Part in the Conquest of Canada. In 1908 he added to the list

of his publications A Romance of Prehistoric Montreal and The

Master of Life; and in 1910, The Governance of Empire and Sights

and Shrines of Montreal. He also published Songs of the Great

Dominion (Windsor series) in 1889, and Canadian Poems and Lays

(Canterbury Poets series) in 1891.

There are few men in possession in so eminent a degree of the

habits, tastes and ability of the scholar and at the same time in

so large a measure the practical qualities which find expression

in successful professional service and in public-spirited

citizenship. Mr. Lighthall has studied as closely the signs of

the times and the questions of the hour as he has the history

of the past. His deep interest in the cause of education was

manifest in his service as chairman of the board of school

commissioners of Westmount, to which office he was appointed in

1909. He is an imperialist in principle and at the same time a

strong believer in the necessity and advantage of organizing the

intellectual and higher interests of Canadian nationality and

retaining state ownership and control of forests, railways, land

tenure, coal mines and other public resources.

In October, 1890, Mr. Lighthall was married to Miss Cybel

Charlotte Wilkes, a daughter of John Wilkes and a granddaughter

of the late Rev. Dr. Henry Wilkes. Mrs. Lighthall is vice

president of the local branch of the Zenana Bible and Medical

Mission, and is also a vice president of the Canadian Handicrafts

Guild. Something of the nature of his recreation is indicated

in the fact that Mr. Lighthall belongs to Lac Tremblant Fishing

Club, of which he was elected president in 1909, and in the

same year he was admitted an Iroquois Indian chief with the

name of Ticonderoga in recognition of services to that race. He

furthermore belongs to the University, Canada, Reform, Montreal,

Country and Canadian Clubs of Montreal and the Royal Societies

Club of London, England. His winter residence, Chateauclair, is

at No. 14 Murray Avenue, Westmount, while his summer home, Camp

Beartracks, is at Lac Tremblant. In the review of his history it

seems that his constantly expanding powers are opening to him

a still broader field of usefulness and establishing him more

firmly in the position of prominence which he today occupies.

JOSEPH DROUIN.

Joseph Drouin, a member of the Montreal bar, was born at Two

Mountains, in the province of Quebec, on the 15th of November,

1875, a son of Firmin and Mathilde (Lafrance) Drouin, sturdy

French Canadian farmers. He is of the eighth generation in

descent from Robert Drouin, of Pin au Perche, France, who became

the founder of the family in the new world, establishing himself

at Quebec in 1635. The principal branch of the family remains in

Quebec and Orleans, but in 1751 one branch detached itself from

the main Quebec stem and was transplanted to Montreal, where

representatives of the name have since been found in the city and

surrounding districts.

[Illustration: JOSEPH DROUIN]

Joseph Drouin pursued a classical course in the seminary of Ste.

Thérèse and won his B. C. L. degree upon graduation from McGill

University in April, 1904. He engaged in the practice of law,

winning a liberal clientage that connected him with the important

work of the courts. Of late Mr. Drouin has devoted his attention

to the management of his own private interests.

Mr. Drouin is a Roman Catholic in religious faith. He was married

in Montreal on the 22d of November, 1904, to Marie Orpha Leduc,

a daughter of Augustin and Philomène (Lefebvre) Leduc, who were

farming people at St. Benoit, Deux Montagnes, province of Quebec.

Unto Mr. and Mrs. Drouin have been born five children: Cécile,

Thérèse, René, Marguerite and Gabriel.

HON. HONORE MERCIER.

Among contemporary Canadian statesmen a foremost place must

be assigned to the late Hon. Honore Mercier, premier of the

province of Quebec. He was not only distinguished by reason of

his position at the head of the government of one of the foremost

provinces of the Canadian federation but attained distinction

along various other lines having to do with the progress and

upbuilding of the country and the upholding of its political,

legal and moral status. A native of the province of Quebec, he

was born at Iberville, October 15, 1840. He came of a family

of unpretentious farmers, or habitants, as they are styled in

Lower Canada, the ancestors originally from Old France, although

several generations have been represented in the county of

Montmagny below the city of Quebec. His father had to provide for

the needs of a large household, but he was a man of energy and

foresight and counted no personal sacrifice too great if he could

thereby equip his children for the later responsibilities and

duties that fall to the lot of every individual. The maiden name

of the mother was Marie Catherine Laflamme.

When fourteen years of age Honore Mercier became a student in the

Jesuit College in Montreal, where he completed his education,

making an excellent record. Some time afterward he determined

upon the practice of law as his life work and became a student in

the office of Laflamboise & Papineau, who directed his reading

until he was admitted to practice in 1865. While a law student

he turned his attention to journalism and in 1862 became editor

in chief of the Courier de St. Hyacinthe, winning distinction

because of his able political editorials, his support being given

to the Macdonald-Sicotte liberal administration.

Following his admission to the bar Mr. Mercier retired from the

profession of journalism to concentrate his energies upon his

law practice. His thorough training, his natural powers and his

ambition soon brought him a prominent position at the bar and

from that time forward his advancement was continuous as a factor

in those affairs and events which have shaped the history of

province and Dominion.

In 1871 he appeared in the political arena at Bagot as a

supporter of M. Langelier, the liberal candidate. The following

year, upon the earnest solicitation of his friends, he became a

candidate for Rouville in the house of commons and was elected.

Following the downfall of the conservative government in 1873,

he yielded his seat to Mr. Cheval in 1874, to avoid dividing

the vote of the liberal party in the case of the redoubtable

conservative candidate, Mr. Gigault. Following his retirement to

private life he entered upon a partnership with Mr. Bourgeois of

St. Hyacinthe. He was made the candidate of the liberal party

in 1878, standing for St. Hyacinthe, but lost the election

by six votes. The following year a majority of three hundred

and seven votes elected him to the legislative assembly to

represent St. Hyacinthe and he became solicitor-general of the

Joly administration, filling out the unexpired term of Hon. P.

Bachand, deceased. Mr. Mercier continued in the office until the

administration went out in the same year.

In 1881, following his removal from St. Hyacinthe to Montreal,

Mr. Mercier became a law partner of Messrs. Beausoleil &

Martineau and was again called into the field of political

activity when in December, 1881, at the general provincial

election he was chosen by acclamation for his old constituency,

St. Hyacinthe. In the beginning of the session of 1883 Hon. Mr.

Joly resigned the direction of the provincial liberal party and

Mr. Mercier was unanimously chosen his successor, on motion of

Mr. Joly, as the leader of the opposition. Here his dominant

qualities found fitting scope, his ability and qualities of

leadership placing him within a brief period among the foremost

French-Canadian statesmen. Within the short space of three

years he demonstrated what could be accomplished by an able and

intrepid leader with the support of a small but disciplined and

trusty band of parliamentary followers to retrieve the fallen

fortunes of his party and to defend and lead to victory a

popular cause the moment circumstances placed it in his hands.

As the accepted leader of the new national party formed by a

combination of liberals and conservative bolters, Mr. Mercier not

only directed the whole movement but personally traversed the

province of Quebec almost from end to end, addressing as many as

one hundred and sixty meetings and leaving the impress of his

influence as a factor in the promotion of his cause. The election

of October, 1886, resulted in a victory for the nationals. After

the struggle, which ensued in the final overthrow of the Ross

administration, Mr. Mercier was called upon by the lieutenant

governor to form a new cabinet and in less than twenty-four

hours, as a result of his quick decisions and promptness in

action, he had made choice of his colleagues, announcing the

result to the legislature and the country, both receiving it with

marked satisfaction.

The close of the first session found him more popular and more

firmly established in the good graces of the people than ever, a

position that was augmented later by the marvelous success of his

administration as evidenced in the settlement of the long pending

dispute with Ontario respecting the division of the common school

fund and the unusually advantageous negotiation of the new

provincial loan of three and a half millions. His adversaries

attributed these and other valuable results to good luck, but a

real student of politics knows that good management and thorough

understanding of the situation lay back of them. Mr. Mercier

remained in power until December, 1891, when he was dismissed by

Lieutenant Governor Angers as a result of an investigation held

by a royal commission on what then became known as the Baie des

Chaleurs Scandal.

On March 8, 1892, at the general elections, though Mr. Mercier

was returned for Bonaventure, which he had represented since

the general elections of 1890, his party was annihilated and he

ceased to be a factor in provincial politics.

Following his retirement to private life he joined his

son-in-law, Sir Lomer Gouin, and Mr. R. Lemieux in a law

partnership, but he rarely appeared in court. However, he

won the highest professional honors. He was actually the

attorney-general as well as the premier of Quebec. He was twice

batonnier of the bar of the Montreal district, and the respect

entertained for him by his legal colleagues was so great that

they unanimously elevated him to the still more distinguished

eminence of batonnier-general of the bar of the province. Of him

it has been written: “Heralded to the world as the apostle of

an advanced radicalism which in reality had no representative

in this country, he not only preached but practiced a different

gospel and in office proved himself unusually moderate and

conciliatory as well as a man of broad and generous views, free

from sectionalism and exceedingly anxious to do justice to all

races, classes and creeds, yet fully determined to work out the

regeneration of his native province on the great lines of reform

which he ever regarded as essential to that desirable end.”

Mr. Mercier held to the religious faith of the

French-Canadians--that of the Roman Catholic church and his loyal

adherence thereto increased with the passing years. There was a

time, however, when, on account of his political liberalism and

alliances, his orthodoxy was more than once seriously questioned

by his political foes to his personal and party detriment.

This, however, passed by and the Papal authority conceded that

a man may be a liberal in politics and yet a good Catholic,

while the clergy of Lower Canada came to know that he was not

only a devoted churchman in theory and practice, but also that

the interests of Catholicism were as safe in his hands as in

those of its self-constituted champions who proclaimed their

zeal for the faith from the housetops. There was in him nothing

of narrow-minded bigotry and perhaps no prominent statesman

or political leader of his day has shown himself so free from

religious or sectional bias in the conduct of affairs relating

to the entire community. A French-Canadian in heart and soul and

a thorough son of the soil, still, “strict and impartial justice

to all classes, races and creeds and undue favor to none,” seems

to have been the motto upon which Honore Mercier always acted.

In 1893 he undertook a campaign in favor of the independence of

Canada and advocated this both here and in the United States, but

with no tangible results. Though received enthusiastically in the

eastern states, he met with a rebuff in Chicago, and abandoned

the campaign to resume his practice in Montreal.

Two notable features in his life history were the torchlight

procession in his honor in Montreal following his return from

Europe, and the reception he tendered the ex-Papal zouaves at his

country seat at Ste. Anne de la Perade, when he distributed the

medals awarded them by the pope. On that occasion Mr. Mercier

appeared in the gorgeous uniform of commander of the Order of St.

Gregory the Great--the first time it had been seen in Canada.

The wide recognition given his ability is attested by a partial

list of the honors conferred upon him. Not only did he receive

the grand cross of the Order of St. Gregory the Great from the

pope but His Holiness also raised him to the rank of count. He

was in addition to these honors officer of the Legion of Honor;

commander of the Order of Leopold I, King of the Belgians; and

chevalier of the Order of St. Sepulcher. He was made queen’s

counsel and received the degree of Doctor of Laws from Laval

University, the University of Fordham, New York, and the

University of Georgetown.

A man of his ability and eminence could not fail to have enemies,

but he had also hosts of friends. He possessed that quality

which, for want of a better term, has been called magnetism. He

was most generous and ever had a helping hand out-reaching to

those who needed assistance. His residence both in Montreal and

in Quebec was always filled with his admirers. It has been said

repeatedly that his so-called friends were largely responsible

for any errors that he may have committed. He was particularly

helpful to young men, many of whom have reason to remember him

with gratitude. It was his delight to assist a struggling youth

in his law studies or in other ways.

Mr. Mercier was twice married. On the 29th of May, 1866, he

wedded Leopoldine Boivin of St. Hyacinthe, who died leaving a

daughter who subsequently married Sir Lomer Gouin and who is

now deceased. On the 9th of May, 1871, Honore Mercier married

Virginie St. Denis, also of St. Hyacinthe, and they had two

sons and one daughter to reach adult age, Honore, Paul-Emile

and Héva. The elder son is a member of the Gouin cabinet and a

sketch of his life appears elsewhere in this work. The younger

son is a civil and consulting engineer and is mentioned elsewhere

in this history. Héva married Dr. Homère Fauteux and resides in

Beauceville.

The death of Hon. Honore Mercier occurred October 30, 1894, on

which occasion the Montreal Daily Star said editorially: “The

career of the late Hon. Honore Mercier is one that will long live

on the lips of those who delight in political reminiscences

of this historic province. He played a conspicuous role in the

political drama; and, while he was on the stage, pretty well

absorbed the attention of the multitude. That he was a man of

rare ability in many ways, his swift attainment of the highest

positions in Quebec amply attests.

“It is too late in the day for those who contributed to his

overthrow in ’92 to make mawkish pretension of blindness to his

faults, but it may truly be said that he gained striking success

in spite of his faults, and, further, that it was his own hand

that turned the current of destiny against him. Like all strong

characters, he made many warm personal friends, and there will be

more sincere mourning at his bier than falls to the lot of most

mortals.”

Senator L. O. David, an intimate and lifelong friend of Mr.

Mercier, in making a parallel between the three most popular men

of our time, Laurier, Chapleau and Mercier, has written of the

latter: “Mercier is the heaviest of the three, the strongest

built and the most muscular; he is tall, with black eyes and

hair and a heavy mustache--a veritable type of musketeer--the

personification of strength and energy. He walks heavily with

the assurance of a man who believes that the earth belongs

to him. Mercier is the most solid, the most vigorous and the

most penetrating. Penetrating is, indeed, the word which best

describes his eloquence. See his movements; they resemble those

of the axeman who strikes the tree at the root and at each blow

removes a chip. Mercier is a parliamentary orator, a lawyer, a

tribune. He is the strongest, cleverest, and most indefatigable

speaker whom I have heard in the house or on the hustings. While

I write these words I learn that he is dead. Is it possible that

so much of life and intellect are gone forever? What a loss!

How little we mortals are! Alas; had he struggled to preserve

his health as he fought to regain it, he would not have died so

young. Yes, so young, because he was built to live thirty or

forty years more. Death has seldom met a more valiant fighter; it

has vanquished him, but he died almost standing, as he often said

he would.

“Before the grave, which opens to receive his mortal remains,

criticism will disarm, no doubt, to render homage to the splendor

and power of his intelligence, his political genius, to the

energy of his character and the sincerity of his patriotism.

Through all the vicissitudes of a stormy life, in spite of his

faults and weaknesses, he preserved until the last moment all the

fervor of the religious and patriotic sentiments of his youth.

Of all the political men I have known, he is the one who, in all

things and under all circumstances, was most given to consider

questions from a national standpoint. He was frankly, sincerely,

profoundly patriotic and without fanaticism. Few men have had

more devoted friends, enthusiastic admirers, and secured more

brilliant triumphs and undergone such crushing defeats. He was

stronger in defeat than in victory. Much will be forgiven him

because he suffered much.”

HON. HENRI C. BERRYER-SAINT-PIERRE.

The subject of this short biographical sketch was born at Ste.

Madeleine de Rigaud, during a short stay of his parents in that

parish, on the 13th day of September 1842, but was brought up at

Isle Bizard, on the Lake of Two Mountains, near Montreal. His

father, a farmer, was Joseph Berryer-Saint-Pierre of Isle

Bizard, and his mother, Demitilde Denis dit Saint-Denis, who had

been born at Pointe Claire. Young Henri received his classical

and literary education at the old Montreal College on Collège

Street near McGill Street. On leaving college he was sent up to

Kingston, Ontario, where he began his law course, the object

in sending him up there being to give him an opportunity of

improving his knowledge of the English language. Having passed

the required examinations for his admission to the study of the

law, he availed himself of the permission which had been granted

him to go and visit Niagara falls and the city of Buffalo. The

great battle of Gettysburg had just been fought and won by the

northern army, and on his arrival at Buffalo, he found the people

delirious with the news of the recent victory. Our young student,

who had inherited from his ancestors a marked taste for the

military career (a career by the way for which there were but few

openings for a young French Canadian in those days, in Canada),

was altogether carried away by the enthusiastic demonstrations

which he then witnessed and made up his mind to give up the

doleful study of Blackstone to enter the American army. A short

time later, the runaway student was a member of Company F in the

Seventy-sixth New York Volunteers. At the battle of Mine Run

which was fought on the 27th November, 1863, he was wounded and

reported as dead at the regiment. The same report having been

reproduced in the Montreal papers, the usual service for the dead

was celebrated for him at the Montreal College and at Isle Bizard

where his widowed mother was living. He was picked up from the

field however by the southern cavalry and sent to the military

prison of Belle Island in the city of Richmond from which he

was later on transferred to Andersonville in Georgia. After the

capture of Atlanta, he was removed with the other prisoners first

to Savannah, and then to Florence and finally to Charleston’s

race ground in South Carolina, where he regained his liberty in

the spring of 1865 on the city being evacuated by the southern

troops. On his return to Montreal after the war, he resumed his

legal studies first in the office of Sir George Etienne Cartier,

for whom he, for a time, acted as private secretary, and later

on in that of the Hon. J. J. C. Abbott who some years afterward

became premier of Canada.

[Illustration: H. C. BERRYER-SAINT-PIERRE]

He was admitted to the bar in June, 1870. His career at the

Montreal bar was a most successful and brilliant one, and he soon

became one of the leading lawyers in the province of Quebec,

being particularly noted for his success as a criminal lawyer.

His record as such was never surpassed at least in his province

and but seldom equalled anywhere. It is said that he pleaded

not less than thirty-three cases of murder, securing complete

acquittals in most of them. Not one of those he defended was ever

found guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced to be

hanged, except Shortis who had killed two men at Valleyfield and

wounded dangerously a third one. In this last case, the plea of

impulsive insanity was urged for the first time in the province

of Quebec as a ground of defense and proved successful in the end

in spite of the verdict of the jury. Shortis is today detained

in the penitentiary of Kingston as “a dangerous lunatic.” Judge

Saint-Pierre frequently associated in the defence of persons

accused of serious crimes with Donald MacMaster, K. C., now a

member of the English parliament, who was his intimate friend.

In 1889, he was created a queen’s counsel by the Earl of

Aberdeen. Judge Saint-Pierre never showed any great inclination

for politics but confined his labor and efforts more particularly

to secure the highest position in his profession as a lawyer.

Being a liberal, he consented however to be the nominee of the

liberal party in the county of Jacques-Cartier, for the local

seat in 1878 against the old member, but was defeated by a small

majority.

He was married in 1874 to Marie Albina Lesieur, daughter of

Adolphe Lesieur, a merchant of Terrebonne. She died on the 19th

December, 1908, leaving five children, three boys and two girls

who are all married and settled. In 1902 on the occasion of his

being raised to the bench, he was made an officer of the order of

the Crown of Italy upon a petition presented to the King of Italy

by the Italian colony at Montreal supported by the Italian consul.

Judge Saint-Pierre has been the organizer of the Canadian

Veterans as a body and has been their honorary president ever

since their organization some fourteen years ago.

His eminent ability as a legist led eventually to his appointment

to the bench. He was first named for the district of Beauharnois

on the retirement of Hon. Mr. Justice Belanger in June, 1902,

and was transferred to Montreal in March, 1909, so that he is

now presiding over the district of Montreal. His decisions are

strictly fair and impartial and render him the peer of the ablest

men who have presided over Montreal’s courts.

The Judge is a Roman Catholic of the broad liberal school. He is

known to be a great admirer of British institutions though much

attached to the French civil law which he holds to be superior to

the common law of England.

The press has united in passing high encomiums upon him. The

Montreal Herald styled him “a man of great vigor.” The Montreal

Star spoke of him as broad-minded and public-spirited. The

Toronto Star said “Judge Berryer-Saint-Pierre is gifted with fine

powers of eloquence and is broad-minded and tolerant.” Perhaps

his lofty patriotism is best indicated in his own utterance: “Be

English, be Scotch, be French, be Irish, if you will,” he often

said in his public utterance, “but above and before all, let us

all be Canadians.” Judge Saint-Pierre’s residence is at 2330 Park

Avenue, Montreal.

DONALD FORBES ANGUS.

Successfully operating in mercantile circles, Donald Forbes

Angus has also extended his efforts along those lines whereby

are promoted aesthetic culture and humanitarian interests, thus

rendering his life a serviceable factor in the world’s work. A

son of Richard Bladworth Angus, he was educated in England and

Germany and in February, 1894, was united in marriage to Miss

Mary Ethel Henshaw, the daughter of the late F. W. Henshaw.

In his business connections Mr. Angus has so directed his

efforts that substantial results have accrued, and he is today

a prominent figure in commercial circles as director of the

Intercolonial Coal Company and of the Paton Manufacturing

Company, both of which are important forces in the business

progress of the city. He is also director of the Bank of

Montreal; director of the Standard Life Assurance Company; and

vice president of the Guardian Accident & Guarantee Company.

In these connections Mr. Angus bends his efforts to executive

administration and control, and his ability to correctly judge

between the essential and the nonessential, utilizing the one

and discarding the other, and his power to coordinate seemingly

diverse elements into a harmonious whole have been strong

features in his growing success.

Mr. Angus is a popular member of several of the leading clubs

of Montreal, including St. James, Mount Royal and the Montreal

Jockey Clubs--associations which indicate much of the nature of

his interests and the source of his recreation. He is also a life

member of the Art Association and is a friend and patron of art.

He is likewise a governor and a member of the executive committee

of the Fraser Institute of Montreal.

HENRY HOLGATE.

Not only is Henry Holgate one of the foremost civil engineers

of Montreal, but he is also an author of no mean talents on

professional and other subjects. He is now engaged in private

practice after a long and strenuous career with various large

organizations and of late has designed and built several large

hydraulic power plants for transmission of electric power. He

is a member of several arbitration committees, a past vice

president of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, a member of

the American Society of Civil Engineers and a councillor of the

American Institute of Consulting Engineers.

Mr. Holgate is of English ancestry and was born at Milton,

Ontario, September 14, 1863, the seventh son of John and Jane

(Browne) Holgate, the former of whom was in charge of the

division court at Milton. Judge Holgate passed away in 1896 and

his wife in 1902.

Henry Holgate was educated in the Toronto public schools and

after having completed his studies served an apprenticeship

with the Northern Railway of Canada, which lasted for five

years. He continued with them for three years and became their

chief engineer in 1884, so continuing until 1893, when he took

charge of the Central Bridge Company’s works at Peterboro,

Ontario. During this time, in 1887, he became a member of the

Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, contributing a paper to

its transactions for which he was awarded the Gzowski medal. He

remained with the Central Bridge Company for about a year and

then joined the Royal Electrical Company in Montreal as engineer

in charge of the steel plants and general construction. The years

1896, 1897 and 1898 were spent that way, and he then became

engineer of the Montreal Park & Island Company, constructing and

managing all their lines. He then went as manager and engineer

to Kingston, Jamaica, and constructed all of the works of the

Western Electric Company there, returning to Canada in 1900.

He established himself in a private engineering practice in

that year and in 1902 formed a partnership with Mr. Ross, under

the firm name of Ross & Holgate, consulting engineers. This

partnership was dissolved in 1911.

Mr. Holgate has on various occasions been retained by the federal

and provincial governments for special engineering inquiries

and reports. He was so retained in regard to the reorganization

of the Trent Valley Canal works and was appointed chairman of

the royal commission to report on the collapse of the Quebec

bridge in September, 1907. He is widely recognized as one of the

able men along his line and has had charge in late years of the

building of several large hydraulic power plants.

Occasionally Mr. Holgate contributes interesting articles to

technical works. He is the author of an exhaustive paper on

Northeast Canada, which was published in 1908, and he has

lectured extensively, one of his subjects being “Some Facts

Regarding the Upper St. Lawrence.”

Mr. Holgate is independent in his political views and

nonsectarian in his religious belief. He is a patriotic Canadian

and has always at heart the interests of the Dominion. He

believes in a Canada for Canadians and for any others who

will become good citizens, recognizing the value of desirable

immigration.

On September 19, 1888, Mr. Holgate was married to Miss Bessie

Bell Headley, a daughter of Edward Headley, of Milford, Delaware.

They have two sons, Henry Watson and Edwin Headley. The family

residence is at No. 44 Rosemount Avenue, Westmount. He is a

member of the Engineers Club of Montreal.

LEGLEUS ANTOINE GAGNIER, M. D.

Dr. Légléus Antoine Gagnier is widely and favorably known to the

public as a general medical practitioner and more specifically

in connection with the special work which he does in treating

nervous diseases by electrical methods. He is a man who has

never ceased to be a student and still frequently makes trips

to Europe in order to attend the clinics conducted by the

most eminent specialists in the profession. There is no new

phase brought out in the world of medicine with which he is

not thoroughly acquainted and which he does not thoroughly

understand, and his complete knowledge has naturally resulted

in a large and lucrative practice. Freeing himself from many

of the old medical prejudices he applies modern thought in his

treatments and more closely follows his own logical conclusions

than book prescriptions. He believes that in numerous cases

massage treatments, X-Rays, light baths and general hydrotherapy

will achieve more beneficial and lasting results than the older

treatment of giving medicaments internally. His well equipped

offices, modernly appointed and filled with all the appliances

necessary to follow out his methods, are located at No. 256 St.

Denis Street, Montreal, and there ever can be found a long line

of patients, rich and poor, old and young, waiting to be admitted

for treatment.

Although the family of Gagnier is not among the very earliest

Canadian settlers, it is an old one. There were variations in the

name of Gagnier and extensive records show the name as Gagné and

Gagnesse in Abbé Tanguay’s Dictionnaire Généalogique.

Légléus Antoine Gagnier was born at Ste. Martine, in the county

of Chateauguay, on October 4, 1871, a son of François and

Sophie (Perras) Gagnier, both deceased. The doctor received his

classical education at Ste. Thérèse and St. Hyacinthe Seminaries

and graduated in medicine from Laval University in 1895. He

pursued special studies in Paris and has ever since continued

to attend clinics in that and other European cities. Capable,

earnest and conscientious, he has not only a reputation for

ability but enjoys the utmost confidence of his patients, to

whom he is more than a doctor, as they see in him their best and

truest friend. He is physician for a number of French and English

mutual associations and president of the Medical Board of Union

St. Pierre of Montreal.

[Illustration: DR. LEGLEUS A. GAGNIER]

On September 28, 1897, Dr. Gagnier was united in marriage to Miss

Delia Collerette, a daughter of O. Collerette, and they have the

following children, Yvonne, Légléus Adolphe, Gaston, Gabrielle,

Marie Régine, Germaine and Paul Emile.

The religious faith of Dr. Gagnier is that of the Roman Catholic

church. For many years he was a conservative in politics but of

late has allied himself with the nationalist movement, a party

which in scope of progressiveness stands foremost of the three

political organizations of the Dominion and has for its intention

the improvement of general conditions not only political and

governmental but also sociological. In the material growth of

Montreal Dr. Gagnier is interested as a director of the Greater

Montreal Land Investment Company, Limited. He has an interesting

military record to his credit and has been in command of the

Sixty-fourth Regiment of Chateauguay and Beauharnois for three

or four years and since January 23, 1901, he has been on the

officers reserve as lieutenant colonel. His deep love for mankind

finds expression in his public-spirited actions, and he is never

called upon in vain to give his support to any enterprise which

will benefit the people of his city or country. Careful of his

own interests, he is more minutely careful of those of others

and influenced at all times by the thought of the broader effect

which his work has upon his community, exemplifying in his

conduct the lofty ideals of his nation and of a noble calling. He

honors his profession by paying it honor and by his adherence to

the solid virtues and enlightened principles underlying it.

GEORGE STEPHEN CANTLIE.

A native of Montreal, George Stephen Cantlie was born May 2,

1867, a son of James Alexander and Eleanor Simpson (Stephen)

Cantlie. The father is a prominent merchant of Montreal and a son

of the late Francis Cantlie, a native of Mortlach, Banffshire,

Scotland, who married Mary Stuart. James Alexander Cantlie was

born June 5, 1836, and married in May, 1866, the second daughter

of the late William Stephen, of Montreal. J. A. Cantlie came to

Canada in 1863. He was for years head of the well known wholesale

dry-goods house of J. A. Cantlie & Company, which was founded

in 1868. He is connected with a number of important commercial

enterprises and is one of the foremost men in business circles in

Montreal.

George S. Cantlie received private tuition and attended the

Montreal high school and McGill University in the acquirement

of an education. In 1885 he entered the service of the Canadian

Pacific Railway as clerk in the audit department. He became

consecutively clerk in the comptroller’s office, chief clerk to

the assistant general manager, to the assistant president and

to the vice president. He was then made general baggage agent,

general stationary agent and superintendent of car service.

Since November, 1908, Mr. Cantlie has been at the head of the car

service as general superintendent.

Colonel Cantlie has for a number of years been connected with

the volunteer service. He has been lieutenant colonel in command

of the Fifth Regiment, Royal Highlanders of Canada, since May

11, 1905. He commanded this regiment at the Quebec Tercentenary

celebration in 1908 and at the Lake Champlain celebration at

Plattsburg, New York, in 1909, when he received high commendation

from President Taft on the splendid appearance of his men. In

1908 he was awarded the long service decoration.

In November, 1896, Mr. Cantlie was married to Miss Beatrice

Campbell, a daughter of the late W. D. Campbell, queen’s notary,

of Quebec. Mr. and Mrs. Cantlie make their home at No. 502

Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal. He is a member of the Mount

Royal, St. James, Montreal Hunt, Forest and Stream, Back River

Polo, Auto and Montreal Jockey Clubs. He also is enrolled in the

York Club of Toronto and is a member of the Montreal Amateur

Athletic Association.

