part in all movements having to do with the social and moral

welfare of his adopted city.

FERDINAND GUSTAVE LEDUC.

Among the representative bankers of Montreal is Ferdinand

Gustave Leduc, manager of the Banque d’Hochelaga, and as such

enjoys high prestige among his colleagues. He is considered an

authority upon financial matters, and that this judgment is not

misplaced is evident from the success with which he manages this

eight-million-dollar institution. Although he has attained a high

place among the captains of finance he is modest and unassuming

in his demeanor, ever ready to receive a caller or listen to

the most humble of his employes in order to keep in touch with

the smallest details of his business and all situations and

conditions that might affect the financial world. Mr. Leduc is a

native of the province of Quebec, his birth having occurred at

Beauharnois on the 31st of March, 1871. He is a son of Michel

Ferdinand and Mathilde (Vachon) Leduc and was educated in his

native city in 1884, became a student at St. Joseph’s College of

Burlington, Vermont. The earliest records of the Leduc family in

Canada refer to one Jean Le Duc, born in 1624, a son of Jean and

Cécile (La Chaperon) Le Duc. On May 11, 1652, Jean Le Duc, first

mentioned, married Marie Soulinié at Montreal and died about

fifty years later, on April 19, 1702. This record is taken from

the “Dictionnaire Généalogique,” compiled by Abbé Tanguay.

Ferdinand G. Leduc early displayed an interest in the banking

business and in 1886, after leaving the academy in Vermont,

entered upon a position with La Banque Jacques Cartier, with

which institution he remained until 1899, becoming well

acquainted with all the details as regards investments and

credits and the multitudinous duties and responsibilities

connected with the management and direction of a large financial

establishment. Since 1899 Mr. Leduc has been manager of the

Banque d’Hochelaga, his extraordinary ability finding recognition

in this important position. The bank has a capital and reserve of

about eight million dollars and is one of the strongest financial

institutions in the Dominion.

On the 14th of January, 1894, Mr. Leduc married Miss Corinne

Bisson, a daughter of E. H. Bisson, a prominent man along various

lines and well known as a member of the provincial parliament.

Mr. and Mrs. Leduc have three children: Louis Philippe, aged

seventeen; Gabrielle, aged twelve; and Jeanne Aimée, aged ten.

The family affiliates with the Catholic church.

Mr. Leduc takes a deep interest in the metropolitan development

of Montreal and is ever ready to extend or place at the disposal

of the general public his time or means in order to promote

worthy public enterprises. Although he has not cared to actively

participate in public life, he has done much to promote the

growth of the city in his private capacity. Personally he is

approachable, kindly and dignified--a gentleman of pleasing

manners and fine appearance, combining with grace of manner

an American demeanor of democracy which readily makes for him

friends who are devoted to him on account of the substantial

qualities of his character.

FREDERICK ERNEST THOMPSON, M. D.

Dr. Frederick Ernest Thompson, who since 1890 has been in

continuous practice of his profession in Montreal, his signal

ability commanding for him a distinguished place in medical

circles and a wide and representative patronage, was born in the

city of Quebec, Quebec province, and acquired his early education

in the grammar and high schools there. He followed this by a

course in Morrin College and after completing this entered McGill

University from which he was graduated M. D. in 1890. He still

remains a close and earnest student of his profession, keeping in

touch with its most advanced and modern thought.

Dr. Thompson began practice in Montreal in the fall of 1890,

and his ability attained instant recognition. Since that time

constant study and research and steadily widening experience

have broadened and developed his powers, and he is today one of

the most successful and prominent physicians and surgeons in the

city where he makes his home. In the latter line of work he has

become especially proficient as his position in the department

of obstetrics and operative surgery on the staff of the

Women’s Hospital plainly shows. He is a member of the Montreal

Medico-Chirurgical and the Canadian Medical and British Medical

Associations, and a fellow in the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society,

and his ability is widely recognized in professional circles.

PROFESSOR CHARLES EBENEZER MOYSE.

Professor Charles Ebenezer Moyse, a member of the faculty of

McGill University since 1878 and since 1903 dean of the faculty

of arts and vice principal of McGill, needs no introduction

to the readers of this volume, for his fame and ability as

an educationist and writer, both of verse and of prose, have

made his name a familiar one from coast to coast. He was born

at Torquay, England, March 9, 1852, a son of the late Charles

Westaway and Mary Anne (Jenkins) Moyse, the former of Torquay

and the latter a daughter of John Jenkins, of Exeter. He was

educated first of all at the Independent College, Taunton, and

subsequently at University College, London. He obtained the

Bachelor of Arts degree of the University of London in 1874. He

was university exhibitioner in English and also headed the honor

list in animal physiology. His career as an educationist has been

a successful one from the outset. He was appointed headmaster of

St. Mary’s College, Peckham, and while filling that position was

elected in 1878 to the Molson professorship of English literature

at McGill University, Montreal. In 1903 McGill conferred upon him

the honorary degree of LL. D. In the same year he was appointed

dean of the faculty of arts and vice principal. His position

in the university at once indicates his high standing in the

profession. He was editor in chief of the McGill University

Magazine, now the University Magazine, for five years, and has

for many years been president of the McGill College Cricket Club,

a fact which indicates that his interest is not merely along

literary lines.

Professor Moyse has ever been a close and discriminating student

and has found his greatest pleasure as well as his chief activity

in roaming through the fields of the world’s literature and

finding companionship with the men of master minds. The result of

his labors has, in part, been given to the world in a number of

published volumes and articles. In 1879 he brought out a volume

entitled “The Dramatic Art of Shakespeare,” and in 1883 “Poetry

as a Fine Art.” In 1889, under the pseudonym “Belgrave Titmarsh,”

he published a volume entitled “Shakespeare’s Skull,” and he

published in 1910, a volume entitled “Ella Lee; Glimpses of Child

Life,” consisting of poems reminiscent of his childhood days in

Devonshire. In 1911 appeared “The Lure of Earth,” a volume of

poems of a more serious character. He has also written various

poems and literary articles which have appeared in the leading

magazines of the day.

In June, 1883, Professor Moyse wedded Janet McDougall, the eldest

daughter of John Stirling of Montreal. Mrs. Moyse has been deeply

interested in a movement for providing playgrounds for children

in Montreal, her efforts in that direction being untiring, and

she is now a director of the Parks and Playgrounds Association.

Professor Moyse has been a close student of all the interesting

problems and significant questions of the day and absorption in

books has never made him neglectful of the duties and obligations

of citizenship. His social nature finds expression in his

membership in the Thistle Curling Club and University Club. He

has been characterized as “a highly cultured man who has had a

brilliant career as an educationist.”

GEORGE HAGUE.

Respected by all who know him, no man occupies a more creditable

position in banking circles than does George Hague of Montreal,

who for many years was prominently identified with the management

of important financial affairs. He has been equally well known

by reason of his active support of benevolent and philanthropic

objects and by his interest in phases of public-spirited

citizenship. He was born at Rotherham, Yorkshire, England,

January 13, 1825, a son of Mr. John Hague, and comes from an old

family of bankers, as some or other of his relatives have for

generations back been connected with the leading bank in the

town. Mr. Hague has passed the eighty-ninth milestone on life’s

journey and his career has been one of usefulness and honor.

His early education was acquired at Morgate Academy, in his

native town, where his proficiency in mental arithmetic placed

him at the head of the school when yet a mere boy. His school

days over, he entered into active connection with financial

interests as an employe of the Sheffield Banking Company. He

remained in Great Britain until 1854, when he came to Canada,

having accepted the position of financial manager of a firm of

railway contractors. Two years later he became accountant at

the head office in the newly organized Bank of Toronto. The

steps in his orderly progression are easily discernible. He

advanced from one position to another which brought upon him

larger responsibilities and duties, each, however, finding

him adequate to the demands made upon him. He was appointed

manager of the Bank of Toronto at Cobourg, Ontario, and in 1863

succeeded the late Mr. Angus Cameron as cashier of the bank,

in which capacity he remained until 1876. It was during this

period that Mr. Hague’s influence was felt in some of the most

important legislation affecting banking interests in Canada. The

government had brought in two measures in succession, for the

regulation of the currency. To the first, some of the western

bankers were inclined to agree, but Mr. Hague conceived its

operation would be prejudicial to the interests of a bank like

the Bank of Toronto, and the finance minister was prevailed on to

make it optional instead of compulsory. Only one bank consented

to embrace its provisions, and, for some years, matters went

along undisturbed. The second measure was far more dangerous,

and was wholly compulsory. It was founded on the American

currency plan, which was then at the zenith of its popularity,

and had not yet developed any of the unfavorable features which

afterwards transpired. This Canadian government measure, many

bankers, particularly from Ontario and Nova Scotia, concluded

would be utterly unsuitable to the circumstances of Canada,

and they determined to give it strenuous opposition. Mr. Hague

was appointed secretary of an informal association for the

purpose, and the contest was maintained through two or three

sessions of parliament. There were powerful influences at the

back of the government in favor of the measure and the contest

was a very determined one. At length when Sir Francis Hincks

had been appointed finance minister, a satisfactory compromise

was proposed, accepted, and its provisions incorporated in the

Dominion note act, and the Canadian bank act, which both shortly

followed.

[Illustration: GEORGE HAGUE]

Previous to this every bank was worked under a separate charter,

but now these various charters were amalgamated under one

compendious act, the preparation of which occupied the leading

bankers and lawyers in the house of commons for several months.

In these discussions Mr. Hague naturally took a leading part,

along with Mr. E. H. King of the Bank of Montreal. Hon. Mr.

Lewin, of the Bank of New Brunswick, Hon. Edward Blake of

Toronto, Mr. Peter Jack who represented the banks of Nova Scotia

and, of course, the finance minister. This act, together with the

Dominion note act, has been at the foundation of Canadian banking

ever since. During the progress of these discussions Mr. Hague

was offered the general managership of the Bank of Commerce, as

well as one of the higher positions in the Bank of Montreal. Both

however were declined.

After the exacting labors entailed by this contest, Mr. Hague

concluded that the time had arrived when he might fairly carry

out a project that he had cherished for many years, viz., to

devote the remainder of his life to religious and philanthropic

work. In preparation for this he resigned his position in the

Bank of Toronto and made other arrangements for a change in

his mode of life. Upon severing his connection with the Bank

of Toronto, the directors of that institution presented Mr.

Hague with a service of plate and a handsome sum of money, in

consideration of his efficient services to the bank as well as

for his most valuable services to the banking interests of Canada

generally.

Subsequent events proved that Mr. Hague’s preparations for

retirement from the banking business were premature.

A cloud had been gathering over the commercial and financial

position of Canada for some time back, and it was never darker

or deeper than in the opening months of 1877. The records of

failures and insolvencies grew to alarming proportions, fully

four times the usual average, and the losses of the banks told

on them severely. The general manager of the Merchants Bank of

Canada having resigned, the directors of that institution offered

the position to Mr. Hague and pressed upon him to accept it.

It was like taking command of a ship in the midst of a storm,

but he felt it his duty to undertake the task, but did so with

a full understanding that he should be at liberty to devote a

reasonable amount of time to religious and philanthropic work. It

was several years before the financial cloud passed by, and of

the strenuous labors of bankers at that time it is needless to

speak. Suffice to say that Mr. Hague held on to his post with

careful attention to the matters he had stipulated for, and only

retired after twenty-five years more of service, at a ripe old

age, and having in the meantime assisted in the decennial reviews

of the banking act that transpired from time to time according to

its provisions. At the time of his resignation as general manager

in 1902, the directors of the Merchants Bank presented Mr. Hague

with a valuable piece of solid silver, gold plated, and made a

handsome provision for the remainder of his life.

Whilst general manager of this bank, Mr. Hague was several

times requested by the American Bankers’ Association to address

its annual meeting, and took an active part in preventing the

adoption of silver as the basis of the finances of the United

States. He also drew up a paper in which a strenuous protest was

made against the adoption of silver as part of the basis of the

currency of the Bank of England. This had been urged by a school

of financiers known as bi-metallists, but Canada has always stood

solidly on a gold basis, and so has England remained.

When the Bankers’ Association of Canada was founded, Mr. Hague

took an active part in company with Mr. Wolferstan Thomas, Mr.

Duncan Coulson, and other bankers in drawing up its constitution,

and was chosen its first president. Since his retirement from

banking circles he has been honorary president, an office to

which he was reelected at the last annual meeting of that

association.

In the intervening years, since his retirement to the present

time, Mr. Hague has given his attention to literary and

philanthropic work and has become widely known by reason of his

contributions to the press and his cooperation in many organized

charitable and benevolent projects, especially the Young Men’s

Christian Association.

He has written many articles which have appeared in the financial

papers and also reviews on banking and philanthropic subjects.

He also published a valuable treatise, entitled Banking and

Commerce. His published works include, Some Practical Studies in

the History and Biography of the Old Testament.

Another phase of his activity has brought Mr. Hague not only into

close connection with many charitable and benevolent movements,

but also with projects of vital importance to the city and its

material, intellectual and moral development. He is today a

governor of McGill University, vice president of the Montreal

Diocesan College; a governor of the Montreal General Hospital,

and a director of the House of Industry and other kindred

organizations. He is vice president of the Canadian Bible Society

and was at one time president of the Young Men’s Christian

Association, to which he has been a generous contributor.

Some years ago, after an era of extravagant expenditure of the

city council during which the debt of the city was doubled in

five years, an association was formed for maintaining a watchful

oversight over the finances of the city. This was called the Good

Government Association, and many of Montreal’s most prominent

citizens became members of it. Of this association Mr. Hague

was chosen president, and under its auspices an efficient

check was placed upon extravagant spending by the Montreal

Corporation, through an act of the legislature, brought in by

Mr. George Washington Stephens. Mr. Hague often went to Quebec

on the business of this association which has now, however, been

dissolved and superseded.

At a certain period of our parliamentary history, when the late

Sir John Abbott was premier, a great outcry was made as to

abuses in connection with the civil service. A Royal commission

was appointed for examination of which Edmond Barbeau and J.

M. Courtney, deputy finance minister, were members. Of this

commission Mr. Hague was appointed chairman. The examination was

very thorough and extended over several months. Every department

of the service was overhauled and at its close a series of

recommendations were made, all of which tended to correct abuses

and promote efficiency, and, which if adopted, would have

resulted in a large annual saving to the country. Some of these

were adopted, but others unfortunately were not, and another

commission became necessary later on.

Mr. Hague still has financial interests in several corporations,

being a director of the Guarantee Company of North America, and

others of a similar character.

Mr. Hague has never been an active politician, but his connection

is with the liberal-conservative element, his support being

given to the Chamberlain policy. No movement tending to

promote civic virtue or civic pride has failed to receive his

indorsement and support. His interest in public affairs is that

of a broad-minded, public-spirited citizen, looking beyond the

exigencies of the moment to the possibilities and opportunities

of the future. His religious faith is that of the Anglican

church, in which he has been a most active worker for many years.

Mr. Hague has been married twice. In 1852 he wedded Sarah

Cousins, a daughter of Mr. Joseph Cousins, a manufacturer of

Sheffield, England. Her death occurred in 1900 and in March,

1902, he wedded Mary Frances Mitcheson, a daughter of the late

McGregor Mitcheson, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is now past

the eighty-ninth milestone on life’s journey, but in spirit and

interest seems yet in his prime. The Canadian American has truly

styled him, “A high-minded Christian gentleman, public-spirited

and always at the front in every philanthropic movement ...,

never knew a fairer man or one more actively unselfish.” All this

indicates that his life was never self-centered but has reached

out along lines of constantly broadening usefulness and activity

for the benefit of the people, seeking rather the welfare and

benefit of the many than the advancement of self. His life has

indeed been one of signal usefulness.

WILLIAM ROBERTSON.

Insurance interests found a prominent representative in William

Robertson in Montreal, who was largely a pioneer in the work

of adapting English companies to the business methods pursued

on this side of the Atlantic. A Canadian by birth, his native

town was Lachute, province of Quebec, and his natal year 1847.

His father, Dr. William Robertson, a graduate of the Edinburgh

Medical College, settled in Lachute when a young man, there

establishing himself in practice, but later removed to St.

Andrews East, where he continued actively in the profession

until his death, greatly endearing himself to the community by

the willingness to which he responded to the call of the sick,

even though it meant a self-sacrificing ride of from sixty to

seventy-five miles. His patients had the utmost confidence in him

and his professional efforts were a blessing to the inhabitants

of that, then scarcely settled district. He married Miss Mary A.

Tierney, of Ireland, and they had two sons and three daughters,

the surviving son being Dr. Patrick Robertson of England. An

uncle of our subject was Colin Robertson, who won fame in the

northwest.

William Robertson pursued his education in the schools of St.

Andrews East and from his youth up was an underwriter, having

begun business when quite young by entering the insurance office

of Simpson & Bethune of Montreal. Such was the reputation which

he won for superior business qualifications, for executive power

and administrative ability, that in 1873, when but twenty-six

years of age he was elected as representative for Canada of the

London & Lancashire Life Assurance Company. The duties of this

office he filled most acceptably for about seventeen years,

or until his life’s labors were ended in death. He projected

many changes and improvements in the methods of the English

offices, transacting business on this side of the Atlantic. He

made thoroughly Canadian in spirit and activity, the London &

Lancashire Company in the Dominion, bringing about its popularity

and success. He carefully organized and systematized the business

here, with the result that the London & Lancashire Company became

one of the strongest insurance companies of the country.

In 1871 Mr. Robertson was married to Miss Helen I. Barnston, a

daughter of George Barnston, who throughout his active life was

engaged in the Hudson’s Bay service in British Columbia and in

the northwest country. He came to Canada in 1821 and retired,

after many years service with the Hudson’s Bay Company, spending

the remainder of his days in a well earned rest in Montreal. His

wife was Miss Helen Mathews of England. Mr. and Mrs. Robertson

became the parents of two children, who are living: Dr. William

Graeme Robertson of England, who is attached to the White Star

service; and Helen M. C., at home.

Mr. Robertson was active as a faithful member of St. James

Episcopal church, in which he served as warden and he also

belonged to the St. James Club. His keen sagacity enabled him to

recognize the different spirits of the business circles in the

old world and in the new, to adapt himself to changed conditions

and to work along lines of new world progress. Thus he became

a recognized leader in insurance circles occupying a prominent

position until 1889 when he went to Denver, Colorado, for his

health, there passing away on the 26th of February, of that year.

CHARLES P. HEBERT.

Charles P. Hébert, the first president of the wholesale grocery

firm of Hudon, Hébert & Company, Ltd., of Montreal, was born

in the pretty little village of St. Charles on the Richelieu

river, and when a young man made his way to the city which was

ever afterward his home. Here he began business in a small way

and by energy and industry soon built up his establishment. In

1883 he became a member of the firm of Hudon, Hébert & Company.

The business was originally established under the style of E.

& V. Hudon and subsequently was conducted under the name

of V. Hudon and later became J. Hudon & Company. In 1906 it

was incorporated as Hudon, Hébert & Company, Charles P. Hébert

becoming the first president of that corporation. They are

wholesale grocers and wine merchants, the premier establishment

of its kind in the Dominion, importing directly from manufacturers

in Europe, China, Japan, Asia Minor and the United States.

They employ one hundred and seventy people in their Montreal

establishment and have twenty-five salesmen constantly visiting

all Canada, selling their goods from the Atlantic to the Pacific

to the amount of five million dollars annually.

[Illustration: CHARLES P. HEBERT]

Mr. Hébert always took a deep interest in Montreal’s charitable

institutions. He was president of the board of management of the

Notre Dame Hospital and was also connected with other benevolent

organizations and projects. He served as a member of the council

of the Montreal Board of Trade and filled honorable positions in

that body, including those of vice president and member of the

board of arbitration. He was one of the directors of the City and

District Savings Bank and also a director of the Masson estate.

Mr. Hébert died at his home at No. 117 Champ de Mars, Montreal,

July 17, 1906, and was survived by a widow and six children.

After the death of Mr. Hébert Mr. Joseph Hudon was elected

president of the corporation and on his death in 1908 Mr. Albert

Hébert, son of Charles P. Hébert, succeeded to the presidency,

and following his demise in 1911 Mr. Zéphirin Hébert, also a son

of Charles P. Hébert, became president of the company.

REV. ALEXANDER CHARLESON MANSON, PH. D., D. D.

In Presbyterian circles in North America the name of the Rev.

Alexander Charleson Manson is well known and since the 19th

of April, 1912, he has been pastor of the Taylor Presbyterian

church of Montreal, one of the largest organizations of the

city. A native of Thurso, Scotland, he pursued his education in

the schools of Edinburgh and of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Studying

theology, he won his Doctor of Divinity degree at the University

of Chicago and he first served as superintendent of missions of

North Dakota. Later he accepted a pastorate in Duluth, Minnesota,

and afterward became pastor of the Eleventh Presbyterian church

in Chicago, Illinois. From that city he went to Detroit,

Michigan, in response to a call from the Second Avenue

Presbyterian church and left that city to come to Montreal on the

19th of April, 1912, where he entered upon his duties as minister

of the Taylor Presbyterian church, which was organized July 23,

1876, with Rev. J. J. Casey as its first pastor. He continued in

that position until March 16, 1882, and was succeeded by the Rev.

Thomas Bennett, who remained in charge from the 1st of December,

1885, until December 31, 1897. His successor was the Rev. W. D.

Reid, who continued in charge until 1912, when Rev. Manson became

pastor. The present edifice of the Taylor Presbyterian church

was erected in 1893, at a cost of about sixty thousand dollars.

There is a membership of nine hundred and thirteen, with a

Sunday school of four hundred and fifty members, and the Junior

Christian Endeavor Society is the largest in the city. There is

a strong Sunday Afternoon Club, a First Company of Montreal Boys

Brigade and a Ladies Athletic Club as auxiliary organizations

to the church. In fact, the church work has been thoroughly

systematized in every department, and splendid results are being

accomplished. The church is in touch with the broader idea that

the best Christian service can be accomplished with better

physical and mental as well as moral development. Much attention

is paid to the social life, and yet nothing for a moment

overshadows the foundation work of the organization, which is the

salvation of souls. Rev. Manson is a fluent, earnest speaker, who

studies life and its problems and with notable clearness shows

the relation of modern day conditions to the lessons that have

come down to us through the ages from the moral teachers of the

past.

Rev. Manson was married June 24, 1889, to Miss Mary Elizabeth

Ferguson, of Hamilton, Ontario, and their children are: Berith

Du Val, of New York city; and Vera Charleson, Allena Conklin,

and Leslie Worden, all at home. At this point it would be almost

tautological to enter into any series of statements as showing

Rev. Manson to be a man of broad intelligence and genuine public

spirit, for these have been shadowed forth between the lines

of this review. Strong in his individuality, he never lacks

the courage of his convictions but there are as dominating

elements in this individuality a lively human sympathy and an

abiding charity, which, as taken in connection with the sterling

integrity and honor of his character, have naturally gained for

him the respect and confidence of men.

REV. THOMAS JOSEPH MACMAHON.

One of the most able Catholic educators in Quebec province, a

man sincere, straightforward and reliable in the discharge of

the duties and obligations of life, most earnest and consecrated

in his work as a priest of the Society of Jesus, is Rev. Thomas

Joseph MacMahon, rector of Loyola College in Montreal. He has

been connected with this institution since 1912 and, constantly

following high ideals and guiding his actions by sound and

practical judgment, has been an important factor in its later

development and growth.

Father MacMahon was born at Hamilton, Ontario, December 12, 1874,

and received his primary education at the Catholic separate

schools in that city, later attending Hamilton high school and

St. Mary’s College, Montreal. Entering the Society of Jesus in

1895, he was sent to St. Louis, Missouri, where he received a

long Jesuit training in philosophy and theology, after which he

returned to Montreal, where he was ordained to the priesthood in

1910. Father MacMahon then went to England for further training

preparatory to taking the position of prefect of studies at

Loyola College, a post which he assumed in May, 1912. He proved

a capable educator and an excellent disciplinarian and in 1913

was advanced to the position of rector of the college. This

is a large and growing institution conducted by the Jesuit

Fathers for English-speaking Catholic boys and has an enviable

reputation throughout eastern Canada for the thoroughness of its

training and the comprehensive courses of study offered. The

high standard of efficiency, traditional in the school, has

been maintained under Father MacMahon’s able management and the

institution has made a creditable growth during the period of his

incumbency. He has made himself thoroughly conversant with the

affairs of the college and is rapidly pushing forward the work

on the construction of the new buildings at Notre Dame de Grace,

Sherbrooke Street, Montreal West, where the institution will be

moved within the next two years.

Besides being an able educator and a farsighted and reliable

business man, Father MacMahon is known also as a preacher of

rare ability and power and has filled most of the pulpits in

Montreal and the vicinity in a creditable manner. He has made

his talents, powers and abilities forces in the spread of the

Catholic religion in this province and has accomplished a great

deal of beneficial and lasting work among the students of Loyola

College and the people of the city. He has their love in large

measure, while his upright and honorable character and his life

of service has gained him the respect and esteem of people of all

denominations.

ROBERT WARD SHEPHERD.

An age of intense commercial activity calls forth the powers

of men who can grapple with new conditions and utilize the

opportunities that come with successive changes. Adequate to the

demands of the hour, Robert Ward Shepherd occupied a central

place on the stage of business activity at Montreal for more

than a half century. The high ideals which he cherished found

embodiment in practical effort for their adoption. He was

no dreamer, for his theories were such as could be put into

successful execution and his business record balanced up with the

principles of truth and honor. As the president of the Ottawa

River Navigation Company, he was known to thousands of people in

Ottawa valley and he also figured in financial circles as vice

president of the Molson Bank.

Of English birth, Mr. Shepherd came to Montreal immediately

after his arrival in Canada and soon entered into active

connection with the Ottawa River Navigation Company, then under

the presidency of Sir George Simpson. For some years he was

captain of one of the boats of the line but was called into the

office to fill a position demanding executive force and keen

discrimination. He was made manager and from that post rose to

the position of president, in which connection he continued until

his demise. Under his guidance the business of the Ottawa River

Navigation Company continuously developed along substantial

lines, and progressiveness was as manifest in the care of its

patrons and the equipment of its vessels as in any other line

or field of business. Those who met Mr. Shepherd found him

genial, courteous and obliging, and at the same time he possessed

the keen sagacity and clear reasoning so indispensable to the

successful conduct of any enterprise. Becoming interested in

Molson’s Bank, he was elected vice president and director,

filling the former position for more than twenty years. In all

business affairs he was clear-headed, farsighted, and the record

which he left behind him for integrity and sterling worth is one

which might be envied by all.

Mr. Shepherd was married to Miss Mary C. de Les Derniers of the

province of Quebec, and they became the parents of nine children:

Robert W., who died in 1912; Miss F. A. R.; Dr. Francis J.;

Sherringham A.; A. Maude M., who is the widow of Haldane Haswell;

Esther E., who married Dr. W. A. Molson and is now deceased;

Beatrice H., who married Arthur Henshaw; Mary R., the widow of

George R. Robertson; and de Les Derniers. The mother passed away

in 1902, having for seven years survived Mr. Shepherd, whose

death occurred August 29, 1895, when he was seventy-six years of

age.

Mr. Shepherd was a member and one of the founders of St. George’s

church and in his Christian faith was found the root of his

activities in behalf of his fellowmen and of the principles which

governed his life. He belonged to the St. James Club and was

greatly interested in art, acting as vice president of the Art

Gallery of the city. He was one of the committee of management of

the Montreal General Hospital; was a member of the committee of

management of the Mackay Institution, and a generous supporter

of the Protestant Hospital for the Insane. He gave freely of his

means to various charitable institutions which seek to ameliorate

the hard conditions of life for the unfortunate. Duty and honor

were his watchwords and justice one of his strong characteristics.

JUDSON ALBERT DECEW.

Judson Albert DeCew, chemical engineer, whose identification with

leading chemical societies in this country and the United States

attests his higher professional standing, was born in Waterford,

Ontario, on the 14th of December, 1874. He is descended from

Captain John DeCew, a United Empire Loyalist, who served in

the War of 1812 and in whose house, at DeCew Falls near St.

Catharines, Ontario, Lieutenant Fitzgibbon and his soldiers were

quartered, when Laura Secord gave the warning which enabled them

to capture the United States forces under Colonel Boerstler.

Mr. DeCew’s parents are Thomas Howard and Valdora (Beemer)

DeCew, both of whom are living at Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. He

was married on August 20, 1913, to Mabel Marshall, daughter of

John Marshall, educationist, of Weyburn, Saskatchewan. She is a

graduate in arts of Queen’s University with the class of 1910.

After finishing his early education at Woodstock College, he

attended the School of Practical Science of Toronto, graduating

in 1896. After spending four years in practical work he held a

fellowship in the University of Toronto in 1901 and took the

degree of Bachelor of Applied Science with the class of 1902.

In the same year he took a position as chemical engineer with

the Canada Paper Company, which he held until 1905. In 1906 Mr.

DeCew came to Montreal and established himself as a consulting

chemical engineer. In 1913 he organized the Process Engineers

Company, of which he is the president. He is the leading member

of the chemical engineering profession in Canada and one of its

most eminent representatives on the American continent. He is the

inventor of a number of important chemical processes, and his

name has become widely known as the author of articles relating

to the manufacture of paper, which have appeared from time to

time in technical journals. Mr. DeCew has delivered lectures

on the manufacture of paper and has been appointed on advisory

committees for technical researches. He has been a member of

the American Institute of Chemical Engineers since 1908 and an

associate member of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers since

1906. He is also a member of the American Society of Testing

Materials, the American Chemical Society, the Society of Chemical

Industry, and the American Wood Preservers Association. Mr. DeCew

is a member of the Chemists Club, New York, and the Outremont

Golf Club and the University Club of Montreal.

[Illustration: JUDSON A. DECEW]

FISCHEL SHIP.

A position of leadership is accorded Fischel Ship in Jewish

circles in Montreal because of his active and prominent

identification with commercial, educational and benevolent

projects. He was for many years a very successful business man,

and as he has prospered he has given generously in support of

measures tending to the intellectual progress of his people, and

generous aid to those in need of assistance. He was born January

6, 1853, in Paranshoff, Poland, a son of Abraham Jacob and Pearl

(Leah) Ship. The father engaged in the tailoring business in

Poland, and it was in that country that Fischel Ship pursued his

education. He was a young man of nineteen years when he crossed

the Atlantic, making his way to Montreal in 1872. He had received

business training under his father and had become thoroughly

acquainted with the tailoring trade. Following his arrival in

this city he established a merchant tailoring business and as the

years went on won a liberal patronage, bringing him a gratifying

competence. At the time that he entered trade circles of Montreal

there were only five merchants in his line of business in the

city. Throughout the succeeding period up to the time of his

retirement he always managed to keep in the front rank among

the merchant tailors of Montreal, receiving a liberal patronage

from the best class of citizens, because of excellent style and

workmanship, which were features of his shop, and his thoroughly

reliable business methods. He always carried on business on St.

Lawrence Main Street, but about eleven years ago retired from

active connection with commercial interests to enjoy a well

earned and well merited rest.

Mr. Ship, however, continues his activities along other lines

resulting directly in the benefit of his fellowmen. He is

chairman of the building committee, governor, trustee, and

member of the relief and cemetery committees of the Baron De

Hirsch Institute. He is a life governor of the Montreal General

Hospital. For a quarter of a century he has been a trustee of

the McGill College Avenue synagogue, was vice president of the

synagogue for four years and has always been chairman of the

building committee. He is most loyal to his religious belief and

at all times has been generous and helpful toward the unfortunate.

On the 10th of February, 1869, Mr. Ship was united in marriage to

Miss Flora Blumenthal, a daughter of Phillip Blumenthal, who was

the first owner of the coaches in Ozerkoff, Poland. Unto Mr. and

Mrs. Ship have been born three children: Leah, now the wife of C.

Sisenwain; Ray, now Mrs. S. P. Myers; Abe Phillip, who is engaged

in the practice of medicine in Montreal and who married Leah

Sessenwain, of this city. In politics Mr. Ship has always been a

liberal, nor has he sought office as a reward for party fealty.

However, for the past sixteen years he has been justice of the

peace for the island of Montreal and has discharged his duties

with promptness, fidelity and impartiality. He is a veteran

of the Odd Fellows Association and also a member of the Royal

Arcanum. He has never had occasion to regret his determination to

come to the new world, for here he has found the opportunities

which he sought and has gradually worked his way upward until he

has won place among the substantial and highly respected citizens

of Montreal.

RENE HEBERT, M. D.

Dr. René Hébert, successfully engaged in the practice of medicine

in Montreal, in which city he was born October 2, 1869, is a

son of Charles P. Hébert, one of the founders of the wholesale

grocery house of Hudon, Hébert & Company. He was educated at

Plateau Academy, Montreal College and Laval University, being

graduated from the last named with the degree of M. D. in 1892.

During the succeeding year he was an interne at Notre Dame

Hospital and then went abroad for further study, spending two

years in study and research work in Paris, specializing in

diseases of the heart and lungs.

In 1895 Dr. Hébert began active practice in Montreal, opening an

office on St. Denis Street. He is superintendent of St. Paul’s

Hospital, physician to Notre Dame Hospital, and a professor in

the medical and dental departments of Laval University. His

professional connections are important, and it is recognized

that he is a thorough and discriminating student and most

conscientious in the performance of his professional duties.

Dr. Hébert married Miss Alice Auger. Their religious faith is

that of the Roman Catholic church. Aside from his professional

interests, Dr. Hébert is a director of the wholesale grocery firm

of Hudon, Hébert & Company. In strictly professional lines he is

connected with La Société de Médicine and Officier d’Académie.

At all times he holds to high standards, and wide reading is

constantly augmenting his skill and efficiency, manifested in the

successful manner with which he copes with the intricate problems

that are continually confronting the physician.

CLEMENT ANTOINE GUERTIN.

Of old and distinguished pioneer stock of French extraction

Clément Antoine Guertin upholds the traditions of family

prominence as one of the most able legal representatives of the

Montreal and provincial bar. Although he has been in practice

for not many years he enjoys a reputation second to none, as he

has proven his ability in connection with important interests.

Not only is Mr. Guertin well versed in the letter of the law and

the principles that affect its administration, not only is he

a deep thinker and logical reasoner, but he has an insight into

the conduct of human beings which permits him to clearly define

cause and effect in human actions, and he therefore readily

penetrates to the root of such problems as demand legal help for

solution. He has long been recognized as one of the able general

practitioners in the city, and his services are in large demand,

resulting in a gratifying measure of financial returns.

Clément Antoine Guertin was born at St. Antoine, in the county

of Verchères, province of Quebec, on the 22d of November, 1870,

a son of Léon Guertin, an agriculturist of St. Antoine, who was

born in 1817 and passed away in 1876, and Marie Louise Euchariste

(Geoffrion) Guertin, a native of Varennes. The first of the

family in Canada was the famous and well known Guertin, called

Louis Le Sabotier, who was born in 1635, a son of Louis and

Georgette (LeDuc) Guertin, from Daumeray, near Angers, France.

He married first at Montreal on January 26, 1659, Elizabeth Le

Camus, and second, Catherine Roy. Among his children were Louis,

Pierre, Paul and others. Paul Guertin, alias Chertin, alias

Diertin, was a son of Louis, born in Montreal on the 2d of May,

1680. At Contrecoeur, on the 19th of March, 1702, he married

Madeleine Plouffe and among their children were Pierre, Paul and

François. The latter married Catherine Dudevoir at St. Antoine

in 1745 and among their children were Pierre, Joseph, François

and others. Joseph, born March 6, 1755, married Marie Louise

Circé, called St. Michel, at St. Antoine in 1777 and among their

children was Pierre, born October 9, 1781. He married Marguerite

Duhamel, who bore her husband the following children: Pierre,

Noël, Léon, Marguerite, Flavien, Alexis, Calixte, Zoé and Louis.

Léon Guertin, third son of Pierre, was born March 12, 1817. His

first union was with Théotis Brodeur, who bore him the following

children: Octavie, Pauline, Léopold, Stanislas and Mélanie.

His second wife was Marie Louise Euchariste Geoffrion and the

children of this marriage were Joseph, Louis, Marie Louise and

Clément Antoine. Léon Guertin, the father of our subject, is the

sixth in direct descent from Louis Guertin, Le Sabotier. Pierre

Guertin, the grandfather of our subject, and his sons, Pierre,

Noël and Léon, took part in the battle of St. Denis, November 22,

1837. Louis Guertin, a brother of our subject, is father of the

Holy Cross Congregation, a director of Memramcook University of

New Brunswick, and took in Rome in philosophy and theology the

degree of Doctor cum maxima laude, also taking scientific work

at Harvard. A brother of the mother of our subject, Father L.

Geoffrion, of the Holy Cross Congregation, was for fifteen years

director of St. Laurent College, near Montreal.

Clément Antoine Guertin received a thorough and varied education.

He attended the St. Antoine village school, the St. Denis

Commercial College and also took courses in commercial English,

French and classical studies at St. Laurent. He received the

degree of B. L. in 1893 from the law faculty of Laval University,

in 1896 became LL. B. and in January, 1897, was made an advocate.

He has ever since followed his profession successfully in

Montreal and as his experience has expanded has become one of

the few successful lawyers whose reputation marks them for

distinction.

On the 24th of April, 1901, at Montreal, Mr. Guertin was married

to Miss Marie Anne Josephine Lamontagne, a daughter of G. A.

Lamontagne, a merchant tailor of Montreal and Malvina (Beauchamp)

Lamontagne. They had one daughter, Simonne, born April 16, 1902,

who died July 2d of the same year. The mother passed away on June

26, 1912.

From September, 1910, to May, 1912, Mr. Guertin was a member

of the Montreal council of the bar and from May, 1911, to May,

1912, a member of the provincial council. His club relations

are with the St. Denis, Délorimier and the Union du Commerce of

Montreal. His faith is that of the Roman Catholic church. He has

secured one of the most exclusive and representative practices in

Montreal, his success being the best evidence of his capability.

His pleas are always characterized by terse logic and lucid

presentation, and he always has a decisive conviction as to the

rights of the question he represents. It is his ambition to

make his native talents 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 but

secondary in importance and who considers many ideal elements

more vital in the making up of human existence. His industry and

energy have found a reward which is based on a distinguished name

and accomplishments rather than incidental prosperity.

WILLIAM SUTHERLAND MAXWELL.

William Sutherland Maxwell, an architect of Montreal, whose

high professional standing is indicated by the large number

of fine structures which stand as monuments to his skill and

ability, brought to bear at the outset of his professional career

the broad knowledge gained from comprehensive and thorough

training. Montreal numbers him among her native sons, his birth

having here occurred on the 14th of November, 1874, his parents

being E. J. and Johanna (MacBean) Maxwell. In the acquirement

of his education William Sutherland Maxwell, after attending

the Montreal high school, went to Boston, Massachusetts, for

professional training and afterward entered the Ecole des Beaux

Arts of Paris, France. His training was thus received from men

eminent in the profession in America and in Europe, and in 1898

he was admitted to the Quebec Architects Association. Beginning

the practice of his profession he formed a partnership with his

brother, Edward Maxwell, and in his chosen life work he has made

steady advancement, his unfolding powers and increasing ability

gaining for him distinction and success. In 1909 he was elected

a member of the Royal Canadian Academy and in 1908 was chosen a

councillor of the Association of Architects of the province of

Quebec. He is president of the Province of Quebec Association

of Architects for 1914. While practicing his profession in

association with his brother there stand as monuments to their

skill and ability many fine structures not only in the east but

also in the west. Among the works executed by them are the Hotel

Alexandra at Winnipeg, for the Canadian Pacific Railway Company,

the Canadian Pacific Railway station at Winnipeg, the residence

of C. R. Hosmer, the Alexandra Hospital for Infectious Diseases,

the Nurses Home for the Royal Victorian Hospital, the monument

to Lord Strathcona and South African soldiers of which George

W. Hill was the sculptor, the monument to the Hon. John Young,

of which Philip Hébert was the sculptor, the bank buildings for

the Bank of Montreal, Molson’s Bank, the Royal Bank and the

buildings of the Montreal General Hospital. They were also the

architects of the Government House in Regina, Saskatchewan,

the Calgary Hotel for the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, at

Calgary, and the Montreal Art Association’s new building in

Montreal. No more definite indication of Mr. Maxwell’s high

professional standing can be given than the list of these

buildings which have become tangible factors in the improvement

of various cities.

[Illustration: WILLIAM S. MAXWELL]

In May, 1902, occurred the marriage of Mr. Maxwell and Miss Mary

Ellis Bolles, of New York, who is well known in connection with

charitable and philanthropic work, being now a councillor of the

Children’s Aid Society. He is a member of the St. James Club, the

Arts Club, the Pen and Pencil Club and the Kanawaki Golf Club.

The family residence is at No. 716 Pine Avenue, Montreal. Mr.

Maxwell has concentrated his energies upon his profession, and he

has every reason to be proud of the fact that he has been elected

to membership in the Ecole des Beaux Arts Society of Paris. He

was president of the Arts Club of Montreal for 1913 and is so

serving for 1914.

HENRI ROY.

With intense activity well directed, with untiring energy,

business ability, resourcefulness and controlled ambition, Henri

Roy has reached a position of importance in the affairs of La

Société des Artisans Canadiens-Français, of which he has been

secretary and treasurer since 1892.

His influence has affected the policies and the direction of

developments of this great fraternal insurance company of

Montreal, and the years of his connection with it have proven

mutually useful and beneficial.

Mr. Roy was born September 11, 1864, in St. Alexandre, near

St. Jean, Quebec, and acquired his education in the public

schools and in St. Cesaire Commercial College, fitting himself

in the latter institution for the business career which he had

determined upon.

When he left his native city he went to Quebec where for some

years he was connected with a wholesale firm. In 1888 he came to

Montreal and until 1899 was associated with the wholesale house

of Hodgson, Sumner & Company.

Upon coming to Montreal in 1888, Mr. Roy began his connection

with La Société des Canadiens-Français as an accountant,

employing his evenings in this capacity. Advancement came

rapidly, for Mr. Roy proved himself a farsighted, resourceful

and discriminating business man who could be relied upon to

carry forward to successful completion whatever he undertook.

In 1892 he was elected secretary and treasurer of the society,

positions which he has filled with ability and distinction since

that time. The work has made continued demands upon his tact,

his versatility, his administrative ability, and these demands

have been met fully and completely, Mr. Roy being today one of

the most prominent and widely known officials of the company he

represents.

In 1888 when he became associated with the society it had

accumulated funds of ten thousand seven hundred thirty-one

dollars and ten cents, and a membership of one thousand three

hundred thirty-two, limited to the island of Montreal; today

(1914) its accumulated funds are two million three hundred

thirty-seven thousand three hundred eighty-two dollars and

seventy-two cents, its membership numbers thirty-nine thousand

ninety-four and its field of action covers all American territory

where there are French-Canadians.

May 6, 1896, Mr. Roy married Miss Celina Canty of Bathurst, New

Brunswick, and to them have come a family of eleven children,

seven of whom are living, Berthe, Pierre, Olive, Jeanne, Celina,

Louis and Victoria.

Mr. Roy is well and favorably known in Montreal, where for more

than a quarter of a century he has made his home. His success

and the standards by which it has been obtained have gained for

him the respect of his business associates, and his sterling

qualities of character the esteem and good-will of many friends.

LUDGER GRAVEL.

Ludger Gravel is well known in business circles of Montreal

as a dealer in carriage maker’s and blacksmith’s supplies, as

president of Société des Artisans Canadiens-Français and also

as a successful manufacturer’s agent, connected in this way

with some of the most important industrial concerns in Canada,

the United States and Europe. The industry and the spirit of

enterprise, progress and initiative which have brought him

success have also been factors in his conduct of his extensive

interests and place him today among the men of marked ability and

substantial worth in this community.

Mr. Gravel was born in 1864, at St. Raphael, Ile Bizard, Canada,

and acquired his education in Montreal, beginning his business

career immediately after laying aside his books. He was for eight

months with Thomas Wilson & Company of this city and at the end

of that time became connected with P. P. Mailloux at 223 St.

Paul Street, with whom he remained over twenty years, rising

during that time to a position of weight and responsibility

and proving himself a farsighted, capable and progressive

business man. Having shown his worth and his capability, Mr.

Gravel eventually engaged in business for himself, establishing

the extensive business which he now conducts. Under his able

management this has become a large and important enterprise and

it is still growing, for Mr. Gravel is constantly extending the

field of his activity and forming new commercial relations. In

addition to his retail business he is also acting as exclusive

agent in Montreal for a number of manufacturing firms in Canada,

the United States and Europe, and his important connections

along this line are conclusive proof of his prominence and high

standing in business circles. Among the firms which he represents

may be mentioned the following: Ontario Asphalt Block Company,

Ltd., Walkerville, Ontario; The Standard Paint & Varnish Works,

Ltd., Windsor, Ontario; The Frank Miller Company, New York, New

York; Windsor Turned Goods Company, Ltd., Windsor, Ontario; The

Conboy Carriage Company, Ltd., Toronto, Ontario; The Neverslip

Manufacturing Company, New Brunswick, New Jersey; Sem. Lacaille,

Nominingue, Quebec; Meilink’s Home Deposit Vaults, Toledo,

Ohio; Propriétaire de l’Huile Balmoral; James Boyd & Brothers,

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Jacob Maas & Company, New

Orleans, Louisiana.

Mr. Gravel became connected with Société des Artisans

Canadiens-Français in 1903 when he was elected a director, and

his ability and executive skill soon commanded for him a place

of power in this organization. He was made second vice president

in 1904 and first vice president in 1906 and in 1910 was elected

president, a position which he has held since that time. The

demands which it has made upon his energy, his enterprise

and his executive ability have been completely met, and the

fortunes of the society under his hands have been constantly

prosperous. He has been a member of the Chamber of Commerce since

its organization and at present is one of its directors. His

membership in mutual, charitable, antiquarian, social, political

and sporting clubs is extensive and in a number of them he holds

official position. However his business never suffers from these

connections and his time and attention are so distributed that he

proves a valuable member in all of the organizations.

On May 26, 1891, in Montreal Mr. Gravel was married to Laura Roy,

the daughter of Alfred Roy. Of the fourteen children born to

Mr. and Mrs. Gravel, six are now living as follows, Olympe, L.

Pierre, Germaine, Emelia, Lucette and Simone.

With the extension of his interests Mr. Gravel’s powers have

continually developed, his insight has deepened, his view

broadened and with the passing years he has become a man of

power and prominence, finding in the field of business the best

scope for his interests and activities. He is a devout member of

the Roman Catholic church and his upright life which has been

guided by its principles, has brought him prominence, substantial

fortune and the respect and esteem of many friends.

SEVERIN LETOURNEAU, K. C.

Severin Letourneau, who has advanced beyond the ranks of the many

and stands among the able and successful few in the practice of

law and in liberal leadership, is a native of St. Constant, born

on the 23d of May, 1871. His preliminary education acquired in

the Jacques Cartier Normal school, was supplemented by a course

in Laval University, in which he completed his law studies and

was graduated with the class of 1895. In July following he was

called to the bar and at once entered upon active practice of his

profession in which he has made continuous progress. Advancement

at the bar is proverbially slow and yet, no dreary novitiate

awaited Mr. Letourneau, who, during the eighteen years of his

practice has won a high reputation by reason of his broad legal

knowledge and the skill and ability in which he handles his

cases, mastering the points in evidence with the precision of

a military commander who marshals his troops on the field of

battle. In 1906 he was appointed king’s counsel. He is today

practicing as a member of the firm of Pelletier, Letourneau &

Beaulieu, advocates, with a clientage that is extensive and

important.

Mr. Letourneau is prominently known as one of the leaders of

the liberal party and as the liberal organizer for the district

of Montreal has justified his appointment by the series of

brilliant successes that have been scored for the liberal party

in and around the city. He has rendered to his party service as a

tactician and he is now sitting for Hochelaga in the provincial

legislature, stanchly supporting Sir Lomer Gouin in his policy of

progressive legislation. Mr. Letourneau is also a member of the

Montreal Reform Club. He is a man of unfaltering determination,

carrying forward to successful completion whatever he undertakes,

whether in the field of law or politics. He stands stanchly for

the right as he sees it, and his position is never an equivocal

one.

CHARLES HAVILAND ROUTH.

Charles Haviland Routh, insurance broker, occupying a position

among the foremost representatives of insurance interests in the

Dominion, has in this direction, followed in the footsteps of his

father, the late John H. Routh, who was for a quarter century

agent at Montreal for the Western Assurance Company. Haviland L.

Routh, grandfather of Charles H. Routh, was also prominent in

insurance circles, being Canadian manager for the Royal Insurance

Company. Charles H. Routh was born and educated in this city

and throughout the period of his identification with business

interests has been connected with the insurance profession. He

is lacking in none of the qualities requisite for advancement

and success in his chosen calling, which has brought him a wide

business acquaintance. He is, however, perhaps, more widely

known as a yachtsman, having for some years been commodore of

the Royal St. Lawrence Yacht Club, of which he became a charter

member in 1891. Several times has he successfully defended the

Seawauhaka Cup and there are those who feel they know Mr. Routh

at his best when he is acting in that capacity, because of his

resourcefulness and the joy he feels in the sport. The Toronto

Telegram wrote of him; “He has been pitted against the best

skippers and the best boats that the United States can produce,

but has remained the same level-headed sailorman in all his

contests.” Aside from his connections with the Royal St. Lawrence

Yacht Club, he belongs to the Montreal Club and the Montreal

Curling Club. He is enthusiastic in his sports and equally so in

anything that he undertakes, his energy and interest carrying him

forward to the point of success whether it be along the line of

business or of pleasure.

JOSEPH LEON ST. JACQUES.

