologue Lacasse, who follows the profession of notary

in Montreal, is widely and favorably known in this city. He

enjoys a representative clientele and his practice is extensive

as he has gained a wide reputation on account of his extensive

knowledge, which is based on a thorough education. The Lacasse

family is an old and distinguished one in Canada, the first

ancestor to come to this country being Antoine Lacasse, also

called Casse or Cassé, who came to this country from Douai

(French Flanders) about 1650, or more correctly, between 1639

and 1665. This statement is based upon a reference made in an

appendix to the History of Canada by Abbé Ferland. The paternal

grandfather, François Lacasse, was born at St. Vincent de Paul

(Jesus Island) and the forefathers were born in the same parish.

The maternal grandfather, Joseph Brissette, was a native of St.

Cuthbert, of the county of Berthier, where his ancestors also

were born. The father of our subject, Narcisse Lacasse, was born

on February 5, 1821, of the marriage of François Lacasse with

Thérèse Bastien and died on December 27, 1892. He was a notary,

receiving his commission on June 15, 1849. The mother, Mathilde

Brissette, was born on November 1, 1820, a daughter of Joseph

Brissette and Marie Lavoie. She died in Montreal on August 29,

1911, at the advanced age of nearly ninety-one years. The father

followed his occupation in the parish of Ste. Elizabeth, in the

county of Joliette, where his wife was born.

Pierre-Chrysologue Lacasse was born on January 7, 1866, at Ste.

Elizabeth, county of Joliette, in the province of Quebec, and in

the acquirement of his education attended the model school of

Ste. Elizabeth, also receiving private tuition. In furtherance

of his knowledge he then attended Joliette College, now known

as the Seminary of Joliette, and Laval University at Montreal,

graduating with the Bachelor of Arts degree from the latter

institution in 1885. From the same institution he received

his degree of LL. B. in 1891. However, on June 3, 1890, he

had already been commissioned a notary and has followed that

profession ever since. On January 29, 1891, he was admitted to

the study of law for the profession of advocate. His professional

reputation is of the very highest character and he has also

extensively engaged in real estate and in dealing in bank and

insurance stock. Among important estates which he has handled as

testamentary executor were those of John Pratt, Thomas Philippe

Barron, L. C. Gravel and others.

The position conceded him by the profession is evident from

numerous important official and semi-official positions which

he has held. He was elected a member of the board of notaries

for the district of Montreal in 1897, 1900, 1903, 1906, 1909 and

1912. He was a member and afterwards president of the committee

of discipline and also of the committee of surveillance of said

board and a member and afterwards president of the commission

for the admission to the study of the notarial profession, which

position he now holds. In his political views he is independent,

giving his support to measures and candidates as dictated by his

judgment. His religious faith is that of the Catholic church. Mr.

Lacasse was connected with military life during a few years as

lieutenant in Company 4, Eighty-third Battalion of Infantry of

Joliette.

A man of wide experience and with a wide outlook upon life, he is

interested along lines of endeavor that touch upon the progress

of the city and can always be found among those who loyally

support any movement undertaken for public betterment. He is

highly respected and esteemed in the city where he is widely

known and enjoys the confidence and good-will of the foremost

citizens of Montreal.

ARTHUR A. BROWNE, M. D.

The tendency of the age is toward specialization and the

professional man who achieves distinction usually concentrates

his efforts not upon the broad field of his profession but upon

some particular branch thereof, and thus develops a proficiency

which he could not otherwise hope to attain. Such was the

record of Dr. Arthur A. Browne, educator and practitioner, who

gained eminence as an obstetrician. He practiced for more than

forty years in Montreal, entering upon the active work of the

profession in early manhood. He was born in Eastern township,

in 1848, and was descended from Irish parentage, and of a

family whose name figures prominently in military circles. His

more specifically literary course was completed by graduation

from McGill with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1866. A year

or two thereafter was devoted to business but feeling that a

professional career would prove more congenial, he entered upon

the study of medicine and was graduated M. D., C. M., in 1872.

He then spent a year abroad, during which time he investigated

the methods of eminent physicians and surgeons of the old

world, after which he opened an office in Montreal. The usual

experiences of the professional man were his. He had to work

his way upward in face of competition with men who had long

been in the profession and had well established reputations.

The conscientious care which he gave to the cases entrusted to

him at length won him recognition and his practice grew until

it became one of the largest in the city. As time passed he

concentrated his efforts more largely upon obstetrical diseases

until he gained a wide and most enviable reputation in that

field, his opinions coming to be regarded as authority upon

many involved and intricate questions relating thereto. In 1883

he was appointed professor of obstetrics at McGill University,

succeeding the late Professor Duncan MacCallum, at the same time

taking charge of the University Maternity Hospital. Three years

later, however, owing to his growing practice, already extensive,

and his distaste for the drudgery of teaching, he resigned his

professorship. Yet, he was always intensely interested in McGill

and her welfare, and no function held by the medical department

was thought to be complete if Dr. Browne was absent. He was

not only thoroughly informed concerning his chosen calling

but possessed a fine literary mind and his broad reading made

him one of the best informed men on general literature among

the practitioners of medicine and surgery in Montreal. He was

a student of the classics, and all these things had influence

to make him a noble-minded man, whose life exemplified the high

principles which constituted the basis of his character. He

possessed an artistic taste that found expression in his intense

admiration of the beautiful in both art and nature. Moreover,

keen sympathy was one of his strongly marked traits and featured

as one of the elements of his success. He might well be called

“the beloved physician,” for his cheery presence as well as

his scientific skill brought comfort and assurance to many

households. He inspired and encouraged his patients and thus

assisted them far on the road to recovery.

In Montreal, in 1878, Dr. Browne was married to Miss Jane Labatt,

of London, Ontario, and their children were: H. Dalzell, of

Montreal; R. Russell, of Bassano, Alberta; Captain G. Sackville

Browne, of B Battery, Royal Canadian Horse Artillery, of

Kingston; and F. Dora.

Dr. Browne held membership with the Masonic fraternity and in

his life exemplified the beneficent spirit of the craft. He had

passed the sixty-second milestone on life’s journey when his

death occurred January 26, 1910. His eminent ability gained him

honor, his kindliness and consideration won him gratitude and

friendship; and thus it is that his memory is cherished and

remains as a blessed benediction to all who knew him.

THOMAS MCDOUGALL.

Important corporation and financial interests have felt

the stimulus of the enterprise, keen business insight and

intellectual force of Thomas McDougall, who is known in literary

as well as financial circles. He was born at Three Rivers, P. Q.,

May 21, 1843, a son of the late John McDougall, a merchant of

Three Rivers, who sat in the Canadian parliament from 1851 until

1854 and a brother of the late Hon. Justice McDougall of Aylmer,

P. Q. For many years Thomas McDougall was in the service of the

Quebec Bank and was agent of that institution in 1870. Later he

became manager at Montreal and in 1894 was made assistant general

manager, from which position he was advanced to that of general

manager in December of the same year. He continued actively in

control of the extensive and important financial interests that

came under his guidance until 1909, when he resigned but remained

a director of the bank. With him close reasoning has become

habitual, and he has therefore found ready solution for difficult

and involved financial problems. He was chairman of the clearing

house at Montreal and was active in the meeting of bankers,

convened to revise the banking act in 1890. In 1898-9 he was

president of the Canadian Bankers Association, which indicates

his place of prominence and influence in the moneyed circles of

the country. He is still a member of the advisory board of the

Scottish Union & National Insurance Company, is vice president

of the Shawinigan Water & Power Company and a director of the

Asbestos Corporation of Canada.

In many public connections outside the field of business and

finance his name has figured prominently and his labors have

been effectively and helpfully felt. In 1908 he was the general

treasurer of the Quebec tercentenary committee. He possesses

literary taste in high degree. He has written on banks, bankers

and banking, being the author of a well known article entitled,

T. Pomponius Atticus, a Roman Banker.

Mr. McDougall was married at Three Rivers, P. Q., to Miss Helen

Baptist, a daughter of the late George Baptist. His religious

connection is with the Presbyterian church and in club circles

he is well known as a member of the St. James Club of Montreal

and the Quebec Garrison Club of Quebec. His social qualities and

marked ability along many lines as well as his important business

interests have gained him the prominence which is today his.

JEAN BAPTISTE DAVID LEGARE.

Jean Baptiste David Legare, one of the most successful

real-estate promoters in the city of Montreal, was born in the

parish of Sillery, near Quebec, June 7, 1865. Fortune did not

smile on him for many years. His father having died when the son

was an infant of but three months, he was reared in the home

of his maternal grandfather, F. Cote, of St. Foy. While there

he acquired his elementary education and later attended the

academies at Sillery and Quebec. Manifesting laudable ambition

from early youth, at the age of eighteen years he began business

life as a clerk in the general store of Louis Bourget in Quebec.

Subsequently he was employed in the wholesale dry-goods houses of

P. Garneau and William McLimont & Sons in Quebec. Later he became

a representative of large grain and flour mills and also became

proprietor of a wine and vinegar manufactory in Quebec. Fate was

against him and he failed for seventy-two thousand dollars. This

would have utterly discouraged and disheartened many a man of

less resolute spirit, but an optimistic nature would not allow

Mr. Legare to acknowledge defeat and still held before him the

promise of later success. He then engaged in promoting various

undertakings in Quebec, but still the results were not such as

were desired.

In 1908 Mr. Legare came to Montreal and continued in the

promoting business, making a specialty of real estate. This

proved to be the turning point in the career of Mr. Legare and he

has since gradually but surely advanced to the goal of success.

In the past five years he has made over three hundred thousand

dollars and when the sum he had acquired was sufficient to cancel

all of his indebtedness he made a special journey to Quebec for

that purpose. Mr. Legare says that through all of the dark days,

when the storm clouds gathered about him that threatened disaster

and defeat, it was his wife’s encouragement and her faith in

his future that buoyed him up and made possible his ultimate

prosperity.

The principal companies which Mr. Legare has successfully

promoted during the past five years are: The Greater Montreal

Land Investment Company, Limited; and The Chateauguay Garden

City Company, Limited. He was also the promoter of the town

of Chateauguay. He is the owner of twenty-seven lakes on the

seigniory of Mille Isles and the water rights pertaining thereto.

A strong man physically and mentally, his optimistic temperament

makes him an ideal promoter. The various business enterprises

which he has promoted during his career have contributed a great

deal toward the development of the natural resources of the

Dominion.

[Illustration: JEAN BAPTISTE D. LEGARE]

Mr. Legare was married in Quebec, in 1891, to Alda Garneau,

daughter of Charles Garneau, ex-sergeant of arms of the Quebec

assembly. Upon the maternal side she is descended from the De

Villers and the De Lachevrotiere families, both being of the

noblest families of France. Mr. and Mrs. Legare are parents of a

daughter, Yvonne, who was married in 1913 to Dr. Rene Turcot, and

they reside in Quebec.

JOHN ALEXANDER GORDON, D. D.

One of the greatest individual forces in the promulgation of

Baptist doctrines in Canada, a man who has worked long and

earnestly in the promotion and spread of Baptist principles,

giving of his unusual talents, his great energy and tireless

labor to the cause, is Rev. John Alexander Gordon, for fourteen

years pastor of the First Baptist church in Montreal and now

the incumbent of the chair of pastoral theology at Brandon

Theological College, active in the work of the foreign missionary

societies and in the spread of temperance doctrines throughout

the Dominion.