CHARLES LYMAN.

One of the best known men in his line of business in Canada was

the late Charles Lyman, wholesale druggist, who died November

17, 1909, after a successful business career of nearly two

score years, all of which was spent in his native city. He was

born in Montreal, April 3, 1849, a son of Benjamin Lyman and

Delia A. Wells. These parents, both natives of the state of

Vermont, whose ancestry in the United States dated back almost

to the landing of the Mayflower, might account for the strong

interest in the affairs of that country which was one of the

pronounced characteristics of Mr. Lyman. He was educated in the

Montreal high school, the Hopkins grammar school of New Haven,

Connecticut, and Yale University, from which he graduated in the

class of 1871.

In his senior year at college he was elected a member of the

Scroll and Key Society, then as now one of the most coveted

distinctions outside of the purely academic sphere. He always

retained a very absorbing interest in the affairs of Yale,

returning almost annually to his class reunions.

After leaving college he entered his father’s business, Lyman,

Clare & Company, in which he shortly became a partner. This

business in 1879 was styled Lyman, Sons & Company, under which

name it was known until 1908, becoming incorporated then as

Lymans, Limited.

In 1887 Mr. Lyman together with James W. Knox and F. Gold

Lyman established the business of Lyman, Knox & Company, which

continued under this style until in 1906 it became part of the

National Drug & Chemical Company, Limited, of which corporation

Charles Lyman was secretary from its inception until he retired

from business in 1908. Mr. Lyman was of a studious disposition,

and his chief interest was perhaps centered in his family life.

He was known for his broad culture and was a close follower of

the public affairs of both the United States and Canada. Together

with the late Goldwin Smith he was a firm believer in the

eventual unity of political interest of these countries.

Mr. Lyman was married October 1, 1874, at Stelton, New Jersey,

to Kate Dean, daughter of the late Henry Dean of New York, who

survives him, together with their three children: C. Philip Lyman

and Frank D. Lyman, both of Montreal; and Ruth Delia, the wife of

William G. MacNaughton of Port Edwards, Wisconsin.

Mr. Lyman was a member of The University Club, of which he

was one of the founders and The Montreal Amateur Athletic

Association. He was a member of the American Presbyterian

church, the corner stone of the present edifice having been laid

by his father, Benjamin Lyman. The higher, better elements of

life always made strong appeal to him, and the principles which

governed his conduct make his example as a man and citizen one

well worthy of emulation.

FREDERIC ORR-LEWIS.

Frederic Orr-Lewis was born at Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is

the second son of the late William Thomas Lewis and Mary (Graham)

Lewis, and a grandson of the late William Lewis, sheriff of

Glamorganshire, Wales. The father was a shipowner in Canadian

Inland Lakes. William Thomas Lewis came to Canada from Swansea,

Wales, in 1852, locating at Hamilton. He became a prominent

figure on the inland lakes between Chicago and Kingston and was

a large shipowner. He retired from active business in 1890 and

moved to Montreal, where he departed this life in 1908. For more

than two decades he had survived his wife, who passed away in

1886.

Frederic Orr-Lewis was educated in Kingston, Ontario, and on

leaving school went with J. Muckleston & Company, wholesale

hardware merchants of the same city. He resigned from that

position to establish his own business in Kingston in 1888 and

removed the establishment to Montreal in 1889, associated with

his brothers James Graham Lewis and Thomas Graham Lewis. The firm

was then Lewis Brothers, which was later formed into the limited

liability company of Lewis Brothers, Limited, of which he is

still the president. From the beginning their trade has extended

to such an extent that they now occupy the entire eight-story

building which covers Nos. 20 to 42 inclusive on Bleury Street,

Montreal, with sales offices in Ottawa, Toronto and other western

cities. They have been recognized as one of the leading hardware

establishments of the Dominion.

Frederic Orr-Lewis is also a director of the Merchants’ Bank of

Canada and director of the Montreal Cotton Company and president

of Canadian Vickers, Limited, which is associated with the

English firm of Vickers, Sons & Maxim. In 1903 he was elected

to the presidency of the Dominion Wholesale Hardware Merchants’

Association.

On the 18th of June, 1896, at Christ church, Montreal, was

celebrated the marriage of F. Orr-Lewis and Maude Mary Helen

Booth, daughter of William Booth of London, Ontario. They now

have three children, a son and two daughters, John Duncan, Helen

Merryday and Mary-Graham. The religious faith of the family is

that of the Presbyterian church, Mr. and Mrs. Orr-Lewis holding

membership therein.

He is widely and popularly known in club circles, holding

membership in the leading organizations of that character in

Montreal, including the St. James, Canada, Forest and Stream,

Montreal Hunt, Montreal Jockey, Mount Royal, Montreal Royal Golf

and Royal St. Lawrence Yacht Clubs. He is likewise a member

of the Rideau Club of Ottawa, Ontario; and the Canada, the

Wellington and Junior Carlton Clubs of London, England.

EUGENE-REAL ANGERS.

Eugène-Réal Angers, a well known barrister and solicitor in

Montreal, was born in that city, October 1, 1883, a son of Réal

and Joséphine (Trudel) Angers, and a grandson of François-Réal

Angers, K. C., one of the leaders of the Quebec bar. The father,

Réal Angers, was born in Quebec and for many years was a member

of the wholesale hardware firm of Frothingham & Workman in

Montreal. He died December 22, 1901, and his widow passed away

in 1908. They were the parents of two sons and a daughter:

Eugène-R.; Charles, who is with Frothingham & Workman, Limited,

of Montreal; and Joséphine, the wife of Robert La Roque de

Roquebrune, of Beloeil, Quebec.

Eugène-Réal Angers was educated in Montreal, winning the Bachelor

of Arts degree upon the completion of a classical course in St.

Mary’s College. He was graduated from Laval University with the

degree of LL. L. in June, 1907. In July of that year he was

admitted to the bar at Quebec and soon after formed a partnership

for the practice of law in Montreal with Ernest Guimont under the

firm name of Guimont & Angers. A year later the senior partner

removed to St. Hyacinthe and Mr. Angers entered into other

partnership relations, leading to the adoption of the firm style

of Brosseau, Brosseau, Tansey & Angers. In September, 1913, he

joined with Howard Salter Ross, K. C., in forming the law firm

of Ross & Angers. They now have offices in the Transportation

building, where they care for the interests of a growing

clientele. Broad reading and study have constantly augmented Mr.

Angers’ ability to handle complex and intricate problems of law,

and he is becoming recognized as one of the ablest of the younger

representatives of the Montreal bar.

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On the 15th of September, 1909, Mr. Angers was married to

Germaine Tousignant and they have one son, Pierre.

REV. THOMAS F. HEFFERNAN.

Rev. Thomas F. Heffernan is now in the sixth year of his able

service as pastor of St. Thomas Aquinas’ church in Montreal, a

parish which he has built up through his energy, zeal and well

directed enterprise into one of the most popular and well managed

in the city. He was born December 22, 1869, on Colborne

Street, in St. Anne’s parish, Montreal, a son of the late Thomas

and Ellen (Murray) Heffernan. In his infancy the parents moved

to the east end of the city, where the father purchased several

properties, some of these on Craig, Lagauchetiere and Dorion

Streets.

As a child Father Heffernan attended St. Bridget’s school,

taught by the Christian Brothers, and when he was twelve years

of age he entered St. Mary’s College. After one year and a half

he enrolled in St. Lawrence College, conducted by the Fathers

of the Holy Cross. Here success attended his efforts and in due

time he became professor. He afterward took a four years’ course

in the Grand Seminary and was ordained to the Roman Catholic

priesthood December 22, 1894, when he was twenty-five years of

age. His first appointment was with the Rev. William O’Meara,

pastor of St. Gabriel’s, with whom he remained for three years.

At the end of that time, at the request of His Grace Archbishop

Bruchesi he was appointed in September, 1898, professor extreme

at Montreal College and did excellent work in this field for

two years. Resigning at the end of that time, he was appointed

assistant to Rev. J. E. Donnelly, pastor of St. Anthony’s, and he

retained this connection for eight years, severing it in order to

accept the appointment to the newly-founded parish of St. Thomas

Aquinas. This was established for the English-speaking people

of the west end who were living within the district bounded on

the east by Atwater Avenue, on the west by the middle of Cote

St. Paul Road, on the south by the canal and on the north by the

Canadian Pacific Railroad track. There were about three hundred

families; about one hundred residing between Atwater and Rose

de Lima Streets, who belonged to St. Anthony’s parish; and two

hundred attached to St. Henry’s. For a number of years previous

there had been dissatisfaction among the St. Henry’s portion

inasmuch as it was difficult for the Rev. Canon Decary to meet

their needs satisfactorily. Accordingly a new parish was formed

and placed in charge of Father Heffernan, who has since made St.

Thomas Aquinas one of the most important Catholic congregations

in the diocese. He has accomplished during the period of his

incumbency a great deal of remarkable work. He had no money and

he required fifteen thousand dollars to pay for the ground. He

secured thirty thousand dollars from the Travelers Insurance

Company and fifteen thousand dollars from Molson’s Bank and

erected a thirty-five thousand dollar building now used as a

church. The structure is two stories in height and so constructed

that an additional two stories may be added if necessary. Father

Heffernan also erected an attractive residence and has now a

property valued at one hundred and fifty thousand dollars and a

debt of only thirty thousand dollars. During the year of 1914 he

is to build a new church of Florentine style of architecture,

on Convent Street. When asked to explain how this work was

accomplished Father Heffernan said: “God has visited his people

and this people received him. My people work from conviction,

illumined by the light of faith. I have no sick, no infirm, no

needy. Health, wealth and blessings are ours. But you must leave

here. Never, until they sing my Mass of Requiem. I attribute the

whole success to the prayers of the children and to the good work

of my Reverend assistant, Father Polan.”

Father Heffernan gives all of his time and attention to the

affairs of his parish, working zealously and conscientiously in

the promotion of the spiritual and material interests of his

congregation. He has indeed accomplished a wonderful work at St.

Thomas Aquinas and has the love of his people in large measure

as well as the high regard and warm confidence of people of all

denominations.

THOMAS BUSBY.

Thomas Busby, an old time Montreal merchant and in his day well

known in connection with the retail hardware trade, was born in

Montreal, a grandson of Thomas Busby, who was the founder of the

family in Canada.

This first Thomas Busby came from Ireland and had charge of

landscape gardening for the Baroness of Longueuil. He became a

man of considerable property for those days. His daughter married

Dr. Digby of Brantford, Ontario, and their daughter became the

wife of Dr. Henwood of Brantford. Thomas Busby had a son Thomas,

who married Mary Lacasse, and they were the parents of Thomas

Busby of this review.

Thomas Busby, the third, was educated in the schools of Montreal

and when a young man began to learn the hardware business in this

city. He later lived for a few years in what was then called

Upper Canada but in 1857 returned to Montreal and established

himself in the hardware business, which he successfully conducted

until his death, which occurred April 20, 1862.

Mr. Busby was married in Montreal in June, 1853, to Miss E. C.

Greene, a daughter of Thomas J. Greene, who came to this city

in early life from Saratoga, New York. He was a furrier and was

for years at the head of the firm of Thomas Greene & Son, while

later the sons continued the business under the style of Greene

& Sons. Mr. and Mrs. Busby became the parents of four children,

but the only one now living is Fred Busby, a resident of Denver,

Colorado. Mrs. Busby still makes her home in Montreal, where she

has now resided for more than six decades, witnessing therefore

much of the development and modern progress of the city, and she

is one of the highly esteemed of Montreal’s older residents.

GEORGES MAYRAND.

Through individual effort and ability Georges Mayrand has

attained to a position of prominence as a representative of the

notarial profession in Montreal, being now senior partner in the

firm of Mayrand, Loranger, Ecrement & Melancon. A native of Port

Neuf county, he was born at Grondines, on the 21st of August,

1876, and was educated under Jesuit instruction, attending St.

Mary’s College of Montreal and afterward Laval University, in

which he pursued the study of law, winning his B. L. degree on

the completion of his law course in 1900. Having determined

to concentrate his energies upon practice as a notary public,

he opened an office in Montreal in September following his

graduation and has created and developed an important business

at No. 99 St. James Street. He has been joined by others as his

clientage has grown until he is now head of the firm of Mayrand,

Loranger, Ecrement & Melancon. He has also taken an active and

helpful part in promoting the growth and progress of the city and

is associated with several land companies, including the Greater

Montreal Land Company, the Summerlea Realty Company and the Sault

au Recollet Island Company. He has become thoroughly conversant

with property values, readily recognizes a possible rise or

diminution in realty prices and accordingly makes his investments

so that he has secured good returns from his property holdings.

Mr. Mayrand’s public service has also included prompt and

faithful discharge of the duties of alderman, he being elected

to that position from the Delorimier ward and his efficiency was

rewarded by reelection in April, 1914. He has likewise filled

the office of school commissioner and coming prominently before

the public in these positions has made an excellent record,

creditable to himself and satisfactory to his supporters. In

politics he is a liberal and in addition to the local offices he

has filled he is representing Dorion county in the provincial

legislature. He is now vice president and secretary of the

Club Delorimier, is a member of the National Amateur Athletic

Association and takes an exceedingly active interest in outdoor

sports. He is a typical man of the times, alert and energetic

in action, progressive in purpose and thoroughly alive to the

opportunities which are presented for business advancement and

public improvement.

REV. GERALD FRANCIS JOSEPH MCSHANE.

The Roman Catholic church numbers among its most distinguished

representatives in Canada Rev. Gerald Francis Joseph McShane,

pastor of St. Patrick’s church in Montreal and one of the best

known lecturers and preachers in this province. He has been

identified with religious activity in this city since 1900 and

has since that time accomplished a great deal of constructive

work here, his lectures, his eloquent preaching, his organizing

and administrative activities constituting forces in the later

development in Montreal of the doctrines in which he believes.

He was born in this city, December 5, 1872, and is a son of

Michael and Margaret (Loftus) McShane, of Irish origin. In the

acquirement of an education he attended Belmont school, the

Archbishop’s Academy and Montreal College and later the Grand

Seminary in that city, supplementing this by a four years’ course

of study in Paris and Rome, receiving in the latter city degrees

in philosophy and divinity. In 1896 he joined the Sulpician Order

of this city and the same year left to complete his studies

at St. Sulpice in Paris. In 1897 he was ordained priest, and

three years later, in 1900, returned to Canada as curate of St.

Patrick’s church, Montreal. For three years he did able work

in that capacity and was then transferred to Notre Dame church

in this city, where his sermons delivered in both French and

English attracted much attention, they first bringing him into

prominence as an orator. He has since that time become one of the

most eloquent and widely known speakers in the city and is in

great demand for lectures, sermons or orations of any kind. Since

December, 1907, he has been pastor of St. Patrick’s church in

Montreal and his address at his inaugural was regarded as more

than an ordinary piece of tact and eloquence. Since that time

he has carried forward a great deal of earnest and consecrated

work in the management of his parish, which, being an important

one, requires at its head a man of wide attainments, broad

knowledge and discriminating business ability--qualities which

Father McShane possesses in an unusual degree. He has been one

of the greatest individual forces in the development of Catholic

institutions in Montreal, having founded the Columbian Club, a

social organization for Catholic students of McGill University.

He is also a director and trustee of St. Patrick’s Orphanage. His

congregation is one of the largest and most important in Montreal

and its prestige is continually increasing as Father McShane’s

ability as a pastor, a business man, an organizer and an orator

becomes more widely recognized.

One of the city’s most brilliant, sincere and earnest Christian

gentlemen, he occupies an enviable place in the regard of

his parishioners and, indeed, of all who know him. The late

Judge Curran, speaking of him, called him “a man of scholarly

attainments, of fine tastes, of patriotic impulses and of

considerable gifts as a speaker,” and this opinion is almost

uniformly held throughout Montreal, where Father McShane has

always made his home.

THIBAUDEAU RINFRET, K. C.

Thibaudeau Rinfret, a prominent and successful advocate of

Montreal, brought to the outset of his career certain rare gifts,

a strong individuality, laudable ambition and the indefatigable

energy without which success and honors are seldom won by

representatives of the bar. His advancement has been continuous

and his energies have been largely concentrated upon his

professional duties.

He was born in Montreal June 22, 1879, a son of F. O. R. and

Alvina R. (Pominville) Rinfret, the former an advocate of

Montreal, while the latter was a daughter of the late F. P.

Pominville, Q. C., and a law partner of the late Sir G. E.

Cartier, baronet. Having attended St. Mary’s (Jesuit) College,

from which he was graduated on completion of the arts course with

the B. A. degree in 1897, Mr. Rinfret afterward entered McGill

University and won his B. C. L. degree in 1900. He was created

king’s counsel in 1912, a fact indicative of the success which he

has achieved in his law practice. He entered upon the active work

of the profession in 1901 and successfully followed law practice

at St. Jerome in partnership with Hon. Jean Prevost until 1910.

Upon the appointment of Charles Archer, K. C., to the bench he

joined the firm headed by J. L. Perron, K. C. The firm is now

Perron, Taschereau, Rinfret, Genest, Billette & Plimsoll, and

Mr. Rinfret has been connected with it since 1910. He carefully

prepares his cases and is seldom at fault in the application

of a legal principle, while his analytical ability enables him

to readily understand the relation of cause and effect. Since

1902 he has been attorney for County Terrebonne for the inland

revenue department, and he contested Terrebonne in the liberal

interests at the federal general election of 1908 against the

Hon. W. B. Nantel, now minister of inland revenue. Though his

party was in the minority, he failed to secure the seat by only

seventy-nine votes. Mr. Rinfret has rendered valuable service to

the liberal party of whose principles he is a strong supporter.

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The zeal with which he has devoted his energies to his

profession, the careful regard evinced for the interests of his

clients and an unrelaxing attention to all the details of his

cases, have won him an enviable and well merited reputation.

His acquaintance is wide, and he has a host of friends whose

high regard he has gained through his professional ability,

his deference to the opinions of others, his genial manner and

unfailing courtesy.

Mr. Rinfret was married to Miss Georgine Rolland, a daughter

of J. B. Rolland, of Montreal, where they make their home. Mr.

Rinfret holds membership in the Catholic church.

CLARENCE I. DE SOLA.

The great industrial undertakings which have led to the

substantial development and upbuilding of Canada have found a

prominent representative in Clarence I. de Sola, today regarded

as one of the foremost men engaged in public works and in

shipbuilding in Canada. Moreover, he is prominent in the consular

service and is a recognized leader in various movements for the

improvement of the economic condition of the Hebrew people, some

of his work in that direction being of world-wide significance.

Montreal numbers him among her worthy and honored native sons,

his birth having occurred here on the 15th of August, 1858. He is

a member of an ancient and illustrious Jewish family that long

resided in Spain, where it produced many distinguished men. He

is the third son of the late Rev. Abraham de Sola, LL. D., who

was one of the most eminent and scholarly exponents of orthodox

Judaism in America and an author of international repute.

Liberal educational opportunities were accorded the subject of

this sketch, and his life has been one of steadily expanding and

increasing usefulness. Step by step he has advanced in business

connections, and in 1887 he was made managing director of the

Comptoir Belgo-Canadien, a syndicate of the leading Belgian

manufacturers of steel and other structural material and builders

of bridges, railroads and canal locks. The syndicate includes the

famous Cockerill Works, of Seraing, employing eighteen thousand

hands. His duties and responsibilities in this direction are most

important. He secured and executed contracts in the building of

the Soulanges and Trent canals, in re-laying large portions of

the track of the Inter-Colonial Railway and the Prince Edward

Island Railway, and in the construction of many of our largest

public bridges. He was associated with the engineers Lafontaine

and Lemoine in the construction of the Brock Street tunnel. It

was largely due to his efforts that hydraulic lift locks were

first used in American or Canadian canals.

It was in recognition of the ability he had shown in developing

commercial relations between Belgium and Canada that Mr. de Sola

was appointed, in 1904, vice consul for Belgium at Montreal, and

his work in helping to negotiate the arrangement between the

Belgian and Canadian governments, whereby the benefits of the

intermediate Canadian customs tariff was secured for Belgian

manufacturers, was rewarded by his advancement, in 1911 to the

full rank of consul.

Extensive as have been Mr. de Sola’s efforts in connection with

Belgian trade, he has also employed his energies in other fields,

for he is the managing director of the Canadian office of Swan,

Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Ltd., the great shipbuilders

of Wallsend-on-Tyne, and he has undertaken and executed many

contracts for the building of a large number of ships for traffic

on the Canadian Great Lakes, the River St. Lawrence and the

Atlantic oceans, amounting in all to quite a large fleet. The

Canadian government has also had several ships built for its

service by contracts awarded to Mr. de Sola, including some very

fine vessels for hydrographic survey work, that have made their

way through the ice-bound waters of Hudson’s Bay in dangerous

seasons. The first ship ever seen in American waters, or that

ever crossed the Atlantic ocean propelled by oil combustion

engines, was built by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson for Mr.

de Sola as consignee. It was the ship Toiler, and it was run by

Mr. de Sola on the St. Lawrence and lake route until sold by

him to James Playfair. An improvement on the Toiler, the ship

Calgary, was built during the following year and these were the

first Diesel oil combustion engined vessels to run in Canadian

waters.

Clarence de Sola is a director of the Reid-Donald Steamship

Company, of which he is the Canadian manager, and he is also a

director of the Farrar Transportation Company.

Mr. de Sola has become widely known as a leading factor in the

world-embracing Zionist Movement, for the settlement in Palestine

of the persecuted Jews emigrating from Russia and other eastern

European countries and for the restoration of the Holy Land as

the national home of the Hebrew race. He was for a long period on

the Actions Committee, which is the supreme governing council of

the Zionist Movement, and for many years has been president of

the Federation of Zionist Societies of Canada. This federation

is a huge organization having branch societies in about sixty

different cities and towns throughout the Dominion, and is the

most representative Jewish body in Canada. It was through his

initiative and foresight that the Zionists of Canada, at their

eleventh convention, established a special fund for purchasing

land in Palestine on which to settle Jewish colonists and two

Jewish colonies in the Holy Land owe their existence entirely to

this measure. The Canadian Century has aptly styled him “the head

and shoulders of the Zionist Movement in Canada.” He has also

figured prominently in the Zionist International Congresses.

Mr. de Sola is a recognized authority on Jewish history, more

especially the early records of the Jews of this country, to

which he has given years of research. A number of his articles

on this subject have appeared in print. He is an honorary

corresponding member of the American-Jewish Historical Society

and member of the Anglo-Jewish Historical Society. When Funk

& Wagnalls published the Jewish Encyclopedia Mr. de Sola was

selected to be one of the writers of the articles on Jewish

history and his contributions are to be found in most of the

twelve volumes. One of his most salient characteristics is his

loyalty to any cause which he espouses. Men have learned to know

that what he promises he will do, that what he undertakes he will

execute, and to all his work he brings the correct principles

of business; accomplishing with dispatch, with accuracy and

decision that which he sets out to do. He does not confine his

efforts to institutions for the benefit of those of his own

race. In fact his work has always been broad and nonsectarian in

character and any call for humanity’s sake has met with ready

response from him. He is a governor of the Montreal General

Hospital and an officer of numerous philanthropic societies. He

is the presiding warden (Parnas) of the Corporation of Spanish

and Portuguese Jews of Montreal, the handsome design of whose

synagogue building is due to the architectural taste of Mr. de

Sola, a taste which also made itself felt in the striking beauty

and individuality of his own home.

In 1901 Mr. de Sola was married to Miss Belle Maud Goldsmith,

daughter of Leopold Goldsmith, a prominent citizen of Cleveland,

Ohio. She completed a collegiate course with the Bachelor of

Arts degree, and is an active officer of various organizations,

including among nonsectarian ones the Victorian Order of Nurses,

the Royal Edward Institute, the Needlework Guild and many others.

Among Jewish societies she is founder of the Daughters of Zion in

Canada and of the Women’s League for Cultural Work in Palestine.

She also was one of those who organized the Friendly League of

Jewish Women, of which she was the first president. She has

written several absorbingly interesting literary articles, among

them being “The Higher Education of Women,” “The Origin of the

French Salon,” and “The Jew--Imaginary and Real.”

Mr. and Mrs. Clarence de Sola’s home, on Pine Avenue, is one

of the most beautiful in Montreal. It is a splendid example of

Saracenic architecture, such as is seen in southern Spain. In

both its general outlines and in its rich ornamental details

it is an exquisite specimen of the highest form of Andalusian

art. It is a home that is additionally attractive by reason of a

gracious and cordial hospitality.

EDOUARD GOHIER.

There is probably no other line of business that is equal as a

factor in a city’s growth and development 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 in Montreal is Edouard Gohier, senior member of Edouard

Gohier & Company. Mr. Gohier has been connected with a number of

the largest high-class suburban property deals that have taken

place around Montreal in recent years. His long experience in

that line of business, as well as his straightforward business

methods, has secured for him a high position in real-estate and

financial circles.

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

province of Quebec and was born April 29, 1861, at St. Martin,

Laval county, his parents being Benjamin and Celina (Crevier)

Gohier. Mr. Gohier’s early life was spent on a farm, but when

about twenty-two years old he entered business circles in

connection with the dry-goods trade at St. Laurent and was thus

engaged about seven years. He then turned his attention to

the real-estate business in that town and Cartierville, later

opening an office in Montreal. For sixteen years he served as

mayor of St. Laurent and has always taken a deep interest in

public affairs in that town. Among the larger deals negotiated

by Edouard Gohier & Company of late years have been La Cie des

Boulevards de l’Ile de Montreal and the sale to the Canadian

Northern Land Company of the land for the Model City, a suburb

of Montreal, transactions that have been profitable to the

principals and valuable acquisitions to the city. Mr. Gohier is

managing director of the Northmount Land Company as well as one

of the original promoters of the company. His connection with

public interests has been of value in various lines and always

marked by the same careful consideration given his own business

affairs. He is a director of Notre Dame Hospital and of Le

Devoir, while in March, 1914, he was appointed by the federal

government as a member of the Georgian Bay Canal Commission. In

political matters he is a supporter of the conservative party,

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

Mr. Gohier married at St. Laurent Phomela Gosselin, a daughter of

Narcise Gosselin, and to them have been born thirteen children,

eight of whom are living. Horace, a graduate of St. Lawrence

College, later attended Notre Dame University of South Bend,

Indiana. Aside from his connection with the firm of Edouard

Gohier & Company he is a member of the firm of Gohier & Bigras,

who handle city properties, Laval on the Lake and the properties

of the Montreal Extension Land Company. He is likewise a director

of the Montreal Turnpike Trust. Politically he is a conservative

and is an alderman of the town of St. Laurent. His wife bore

the maiden name of Rosa Jasmin. The other children of Edouard

and Phomela (Gosselin) Gohier are as follows: Joseph, a farmer

of St. Laurent, who married Alice Valois; Ernest, a graduate of

McGill University, who married Berthe Mont Briant of Montreal

and who is a civil engineer and a partner of F. C. Laberge of

Montreal; Edouard, a graduate of St. Lawrence College, who has

taken post-graduate work in Notre Dame University at South Bend,

Indiana, and is now a lumber merchant of St. Laurent; Amanda, who

married J. Bruno Nantel; Yvonne; Lorette; and Leo.

Mr. Gohier has always resided in St. Laurent, while his summer

home is in Cartierville. Among his individual holdings of real

estate in St. Laurent is a valuable stock farm of five hundred

acres. He is a successful business man whose career has been

marked by honorable methods and whose progressive ideas in

educational and civic matters have long since caused him to be

numbered among the valued and respected citizens of his town.

JOSEPH EMERY-CODERRE.

Joseph Emery-Coderre, a well known notary of Montreal, was born

April 14, 1880, at Ste. Anne de Stukely, in Shefford county,

Quebec, and is descended from an old family of St. Antoine on the

Richelieu river. He is a grandnephew of Dr. J. Emery-Coderre, who

was a professor at Victoria and Laval Universities in Montreal.

J. Emery-Coderre, father of him whose name introduces this

review, removed to Indian Orchard, Massachusetts, 1882 and to

Woonsocket, Rhode Island, in 1886 and there the son was educated

in the parochial school, while from 1892 until 1897 he attended

the Brothers of Mary school at Waterloo, Quebec, and from

September, 1897, to January, 1898, the Seminary of St. Hyacinthe.

In April, 1898, he returned to Woonsocket, Rhode Island, and

for two years was employed in the Globe Cotton Mills, old Braid

Shop, and by the American Wringer Company. In 1900 he left the

mills to continue his education at the Séminaire of St. Marie de

Monnoir at Marieville, Quebec, remaining there for six years. In

1906 he won his Bachelor of Arts degree from Laval University

and during the ensuing two years he clerked in the office of

Boisseau & Bazinet, notaries at St. Hyacinthe, Quebec. During the

succeeding two years he studied at Laval University and clerked

in the office of Biron & Savignac, notaries. Thus alternating

business activity with the acquirement of an education, he

at length reached a position that enabled him to pass the

examination before the board of notaries on the 10th of July,

1910. Immediately afterward he became a member of the firm of

Biron & Savignac, notaries, with offices at 99 St. James Street,

Montreal, the said firm having now another member and being known

as Biron, Savignac, Coderre & Poirier.

[Illustration: JOSEPH EMERY-CODERRE]

J. Emery-Coderre is secretary and treasurer of the corporation

of Montreal East and is a member of the Montreal East Land

Company. At the same time the firm with which he is connected is

accorded an extensive clientage, and thus his professional and

business interests are important. He has made wise use of time,

talents and opportunities, and his ability has advanced him to an

enviable position.