In no profession does advancement depend more surely upon

individual merit than in the practice of law. Comprehensive

knowledge of legal principles must constitute the foundation for

success which can only be won at the cost of earnest, persistent

effort and study. Recognizing this fact, Joseph Leon St. Jacques

has closely applied himself to the mastery of the principles

of jurisprudence and to the preparation of his cases, with a

result that he now has an extensive and representative clientele.

He practices in Montreal and has spent his entire life in the

province of Quebec, his birth having occurred at St. Hermas,

in the county of Two Mountains, July 13, 1877, his parents being

Joseph and Cazilde (Lafond) St. Jacques, the former a farmer of

St. Hermas. The grandfather, F. X. St. Jacques, was born at St.

Augustin, in the county of Two Mountains and resided for many

years in Ottawa, but is now deceased. The great-grandfather was

Captain Eustache Cheval dit St. Jacques of St. Augustin, who in

1837 remained loyal to the crown and in 1838 was presented a

sword in token of the recognition of his loyalty by Her Majesty,

Queen Victoria. The ancestors of the family have the name of

Cheval as well as St. Jacques.

[Illustration: JOSEPH L. ST. JACQUES]

In the acquirement of his education Joseph Leon St. Jacques

attended the Jacques Cartier Normal school from which he was

graduated with the class of 1897, obtaining the academic diploma.

He later entered Laval University in which he completed his

course in 1901, winning the degrees of LL. L. and LL. M. The

same year he was admitted to the bar and entered upon practice.

In the meantime, however, after leaving the normal school, he

had devoted some time to teaching. He began practice at Lachute,

where he had a few criminal cases, including the trial of Robert

Day, a murder case. After six years of practice in the country

district he came to Montreal and entered into partnership with

Mr. Gustave Lamothe, K. C. The firm of Lamothe, St. Jacques &

Lamothe has an extensive clientele, especially among religious

interests and municipal corporations. He is also a director of

some financial enterprises.

On the 19th of May, 1906, at St. Hermas, Mr. St. Jacques was

married to Miss Albertine Lafond, a daughter of Mathias Lafond,

a merchant and prominent citizen of his municipality. There

are four children in the St. Jacques family; Jacques, Jules,

Gustave and Alberte. The religious faith of the family is

that of the Catholic church. In politics Mr. St. Jacques is

a conservative and has taken an active part in the political

campaigns of Argenteuil and Two Mountains, being a recognized

leader in conservative ranks. He has ever preferred, however, to

concentrate his energies and efforts upon his law practice, which

is now extensive and important, placing him with the leading

representatives of the Montreal bar.

GEORGE HASTINGS.

George Hastings, who was born at Petite Cote, Quebec, in 1817,

died in July, 1865. His father was Thomas Hastings, who came from

Lexington, Massachusetts, to Petite Cote, where he bought land

and settled some time before the birth of Mr. Hastings. In this

connection it is interesting to mention that Petite Cote is now

divided into Fairmount and Rosemount and is a part of the city of

Montreal. The land is now mostly divided into building lots that

command good prices.

Thomas Hastings, father of George Hastings, had married Cynthia

Baker, of Burlington, Vermont, and they lived for many years

in their home at Petite Cote, where their five children, three

sons and two daughters, were born and brought up. The sons’

names were: George; Thomas, who is mentioned elsewhere in this

work; and Horatio, the youngest, who died unmarried in 1899. The

daughters were Mrs. Clark Fitts and Mrs. Ryan.

George Hastings, of this record, married in 1847 Margaret

Ogilvie, a sister of A. W., John and W. W. Ogilvie, whose careers

are mentioned at greater length in another part of this history.

Mr. and Mrs. George Hastings spent their entire married life in

their home on a farm at Petite Cote. There their ten children

received the training of their early lives. Of these children six

were sons and four were daughters. Thomas, the eldest, married

Jane Kydd, formerly the widow of William Nesbitt. They reside

at Rosemount boulevard and have no children. William, the next

son, with George, the third son, after considerable business

experience established The Lake of the Woods Milling Company.

The former married, in 1884, Georgina Ure, of Montreal. He died

in 1903, leaving his widow and two sons, who live in this city.

George managed the western branch of the business, from which he

resigned in October, 1913. He married in 1886, Margaret Anderson,

of Ayr, Ontario. They live in Winnipeg and have a family of two

sons and two daughters. Robert, the fourth son, is with The Lake

of the Woods Milling Company and lives also in the west, making

his present home in Qu’ Appelle. He is unmarried. Alexander, the

fifth son, was also connected with The Lake of the Woods Milling

Company. He died in St. John, New Brunswick, where he had charge

for several years of the local branch of the company. He married,

in 1898, Maud Anderson, of Montreal, and his widow is living.

Their only child died when one month of age. John Clark, the

youngest son, died unmarried in 1883. Helen Watson and Cynthia

Baker, the two elder daughters, died in 1912, the latter in

January and the former in May of that year. The third daughter,

Frances, married Francis Jordan, of Goderich, Ontario, in 1885.

Mr. Jordan died in 1907, but his widow, son and daughter are

living. Maria, the fourth and youngest daughter of the family,

is living and unmarried. The family have always been connected

with the American Presbyterian church. The Hastings are well

known among the old residents of Montreal, for it is almost a

century since Thomas Hastings settled upon the farm which now is

a portion of the metropolis.

JAMES ALFRED DALE.

In educational circles the name of Professor James Alfred Dale

is well known. His ability has gained him prominence and his

position as a leader among the educationists of the country is

indicated in the fact that he was honored with election to the

position of treasurer of the Dominion Educational Association.

Since November, 1907, he has held the Macdonald professorship of

education in McGill University. A native of Birmingham, England,

he was born in 1874, the eldest son of J. A. Dale. He attended

King Edward VI School at Camp Hill, and afterward entered the

Mason University College, now the University of Birmingham, and

subsequently became classical exhibitioner in Merton College at

Oxford, which conferred upon him the Master of Arts degree.

James Alfred Dale has remained continuously in the educational

field, being lecturer on literature and education in connection

with the Oxford Extension Delegacy from 1902 until 1908, and

also to the universities of Liverpool and Manchester. In

1902-3 he was tutor in the Borough Road Training College, and

in November, 1907, was called to the Macdonald professorship

of education in McGill University. The steps in his orderly

progression are thus easily discernible and he stands today

among the eminent educationists of the Dominion, his ability

being acknowledged by colleagues and contemporaries. He has the

power of imparting clearly, concisely and readily to others the

knowledge that he has acquired, and on the lecture platform he

is a most interesting and entertaining as well as instructive

speaker. He was a delegate to the convention of the Dominion

Educational Association of Victoria, British Columbia, in

1909. He has served as treasurer of the association and was

secretary of the convention held at Ottawa in July, 1913. In

May, 1911, he was appointed a member of the council of public

instruction for the province of Quebec, and he has come to be a

member of most of the committees on Protestant education in the

province. Soon after coming out, he was elected president of the

Protestant Teachers Association of the province of Quebec and on

relinquishing office in 1912 was elected first vice president.

His studious habits have made him a man of scholarly attainments,

and he is continually seeking out new methods that will render

his service as an educationist more effective. His ideas have

received the indorsement of prominent contemporaries in this

field of labor and have been adopted to the benefit of various

institutions of learning. He agrees with Kant that “the object

of education is to train each individual to reach the highest

perfection possible for him” and that spirit has been manifest

throughout his professional career. He has endeavored in his

teaching to develop capacity and to impart knowledge which shall

prove of practical benefit and value throughout life. He was

instrumental in founding the University Settlement of Montreal

in 1910 and has been its president since that time. This was the

first settlement in the city, and its success is to be measured

not by itself but by the influence it has exerted in the general

movement toward social reform. He has taken a prominent part in

movements for adult education and was one of the first members

of the committee of the Workers’ Educational Association, which

has succeeded in grouping together over twenty-five hundred trade

unions, cooperative societies, etc., and educational bodies in

England. At the present time every university in the country is

undertaking working-class education under the auspices of the

association. At the formation of the City Improvement League he

was appointed its first honorary secretary but was compelled by

pressure of work to relinquish the active duties of office. He

edited the proceedings of the convention of the League in 1910.

As literary correspondent of the Canadian Club he is editing its

proceedings for the third year.

In 1904 Professor Dale was married to Miss Margaret Butler, a

daughter of J. Holden Butler, of Birmingham, and they reside at

No. 771 University Street, in Montreal. Not only as an instructor

in the classroom and as an enthusiastic advocate of extending

educational facilities to all is Professor Dale well known. His

contributions to the literature of the profession have made his

name a familiar one not only in this country but throughout the

American continent and in Great Britain. He is the author of

many articles which have appeared in various publications and

which have treated of literary as well as educational subjects,

and he has published in Germany a volume entitled History of

English Literature. His name was suggested in various quarters

when British Columbia was looking for a president for its new

university. A modern philosopher has said: “Not the good that

comes to us but the good that comes to the world through us is

the measure of our success,” and judged by this standard the life

of Professor Dale is a most successful one.

GEORGE HUGH ALEXANDER MONTGOMERY, B. C. L., K. C.

George Hugh Alexander Montgomery is one of the most successful

members of the Montreal bar, of which he is an ex-councillor.

He has successfully pleaded cases in all the courts of Canada

and before the privy council and has for some years occupied

an enviable place at the bar of this city. He was born at

Philipsburg, P. Q., February 5, 1874, a son of the Rev. Hugh and

E. M. (Slack) Montgomery. The family being one appreciative of

the benefits and value of education, liberal opportunities in

that direction were afforded him, and after attending Bishop’s

College School at Lennoxville, P. Q., he entered the University

of Bishop’s College, where he pursued a classical course and won

the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1893. Four years later he was

graduated with the B. C. L. degree from McGill University, having

thus thoroughly qualified for the active practice of law, which

he had determined to make his life work. He became an advocate in

1898 and since that time has successfully followed his profession

in Montreal, his clientage being one of growing importance and

volume. Since May, 1905, he has been solicitor for the Montreal

Light, Heat & Power Company, and has had many other important

professional connections. In 1909 he was created king’s counsel.

His work in the courts has shown him to be largely a master of

the principles of jurisprudence and also possessed of the power

to present his cause clearly, cogently and logically. His ability

as an advocate is acknowledged by contemporaries and colleagues.

Mr. Montgomery is the owner of Lakeside Stock Farm at

Philipsburg, Quebec, the home of some of the finest Ayrshire

cattle and Clydesdale horses in the Dominion. Modern in its

improvements, with fine natural advantages, this farm contains

two hundred and fifty acres of the finest arable soil; for which

most of the eastern township farms are noted, as well as ample

additional acreage to meet the requirements of a successful stock

farm.

Mr. Montgomery has for more than twenty years been extensively

interested in farming operations, and from time to time has added

to his holdings, in the eastern townships, which now comprise

more than seven hundred acres. It was more than ten years ago

that he started in to breed the best in pure-bred Ayrshire

cattle, and while finding all the recreation and entertainment

sought by a gentleman farmer, the project has been conducted on a

business as well as a scientific basis with gratifying results.

Stock from Lakeside Stock Farm have successfully contested in the

show ring with the best herds in Canada. Equally as high class

are the Clydesdale horses owned and bred at this farm.

In 1913 Mr. Montgomery completed his beautiful country residence

on Missisquoi Bay near Philipsburg. Modern in its appointments,

the structure is of field stone up to the ground floor, above

which it is of Elizabethan style, and from its site overlooking

Lake Champlain, comprises one of the most attractive homes in

that section.

[Illustration: GEORGE H. A. MONTGOMERY]

In June, 1909, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Montgomery and

Miss Gwendoline Baptist, a daughter of the late John Baptist,

of Three Rivers, P. Q. Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery have one son. In

religious faith Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery are Anglicans, while

socially they are well known in the best circles of the city.

Mr. Montgomery has membership relations with the Mount Royal,

University, St. James, Montreal and Montreal Jockey Clubs, as

well as the Quebec Garrison Club. His profession is constantly

making greater demands upon his time and energies, yet he finds

opportunities for other obligations and duties and for the

pleasures of life, thus maintaining a well balanced character.

JOSEPH PHILLIPE BEAUDRY.

An excellent example of the aggressive type of a business man,

and one well known in real-estate circles of Montreal, is Joseph

P. Beaudry, manager of the Beaudry Realty Company, No. 402,

McGill building.

Mr. Beaudry comes from one of the oldest families in the

Dominion, dating back to 1629, and the numerous branches of it

probably could be traced back to show relationship, where, in

many cases at this time, no family connection is supposed to

exist.

Joseph P. Beaudry was born in Ottawa, Ontario, a son of Joseph

and Alphonsine (Valiquette) Beaudry. The father, a wood

manufacturer, was born at Three Rivers, while the mother was a

native of Quebec.

Reared in his native town, Mr. Beaudry after attending school

there, completed his educational training by taking a commercial

course. Taking up the printing business, he began at the

bottom and was gradually advanced from one capacity to another

of greater importance, successfully filling the positions of

foreman, superintendent, manager and traveling representative for

some of the largest printing houses in Montreal. While he had

become well known in this line of business and enjoyed a high

standing among those connected with it, Mr. Beaudry concluded

that the real-estate business afforded better opportunities, and

in 1909 he decided to enter it. The wisdom of his judgment in

this move has been fully shown in the success that has come to

him. He has formed a number of successful real-estate companies

and has come to be known as a shrewd judge of realty values.

The Beaudry Realty Company, of which he is manager, is generally

known to carry the largest list of city lots and property among

the French real-estate firms in the city. This firm’s extensive

clientele is not confined to Montreal, but branches out into a

great many towns throughout the province of Quebec.

Mr. Beaudry is a director of seven different real-estate

companies, all limited concerns and formed by him. He is a

member of the Canadian Club, also the Automobile Club, belongs

as well to the Sixty-fifth Regiment and holds membership in

the Commercial Travellers Association. In political matters

his interest is that of a business man, and he votes with the

conservative party, while in his religious connection he is a

Roman Catholic.

On May 25, 1897, he was married to Alexina Senecal, a daughter of

Adolphe and Cordelia (Colletts) Senecal. Mr. Beaudry’s children

are Alexina, Gabrielle, Guillaume, Jean-Rene and Raoul.

He has earned for himself a reputation as a careful man of

business, and in his dealing is known for his prompt and

honorable methods which have brought him success.

REV. JOHN E. DONNELLY.

Rev. John E. Donnelly, who since 1891 has been rector of St.

Anthony’s parish, Montreal, one of the largest Irish Catholic

congregations in the city, was born in this city, February 22,

1861, a son of the late Charles and Margaret (McAfee) Donnelly.

He acquired his education in the local grammar schools and

later entered Ste. Thérèse College, from which he was graduated

with the degree of B. A. in the class of 1880. He afterward

attended the Grand Seminary, where he received his theological

training, graduating with the class of 1883. He was ordained in

the following year and after spending three years as private

secretary to Archbishop Fabre became connected with St. Anthony’s

church as curate. He was made parish priest in 1891 and he

has since had spiritual jurisdiction over the twelve thousand

families which go to make up this large Irish Catholic parish

in Montreal. St. Anthony’s church was founded in April, 1884,

and the first rector was Joseph U. Leclerc. The present church

building was erected in 1889 and the parish house in 1901. The

church property is ably administered, Father Donnelly proving

himself a capable, farsighted and energetic business man as well

as a zealous, sincere and untiring servant of God.

Father Donnelly is an honorary member of the Shamrock Lacrosse

Club and a great patron of athletics, and is familiarly and

lovingly known as “Father John” among the people to whom his

singleness of purpose, his high-mindedness and his constant

geniality have so greatly endeared him. The Montreal Herald

calls him “A skilled musician, a good preacher and a man justly

considered a leader among the Irish Catholic clergy in the city.”

WILLIAM STIVEN PATERSON.

The story of the life of William Stiven Paterson is the story

of honest industry and thrift. It is the record of a strong

individuality, sure of itself, stable in purpose, quick in

perception, swift in decision, energetic and persistent in

action. A native of Dundee, Scotland, born April 16, 1841, Mr.

Paterson was but one year old when brought to this country by

his father, James Paterson, who lived in Upper Canada and there

engaged on the river Humber, in the manufacture of blankets. He

afterward removed to near Meaford, Ontario, where he engaged in

farming, and there he died.

The public-school system of Canada afforded William S. Paterson

his educational opportunities. After leaving home he spent

one year in the oil fields of Pennsylvania, and then came to

Montreal and eventually with the late J. T. Wilson formed the

firm of Wilson, Paterson & Company of which he remained an

active member until his death. The business developed as the

years passed, owing to the progressive methods instituted in its

conduct, and prosperity attended the labors of the partners.

In Montreal, in 1875, occurred the marriage of William S.

Paterson, and Miss Electa C. Childs, daughter of Charles

Childs, who came from Massachusetts in 1851 and engaged in the

retail shoe business in Montreal. He became the pioneer in the

manufacture of shoe lasts in this city and built up an extensive

trade, in which he continued until his death in January, 1888.

Mr. and Mrs. Paterson had a family of five children: Kate

Elizabeth, who became the wife of R. B. Ross, Jr., secretary of

the Mount Royal Milling Company, by whom she has three children;

Dr. Robert C. Paterson, who is married and has two children;

Charles S., a missionary in Calcutta, India; Arthur L., of

The Wilson-Paterson Company, and who has two children; and E.

Russell, secretary of the Boy Scouts.

Mr. Paterson was interested in outdoor sports, especially in

fishing, and was a member of the Little Cascapedia Fishing Club

and as a devotee of golf, a member of Westmount Golf Club. He

belonged to the American Presbyterian church, in which he served

as a trustee and elder, and his life was actuated by high and

honorable principles. His record measured up to exalted standards

of manhood and citizenship and when death called him on the 2d of

June, 1907, he left behind him not only an excellent competence

but an honored name. He never allowed personal interests or

ambition to dwarf his public spirit or his activities, and he

was prominent as a man whose constantly expanding powers took

him from humble surroundings to fields of large enterprise and

continually broadening opportunities.

REV. GEORGE DALY, C. SS. R.

Rev. George Daly, who since 1912 has been rector of St. Anne’s

parish in Montreal, discharging his manifold duties in this

connection in a way which reflects credit upon his religious

zeal and his administrative ability alike, is a native son of

the city, born September 5, 1872, his parents being William and

Josephine (Morin) Daly. The father was born on the isle of Malta,

where the grandfather, a native of County Cavan, Ireland, was an

officer in the British army. William Daly came to Canada with

the Forty-seventh Regiment Band in 1861 and was afterward in the

employ of the Grand Trunk Railway Company for one year, resigning

in order to accept the position of manager of the Point St.

Charles branch of the City & District Savings Bank, a position

which he held continuously for thirty-seven years, retiring from

active life in 1909. He died May 19, 1913, and is survived by his

wife. They were for many years members of St. Gabriel’s Catholic

church. The following children were born to their union: William,

who is a member of the firm of Daly & Morin, manufacturers in

Montreal; George, of this review; Louisa, the wife of D. J.

Byrne, of Leonard Brothers, wholesale fish dealers of this city;

Elizabeth, a nun at Hotel Dieu, Montreal; Aileen, who resides

with her mother; and Mary, Joseph, Alphonsus and Walter, all of

whom have passed away.

Rev. George Daly acquired his education in the parochial schools

of Montreal, which he attended until he was twelve years of age.

He then entered Montreal College and in 1888 became a student

at St. Trond, Belgium, where he remained five years. At the

end of that time he went to Beau Plateau, in Belgium, studying

seven years there, returning to Quebec at the end of that time

and becoming a director in the Preparatory College at Ste. Anne

de Beaupré, a position which he retained for twelve years. In

1900, previous to his return to Canada, he was ordained to the

Catholic priesthood in Belgium and on the 2d of August, 1912, was

made parish priest at St. Anne’s in Montreal. Here he has done

excellent work during the two years of his incumbency, for he is

a man of abiding faith, energy and religious zeal and, moreover,

possesses unusual administrative and executive ability. He is a

man of scholarly attainments, most earnest and consecrated in his

work and is ever watchful over the interests of his people, whose

love he holds in large measure, while he enjoys the respect of

people of all denominations.

EDMOND BROSSARD.

One of the most able and deservedly successful barristers in

Montreal at the present time is Edmond Brossard, practicing at

the bar in partnership with Hon. P. E. Le Blanc, K. C., and

connected through his important clientage with a great deal of

notable litigation. He is numbered among Montreal’s native sons,

his birth having occurred in this city on the 19th of December,

1873. His parents were Telesphore B. and Evelina (Turgeon)

Brossard, the former for many years Dominion appraiser of His

Majesty’s customs in this city. The family is of old French

origin and of long Canadian establishment, having been founded in

the Dominion by the ancestor who came to Canada with Maisonneuve

in 1642.

In the acquirement of an education Edmond Brossard attended

St. Mary’s Jesuit College and was afterward a student in Laval

University, where even at that time he showed promise of the

distinction to which he has since attained. He was graduated B.

A. in 1894, taking the governor general’s medal, and he received

the degree of LL.L. with first rank honors in 1897. In the

following year he was called to the bar as advocate and since

that time has practiced his profession in Montreal. He was made

a councillor in 1900 and a member of the general council in the

same year, and his standing is high in legal circles of the city.

He has formed a partnership with Hon. P. E. Le Blanc, K. C., and

is in control of a large and important clientage, his success and

prominence having increased yearly as his ability has become more

widely known. Mr. Brossard has successfully conducted a number of

hotly contested legal cases for he possesses clear and incisive

qualities of mind, a power of close reasoning and clear deduction

as well as the personality and force necessary to make knowledge

effective in any line. His ability has carried him into important

relations with the legal life of the city, his standing in

professional circles being evidenced by the fact that in 1900

he was made secretary of the Montreal bar and in 1908 was elected

president of the Junior Bar Association.

[Illustration: EDMOND BROSSARD]

In October, 1900, Mr. Brossard was united in marriage to Mlle.

Alice de Lorimer and they are well known in social circles of the

city. Mr. Brossard is a man of considerable literary attainments,

possessed of a clear, lucid and forceful style in writing and

the ability to present his ideas in a concise and able way. He

is an occasional contributor to the press and to law reviews,

and his name is a synonym for efficiency and comprehensive

knowledge in everything relating to the legal profession. He is

one of Montreal’s prominent, able and successful barristers and

in a profession where advancement depends almost entirely upon

individual merit and ability he has risen steadily, holding today

a place of prominence and possessing in his native talents and

developed powers the guarantee of still greater attainment in the

future.

AIME GEOFFRION, K. C.

Aime Geoffrion, treasurer of the council of the bar and one of

those at the head of the French section of the Montreal bar, as

well as holding one of the civil law professorships at McGill,

occupies a distinguished professional position. He was born in

Montreal, November 13, 1872. Fortunate is the man who has back

of him an ancestry honorable and distinguished, and happy is he

if his lines of life are cast in harmony therewith. In person,

in talents and in character Aime Geoffrion is a worthy scion of

his race. His father was the late Hon. C. A. Geoffrion one of

the leading members of the bar, minister without portfolio in

the Laurier government, and his mother was Eulalie G. Dorion,

the eldest daughter of the late Chief Justice Sir A. A. Dorion.

In the acquirement of his education Aime Geoffrion attended

successively St. John’s school, St. Mary’s (Jesuit) College

and McGill University. Having determined to enter upon the

practice of law, he prepared for the profession at McGill and was

graduated B. C. L. in 1893, being also a gold medalist. He began

practice as an advocate in 1894 and within nine years had won

such success that he was created a king’s counsel. He occupies

an enviable position in his profession, and in addition to his

appearance before Canadian courts he has pleaded on several

occasions before the judicial committee of the privy council.

He was one of the counsel retained by the province of Quebec in

the arbitration between the Dominion and Ontario and Quebec for

a settlement of outstanding accounts existing at the time of

the confederation. He was also made the junior Dominion counsel

in the matter of the Alaskan boundary arbitration in 1903-4.

When he expresses himself upon questions of vital importance to

city or province his opinions are listened to with attention

and interest, for it is recognized that he is a farsighted

and public-spirited man who has the municipal, provincial and

Dominion welfare close at heart. He is not only recognized as

the distinguished lawyer but also as a most able educator along

professional lines, having since 1905 been professor of civil law

in McGill University, in which position he succeeded Mr. Justice

Fortin.

In November, 1896, Mr. Geoffrion was married to Miss Marguerite

Thibaudeau, the eldest daughter of the late J. R. Thibaudeau,

senator of Montreal. Mr. Geoffrion gives his political allegiance

to the liberal party and is stanch and warm in support of the

principles in which he believes. His religious faith is that of

the Catholic church. He is a member of several of Montreal’s

leading clubs, including St. James Club, and the Montreal Reform

Club, and also of the Rideau Club of Ottawa. Sir Wilfrid Laurier

spoke of him as “one who well sustained the hereditary glories of

his house.” The Montreal Star has referred to him as “a man of a

remarkably clear and vigorous mind who has been highly successful

before all the courts.” He is widely recognized as a man of

earnest purpose, seeking ever to benefit by those activities and

interests which look beyond the exigencies of the moment to the

possibilities and opportunities of the future, and which seek

provincial welfare rather than the aggrandizement of self.

LAWRENCE MACFARLANE.

Lawrence Macfarlane, member of the well known firm of Lafleur,

Macdougall, Macfarlane & Pope, barristers and solicitors, was

born in Montreal on the 12th of November, 1876, a son of the late

James Ferrier and Cecilia Clare Macfarlane. He was a student in

the Montreal high school and then entered McGill for his arts

course, graduating with the degree of B. A. in 1897. He pursued

his studies in the law department of McGill and obtained the

degree of B. C. L. in April, 1900. He was called to the bar in

the same year and was admitted a partner in the law firm headed

by the late R. D. McGibbon, K. C., with whom he had previously

studied for three years. As representing English interests Mr.

Macfarlane is a director of the British Columbia Breweries,

Limited; the North Saskatchewan Land Company, Limited; the

Alabama Traction Light and Power Company, Limited; Terminal

Cities of Canada, Limited; Mexican Northern Power Company,

Limited; and the Cities Service Company.

Mr. Macfarlane’s political allegiance is given to the

conservative party. He belongs to St. Paul’s Lodge, Masons,

English Register, and he also has membership in the more

important clubs of his native city, including the St. James,

Canada, Royal Montreal Golf, University and Racquet Clubs.

JOSEPH CHARLES WRAY.

For many years the name of Joseph Charles Wray figured in

connection with the undertaking business in Montreal, but in

July, 1907, he retired from active management of a business which

had been established by his grandfather in 1840. Mr. Wray was

born in Montreal on the 25th of March, 1857, and is descended

from Irish ancestry, his parents being William and Marion

(McGregor) Wray, the latter of Scotch lineage. The father came

to Montreal at an early age with his father. The latter, Joseph

Wray, established an undertaking business in 1840 and was joined

by his son, William Wray in its conduct and management. The

business was originally conducted under the name of Joseph Wray,

but upon the death of the grandfather, William Wray succeeded to

the ownership and management of the business, which he afterward

conducted under his own name. However, his health failed him

about six months later, and he was obliged to retire from active

business. He was then succeeded by his son Joseph Charles Wray.

The last named had been a pupil in the public schools of Montreal

and after putting aside his text-books became connected with the

confectionery business in the employ of James Griffin. At length

he entered the undertaking business that had been established by

his grandfather, and when his father was forced to retire from

the management Joseph Charles Wray assumed control and conducted

the business under his own name for thirty years, his patronage

growing with the development of the city. In July, 1907, however,

the firm style was changed to Joseph C. Wray & Brother, and

Mr. Wray of this review retired from active management, being

succeeded by his youngest brother, Frederick A. Wray, who has

always been connected with the business. The Wrays were the first

to establish ambulance work in Canada in connection with the

hospitals, and they now own the ambulances used in connection

with the hospitals of the city. They began this in July,

1883, and the value of the work done by them can be scarcely

overestimated, the ambulance service largely annihilating time

and distance in cases of emergency, bringing the patient to

medical and surgical aid with as little discomfort as possible.

On the 7th of September, 1900, in Trinity church, Mr. Wray was

united in marriage to Ellen Louise Gibbon, a native of Wales.

They are members of the Church of England, and Mr. Wray is

identified with Mizpah Lodge, I. O. O. F., and Elgin Lodge, No.

7, A. F. & A. M. He votes independently, exercising his right

of franchise as his judgment dictates. He has long since won

place among the prosperous men of the city, his position being

attributable entirely to his close application and honorable

business methods.

OSCAR DESAUTELS.

Of distinguished French-Canadian ancestry, Oscar Desautels

worthily wears the family name and worthily carries forward the

family traditions. He is a successful notary of Montreal, in

which city he has many interests. His Canadian ancestry goes

back to Pierre Desautels, who was born of the marriage of Thomas

and Marie (Buisson) Desautels, of Malicerne, in the bishopric of

Mans, France. Pierre Desautels married Marie Remy and to them was

born Joseph Desautels at Montreal on the 29th of October, 1666.

He married Marie Charlotte Chatillon, and they became the parents

of a son, Michel, who was born at Pointe-aux-Trembles, Montreal,

October 1, 1701. Michel Desautels married Louise Catherine

Bergeron, and their son Michel was born at Sorel in 1727. He

married Marie Charlotte Rondeau, and they became the parents of

a son, Michel, who was born at St. Ours on the 11th of August,

1759. To this Michel Desautels was born a son, Michel, at Beloeil

in 1796. He married Josephte Morin, and their son Elzear was born

at St. Jean Baptiste, November 25, 1827. He was the father of

our subject. His wife was Malvina Guertin, and their son Oscar

was born at St. Jean Baptiste, April 26, 1872.

Oscar Desautels pursued a classical course at the Petit Seminaire

of Ste. Marie de Monnoir at Marieville and was graduated in June,

1893, with the Bachelor of Arts degree. From 1893 to 1898 he

studied law at St. Hyacinthe, in the office of Taché & Desautels,

notaries. He was admitted to practice on September 10, 1898. On

November 1st of that year he established himself as a notary at

Montreal and in the evening kept an office in the town of St.

Louis. His entrance into the legal profession and his first years

thereafter were arduous but his ability, energy and honesty led

him to success. During the first ten years--as is so often the

case in professional careers--his clientele grew slowly. He was

notary of the corporation of the town of St. Louis and also of

the school commission of the various parishes of the town of St.

Louis and is counsel for various other important institutions.

He enjoys today a numerous and representative clientage which

recruits itself largely from the old town of St. Louis, which

is now the ward Laurier of the metropolis. Mr. Desautels is

interested in various enterprises, largely along real estate

lines, among which is La Compagnie Nationale d’Immeubles, of

which he has always been one of the directors. He has interested

himself actively in mutual societies and has held official

positions in nearly all those societies established in the town

of St. Louis.

At Beloeil, on the 8th of June, 1903, Mr. Desautels was united

in marriage to Miss Corine Bernard, a daughter of Elophe and

Mathilde (Lafontaine) Bernard. To them have been born four

children, Bernard, Robert, Thérèse and Bruno. Mr. Desautels gives

his political allegiance to the liberal party and is treasurer

of the Liberal Club of the town of St. Louis. He is an effective

worker for his party, in which he enjoys great prestige. An

excellent notary and public-spirited citizen, he is highly

esteemed and respected by all who know him. As a notary he enjoys

the highest reputation as to ability and integrity, and more and

more important interests have come under his direction as the

years have passed.

ZEPHIRIN HEBERT.

Zéphirin Hébert, president of the wholesale grocery firm of

Hudon, Hébert & Company, Ltd., the leading concern of its kind

in Canada, was born in Montreal, February 6, 1866, the son of

Charles P. Hébert, who was the first president of the above

mentioned firm. In 1883 Zéphirin Hébert became connected with the

business of which he is now the head. In 1893 he was admitted

as a partner. In 1906, on the incorporation of the company,

he became assistant manager and a director. In 1908 he was

elected to the office of vice president and in 1911 succeeded

his brother, the late Albert Hébert, as president. For about

twenty-five years he has been a member of the Montreal Board of

Trade and since the 1st of February, 1913, he has served on the

council of that body, and in December, 1913, was elected a member

of the transportation bureau of that organization.

[Illustration: ZEPHIRIN HEBERT]

Mr. Hébert is president of the Dominion Wholesale Grocers Guild,

chairman of the prize committee for the province of Quebec,

president of the Montreal Wholesale Grocers Guild, president of

the Montreal Wholesale Liquor Association, treasurer and governor

of Notre Dame Hospital, governor of the Montreal General Hospital

and governor of Laval University. He is also a member of the

Canada Club, the Montreal Jockey Club and L’Association St. Jean

Baptiste.

Mr. Hébert married Miss Blanche Robidoux and their four children

are, Marielle, Gertrude, Charles P. and Jacques R.

REV. WILLIAM O’MEARA.

A man of scholarly attainments, great force of personality and

broadness of mind, Rev. William O’Meara has made these qualities

the basis of many years of successful work as rector of St.

Gabriel’s church in Montreal and in the promotion of the work

along many lines in which the Catholic church is interested. He

was born in Sherrington, Quebec province, May 6, 1857, and is one

of twelve children born to the late Captain William and Judith

(McManus) O’Meara, the former a native of Waterford, Ireland, who

came to Canada in 1832.

Rev. William O’Meara acquired his early education in the grammar

schools of Sherrington, and later entered the College of Ste.

Thérèse, where he took a classical course, graduating with the

degree of B. A. in 1880. He then entered Grand Seminary in

Montreal, where he pursued his theological studies for three

years and a half, being ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood

December 22, 1883. He was first made curate at St. Ann’s church

in this city and was then transferred to St. Cecelia’s parish in

Valleyfield, where he remained as assistant from 1884 to 1889.

In the latter year he came to St. Gabriel’s church, Montreal,

and in January, 1890, was made rector, a position which he still

holds. This parish was organized in 1873 as a mission from St.

Henry’s parish and was made an independent congregation two years

later. The first church was a wooden structure, presided over

by Rev. John J. Salmon, and here services were held until 1891,

Rev. Thomas McCarthy succeeding the first parish priest. The new

church was started in 1891 by Father O’Meara and was completed

in 1894, at a cost of one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.

It is a beautiful structure, built of limestone, in the Roman

and Byzantine styles of architecture, having a capacity of one

thousand people and the dimensions being one hundred and sixty

by seventy feet. There is a main altar of white wood, a chancel

rail of oak and stations of the cross which are fine specimens of

work in terra cotta. Father O’Meara built in 1895 a parish house

costing eleven thousand five hundred dollars, and the entire

church property is valued at one hundred and fifty thousand

dollars. The affairs of the congregation, which numbers eight

hundred families, are administered in a capable and farsighted

way, Father O’Meara having proven himself a reliable business

man as well as an earnest and consecrated worker in the cause

of religion. He is particularly interested in the schools of

his parish and has now erected two excellent institutions of

learning, which are conducted in connection with his church.

These are a school for boys, built at a cost of thirty-seven

thousand dollars, and an academy for girls, representing a value

of fifty-five thousand dollars.

Father O’Meara was formerly a governor of the Catholic high

school of Montreal and was on July 1, 1905, appointed a Catholic

school commissioner. He was elected chairman of the commission in

1910 and since that time has been accounted one of the prominent

educators of the city as well as one of the greatest individual

forces in the promotion of Catholic education. He has given a

great deal of time and attention to this work and in 1907 was

sent as a delegate to the Dublin International Exposition in

order to study the national school systems of Ireland, France,

England and Belgium. He is interested in the work of St.

Gabriel’s Total Abstinence and Benefit Society, of which he is

president, and he has recently been appointed honorary canon

of the archdiocese of Montreal. He has, indeed, accomplished a

great deal of important and constructive work among the people of

his parish, and he holds their love in large measure, while he

enjoys the confidence and respect of people of all denominations.

He has demonstrated that the business affairs of St. Gabriel’s

parish are in the hands of a farsighted, capable and energetic

man, while his religious zeal is evidenced in his constant and

untiring labor in the promulgation of the doctrines in which he

believes. He is widely and favorably known in Montreal and has

earned mention by the Montreal Gazette as “a broad-minded, well

informed, energetic and popular priest.”

LOUIS BEAUDOIN.

In commercial circles of Montreal, Louis Beaudoin is widely known

as president of Beaudoin Limited, accountants and auditors. Louis

Beaudoin of this review occupies the executive position in this

firm, and Gérant L. M. Philéas Beaudoin is secretary-treasurer.

They maintain offices at 33 Notre Dame Street West and have been

eminently successful in their line, enjoying an extensive and

important clientage. Louis Beaudoin was born August 29, 1869, in

Repentigny, L’Assomption county, Quebec, and is a son of Pierre

and Melina (Lachapelle dit Jeannotte) Beaudoin, the former a well

known agriculturist of Repentigny. The paternal grandparents

of our subject were Pierre and Adelaide (Rochon) Beaudoin, the

former also a farmer of Repentigny. The great-grandfather, Jean

Baptiste Beaudoin, also followed that occupation at the same

place. The maternal grandfather, Pierre Lachapelle, was an

agriculturist of Mascouche. The Beaudoin family is historically

known in two variations, that of Baudoin and Bodin. The earliest

record of a member of this family goes back to Alexis Beaudoin,

born in 1694, who on November 27, 1720, married at Ste. Croix,

Angeline Houde and had seven children. Of these his son Louis

married Louise Barrat, at Montreal, on May 6, 1748, this being

the first mention of the family in Montreal archives.

Louis Beaudoin acquired his education in the College de

L’Assomption and began his career in the grocery business,

also being connected with butchering and merchandising. He

subsequently became president of Beaudoin Limited and has since

given his entire attention to the extension of the interests of

that firm. Recently a line of Assyrian products has been added.

Natural ability and keen observation of existing conditions make

him eminent in his profession, and he is today recognized as one

of the foremost men in his line in Montreal.

On February 4, 1889, Mr. Beaudoin was united in marriage to

Evelina Legault dit Deslaurier, a daughter of Jean Baptiste

Legault dit Deslaurier. The father for many years has been

connected with commercial interests. Mr. and Mrs. Beaudoin have

the following children: Philéas, Coramance, Armand, Honoré,

Adrien, Aurélien, Albert, Adolphe, Laurent, Amedée, Eveline and

Clément Marcel. In his political views Mr. Beaudoin is a liberal,

stanchly upholding the principles of his party. Although he has

never cared to participate in public life he has done much toward

promoting worthy public enterprises. He is a valued citizen of

Montreal, prominent in commercial circles and effective in his

private capacity in furthering the interests of the city, where

he has been so long and so successfully engaged in business.

THOMAS J. DAWSON.

“Not the good that comes to us but the good that comes to the

world through us is the measure of our success.” Judged by this

standard, Thomas J. Dawson was a most successful man. His life

measured up to the standard which all men acknowledge good.

His record was as an open book which all might read and there

were many who bore testimony to his kindness of heart and his

generous spirit manifest in active effort for the alleviation of

hard conditions of life for the unfortunate and for practical

improvement along the line of civic and moral reform. Mr. Dawson

was born at Knockmanoul, Ireland, April 29, 1843, and spent his

early life in Dublin and Belfast. His parents, Rev. Abram and

Anne (Graham) Dawson, were both natives of the Emerald isle.

The father was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church and

coming from Ireland to the new world engaged in preaching in

Ontario near Kingston. Thomas J. Dawson came to Canada in 1864

and spent several years at Sydenham and Guelph, Ontario. In

1870 he arrived in Montreal, from which date until his death he

was actively engaged in commercial pursuits. For fifteen years

prior to his demise he was connected with the custom service and

during the latter part of that period was the appraiser in the

postoffice department.

Mr. Dawson was a splendid type of the Irish gentleman,

possessing native wit and humor and scattering cheer wherever

he went. His geniality and cordiality ever made him popular in

social circles and his friends were almost as numerous as his

acquaintances. His spirit of benevolence was one of his strongly

developed characteristics and, again and again, found expression

in tangible effort for the benefit of others. He was deeply

interested in the Irish Protestant Benevolent Society, was a life

governor of the Montreal Homeopathic Hospital, was for years

secretary of the Old Brewery Mission and was an active member

of the Westmount Methodist church, which numbered him among its

earnest, helpful workers. Any movement tending to bring about

civic or moral reform received his indorsement and cooperation.

In 1866, upon its organization, he became a member of the Young

Men’s Christian Association, retaining his membership until his

death, and to the support of which he contributed liberally. He

gave, too, of his time and efforts for its upbuilding and always

took a most active interest in young men, realizing how necessary

are uplifting influences in the plastic age. Life was to him

purposeful and fraught with opportunity for good, which he did

not neglect, and when he passed away October 21, 1910, he left

behind him a memory that is a benediction to all who knew him.

In 1876 Mr. Dawson was married to Miss Louisa Holland, daughter

of George A. Holland, who came from Ireland as a young man

and was the active head of the G. A. Holland & Son Company,

dealers in wall paper, established by him in 1843. He built

up that business to large proportions and remained in close

identification therewith until his demise. His wife, who bore

the maiden name of Marian Hutchins, was a native of Canada. He

was one of the volunteer firemen of Montreal at an early day and

he passed away in this city in July, 1882. Mr. and Mrs. Dawson

had three children: Ralph H. of Montreal; Arthur B. of Calgary;

and Mabel L., the wife of R. Macaulay Cushing, and they have two

children, Dorothy M. and Arthur M.

LOUIS ALFRED ADHEMAR RIVET.

“A man of ideas; a man with a future; a coming man,” is the

way the Toronto Globe describes Louis Alfred Adhemar Rivet, of

Montreal, and all who have come in contact with him during the

course of his brilliant and successful career as a barrister

and legislator fully concur in this opinion, adding also that

he is one of the most able members of his profession in Quebec

province, a distinguished statesman and one of the greatest

of the younger generation of French Canadians. He was born in

Joliette, Quebec, on the 15th of September, 1873, and is a son of

Charles and Herminie (Michaud) Rivet, of French Canadian origin.

In the acquirement of an education Mr. Rivet attended Joliette

College and Laval University, from which institution he was

graduated B. A. in 1892 and LL. B. in 1895, in the same year

being called to the bar as advocate. He was made king’s

counsel in 1906 and for a number of years has been practicing

successfully in Montreal, where he is ranked among brilliant

and forceful barristers. For a time he was associated with the

late C. Beausoleil, M. P., but the death of the latter severed

this connection and subsequently he became associated with other

firms, the present one being Rivet, Glass & Sullivan. He is

recognized as a strong and able practitioner, a barrister whose

knowledge of underlying legal principles is comprehensive and

exact and whose application of points of law is always correct

and logical. His keen and incisive mind grasps quickly all

the details of the most intricate case, seizes upon the most

telling points and arguments, and his presentations are models

of conciseness and accuracy. Mr. Rivet has thus won distinction

in his chosen profession and has secured a representative

clientage in Montreal connecting him with a great deal of

notable litigation. He has been interested and active in affairs

affecting the Montreal bar, his ability being widely recognized

in professional circles.

[Illustration: L. A. RIVET]

As is often the case, Mr. Rivet’s success in law has carried with

it prominence in politics and his interest in the growth and

welfare of the province has carried him forward into important

political relations. At the bi-election of 1904 he was returned

to the house of commons and, representing Hochelaga in that body,

served with ability and distinction until 1911. During this time

he accomplished a great deal of constructive and important work

in statesmanship, leaving the impress of his personality and

standards upon useful, and beneficial legislation, his vote and

influence being always on the side of right, reform and progress.

A stanch liberal, Mr. Rivet has always supported the principles

and policies of that party and has been one of the greatest

individual forces in its expansion in Montreal, where he founded

the St. Gabriel Liberal Club, of which he served as president

in 1898. He has been a director of the Montreal Reform Club. He

calls himself an imperialist and is one in the sense that the

greatness of the empire depends to a great extent on the fair

development of the colonies. He is, however, a stanch advocate

of Canadian customs and institutions and has done as much as

any one man in the Dominion to promote their spread and growth.

Although of French Canadian extraction he speaks English fluently

and often addressed the house of commons in that language.

In a lecture on the dual language of Canada delivered before

the Nomads’ Club in 1909 he advocated Canada as a bi-lingual

nation and he has done much to promote the fusion of the two

great nations which dominate the country. He also addressed the

Canadian Club in Ontario, advocating closer relations between the

two races, in view of national unity.

Mr. Rivet married in January, 1898, Mlle. Rose Cypihot and both

are widely and favorably known in social circles of Montreal.

Their children are: Gaston, born June 23, 1901; Marguerite,

January 10, 1904; and Gerard, January 24, 1906.

Mr. Rivet has extensive and important club affiliations,

belonging to the Club St. Denis, the Club Canadien de Montreal

and the Reform Club, and socially is found to be genial, charming

and constantly courteous. In his profession he has made continued

and rapid advancement and his accomplishments in the political

field have been substantial and far-reaching, so that he is well

entitled to a high place among the representative and useful

citizens of the city where he makes his home.

JOSEPH ALCIDE CHAUSSE.

Since 1900 Joseph Alcide Chaussé has filled the important

position of superintendent of buildings and city architect of

Montreal and in that position has established for himself an

enjoyable reputation. He is one of the foremost men in the

profession, not only in the city, but in the Dominion and

recognition has come to him from numerous national as well as

foreign societies. Alcide Chaussé was born at St. Sulpice,

Assumption county, Quebec, Canada, on January 7, 1868, a son of

Edouard and Rose de Lima (Rivet) Chaussé, both natives of St.

Sulpice, Quebec. The father, a prominent lumberman there and

ex-alderman of the city of Montreal, died on March 15, 1909,

the mother having preceded him in death, passing away on July

20, 1896. The Chaussé family is of ancient lineage and one

of the old-established ones in the province of Quebec. Pierre

Chaussé, le Chaudronnier (the brazier), was born in 1630 and was

established at St. Anne de la Parade as early as 1681. Pierre

Chaussé, another of the name, called la Lumière, was born in

1651, a son of Jean and Catherine (Groleau) Chaussé. He married

Marie Madeleine Sel au Deselles on April 24, 1681, and they had

five children. These are among the earliest ancestors of Mr.

Chaussé recorded in Canadian history.

Alcide Chaussé received his fundamental education at St. Mary’s

Academy in Montreal. He studied architecture with the late

Alphonse Raza, of Montreal, from the 3d of March, 1884, to

the 14th of March, 1887. From the 17th of March of that year

until July 24, 1889, he was in Chicago, perfecting himself in

the profession, and was admitted to practice in 1888. On the

20th of November, 1889, he opened an office for the practice

of architecture at Montreal and continued with ever increasing

success until May 21, 1900, when he was appointed to his present

important position. A wide and comprehensive knowledge fits him

particularly for this work and Mr. Chaussé has been in a large

measure responsible for the upbuilding of the city along lines of

the “plan beautiful.” He also holds the position of commissioner

of the superior court for the district of Montreal and that of

justice of the peace for the same district.

Mr. Chaussé is a charter member of the Province of Quebec

Association of Architects, of which he served as president in

1906. In 1907 he was the promoter of and since its inception

is, honorary secretary and a member of the Royal Architectural

Institute of Canada; is an associate of the Canadian and American

Societies of Civil Engineers; a member of La Chambre Syndicale

de la Construction; a member of the Board of Plumbers’ Examiners

in Montreal; chairman of the committee on fire prevention

of the American Society of Municipal Improvements; a member

of the American Public Health Association; a member of the

council of Le Comité Permanent des Congrès Internationaux des

Architectes; member of the British Fire Prevention Committee;

corresponding member of La Société Centrale des Architectes

Français; the American Institute of Architects; La Société

Centrale d’Architecture de Belgique; La Société Nationale des

Architectes de France; Architekten-Verein at Berlin, Germany;

Sociedad Central de Architectos, Madrid, Spain; and the Society

of Portuguese Architects. He is a member of the council of

the Antiquarian and Numismatic Society. Mr. Chaussé has been

awarded gold, silver and bronze medals by various architectural

societies for technical papers and lectures. He was a member of

the International Congress of Architects held at Paris in 1900;

at Madrid, in 1904; and London, England, in 1906; and of the

International Fire Prevention Congress, held at London in 1903;

a delegate to the Sixth Commercial Congress of the Empire, held

at London, in 1906. In 1907 he conceived the project for the

Institute of Architects of Canada. He is the author of several

articles on fire prevention and fire protection; of the “Building

Inspector’s Handbook,” published in 1902; the “Code of Building

Laws of the Province of Quebec,” published in 1906; the “Handbook

of Building Laws of Montreal”; and the “Supplement to the Code

of Building Laws,” published in 1913, all of them published in

English and French.

At Ste. Bridgide’s church, Montreal, on Saturday, September

8, 1894, Mr. Chaussé was united in marriage to Miss Rose de

Lima Renaud, a daughter of Cyrille Renaud and Rose de Lima

(Favreau) Renaud, both of Montreal. The father is a well known

manufacturers’ agent of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Chaussé have

two sons: Marcel, who was born July 7, 1902, and Fernand, born

December 29, 1904. Mr. and Mrs. Chaussé are members of the

Blessed Sacrament Congregation, Church of the Holy Sacrament, on

Mount Royal Avenue.

The political views of Mr. Chaussé coincide with the principles

of the conservative party. He is a member of Le Club Canadien of

Montreal, a member of L’Alliance Nationale, of which he served

as grand marshal; and a member of the Association of St. Jean

Baptiste, of which he has been president of Ste. Bridgide’s

Section. He was also president of the Cêrcle Jeanne D’Arc of

L’Alliance Nationale. Fraternally he is a member of the Knights

of Columbus. Mr. Chaussé finds recreation in curling and is a

member of the St. Lawrence Curling Club of Montreal. His city

residence is at No. 1433 St. Hubert Street, while the summer home

of the family is Villa Iris, Sault-au-Recollet.

MORTIMER BARNETT DAVIS.