Dr. Gordon is of Scottish ancestry and was born in Uigg,

Prince Edward Island. He acquired his early education in the

public and high schools of his native province and in Acadia

University, graduating with the degree of B. A., and acquired

his theological training in the Newton Theological Seminary in

Newton, Massachusetts. He was ordained to the Baptist ministry

in 1875 and has since been prominent and active in the work of

the Baptist church. He received the honorary degree of M. A. from

Acadia College in 1894 and the honorary degree of D. D. from the

same institution in 1904. Previous to his ordination he had been

engaged in the mercantile and commission business at Montague,

Prince Edward Island, and his first ministerial charge was as

pastor of the church in that community. He was afterward called

to Milton church, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, where he remained from

1880 to 1885, after which he went to St. John, New Brunswick,

serving as pastor of the Leinster Street Baptist church, and from

there went to the First Baptist church, Charlottetown, Prince

Edward Island, remaining there until 1893, when he became pastor

of the Main Street Baptist church at Charlottetown. In 1899 he

was called to Montreal as minister of the First Baptist church

of this city, a position which he held until June, 1913, when he

accepted the chair of pastoral theology at Brandon Theological

College. Dr. Gordon has been found most earnest, zealous and

consecrated in his work and has been carried forward by the force

of his ability and the extent of his interests into important

relations with religious work of many kinds, notably that of the

local branch of the Lord’s Day Alliance, of which he is vice

president; the Prisoners’ Aid Association, of which he is also

vice president; the Grand Ligne Missionary Society, of which he

is president; and the Maritime Baptist Union. No individual has

done more powerful or effective work than he in the propagation

of Baptist doctrines or in the promotion of the church’s

interests for he was in 1906 appointed a member of the committee

on Church Union and two years later was one of the promoters and

a member of the committee which organized the Baptist Union. He

is a governor of Acadia University and is especially interested

in the work of the Foreign Mission Board of Ontario and Quebec,

of the British and Foreign Bible Society and the Moral and

Social Reform Council. He has written a “History of the First

Baptist Church of Montreal,” published in 1906, and in August,

1908, entered a vigorous protest against the celebration of high

mass on the Plains of Abraham as a part of the tercentenary

celebration.

Dr. Gordon married at Kingsborough, Prince Edward Island,

Margaret Ford, eldest daughter of the late John Ford, and to

them were born five sons: John, a resident of Charlottetown,

Prince Edward Island; Dr. Alvah H., of Montreal; Peter W., of

Calgary; Herbert F., of Winnipeg; and Walter H., city editor

of The Gazette of Montreal. Dr. Gordon has been a lifelong

temperance worker and reformer and has accomplished a great deal

of excellent work along this line, being uncompromising in his

attitude toward the liquor evil and battling against it always to

the extent of his great ability. In Montreal he is known as a man

whose actions conform closely to his principles and whose energy,

aggressiveness and untiring activity have been elements in the

accomplishment of great and lasting work.

CHARLES HENRY GOULD.

Charles Henry Gould, librarian of McGill University and president

of the American Library Association, 1908-09, is son of Joseph

G. and Abigail (DeWitt) Gould, the latter a daughter of the late

Jacob DeWitt, M. P., of Montreal. Born in Montreal on the 6th of

December, 1855, Charles H. Gould pursued his education in the

city schools through successive grades until he completed the

high school course, after which he entered McGill University

and was graduated B. A. with first rank honors in 1877, also

winning the Chapman medal in classics. Through the succeeding

scholastic year he devoted some time to post-graduate work in

physics. With the completion of his education he entered business

circles, in which he continued for several years. He afterward

took up the study of library economy and also spent some time in

travel before entering upon his present connection as librarian

of McGill University. For twenty years he has filled his present

position with eminent ability, having entered upon his duties in

September, 1893. He was made governor’s fellow in 1891. There is

no Canadian, perhaps, who has made a more thorough study of the

work and opportunities of the librarian than has Charles Henry

Gould, and realizing the deficiencies of many who undertake the

librarian’s task, he founded the McGill School for Librarians

in 1904. His prominence in his chosen field is indicated in his

election to the first vice presidency of the American Library

Association for 1907 and 1908 and his subsequent election to the

presidency for 1908-9. He has continued his labors at McGill

although offered the appointment of associate librarian of the

public library of Brooklyn, New York, in 1908, and that of

librarian of the Toronto public library. A fellow of the American

Library Institute, he belongs to the Champlain Society, was

president of the Bibliographical Society of America 1912-13

and is a member of other bodies which have for their basis the

promotion of scientific and literary knowledge. He is also a

member of the University Club, and the Canada Journal names him

as a loyal and valuable citizen.

DONAT BRODEUR, K. C.

Specializing in the field of civil and commercial law, Donat

Brodeur has gained recognition as a man capable of handling

intricate and involved legal problems. He is a native of

Montreal, born in March, 1863. His preliminary education

was acquired in St. Mary’s Jesuit College, with the later

professional course in Laval University, from which he was

graduated with the degree of B. C. L. with the class of 1887.

He was called to the bar at the beginning of the succeeding

year, and since that date he has practiced his profession

continuously in this city, now covering a period of a quarter

of a century. Each year has found him in a point in advance

of that which he occupied the previous year both in knowledge

and in the nature and importance of his practice. He is a well

known writer on legal subjects and a frequent contributor to

legal periodicals. He has also lectured on law topics before the

Canadian Accountants Association and the Chamber of Commerce. He

has ever been a student of his profession, constantly broadening

his knowledge by wide reading and research, and the care and

precision with which he prepares his cases constitute a strong

element in his success.

Attractive social qualities are the basis of his personal

popularity, making him a valued member of different social

organizations.

ROBERT FOWLER.

Robert Fowler, a merchant, was born in Montreal, November 17,

1851, and died in April, 1903. He was a son of Robert J. Fowler,

who was born in England in 1818 and was educated there. He was

brought up in the cathedral, having from the age of ten years

made his own way, becoming a choir boy in the church. In 1847 he

crossed the Atlantic going to Sorel, Canada, with Sir Benjamin

Levine and his staff, to teach the daughters music. In 1849 he

came to Montreal and was the first instructor of the city to

hold musicales. For forty years he was professor of music in the

normal school and at different times was organist in nearly all

of the churches of the city. He could play any instrument and was

recognized as the best instructor in music, by far, of his day.

He was also known to some extent as a composer and, in a word,

his musical talent was highly developed, while his professional

labors and influence were an element in promoting and cultivating

musical tastes and standards in the city. His was an artistic

nature. He wielded the painter’s brush with skill and he was,

moreover, a great naturalist. He took deep interest in the city’s

improvement and in all projects for civic betterment. He held

membership in Christ Church Cathedral, renting a pew there

for thirty-five years. His life thus became a potent force in

the artistic and moral progress of the city. He was married in

Weymouth, England, to Miss Annie Wadsworth and they became the

parents of five children, who reached adult age but only one,

Annie, is now living. The others were William, Susan, Robert and

John Henry. The death of the father occurred March 14, 1900, and

the mother passed away in 1911.

Robert Fowler supplemented a public-school course by study in the

normal school of Montreal and started in the business world as an

employe in Robertson’s dry-goods store, in which he acquainted

himself with every phase of the business and gained practical

experience which made him a successful merchant when he started

out on his own account.

He carefully saved his earnings until his frugality and economy

had brought him sufficient capital to become a partner in the

purchase of a stock of goods and the establishment of a store.

The firm of Fowler & Leishman was then organized for the conduct

of a retail dry-goods business and after a few years Mr. Fowler

was able to purchase his partner’s interest becoming sole

proprietor. He then devoted his entire time to the business and

enjoyed a liberal patronage, deriving a fair and gratifying

profit from his investment.

In Montreal in 1892, occurred the marriage of Robert Fowler and

Miss Amy Hamilton, a daughter of Robert Hamilton. Their three

children were Gordon, Wallace and Doris.

Mr. Fowler belonged to the Episcopal church and to its teachings

was loyal and faithful. He was a member of the Philharmonic Club.

He manifested the qualities of good citizenship and was devoted

to the welfare of his family, who, when he passed away in April,

1903, lost a loving and generous husband and father, while his

associates mourned the death of a loyal, faithful friend.

ALEXANDER COWPER HUTCHISON.

The history of Montreal’s architectural development would be

incomplete were there failure to make reference to Alexander

Cowper Hutchison, who, though in his seventy-seventh year, is yet

active in his profession in which he has long been a recognized

leader. His position today is that of consulting architect

and his utterances are accepted as words of wisdom by younger

representatives of the profession. Mr. Hutchison is one of the

old-time residents of Montreal. In fact, his entire life has

here been passed with the exception of a period of three years

spent in Ottawa, Ontario. He has seen this city develop from less

than forty thousand to a metropolitan center of over six hundred

thousand inhabitants.

Mr. Hutchison was born April 2, 1838, on the east side of Queen

Street between Wellington and William Streets, at Montreal

and many years later it fell to his lot in the course of his

business, to tear down the old house in which his birth had

occurred, this being done to make room for the Ives and Allen

warehouse which was erected upon that site. He comes of old

Scotch ancestry. His father was William Hutchison who came from

Ayrshire, Scotland. He was a builder in Montreal and afterward

was connected with the public works department. The mother,

whose maiden name was Helen Campbell Hall, was also a native of

Ayrshire, Scotland.

[Illustration: ALEXANDER C. HUTCHISON]

Such schools as existed in Montreal during his youthful days

provided Alexander Cowper Hutchison with his educational

opportunities. When but a boy of twelve years he began to learn

the stone-cutter’s trade under the direction of his father and

during the winter months for two or three years after he had

commenced work he attended the school conducted by the late C.

P. Watson. Subsequently he became a student in night school and

devoted all of his spare time to study, having come to a full

realization of the value of education. He possessed an inherited

talent for drawing and to develop his powers in that direction he

attended drawing classes that were conducted at the Mechanics’

Institute. He had made rapid progress from the very first as a

stone-cutter and displayed exceptional ability and skill in that

direction.

When scarcely out of his teens he was placed in charge of the

cut stone work on Christ Church Cathedral and some of the finest

stone work around the altar in that edifice was cut by him before

he had attained his majority. After the completion of that

building he was placed in charge of the cut stone work of the

eastern block of the parliament buildings at Ottawa during their

erection, his efforts in that connection continuing through the

year 1862. While engaged in that work he successfully conducted

classes in drawing which were largely attended. On the completion

of the government buildings he was called to Montreal to conduct

classes in connection with the Mechanics’ Institute, giving

instructions in architectural and geometric drawing. These

classes were afterward transferred to the Board of Arts and

Manufacturers and it was while connected therewith that he took

up the active practice of his profession which he followed for

many years. The beauty and utility which have always been salient

features of his designs are evident in many of the principal

buildings of Montreal.

Among the many structures designed by Mr. Hutchison independently

or in a partnership relation, and which stand as monuments to

his skill and ingenuity may be mentioned: Redpath Museum; McGill

University; Erskine church; Crescent Street Presbyterian church;

Warren Memorial church at Louisville, Kentucky; St. Andrew’s

church, at Westmount; Montreal high school and a number of other

school buildings; Royal Insurance building; London & Liverpool &

Globe Insurance Company’s building; Canadian Express Company’s

building; La Presse building; Queen’s Hall block; Henry Birks &

Sons’ building; Lord Strathcona’s residence; Macdonald College

buildings at Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, as well as a large

number of residences in Montreal and elsewhere together with many

warehouses, factories etc. One of the most recent expressions

of his architectural skill is seen in the Chalmers church at

Ottawa. He has not only practiced his profession as one of its

active followers, but has also gained renown as an educator in

his special field. He has lectured on ecclesiastical architecture

before the Presbyterian College of Montreal and he was one of

the original members, selected by its founder, the Marquis of

Lorne, of the Royal Canadian Academy of Art, and remained its

vice president until 1907, when he resigned. He has likewise

been honored with the presidency of the Quebec Architects’

Association, of which he was one of the founders, and thus

has come to him direct recognition of the honor and respect

entertained for him by the profession.

In political affairs Mr. Hutchison has taken a prominent part

but never as a party leader in the commonly accepted sense of

the term. With him men and measures have ever been considered

before partisanship, and the public welfare has ever stood

before personal aggrandizement. For years he was a member of

the council and was the second mayor of Cote St. Antoine, now

Westmount. His deep interest in and loyalty to the cause of

education was demonstrated in his eighteen years of service as a

school trustee. For a number of years he was a member of No. 5

Queen’s Company Volunteer Fire Brigade. He was likewise a member

of the First Company Rifles which was originally an independent

company and afterwards became the First Company of Prince of

Wales’ Regiment. He was also an officer in a rifle company in

Ottawa, while subsequently he became an officer of the Montreal

Engineers, retiring with the rank of lieutenant. He took part in

the Fenian raids of 1866 and 1870 and was accorded the Queen’s

medal.