On the 12th of October, 1910, J. Emery-Coderre was married at

St. Hyacinthe to Bertha Tetrault, a daughter of François Xavier

Tetrault, and they have become parents of two children, François

Xavier and Maurice. J. Emery-Coderre is a member of the Club

Champetre Canadien. A young man, he has won popularity in both

professional and social circles, and he now has a wide and

favorable acquaintance in Montreal.

HON. COLONEL SIR RODOLPHE FORGET, M. P.

“One of the most powerful men in financial circles in Canada; he

can make and unmake and has seldom been beaten in a financial

battle.” Thus wrote the Canadian Courier concerning one of the

foremost French-Canadian citizens of Montreal--Colonel Joseph

David Rodolphe Forget, better known as Sir Rodolphe Forget,

banker, broker and legislator. He was born at Terrebonne,

Province of Quebec, December 10, 1861, and while spending his

youthful days in the home of his parents, David and Angele

(Limoges) Forget, he attended Masson College. In early manhood he

established a home of his own through his marriage in October,

1885, to Mlle. Alexandra Tourville. Subsequent to her death he

was married, in April, 1894, to Miss Blanche, youngest daughter

of the late A. R. McDonold, a stock broker of Quebec. Lady Forget

is prominent in charitable and benevolent circles, being a

director of the Montreal Day Nursery and the Notre Dame Hospital,

while in 1909 she was elected vice president of the Women’s

Canadian Club.

Sir Rodolphe Forget’s active connection with financial affairs

began in 1890, when he joined the Montreal Stock Exchange,

of which he was chosen chairman in 1908, continuing in that

position until 1911, when he resigned. He was for a time

connected with the business of L. J. Forget & Company, the

senior partner being the late Hon. L. J. Forget. In 1909 a

branch house was established in Paris and as banker and broker

Sir Rodolphe Forget has attained prominence equal to that which

has come to him in connection with public affairs. Many of the

extensive and important corporation interests of Canada have

been quickened and stimulated through his cooperation, while

his sound judgment has constituted a controlling force in their

management. He is president of the Quebec and Saguenay Railway,

the Quebec Railway Light, Heat & Power Company; vice president

of the Montreal Light, Heat & Power Company; and director of the

Toronto Railway Company, the Quebec Gas Company, the Sterling

Coal Company, Limited, the Canadian General Electric Company, and

the St. Lawrence Flour Mills Company. He was formerly president

of the Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Company, the Eastern Canada

Steel & Iron Works, Limited, the Royal Electric Company, and

the Mount Royal Assurance Company; and vice president of the

Canadian Securities Corporation and La Société d’Administration

Générale; and director of the Duluth Street Railway Company,

the Montreal-London Securities Corporation, the Black Lake

Consolidated Asbestos Company, the Union Brewery Company,

the Murray-Bay Lumber & Pulp Company, the City Central Real

Estate Company, the Montreal Smelting & Reduction Company, the

Prudential Trust Company, the Wayagamack Pulp & Paper Company,

the Crown Life Insurance Company, the Canada Marconi Wireless

Telegraph Company, the Payne Consolidated Mining Company, La

Banque Provinciale and Le Journal. In 1911 he founded La Banque

Internationale du Canada. He was rated as a millionaire by the

Montreal Star in 1907, which in itself is a testimonial of his

power as a financier. In 1911 he headed the navigation merger. He

has also been connected with the Canada Car Foundry Company, the

Industrial Development Company, the Butte Central Copper Company,

and the Montmorency Cotton Mills Company. All these indicate

something of the wonderful scope of his business interests and

activity and yet by no means give a complete record of his

interest and his efforts, which have been equally strong forces

in the control, development and upbuilding of organizations

having to do with the public welfare. In 1911 he made a gift

of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to the Notre Dame

Hospital, of which he is a director. He is also president of

the Province of Quebec Rifle Association, and he was appointed

honorary lieutenant colonel of the Sixty-fifth Carabiniers,

“Mount Royal” of Montreal in 1907, and was promoted to honorary

colonel in March, 1914. He is a director of the Canadian National

Bureau of Breeding and is a life governor of the Antiquarian

and Numismatic Society. He was vice president of Credit Foncier

Franco-Canadien. He has been a member of the executive committee

of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild of Montreal, holding the office

in 1908.

In politics an independent-conservative, Sir Rodolphe Forget

has sat for Charlevoix in the house of commons since 1904. In

1911 he was elected for Charlevoix and Montmorency--said to be

the first occasion in the history of the Dominion in which a

member in opposition was elected for two constituencies. He was

offered a portfolio when Premier Borden formed his cabinet, but

declined. He believes in a direct contribution from Canada for

the imperial navy and opposed the Taft-Fielding reciprocity

pact. His religious faith is that of the Roman Catholic church.

In club circles he is well known as a member of the Mount Royal,

the St. James, Club Lafontaine, Club Canadien, Club St. Denis,

Canada, Montreal, Montreal Jockey, Montreal Hunt, Canadian,

Forest and Stream, Montreal Curling, Montreal Military Institute,

Royal Montreal Golf, Royal St. Lawrence Yacht Clubs, of Montreal,

and the Garrison Club of Quebec, in many of which he has held

official positions. He has been termed “the young Napoleon of St.

François Xavier Street.” He has manifested Napoleonic powers in

other connections and his strength, power and resource have given

him the position of honor and distinction which he now occupies.

His residence is at No. 71 Ontario Avenue, and his summer home is

“Gil Mont,” St. Irenee les Bains, Quebec.

FITZ-JAMES E. BROWNE.

One of the best known citizens of Montreal whose reputation in

business is international is Fitz-James E. Browne, president of

the famous and highly successful firm known as “The House of

Browne, Limited,” real-estate experts, auctioneers, architects

and fire insurance agents. He was born in Montreal on the 22d of

September, 1871, a son of the late John James and Agnes Dunlop

(Hay) Browne, and comes of Irish and Scotch ancestry. He acquired

his early education at the McTavish school and afterward attended

Lincoln College at Sorel, province of Quebec.

After leaving school Mr. Browne became associated in the

architectural profession with his father and soon after the

death of the latter, in 1893, Fitz-James E. Browne engaged in

the real-estate business, continuing the firm name of John

James Browne until 1894, when the present title of “The House

of Browne, Limited” was assumed, and no real-estate firm in the

Dominion is as widely known. Mr. Browne’s advertising measures

are both progressive and aggressive as well as unique. He has

been a pioneer in methods that others attempt to imitate. As

a real-estate auctioneer it is doubtful if he has an equal.

He has officiated at the biggest sales on record in Canada

and holds the proud honor of having sold the highest priced

property per foot in Montreal. He possesses a comprehensive and

accurate knowledge of values as well as a thorough and practical

understanding of all the intricacies of the real-estate business

in the city, and his upright business methods have won him the

esteem and confidence of all. His knowledge of architecture from

both the scientific and practical standpoint is broad, and as a

real-estate expert he stands in the front rank. He is frequently

called upon to address meetings of real-estate dealers and

deliver lectures upon real-estate selling in both Canada and the

United States.

Mr. Browne was married in August, 1896, to Miss Sarsie Geraldine

Nagle of Montreal. Her tragic death, resulting from injuries

sustained in being struck by a tram car, occurred on November 15,

1913. She is survived by two sons: John James Ethelbert and Henry

Shewbridge Bashford.

Like the majority of progressive business men of the day, Mr.

Browne keeps well informed on leading questions and issues, but

does not seek nor desire the honors and emoluments of office,

preferring to concentrate his attention upon his business

affairs. In his younger days he devoted much time to amateur

sport, in which he still retains deep interest. As a member

of the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association he was foremost

in opposition to the introduction of professionalism into the

organization. He was a prime factor in the organization of the

St. Patrick’s Amateur Athletic Association and has since been its

leading spirit. Mr. Browne is a very public-spirited man and any

movement for the advancement of the city, province or Dominion

finds in him a most hearty supporter.

PAUL BRISSET DES NOS.

Prominent in real-estate circles of Montreal is Paul Brisset

des Nos, whose activities in that field have had an important

bearing upon the growth of the city. He has successfully handled

important deals and has been connected with some of the largest

transactions consummated in real estate. At present he is manager

of the L’Alliance Immobilière, Incorporated, which he established

in 1912 and which is capitalized at one hundred thousand dollars.

He is among the successful Parisians who have selected Montreal

as their field of labor, and yet he often visits the land of his

birth. Having had all the advantages of an excellent education,

he understands mankind and judges conditions correctly, and these

features are largely the corner stone of his success. He was born

in Paris, November 17, 1873, and comes of a distinguished family,

his father being André Brisset des Nos, for many years manager

for La Foncière, Paris, and his mother Clémentine Hébert de la

Rousselière.

Paul Brisset des Nos enjoyed the advantages of a classical

course, attending the College of the Jesuits in his native city,

located at the rue de Madrid, and also the school of the same

order at the rue Bleury at Montreal. He made his first step into

the business world as partner of his father, who was engaged in

the wholesale wine and liquor business at 23 Gosford Street,

Montreal, the business being conducted under the name of André

Brisset & Fils. He was connected with this firm for six years but

in 1906 he opened a real-estate office. For about seven years he

was located at Pointe-aux-Trembles but subsequently gave much

of his time to two tracts of land which he had acquired in the

district of the Rivière des Prairies, which he subdivided into

eighteen hundred lots, all of which have been disposed of today.

Among other enterprises he was concerned in the building of

four butter factories near Montreal. In 1912 he established and

incorporated the L’Alliance Immobilière, with a capital of one

hundred thousand dollars, and has since been manager thereof. He

is a number of the Montreal Real Estate Exchange.

On the 11th of February, 1901, at Montreal, Mr. Brisset des Nos

was united in marriage to Miss Yvonne Lareau, a daughter of the

late Edmond Lareau, deputy of Rouville. Mr. and Mrs. Brisset des

Nos have the following children: Paul, ten years of age; Aliette,

aged eight; Yves six; and Madeleine, three.

It is conceded on all sides that realty activities largely

contribute to the growth of a community and in that way Mr.

Brisset des Nos has participated in the development and

commercial expansion of Montreal. He is public-spirited and takes

a deep interest in any forward movement promoted in the cause

of the general welfare. Although he has been connected with

real-estate transactions for a comparatively short time, he has

made his influence felt in that field to such an extent that his

opinions and advice are often sought by investors. L’Alliance

Immobilière, founded upon a solid basis, may well look toward a

prosperous future under the able management of Mr. Brisset des

Nos, whose wide experience and sound judgment are among the most

important assets of the corporation.

[Illustration: PAUL BRISSET DES NOS]

HON. SIR LOMER GOUIN.

Hon. Sir Lomer Gouin, a distinguished representative of the

Montreal bar and a statesman whose grasp of affairs has made him

largely master of situations affecting government interests, was

born at Grondines, P. Q., March 19, 1861, a son of Dr. J. N.

and Victorie Seraphine (Fugere) Gouin. The family has long been

established in this province. Sir Lomer Gouin in the attainment

of his education attended successfully Sorel College, Levis

College and the Laval University. He won his LL. B. degree in

1884 and in 1902 the honorary degree of LL. D. was conferred upon

him while McGill also created him an LL. D. in 1911. He pursued

his law studies under the direction of the late Sir John Abbot

and the late Hon. R. Laflamme, two of the most eminent members

of the bar of Montreal. Passing the required examinations, Sir

Lomer Gouin was admitted to practice as an advocate in 1884, and

his advancement in his profession has brought him to a position

of leadership at the provincial bar. He was at one time a law

partner of Judge Pagnuelo and afterward of the late Hon. H.

Mercier. His knowledge of the law is comprehensive and exact and

in the application of its principles he has proven himself one of

the ablest representatives of the bar in Montreal. He was elected

batonnier-general of the provincial bar in 1910, was appointed

an officer of de l’Institut Public of France in 1902 and also

of the Legion of Honor in 1907. Aside from his profession, he

is known in financial circles as a director of the Royal Trust

Company, of the Montreal City and District Savings Bank and of

the Mount Royal Assurance Company. The Venerable Archdeacon Kerr

characterized him as “a straightforward business man,” and in all

his career he has never deviated from high standards of manhood

and citizenship.

In 1908 he was knighted by King George at the Quebec Tercentenary

celebration. His public service has been of an important

character and is of wide scope, and in 1898 he was appointed

a member of the council of public instruction, P. Q., and in

1910 was elected president of the North American Fish and Game

Protective Association. He has likewise been president of the

Canadian Camp. In 1900 he was chosen an alderman of Montreal

and exercises his official prerogatives in support of various

measures for the general good. Mr. Gouin is a liberal in

politics and for some years has been active in the party. He

unsuccessfully contested Richelieu for the House of Commons at

the general election in 1891, and he sat for Montreal, St. James

division, in the local house in 1897-1908. Since then he has

sat for Port Neuf. He is regarded as an administrator of breadth

of view, great knowledge and ability and unimpeachable probity.

From 1900 until 1904 Sir Lomer Gouin was commissioner of public

works under the Parent administration, and since March 23, 1905,

has been premier and attorney-general for the province of Quebec.

An eminent statesmen has characterized him as “the greatest

prime minister the province has ever known.” His comprehensive

knowledge of the law and his ready grasp of affairs, combined

with his unfaltering loyalty to the best interests of government,

classes him with the most prominent Canadian statesmen. In 1906

he was chairman of the Ottawa Inter-Provincial Conference and

was a delegate thereto in 1910. He has edited a special edition

of the Quebec Municipal Code, and he seems familiar with all

the various phases of the important municipal, provincial and

national problems which are now engaging public attention.

Sir Lomer Gouin was married in May, 1888, to Miss Eliza Mercier,

a daughter of the late Hon. Honore Mercier, prime minister

of Quebec. Lady Gouin passed away in September, 1904, and in

September, 1911, he wedded Alice, daughter of the late Auguste

Amos of Montreal. Sir Lomer Gouin was present by invitation at

the coronation of King George and Queen Mary in Westminster Abbey

in June, 1911. He is well known in club circles as a member of

the Garrison Club of Quebec; the Club St. Denis, the Montreal

Reform Club, and the Mount Royal Club of Montreal. His religious

affiliation is with the Roman Catholic church.

ISAAC GOUVERNEUR OGDEN.

The enterprise which has brought the western world to a par

with the old world in all that touches business activity and

progress finds exemplification in the life record of Isaac

Gouverneur Ogden, now vice president of the Canadian Pacific

Railway Company. It would be a partial view, however, if one

were to consider his life record only from the standpoint of

business advancement, as his labors have been directed with equal

efficiency along lines which touch the general interests of

society or have their root in a broad humanitarian spirit.

Born across the border, Mr. Ogden is a native of New York, the

date of his birth being October 10, 1844. His parents were

Isaac Gouverneur and Elizabeth Katherine (Williamson) Ogden,

representatives of old and distinguished families of the Empire

state. His education was acquired in local public schools, while

his early business training came to him in a mercantile house

in his native state where he secured employment in 1860. He

early recognized the eternal principle that industry wins, and

industry became the beacon light of his life. He turned from

merchandising to banking, entering the house of Fisk & Hatch

with which he remained until March, 1871, when he made his

initial step in railway service as paymaster and accountant for

the Chicago & Pacific Railway Company. The duties of the dual

position were promptly and capably discharged until 1876, when he

was made auditor, serving in that capacity for five years under a

receiver.

In 1881 he became auditor for the western division of the

Canadian Pacific Railway Company, was advanced to the position of

auditor for the Canadian Pacific in 1883 and so remained until

1887. For fourteen years thereafter he was comptroller for the

Canadian Pacific and since December, 1901 has been vice president

of the most important railway that crosses the Dominion. Long

experience has made him familiar with various phases of railway

operation and management, and thus he came well equipped to

his present position, ready for administrative direction and

executive control.

In early manhood Mr. Ogden wedded Miss Julia M. Baker and they

reside at No. 457 Mackay Street. Home and business interests,

however, by no means comprise the extent of his activities which

reach out into the fields of religious and philanthropic work and

also prominently into club life. He is an Anglican, is president

of the Montreal College of Homeopathic Physicians and Surgeons;

and is a life governor of the Montreal Homeopathic Hospital. In

1901 he was elected president of the Association of American

Railway Accounting Officers and in 1905 was a delegate to the

International Railway Congress. He brings to bear upon public

questions the same keen discrimination and sound judgment that

have characterized his activities in railway circles. His social

nature finds expression in his membership in the St. James, Mount

Royal, Forest and Stream, Royal St. Lawrence Yacht and Montreal

Hunt Clubs of Montreal; the Lotus and Transportation Clubs of New

York, and the Manitoba Club of Winnipeg.

CHARLES HAZLITT CAHAN.

It cannot be denied that members of the bar have been more

prominent actors in public affairs than any other class of the

community. This is but the natural result of causes which are

manifest and require no explanation. The ability and training

which qualify one to practice law also qualify him in many

respects for duties which lie outside the strict path of his

profession and which touch the general interests of society.

Holding marked precedence among the members of the bar and

recognized also as an influential factor in political circles,

Charles Hazlitt Cahan is a well known and honored resident of

Montreal. He comes of a family of Irish origin and was born at

Hebron, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, October 31, 1861, his parents

being the late Charles and Theresa Cahan, of Yarmouth. He

supplemented his early educational training by study at Yarmouth

Seminary and in Dalhousie University, winning his Bachelor of

Arts degree in 1886 and Bachelor of Laws degree in 1890. He began

practice as a barrister of Nova Scotia in 1893 and was created

king’s counsellor there in 1907. In the same year he entered

upon the practice of law in the province of Quebec and was made

king’s counsellor in this province in 1909. While a resident of

Halifax he was a member of the law firm of Harris, Henry & Cahan

but since 1909 has been in practice in Montreal. He has always

specialized in corporation law, in which department he has had

wide and varied experience in North and South America and in

Europe.

There was an interval between the completion of his course and

his active connection with the bar in which he devoted his time

and energies to journalistic interests, being connected with the

Halifax Evening Mail and Herald, resigning, however, to devote

his attention to law and politics in 1894, and he has made for

himself a prominent name and position in the latter as well as

in the former connection. He contested Shelburne, Nova Scotia,

in the conservative interest and following the election sat in

the Nova Scotia legislature from 1890 until 1894, during which

period he was the recognized leader of the opposition. In 1896 he

unsuccessfully contested Shelburne and Queen’s for the house of

commons, and also Cumberland at the general election in 1900. He

declined a nomination for the St. Lawrence division of Montreal

at the general election of 1911, and he also refused political

honors when he decided not to accept the portfolio offered him

in the Dominion cabinet in 1896. Public activity has ever been

with him a matter of public duty, as he has ever placed the

general good before partisanship or self-aggrandizement. He was

for several years honorary secretary of the Halifax branch of

the Imperial Federation League and honorary secretary of the

Liberal-Conservative Association in Nova Scotia. With all the

duties that have been imposed upon him in his political and

professional connections, he has found time and opportunity

to cooperate in the management of various successful business

corporations and interests. He is now the president of the

Western Canada Power Company and of the Corporation Agencies,

Ltd., and a director of several other important financial and

industrial companies. He has closely studied vital public

problems, and he took a decided stand against the Taft-Fielding

reciprocity compact, against which he delivered various addresses

during the political campaign of 1911. He has been termed a

courageous, ready and powerful speaker. He presents his arguments

with clearness and force, and their logic is convincing.

On March 1, 1887, Mr. Cahan was united in marriage to Mrs. Mary

J. Hetherington of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and they now reside at

No. 740 University Street, Montreal, with a summer residence at

“Belmont,” Halifax, Nova Scotia. Mr. Cahan’s club relationship

is with the Mount Royal and Montreal Clubs, Montreal; the

Halifax Club, Halifax; and the Jockey Club of Mexico. He filled

the presidency of the Dalhousie University Alumni Association

in 1893-4. One of the elements of his success is found in his

ability to entirely concentrate his thought and efforts upon the

question or work in hand and then turn with equal enthusiasm and

capability to his next duty or undertaking. The trend of his mind

is analytical, logical and inductive, and as a corporation lawyer

he stands among the foremost representatives of the profession in

Montreal.

LEANDRE BELANGER.

Leandre Bélanger, for forty years or more one of the most

prominent notaries of the province of Quebec, was born March 29,

1848, at St. François de Sales, Laval county. His father, Leandre

Bélanger, was a carriage maker by trade and married Marie Nadon.

His grandfather, François Bélanger, was a farmer of Laval county.

In his native village Leandre Bélanger, Jr., spent his boyhood

and was educated at Terrebonne College. For five years he studied

law in the office of Melasippe Prevost in Terrebonne and on

the 11th of June, 1871, was commissioned a licensed notary in

Quebec. For a year thereafter he engaged in practice at St.

François de Sales, but, seeking a more extensive field, he

located in Montreal on the 1st of May, 1872, and in this city

soon built up a large and lucrative practice. Until 1909 he was

alone in practice, but in that year formed a partnership with his

son Adrien under the name of Bélanger & Bélanger, with offices at

No. 30 St. James Street. For twenty-five years Mr. Bélanger has

been a member of the board of notaries of the province of Quebec

and for three years served as president of that board. For eight

years he was president of the Montreal Association of Notaries

and his contemporaries in the profession accord him a high

position in their ranks. He has been a member of the Antiquarian

and Numismatic Society for many years, and he is also a member of

the Chambre de Commerce.

[Illustration: LEANDRE BELANGER]

Mr. Bélanger is a member of the Catholic church and of L’Union

Catholique and has served as a director and vice president of the

latter. In politics he has ever remained independent. In 1870

he was married at St. François de Sales, to Claire Viger, and

they became parents of two children: Joseph, a resident of St.

Hyacinthe; and Maria, the wife of Dr. Archambault, of Fall River,

Massachusetts. In 1879 Mr. Bélanger was married, in Montreal,

to Miss Laura Viau and they have seven children: Leandre, an

electrician in Montreal; Adrien, who is in partnership with his

father; Armand; Laura; Evelina; Antoinette; and Alice. The family

home is on St. Catherine road in Outremont.

HON. LOUIS ONESIME LORANGER.

Hon. Louis Onesime Loranger, whose name is prominently associated

with the history of Montreal’s judiciary, retired from the bench

in May, 1910, but has never ceased to feel a deep interest in

his profession or in the great and vital problems which are most

closely connected with the welfare and progress of the country.

He was born at Yamachiche in the province of Quebec on the

7th of April, 1837, a son of the late Joseph and Marie Louise

(Dugal) Loranger. In the acquirement of his education he attended

Montreal College and St. Mary’s College, the latter a Jesuit

school of Montreal, and in preparation for the bar, having

determined to make the practice of law his life work, he began

a thorough course of reading and on the 3d of May, 1858, was

admitted to practice at Montreal. He then joined his brothers,

Hon. T. J. I. Loranger, late judge of the superior court and

the late J. M. Loranger, K. C. They acquired an extensive

practice and, in fact, were accorded a large share of the most

important law work in the city during the greater part of the

later half of the nineteenth century. Mr. Louis O. Loranger was

created a king’s counsel by the Marquis of Lorne in 1881 and

the honorary degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him by Laval

University in 1901. He continued in the active profession of law

until appointed judge of the superior court for the district of

Montreal in 1882, and remained upon the bench for twenty-seven

years, or until May, 1910, when he entered into the enjoyment of

a full pension.

Judge Loranger’s public service aside from his connection with

the judiciary has been extensive and of an important character.

He was alderman of Montreal from 1868 until 1879, covering

a period of eleven years, and he sat for Laval in the local

legislature for a period of seven years, or from 1875 until 1882.

He was attorney general in the Chapleau administration from 1879

until 1882. It was upon his retirement from that position that he

was made puisne judge, continuing upon the bench for twenty-seven

years thereafter. His public service also covers incumbency in

the office of president of the St. Jean Baptiste Society in

1895-6. In 1906 he was elected governor of Laval University and

the same year was made president of Notre Dame Hospital.

Judge Loranger was twice married. In 1867 he married Marie Anne

Rosalie Lafranboise, a daughter of the late Hon. Mr. Justice

Lafranboise. To them were born seven children: Louise, the

deceased wife of Henry Masson; Louis J., a prominent advocate of

Montreal, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this volume; Adele,

now Mrs. H. Prefontaine; Caroline, now Mrs. Hubert Desjardins;

Joseph, a well known advocate of Montreal; Maurice, a well known

attorney of this city; and Rosalie, now Mrs. Emile Chaput, of

Montreal. The mother of these children died in May, 1883, and

Judge Loranger was again married in May, 1888, his second wife

being Mrs. Antonette (Valois) Verin, a daughter of the late S.

Valois.

Hon. L. O. Loranger is a communicant of the Roman Catholic

church. He belongs to Club Lafontaine and is an advocate to

conservative principles. He enjoys high reputation as a lawyer

and as a debater and still takes an exceedingly active interest

in political affairs. He has long since passed the Psalmist’s

span of three score years and ten, having now reached the age of

seventy-seven, but in spirit and interest seems yet in his prime.

Old age need not necessarily suggest inactivity; on the contrary,

there is an old age which grows stronger and better mentally and

morally as the years go by and gives out of the rich store of

its experience for the benefit of others. Such is the record of

Hon. Louis Onesime Loranger, whose opinions carry weight in many

councils and are always worthy of an interested hearing.

EDOUARD O. CHAMPAGNE.

Edouard O. Champagne, superintendent of the department of boiler

inspection for the city of Montreal, has been connected with

that department of the city government for thirty-five years,

during which time he has established a reputation for capability

and efficiency in his line that is probably unsurpassed on the

continent. Thoroughly progressive and up-to-date, he has kept

fully abreast of the advancement made in all lines of manufacture

and usage affecting his department.

Mr. Champagne comes from one of the old and prominent families

of the province, a family whose members for nearly two hundred

and fifty years have been identified with provincial history and

have been regarded as of the highest type of French-Canadian

citizenship. Edouard O. Champagne was born at Sorel, Quebec,

in 1848. His education was acquired at the Christian Brothers

College, where he excelled in mechanical drawing and civil

engineering and also at the John Allan Model and Classical school

of Sorel. He served his apprenticeship as a machinist in the St.

Lawrence engine works, after which he was for fourteen years

employed on steamboats on the Ottawa and St. Lawrence rivers and

Lakes Champlain, Erie and Ontario in his professional capacity.

[Illustration: EDOUARD O. CHAMPAGNE]

His splendid record as an engineer of various boats induced the

harbor commissioners of Montreal to engage him to run the St.

Peter, their best boat, which was never outdistanced during

the four years in which he was in charge. In 1872 he obtained

a first class certificate from the federal government as a

mechanical engineer, being the first French-Canadian to whom

was accorded that distinction. In 1879 he was appointed boiler

inspector for the city of Montreal by a council, the majority of

whose members were English-speaking. His experience has enabled

him to solve many of the difficult and intricate problems that

arise in connection with the operation of engines, pumps, steam

plants, elevators and water and gas plants. In a word, he has

expert scientific knowledge and practical mechanical ability and

is splendidly qualified for the onerous and important duties

which devolve upon him in this connection. As an example of his

capability, as well as the value of his services to the city,

mention might be made of the heating apparatus of the public

baths. In July, 1913, when the question of heating water for the

public baths was being considered by the city officials, various

types of expensive and complicated apparatus were shown and

inspected. The expense of installation, as well as that of fuel

and maintenance, represented a large sum if any of those systems

had been adopted. Mr. Champagne had given the matter some thought

and, with a system of entirely his own planning, offered to

install an efficient and economical apparatus for that purpose.

How well he succeeded may be inferred from the fact that at an

expense of ten dollars he secured the same result, in less than

one-half the time, that a system costing ten thousand dollars

would have accomplished. Three such equipments were supplied by

him, representing a first cost saving of thirty thousand dollars

to the city. Being in the city’s employ, he waived all claims

to remuneration as an inventor. The city’s requirements in the

future will call for a number of such installations, each one of

which will mean a saving of an additional ten thousand dollars.

At their annual meeting in 1880 the various members of the

Association of Boiler Inspectors of the United States and Canada

were invited to submit designs from which the organization’s

official seal was to be selected. Mr. Champagne, through illness

in his family, was unable to attend this meeting. However, he

submitted the design he had planned, and it was adopted. This has

ever since been in use as the official seal of the association.

The first impression made from the seal, together with a small

photogravure of the original drawing, were sent to Mr. Champagne

by the officials. The design of the seal is unique and highly

appropriate, containing accurate drawings of sixteen dangerous

types of boilers which form its circular border. Mr. Champagne

has frequently been called upon as an expert in determining

causes of boiler explosions, and in matters generally pertaining

to his line of business there are few, if any, better posted men

in the Dominion.

Mr. Champagne is also a noted marksman and one of the best

snapshots in the Dominion. He came into permanent possession

of several challenge cups as evidence of his skill. Few men

would probably display more modesty over achievements of equal

importance and significance than he has done.

In 1895 he came into public notice through his heroism at the

Longue Pointe Asylum fire, when he and Chief Benoit saved the

lives of over ninety inmates. It is characteristic of him that he

never considers himself in the presence of imminent danger, and

his faithfulness and fidelity in public service have won him the

confidence and high regard of all who know aught of his career.

As a citizen he represents the best of the French-Canadian type,

has reared an excellent family and, with them, is highly esteemed

and respected.

HON. FRANCOIS XAVIER CHOQUET.

Hon. François Xavier Choquet, judge of the juvenile court,

Montreal, since January 2, 1912, is uniformly recognized as an

eminent legist and jurist, as well as an able member of the

judiciary. He occupied for many years a position of distinction

at the Montreal bar, where his name figured in connection with

the court records of some of the most prominent cases heard in

the province.

Judge Choquet was born on the 8th of January, 1851, at Varennes,

in the province of Quebec. His father, Jean Baptiste Choquet, was

a farmer at Varennes and descended from one of the oldest French

families in the province, while the mother of Judge Choquet,

Adeline Provost, a daughter of Amable Provost, also belonged to

an old and honorable family.