Manufacturing interests of Montreal find a prominent

representative in Mortimer Barnett Davis, one of the leaders in

the tobacco trade of the Dominion, being active in the management

of an enterprise of mammoth proportions. It is true that he

entered upon a business already established, but in enlarging and

developing this many a man of less resolute spirit and of more

limited business sagacity would have failed. Each step he has

taken in the business world has been one of progress, bringing

him a broader outlook and wider opportunities.

Mr. Davis was born February 6, 1866, in Montreal, a son of Samuel

and Minnie (Falk) Davis, the former the founder of the firm of

Samuel Davis & Sons, manufacturers and importers of cigars at

Montreal. Mortimer B. Davis completed his education in the high

school of his native city and early became associated with his

father in business, receiving thorough training that acquainted

him with every phase of the trade. He went upon the road as a

traveling salesman and eventually was advanced to the position

of manager after the firm had acquired the D. Ritchie Tobacco

factory. He controlled the business most systematically and,

finally, when it had been absorbed by the formation of the

American Tobacco Company of Canada in 1895, he became president

of the company and so continues. Later he gave to the country

a great national industry in the Empire Tobacco Company, which

is a branch of the Imperial Tobacco Company of Canada. He was

largely instrumental in establishing a permanent market for

Canada leaf tobacco and promoting trade interests in his line

between this and other lands. Something of the volume of business

under his control is indicated in the fact that there are now

three thousand workmen in his factories. No undertaking in

connection with the tobacco trade seems too difficult or its

scope too broad for him to successfully manage and control. Every

effort which he puts forth seems to count for the utmost and

obstacles and difficulties in his path seem but an impetus for

renewed concentration and direction. His opinions carry weight

in the management of other important financial, commercial and

agricultural interests.

On the 12th of June, 1898, Mr. Davis was married to Miss

Henrietta Myers, and they have one son. Mr. Davis belongs to the

Royal Montreal Golf Club, and also holds membership in the Mount

Royal, St. James, Montreal Hunt and Montreal Jockey Clubs, the

Auto Club of Canada and the Forest and Stream Club, associations

which indicate something of the nature of his interests and

activities and which have brought about a well rounded character,

justifying the expression of the Gazette, which termed him “a man

of strength, vigor, capacity and wisdom.”

RENE ALPHONSE JOSEPH PIGEON.

René Alphonse Joseph Pigeon, patent solicitor of Montreal,

member of the firm of Pigeon, Pigeon & Davis, was born at

Billingsbridge, near Ottawa, on the 11th of July, 1890. The

ancestral line can be traced back to Pierre Pigeon, who was

born in 1636 and was married in Montreal to Jeanne Godart, who

was born in 1638. Their marriage occurred in 1662, twenty years

after the foundation of Montreal. Representatives of succeeding

generations have lived in or near Montreal, some going to

Laprairie and others to Verchères. The father, Hormisdas Honoré

Pigeon, was born at Verchères, in Verchères county, P. Q., and

after having lived for some years in the United States removed to

Ottawa, where he has now been engaged in business for more than

thirty years. He married Marie Tremblay who was born at Baie St.

Paul, Charlevoix county, and was married in 1889. The Tremblays

were among the earliest settlers of that section.

[Illustration: RENE A. J. PIGEON]

René Alphonse J. Pigeon was a student in the University

of Ottawa, completing his studies there in 1907. He

afterward studied mechanics and electricity and entered

upon his professional career as draftsman in the office of

Fetherstonhaugh, Dennison & Blackmore, patent solicitors at

Ottawa. After a year he was promoted to the position of manager

of their Ottawa office and was in the employ of that firm

for four years. In 1912 he left them to establish himself in

business in Montreal as a member of the present firm of Pigeon,

Pigeon & Davis. Previous experience and thorough collegiate

and professional training have well qualified him for the

responsibilities, activities and duties of the profession. He

is a typical young man of the age, alert, enterprising and

progressive and is now at the head of a large, growing and

successful business.

REV. JOSEPH N. O. DUPUIS, D. D., D. C. L.

In the life of the Catholic church of Canada Rev. Joseph Nazaire

Odilon Dupuis occupies a foremost position as inspector and

visitor of a number of parish schools which are attended by over

thirty thousand children. He was chosen to this important office

in 1913 by twenty-seven school commissions in Montreal which

are formed into an association, and has done fruitful work in

promoting education in the city.

Rev. Dupuis was born at Montreal on the 16th of December, 1871,

and is a son of Nazaire Dupuis, founder of the commercial house

of Dupuis Frères, and of Alphonsine (St. Onge) Dupuis. He pursued

his classical studies at the College of Montreal and in June,

1890, entered ecclesiastical orders. He was ordained priest

by Monseigneur Fabre on August 30, 1896. From 1896 to 1899 he

studied at the Canadian College of Rome, Italy, returning from

there with the degree of Doctor of Theology, bestowed by the

propaganda in 1898, and the degree of Doctor of Canon Law,

bestowed in 1899 by Apollinaire College. From 1899 to 1900 he

studied at the Catholic Institute of Paris and at the Sorbonne.

In the latter year he returned to Canada, becoming vicar of the

Church of St. Jacques at Montreal, where he remained until 1902,

when he was attached to the congregation St. Louis de France,

remaining until 1904. He was appointed almoner of the Convent of

the Sisters of the Sacred Heart of the Sault au Récollet, where

he remained for about nine years. At the same time he acted as

chaplain at the Crèche of the Sisters of Miséricorde. In 1913

he was chosen by twenty-seven school commissions of Montreal,

formed into an association, as a visitor and inspector of all

the schools under the control of these commissions, having under

his jurisdiction thirty thousand children divided over forty

different parishes and eighty-two schools. Rev. Dupuis was one of

the founders of Lafontaine Council of the Knights of Columbus. He

is life governor of Notre Dame Hospital and is professor at Laval

University and the author of several lecture papers. He has been

heard as a preacher in nearly all of the churches of Montreal.

Rev. Dupuis is a great lover of fine arts and literature and

spent his last holidays in Italy and Spain, paying especial

attention to the masterpieces of those countries.

HARRY HAYWARD HENSHAW.

Harry Hayward Henshaw, whose name was well known in electrical

circles died in Montreal, his native city, May 15, 1908. He was

born in 1865, a son of Joshua Henshaw, who for many years was

paymaster with the Grand Trunk Railway. His mother bore the

maiden name of Jane Fayrer and in the family were two sons and a

daughter: Charles G., now living in Vancouver; Harry Hayward; and

Lady Williams Taylor.

After pursuing his education in Montreal schools, Harry Hayward

Henshaw obtained a position with the Grand Trunk Railway

and afterward spent twenty years with the Royal Electric

Company, gaining intimate and comprehensive knowledge of the

various phases of the business, during the two decades of his

identification therewith. When the Royal Electric Company became

a part of the amalgamation forming the Montreal Light, Heat

& Power Company he became secretary and treasurer of the new

company, remaining thus for many years, on the expiration of

which period he became manager of the Allis-Chalmers Company,

manufacturers of electric machinery. He had been with them

for only a few months when ill health forced him to resign.

Throughout almost the entire period of his business career he

was connected with electrical interests and came to be a leading

figure in electrical circles.

In Montreal in 1895 Mr. Henshaw was married to Florence Thompson

Christie, a daughter of Peter M. and Margaret (Thompson)

Christie, the latter being a daughter of Edward Thompson, a

prominent citizen of Montreal serving as alderman from the Centre

ward and rendering the city much valuable service. He was mainly

instrumental in the widening of Notre Dame Street during his term

of office, and in recognition of his efforts for this work he was

publicly presented with a handsome silver service on Christmas

Day, 1859. The paternal grandfather of Mrs. Henshaw, William

Christie, came to this city at an early day and was active in the

soap manufacturing business until late in life when he retired.

He was a prominent church man, being for forty years an elder in

St. Paul’s church. To Mr. and Mrs. Henshaw was born a daughter,

Margaret Fayrer. Mr. Henshaw was a member of St. James Club,

Forest and Stream Club, and the Royal St. Lawrence Yacht Club. He

belonged to the English Cathedral church and was interested in

all that pertained to the city’s development and progress, along

material, social and moral lines. His life measured up to high

standards of manhood and citizenship and commanded for him the

respect, confidence and good-will of those who knew him.

GEORGE CREAK.

George Creak, senior member of the firm of Creak, Cushing

& Hodgson, chartered accountants, was born and educated in

London, England. His parents were George and Maria Creak, of

Clapham, London. For many years he was secretary and treasurer

of the Merchants Cotton Company, began practice as a chartered

accountant in 1895 and is now at the head of the above firm.

Mr. Creak is a member of the Association of Accountants of

Montreal and is a fellow of the Dominion Association of Chartered

Accountants. He is a Freeman of the city of London and is a

member of the Goldsmiths’ Company, as were his father and

grandfather before him. Mr. Creak belongs to the Anglican church

and is a member of the Mount Royal Club, the Canada Club, the Art

Association of Montreal, the Montreal Hunt Club, and the Board of

Trade.

WILLIAM ERNEST FINDLAY.

Since entering business life William Ernest Findlay has devoted

his attention uninterruptedly to the insurance profession, and

his success is due to his close application, indefatigable

energy and thorough understanding of every phase of the business

in which he has so long been engaged. Montreal claims him as a

native citizen, his birth having here occurred April 26, 1867,

his parents being Captain Jonathan D. G. Findlay, R. N. and

Mary (Forbes) Findlay, both now deceased. The son acquired his

education in the model and private schools and, as previously

stated, became connected with the insurance profession upon his

entrance into business life. He was manager and inspector of

the Northern Life Insurance Company and in 1906 was advanced

to the position of general secretary, which he later resigned

to devote his entire attention to his other interests. In his

connection with the Northern Life he did much to shape the

policy of the company and direct its activities, and its success

is attributable in considerable measure to his efforts, sound

judgment and ready understanding of the different phases of the

business. He is now chief agent for Canada of the Niagara Fire

Insurance Company of New York, and also for the province of

Quebec for the Springfield Fire and Marine Insurance Company and

is an authority on fire prevention and underwriting.

On the 8th of February, 1897, Mr. Findlay was married to Laura

Brockwill Grier, a daughter of William Grier, of Montreal,

in which city they have since resided. Mr. Findlay has an

interesting military chapter in his life record, having in 1891

been appointed second lieutenant of the Sixth Regiment Fusiliers.

The following year brought him advancement to the rank of captain

and in 1904 he became a member of the Corps Reserve. He holds a

first class certificate from the Royal School of Infantry. He is

a justice of the peace and commissioner of the superior court.

He is a life member of Royal Victoria Lodge, No. 57, A. F. & A.

M., and a director of the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association.

He is honorary secretary-treasurer of the Canadian branch of the

Royal Caledonian Curling Club and has always been much interested

in athletic affairs.

WALTER NORTON EVANS.

Church activities vied with business interests in claiming the

attention and energies of Walter Norton Evans, who died on the

23d of October, 1896. He was born at Wolverhampton, England, in

1837, and after pursuing his education there, came as a young

man to Canada. His father, Samuel Norton Evans, also a native of

England, crossed the Atlantic to the American continent and spent

the last years of his life in retirement in Guelph, Ontario. In

business circles Walter N. Evans made for himself a creditable

place. He became cashier of the firm of Frothingham & Workman,

and was one of the executives of the Thomas Workman building.

His identification with the above interests covered a period

of nearly a third of a century. His name became a synonym for

reliability as well as energy in business circles. Men came to

know that they could depend upon him, that what he promised he

would do and that he would improve his opportunities not only for

his own benefit but for the welfare of those things in which he

was concerned.

In 1864 Mr. Evans was married in Montreal to Miss Nora Hunter,

a daughter of the Rev. Stephenson Hunter, a minister of the

Unitarian church of England. They became parents of five

children: Nevil Norton Evans, professor of chemistry in McGill

University; Mabel Norton, who is Mrs. George. C. Wright, of

Ottawa; Dr. Percy Norton Evans, professor of chemistry in Purdue

University, at Lafayette, Indiana; Lillian Norton, the wife of

Professor Henry Martyn MacKay, head of the civil engineering

department at McGill University; and Miss Gladys Norton Evans, at

home.

Mr. Evans was deeply interested in affairs of public moment,

kept well informed concerning the claims of vital interest and

gave his indorsement to many measures that are a matter of

civic virtue and civic pride. For many years he was prominently

and actively connected with the Unitarian church and for a long

period served as superintendent of its Sunday school. High were

the ideals which his life activities embodied and the name which

he left to posterity is an honored one.

HON. LAURENT OLIVIER DAVID.

Hon. Laurent Olivier David, senator and journalist, possesses

a statesmanlike grasp of affairs that has enabled him to

handle important public questions in a manner that has largely

influenced public opinion. Prominent and active, however, as he

has been in the field of journalism and in politics, literature

is perhaps his real life work and his writings will endure for

years to come, especially the important historical volumes of

which he is the author. A native of Sault au Récollet, Quebec, he

was born March 24, 1840, a son of Major Stanislas and Elizabeth

(Tremblay) David. He pursued his education in St. Therese College

and after thorough preparation for law practice was called to

the bar in 1864. While yet a law student he entered the field

of newspaper publication in the founding of Le Colonisateur,

to which he was a contributor. He would undoubtedly have won

prominence in the practice of law had he continued in that

field, but the trend of his mind was rather for the discussion

of public questions of vital significance and far-reaching

importance. He was particularly interested in the question of

the impending confederation which so altered the destiny of the

Dominion. It was during the period of his early manhood that he

became associated with Sir Wilfrid Laurier, and the friendship

then formed between them has since existed. There was little

indication at that period to show that Laurier, the young lawyer,

who was forced to practice the most rigid economy, would in

future years, as prime minister, guide the destinies of his

country. Long after he had risen to prominence Mr. David became

his biographer, his history of the eminent liberal leader being

marked by delicate sympathy, inner knowledge and keen and subtle

appreciation of character.

Continuing his activity in the journalistic field, Mr. David,

in 1870, established and became chief editor of an illustrated

weekly called L’Opinion Publique, which he left because he

objected to the paper’s supporting the government on the question

of the Pacific scandal. He made in that circumstance an important

sacrifice of his personal interest. In this enterprise he was

associated with Messrs. Mousseau and Desbarats. In 1874, in

association with the late C. Beausoleil, M. P., he established Le

Bien Public, which he discontinued when the Mackenzie government

refused to raise the tariff more than a relatively small per

cent, which Mr. David thought insufficient in view of the

financial crisis then prevailing. His newspaper career as well

as his natural interest brought him into close connection with

the important political and other significant questions of the

day, and his discussion thereof through the columns of the press

did not a little in formulating public policy. His presentation

of any subject was always clear and cogent. There was a piquant

and compelling force in his style, and the development of his

native powers and talents in the field of literature has made

him one of Canada’s foremost representatives in authorship.

During the brief interval between two epochs in his newspaper

publication he acted as translator and assistant clerk of the

votes and deliberations of the house of commons during the

Mackenzie regime. This was the initial step of his activity in

public office. He resigned the position in 1878 and afterward

successfully practiced his profession in Montreal. In May, 1892,

Mr. David was called to the office of city clerk of Montreal and

was one of the revisers who drafted a new charter for the city in

1898.

[Illustration: HON. LAURENT O. DAVID]

In the meantime he was taking an active part in the discussion of

many questions relative to the provincial and national welfare.

Originally a supporter of the conservative party, he withdrew

therefrom to join L’Union Nationale, an organization of young

men pledged to oppose the confederacy of the provinces. Later

he joined the liberal party under Dorion, Holton and Laflamme

and was in full accord with their policy on all questions save

that of protection to native industries, which he had always

favored. For many years he has been an unswerving supporter

of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, enjoying his personal friendship and

political confidence in a supreme degree. In 1867 and 1875

he unsuccessfully contested Hochelaga (local) at the general

election, and in 1878 contested Hochelaga for the house of

commons, while in 1891 he contested Montreal East for the house

of commons. He sat for Montreal East in the legislature from 1886

until 1890, when he retired because he was not entirely in accord

with the policy of Mr. Mercier, his local leader. On the 19th of

June, 1903, he was called to the senate by Lord Minto and has

since taken an active part in shaping the legislative history

of the country along the lines of progressive statesmanship.

He moved the address in reply to the speech from the throne in

1905, and his speech was highly appreciated by the whole Canadian

press. He has since moved on the subject of senate reform and on

the subject of concerted measures for the restriction in Canada

of indecent and immoral literature, and other subjects of vital

interest to the general public. He declined appointment to the

lieutenant governorship of the Northwest and it is said that he

would have been appointed judge if he had been willing to accept

the charge. He was also offered a judgeship in Montreal and

refused.

It would be difficult to determine which has been the most

important feature in the life record of the Hon. Laurent O.

David. Much of his time has been devoted to authorship, in which

field he has had marked influence aside from that which he has

exerted in journalism. From his pen have come various important

historical works, the titles and dates of publication being as

follows: Biographies et Portraits (1876); Le Heros de Chateauguay

(1883); Les Patriotes de 1837-8 (1884); Mes Contemporains (1894);

Les Deux Papineau (1896), Le Clergé Canadien (do.), condemned

at Rome and placed on the Index because of the strong position

which he took against the intervention of the priest in political

matters; L’Union de Deux Canadas 1841-67 (1898); Le Drapeau de

Carillon, a drama (1901); Laurier et son Temps (1905); Histoire

du Canada depuis la Confédération; and Souvenirs et Biographies

(1910). He has also lately published biographies of Charles Le

Moyne and of his illustrious sons, d’Iberville, de Bienville,

etc. These biographies first appeared in La Presse but will later

be issued in book form. He has frequently addressed the public

from the platform on such important subjects as National Unity,

A Page of Canadian History, etc., and is recognized as one of

Canada’s most graceful and instructive writers as well as a much

admired public speaker. The Toronto Club has characterized him as

“a man of fine literary attainments and high views of national

life” and the Toronto News wrote of him, “a man of sincere and

enlightened views, excellent abilities and thoroughly informed

upon public questions.”

Mr. David was married in 1868 to Mlle. Albina Chenet, who died

in July, 1887. In 1892 he wedded Mlle. Ludivine Garceau. His

children numbered one son and nine daughters. Next to his home,

he holds dear the public interests and is prominently identified

with the Society for the Protection of Women and Children of

the province of Quebec. He is deeply and helpfully interested

in all measures which seek the betterment of the community, and

endeavors to shape the public welfare according to the highest

ideals. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a

knight of the Legion of Honor of France, having been appointed

in 1911. He has deep attachment for the institutions of his

native land, and it has been said of him that “next to his love

of Canada is his love for the flag which protects him and his

race in all that they hold dear and precious.” He often gives

expression to his admiration for the English constitution and

does not cease to repeat that it is the most perfect political

system of government made by man. He has membership in the

Canadian Club and in the Roman Catholic church. From early

life he has been deeply interested in the conservation of the

French language and customs, especially since the opening of

the Northwest, which event seemed to threaten the extinction

of the French-Canadians by foreign populations. Accordingly he

associated himself with St. Jean Baptiste and other national

societies, and it was as president of St. Jean Baptiste Society

that he labored to erect the Monument National. Although

considered a sincere patriot by his countrymen his patriotism

is not narrow, and he is always ready to admire what is done by

other people for the advancement and honor of their nationality.

He often repeats that the existence of different nationalities

in a country is an element of progress and civilization and that

Canada cannot but benefit by the work along different lines of

the representatives of two of the greatest nations of the world;

that the maintenance of French nationality does not conflict with

the keeping of British institutions. In his present position

as city clerk of Montreal he has displayed admirable fitness

resulting from habits of precision and wide knowledge of the

civic situation, combined with the courtesy, urbanity and quiet

dignity which have ever been among his marked characteristics. He

has enjoyed widespread confidence in this position, discharging

his duties without regard to partisanship, and the most

malevolent have never dared to assail the integrity and honor of

his course. His utterances may stir to public thought and action

and then, having accomplished their purpose, are in a measure

forgotten. His position as an author, however, is established

for all time, and in this connection the Montreal Standard has

written:

“As a writer he has gained the highest distinction. Like

Keats, he has an instinct for fine words. As Goldwin Smith is

in English, so Mr. David, among French-Canadians, is the most

exquisite writer of his generation. Perhaps the chief charm of

his prose lies in its exceeding clarity, and clearness is the

first quality in a French writer. There is no man in Canada today

who can better propound a synthesis; that also is a luminous

feature of his style. But for elegance and clearness he has among

his compatriots achieved a position of unique pre-eminence.”

ADRIEN LAFONTAINE.

Since the fall of 1912 Adrien Lafontaine has been engaged in law

practice in Montreal. His offices are located at No. 13 La Patrie

building and he makes his home at No. 1136 Galt Street, town of

St. Paul, Montreal. He was born in the parish of St. Barthélemi,

in the county of Berthier, on the 30th of November, 1887, a son

of Edmond and Marie Louise (Denis) Lafontaine, the father a well

known citizen of Montreal.

Adrien Lafontaine enjoyed a very thorough education. He attended

the Academy of St. Barthélemi and from the College of Montreal

obtained the degree of Bachelor of Letters in rhetoric and

philosophy, studying there during the years 1908 and 1909 with

the Fathers of St. Sulpice. He then entered Laval University of

Montreal, where he pursued his legal studies and from which he

graduated in 1912 as licentiate in law (LL. L.). On the 9th of

July, 1912, he submitted to examinations before the chamber of

notaries and was thereupon received as a notary, establishing

himself as a practicing lawyer on the 30th of October, 1912. His

excellent legal equipment gives promise of a distinguished career.

Mr. Lafontaine is interested in a loan company and a mining

company. He has been a notary public since the 12th of

July, 1912. On March 1, 1913, he joined the Independent

Order of Foresters and has been elected to the office

of secretary-treasurer of the Préfontaine Court of that

organization. Since October 1, 1912, he has been vice president

of the Parish Circle of the town of St. Paul. Mr. Lafontaine is

prominent among the professional men of the city and has many

friends among the younger generation of lawyers. He has already

succeeded in gaining a great amount of confidence and good-will

among the general public.

JAMES G. DAY.

James G. Day was born in Montreal, December 12, 1834. He had

therefore passed the seventy-second milestone on life’s journey,

when called to the home beyond. He was one in a family of nine

children, whose father, John J. Day, was born in London, but came

to Montreal and was one of the most active men of his time in the

city. He was particularly interested in all things pertaining to

its welfare and progress and his aid in public movements was of a

beneficial character.

James G. Day was educated in Montreal and took the law course at

McGill University. He was admitted to the bar in Montreal. He

engaged in the practice of his profession until 1866, when he was

compelled to abandon it because of poor health. After spending

one year in the United States he returned to Montreal and became

a member of the firm of Hutchins & Company, wholesale tea

merchants, and there continued for a few years. He then engaged

in the coal business until his failing health caused him to seek

a change. He then located at Troy, New York, and there resumed

the practice of law, so continuing until his death, January 6,

1907.

It was while a resident of the United States that he was married

in Bloomington, Illinois, to Miss Ellen E. Lewis, a daughter of

Dr. William Lewis, who was an English Army surgeon and spent

twenty years in the West Indies. He was afterward stationed for

a time at Halifax and subsequently removed to Chicago, where he

lived prior to establishing a home in Morris, Grundy county,

Illinois, where his remaining days were passed. He was very

active in his profession, being recognized as an able and eminent

medical practitioner.

Mr. and Mrs. Day had three sons: Dr. John L. Day, engaged in

the practice of his profession in Westmount; Albert J. Day, who

is with Greenshields & Company; and Maurice Baldwin Day, acting

manager of the Bourbonniere branch of the Union Bank of Canada,

at Montreal.

HENRY MILES.

Henry Miles in 1895 became one of the founders of the firm of

Leeming, Miles & Company of Montreal, importers and manufacturers

of drugs, chemicals and proprietary articles in the drug and

grocery lines. He has since been an active factor in the

successful control of the business and to other fields of

activity has extended his efforts with equally desirable results.

He was born in Lennoxville, P. Q., May 8, 1854. His father, the

late Henry Hooper Miles, D. C. L., LL. D., a well known historian

and for twenty-five years vice principal of Bishop’s College at

Lennoxville, afterward became secretary of the Protestant section

of the department of public instruction for the province. He

married Elizabeth Wilson, daughter of Dr. William Wilson, of

Sherbrooke, Quebec.

In the Lennoxville grammar school their son Henry Miles pursued

his preliminary education, which was supplemented by study in

the high school of Quebec and in the Laval Normal School of the

same city. His early business experience came to him through

association with the firm of Lyman, Sons & Company, of which he

became manager and managing partner, his association with the

house continuing from 1870 until 1895, when he separated his

interests and in the latter year organized the firm of Leeming,

Miles & Company of Montreal for the importation and manufacture

of drugs, chemicals and proprietary articles in both the drug

and grocery lines. After continuing for a considerable period as

managing partner he was elected to the presidency of the company

on incorporation. He is also engaged in the manufacture of

medicines as proprietor of a business conducted under the style

of Dick & Company and he is publisher and editor of the Montreal

Pharmaceutical Journal. Even this does not compass the extent

of his business activity, for he is president of the National

Hydro-Electric Company, Ltd., and managing director of the

Carillon Construction & Development Company, Ltd.

[Illustration: HENRY MILES]

Moreover, Mr. Miles is actively and helpfully interested in

organizations for the benefit of trade and business conditions.

He is a member of the Chambre de Commerce, was treasurer of

the Montreal Board of Trade in 1897-98, was vice president in

1899-1900 and in 1901 became president. The present magnificent

Board of Trade building stands as a monument to his energy. He

is still an active member of the organization, and since 1901 he

has been president of the Montreal Business Men’s League, which

has been instrumental in effecting many municipal and other

reforms. He is likewise president of the Proprietary Articles

Trade Association of Canada, secretary-treasurer of the Montreal

Industrial Exhibition Association and in 1900 was a delegate to

the International Commercial Congress at Philadelphia. In 1905 he

was honorary treasurer of the Hon. John Young Monument Committee.

Aside from all these interests of a semi-public character his

activities have been salient features in the attainment of

success for other organizations and for the public good. He

has filled the office of justice of the peace and is consul in

Canada for Paraguay. He was one of the founders of the Montreal

Philharmonic Society and for a time was director of Trinity

church choir, both of which indicate his deep interest in music.

He represented the Montreal Board of Trade at the funeral of

King Edward in London, England, in May, 1910. Fraternally he

is a Mason and an Odd Fellow, in sympathy with the purposes of

those organizations. His religious faith is that of the Anglican

church, and he was for many years warden of Trinity church and

the Church of St. James the Apostle. He has also been a member

of the synod. His political belief is that of the liberal party.

He belongs to the Canada, Montreal and Country Clubs, and those

who meet him in these different organizations find him a social,

genial companion. He has been a thorough and discriminating

student of many questions that pertain to Canada and her welfare,

carrying his researches far and wide. In 1880 he was the author

of the Prize Questions in Canadian History, having won the

first prize, and in 1900 he published an Address on Commercial

Education, indicating deep insight into and thorough knowledge

of the question. He made the customs’ tariff a special study for

years and has written much on that subject.

Mr. Miles was married in 1875 to Miss McGregor, of Montreal.

Nature endowed him with qualities, which developed through

persistent energy and laudable ambition, have brought him into

prominent relations. Inheriting the strong intellectual force

of worthy ancestry, he has developed his talents and his powers

not only in the control and enlargement of important business

interests, but also along lines in which the general public has

been the beneficiary.

REV. DAVID BENSON ROGERS.

Rev. David Benson Rogers, since 1911 rector of St. Luke’s

Episcopal Church, Montreal, was born in Watford, Ontario, and is

a son of John B. Rogers of that city. He acquired his preliminary

education in the public schools there and after graduating from

the Watford high school entered McGill University from which

he was graduated with the degree of B. A. and with first class

honors in mental and moral philosophy, in 1906. Continuing his

studies he received the degree of M. A. in 1909 and in the same

year that of Licentiate in Theology from the Montreal Diocesan

Theological College. He was made deacon in the Episcopal church

in 1908 and received full orders in 1909 and in the former year

was appointed assistant in Grace church, Montreal. In this

position he did sincere and earnest work until 1911 when his

ability and zeal were recognized in his appointment as rector of

St. Luke’s church. He possesses true religious zeal, is earnest,

God-fearing and unostentatious in the discharge of his duties and

has already accomplished a great deal of consecrated work among

his people whose love he holds in large measure. He is moreover

a man of initiative spirit and administrative ability, and under

his able management the business affairs of the church have been

carried forward in an orderly and systematic manner.

On the 19th of April, 1911, Mr. Rogers was united in marriage

to Miss Florence Ethel Hurd, eldest daughter of Henry Hurd of

Montreal. Mr. Rogers is widely and favorably known in Montreal

among his own people and among those of all denominations,

and his influence is felt as a potent force in the moral

development of the community. The doctrines which he professes

he consistently practices, and at all times his life has been

actuated by high and honorable purposes and characterized

by kindly actions and consideration for others. He realizes

fully the obligations which devolve upon him and finds it a

privilege to bring his fellowmen to a knowledge of truth and an

understanding of those principles of life which bring men into

more harmonious relations with the divine law.

CHARLES H. MAGUIRE.

Charles H. Maguire, who figured prominently in insurance circles

in Montreal, was born in Quebec in 1858 and died at The Glade,

Boisbriand, province of Quebec, July 31, 1907. His father was

Hon. Judge Maguire of the superior court of Quebec, a very able

and distinguished citizen and jurist, who was born April 15,

1810, and died July 5, 1880. He married Miss Frances Horan, also

of Quebec.

Their son, Charles H. Maguire, was educated in the seminary of

that city and for a few years was connected with the bank there,

thus receiving his initial business training. About 1897 he came

to Montreal and engaged in the insurance business as a member of

the firm of Esinhart & Maguire, which succeeded the late Walter

Kavanagh as chief agents for the Scottish Union & the National

Insurance Company of Edinburgh. They also became chief agents for

the German-American and the Rochester German Insurance Company,

conducting an insurance business of large proportions, his name

becoming a synonym for successful achievements in insurance

circles.

Mr. Maguire was also active in interests of the city and his

devotion to the public welfare was manifest in many tangible

ways. He was fond of outdoor sports, especially those of an

aquatic character. He always adhered to the religious faith in

which he was reared--that of the Catholic church.

Mr. Maguire was married twice. In Quebec he wedded Miss Mountain,

who is survived by two children: Eustace J. Maguire, now living

in Denver, Colorado; and Sister Mary of the Annunciation, of the

Congregation of Notre Dame. In Montreal, in 1904, Mr. Maguire

wedded Henrietta Kavanagh, a daughter of Henry Kavanagh, who was

born in Carlow, Ireland and came to Montreal in 1838.

LOUIS J. LORANGER, LL. D., K. C.

Louis J. Loranger, a man distinguished by scholarly attainments

and a wide knowledge of commercial law, is practicing at the

Montreal bar as the senior partner in the firm of Loranger,

Loranger & Prud’homme. Born on the 22d of September, 1870,

the eldest son of Hon. Louis Quesime and Marie Anne Rosalie

(Lafranboise) Loranger, of whom more extended mention is made

elsewhere in this work, in the city which is still his place

of residence, he has here since remained, and the record of

his progress is a familiar one to many of his contemporaries,

who recognize the fact that native talent well developed and

opportunities carefully improved have brought him to his present

creditable position as a representative of the legal profession.

He was a student in St. Mary’s College of Montreal and afterward

in Laval University, from which he received the degrees of B.

A. and M. L. A., a special examination later bringing him the

LL. D. degree. He was called to the bar on the 10th of January,

1894, and for eighteen years was a partner of Mr. Justice

Beaudin. Their practice was extensive and of a most important

character. His present position as legal adviser to La Chambre de

Commerce and to the Citizens’ Association and the Association of

Architects indicates his rank among the foremost members of the

Montreal bar. He is also vice president of the International Law

Association and a member of the council of the bar. He was made a

king’s counsel in 1910.

Mr. Loranger is a conservative in politics and is president of La

Jeunesse Conservative. He belongs to the Conservative Club, Le

Club Cartier, the Union Catholique and L’Alliance Nationale. The

name is today an honored one in legal circles not only in Canada

but throughout America, for he has a wide acquaintance among the

eminent representatives of the bar south of the border.

WALTER KAVANAGH.

Walter Kavanagh was one of the best known representatives of

insurance interests in Canada. For a quarter of a century he had

been chief agent for the Scottish Union & National Insurance

Company, for which he did a large business. He also held the

chief agency of the German-American company and recently had

been appointed to the same position with the Rochester German

Insurance Company.

Mr. Kavanagh was of Irish extraction, of which he gave evidence

in his brightness, warmth of heart, geniality and lively wit,

which will long be remembered by those who were his social

associates. As an insurance agent he was full of energy,

aggressive, and thoroughly in earnest in promoting the interests

of the companies he represented. It is but natural that such

success as attended the efforts of Mr. Kavanagh should have

created heart burnings in those who had not the ability to reach

his plane in the insurance world, and that his position should

have been at times jealously envied it is superfluous to mention,

for there were many who tried to emulate his success and many who

sought to rival his popularity. Mr. Kavanagh died November 22,

1905.

FRANCIS WOLFERSTAN THOMAS.

The world has little use for a misanthrope. The worth of the

individual is largely judged by what he has accomplished in

behalf of his fellowmen and, as a modern philosopher has put

it: “Not the good that comes to us but the good that comes to

the world through us is the measure of our success.” Judged by

this standard Francis Wolferstan Thomas was a most successful

man. Along strictly business lines, too, his advancement was

continuous until he stood among the prominent representatives of

banking interests in the country, the growth and development of

The Molson’s Bank of Montreal being attributable in large measure

to his efforts and sound business judgment. He was born at

Moorwinstow, Cornwall, England, January 9, 1834, and was educated

at King Edward VI School in Sherburne, Dorsetshire. It was the

family wish that he should enter the priesthood of the Anglican

church; and later he was intended for the army, but before a

commission was procured he came to Canada, arriving here in

October, 1851. He came of ancestry honorable and distinguished.

His paternal grandfather was the Rev. Thomas Thomas, a fellow

of Oxford and vicar of Tidenham in Gloucestershire. He married

Elizabeth Wolferstan, of Hartland, Devon, and their family

included Rev. Francis Wolferstan Thomas, who became rector of

Parkham, North Devon. He married a lady of the ancient and

important family of Shearrue, whose seat is at Woodlands,

Cornwall. They were the parents of Francis Wolferstan Thomas.

The latter came to Canada with the intention of following

agricultural pursuits, but gave up that plan and turned his

attention to engineering, securing temporary employment with the

Grand Trunk Railway Company. Soon afterward, however, he sought

other employment and his native talents and training gained him

recognition in appointment to a position in the Bank of Upper

Canada. A year later James Stevenson, the cashier of the Quebec

Bank, who was then managing the Bank of Montreal, offered Mr.

Thomas a position, which he accepted. He was afterward rapidly

promoted in recognition of his ability and the rapidity with

which he mastered the various phases of the banking business,

until in 1865 he was appointed manager of the London branch of

the bank in western Canada. In 1870 the position of cashier in

Molson’s Bank was offered him and after carefully considering

the subject of making a change he at length accepted, and the

continuous growth and development of the bank from that time

until his death testified to his ability, resourcefulness

and initiative. He occupied a commanding position in banking

circles, his opinions being largely accepted as authority upon

all vital questions of the financial world of Canada. He was

also a director of the Canadian Life Assurance Company. His high

standing among the financiers of the country is indicated in

the fact that in 1896 he was honored with the presidency of

the Dominion Bankers Association, and he was also a member of

the council of the Montreal Board of Trade and chairman of the

bankers’ branch of the Board of Trade. He was likewise a director

of the Montreal Cemetery Company.

[Illustration: F. WOLFERSTAN THOMAS]

In 1861 Mr. Thomas was married to Harriet Amelia Goodhue, a

native of London, Ontario, and third daughter of the late Hon.

George Jarvis Goodhue, M. L. C., and a representative of one

of the distinguished families of Salem, Massachusetts. Nine

children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas, of whom four are

living. Mrs. Thomas ably seconded her husband in his many

philanthropic and beneficent efforts. She has served as manager

of the Ladies’ Benevolent Society for thirty-four years and was

its treasurer for nineteen years; she was first directress of the

Mackay Institute for Protestant Deaf Mutes and the Blind; first

directress of the Church Home; and president of the Montreal

School of Cookery, founded by the Princess Louise. Both Mr. and

Mrs. Thomas held membership in the Church of England. Probably

no other man in the city led such an active and useful life in

respect to charities and public movements having to do with the

upbuilding and welfare of Montreal. For years he was a prominent

member of the Good Government Association. He was also a director

of the Art Association and was a member of the council of the

Board of Arts and Manufactures. No good work done in the name of

charity or religion ever sought his aid in vain. He was a member

of the committee of managers of the Montreal General Hospital

and of the St. John’s Ambulance Association, and thus he reached

out in helpful spirit toward the unfortunate. He was treasurer

of the Church Home, treasurer of the Protestant Hospital for the

Insane, treasurer of the Andrews Home, treasurer of the Murray

Bay Convalescent Home, president of the Mackay Institute for

Protestant Deaf Mutes and the Blind, and vice president of the

Canadian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. In

1894 he was elected president of the Montreal General Hospital

and the following year was chosen president of the St. George

Society. He was for many years an exemplary representative of the

Masonic fraternity and was district deputy grandmaster of the

London district. One of his most successful accomplishments was

the erection of the Montreal General Hospital Jubilee Training

Home for Nurses in 1897. While eminently successful in business,

he regarded his banking interests as but one phase of life, and

it never was allowed to overshadow his duties to his fellowmen.

It would be more just to say that it was a deep interest in

mankind rather than a sense of duty that prompted his active

support of and cooperation in the many movements with which

he became allied--movements which seek to ameliorate the hard

conditions of life for the unfortunate, to advance the interests

of science, to promote civilization and uplift mankind.

Mr. Thomas passed away on May 18, 1900, and the Montreal Star in

an editorial said: “In mourning the death of Mr. F. Wolferstan

Thomas, Montreal sorrows for the loss of one of her most

prominent and useful citizens. A successful banker Mr. Thomas

was, as the growth of Molson’s Bank under his guidance shows;

but he was more than that. He was a citizen in the fullest sense

of that much abused word. At every point he bore the duties

that attach to citizenship duties, that far too many busy men

neglect. Then he was a philanthropist, as his long and valuable

services in connection with the General Hospital, the Mackay

Institute and the other establishments founded for the succor of

the sick and suffering abundantly demonstrate. The mere list of

the associations for the good of his fellowmen with which he was

actively connected, make up a long paragraph. As his sympathies

enrolled him among the forces which ease the grind of life for

the unfortunate, so his stanch integrity and keen judgment

classed him with those who made for honest government and just

laws.

“His influence for good--both the good that smiles in charity and

the good that is stern against aggression--will be missed in the

community; as his tall straight figure will be missed from the

streets and from such assemblies of citizens as gather for deeds

of brotherhood and public benefit.”

REV. JOHN C. BROPHY.

Rev. John C. Brophy, pastor of St. Agnes’ Catholic church in

Montreal, exemplifies in his beneficial, upright and useful life

the high ideals of the priesthood he represents and has become a

force in the spread of Catholic doctrines and the promotion of

Catholic education among the people of the city.

St. Agnes’ parish was organized in 1905 of English-speaking

people, and the services were held first in a room in St.

John Baptist church. Later the congregation, which has grown

continually since the foundation of the parish, gathered in a

hall in St. John Baptist Market where they listened to the wise

counsel of the founder and first parish priest, Rev. W. J. Casey.

He died May 13, 1912, and was succeeded by Rev. John C. Brophy,

the present incumbent, who has proved a worthy follower in his

footsteps. Father Brophy has about five hundred Catholic families

under his charge and has already accomplished excellent work

among them, holding their love and respect in large measure. He

has taken a great interest in the cause of Catholic education

and has carried forward the work along this line, begun by his

predecessor, by his able superintendence of the Olier School

for boys, and the Sacred Heart Academy for girls. This latter

institution is under the direction of the sisters of the Holy

Names of Jesus and Mary.

Father Brophy’s life has been one of earnest and consecrated

usefulness, for he constantly exemplifies in his actions the high

doctrines in which he believes. A man of good business ability,

he has proved an excellent administrator of the business affairs

of his parish, and his example of spiritual attainment and

self-sacrificing labor may well serve as an inspiration to his

people.

THOMAS CAMPBELL BULMER.

The attractive suburb of Westmount is largely the monument to the

business enterprise and progressive methods of Thomas Campbell

Bulmer, now deceased, who was almost a lifelong resident of

Montreal, and for a long period an active factor in its business

circles. He was born at Three Rivers, Quebec, in 1846, and was

educated in the public schools there and in Montreal, being

brought to the latter city when a youth of ten years by his

father, Thomas Bulmer, who was a native of Yorkshire, England,

and on coming to Canada settled at Three Rivers, but in 1856

removed to Montreal, where for many years he was active as a

contractor and builder. He married Anna Phoebe Fearon, also a

native of England.

When his school days were over, Thomas Campbell Bulmer served an

apprenticeship to the book binding trade, became proficient as a

workman and in 1868 joined Henry Morton and Charles Phillips in

a partnership under the style of Morton, Phillips & Bulmer. The

business developed and grew until the firm occupied a prominent

position among stationers, blank book makers and printers. A

few years prior to his death Mr. Bulmer withdrew from that

connection, in which he had realized a handsome profit, to engage

in the real-estate business at Westmount. He was recognized as

the father of that beautiful suburb, having been one of the

first men to foresee the value of that section as a residential

district. He was actively engaged to the time of his death in its

improvement, development and upbuilding and made it one of the

beautiful suburban districts of Montreal.

Mr. Bulmer passed away on April 7, 1902. For many years he had

been an exemplary representative of the Masonic fraternity and

had been equally faithful as a member of the Anglican church.

Sterling motives and high principles guided him in all of his

relations and made him an upright man, so that he left behind him

not only the substantial rewards of earnest, persistent labor,

but also that good name which is to be chosen in preference to

great riches.

NAPOLEON GIROUX.

Napoleon Giroux, a native of Montreal, where he was born August

12, 1863, is a successful merchant of this city, where he has

also other property interests. He conducts a book and stationery

store, which he owns. He is a son of Carolus and Mary (Hayes)

Giroux, the former a carpenter-contractor.

Napoleon Giroux received his education in the Jesuit College and

the University of Ottawa. He chose the book-selling line as his

life vocation and became a clerk in an establishment of that

character. He later made himself independent and now owns one of

the most profitable stores in the city of this character.

On the 13th of October, 1884, Mr. Giroux was married in Montreal

to Miss Rose Anna Galipeau, a daughter of Louis and Vitaline

(Gariepy) Galipeau, the former a contractor-builder. Mr. and

Mrs. Giroux have five children: Charlemagne; Albina, who married

Joseph Casgrain; Eva; Emile, who married Miss Juliette Jalbert;

and Hubert. Both Mr. and Mrs. Giroux are popular in social

circles of the city. The former is public-spirited and has always

taken a deep interest in municipal affairs, public honors having

come to him in his election to the office of alderman of the city

of Montreal, in which capacity he has served since 1902. Both he

and his family are devout communicants of the Catholic church.

He is president of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul of the

parish of St. Pierre and also belongs to the Cercle St. Pierre.

The success which Mr. Giroux has achieved as a bookseller must

be ascribed to his discriminating taste as a man of letters.

His excellent education has well prepared him for carefully

selecting his stock of books, and his gracious and kindly

demeanor to his patrons is continually adding to the list of his

satisfied customers. Mr. Giroux has widened his views upon life

and enhanced his classical education by extensive travels, having

visited Europe on various occasions.

JOSEPH EMILE VANIER.

In the ranks of civil engineers and architects of Montreal Joseph

Emile Vanier has constantly forced his way to the front until he

is today widely and favorably known as a specialist in municipal

engineering and architecture. He was born at Terrebonne, P. Q.,

January 20, 1858, a son of the late Emilien and Lucie (Soucy)

Vanier, the former at one time a produce merchant of Montreal.

In his youth Joseph Emile Vanier became a pupil in the Jacques

Cartier normal school and attended successively the Commercial

Academy and the Polytechnic School of Montreal, a department

of Laval University. He was graduated therefrom with honors

with the class of 1877, and entered upon the practice of his

profession in which he has since continued, making a specialty

of municipal engineering and architecture. He has given special

attention to public engineering projects in the cities and towns

surrounding Montreal and has been retained as expert engineer

by the Dominion and Quebec governments. He is secretary for

the Architects Association of Quebec, and he designed the New

Polytechnic School of Montreal in 1904. He was elected president

of the Montreal Polytechnic School Association in 1910. He is a

member of the Society of Civil Engineers, a member of the Société

des Ingénieurs Civils de France and a member of the society of

Architects of the Province of Quebec.

The Montreal Gazette says that Mr. Vanier has ever been “a credit

to his province.” He believes in “Canada for the Canadians,”

and this has been the policy upon which he has worked in behalf

of public interests. His religious faith is that of the Roman

Catholic church. He maintains his residence in Montreal in the

winter seasons and has a summer home, Beauverger, at Ste. Rose,

P. Q. In club and sporting circles he is also well known. He

belongs to Club Canadien, Club Lafontaine, the Fish and Game

Club, the Engineers Club and the Automobile and Aero Club of

Montreal.

PIERRE LOUIS DUPUIS.

Among the recent additions to the Montreal bar is Pierre Louis

Dupuis, who has already gained a reputation which many an older

practitioner of law might well envy. He was born in the parish

of La Longue Pointe on the 3d of September, 1887, a son of

Louis Napoleon Dupuis, former merchant, one of the founders of

Dupuis Freres, Limited, and for some time controller of the city

of Montreal. The mother, who bore the maiden name of Melanie

Levesque, was a daughter of the late Pierre Thomas Levesque,

whose ancestors rendered valuable services to the province and

Dominion in judicial and legislative capacities.

[Illustration: PIERRE L. DUPUIS]

In the acquirement of his education, Pierre Louis Dupuis pursued

a classical course at L’Assomption Collège, which he attended

from 1900 until 1908, winning the Bachelor of Arts degree in that

institution. He took up the study of law in Laval University,

which he attended from 1908 until his graduation on the 26th of

June, 1911, with the LL. L. degree. On the 4th of August, 1911,

he was admitted to the bar.

His commercial course was pursued in Eastman’s Business College

at Poughkeepsie, New York, during the meantime, and he was

graduated with honors from the institution on the 30th of

September, 1910.

Before locating permanently in Montreal, for the practice of his

profession, Mr. Dupuis took an extended European trip, having

previously traveled extensively in both Canada and the United

States. He entered upon the active practice of his profession

in January, 1912. Most liberal educational opportunities had

been his and added to his knowledge is laudable ambition and

unfaltering determination, qualities which are building up for

him a large and gratifying practice. At the beginning of his

professional career in January, 1912, he became junior partner

of the law firm of Dussault, Mercier & Dupuis, recognized as

one of the strong law firms of the city. In addition Mr. Dupuis

is connected with many financial interests and his judgment

in business as well as professional interests is sound and

discriminating.

In politics Mr. Dupuis is a conservative, well informed on

significant and vital problems. He belongs to the Catholic

church, the Knights of Columbus, the Canadian Club and the

Montreal Amateur Athletic Association--associations which

indicate the nature of his interests and his recreation and the

principles which govern his conduct.

On the 15th of January, 1913, Mr. Dupuis was married, at St.

Benoit, in the county of Two Mountains, to Miss Carmel Girouard,

a daughter of Joseph Girouard, a notary and ex-deputy of Two

Mountains, who is a conservative leader of that district. The

Girouards are of the earliest and most prominent French families

of the province. Mr. Dupuis has one son, Rene, born October 9,

1913.

ALFRED HAWKSWORTH.

A spirit of business enterprise and laudable ambition advanced

Alfred Hawksworth to an enviable position among the manufacturers

of Montreal where the latter years of his life were passed. In

the course of an active career he learned to discriminate readily

between the essential and nonessential and utilizing the former

and discarding the latter he met success in his undertakings. He

was, at the time of his death at the head of the firm of Alfred

Hawksworth & Sons, Limited.

He was born on the 9th of October, 1846, at Glossop, Derbyshire,

England, a son of Samuel Hawksworth, who always remained a

resident of England. In early manhood Alfred Hawksworth crossed

the Atlantic to the United States and settled at Lonsdale,

Rhode Island, where he was employed in connection with the

cotton mills of that place. Subsequently he removed to Concord,

Massachusetts, and was made overseer of Daymen & Smith’s cotton

mill. His expanding powers and growing ability later lead to

his appointment to the responsible position of manager of the

largest cotton mill at Manville, Rhode Island, and during his

residence there he invented a loom for the weaving of velvet

and plush. At different times he was in charge of cotton mills

at New Bedford and Newburyport, Massachusetts, and Pawtucket,

Providence, and Pontiac, Rhode Island, being thus identified with

some of the largest manufacturing interests of that class in New

England, while in Pontiac he was for eight years superintendent

of the cotton mills of B. B. & R. Knight, and by reason of

his responsible position, was accounted one of the foremost

business men of that place. He also became an important factor

in the public life of the community, being greatly interested

in everything that pertained to the general welfare. He sought

earnestly and effectively to improve roads, schools and libraries

and in fact to advance any measure relative to the public good.

On the 19th of March, 1895, Mr. Hawksworth arrived in Montreal,

becoming manager of the Merchants cotton mills at St. Henri, now

a part of the plant of the Dominion Textile Company, Limited.

About eight years prior to his death he resigned that position

and established the mill supply house of Alfred Hawksworth &

Sons, Limited, which was incorporated in 1905 and is still

one of the important productive industries of Montreal. The

business from its inception proved a profitable one and under the

careful guidance of its founder, developed into one of the large

enterprises of this character in Canada. Mr. Hawksworth, through

long experience, was familiar with every phase of the manufacture

of cotton goods and knew the needs relative thereto, his mill

supply house being an outgrowth of his experience and knowledge.