Mr. Hutchison manifested great interest in church work. He

was formerly an elder in Erskine church, but afterward became

connected with St. Andrew’s church at Westmount, which had

previously been known as Melville church but differences of

opinion caused a split in the congregation and the portion

that left took the name with them. St. Andrew’s church was

then organized and remained on the old site, at the corner of

Stanton and Cote St. Antoine road. Mr. Hutchison was one of its

founders and since the organization of this church has taken

a most prominent part in its affairs. He has been an elder

for many years, was superintendent of the Sunday school for

thirty years and since 1886 has continuously served as session

clerk. He is a member of the board of managers of the Montreal

Presbyterian College and was a member of the national committee

of the Presbyterian Laymen’s Missionary movement in 1909. He has

likewise served as president of the Provincial Sunday School

Union of Quebec.

No good work done in the name of charity or religion has ever

sought his aid in vain, and his broad humanitarianism has been

manifest in his helpful support of many movements to benefit

the poor and needy or ameliorate the hard conditions of life

for the unfortunate. He is a life governor of the Montreal

General Hospital, of the Protestant Hospital for the Insane,

governor of the Western Hospital, and president of the Protestant

House of Industry and Refuge. He is an ex-president of the

Canadian branch of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club and of the

Montreal Caledonian Curling Club, being now honorary president

of the latter and an ex-president of the Heather Curling Club

of Westmount. He was a warm personal friend of the late Hon.

Alexander Mackenzie and he counts among his close associates

many of the most distinguished and eminent residents of Montreal

and the province. The Ottawa Free Press has termed him “one of

Montreal’s best known and most honored citizens.” He has long

occupied positions of distinction, not only by reason of what he

has accomplished along professional lines, but also owing to the

fact that he has made his life of signal service and benefit to

his fellowmen in his support of benevolent and religious plans

and projects. His life has ever been actuated by the highest

principles of honor and no citizen of Montreal is more worthy of

high regard.

On the 10th of July, 1862, in Cobourg, Ontario, Mr. Hutchison was

united in marriage to Miss Margaret Burnet of that place, and

they celebrated their golden wedding in July, 1912. Mr. and Mrs.

Hutchison have two sons and one daughter: William B., of the firm

of Hutchison, Wood & Miller, architects, who is married; Charles

Alexander, engaged in ornamental iron work, who is married

and has two children, Margaret and Lorne; and Helen, the wife

of George W. Wood of that firm. She has three sons: Alexander

Campbell, George Arthur and Douglas Fletcher.

Mr. Hutchison resides at No. 240 Kensington Avenue and has lived

in that immediate vicinity for nearly fifty years. During his

boyhood his parents resided on the north side of St. James Street

just a short distance west of Bleury Street which was then one of

the attractive residential sections of the city and Mr. Hutchison

relates some highly interesting incidents of those early days.

In 1865 when he took up his residence in what is now Westmount,

that district was supposed to be far out in the country. In

fact, the nearest residence, other than homes of farmers, was

on Dorchester West near what is now Greene Street. While Mr.

Hutchison has passed the seventy-sixth milestone upon life’s

journey, he is a well preserved man, active in mind and body.

Regular in his habits, he has never tasted intoxicating liquors

or used tobacco in any form. His great vitality has enabled him

to withstand three very serious operations since reaching the

age of seventy years and his complete recovery has attracted the

attention of members of the medical profession. He is a splendid

type of a high-minded gentleman of the old school, whose natural

politeness and courtesy are in evidence at all times.

DAVID W. CAMPBELL.

David W. Campbell, prominently connected with marine

transportation interests, is now general agent in Canada for the

Elder-Dempster Company in the South African and Mexican service.

He was born in Montreal in 1861, a son of the late John and Sarah

(Evans) Campbell, of this city. His youthful days were spent in

his parents’ home and his education was completed in the Montreal

high school. He comes of Scotch ancestry and in his career has

manifested many of the sterling traits characteristic of the land

of the heather. His initial step in business was made in the

service of Thompson, Murray & Company, then managing agents of

the Beaver line of steamships in Canada. Fidelity, industry and

capability won him promotion from time to time and after twenty

years’ continuous connection with the company he was appointed

to the position of general manager in 1895. While acting in

that capacity he was the first to establish a direct steamship

service during the winter months to a Canadian port--that of St.

John, New Brunswick. It was through his instrumentality that

the vessels of the Beaver line were sold to the Elder-Dempster

Company in 1898 and two years later, or in 1900, he became

Canadian manager for the latter company. His efficiency in the

field of steamship service management led to his selection, in

1903, for the position of general superintendent of the Canadian

Pacific Railway Company’s Atlantic fleet of steamers at Montreal,

in which position he remained until June, 1905, when he resigned

in order to take control for Canada of the interests of the

Elder-Dempster Company in connection with the South African and

Mexican service. He subsequently became general agent in Canada

for the same company, and his efforts have greatly furthered

its interests. He readily recognizes the possibilities of a

situation, utilizes the opportunities that are presented and

accomplishes substantial and gratifying results. He is a director

of several shipping companies and is on the board of the Montreal

Sailors’ Institute and the Shipping Federation of Canada, all

of which are more or less directly connected with the line of

business in which he has so long been engaged. Moreover, he has

done much to popularize the St. Lawrence route. He is serving on

the executive committee of the Canadian Shipping Federation, and

his long experience with maritime interests well qualifies him

to speak authoritatively upon matters with which the federation

deals.

Mr. Campbell has for some years been a member of the Montreal

Board of Trade, in 1910 was elected one of its councillors and in

1914 a vice president. He is also Cuban consul at Montreal.

In November, 1900, Mr. Campbell married Miss Emily Maud Baird, a

daughter of the late H. N. Baird of Toronto. They hold membership

in the Presbyterian church, and Mr. Campbell belongs to the St.

James Club. He favors free trade with the Empire and has been a

close student of many political situations and questions having

to do with the welfare and progress of the Dominion. His opinions

upon such questions are never lightly valued, for experience has

developed in him sound judgment and keen discrimination.

LOUIS DUFOUR DIT LATOUR.

Louis Dufour dit Latour, member of the real-estate firm of Latour

& Guindon, with offices in the Versailles building, Montreal,

was born in this city, June 15, 1867, a son of François Xavier

Latour dit Dufour of Lavaltrie, P. Q., where he followed farming,

and of Elizabeth (Prud’homme) Latour of St. Sulpice, P. Q. His

great-grandfather was Michel Dufour dit Latour, a church builder,

and his great-grandmother was Charlotte Du Moulin from France.

In the acquirement of his education Louis Dufour dit Latour

attended the College of Chambly--the Brethren of Christian

School, pursuing a commercial course. His early experience in

business lines came to him as office boy with the Thomas Davidson

Manufacturing Company, tinware and granite ware manufacturers

of Montreal. He was in the employ of the company for twenty-six

years, gradually working his way upward as his developing

powers and ability prepared him for further activities and

responsibilities. He served successively as custom house clerk,

cashier, bookkeeper and as manager of the Montreal branch of

the business, continuing in that position of responsibility for

twelve years. No higher testimonial of his business integrity,

enterprise and fidelity could be given than the fact that he

remained with one company for over a quarter of a century. He

left them in 1909 to open a real-estate office in connection

with J. M. Guindon, a hardware merchant of Montreal, under the

firm style of Latour & Guindon at No. 1202 Mount Royal East

Street, where they remained from 1909 until 1913. They then

transferred their business to No. 52 St. James Street, retaining

the old office, however, as a branch. In May, 1914, the offices

were removed to the new Versailles building on St. James Street.

[Illustration: L. D. LATOUR]

On the 28th of May, 1888, in Montreal, Mr. Latour was united

in marriage to Miss Marie Joseph Leblanc, a daughter of

Alphonse Leblanc and Aveline Amirault of L’Epiphanie, P. Q. Her

grandfather was a pioneer of L’Epiphanie. Mr. and Mrs. Latour

have three children: Lydia, the wife of Eugene Brissette, who is

with La Patrie Publishing Company; René, a hardware merchant of

Montreal; and Ernest, who holds a responsible position with The

Mark Fisher Sons & Company, Limited.

The religious faith of the family is that of the Roman Catholic

church, and the political allegiance of Mr. Latour is given to

the conservative party. That he is today one of the successful

real-estate brokers of the city is attributable entirely to his

own labors and his laudable ambition. Step by step he has worked

his way upward, the trend of his orderly progression being easily

discernible.

REV. NATHAN GORDON.

A man of deep learning, broad knowledge and scholarly

attainments, of force, experience and capacity, Rev. Nathan

Gordon has become known as one of the most able educators in

Quebec province, and as one of the successful and consecrated

workers among the Jewish people of Montreal. He was born in

Odessa, Russia, and took his arts course in the Cincinnati

University, from which he was graduated, B. A., in 1906. He

is also a graduate of the Hebrew Union Theological College of

that city and in 1909 received the degree of M. A. from McGill

University.

Mr. Gordon came to Montreal in 1906, having been appointed in

September of that year Rabbi of Temple Emmanu-El, and since that

time he has accomplished a great deal of earnest and zealous

work among the people of his congregation, who recognize him as

a sincere, upright and God-fearing man. The church property is

valued at one hundred thousand dollars, and the business affairs

connected with its administration are ably conducted, Mr. Gordon

assisting his associates by his executive skill and sound and

practical judgment. Combining religious zeal with the ability

necessary to make it effective among his people, he has indeed

been a force for good at Temple Emmanu-El and an able propagator

as well as a conserver of the doctrines in which he believes.

A scholar, a deep thinker and a broadly educated man, Mr. Gordon

has long been an ardent student of Oriental languages and

literature and has paid particular attention to the language

of his own race, in which he is thoroughly proficient. In 1909

he was appointed lecturer on rabbinical and mediæval Jewish

literature and instructor in Semitic languages at McGill

University and in this position has done a great deal to promote

a more general interest in these subjects and a more widespread

knowledge of the customs, language and traditions of the Jews. An

ardent champion of his race and an upholder of its creed, a foe

to the injustices and wrongs which have continually oppressed it,

he has supported the cause of the Hebrew people on every occasion

and one of the most eloquent and telling appeals on behalf of

the nationalization of the Plains of Abraham came from him. The

people of Temple Emmanu-El are fortunate in having at their

head a man so fearless in conviction, so able in argument, so

uncompromising in support of his professed beliefs, and the city

of Montreal is fortunate also, having in Rabbi Gordon an upright,

public-spirited and loyal citizen.

EDOUARD CHOLETTE.

Edouard Cholette, a member of the notarial profession of

Montreal, is a representative of one of the oldest French

families of the city, tracing his ancestry back to Sebastian

Cholette, who was born in 1679 and was married in Montreal on the

19th of October, 1705, to Miss Anne Hard. They became the parents

of a large family. Edouard Cholette, born in Montreal on the 3d

of April, 1880, is a son of L. E. A. and Marie Antoinette (Le

Sieur) Cholette, and in the acquirement of his education attended

St. Mary’s College, from which he was graduated in June, 1899.

He completed a course in Laval University in June, 1903, winning

the Bachelor of Arts degree for work done in the classical course

and the Master of Laws degree, indicative of his preparation for

the profession which he now follows. Since his graduation he has

practiced in Montreal as a notary public and has been accorded

liberal support.

In religious faith Mr. Cholette is a Roman Catholic. He is well

known socially in the city where his entire life has been spent

and is a valued member of the Canadian and St. Denis Clubs.

CARL RIORDON.

As vice president and managing director of the Riordon Pulp

& Paper Company, Ltd., Carl Riordon occupies an important

position in the commercial life of the city. He was born June

3, 1876, at St. Catharines, Ontario, and is a son of Charles

and Edith (Ellis) Riordon. Carl Riordon was educated at Upper

Canada College, Bishop Ridley College and Toronto University,

where he took the degree of B. A. in 1896. He entered business

fields in the Merritton mill, a property of the Riordon Paper

Mills in St. Catharines, becoming connected with the sulphite

department. He did work in the various departments of the concern

and subsequently took charge of the repairs which were made on

the Hawkesbury mill, of which he later became superintendent. In

1902 he returned to the Merritton mill in the capacity of manager

and in 1906 was made general manager of the Riordon Paper Mills,

which concern absorbed the business of G. H. Perley & Company in

1910, the firm adopting the name of the Riordon Paper Company and

establishing headquarters at Montreal. In 1912 the Riordon Pulp

& Paper Company took over the business of the former company.