The Choquet family has been identified with the history of the

province since 1665, the founders, who originally belonged to

Picardie, France, settling in Canada in that year.

Judge Choquet added to the fundamental principles of education

the knowledge acquired in attendance at L’Assomption College, the

Montreal Seminary and McGill University, being graduated from the

last named in 1874 with the B. C. L. degree, having determined

to make the practice of law his life work. In the meantime he

had studied law under Sir La Jette and Senator Beique, in the

firm of Jette & Beique, and after being called to the bar on the

10th of January, 1875, he began the practice of his profession

in Montreal as a partner of his former law preceptors, being

admitted to the firm of Jette & Beique, where he remained about

four years. Subsequently he practiced alone for six years, during

which time he acquired a clientele that was not surpassed by any

of his contemporaries. He afterwards became partner in the firm

of Mercier, Beausoleil & Choquet, so continuing from 1884 until

1892, when the senior partner, the late Hon. Honore Mercier,

withdrew, and the firm style of Beausoleil & Choquet was adopted.

Judge Choquet was created a king’s counsellor by the Earl of

Aberdeen on March 7, 1893.

Many important duties have devolved upon him, either in the

direct or indirect path of his profession. He was a royal

commissioner to revise the charter of Montreal in September,

1897, and was appointed judge of the session of the peace, police

magistrate, and license commissioner of Montreal on the 27th of

December, 1898. He was also appointed an extradition commissioner

under the extradition act, July 20, 1901. In more strictly

professional lines his service as a member of the council

of the Montreal bar continued from 1894 until 1897, and he was

appointed a delegate to the general council of the bar of the

province of Quebec.

[Illustration: HON. FRANCOIS X. CHOQUET]

He has been a continuous student of his profession, constantly

broadening his knowledge by reading, study, research and

investigation until today his opinions are largely accepted as

authority concerning any vital legal problems.

In the course of his professional career, Judge Choquet

successfully handled many important railway and municipal cases.

He made a special study of the law relating to transportation

matters and also the laws governing municipal affairs, while on

the law of elections, the Montreal Herald has referred to him as

“the highest authority of the province.”

In June, 1884, Judge Choquet was married to Miss Marie

Caroline Barry, a daughter of John E. Barry, of Saguenay and

Trois Pistoles. Both Judge and Mrs. Choquet are prominently

connected with the Montreal Children’s Aid Society, of which

he was president for some time, while Mrs. Choquet has been

vice president. He is also president of the Cooperative Funeral

Expense Society. Their religious faith is that of the Roman

Catholic church, and Mrs. Choquet was granted an audience by the

pope in 1906. Judge Choquet is vice president of the Shawinigan

Fishing Club, holds membership also with the Engineers and

Winchester Clubs, and has been president of the latter for ten

years. He resides at No. 814 Dorchester Street, West, Montreal,

through the winter seasons and has a summer home at Rigaud, P. Q.

HON. LOUIS TELLIER.

On the list of representatives of the judiciary of Montreal

appears the name of Hon. Louis Tellier, puisne judge of the

superior court of the province of Quebec. A native of Berthier,

Quebec, he was born on the 25th of December, 1844, a son of

Zephirin Tellier of Ste. Melanie d’Aillebout and Luce Ferland,

the latter a daughter of V. Prisque Ferland. After attending

Joliette College Louis Tellier was called to the bar in 1866,

and thus for almost half a century he has been a representative

of the legal profession in the province. For a number of years

he held the office of deputy prothonotary of the superior court,

also deputy clerk of the circuit court and deputy clerk of the

peace and of the crown for the district of St. Hyacinthe. He had

studied law under the late Mr. Baby, who became a justice of the

court of queen’s bench in the province of Quebec, and afterward

under Mr. Chagnon, who became a judge of the superior court for

the province of Quebec in the district of Iberville, and had come

to the bar well equipped for the honors and responsible duties

of the profession. His ability was early manifest in the manner

in which he prepared and conducted his cases, and in 1873 he was

appointed crown prosecutor for the district of St. Hyacinthe. He

also became a recognized leader in political as well as in legal

circles, and in 1878 he was elected to the house of commons for

the St. Hyacinthe riding at the general election and sat for

that district until 1882. He was appointed queen’s counsel in

1882 by the Marquis of Lorne. He resumed the practice of law and

was raised to the bench as puisne judge of the superior court

of the province of Quebec by the Marquis of Lansdowne on the

12th of November, 1887. He was appointed for the district of

St. Hyacinthe, succeeding Justice Sicotte, but in 1903 he was

removed to the district of Montreal, where he now presides. His

decisions on the bench are models of judicial soundness, showing

a comprehensive grasp of the law with ability to accurately apply

its principles.

On the 26th of May, 1868, Judge Tellier married Hermine, daughter

of the late Dr. A. Malhiot. She died in 1878, and on the 18th

of July, 1882, Judge Tellier married Elzire Hamel, daughter of

Joseph A. Hamel, collector of customs in St. Hyacinthe division.

Her death occurred October 6, 1906. On the 26th of January,

1914, the Judge married Mrs. Jules Richard whose maiden name was

Regina Royer and who was the widow of Jules Richard, advocate,

practicing his profession at Sherbrooke in the district of St.

Francis. Judge Tellier has three sons and five daughters.

He is an administrator of Laval University and is a member of the

Catholic church. His mind is naturally analytical, logical and

inductive, and his clear reasoning finds expression in judicial

opinions from which colleagues and contemporaries seldom take

exception.

HENRY JOHNSTONE ELLIOTT.

Henry Johnstone Elliott, senior member of the law firm of Elliott

& David, has been a lifelong resident of Montreal, and is a son

of the late Hugh Elliott. He received his early education in

the schools of his native city and pursued his preparation for

the bar at McGill University, from which he was graduated B.

C. L. in 1898. The same year he began practice as an advocate,

and ten years’ successful work as a representative of the legal

profession won him position among the king’s counselors, being

created such in 1908. He understands thoroughly the necessity for

careful preparation before presenting his cause in the courts,

and in the trial of cases it is seen that his knowledge of the

law is exact and comprehensive, while in the application of legal

principles he is seldom if ever at fault.

Mr. Elliott finds enjoyment in golf, and interest and recreation

in various outdoor sports, exercises and athletics. He belongs

to the Beaconsfield Golf Club, Outremont Golf Club, Montreal

Athletic Association, the Engineers Club and the Temple Club, all

of Montreal. His religious belief is that of the Anglican church

and he has been a delegate to the synod.

REV. MALCOLM A. CAMPBELL.

Rev. Malcolm A. Campbell, pastor of the First Presbyterian

church of Montreal and known in that city as a man of superior

attainments and of active religious zeal, was born in Bruce

county, Ontario, October 10, 1875. He acquired his education in

high school at Port Elain, in his native province, and later

attended the Collegiate Institute at Owen Sound. He supplemented

this by a course in McGill University and in the Presbyterian

College at Montreal, from which he was graduated in April,

1909. He was ordained in the following October and in January,

1910, became minister of the First Presbyterian church of this

city, a position which he still retains. This is one of the

most important parishes in Montreal, being a combination of

St. Gabriel’s and Chalmers Presbyterian churches, the former

the first Protestant church in Canada. Rev. Campbell brings to

the duties of his responsible position well directed energy,

unflagging zeal and a firm belief in the importance of the work

in which he is engaged, and the results of his labors are seen in

the excellent condition of the parish and its constant growth.

On the 26th of October, 1910, Rev. Campbell was united in

marriage to Miss Louise Crippen, of Trout River, New York. He is

a member of the Masonic order, being grand chaplain of the Grand

Lodge of Quebec province, and he is widely and favorably known in

Montreal, where he is recognized as a man sincere in his aims and

purposes and one whose honorable and upright life is always in

strict conformity with the doctrines which he professes.

ARTHUR JOSEPH RICHER, M. D.

In preparation for the onerous and difficult duties and

responsibilities of the profession Dr. Arthur Joseph Richer has

studied under eminent physicians and surgeons of the old world

and the new, and his labors have manifestly been of marked value

to his fellowmen, especially in the conduct of the Brehmer Rest,

a sanitarium promoting a preventive treatment for tuberculosis.

He was born at Upton, P. Q., November 16, 1868, and is a son

of Damase and Celina (Larvie) Richer, of Antonvale, P. Q. His

education was acquired at Sabrevois Mission College and in

Bishop’s College at Lennoxville, P. Q., where he was accorded

the degrees of M. D. and C. M. in 1892. Since that time he has

taken post-graduate work in New York and for a year and a half he

was connected with the Pasteur Institute of Paris. He was also

assistant under Dr. Roux in his private laboratory, and under his

guidance and that of Pasteur, Metchkinoff and others, Dr. Richer

performed many successful experiments. Later he was assistant at

L’Ecole de Pharmacie Superieure at Paris for a short time and

was appointed house surgeon at the faculty surgical clinic at

Krakow, Austria, in 1895. He next went to Breslau for a winter’s

study before returning to Canada. At different times he was a

student at Dresden, Leipzig, Halle, Berlin and Hamburg and was

an assistant in the laboratory of physiology of the faculty of

medicine of Paris.

Dr. Richer returned to Canada in 1897 and located for practice

in Montreal. He has since carried on an active crusade against

tuberculosis in this country. The scheme of a recuperative home

such as Brehmer Rest at Ste. Agathe des Monts was suggested by

Dr. Richer. He has been a lifelong worker in fighting the dread

disease and in the early spring of 1905 Brehmer Rest was opened

as the result of his untiring efforts. In his first annual report

concerning the institution he said: “When we select for treatment

convalescents from pneumonia, pleurisy, and typhoid fever, as

well as those affected with anaemia, chlorosis and debility,

we do so with a definite object in view. Nine-tenths of those

affected as above will inevitably become victims of tuberculosis.

“If they can be treated and trained before they become a

prey to the dread scourge, the saving is evident from every

viewpoint. In the pre-tuberculosis stage a patient can be

restored to health in eight or ten weeks; when tuberculosis has

developed it becomes a matter of as many months. At the last

International Congress, held in Paris, October, 1905, one of the

delegates present expressed his opinion in very strong terms

regarding the treatment of the conditions of disease known as

‘pre-tuberculosis;’ they comprise the group above mentioned. In

this respect Brehmer Rest stands out as supplying an actual need,

and enjoys the unique distinction of being the first institution

in the world devoted to that special class of work. Brehmer

Rest has undoubtedly anticipated the movement of the future,

particularly when considered in the light of the statements

recently made by Von Behring in connection with his method of

vaccination against tuberculosis. The new product (Tulase), which

this distinguished scientist offers to the world, is a substance

extracted from the cultivated germ of the disease (tuberculosis),

so modified as to impart resisting power to the human organism

without impairing health. It is markedly curative in the first

stage of the disease, thus its action is twofold, protective and

curative.”

Dr. Richer’s efforts along this line have gained him not only

national but international fame and distinction. His name is

known on the other side of the Atlantic as well as on this, and

he has joined hands with the men of earnest purpose who are using

the highest scientific skill and knowledge to blot out the dread

disease. His labors have been effective in hundreds of cases and

thus his life work has been a valuable contribution to mankind,

placing him with the benefactors of the race.

JOSEPH TREMBLAY.

Joseph Tremblay, chief of the Montreal fire brigade, was born at

St. Isidore, a little village a few miles from Montreal, where

his parents were the proverbially poor but honest French-Canadian

small farmers. His education was the usual course of reading,

writing and arithmetic gleaned from the village priest. At the

age of twelve years he left school and the farm, thinking to

find more congenial and profitable occupation in the city. He

made his way to Montreal with all his earthly possessions tied

in a bundle, after the manner of Dick Whittington of old. At

that period he knew no English, but he had little difficulty in

finding a position as errand boy with one Beauvais, a merchant

tailor of Chaboillez Square. Being an errand boy had small

attractions in those days and it did not suit Joe Tremblay to

remain one for long. He, therefore, gathered up his bundle, put

his money in his sock and departed for the United States. For a

while he lingered on that side the border, learning many lessons

in the school of experience which have since been of much use

to him. Following his return to Montreal he sought to establish

himself in the tailoring business, which he had followed during

his sojourn in the United States. He located at Ste. Cunegonde,

then a separate municipality south of Westmount and north of

Point St. Charles. There he hung out two neat brass signs, one

of which read Joseph Tremblay, Tailleur, and the other Joseph

Tremblay, Tailor, thus soliciting business from both the English

and French population. While he was then ready for business, it

appeared that business was not ready for him. F. Beecher Edwards,

in an article in a Montreal paper, said:

[Illustration: JOSEPH TREMBLAY]

“Fate, wishing to do some good to poor old Montreal for a change,

glimpsed one Joseph Tremblay working busily in his little

tailoring and men’s furnishing shop on the southwestern borders

of the city. Whereupon, things went very badly for the said

Joseph Tremblay in his little tailoring and men’s furnishing

business. People to whom he owed money camped on his doorstep

and people who owed him money left for parts unknown in the dead

of night, so Joseph Tremblay put up the shutters on his little

tailoring and men’s furnishing shop on the southwestern borders

of the city and went into the Ste. Cunegone fire department.

Consequently the Montreal fire department is today a thing to be

proud of in a city which has little enough reason to be proud of

the vast majority of its civic enterprises.

“Fate, it will be observed, may be a trifle circumlocutious in

her methods, but she gets there in the end. So we may thank fate

that made Joseph Tremblay an unsuccessful tailor and haberdasher,

for the fact that during the tragic Christmas week--1913--when

through somebody’s outrageous blundering the greater portion

of this great Canadian metropolis went inadvertently dry; when

the fire menace, ever present, hovered more threateningly

over thousands of human lives and millions of dollars worth

of property, because of the fact that our strongest barrier

of defense was broken down with the collapse of a few feet of

unstable concrete somewhere out beyond Point St. Charles, we

may thank fate for the fact that we had at the head of the

Montreal fire department, deprived from no fault of its own of

its heaviest ammunition, a man of the quality, the resource and

the ability of Joseph Tremblay, the bad tailor who became one of

the greatest, if not the greatest of fire chiefs on the North

American continent.

“At the time that Joseph Tremblay became a member of the fire

department he was much as he is now, with the exception of recent

inclination to embonpoint, a well set up, good looking man of

above the average build and as strong as two ordinary men. He had

a brain, too, but they did not find that out until he had been

in the Ste. Cunegonde force at least a week, when it began to be

hinted that there was more to this young man than to the average.

Six months after Joe Tremblay joined the Ste. Cunegonde fire

brigade the chief of the brigade retired from office; whereupon,

to the amazement of one and all, the Ste. Cunegonde council made

the new recruit, the man who had been an unsuccessful tailor,

chief. This may safely be put forward as the world’s record for

rapid promotion.

“In the course of time Ste. Cunegonde was annexed to Montreal

and Chief Tremblay became Sub-Chief Tremblay, in charge of the

western division. This was in 1906. In 1907 he was made a deputy

chief to Chief Benoit and when one year later the veteran retired

in his turn Deputy Chief Tremblay became head of the Montreal

fire brigade.

“Chief Tremblay is an omnivorous reader of all literature

appertaining to fires and fire fighting and he is not above

learning from other cities and makes at his own expense at least

one trip a year to the principal cities in the States to see what

helpful piece of information he can pick up.

“One of his first official acts was to institute an inspection

system which was largely instrumental in reducing the rates

of fire insurance here. In 1905, 1906 and 1907 the fire loss

was around nine dollars per annum per capita. In 1913 it was

something like two dollars and thirty-four cents per capita. He

was responsible for the introduction of automobile fire apparatus

here; he started the firemen’s drill school at Chaboillez Square,

and he had the fire headquarters transferred from the City Hall

to its present location on Craig Street. The chief is well known

by sight to Montrealers. His inspiring figure has bulked large

on the horizon of many a panic stricken householder at hundreds

of fires during the last few years. He is a big, handsome man,

and his very size begets confidence. He works his men hard and

he works himself just as hard, for he believes that the citizens

should get full value for their money. He has one or two hobbies,

all of them connected with fire fighting, a high pressure system

for the down town district, a fire tug for the harbor and the

placing of the firemen’s benevolent fund on a sound footing.

Chief Joseph Tremblay is a man’s size man and if there was any

doubt on the subject lingering in anyone’s mind it was banished

by the splendidly efficient manner in which he handled the

appalling situation during the water famine of December, 1913.”

PAUL E. MERCIER.

Paul E. Mercier, one of the best known civil engineers in

Montreal and a member of the firm of Baulne & Mercier, has won

a position of high standing in his profession. He was born at

St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, March 15, 1877. His father was the late

Hon. Honore Mercier, premier of Quebec, of whom a more extended

mention appears elsewhere in this work, while his mother previous

to her marriage was Virginie St. Denis.

When four years of age Mr. Mercier was brought to Montreal and in

the schools of the city pursued his early education. He afterward

attended St. Mary’s College and was graduated with honor from

Ecole Polytechnique with the Bachelor of Science degree in 1899.

During his holiday periods he was employed by the Canadian

Pacific Railway Company and following the completion of his

college course he went to the Yukon, where he spent a year as

assistant engineer of the Dominion public works and two years as

district engineer in the Yukon.

Following his return Mr. Mercier was for two years district

engineer of Dominion public works for the district of Quebec

and from 1904 until 1907 was engineer in charge of work of the

National Transcontinental Railway. In the latter year he returned

to Montreal and opened an office as consulting engineer, while in

1910 he formed a partnership with S. A. Baulne, with offices in

the Shaughnessy Building. Reading between the lines one may see

that his progress has been continuous and that he has advanced

step by step until he now occupies a commanding position in

engineering circles. His ability has increased through experience

and continuous study and investigation. He keeps abreast with

the leaders of the profession in all that pertains to his

chosen life work and his ability has won him wide recognition

and well earned reputation. In 1911 he was appointed professor

of railway engineering at Ecole Polytechnique and in 1913 was

appointed on the board of examiners for the Canadian Society of

Civil Engineers. On May 16, 1914, he was appointed deputy chief

engineer of public works of Montreal. He has important membership

relations along professional lines. He has been secretary of the

Association des Anciens Elèves de L’Ecole Polytechnique since

its organization and he has been professor of transportation

and communication at l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales de

Montreal. He is a member of the American Railway Engineering

Association, the Quebec Land Surveyors’ Corporation, the Society

of Civil Engineers of France and the Association International

Congress of Navigation. Mr. Mercier is also well known in

military connections. He is captain of the Corps of Guides of the

Canadian Volunteer Militia and organized and commands as major

the Canadian Officers Training Corps of Laval University.

On the 29th of June, 1901, Mr. Mercier was married, at

Whitehorse, Yukon, to Miss Marie Louise Tache, of Ottawa,

Ontario, and their children are Simone, Jeanne, Yvonne and Heva.

JAMES MORGAN.

James Morgan, an influential citizen of Montreal, is perhaps

best known as president of Henry Morgan & Company, Limited.

His activities, however, have extended to other lines, all of

which have proved beneficial to Montreal in its material, civic

or moral upbuilding. In the utilization of opportunities that

others have passed heedlessly by, he has achieved distinction

and honorable success, and yet the acquirement of wealth has

been but one phase of his existence, never excluding his active

participation in and support of other vital interests which go

to make up community and national life. He was born in Glasgow,

Scotland, a son of the late James Morgan, a native of Saline,

Fifeshire, who was associated with his brother, Henry Morgan,

in the conduct of the business now carried on by Henry Morgan &

Company, Limited.

In early life James Morgan became a resident of Montreal and

attended the Montreal high school. He then became connected with

the business founded by his uncle and father, and gradually

worked his way upward in that connection. Mr. Morgan, moreover,

is president of the Colonial Real Estate Company and has been

prominently connected with various other business enterprises

of far-reaching importance. He aided in promoting the British

Columbia Bank Note Company in 1904 and in organizing and

developing the Montreal Cement Company in 1905. He was likewise

vice president of the Accident & Guarantee Company of Canada,

and in all these associations his judgment is sound, while his

ability to coordinate and unify seemingly diverse elements has

been one of the strong features in his growing success. While he

has reached the millionaire class, his business methods have ever

been such as will bear the closest investigation and scrutiny, in

that there is no esoteric phase in his entire career and what he

has accomplished, both for himself and the community at large,

represents the fit utilization of the innate powers and talents

which are his.

Mr. Morgan was united in marriage to Miss Anna Lyman, a daughter

of Frederick Lyman, of Connecticut. They are influential members

of the Church of the Messiah (Unitarian) of Montreal, in which

Mr. Morgan is serving as trustee. His interests and activities

extend to many beneficent projects and to those which spread

culture and stimulate intellectual activities. He is a director

of the Montreal Horticultural and Fruit Growing Association

and one of the principal promoters of the Montreal Citizens

Association, of which he is now a director and treasurer. He was

likewise one of the promoters of the Montreal Board of Control,

but declined election thereto. He is one of the governors of the

Montreal General Hospital and is interested in various projects

seeking to meet public needs along broad humanitarian lines. He

is a councillor of the National Historical Society, belongs to

the St. Andrews Society, to the Montreal Art Association and to

the Antiquarian and Numismatic Society. He is also a member of

the Canada and the Reform Clubs. His life has been one of intense

and well directed activity, fruitful of good results for the

general public as well as for himself.

ANSELME SERAPHIN DEGUIRE.

Anselme Séraphin Deguire enjoys high distinction as a lawyer and

has also given much evidence of his public spirit in his position

as alderman of the city of Montreal. He comes of an old Canadian

French family, the earliest ancestor recorded in Abbé Tanguay’s

Dictionnaire being François De Guire, who was born in 1641 and

who died at Montreal. In 1669 he married Mlle. Rose Colin, born

in 1641, and they became the parents of nine children.

Anselme S. Deguire was born at Côte des Neiges on the 25th of

November, 1874, a son of Séraphin Deguire and Alphonsine Pilon of

Ste. Anne de Bellevue. The father was a gardener by profession.

Mr. Deguire of this review studied at Montreal College, from

which he was graduated in 1895 with the degree of B. A., and

afterwards took a law course at Laval University. He was admitted

to practice in 1901. Immediately afterwards he interested himself

in municipal affairs and his aptitude along financial lines made

him valuable in a number of important positions which he held in

the administration of the village of Côte des Neiges. Under his

leadership the proceedings to erect the village into a town were

successfully completed.

As a lawyer Mr. Deguire soon secured a select clientele, no long

novitiate awaiting him in his practice. He is one of a coterie

of lawyers, or more correctly, he continues the traditions of

a coterie of lawyers who had their origin in Côte des Neiges

and several of whom were well known and very prominent. Such

were the late Judge Madore and Judges Charbonneau and Demers.

Mr. Deguire is universally esteemed by his fellow citizens and

since the annexation of Côte des Neiges to the city of Montreal,

of which annexation he was an ardent advocate, he has been its

representative in the Montreal city hall. He was elected first

for the Côte des Neiges ward in 1910 and reelected by acclamation

in 1912.

[Illustration: ANSELME S. DEGUIRE]

At the Church of St. Louis de France, on the 18th of November,

1902, Mr. Deguire married Mlle. Aloysia Chopin, a daughter of

the late Dr. J. Nestor Chopin of Sault au Récollet. Mr. and Mrs.

Deguire have one son, René, born January 1, 1904. Mr. Deguire

is not only a successful advocate and lawyer, but a patriotic

citizen and a splendid example of a loyal French-Canadian.

Fraternally he is affiliated with the Royal Arcanum.

JOHN J. ARNTON.

When death claimed John J. Arnton on the 13th of November,

1894, he was the oldest real-estate man in Montreal in years of

continuous connection with the business in this city. Montreal

numbers him among her native sons, his birth having occurred in

1832. He began his business career with the firm of John Leeming

& Company and later practically succeeded to the business and

good will of the firm. He watched the notable development in real

estate methods and, keeping abreast of the progress of the times,

met substantial success. He was in business at the time of the

real-estate boom of the ‘70s and he gained a patronage as large

as he could handle. Realizing fair profit from his real estate

negotiations, he was at length able to retire with a comfortable

competence. The integrity of his business methods was one of the

features of his growing success, and his progressiveness was also

an element in his advancement.

Mr. Arnton entered the city council but retired before completing

his term. For some years he was a director of the Canadian Bank

of Commerce and his name was an honorable one on commercial

papers. He was at one time president of the Irish Protestant

Benevolent Society and was a man of generous spirit, giving

freely of his means to the poor and needy and extending a helping

hand to the unfortunate. He was survived by six children, when

on the 13th of November, 1894, he passed away at the age of

sixty-two years, leaving behind the memory of a well spent life,

fraught with many good deeds.

HOWARD WINTHROP PILLOW.

Howard Winthrop Pillow is the Montreal manager for the British

American Bank Note Company and is vice president and one of

the directors of that corporation. His position as one of the

younger business men of the city is enviable. He was born in

Montreal, May 9, 1883, and is a son of John Alexander and

Annie Elizabeth (Hillyer) Pillow. He attended Bishop’s College

School at Lennoxville and for two years was a student in McGill

University. With liberal education to serve as the foundation,

he has gradually worked his way upward, the exercise of effort

developing his latent powers and talents. He is now bending his

efforts to administrative direction and executive control as the

manager at Montreal for the British American Bank Note Company,

a position to which he has attained by individual merit. He is

the vice president and one of the directors of the company and

as such occupies a prominent and enviable position in business

circles.

On the 1st of October, 1906, in Boston, Massachusetts, Mr.

Pillow was married to Miss Lucile E. Fairbank, a daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. L. G. Fairbank, and they now have one child, Lucile

Marguerite.

Mr. Pillow is a well known club man and much of the nature of

his interests and recreation, aside from business, is indicated

in the fact that he belongs to the St. James, Montreal and

Beaconsfield Golf Clubs, the Automobile Club of Canada, the

Montreal Amateur Athletic Association, the Montreal Jockey Club,

the Royal St. Lawrence Yacht Club and the Heather Curling Club.

XAVIER ARTHUR ROBICHON, M. D.

High on the list of Montreal’s best known surgeons appears the

name of Dr. Xavier Arthur Robichon, who is a descendant of

one of the old French families of the province of Quebec. His

great-grandfather, the first of the family to come to Canada, was

in early life a captain of French vessels. After arriving in this

country he established an iron foundry near Three Rivers, in the

province of Quebec. The Doctor’s grandfather also followed the

business of an iron founder at that place and Nicolas Treffle

Robichon, the father, was a successful merchant at Three Rivers.

He married Trenche Montague, who since his death has resided in

Montreal. Their children are: Nicolas Raoul, a civil engineer

of Montreal; Xavier Arthur; George Henri, an advocate of Three

Rivers; and Mastai, who died at the age of seven years.

Dr. X. A. Robichon was educated in a preparatory school in Three

Rivers, and at the Christian Brothers Ste. Ursule school at the

same place, followed by a five-years’ classical course at St.

Joseph College at Three Rivers, his classical studies being

completed in St. Mary’s College in Montreal, where he spent

four years and where he was graduated with the Bachelor of Arts

degree, receiving the medal of the governor general and the prize

of excellency.

Upon the broad foundation of literary learning Dr. Robichon

erected the superstructure of professional knowledge. Immediately

after the completion of his course at St. Mary’s he began the

study of medicine at Laval University, graduating summa cum

laude in 1906, with the degree of M. D. The following year he

spent as interne in Notre Dame Hospital of Montreal, gaining

the broad practical experience which only hospital practice can

bring. During the succeeding two years he specialized in the

study of surgery in Paris, France, and in the summer of 1909 he

entered upon active practice in Montreal as a general surgeon,

since which time he has devoted his attention exclusively to

professional duties of growing volume and importance. Throughout

this entire period he has also been assistant demonstrator

of anatomy at Laval University. He is a member of La Société

Médicale de Montreal, and he has his office at No. 335 St. Denis

Street.

On the 18th of September, 1907, Dr. Robichon was married by

the archbishop of Montreal, Monseigneur Paul Bruchesi, to Miss

Flora Salvail, daughter of Dr. Salvail, of Helena, Montana, and

they are parents of five daughters, Claire, Jeanne, Alice,

Lucienne and Estelle. Family and professional interests divide

Dr. Robichon’s time. Upon his home and his practice his interest

centers, and laudable ambition in the latter connection has

brought him to a high position, experience, wide reading and

research constantly developing his skill until he is now one of

the foremost surgeons of the city.

[Illustration: X. ARTHUR ROBICHON]

DUNCAN MCDONALD.

The name of Duncan McDonald has long figured prominently in

connection with transportation interests. He has displayed

a spirit of enterprise and initiative in all that he has

undertaken, has operated along broad lines and has carefully

planned and executed important projects. He is now devoting his

attention to the supervision of various interests with which he

is identified following his retirement from the management of the

Montreal Street Railway Company. His investments largely have to

do with transportation interests. He is president of the Montreal

Tunnel Company, which has reached a very active stage in its

development, and it is Mr. McDonald’s purpose to give special

attention to the rapid inauguration and execution of the work.

He is also largely concerned in several real-estate companies

that are dealing with central Montreal property, as well as large

subdivisions in outlying municipalities. He is the president of

the Pre-payment Car Sales Company with offices in the Hudson

Terminal building at No. 50 Church Street, New York, this being

the operating company for all the various “Pay-as-you-enter,”

“Pay-within” and other styles of pre-payment cars that are

being so rapidly adopted by the cities on this continent. He is

also connected with the International F-A-Y-E Tramcar Company,

Limited, Broad Street Place, London, E. C.

Mr. McDonald’s operations in real estate have been of a mammoth

character. He was the original promoter of Dominion Park, which

in its development and sale has netted a splendid income for

the investors, and he is at present vice president of that

enterprise. He is also a director of several industrial and

transportation companies. He belongs to the Institute of Civil

Engineers of France and to the Institute of Electrical Engineers

of Great Britain, connections which indicate the recognition of

his high standing and notable ability in the fields into which he

has directed his efforts.