While living in Lonsdale, Rhode Island, in June, 1871, Mr.

Hawksworth was united in marriage to Miss Esther A. Moss, a

daughter of Edward Moss of that place, and they became the

parents of a daughter and five sons: Fred, of Montreal; Edward,

who is connected with the Hawksworth & Sons Company, Limited;

Harry, who is vice president of that company; Walter L., who is

secretary-treasurer, and also assistant manager of the supply

house; and Lester A. The daughter, Miss Alice M. Hawksworth, is

at home with her mother.

Mr. Hawksworth joined the Masonic fraternity in Concord,

Massachusetts, in 1870, and in June, 1903, was made a life member

of the Mount Moriah Lodge, No. 8, F. & A. M., of Limerock, Rhode

Island. He was also made an honorary member of Mount Moriah

Club at Limerock and in Masonry he attained the Knights Templar

degree. He was a communicant in St. Simon’s church in Montreal

and his entire life was actuated by high and honorable purposes

and manly principles. He was a great reader, possessing scholarly

taste and his private library contained three thousand volumes

with the contents of which he was largely familiar, spending many

of his pleasant hours in close association with men of master

minds within the four walls of his library.

Mr. Hawksworth could truly be called a self-made man--a title

of which he had every reason to be proud. It indicated not only

his substantial success in business, but also his intellectual

growth and progress. Along the former line he possessed notable

ability in coordinating force and unifying elements into a

harmonious whole. More than his success, the breadth of his mind

and character commanded respect and endeared him to those with

whom he came in contact. In his leisure hours he was always to be

found at his own fireside or in those circles where intelligent

men were wont to meet in discussion of vital problems, and when

he passed away on the 16th of February, 1913, a feeling of deep

regret was manifested by all of his associates, for his genuine

worth had given him firm hold upon the affections of those with

whom he was brought in contact.

THOMAS BASSETT MACAULAY.

Thomas Bassett Macaulay, actuary and well known in insurance

circles, not only in Montreal but throughout Canada and the

United States, has aside from his business affairs led a life of

intense and well directed activity, being identified with various

organized movements which have to do with the promotion of moral

progress or which seek to alleviate hard conditions of life for

the unfortunate.

Mr. Macaulay is a native of the province of Ontario, having been

born in Hamilton on the 6th of June, 1860, a son of Robertson and

Barbara Maria (Reid) Macaulay. After pursuing his early education

in Hamilton he continued his studies in Montreal and made his

initial step in the business world in the service of the Sun

Life Assurance Company of Canada at Montreal in October, 1877.

He bent every energy to the mastery of the duties intrusted to

him and the recognition of his ability and faithfulness came to

him in promotion. In 1880 he was appointed actuary and in 1891

was made secretary of the company. In 1898 he was elected a

director and in 1906 became managing director of a corporation

that is acknowledged to be one of the strongest and most reliable

insurance companies of the world. By examination he became a

fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Great Britain and is

now supervisor at Montreal in connection with examinations of

the institute. He is a charter member of the Actuarial Society

of America and was honored with election to its presidency in

1899 and in 1901, while he is now a life member of its council.

He has indeed a wide reputation in his profession and extended

acquaintance. He is a member of the Royal Statistical Society of

England, a corresponding member of the Institute des Actuaires

Françaises de France and in 1895 was again a delegate to the

International Commerce of Actuaries in Brussels, and again in

1898 in London and in 1900 in Paris. At the last mentioned he was

elected vice president to represent both the United States and

Canada. He was also elected vice president of the International

Actuaries Association in 1906.

Important and responsible are the duties which have come to

Mr. Macaulay with his developing powers, and he finds rest

and recreation therefrom in his interests in farming and

stock-raising. He has valuable farming property at Hudson

Heights, Quebec. He also has other business connections, being

a director of the Illinois Traction Company, of the National

Trust Company and of the Dominion Glass Company. He is likewise

actively interested in organizations having to do with the public

welfare, being a governor of the Montreal General Hospital. He

is likewise a governor of the Congregational College of Canada

which is indicative of his church relationship. In 1911 he was

elected president of the Congregational Union of Canada. The same

year he was elected president of the Canadian and West Indian

League. He is a careful student of all the vital problems and

questions of the age and fearlessly he pronounces his opinions

yet is never aggressive. He favors the imposition of a moderate

import duty by the United Kingdom and colonies to be kept

distinct from local duties and to be applied to imperial defence.

In 1881, Mr. Macaulay was married to Miss Henrietta M. L. Bragg,

who died in 1910. She was the daughter of the late Oliver Bragg,

M. D., and a step-daughter of the Rev. J. Lawson Forster, D. D.,

of London, England. In 1912 he married Miss Margaret Allen, a

daughter of the late Rev. William Allen of London, England. Many

have expressed the opinion that he should take a more active part

in public life for his qualifications are such as would make him

a powerful factor in the discussion of important questions. He is

an agreeable speaker, clear, fluent and forceful, and he has the

ability of instructing while entertaining. It would be difficult

to mention the line along which his usefulness has been greatest

for he has accomplished much in various connections, and his

work has ever been an influencing factor on the side of reform,

progress, improvement and right.

THE BAGG FAMILY.

The Bagg family is one of the oldest English families on the

island of Montreal and one whose members have been foremost in

social, financial, religious, political and military circles

for the past century, or since the arrival of the first

representative of the name, Stanley Bagg, Esq., who was born in

County Durham, England, where this branch of the family possessed

large landed estates. In Canada for the past three-quarters of

a century such men as Lieutenant Colonel Stanley Clark Bagg,

scholar, financier and philanthropist, and his son, the late

Robert Stanley Bagg, a worthy son of an honored sire, have placed

the name on a high plane.

Stanley Bagg, Esq., the first of this family to settle in

Montreal, was born in England in 1786 and died at Fairmount,

the family residence on Sherbrooke Street, October 31, 1853,

aged sixty-seven years. He left to his son, Stanley Clark Bagg,

large landed estates in Montreal and County Durham, England.

Lieutenant Colonel Stanley Clark Bagg, son of Stanley and Mary

Ann (Clark) Bagg, was born at the manor house in Montreal on

December 23, 1820. He studied law and afterwards took up the

notarial profession, which he practiced successfully for a number

of years but abandoned it in order to give his attention to the

management of estates which he inherited from his grandfather, as

well as a freehold property in County Durham, England. He was at

one time the largest landholder on the island of Montreal, gave

many streets and squares to the city and made very substantial

benefactions to the citizens. He was an honorary member of the

Montreal Field Battery and Artillery and of the Light Infantry,

and his name figured in connection with public office through

appointment to the position of one of Her Majesty’s justices

of the peace in 1859, after which he performed judicial

duties for a time. In 1865 he was solicited to become mayor of

Montreal but declined the proffered honor. In politics he was a

conservative but without political ambition, refusing nomination

for a seat in parliament. He was, however, a deep student of

the questions of the times, wrote largely for the press and his

writings were received warmly in both England and America. He was

greatly interested in philanthropic projects and in efforts to

promote intellectual progress. He became one of the founders and

the first president of the English Workingmen’s Benefit Society,

was one of the founders of the Antiquarian and Numismatic

Society, which honored him with its presidency, and a life member

of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. He

also belonged to the Cathedral Young Men’s Christian Association,

the Natural History Society and the Mechanics Institute. His

activities had their root in principles inculcated by the

Church of England and he was a devoted member of Christ Church

Cathedral. He married Miss Catharine Mitcheson, a daughter of

Robert and Frances (MacGregor) Mitcheson, natives of England and

Scotland respectively, and died at his residence, “Fairmount,” in

Montreal, August 8, 1873.

[Illustration: ROBERT STANLEY BAGG]

Robert Stanley Bagg, son of Lieutenant Colonel Stanley Clark and

Catharine (Mitcheson) Bagg, and the head of the family in the

third generation in this country, was born at the manor house in

Montreal in July, 1848, and was educated in the Montreal high

school and McGill University, from which he graduated, after

which he proceeded to England to complete his studies. On his

return to Canada he was called to the bar of Montreal but never

practiced law extensively, although he formed a partnership with

Donald Macmaster, now a member of parliament. At his father’s

death, however, the management of the largest landed estate on

the island devolved upon him, so that he abandoned the active

practice of the legal profession.

Much of his time and energy was also given to public life and

he was considered a powerful platform orator. In 1896 he was

nominated for the St. Lawrence division seat in the house

of commons, but resigned for political reasons. His father,

Lieutenant Colonel Bagg, was a Tory and a personal friend of

the late Sir John A. Macdonald, and it was natural that the

son should espouse early in life the conservative cause. He

was frequently heard on the platform in support of principles

of the party, being known as a stanch conservative both in

and out of power, while at one time he was president of the

Liberal-Conservative Club, giving a great deal of his time to

the work of organizing as well as to public discussion. He was

well known among the French Canadian people and spoke their

language almost as fluently as his mother tongue. Mr. Bagg was

mentioned several times as the party candidate in the federal

contests, but the house of commons had no attraction for him.

He was known personally to all the party leaders from the time

of Macdonald down to the present day. Like his father, he was a

most generous supporter of charities and benevolent projects,

and he was a governor and benefactor of the Montreal General

Hospital and the Montreal Dispensary. He was likewise a member of

almost every social and sporting club on the island of Montreal;

was a splendid horseman and a good soldier, being at one time

commanding officer in the Fifth Royal Scots, taking part in the

quelling of the Quebec riots and doing much active military duty.

Mr. Bagg had been ailing for several months, but the call came

unexpectedly and he died July 22, 1912, at Kennebunk Port,

Maine, where he was spending the summer, as was his custom. In

his passing Montreal lost one of its foremost citizens, a most

prominent representative of one of the old English families, and

a man of distinction to whom opportunity meant activity, and who

in all of his business and social relations maintained a position

that reflected credit and honor upon an honored family name.

His life was not self-centered but reached out along broadening

lines for the benefit of his fellowmen and of his city, where the

family has so long been well known in the best social circles.

Mr. Bagg was married in 1882 to Miss Clara Smithers, a daughter

of the late Charles F. Smithers, president of the Bank of

Montreal, and to them were born three children, Evelyn St. Claire

Stanley, Gwendolen Katherine Stanley and Harold Stanley.

Evelyn St. Claire Stanley Bagg was married on the 26th of

October, 1910, to Huntly Ward Davis, an architect of Montreal,

and they have one daughter, Evelyn Clare Ward Davis, who is of

the fifth generation of the family in Canada.

SERAPHIN OUIMET.

Seraphin Ouimet, member of the civil engineering firm of Ouimet

& Lesage, connected with important municipal and railroad work

in Montreal and in various other sections of the province and

Dominion, was born October 8, 1879, in Ste. Rose, in the county

of Laval, P. Q. The earliest record of the Ouimet family in this

province is of Jean Ouimet, who was born in 1634 and died on

the 19th of November, 1687, at Ste. Famille. He married Renee

Gagnon about 1660 and their son, Louis Ouimet, who was one of

nine children, was married February 3, 1693, at Ste. Famille to

Marie Anne Genest, by whom he had thirteen children. Anselme

Ouimet, father of Seraphin Ouimet, was born at St. François de

Sales, about 1840 and married Emelie Gauthier, who was born in

Montreal about 1850. Their son, Seraphin Ouimet, attended school

in his native town of Ste. Rose and afterward pursued a classical

course at Ste. Thérèse in the county of Terrebonne, where he

remained for seven years and was leader of his class, and where

he gained his B. C. es Lettres. Later he became a student in

the Polytechnic school at Laval. He passed his examination with

distinction, graduating June 10, 1904, with the degree of B. C.

es Sciences. He next engaged with the dominion government as

superintendent of Marconi stations on the Gulf, having charge of

five stations. He continued in that position for one season and

was appointed assistant engineer of the Georgian Bay Ship Canal

survey. After four months in that position he was promoted to

first assistant and two months later to chief. He continued for

eighteen months in that capacity, rendering efficient, capable

and acceptable service until, desiring to engage in the private

practice of his profession, he opened an office in Montreal. He

passed his examination as Quebec land surveyor on June 17, 1908,

before the board of the Quebec Land Surveyors Association. For

a year he was associated with James H. Parent, at the close of

which time he entered into partnership with Royal Lesage and has

since continued under the firm name of Ouimet & Lesage. Their

clientage has steadily increased in the interim and their work

today extends largely over the province, including many contracts

for municipal engineering and railroad work. They have been

connected with the building of a branch of the Transcontinental,

extending from Montreal and have acted as experts for municipal

civil engineering projects in connection with important work

for electric and other companies. They employ over twenty men,

and the business is one of growing importance. Mr. Ouimet is

recognized as a clever, energetic and successful representative

of his profession, widely known and highly respected. His

ability, close study and developing powers have gained him wider

and wider recognition until he stands today as one of the able

representatives of the profession in Montreal.

DUNCAN CAMPBELL MACCALLUM, M. D., M. R. C. S.

Distinguished honors came to Duncan Campbell MacCallum, M. D.,

in recognition of his marked ability as a medical practitioner,

educator and author. He was in the vanguard of those men to whom

science revealed in considerable measure her secrets, his wide

research and investigation giving him place with the most eminent

of the Canadians connected with the medical profession. He was a

fellow of the Obstetrical Society of London, a foundation fellow

of the British Gynecological Society and professor emeritus of

McGill University. He was born at Ile aux Noix, in the province

of Quebec, on the 12th of November, 1825, and died November 13,

1904. He came of pure Scotch ancestry, his parents being John

and Mary (Campbell) MacCallum. His maternal grandfather, Malcolm

Campbell, of Killin, was a near kinsman, through Lochiel Cameron,

of the Earl of Breadalbane.

Dr. MacCallum’s early professional training was received in

McGill University, from which he was graduated M. D. in 1850. He

then proceeded to Great Britain and studied in London, Edinburgh

and Dublin, pursuing post-graduate courses in all three cities.

Upon examination he was admitted to the Royal College of Surgeons

in England in 1851 and his preliminary training was so thorough

and comprehensive as to place him beyond the point of mediocrity

even at the outset of his professional career. Returning to

Montreal, he entered upon active practice in this city and

almost immediately became known, as well, as an able educator

and writer upon medical topics. He was appointed demonstrator of

anatomy in McGill in 1854 and was connected with the faculty of

medicine until his death. In 1856 he was appointed to the chair

of clinical surgery and in November, 1860, was transferred to the

chair of clinical medicine and medical jurisprudence, occupying

that position until April, 1868, when he was appointed professor

of midwifery and the diseases of women and children. He retained

that professorship until 1883, when he resigned, at which time

the governors of the university made him professor emeritus, so

that he retained his precedence in the university, in which he

had continued as a professor for almost thirty years.

The active work of the profession aside from private practice was

carried on by Dr. MacCallum as visiting physician to the Montreal

General Hospital from 1856 until 1877, when, after twenty-one

years’ service, he resigned and by vote of the governors was

placed on the consulting staff of the hospital. From 1868 until

1883 he had charge of the Lying-in Hospital and for fourteen

years was physician to the Hervey Institute for Children.

His writings gained him almost a world-wide reputation. He

contributed articles to the British American Medical and Surgical

Journals, to the Canada Medical Journal and the Transactions

of the Obstetrical Society of London, England. In 1854 he was

associated with Dr. William Wright in establishing and editing

the Medical Chronicle, which paper remained in existence for six

years. Dr. MacCallum was vice president for Canada of the section

of obstetrics in the Ninth International Medical Congress, which

was held at Washington, D. C., in September, 1887. His eminent

ability and broad learning made him looked upon as a leader in

the ranks of the medical profession on the American continent and

also gained him recognition abroad, so that he was elected to

fellowship in the Obstetrical Society of London and was chosen to

become one of the foundation fellows of the British Gynecological

Society. On the 1st of March, 1855, he was appointed assistant

surgeon of the Sixth Battalion of Montreal Militia and on the

15th of February, 1856, was appointed surgeon to the same.

In October, 1867, Dr. MacCallum was united in marriage to Miss

Marie Josephine Guy, the second daughter of Hon. Hippolyte Guy,

judge of the superior court of lower Canada and a representative

of ancestry, honorable and distinguished. The children born

to Dr. and Mrs. MacCallum were: Marie Josephine, who married

Professor Thomas A. Starkey of McGill University, of whom there

is mention in these volumes and by whom she has one son, Hugh

Starkey; Esther Melina; Marianne, who married Edward Desbarats,

of Montreal, and has seven children--Edward, Duncan, Josephine,

Henry, Lucy Anne, Cecile and Henri; Flora Victoria, who married

de Les Derniers Shepherd, of Montreal; and Duncan Guy, who won

the degree of M. D. at McGill University in 1907 and is now a

medical practitioner of Sherbrooke, Quebec.

The life work of Dr. MacCallum was one of signal service and

benefit to mankind and his name deserves to be enrolled with

those of the benefactors of the race.

JOSEPH ALEXANDRE BONIN.

Joseph Alexandre Bonin, one of the prominent and successful

barristers of Montreal, where he practices as a member of the

firm of Taillon, Bonin & Morin, was born in D’Autray, Lanoraie,

province of Quebec, a son of the late J. B. Bonin. In the

acquirement of an education he attended Joliette College and was

called to the bar as advocate in 1874, being made king’s counsel

in 1893. He has been for many years in the successful practice of

his profession in Montreal, where the firm of Taillon, Bonin &

Morin is regarded as one of the strongest in the city, connected

through an extensive and representative clientele with a great

deal of notable litigation. Mr. Bonin’s wide experience and

successful practice have secured for him a large following, and

his comprehensive knowledge of legal principles has made him very

successful in the conduct of cases intrusted to his care. His

mind is incisive, analytical and deductive and his powers have

been developed through the years, until today he is one of the

most able and prominent barristers in the city where he makes his

home.

[Illustration: J. ALEXANDRE BONIN]

Mr. Bonin married a daughter of the late J. L. Leprohon, M.

D., vice consul for Spain in Montreal, and Mr. and Mrs. Bonin

are well known in social circles of this city. Mr. Bonin is a

member of the Roman Catholic church and is a conservative in his

political beliefs, taking an intelligent and public-spirited

interest in municipal growth and advancement. He has gained

prominence and distinction in a profession where advancement

depends entirely upon superior merit and ability and stands among

the barristers whose work is important as an element in the legal

history of this province.

GUY FAMILY.

The Guy family is one of the oldest and most prominent in

Montreal. Pierre Guy, the first of the name to settle in Canada,

joined the French army under M. de Vaudreuil and rose rapidly

through intermediate positions to the rank of captain. He

participated in the engagements which occurred with frequency

between the French in Quebec and the English in Massachusetts

and New York and he died at the age of forty-eight years. His

son, a namesake, Pierre Guy, Jr., was educated in France and also

joined the French army in Canada, serving under General Montcalm

in the French and Indian war. He participated in the battles of

Caillion, Montmorency and the battle on the Plains of Abraham.

When the power of France in Canada was set at naught, he with

others left for France, where he remained until 1764. He then

returned to Canada and accepted a business situation in Montreal,

becoming a loyal subject of Great Britain. Soon afterward when

General Montgomery invaded Canada he took up arms for the defence

of the country which so exasperated the Americans that they

sacked his stores after the capitulation of the city. In 1776

he received from the Crown the appointment of judge and in 1782

became a colonel of militia. He was also active in founding

the college of St. Raphael and was thus prominently identified

with the military, commercial and educational interests of the

province of Quebec. He received from the Crown a large land

grant in Montreal in that part of the city known as Bourgoyne

and he it was who gave Nuns Island to the nuns and he also gave

one-half of Viger Square to the city. At one time he conducted a

large business as a fur trader between Montreal and France. His

activities were so important and his ability so pronounced that

he was a recognized leader in the different fields in which his

labors and efforts were put forth.

Pierre Guy, Jr., died in the year 1812, leaving several sons and

daughters. Of these Louis Guy, who by the death of his father

became the oldest representative of the family, was made a

councillor by King William in February, 1831, and died in 1840.

Guy Street in Montreal was so called in his honor.

He had six children: Emily, who married Lieutenant Colonel De

Salaberry; Caroline, who became the wife of Joseph Baby; Henry,

who was a colonel in the British army; Hippolyte; Joseph, who was

a lawyer of Montreal; and Adine, who married Mr. Pemberton of

Quebec.

Judge Hippolyte Guy, judge of the superior court of Lower

Canada, and the second son of Louis Guy, married Marianne Esther

Nelson, a daughter of James Frederick Nelson and his wife Mary

Ann Adelaide Regnault, the adopted daughter of Chief Justice

Vallieres of Three Rivers, P. Q. Judge Guy died April 19, 1860.

Unto him and his wife were born three daughters and a son. Marie

Louise, the eldest, became the wife of Hon. Chief Justice Austin,

of Nassau and they had three children: Barry, Gloucester and

Charlotte, now Lady Napier. Marie Josephine married Dr. Duncan

Campbell MacCallum, of whom there is made mention on another

page of this work. Marie Ann became the wife of Alex de Lusignan

by whom she had two children, Guy de Lusignan and Esther de

Lusignan. She afterward married Gustave Fabre and by him has

one daughter, Terese, the wife of Mr. L’Africanne. Pierre, the

youngest in the family, died at the age of four years.

LIEUTENANT COLONEL ALFRED EUGENE DAMASE LABELLE.

Few men occupy a more enviable position in business and military

circles than Lieutenant Colonel Alfred E. D. Labelle. He has been

termed “the beau ideal of a soldier,” and his position as one

of the captains of industry in Montreal none question. Montreal

claims him as a native son. He was born August 23, 1866, his

parents being Hospice L. and Leocadie (Masson) Labelle, the

former a grain inspector of Montreal. The son was a student

in Bishop’s Academy and in a commercial school of his native

city, his training in that institution fitting him for the

responsibilities which came upon him after he entered business

circles in 1883 in the employ of the late W. W. Ogilvie, the

miller king. He remained in that connection until the business

was merged into the Ogilvie Flour Mills Company, Limited, in

1897, at which time he became sales manager for Montreal, so

remaining until his retirement from active connection with the

business in 1910. In that year he became managing director of

the St. Lawrence Flour Mills Company, of which he was one of

the principal promoters and as such he stands today as one of

the leading representatives of the productive industries of the

province, bending his energies to constructive direction and

executive control of a business that has already reached mammoth

proportions.

He has active connection and voice in the management of many

organizations looking to the betterment of trade and commercial

relations. He is a member of the Montreal Harbor board, the

Montreal Board of Trade, was president of the Chambre de

Commerce, and is vice president of the Montreal Industrial

Exhibition Association and the Montreal Vehicular Traffic

Association. He is also connected with movements touching

the general interests of society outside the strict field of

business, being councillor of the Red Cross Society and of the

Boy Scout movement. His military career is perhaps even more

brilliant than his business record. He has been long connected

with the volunteer militia service, having joined the Sixty-fifth

Regiment as a private in 1882. He was advanced through various

ranks until he became lieutenant colonel, commanding in 1897 and

in 1902 his name was placed upon the list of retired officers.

Subsequently he commanded the Seventh Infantry Brigade, was

appointed a second time to the command of the Sixty-fifth

Regiment in March, 1907, and is now in command of the Twelfth

Infantry Brigade. He served in the Northwest rebellion in 1885

and was one of its medallists. He was on the staff of the

Victoria Jubilee contingent in London, England, in 1897, when

he was again accorded a medal. He commanded the troops sent

to Valleyfield, P. Q., during the trade riots in 1900, and he

commanded the Canadian Bisley team in 1908. In the previous

year he received a long service decoration and became actively

connected with military training in 1896 as president of the

Montreal Military Institute. He was likewise president of the

Montreal Amalgamated Rifle Association in 1901-2. The Montreal

Witness speaks of him as a “splendid officer, popular and

respected by all.”

Colonel Labelle was married in 1900 to Amelie Sicotte, the second

daughter of the late Hon. L. W. Sicotte. Colonel Labelle is a

Roman Catholic in religious faith and a conservative in political

belief. His club relations are with the leading organizations of

that character in Montreal, including the St. James Club, Club

Lafontaine, Club Canadien, the Military Institute and Club St.

Denis. The analytical trend of his mind readily enables him to

understand the various factors which enter into the successful

control of military interests and of business affairs. He has

ever followed the broad policy of building up rather than of

destroying and in all of his commercial interests has employed

constructive measures, never sacrificing interests of others

to corporation gain. While in military circles he is a strict

disciplinarian, he has at the same time, those qualities which

win personal popularity and respect among subordinates and the

expressions of praise again and again heard from those who have

served under him show that he is justly entitled to be termed

“the beau ideal of a soldier.”

DUNCAN LIVINGSTONE MACDOUGALL.

Duncan Livingstone MacDougall, a merchant of Montreal for many

years and an active church man, whose life was one of broad

usefulness as well as of material success, was born in Kendelton,

Scotland, in 1848, a son of Archibald L. MacDougall, who in the

year 1861 established his home in Montreal. He married Agnes

Livingstone, a cousin of the great explorer and missionary who

was the first man to penetrate into the heart of Africa. Mr. and

Mrs. MacDougall became the parents of two sons, Duncan L. and

John, and a daughter, Mrs. Robert Logie.

Duncan L. MacDougall was a youth of thirteen years when the

family crossed the Atlantic to Canada. His education was acquired

in the schools of Scotland and of Montreal and he crossed the

threshold of business life as bookkeeper for Cochran, Cassills

& Company, boot and shoe merchants, in whose employ he was

continually advanced in recognition of his merit and capability

until eventually he was admitted to partnership, continuing a

member of the firm to the time of his death. He devoted his

undivided attention to the interests of the business and became

an active factor in guiding its affairs. He possessed in large

measure that quality which for want of a better term has been

called commercial sense, seeming to recognize almost intuitively

the points and propositions of business that led toward

prosperity.

Mr. MacDougall was married in Montreal in 1872 to Miss Margaret

B. Patterson, a daughter of William Patterson, who came to Canada

from Edinburgh, Scotland, at an early day and was a veterinary

surgeon of the city to the time of his death. His wife bore

the maiden name of Isabella S. Dunnett. Mrs. MacDougall by her

marriage became the mother of three sons and two daughters,

Archibald Lorne, Alice Maud, William Percival, Edith Margaret and

Duncan Livingstone.

Mr. MacDougall was a member of the Metropolitan Club and was

a very active worker in the American Presbyterian church

cooperating in various lines of church work and contributing

generously to its support. His life was actuated by high and

honorable principles, that found expression in noble deeds and

helpfulness toward those who needed assistance.

ANTHUNE SERGIUS ARCHAMBAULT.

Anthune Sergius Archambault, member of the bar, practicing at

Montreal as an advocate, specializes in the administration of

estates, and is one of the few in Montreal’s legal profession

giving special attention to work in a fiduciary capacity. He was

born at St. Antoine, Vercheres county, on the 9th of November,

1874, a son of Alphonse Archambault and Hermenie Gladu, the

former a farmer by occupation. While spending his youthful days

under the parental roof A. S. Archambault pursued his education

at St. Hyacinthe College, from which he was graduated with the

Bachelor of Arts degree in 1894. He then entered upon the study

of law, which he pursued in Laval University, in 1898 winning

the LL. L. degree. He is an advocate of considerable power and

ability and has made continuous progress in his profession since

taking up the active duties thereof fifteen years ago. He has

gained a good clientage and his practice is of an important

character. He was for some time the legal adviser of the parish

of Sault au Récollet.

[Illustration: ANTHUNE S. ARCHAMBAULT]

Mr. Archambault has been married twice. He first wedded Rose

Helene Patenaude at Montreal on the 7th of May, 1901, and her

death occurred on the fifth anniversary of their marriage. On the

17th of November, 1909, Mr. Archambault was again married, his

second union being with Annie Michaud, of Ahuntsic. There are two

children, Annette and Paul, of the first marriage and also two of

the second, Jean and Marie.

REMI GOHIER, SR.

Remi Gohier, Sr., of Montreal, actively engaged in the

real-estate business which has proved to him a profitable

field of labor, was born on the 7th of September, 1841, at St.

Laurent, Jacques Cartier county, P. Q., a son of Augustin Gohier

dit Belisle and Marguerite Martin dit Ladouceur. The early

ancestors of the Gohier family in the province of Quebec

spelled the name in various ways, including Goyer, etc., but in

France it was spelled Gohier and one of the name was of great

prominence during the reign of Napoleon I.

Remi Gohier was a student in the St. Laurent College and with

his entrance into commercial circles at the age of twenty-two

he became a dry-goods merchant, and for twenty-seven years

was engaged in that business at what is now the corner of

St. Lawrence and DeMontigny Streets. In January, 1891, he

became connected with the real-estate and insurance brokerage

business with his two sons, Arthur E. and Alexandre. Having won

substantial success he has since continued in that business.

He has negotiated many important realty transfers, bought and

sold property on his own account and has won a creditable and

gratifying measure of success. For eight years he was a director

of the Montreal Turnpike Trust Company, and he has done active

public service as justice of the peace for about ten years. About

1906 Mr. Gohier became connected with La Compagnie Des Terrains

Maisonneuve, Limited, and has since been a director of the same,

in which he is extensively interested.

On the 25th of November, 1863, in Montreal, in Notre Dame

Cathedral, Mr. Gohier was united in marriage to Miss Anne

Jeanne Wright, a daughter of Alexander Hamilton and Marguerite

(Scally) Wright. Their children are: Remi, who married Alice

Faille; Emma Isabella, the wife of J. A. Lesieur Desaulniers;

Arthur Edouard, who married Adelina Tetrault; Corrine, the wife

of Eugene Tetrault; Alexandre, who married Charlotte Mongenais;

and Bernice. The family are communicants of the Catholic church,

and Mr. Gohier is a Knight of Columbus. He has membership with

the Liberal Club, which indicates his political belief, and he

is also a member of the Montreal Canadian Club. The family is

highly respected, warm regard being extended father and sons.

The business record of Mr. Gohier has gained for him confidence

and good-will as well as substantial success, and his prosperity

has been the merited reward of his capability and indefatigable

enterprise.

WALTER HAMILTON EWING.

Walter Hamilton Ewing, who is well known throughout Canada and

the United States as a champion shot, is the eldest son of the

late Alexander Miller Ewing and Ida F. (Appleton) Ewing, of

Montreal, and was born in this city on the 11th of February,

1878. He is descended from Irish ancestry. He pursued his

education in the schools of his native city and made his initial

step in the business world with Hodgson Sumner & Company.

Subsequently he became connected with the Hart & Adair Coal

Company and in 1904 organized the Lackawanna Coal Company, Ltd.,

of which he is president.

On the 30th of April, 1902, Mr. Ewing was united in marriage to

Miss Ethel Raeburn McIntyre, a daughter of the late Archibald

McIntyre, of Montreal, and their children are Morris A.,

Marguerite R., Walter James and David Russell.

While in Montreal Mr. Ewing is known as a successful,

enterprising and progressive business man, he has a wide

reputation throughout the continent in connection with his record

as a marksman. He made the highest amateur score at the first

annual shooting tournament of Canadian Indians at Montreal in

May, 1906, winning the Clarendon cup. He won the championship

of the world in trap shooting in July, 1908, at the Olympic

games in London, England. He has won the championship of Canada,

the Grand Canadian Handicap, the Brewers’ & Malsters’ cup and

the Provincial Individual. He also shot on all team trophies,

namely: 8-Man Dominion, 10-Man Provincial, 5-Man International,

5-Man Provincial and 5-Man Lansdowne cup. He is the only man who

ever held the above cups at the same time. Surely he has every

reason to be proud of his record in this connection. Mr. Ewing in

religious faith is a Presbyterian.

REV. JAMES BENNETT.

Rev. James Bennett was born in Scotland and when a young man

came to Montreal, where he continued his education, begun in the

schools of his native land. He entered McGill University, from

which he was graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree, and

later, having determined to devote his life to the work of the

ministry, he took up the study of theology in Queen’s College at

Kingston, Ontario. He immediately entered upon ministerial duties

as pastor of the Presbyterian church on Cote des Neiges road, but

soon afterward was called to L’Orignal, Ontario, where he filled

a charge until his demise on August 17, 1901. His earnest effort,

his charity and his consecration to the cause was productive of

much good, his labors resulting in the accession of many to the

church.

Rev. Bennett was married in Montreal to Miss Agnes Phillips, a

daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Hodge) Phillips, and to them

was born a son, William Phillips Bennett, now of Toronto.

THOMAS PHILLIPS, JR.

Thomas Phillips, well known for many years as a valued resident

of Montreal, his native city, was at one time proprietor of that

section known as Woodbury. He was a son of Thomas Phillips,

Sr., who owned nearly all of what is now Beaver Hall Hill,

where the family home was maintained for many years. The father

was likewise the owner of what is now Phillips square, which

was named in his honor. His landed possessions in fact were

very extensive and their value increased with the growth and

development of the city, making his a valuable estate.

His son, Thomas Phillips, pursued his education in the schools of

Montreal, in Upper Canada College and in Dr. Workman’s private

school. He purchased a farm on the island of Montreal and later

became owner of what is now called Woodbury and constitutes an

attractive portion of the city, having all been laid out in city

lots. There he lived in comparative retirement. He named his

place Woodbury after the old home of Thomas Phillips, Sr., who

came from Woodbury, Devonshire, England, and settled in Montreal.

Thomas Phillips, Jr., married Miss Elizabeth Hodge, also a native

of this city, and a daughter of James Hodge, likewise a farmer on

the island of Montreal. They became the parents of four daughters

and a son: Martha Emily, now deceased; Charlotte E.; Agnes, who

became the wife of Rev. James Bennett and is now a widow living

in Montreal; Mrs. Eleanor A. Perham, the widow of L. D. Perham;

and Thomas Phillips, who at his death left two daughters, now

residents of Scotland.

Mr. Phillips, whose name introduces this review, was a

public-spirited man, and ever interested in the general welfare.

From early manhood he was a member of St. George’s church and

was its oldest member at the time of his demise. He died January

4, 1900, a day therefore that marked the passing of a prominent

representative of one of the oldest families of Montreal and one

whose name has ever been a synonym for honorable manhood and

loyal citizenship.

JOSEPH VERSAILLES.

Progressive development finds a worthy exponent in Joseph

Versailles, whose connection with real-estate operations has been

an element in the material development of his section of the

province. He was born in Montreal on the 28th of March, 1881, a

son of Joseph Versailles and Julie Monarque. Mention is made in

L’Histoire de l’Eglise by Rhorbacher of a companion of Jeanne

d’Arc of the name of Pierre de Versailles. In early Canadian

records the family name frequently appears with many variations,

including that of Martin and Louis Martin of this family who was

born in 1639 and was massacred by the Iroquois Indians at Long

Sault on the 21st of May, 1660. The first record found under the

present family name is that of Guillaume Versailles, who was born

in 1731 and died on the 27th of November, 1751, at Trois Rivières.

Joseph Versailles of this review was a student in St. Mary’s

College (Jesuit) on Bleury Street, Montreal, from which he was

graduated in 1903 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, having

completed the classical course. Turning from the educational

field of business he was for six years proprietor of a hardware

store and thus laid the foundation for the success which has

since come to him through his activities in the real-estate

field. Three years ago he founded the town of Montreal East and

his real-estate operations there have been a foremost element in

its development and substantial growth. He has recently erected

one of the finest office buildings of Montreal on St. James

Street, its height making it known as one of the skyscrapers.

Mr. Versailles displays marked energy and determination and in

his business career brooks no obstacles that can be overcome by

persistent, energetic and honorable effort. He has thoroughly

qualified himself to discuss every phase of the real-estate

business and with remarkable prescience he has recognized the

possibilities for the city’s growth and the extension of its

suburban interests. The town of Montreal East which he founded

was incorporated June 4, 1910, and since that time he has

continuously served as its mayor, in which connection he has

largely promoted its interests and development.

On the 20th of September, 1904, Mr. Versailles was united in

marriage to Miss Marie Prendergast, a daughter of the late M. J.

A. Prendergast, managing director of La Banque d’Hochelaga for

twenty-five years. He was with the pontifical zouaves in Italy

from 1867 until 1870, engaged in the practice of law following

his return to Canada and then entered upon active connection

with banking interests. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Versailles

are Marguerite, Pauline, Joseph and Yvan. The religious faith

of the family is that of the Roman Catholic church and Mr.

Versailles was founder and the first president, in 1903 and 1904,

of L’Association Catholique de la Jeunesse Canadienne-Française.

In politics he does not maintain a position of aggressive

partisanship. He believes in Canada first, rather than party,

and in Canada for the Canadians and acting upon this belief his

public service has been of benefit to the municipality and the

general interests of society.

LEWIS D. PERHAM.

Lewis D. Perham, who for many years was connected with the

customhouse of Montreal, was born in Russelltown, Quebec, in

1854, a son of Freeman Perham, a farmer of Russelltown. In the

public schools of his native place Lewis D. Perham pursued his

education and also attended a business college in Montreal. His

life in one way was quietly and uneventfully passed, most of it

being devoted to service in the customs department of his adopted

city. For many years he was thus active in the government service

and was occupying that position at the time of his demise. His

long connection with the customs office plainly indicates his

fidelity, capability and promptness in the discharge of his

duties.

In 1885, in Montreal, Mr. Perham was united in marriage to Miss

Eleanor Phillips, a daughter of Thomas Phillips, of whom mention

is made elsewhere in this volume. Four children were born to

them, of whom two are living, Lewis P. and Ruth E.

Mr. Perham was a conservative in politics. For a few years

he held membership with the Orangemen and he belonged to the

American Presbyterian church. Death called him December 10,

1907, and those who were his associates in life mourned his

death, for substantial qualities and commendable characteristics

had endeared him to all who knew him. His life was upright and

honorable, for he closely followed ethical and moral standards.

PATRICK MCKENNA.

The history of Cote des Neiges would be incomplete and

unsatisfactory were there failure to make reference to Patrick

McKenna, who reached the venerable age of ninety-three years--a

respected citizen, whose life, though quietly and uneventfully

passed, was ever a useful and upright one. A native of Ireland,

ambition stirred him to activity with the dawning of young

manhood, and feeling that better opportunities might be

secured in the new world, he left County Cavan and made his way

to Canada where he arrived in 1847. The voyage was made in one

of the old-time sailing vessels which dropped anchor in the

river and there the immigrants, according to the law of the

land, passed into quarantine. Mr. McKenna, anxious to get to

work, chafed under this restraint but when he and his fellow

travelers were liberated he hastened to make his way into the

city where he immediately sought employment. He scorned no labor

that would give him an honest living and so showed that he was

possessed of the spirit of undaunted industry and determination.

In May, 1850, he came to Cote des Neiges, which at that time was

a village somewhat remote from Montreal but now included within

the corporation limits of the city. He accepted the position of

gardener with the late Mr. Donald Ross, but after a year had

passed, became a tenant of that part of the property that borders

the present Westmount Avenue, although it was years afterward

before that thoroughfare was laid out. In 1866 he purchased

from the Greenshields estate a tract of fifty acres to which

he removed in about 1870 and upon it began the erection of a

greenhouse and with the growth of the business in subsequent

years additional hothouse space was added. The original firm

name, P. McKenna & Son, remains unchanged to the present day.

[Illustration: MR. AND MRS. PATRICK McKENNA On the Sixtieth

Anniversary of their Marriage]

On the 1st of October, 1849, Mr. McKenna had married Miss

Mary Kearney, who in the previous year had left her home at

Fanningstown, County Limerick, Ireland, and sailed for the new

world. In the succeeding May Mr. McKenna brought his young

wife to the home which they occupied for twenty years and on

the expiration of that period they took up their abode in the

residence where they lived until death called them. Mr. McKenna

at first gave his attention to market gardening, conducting a

successful business for eighteen years, but gradually withdrew

from that branch of business to give his entire attention to the

florist business, making the raising of fruit and vegetables

merely a side issue.

The McKenna greenhouses became well known and the business

prospered from the beginning, bringing Mr. McKenna a substantial

financial return which enabled him eventually to retire from

active business life.

Mr. and Mrs. McKenna became the parents of thirteen children but

six of the number died in infancy, and Elizabeth died a member

of the Nuns of Jesus and Mary, under the name of Sister St.

Pancratius. Patrick died in 1880 and Mary in 1872. Four children

survive the parents: James, a sketch of whom follows; Miss Sarah

McKenna; Frances N., the wife of F. Allan Beauchamp; and Sister

McKenna, who for seven years was bursar of a nunnery at Lawrence,

Massachusetts, and for the past fifteen years has been bursar of

the noted Grey Nunnery of Montreal.

Mr. and Mrs. McKenna lived to celebrate their diamond wedding

on the sixtieth anniversary of their marriage. The occasion was

made a memorable one to all who participated therein. Both Mr.

and Mrs. McKenna were enjoying good health, although both were

octogenarians, and the celebration was participated in by Mrs.

McKenna’s sister, Miss Sarah Kearney, who witnessed the original

marriage sixty years before. On the occasion of the diamond

wedding the ceremony was marked by the celebration of pontifical

mass by His Lordship Bishop Racicot, assisted by others. From

1851 Mr. McKenna was a continuous holder of a pew in St.

Patrick’s church.

His long residence at Cote des Neiges enabled him to tell much

concerning the history of that section and to relate many

interesting incidents connected with its development and growth.

He had occupied the position of councillor in the village before

its incorporation into a town and about 1889 was succeeded by his

son. He was a justice of the peace for the district of Montreal

for twenty-five years until his death. He possessed a retiring

disposition but nevertheless manifested keen interest in all

that pertained to the city’s welfare and never failed to perform

a public duty that devolved upon him. He was ever loyal to the

land of his adoption and maintained a deep love for the land of

his birth. As a boy he received a temperance medal from Father

Matthew, the Irish apostle of temperance, which is now treasured

by his son.

For over two years after the celebration of the diamond wedding

the parents continued to travel life’s journey and then death

called the husband and father, who passed away March 14, 1912,

at the age of ninety-three years. The wife and mother survived

for only a few months, her death occurring on the 12th of July,

following, at which time she had reached the age of eighty-two

years. They were perhaps the most venerable couple in Cote

des Neiges and among the oldest witnesses of the growth and

development of the tiny village into a city which eventually was

absorbed in the metropolis.

JAMES MCKENNA.

James McKenna, who is his father’s successor in public office

and business, was born at the family home in Cote des Neiges,

November 11, 1851, his parents being Patrick and Mary (Kearney)

McKenna, whose sketch precedes this. When the father retired

from the position of councillor of Cote des Neiges in 1889,

James McKenna succeeded to the position which he continuously

and acceptably filled for nineteen years, while from 1908 until

1910 he was alderman of Montreal. He was appointed justice of the

peace for the district of Montreal to fill the vacancy caused by

the death of his father. He married Margaret Quinn and to them

were born eight children: Rose; Evaline, the wife of Antoine

Marchand by whom she has a son, Charles; Maud, who was known as

Sister St. Margaret of Notre Dame and has passed away; Charles

P., who died at the age of eighteen years; Frank J., who married

Evaline McCarthy; Leo James, who married Gertrude Eagan and has a

son, Leo Martin; Harry W.; and E. Phillip.

ROBERT THOMAS HOPPER.

Ability to recognize opportunities that others passed heedlessly

by, combined with an ambition that brought about their immediate,

practical and resultant utilization, brought Robert Thomas Hopper

to a position in the foremost ranks of Montreal’s manufacturers

and business men. He had the distinction of being the first man

to ship asbestos abroad and later became a prominent figure in

the mining industry in the province, while at the time of his

death he was president of the Dominion Marble Company.

Mr. Hopper was born in Quebec, February 25, 1858, and was

educated there in the public school and in Thom’s Academy. His

father, Thomas Hopper, was senior partner of the firm of Hopper

Brothers, a prominent firm of cattle dealers in the province.

Thomas Hopper married Miss Agnes Davidson and their children

were six in number. Robert Thomas Hopper came to Montreal in

1876, when he was eighteen years of age and secured a position

as bookkeeper with the firm of James Linton, continuing in that

connection for a year. He then organized the firm of Irwin Hopper

& Company, which existed until 1889, when the business was taken

over by R. T. Hopper & Company. This firm engaged in the mineral

business, specializing in crude and fibrized asbestos, being

among the pioneers in that industry in Canada. Mr. Hopper was

regarded as father of the asbestos business in this country.

He was the first Canadian to ship asbestos abroad and has the

distinction of being the first man in the business to take up the

installation of crushing machinery which has since revolutionized

the asbestos business.

About 1891, Mr. Hopper established the first Portland Cement

plant in Canada, known as the English Portland Cement Company

of Canada. Difficulties confronted him, for it fell to his

lot to educate the people to the use of cement. He entered

upon a campaign which ultimately resulted in success, for his

persistency and energy overcame the obstacles placed in his

way. Moreover, time tests the merit of all things and the worth

of Portland cement is demonstrated in its successful use.

Later Mr. Hopper consolidated his interests with the Rathburns

of Deseronto, Ontario, organizing the Beaver Portland Cement

Company, and with the development of the business and the

formation of new associations the Canadian Portland Cement

Company came into existence. Their plants were located at

Marlbank and Deseronto, Ontario, and with the passing of the

years the business developed until it assumed large proportions.

Eventually, Mr. Hopper sold his interests after having materially

assisted in building up a large and successful business. In 1906

he organized the Dominion Marble Company, of which he continued

as president until his death on the 13th of November, 1912. This

business was established on a small scale but was developed

along modern, progressive lines until the company is now one of

the largest in Canada, engaged in the marble business, owning

extensive quarries located at South Stukely, Quebec, and Mr.

Hopper was also a director in the Sherbrooke Railway & Power

Company and remained a director of the Canadian Cement Company

after he withdrew from active connection with the management of

the business. He was a prominent member of the council of the

Canadian Mining Institute and thus kept in close touch with the

mining projects of the country.

In 1882, in Montreal, Mr. Hopper was united in marriage to Miss

Mary Agnes Mathews, a daughter of Richard Mathews, of this city,

and two daughters and a son were born to them.

Mr. Hopper was a member of the Board of Trade and was a

public-spirited citizen, interested in all that pertained to

civic betterment and improvement. He was a member of the Montreal

Amateur Athletic Association, the Montreal Club, the Chapleau

Club, the Royal St. Lawrence Yacht Club and the Beaconsfield

Golf Club. He attended Douglas Methodist church and was deeply

interested in many local charities. He sought ever the welfare

and development of the community in which he lived along lines of

material, intellectual, moral and public progress and his labors

were attended with far-reaching results and benefits.

JOSEPH FRANCOIS VICTOR MARTINEAU, K. C.

Standing among the foremost men of the legal profession in

Montreal, Joseph François Victor Martineau enjoys an important

and representative practice. Moreover, he holds the position of

general secretary of the bar of the province of Quebec, to which

he was admitted over twenty years ago. Mr. Martineau was born at

Montreal on the 28th of August, 1867, and is a son of the late

François Martineau and Emérentienne (Bouthillier) Martineau.

The father was a well known hardware merchant in this city and

represented for six years, from 1885 to 1891, St. Mary’s ward,

now Papineau, in the city council. In 1892 he was elected as a

conservative member of the legislative assembly of Quebec for

division No. 1 of Montreal (St. Mary’s division) and continued as

a member of parliament until the next general election, in 1897.

[Illustration: J. F. V. MARTINEAU]

Victor Martineau received his classical education at Ottawa

College in Ottawa, St. Mary’s (Jesuit) College of Montreal, and

for three years attended the law department of Laval University,

from which he obtained the degree of LL. B. He was admitted to

the bar of the province of Quebec in July, 1892, and ever since

he has practiced in Montreal, having attained a high position

among his colleagues. He is sound in his logic, terse in argument

and forceful in presenting his pleas and, as he is a deep

student, is familiar with precedent and all the technicalities of

the law. Upon this structure is built his reputation for success.

On the 5th of October, 1910, Mr. Martineau was appointed king’s

counsel by the lieutenant governor and at the nomination of

Hon. M. Arthur Globensky as judge of the superior court of the

province of Quebec he was appointed general secretary of the bar

of the province in August, 1910.

On the 6th of June, 1893, Mr. Martineau was married to Miss

Emmeline Jodoin, a daughter of Isaië A. Jodoin, a well known

advocate of the bar of Montreal. To this union were born two

daughters. Mr. Martineau is a conservative in political matters

and takes the interest of an active and earnest citizen and

voter in public matters although he has never aspired to office.

He can be ever found among those who make for public progress

and readily places his means and ability at the disposal of

undertakings that have this end in view.

JOHN JENNINGS CREELMAN.

The life work of John Jennings Creelman has brought him into

close connection with the general interests of society as

affected by legislative procedure, by activity at the bar and by

educational interests. In the year 1913 he was appointed lecturer

upon railway economics in McGill University and sustains that

relation to the present time. Born in Toronto on the 14th of

February, 1881, he is a son of Adam R. and Margaret Cumming

(Jennings) Creelman. The former was a son of James Creelman,

whose father came from Ireland in childhood and settled in New

Brunswick in 1790. Adam R. Creelman, preparing for the bar, was

created king’s counsel, gained distinction as a member of the

legal profession and in 1900 was made general counsel of the

Canadian Pacific Railway Company. He married Margaret Cumming,

daughter of Rev. John Jennings, D. D., the first Presbyterian

clergyman from Scotland to settle in Toronto, which city was then

known as Little York.

Born and reared in Toronto, John J. Creelman attended the public

schools and Upper Canada College where, upon his graduation

in 1900, he won the governor general’s medal. His classical

course was pursued in the University of Toronto, from which he

graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1904. His legal

training was received in McGill University, where he was created

B. C. L. in 1907. The same year he pursued a special course in

the University of Grenoble, after which he entered upon the

active work of his profession as advocate and solicitor. Not

only did he secure an extensive and important clientele but he

also became an active factor in political circles through his

appointment in 1908 as parliamentary secretary to the chairman of

the committee upon banking and commerce in the Canadian senate.