It is one of the foremost concerns of its kind in the Dominion.

Mr. Riordon is vice president and managing director and is also

director of The Mail Printing Company of Toronto and the Niagara

Falls Suspension Bridge Company.

Mr. Riordon has an interesting military record to his credit,

being gazetted second lieutenant in the Nineteenth St. Catharines

Infantry Regiment in 1898. He was made captain in the following

year and in 1901 became quartermaster with the honorary rank of

captain. For some time he led B Company of that regiment. He

retired in 1904.

Carl Riordon married on June 23, 1900, Miss Amy Louise Paterson,

a daughter of the late Rev. Charles Paterson, of Port Hope,

Ontario. To this union have been born five children: Charles

Harold, Edith Amy, John Eric Benson, Mary Kathleen and Peter

Hamilton.

In his religious faith Mr. Riordon is an Anglican. He is

prominent in clubdom, being a member of the Mount Royal, the St.

James, the University and the Hunt Clubs of Montreal; the Toronto

Club of Toronto; and the British Empire Club of London, England.

He also is a member of the Alpha Delta Phi Club of New York city.

His political views incline him toward the conservative party and

although his commercial interests are so extensive as to prevent

active participation in governmental affairs, he shows great

interest in matters of public importance. In the world of paper

making his name is well known and he is considered one of the

foremost authorities along that line. At a comparatively early

age he has attained a position of importance and distinction.

He is shrewd, able, energetic and technically highly trained

and his success therefore is but natural, being typical of the

younger Canadian business men of the most modern and progressive

tendencies.

LAWRENCE LEOPOLD HENDERSON.

Among the successful business men of Montreal is Lawrence Leopold

Henderson, general manager of the Montreal Transportation

Company. He was born in Kingston, Ontario, March 5, 1866, a son

of Peter Robertson and Henrietta Jane (Sweetland) Henderson, the

former a merchant of Kingston, born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and

the latter of English ancestry. The father died in 1895 and the

mother in 1896.

Lawrence L. Henderson received his education in private schools

and in the collegiate institute at Kingston. In 1884, at the age

of eighteen, he entered the employ of the Montreal Transportation

Company as a clerk. Devoting himself assiduously to the work at

hand, he was promoted from position to position in the various

departments of the institution until he became in 1896 agent at

Kingston. In January, 1909, he was made general manager and at

that time left Kingston for Montreal, having since occupied this

important position. Mr. Henderson is a director of the National

Real-Estate and Investment Company of Montreal, the Montreal

Transportation Company, the Montreal Dry Docks and Ship Repairing

Company, the Rothesay Realty Company, and president of the

Dominion Marine Association. He is also a member of the Montreal

Board of Trade.

While in Kingston Mr. Henderson was a member of the city council

from 1907 to 1908 and of the school board from 1904 to 1906. He

also served on the executive of the Dominion Marine Association.

He was prominent as a member of the Board of Trade of Kingston

and upon leaving that town was presented with a handsome silver

salver on behalf of the board and with a silver loving cup by the

employes of the company.

He is a member of the Canada Club, the Engineers Club, the St.

George Snowshoe Club, the Canadian Club of Montreal, the Country

Club of Montreal, the Frontenac Club of Kingston, the Kingston

Curling Club, and the Heather Club of Westmount.

On April 30, 1890, Mr. Henderson was married to Miss Jennie Lena

Spencer, a daughter of the late L. B. Spencer, of Kingston. Their

children are Lawrence Spencer, Mabel Spencer, Ruth Sweetland,

Kenneth Robertson, Florence Lillian and Jean Lewis.

ALBERT PIERRE FRIGON.

Various corporate interests have felt the stimulus of the

cooperation and enterprising spirit of Albert Pierre Frigon,

who today stands in a prominent place on the stage of financial

activity in Montreal, his native city. He was born on the 14th

of June, 1872, a son of Benjamin and Philomene (Cassan) Frigon,

the former a general contractor for more than thirty years. Both

he and his wife are still living. The ancestors of the family

were all from France and the genealogy can be traced back to the

fifteenth century.

Albert P. Frigon was educated in the Catholic commissioner’s

school, Archambault’s, where he was graduated with the class

of 1888. Crossing the threshold of business life, he became

bookkeeper for P. P. Mailloux, a hardware merchant on St. Paul

Street in Montreal, with whom he remained for thirteen years, his

capability and fidelity being attested by his long connection

with the house. He resigned in 1901 to become business and

financial manager for the Seminary of St. Sulpice of Montreal

and in the intervening years to the present his activities

have constantly broadened in scope and importance. He is now a

controlling figure in various corporate interests and has large

investments in others. At the present writing he is a member of

the firm of St. Cyr, Gonthier & Frigon, bankers and brokers,

is vice president of Viauville Lands, Ltd., president of the

Star Realty Company, president of the Compagnie Immobilière

d’Outre-Mer, president of the Canadian Siegwart Beam Company

of Three Rivers, vice president of the New Ontario Oil &

Gas Company, Ltd., president of the Société de Construction

Lafontaine, president of the executive board of the General

Animals Insurance Company, president l’Immobilière du Canada,

vice president of the France-Canada Company, president of St.

Francis-Valley Railway Company and president of the St. Francis

Construction Company. This recital of his connections indicates

clearly the breadth of his interests and of his capabilities. In

various companies he is bending his energies to administrative

direction and executive control and he possesses notable power

in unifying and coordinating seemingly diverse elements into a

harmonious and resultant whole. His opinion upon complex and

involved financial problems is ever accepted with respect and

consideration by those well qualified to judge thereof. He is

the vice president of the General Trust Company of Canada,

president of Comité de Surveillance Caisse Nationale d’Economie

and is a member of the board of La Chambre de Commerce of

Montreal.

[Illustration: ALBERT P. FRIGON]

Mr. Frigon’s activities also extend to various public interests

which have no bearing upon his individual prosperity but arise

from a deep interest in the general welfare. He votes with

the liberal party but takes no active part in politics. He is

a gouverneur à vie de l’Hôpital Notre Dame and he belongs to

Société St. Jean Baptiste. He is also a Knight of Columbus and

one of the most sincere, earnest and enthusiastic workers of the

order, in which he has held a number of offices. His religious

faith is indicated in the fact that he is a past president of a

number of Roman Catholic societies. Along more strictly social

lines he is connected with the St. Denis and Canadian Clubs. Of

the former he is a life member and has also been a life member

since 1901 of the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association. He is

an honorary member of the Sixty-fifth Regiment. His official

municipal service has been that of mayor of the new village of

Sault au Récollet, to which office he was called in February,

1910, and as school commissioner of the same village, to which

position he was chosen in August, 1913.

On the 18th of April, 1898, in Montreal, Mr. Frigon was married

to Miss Malvina Perreault, a daughter of Jérémie and Victoria

(Saint Dizier) Perreault, both of whom are now deceased. Her

father was for a term of years alderman of the city of Montreal

and president of l’Association St. Jean Baptiste of Montreal. For

thirty years he conducted business here as a dry-goods merchant.

Mr. and Mrs. Frigon are the parents of two children: Jeanne, born

in Montreal on the 12th of February, 1899; and Germaine, on the

12th of November, 1900.

Mr. Frigon is a most enthusiastic supporter of his native city,

in which his entire life has been passed, taking keen interest in

its progress and having firm belief in the great future. He has

been an untiring worker for the construction of the Georgian Bay

canal, acting as president of the special commission appointed

by the Chamber of Commerce of Montreal to take charge of that

project. In all of his public as well as his private connections

he has been a man of action rather than of theory, formulating

his plans carefully and carrying them forward to successful

termination.

HUGH MACKAY.

On the list of Montreal’s lawyers appears the name of Hugh

Mackay, who in 1913, was created king’s counsel. His practice

covers a period of fourteen years, in which he has made

continuous advancement. He was born in Montreal in 1875, a son

of the Hon. Robert Mackay. His early educational opportunities

were supplemented by a course in McGill, where he was graduated

in 1900, with the B. C. L. degree. He has since practiced as

an advocate in his native city, and his professional career

has been one of growing success, a liberal and distinctively

representative clientage being now accorded him.

Mr. Mackay was married in 1903 in Montreal to Miss Isabel, a

daughter of J. N. Greenshield, K. C.

Mr. Mackay’s military history covers service as a captain of

the Royal Highlanders, and he is widely and favorably known in

military, professional and social circles, having many warm

friends in this city where his entire life has been passed.

ANDRE ODORIE RONDEAU.

Capable, earnest and conscientious, and well versed in the

knowledge of the law, André Odorie Rondeau enjoys a large

practice, especially among the French citizenship of Montreal,

ably representing valuable French interests in the local courts.

A man of sound judgment and logical reasoning, he readily

discerns the moving factor in any legal situation and presents

his views and conclusions so concisely that he seldom fails to

convince court or jury. He is gifted with all the qualities of

which a lawyer may be proud and has a deep insight into human

nature, understanding the springs of human conduct, which

qualities assist him in his work. As the years have passed he

has come more and more to the fore in his profession and is now

recognized as an authority upon many subjects of the law.

Born at St. Marcel, in the county of Richelieu, on the 8th of

June, 1876, André O. Rondeau is the son of Louis Rondeau, a

successful agriculturist, who was born in the county of Berthier,

and Lucie (Ouellette) Rondeau, a daughter of Godefroy Ouellette,

born in St. Ours, in the county of Richelieu. Both parents are

highly respected in their locality. The earliest record of the

Rondeau family goes back to one Pierre Rondeau, a son of Jean,

who married Catherine Verrier on September 30, 1669, at Ste.

Famille, and had a large family. Another of these early records

mentions Jacques Rondeau, born in 1663, who married Françoise

Beaudry at Trois Rivières on November 6, 1691, and had a family

of seven children.

André O. Rondeau after acquiring his preliminary education

attended a commercial college at St. Aimé and the preparatory

seminary of Ste. Marie de Monnoir, from which he obtained his

bachelor’s degree. He received his law diploma from Laval

University of Montreal, after having studied for two years at

St. Hyacinthe under the supervision of Blanchet & Chicoine,

well known barristers. Since Mr. Rondeau has joined the legal

fraternity of Montreal he has made great strides towards

success, having left the ranks of the many and joined those

of the successful few. He is skillful in the presentation

of his evidence, shows marked ability in cross-examination,

persuasiveness before the jury and has a strong grasp of every

feature of the case in hand. While his learning never intrudes

itself when uncalled for and he makes no display thereof, it

comes into requisition when wanted. He is a man who exemplifies

in his conduct the lofty ideals of his nation and noble calling

and he honors his profession by paying it honor and by his

adherence to the solid virtues and enlightened principles

underlying the law. It is his ambition to make his native talent

subserve the demands of the social and business conditions of the

day and he stands today as a splendid representative of a lawyer

to whom personal prosperity is secondary in importance to the

public welfare and less vital than many other elements which go

to make up human existence.

On June 29, 1908, at Montreal, at the church of St. Jacques, Mr.

Rondeau was united in marriage to Miss Rose Blanche Trudeau, a

daughter of Louis Napoléon Trudeau, a well known dentist. The

religious affiliations of Mr. and Mrs. Rondeau are with the

Catholic church. In his political views he was during his earlier

years a liberal but since 1906 has endorsed the nationalist

movement as he is in sympathy with their ideas. Outside of his

profession he has had important interests and is the builder

of the Boulevard Trudeau and Rondeau, in the Prairie River

district, which leads through lots Nos. 16 and 17. He was one

of the founders and also one of the first directors of La Cie

Zootechnique de Labelle, Limitée, at Macaza, P. Q., which has for

its purpose the raising of fur-bearing animals. Mr. Rondeau is

highly respected in Montreal as an able lawyer and as a citizen

of public worth and is especially popular and influential with

the French, of which race he is an able representative in this

city.

SAMUEL COTTINGHAM STEVENSON.

There was no man to whom the success of Canadian expositions

and exhibitions was more largely attributable than to Samuel C.

Stevenson, who as a commissioner, represented his province and

country in connection with a number of leading affairs of this

kind on the continent. He was born in Montreal in 1848 and came

of Scotch ancestry, being a son of James Stevenson, a native of

Scotland, who after his arrival in Canada was identified with

shipping interests, owning a number of boats. His wife was, in

her maidenhood, Miss Elizabeth Cottingham.