JOSEPH PHILIPPE LAMARCHE.

Joseph Philippe Lamarche, a well known notary of Montreal, was

born in St. Henri de Mascouche, L’Assomption county, Quebec,

January 29, 1866. His grandfather, Louis Lamarche, was a farmer

of L’Assomption county. His father, Joseph Olivier Lamarche, now

eighty-one years of age, was for many years a notary at St. Henri

de Mascouche, where he yet resides. He married Helene Mount,

a sister of Dr. Mount, of Montreal, and her death occurred in

April, 1874. To them were born three children: Joseph Philippe;

George, a resident farmer of St. Henri de Mascouche; and

Joseph S., a notary of Montreal. The father has been a lifelong

conservative in politics and for many years was secretary and

treasurer of the municipality of St. Henri de Mascouche. In

fact, he has been a prominent figure in political, official

and business circles there and is today one of the honored and

venerable citizens.

Joseph Philippe Lamarche was educated in the parochial schools of

his native town and in L’Assomption College, which he attended

for six years, his course there being supplemented by two years’

study in the Ottawa University. During the succeeding three years

he was a student in the office of Coultee & Lamarche, notaries of

Montreal. In 1890 he won the degree of Baccalaureatus in Legibus.

In 1890 he began the practice of his profession in St. Henri

de Mascouche, where he continued until 1903, when he removed

to Montreal, where he has since successfully practiced. He is

thoroughly versed in the principles of the profession and his

ability is attested by his liberal clientage.

Mr. Lamarche was married in St. Henri de Mascouche to Marie Rose

Lambert, and to them have come four children, Helene, Lambert,

Philippe and Rita. In politics Mr. Lamarche is a conservative and

at the present writing he is filling the office of commissioner

to the superior court for the district of Montreal, his

creditable record commending him to the further support and

confidence of the public.

SIR JOSEPH HICKSON.

Sir Joseph Hickson, who in 1890 received the honor of knighthood

at the hand of Her Majesty in recognition of ability displayed

in the management of important and extensive railway interests,

is classed with those to whom Canada owes much of her greatness

and her prosperity. He was born at Otterburn, Northumberland,

England, in 1830, and acquired his education there. Throughout

his entire business career he was connected with railway

interests, first entering the service of the North Eastern

Railway of England and thus gaining his elementary knowledge

of railway management and operation. He left that corporation

to accept a position with the Maryport & Carlisle Railway, in

which capacity he served with credit until 1851, when he went to

Manchester and entered the service of the Manchester, Sheffield &

Lincolnshire Railway. Promotion rapidly followed in recognition

of his capability, indefatigable energy and perseverance, so that

after ten years he became assistant to the general manager, in

which position his labors engaged the attention of Sir Edward

Watkin, chairman of the Grand Trunk Railway in Canada, who

proffered him the position of chief accountant of the Grand Trunk

in December, 1861.

He left England for the new world in the following January and

made his way to Montreal, where he continued to reside until

called to his final rest. Here his ability and power soon gained

further recognition and he was made secretary and treasurer of

the company, in which capacity he continued until the resignation

of C. J. Brydges, managing director of the Grand Trunk, in 1874,

when Sir Joseph Hickson succeeded as general manager of the road

and system. The policy which he inaugurated was soon felt as a

dominant power in active management and cooperation. One of

his first acts was to sell to the federal government the line

between Point Levis and Riviere du Loup and with the proceeds

of this transaction he changed the old gauge of the road to the

standard gauge of American lines and thus effected connection

with Sarnia and Chicago. The wisdom of this move was soon

manifest as it opened up a new field of enterprise to the company

and marked the beginning of that policy of affiliation and

connection which resulted to the benefit of both countries before

Sir Joseph Hickson ceased to be an active factor in the control

of an immense system embracing five thousand miles of track

in the United States and Canada. Sir Joseph served as general

manager until 1890, when he retired from his arduous position

after receiving, early in that year, knighthood from Her Majesty,

the late Queen Victoria, in recognition of the ability which

he had displayed in the management of the Grand Trunk Railway

System and of the valuable service he had rendered in developing

Canada and her resources. Under his management the road had been

rapidly and substantially improved and extended, connections with

other lines being formed which have proven of great value in

later years. Perhaps the most valuable work which he undertook

and accomplished was the establishment of the direct line to

Chicago wholly under control of the Grand Trunk system. By this

master stroke was secured the best paying portion for carrying

freight and at the same time gave to Canadian steamship companies

a large amount of the freight which they carried across the

Atlantic. It was while Sir Joseph Hickson occupied the position

of general manager that the length of the road in its main and

collateral lines was extended from one thousand three hundred

and eighty-three to three thousand four hundred and eighty-seven

miles. In railway management he studied each vital question from

every possible standpoint and with almost judicial accuracy

passed judgment upon the important matters at issue. He was

largely instrumental in carrying forward the great engineering

undertaking known as the St. Clair tunnel, which was completed

in 1890 at a cost of three million dollars. His work elicited

attention from one end of the country to the other, and he became

one of the foremost representatives of railway interests on the

American continent.

[Illustration: SIR JOSEPH HICKSON]

On the 17th of June, 1869, Sir Joseph Hickson wedded Catherine,

the eldest daughter of the late Andrew Dow of Montreal. Mrs.

Hickson is a native of this city and was educated here. She

has been prominently identified with the Montreal League for

the Prevention of Tuberculosis and was one of the promoters of

the Royal Edward Institute in 1909 and an active supporter of

various other similar bodies. She is also the vice president

of the Montreal branch of the Needlework Guild of Canada and

has been termed by one of the city papers “a queenly hostess.”

Sir Joseph and Lady Hickson had two sons and a daughter. The

eldest, Joseph William Andrew Hickson, was educated at McGill

University, winning the B. A. degree on completing the course

in mental and moral philosophy in 1893, while in 1896 his alma

mater conferred upon him the Master of Arts degree. He won the

Ph. D. degree in 1900 at the universities of Berlin, Freiburg and

Halle. He was lecturer and tutor in the philosophical department

of McGill University from 1900 until 1905, assistant professor of

psychology and lecturer on philosophy at McGill from 1905 until

1909 and has since been assistant professor of metaphysics and

logic. He is a contributor to the University and other magazines

and reviews, is a councillor to the Economic and Statistical

Society, is a member of the University Club and a member of the

board of management of the House of Industry and Refuge. He

is an enthusiastic mountain climber and a well known clubman,

belonging to the Mount Royal, University and Political Economy

Clubs of Montreal and the Alpine Club of Banff. The second son,

James Claud Hickson, graduated B. A. from McGill in 1895 and,

receiving the B. C. L. degree in 1898, is now engaged in active

practice as a member of the law firm of Hickson & Campbell. He

was created K. C. in 1909 and is a life governor of the Montreal

General Hospital. He is well known as a clubman, his membership

being in Mount Royal Club, Canada Club, Montreal Hunt Club, Royal

Montreal Golf Club, Montreal Curling Club, Lafontaine Club,

Montreal Jockey Club, Montreal Racquet Club, Royal St. Lawrence

Yacht Club, University Club, and Constitutional Club of London,

England. The daughter, Miss Mary Elizabeth Hickson, is well known

as an author, having early contributed tales and sketches to the

magazines. She is also the author of two charming stories of

French-Canadian life, “Madame Janvier’s Church” and “The Call of

God.”

Sir Joseph Hickson served as justice of the peace for Montreal

and was interested in several banking, commercial and industrial

enterprises which he represented on the directorate. He was

appointed by the Dominion government as president of the royal

commission on the prohibition of the liquor traffic. He stood for

all those interests which are effective forces in the progress

and upbuilding of city, province and country, and the position

which he filled was one of influence and honor.

HERBERT BROWN AMES.

Herbert Brown Ames, a deep student of the science of government

and avowed in his opposition to misrule in public affairs, has,

through his practical efforts, the result of keen insight into

situations, been instrumental in bringing about various needed

reforms and improvements. His public addresses, too, have aided

largely in shaping public opinion on the side of right and order,

and thus his value as a citizen can hardly be overestimated.

He was born in Montreal, June 27, 1863, his parents being the

late Evan Fisher and Caroline Matilda (Brown) Ames, both of whom

were born in the United States. After mastering the elementary

branches of learning Herbert B. Ames became a student in Amherst

College, of Massachusetts, from which he was graduated in 1885

with the Bachelor of Arts degree. He afterward studied the French

language and literature in France, and made his initial step

in business circles as a representative of the wholesale firm

of Ames-Holden, Ltd., of Montreal, with which he was actively

connected until December, 1893. He is still a representative

of that corporation and one of its directors and is likewise a

director of the Dominion Guarantee Company, the Great West Life

Insurance Company, the Royal Victoria Life Insurance Company,

and a number of other prominent business concerns. As a merchant

he has established a reputation that places him in a prominent

position among the leading and representative business men of

the city. His efforts in that direction would alone entitle

him to distinctive mention in the history of Montreal, and yet

this is but one phase of his activity. He is perhaps even more

widely known because of his connection with efforts put forth in

opposition to misrule in municipal affairs. He was particularly

active in that direction during his service as alderman from 1898

until 1906, during which time he promoted and advocated many

reform measures and projects, always working along conservative

lines. He was chairman of the municipal board of health from 1900

until 1904, and again his service was of notable value to the

city. He had previously filled the position of secretary of the

Good Government Association and was president of the Volunteer

Election League, which bodies effected many reforms in civic

administration. His name is widely known, and in fact he has been

heard in many centers as a lecturer on Canadian political history

and on problems of municipal government. He has been a frequent

contributor to the press, and among his notable articles are: The

Machine in Honest Hands, published in 1894; The City Below the

Hill, A Sociological Study, published in 1897; The City Problem;

What is it?, in 1901; and The Housing of the Working Classes, in

1907. These show wide research and deep insight into existing

conditions and point out various practical methods of improvement.

Mr. Ames was appointed a member and protestant secretary of

the council of public instruction for the province of Quebec

in 1895. The following year he was elected to the presidency

of the Young Men’s Christian Association of Montreal, and the

extent and importance of his work is further indicated in the

fact that he is a governor of the Montreal Dispensary and of the

Society for the Protection of Women and Children. He delivered

an address in London, England, before the chamber of commerce on

trade interchange in 1904, and was presented with a silver bowl

by the same body in acknowledgment of his personal services in

connection with the visit of that organization to Canada in 1904.

In 1909 he went as a delegate to the Imperial Commercial Congress

at Sidney, New South Wales, and as a member of that body moved

for the appointment of an advisory imperial council to consider

questions of imperial interest, especially those tending to

promote trade between the various parts of the empire.

Since the general election of 1904 he has sat for the St.

Antoine division of Montreal in the house of commons in the

conservative interests, and in March, 1909, succeeded in securing

the appointment of a committee for the revision of the assets

of the Dominion. He is a very active worker in support of

conservative measures and movements, and his life work indicates

his recognition of the fact that education along broad lines and

political activity are the sources of a country’s power and the

foundation upon which is builded its business. He was appointed

one of the representatives of the house of commons at the

coronation of King George in London in 1911.

In May, 1900, Mr. Ames was united in marriage to Miss Louise

Marion Kennedy, a daughter of John Kennedy, C. E. They occupy

an attractive home at No. 26 Ontario Avenue, Montreal. Their

religious faith is that of the Presbyterian church, and Mr. Ames

holds membership in a number of the leading clubs of the city,

including Lafontaine, University, Montreal, Royal St. Lawrence

Yacht and St. James Clubs. He is a man of indefatigable energy

and unquestionably a force to be reckoned with in the public life

of Canada. Even those opposed to him politically recognize that

he is a man to be trusted, that what he promises he will do. His

position is never an equivocal one and in his entire career there

is no esoteric phase.

ERNEST NICHOLSON BROWN.

Ernest Nicholson Brown was born in Lower Newcastle, New

Brunswick, on the 12th of July, 1867. His father, Robert Brown,

went from Dumfries, Scotland, to Pictou, Nova Scotia, in 1823,

and settled as a young man in Miramichi, New Brunswick, in 1835.

He married Ann Noble, of United Empire Loyalist descent. Her

grandfather fought on the British side at the battle of Bunker

Hill. James Nicholson, an uncle of Robert Brown fought at the

battle of Trafalgar and the medal awarded him for his services on

that occasion is now in possession of Mr. Brown.

After attending the high school at Chatham, New Brunswick, Ernest

N. Brown entered Dalhousie University at Halifax, from which he

was graduated in 1889 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He

followed that course with post-graduate study at Clark University

in Worcester, Massachusetts, after which he was engaged for some

years in teaching. In 1902 he won the degree of Bachelor of Civil

Law upon the completion of the regular course in law in McGill

University. He was admitted to the bar in the province of Quebec

in 1902 and for two years was in practice in the office of Duncan

McCormick, K. C., while subsequently he became a member of the

firm of Patterson & Brown, and in 1908 he became a member of the

firm of Brown & Staveley.

Mr. Brown is a liberal in politics, and his religious faith is

that of the Presbyterian church. In 1904, Mr. Brown married Miss

Elizabeth Malcolm Fraser, a daughter of the late John Fraser

of Lachine Rapids, author of “Canadian Pen and Ink Sketches”,

“Historic Canadian Ground” and various articles dealing with

points of interest in Canadian history, especially those

connected with the scenes of his boyhood in and about Lachine.

CHARLES BERNIER.

The name of Charles Bernier is a synonym for efficiency in

architecture in Montreal. A native of the province of Quebec, he

was born at St. Jean Port Joli, on the 17th of December, 1866.

His father, Francis Bernier, was a contractor and builder at St.

Jean Port Joli and there died. The mother bore the maiden name of

Virginie Deschene.

Charles Bernier was educated in the schools of his native town

and in the Christian Brothers school at L’Islet. When fifteen

years of age he went to Quebec, where he entered the office of

David Ouellet, a well known architect, with whom he remained

as a student for three and a half years. Through the ensuing

year and a half he was in the office of Ferdinand Peachy, a

noted architect of Quebec, and then, splendidly qualified for

the profession, he entered upon active practice, which he

successfully followed alone in Quebec until June 24, 1903, when

he came to Montreal. Here in connection with Charles Brodeur he

formed the partnership of Bernier & Brodeur, which connection

was maintained for seven years, and during that period their

offices were removed to 70 St. James Street. Through the three

succeeding years Albert Menard was associated with Mr. Bernier in

the firm of Bernier & Menard, and since Mr. Menard’s death Mr.

Bernier has continued alone. He is accorded a large clientage,

for his ability places him among those foremost in the ranks of

the profession. On all sides may be seen splendid evidences of

his handiwork as exemplified in some of the most beautiful and

substantial structures of Montreal.

[Illustration: CHARLES BERNIER]

Mr. Bernier was married in this city to Alma Dionne, daughter

of Octave Dionne, of Quebec, and they are parents of three

daughters, Adrienne, Alice and Anna. The religious belief of

the family is that of the Roman Catholic church. Mr. Bernier

belongs to Lafontaine Club and to the Royal Arcanum. He is a man

of refined, cultured tastes, quiet in manner and a deep student

of subjects relating to the profession, in which his standing is

among the highest.

HON. AMEDEE GEOFFRION.

Hon. Amedee Geoffrion, one of the recorders of Montreal, was born

at Varennes, in the province of Quebec, February 6, 1867, and was

educated at L’Assomption and Laval University. Liberal training

qualified him for the profession which he determined to make his

life work and in 1889 he was called to the bar. He began the

practice of law at the age of twenty-one and from the beginning

made continuous progress. He was made King’s Counsel in 1905.

His activity, too, has been largely manifested along other

lines. Not a little of the progress made on the south side of

the river in recent years is due to his efforts and public

spirit. A consistent supporter of the progressive policy of the

government of Sir Lomer Gouin he has, since elected for Vercheres

in 1908, been identified with many noteworthy public projects

that have assisted materially in the development and improvement

of the rural districts. The movement for the improvement of

existing highways in the county of Vercheres has found in him

a warm supporter. He has served the municipality of Longueuil

with efficiency and manifest approbation, first in the capacity

of recorder and afterward in that of mayor, holding the latter

position since 1908. He stands for all that works for civic

betterment and improvement and is a close student of the vital

problems affecting the welfare of city, province and nation.

During the years of his mayoralty he has been the head of a

highly progressive administration. It has been during this period

that the electric railway has been brought to the town and that

electricity has been installed for lighting purposes, while

cement sidewalks have been laid and the work of improvement has

been otherwise carried on along most progressive and beneficial

lines.

In September, 1912, Mr. Geoffrion was appointed by Quebec to the

position of recorder of the city of Montreal and is now filling

that office with the same capability and fidelity that he has

displayed in other positions. None question his public spirit

nor his knowledge of the law, and he stands today with those

whose success has been builded upon the foundation of ability and

laudable ambition.

LYON COHEN.

Lyon Cohen, merchant and contractor, of Montreal, Quebec, is a

member of L. Cohen & Son, coal merchants, and of W. R. Cuthbert

& Company, brass founders, and is proprietor of the Freedman

Company, wholesale clothiers, the Hibbard Company, Ltd., railway

contractors, and General Improvement & Contracting Company, Ltd.,

dredging contractors.

This has been termed the age of commercialism and it is the

old world’s belief that new world residents are engrossed in

money-making to the exclusion of almost everything else. There

are many examples, however, to the contrary, and the life record

of Lyon Cohen is one which proves that while successfully

conducting business affairs, time may also be found for active

cooperation in movements that tend to promote intellectual and

moral progress, or which relieve distress among the unfortunate

ones of the world, for he has done much philanthropic and

charitable work, while at the same time he has wisely and capably

managed important mercantile interests. He was born in Poland,

Russia, May 11, 1868, a son of Lazarus Cohen. In early childhood

he was brought to Canada and attended the McGill Model School and

also the Catholic Commercial Academy of Montreal. He became a

member of the firm of L. Cohen & Son in 1891, and from the time

when he put aside his text-books and entered business circles his

progress has been continuous.

Mr. Cohen has attained a prominence in Montreal social and

business circles that necessitates a mention of him in any

publication undertaking to represent the leading citizens of

the city. He has been prominently identified with almost every

movement looking to the betterment of Jewish conditions in this

country, and his labors have been effective forces in promoting

the welfare of those of his faith. He was one of the founders

of The Jewish Times of Montreal, and he was president for three

years, 1904-5-6, of Shaar Hashomayim congregation, the largest

and most prominent Jewish congregation in Canada. Interested

in the welfare of his people wherever they are found, he is

treasurer of the Canadian committee of The Jewish Colonization

Association of Paris, and was secretary of the Jewish rights

committee. He is a life governor of The Montreal General

Hospital and of The Western Hospital, and was elected president

of The Baron de Hirsch Institute of Montreal in 1908. He did

such splendid work in that connection, that he was four times

reelected, serving until the end of 1912. Upon his voluntary

retirement he was presented with an illuminated address and

handsome silver service. He is prominently identified with a

number of movements; is member of juvenile court committee;

member of executive of Child’s Welfare Association, and was

chairman of publicity of Child’s Welfare Exhibition, 1912;

member of executive of Montreal improvement committee; honorary

chairman of North End Synagogue; honorary president of Young

Men’s Hebrew Association; and chairman of Committee to Federate

Jewish Charities.

Mr. Cohen is a member of The Montefiore Club, of which he is a

past president; he is also an ex-president of The Montreal Reform

Club, being a liberal in politics. A love of progress actuates

him in all he does. He could not be content to move forward at

the pace which many men assume. He must all the time be up and

doing, for he is a man of action rather than theory, and at all

times the end accomplished indicates the wisdom of the methods he

has followed.

Mr. Cohen was married in February, 1891, to Miss Rachel Friedman,

a daughter of the late Noah Friedman. They have four children,

Nathan Bernard, Horace Rives, Lawrence Z. and Sylvia L. Mrs.

Cohen is also interested in charitable work and is the founder

and president of The Jewish Endeavor Sewing Society. The family

residence is at 25 Rosemount Avenue, Westmount, Quebec.

ZIGMOND FINEBERG.

Under the name of Zigmond Fineberg & Sons is conducted a growing

real-estate and brokerage business. Mr. Fineberg was born in

March, 1863, in Poland, Russia, his parents being Moses Nathan

and Agnes Fineberg, the former a merchant. Among his ancestors

were rabbis, physicians and lawyers and capable business men. He

pursued his education in Suvalk, Russia, and became a government

roads contractor of that country.

Attracted by the opportunities of the new world, and prompted

by laudable ambition to try his fortune on this side of the

Atlantic, Mr. Fineberg came to Canada, settling in Montreal,

where he embarked in business as a clothing merchant in 1887.

About seventeen years were devoted to that undertaking, years

which brought him a substantial measure of success and led to

his activities along still broader lines. It was in 1904 that

he turned his attention to real estate, becoming a real-estate

broker and finance agent, business being now conducted under the

firm style of Z. Fineberg & Sons at No. 62 St. James Street. He

is thoroughly informed concerning property values, knows the

real estate that is upon the market and has himself been a large

investor, not only in real estate, but in railway shares, so that

his stocks and property holdings make him one of the prosperous

citizens of Montreal. Moreover, in 1910, he founded the Montreal

Free Loan Association, of which he is the president. He belongs

to the Montreal Board of Trade and is connected with many

institutions of a public nature, being formerly a director of the

Baron de Hirsch Institute, a life governor of the Baron de Hirsch

Institute, a life governor of the Montreal General Hospital, of

the Hertzl Dispensary and of Mount Sinai Sanitarium. He likewise

belongs to the Montreal Citizens’ Association. He is an ex-member

and vice president of the Spanish and Portuguese synagogue, and

he now holds membership in the McGill College Avenue Synagogue.

In his native city of Prenn in 1885, Mr. Fineberg was married

to Miss Jennie Kirschberg, a daughter of the late Abraham

Kirschberg. The children of this marriage are: Joseph, Nathan

Samuel, Aaron Harry, Moe Newton, Agnes and Max. The second son

has won the degrees of Master of Arts and Bachelor of Common Laws

and is now engaged in the practice of the legal profession.

Mr. Fineberg has held the offices of justice of the peace and

commissioner of the superior courts since 1903. He belongs

to the Masonic fraternity, the Odd Fellows society and the

Canadian Order of Foresters, and exemplifies in his life the

beneficent spirit underlying those organizations, recognizing the

brotherhood of mankind and the obligations of mutual helpfulness

and kindliness.

MATTHEW A. SAMMETT.

Matthew A. Sammett, one of the most competent electrical

engineers in Canada, was born at Baku, Russia, on the 2d of

November, 1872. He was educated in a technical school in his

native land and in 1893, when a young man of twenty-one years,

came to the new world. He continued his education by attendance

at night schools for a time and afterward entered the University

of California, where he pursued a four years’ course, which he

completed by graduation with the Bachelor of Science degree in

1899. He immediately put his theoretical training to practical

test and joined the staff of the General Electrical Company of

Schenectady, New York, in which connection he obtained thorough

familiarity with modern electrical machinery and general

engineering practice. The ability which he displayed in that

connection won him promotion to the engineering department and

in that position he made a close study of the design of some of

the alternating current machinery now in universal use. Each step

in his career has been a forward one, and each change in his

business connections has marked an advance. In 1902 he joined the

engineering staff of the Lachine Rapids Hydraulic & Land Company

and after its amalgamation with the Montreal Light, Heat & Power

Company was given charge of the testing department of the new

organization, his work embracing the testing of the various kinds

of electrical apparatus used in the transformation, control and

measurement of electrical energy. He also designed a complete

line of highly efficient transformers for lighting and power

service.

During 1905 and 1906 Mr. Sammett conducted a popular course

in applied electricity at the Montreal Young Men’s Christian

Association.

In 1908 Mr. Sammett opened an office as consulting engineer

in Montreal and in this connection has gained a large and

distinctively representative clientage, including the Amalgamated

Asbestos Corporation, Ltd.; The Asbestos & Asbestic Company,

Ltd.; The St. Francis Hydraulic Company, Ltd.; The Brompton Pulp

& Paper Company; The Maritime Coal, Railway & Power Company,

Ltd.; The Dominion Marble Company, Ltd.; The Smart-Woods Company,

Ltd. He has also been retained in connection with municipal

electrical undertakings. The practice of his profession now makes

heavy demands upon his time and energies, and in addition

he is well known as a contributor to the technical press of

the United States and Canada. He has also prepared and read

many scientific papers before engineering bodies and is known

personally or by reputation to the entire electrical profession

on the American continent. He has formed many warm friendships

by keeping in close touch with the progress of his profession as

a member of the Canadian Electrical Association, the Canadian

Society of Civil Engineers and the American Institute of

Electrical Engineers.

[Illustration: MATTHEW A. SAMMETT]

Mr. Sammett married Miss Eleanor Horwitz, and their children

are four in number, Frank Edward, Hazel, Helene and Pearl. Mr.

Sammett is a member of the Canadian Club and possesses a genial

cordial nature that has made him popular, but he prefers to

concentrate his energies upon his business affairs, in which he

has attained notable success. He is a self-made man. Commendable

ambition pointed out to him the way to success. He followed the

path indicated and is today occupying an advanced position as an

electrical engineer.

HENRY MORGAN & COMPANY, LIMITED.

For nearly three-quarters of a century the name of Henry Morgan

has been inseparably interwoven with the mercantile progress

and advancement of Montreal and in more recent years, with the

branching out of the house he founded, it has taken a foremost

position, in its various lines, among the big mercantile and

industrial institutions of the Dominion.

The Henry Morgan & Company, Limited, of today, is the outgrowth

of a business established early in the year 1843, on Notre Dame

Street, a few doors east of McGill Street, by Henry Morgan and

David Smith, under the firm name of Smith & Morgan. From a small

dry-goods house carrying only a limited number of lines it has

developed into a great and powerful departmental store and

what might be justly termed one of the mercantile successes of

Montreal, whose capabilities are almost as varied as the city’s

needs.

Henry Morgan, the founder of this house, was born in Fifeshire,

Scotland, in 1819, and when a young man in his early twenties,

came to Montreal, where he entered into the dry-goods business,

as previously stated.

The original location of Smith & Morgan’s store was soon found

inadequate, and in 1854 the business was removed to McGill

Street, just south of St. Joseph, now Notre Dame, in a building

occupied by Latineer. In 1860 an addition was made extending to

Notre Dame Street and when the old American Presbyterian church,

corner of Victoria Square and St. James Street, was removed, the

business was transferred to that location in more commodious

quarters.

In 1852, Mr. Smith retired from the business, and that same year

the firm of Henry Morgan & Company was established, Mr. James

Morgan of Glasgow, Scotland, a brother, becoming a member at that

time. The latter, a native of Saline, Fifeshire, Scotland, had

entered the dry-goods business early in life and for a number of

years was a member of the firm of Muirhead & Morgan, of Glasgow.

The personnel of the firm practically remained unchanged until

1876, when James and Colin D. Morgan, nephews of Henry Morgan and

the former a son of James Morgan, became members, and upon whom

most of the burden of the business has fallen.

In 1891, this firm completed on St. Catherine Street, opposite

Phillips Square, one of the finest business blocks in America, to

which its mercantile business was transferred. This move became

necessary in order to meet the requirements of a constantly

growing business, and a shift in the retail section to that part

of the city.

Mr. Henry Morgan, the founder of the business, died December

12, 1893, at which time the Gazette said in part: “No Montreal

merchant and not many Canadian merchants could claim to be

better known than Mr. Henry Morgan, who passed to his rest

yesterday, after a busy, successful and well spent life of almost

seventy-five years. His character was marked by many of those

traits which have made men of Scottish birth so prominent a

factor in the upbuilding of Montreal’s commercial prosperity. Mr.

Morgan was of a somewhat retiring disposition. His store and his

farm home at Maisonneuve divided his time, and though he enjoyed

a very large share of public respect, he never sought to enter

public life. He was unmarried. His death was due to influenza,

the cause of so many deaths of prominent men lately, acting on a

constitution weakened somewhat by previous illness. The funeral

takes place today from St. Andrew’s church, of which he was an

esteemed elder.”

The death of Mr. James Morgan had preceded that of his brother

but a few months, and occurred on March 28, 1893, at which time

the Gazette said in part: “By the death of Mr. James Morgan,

Sr., Montreal has lost one of its oldest citizens and one who

for well nigh half a century was an intelligent sharer in its

commercial and industrial progress. The deceased gentleman was

in his eighty-sixth year. Mr. James Morgan was a man of strong

intellect, diligently cultivated, an assiduous but judicious

reader until his eyesight became impaired, and his opinion on

questions to which he had given thought was ever listened to with

attention. With few persons was it more profitable to converse,

especially on the higher themes of religion, philosophy and

science. His views were broad and so was his charity. Although

as a business man he had little spare time for writing, Mr.

Morgan could wield an able pen and has written not only prose

but poetry. He was long an esteemed member of the Church of the

Messiah. But though a man of strong convictions, as he was a

thorough Scotchman, neither in creed nor in nationality was he of

the narrow type.”

The business of Henry Morgan & Company from its very inception,

has never been at a standstill, success following the firm’s

every move. In 1906 it was incorporated as a limited liability

company under the present title of Henry Morgan & Company,

Limited, with Mr. James Morgan, as president. The development and

expansion of this firm’s interests have come to include several

large factories which it owns and operates, among these being

the foremost high class wood-working plant in the Dominion,

which places the company in a position to build homes as well

as to decorate and furnish them even to the smallest detail. In

this respect the firm has become widely known throughout Canada,

and its successful undertakings include decorative schemes and

interior furnishings of some of the finest homes in practically

every province in the Dominion.