He is a member of the law firm of Casgrain, Mitchell, McDougall

& Creelman. His invested interests also indicate extensive and

important connection with commercial and industrial activities.

He is now a director of the Canadian British Insulated Company,

Limited; the Chamberlain & Hookham Meter Company, Limited;

the Lancashire Dynamo & Motor Company of Canada, Limited; the

Canadian Union Electric Company, Limited; and Fraser & Chalmers

of Canada, Limited. He is likewise vice president of E. M. Sellon

& Company, Limited. His varied activities have made him a close

and interested student of the signs of the times, with a ready

and accurate understanding of cause and effect in many of the

great vital and significant problems before the country. His

researches and logical deductions in the field of transportation

have made him an authority upon the subject of railway economics

and by reason thereof he was appointed lecturer on that subject

for McGill in 1913. In this connection he has become a member of

the Canadian Institute and of the National Tax Association.

The spirit of progress which has actuated his entire life has

been equally strongly manifest in his military connections. In

1895 he was a member of the Upper Canada College Rifle Company;

in 1899 a trooper in the Governor General’s Bodyguard of Toronto,

of which he became a lieutenant in the following year. In 1905

he was transferred to the Third “Montreal” Field Battery and

in 1909 was commissioned major in command thereof. In 1912 he

became lieutenant colonel in command of the Sixth Brigade,

Canadian Field Artillery, and in 1911 he represented Canada on

the coronation contingent at the coronation of King George V.

From 1911 until 1914 he has been a member of the executive of the

Canadian Artillery Association. In 1913 he passed the militia

staff course. He is upon the council of the Montreal Reform Club

and is a liberal in his political views.

At Galveston, Texas, on the 24th of June, 1908, Mr. Creelman

was united in marriage to Miss Katharine M. Weekes, a daughter

of Nicholas Weekes, a confederate veteran of the Civil war, and

at one time a railroad president and banker of Galveston. Mrs.

Creelman is a graduate of the Bishop Strachan School of Toronto

and by her marriage has become the mother of a son, John Ashmore

Creelman, representative of the family in the fifth generation

in Canada. Mr. and Mrs. Creelman hold membership in St. Paul’s

Presbyterian church of Montreal, and he is a prominent club man,

belonging to the University, Engineers, Royal Montreal Golf,

Thistle Curling and Canadian Clubs of Montreal; the University

and Military Clubs of Toronto; and the Junior Army and Navy Club

of London, England. In addition to a residence in Montreal he has

a country home at Mont Tremblant, where the summer seasons are

spent.

THOMAS PHILLIPS.

Thomas Phillips, remembered as one of the builders of the Rideau

canal and as the holder of extensive property interests in

Montreal, was born in Woodbury, Devonshire, England. He became a

resident of Montreal about 1808 and for a time was engaged in the

brewing business. The years chronicled the growth of his business

both in extent and importance and he had attained a position of

prominence that recommended him for onerous responsibilities when

the Rideau canal project was under way. He became one of the

builders of the canal and in that and in other connections was a

very active man. Early and judicious investments in real estate

made him the owner of much valuable property, including a tract

of land extending from the foot of the mountain to Lagauchetiere

West, including what is now Beaver Hall Hill and Phillips square,

the latter named in honor of the family. Their home, a palatial

residence, was situated on Beaver Hall Hill.

Mr. Phillips married Miss Martha Anderson, a native of New

England, and they became the parents of nine children: George,

Eleanor, Thomas, Alfred, Martha, Mrs. Julia Ashworth, William,

Esther and Mrs. Elizabeth Capel. Of these, only Miss Esther

Phillips is now living. The father died in 1842, while the

mother, long surviving him, passed away in 1881. They were

members of the English Cathedral church and Mr. Phillips

was a most public-spirited man who recognized the needs and

opportunities of his city and sought to compass the former and

utilize the latter. He was numbered among those of the early half

of the nineteenth century who laid the foundation upon which has

been built the present prosperity and greatness of the city.

GEORGE ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, K. C.

George Archibald Campbell, head of the legal firm of Campbell,

McMaster & Papineau, of Montreal, was born in this city,

September 26, 1875, a son of the Rev. Robert Campbell, D. D., an

ex-moderator of the general assembly of the Presbyterian church

in Canada and for more than fifty years one of the foremost

divines of that denomination. His mother was the late Margaret

(Macdonnell) Campbell. Both parents were of Scotch descent and

were members of families prominent in the clerical and legal

professions.

George Archibald Campbell supplemented his course of study in

the Montreal high school by a course in McGill University,

where he was graduated with first rank honors in 1896, upon the

completion of the arts’ course. In preparation for the bar he

then entered the law department and won his B. C. L. degree in

1901. He received the Macdonald traveling scholarship in law and

he supplemented his instruction received at McGill by attending

lectures at the Universities of Paris, Grenoble and Montpelier,

France. He received his practical legal education largely under

the direction of Donald Macmaster, K. C., M. P., and was called

to the bar in July, 1901. Subsequently he became a member of the

firm of Macmaster, Hickson & Campbell and entered upon the active

practice of his profession, in which he has now continued for

thirteen years, his record being marked by an orderly progression

that has brought him to an enviable position as a representative

of the Montreal bar. He is now practicing as the senior partner

in the legal firm of Campbell, McMaster & Papineau. In May, 1912,

he was created a king’s counsel by Lieutenant Governor Langelier.

On the 20th of January, 1909, Mr. Campbell was married in

Montreal to Miss Amy G. Dawson, elder daughter of William V.

Dawson, head of the importing and manufacturing company of W. V.

Dawson, Limited, of Montreal. Their religious faith is evidenced

by their membership in the Presbyterian church. Mr. Campbell’s

political views accord with the principles of the conservative

party, and he is a member of the Liberal-Conservative Club.

Something of the nature of his interests and recreation outside

the strict path of his profession or in the field of citizenship

is shown through his membership in the Montreal, University,

Beaconsfield Golf, Hermitage Country and Canadian Clubs. He is

also a member of the Montreal Art Association. He finds enjoyment

in golf and in motorboating and also takes delight in amateur

farming, all of which constitute an even balance to his intense

professional activity.

WALTER JAMES PRENDERGAST, M. D.

Dr. Walter James Prendergast, a successful practicing physician,

well read and holding ever to high professional standards, was

born in August, 1857, at Cote des Neiges, before it became a part

of Montreal. His father, Walter Prendergast, leaving his native

Ireland, came to Canada in early life and for a number of years

conducted a hotel at Cote des Neiges, but retired many years

prior to his death. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Joanna

Griffith, was a representative of an old family of Sherbrooke,

Quebec.

Dr. Walter J. Prendergast pursued his education at St. Mary’s,

from which he received the degree of B. A., and afterward spent

three years as a student in McGill University, but finished

his professional course at Bishop’s College, from which he was

graduated with the M. D. degree in 1880. He remained throughout

his later career a close student of his profession and thus

his knowledge constantly broadened. Immediately following his

graduation he began practice in Cote des Neiges and after ten

years spent there removed to the city of Montreal, remaining

in practice on St. Denis Street until his death. His widow and

children returned to the old family home on Cote des Neiges road,

where they now reside. Dr. Prendergast was a general practitioner

and was much interested in his profession. In fact, anything

which tended to bring to man the key to the complex mystery which

we call life was of interest to him and he ever read broadly

upon subjects having to do with the safeguarding and restoration

of health. In his professional capacity he did great good and

was very charitable, for he would respond again and again to

the call of the needy even when he knew there was no chance of

remuneration for his services.

In Montreal, in 1892, Dr. Prendergast was united in marriage to

Miss Mary E. Scanlan, a daughter of Michael and Alice (Duggan)

Scanlan. The latter, born in Montreal, was a daughter of Patrick

Duggan, for many years a contractor of this city. For a half

century Mr. Scanlan was connected with the growth of the import

and export trade of this country. When seventeen years of age, or

in 1857, he entered the service of David Torrance & Company and

in 1872, when the Dominion line was established, he became wharf

superintendent, which position he held until his death. During

that period he was tireless in the faithful performance of his

duty and in carrying out the wishes and furthering the interests

of the corporation which he represented. Whether in Montreal, in

Portland, Maine, or in Boston, Massachusetts, or wherever his

duties called him he was the same genial, courteous gentleman,

ever watchful of the interests under his care. He died October

20, 1907, at the age of sixty-seven years.

Dr. and Mrs. Prendergast became the parents of four children who

survive, namely: Aileen, Walter Francis, Harold and Kathleen. Dr.

Prendergast was a man of domestic habits, devoted to the welfare

of his family. He was public-spirited and was interested in all

those things which work for good and progress. In politics he was

a liberal. He was a communicant of St. Agnes Catholic church, and

belonged to the Knights of Columbus.

Dr. Prendergast passed away January 21, 1910. Those who knew

him--and he had an extensive acquaintance--entertained for

him warm regard and many there are who have reason to bless

his memory because of timely aid which he rendered them. His

practice extended among the poor as well as the rich because of

his benevolent nature and it is probable that he derived greater

satisfaction from his ministrations to the former than to the

latter, for his kindly spirit prompted him to reach out in

helpfulness at all times.

EDOUARD BIRON.

Edouard Biron, a prominent representative of the notarial

profession, having been appointed secretary of the board of

notaries for the district of Montreal on the 10th of July, 1912,

was born on the 20th of August, 1877, in the city which is still

his place of residence, his father being Samuel Biron, who was a

wholesale grocer, conducting business at the corner of McGill and

Notre Dame Streets up to the time of his death in December, 1883.

The mother was Dame Philomene Olivier.

[Illustration: EDOUARD BIRON]

Edouard Biron was a student in St. Mary’s College in Montreal

until graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in June, 1897.

He next entered Laval University, where he won the LL. D.

degree in June, 1900. He became a notary in July of the same

year, practicing alone until February, 1903, when he formed

a partnership with J. A. Savignac under the name of Biron &

Savignac, an association which was maintained for more than ten

years, or until September, 1913. On the 1st of that month the

present firm of Biron, Savignac, Coderre & Poirier was formed. In

addition to the business of that firm Mr. Biron, as previously

stated, is acting as secretary of the board of notaries for the

district of Montreal, through appointment received in July, 1912.

He stands as a prominent representative of his profession and one

whose ability in this line is unquestioned. As he has prospered

he has made investment in property and is holder of some valuable

Montreal real estate.

On the 1st of September, 1902, Mr. Biron was married to Miss

Blanche Fleury, a daughter of the late A. Fleury, who was a

merchant of Montreal. Mr. and Mrs. Biron are the parents of

four children: Germaine, ten years of age; Roger, eight years;

Marcel, six years; and Suzanne, a little maiden of five summers.

The religious faith of the family is that of the Roman Catholic

church. Mr. Biron is general secretary of L’Association St. Jean

Baptiste de Montreal and he belongs to the St. Denis and Canadian

Clubs and the Club Canadien of Montreal.

EDMUND PHILLIPS HANNAFORD.

Edmund Phillips Hannaford engraved his name high on the roll of

the promoters of railway interests in Canada. To no other single

agency is progress so largely indebted as to railway building and

thus it is that E. P. Hannaford deserves to be numbered among the

public benefactors of his country. Throughout his entire life he

was connected with railway projects and the superb engineering

department of the Grand Trunk system is largely a monument to his

skill, ability and sagacity. A native of Devonshire, England, Mr.

Hannaford was born at Stoke Gabriel, on the 12th of December,

1834, and he was a youth of but seventeen years when he entered

the railway service as draftsman and assistant under Sir I. K.

Brunel. Through the succeeding four years he was a member of

the engineering corps of the South Devon Railway and in 1856

he became identified with the development of railway projects

in Canada. Following his arrival in the new world he became

connected with the Grand Trunk Railway and acted as assistant

engineer of the company from 1857 until 1866. In the latter

year he was appointed chief engineer of the western division

and further promotion awaited him in his appointment in 1869 to

the position of chief engineer of the company. He remained in

that connection for twenty-seven years, resigning from active

work in 1896. He was in charge of the engineering department

during the period of the greatest development of the railway

and managed the construction of all new lines and stations of

the company. His particular talent made him very successful in

drawing up the plans of yards or overcoming any difficulty in the

way of construction. No better proof of his work can be given

than the fact that it is now generally admitted that the Grand

Trunk has one of the best lines of any railway in Canada. The

general offices at Point St. Charles were also erected under his

direction.

In addition to his work in connection with the Grand Trunk

Railway Mr. Hannaford in 1879 was named chief engineer of the

Montreal & Champlain Junction Railway. Ten years before he had

been chief engineer of the International bridge and in 1883 he

became chief engineer of the Jacques Cartier Union and United

States and Canada Railways.

It was in 1859, in Belleville, Ontario, that Mr. Hannaford was

united in marriage to Miss Mary W. Roy, a daughter of Robert

Maitland Roy, of Scotland, who became a resident of Belleville

in 1837. He served in the war of the rebellion in defense of his

country’s interests and long held public office, serving for

a quarter of a century as town clerk. Mr. and Mrs. Hannaford

became the parents of seven children, of whom four survived the

father: Elizabeth, who was Mrs. Harry B. Eastty, of Mount Vernon,

New York, and died August 3, 1913; R. Maitland, assistant chief

engineer of the Montreal Street Railway Company; Edmund P., who

is located at Corpus Christi, Texas; and Miss Mary R. Hannaford,

at home.

Mr. Hannaford belonged to the Church of St. James the Apostle

and his social nature found expression in his membership in the

St. James Club. He was a public-spirited man, deeply interested

in all that pertained to the welfare and upbuilding of Canada,

yet his tastes inclined him to domesticity and in the home

circle he was a most devoted husband and father. He was a man

of fine personal appearance and impressive manner, yet withal

was most genial and affable, and, wherever he went and formed

acquaintanceship, it constituted the beginning of warm and

enduring friendships.

Mr. Hannaford died August 18, 1902.

ROBERT CARLYLE JAMIESON.

Robert Carlyle Jamieson, who stood as a man among men, ready to

meet any obligation of life with the confidence and courage that

come of conscious personal ability, right conception of things

and an habitual regard for what is best in the exercise of human

activities, was born in Glengarry, Ontario, in 1836. He was a

cousin of Thomas Carlyle, philosopher and historian, and a son of

William Jamieson, a gentleman farmer, who married Jean Brodie,

also a native of Scotland, and on coming to Canada settled in

Glengarry.

Their son Robert Carlyle Jamieson pursued his education in the

place of his nativity to the age of sixteen years, when he left

home and taught school at Hawkesbury. In 1856 he came to Montreal

and thereafter to the time of his death, which occurred almost a

half century later, he was a resident of this city. He built up

a large and profitable business through his industry, thrift and

unfaltering honesty. It was in 1858 that he began the manufacture

of varnish on St. Thomas Street, there establishing a plant that

is yet conducted by the firm. In 1882 he purchased the plant of

the Baylis Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of paints and

colors, and later bought the plant of P. D. Dodds & Company at

St. Patrick and Island Streets, where the main office is now

located. Thus the business has steadily grown and developed,

Mr. Jamieson remaining the active head of the firm to the time

of his demise. Year by year the trade has increased until it

today extends all over Canada and a branch office is maintained

in Vancouver, British Columbia. Mr. Jamieson devoted his entire

life to the upbuilding and control of this industry, which is

still conducted by his sons under the style of the R. C. Jamieson

Company, Ltd. It became one of the chief productive industries of

the city and constituted and still remains a source of gratifying

revenue to the stockholders.

In 1863, in Montreal, Mr. Jamieson was married to Miss Harriet

Josephine McGowan, who was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, a daughter

of John H. McGowan, who on leaving his native place, Aberdeen,

Scotland, settled at Cincinnati, Ohio, but during the early ’60s

removed to Montreal. Mr. and Mrs. Jamieson had a family of seven

children, all of whom survive: Harriet A., now Mrs. W. de M.

Marler; Helen L., the wife of A. W. Cochrane; Dr. William Hoves;

Walter Lockhart; Robert Harry; Frederick Carlyle; and Ernest

Temple. The death of the husband and father occurred February 17,

1905.

Mr. Jamieson was a man who occupied an honorable and enviable

position in the regard of his fellows. His life work was

permeated by noble and upright principles and he was untiring

in his efforts to do good. He was one of the original governors

of the House of Industry and Reform and for twenty years he was

treasurer of the Congregational College. He served as deacon

in Emanuel church and was one of the first trustees when the

house of worship was erected in 1875. At one time he served on

the council of the Board of Trade and he was one of the first

members of both the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association and the

Montreal Curling Club. He was solicited to accept many important

offices, both city and provincial, but refused, preferring to

concentrate his energies upon his business interests and duties

and his activities in behalf of his fellow men along the lines of

reform, intellectual progress and moral development.

JOHN KEITH MACDONALD.

Although a native of Scotland, born in Kintyre, John Keith

Macdonald spent almost his entire active life in Montreal, where

he arrived when a youth of sixteen years. He believed that better

business opportunities awaited him on this side of the Atlantic

and he made his initial step as an apprentice at the machinist’s

trade under his uncle, John Boyd. Applying himself closely to the

tasks assigned him, his knowledge and skill developed day by day

until he became an expert workman in that line. Laudable ambition

prompted the development of his latent powers and awakened

in him the desire to engage in business on his own account,

so that eventually he organized the firm of J. K. Macdonald,

general machinists and contractors for iron work. Mr. Macdonald

continually added to his knowledge through experience, reading

and investigation along his chosen line and he continued in the

business until his death, becoming one of the well known and

leading representatives of industrial activity in Montreal.

In Montreal, in 1867, Mr. Macdonald was united in marriage to

Miss Margaret Mackay, a daughter of Norman Mackay, of Glengarry,

where he was born and spent his life. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Macdonald

were born six children, five of whom are living, Mrs. Janette

Macfarlane, Norman, Duncan, George and Margaret. The family

circle was broken by the hand of death when Mr. Macdonald passed

away at the age of sixty-three years. He was a Presbyterian in

religious faith and his life was passed in consistent harmony

with his professions, making him a man whom to know was to

respect and honor.

COLONEL EDWARD ASHWORTH WHITEHEAD.

Colonel Edward Ashworth Whitehead, for many years one of the best

known insurance agents and brokers of Montreal, his native city,

was born April 16, 1845, and was here educated. He was the head

of E. A. Whitehead & Company, insurance agents and brokers, for

many years and thus became widely known in financial circles.

In this connection he helped to build up the great insurance

business conducted under the name of The E. A. Whitehead Company,

Limited.

He had perhaps an even wider acquaintance through his military

connections, for his military career was long, distinguished and

honorable. He was one of the oldest officers in the volunteer

military service in the Dominion and as original member of the

Victoria Rifles he rose from the ranks to the command of the

regiment and was placed on the list of reserve officers in 1876.

He was on active duty during the Fenian raids from 1866 until

1870, was present at Eccles Hill and for his service received

a general service medal with two clasps, while his active duty

at the time of the Northwest rebellion in 1885 also won him a

medal. He was chief transport officer under Colonel Middleton and

held a long service decoration and he was a member of the Royal

Commission on Canadian War Claims in 1885-6.

Colonel Whitehead was a veteran amateur athlete, was one of the

founders of the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association and its

first honorary president. In 1908 he was a member of the Canadian

Olympic Games Committee and he was also a director of the Society

for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. In Club circles he was

long popular and prominent, holding membership in the Mount Royal

Club; the St. James Club, of which he served as chairman; the

Royal Montreal Golf Club; Forest and Stream Club; Montreal Hunt

Club; Montreal Jockey Club; Montreal Curling Club; Montreal Polo

Club; St. George Snow Shoe Club; the Isleway Club; the Military

Institute; and the Royal St. Lawrence Yacht Club.

The end came to Colonel Whitehead September 7, 1912. He seemed

almost to the last in the prime of life, his fine figure being

erect and soldierly, and the years rested lightly upon him. His

eye could still sweep down the long lines of the regiment, his

step was elastic and he was enjoying life in all the mental

riches that follow a career of activity and usefulness. The

Victoria Rifles felt great pride in his brilliant record and in

that regiment he was an outstanding figure, a symbol of duty

well done, while his memory will ever be to them an inspiration

for loyalty in the King’s service. In January, 1912, he was

the leading figure at the dinner given by the regiment to

celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of its organization. He had

been one of the first to spring to the colors when the corps was

organized and had carried those colors in many fields. Even as

in his youth, ready to fight for his flag, Colonel Whitehead was

as willing to go to its defense in later years, when it might

have been supposed that the fire of youth had died down. Years

rolled onward, changes came and brought with them the boy scout

movement. This appealed strongly to his military spirit and he

entered heartily into the work of supporting and furthering the

cause. Money was needed; he supplied it. He also raised the money

for the trip to Europe a few years ago. He had always loved boys,

the military had always been dear to him and in the boy scout

movement these two were combined.

[Illustration: Col. Whitehead]

Colonel Whitehead was a man to whom a worthy appeal was never

made in vain. His heart took in a great circle of friends and his

purse was open to all calls of charity.

In the field of sport he was well to the front. In early manhood

he was an excellent lacrosse player and old timers remember the

games in which he participated against the Shamrocks for the

Claxton flags in the early ’60s. He was also a splendid sprinter,

making a notable record in the hundred-yard dash. This love of

sport he retained to the last and he was a life member of the

Montreal Amateur Athletic Association, of which he at one time

served as president.

Trouble did not pass him by, but through all he was the same

kindly, upright gentleman, maintaining a high sense of duty and

honor. In 1899 death robbed him of his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth

Whitehead, daughter of William Newcomb, whom he had married in

1868; and his son, E. A. Whitehead, Jr., died in 1908.

Edward Ashworth Whitehead, Jr., son of Colonel Edward Ashworth

Whitehead, was born in Montreal in 1869 and acquired his

education in England and in Kingston, Ontario, where he was

graduated with honors at the Royal Military College. He was

connected with The E. A. Whitehead Company, Limited, and for many

years was a special agent for Montreal of the Phoenix Assurance

Company, Limited, of London and was as popular in business as he

was in social circles.

Mr. Whitehead, Jr., married Miss May Sicotte, a daughter of

Victor Benjamin Sicotte, district magistrate at St. Hyacinthe and

a granddaughter of Hon. Louis Sicotte, premier of Canada. Three

children were born to them: Edward Ashworth, who is the third of

the name to continue the business of The E. A. Whitehead Company,

Limited; George Victor, a student at Bishop’s College School; and

Margaret Whitehead.

ROBERT LINTON.

Robert Linton became well known in the business circles of

Montreal in connection with the manufacture of woolen goods. He

was regarded as a resourceful business man whose enterprise,

progress and laudable ambition were constantly manifest in

the success which he won. A native of Ireland, he was born in

Newtown-Limavady in 1834, a son of Samuel and Martha Linton, who

brought their family to the new world during the boyhood of their

son, Robert. Settling in Montreal, their remaining days were

passed in this city but both have long since departed this life.

Robert Linton acquired his education in the schools of Montreal

and received his business training with the firm of William

Stephen & Company. Of that firm Lord Mount Stephen was a partner

and eventually took over the business upon the death of the

senior member of the firm. Continuing in active connection with

the business Robert Linton grew in usefulness and capability, as

he thoroughly acquainted himself with the duties that devolved

upon him. After the death of William Stephen the business was

conducted by George Stephen & Company for some time and Mr.

Linton was admitted to partnership in 1857. Upon the retirement

of George Stephen, later Lord Mount Stephen, the business of the

firm of George Stephen & Company was combined with that of Andrew

Robertson under the firm style of Robertson, Linton & Company,

this connection continuing until 1898, when the business was

closed out.

Mr. Linton was married twice. At Three Rivers, Quebec, he

wedded Miss Margaret McDougall, and they became the parents of

six children, as follows: Robert M., deceased; Margaret M.,

who is Mrs. Denaston Breakey, of Breakeyville, Quebec; Ernest,

a resident of Ottawa; Agnes H, who is Mrs. F. N. Southam, of

Montreal; Percy L., deceased; and Alice L., who married Herbert

Carter, of Montreal. The second marriage of Robert Linton was

also celebrated at Three Rivers, Miss Margaret Paterson, daughter

of John Paterson, becoming his wife on the 20th of October, 1886.

Mr. Linton was ever actively interested in those projects and

measures bearing upon the progress, upbuilding and development

of the city as well as upon his business affairs. He was widely

recognized as an honorable and upright man, in whose life there

were no esoteric phases. He was a member of the Montreal Board of

Trade, a life governor of the Montreal General Hospital, and a

justice of the peace for a few years before his death. He passed

away in November, 1899, after having gained for himself a most

creditable position in business circles and in the regard of his

fellowmen.

ARTHUR O’CONNELL KAVANAGH.

A history of the insurance business in Montreal would be

incomplete without mention of Arthur O. Kavanagh, who for many

years figured prominently in connection therewith. He was one of

the city’s native sons, born April 12, 1860, and in its schools

pursued his education, while in the school of experience he also

learned many valuable and practical lessons, thus constantly

adding to his knowledge and ability. The family name indicates

his Irish lineage and he manifested the sterling characteristics

of the race. He was engaged in business with his brother, Walter

Kavanagh, and they became prominent figures in insurance circles,

representing the Scottish Union & National Insurance Company,

the German-American Insurance Company and the Rochester German

Insurance Company, of which they were chief agents. Arthur

Kavanagh familiarized himself with every phase of the business

and had gained a most creditable position as an alert progressive

man and one ready to meet any emergency in business, when death

called him on the 14th of September, 1896, when he was yet in the

prime of life.

He had been married in Montreal less than five years before,

having on the 7th of October, 1891, wedded Alice Mullin, a native

of this city and a daughter of Patrick Mullin, of whom mention is

made elsewhere in this publication. They became the parents of

three sons: Harold Henry; Arthur Patrick, who died at the age of

six years; and Walter John. Deep regret was felt at the passing

of Mr. Kavanagh, because of his comparatively early age and

because he had gained a firm hold upon the affectionate regard of

his business associates and his many friends.

PATRICK MULLIN.

Patrick Mullin had traveled life’s journey for more than four

score years when he was called from this life on the 14th of

August, 1913. He was a native of Tyrone, Ireland, and for

more than six decades was a resident of Montreal, arriving in

this city in 1850. He was associated with various business

enterprises. With his brother, James E. Mullin, he became

associated with another brother, John Mullin, who had, in 1845,

established a wholesale grocery business, which they conducted

on College Street, now St. Paul Street. There they built up

a very extensive and successful enterprise, their patronage

constantly growing, as their trade interests extended over a

wide territory. In the early years of the business there were

practically no railroads in this section of the continent, while

means of water transportation were but slightly developed. They

hauled much of their stock with teams and, notwithstanding the

difficulties involved, they were enterprising enough to compete

for business as far west as Toronto. Their merchandise was taken

from Montreal to that city by team, the journey requiring two

weeks. John Mullin died in 1853, after which the business was

conducted by James E. and Patrick Mullin, under the firm name

of J. E. Mullin & Company. Both brothers had great faith in the

ultimate growth and prosperity of the city and because of this

they made large investments in real estate, gradually acquiring

the ownership of the block upon which they conducted their

business, extending from the rear of the Grand Trunk offices to

the Haymarket. Patrick Mullin also invested in other real estate

until his holdings were extensive and important. The large block

which the brothers acquired on St. Paul and William Streets later

became the location of the present plant of the Canada Cold

Storage Company and Mr. Mullin became a pioneer in that line of

business in the city. He was a man of indefatigable energy and

strong purpose and as the years passed on he carried forward to

successful completion whatever he undertook.

Mr. Mullin was united in marriage, in Montreal, to Alice O’Neil,

a native of County Tyrone, Ireland. She died on November 29,

1903, the mother of seven children, as follows: Mary A., the

wife of Joseph A. Cloran, of Boston, Massachusetts; Margaret J.;

Alice, the widow of Arthur O. Kavanagh; John F., who died in

March, 1904, aged twenty-nine years; Patrick; Elizabeth M., who

is Mrs. Harry J. Trihey; and Emma M., wife of William J. Hart.

A long and useful life was Mr. Mullin’s. He was a man of quiet

habits, but greatly enjoyed a good game of forty-five. In manner

he was always courteous, kindly, and considerate to others.

In religious faith he was a Catholic and devoted much time to

increasing the usefulness of St. Bridget’s Home and of St.

Patrick’s Asylum, being a trustee of the latter institution. He

gave liberally to the church and did everything in his power to

promote its influence.

ROSAIRE DUPUIS.

Rosaire Dupuis, one of the rising young notaries of Montreal, is

a son of Louis Napoleon Dupuis and Melanie Panet Levesque. The

father is ex-controller of Montreal and one of the founders of

the well known mercantile house of Dupuis Freres, Limited. The

mother of Rosaire Dupuis is a daughter of the late Pierre Thomas

Levesque and comes from a family that has for generations been

prominent in the judicial and legislative history of the province

and Dominion. Mr. Dupuis was born in the parish of La Longue

Pointe on the 17th of October, 1888. He made his classical course

at L’Assomption College, from which he was graduated in 1908 with

the degree of Bachelor of Science. He then took up the study

of law in Laval University in 1908 and won his LL. L. degree

upon graduation with the class of June, 1911. During the summer

seasons of 1909 and 1910 he attended the famous Eastman Business

College at Poughkeepsie, New York, where he was graduated with

honors on the 30th of August, 1910. During the succeeding year

he traveled abroad, visiting the Holy Land and many European

countries.

[Illustration: ROSAIRE DUPUIS]

In January, 1912, Mr. Dupuis began practice and has met with

gratifying success in following his profession, in which he

is well versed. He is a conservative in politics and a Roman

Catholic in religious belief. He holds membership with the

Canadian Club, the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association and

the Knights of Columbus, and for the past two years has been

secretary of the Anti-Alcoholic League. During the years 1909

and 1910 at Laval he was secretary of the Laval Students-at-Law.

He is a young man of promise as well as a credit to one of

Montreal’s best families.

DONALD ALEXANDER SMITH.

Donald Alexander Smith, Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, whose

career has been so wonderful as to appear almost magical, was

born on August 6, 1820, in the ancient town of Forres, in

Morayshire, Scotland. His father, Alexander Smith, was a small

tradesman of Archieston and was born in the parish of Knocando.

He married Barbara Stuart, of Leanchoil, Abernethy, a capable,

thrifty woman, ambitious for her children. It was her desire that

her son Donald should prepare for the bar, but, though he did not

see fit to follow this wish, the mother heart never lost faith

in her son and it was said that after he came to Canada as a fur

trader she was frequently heard to remark: “They’ll all be

proud of my Donald yet.” It was said that in boyhood he was shy,

yet amiable, and displayed sturdy resolution and even hardihood

if circumstances called those qualities forth. After leaving

school he took up the study of law, his reading being directed

by Robert Watson, solicitor, for two or three years. At length,

however, he determined to enter the service of the Hudson’s Bay

Company, influenced somewhat by a previous suggestion made by

John Stuart, his uncle, who was then visiting Scotland. In 1838

he sailed for the new world and after a voyage of between forty

and fifty days upon an eight hundred ton vessel, one of the

largest on the seas at that time, he landed on Canadian shores.

The rebellion of Mackenzie and Papineau had just been suppressed.

Donald A. Smith at once entered the service of the Hudson’s Bay

Company, but in a minor position. He met various hardships, but

he proved his fidelity to the company as well as his capability

in performing every service intrusted to him. He was first sent

to the Labrador coast, where he spent thirteen years in a cold,

bleak, barren, desolate region, with no companionship save a few

employes, but during that period he learned the business methods

of the company, how to manage Indians and how to secure the best

returns. It has been said that power grows through the exercise

of effort and year by year Donald Smith became more powerful.

The hardships which he was forced to endure developed him. There

is probably no other country in the world where there exists

a longer or more dangerous postal route for men and dogs--two

thousand miles of land travel from Quebec to Ungava in the depth

of an Arctic winter, continuing from December until June--yet

Lord Strathcona covered that route not once but many times.

His apprenticeship was, indeed, a difficult one, but he was

undeterred by all obstacles he encountered and privations which

he endured. At length, however, his eyesight became impaired,

making it necessary that he go to Montreal for treatment. He

covered the journey from Labrador by dog sled and on his arrival

in Montreal he was greeted by Sir George Simpson, governor of

the company, with the remark: “Well, young man, why are you not

at your post?” “My eyes, sir,” came the reply, and he pointed

to his blue goggles; “they got so very bad I have come to see a

doctor.” But the governor thundered: “And who gave you permission

to leave your post?” It would have taken a full year to obtain

official consent, but when Mr. Smith was forced to reply, “No

one,” the governor answered: “If it is a question between your

eyes and your service in the Hudson’s Bay Company you will take

my advice and return this instant to your post,” and Mr. Smith

started almost immediately upon that return journey of nearly

a thousand miles. The weather became so bad that both of his

Indians succumbed to the cold and he arrived at the post more

dead than alive. He once remarked: “A man who has been frozen

and roasted by turns every year must be the tougher for it if he

survived it at all.” Donald A. Smith did survive and advanced

steadily. He learned the dialect of a number of Indian tribes

and he so managed business affairs that his services were ever

a matter of profit to the company. His advancement was slow at

first, but his worth was eventually recognized and promotion

came quicker. His duties were many and onerous because of his

remoteness from civilization. He was called upon to minister to

the sick and half a century later, when speaking to the students

of the Middlesex Hospital in London he described the antiseptic

which he used in Labrador in the ’40s, saying: “It was a

primitive and somewhat rude form of treatment that was practiced

in those days before Lord Lister introduced his discovery. For

the treatment of wounds, ulcerated sores, etc., a pulp was made

by boiling the inner bark of the juniper tree. The liquor which

resulted was used for washing and treating the wounds and the

bark, beaten into a plastic mass, was applied after the thorough

cleaning of the wound, forming a soft cushion, lending itself to

every inequality of the sore. Scrupulous cleanliness was observed

and fresh material used for every application.”

When in Labrador, at the age of twenty-nine years, Donald A.

Smith married Isabella Sophia Hardisty, with whom he traveled

life’s journey for sixty-five years, separated in her death,

which occurred in London in 1913. In the meantime he was

advancing from one post to another in the service of the Hudson’s

Bay Company, becoming trader and then chief trader, while his

splendid administrative ability won him further promotion to

factor and to chief factor. In 1851 he was transferred to the

Northwest provinces and became most active in their later

development. He eventually reached the position of supreme head

of the company, becoming the last resident governor of the

corporation that had its beginning under the Merry Monarch. The

year 1868 witnessed his arrival in Montreal, as chief executive

for the Hudson’s Bay Company. He is described at that time as

“a man of middle stature, rather slight in build, and looked

not at all the typical northerner, except when one studied his

countenance.” “The snow tan of the north had made him dark as

an Indian. He wore a full beard, black and wiry. Black brows

met above his eyes, enhancing the stern, uncompromising aspect

of his face. He looked what he was--a commander of men and of

forces, a man made strong by a life of struggle and conquest in

the wilderness.” He had not yet become a wealthy man, although

he had saved his money and had invested it in land at various

points in the northwest--land that many would have regarded as

valueless. With wonderful prescience he discerned something of

what the future had in store for that great country and with the

growth of its population and the onrushing tide of civilization

his holdings increased in value, making him one of Canada’s more

prosperous citizens.

While Donald A. Smith had reached the pinnacle of service

in connection with the Hudson’s Bay Company when he came to

Montreal, he was destined to gain equal eminence in other

directions. In the interests of the Canadian Confederation it was

seen that the title to the territory of the Hudson’s Bay Company

in Rupert’s Land must pass to the crown and a purchase was

arranged whereby the company received a million dollars and large

reserves of land, although the transfer was not made without

great difficulty and danger, culminating in what has been known

as the Red River rebellion, or the first Riel rebellion.

Discontented people of that region had been trying to produce

an agitation that would separate their settlement from that of

the Hudson’s Bay Company. The rapid growth of population in

Assiniboia was imperilling the company’s hold and its rule,

hitherto wise and practical, was denounced as arbitrary. A

contemporary biographer has written:

“Better representation was demanded and, by dint of much uproar

and noise, considerable sympathy was obtained from outside. To

understand fully the character of this Red River settlement it

must be explained that the population was considerably mixed.

In all there were about twelve thousand souls. There were

Europeans, Canadians, Americans and French half-breeds. With a

mixed population like this it was difficult to deal and when,

on November 9, 1869, the deed was signed in London, whereby the

company surrendered its interests in the northwest to the crown,

with reservations for the company, rebellion broke out. The

leader was the famous Louis Riel, a Metis, described as ‘a short,

stout man, with a large head, a square cut, massive forehead

overhung by a mass of long and thickly clustering hair and marked

with well cut eyebrows--altogether a remarkable looking face.’

“The Hon. William McDougall had been appointed lieutenant

governor of Rupert’s Land and the Northwest territories in

September, 1869, but when he went, by way of the United States,

to possess himself of his power he was turned back on the borders

of his domain by Louis Riel and his followers, the Metis of the

plains, who absolutely refused to recognize his authority on the

ground that they had not been consulted in the new arrangement.

Mr. McDougall found himself unable to cope with the situation and

was compelled to remain at a farm house several miles south of

the boundary line for six weeks.

“Meanwhile the armed resistance to authority had attained serious

proportions. Riel seized Fort Garry, made the editor of the local

paper prisoner and was issuing proclamations to the inhabitants.

So matters went on until sixty of Riel’s enemies were confined in

Fort Garry and the insurgents’ flag hoisted.

“Meanwhile in his office in Montreal Donald A. Smith was slowly

but surely studying the position. Understanding the character

of both McDougall and Riel, he saw how hopeless the situation

was. Understanding them better than they understood themselves,

he realized that what was needed was a man who knew the inner

mind of the company well and could clear its character of the

imputations cast upon it. He was the man--he felt it and although

the journey involved grave personal risk he resolved to go. The

government promptly accepted his services and he was appointed

special commissioner to proceed at once to Fort Garry.

“With characteristic courage he went unarmed and almost alone.

No sooner had he arrived at Fort Garry than he was treated as

a prisoner of ‘President’ Riel. That, however, did not check

his determination. He had made up his mind to avoid bloodshed

and yet to enforce the decision of the government. To quote

his own words: ‘The part I had to act was that of a mediator.

Not only would one rash or unguarded word have increased the

difficulty but even the pointing of a finger might, on more than

one occasion, have been sufficient to put the whole country in a

flame.’ But the unguarded word was never spoken, the finger was

never pointed in a wrong direction and the rebellion ended in

a bloodless expedition. Yet before Sir Garnet Wolseley marched

to the Red river many a heated discussion was held and probably

never before in history has a regularly ordained meeting been

held in British territory under such conditions. If the moral

atmosphere was warmly excited, the physical atmosphere was

depressed enough to chill the fiercest rebels.

“The first meeting was a memorable one. In the open air, with

the thermometer twenty degrees below zero, a cruel, biting wind

penetrating through the warmest clothing, there they stood, men

of all nationalities and ages. On the small, raised platform

were the four most concerned in the rebellion--Riel, O’Donoghue,

De Salaberry (a man beloved by thousands) and Donald A. Smith.

At first the meeting was wholly with Riel, who cleverly got

himself appointed French interpreter. But when things were at

their worst and men of the opposite sides glared at each other

with hate in their eyes, Mr. Smith rose to speak. His facts, his

practical wisdom and, above all, his reasonableness had their

effect upon the swaying multitude. If he did not gain much that

day, at any rate he averted bloodshed.

“In the open air, with the thermometer twenty degrees below zero,

in the teeth of a biting blast, this meeting was conducted with a

respect for decorum and ancient parliamentary methods worthy of

Westminster itself.

“The next day things went better. The proposition that

representatives should be chosen from both sides was accepted,

and when Riel agreed to disband the men at Fort Garry all classes

felt that the worst was over. However, matters were not so easily

arranged. Riel broke his word and the murder of a young man named

Scott complicated the situation. Nevertheless, the excitement

slowly cooled and there is little doubt that but for the tactful

courage of Mr. Smith a spark would have been put to the flame of

rebellion.

“‘I am as certain as I can be of anything,’ said Dr. O’Donnell,

one of the old timers of Winnipeg, who was at Fort Garry in 1869,

‘that Donald A. Smith saved the northwest of Canada. On December

10, 1869, he was appointed a special commissioner to explain to

the people of the Red River settlement the principles on which

the government of Canada intended to govern the country and to

take such steps as he might consider necessary to bring about a

peaceable transfer from the Hudson’s Bay Company to the Dominion.

At that time everything was in confusion; Mr. McDougall had been

refused admission, Riel was king, an American element was trying

to bring about the annexation of the settlement to the United

States and last but not least the Indians were disaffected. When

he reached Fort Garry Mr. Smith was virtually made a prisoner,

Riel would not allow him to go outside the fort and kept an eye

on his correspondence. In January, 1870, a mass meeting was held

at Fort Garry and Mr. Smith was allowed to state his case and

tell what he wanted the people to do. Riel was present, together

with O’Donoghue and other insurrectionaries. It was a critical

moment, I assure you; in fact, when Mr. Smith got up to read his

commission from Sir John Young most of those present expected to

see him arrested or shot on the spot. As it was he had a stormy

time, but managed to impress many of the hot-headed with the

belief that the interests of the settlement would be properly

safeguarded by Canada. Riel was afraid of Mr. Smith’s influence

and at once hurried on preparations for having himself made

president of a provisional government. Then came the wholesale

arrests culminating in the murder of Thomas Scott. Mr. Smith

risked his life in an attempt to save Scott. Notwithstanding

Riel’s antipathy to him, he went boldly to Riel and pleaded for

Scott, even going so far as to warn Riel that if Scott was shot

his blood would be upon his head. Riel was intoxicated with power

and more than half disposed to shoot others on the loyal side,

but Mr. Smith told him to his teeth that such a crime would not

go unpunished.

“‘In the discussions that took place over the Bill of Rights to

be sent to Ottawa, the chief part was borne by Mr. Smith. His

coolness and sagacity undoubtedly prevented the collapse of the

negotiations. “This man Smith,” said O’Donoghue at one stage,

“knows too much for us, he is too able for us. We must get rid

of him or the northwest cannot be made either an independent

republic or part of the United States. He is a Hudson’s Bay

Company officer and as such a friend of the half-breeds, and

will be able to persuade them that union with Canada is to their

interest.” It was a wonder all along that Mr. Smith was not

shot. He was warned often enough that his life was in danger,

but seemed quite willing to risk it in behalf of the cause he

represented. A good many English-speaking settlers, while loyal

enough, did not at first care to belong to Canada; they thought

Rupert’s Land would be better off as a crown colony than as

a Canadian province and Mr. Smith had to convince them that

they were mistaken. In reality, therefore, he was between two

fires--the Riel or disaffected party and the loyalists who did

not favor the idea of confederation--whilst, as I have said,

there was an American element working for annexation.

“‘At a later period when Governor Archibald came in (September

2, 1870), Mr. Smith rendered services to Canada of the highest

moment. The Governor did not receive a very cordial reception,

but Mr. Smith, who accompanied him, set about the work of

conciliating the French, the old time English-speaking settlers

and the new or Canadian settlers, who constituted three distinct

factions. Mr. Archibald frequently told me that but for Mr. Smith

the little community would have been torn to pieces by intestine

strife. He was the one man who brought the northwest into Canada,

who, indeed, saved it to the British empire, and we think he

should get credit, even at this late day, for so great a work.’

“Many are the anecdotes concerning Mr. Smith’s dangerous mission

to Fort Garry during the first Riel rebellion and of the

commencement of his political career in the far west.”

With Sir Garnet Wolseley were Captain Buller, afterward General

Sir Redvers, and Lieutenant Butler, afterward General Sir

William. The tyranny of Riel had become irksome to the people,

who received the newcomers joyously, and at the approach of the

“red coats” Riel, with his co-conspirators, fled, taking up his

position on the shores of St. Boniface. All was now quiet in

the settlement, the purchase price of one million, five hundred

thousand dollars had been paid and the territory transferred to

Canada.

Donald A. Smith was by this time recognized as the most powerful

man in the west. The governor general thanked him for his

services and in 1870, after the organization of the province of

Manitoba, he was returned to the legislature for Winnipeg and St.

John. He was also called to the Northwest territorial council and

was returned for Selkirk to the house of commons. He supported

the conservative government then under direction of Sir John A.

Macdonald and the party soon found that in him there was another

man fit for leadership. It was found that the builders of the

railway from ocean to ocean had trafficked with contractors and

taken money for election purposes. This became known as the

Pacific Scandal and the intense feeling manifest throughout the

country centered in the house of commons. The house divided upon

a motion of the Hon. Alexander Mackenzie, the leader of the

liberal opposition to Sir John Macdonald. Feeling was intense.

At one o’clock in the morning of November 5, 1873, Mr. Smith

arose and uttered what became an oracular speech, for the people

he represented were vitally interested in the building of the

railway so necessary to the development of their country. It is

said the house became deadly calm; no one knew whether he would

adhere to his party’s policies or otherwise. He said: “For the

honor of the country no government should exist that has a shadow

of suspicion resting upon it, and for that reason I cannot give

it my support.” These were his closing words, greeted by frantic

cheers by the opposition, and the government was doomed. Feeling

ran high and was most intense and bitter, but in later years the

two leaders, the great statesman and the great financier, built

together the Canadian Pacific Railway. Both were master builders

and the executive capacity of the financier was necessary to the

constructive genius of the statesman. It was in no idle spirit of

laudation that Sir Charles Tupper stated that “had it not been

for Mr. Smith’s indomitable pluck, energy and determination the

road would never have been constructed.”

Mr. Smith thoroughly understood the fact that colonization could

not be carried forward in the west without the building of the

railroad. Another has written concerning this:

“It must have been with profound reluctance that he voted for

the overthrow of the Macdonald government. He knew that the

fall of that administration would set back the construction of

the Pacific Railway and of the necessity of that great work to

the unity and stability of the confederation he was thoroughly

convinced. He was not well satisfied with the slower and less

heroic policy of Mackenzie, although it is said he believed the

road should be built by the government and ‘not by any company,

however honorable or competent.’ He said in 1876, ‘Nothing short

of a guarantee from the government of interest on the whole

amount of the bonds could induce capitalists to embark on the

enterprise.’ He, therefore, well understood the magnitude of the

contract into which the syndicate entered in 1880 and the peril

to his fortune and reputation involved in the assumption of that

gigantic undertaking.

“There is no doubt that the syndicate received great subventions,

but Mr. Smith and his courageous associates undertook to build

a railway through thousands of miles of unknown and uninhabited

country, along the sterile shores of Lake Superior and across the

Rocky mountains. They had to go out in advance of settlement.

They had to lead the march of civilization across leagues of

unsettled prairie. They had to seek a silent port on the Pacific.

It was a more daring idea than the Cape to Cairo Railway, which

united two great centers of world activity. The Canadian Pacific

was a plunge through nothing to nothing. It was a stupendous

guess at the future. As we look back we recognize that few human

achievements rank higher than the construction of the Canadian

Pacific Railway across this enormous stretch of territory, its

operation during the first ten years of its history and the

maintenance of its credit in face of persistent attack, slow

growth of population and unpromising national outlook. The

whisper goes that when the great enterprise hung on the verge

of collapse, Mr. Smith pledged his private fortune to the last

dollar in support of its credit, as he held his associates to the

scrupulous performance of every detail of their contract with the

country.”

One of the initial steps of the work was the purchase of the

bankrupt St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway, which,

extending over Minnesota and Dakota had a branch line to Pembina,

Manitoba. Built by Dutch capitalists, it became bankrupt in 1873,

yet Messrs. Smith and Hill recognized that with the return of

prosperity this would become a profitable undertaking. These two,

together with George Stephen, later Lord Mount Stephen, and N. W.

Kittson purchased the road.

Sir John Macdonald returned to power in 1878, but he could not

secure the cooperation of London financiers in the building of

the railroad. When it was seen that it was impossible to carry

the project through as a government railroad, in 1880 the four

men who had made the old Minnesota railroad a paying investment,

undertook the other task. A syndicate was formed, known as the

Canadian Pacific Railway Company, ultimately capitalized at

seventy-five million dollars, with twenty-five million dollars of

land grant bonds, and this company built the railroad from the

Atlantic to the Pacific. The task accomplished was a gigantic

one. The movement had the support of the conservative government,

but was bitterly assailed by the opposition, both in the house

and through the press. Again and again the word went out through

the papers and through party utterances that the railroad could

never be made a paying investment. It was almost impossible to

get investors to buy stock. At times the treasury seemed utterly

exhausted. It is said that one day Donald A. Smith came late to

a directors’ meeting. He looked into the faces of his colleagues

and said: “Nobody has any money; let’s adjourn until tomorrow.”

The following day he smilingly entered the room. “Has anybody

raised any money?” he asked. Everyone replied: “Not a cent.” “I

have raised another million,” announced Mr. Smith, “and that

will last us until somebody gets more money.” Never for a moment

did he lose faith in the ultimate triumph of the venture. He

inspired others with much of his own contagious enthusiasm. Again

and again when his associates seemed utterly discouraged he

inspired them with hope and when he was in Great Britain and the

directors wrote him a long letter indicating their utter despair

he cabled back one word “Craigellachie,” recalling at once the

old Highland clan cry “Stand Fast, Craigellachie,” and once more

inspired by their chieftain the men did stand fast and on the 7th

of November, 1885, at Craigellachie, British Columbia, Donald A.

Smith, then a white haired man, drove a golden spike into the

cedar tie upon which the rails met from east to west. The weight

of the Herculean task which he had accomplished between 1880 and

1885 had changed the strong, black bearded, sturdy man to a white

haired veteran. Before night came on the Marquis of Lansdowne,

governor general of Canada, had received a telegram from Queen

Victoria congratulating the Canadian people on an event “of

greatest importance to the whole British empire.” Speaking of the

Canadian Pacific Railway Sir Charles Tupper said:

“The Canadian Pacific Railway would have no existence today,

notwithstanding all the government did to support that

undertaking, had it not been for the indomitable pluck and energy

and determination, both financially and in every other respect,

of Sir Donald Smith.” Mr. James J. Hill, president of the Great

Northern Railway of the United States, also said that “the one

person to whose efforts and to whose confidence in the growth of

our country, our success in early railway development is due is

Sir Donald A. Smith.”