Their son, Samuel C. Stevenson, pursued a high-school course and

in 1872 was granted his Bachelor of Arts degree at McGill. He

was assistant secretary to the first large provincial exhibition

and was identified with all the expositions of the province from

that time until his death. When the first one was held at Mile

End, he was given entire charge of the industrial department. In

1876 he was appointed a commissioner of the province of Quebec

to the great Centennial Exposition held in Philadelphia and in

1877 when a permanent exposition committee was appointed for the

province, he was made its secretary for the industrial department

and held that position until the organization of the Montreal

Exposition Company in 1889. He was chief organizer and manager

of all the important expositions that were held in Montreal from

1886 until his demise and he represented the Canadian interests

as commissioner for the province of Quebec at the Colonial

and Industrial Exhibition in London, in 1886. In 1892 he was

appointed a member and secretary of the provincial commission

in connection with the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago

and was secretary of the council of arts and manufacture of the

province of Quebec. His long experience enabled him to know

adequately just what was most attractive for exhibition purposes

and how to assemble such, and the success of Canada’s exhibits,

both provincial and at the international expositions in the

United States, was due in large measure to his efforts. He was a

corresponding member of the Industrial Education Association of

New York and a director of the Great Northern Railway of Canada.

Mr. Stevenson’s military experience began in his youth. When a

boy he belonged to the High School Cadets and afterward joined

the Victoria Rifles, going to the front with his regiment

at the time of the Fenian raid of 1866. Later he received a

commission in the Prince of Wales regiment and was a subaltern

in the company of that corps which was sent to the relief of the

force that engaged the Fenians at Eccles Hill. He remained in

the corps until 1881, when he retired with the rank of major.

Mr. Stevenson’s interests and activities aside from those

already indicated were manifest from his membership in the Art

Association and in the Crescent Street church.

At Saugerties, New York, in 1878 Mr. Stevenson was married to

Mrs. Gertrude (Caldwell) Bennett, a representative of a southern

family, that lived in Virginia until the time of the Civil war

and then removed to New York. Mr. and Mrs. Stevenson had three

children: James Corliss; Elizabeth Lois, the wife of Herbert

Yuile; and Gladys Arnold, the wife of J. Hal Pangman.

Such is the record of Samuel C. Stevenson, who passed away

January 2, 1898. As a public-spirited citizen he was widely

known. None questioned his fidelity. He responded to every appeal

when it was needed for the benefit of the general good; to

build up rather than to destroy was his policy and he attacked

everything with a contagious enthusiasm.

FARQUHAR ROBERTSON.

The nature and variety of his interests and activities at once

place Farquhar Robertson among those citizens whose lives

constitute a most useful and serviceable force in bringing about

modern day conditions, progress and prosperity. While he is well

known as a business man, he has at the same time been a close

student of the sociological, economic and political questions of

the day, and has been actively allied with many movements seeking

the betterment of conditions for the benefit of the individual

physically, intellectually and morally. He has also been

connected with many projects that promote the municipal welfare,

and thus his life has come to be one of great usefulness in his

adopted city. A native of Ontario, he was born April 14, 1850,

at North Branch, Glengarry, a son of Hugh and Flora (McLennan)

Robertson and a brother of Lieutenant Colonel D. M. Robertson,

Toronto, Ontario. His education was acquired in his native county

and since entering upon his business career, he has largely given

his attention to the coal trade. In business affairs he carries

forward to successful completion what he undertakes, and his well

formulated plans are productive of far-reaching and beneficial

results.

His activities along other lines have been equally broad and

beneficial. He is identified with many movements which seek

to meet and improve modern conditions, and to this end he is

serving as a director of the Parks and Playgrounds Association,

and is vice president of the Montreal City Improvement League.

He was one of the promoters of the Montreal Typhoid Emergency

Hospital, and is one of the managing committee of the Montreal

General Hospital, a member of the committee of management of

Royal Edward Institute, and vice president of Victorian Order

of Nurses. Mr. Robertson is president of the firm of Farquhar

Robertson, Limited, and director of Merchants Bank of Canada,

Montreal Transportation Company, Canada Cement Company and the

Prudential Trust Company. He was president of the Montreal Board

of Trade in 1909, and it was largely due to his efforts during

his term of office, that a change in civic administration took

place, to a board of commissioners.

[Illustration: FARQUHAR ROBERTSON]

Mr. Robertson represented St. Andrew’s ward in the Montreal city

council for six years and was the council’s representative on the

Protestant board of school commissioners for the same period.

Mr. Robertson married Miss Flora Craig, daughter of the late

James Craig, M. P. P., Glengarry. They reside at No. 30 Ontario

Avenue, Montreal. They are Presbyterians in religion.

While not an office seeker in politics (in which he is a

conservative), in the usually accepted sense of the term, he is

deeply interested in all that pertains to the public welfare, and

the present government thought fit to appoint him as one of the

present harbor commission.

Mr. Robertson is president of the St. Andrew’s Society of

Montreal. He is well known in club circles, being a member of St.

James, Montreal, Montreal Hunt and Outremont Golf Clubs, and life

member of The Caledonian Society and Montreal Amateur Athletic

Association. His recreation is devoted to curling and farming.

JOHN ALLAN.

John Allan was a splendid example of what industry and

determination will accomplish for a man. Born in Strathmiglo,

Scotland, on the 28th of November, 1863, a son of David

and Christian (Roy) Allan, he became one of the successful

merchants of Montreal, dealing in clothing, hats, caps and men’s

furnishings. He was educated in the schools of his native country

and when eighteen years of age crossed the Atlantic to Canada,

making his way to Montreal, where he entered the employ of Henry

Morgan & Company. After some time spent with that house he joined

his brother, Robert Allan, who was engaged in the bottling of

ginger ale. Subsequently he embarked in business on his own

account on Craig Street in a small way, having a limited line of

clothing, hats, caps and men’s furnishings. He closely applied

himself to the development of the trade and in that connection

steadily worked his way upward, his patronage increasing as the

years went by until he won a substantial measure of success. He

was truly a self-made man, having been both the architect and

builder of his own fortunes and his record proved what may be

accomplished when determination and energy point out the way.

Mr. Allan was married in Cupar, Scotland, in 1894, to Maria

Isabella Hood, a native of that place and a daughter of Robert

and Agnes (Moncrief) Hood, and they became parents of five

children: John Roy, Agnes Isabelle, Robert Bruce, Douglas Hood

and Malcolm Moncrief. Mr. Allan enjoyed curling as a recreation

and his more serious interests were represented in membership in

the Masonic fraternity and in Knox church. He was a member of

the Young Men’s Christian Association for many years and took

a deep interest in its affairs. His death occurred January 11,

1912, and thus was ended a life of activity and usefulness. He

had made good use of his time and opportunities and had proved

that prosperity and an honored name may be gained simultaneously.

REV. JOSEPH LEONIDAS DESJARDINS.

Rev. Joseph Léonidas Desjardins, secretary general of Laval

University at Montreal since September 14, 1907, was born at Ste.

Thérèse, in the county of Terrebonne, on the 27th of November,

1880, a son of Joseph and Odile (Boileau) Desjardins, the former

of whom followed agricultural pursuits. The son pursued his early

studies in the Seminary of Ste. Thérèse and in the Grand Seminary

of Montreal. His determination to prepare for the priesthood,

followed by a thorough course of study, led to his ordination

by Monsignor P. La Rocque on the 3d of July, 1904. His time and

energies have ever since been devoted to educational service

save for a period which he devoted to further study. Following

his ordination he became a professor in the Seminary of Ste.

Thérèse, where he remained during 1904 and 1905. The following

year he went abroad for further study in Rome, where he remained

from 1905 until 1907, winning the degree of Doctor of Theology.

Following his return to the new world he entered again upon

active connection with educational interests as secretary general

of Laval University at Montreal, being appointed to his present

position on the 14th of September, 1907. In his life work mental

and moral instruction go hand in hand, and his efforts constitute

an important element not only in the upbuilding of character

among individual students but also in the extension of Catholic

teachings and influence.

HIRSCH COHEN.

Hirsch Cohen, most actively identified with the educational and

moral progress of the Jewish people in Montreal, may point with

justifiable pride to various schools and synagogues which have

been established through his instrumentality. A Russian by birth,

his natal day was in April, 1863, his parents being Hircom and

Sarah Cohen, both of whom have now passed away, the latter dying

in 1896 and the former in 1911 at a ripe old age, being over

ninety years old. Liberal educational advantages constituted the

foundation for the important and far-reaching life work of Hirsch

Cohen who was educated in a Hebrew college in Russia. The year

1890 witnessed his arrival in Montreal, since which time he has

been active in promoting work among the people of his own faith.

He has established eight synagogues, including one in Lachine

and one in the city of Quebec. At that period the people of

his faith could not stand the regular tithing system and there

were only a few small synagogues to carry on the work among the

Hebrew people. Prosperity, however, has come to many and a fair

degree of success to others and as they have prospered they have

contributed to the work of intellectual and moral progress with a

result that there are today a number of large congregations and

various smaller ones, each an active force in promoting the moral

development of the Hebrew people. Mr. Cohen has been a leader in

this work and he is also a director on the school board of the

Baron de Hirsch Institute. For the past seven years he has been

acting as chaplain for the Jewish prisoners in the province of

Quebec. He is chairman of various Hebrew schools in the city and

has been practically the founder of them all and in the meantime

has established places of study where adult Hebrews can acquaint

themselves with various lines of knowledge. He has founded three

different synagogues in Montreal since his arrival and another

important branch of his work has been the care which he has

given to newcomers during the periods of largest immigrations

to Canada among the Hebrew people. Moreover, he has taken a

most active and helpful part in bringing about the amalgamation

of the charitable institutions of the Jewish people into a

coordinate whole. He has seemed to neglect no line of effort that

contributes to the welfare of people of his faith. It was through

his instrumentality that all Jewish slaughter houses were brought

under the required supervision. He was one of those who took part

in the organization of the Free Loan Association, and he was one

who aided in establishing the Jewish Daily Eagle, to the columns

of which he makes frequent and welcome contributions. He is one

of the officers in the Zionist movement and one of the officers

in the Association of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and

Canada, in which he is also a member of the executive committee.

Mr. Cohen’s first wife was Miss Sarah First, whom he married in

1888, and their children were Mrs. Annie Presnau, Mary, Julius,

Ethel, Goldie and Lazarus. In 1913 he married Leah Nochumofsky.

It would be difficult to determine how important has been the

life work of Hirsch Cohen, for there is no standard whereby to

judge influence, especially when it is exerted along lines of

intellectual and moral progress. His worth, however, is widely

recognized, not only by those of his own faith, but also by the

Gentiles who respect him as a man and honor him for his loyalty

to his belief and for his great work in behalf of his cause.

HARRY BLOOMFIELD.

A prominent representative of the Jewish element in the

citizenship of Montreal is Harry Bloomfield, a partner in the

well known wholesale jewelry firm of Bloomfield Brothers. He is

largely regarded as a representative business man, enterprising,

progressive, alert and energetic. He was born in Montreal in

1879, a son of Baruch Bloomfield, a scholar and educator who

for many years resided in Montreal and enjoyed the respect of

all who knew him. It was in the schools of this city that Harry

Bloomfield pursued his education and after entering business

circles he traveled for the American Clock Company of New York

for five and a half years, in which he gained much valuable

experience concerning business methods and procedure. On the

expiration of that period he entered the employ of the Canadian

jewelry house of Pinfort & Company, whom he represented upon

the road as a traveling salesman for another period of five and

a half years. All during this time he was ambitious to engage in

business on his own account, and in 1904 he saw the realization

of his hopes, for in that year he was the organizer of the

firm of Bloomfield Brothers, wholesale jewelers. Through the

intervening period the business has steadily grown and developed

under the careful guidance and management of its proprietors who

are energetic, progressive young men, realizing and utilizing

their opportunities. They carry a large and carefully selected

line of jewelry, and their trade is growing year by year, having

already reached extensive and profitable proportions.

On the 7th of June, 1905, Mr. Bloomfield was united in marriage

to Miss Sadie Davies, a daughter of Morton Davies of New York,

and their children are Bernard, Louis, Dorothy and Florence.