Its business policy has always been one of absolute integrity and

business honesty, and this has exerted a strong influence upon

the life of a great city. The public who come in daily contact

with the various branches of this great organization readily feel

that spirit of industry and enterprise that has made possible

the accomplishing of great things and the building of a great

business dedicated to the best interests of the public whom it

serves.

HON. JAMES MCSHANE.

In the political history of Montreal during the past half

century no name has been more familiar to the people than that

of the Hon. James McShane, who in all of his public connections

displayed a masterful grasp of every problem presented for

solution combined with thorough understanding of human nature and

the springs of human conduct. A firm belief in the principles

which he advocated combined with the qualities of leadership

enabled him to become a directing force in public affairs.

Mr. McShane was born in Montreal, November 7, 1833, a son of

James and Ellen (Quinn) McShane, who came from county Armagh,

Ireland, and settled in Montreal in the summer of 1833. The

mother died during the cholera epidemic of 1834.

After pursuing his early education under Daniel Mahoney, a well

known Irish schoolmaster of that period, and spending some years

as a student in the Sulpician College, James McShane, at the age

of eighteen years, joined his father who had become an extensive

cattle exporter. The son eventually succeeded to the business and

it is a matter of history that he was the first to export cattle

to Europe, his first shipment of three hundred head being made

October 5, 1874, on the steamship George, to Liverpool. For four

years he also had the contract to supply the British troops when

they were stationed here.

While engaged in this business Mr. McShane, with the natural

love of the Celt for such matters, found time to devote to

political problems and activities, both municipal and federal.

In 1863 he was a justice of the peace and for twenty-one years

he represented St. Ann’s ward as an alderman. During those years

he became known as “the people’s Jimmie,” for he knew every man,

woman and child in the ward, calling them by their Christian

names and ever manifesting deep and sincere solicitude for their

welfare. He possessed a wonderful gift of memory enabling him to

readily recall names and faces and incidents connected with the

individual to whom he was speaking. All this made him personally

popular and was an effective element in his leadership.

At various periods Mr. McShane represented Montreal West and

Center in the legislature, continuing to sit from 1878 until

1892. In the formation of the Mercier cabinet he accepted the

important portfolio of minister of public works in which he

continued in 1887-8. When the late Mr. Justice Curran was raised

to the bench in 1875 Mr. McShane contested St. Ann’s division

in the liberal interests against Sir William Hingston whom he

defeated. In 1891 and 1892 Mr. McShane was mayor of Montreal,

and his administration of municipal affairs was characterized by

many needed reforms and improvements. In 1887 he was a member

of the Quebec Interprovincial Conference, and he was at one time

president of St. Patrick’s Society. He served as an officer in

the volunteer militia in the first administrative battalion in

the Fenian raids of 1866 and was granted a medal for his service.

He is now eighty years of age, but is splendidly preserved

physically and mentally, in both regards being the superior

of many men of sixty years. He possesses all the virtues and

specific activities of the sons of Erin. In 1910 when he was far

past the span of life allotted by the psalmist, he fell victim

to an acute attack of pneumonia, but by sheer force of will

passed through a crisis after he was given up by his old family

physician and friend, Mr. McShane remarking that “he felt quite

fit and that this business of making him stay in bed was only a

joke.”

Mr. McShane has been married twice. In 1863 he wedded Elizabeth

Jane Darrah, who died June 25, 1867. In 1870 he married Miss

Josephine Kathleen Meron of Plattsburg, New York, who died

January 1, 1910. Unto them were born six children, three of whom

survive the mother: Mrs. Richard Barry of Montreal; Mrs. Henry M.

Tracy of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who has two children; and

Mrs. Kathleen H. Buckley of New York city, who has five children.

HON. JEAN BAPTISTE ARCHAMBAULT.

Hon. Jean Baptiste Archambault, judge of the circuit court of

Montreal, took to his judicial duties an excellent record as a

lawyer whose ability and success had won for him a foremost place

among the strong and forceful representatives of the Montreal

bar. A deep thinker, logical reasoner and well versed in the

science of his profession, he was eminently well fitted for the

judgeship to which he was appointed November 29, 1913.

He was born at St. Antoine, Vercheres county, P. Q., on the 21st

of March, 1871, and comes from one of the old and prominent

families of the province, one that has given to the legal

profession more members than any other one family.

In the attainment of his education, Judge Archambault attended

St. Hyacinthe Seminary and Laval University, winning the degrees

of B. L. and B. C. L. in 1895. From the outset the science of

his profession, as well as its practical phases, proved a strong

attraction for him. He entered upon active practice in 1895 and

soon demonstrated his ability to successfully cope with intricate

and involved legal problems.

His preparation of cases was always thorough and his presentation

of a cause marked by perspicuity. His standing among his

professional brethren is indicated by the fact that in 1905 he

was chosen by the council of the bar of the province of Quebec to

assist in editing the judicial reports of the superior court and

the court of king’s bench.

Vital political problems have always greatly interested him, and

he has been active and zealous in support of principles in which

he believes. He was a recognized leader of the conservative party

in his native county and was a candidate for the legislature

in 1904. He has ever been a close student of the signs of

the times and the questions of the day, and although still a

conservative in principle he holds to more independent views

than formerly, his comprehensive study leading him to see many

questions in a different light. He has been spoken of as “a man

who has thought out problems for himself and is an authority on

economics, political and social.” He was one of the first to

advocate proportional representation in Canada, has delivered

many lectures upon the subject and has written many articles

which have done much to foster and promote the idea.

[Illustration: HON. JEAN B. ARCHAMBAULT]

His wide general information is one of the strong elements of his

power and ability as a lawyer and jurist. His broad knowledge,

which enables him to understand life in its various phases, and

his masterful grasp of every problem presented for solution, are

qualities which, combined with a familiarity of the law and with

precedent, equip him for his work on the bench.

Judge Archambault withal is possessed of a genial nature, is

kindly in spirit and unfailingly courteous. He belongs to a

number of the leading social clubs and in their membership is

most popular.

SIR HUGH ALLAN.

Sir Hugh Allan, one of the foremost men in the early development

of Canada’s foreign commerce and the practical founder of the

Allan line of steamships, was a man whose initiative spirit

enabled him to recognize, appreciate and understand situations

incomprehensible to men of less sagacity and insight. The success

of his undertakings made him one of the foremost figures in the

history of Canada’s commercial greatness. He stood as a leading

representative of navigation interests and was almost equally

well known in banking and industrial circles. Indeed many

business interests profited by his cooperation and ability and

his memory is still honored by those who cherish the history of

their country and recognize its real upbuilders.

The identification of the Allan family with the shipping

interests of the St. Lawrence dated back to about 1825, when

Captain Alexander Allan sailed up the river in the brig Favorite

from Glasgow. There were no wharves then. The vessel was assisted

up the St. Mary’s current by oxen. The cargo was discharged on

the beach, over long planks.

Sir Hugh Allan was the second son of Captain Alexander, and was

born September 29, 1810, in Saltcoats, County Ayr, Scotland. Sir

Hugh Allan was in his sixteenth year, when on the 12th of April,

1826, he sailed from Greenock for Montreal on the brig Favorite,

commanded by his father, and on which his eldest brother was

second officer. They arrived in Montreal on the 21st of May.

Hugh Allan entered the employ of William Kerr & Company, and

afterward travelled for some time in the United States. He then

visited Scotland and a year later returned to Montreal, where he

secured a position with J. Millar & Company, shipbuilders and

shippers. So excellent was his service in that connection that

after four years he was admitted to partnership and following the

death of Mr. Millar in 1838 the business was conducted by the

firm of Edmonstone & Allan, ship agents, shipbuilders, importers

and general merchants. In 1846, Andrew Allan, a younger brother

of Hugh’s, was taken into the firm. It owned a fleet of fast

sailing vessels of about 350 tons register, full-rigged ships

which, with ice-blocks round their bows, pushed their way through

the ice, so that sometimes they would arrive in port on the 15th

of April. In 1853 Hugh Allan, who was a man of great tenacity

of purpose, and at the same time of remarkable foresight, saw

that the time had come for the building of iron ships for the

St. Lawrence trade. Besides, there was the consideration that

they would run to Portland in the winter time, and connect with

Montreal by rail. He enlisted the support of several wealthy

men, including William Dow and Robert Anderson, of Montreal, and

formed the Montreal Ocean Steamship Company. The Canadian and

Indian were the first two boats built by the company. The boats

cost about two hundred and fifty thousand dollars each and had a

speed of eleven knots. They were wonders at the time and made a

great impression, as the people had not been accustomed to see

iron ships.

It happened that about this time the Crimean war broke out, and

the government was at its wits’ end to provide transports. The

Allans went into the business and while the war lasted made large

profits.

The first ocean steamship, the Genova, reached Quebec in 1853

and proceeded to Montreal, where there was great rejoicing. She

was an iron boat of eight hundred tons and was succeeded by the

Cleopatra and the Sarah Sands. Newer and larger vessels were

built in the succeeding year and what was deemed experimental

at the start became fixed features of the new navigation, which

was dangerous, owing to so many sunken reefs in the St. Lawrence

and the poor lighting of the river. The Canadian government

made a contract with Hugh Allan for carrying the mails, paying

an annual subsidy of one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.

The Anglo-Saxon, a new boat, ran from Quebec to Liverpool in

nine days on one occasion. This was thought to be wonderful, as

the people had been accustomed to a voyage of forty days on the

old sailing vessels. At that time the grain carrying charge was

thirty cents per bushel.

The requirements of the service in 1858 demanded more

accommodation, and the Allan brothers determined on a weekly

service. Larger and faster boats were introduced. The government

paid subsidies to the new service totaling four hundred and

sixteen thousand dollars per annum. Year by year the Allans

launched new boats, always bigger and faster, though speed was

never the chief consideration with the company. In 1861 they had

a fleet of over twenty vessels, but a sinister fortune befell

the company in the first ten years of its existence. Eight ships

were lost in as many years. The Indian, the Hungarian, a second

Canadian, the North Briton, the Anglo-Saxon, the Norwegian, the

Bohemian, all became total wrecks. The river was badly lighted,

the tides did not run true, the pilots were incompetent and the

compass deviated owing to some strange local attraction due,

it was said, to mineral deposits in the gulf. Anyway, disaster

followed disaster, and, as was said at the time, any other

man than Mr. Allan would have given up in despair. But that

gentleman had something of the firmness of his native granite in

his composition and he never wavered. Difficulties in time were

overcome, the Allans began to prosper and from this on their

boats were singularly free from accidents.

To show, however, how little even the most perspicacious can see

in advance of their time, it may be stated that at the banquet

which the citizens tendered Hugh Allan in 1850, he said that

ships of one thousand seven hundred tons were the most suitable

for the Montreal trade. He lived to see his boats grow to five

thousand five hundred tons. The line prospered; the number of

boats was constantly increased to meet the need; the Northwest

was opened up; and the Allan boats brought in many thousands of

immigrants. The building of the Parisian in 1881 was supposed to

be about the last word in shipbuilding. She was far in advance

of anything to be seen on the route. Today she is, by comparison

with the leviathans of the route, almost as antique as the old

Favorite was when steamships came in.

As prosperity came to him in one direction, Sir Hugh Allan

extended his efforts into other fields. He not only kept abreast

with the times but was ever in the vanguard of progress. He

became president of the Montreal Telegraph Company, of the

Canadian Navigation Company, the Merchants Bank of Canada, and

the Lake Memphremagog Navigation Company. He was also interested

in mining as president of the Mulgrave Gold Mining Company

and his activities extended to the presidency of the Montreal

Warehousing Company, the Vermont & Canada Marble Company, and

many other business enterprises of importance. Indeed, no citizen

of Canada has deserved popular recognition in larger measure

than Sir Hugh, and Queen Victoria acknowledged the value of his

service to his country by knighting him with her own hand in 1871.

In 1877 he decided to associate his name with the Canadian

Pacific Railway enterprise. He, in fact, formed the first

syndicate to build it. The fall of the Macdonald government

defeated his plan.

On the 13th of September, 1844, Sir Hugh was married to Miss

Matilda Smith, the second daughter of John Smith, one of the

leading merchants of Montreal. They became parents of nine

daughters and four sons. Sir Hugh died in Edinburgh while on a

visit to Scotland on the 9th of December, 1882, having passed

the seventy-second milestone on life’s journey. His remains were

brought to Montreal in one of his own vessels, and laid to rest

in Mount Royal cemetery. Well merited encomiums were passed upon

him and high honors awaited him during his active life. He was

one who pushed forward the wheels of progress. Looking into the

future he saw something of the greatness in store for Canada

and became a factor in the fulfillment of the progress which he

believed possible for a country having the natural advantages

here offered. He builded perhaps even better than he knew, for

his work continues today, remaining an important element in

Canada’s enterprise, activity and greatness.

FREDERICK CLEVELAND MORGAN.

Frederick Cleveland Morgan, merchant, is one of Montreal’s

native sons, his father being James Morgan. Liberal educational

opportunitiess were afforded him and after pursuing his education

at Cambridge, where he won the Bachelor of Arts degree, he

continued his studies in McGill University, which conferred

upon him the degree of Master of Arts. Throughout his business

career he has been identified with commercial interests and is

now a member of the firm of Henry Morgan & Company, Limited,

proprietors of the Colonial House Department Store, which is one

of the largest and best establishments of its character in the

city.

In March, 1906, Mr. Morgan was married to Miss Elizabeth Marcia

Shaw, the eldest daughter of C. Thaxter Shaw, of Montreal. They

occupy an attractive home at No. 308 Peel Street. Mr. Morgan is a

member of the University Club, Racquet Club, Forest and Stream,

the Mount Royal Lawn Tennis, Arts Club, Art Association and

Antiquarian and Numismatic Society. Mr. Morgan’s interest lies

more in art and literature than in business affairs. He was the

first secretary of the Arts Club, Limited, formed in 1913 for the

purpose of encouraging art and literature.

HON. SIMEON BEAUDIN, K. C.

Hon. Simeon Beaudin, puisne judge of the superior court of the

province of Quebec, took to his judicial duties an excellent

record as a lawyer whose ability had won for him a foremost

position among the strong and forceful members of the Montreal

bar, where he had been a successful practitioner for more than

one-third of a century.

He was born at St. Isidore, P. Q., September 12, 1855, and comes

from one of the oldest families in the province.

He supplemented his early educational privileges by a course

of study in Montreal College and in 1878 was called to the

bar. He immediately entered upon active practice, forming a

partnership with Messrs. Loranger & Loranger, in whose office he

had previously studied. One of the partners was raised to the

bench and on the death of the other Mr. Beaudin succeeded to the

business of the firm. His partnership relations extended until he

became the senior member of the well known law firm of Beaudin,

Loranger, St. Germain & Guerin. His practice was of an extensive

and important character. He argued the St. Blase parish and other

cases before the judicial committee of the privy council of

England, and was acknowledged as a leader of the French-Canadian

bar. For many years he was a member of the bar council. In 1889

he was created Q. C. by the Earl of Derby. He was batonnier

of the Montreal bar in 1902 and later batonnier-general. His

close conformity to the highest standards of his profession and

his devotion to his clients’ interests gave to him a standing

that was an honor to his profession. He was elected an honorary

member of La Chambre de Commerce of Montreal in 1902 and in 1904

he became one of the incorporators of the La Presse Publishing

Company. He was also one of the promoters of Lafontaine Club and

he likewise belongs to Club Canadien and Pointe Claire Golf Club.

Judge Beaudin has always given his political allegiance

to the conservative party. He unsuccessfully contested

Laprairie-Napierville for the house of commons at the general

election in 1908.

For some years previous to his assuming judicial duties in 1912,

he had been frequently referred to by the press and profession

as a most competent man for the bench, and of him the Montreal

Witness said: “He ranks high in his profession, his thorough

legal sense, knowledge of the law and extensive experience

qualifying him for early judicial preferment.”

[Illustration: HON. SIMEON BEAUDIN]

In 1883 Mr. Beaudin was united in marriage to Miss Mary Norris,

a daughter of John Norris, of Montreal, and they reside at No.

44 Bishop Street. In religious faith Mr. Beaudin is a Roman

Catholic. In all matters of citizenship pertaining to the

material, intellectual, political and moral progress of the

community he is deeply interested, but after all he regards the

law as his real life work.

SIR WILLIAM HALES HINGSTON, KT., M. D.

Sir William Hales Hingston, Kt., M. D., whose professional

activities constituted valuable contributions to the world’s

work, his ability winning him wide recognition and high honors

from various scientific bodies, was born at Hinchinbrooke,

province of Quebec, June 29, 1829, a son of the late Lieutenant

Colonel S. J. Hingston, of His Majesty’s One Hundredth Regiment.

He was a representative of a distinguished Irish family, closely

related to the Cotters of Cork, the Latouches of Dublin and

the Hales. He supplemented his early education, acquired in a

local academy, by study in St. Sulpice, now Montreal College,

and having determined upon the practice of medicine as a life

work, he prepared for his chosen calling by a course in McGill

University, which he completed with the class of 1851. He

further carried on his investigation, study and research abroad,

obtaining a diploma in the Royal College of Surgery at Edinburgh

in 1852, and subsequently obtaining diplomas in France, Prussia,

Austria and Bavaria. He was the first Canadian to whom was

accorded the honor of membership in the Imperial Leopold Academy

at Vienna.

Dr. Hingston entered upon the active work of his profession in

Montreal and continued an eminent member of the profession to the

time of his death, winning notable renown in surgery. His ability

along that line constantly developed. He possessed the steady

hand and the cool nerve of the surgeon and his professional

skill gained him rank with the most prominent representatives

of the profession on the American continent. For many years he

was surgeon in the Hotel Dieu Hospital, where he gave clinical

instructions in surgery. He was also governor of the College of

Physicians and Surgeons and at one time was its president. He

was honored with election as a first secretary of the Canadian

Medical Association, and later was called to its presidency.

He was the organizer of the first board of health in the

Dominion, and his efforts in behalf of sanitary interests were

far reaching and beneficial. Not only did he display marked skill

in surgery, but also eminent ability as an educator, and upon

the organization of Bishop’s College Medical School was chosen

professor of surgery and clinical surgery, and became dean of

the faculty, but at length was forced to sever his connections

with that institution, owing to the many other demands made upon

his time and services. He never refused to respond to a call for

professional aid if he could possibly meet it, and it would be

difficult to name a physician and surgeon of Canada whose labors

have reached out beneficially to a larger number of people.

When, during an epidemic of smallpox, a local board of health

was organized, Dr. Hingston was made its chairman, and he also

became chairman of the provincial board of health, when in 1885

the province was again being visited by that calamity. He was an

energetic advocate of vaccination.

It was but natural that a man of his ability and position should

have written much upon professional topics. He was a valuable

contributor to the medical literature of his day, one of his

most important publications being his “Climate of Canada and

its Relation to Life and Health,” published in 1885. Competent

authority pronounced this “the fullest work, which has appeared

on the subject and apart from its economic and ethnological

value, is, from its pleasing style, delightful to read.”

Scientific bodies conferred high honors upon Dr. Hingston and in

addition, he was elected an honorary member of different state

boards of medicine and by many state medical societies in the

United States. When the British Association for the Advancement

of Science visited Canada some years ago, he was chosen vice

president and not long afterward was elected an honorary member

of the British Medical Association.

His professional activity would alone entitle him to wide

distinction, yet he was active in other fields and in connection

with the public affairs of the country.

He became president of the Montreal City & District Savings Bank,

and also vice president of the City Passenger Railway Company. In

1875 Montreal elected him its mayor, and he served one term, when

he declined renomination. For coolness and judgment, which he

displayed during the Guibord affair in Montreal, he received the

thanks of the Earl of Dufferin, then governor general of Canada.

Bishop’s College University at Lennoxville conferred upon him the

honorary degree of D. C. L., while Victoria University of Toronto

gave him the honorary degree of LL. D. He was made vice president

of the Montreal branch of the St. John’s Ambulance Association

and in 1875 was appointed a commander of the Roman Order of St.

Gregory. Twenty years later, or on the 24th of May, 1895, he was

knighted by Her Majesty, the late Queen Victoria, and he was

called to the senate of Canada by the Earl of Aberdeen, January

2, 1896. His political allegiance was given to the conservative

party, and his study of vital questions and issues of the day

brought about the familiarity of Canadian politics, which enabled

him to discuss such subjects with those to whom such study was a

life work.

In 1875 Dr. Hingston was married to Miss Margaret Josephine

Macdonald, a daughter of the late Hon. D. A. Macdonald, at one

time lieutenant governor of Ontario. Her mother was Katherine,

the second daughter of the late Hon. Colonel Alexander Fraser of

Frasersfield, Ontario. Lady Hingston was educated in Montreal

and has been very prominent in charitable and benevolent work.

She is a member of the Ladies Committee L’Institute des Ecoles

Menageres, vice president of the Needlework Guild, honorary

president of the Loyola Literary Club; prominently identified

with the local League for the Prevention of Tuberculosis;

formerly president of the Woman’s Park Protective Association;

etc., and was elected president of the Catholic Girls’ Club of

Montreal (an association largely founded by her), in 1911.

Sir William Hingston was a member of the Roman Catholic church

to which Lady Hingston also belongs. He passed away on February

19, 1907, but there lives in the minds of those who knew him and

of the professional world at large, the memory of distinguished

service for the benefit of his fellowmen, in the path of his

chosen profession. A keen intellect, splendidly developed, was

brought to bear upon complex medical and surgical problems

and the result of deep thought, wise research and careful

investigation, made his contribution to the world’s work of the

utmost benefit.

HON. JAMES KEWLEY WARD.

Out of the struggle with comparatively small opportunities

Hon. James Kewley Ward came finally into a field of broad and

active influence and usefulness. Not seeking honor but simply

endeavoring to do his duty, honors were yet multiplied and

prosperity followed his undertakings. His father settled on the

Isle of Man and it was there that the son, James Kewley Ward, was

born on the 9th of September, 1819. He was reared and educated

at the place of his nativity but the opportunities of America

attracted him in early manhood, and he crossed the Atlantic

to New York, remaining for a decade in that city. His initial

experience in the new world was one of continuous advancement,

for the wise use he made of his time and opportunities brought

about the development and increase of his powers. He left New

York for Canada in 1853, and settling in Montreal engaged in the

lumber business, which he found a profitable field of labor,

owing to his keen discernment and his wise management of his

affairs. He also became deeply interested in the Canadian cotton

manufacturing industry and in time came to rank with the leading

representatives of manufacturing and commercial interests in his

province.

Important and extensive as were his business affairs, Mr. Ward

never allowed these to preclude an active and helpful interest in

the municipal life or provincial welfare. For eighteen years he

was a valued member of the town council of Cote St. Antoine, and

for nine years he was mayor, giving to the city a businesslike

and progressive administration that brought about needed reforms

and improvements. In 1882 and again in 1887 he was defeated in

the dominion general election, after which he was appointed to

the legislative council in 1888 and in 1903 was made a member of

the council of public instruction. He reached the remarkable old

age of ninety-one years, yet remained an active factor in the

work of the legislative council, being seen daily at his desk in

the legislature, taking a keen interest in many public questions

which were submitted for consideration. He was a liberal and his

position upon any vital issue was never an equivocal one. He

stood stalwartly in defence of what he believed to be right and

for the best interests of the province at large. He was a man of

broad vision, whose public service was characterized by no petty

personal prejudices. Duty was his watchword in public office, and

he seemed to view a vital question from every possible standpoint.

Hon. Mr. Ward was connected with various public institutions,

having to do with the welfare and benefit of the unfortunate

or tending to alleviate hard conditions of life for the needy.

He was a governor of the Montreal General Hospital and of the

House of Industry and Refuge, was president of the Protestant

Hospital for the Insane and president of St. George’s Society

and other organizations. He passed away October 2, 1910, having

kept his faculties unimpaired to the last. To build up rather

than to destroy had ever been his broad policy, and through life

he had attacked every important work which he undertook with a

contagious enthusiasm.

JOSEPH MEDARD GUINDON.

Joseph Medard Guindon, engaged in the real estate business in

Montreal since December, 1908, was born at St. Ignace du Coteau

du Lac in the county of Soulanges, on the 23d of March, 1866, a

son of Jules and Marguerite (Wilson) Guindon the father born at

St. Eustache and the mother at Coteau du Lac. The ancestry of

the Guindon family can be traced back to Pierre Guindon, who was

born in 1648 and died September 27, 1733. He married Catherine

Rouchallet dit Bergerac, who died August 22, 1710. To his

marriage were born three children. The eldest son, Jean Baptiste

Guindon, was born September 15, 1707, and married, February 14,

1729, Madeleine Labette. Pierre Guindon, the second son, was born

in 1708, and died October 7, 1709. Paul Guindon, the youngest

son, was born August 21, 1710, and married November 16, 1733,

Marie Josette Aube dit Aubert, to which marriage were born two

sons: Paul, August 20, 1735; and François, March 23, 1737. Paul

Guindon married Marie Amable de Maisonneuve in 1770 and had one

son, Amable, born in 1772. Amable Guindon married in 1809 and

had a son, Magloire, born October 15, 1811. Magloire Guindon

was married in 1835 to Josette Guindon, his cousin. He took up

arms at the revolt of St. Eustache in 1837, was arrested and

imprisoned for a period of seven months after the confiscation

of the greater part of his goods. To his marriage were born

six children of whom Jules, born in 1840, married Marguerite

Wilson, May 20, 1865, at Coteau du Lac. To them were born eleven

children, the most of whom died at an early age.

Joseph Medard Guindon was a student in l’Ecole du Plateau in

Montreal, where he completed the commercial course in 1882. He

then turned his attention to the hardware trade and in 1897

became a hardware merchant in Valleyfield, where he conducted

business for nine years. In 1907 he established a hardware

store in Montreal, of which he was proprietor for two years. In

December, 1908, he opened a real estate office with L. D. Latour

under the firm name of Latour & Guindon, in which business he has

since been engaged with a large capital. He has personally made

investments in improved property and vacant land and his holdings

are now very extensive. As real estate agent and expert he has

a large clientage and his business is growing year by year. He

is thoroughly informed concerning realty values and the energy

and enterprise which he displays in carrying on his work have

constituted the salient forces in the attainment of his success.

Mr. Guindon has been twice married. On the 30th of June, 1886, he

wedded Rosalinda Bourdon, a daughter of Narcisse and Marie Anne

(Bisaillon) Bourdon, and to this marriage was born one son, Paul

Herve, whose birth occurred at Valleyfield, April 2, 1898. On

October 7, 1902, Mr. Guindon was again married, his second union

being with Marie Rose Anne Sevigny, a daughter of Philias and

Madeleine (Cantin) Sevigny. The children of this marriage are:

Marguerite, Marcelle, Suzanne, Juliette, Mario, Robert, Jacques

and Jean Rodrigue.

[Illustration: J. M. GUINDON]

While living in Valleyfield Mr. Guindon served as city alderman

from 1898 till 1904. He manifests a deep interest in municipal

affairs and all lines of public progress, but has never been

ambitious to hold office, preferring to concentrate his energies

upon his business interests, which are now extensive and

important.

WILLIAM PATTERSON, K. C.

William Patterson was born in Ormstown, Quebec, and is a son of

the late Samuel Patterson. He was educated at the public school

of Ormstown; Huntingdon Academy at Huntingdon, Quebec; McGill

University of Montreal, which institution conferred upon him the

degree of B. A. with first rank honours in classics, in 1886,

M. A., in 1889, and B. C. L., in 1895; and at Laval University,

which granted him the LL. B. degree in 1900.

Mr. Patterson was principal of the Royal Arthur school at

Montreal from 1888 to 1898, during which time he organized and

directed a movement in favor of a school history of Canada,

written from a Dominion instead of a provincial point of view,

the object being, while the history of our country is told from

its earliest periods, to direct, as far as possible, the mind of

the reader from the various currents of provincial history into

the broader channel of the Dominion and to make the boys and

girls of Canada feel as they grow up into the responsibilities

of citizenship that under confederation we have a united country

and a united people. He addressed in support of the movement the

Provincial Association of Protestant Teachers of the Province

of Quebec at their annual convention in McGill Normal school,

Montreal, in October, 1889, and also addressed the Teachers

of the Province of Nova Scotia at their annual convention, in

Halifax, in December, 1890. He also read before the Royal Society

of Canada at Montreal in June, 1891, a paper entitled A Proposal

for a Dominion Text-Book of Canadian History. He was appointed

secretary of the Dominion history committee, with the Hon. George

W. Ross, later Sir George W. Ross, as chairman, by the Dominion

Educational Association at its first meeting, which was held

in Montreal in July, 1892. The result of these efforts was the

organization of the Dominion history prize competition, open to

authors of recognized ability, and the publication in June, 1897,

of The History of the Dominion of Canada, by W. H. P. Clement,

B. A., LL. B., which had been awarded the first prize, and of A

Canadian History for Boys and Girls, by Miss Emily P. Weaver,

which had been awarded the second prize--both works written from

the viewpoint indicated above.

Mr. Patterson organized at Ormstown, Quebec, in 1888, the

Chateauguay Literary and Historical Society and was its

corresponding secretary from that time until 1895, when, under

the auspices of the society and in the presence of over seven

thousand people, many of whom had come from a distance, a

monument erected on the Chateauguay battlefield by the Dominion

government, the outcome of a long agitation, was unveiled in

memory of Colonel de Salaberry’s brilliant victory of 1813 over

the American invading army.

Mr. Patterson was called to the Quebec bar in July, 1901, and has

since successfully practiced his profession at Montreal, where

he is the attorney of the Dominion Alliance and of other bodies.

He is the author of the Handbook of Commercial Law, published in

1904. In 1910 he was appointed joint crown prosecutor for the

district of Beauharnois and in April, 1912, was created a king’s

counsellor.