The splendid work done by Mr. Smith won him imperial honors. He

was created a knight commander of the Most Distinguished Order

of St. Michael and St. George by Queen Victoria in 1886 and a

decade later received a knight grand cross in the same order,

being privately invested by Her Majesty at Windsor Castle. At

the time of the Diamond Jubilee in 1897 Queen Victoria bestowed

a further mark of royal favor upon Mr. Smith by elevating him to

the peerage of the united kingdom as Baron Strathcona and Mount

Royal of Glencoe, in the county of Argyll, and of Montreal, in

the province of Quebec and Dominion of Canada. In 1908 he was

appointed a knight of the grand cross of the Royal Victorian

Order and was also elected a fellow of the Royal Society,

while in 1910 he became a knight of grace of the Order of the

Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem.

In the meantime he had become identified with so many financial

interests that it would be impossible to enumerate them. He also

remained active in politics, unyielding as ever in all matters

where subserviency was demanded by party exigencies. It has been

said:

“He was not a legislator; he was not a statesman; he never wanted

office; and he seldom spoke. He was forced into the house by his

commanding personality and he sat there representing the silent

power of the empire builder. But it is not to be supposed that

he was not a working member. Probably few men did more valuable

parliamentary work, while he remained a member of the house.”

In 1874 Mr. Smith resigned his seat in the Manitoba legislature,

but remained a representative of the province at Ottawa, sitting

for Selkirk until 1880. In 1887, at the general election, he was

returned to the house of commons as member for Montreal West,

now St. Antoine division, by a majority of fourteen hundred and

fifty, and was reelected in 1891 by a majority of thirty-seven

hundred and six, remaining the representative for Montreal

West until 1896. In 1892 he was an active participant in the

commercial congress held in London and in March, 1896, he served

as a delegate to the Manitoba government to aid in deciding the

Manitoba school question, his colleagues being Messrs. Dickey

and Desjardins. In April of the same year he was sworn of the

queen’s privy council of Canada, and he was commissioner to the

Pacific cable conference held in London in 1896, in which year he

once more attended the commercial congress. During the existence

of the Imperial Federation League he was vice president of that

organization for Quebec. In April, 1896, ere the conservative

administration went out of power, he was appointed Canadian high

commissioner in Great Britain, succeeding Sir Charles Tupper,

who had filled the office since its creation in 1884. The high

commissionership combines all the functions of an ambassador and

financial agent but has no diplomatic standing. The appointment

as high commissioner is a political one, but when Sir Wilfrid

Laurier came into power Lord Strathcona still retained the

position as if there had been no change in government. When the

conservatives returned to power in 1911 he remained in London,

with the approval of all Canada. When the expenses of the high

commissioner’s office in London were being discussed in the

Dominion house of commons the late Sir Richard Cartwright said:

“I believe that Canada has in very important respects been

extremely well served by Lord Strathcona since he has represented

us in Great Britain. It is a matter of no small moment to Canada

that our representative should be well and favorably known on the

London Stock Exchange as a man of the highest honor and probity,

and a man whose word is universally admitted to be his bond.

I need not tell the house that the emoluments are absolutely

naught to Lord Strathcona. I need not tell the house that in all

probability, in the exercise of hospitality which he has indulged

in during a single London season, he will vastly exceed all that

is nominally assigned to him as the representative of Canada. I

think every member of the house who has occasion to visit London

will testify that, whether or not the office in other respects

comes up to all that he desires, Lord Strathcona, at any rate, is

worthy of upholding in every possible way the honor and dignity

of Canada. I may further add that Lord Strathcona is a man whose

advice is eagerly sought and has very great weight, indeed, with

the British government and with Englishmen, Scotsmen and Irishmen

of every rank and station. As regards his influence in what I

may call the diplomatic circle and the ministerial circle and on

the Stock Exchange, Canada would find it pretty hard, indeed, to

replace Lord Strathcona.”

Lord Strathcona’s name stands high on the roll of those who have

figured most prominently in financial circles in the Dominion. He

was one of the large shareholders of the Bank of Montreal, became

its vice president in 1882 and president in 1887. It was only

after many years’ residence in London that he resigned in 1905,

whereupon he was immediately elected honorary president for life.

He studied banking from every possible standpoint and in all of

its relations to other business interests. His first address to

the shareholders after he became president was a notable one. He

spoke of the bountiful harvests in Canada and in the American

northwest and recognized the fact that shipping interests must

bring the grain to Montreal and that the bank would benefit

thereby. Few men would have considered the question in so wide

a scope. Year after year during his presidency Lord Strathcona

continued to call attention to the wealth of the nation as

provided by the agricultural districts of the northwest and time

has proven the wisdom of his judgment in this regard.

Not only was Lord Strathcona a railroad builder, a distinguished

financier and a political leader, but he was also one of Canada’s

most generous philanthropists. He never for a moment forgot

his own struggles and his hand was ever out-reaching to assist

another. His munificence was princely, yet his giving was most

unostentatious in its character and no one will ever know the

extent of his private charities. Some of his gifts, however, he

could not conceal. In association with Lord Mount Stephen he gave

one million for the erection of a great hospital in Montreal

to commemorate the queen’s jubilee. Later, when the building

had been erected on the mountain side, they gave equally in the

sum of eight hundred thousand to endow the institution and the

Royal Victoria is today one of the best equipped hospitals on

the continent. Modern science has been exhausted to furnish it

adequately and the large endowment makes it possible to keep pace

with the newest discoveries and inventions. McGill University has

again and again been the beneficiary of Lord Strathcona until

the sum total of his gifts reaches two million dollars, and in

addition he has presented to the university the land on which

to erect the new medical building and the site and building of

the Royal Victoria College. He also gave the income of a million

dollars as an endowment to the Royal Victoria College and the

chair of zoology. The former was founded for the higher education

of women and is one of the most popular and useful of his

bequests to McGill. Lord Strathcona was early chosen a governor

of McGill and was elected chancellor of the university in 1889.

The gifts to the university for the faculty of medicine included

the Leanchoil endowment, in memory of his mother, fifty thousand

dollars; for endowment of the chair of pathology, fifty thousand

dollars; for endowment of the department of hygiene, fifty

thousand dollars. The faculty of applied science benefited by the

endowment of its pension fund, fifty thousand dollars, while the

faculty of arts also benefited by a like amount for the same

object. Of the five hundred thousand dollar gift, given in 1909,

it was stipulated that fifty thousand should go for augmenting

the salaries of the professional staff. To the Trafalgar

Institute, affiliated with McGill University, he gave thirty

thousand dollars. Together with Lord Mount Stephen he endowed a

Canadian scholarship in the Royal College of Music, London, and

subsequently endowed a second scholarship on his own account.

Lord Strathcona took an active interest in the cooperative scheme

put in operation in 1912 by the Montreal Theological Colleges

affiliated with McGill and in the summer of 1913 contributed one

hundred thousand dollars to a half million dollar fund raised

by the friends of the four institutions concerned--Anglican,

Presbyterian, Methodist and Congregational--to place the joint

work upon a permanent basis. As honorary chairman of the

Western committee of the Young Men’s Christian Association Lord

Strathcona gave one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to funds

for the Young Men’s Christian Association buildings in Manitoba,

Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia.

Lord Strathcona’s patriotism and generosity found expression in

the equipment of the famous Strathcona Horse, a military force

of five hundred and forty men completely equipped and sent to

the front at a critical period of the war. He paid the expenses

of equipment, pay and transport until the regiment reached Cape

Town. The service of the regiment was, indeed, a credit to

its founder and has become a part of the military history of

Canada. Another of Lord Strathcona’s beneficent gifts was the

contribution of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to create

an annual fund of ten thousand dollars for the encouragement

of physical and military training in the public schools of the

Dominion. In writing upon this subject Lord Strathcona said:

“While I attach the highest importance to the advantages of

physical training and elementary drill for all children of

both sexes, I am particularly anxious that the especial value

of military drill, including rifle shooting for boys capable

of using rifles, should be constantly borne in mind. My object

is not only to help to improve the physical and intellectual

capabilities of the children by inculcating habits of alertness,

orderliness and prompt obedience but also to bring up the boys

to patriotism and to a realization that the first duty of a free

citizen is to be prepared to defend his country. The Dominion at

the present time and for many years to come can hardly hope to be

able to give so long a period of training to her military forces

as by itself would suffice to make them efficient soldiers, but

if all boys had acquired a fair acquaintance while at school with

simple military drill and rifle shooting the degree of efficiency

which could be reached in the otherwise short period which can be

devoted to the military training of the Dominion forces would in

my opinion be enormously enhanced.”

Among other evidences of his generosity was a gift of one hundred

thousand dollars in June, 1913, through the minister of militia,

for the purchase of a site on Lorne Crescent for a drill hall for

the exclusive use of McGill students.

Lord Strathcona has been equally generous in his assistance of

Scottish institutions. He gave to Marischal College, Aberdeen,

one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars and to Aberdeen

University fifty thousand dollars. He became chancellor of the

university in 1903 and held the office throughout his remaining

days, while from the students came the honor of election as lord

rector of that university. He founded the Leanchoil Cottage

Hospital in his native town of Forres and gave generously to

other charitable and educational institutions of his native land.

In 1902 he gave a million dollars to the fund for King Edward’s

Hospital and about the same time gave fifty-two thousand, five

hundred dollars to Queen Alexandra’s fund for the unemployed.

Lord Strathcona was honored with the friendship of Queen

Victoria, King Edward and Queen Alexandra and of King George and

Queen Mary and for many years His Royal Highness the Duke of

Connaught regarded him as a close friend. He was the host of King

George and Queen Mary when as Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and

York they visited Montreal in September, 1911. By invitation he

was present at the coronation of King Edward and Queen Alexandra

in 1902 and at the funeral of the former in 1910 he was one of

Canada’s representatives. Again in his official capacity he was

present at the coronation of King George and Queen Mary in 1911.

Many academic honors were conferred upon Lord Strathcona. He

received the LL. D. degree from Cambridge in 1887; LL. D., Yale,

1892; LL. D., Aberdeen, 1899; LL. D., Laval, 1902; LL. D.,

Toronto, 1903; LL. D., Queen’s, Kingston, 1905; LL. D., Ottawa,

1906; LL. D., St. Andrew’s, 1911; and D. C. L., Durham, 1912.

He was presented with the freedom of the city of Aberdeen in

1902; of Edinburgh in 1903; of Bristol in 1908; and of Bath in

1911. Lord Strathcona’s portrait by Arless was exhibited at the

Royal Academy in London in 1890. Another portrait by Jongers

was presented to McGill University by the governors of that

institution in 1901. Still another portrait was presented to

the Canada Club of London in 1902. Lord Strathcona was honorary

president of the Mount Royal Club and also of the Canadian Club

of Montreal. In 1898 he was appointed honorary lieutenant colonel

of the Victoria Rifles, Montreal, a tribute to the interest he

had taken in the military movement in Canada. In 1902 he became

honorary colonel of the Eighth Volunteer Battalion of the King’s

Liverpool Regiment. In 1909 he was honored by being made honorary

colonel of the Fifteenth Light Horse and in 1910 he was made

the honorary colonel of the Seventy-ninth Highlanders. At the

house of the Royal Society of Arts, Adelphi, London, on November

15, 1912, Lord Sanderson, on behalf of the Duke of Connaught,

president of the society, presented the society’s Albert medal

to Lord Strathcona “for his services in improving the railway

communications, developing the resources and promoting the

commerce and industry of Canada and other parts of the British

empire.” Lord Sanderson read a message from the Duke of Connaught

in which His Royal Highness said: “In my present office of

governor general of Canada I have had special opportunities of

fully realizing the great services Lord Strathcona has rendered

to the Dominion and to the industrial and commercial progress of

the British empire. As an old friend of many years’ standing I

rejoiced that, as president of the Society of Arts, I had been

able to add another mark of appreciation of his long and valuable

career of usefulness.”

Lord Strathcona was a familiar figure at the Athenaeum Club in

Pall Mall, the center of British culture and exclusiveness. In

one of its handsome dining rooms he delighted to gather together

distinguished men of Great Britain to meet visiting Canadians

of high rank and greatly was the honor appreciated. Sir Wilfrid

Laurier and Mr. Borden have both enjoyed the High Commissioner’s

hospitality in this luxurious form and realized afresh what a

genius for entertaining was his.

A contemporary biographer has written:

“On November 12, 1913, Lord Strathcona suffered bereavement

by the death of Lady Strathcona, who died in her eighty-ninth

year, at their London home, Grosvenor Square, most unexpectedly.

Pneumonia was the cause of death. Lord Strathcona bore the blow

with much fortitude and made continuous acknowledgement of

many hundreds of messages of sympathy which came to him from

all quarters and classes, from the king and the royal family

downwards.

“Isabella Sophia, Lady Strathcona, was the daughter of the late

Mr. Richard Hardisty, long a resident of Montreal and also for

many years one of the trusted agents of the Hudson’s Bay Company

in Labrador. She became the wife of Lord Strathcona when he was

twenty-nine years of age. The early married life of Lord and

Lady Strathcona was spent in the bleak winds of Labrador. It was

a terrible country in those days. Winter comes early and stays

late--and such a winter! A few short hours of frozen day, then

night--a long uncanny night. Sometimes the snow falls through

weeks on weeks and no man dares to move beyond the circle of

the little settlement. Wolves in those days would sweep the

icy paths, truculent, hungry, seeking their sustenance. At

night about the little camp their hordes would sweep howling in

mournful unison. By day, men went their ways but cautiously,

watching the hard grey sky above and the hard white snow below.

“Lady Strathcona accompanied her husband everywhere in his long

years of service of the Hudson’s Bay Company. They saw Lake

Winnipeg before the city was. They traveled the dreadful wastes

where the great Mackenzie river tumbles across the Arctic circle.

Dreary Keewatin they learned from end to end, tramping in and out

from the posts on Hudson’s bay. They threaded the forests on the

Ontario hinterland and on foot or by dog sled paced the thousands

of miles of prairie that lie between Lake Winnipeg and the Rocky

mountains.

“Lord and Lady Strathcona spent over sixty years of happy married

life together. Lady Strathcona maintained her interest in

Canada to the very end and took the keenest interest in public

affairs. She followed events in Canada closely and was especially

interested in everything pertaining to McGill University. All

who were the recipients of her hospitality in London, either as

the wife of Canada’s high commissioner or as private guests were

charmed with the kindness displayed to them by Lady Strathcona.

Lady Strathcona was presented, with Lord Strathcona, to Queen

Victoria in Windsor Castle in July, 1886, and to King Edward and

Queen Alexandra at Buckingham Palace in March, 1903, and April,

1904. She was present, with Lord Strathcona, in Westminster Abbey

at the coronation of King Edward and Queen Alexandra. With Lord

Strathcona she was also present at the coronation of King George

and Queen Mary, in June, 1911.

“Although a woman of a retiring and altogether unostentatious

nature Lady Strathcona throughout her life splendidly seconded

her husband in his innumerable acts and schemes for the benefit

of the people of Canada and of mankind at large. With her

daughter, the Hon. Mrs. Howard, Lady Strathcona gave one hundred

thousand dollars to McGill University for the erection of a new

wing to the medical building. To Queen Alexandra’s fund for the

relief of the unemployed of Great Britain she gave fifty-two

thousand, five hundred dollars and from time to time she also

gave largely in many directions. Throughout she exercised a large

and gracious hospitality. At Knebworth House and at Glencoe in

Scotland she was beloved by the people for her many acts of

kindness and generosity.

“Lady Strathcona accompanied Lord Strathcona on his flying

visit to Canada in the autumn of 1913, when His Lordship came

to Montreal to take part in the ceremonies connected with the

congress of the American Bar Association. Lady Strathcona at that

time appeared to be in the best of health and spirits. They were

present together at the recent reception given by the Duke and

Duchess of Connaught at St. James Palace just before Their Royal

Highnesses left London to return to Canada.

“Lady Strathcona’s funeral took place to Highgate cemetery on

November 18, after a simple service in the Church of St. Mark.

Lord Strathcona was a pathetic figure as he followed the coffin

to the church, leaning on the arm of his daughter, the Hon. Mrs.

Howard. Among the numerous floral tributes was a handsome wreath

with a tender inscription from Queen Mother Alexandra. It bore

the words, ‘To dear Lady Strathcona--a sorrowing tribute to the

memory of a beloved wife and companion for sixty-five years--From

Alexandra.’”

It was but little more than two months after the death of Lady

Strathcona that Lord Strathcona passed away, his death occurring

January 21, 1914. His was a strikingly splendid figure even at

the age of ninety-three. He had learned well the lessons of life.

Nobility of character and high purpose had won for him imperial

honors and had made him one of the world’s empire builders.

ROBERT JAMES INGLIS.

At the time of his death, which occurred on the 25th of June,

1903, Robert James Inglis was at the head of the most extensive

merchant tailoring establishment and the best known business

of its kind in Montreal, which was developed entirely through

his efforts and capability. He was recognized as a self-made

man and his example should serve as a source of encouragement

and inspiration to others. He was born in Hamilton, Ontario, in

1856 and in 1875, when but nineteen years of age, he opened a

tailoring establishment on St. Joseph, now Notre Dame Street.

Although his start in life was comparatively unimportant, he soon

demonstrated his capability and proved that he was worthy of

confidence and support. Year by year his patronage grew and after

nine years at his original location he removed to Beaver Hall

Hill while later he was for five years on St. Catherine Street

West. Less than one month prior to his demise he opened his

establishment in a business block which he had erected, having

well appointed and attractive quarters in which he carried a

large and carefully selected line of goods. In style, excellence

of design and workmanship the output of his establishment could

not be surpassed, and progressive methods and honorable dealing

led to the establishment of a business of large and gratifying

proportions.

Mr. Inglis was survived by his widow and four sons: Douglas S.,

Robert J., W. Stewart, and Lockhart C. The first two are in

charge of the business of R. J. Inglis, Ltd., of Montreal, and

W. Stewart is in charge of the branch of the firm in Winnipeg,

established after the death of his father. Mr. Inglis had reached

a position where the comforts and luxuries of life were at his

command but death called him when he was only forty-seven years

of age. He was a prominent member of Victoria Lodge, No. 57, A.

F. & A. M., but he was never a club man, preferring the enjoyment

of the pleasures of his home. He possessed a strong character,

marked individuality and pleasing personality and was loved by

all who knew him. His acquaintance was a wide one, for his entire

business life had been spent in Montreal and he had gained for

himself a creditable position in business and social circles.

CHARLES BLAIR GORDON.

Manufacturing and financial interests in Montreal find a worthy

representative in Charles Blair Gordon, practical, progressive

and determined. His familiarity with the line of business in

which he is engaged, his recognition of opportunities and his

laudable ambition have gained him distinction and success, and

material progress has been largely promoted through his efforts.

Perhaps there is no other man in Canadian business life whose

career so aptly illustrates the reward of conscientious business

energy. Montreal has reason to be proud of the fact that he is

one of her native sons. He was born here in 1867, his parents

being John and Jane Gordon. After passing through consecutive

grades to the high school and mastering the branches of learning

therein taught, he took up the more difficult lessons to be

learned in the school of experience, entering business circles

in the employ of McIntyre, Sons & Company. In that connection he

gained his first knowledge of business methods and measures, and

the experience which he thus acquired led him to believe that he

might profitably pursue a business career independently. He left

that firm, therefore, to become the organizer of the Standard

Shirt Company, of which he became the manager, and which he

conducted very successfully. At the organization of the Dominion

Textile Company, Mr. Gordon became at first managing director and

vice president. He was elected to the presidency of the company

in 1909 and has since remained at its head, bending his energies

to administrative direction and executive control. The business,

which is one of the worlds’ largest cotton manufacturing

concerns, has developed steadily under his guidance, for he keeps

in close touch with trade conditions and studies every question

bearing upon manufacturing in his line. He was also at one time

vice president of the Montmorency Cotton Mills Company and of the

Colonial Bleaching & Printing Company. He was likewise a director

of the Merchants Cotton Company and is still financially and

officially connected with the Montreal Cotton Company. He is a

director of the Bank of Montreal, president of Penman’s, Ltd.,

president of Hill Crest Collieries, Ltd., vice president of the

well known financial bond and investment house of C. Meredith,

Ltd., and a director of the Ogilvie Flour Mills Company, Ltd. He

is likewise a director of the Ritz-Carlton Company, owners of

the magnificent new hotel, the Royal Trust Company, the Dominion

Bridge Company, and numerous other corporations in the Dominion

of Canada. His judgment is sought as a valuable factor in the

management of all the different business organizations with which

he is connected. McGill University has requisitioned his services

and made him one of its governors. To further the interests

of trade he has become a member of the Canadian Manufacturers

Association and was elected vice president of the Quebec branch

in 1911.

In 1897 Mr. Gordon was united in marriage to Miss Annie Brooks,

of Seaforth, Ontario, and they reside at Terra Nova on St. Luc

road, Ville Notre Dame des Neiges, Montreal. His social interests

largely center in his membership in the Mount Royal, Canada,

Montreal Hunt, Montreal Racquet, Montreal Jockey and Royal St.

Lawrence Yacht Clubs. Mr. Gordon is a typical man of the age.

He has gone beyond many who perhaps started out ahead of him

in the race of life, this being due to his close application,

unfaltering energy, and an earnest and persistent desire to

accomplish at any one point in his career the utmost possibility

for success at that point. He belongs to that class of valued and

representative citizens who in advancing individual interests

have also largely promoted the public good.

LESLIE HALE BOYD.

Leslie Hale Boyd is not only a student of the law but also of

the vital public questions which are engaging wide attention,

and is, as well, widely known in connection with many athletic

and similar organizations. Montreal numbers him among her native

sons, his birth having here occurred July 31, 1873, his parents

being Andrew and Georgina L. (Hale) Boyd. Passing through

consecutive grades in the public schools, he entered the Montreal

high school and eventually pursued the arts and law courses in

McGill University, which in 1894 conferred upon him the B. A.

degree and in 1897 that of B. C. L. In 1898 he began practice as

an advocate, and while advancement at the bar is proverbially

slow no dreary novitiate awaited him. Almost from the beginning

of his professional career he was accorded a liberal clientage

and is now one of the prominent practitioners of the Montreal

bar. In 1908 he was created king’s counsellor. As he has won

success in his profession, he has made investments in real estate

and is now the owner of considerable valuable property in the

city.

In 1898 Mr. Boyd was married to Miss Emma Constance, a daughter

of the late William Farrell, of Montreal, but her death occurred

in August, 1909. Mr. Boyd makes his home at No. 1036 Dorchester

Street West. He is a Presbyterian in religious faith and is

identified with various social organizations and with different

societies having to do with the material development and welfare

of the city. He belongs to the Montreal Amateur Athletic

Association, which has honored him with the presidency, and in

1908 he was vice president of the Amateur Athletic Federation

of Canada. He likewise belongs to the Canada Club and the

Engineers Club, the Caledonia and St. Lawrence Curling Clubs, the

Canadian Club and the Rangers, Fish and Game Club, and he figures

prominently in the various athletic and similar organizations to

which he belongs. His interest in affairs of general importance

is indicated in the fact that he is a governor of the Montreal

Homeopathic Hospital and a member of the Protestant board of

school trustees at St. Henri, P. Q. The conservative party

numbers him among its active workers and representatives, and in

1910 he was elected alderman of St. George’s ward of Montreal

as a reform candidate, and in 1912 and 1914 was reelected by

acclamation. In May, 1912, he ran in the St. Lawrence division

as the conservative candidate for the provincial legislature but

was defeated. The talents with which nature endowed him he has

wisely used, not only for the benefit of himself but for the

improvement of municipal and moral conditions and physical and

mental development.

COLIN MCARTHUR.

It is a natural thing that when the sons of Great Britain desire

to emigrate they turn toward one of the colonial possessions of

the great British empire, and thus it is that a large percentage

of Canada’s citizens have come from Scotland. Among the number

was Colin McArthur, who was born in Glasgow in 1835, a son

of James McArthur, a mason contractor of that city. He was

educated in St. Enoch’s school of Glasgow and for sixteen years

was associated with the firm of Wylie & Lockhead, wall paper

manufacturers, acting as manager of their interests most of the

time. While in their employ he frequently visited Canada and

the United States in the interests of the house, and eventually

taking up his permanent abode in Canada, embarked in business in

Toronto. In 1879, however, he came to Montreal and entered into

business with J. C. Watson in the manufacture of wall paper under

the firm name of Watson & McArthur. This relation was maintained

uninterruptedly until 1884, when Mr. McArthur withdrew from the

firm and established the present business, that of Colin McArthur

& Company, wall paper manufacturers. In the early days skilled

labor had to be brought from the States, but in time men of this

country were trained for the work and with the introduction of

improved machinery the business developed rapidly. The trade grew

enormously and Mr. McArthur was not only one of the pioneers in

his line but controlled one of the most extensive and successful

enterprises of that character. He thoroughly understood every

phase of the business and, watchful of details pointing to

success, his capable control was manifest in the excellent

results which rewarded him.

Mr. McArthur was first married to Margaret Jamieson, of Largs,

Scotland, and had two children. David married Rose Wilkinson and

died in 1902, leaving a widow and three children, Colin, David

and Margaret. Margaret, the daughter, is now living in Montreal.

Mr. McArthur married in England, in 1869, Miss Annie Williamson,

who survives him and resides in Montreal.

Mr. McArthur was an active factor in public interests as well as

in business circles. He joined the Board of Trade in 1888, and

he was much interested in public institutions and in plans for

the general welfare. He was a life member of the General Hospital

and was a member of the Caledonia and St. Andrew’s Societies.

He also was a life member of the Protestant Insane Hospital and

took an active interest in the founding of that institution.

A Presbyterian in religious faith, his many good deeds had

their inception in his Christian belief. He did much for charity

and in fact was continually assisting others, yet all in a most

unostentatious manner. He never spoke of his benevolent acts and

shrank from all publicity of that character, yet there are many

who have reason to bless his memory for aid rendered in an hour

of need.

[Illustration: COLIN McARTHUR]

GEORGE EDWARD DESBARATS.

The late George Edward Desbarats was head of the well known

printing firm of Desbarats & Company of Montreal, which, for

many years has set the standard for all that is progressive in

this field of business activity. He was a representative of a

family that through many generations has been closely connected

with the printing business, successive generations being in the

vanguard of those who have been most active in bringing about

the advancement and improvement in connection with the art

preservative of arts. The History of Printing and Bookbinding in

the State of Bearne gives account of Pierre Desbarats, bookseller

from 1638, who established in 1651 the first printing office to

have more than a transient existence in the state of Bearne;

while Jean Desbarats, 1656 to 1687, was named printer to the

Royal College of Bearne in 1662, printer to the Jesuit College

at Pau in 1663 and printer to the King and the Royal College in

1680. Jean Desbarats, 1687 to 1714, was appointed King’s printer

and printer to the Royal College in 1687. Isaac Desbarats, 1714

to 1737, was printer to the States of the Province of Bearne

and on the 24th of December, 1719, was officially appointed to

succeed Jean Desbarats as King’s printer. Parliamentary decree

of April 27, 1730, admitted him to the ranks of the nobility as

“Isaac Desbarats, King’s Printer, Seigneur de Labarthe Buisson.”

Isaac Charles Desbarats, 1737-1787, was made printer to the King

and to the States of the Kingdom of Navarre, September 20, 1737.

He succeeded to the rank of Seigneur de Labarthe Buisson and was

“Avocat au Parlement.” The printing establishment was inherited

by Jeanne Desbarats but the government would not allow a woman to

carry on the printing business and it had to be sold. The above

indicates the close connection of the family with the printing

business in France from 1638 to 1787. The family name has figured

with equal prominence in Canada. Pierre Edouard Desbarats was

named King’s printer January 27, 1800, and so continued until

his death in 1828. His son, Georges Pascal Desbarats, father of

George E. Desbarats of this review, succeeded his father and in

1844 was named Queen’s printer.

The family had been founded in Canada by Joseph Desbarats, who

came to this country in 1756 and in 1761 married Marie Louise

Crête at Beauport. He died in 1810. Their son, Pierre Edouard

Desbarats, was married in September, 1798, to Josephte Voyer

and at the time of his death, in 1828, was not only printer of

His Majesty’s laws, but was also assistant clerk of the house,

lieutenant colonel and justice of the peace. His son, Georges

Pascal Desbarats, married Henriette Dionne, daughter of Hon.

Amable Dionne. She died in 1839, while G. P. Desbarats passed

away in 1864. He had succeeded his father in business and in 1844

was named Queen’s printer, in which connection he removed with

the Government to Kingston, Toronto and Quebec as the government

was successively established in those cities. He was also

lieutenant colonel of militia.

George Edward Desbarats was born at Quebec, April 5, 1838, and in

the attainment of his education attended Holy Cross College at

Worcester, Massachusetts, from 1846 to 1851; St. Mary’s College

at Montreal from 1852 until 1855 and Laval University at Quebec

from 1855 until 1857. He won the degrees of Bachelor of Arts

and Bachelor of Laws and thoroughly qualified for the bar. He

studied with the Hon. Jean Thomas Taschereau in 1857 and with

the law firm of Bethune & Dunkin in Montreal. He was received at

the bar of Lower Canada in 1859 and was offered a partnership in

the firm of Laflamme & Laflamme but declined in order to enter

his father’s printing office, in which connection he remained in

Quebec until 1865, when he went to Ottawa which had been made the

new seat of government. In Quebec he published several volumes

of original French-Canadian literature, among which were: Le

Foyer Canadien in three volumes, eleven hundred and thirty-six

pages; La Littérature Canadienne, in two volumes, seven hundred

and eighty pages; Essais Poétiques, Lemay, in one volume, three

hundred and twenty pages; Les Anciens Canadiens, P. A. de Gaspe,

in one volume, four hundred and twelve pages; Mémoires de M. de

Gaspe in one volume, five hundred and sixty pages; Canadians of

Old (English) in one volume, three hundred and thirty pages; Mère

Marie de l’Incarnation, L’Abbé H. R. Casgrain, in one volume,

four hundred and sixty pages; Vies des Saints, Abbé Casgrain,

in one volume, seven hundred and fifty pages; Lives of the

Saints (English) in one volume, seven hundred and fifty pages;

Chansons Populaires du Canada, Ernest Gagnon, in one volume,

three hundred and seventy-five pages; Contes Populaires, Paul

Stevens, in one volume, two hundred and sixty-five pages; Traité

d’Art & d’Histoire Militaire, L. T. Sugor, in one volume, four

hundred and seventy-two pages; Instructions Chrétiennes pour les

Jeunes Gens, in one volume, three hundred and twenty pages; and

Le Protestantisme, Etc., Abbé Guillaume, five hundred and fifty

pages.

On removing to Ottawa in 1865 Mr. Desbarats occupied a building

erected for this purpose which was begun during his father’s

lifetime and belonged to the estate. Malcolm Cameron, who had

been Queen’s printer with the father of George Edward Desbarats

after the death of Stewart Derbishire, held the patent alone from

1864 to 1869 and was G. E. Desbarats’ partner in the printing

business. The building erected there in Ottawa was one of the

largest business blocks of the city at that time. It was in this

building that the Hon. Thomas D’Arcy McGee lodged in company with

Sir Hector Langevin and others on the occasion of his atrocious

assassination and it was upon the place where the murder occurred

that Mr. Desbarats caused to be erected a memorial tablet. This,

it has been supposed gave offence to a certain lawless element in

the population, resulting in the destruction of the noble pile

of buildings by the incendiary’s torch. After the destruction of

the building by fire on the 21st of January, 1869, it was not

rebuilt. The Cartier-Macdonald government was then in power and

gave out the Gazette, laws, etc., to public competition. G. E.

Desbarats was appointed Queen’s printer and charged with making

the schedules, getting the tenders and adjudging the contracts.

He held the office for about a year and then resigned to remove

to Montreal, where he had large interests in a lithographic

and photo-engraving business which he had established there in

connection with the Leggo Brothers. The fire of January 21,

1869, destroyed the complete first edition of Les Oeuvres de

Champlain, which G. E. Desbarats was publishing at that time,

the compiler and annotator being L’Abbé Laverdiere, librarian

of Laval University. Not only was the manuscript destroyed but

also the electrotype plates and illustrations. The only copy

saved was that in proof sheets in Mr. Laverdiere’s hands. Mr.

Desbarats determined to republish the work at once. The second

edition was printed direct from the type, being limited to one

thousand copies. The six volumes, which are quarto, contain some

sixteen hundred and fifty pages and are copiously illustrated

with facsimiles of the original charts, maps and cuts produced

by the Leggotype process. This great work was published by G. E.

Desbarats in 1870 and is considered the finest book issued so far

from the Canadian Press. He was also the publisher, in Ottawa, of

H. J. Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis.

At the fire in Ottawa G. E. Desbarats’ net loss was over one

hundred thousand dollars. The estate also lost heavily on the

building, which was only partly insured. At a meeting of citizens

an address of sympathy was voted to Mr. Desbarats and afterwards

presented to him, handsomely engrossed, bearing the city seal,

signed by the mayor and others and framed.

In 1869 G. E. Desbarats built a printing office on St. Antoine

Street, Montreal, and there founded The Canadian Illustrated

News, the first number of which was issued on October 30, of that

year, with Alexander Robertson as the first editor and E. Jump as

chief artist. The illustrations were at first photo-electrotypes

produced by the Leggotype process. In 1870 Mr. Desbarats founded

a French companion paper to the Canadian Illustrated News called

L’Opinion Publique, a twelve-page paper, the illustrations in

which were for the most part the same as those in the English

weekly. The editors were J. A. Mousseau and L. O. David.

Among the contributors to its pages were P. J. O. Chauveau,

L. H. Frechette, Joseph Marmette, J. A. Poisson, Benjamin

Sulte, W. Gelinas, Joseph Tassé and many other distinguished

French-Canadian writers. By arrangement with Ferdinand Gagnon,

L’Opinion Publique absorbed L’Etendard National of Worcester,

Massachusetts.

In May, 1871, Mr. Desbarats became proprietor of a weekly

literary paper named The Hearthstone. The editorial work of

The Hearthstone was performed by J. A. Phillips. Mr. Desbarats

owned and conducted The Dominion Telegraph Institute which had

been started by Churchill, continuing this for two years, during

which time were sent out many capable telegraph operators now at

the head of their profession. In 1872 he organized the Graphic

Company to publish a daily illustrated paper in the city of

New York. This was the first illustrated daily ever published

and it came to end in about a year, being too far ahead of its

time and lacking the necessary capital. Still the field of his

activity and usefulness constantly broadened, and at all times

he was in the lead among those who have wrought for advancement

and progress in connection with the printing and publishing

business. In March, 1873, he founded The Canadian Patent Office

Record and Mechanics Magazine, a quarto monthly of thirty-two

pages devoted to engineering, manufacturing, mining and other

industrial pursuits. With each number was issued the official

patent office record, the whole amply illustrated, the two parts

together forming a book of from sixty to eighty pages monthly,

the subscription price to which was only a dollar and a half a

year.

In 1873 it was thought advisable to form a stock company to carry

on the Canadian publications and the general Montreal engraving

and printing business. The Desbarats Lithographic & Publishing

Company was therefore organized by G. E. Desbarats, W. P. Hussey,

Luke Moore, William Angus, Jonathan Hodgson, Alexander Buntin and

Daniel MacLellan as provincial directors; G. E. Desbarats and

W. P. Hussey as managers. In April, 1874, Mr. Desbarats entered

into negotiations with G. B. Burland with a view to amalgamating

the two concerns and formed The Burland-Desbarats Lithographing

Company, from which he retired in 1876. He then opened a small

office in the old postoffice building and in 1878 moved to

larger premises and laid the foundation of the present Desbarats

Printing Company, one of the most important establishments of

this character in the Dominion. In 1879 G. E. Desbarats joined

with Notman & Sandham in organizing The Artotype Printing Company

and went himself to New York to learn the artotype work.

In 1884 W. C. Smillie, founder and first president of The

British American Bank Note Company entered into negotiations

with G. E. Desbarats & Company to revive the Canada Bank Note

Company which absorbed G. E. Desbarats & Company’s business

and in which G. E. Desbarats and H. Drechsel were appointed

managers. In 1887 Mr. Desbarats admitted his son, William,

to a partnership and together they published the Dominion

Illustrated, a weekly illustrated paper which also had to be

discontinued for lack of capital. Half-tone engraving was then

in its infancy and Mr. Desbarats was the first to introduce

it into Canada. The process was largely used in the Dominion

Illustrated and a photo-engraving plant was installed to meet

the paper’s requirements. While all days were not equally bright

in his career and indeed in his business experience he saw the

gathering of clouds that threatened disastrous storms, yet his

rich inheritance of energy, determination and initiative enabled

him to turn defeat into victory and promised failures into

brilliant successes. His strict integrity, business conservatism

and judgment were always so universally recognized that he

enjoyed public confidence to an enviable degree and naturally

this brought him a lucrative patronage. In early manhood he

showed conspicuously the traits of character that made his life

brilliantly successful and his mental and physical activity,

combined with thorough training, brought him to an eminent

position as a representative of the printing and publishing

business in Canada.

The business career of Mr. Desbarats with its steps of

successive advancement has been given but what of the man and

his personality? All who remember him speak of him as of the

highest type of gentlemen, his kindly nature and courteous

manner winning for him many warm friends. Even now, twenty years

after his demise, his old employes mention him with the greatest

respect and love. It has been said that there is no better way

to judge an individual than by his treatment of those in his

employ. Judged by this standard, no man has been more worthy

of regard. While in Ottawa his employes presented him a silver

goblet and tray as a mark of esteem. The employes of the Canadian

Illustrated News presented him with two bronze statues and a

necklace for Madame Desbarats and the employes of the Canada Bank

Note Company presented him a water pitcher when he severed his

connection with that company.

Aside from his extensive printing and engraving business Mr.

Desbarats was deeply interested in all that pertained to the

city’s welfare, and those things which are a matter of civic

virtue and civic pride received his indorsement and cooperation.

He took great interest in the Montreal Philharmonic Society of

which he was one of the directors. He was captain in the Civil

Service Rifle Regiment, of a company composed entirely of men

in his employ. During the smallpox epidemic in Montreal in 1885

he was chairman of the citizens’ relief committee and took a

leading part in the establishing of a temporary hospital at the

exhibition grounds. His political allegiance was given to the

conservative party but he took no active part in politics. In

religious faith he was a Roman Catholic and in 1867 was president

of the Société St. Jean Baptiste in Ottawa.

On the 30th of April, 1860, G. E. Desbarats was married to Miss

Lucianne Bossé, eldest daughter of Joseph N. Bossé, advocate

who was afterward senator and subsequently judge. Mr. and Mrs.

Desbarats were married in Quebec and they became the parents of

five sons and two daughters. George J., born January 27, 1861,

and now deputy minister in the naval service, married Miss L.

Scott, a daughter of Sir Richard Scott. William A., born February

14, 1862, is president of the Desbarats Printing Company,

Limited. Edward S. C., born April 24, 1863, is president of the

Desbarats Advertising Agency and married Miss M. A. MacCallum,

daughter of Dr. D. C. MacCallum. Lucianne, born August 10, 1864,

married Lord de Blaquière. Cecile is superior of the Convent

of the Sacred Heart at New Orleans, Louisiana. Alexander died

in childhood; and C. H. Hullett married Miss J. Henkels of

Philadelphia. He is the secretary and treasurer of the Desbarats

Printing Company. He and his brother, William, succeeded to

the business upon their father’s death and it has since been

organized into a joint stock company.

Such in brief is the life history of one who had much to do with

shaping the development of the printing and engraving business

in Canada. His was largely the initiative spirit that brought

about improvement and advancement in methods of printing and

of illustration. He ever maintained the highest standards, was

quick to adopt any new methods which his judgment sanctioned

as of value, and he largely set the standards that others

have followed. His life continued one of increasing activity,

usefulness and of public benefit to the time of his death which

occurred in 1892.

ARTHUR WILLIAM PATRICK BUCHANAN.

In the practice of law devotion to the interests of his clients,

careful preparation of his cases and comprehensive knowledge

of the principles of jurisprudence are salient features which

have gained Arthur William Patrick Buchanan a place among the

well known representatives of the Montreal bar. He was born at

Montreal in 1870, the son of Alexander Brock and Elizabeth Ann

(Best) Buchanan and grandson of the late Alexander Buchanan,

Q. C., a distinguished lawyer and in his day the leader of

the Montreal bar, who married Mary Ann, the daughter of James

Buchanan, H. B. M. consul at New York from 1816 to 1843. After

attending the Montreal high school our subject entered McGill

University and later pursued his law course in Laval University,

where he took the degree of LL. B. in 1893. He was admitted to

the bar of the province of Quebec in 1894 and the same year

began practice as an advocate. He was created a king’s counsel in

1908 and practices in partnership with W. J. White, K. C. Their

clientele is extensive and of a representative character, and Mr.

Buchanan has proved himself a capable and careful lawyer. He is

interested in genealogy and has written a history of his family,

The Buchanan Book (1911).

In 1897 Mr. Buchanan married Berthe Louise, elder daughter of

William Quirin, of Boston and resides at No. 731 Pine Avenue

West. Mr. Buchanan is a life member of the Buchanan Society, a

governor of the Montreal General Hospital and a member of the

St. James Club, the Canada Club, the Montreal Hunt and the Royal

Montreal Golf Club.

ANDREW ROBERTSON.

In many public positions Andrew Robertson gained wide

acquaintance and the efficiency of his service in public behalf

marked him as one of Montreal’s most valued and prominent men. In

commercial circles he was well known as the founder and senior

member of the firms of Andrew Robertson & Company and Robertson,

Stephen & Company, wholesale dry-goods merchants, and later he

became a factor in insurance and financial enterprises. This

however represented but one phase of his life, as he became

connected with many public projects having to do with the general

development and improvement of the city, or with its charitable

and benevolent activities. Abraham Lincoln said, “There is

something better than making a living--making a life,” and it

was that spirit which actuated Andrew Robertson at all times.

He recognized his obligations to his fellowmen and again and

again he played the part of the Good Samaritan, not from any

unavoidable sense of duty but from a deep love for his fellows.

Mr. Robertson was of Scotch birth, the place of his nativity

being Paisley, and the year, 1827. When he arrived at school age

he entered the Paisley grammar school, where he gained a working

knowledge of the common branches of learning. All through his

life he was a student,--a student of books, of men, of affairs

and the signs of the times, and he became a thoroughly well read

man, whose judgment was regarded as sound and his sagacity keen.

After leaving school he learned the weavers trade and in 1840 was

sent to Glasgow and entered upon a four year’s apprenticeship in

a drapery and clothing establishment. Subsequently he became an

employe of a manufacturing firm and displayed such ability and

resourcefulness in this connection that he was soon afterward

admitted into a partnership, and as most of the work of the

firm devolved upon him, his health gave way and his physician

recommended that he go either to Australia or Canada.

Mr. Robertson’s choice fell upon the latter country and in 1853

he sailed for the new world, accompanied by his wife and two

sons. He at once joined the wholesale dry-goods firm of Brown

& Swan and, on retiring therefrom two years later, founded the

firm of Andrew Robertson & Company which in 1867 was merged with

the older established business of William Stephen & Company and

continued under the style of Robertson, Stephen & Company. With

the firm and its successors he was continuously connected

until 1885, when he retired. Early in the 60’s he built the

Auburn Woolen Mill at Peterboro, Ontario, for the manufacture

of Canadian tweeds, and successfully directed it from Montreal

until 1867, when he sold it as part of the purchase price of

the Stephen business. His methods were ever progressive, and

his close application and indefatigable energy constituted the

foundation upon which he builded his prosperity.

[Illustration: ANDREW ROBERTSON]

While building up a commercial enterprise of large and profitable

proportions, Mr. Robertson always found time to devote to public

duties and the promotion of the general welfare. Joining the

St. Andrew’s Society in 1857 he served as treasurer in 1862

and 1863, second vice president in 1864 and 1865, first vice

president in 1868 and president during 1869 and 1870. In 1876 he

was president of the Dominion Board of Trade and in that and the

following year was also president of the Montreal Board of Trade.

He had the honor of being chosen the first president of the

Dominion Commercial Travelers’ Association, and thus he figured

prominently among the men who were most active in commercial

pursuits. He himself extended his efforts as a business man with

the passing years and became president of the Royal Canadian

Insurance Company in 1876, in which position he continued until

his death, while from its formation in 1880 until his demise he

was president of the Bell Telephone Company of Canada.

His public service was of a varied character and embraced

connection with charitable and benevolent objects, with public

works and with movements having to do with general progress and

improvement. In 1872 Mr. Robertson became one of the governors of

the Montreal General Hospital and later was elected and served

successively as treasurer, vice president and president. In 1879

he was elected chairman of the board of harbor commissioners for

Montreal and remained in that position until his death. His name

figured also in connection with military activities, beginning

in 1861, when, during the Trent excitement he was gazetted first

lieutenant and quartermaster of the Montreal Light Infantry. Many

tangible evidences of his devotion to the public welfare may

be cited. He familiarized himself with all the details of the

management of the General Hospital and was greatly interested

in the proposal to enlarge it, so that in 1886 upon a trip to

England he consulted some of the best architects of that country

concerning the subject and brought back with him plans for the

proposed extension. The deepening of the ship channel between

Montreal and Quebec was a project which awakened his strong

and hearty enthusiasm, and he frequently said that when he saw

the completion of the plan he would retire from the active

duties of chairman of the board, well satisfied. He was of a

nervous temperament, possessed marked energy and was a tireless

worker, and before his health became impaired he was actively

and helpfully interested in the movement for the improvement of

the harbor and the prevention of damages by flood. During the

great flood of 1885 he was making a tour through the submerged

district in a canoe, propelled by one of the oldest river men.

His companion of that occasion testified to the deep interest

he took in the poor people of the district. He left the harbor

commissioners’ office with forty or fifty dollars in his pocket

and when he returned he had not enough cash to pay the boatman,

having given all to the flood sufferers. This is but one incident

of his generous spirit, which was constantly manifested. He

was of a most charitable disposition but he gave in a quiet,

unassuming manner, following the mandate not to let the left

hand know what the right hand doeth. Again and again his gifts

of charity were known only to the recipients.

On the 19th of April, 1850, in Scotland, Mr. Robertson was

married to Miss Agnes Bow, a daughter of the late Alexander Bow,

of Glasgow, and they became parents of ten children, four sons

and six daughters, of whom the sons and four daughters are still

living, six being residents of Montreal, while one daughter and

one son reside on the Pacific coast.

At the time of his death, which occurred March 29, 1890,

Mr. Robertson was chairman of the harbor commission and his

associates in that work, as also those in other relations of

life, entertained for him the highest regard. In politics he was

conservative and in church connection a Presbyterian. In his

Christian faith was found the root of a well spent, honorable

life, reaching out along many lines for the benefit of his

fellowmen. The world is better for his having lived and his

memory remains as a blessed benediction to those who knew him.

Mrs. Robertson survived her husband for nine years, passing

away suddenly in her beautiful home, Elmbank, Dorchester Street

West, on the 6th of July, 1899, mourned by a large circle of old

friends.

REV. JOSEPH GUILLAUME LAURENT FORBES.

Rev. Joseph Guillaume Laurent Forbes, bishop of Joliette, was

formerly the spiritual director of the thirty-nine hundred

families which make up the great French-Canadian parish of St.

Jean Baptiste in Montreal, a position of responsibility as

well as one of power and importance among the Catholic people

of the city. This responsibility rested upon the shoulders of

a conscientious, capable and God-fearing man and the power

was used wisely and humbly, so that Father Forbes has become

an important force in the conservation and propagation of the

doctrines which he teaches and professes. He is a native of the

province of Quebec, born in Isle Perrot, near Montreal, August

10, 1865, a son of John and Octavie (Léger) Forbes, both natives

of Vaudreuil. The Forbes family was founded in Canada in 1757 and

representatives of the Léger family came to Quebec with the first

French colonists in 1608. Both parents are still living, the

father having retired from active life.

Rev. Guillaume Forbes acquired his early education in the

kindergarten at the Nazareth Asylum in charge of the Grey Nuns in

Montreal and was afterward a student at the Catholic Commercial

Academy of this city. He was graduated from Montreal College with

the class of 1882 and from the Seminary of Philosophy in 1884.

He finished the course in the College of Theology in 1887 and

was ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood March 17, 1888.

Immediately afterward he was sent as curate to Caughnawaga, where

he did excellent work among the Iroquois Indians. He held his

original position until 1892 and was then given the direction of

the Caughnawaga mission, serving until 1903. In that year he was

appointed parish priest of the Church of St. Anne de Bellevue, in

the province of Quebec, and he there remained until 1911, when

he was appointed rector of St. Jean Baptiste church in Montreal.

The parish of St. Jean de Baptiste in Montreal is one of the

largest and most important French-Canadian congregations in the

city, and its rector holds a very responsible position and one

which makes him a great individual force in Catholic circles. The

original church building was burned June 27, 1911, and is now

being replaced at a cost of three hundred thousand dollars, the

entire property being valued at five hundred thousand dollars.

Father Forbes had four assistants, Rev. Joseph A. Lefevre, Rev.

Charles A. de Lamirande, Rev. Auguste Paré and Rev. Hector

Quesnel, and had spiritual jurisdiction over thirty-nine hundred

families and nineteen thousand souls, all French-Canadians. He

became very popular and widely beloved among the people of this

congregation, who saw his simplicity of character, his greatness

of heart, his earnestness and sincerity, and who recognized

his administrative and business ability. On the 6th of August,

1913, Rev. Forbes was chosen by the Holy See to succeed the Rt.