Mr. Bloomfield has been somewhat active in connection with

civic affairs. He was made justice of the peace for the city

and district of Montreal, October 12, 1904, and he was twice a

candidate in St. Lawrence ward in conservative interests as M. P.

P.

He is identified with a number of social and fraternal

organizations, for beside being president of the Independent

Voters League he is a director of the Baron de Hirsch Institute,

a director of the Hebrew Sheltering Home, a director of the

Montefiore Club and president of the D’Israeli Conservative Club.

At the time of the ritual murder charge against Mendel Beiliss

six judges were appointed by the Jewish citizens to forward a

protest to the governor general and Mr. Bloomfield was appointed

as one of the judges. He is a high type of young Jewish manhood

in Montreal and is rapidly winning for himself an enviable

position in business circles.

JOHN BRADFORD MCCONNELL, M. D., D. C. L.

Dr. John Bradford McConnell, an able educator in the field of

medical science and actively engaged in hospital and private

practice, was born at Chatham, Quebec, August 28, 1851, a son of

the late Andrew and Martha Jane (Bradford) McConnell, of Lachute,

Quebec. In the acquirement of his education he became a student

at Dr. Wanless Academy at Carillon, Quebec, and ultimately

graduated from McGill University with the degrees of M. D., C.

M. in 1873. Still not content with the opportunities that had

already been his for preparation for the medical profession, he

went abroad and did post-graduate work in Berlin under Professor

Koch. From the outset his professional career has been marked

by advancement and constantly expanding powers have enabled him

to successfully control and check disease when others of less

thorough training or of minor devotion to the profession would

have failed. His high standing is indicated in the fact that

Bishop’s College of Lennoxville selected him for the honor of

receiving the D. C. L. degree in 1905. He has long been eminent

in the field of medical education and was vice president of the

College of Physicians and Surgeons, while for many years he

was a professor on the medical faculty of Bishop’s College. He

has successively occupied the chairs of professor of botany,

professor of materia medica, professor of pathology, professor of

medicine and of clinical medicine, and was vice dean for a number

of years and was acting dean in 1905, when the medical faculty

was amalgamated with McGill University, so that his name is

inseparably associated with Bishop’s College and the high rank it

has attained. Dr. McConnell has also been a member of the staff

of the Western Hospital since its establishment and is medical

examiner for the Aetna and the Mutual Life Insurance Companies.

He was for several years editor of the Canada Medical Record.

He has written extensively on medical subjects and his opinions

elicit attention, admiration and consideration whenever publicly

expressed.

[Illustration: DR. JOHN B. McCONNELL]

Aside from the strict path of the profession Dr. McConnell has

been active and is now a senator of the Wesleyan Theological

College of Montreal. He also has an interesting military chapter

in his life record, having from 1875 until 1884 served as

assistant surgeon of the First Prince of Wales Regiment. In 1875

he married Miss Theodora Lovell, daughter of the late Robert

Miller, of Montreal. Dr. McConnell is yet in the prime of life.

He has not reached the zenith of his powers, which are constantly

unfolding and developing. He keeps in the vanguard of those to

whom science is revealing its secrets as the result of careful

investigation and wide research, and the broader knowledge which

each year brings is familiar to him.

JOHN GEORGE ADAMI.

Dr. John George Adami, scientist, educationist and author whose

eminent position in his profession was indicated in his election

to the presidency of the Association of American Physicians in

1911, was born in Manchester, England, January 12, 1862, a son of

the late John George Adami of Manchester and Ashton-upon-Mersey,

Cheshire. The mother of Dr. Adami, who in her maidenhood was

Sarah Ann Ellis Leech, was a daughter of Thomas Leech of Urmston,

Lancashire, and a sister of the late Sir Bosdin Leech, one of the

founders of the Manchester Ship Canal, while another brother was

Professor Leech, a leading member of the staff of Owen’s College

and the Manchester Medical School.

Dr. Adami began his more advanced schooling when he entered

Owen’s College, Manchester, and in 1880 entered Christ’s

College, Cambridge, becoming a scholar of the same and in

1882 gaining a first class in the first part of the Natural

Science Tripos followed in 1884 by a first class in the second

part of the same tripos. Following upon this he spent eight

months in physiological research at Breslau, Germany, under the

distinguished physiologist Heidenhain. In 1885, Dr. Adami was

awarded the Darwin prize of his college, for original research.

The Master of Arts degree was conferred upon him in 1887, and

with the completion of the course of medicine at Manchester in

this year, he was appointed house physician at the Manchester

Royal Infirmary, following upon which he was called to Cambridge

to become demonstrator of pathology under Professor Roy.

In 1890, he was appointed to the John Lucas Walker studentship

of pathology in the University of Cambridge, and went to Paris

for bacteriological research in the Institute Pasteur, under

Professor Metchnikoff. He won his M. D. degree in 1891, and in

the same year was elected a fellow of Jesus College.

The following year he was called to Montreal, as professor of

pathology in McGill University, and his continued success in

research work, in practice and in the educational field, led to

various degrees and honors being conferred upon him. In 1898,

McGill conferred upon him the degrees of M. A. and M. B. Ad Eund.

The University of New Brunswick honored him with the LL. D.

degree in 1900, the University of Toronto conferring the same

degree in 1911, while in 1912 he received the Sc. D. of Trinity

College, Dublin. He had previously, in 1905, been elected a

fellow of the Royal Society. He is also a fellow of the Royal

Societies of Edinburgh and Canada. In February, 1914, the

Fothergillian medal of the Medical Society of London was awarded

to Dr. Adami for his “work on Pathology in its application to

practical medicine and surgery.” The Fothergillian gold medal was

first awarded in 1787 and now is given every third year.

It would be tautological in this connection to enter into any

series of statements showing him to be a man of scholarly

attainments, for this has been shadowed forth between the

lines of this review in the work that he has performed as an

investigator and in the honors which have been conferred upon him.

He is perhaps even better known in the field of authorship than

in educational circles. The work by which he is most widely known

is his “Principles of Pathology” in two volumes (the second in

connection with Professor A. G. Nicholls of McGill).

Dr. Adami has written various papers on pathological subjects

which have appeared in a number of the leading medical journals

in England and America and have also been translated into French.

His smaller text-book upon pathology written along with Dr. John

McCrae, is being translated into Chinese.

That his activities have not been solely in the path of his

profession are indicated by not a few addresses he has delivered

on biographical and literary subjects. He stands prominently with

those men of broad humanitarian principles and high scientific

attainment who are doing everything in their power to prevent

the spread of disease and educate the people to a knowledge of

preventive methods and sanitary conditions.

He presided at one of the meetings of the International

Tuberculosis Congress held in Washington in 1908, and was one

of the promoters of the Royal Edward Tuberculosis Institute in

1909. He was a member of the Royal Commission, of the province of

Quebec, re spread of tuberculosis in 1909, and in that same year

became president of the Canada Association for the Prevention

of Tuberculosis, being reelected for three years in succession.

In 1911 he was honored with election to the presidency of the

Association of American Physicians. He has been president of

the local Medico-Chirurgical Society and is a joint secretary

of the Victorian Order of Nurses. In 1899 he was president of

the Montreal branch of the British Medical Association and was

president of the pathological section of that organization at

the meeting in Toronto in 1905. He was a vice president of the

section of pathology at the International Congress of Medicine,

London, 1913.

He has been offered many prominent positions in the educational

field both in England and the United States, but has preferred

to remain in Montreal, recognizing that he has a broad field of

labor in this city.

His teaching ranks him as one of the foremost educators of the

land, and in the class room he enthuses his pupils with much of

the high idealism which has always characterized his professional

connections.

Aside from all of these activities and interests, bearing upon

the practice and science of medicine, Dr. Adami was chosen

president of the City Improvement League in 1909, and was elected

vice president of the University Club in the same year. He holds

membership in the St. James Club, and in the Savile Club of

London.

Dr. Adami was married in 1894, to Mary Stuart, a daughter of

James A. Cantlie of Montreal, and a niece of Lord Mount Stephen.

Their residence, No. 34 Macgregor Avenue, is one of Montreal’s

attractive homes, while the family are well known in the best

social circles of the city. The Herald has said of Dr. Adami:

“Endowed with youth, energy and enthusiasm, his investigations

have been important and of great benefit to mankind.” His name

in connection with his professional ability and research work

is known not only throughout the American continent but in many

educational centers of Europe, as his authorship has made him

known to the profession.

RODOLPHE MONTY, K. C.

Since admitted to the bar in 1897 Rodolphe Monty has continuously

and successfully practiced in Montreal, advancing step by

step to the position which he now occupies as one of the able

representatives of the legal profession in this city. He is a

member of the firm of Monty & Duranleau and their clientage

is of an extensive and important character. Montreal claims

Mr. Monty as a native son. He was born November 30, 1874, and

in the acquirement of his education attended Ste. Marie de

Monnoir College, McGill University and Laval University, his

classical course winning for him the Bachelor of Arts degree,

while his professional course gained for him the degree of

LL. L. In January, 1897, he was called to the bar and at once

entered upon the active practice of a profession for which he

had fully prepared. No dreary novitiate awaited him. He came

almost immediately into prominence and in 1909 was created a

king’s counsel. He is now senior partner of the firm of Monty

& Duranleau, one of the strongest at the Montreal bar, and the

thoroughness and care with which he prepares his cases excites

the admiration and surprise of his contemporaries, who find him

prepared not only for attack but for defense as well. For eight

years he has been a member of the council of the bar of Montreal

and for five years has been examiner. He has served as delegate

to the general council of the bar of the province of Quebec for

three years and as treasurer of the bar of Montreal for two years.

While pursuing his study in the university Mr. Monty was

president of the law students of Laval in 1895-6 and at the same

time was one of the most active members of the model parliament

established among the students. His eloquence and skill as a

debater secured for him the leadership of the opposition in those

early days. He also filled the offices of minister of railways

and canals and speaker of the house. He is now governor general

of the model parliament. He could undoubtedly win parliamentary

honors today if he cared to do so, but, while possibly not

without that laudable ambition which is so useful as an incentive

in public life, he regards the pursuits of private life as in

themselves abundantly worthy of his best efforts and concentrates

his energies upon his professional duties. His devotion to his

clients’ interests is proverbial and on many occasions he has

proven himself capable of solving some of the most involved and

intricate problems of the law. In politics he is a conservative,

while socially he is connected with the St. Denis Club, the Club

Canadien and the Délormier Club.

THE HON. SIR GEORGE A. DRUMMOND, K. C. M. G., C. V. O.

Sir George A. Drummond, whose strong intellectual force gave him

mastery over the grave problems which confronted him as a member

of parliament and enabled him to wisely direct his individual

interests until success placed him among the most prosperous

residents of Montreal, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1829.

He enjoyed the educational opportunities offered by the high

school of his native city and then entered the university in the

Scottish capital. His laudable ambition and keen insight into

conditions prompted him to seek the advantages offered in the

new world when but twenty-five years of age, and therefore in

1854 he embraced the opportunity to come to Canada and assume the

practical and technical management of a sugar refinery which was

established in Montreal by John Redpath. In this connection the

Gazette, at the time of his death, wrote: “The superior education

he received in the institutions of his native Scotland was a

powerful help to him when he was called upon to grapple with the

problems which demanded solution in an undeveloped country like

the Canada of that day. When he became interested in the Redpath

sugar refinery in the year 1854 he was perhaps the best educated

business man in the city, and whether as a member of the Board of

Trade, a commanding figure in the realm of banking and commerce,

or in social life, he maintained that scholarly supremacy and

distinction which was willingly accorded him by his fellow

citizens more than half a century ago.”

The Redpath sugar refinery proved a profitable enterprise from

the beginning until tariff changes forced the plant to close

down in 1874. Before resuming operations in that line in 1879,

in which year he founded the Canada Sugar Refining Company, of

which he became president, Sir George spent five years abroad

in study, travel and recreation. In connection with the Canada

Sugar Refining Company he developed one of the most important

productive industries of the country and into other fields

extended his efforts with equal discernment and success. He

became a director in the Bank of Montreal in 1882 and in 1887 was

elected vice president and subsequently president, so continuing

until his death. He became president of the company owning

and developing the coal and iron mines at Londonderry, Nova

Scotia, and was prominently connected with many other commercial

interests and projects. He was prominent as a stockholder and

officer in the Mexican Light, Heat & Power Company and was a

director of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company and the Ogilvie

Milling Company and vice president of the Royal Trust Company.