Mr. Patterson married Miss Naomi Florence Smith, a daughter

of Robert Smith, of Westmount, Quebec, in July, 1909. He is a

liberal in politics and has taken an active part on the hustings

in all federal and provincial elections at Montreal and in

its vicinity since 1900. His church membership is held in the

Presbyterian denomination, and he is a member of the Canadian and

Reform Clubs of Montreal. His residence is at 2290 Mance Street,

Montreal.

WILLIAM HENRY ATHERTON.

William Henry Atherton was born on November 15, 1867, in Salford,

a suburb of Manchester, in Lancashire, England, of Joseph

Atherton, sanitary engineer, and Sarah (Nicholls) Atherton. His

grandfather, William Atherton, was of a line of merchants and

was the last volunteer fire chief in Salford where in Peel Park

Museum his famous fire dog “Lion” held an honoured place. His

maternal grandfather’s family of Nicholls had farms in Yorkshire

and previously in North Wales.

William Henry Atherton spent his early boyhood at the old

cathedral city of Norwich in Norfolk, and in 1879, at the age of

twelve, started his classical studies at Stonyhurst College, in

Lancashire, graduating from the class of Rhetoric in 1886 and

matriculating the same year in the first class in the University

of London. After several years’ further classical studies he

entered the course of scholastic philosophy at St. Mary’s

College, Stonyhurst, and at the end of the third year, in 1895,

presented his theses in Universa Philosophia, which he passed

with distinction “aptus ad docendum,” the degree being equivalent

to the Doctorate of Philosophy, which was, after a further

thesis on “Beatitudo Finalis” accepted as _ad eundum gradum_ at

the University of Ottawa in 1908. From 1898 to 1902 he pursued

a four years’ course of scholastic divinity at St. Beuno’s

College, St. Asaph, North Wales. When not engaged in the above

courses he taught for nearly ten years as a professor of classics

and elocution at Stonyhurst College, Lancashire, and Beaumont

College, Old Windsor, Berkshire, two of the principal “public

schools” of England. At both of these colleges he had charge of

the dramatic performances, which are a recognized and important

feature in their educational system. There he produced many

of the best examples of the classical drama as well as of the

best modern plays. He also had charge of the preparation of the

annual or term “academies” or “speech days” and thus his students

presented parts of Latin, Greek, English and French classical

pieces.

On coming to Canada in 1907 William Atherton taught classics

for a year at St. Albert, Alberta, at the Bishop’s Seminary,

assisting Mgr. Légal in the preparation of a history of the

Catholic church in North Alberta. In 1908 he taught classics

at Loyola College, Montreal. Since then he has filled other

educational posts in the city as lecturer in psychology and

ethics at the College for the Higher Education of Women,

established in connection with Laval University; professor of the

English course in the new “Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales”

erected by the Gouin government in 1910, and from 1911 he has

also been an examiner in Arts for the entrance examinations

conducted by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the

province of Quebec. During his career in Montreal Dr. Atherton

has identified himself with most phases of the sociological

problems of the city. In 1908 he was invited to assume the

managership of the Catholic Sailors’ Club, a position he still

holds. In 1909, when the City Improvement League was established,

he was selected to become the executive secretary. He is a member

of the Civic Secretaries’ Association in connection with the

National Municipal League of America, a member of the National

Housing Association, the International City Planning Conference

and the American Civic League. At the Toronto convention of the

International City Planning Congress held in June, 1914, he was

appointed by the Canadian delegates to represent them before

the Commission of Conservation of the Dominion government to

urge the creation of a special Municipal Improvement Bureau

in connection with that Commission, to co-operate with and to

organize the various movements for city planning, housing and

civic improvements in the Dominion. He has taken an active part

in most of the recent Civic Improvement and Good Government

movements in Montreal, being one of the pioneers in affecting the

appointment of the Metropolitan Parks Commission for Montreal,

and a consistent advocate of better housing conditions for the

working classes. He was the organizing secretary of the notable

Child Welfare Exhibition held in Montreal in the Drill Hall on

Craig Street in October, 1912. In 1914 he was a member of the

executive committee of the “clean-up week” movement, a great

public health movement which was taken up by the whole city, in

which he acted as chairman of the Co-operation Committee.

[Illustration: WILLIAM H. ATHERTON, PH. D.]

Dr. Atherton has been the author of many contributions and

criticisms to literary, philosophical and civic journals. His

first work, published anonymously under the auspices of the

Catholic Truth Society of England, was the Life of Father

Damien, the Leper Priest, which appeared in England in 1889,

attracting attention as the first authentic life then published.

Dr. Atherton has identified himself with the literary life of

Montreal. He was one of the founders of the Montreal branch of

the Dickens’ Fellowship of which he has been vice president for

three years and president for the years 1912-1913-1914. He is the

author of the two volumes of the history of Montreal under the

French Régime and under the English Rule now being published.

HON. RAYMOND PREFONTAINE.

Joseph Raymond Fournier Préfontaine was a member of an old

French family which was established in 1680 in New France. Mr.

Préfontaine was born at Longueuil on the 16th of September, 1850.

He began his education under private tutors and completed his

classical studies at St. Mary’s College under the direction of

the Jesuit Fathers. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree at McGill

University and was admitted to the bar in 1873. While taking up

his private practice he began at the same time occupying himself

with public affairs with success.

There are few men who, step by step, possessed more than he the

rare gift of being always the man of his time and who at all

times retained the favor of his friends. He made his debut in

municipal politics as alderman for Hochelaga, and in 1879 became

the mayor of that municipality, which honorary post he held until

1884. At this period the progress of Montreal was slow, it being

the custom to retard rather than hasten her development. The

town and city officers at that time were struggling along with

inadequate acts and regulations. They were like the undeterred

scientists of old who obstinately tried to solve the problem

of squaring the circle although without the slightest vestige

of success. New blood was needed and Hochelaga supplied the

first infusion in the person of Mr. Préfontaine. When Hochelaga

was annexed to Montreal Mr. Préfontaine became alderman of the

Montreal council and president of the public works commission.

The task which confronted him was not a small one. On the one

hand he had to fight against a routine held sacred, and on the

other hand against a majority which was absolutely neglecting the

eastern part of Montreal.

In 1898 Mr. Préfontaine was mayor of Montreal and began to

carry out his program of action. Nothing was neglected for the

advancement of the city, and he employed to the utmost his legal

acumen and ability in restoring Montreal to her rights. From

that time he displayed a deep and abiding devotion to Montreal

East which owes so much to him, his labors in this connection

being the crowning achievement of his efforts. It was he who gave

to the city the Viger railroad station, and this was in itself

but a small matter when compared with the shipbuilding yards,

the mammoth warehouses and thousands of habitations that he by

his persistency won for the French region of the metropolis. He

thought of everything; the street railway service, the electric

lighting system, the street paving, all these bore the stamp of

his personality. He was sometimes unjustly accused of lending

himself to questionable deals but always emerged from these

ordeals without a stain upon his character or a shadow of doubt

remaining as to the entire justification of his actions.

He was the Haussman of the city. It was generally known that

he was the friend of the working men and would defend their

interests as his own. It was but natural therefore that the

workingmen of Hochelaga were his best friends and his stanchest

partisans. They were his standard bearers throughout the entire

town and were the first who made possible his election to the

magistracy of the city. Mr. Préfontaine lifted Montreal out of

the old routine and after he was elected mayor all worked hand

and glove with him in order to crown his work, and it is not

short of the truth to say that a complete reorganization of the

municipal autonomy took place.

Hon. Mr. Préfontaine at the time of his death had been in

politics for thirty years. In 1875 he was elected member of

parliament from Chambly to the legislature of Quebec and

continued to represent that county from 1886 to 1896 in the

Dominion parliament. In his early days he served as president

of the Young Men’s Liberal Association and later as president

of the Club National. He was always the man of the hour. His

remarkable popularity, the wide prestige which he enjoyed in the

liberal party and the financial world, his intimate knowledge

of political and administrative affairs, all betokened him the

foremost man in the province of Quebec and more particularly in

the district of Montreal. He was actively interested in all the

movements of his party; few were the counties which he did not

visit during the campaigns, and he took part in all the important

debates. From his debut he was always in the public eye. Men

like him are always the first in all ranks of life. One sees him

ceaselessly battling when vital interests are at stake. At the

general elections of 1900 he was elected by a large majority

for Maisonneuve and Terrebonne. At the time of his death he was

representing Maisonneuve, which had elected him by a majority of

twenty-five hundred votes. When the Hon. Mr. Tarte resigned from

the Laurier cabinet Mr. Préfontaine was prevailed upon to accept

the portfolio of marine and fisheries. It is to him that Canada

owes the fine organization of this department and the excellent

results obtained.

Let us recall what he wrote regarding this subject on the 21st

of October in Le Soleil: “We receive every day confirmation of

the happy news that the harvest of this year will surpass all

hopes. In fact, everything indicates that it will be phenomenal.

The Grain Merchants Association values for only the west the

production of wheat at ninety-one and a half millions bushels;

that of oats at sixty-seven millions of bushels; that of flax at

half a million. On the other side the reports from Quebec and

Ontario are excellent. There is no doubt that our exportations

of agricultural products will this year largely exceed those of

1903, our maximum year, which amounted to one hundred and fifteen

million dollars. These figures are so outstanding that they speak

for themselves. They mean that the facilities of transportation

will have to be considerable to ship all of this,--that is that

the St. Lawrence route will be largely put in requisition to

export our grain and in return, for the importation of articles

sent in exchange. But they signify also that large sums of money

will come into the treasury and that the St. Lawrence route will

well merit its share. The St. Lawrence begins at the head of

Lake Superior and goes as far as Belle Isle, I may say nearly to

Newfoundland.

“One of my predecessors asked from Sir Wilfrid Laurier

twenty-five million dollars for the single purpose of deepening

the channel from Montreal to the Gulf. It is far from being

completed. Since the channel was started we have not yet expended

one-fifth of this amount and yet we can look backward with

confidence and contemplate with pride the work accomplished. It

is needless to give here the figures. Suffice it to say this is

not a financial treatise but a statement to the people, telling

them frankly that in less than five years we have created

from nothing at Sorel, the national workshops of maritime

construction, the most perfect, the best equipped, the best

managed in existence in Canada and which would do credit to any

other country. We have constructed the dredges and the apparatus

necessary for digging and maintaining the channel at a desirable

depth. The channel will be thirty feet in depth throughout

almost its entire course. We have reasonably widened the curves

wherever they were met. We have constructed signals and placed

buoys to extend as far as the gulf and join with the channel.

We have installed submarine bells and we are experimenting with

a new electrical system for the direction of the vessels in the

channel. We have made the channel between Montreal and Sorel as

light at night as it is by day. We are now replacing floating

fires with stationary fires. We have commenced and will continue

with powerful vessels specially constructed to this end to make

possible winter navigation and this trial, mark my words, will

culminate in good results. That is as a matter of fact quite a

goodly sum of finished work since Sir Wilfrid Laurier has come

into power and, without boasting too much, since he has entrusted

to your humble servant the portfolio of marine, so much decried

by our good friends, the conservatives.

“Now, as far as professional progress is concerned, we can

still cite without fear of criticism improvement of the law in

regard to pilots who are now under control of my department, new

conditions regarding more severe regulations, etc.; the revision

of the law for the examination of captains and mates; the

re-drafting of the law regarding the inspection of steamships;

the creation of a competent tribunal of nautical inquiries; the

establishment of navigation schools, and the organization of a

scientific system of oceanographic and hydrographic observations.

Here, in brief, between two viewpoints, we can, I believe,

address our friends in order to show them in a new and authentic

light the liberal work which has been done on the service of our

grand maritime route. But you say in Quebec that with all this

there still will be accidents on the river. This I cannot deny

and no one regrets it more keenly than I. There will be accidents

everywhere and these will happen in spite of all the precautions

taken and at the moment when they are least expected. It is for

this very reason that we call them accidents. Accidents happen

on the canals, they will happen in mid-ocean and they might even

happen in the port of Quebec if Providence so ordains, which I

sincerely pray, not.”

At the outbreak of the Boer war Mr. Préfontaine gauged public

feeling in Canada correctly and favored the contribution of men

to the cause of the Empire and also favored the establishment

of a Canadian navy. While maintaining offices in the city hall

he displayed remarkable faculty for winning friends. It was

said of him that no matter how bitterly opponents assailed him

he never bore resentment. As years went by this trait actually

made admirers out of those who had formerly been enemies. He

was always ready to do a friendly act and was naturally of an

optimistic temperament, being scarcely ever known to show a sign

of dejection or low spirits. A belief in the possibilities of an

undertaking always served as a stimulus to his intense activity,

usually accompanied by the desired results.

In June, 1876, Mr. Préfontaine married Miss Hermantine Rolland,

and unto them were born three sons: Rolland, a civil engineer

in Montreal; Fernand, of the firm of Préfontaine & Drouin,

architects of Montreal; and Adrien, now deceased.

Mr. Préfontaine died in Paris, France, December 25, 1905. At

that time Mr. Lawrence A. Wilson said of his dead friend: “As

the last candle lights were flickering out their little flames

upon the gilded Christmas trees that had made so many young and

old hearts happy, a cruel message, wrapped in thunder, reached

us. A man had died: Yes! a big, big man in the fullest sense

of the word. A generous friend he was always to the needful,

irrespective of color, creed or nationality and one whom I have

never known, during twenty years, to have harbored over night an

ill feeling against his greatest political foe. When I asked him

recently during a friendly conversation why he worked so hard to

the detriment of his personal interests and particularly of his

health, he replied, ‘My greatest pleasure is to be able to do

something for my friends.’ He was a kind husband to his devoted

but now sorrowing wife, a good father to his three bright boys, a

solid friend to all those he trusted and a faithful, unflinching

follower of his chief, Sir Wilfrid Laurier. That man was Raymond

Préfontaine.”

The Montreal Daily Star editorially said of him: “Canadian

public life has produced few men who would be more sincerely

mourned by an army of personal friends than will the late Raymond

Préfontaine. He was a man who was always bigger than his party,

bigger than his numerous victories and broader in his sympathies

than many a man who made more display of public spirit. A

genuine liking for the big, generous man pervaded all classes

of the community and was no small share of his strength in any

political contest. His death comes at an exceedingly bad time

for the country, just when he had taken up the problem of the

St. Lawrence channel in real earnest and was bent upon giving us

a clean bill of health. He has hardly been long enough in the

federal field for the nation to learn to know him as he has long

been known in this district. As a public man he has come in for

not a little criticism. He was a candidate who stood fire well

and was seldom irritated into replying with unwise petulance.

Perhaps at times he displayed too great a faith in the financial

recuperative powers of this city but after all is said and done,

that was a generous fault. At this moment our people will only

remember the attractive personality, the stanch British subject,

the warm-hearted political leader who lies dead in the French

capital.”

La Presse, whose editor, Mr. Dansereau, was a close personal

friend of the late Hon. Raymond Préfontaine, after referring to

the news of his death, continues: “We do not seek to hide our

deep emotion, for he was counted among our oldest friends, and

we were the last Canadians to grasp his hand before he embarked

at New York on the steamer which took him across. Had he any

presentiment? He was serious and pensive, nothing about him of

the ordinary joy which is connected with the perspective of a

short journey was shown in his manner. The distinguished deceased

had eminent qualities, for he was a man of action and energy.

He had done more in two years for the development and aiding of

navigation than all his predecessors in the department since

confederation. At least he has the merit of tracing a program

that must not be laid aside. Life is ephemeral; fame matters

little to him at this moment. But his family will have the

consolation of a heritage more precious than fortune, that of his

talent, his prestige, of his political and administrative worth.”

PROFESSOR THOMAS ALBERT STARKEY.

Professor Thomas Albert Starkey, a well known educator, lecturer

and physician of Montreal, was born in Hertford, England, a son

of Thomas Starkey. His early education was obtained in his native

town and in 1894 he was graduated from London University with

the degree of M. D. Subsequently he pursued a course in the

University Collegiate Hospital in London and was house surgeon at

the Brompton Hospital. Subsequently he was sent to India to carry

on researches and promote the cure and prevention of the plague

and cholera. He worked in the Imperial Research Laboratory in

Bombay from 1899 until 1901 and afterward was given charge, under

the sanitary commission, of the entire hygienic condition of two

large districts, his labors there being of inestimable value in

improving existing conditions.

On his return to England Dr. Starkey pursued public health work

in the laboratory of University College at London and was also

bacteriologist of the London county council. He came to the new

world in 1902, being appointed in November of that year professor

of hygiene at McGill University of Montreal. In 1906 he was

elected a fellow of the Royal Sanitary Institute of England and

is now secretary and examiner of the local branch of the same

body. In 1910 he was elected the first president of the Canada

Public Health Association in which connection his efforts have

been far-reaching and beneficial. Not only has he done important

practice and research work, but has also written upon questions

relating to the public health. He has lectured on the Ancient

and Modern Methods of Water Supply--A Comparison, and on kindred

subjects, all of which have to do with the public health and the

prevention of disease.

In September, 1904, Dr. Starkey was united in marriage to Miss

Josephine MacCullum, a daughter of the late Dr. Duncan Campbell

MacCullum, and they have one son, Hugh. It would be difficult to

measure the usefulness of the life work of Dr. Starkey, but the

scientific world acknowledges its indebtedness to his efforts

and his labors, far-reaching and effective, have been beneficial

forces for humanity in various sections of the world.

CHARLES CHAPUT.

It would be difficult to find a more active business man in

Montreal and one whose labors are more gratifyingly resultant

than Charles Chaput, who stands as one of the most successful

merchants of the metropolis, ranks among its most substantial

citizens and to quote the Montreal Gazette is “a man of

unimpeachable integrity.” He was born in Montreal, November 14,

1841, a son of the late Leander Chaput, who came to Montreal from

L’Assomption in 1832 and in 1842 founded what is now the well

known wholesale grocery house of L. Chaput, Fils & Cie, Limitee.

He lived to the age of eighty-four years, passing away in 1901.

His wife was Helene St. Denis, a daughter of J. B. St. Denis of

Montreal.

Charles Chaput acquired his education in the best French and

English schools in Montreal of the time. In 1857 at the age of

sixteen years he joined his father’s firm as a junior clerk, at

which time the firm was L. Chaput & Cie, and on his being made a

partner in 1862 the style was changed to L. Chaput, Fils & Cie.

In 1875 upon the retirement of his father Charles Chaput became

the head of the firm, where he has since remained, although there

have been many changes since in its personnel. In 1884 L. E.

Geoffrion was admitted a partner and for years was actively

interested in the conduct and management of the business. In

1896 E. St. Denis retired after having been a partner for

forty years and in the same year Ferd Prudhomme was taken into

partnership. In 1899 Armand Chaput and in 1909 Emile Chaput, sons

of Charles Chaput, were admitted as members of the firm, which

was incorporated on February 1, 1912, under name of L. Chaput,

Fils & Cie, Limitee, Charles Chaput becoming president, Armand

Chaput vice president and manager and Ferd Prudhomme secretary

and treasurer. The house of L. Chaput, Fils & Cie, Limitee, has

attained a widespread, honorable and unassailable reputation in

business circles by reason of the straightforward and commendable

principles employed in the conduct of its large interests.

[Illustration: CHARLES CHAPUT]

For many years Mr. Chaput has maintained an extremely active

business interest not only in the large firm of which he is now

the head but also as a director in many other firms, in banks

and in financial institutions. As a member of the council of

the Board of Trade he has played a very important part in the

work of that organization. A governor of Notre Dame Hospital, he

has been largely instrumental in strengthening the finances of

that splendid institution. He was for several years a director

of La Banque d’Hochelaga and also of the Canada Life Insurance

Company. He has been a councillor of the Chambre de Commerce

and president of the Wholesale Grocers Guild. He is a director

of the International Mercantile Agency, also vice president of

the Montreal Business Men’s League and president of the Montreal

Citizens Association and has ever taken an active interest in

business matters and all things tending to promote the welfare of

the city and the uplifting of humanity.

His charitable instincts and activities are broad and varied.

Aside from the institutions above mentioned with which he is

connected he is also a governor of the Montreal General Hospital

and a member of the Montreal Dispensary. He cooperates earnestly

and effectively in many movements which have for their object the

alleviation of hard conditions of life for the unfortunate. In

religious faith he is a Roman Catholic.

Mr. Chaput has never entered the political field, yet he has

always maintained a deep and sincere interest in the political

affairs of the country. Furthermore, he has played a very

prominent part in municipal affairs and while not himself

directly interested or a seeker of place he has been one of the

leading figures in the organization of the Citizens’ Association

and a sturdy exponent of municipal government through the medium

of the Board of Control. He is progressive in all things, being

ever ready to give his support to any movement that will tend to

the improvement of conditions in Montreal.

Mr. Chaput married Rose Anne Smith, who died in September, 1883;

he then married Clara Chevalier, who died in July, 1893; his

third wife was L. Patoine in her maidenhood. He has a family of

three sons and two daughters, all born to the first marriage.

The eldest son, Rev. Father Charles Chaput, is a Jesuit priest

and a professor of philosophy. The second son, Armand Chaput,

is vice president of L. Chaput, Fils & Cie, Limitee. He married

Juliette Auger, a daughter of J. C. Auger, formerly registrar of

Montreal. The third son, Emile Chaput, is a director in the firm

and married Rosalie Loranger, daughter of the Hon. Mr. Justice

Loranger of Montreal. Rose Anna, the elder daughter, is the

widow of Mr. Gabriel Marchand, M. P., son of the late Hon. F. G.

Marchand, who was premier of the province of Quebec. Antoinette,

the younger daughter, is the wife of Mr. E. Desaulniers, notary,

of St. Lambert, P. Q.

Mr. Chaput holds membership in L’Association St. Jean Baptiste

and in the Antiquarian and Numismatic Society--associations which

show something of the nature of his interests and his delight in

research work.

AIME CHASSE.

Aime Chasse, advocate, was born at St. Elphége, Yamaska County,

Province of Quebec, October 9, 1886, of the marriage of Zoel

Chasse, a cultivateur, and Julie (Proulx) Chasse. He studied the

classics at the Seminaire de Nicolet, graduating with the degree

of Bachelor of Arts in 1908. He studied law at Laval University

in Montreal and at the same time in the office of Coderre &

Coderre, in Montreal, and was admitted to the bar in July, 1912.

Since the 1st of June, 1914, he has been a member of the law firm

of Archambault & Chasse. Mr. Chasse has been president of the

Association de la Jeunesse Conservatrice de Montreal since April

15, 1914. He has lived in Montreal since September, 1908. On

January 7, 1911, he married Alphonsine Boisvert, of St. Elphége.

HON. LIEUTENANT COLONEL SIR HUGH MONTAGU ALLAN.

Clubman, sportsman and business man of marked enterprise--in

these few words are summed up the life record of Sir Hugh

Montagu Allan, whose interests have been many and whose

activities far-reaching. To accumulate a fortune requires one

kind of genius, to retain a fortune already acquired, to add

to its legitimate increment and to make such use of it that

its possessor may derive therefrom the greatest enjoyment and

the public the greatest benefit, requires quite another kind

of genius. Sir Hugh Montagu Allan belongs to that younger

generation of business men of Montreal called upon to shoulder

responsibilities differing materially from those resting upon

their predecessors. In a broader field of enterprise they find

themselves obliged to deal with affairs of greater magnitude and

to solve more difficult and complicated financial and economic

problems.

Such was the position in which Sir Hugh Montagu Allan found

himself following the demise of his father, Sir Hugh Allan, an

eminent figure in shipping and financial circles of Canada. The

mother, Matilda Caroline (Smith) Allan, was the second daughter

of the late John Smith, a prominent merchant of Montreal and it

was in this city that Sir Hugh Montagu Allan was born October

13, 1860. His education acquired in Bishop’s College School at

Lennoxville, was supplemented by study in Paris, France. He was

a young man of but twenty-two years at the time of his father’s

death and under the terms of his father’s will entered the

firm of H. & A. Allan, steamship agents. It was in the latter

connection that they established the Allan Line of steamships,

then and now the most important factor in passenger service and

freight carrying trade between Great Britain and Canada. More

and more he has come into prominence, as he has given proof of

his power to carefully, systematically, wisely and successfully

promote the important interests of mammoth corporate concerns. He

is today president of the Merchants Bank of Canada, the Acadia

Coal Company, the Railway Securities Company, and vice president

of the Canada Paper Company and the Canadian Vickers, Limited.

His name is on the directorate of the Montreal Light, Heat &

Power Company, the Ogilvie Flour Mills Company, the Canadian

Transfer Company, the Labrador Company, the Dominion Iron &

Steel Company, the Dominion Steel Corporation, the Mutual Life

Association Company of Canada, the Canadian Cottons, Limited,

the Royal Trust Company, the Montreal Investment Trust and the

Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company of Montreal.

In December, 1878, he assumed the name of Hugh Montagu instead

of Hugh Andrew Allan, by which he was previously known. Long

connected with the Montreal Board of Trade, he served as a

counselor for several years and as its treasurer in 1891 and

1892. Further interests of a public character which have profited

by his cooperation include the Montreal Horticultural and Fruit

Growing Association, of which he is a director and St. Andrew’s

Society, of which he is president. His prominence as a sportsman

is indicated in the fact that he is an ex-master of the Montreal

Hunt. His horses have won the Queen’s plate, the Montreal hunt

cup, members’ plate and hunters’ handicap steeplechase cup. Sir

Hugh Montagu Allan is now president of the Montreal Jockey Club,

vice president of the Canadian Racing Association and director

of the International Horse Show Association. He was formerly

vice president of the Montreal Racket Club and a director of the

Montreal Skating Association and the Amateur Skating Association

of Canada. His activities have touched many benevolent and

charitable projects. He has been a director of the Sailors’

Institute, the Charity Organization Society, the Society for

Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and is vice president of the

Montreal General Hospital. He gave five thousand dollars to the

Charles Alexander Memorial Fund and the Allan Cup as a perpetual

trophy for competition between amateur hockey clubs in 1910. He

is one of the founders of the Mount Royal Club and the Winter

Club at Montreal.

In October, 1893, Sir Hugh Montagu Allan wedded Marguerite Ethel

Mackenzie, a daughter of the late Hector Mackenzie of Montreal.

She was elected a member of the Central Council Victoria League

at London, England, in 1909, and is honorary president of the

Daughters of the Empire in Montreal. Sir Hugh and Lady Allan at

their Montreal home, Ravenscrag, entertained H. R. H. Prince

Arthur of Connaught in 1906, and H. I. H. Prince Fushimi of Japan

in 1907. Sir Hugh was presented to the late King Edward in March,

1910, and Lady Allan was presented in July, 1906. He was knighted

June 24, 1904, became C. V. O. in 1907, and Order of the Rising

Sun of Japan (third class) in 1907. He was appointed honorable

lieutenant colonel of the First Battalion, Fifth Regiment,

Royal Highlanders, in 1911. His religious faith is that of the

Presbyterian church. In addition to Ravenscrag in Montreal, Sir

Hugh has a summer home, Montrose, at Cacouna, and another estate,

Allancroft, in Beaconsfield, province of Quebec. That he is an

eminent and well known figure in club circles is indicated by the

fact that he belongs to the St. James Club, Mount Royal Club,

Canada Club, Auto and Aero Club, Montreal Hunt, Montreal Jockey

Club, Winter Club, Royal Montreal Golf Club, Royal St. Lawrence

Yacht Club, Canadian Club, Forest and Stream Club, Lachine

Boating and Canoeing Club, Montreal Curling Club, Back River Polo

Club, Montreal Racket Club, Montreal Thistle Curling Club, all

of Montreal; Toronto Club, York Club of Toronto; Rideau Club,

of Ottawa; Racquet and Tennis Club and Knickerbocker Club, of

New York; and Junior Carlton Club, Canada Club, and Royal Thames

Yacht Club, of London, England.

The subjective and objective forces of life are in him well

balanced, making him cognizant of his own capabilities and

powers, while at the same time he thoroughly understands his

opportunities and his obligations. To make his native talents

subserve the demands which conditions of society impose at the

present time is the purpose of his life, and by reason of the

mature judgment which characterizes his efforts at all times,

he stands today with those whose activity in various lines does

not exclude active participation in and support of other vital

interests which go to make up human existence.

LOUIS EDOUARD FORTIER, M. D.

Dr. Louis Edouard Fortier, one of the most prominent of the

French physicians of Montreal, was born in the city of Quebec,

February 11, 1865, a son of Edouard and Celina (Marcotte)

Fortier. The paternal grandfather, Louis Fortier, was a farmer

and was the founder of the village of Fortierville, while his son

Edouard was a merchant in the city of Quebec.

The family removed to Montreal during the Doctor’s boyhood and

both parents passed away in this city. Two brothers of Dr.

Fortier are still living: one, Dr. Joseph Emile, is one of the

busiest medical practitioners of Montreal; the other, Joseph

Auguste, a well known writer, after having traveled all around

the world settled in India about fifteen years ago, and is

principal and superintendent of the Agha Engineering School, in

Fyzabad, Oudh.

Dr. Fortier was educated in the Jesuit College of Montreal, after

which he studied medicine in Victoria University, being graduated

therefrom with the degree of M. D. in the class of 1889. He was

at once appointed demonstrator of anatomy at Victoria University

and physician to the Hospital Hôtel-Dieu. These positions he

filled in addition to attending to his private practice, which

has been extensive from the beginning, and he has been regular

physician to the Hôtel-Dieu since 1889. After some years devoted

to active practice, he further continued the study of his

profession in Paris and London, coming in touch with the work

of eminent physicians and surgeons in both cities. He ranks

high in hospital work and is widely recognized as a learned and

able member of the profession, who is constantly promoting his

knowledge through reading, research and investigation. He is

also classed with the able educators and at the present time is

professor of pharmacology and therapeutics in Laval University.