Rev. Alfred Archambeault as bishop of Joliette. He received the

episcopal consecration in the cathedral of Joliette from the

hands of His Grace, Monseigneur Bruchesi, archbishop of Montreal,

on the 9th of October, 1913. A brother of Bishop Forbes, the Rev.

Father John Forbes, of the White Fathers, after a stay of sixteen

years in the mission fields of Africa, is since the year 1900

residing in Quebec, superior of the branch house of the Society

of the White Fathers in Canada.

Bishop Forbes is profoundly learned in Indian dialects and is

in addition an author of some note, his works being all of a

religious character. Besides his original volumes he has edited

and republished a Life of Catherine Tekakwitha and an Iroquois

almanac for the years between 1899 and 1903.

ARTHUR EDOUARD JOSEPH BISSONNET.

The name of Bissonnet has long been a distinguished one in this

locality, the first member of the family having been one Pierre,

a son of Jacques, who was born in 1626, and on the 3d of May,

1660, married Mathurène Des Bordes and who, as the records show,

had seven children. A brother of Pierre, Jacques, was married in

1670 and sixteen children are credited to him. Arthur Edouard

Joseph Bissonnet worthily upholds the honor of the family name,

having gained a reputation along legal lines in Montreal, where

he has successfully practiced since 1897. He was born at St.

Hyacinthe, Quebec, and is a son of Napoléon and Domithilde

(Scott) Bissonnet. The father was a well known manufacturer

of that city, where he passed away in 1887, the mother having

predeceased him in 1882. The paternal grandparents were Jérome

and Josephte (Courtemanche) Bissonnet, who died in 1870 and 1872,

respectively.

Arthur E. J. Bissonnet received an excellent education. His

preliminary courses were taken at the College of the Sacred Heart

at Arthabaskaville, which was followed by a classical course at

St. Hyacinthe that earned him the title of M. L. A. In 1894 he

studied law at Laval University and in 1895 and 1896 at McGill

University which he left in 1897 with the degree of B. C. L.,

being admitted to the bar of the province of Quebec in the same

year. His advent in Montreal soon followed and here he has ever

since been engaged in the practice of his profession. No long

novitiate awaited him for he soon demonstrated his ability to

successfully cope with the most intricate law problems and gained

a reputation which connected him with much important litigation.

He has represented some of the foremost firms and individuals as

well as other interests, having attained a name for preparing his

cases thoroughly and presenting them in an able manner. He has

all the attributes of a successful lawyer, clearly sets forth his

cause and by the weight of his character and his insight into

human nature has won a high standing in his profession. In 1909

Mr. Bissonnet was appointed king’s counsel and as such handled

important government cases which especially connected him with

provincial law revenue on duties on successions. His prominence

in fraternal circles has led to his election as legal adviser of

the Council of St. Henry (for 1913), a branch of the Knights of

Columbus at Montreal. Mr. Bissonnet is now at the head of the

legal firm, Bissonnet & Cordeau, occupying suite 606, in the

Royal Trust building.

On the 14th of February, 1905, occurred the marriage of Mr.

Bissonnet to M. A. Ernestine Roy, a daughter of Amedée Roy and

Hemma (Rocher) Roy. The family has been long established in the

county of Bagot, in the province of Quebec, and her father was a

prominent merchant in his locality. Mr. and Mrs. Bissonnet have

the following children, Jean, Léon, Marie Laure, Louise Marie and

Paul.

His political convictions lead Mr. Bissonnet to support the

liberal party, and he is a member of the Montreal Reform Club and

other political institutions. Although not an active politician,

he takes a deep and helpful interest in the issues of the day

that affect the Canadian people as a nation and his province as

part of the Dominion and stands ever ready to support progressive

measures making for advancement, either material or intellectual.

His faith is that of the Catholic church. A distinguished and

influential lawyer, he is highly respected in the profession and

is esteemed by the general public as a public-spirited citizen

who loyally acknowledges and fulfills his duties to his city and

his country.

DUNCAN A. MCCASKILL.

Duncan A. McCaskill was a factor in Montreal’s commercial

development and progress, inasmuch as he was the founder and head

of the house of D. A. McCaskill Company, later McCaskill, Dougall

& Company, manufacturers of railway and carriage varnishes and

japans. The extent and importance of his business made him well

known in commercial circles, while his career demonstrated the

possibilities for successful achievement on the part of any

individual who must perforce start in life as he did, without

any capital to aid him. He was born in Victoria county, Cape

Breton, in 1845 and was a son of Murdo McCaskill, a justice of

two counties of Cape Breton. His education was acquired in his

native county, where the first thirty years of his life were

passed. The year 1875 witnessed his arrival in Montreal, where he

connected himself with one of the large business houses of the

city. During the succeeding five years he steadily progressed and

there awakened in him the ambition to enter commercial circles

on his own account. He took his initial step in the direction

in which his later labors brought him to the prominent position

which he occupied as the head of the house of what is now

McCaskill, Dougall & Company, manufacturers of railway and

carriage varnishes. He was ever a most industrious man, close

application and energy constituting the basis of his success. In

1902 he retired and spent his remaining days in those ways which

afforded him recreation and enjoyment, traveling extensively in

company with Mrs. McCaskill through the United States and Europe.

[Illustration: DUNCAN A. McCASKILL]

Mrs. McCaskill was in her maidenhood Miss Abbott, a member of

the Abbott family of Andover, Massachusetts, and one of the

old New England families. They were separated by death on the

12th of July, 1907, when Mr. McCaskill passed away at Lausanne,

Switzerland.

While an active factor in the business world, Mr. McCaskill also

took a great interest in political matters and for several years

was president of the Sir John A. Macdonald Club. In 1900, at the

solicitation of a large body of electors of his native county,

he became a candidate for political honors. The conservative

party lost in that connection and Mr. McCaskill was defeated at

the polls, although a large vote was accorded him and his course

gained him the general esteem of the people. By preference he

concentrated his efforts upon his business interests and private

affairs and worked his way upward until he stood among the

successful merchants and manufacturers of the city with a record

that commended him to the confidence and admiration of colleagues

and contemporaries.

SAMUEL HAMILTON EWING.

With intense activity intelligently directed and with ability

to plan and perform that amounts almost to genius, Samuel

Hamilton Ewing has become one of the prominent manufacturers and

capitalists of Montreal. He today has financial investments in

many of the most important corporate interests of the province,

and his opinion concerning complex business matters is eagerly

sought and constitutes a valuable element in the attainment of a

wise conclusion.

From his boyhood Samuel Hamilton Ewing has been a resident

of Canada. He was born May 10, 1834, at Lisdillon House,

Londonderry, Ireland, and is a representative of an old family of

Irish origin, his parents being Samuel and Margaret (Hamilton)

Ewing, who with their family crossed the Atlantic to Canada

during the boyhood of their son Samuel H. Entering the public

schools of Montreal, he pursued his education and afterward

joined his brother, Andrew S. Ewing, in the ownership and

management of the extensive coffee and spice mills formerly

owned by his father. The business, established in 1860, was

conducted under the firm style of Samuel Ewing & Sons, Samuel

Hamilton Ewing remaining an active factor in the management and

direction of the business until his retirement from the firm in

1892. In the meantime the efforts of the partners had resulted

in the establishment of an enterprise of extensive proportions.

Gradually he extended his efforts to other fields, becoming

financially and ofttimes actively interested in corporations

which are now recognized as among the foremost in the commercial

and industrial circles of the province. He is president of

the Montreal Cotton Company, president of the Canada Accident

Assurance Company, president of the Levis County Railway and the

Cornwall Street Railway, and is vice president of the Molson’s

Bank and the Sun Life Assurance Company, while he is a director

of the Atlantic Sugar Refinery, the Standard Clay Products,

Limited, the Crown Trust Company, and the Illinois Traction

Company. One of the local papers said of him: “It is doubtful if

there is a more active man of his age in the city of Montreal.”

What he undertakes he accomplishes, and he utilizes opportunities

that many others have passed heedlessly by. Moreover, he has the

ability to unify seemingly dissimilar elements, coordinating them

into a harmonious whole.

Mr. Ewing has been married twice. He first wedded Miss Caroline

Wilson Cheese, of London, England, who died in 1872, and later

he wedded Margaret Anna Knight, who passed away in March, 1908.

She was a daughter of George Knight, of Glasgow, Scotland. Mr.

Ewing’s attractive home, Seaforth, is situated at No. 100 Cote

des Neiges road. He is well known in club circles, holding

membership in the Mount Royal, Canada, St. James and Canadian

Clubs. He is a life governor of the Art Association of Montreal.

His political belief is that of the conservative party but the

honors and emoluments of office have little attraction for him.

He has preferred always to devote his leisure to such activities

as seek the public welfare along charitable or humanitarian

lines. He is a governor of the Montreal General Hospital and

served for several years prior to 1906 as its treasurer. He is

likewise a governor of the Protestant Hospital for the Insane,

and in 1906 was the delegate to the Sixth Congress Chambers of

Commerce of the Empire. Forceful and resourceful, his is a record

of a strenuous life, stable in purpose, quick in perception,

swift in decision, energetic and persistent in action.

ALBERT HEBERT.

Albert Hébert, deceased, who for many years was one of the

best known business men of Montreal, was born in this city,

February 28, 1864. He was educated in the Jesuit College and

the Archambault Commercial School, from which he was graduated.

At the age of seventeen years he entered the firm of Dufresne &

Mongenais and a year later became a member of the firm of Hudon,

Hébert & Company, wholesale grocers. Later, when his father,

C. P. Hébert, retired from the firm, Albert Hébert became the

general manager of the business and so continued throughout his

remaining days, directing the policy and stimulating the progress

of the business, which became one of the important commercial

concerns of the province. A man of resourceful ability, he

was a director of the Montreal City and District Savings Bank

and succeeded his father as treasurer of Notre Dame Hospital.

He was a prominent member of the Board of Trade, serving as a

councillor in 1904 and 1905, a governor of Laval University and

a governor of the Antiquarian and Numismatic Society. Mr. Hébert

was married in Montreal to Miss Loulou Barbeau, a daughter of the

late E. G. Barbeau, who was the first manager of the Montreal

City and District Savings Bank. Mr. and Mrs. Hébert had one

daughter, Joséphine, now the wife of Mr. LsRaoul de Lorimer, of

Montreal. While traveling in Europe Mr. Hébert died at Lucerne,

Switzerland, June 21, 1911, although when he left Montreal for

this trip he was in the best of health. He was but forty-seven

years of age at the time of his demise, yet he stood very high

in the opinion of the leading business men of the wholesale

district of Montreal and was also appreciated and esteemed in

financial circles. When Notre Dame Hospital was threatened with

a financial crisis in 1909 it was Mr. Hébert, the treasurer of

the institution, who opened the subscription and by his energetic

campaign raised the two hundred thousand dollars which saved the

day. One who knew him well and was, therefore, qualified to speak

of his sterling traits of character wrote to the Montreal Star:

[Illustration: ALBERT HEBERT]

“There were many sympathizing and sad hearts in Canada after it

was known that Albert Hébert, Esq., of your city died in the

prime of life, far away from home in Switzerland. In the death

of Mr. Hébert Montreal has lost the prince of the many princely

merchants. He was known far and near not only by reputation

but personally and wherever he was known he was respected and

beloved. I have had business dealings with the late Mr. Hébert

for over a quarter of a century and during that long period I

have had many opportunities of forming an opinion of his worth

as a man and of his splendid abilities as a business man. At the

annual business meeting of the Wholesale Grocers Guild, of which

he was a prominent and respected member and at which meetings

I have often had an opportunity of attending, it was always a

pleasure to hear him speak in his faultless English, with a

slightly French accent. His opinions and advice had a spirit of

fairness and good sense that invariably carried conviction with

them. No better argument in favor of a joint English and French

training could be had than to hear him address a meeting in

English. The late Mr. Hébert will be missed in Montreal. He will

be sadly missed by the many English speaking friends in the west

when they visit Montreal. It is men of his type that are needed

to build up Canada as a nation.”

J. GEORGES PICHE, M. D.

Among the successful physicians of Montreal is Dr. J. Georges

Piché, who has been in practice since 1900. He was born in St.

Gabriel de Brandon, Berthier, province of Quebec, September

4, 1872, and descends from one of the oldest families of that

section.

His father, Camille Piché, was a notary of St. Gabriel for forty

years, occupying the position at the time of his death. He was

regarded as one of the best known and most highly respected

citizens of the locality. He married Sophie Desparrois dit

Champagne, a native of St. Sulpice, province of Quebec.

Dr. Piché acquired his early education at St. Gabriel and later

attended the normal school at Montreal, leaving there in 1887.

He then went to the United States and for several years was

a bookkeeper in the employ of a wholesale grocery house at

Providence, Rhode Island. In 1896 he returned to Montreal and,

having determined upon a professional career, began the study of

medicine at Laval University, where he was graduated in 1900 with

the degree of M. D.

Dr. Piché immediately began the practice of his profession in

Montreal on DeMontigny Street, where he continued with gratifying

success until 1914, when he removed his offices to No. 287

St. Denis Street. He is now accorded a liberal practice and

his ability is constantly increasing as the result of broad

experience and wide reading and research. He is now physician to

the Merchants & Employers Guarantee & Accident Company, and he is

a member of La Société Médicale de Montreal.

In 1894 Dr. Piché was married in St. Gabriel de Brandon, province

of Quebec, to Albertine Bellemore, a daughter of John Bellemore,

of that place, and they have four children: Julien, Georges,

Albert, Ernest and Rachel.

JOHN S. ARCHIBALD.

John S. Archibald, an architect holding to the highest

professional standards and one of Montreal’s native citizens,

is a son of the late David A. Archibald, formerly of Inverness,

Scotland. Reared and educated in Scotland. Mr. Archibald prepared

for the profession which he has made his life work and which he

has successfully followed in Montreal. He is a member of the

firm of Saxe & Archibald and as such has been connected with the

execution of some important professional contracts. A number

of the fine structures of the city stand as monuments to his

skill and ability. Moreover his position is indicated by the

fact that in 1905 he was honored with election to the presidency

of the Architects Association of the province of Quebec and at

the congress of architects held in July, 1906, he moved the

resolution favoring statutory qualifications of architects. He

has never believed in deviating from the highest standards of the

profession.

In December, 1900, Mr. Archibald was united in marriage to

Miss Edith Thurston, the third daughter of J. D. Thurston,

of Montreal. In politics Mr. Archibald is a liberal and is

interested in all projects that are opposed to misrule in civic

affairs and which seek to promote the interests of the many

rather than of the few. He is now a councillor of the Montreal

Reform Club, and he belongs also to the Engineers Club. He has

carefully cultivated the powers and talents with which nature

endowed him and thus has gained more than local recognition as a

capable architect, well versed in the science of his profession.

ESIOFF LEON PATENAUDE.

Among the younger members of the bar of Montreal is Esioff Léon

Patenaude, a member of the well known firm of Leonard, Patenaude,

Filion & Monette, who maintain offices at No. 26 St. James

Street. Not only has Mr. Patenaude attained a prominent position

along strictly legal lines but he has been prominent politically,

having for several terms been elected a member of the provincial

legislative assembly of Quebec and serving at present in that

capacity. He is a member of one of the old French-Canadian

families.

Esioff L. Patenaude was born at St. Isidore on February 12, 1875,

and is a son of Hilaire and Angèle (Trudeau) Patenaude. Early

showing a preference for a legal career, he laid the foundations

of his classical education in Montreal College, from which he

graduated with the degree of B. A., and subsequently studied law

at Laval University, receiving the degree of LL. L. He has since

taken up his practice in Montreal and, having been able soon to

demonstrate his knowledge and ability, has built up a reputation

as one of the foremost advocates of the city. He is a member

of the firm of Leonard, Patenaude, Filion & Monette, who are

connected with much of the foremost litigation before the courts,

their patronage being distinctive and important.

On the 8th of May, 1900, Mr. Patenaude married Miss Georgiana

Deniger and they have two children, Rose Angèle and Alphonse. In

religious faith the family are Roman Catholics. The political

allegiance of Mr. Patenaude is given to the conservative party

and, as he has become widely known in his profession, it was

but natural that he should be chosen to the Quebec legislative

assembly, to which he was elected at the general election of

1908. He was returned to his seat in 1912, his reelection being

the confirmation of his record. He has always exerted himself to

the best of his ability in the interests of his constituents and

has done valuable work in committee rooms as well as on the floor

of the provincial house of parliament. Prominent among the French

colony, Mr. Patenaude is highly respected by all who know him for

what he has attained and for those characteristics which have

made possible his success. He is ever willing to gladly bear his

share in promoting the public welfare and the advancement of the

city and is a forceful factor in Montreal not only along legal

and political lines but in building up material progress and

promoting measures which elevate moral and intellectual standards.

JOSEPH GUSTAVE AVARD.

Joseph Gustave Avard, one of the best known men in real-estate

circles in Montreal, has been instrumental in promoting some

of the largest projects in this city during the past ten

years, notwithstanding the fact that his life record does not

cover one-half the span of time of many other real-estate

dealers of the city. He was born January 29, 1881, at Shirley,

Massachusetts, a son of Louis and Philomene (Sasseville) Avard,

both of whom are natives of St. Hyacinthe county, Quebec. For

some years the father was a saddler at Shirley, Massachusetts,

but since 1883 has resided at St. Hyacinthe.

The son was educated in the schools of St. Hyacinthe, the

Brothers of the Sacred Heart Academy and in the St. Hyacinthe

Practical Business School. For a year he was a clerk in St.

Hyacinthe Bank and through the ensuing four years was with the

Eastern Townships Bank at St. Hyacinthe and Waterloo, Quebec.

In 1903 Mr. Avard came to Montreal as an accountant for the firm

of McPherson & Company, wholesale dealers in cheese and butter.

In 1905 he opened a real-estate office at 47 St. Vincent Street

under the firm name of Avard & Dagenais. This firm continued in

business successfully for five years at that location. On the

expiration of that period the partnership was dissolved and Mr.

Avard opened an office in the Royal Trust building, where he

remained for two years, removing thence to the Transportation

building at No. 120 St. James Street in 1912. In that year

the business was incorporated under the name of J. G. Avard &

Company, Ltd. He promoted the Viauville Lands, Ltd., one of the

largest deals carried through in the past decade. The firm owns

the Tetreauville Annex and are agents for Hudonville Lands, Ltd.

Mr. Avard is also a director of the Dominion Quarry, Ltd., of

the Metropolis Apartment Company, Ltd., Montreal Playhouses,

Ltd., and of the Practical Business School of St. Hyacinthe. His

offices in the Transportation building are models of good taste

and the casual visitor has only to glance around to see that Mr.

Avard is a lover of the fine arts.

On the 2d of October, 1904, Mr. Avard was married, in Montreal,

to Rachel Eva Simard, a daughter of the late Adelard Simard, a

well known lawyer of Waterloo, Quebec. To Mr. and Mrs. Avard have

come three children: Elise; Gaston, who died at the age of eleven

months; and Jean.

Active in the social life of the city, Mr. Avard is a member of

the Canadian Club, the National Sporting Club, the Reform Club,

St. Denis Club and is the vice president of the Laurentide Summer

Home Company, Ltd. Politically he is a liberal, and his religious

faith is indicated in his membership in St. Leon’s Roman Catholic

church at Westmount, where he resides.

ALBERT H. CAMPBELL.

Albert H. Campbell, an active factor in business circles in

Montreal as a member of the firm of A. C. Leslie & Company,

iron, steel and metal merchants on St. Paul Street, remained in

connection with that business until his death, which occurred

August 27, 1907. He was a native of Ontario, born May 13, 1866,

and a son of Dr. Donald P. Campbell, who was also born in the

province of Ontario, where his father had settled upon coming

to Canada from Scotland. Dr. Campbell was a graduate of McGill

University and after preparing for the medical profession

practiced in Vankleek Hill, Ontario, until his death which

occurred in 1870. He was married in Montreal, in 1863, to Miss

Alice Bell, a daughter of James Bell, who came to this city in

1832 from Scotland and was prominent as a contractor and builder

here until his death in 1860. Following the death of her husband,

Mrs. Campbell returned with her family to Montreal, where she has

since resided.

Albert H. Campbell was thus reared in this city and completed his

education in the Montreal high school, in 1883. He first engaged

with Frothingham & Workman after leaving school, spending a few

years with that firm before he embarked in business on his own

account as junior partner in the firm of A. C. Leslie & Company,

iron, steel and metal merchants on St. Paul Street. He then

concentrated his energy upon the development of that business

and was a very active representative of commercial interests in

Montreal until his life’s labors were ended in death. He studied

every phase of the business with which he was connected, readily

recognized and utilized advantages and by methods that neither

seek nor require disguise, won the confidence and respect of

contemporaries and colleagues.

Mr. Campbell was married in Ottawa to Miss Elizabeth Henderson

of Ottawa, whose father, John Henderson, is city clerk there.

Mr. Campbell belonged to the Canadian Club and his social

nature gained him many warm friends. He was a public-spirited

man and gave generous and helpful support to projects for

the general good. He belonged to the Board of Trade and was in

hearty sympathy with its plans for Montreal’s improvement. He was

also a member of the American Presbyterian church and his life

exemplified his belief.

[Illustration: ALBERT H. CAMPBELL]

JOSEPH ISRAEL DESROCHES, M. D.

Capable, earnest and conscientious, Dr. Joseph Israël Desroches

has for many years exercised his profession in Montreal, where he

is widely known to the general public and enjoys high prestige

among his colleagues, especially in regard to hygiene and

children’s hygiene, upon which subjects he is an expert. His

standing is quite evident from his connection with some of the

foremost societies in the medical line in the world and it is

therefore not surprising that his practice should be extensive

and representative as well as lucrative to him. Dr. Desroches was

born in October, 1850, at St. Esprit and is a son of André and

Héloïse (Mercier) Desroches, the former in his day a well known

agriculturist of St. Esprit. The Desroches family is descended

from one Jean Deroches, who was born in 1614 and in 1641 left

Ste. Lucie, near Autun, France, for Villemarie. He made the

journey with one Monsieur de Maisonneuve. In 1647 he married

Françoise Godet and this marriage was the first contract of that

kind to be registered at Villemarie. Jean Deroches had a family

of eight children, of whom his son Pierre married Marie Beaudry

on November 24, 1698, at Pointe-aux-Trembles. It was he who added

the s to the original name of Deroches. Jean Deroches died at

Quebec on August 23, 1664. This record of the early ancestors

of Dr. Desroches is to be found in Abbé Tanguay’s Dictionnaire

Généalogique, in volume I, page 184.

Dr. Desroches pursued his classical studies at the Seminary of

Joliette and received his medical education at the School of

Medicine and Surgery of Montreal. There he received his degree

of M. D. in 1877. He has ever since engaged in his profession

at Montreal and, deeply studious of mind, has ever continued

in perfecting his wide knowledge and keeping up-to-date with

the latest discoveries made in the world’s medical science. The

humane element in his nature is strongly developed and much of

his success must be ascribed to the confidence which he inspires

in his patients and which is recognized today as being one of the

larger factors in effecting a cure. Careful in diagnosis, he is

decisive in his actions after reaching a conclusion and there are

hundreds who can testify to his ability and are grateful to him

for having given them back health and happiness.

It is but natural that a man of Dr. Desroches’ ability should

turn to the scientific side of his profession, not finding his

sole satisfaction in mere attendance upon and ministrations to

the sick. In 1884 he was chosen by the Hygienic Society of the

Province of Quebec as manager of the Journal of Popular Hygiene

and had charge of this valuable medium of influence until 1895,

contributing many articles toward the enlightenment of the

general public. In 1887 Dr. Desroches was nominated an honorary

member of the Société Française of Paris and in the same year,

on the occasion of the exposition of children’s hygiene, held

in Paris, he received from the Hygienic Society for Children,

of that city, a diploma and a gold medal and was chosen a

corresponding member of the society. In 1889 he was made a

corresponding member of the Society of Physical, Natural and

Climatological Sciences of Algiers. From 1892 to 1895 and from

1898 until 1901 Dr. Desroches had charge of the medical bureau of

the province of Quebec and from 1894 until 1900 was a member of

the Provincial Council on Hygiene, of Quebec.

On February 9, 1881, Dr. Desroches was united in marriage to

Miss Albertine Groulx, a daughter of Louis Thomas and Cornélie

(Doyou) Groulx, the former a well known barrister and notary

public of Joliette. Dr. and Mrs. Desroches have the following

children, Jeanne, Gilberte, Henri, Juliette and Lucille. In

various connections the Doctor has made valuable contributions to

hygienic science and the subject of medicine and several of the

works of which he is the author enjoy a wide circulation and are

considered standard by the profession. He is a public-spirited

man, progressive not only in his profession but in regard to all

subjects that affect his home city and is ever ready to give his

warm support to worthy public enterprises. His deep knowledge

assures him of a position of distinction, while his kindly spirit

has gained him a place in the hearts of his fellowmen.

HON. HONORE MERCIER.

Hon. Honore Mercier, minister of colonization, mines and

fisheries, lawyer and legislator, recognized as one of the

liberal leaders of Montreal and also acknowledged one of the

capable representatives of the bar, was born at St. Hyacinthe,

P. Q., in 1875, his parents being the late Hon. H. M. (Count)

Mercier and Virginie (St. Denis) Mercier, the former prime

minister of Quebec and one of the eminent lawyers of the

province, of whom mention will be found elsewhere in this work.

The preparatory education of Honore Mercier was received at

St. Mary’s (Jesuit) College, following which he was privately

tutored in preparation for his work at Laval University, that

institution conferring upon him the LL. B. degree in 1899. He was

made an advocate in 1900, since which time he has successfully

practiced his profession, being now senior member of the law firm

of Mercier & Beique, with offices in the Quebec Bank building.

Mr. Mercier’s knowledge of the principles of jurisprudence

is comprehensive and exact, and his ability, devotion to his

clients’ interests and the thoroughness with which he prepares

his cases have given him high standing as a representative of the

legal profession in the province.

Mr. Mercier has been a prominent figure in municipal and

provincial affairs, standing firmly in support of the principles

and measures which he deems of vital worth. He was elected to

the city council of Montreal in February, 1906, and in 1907, was

appointed a member of L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, of

which he is secretary and treasurer, and in the work of which

institution, Mr. Mercier has proven a most capable official.

He was chosen in the liberal interest to represent Chateauguay

in the provincial parliament, where he has sat almost

uninterruptedly since 1907. On April 29, 1914, he was appointed

minister of colonization, mines and fisheries in the Gouin

cabinet. He gives earnest and thoughtful consideration to the

questions of the day and is farsighted in his outlook over the

political field with all that it implies in its relation to the

welfare, progress and prosperity of the province and dominion.

Mr. Mercier was married, in April, 1903, to Miss Jeanne

Frechette, a daughter of the late Dr. L. H. Frechette, C. M. G.

Their religious faith is that of the Roman Catholic church. They

occupy an attractive home at No. 408 St. Denis Street, and its

hospitality is greatly enjoyed by their many friends. They also

have a summer residence at Bellevue. Mr. Mercier is not a club

man in the usually accepted sense of the term, yet he belongs to

the Club Canadien and has social qualities that make and retain

friends.

ALFRED FOREST.

Natural ability and profound learning have placed Alfred Forest

among the well known young barristers of Montreal, where he

enjoys an extensive practice as a member of the firm of Le Blanc,

Brossard & Forest, who have offices at No. 35 St. James Street.

Well versed in the letter of the law, he is capable, earnest

and conscientious in the discharge of his duties and has been

entrusted with much important litigation since beginning his

career.

The Forest family were among those French emigrants who settled

in Acadia--now Nova Scotia--and the earliest record to be found

of them in Montreal is that of Madeline Forest, who was born in

1709 at d’Annapolis, Acadia. On the maternal side Alfred Forest

is descended from the Mousseau family, who are named among the

early settlers in the province of Quebec, the first mentioned

being Jacques Mousseau, who was married on January 25, 1694, at

Boucherville, to Marie-Ann Daunet, or Daunais.

Alfred Forest was born on the 8th of June, 1881, in the parish

of St. Patrick of Rawdon, in the county of Montcalm. His parents

were Urgel Forest, gentleman, and Eliza (Mousseau) Forest, a

niece of the late Hon. Alfred Mousseau, in 1882 prime minister

of the province of Quebec and later minister of public service

in the cabinet of Sir John A. Macdonald in 1884. In 1886, when

he died, he was judge of the superior court of Montreal and was

always a leading conservative.

In the acquirement of his education Alfred Forest attended

the Seminary of Joliette and then followed the philosophical

course at the Seminary of the St. Sulpice Fathers in Montreal,

graduating in 1905 with the degree of B. A. This was followed by

a law course at Laval University, where on December 21, 1907, he

obtained his degree of LL. L. with distinction and was admitted

to the bar on the 15th of January, 1908. In 1906 he was secretary

of the law students at Laval University and in 1907 was their

president. During his law course he received practical training

in the office of the Hon. Judge Paul Martineau and with the Hon.

P. E. Le Blanc, ex-speaker and ex-leader in the legislative

assembly, with whom he is now connected under the firm style

of Le Blanc, Brossard & Forest. After settling down to his

practice no long novitiate awaited him for he soon demonstrated

his ability to cope with the most intricate legal problems. His

reasoning is sound, his logic forceful and, being a student of

humanity as well as book lore, he easily perceives the vital

point in the most difficult legal tangles. As the years have

passed he has made himself felt in the legal fraternity. Moreover

he is now connected with some of the largest interests of the

city, this connection having led him to become a director of the

Modern Gas Light, Heat & Power Company, in which organization he

served in that capacity in 1912 and 1913.

On April 30, 1913, in Montreal, Mr. Forest was united in marriage

to Miss Hélène Jondreville, only daughter of Charles Jondreville,

formerly of Paris, France. Her parents came directly from that

city to Montreal in 1880. Of a distinguished family, Mrs.

Forest is a cultured young lady of rare attainments and many

accomplishments and will no doubt take a prominent part in the

social life of the city.

Mr. Forest has always been a profound student and is an expert

on political economy. He is a member of the conservative party

and was offered the candidature in the federal election of 1911

by the electors of the county of Montcalm but declined, as his

private interests practically forebade him to divert his time. He

is an adherent of the Catholic church and holds membership in the

Canadian Club, L’Alliance Française and the Conservative Club.

Mr. Forest is loyal to the interests of Montreal, of which he is

considerate and which he always tries to promote, proving thereby

his value as a citizen. He is esteemed and respected not only

among the legal fraternity but among the general public, who have

recognized his worth as man, citizen and lawyer.

WILLIAM PATERSON.

Personally popular, William Paterson left behind him a large

circle of friends at his death on the 23d of October, 1902.

For twenty years he had been engaged in the tailoring business

in Montreal, where he enjoyed a wide acquaintance. He was born

December 2, 1858, in Montreal, a son of James Paterson, a native

of Scotland, who passed his youthful days in that country. He

there married Miss Ellen Swanson and afterward left the land of

hills and heather for the new world. To him and his wife were

born seven children.

The father was a tailor by trade and it was under his direction

and guidance that William Paterson learned the business. He

pursued a public-school education and then entered his father’s

shop, devoting many decades to that pursuit. He was in business

on Notre Dame Street for two decades, having one of the well

equipped establishments of the city and gaining a liberal

patronage, which grew with the passing years and made his one of

the prosperous tailoring establishments of the city.

On the 18th of August, 1881, Mr. Paterson was united in marriage,

on Prince Edward Island, to Miss Arabella Le B. Graves, of Nova

Scotia, and they became the parents of four children: Leslie J.;

William Henry; Alice G., who is Mrs. James J. Aird; and Grace W.

Mr. Paterson voted with the conservative party but never took an

active interest in politics to the extent of seeking office as

a reward for party fealty. He was very prominent in fraternal

circles, serving as worshipful master of Elgin Lodge, A. F. &

A. M., and in 1898 he was elected district deputy grand master

of the Montreal district. He was past grand in the Independent

Order of Odd Fellows. He was also a life member of the Montreal

Amateur Athletic Association, and was one of the members of Knox

Presbyterian church, serving for several years on the board of

managers. His varied interests and activities of life maintained

an even balance and made him a forceful and influential factor in

support of the business, social and municipal affairs with which

he was connected.

[Illustration: WILLIAM PATERSON]

D. AUG. FONTAINE.

D. Aug. Fontaine is a well known lawyer and notary of Montreal,

being located at No. 244 St. Catherine Street East. Born in

the town of Marieville, Rouville county, February 2, 1872, he

comes of distinguished French-Canadian ancestry. The Rev. Damase

Limoges is an uncle and Morrainé Alphonsine Lemieux, his cousin.

The Rev. Damase Limoges was curate of the Catholic parish of

St. Jean Baptiste, in the county of Rouville, and our subject

was baptized in the Catholic church in that parish on the 4th

of February, 1872. His father was Felix Fontaine, a notary at

Marieville, and his mother Claire (Limoges) Fontaine. The former

was born at St. Charles sûr Richelieu or at St. Hyacinthe about

November 24, 1832. He studied in the Seminary of St. Hyacinthe

and served a legal clerkship at Marieville with the notary

Laberge. He afterwards established himself in that city as a

notary and there practiced for the rest of his life, being

recognized as a brilliant lawyer and gaining great success. He

was a member of the Chamber of Notaries for about twenty-five

years and when he died was vice president of this institution.

The mother was born at Terrebonne, about August 2, 1840, a

daughter of Pierre Limoges, a blacksmith, and Dame (Viger)

Limoges. The paternal grandfather of our subject was Felix

Fontaine, a teacher at St. Hyacinthe. The maternal grandfather,

Pierre Limoges, and Charlotte Luce (Viger) Limoges, his wife,

were the parents of twenty-three children, three daughters of

whom embraced holy orders, one of them having joined the Ladies

of the Sacred Heart at Montreal. One of their sons, Joseph

Magloire Limoges, is a curate at Sorel; another, Damase Limoges,

a curate at Beloeil and Farnham. A daughter, Claire Limoges, is

the mother of our subject.

Louis Fontaine received his education in the elementary school

at the Hospice of Ste. Croix at Marieville. He completed his

commercial and classical studies at the Seminary of Ste. Marie

de Monnoir at Marieville, having terminated his course in 1893.

He studied law at Laval University of Montreal from 1893 to 1897

and served a clerkship with Maître J. A. Dorval, of Montreal. He

received his notaryship at Quebec (with distinction) September

14, 1897. Mr. Fontaine then formed a partnership with his former

preceptor, Maître Dorval, under the firm name of Dorval &

Fontaine. Following, he associated himself with his classmate,

Oscar Desautels, continuing the partnership of Fontaine &

Desautels until 1899. At the end of that time he succeeded his

father, Felix Fontaine, as notary in Marieville. Taking up his

father’s practice, he there followed his profession for about ten

years and has been actively engaged in legal work in Montreal

since 1910. He was secretary-treasurer of the school commission

of Marieville and also was manager of the Marieville branch of a

private bank, known as “La Caisse d’Economie de Drummondville.”

He also was for some time collector of customs at Marieville. In

politics he was a strict liberal until 1909 and although he yet

gives his allegiance to that party, is a nationalist at the same

time.

On the 29th of July, 1896, Mr. Fontaine was married in the town

of Marieville, which is now annexed to Montreal and known as

the town of Ste. Cunegonde, to Miss Marie Eugenie Anna Vezina,

daughter of Alexandre and Emma (Chagnon) Vezina. The father is

engaged in the saddlery business. Mr. and Mrs. Fontaine have

three children: Marie Eugenie Claire Ubaldine, fourteen years of

age; Marie Marguerite Jeanne, twelve years of age; and Joseph

Alexandre Felix Auguste, aged eleven.

Mr. Fontaine is a member of the Roman Catholic and Apostolic

church. He is a musical composer of no mean ability and has

produced a pleasing repertoire of Canadian songs. He is the

author of the Canadian national song, which was written to the

words of Abbé A. Fournet, P. S. S. He was a prize winner in the

competition between Canadian poets in 1908 and the newspaper

La Presse paid him one hundred dollars, le prix de concours.

He is adviser to the singers of Notre Dame parish church of

Montreal. Mr. Fontaine deeply interests himself in all matters

pertaining to public affairs and is interested in the cause of

education and in arts and letters. He is a lawyer of ability, a

patriotic citizen and a man who stands for the higher things in

life and who finds great pleasure and satisfaction in following

his aesthetic tastes and in implanting his art ideas in others.

His talent along musical lines has been ably put to use in

elevating the musical standards of the city and in bringing more

closely before the public the idea of creating a home musical art

particularly and peculiarly Canadian.

ARTHUR SURVEYER.

In the field of engineering the name of Arthur Surveyer is widely

known. Liberal training and broad experience have brought him

to a prominent position and won for him the liberal patronage

that is accorded him as senior partner in the firm of Surveyer &

Frigon, consulting engineers of Montreal.

Mr. Surveyer was born in this city on the 17th of December,

1878, son of L. J. A. and M. A. Hectorine (Fabre) Surveyer, of

whom more extended mention will be found elsewhere in this book,

and supplemented his course of study in St. Mary’s College by

a course in L’Ecole Polytechnique in which he won the degrees

of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Applied Science and was

graduated as a civil engineer. He also pursued a special

post-graduate course at L’Ecole d’Industrie et des Mines du

Hainout, Mons, Belgium. His liberal training and broad experience

have made him one of the most efficient representatives of the

profession. From 1904 until May, 1911, he was in the service

of the Canadian department of public works and was engaged on

the survey, plans and estimates for the Georgian Bay Ship Canal

project and the survey of the Richelieu river for a twelve-foot

canal. He was supervising engineer during the construction of

the Port Arthur Dry Dock and reported on several hydro-electric

projects on the St. Lawrence river. In May, 1911, he left the

public service, in which he was connected with many important

works, to enter upon private practice, but has been retained as

consulting engineer by the public works department in a number

of important matters such as the preparation of Canada’s case

against the Chicago drainage canal and the report on the plans

submitted to the government by the Montreal Tunnel Company and by

the Montreal Central Terminal Company. Mr. Surveyer is a member

of the St. Lawrence River commission, is engineer for various

municipalities and is a member of a number of professional

societies and associations, including the Canadian Society of

Civil Engineers, the International Federation of Consulting

Engineers and the Hydrotechnic Society of France. Thoroughness

has characterized all that he has undertaken. That quality was

manifest in his preparation for his profession. He was a most

discriminating and earnest student and in his practice he has

lost sight of no detail of his work and at the same time has

given due prominence to its most important problems and features.

His entire professional career has been characterized by

continuous advancement.

J. F. OLIVAR ASSELIN.

J. F. Olivar Asselin was born at St. Hilarion, in Charlevoix

county, P. Q., November 8, 1874, a son of Rieule and Cedulie

(Tremblay) Asselin, the latter of whom is still living. He

emigrated to the United States with his parents in 1892, and in

Fall River, Massachusetts, J. F. Olivar Asselin was for two years

employed in the cotton mills.

Taking up journalism, he was at first connected with small French

weekly publications. He afterward became editor of La Tribune,

a Woonsocket, Rhode Island, daily, in which capacity he enjoyed

the friendship and confidence of the Hon. Mr. A. J. Pothier,

then lieutenant governor, and now governor of Rhode Island.

While practicing his profession in Woonsocket, Mr. Asselin was

principal of an evening public school in that city in 1897 and

1898.

He was the first man to enlist in the First Rhode Island

Volunteers, at the breaking out of the Spanish-American War.

Returning to Canada in 1900, he was successively connected

with the Montreal Herald, La Patrie, Le Journal, La

Presse, La Nationaliste and Le Devoir, with a two years

intermission--1901-1903--during which he was private secretary

to the Hon., now Sir Lomer Gouin, then minister of colonization

and public works of the province of Quebec. In 1902 he organized

the Nationalist league, being for several years president of the

Montreal branch. This indicates his deep interest in political

problems and to disseminate the principles in which he believed,

he founded La Nationaliste as the organ of the party, and for a

time was editor of that publication.

He has written much upon various subjects, his publications

including a series of political brochures with the title,

Feuilles de Combat. He is also the author of “A Quebec View

of Canadian Nationalism, an Essay by a Dyed-in-the-Wool

French-Canadian,” which was published in 1910.

He has been in business for four years as manager of the Credit

Metropolitain, one of the well known real-estate and financial

firms of Montreal.

In 1912, he was appointed by the federal government, a special

commissioner to French and Belgium, to study the question of

emigration from those countries to Canada. Mr. Asselin has made

a special study of municipal questions, and is well known as a

member of the National Municipal league, as well as a contributor

to the Municipal Journal. Mr. Asselin stood twice as a candidate

for parliamentary honors, without success, a result which, in one

case at least, was said to be due to his caustic spirit. In 1913

he was elected general president of the great St. Jean Baptiste

Society, the national society of the French.

In 1903 Mr. Asselin wedded Mlle. Alice Le Bouthillier of Montreal.

JOSEPH ASSELIN, M. D., C. M.

A specialist in the treatment of children’s diseases and

prominently known in connection with both hospital and private

practice, Dr. Joseph Asselin is one of the best known physicians

of Montreal. He was born in Joliette, Quebec, August 10, 1858, a

son of Eusebe and Elmire (Cornellier) Asselin. The father was a

merchant and proprietor of an important seigneury.

[Illustration: JOSEPH ASSELIN]

Dr. Asselin acquired his classical education in Joliette

College, and in further preparation for the profession which he

had determined to make his life work, he studied for two and

a half years in hospitals for children, in Paris, under the

direction of such eminent men as Parrot, Bouchert, Simon and

Descroizilles. Since entering upon active practice in Montreal

his advancement has not only been continuous but rapid, winning

speedy recognition for his ability. He has served as a director

of the town dispensary of the Sisters of Providence, Montreal, an

institution in which many thousands of children have been treated

each year. He has also been physician of the Orphelinat St.

Alexis at the corner of Mignonne and St. Denis Streets, Montreal.

On the 10th of October, 1883, Dr. Asselin was married to Miss

Albina Laurier, daughter of Dr. Louis Laurier, and their family

numbers five children. Dr. Asselin is a conservative in politics

and in religious faith a Roman Catholic. He holds membership with

the Independent Order of Foresters, but his chief interest is

that of his profession. He gives untiringly of his service for

the benefit of mankind and is highly esteemed not only by his

colleagues but by the community generally.

LOUIS THEOPHILE MARECHAL.

In a profession where advancement depends entirely upon

individual merit, talent and ability Louis Theophile Marechal has

attained distinguished rank. Firmly entrenched in the principles

of jurisprudence, he adds to his forensic knowledge and ability

the rare gift of eloquence, which has been an effective force

in winning for him a high position in his profession. He

represents one of the old and distinguished French families

in the Montreal district. His birth occurred at St. Henri, near

Montreal, on the 13th of March, 1864, and in the pursuit of his

education he spent some time as a student in Montreal College

and in St. Mary’s (Jesuit) College. He afterward entered Laval

University, where he pursued his law course until graduated with

the class of 1889. The same year he was called to the bar and has

since practiced as an advocate of Montreal. He was made a king’s

counsel in 1903 and was appointed a councillor of the Montreal

bar for the year 1908-9. His advancement in his profession has

been continuous. He accurately applies law principles, being

seldom, if ever, at fault in the citation of a fact or legal

precedent. He speaks French and English with equal fluency and

has been gifted with oratorical power that enables him to sway

his hearers with the force of his eloquence. Moreover, his

statements are convincing, and his legal utterances are always

based upon a thorough understanding of the legal principles

involved.

Mr. Marechal was united in marriage to Marie, the only daughter

of Hon. C. B. de Boucherville, but lost his wife in death

in 1902. His recognition of the duties and obligations of

citizenship is manifest in many tangible ways. In politics he

is a conservative of the pronounced type. He unsuccessfully

contested St. Mary’s (Montreal) for the house of commons in the

general election of 1904 and was again a candidate for the same

seat in 1908. It is a recognized fact that he is a leader in

party ranks and has done much to mold public thought and action.

His religious faith is that of the Roman Catholic church. The

spirit of progress dominates him in all things, especially in his

professional and public relations, and his position of leadership

is one to which his ability, public spirit and eloquence have

brought him.

L. GEORGES BADEAUX, M. D.

Specializing in the treatment of diseases of the eye, ear, nose

and throat, Dr. Badeaux has won a merited place in his particular

branch of the medical profession. A native of Three Rivers,

Quebec, he is descended from a very old and prominent family, the

ancestry being traced back to 1630, when Jacques Badeaux, who

was one of the first notaries in Canada, settled at Beauport.

In the direct line from Jacques Badeaux to the subject of this

review, there were four notaries. The great-great-grandfather,

Jean Baptiste Badeaux, who resided at Three Rivers, was also an

author and journalist and among his literary productions was

a journal relating to the American Invasion in 1775. His son,

Joseph Badeaux, also a notary, was a member of the legislature

from Three Rivers at Quebec during the Revolution of 1837.

Dr. Georges Badeaux, his son, and grandfather of Dr. L. Georges

Badeaux, was a widely known physician of Three Rivers, where he

engaged in practice for fifty-five years, or until the time of

his death. He was the father of two sons and several daughters.

One of his sons, Joseph Badeaux, was a physician at Three Rivers,

but is now deceased. His only son is Dr. Joseph M. Badeaux, now

engaged in the practice of medicine as successor to his father

and grandfather.

Louis Badeaux, father of Dr. Badeaux, of this review, has always

resided at Three Rivers, where for more than a quarter of a

century he was engaged in the wholesale dry-goods business. He is

now living retired.

Dr. L. Georges Badeaux was born March 21, 1886, in Three Rivers

and acquired his classical education in St. Joseph’s College in

his native place. In 1906 he began the study of medicine at Laval

University, Quebec, and after spending two years there he entered

Laval University at Montreal, from which he was graduated with

the degree of M. D. in 1910.

He then began to make special study of the eye, ear, nose and

throat at the Hotel Dieu, being assistant there in the treatment

of the diseases of those organs. For the past three years Dr.

Badeaux has been an assistant in practice to Dr. Albert Lassalle,

the noted eye and ear specialist. For two years Dr. Badeaux was

a professor in the demonstration of anatomy at Laval and he is a

member of La Société Médicale de Montreal.

On the 28th of April, 1913, Dr. Badeaux was married in Montreal

to Anita Fellay, a daughter of Ernest Fellay, of this city, and

they have one child, Louis Jacques.

JAMES CHALMERS CAMERON, M. D.

Dr. James Chalmers Cameron, medical practitioner and educator of

Montreal, was for thirty-eight years actively connected with the

profession in this city, enjoying not only the respect of all

with whom he came in contact but also the love and affectionate

regard of those to whom he ministered in his professional

capacity by reason of his ready sympathy and thorough

understanding as well as his medical and surgical skill. Kindness

and helpfulness might be termed the keynote of his character and

those qualities constantly found expression in all the relations

of his life. Ontario was proud to number him among her native

sons, for as he developed his latent powers and energies he

gained a wide reputation. He was born at Aultsville, Ontario,

January 18, 1852, being the eldest son of Rev. James Y. Cameron,

of the Presbyterian church, who after receiving his education in

Edinburgh, under Dr. Thomas Chalmers, was actively connected with

the ministry in Canada for a number of years, but later withdrew

from that field to devote his energies to teaching. He conducted

a private academy in Lundy’s Lane for several years and was

later in turn principal of the Drummondville (Ont.) high school,

the Williamstown (Ont.) high school and for a couple of years

lecturer in classics and mathematics at the Presbyterian College,

Montreal. Rev. J. Y. Cameron married Charlotte Ann Ault in 1851.

Both husband and wife were descended from United Empire Loyalist

families, who had sacrificed their homes in the American colonies

to remain true to the British flag and settled in Glengarry.

Dr. Cameron began studying in the old Upper Canada College,

Toronto, and by reason of his aptitude and close application

became head boy of the school in 1870. He next entered McGill,

where in four years he became first prize man in medicine,

graduating in 1874. The succeeding three years were spent

in connection with the General Hospital in Montreal, but in

1877 he severed his connection with that institution and in

April of the same year sailed for Dublin, Ireland. He pursued

post-graduate courses in medicine and surgery in Berlin, Paris

and Vienna and thus he added greatly to his knowledge through

acquaintance with the methods of practice of the most eminent

physicians and surgeons of the old world. The chair of obstetrics

at Bishop’s College was offered to Dr. Cameron when he returned

from his first post-graduate course at the Rotunda and was at

once accepted. He remained there until the chair at McGill was

offered him, thus giving him wider opportunities. He became

professor of obstetrics and infants’ diseases at his alma mater,

holding that chair for twenty-six years and contributing in large

measure to the success of the medical department. He believed

always in raising the standards of medical education because of

his clear recognition of the responsibilities devolving upon the

practitioner and his labors and teachings were an inspiration to

all who came under his instruction. While professor at McGill

Dr. Cameron became associated with the old University Lying-in

Hospital, which later became the Montreal Maternity Hospital, and

Dr. Cameron’s work in behalf of that institution resulted largely

in bringing it to its present standard of modern excellence. It

was not only as practitioner and educator that Dr. Cameron became

widely known but also as a contributor to various text-books on

medicine, this gaining him a wide reputation. His treatises were

written in English, French and German. He was well known in the

United States and was elected an honorary fellow of the American

Gynecological Society, besides being a member of many other

leading societies connected with the medical profession. He was

a member of the British Medical Association and the Edinburgh

Obstetrical Society. For many years he was chief medical examiner

for the Equitable Life Assurance Society in Montreal. He gained

eminence as a lecturer on subjects of literary interest, his

addresses on Robert Louis Stevenson and Robert Burns being

especially well received.

Dr. Cameron was married in 1880 to Miss Elizabeth Jane Dakers,

daughter of James Dakers, who was for thirty-five years secretary

and manager of the Montreal Telegraph Company. Mrs. Cameron

survives with one son, Dakers Cameron, of Montreal. Dr. Cameron

is also survived by his mother and two brothers, Dr. John W.