He was also largely interested in the Cumberland Coal &

Railway Company, and his connection extended to various other

corporations which have been important factors in the development

and upbuilding of Canada’s manufacturing interests.

[Illustration: SIR GEORGE A. DRUMMOND]

From the time that he became a resident of Canada Sir George

Drummond also became a student of the conditions of the country

as affected by political interests. Perhaps no better account of

his prominent connection with political affairs can be given than

by quoting from one of the local papers, which wrote: “Though

coming from a country wedded to free trade ideas, he discovered

that new industries could not thrive here in competition with

the advanced and enterprising industrial activity on the other

side of the line. Hence his early advocacy of protection,

designated during the campaign of 1878 as the National Policy.

Sir George Drummond had formed strong friendships with Sir

John A. Macdonald, Sir Charles Tupper and the more aggressive

leaders of the conservative party as represented in the Canadian

parliament. He was induced, much against his will, to accept

the party candidature in Montreal West against one of the most

popular men of the day, Hon. John Young. The contest will be

remembered by some of the older citizens as one of extreme

bitterness, although Mr. Drummond’s utterances on the platform

were marked by ability, force and breadth of view, and those who

heard him during that campaign of 1872 were not by any means

surprised when he developed later into an authority on banking

and finance and a leader in the discussion of matters pertaining

to trade and commerce. That contest preceded by two years the

fall of the Macdonald government and the acceptance of office

by pronounced free traders. As delegation after delegation went

to Ottawa, and were told by the finance minister that ministers

were as flies on a wheel in the matter of bringing prosperity

to the land, Sir George Drummond and his friends, recruited

from both of the old political parties, started to organize the

downfall of free trade in Canada. It was, however, when the

victory had been won at the polls, when Sir Charles Tupper’s

powerful efforts at the by-elections in Ontario, Quebec and Nova

Scotia had brought forth their fruit that the hardest work had

to be done, and here the ability of Sir George came powerfully

into play. Sir Leonard Tilly was finance minister, Sir Mackenzie

Bowell was in charge of the customs and Sir John Macdonald was

powerful in the country and in parliament. He had received a

mandate to bring the National Policy into force; but this was

easier to say than to do. The fiscal and customs policy of the

country had to be changed. It was at this time that the counsel

and business experience of Sir George Drummond were brought

into requisition and with a great degree of success. Time

convinced men of good-will and fair mind that the broad device

of ‘Canada for the Canadians’ and ‘that which is beneficial to

the manufacturer will be equally beneficial to the consumer and

to the country at large,’ were right. Mr. Drummond was not a

conservative during his active participation in party conflicts

because of individual gain. He adhered to principle rather than

to party name. In 1888, Sir John Macdonald being premier, Mr.

Drummond was called to the senate, and up to the time of his

death was the ablest representative of the mercantile classes

in the upper house of the Canadian parliament. As chairman of

the banking and commerce committee of the senate his word was

as law. His opinions relating to matters of financial import

were received without question by minister and member alike, and

when Senator Drummond had spoken upon a question of this kind

there was a general consensus of opinion that little remained

to be said. It was by his mastery of his subject and by his

prominence in all matters affecting the moneyed interests of the

Dominion that he won the respect of his fellow legislators at

the capital. There are many men who are members of the Montreal

Board of Trade who look back to the days when Sir George Drummond

was the president of that organization and remember the manner

in which he filled that office, the highest in the gift of

the merchants of the commercial metropolis of the Dominion.

They remember the high character of his addresses and his wise

contributions to the deliberations of the council. It was

accepted as a matter of course that he should lead off either

as the mover or the seconder in any great question that was

to be presented to the government or to the other colonies or

for the consideration of the whole empire. It was as director,

vice president and president of the Bank of Montreal that the

citizens of the financial center of the Dominion will remember

Sir George Drummond long. His ability was freely acknowledged

on both continents. He was at headquarters early and late,

and his attention to the interests of the bank was as marked

when the financial atmosphere was serene as when there were

lowering clouds on the horizon. His attitude at the annual bank

meetings was the personification of tact and courtesy, and his

able addresses on such occasions, uttered as they were with a

practiced finger resting upon the financial and commercial pulse

of the continent, were read by Wall Street and London as eagerly

as by the public men and bankers of his own country.”

Sir George Drummond was married twice. In 1857 he wedded

Helen, daughter of John Redpath, and following her demise he

was married in 1884 to Mrs. Grace Julia Hamilton, the widow of

George Hamilton and a daughter of A. Davidson Parker, a Montreal

pioneer. Two sons of the first marriage, Huntly R. and Arthur L.,

are living. The former succeeded his father as president of the

Canada Sugar Refining Company, Ltd., and is ex-president of the

Montreal Board of Trade; while the latter is actively identified

with the Canada Sugar Refining Company, Ltd. One son, Guy, of the

second marriage, is living and is a resident of Montreal.

The death of Sir George Drummond occurred February 2, 1910,

removing from the stage of Canadian activity one of its most

prominent and honored figures. He was a member of the St. James

Club, the Rideau Club of Ottawa, the Reform Club of London,

England, and the Manhattan Club of New York.

Sir George and Lady Drummond were in entire sympathy in their

benevolent work. He was the founder of the Home for Incurables

in Montreal, which was opened in 1894 under the charge of the

Sisters of St. Margaret, and Lady Drummond bestowed much care and

thought on the preparation of the interior of the institution.

She has been connected with many societies and movements in

Montreal that have to do with the betterment of the people, the

city or its conditions. She is president of the Montreal Charity

Organization and is actively connected with the Victorian Order

of Nurses and with various other bodies. She was also a member

of the Quebec Tercentennial celebration in 1908. She was the

first president of the local branch of the National Council of

Women. She was elected president of the Women’s Canadian Club of

Montreal for 1907-8, and Lady Aberdeen places her “at the head

of the Canadian sisterhood for activity in ‘promoting all that

is true and just and beautiful among women, and for a consuming

hatred for unrighteousness in every form.’” She presented a

silver cup for competition by the members of the Royal Montreal

Ladies’ Golf Club in 1905. Her name is not unknown in literary

circles and among her writings is an essay entitled “Purity of

Speech and Accent.” She was the first woman to speak at a public

banquet in Montreal, being thus honored in 1898. In 1902 Sir

George and Lady Drummond were presented at court.

On the occasion of the visit of our present King and Queen to

Canada as Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York Lady Drummond

drew up and presented an address to Her Royal Highness on behalf

of the National Council of Women of Canada, while Sir George

Drummond at the same time presented to His Royal Highness the

citizens’ commemorative medal. Lady Aberdeen has characterized

Lady Drummond as “a woman of distinguished presence, with great

personal charm, gifts of rare eloquence and the power of clothing

her thoughts in most expressive language.” She is a member of the

Anglican church, to which Sir George also belonged.

Sir George was much interested in agriculture and the breeding

of fine stock. Huntlywood, his magnificent country place at

Beaconsfield, was one of the finest country estates on the

continent. He took great pride in its well kept condition, his

private golf links affording an opportunity for indulgence in

a recreation that he was fond of. He kept only the finest live

stock that he could procure. His first Southdown sheep were bred

from stock he secured from King Edward. In live-stock breeding

Sir George aimed to maintain the same high standard of excellence

that characterized everything he did. His stock nearly always

won first prize at the big stock shows in Canada and the United

States, where he met in competition the most noted breeders of

his day. Sir George also maintained a beautiful country house,

Gads Hill, at Cacouna, now the summer home of Lady Drummond. He

took a most deep and helpful interest in all those things which

promote the aesthetic and moral nature of the individual and

which act as broadening and uplifting influences in the lives of

all. He was the owner of one of the finest galleries of paintings

on the American continent and was for some time president of the

Art Association of Montreal. It is said of him that he “derived

greater pleasure in pinning a badge to the breast of a member of

the Victorian Order of Nurses and wishing a hearty God-speed to

that devoted agent of good than in talking in millions around

the directors’ table of the Bank of Montreal.” He was a knight

commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George and his

character and his ability made his presence an honor in any

gathering.

High encomiums were passed upon him by various members of the

senate when he was called from this life on the 2d of February,

1910. One of the local papers said: “Flags flying at half-mast

from many of the chief public and commercial buildings of the

city yesterday testified at once to the extent of the interests

with which Sir George A. Drummond was in his life connected,

and to the respect in which he was held for his character, his

ability and his public services.” The council of the Board

of Trade, of which he had been president, said he was “long

regarded as Montreal’s most eminent citizen and one of the oldest

and most distinguished members of this board.” Senator Lougheed

said that he “doubted if any other name had been more closely

linked with the industrial life of Canada during the early part

of the present generation than that of Sir George Drummond. Not

only has he been associated with the material development of

Canada, but he was equally a supporter of the arts and sciences

and the great sociological questions of this progressive age.

In 1903 he was the recipient of very distinguished honors at

the hands of his sovereign on account of the eminent public

services which he had rendered Canada. His name should long be

revered in Montreal, where it was identified with the great

commercial, educational and philanthropic institutions.” Senator

Dandurand said of Sir George: “He was esteemed in Montreal

as a liberal-minded man who did his utmost to maintain good

understanding between the races in that city, always showing an

earnest desire to promote harmony. He was a benefactor of all

institutions that needed private help and will be missed by the

community at large, as he was whole-souled, kind-hearted and one

who played a most important role in all the affairs of the city.”

L. JOSEPH THEOPHILE DECARY.

L. Joseph Theophile Decary, an architect of pronounced ability

and prominently known as a water color artist, was born at St.

Jerome, Quebec, September 21, 1882, a son of Jean Baptiste and

Marie Theolinde (Lauzon) Decary, natives of Lachine and St.

Jerome respectively. When the north was open for settlement

in 1876 the father went to St. Jerome to establish business

as a jeweler and has there since resided. He is of the eighth

generation in direct descent from Jean Decarys, who came to

Canada with Maisonneuve in 1642. The name has since been

variously spelled Decary, Decaire and Descarries.

L. Joseph Theophile Decary, whose name introduces this record,

pursued a commercial course in St. Jerome, leaving the school

there in 1900. He afterward spent a year in a pharmaceutical

establishment and a year as a telegraph operator at St. Jerome

Junction on the Canadian Pacific and Canadian Northern of Quebec

Railroads. When nineteen years of age he left home, without

funds, to go to Boston, hoping there to find the opportunity

which would enable him to develop his latent talents in drawing.

From an early age he had displayed considerable ability in that

direction and believed that his line of life should be determined

thereby. After reaching Boston he secured a situation in an

architect’s office which brought him a salary of two dollars per

week. He learned quickly and won the confidence and assistance

of Guy Lowell, architect, who sent him to the Massachusetts

Institute of Technology in Boston in October, 1903. There he

followed a special course in architecture until 1905, and he now

holds a degree from the association of architects of the Province

of Quebec Architects’ Association. Following his return to Canada

he opened an office in Montreal, where he has since practiced

his profession, his ability gaining him a large clientage. He

made the architectural design and plans for the Ecole des Hautes

Etudes Commerciales of Montreal for Messrs. Gauthier and Daoust.

His talent has been further developed in the field of fine arts

as shown in his exhibitions in water colors at the season

exhibit of the Art Association of Montreal in 1910. He is a

member of the National Gallery of Ottawa.

[Illustration: L. J. T. DECARY]

On the 23d of April, 1906, at Point St. Charles, Montreal, Mr.

Decary was united in marriage to Hattie G. Blanchard, a daughter

of Captain J. B. Blanchard and widow of John Weatherburn. In his

political views Mr. Decary is a liberal and is without political

ambition or aspiration. He finds pleasant association with men

of similar professional talents in the Technology Club of Lower

Canada and interest and recreation through his membership in the

St. John Yacht Club, of which he was vice commodore in the year

1913.

ALEXANDER DRUMMOND STEWART, M. D.

Dr. Alexander Drummond Stewart, a successful physician and since

1903 connected with the department of the interior of the port

of Montreal, is a native of Toronto, Ontario, and acquired his

preliminary education in the public schools of that city. He

studied medicine in McGill University, graduating with the degree

of M. D. in 1888. Since that time he has been continuously in

practice.