Cameron, of Buffalo, New York, and Wellington Ault Cameron,

barrister, of Toronto.

The remarkable energy of Dr. Cameron found expression along

other lines. He was for a time assistant surgeon of the Sixth

Fusiliers. His name was on the membership role of the St. James

and University Clubs and in 1874 he was initiated into Royal

Albert Lodge, A. F. & A. M. Subsequently he became the principal

mover in establishing the University Lodge, A. F. & A. M., which

has rapidly grown in influence and includes many university

graduates and students of McGill. He was the first worshipful

master of this lodge and also an officer of the grand lodge of

Quebec. In Masonry he attained the thirty-second degree. As

specially appointed medical examiner for the German army, Dr.

Cameron held a position unique in Canadian history, an honor

which he valued very highly. He was also a member of the Teutonia

Club. Dr. Cameron died suddenly on March 16, 1912. The funeral

services were conducted according to Masonic rites, the religious

ceremony taking place at St. Paul’s Presbyterian church, of which

he was a member. One of the local papers said: “His every patient

became his friend and his death is a loss to thousands.” The news

of his demise, indeed, carried a sense of personal bereavement

into many homes where his eminent skill and kindly ministrations

had made him loved and honored. In all of his professional

relations he approached the ideal because of his comprehensive

knowledge and still more because of his deep human interest and

sympathy. He regarded it as a sacred privilege and obligation to

discharge the duties of his profession and his life embodied the

thought of the philosopher who has said: “Not the good that comes

to us but the good that comes to the world through us is the

measure of our success.”

JOSEPH VENNE.

On the list of architects who have had to do with the building

of Montreal appears the name of Joseph Venne, senior member of

the well known firm of Venne & Labelle, and those who are to

any extent familiar with the building operations that have been

carried on here in the last third of a century know that he has

figured prominently as one whose work combines the indispensable

qualities of utility, comfort, convenience and adornment. He was

born in Montreal, June 14, 1859, was educated in the Christian

Brothers school of this city and, being a diligent student,

creditably passed his examinations.

[Illustration: JOSEPH VENNE]

After putting aside his text-books he entered the office of

Perrault & Mesnard, architects, and for many years was their

head clerk. The high regard entertained for him by his employers

is indicated in the advancement that came to him from time to

time and his eventual admission to the firm under the style

of Perrault, Mesnard & Venne, which partnership continued for

several years when it was dissolved. Since 1912 he has been

associated with Louis Labelle.

In 1882 Mr. Venne was united in marriage to Miss P. Boucher, a

daughter of S. Boucher, Esq., of Montreal. A Roman Catholic in

religious faith, he belongs to the St. Jean Baptiste Society

and has been president of the Sacred Heart section. In politics

he is a liberal. Along professional lines his connection is

with the provincial Association of Architects, and through his

identification with that organization he keeps in touch with the

advanced work and progressive ideas of representative men of the

profession and also contributes from his experience and wisdom to

its discussions and conferences.

NIEL H. ASSELIN.

The name of Niel H. Asselin has become a familiar one in

commercial circles in Montreal, where he occupies the important

and responsible position of general agent of the Singer Sewing

Machine Company for eastern Canada. He was born in 1845 at

St. Michel, Bellechase county, in the province of Quebec, and

supplemented his preliminary education by study in the St. Michel

Commercial College. He reached what may be termed his métier by

a somewhat circuitous course. He started with the Grand Trunk

Railway in the position of operator and stationmaster at Hadlow

in 1863 and left that position to accept one in the office

of the prothonotary for the Quebec district, in which capacity

he served for six years. He then resigned to travel in the boot

and shoe trade, and in 1874 came into active connection with the

sewing machine business as representative of the Howe Sewing

Machine Company. When this went into liquidation he made his way

to the United States and joined the sales force of the Wheeler &

Wilson & Domestic Sewing Machine Company.

Upon returning to Canada in 1884, Mr. Asselin entered the employ

of the White Sewing Machine Company as its representative in

Quebec, the maritime provinces and Newfoundland. In 1891 he

joined the Singer Sewing Machine Company at Quebec as its manager

for half of the province and a part of New Brunswick. In 1903 he

was advanced to the position of superintendent and in 1905 became

general agent for all eastern Canada, comprising Quebec, New

Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland,

with headquarters in the Board of Trade building in Montreal.

Here with an office staff of fifteen under his control and

twenty-eight regular shops, thirty-two contract shops and four

hundred outside employes under his jurisdiction, he may well be

said to hold the blue ribbon position in sewing machine circles

in Canada.

Mr. Asselin has a fluent command of both English and French

and is a cultured, genial gentleman, whose popularity arises

from attractive social qualities as well as pronounced business

ability.

ROBERT T. MULLIN.

Robert T. Mullin, one of the able and successful advocates in

Montreal, is a representative of a well known Canadian family

whose members settled in the Dominion about 1810. He was born

in 1870 at Bryson, province of Quebec, and after completing his

preliminary education, entered McGill University at Montreal. He

was graduated from the law department in 1896, with first rank

honors, and he was also a gold medallist in Roman law in his

graduating year. While at McGill, Mr. Mullin was a member of the

Literary and Debating Society and was also editor in chief of the

“McGill Fortnightly.” He was called to the bar in 1900, beginning

the practice of his profession in this city in partnership with

Colonel J. P. Cooke, who later became registrar, the firm name

being Cooke & Mullin. This connection was productive of mutually

beneficial results and was maintained until 1910 when it was

dissolved. Mr. Mullin later was a member of the firm of De

Boucherville, Mullin & Mathieu, but since 1912 he has been alone

in practice. Mr. Mullin is at all times a strong and forceful

practitioner, well versed in underlying legal principles and

possessed of the insight, keenness of perception and powers of

deduction necessary to make his knowledge effective. He controls

a large and important clientage and is very successful in its

conduct, standing today in the front ranks of reliable and

competent advocates in Montreal.

At the inception of the Cobalt mining activities, Mr. Mullin

became interested in various mining properties, and he has had

considerable success along this line of industry and has played a

conspicuous part in the development of various mining properties.

His operations have been so successful that his judgment has been

profitably followed by others in the mining world.

Mr. Mullin is connected with the Masonic fraternity and with the

Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and is active in the affairs

of the local branches of both organizations. Mr. Mullin has done

valiant service in the ranks of the liberal party. He has always

been an enthusiastic supporter of Sir Wilfrid Laurier and ready

to respond to his party’s call at any time. In the city where

practically his entire active life has been passed his signal

ability has gained him the respect of his professional brethren,

while his constant courtesy and sterling qualities of character

command everywhere high honor and regard.

J. A. ST. JULIEN, K. C.

J. A. St. Julien, K. C., was a member of the prominent and well

known law firm of St. Julien & Theberge, having offices at No. 60

Notre Dame Street East. During the years of his connection with

the Montreal bar he attained an enviable place in the practice of

his profession.

Mr. St. Julien was a native son of Montreal, born in 1855.

Liberal educational opportunities qualified him for important

professional service. His early studies were supplemented by a

course in the Montreal College, Laval University and in McGill

University and from the last named institution he was graduated

with the degree of B. C. L. He entered upon the active practice

of his chosen profession in 1882 and was continuously before

the courts from that time until his death. His ability was

pronounced for he was ever a careful and discriminating student

of the principles of law and was accurate in the application

thereof. His devotion to his clients’ interests was proverbial,

yet he never forgot that he owed a still higher allegiance to

the majesty of the law, and neither the zeal of an advocate nor

the pleasure of success permitted him to disregard this. His

political allegiance was given to the liberal party, but he was

never an aspirant for office, preferring to concentrate his

energies upon his professional interests and perform his public

service as a private citizen. His death occurred May 4, 1914, and

was deeply regretted by all who knew him. In his demise Montreal

lost one of her foremost representatives of the legal profession

and a citizen who was always loyal to his city.

HON. CHARLES LAURENDEAU.

Hon. Charles Laurendeau, chief city attorney, the head of the

city’s legal department, is one of the able members of the legal

profession in Montreal. The Hon. Mr. Laurendeau belongs to one of

the oldest families in the province of Quebec. He was born at St.

Barthelemy, in 1865, and was educated at L’Assomption College and

Laval University. In the latter institution he pursued the study

of law and was graduated with the LL. B. degree in 1892.

In the same year he began practice as an advocate, and rapidly

won a foremost position among his colleagues until his ability

and power to successfully cope with the intricate and involved

problems of jurisprudence became widely known.

He was at one time associated in practice with Justice Fortin,

subsequently becoming the head of the law firm of Laurendeau,

Pelletier & Pelletier. He was created king’s counsel in 1906, and

on July 6, 1910, was honored with the appointment of puisne judge

of the superior court of the province of Quebec.

Advancement at the bar is proverbially slow and yet he has

progressed step by step, putting his knowledge to the practical

test in his application of legal principles to the points at

issue, in which connection he is seldom at fault.

Judge Laurendeau resigned his position on the bench, to accept

the far more arduous one of city attorney, to which he was

appointed October 26, 1913.

Judge Laurendeau is married to Miss Georgina Beaudet, the

eldest daughter of G. J. Beaudet, of Coteau-du-Lac, P. Q. Judge

and Mrs. Laurendeau hold membership in the Catholic church.

The hospitality of their attractive home is enjoyed by many

friends, and Judge Laurendeau is well known and honored among his

professional colleagues by reason of his strict conformity to the

highest ethics of the law.

WILL. H. WHYTE.

Will. H. Whyte, prominent and successful in the insurance

profession and an eminent representative of Masonry in Canada,

was born in Montreal, March 15, 1850, the eldest son of the late

James Whyte of “The Greenlaw,” Paisley, Scotland, and Annie Gray

(Shanks) Whyte, whose girlhood home was at Berwick on Tweed.

Will. H. Whyte became a student at the Montreal Collegiate school

and entered business circles in connection with the wholesale

dry-goods house of Ogilvy & Company. The steps in his orderly

progression are easily discernible and his course has been marked

by a continuous advance along lines of constantly broadening

activity and usefulness. For six years he was business manager

of the Montreal Herald when the Hon. Peter Mitchell was the

principal owner and president. Since 1897 his attention has been

given to the insurance business, and his constantly expanding

powers have brought him into prominent relations with the

profession. He is now secretary-treasurer and underwriter of the

Royal Marine Insurance Company of Montreal.

His business connections alone would entitle him to distinction,

yet he has, perhaps, an even wider acquaintance through his

Masonic associations. Indeed, few Canadian Masons are better

known throughout the Masonic world. He was initiated in Prince

Consort Lodge, No. 52, and was installed worshipful master in

December, 1876. He was elected to a number of important offices

in the grand lodge and became grand secretary of the grand lodge

of Quebec in January, 1902. He has passed through the various

branches of Royal Arch Masonry and was grand first principal

Z. of the grand chapter of Quebec, holding the office for the

years 1888-9. He has held the office of grand scribe E. from

1893. He received the Cryptic degrees and has been illustrious

grand master of the grand council of the maritime provinces.

He was knighted as a Knight Templar in 1882 and was supreme

grand master in 1895 and 1896 of the sovereign great priory of

Canada and has been grand chancellor since 1897. He was the

second Knight Templar to be elected an honorary member of the

grand encampment, K. T., of the United States at the triennial

conclave in Chicago in 1910. He is a member of the Ancient Arabic

Order of the Mystic Shrine and of the Royal Order of Scotland.

The many important offices he has held, as well as his reviews

and historical sketches have brought him very prominently before

the Masonic craft for many years.

In former years Mr. Whyte was an active athlete and supporter

of amateur athletics. He was one of the founders and is the

historian of the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association. He has

also served as one of its directors. He was likewise president

of the Montreal Lacrosse Club in 1885-6; was vice president and

secretary for six years of the Montreal Snowshoe Club; is one

of the oldest members of the Dominion Commercial Travelers’

Association; is a life member of the Caledonian Society; a member

of St. Andrew’s Society; and of the Board of Trade of Montreal.

On the 3d of January, 1882, Mr. Whyte married Almeda Garratt, a

daughter of the late Captain Robert Nelson Garratt of Kingston,

Ontario, a representative of one of the families longest

connected with the history of the city of Kingston. They are

members of the American Presbyterian church, and they delight

in dispensing the hospitality of their home at No. 4290 Western

Avenue, Westmount.

JAMES PATON.

James Paton, a well known citizen of Montreal, died November 17,

1905. He was born in this city in 1853, a son of Laird Paton, a

distinguished citizen of Montreal, who was at the head of the

firm of Laird Paton & Sons, contractors.

It was to that business that James Paton turned his attention,

when his school days were over, joining his father and acquainting

himself with every phase of the business in which he was destined

to win substantial success. The firm of Laird Paton & Sons

took high rank among the contractors of the city and erected

many of Montreal’s best buildings. James Paton was capable of

watching and directing the slightest detail as well as the most

important features of his business and could turn with equal

energy and enthusiasm to sporting events. In a word, he had the

power of concentrating his entire energy upon the interest of

the moment and it was this that gained him prominence along each

line. Whenever the name of James Paton was seen in connection

with any sport, it was a guarantee that it was clean and honest

and he rendered great service to the city in the promotion of

amateur sports. He belonged to the Montreal Amateur Athletic

Association and was one of the moving spirits in the development

of that organization and in the efforts which eventually

lead to the securing of the present handsome quarters of the

organization on Peel Street. He was also instrumental in securing

the establishment of its swimming-pool and he belonged to the

Montreal and Caledonian Curling Clubs, was always ready to take

an active part in the water carnivals, and was a favorite of

the membership in the different organizations with which he was

identified. He found pleasure and manifested marked proficiency

in ice-boating and tobogganing. He loved sailing and seemed a

born sailor, displaying great ability in managing his craft and

taking part in many sailing contests of note.

[Illustration: JAMES PATON]

Mr. Paton married Miss Annie M. Thompson of Ottawa and they had

four children. He was but fifty-two years of age at the time

of his death. He possessed in a large measure the quality of

camaraderie and his friends were legion so that his death was

deeply regretted outside the immediate family circle.

RICHEMONT LE MOYNE DE MARTIGNY.

Richemont Le Moyne de Martigny, for many years engaged in the

real-estate business in Montreal, was born at Varennes, Quebec,

September 25, 1852, and is descended from a distinguished French

family that was founded in Canada in 1654. Of the three brothers

who first crossed the Atlantic to the new world Charles became

governor of Montreal, Jacques established himself at Varennes and

was a farmer and active participant in the early Indian wars,

while Pierre proceeded westward to what is now Detroit.

Prime de Martigny, father of Richemont Le Moyne de Martigny, was

a farmer at Varennes, well known in both military and official

connections, serving as colonel of the militia and mayor of

Varennes. He married Charlotte Perreault, of Quebec, and their

sons were: Prime, a physician of Omaha, Nebraska; Richemont

Le Moyne; and Alexander, chief engineer of the Ottawa River

Navigation Company.

The second son was educated at L’Assomption College and studied

law with La Coste & Globesky, of Montreal. In 1881 he was

admitted to the bar and practiced his profession until 1885, when

he devoted himself to the real-estate business, in which he has

since been successfully engaged. It is generally conceded that

he is one of the best informed men on real estate in the entire

province. He is an expert valuator of property, and his knowledge

of the real-estate market embraces every important piece of

property that is offered for sale. A spirit of enterprise

characterizes all of his business dealings and, guiding his

activities, has brought him to a position of distinction and

success.

In 1880 Mr. de Martigny was married, in L’Assomption, to Marie

Louise Levesque, and they have one daughter, Jacqueline. Mr. de

Martigny is a conservative in politics and in religious faith is

a Roman Catholic. He has ever been fond of outdoor life, is an

enthusiastic fisherman and spends much of his leisure in engaging

in that sport.

HON. NAPOLEON CHARBONNEAU, K. C.

Hon. Napoleon Charbonneau, K. C., and a puisne judge of the

superior court of the province of Quebec since 1903, was

admitted to the bar in 1879 and in the intervening period has

made continuous progress in his profession until he is today one

of the leaders of the provincial bar. He was born at Cote des

Neiges, Quebec, on the 12th of February, 1853, his parents being

Augustin and Julienne (Dufort) Charbonneau. In the acquirement

of his education he attended Montreal College and after thorough

preparation for the bar was admitted to practice in 1879 and

entered upon the active work of the profession in Montreal. At

one time he was a partner of the late Senator Trudel and of

the Hon. L. O. Taillon. He has successfully pleaded before the

judicial committee of the privy council, and on the 11th of

March, 1903, he was made a puisne judge, remaining continuously

upon the bench to the present time. The Montreal Standard speaks

of him as “a judge of uncommon perspicacity, thoroughly sound in

his law and swift in his perception of relevant facts and issues;

there are not two opinions as to his ability.”

Judge Charbonneau’s public activity aside from his service on the

bench has been partially in connection with political affairs.

He unsuccessfully contested Jacques Cartier for the house of

commons in the liberal interest at the general election in 1887

and in 1895 was elected at the by-election. He was appointed a

royal commissioner for the province to inquire into the charges

against the Hon. A. Turgeon in 1907. His attention, however, has

largely been confined to his professional duties, and he has

gained eminence in a calling where advancement depends entirely

upon individual merit. Endowed by nature with strong intellectual

power, he has so directed his reading and his activities as to

have won place among the eminent judges of the province.

The present wife of Judge Charbonneau was Mlle. Lemieux. His

religious belief is that of the Roman Catholic church. He

maintains his residence in Montreal at No. 36 Simpson Street.

His summer outing affords him opportunity for cruising, and he

and his family are enthusiastic over this form of recreation.

His launch, the Mouette, is much enjoyed. His circle of friends

is select rather than large, and he is often found in those

gatherings where intelligent men are met in the discussion of

vital and significant themes and problems.

GEORGES ALPHONSE MONETTE.

Foremost in his profession in Montreal is Georges Alphonse

Monette, architect, whose skill finds tangible expression in

some of the most beautiful and substantial structures of the

city. A native of Montreal, he is a son of Georges and Domithilde

(Beauchamp) Monette. The father, now deceased, was a contractor.

The mother is still a resident of this city.

G. A. Monette acquired his early education in the Christian

Brothers school and began the study of architecture in the

office of A. F. Dunlop, a well known architect, with whom he

remained for five years. He received a diploma from the Associate

Architects of the Province of Quebec in 1892 and soon afterward

went to Boston, Massachusetts, where he studied in the offices of

a number of the leading architects of that city. He then returned

to Montreal and entered the office of Perrault & Mesnard,

architects, subsequently engaging in business for himself about

a score of years ago. While he has a large general practice, he

specializes in public buildings work and substantial evidence

of his ability may be seen in the La Patrie building, the large

block of H. P. Labelle & Company, Ltd., the dental department

building of Laval University, the St. Leo Catholic church of

Westmount and a number of school and convent buildings. That he

ranks notably high in his profession is indicated by the fact

that he has been admitted to membership in various important

organizations, including the Province of Quebec Association of

Architects and the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, while

of the Architectural League of New York he is an associate member.

Mr. Monette was married in Montreal to Maria Versailles, a

daughter of Nazaire Versailles of Montreal, and they have the

following children: Antonio, Cecile, Gertrude, Marcal, Adrienne,

Eugene and Hector. Mr. Monette is a member of the Club St.

Denis and has attractive social qualities, which have won

him popularity and prominence in a friendship circle that is

extensive. His interests, however, have been concentrated upon

his profession with the result that his position is now one of

recognized leadership.

MAXIME DAOUST.

There is probably no other line of business that is a factor in a

city’s growth and development equal to the real-estate business,

when conducted by men who are reliable and who aim to develop

only properties of merit and value. Included among such men

is Maxime Daoust, president and founder of the Daoust Realty,

Limited.

Mr. Daoust was born in St. Clet, P. Q., November 10, 1873, son of

Leon and Olive Daoust. When he was six years of age his parents

removed to Labelle county and there Mr. Daoust received his

education. In 1893 he went to the United States and was employed

in various places in New England until February, 1898, when he

enlisted as a volunteer in the United States marines for service

in the Spanish-American war, which then seemed imminent.

He was among the first troops landed on Cuban soil at Guantanamo,

June 10, 1898, participating in the fight at that place. He

remained in Cuba until August, when he was detailed as one of the

guard to accompany the Spanish prisoners, survivors of Cervera’s

fleet, to Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Mr. Daoust remained in the United States service until the

expiration of his enlistment, after which he returned to Canada

in 1900 and for some time was employed at the trade of brass

molder in Montreal. He then entered the fire and life insurance

field as an agent, at which he achieved success so that in

1904 he had accumulated capital sufficient to engage in the

real-estate business in a small way. He formed a partnership with

the late Joseph Charrau under firm name of Charrau & Daoust,

and the first subdivision handled by them was Frontenac Park,

owned by the estate of Henry Hogan, the land being then an open

field. This tract comprised twenty-five hundred lots, and today

this property is populated by over five hundred families and its

location is now the geographical center of Montreal. The firm

quickly won a reputation for straight and honorable dealings

so that when their subsequent subdivisions, Estate Viau and

Christian Brothers, were placed on the market, it was not the

merits of the properties alone that made them in demand.

Mr. Daoust later purchased the interest of Mr. Charrau and in

1908 the Daoust Realty, Limited, was formed with a capital of

one hundred thousand dollars, Mr. Daoust becoming president and

manager. Up to that time he had financed his own properties,

but he realized that to carry out his huge land schemes he

would require more capital, hence his company. Since then the

Daoust Realty, Limited, has done some of the largest real-estate

business in the city. In June, 1913, the capital of the company

was increased to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

They are sole agents for Mount Lasalle Park, Mount Lasalle Annex

Park and Champlain Park in Rosemount ward; Bernard Terrace,

Bernard Plateau and Alliance Park in Longue-Pointe ward; St.

Helen’s Park and Coteau Rouge Park, near town of Montreal

South; St. Lambert Heights, near town of St. Lambert; Chambly

Basin Park, Chambly, P. Q.; and Montreal East Extension,

Pointe-aux-Trembles, these properties representing a carrying

value of over three million dollars. Mr. Daoust is vice president

of the Mackay Realty, Limited, a member of the Board of Trade and

the Chambre de Commerce.

In politics he is a liberal and in religion a Roman Catholic.

He is fond of athletic sports and is president of the National

Sporting Club, Limited. Mr. Daoust was one of the first men in

Canada to become interested in aviation and has spent thousands

for furthering that science. He has built four machines, the

designing and building being done in this district. The first

two were failures, but notwithstanding the large expense he

persevered until his courage and enthusiasm were rewarded by his

machines making successful flights.

On June 20, 1905, Mr. Daoust was married to Amelia Clement,

daughter of Samuel Clement of Pointe Claire, Quebec, and they

have two children, Farnand and Jule-Berthe.

Mr. Daoust is a self-made man in the fullest sense of that term.

He possesses many admirable qualities and a character of sterling

worth. He is devoted to his home and family, is faithful in

friendship and loyal to every interest to which he gives his

support. He possesses marked business enterprise with ability to

recognize opportunities that others pass heedlessly by and early

grasped the eternal truth that industry wins, making industry

the beacon light of his life, and has thereby entered into most

important business relations. He has accomplished important and

far-reaching results and has contributed in no small degree to

the expansion and material growth of the community.

FRANCOIS GEORGE CREPEAU.

François George Crépeau, a representative of the notarial

profession in active practice in Montreal since 1890, was born

at St. Henri de Mascouche, Quebec, on the 25th of May, 1865, a

son of Charles and Mathilde (Magnan) Crépeau. The ancestry of

the family can be traced back to Paul Crépeau of Laverdure. The

next in the line of descendants was T. Maurice Crépeau, major of

militia, who married Marie Andet of St. Jean, isle of Orleans.

Their son, Charles Crépeau, wedded Agnes Chartrand and their son,

Charles Crépeau was married in 1765 to Françoise Gravel near

Quebec. They were the parents of Joseph Crépeau, grandfather

of François George Crépeau. He married Madeleine Allard, and

they were parents of Charles Crépeau, father of our subject. The

family were largely agriculturists and the old homestead which

has been occupied by the family for over one hundred and fifty

years, is now owned by Octave Crépeau, a brother of François

George Crépeau. The father’s family numbered fifteen children,

four of whom passed away, while six sons and five daughters are

yet living and all are well and strong.

[Illustration: FRANCOIS G. CREPEAU]

After the ordinary school training François George Crépeau

attended an academy and followed his academical course by study

in l’Assomption College. He won his degree at the College of

Montreal and Laval University, being graduated LL. B. in 1890.

Having studied law and prepared for the notarial profession, he

entered upon active practice, in which he has since continued,

his ability bringing him to his present position as a prominent

representative of his chosen calling. His practice is very

extensive and in addition he has other business investments,

being a director of the Funeral Expense Society and of La Cie

Mutuelle d’Immeubles, Ltee.

On the 25th of May, 1891, Mr. Crépeau was married to Miss Marie

Louise Lecours, a daughter of Théophile and Marie (Prefontaine)

Lecours, representatives of one of the old French families of

the province. The children of this marriage are: George Henry,

a photographer, who married Juliette Robillard; Joseph Roumald;

M. Jeanne; M. Juliette; M. Emérentienne; and J. C. Bernard. The

religious faith of the family is that of the Roman Catholic

church. Mr. Crépeau holds membership with the Canadian Order

of Foresters, and the Independent Order of Foresters. He also

belongs to the Société Des Artisans, to the Knights of Columbus,

to l’Union St. Pierre and l’Alliance Nationale.

ARSENE S. BROSSEAU, D. D. S.

Comprehensive knowledge of the science of dentistry, skill in its

mechanical phases and close adherence at all times to the highest

standards of the profession has made Dr. Arsene S. Brosseau one

of the leading and best known dentists of Montreal. Moreover, he

is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, in length of practice in

the city. He was born January 22, 1861, in L’Acadie, P. Q., a son

of Jacques and Catherine (Demerce) Brosseau. The parents were for

many years highly esteemed residents of Montreal, but both are

now deceased.

Dr. Brosseau acquired his early education in the Christian

Brothers school in Montreal and then took up the study of

dentistry at Laval University, being graduated in 1883. He began

practice in the office of Dr. John C. Nichols, with whom he

remained for five years, and later he spent three years in the

office of Dr. Edmund Mathieu. Later he began practice on his

own account and has since continued alone. He has continuously

promoted his knowledge through broad reading and investigation,

keeping in touch with the advanced thought of the profession. His

practice comes to him from the best class of Montreal citizens

and is very extensive. Splendidly equipped is his office, showing

all the latest appliances known to modern dentistry, and back

of all his success is the sound judgment which enables him to

understand the specific needs of each case and to apply the

necessary corrective. Reputation has placed him in a foremost

position in the ranks of the dental fraternity in this city.

Dr. Brosseau was married in Montreal, in 1883, to Miss Fannie

Robert, a daughter of Julien Robert, and they had two children:

Lotta, who died in early life; and Leo. In club circles Dr.

Brosseau is known as a popular member of the Club St. Denis and

Club Canadien. He belongs to the Roman Catholic church and is

a liberal in politics. In matters of moment to the individual

and to the community he maintains the same spirit of progress

which characterizes him in his professional activity, yet he has

always made his profession his chief interest and has obtained

a splendid practice. He has ever attended strictly to the

duties incumbent upon him in that connection, being possessed

of excellent business qualifications and a most attractive

personality, which has been a large asset in his success. His is

a splendid type of manhood and citizenship, and his record is a

credit to the profession.

JOSEPH AUGUSTIN ODILON LA BADIE.

Joseph Augustin Odilon La Badie, one of the best known notaries

of Montreal, was born May 12, 1852, at the family home on St.

James Street, between Roy Street and David Lane. His grandfather,

Joseph Augustin La Badie, also a native of Montreal, studied with

Jean Marie Cadieux, a notary, and for many years had his office

and also his home in the building which stood at the corner of

St. Lambert Hill and St. James Street, now the corner of St.

Laurence boulevard and St. James Street. He was devoted to his

profession, spending the hours from 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. in his

office. He was asked to become mayor of Montreal but declined

the honor. He served as colonel of a volunteer regiment and was

a warden of Notre Dame Cathedral. He married Louise Grenier,

who was also of an old Montreal family, and to them were born

eighteen children. Joseph A. La Badie passed away in 1885, at the

advanced age of eighty years.

Joseph Evariste Odilon La Badie, father of J. A. O. La Badie

of this review, was born in the old home at the corner of

St. Lambert Hill and St. James Street. He attended Montreal

College and in his father’s office prepared for the practice of

the notarial profession. In the home in which he was born he

continued to practice with his father until 1864, when the old

building was razed and a new one erected on the same site. In the

latter he continued to practice his profession until his death,

which occurred in August, 1908, when he was eighty years of age.

He was chief warden of Notre Dame Cathedral and was a prominent

and influential citizen. He married Sophie Jeannotte, a native of

Montreal, and they lived to celebrate their golden wedding. Mrs.

La Badie passed away April 13, 1906. They had a family of seven

children: Joseph Augustin Odilon; Adolphe, a notary of Montreal;

Felix, a practicing physician of Montreal; Joseph Esdras, a real

estate dealer of New York city; Flora, who died in childhood;

Sophie, the deceased wife of Louis Belanger, a lawyer; and

Alphonse, a broker, who died in Montreal in 1908.

Joseph Augustin Odilon La Badie pursued his education in the

normal school and in the Jesuit College, from which he was

graduated. In 1874 he won the degree of B. C. L. from McGill

University and on the 8th of May, of that year, he was made a

notary at Laval University in Quebec. He then began practice with

his father and grandfather and has ever maintained high standing

in his profession.

Mr. La Badie has been an extensive traveler. As a young man he

engaged in ranching in Colorado and during his sojourn in the

west learned much of that section of the United States. He has

also made many trips abroad. He is a great lover of nature and a

student of botany. The library which he has collected contains

more than six thousand volumes, many of which are rare editions.

This is an indication of his cultured taste and wide interest in

literary matters. His summer home for the past twenty-one years

has been at Upper St. Lambert, where he has two fine farms and

makes a specialty of cheese making. Mr. La Badie is very fond of

hunting, a recreation in which he indulges every year.

Though over three score years of age, Mr. La Badie is of

magnificent physique, his muscles as hard as iron, and he has

the appearance of a man twenty years his junior. In his office

is a long table, four feet wide, over which he can jump without

touching it with his hands and he can lift a weight of one

hundred and eighty-seven pounds with one hand. His interests have

largely covered those things which are essential and valuable

elements in life. He has been a student of many questions

of public moment and has filled some offices, being now a

commissioner of the superior court and a justice of the peace.

For one hundred and ten years the La Badies of four generations

have been notaries at the present location. The great-grandfather

of Joseph A. O. La Badie died at the home where Joseph E. O. La

Badie was born. The family is, indeed, one of the oldest and most

prominent in Montreal.

Mr. La Badie is not a club man. His interest centers in his home

and his family, which he prefers to club life. On the 7th of

October, 1877, he married Aurelia de Lompré, of an old Montreal

family, and to them have been born seventeen children: Raoul, a

civic employe; Odilon, who is in his father’s office; Paul, a

notary; Florida, deceased; Jeanne; Germaine; Marie Antoinette;

Camile; Alice; Leo; Amanda; Adolphe; Alice; Emile; Pauline;

Gabriel; and Cecile.

ARTHUR GIBEAULT, B. A., LL. L.

Arthur Gibeault, a Laval man, active in the practice of law since

January, 1902, has been retained as counsel for the defense or

prosecution in many notable cases heard in the Montreal courts.

He was born on the 26th of February, 1880, a son of Arthur

Alphonse and Elizabeth Emma (Morrissette) Gibeault. The father

was for seven years provincial chief ranger of the Catholic Order

of Foresters. The son was a student in Montreal College for eight

years, from September, 1890, until July, 1898. In September of

the latter year he entered Laval University, where he remained

until December 21, 1901, winning the Bachelor of Arts and LL. L.

degrees. He was admitted as a lawyer and barrister to the bar of

Quebec on the 17th of January, 1902, and has since been actively

connected with the profession, in which he has made steady

advancement, already having won a place of equal rank with many

an older representative of the bar. He was attorney and counsel

for the school commissioners of Hochelaga for many years and as

counsel tried many immigration cases. He was especially prominent

in the case of Gaetanetta Imparato, who was deported to Italy and

subsequently returned to Canada pursuant to an appeal made by

Mr. Gibeault in her favor. He represented Sarah Kositzky in her

appeal before the department of immigration of the United States

and obtained a commission of three medical men to examine her.

The decision of the first board was afterward reversed by this

commission. Mr. Gibeault’s name appears in connection with other

important cases which have attracted widespread interest not only

in Canada but also in the United States.

Mr. Gibeault is a conservative and was prime minister of the

mock parliament of Laval in 1899 and head of the conservative

ministry, while the leader of the opposition was J. W. Pilon, a

well known lawyer of Montreal. That Mr. Gibeault possesses marked

histrionic as well as legal talent is indicated in the fact that

during the year 1904-5 the Greek drama of Antigone by Sophocles

was played in Greek, on which occasion he took the role of Ismene

and the role of Antigone was taken by D. Lalonde, now Father

Lalonde, P. S. S., one of the directors of Montreal College,

while the role of Creon was played by J. F. St. Cyr, now district

magistrate of St. Johns, Iberville. The production of the play in

Greek created a tremendous sensation at the time because it was

an achievement unheard of before.

On the 26th of June, 1905, Mr. Gibeault was married to Marie

Jeanne Phaneuf, daughter of L. A. Phaneuf, notary public of

Rigaud, and Marie Joseph Adam. Mrs. Gibeault is a niece of the

Rt. Rev. Canon F. L. T. Adam, of Montreal, and Father J. Adam,

S. J. Mr. and Mrs. Gibeault have three children, Yves, Marc and

Madeleine. The religious faith of the family is that of the

Catholic church and Mr. Gibeault is a leading member of the

Independent Order of Foresters. Possessed of natural oratorical

ability, his power in that direction, supplementing the

analytical trend of his mind and added to his broad knowledge of

the law, has gained him distinction as one of the younger members

of the Montreal bar.

DIOSCORE ALFRED BENOIT, M. D.

Dioscore Alfred Benoit, M. D., prominent in the field of medical

practice, making a specialty of obstetrics and gynecology, was

born in Montreal on the 26th of July, 1880, a son of Lucien and

Albina (Bourdon) Benoit, the former a native of Contrecoeur

and the latter of Lavaltrie, Quebec. The paternal grandfather,

Isaac Benoit, was born in Geneva, Switzerland, a member of an

old French family of rank established in Switzerland at the time

that Louis XIV issued the revocation of the edict of Nantes.

Some years after his arrival in Canada Isaac Benoit embraced the

Catholic religion.

Dr. Benoit pursued a commercial course in a Catholic school and

his classical course in St. Mary’s (Jesuit) College. Having

determined upon the practice of medicine as his life work

he entered Laval University wherein he completed the medical

course with the class of 1906. During the succeeding year he was

interne in Notre Dame Hospital and then went abroad to continue

his medical studies in Paris, where he remained for two years,

making a specialty of obstetrics and gynecology. Upon his return

he was made demonstrator of anatomy in Laval University which

position he occupied for a year. He next became adjoint professor

in obstetrics and medicine to Laval University and adjoint

professor to the Catholic Maternity Hospital. He is a member of

the Medical Society of Montreal and the profession as well as the

public recognize the high position which he has attained in the

field in which he specializes. His reading and investigations

have been deep and broad, and his opinions are largely accepted

as authority upon points in question concerning the obstetrical

practice. In politics Dr. Benoit is a conservative according to

the views of Macdonald and Cartier with tendencies toward the

nationalist. His religious faith is that of the Roman Catholic

church. His entire life has been passed in Montreal, save for the

period spent in study abroad. He there came under the instruction

of some of the most eminent physicians and surgeons of Paris,

returning well equipped for the arduous and responsible duties

of a profession in which he has made continuous advancement. Dr.

Benoit’s office is at 945a, St. Denis Street.

[Illustration: DR. DIOSCORE A. BENOIT]

J. LOUIS MICHAUD.

J. Louis Michaud, district engineer of public works of Canada

for the district of Montreal, was born November 27, 1851, at

Rimouski, province of Quebec. He is descended from an old family

of St. Denis, county of Kamouraska. His father was Tobie Michaud,

a contractor and builder, and his mother was Felicitée Fournier.

J. Louis Michaud was educated at the Classical Seminary at

Rimouski and studied engineering with Charles Baillarge, an

eminent engineer of Quebec, for two years, and then for two

years was connected with the engineering department of the

Intercolonial Railway. On the 19th of April, 1878, he was

admitted to practice as a licensed land surveyor at Quebec and

the recognition of his skill and ability came to him in April,

1882, when he was made Dominion land surveyor at Ottawa. In 1883

he came to Montreal to reside, but his work for the Dominion in

surveying the Canadian northwest continued until 1889. From that

year until 1896 he was engaged in private practice in Montreal

and an extensive clientage was accorded him. He is recognized as

one of the best versed men in the science of his profession as

well as in all the practical phases of the business. In 1896 he

was appointed district engineer of public works for the district

of Montreal and has since conscientiously and capably discharged

the duties of that position.

In 1880 Mr. Michaud was married, at Matane, Rimouski county,

Quebec, to Henriette Bradley, who died in 1910. They had eleven

children, three of whom died in childhood. Two of the number,

Albert, aged seventeen years, and René, aged fifteen, met death

by drowning at Ste. Anne de Bellevue. The surviving six are:

Alexander, who is with the Canadian Light & Power Company;

Edouard, a missionary priest in central Africa; Juliette; Adolph;

Grazielle; and Gabrielle. In a review of the life work of J.

Louis Michaud it is self-evident that his advancement has come

through the development of his powers resulting from broad study

and active practice in the profession. He holds to the highest

standards, and his progression has been continuous. He is a

member of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers and is a member

of the Corporation of Land Surveyors in Quebec.

J. AUGUSTINE MANN.

J. Augustine Mann, one of the best known members of the Montreal

bar, was born May 24, 1876, in the city where he still maintains

his home, his parents being Eric and Agnes McWhirter (Bailey)

Mann. For thirty-eight years Eric Mann was an engineer and

architect of Montreal and in 1901 retired from business and

returned to his native city of Edinburgh, Scotland, to live. Mr.

and Mrs. Mann had two children: J. Augustine; and Mrs. Quincy

Tucker, now a resident of Boston, Massachusetts.

The former was educated in Montreal, completing a course in

McGill University with the class of 1901, at which time the B.

C. L. degree was conferred upon him. While in McGill he was also

a student in the office of Foster, Martin & Girouard. Upon his

admission to the bar in 1901 this firm became Foster, Martin,

Girouard & Mann and is now Foster, Martin, Mann, MacKinnon

& Hackett. Mr. Mann was created a king’s counsel in 1911.

His practice has been extensive, and his high reputation has

been well won. Aside from his practice, he is now in business

connections as a Canadian director of the N. K. Fairbanks Company.

Mr. Mann is a member of the Montreal Art Association, the

Montreal Amateur Athletic Association, the Montreal Club,

the Montreal Jockey Club, the Montreal Curling Club and the

Beaconsfield Golf Club. These associations indicate much of the

nature of his interests and indicate him to be a broad-minded,

cultured gentleman and also one of social nature.

Mr. Mann was married in Montreal to Miss Evelyn Gertrude Mann,

and they are parents of two children: Dorothy and Audrey. The

family residence is at No. 822 University Street and their summer

home, Dornal Hall, is at Beaurepaire, Quebec.

JOSEPH WILFRID MICHAUD.

Joseph Wilfrid Michaud, senior member of the firm of Michaud &

Des Rosiers, public accountants at 55 St. Francis Xavier Street

in Montreal, is a native of the province of Quebec, his birth

having occurred at St. Barthelemi on the 2d of August, 1872, his

parents being Olivier and Stephenie (Paquin) Michaud. He was

educated in the schools of his native town and in St. Viateur

Academy. He began his business career as an accountant for the

Western Loan & Trust Company, Ltd., and later became associated

with Mr. A. W. Wilks as a member of a firm of public accountants

under the style of Wilks & Michaud. For a number of years this

firm occupied a prominent place in professional circles in

Montreal. In 1911, following the dissolution of the partnership,

Mr. Michaud joined Mr. Des Rosiers in forming the firm of Michaud

& Des Rosiers. Their clientage is now extensive, and the volume

of their business is justified by the capability of the members

of the firm. Mr. Michaud is a director of the National Loan &

Trust Company, Ltd., and also of the Sapho Manufacturing Company

and thus along several lines has become closely associated with

the business interests of the city.

In 1897 occurred the marriage of Mr. Michaud and Miss Rose

Lafreniere, a daughter of Joseph Lafreniere. They have four

children, Yvonne, Gerard, Paul and Lionel. The religious faith of

the family is that of the Roman Catholic church, and Mr. Michaud

holds membership in Club St. Denis. Identified with the interests

of Montreal throughout the entire period of his business career,

he has become well known, and enterprise and laudable ambition

have brought him to his present enviable position.

JOSEPH ULRIC EMARD, K. C.

One of the distinguished members of the legal profession in

Montreal, whose years of active practice extend through more than

one third of a century, is Joseph Ulric Emard. Well versed in

the science of his profession, a deep thinker, logical reasoner,

he has long since occupied a foremost place among the strong and

forceful Montreal bar.

Mr. Emard comes from one of the old and prominent families of

the province of Quebec. His father, Medard Emard, was one of the

best known and successful educators of his day, while his mother,

previous to her marriage, was Mathilde Beaudin. His brother,

Monseigneur J. M. Emard, now bishop of Valleyfield, was for

years prominent in church work in Montreal and was attached to

Archbishop Fabre’s personal staff at the Palace.

Joseph Ulric Emard was born March 27, 1855, at St. Constant,

Laprairie county, Quebec. Reared in a home where education was

valued at its true worth, he attended St. Hubert grammar school,

then conducted by his father, and was afterward a student in a

private school conducted by Abbé Villeneuve.

His entrance into business life was first as a clerk, but after

a short time he entered Laval University, where he pursued his

law course and was graduated LL. B. in 1881. He was called to

the bar that same year, and at once entered upon active practice

as an advocate, which he has followed ever since, with brilliant

success. Mr. Emard has been connected with a number of important

cases, among them being the famous Lachine Bridge case, which he

won after a notable legal battle, making it the cause celebre of

the day. He was appointed king’s counsel in 1903.

For some years Mr. Emard was associated in practice with Hon. J.

Ald Ouimet, who is, at present, counsel in the firm of Emard &

Emard, composed of Joseph U. Emard and son, Charles.

Mr. Emard’s interests, aside from the law, are diversified

and extensive. Through the splendid use of his talents, as

well as his sound business judgment and foresight, he has been

very successful, not only as to the accumulation of worldly

possessions, but also in the way of important and valuable work

done which has given a decided impetus to the city’s progress

and improvement. He was the founder of the town of Boulevard St.

Paul, now Emard ward, and capably served as its mayor. After

annexation he twice represented this ward on the city council as

alderman.

Mr. Emard has a prominent connection with business affairs;

his interests include mining, real-estate, industrial and

financial companies, in a number of which he is a member of the

directorate. His connection with corporations has brought him an

intimate knowledge concerning corporation law. To some extent

he has specialized in that field of practice, and his knowledge

thereof is comprehensive and exact.

He is a member of the St. James Club, the Canadian Club and Club

St. Denis. Of the last named he was president for a number of

years. In 1903 he had been the chief promoter of Club Jacques

Cartier. In 1884 he had been president of St. Jean Baptiste

Society of the St. Vincent de Paul section. Mr. Emard’s political

allegiance is given to the conservative party.

He was married to Miss Exilda Stuart of Montreal, and they belong

to the Catholic church.

A man of fine personal appearance and keen intellectuality,

his mind has been well trained, enabling him to readily meet

any emergency with the consciousness that comes from a right

perception of things and a strong regard for what is best in the

exercise of human activities.

EMILIEN GADBOIS-VAN DAN DAIGUE.

Based upon an excellent professional education, Emilien

Gadbois-Van dan Daigue has already made his mark in the legal

profession in Montreal, where he practices as a member of the

firm of La Mothe, Gadbois & Nantel. The first member of the Van

dan Daigue family came to Canada in 1671 from Brussels, Belgium.

Pierre Van dan Daigue Gadbois, of the Gadbois family, was born

in 1574 and died on October 20, 1667, at Montreal. Joseph Van

dan Daigue was born in 1653 at Meunisier and at Quebec, on April

18, 1678, married Louise Chalifour. He died on the 11th of June,

1725, at Charlesbourg. The records of the family continue to

the fourth generation up to 1750 in Abbé Tanguay’s Dictionnaire

Généalogique.

Emilien Gadbois-Van dan Daigue was born October 30, 1884, a son

of Emile Gadbois, a well known horticulturist of Longemont,

Rouville county, province of Quebec. His mother before her

marriage was Priscillia Bernard, a sister of Monseigneur A. X.

Bernard, bishop of St. Hyacinthe. Emilien Gadbois was educated

at Montreal College, on Sherbrooke Street, and Laval University.

On the 1st of July, 1907, he received the degree of B. A. with

distinction and in the same year won the first prize in

French literature in Laval University. In 1910 he was made by

that institution LL. M. and on July 8th, of the same year he

received his commission as a lawyer and has since practiced with

ever increasing success in Montreal, having formed a partnership

with L. E. Bernard, K. C., with whom he was associated until

May, 1914, when he became a member of the firm of La Mothe,

Gadbois & Nantel with offices in the Quebec Bank building. He

has all the faculties of which a lawyer may be proud, skill

in the presentation of his evidence, marked ability in cross

examination, perseverance before the jury, and a strong grasp of

every feature of the case. It is therefore but natural that he

readily received recognition and is today connected with much

important litigation in the local courts.

[Illustration: EMILIEN GADBOIS-VAN DAN DAIGUE]

In his political views Mr. Gadbois is a conservative, stanchly

upholding the principles of his party, although he has not yet

become connected with public life. As a member of the Canadian

Club he can be found in the ranks of those men who have at heart

the development and progress of the Dominion, and he is ever

loyal to his city. His faith is that of the Catholic church. On

the threshold of a successful career, he has ever moved in the

right direction toward fame, and a distinguished future may be

prophesied for him, a future which will bring new luster to the

old family name which he bears.

JOSEPH H. RAINVILLE, M. P.

Joseph H. Rainville, a member of parliament and deeply interested

in questions concerning the government, province and Dominion,

is today recognized as one of the younger leaders of the

conservative party. He chose as a profession the practice of law,

and it is a notable fact that members of the bar are more apt

to become prominent figures in political circles than any other

class of men. The reason for this is obvious, as the training

which qualifies them for the onerous and difficult work of the

courts also prepares them to solve the intricate and complex

problems of local or general government.

Quebec numbers Mr. Rainville among her native sons, his birth

having occurred at Ste. Angele, Rouville county, on the 8th of

March, 1875. In the attainment of his education he attended

successively Monnoir College, Marieville, and Laval University,

where he won the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He entered upon

the active practice of his profession with L. E. Beauregard of

Montreal in 1901. No dreary novitiate awaited him. His capability

won almost immediate recognition. He is an effective speaker,

earnest in his appeals before the court, zealous in support of

his cause, and at all times loyal to the interests of his clients.

Since age conferred upon him the right of franchise Joseph H.

Rainville has been a stalwart conservative, and in 1908 he

unsuccessfully contested Vercheres county at the provincial

election, being defeated by a majority of ninety-eight. When

the tide of popular favor turned against the liberal government

of the Dominion in September, 1911, he became a member for

Chambly-Vercheres, so that he is now occupying a seat in the

house. He frankly and fearlessly expresses his opinion, but also

possesses the tact of the successful politician who seeks to

conciliate rather than antagonize.

Mr. Rainville married Miss Gendreau, daughter of Dr. J. G. A.

Gendreau of Montreal. Mr. Rainville is a lieutenant in the

Eighty-fifth Regiment and is a member of the Montreal Gun

Club. His friends speak of him as always a courteous, polished

gentleman, both forceful and resourceful when occasion demands.

EDOUARD FABRE SURVEYER.

Edouard Fabre Surveyer, who throughout his professional career

has been a representative of the Montreal bar and equally well

known as an educator and author in the field of his profession,

was born in this city in 1875. His father, L. J. A. Surveyer, is

a Montreal merchant and a past vice president of the Chamber of

Commerce. He married Hectorine Fabre, a daughter of the late E.

R. Fabre and a sister of the late Archbishop Fabre, the late Hon.

Hector Fabre, C. M. G., and of the late Lady Cartier.

E. Fabre Surveyer was a student in St. Mary’s (Jesuit) College,

where he made an excellent record, winning the Angers bronze

medal for letters in 1890, the Mercier gold medal for rhetoric in

1891 and the alumni gold medal for philosophy in 1893. He took

up his law course in Laval University and was graduated LL. L.

with first class honors in 1896. The same year he won his B. C.

L. degree with first class honors from McGill University, but not

content with the preparation that he had already made for active

practice at the bar, he went abroad and completed his law course

in Paris and took part in the first International Congress of

Lawyers at Brussels in 1897. He was a delegate to the Universal

Congress of Lawyers and Jurists at St. Louis, Missouri, in 1904

and is correspondent for several Canadian, American, French and

Belgian law reviews.

It was in 1897 that Mr. Surveyer entered upon active practice in

Montreal in connection with McGibbon, Casgrain, Ryan & Mitchell.

He has not only obtained success in practice but has also gained

recognition for his ability in other professional connections. He

has been the editor of the Quebec Practice Reports since their

establishment in 1897 and since 1905 has been a lecturer in

practice and pleading in McGill University. He was made a king’s

counsel by the government of Quebec in 1909. On withdrawal from

the firm of McGibbon, Casgrain, Mitchell & Surveyer in 1909 he