Dr. Stewart opened his first office in Richmond, Quebec province,

and he continued there until 1898, building up a large and

representative clientage and in addition to its conduct serving

in an able way as medical officer for the Grand Trunk Railway at

that point. From Richmond he came to Montreal and in this city is

now a successful practitioner. Besides conducting his extensive

private practice he is medical officer of the department of the

interior of the port of Montreal, an office to which he was

elected in 1903.

Dr. Stewart married Miss Emma Christie of Lachute, Argenteuil

county, Quebec, and they have become the parents of a daughter,

Bessie. Dr. Stewart is a member of St. Paul’s Presbyterian

church. He belongs to the Outremont Golf Club and the University

Club. Along professional lines he is connected with the Montreal

Medico-Chirurgical Society, and he keeps in touch with the most

advanced medical thought, remaining always a close and earnest

student.

JOHN MITCHELL.

John Mitchell, deceased, who was for thirty years a produce

merchant of Montreal, was born at Dufftown, Scotland, in 1830,

and his life record covered the intervening years to the 23d of

November, 1904. His is a history of intense and well directed

activity along the line in which he engaged. Educated in

Scotland, he came to Quebec when sixteen years of age, having

a brother, Robert, in this province. He made his entrance into

business life as an employe of a Mr. Symes, a merchant; but after

a short time he left the city of Quebec for Montreal at the

solicitation of his uncle, Alexander Simpson, who was manager

of the Bank of Montreal. Mr. Mitchell embarked in business in

connection with others as a wholesale dealer in molasses, sugar

and grain in the West Indies, but the business failed and for

a short time thereafter Mr. Mitchell was a resident of Chicago,

Illinois. Later he went to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but soon

returned to Montreal and here engaged in the produce business in

which he continued for thirty years, or until his death. He lived

a quiet life, being modest and unassuming in manner, and his

uprightness and his honorable qualities won him the admiration

and respect of all.

Mr. Mitchell was married to Margaret Turner of Keith, Scotland,

and they became the parents of two children: John Alexander,

living near Edmonton, Canada; and Alice Margaret, who is a member

of the editorial staff of the Montreal Weekly Star. In 1871 Mr.

Mitchell was again married in the cathedral of Montreal to Miss

Elizabeth Scott, a daughter of Dr. Alexander Scott, who came

from Keith, Scotland, and practiced in Montreal, but died when

his daughter, Mrs. Mitchell, was but five years of age. In later

years Mrs. Scott lived with her daughter until her death. The

children of Mr. Mitchell’s second marriage were four in number,

of whom two are living: Walter Scott, a resident of Sorrento,

Notch Hill, British Columbia; and Charles Stewart, who is with

the Ogilvie Flour Mills Company of Montreal.

The family attend the First Presbyterian church, of which Mr.

Mitchell was a devout member. He was also one of the founders of

the St. James Club and one of the original members of the Thistle

Curling Club. While quiet and unassuming in manner, the circle

of his friends was almost coextensive with the circle of his

acquaintances, a fact indicative of an honorable and well spent

life.

BARUCH BLOOMFIELD.

In the history of Judaism on the American continent the name of

few deserve equal prominence with that of Baruch Bloomfield,

scholar, educator and philanthropist, actuated at all times by

the highest spirit of humanitarianism and moral force. He was

born in Russia. He had liberal educational advantages for his

time and throughout his life was a close and discriminating

student. Crossing the Atlantic to the new world, he settled first

in New York, where he engaged in teaching for about ten years.

He was one of the greatest Hebrew and Talmudic scholars of his

time. About 1870 he removed from New York to Montreal, which city

remained his place of residence throughout the rest of his life.

His family is one of the oldest Jewish families in Montreal,

having been represented here for close to a century. For a

quarter of a century prior to his demise he was a representative

in Montreal of the German Jews in Jerusalem and was a prominent

member of the McGill College Avenue synagogue to which he

rendered great services at various times. A part of his life work

was the collection of funds which he forwarded to the Holy Land,

and to the cause he was himself a most generous contributor.

Mr. Bloomfield was united in marriage to Miss Dora Albert and

they became the parents of five sons, four of whom still survive,

Abraham, David, Harry and Samuel, together with the mother. In

1901 the family were called upon to mourn the loss of a daughter

and sister, Jessie, whose death was an irreparable blow to the

household. It was while still grieving over the loss of this

daughter that Mr. Bloomfield went to New Orleans, called there by

the sudden illness of his son, Moses, who was traveling through

the south for a Canadian firm. He was a young man of twenty-five

years and was looked upon in the community as a model young man

of sterling character, of the highest honor and integrity, and

of ideal purity in life. The father hastened to his bedside and

every possible thing was done to restore him to health, but a few

days after the father’s arrival Moses Bloomfield passed away.

This death following so closely upon the death of the daughter

was more than Mr. Bloomfield could bear. He died almost literally

of a broken heart, passing away in New Orleans on the 31st of

December, 1901, aged fifty-six years. The sudden demise of father

and son has been greatly deplored by the entire Jewish community

and especially by the Shaar (Hashomayim) congregation to which

they belonged. A beautiful memorial service was held at the

McGill College Avenue synagogue. The remains of father and son

were interred in a cemetery in New Orleans, but at the memorial

service in Montreal hundreds of their friends gathered to pay

the last tribute of respect and to thus honor their memory. In

his address Rabbi Bernard M. Kaplan said: “We have assembled in

this House of God from all parts of the city to mourn a great

and grievous loss which we have sustained by the untimely demise

of two most virtuous, most pious and most respected members of

the community, a father and son who under the most pathetic

circumstances found their graves in a strange land. The son,

while yet in the freshness and bloom of life, expired in the

embrace of a loving father who had traversed almost a continent

to gaze once more upon the innocent and serene countenance of

his child.” Rabbi Kaplan said that some would mourn more deeply

the loss of the young man--his associates and friends who were

closely connected with him--while to others the death of the

father, which had come as a more telling blow, yet by all the

death of each would be felt, for each was a man largely ideal in

his home relations and in his relations to his friends and to his

congregation. Mr. Bloomfield was a most devoted and loving father

as well as a most kind, considerate and affectionate husband. “He

not only loved his wife, but true to the teachings of the Talmud,

of which he was a great student, he honored and respected her.

His family life was an inspiration to every lover of ideal home

life. His modest home was a veritable sanctuary whose atmosphere

was permeated by serene peace, true purity, and sincere piety.

And, again, every one who appreciates gentleness of manner and

gentleness of disposition, purity of life and purity of thought,

faith in God and faith in humanity, devotion to religion and

devotion to every other duty, sincerity of speech and sincerity

of action, must lament the loss which the community sustains

by the death of Baruch Bloomfield, for he embodied all these

qualities and many more. He loved peace and pursued it. He loved

Hebrew learning and devoted his life to it. He loved Judaism and

made great sacrifices for it. He loved charity and gave it. I

approached him myself several times on matters of charity. Not

only did he contribute a great deal more that I thought his means

allowed him, but what is more, he gave his share with all his

heart and soul--so much so that he reminded me of the proverbial

romantic Hebrew charity which meant not only the giving of money

but also the giving, so to speak, of the very heart with it.

“For a period of twenty-five years Baruch Bloomfield, from time

to time collected and forwarded considerable funds to the Holy

Land. It was the supreme passion of his life to step some day on

the Holy Land. His wish like that of Moses has not, however, been

realized. He died on this side of the Jordan. But, friends, there

was no need for Baruch Bloomfield to go to Palestine in order to

be on holy land. I say in all sincerity, that the ground where so

pure and so pious a man as Baruch Bloomfield stood, studied or

prayed, was holy. It was sanctified by the holiness of an ideal

Jewish life. Yea, the very ground wherein his body, the shrine

of so beautiful a soul is deposited is positively holy. Baruch

Bloomfield was an ish kaddish, a holy man in the traditional

sense of the term. A truly holy man sanctifies his surroundings.”

SIR THOMAS GEORGE RODDICK, M. D., LL. D., F. R. C. S.

Sir Thomas George Roddick, M. D., LL. D., F. R. C. S., was born

at Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, July 31, 1846, a son of the late

John Irving Roddick and Emma Jane Martin. His father was a native

of Dumfriesshire, Scotland, and was for many years principal

of the government school at Harbour Grace. After pursuing his

preliminary education with his father, and, later, in the Truro

Model and Normal Schools of Nova Scotia, Sir Thomas entered

McGill University in 1864 in preparation for the practice of

medicine, which he intended to make his life’s work. He graduated

M. D., C. M., in 1868, and was the Holmes Gold Medallist and

final prizeman of his year. Immediately following his graduation

he was appointed assistant house surgeon and afterwards house

surgeon of the Montreal General Hospital, which position he held

for six years. Later, he received an appointment as attending

surgeon to that institution and in 1874 entered upon private

practice. From 1872 to 1874 he was lecturer on hygiene in

McGill University and was demonstrator of anatomy during 1874

and 1875. In the latter year he was made professor of clinical

surgery, which position he held for fifteen years, when he became

professor of surgery, occupying that chair until 1907. He was

dean of the medical faculty of McGill from 1901 till 1908.

In 1896 Sir Thomas was elected president of the British Medical

Association, being the first colonial physician ever honored by

election to that office, which he held from 1896 to 1898. He

presided at the Montreal meeting and was subsequently elected

vice president for life of that, the largest and most important

medical body in the world.

He is president of the Montreal branch of the Victorian Order

of Nurses; president of the Alexandra Hospital for Contagious

Diseases; vice president of the Royal Edward Institute;

consulting surgeon to the Royal Victoria Hospital and Montreal

General Hospital. He was a member of the royal tuberculosis

commission recently appointed by the Quebec government; is a

past president of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Montreal,

and of the Canadian Medical Association, of which latter body he

was recently appointed honorary president. When the Newfoundland

Society of Montreal was organized a few years ago he was

appointed honorary president. In 1898 Edinburgh University

recognized his services to medicine by conferring upon him the

honorary degree of LL. D.; in 1903 Queen’s University honored him

in a like manner; in 1899 he was elected an honorary F. R. C. S.,

London. After resigning the deanship of the medical faculty of

McGill in 1908, he was appointed a governor of McGill University.

He was one of the first surgeons on this continent to employ

Lister’s methods in the treatment of wounds.

[Illustration: SIR THOMAS G. RODDICK]

Sir Thomas’ connection with the militia of Canada dates as

far back as 1868, when he joined the Grand Trunk Artillery as

assistant surgeon, and was under orders for the second Fenian

raid in 1870. He subsequently commanded the University Company

of the Prince of Wales Rifles and was appointed surgeon to that

regiment in 1885. During the Northwest rebellion in the same

year he organized the hospital and ambulance service for the

expeditionary force and was in charge of the medical service in

the field, holding the rank of deputy surgeon general of militia,

was mentioned in despatches and recommended for the C. M. G. For

his services on this occasion, and for the Fenian raid, he holds

the service medals, and also the long-service medal. He attained

the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1900 and is now on the retired

list of officers.

Sir Thomas is a conservative in politics and represented St.

Antoine division over two parliaments, sitting in the house of

commons from 1896 until 1904. His chief reason for entering

politics was to exploit a scheme which he had long advocated,

viz., that of Dominion medical registration, for which a

federal act was necessary. The “Roddick Bill” so-called, passed

parliament in 1902, was amended and became operative in 1911.

Thus was established a one-portal system for entrance to the

practice of medicine throughout the Dominion of Canada. A

Dominion medical council was at once organized, of which Sir

Thomas was elected first president.

Sir Thomas was married in 1880 to Miss Marion McKinnon, a

daughter of the late William McKinnon of Pointe Claire, P. Q. Her

death occurred in 1890, and he afterwards wedded in September,

1906, Miss Amy Redpath, daughter of the late J. J. Redpath of

Montreal. His religious faith is that of the Presbyterian church.

He is a member of the Hunt Club, the University Club and the

Mount Royal Club. His residence is at 705 Sherbrooke Street, West.

Patriotism, courage and generosity have always characterized

him, and, notwithstanding the demands ever made upon him in his

professional life, he has always found time to take an active