A scholar and a good writer, Dr. Fortier has been during

many years editor of La Gazette Médicale de Montréal, the

official organ of the Victoria University Medical School

in Montreal before the affiliation of this school with Laval

University. Since that time, besides many valuable contributions

to medical reviews, Dr. Fortier published a few years ago a

Handbook of Medicine for Nurses, and last year a Manual of

Pharmacology,--according to the British Pharmacopœia, this

last book being especially for the use of students and young

practitioners.

[Illustration: DR. LOUIS E. FORTIER]

Dr. Fortier is an active social worker and is particularly

interested in the work of medical dispensaries. He is now medical

director of the Institut Bruchési, founded for the treatment of

tubercular patients; medical superintendent of the Sacred Heart

Hospital for the Indians, at Caughnawaga; and chief director

of the dispensaries of l’Assistance Maternelle, instituted to

provide attendance to the sick women of the poorer classes.

Dr. Fortier married Miss Emma Mathieu of Lachenaie and to them

have been born two sons, Louis Edouard and Jacques Emile. Madame

Fortier belongs to one of the oldest French-Canadian families

of this country and is favorably known in social as well as

charitable circles of this city.

LIEUTENANT COLONEL JOSEPH P. COOKE.

On the list of those whom death has recently called appears

the name of Lieutenant Colonel Joseph P. Cooke, whose career

in political and military life was a notable one. Liberal

educational opportunities and thorough training qualified him

for the bar, and he was recognized as an able and learned member

of the profession. His abilities recommended him for political

leadership and he was called to important public offices. Quebec

numbered him among her native sons, his birth having occurred in

Drummondville in 1858. His father was Valentine Cooke and his

grandfather, an officer in the army, received a land grant from

the British government in recognition of his services.

Lieutenant Colonel Cooke attended St. Francis College in

Richmond, there pursuing his more specifically literary

education, while in McGill University he prepared for the bar

and was graduated B. C. L. in 1880. The following year he was

called to the bar of Montreal and entered upon active practice

in partnership with Charles Brookes, K. C. Subsequently he began

practice independently and was widely recognized as a strong and

able lawyer, whose legal counsel was sound and whose powers of

discrimination and analyzation enabled him to readily master all

the details of his cases and win success in their conduct. In

1893 he was created king’s counsel.

While in the practice of law Colonel Cooke passed far beyond the

point of mediocrity and won place with the capable members of

the Montreal bar. He was also active as a political leader and

participated in many of the contests of his day. Originally his

support was given the conservative party and as its candidate he

won the seat for Drummond county in 1892, remaining a member of

the provincial house throughout the session. He was ever fearless

in support of his honest convictions, however, and when he was

led to change his opinions by reason of his study of political

conditions and situations he did not hesitate to become a liberal

and in 1897 contested the seat for St. Lawrence division, but

was defeated by A. W. Atwater, K. C. Soon after the election

he was named crown prosecutor and acted in that capacity with

Rudolph Lemieux, K. C. He was succeeded in the position by Edmund

Guerin, K. C., now the Hon. Justice Guerin. In 1907 Colonel

Cooke was named registrar for Montreal West and continued in

that position until his demise. While in the legislature he

was instrumental in securing the passage of a bill prohibiting

the sale or use of tobacco or opium to or by minors. He never

hesitated to advocate the principles which he deemed beneficial

measures in good government or factors in the welfare and

progress of city and province.

Colonel Cooke’s connection with military affairs began when he

joined the volunteer militia service, in which he was advanced

through positions of minor rank until he assumed command of the

First Regiment, Prince of Wales Fusiliers. After five years, or

in 1903, he retired and was placed on the R. O. with his rank.

He commanded the Bisley team in 1898. In 1902 Colonel Cooke was

presented to the present king and queen at St. James’ palace. He

was also presented to King Edward and by invitation was present

in Westminster Abbey at the coronation of the late King Edward

and Queen Alexandra in 1902.

In 1880 Colonel Cooke married Miss Helen Grace Burnett, a

niece of the late Archbishop Bond, and they became the parents

of a daughter and two sons. Violet Burnett; Herbert G., who

was educated in the city schools and McGill University and is

connected with the office of registrar of Montreal West; A.

Douglas, educated in the city schools and McGill University, is

now connected with the engineering department of the Canadian

Pacific Railway. He married Nita K. Wallace. The death of Colonel

Cooke occurred on the 28th of July, 1913, when he was but

fifty-five years of age. His record is one of usefulness in the

public service, of devotion to the interests of his clients and

of fidelity to the ties of home and friendship.

EDMUND HOLYOKE HEWARD.

A few years prior to his death Edmund Holyoke Heward of Montreal

retired from active business. He had been prominently connected

with banking interests, and his colleagues remember him as a

man of progressive spirit and marked capacity for handling the

multiplicity of details as well as the principal features that

arise in connection with the banking business. The family name

figures in the military history of the country. His grandfather,

Stephen Heward, was in command of a force of men at the capture

of Fort Detroit. The father, Augustus Heward, was associated

with Lieutenant Colonel Osborne Smith in founding the Victoria

Volunteer Rifles, now the Third Victoria Rifles, of which

Lieutenant Colonel Smith became the first commander, while Mr.

Heward became the first major, but subsequently succeeded to the

command.

Edmund H. Heward was born in the family residence at Cote des

Neiges, in 1841. He was educated under Dr. Howe at the Montreal

high school and entered into the wholesale hardware business

of Mulholland & Baker when in his teens. His initial business

experience came through several years’ connection with that

house, at the end of which time he entered the service of the

Merchants Bank of Canada, with which he was associated for

more than thirty years. Gradual advancement brought him to

an eminent position in banking circles. He possessed unusual

ability in co-ordinating forces and unifying elements into a

harmonious whole. For some time he was manager of the St. Johns

(Quebec) branch of the bank, but afterward returned to Montreal

and established the Notre Dame Street branch and later the St.

Catherine West branch of the same bank. As the years passed on

every feature of the banking business became familiar to him, and

his thorough understanding thereof was manifest in his executive

direction and capable control. He retired a few years prior

to his death, possessed of a handsome competence that was the

legitimate and logical reward of his effort and capability.

Mr. Heward married Miss Alice Ward, a daughter of the late Hon.

J. K. Ward of Montreal, and unto them were born six children. Mr.

Heward joined his father’s old regiment, the Victoria Rifles,

with which he went to the front in the last Fenian raid and was

present at the affair at Pigeon Hill. He was a handsome man of

fine physique and unfailing courtesy--a gentleman of the old

school. His death on May 17, 1910, occasioned deep regret in both

the business and social circles of Montreal.

ROBERT BRUCE TAYLOR, D. D.

Rev. Robert Bruce Taylor, author and minister of the gospel and

since 1911 pastor of St. Paul’s Presbyterian church in Montreal,

was born in Cardross, Scotland, October 22, 1869. He acquired

his education in Glasgow University, from which he was graduated

M. A. with the class of 1890, and he afterward was a student in

the Free Church College. After completing this course he entered

Gottingen University and later studied Arabic at Beirut and

Damascus. He was a student in three German theological schools

and prepared most thoroughly for his chosen life work. After

his ordination he was placed in charge of the Loudoun Free

Church in Ayrshire and was transferred from there to Ferryhill,

Aberdeen. His third charge was at St. John’s Wood, London,

England, whence in 1911 he came to Montreal, assuming his present

duties as pastor of St. Paul’s Presbyterian church. This is one

of the oldest Presbyterian congregations in the city, having

been organized in 1832 by Edward Black, D. D. The church was

located on St. Helen’s Street until 1867, in January of which

year the erection of the present edifice was begun. The church

was dedicated September 27, 1868, and cost $100,000. The first

pastor, Dr. Edward Black, died in May, 1845, and was succeeded

by Robert McGill, who passed away in 1856. Dr. Snodgrass then

had charge of the congregation until 1864 and his successor

was Dr. Jenkins, who remained in charge from 1865 to 1881. Dr.

Barkley did able and capable work from 1883 until 1910, being

succeeded by Rev. Robert Bruce Taylor, the present incumbent. The

congregation has numbered among its members such distinguished

men as Lord Strathcona and Lord Mount Stephen and it numbers

now eight hundred souls. Its affairs are in a flourishing and

prosperous condition for Dr. Taylor administers them ably and

in a way which shows him a man of excellent executive and

organizing power as well as a zealous and untiring religious

worker. He has organized a club of girls working in stores in the

city and has also a Men’s Club, both of which organizations have

been fruitful of much good.

Dr. Taylor married a daughter of Professor McKendrick, LL. D.,

of Glasgow, Scotland, and both are well known in social circles

in Montreal. Dr. Taylor is a writer of considerable reputation

and besides being the author of a book on Economics, written for

the Student Christian Movement, has contributed largely to serial

publications on religious and historical topics, accomplishing

such able and farsighted work in the interests of his religion

that he has been called “the crown jewel of a Presbyterian

minister.”

CHARLES AUGUSTE DE LOTBINIERE HARWOOD, K. C.

Charles Auguste de Lotbinière Harwood, a lawyer of the Montreal

bar, who prepared for practice at McGill and is now a member

of the well known firm of Lighthall & Harwood, was born at

Vaudreuil, P. Q., August 2, 1869, his parents being Robert

William and Charlotte (McGillis) Harwood. The father was member

of parliament for Vaudreuil in the house of commons from 1872

until 1878. The mother was a daughter of John McGillis, laird

of Williamstown, Glengarry, Ontario. The Harwoods are closely

connected with the de Lotbinière family and are seigneurs of

Vaudreuil.

Liberal educational opportunities equipped Charles A. Harwood

for the duties of a professional career. He was educated at St.

Laurent College and Laval University. His professional training

was received at McGill University, from which he was graduated

B. C. L. in 1893. He became an advocate in 1895 and is now

actively engaged in the practice of his profession in Montreal as

a member of the law firm of Lighthall & Harwood. His ability is

evidenced in the success which has attended his efforts in the

trial of important cases, which he has ever prepared with great

thoroughness and care. In October, 1911, he was made a king’s

counsel, his ability thus winning recognition.

In politics Mr. Harwood is a liberal-conservative, and his

activity in behalf of the principles in which he believes has

been an effective force in the attainment of success. He served

as secretary of the Conservative Association in the county of

Vaudreuil and became a recognized leader of his party. He has

been intimately connected with the municipal reform movements

of Montreal and served first as a director, then as recording

secretary and is now serving as vice president of the Montreal

Citizens’ Association.

In September, 1898, occurred the marriage of Mr. Harwood and

Miss Marie Adelaide Masson, a daughter of the late Hon. L. R.

Masson, lieutenant governor of Quebec. They reside at No. 162

Hutchison Street, Montreal, and have a summer home, Les Chenaux,

at Vaudreuil. Mr. Harwood belongs to the Liberal-Conservative

Club of Montreal and is a past president of the Cartier Club of

Montreal. He also has membership in the Historical Landmarks

Association, and after having been for many years honorary

recording secretary is now a vice president of the Numismatic

and Antiquarian Society of Montreal. He has delved deep into the

historic past and is the author of various valuable historical

papers, including one entitled The Fort Garry Convention. His

religious belief is that of the Roman Catholic church. A man of

broad intelligence and high ideals, his life record has counted

for much in the field of professional and scientific progress.

[Illustration: C. A. DE LOTBINIERE HARWOOD]

MAJOR DAVID SEATH.

Major David Seath occupies an important position in the public

service of the Dominion as secretary and treasurer of the harbor

commission of Montreal. He is a son of the late Robert Seath, a

wholesale clothing merchant of Montreal, and Margaret (Stephen)

Seath. Born in Montreal on May 9, 1847, he subsequently attended

the high school in this city and the parish school at Ste. Rose,

province of Quebec. In 1864 he entered the employ of his father

and subsequently became connected with the firm of Tyre, Perkins

& Lajoie, accountants and assignees, of which he subsequently

became a member under the firm style of Lajoie, Seath & Perrault,

which was formed in 1877. The firm also was for a time known

under the style of Thibaudeau & Seath, and of this firm our

subject was a partner until 1895. From that year until 1898 he

was president and manager of the Perrault Printing Company.

At that time he was also a member of the board of license

commissioners of Montreal. In 1898 he was appointed secretary and

treasurer of the harbor commissioners board of Montreal, which

office he has ever since held. His public record is one to be

highly commended.

Mr. Seath is a justice of the peace and has to his credit a long

military career in the volunteer service, his years of active

duty comprising those between 1864 and 1905. He joined the

Victoria Rifles as a private in 1864 and took part in the Fenian

raid in 1866 and 1870, receiving in the latter year the medal and

two clasps. During that time, in 1867, he was gazetted lieutenant

in the Sixth Regiment, Hochelaga Light Infantry. He attained the

rank of captain in the Sixth Fusiliers and in 1905 rejoined this

regiment, known as the “Prince of Wales’,” as paymaster with the

honorary rank of major, retiring in the same year. Besides his

Fenian raids medals and clasps, he holds the colonial auxiliary

forces officers’ long service decoration. He was instrumental

in having the services of the volunteers for the Fenian raids

recognized by the government. Besides acting as justice of the

peace he is also commissioner for receiving affidavits from

outside the province of Ontario to be used in Ontario and is

commissioner of the superior court of the province of Quebec.

Major Seath was married in September, 1904, to Miss Emma A. Fish,

of Westmount, on which occasion he was presented with a valuable

service of plate by the Montreal harbor commissioners. In

religious faith he is an Anglican and his political convictions

incline him towards the liberal party. Mr. Seath stands high

in Freemasonry, having attained the thirty-second degree. He

has been grand registrar of the grand lodge of Quebec and grand

scribe, grand treasurer and grand first principal of the grand

chapter of Quebec. He is a Knight Templar and an officer of

the A. & A. Scotish Rite. The family residence is at 95 Mackay

Street, Montreal. Hon. Robert Mackay, the distinguished statesman

and man of affairs, says of him: “An officer of long and faithful

service who was and is always at his post”; and this statement

expresses his faithfulness to duty perhaps better than anything

that could be said in addition.

ALBERT E. DE LORIMIER, K. C.

Albert E. de Lorimier is a successful and distinguished lawyer

of Montreal. He belongs to an old French family, one member of

which, Count de Chamilly, was marshal of France, and another,

Count d’Estoges de Lorimier, was executed with Louis XVI for his

loyalty and devotedness to his king.

His direct ancestor in Canada, Guillaume de Lorimier, sieur des

Bordes en Gatinais, came to Montreal in the seventeenth century

with Governor Marquis de Denonville. His great-grandfather,

Claude Guillaume de Lorimier, knight of the Royal and Military

Order of St. Louis of France, distinguished himself at Fort

George and at the siege of Corlar. His grandfather, Major

Guillaume de Lorimier, author of “My Services During the War of

the American Invasion,” served with his brother Chamilly under

General Sir Guy Carleton, Lord Dorchester, on Lake Champlain

in 1775. One of his uncles, Captain William de Lorimier of the

Fencibles, was killed at Chrysler’s Farm in 1813.

A. E. de Lorimier was born at Sault St. Louis, in the province

of Quebec, and is the son of Georges Antoine de Lorimier and

Mrs. Marie L. McComber. He acquired his early education at the

Huntingdon Academy, Huntingdon, completed his classics at St.

Mary’s College, Montreal, and was admitted to the practice of

law in July, 1885, after having graduated LL. B. from Laval

University. He speaks the French and English languages fluently

and equally well.

In October, 1886, he married Miss Mina de Lorimier, daughter of

Mr. Justice Charles Chamilly de Lorimier of Montreal, and both

are well known in social circles of this city.

Mr. de Lorimier first formed partnership with the Hon. F.

X. Trudel, late Senator; N. Charbonneau, now Mr. Justice

Charbonneau, and Gustave Lamothe, K. C., and later with Charles

Chamilly de Lorimier, now Mr. Justice de Lorimier, and finally

with D. Girouard, late justice of the supreme court of Canada.

In 1896 he took the Hon. Sir Auguste R. Angers in his firm known

as Angers, de Lorimier & Godin. He was created king’s counsel

in 1903 and was on several occasions elected member of the

council of the bar. He declined the honor to represent his native

county in the Dominion parliament and to stand as an alderman

in the Centre ward of Montreal, preferring to devote all his

time and knowledge to his clientage. He was in his earlier days

twice president of L’Union Catholique of Montreal and is a life

governor of Notre Dame Hospital and of L’Ecole Sociale Populaire.

He enjoys the reputation of being one of the prominent and most

respected barristers in Montreal. The future, undoubtedly, holds

for him still greater distinction and honor in his chosen field.

[Illustration: ALBERT E. DE LORIMIER]

HON. JOHN YOUNG.

For twenty-five years Hon. John Young was one of the harbor

commissioners of Montreal and no one did more for the development

and protection of the shipping industry at this point. Indeed his

whole life was largely devoted to the public service and there

are few men who have the insight and the prescience to recognize

possibilities and opportunities for the general good as he did

and the perseverance and determination to use such opportunities

for the benefit of the many. His country will ever remember him

with gratitude and his friends with deep affection, for aside

from his public career there were in him traits of character

that endeared him closely to those with whom he came in contact

through other relations. He bound his friends to him with hoops

of steel when their adoption had been tried, and at all times he

held friendship as something sacred and inviolable.

Born in Ayr, Scotland, March 11, 1811, Hon. John Young attended

the parish school, and his aptitude in his studies was manifest

in the fact that when but fourteen years of age he obtained the

appointment of master of the parish school at Coylton, near Ayr,

where he taught for eighteen months. He early developed the

habits of industry and cheerful perseverance which characterized

his after life and in 1826, when a youth of fifteen, he completed

his arrangements to become a resident of Canada, attracted by

favorable reports concerning the great opportunities of the new

world. His initial business experience here came to him as a

clerk in the employ of John Torrance and the development of his

powers and capacity is shown in the fact that in 1835, when but

twenty-four years of age, he became a partner of David Torrance

in the firm of Torrance & Young, which for five years continued

in business at Quebec.

From early manhood he was a student of the signs of the times and

business never claimed his undivided attention. He carefully and

systematically managed his interests, but he also found time to

perform the duties of citizenship wisely and well and he became

a leader of public thought and action. At an early day he urged

upon Lord Gosford the forming of volunteer corps but the governor

general felt there was little reason to comply with this request.

It was not long, however, before events proved the soundness of

his advice and when the rebellion came Mr. Young volunteered

for service in a regiment of light infantry which was raised in

twenty-four hours and in which he became a captain.

When his aid was no longer needed Mr. Young returned to Montreal

and became a partner of Harrison Stephens in the firm of

Stephens, Young & Company which occupied a prominent position

in business circles of Montreal for many years. His personal

interests took him largely over the west and in his travels and

his study of business conditions he saw how valuable was the St.

Lawrence system as a factor in the commercial history of the

American continent, furnishing the course of the natural routes

to the seaboard. It seemed that he never lost sight of any point

bearing upon the subject which came so close to his heart--the

development of the shipping industries of Montreal--and

eventually he became recognized as the greatest canal authority

in America.

Another important public enterprise with which he was associated

at about that period was the organization and establishment of

the Mercantile Library Association. Public feeling was not in

sympathy with such a movement at that time and only four people

were present when the system was formed. Writing of this period,

a contemporary biographer has said: “The change in public feeling

as to educational advantages then and now is well instanced by

the fact that, besides Mr. Young, only four persons were present

at the meeting when this society was commenced. In 1844 party

spirit ran high and serious trouble was expected at the general

election. Secret societies were in existence, and political

associations formed everywhere for the purpose, as was avowed, of

gaining by force what could not be secured otherwise. At such a

time the post of returning officer was difficult and dangerous,

and though the selection of a man to fill it might be esteemed

a high compliment to his personal character, it involved also a

personal risk which required the utmost coolness, determination,

tact and courage in the recipient. Lord Metcalfe’s advisers

selected John Young as the man for the emergency. The result

soon showed that their confidence had been well placed. Mr.

Young seems to have realized to the utmost the necessities and

perils of the office. Fearlessly, openly and with the utmost

judgment, he laid his plans so well and used the powers of his

position to such effect that, contrary to all expectation, the

election passed off without any breach of the peace. He seized

arms and other illegal weapons wherever they could be found,

and without regard to threats. When the secret societies became

openly defiant he called out the troops, who were ably managed

by him, and overawed the disorderly and turbulent so effectually

that no rioting took place. Mr. Young’s services were so highly

appreciated by Lord Metcalfe that they were mentioned in the

despatches sent to the Colonial office and were the subject

of special acknowledgment by the secretary of state for the

colonies. They were also warmly testified to by Sir James Hope,

who was then commander in chief at Montreal.”

Another important phase in Canadian life that called forth the

attention and the cooperation of Mr. Young was the principle of

free trade. He was one of its most stalwart champions, and upon

the organization of the Free Trade Association in this city he

became its president. He was a frequent contributor of articles

upon the subject to the Economist and to other papers and also

wrote pamphlets which had an important effect upon public thought

and action. He believed that the adoption of free trade measures

would constitute the most effective force in making Canada a

great commercial and business center. At times in his life his

ideas were ridiculed as those of a dreamer, but the years proved

the soundness of his vision and men came to rely upon his opinion.

His connection with the harbor work and the improvement of the

channel between Montreal and Quebec began in 1846 and later

occupied much of his time and attention. He was active, too, with

those who were foremost in furthering the railroad built, and

he was one of the organizers of the Montreal & Portland Railway

Company and also active in promoting the line from Montreal to

Toronto, as president of the company having that in charge. The

work was of a most difficult nature, for the promoters had to

solve at least in part the great engineering problems of railroad

building and not merely finance the project. It was Mr. Young

who proposed the building of a bridge across the St. Lawrence.

Again well known business men scoffed at the plan but the

Victoria bridge stands as a monument to his public spirit and his

enterprise, and has converted Montreal from a fifth rate harbor

into a first class port at a distance from the seaboard without

a parallel in the world. Mr. Young’s keen appreciation of the

capabilities of engineering as a profession and his confidence in

the application of education and trained reason to the overcoming

of all natural and mechanical difficulties which always was

noticeable in his intercourse with the professional men with

whom his life brought him into contact, was beyond doubt one of

the most effective means of securing consideration for this work

and of urging on the genius of Stephenson to an achievement then

supposed to be impossible. Men believed Mr. Young to be visionary

when he attempted the task of sounding the river that he might

point out the exact situation where the bridge should be built

and which it actually occupies. It was at about the same period

that he devised a plan for the Caughnawaga canal whereby to

connect the St. Lawrence river and Lake Champlain and thus secure

another outlet to the sea. His efforts were a notable force in

making Montreal a grain shipping center and when the St. Lawrence

canals were opened in 1849 he sent the first cargo of merchandise

from Montreal to Chicago and brought back the first cargo of

American grain. The rapid growth of shipping at this point and

certain trouble that arose concerning the unloading of vessels

impressed upon Mr. Young the need of a harbor police and he

presented the matter so forcefully to the government that a water

police force was created.

In 1851 Mr. Young by popular suffrage was made the representative

of his district in parliament and in October of that year became

chief commissioner of public works and a member of the board

of railway commissioners in the Hincks-Tache administration.

He advocated the building of a railroad from Halifax to Quebec

and Montreal and thence westward. His plans were not adopted at

that time and only came to fruition in 1877. In the same year he

strongly urged the establishment of a fortnightly mail service

between Montreal and Liverpool in the summer and between Portland

and Liverpool in the winter. In 1854 he was again made the

Montreal representative in parliament, where he entered earnestly

upon the work of chairman of the committee on public accounts.

In 1857 he declined to again stand for parliament, but it was

impossible for one of his nature to retire from public life so

conscientious was he regarding the duties of citizenship. In 1860

he retired from business with a handsome fortune and the same

year was chosen chairman of the committee of arrangements for the

most gigantic and successful series of entertainments ever held

in Montreal up to that time on the occasion of the visit of His

Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, afterward King Edward. About

that time Mr. Young went to Scotland for the further education of

his family, returning in 1862. In 1863 he was the nominee of the

liberal party for Montreal West, but was defeated. In that year,

however, he was made a commissioner to Washington to consider the

reciprocity treaty.

All of these activities, although important, were less so than

his life work in making Montreal a seaport and improving the

navigation of the St. Lawrence. No other single project has so

greatly benefited the city and this section of the country. The

name of the Hon. John Young will always be connected with its

successful accomplishment and he is entitled to the grateful

remembrance of the citizens of Montreal for all time. He had

the opportunity of furthering his projects and plans of this

kind through his membership on the harbor board. As the result

of his efforts Montreal ceased to be a mere landing place for

boatmen and became a great shipping port. He had the greatest

faith in the possibilities of the growth of Montreal and with

it the progress of the Dominion and urged that this would be

brought about through the development of the St. Lawrence, which

he claimed to be the natural outlet for the western part of the

United States as well as for the products of western Canada.

As the result of his untiring labors in 1843 the government

determined to deepen Lake St. Peter but very little was done

until 1851. In 1854 Mr. Young entered upon active measures to

promote the work and by persistent efforts the channel was

deepened to sixteen feet in 1857 and still further the work

was continued until the channel depth became twenty-two feet.

Statistics could be cited showing how year by year the shipping

was increased after the work of river and harbor improvements

was begun. No other man did as much as Mr. Young in urging

these great improvements of the water communications connecting

Montreal with the sea. In all of his public service he looked

beyond the exigencies of the moment to the possibilities and

opportunities of the future, beyond the needs of his city

and immediate district to the questions affecting the entire

Dominion. In 1875 he served as chairman of the Baie Verte canal

commission and returned a most exhaustive and valuable report. He

was also the promoter of dock extension and secured the services

of the most eminent engineers of Europe and America to carry

forward the work.

Mr. Young’s prominence as a business man and public-spirited

citizen is further indicated in the fact that he was many times

elected president of the Montreal Board of Trade and was the

first president of the Dominion Board of Trade. After he had long

retired from parliament the members induced him to once more

stand for election, and he was returned by a most flattering

majority. In 1873 he would not consent to again become a

candidate and on the reorganization of the harbor board he was

reelected its chairman. His entire service on the board covered

a quarter of a century and during fourteen years of that time he

was chairman. His last public service was as commissioner for

Canada to the exposition in Sydney, Australia, whereby trade

relations between Canada and Australia were largely promoted as

the result of the reports which he made concerning the latter

country.

Time gives the perspective which places each individual in

his proper relation to his age. It is a well known fact that

investigation will but serve to heighten the fame of John Young,

for history has proven how valuable were his efforts, how far

reaching his activities, how clear his insight and how sound

his judgment. Today his name is inscribed high on the roll of

Montreal’s honored dead, while his memory is enshrined in the

hearts of many who knew him.

JOHN GORDON.

John Gordon, founder of the wholesale dry-goods commission

house of John Gordon & Son, of Montreal, was born in Aberdeen,

Scotland, December 12, 1833. He was a young man of twenty years

when in 1853 he came to Montreal to enter the employ of the

old and well known firm of William Stephen & Company. He was

afterward a member of the firm of James Roy & Company and from

December, 1891, until his death, which occurred on the 12th of

October, 1895, he was at the head of the wholesale house of John

Gordon & Son. His advancement was continuous, and the steps in

his orderly progression are easily discernible. His career was

one of constantly broadening activity, and his developing powers

contributed to the importance and extent of his achievements.

Few men have gained higher esteem and respect, and he left to

his family the rich heritage of an untarnished name, won through

business integrity and kindly courtesy, constituting an example

that others might profitably emulate.

[Illustration: JAMES R. GORDON]

[Illustration: JOHN GORDON]

Mr. Gordon was a member of the Board of Trade and was interested

in municipal affairs to the extent of giving hearty cooperation

to various plans and projects for the public good. His life was

actuated in its purposes by his Christian faith, which found

expression in his membership in the Erskine Presbyterian church.

Mr. Gordon married Miss Jane Roy, a daughter of James Roy, and

they became parents of three sons, Charles B., James R. and

William G. R. The second named, who was his father’s partner in

the firm of John Gordon & Son and is now head of the business,

was born in Montreal, January 7, 1870, and pursued his education

in this city. Making his initial step in the business world, he

was for four years with the house of George D. Ross & Company,

manufacturers’ agents, and in 1891 he joined his father in

organizing the firm and instituting the business of John Gordon

& Son. The establishment remains today as one of the foremost

wholesale dry-goods commission houses of Montreal, with trade

connections that lead to all provinces of the Dominion.

James R. Gordon was married to Miss Catherine McIntyre, and they

have three children, J. Archibald, J. Kenneth and Bruce McIntyre.

Mr. Gordon’s deep interest in the material development of the

city is indicated in his membership in the Board of Trade and the

Chambre de Commerce. He is also a member of St. James and other

clubs.

DAVID ROSS MCCORD.

The unusual gifts of ready wit and great culture of David Ross

McCord have made him a man of influence not only in the legal

profession but in connection with various important public events

and questions. Montreal numbers him among her native sons, his

birth having occurred in this city March 18, 1844. The ancestry

of the family in Canada is traced back to John McCord, who came

from Antrim, Ireland, during the early settlement of the province

of Quebec. The father of David R. McCord was the late Lieutenant

Colonel Hon. John Samuel McCord, who became a judge of the

superior court of Lower Canada and was recognized as one of the

distinguished jurists of his day. He married Anne, a daughter of

David Ross, an advocate of Montreal.

In the acquirement of his education David R. McCord attended

successively the Montreal high school, McGill University, which

conferred upon him the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1862 and the

degrees of Master of Arts and Bachelor of Civil Law in 1867; and

Bishop’s Collegiate University of Lennoxville, which conferred

upon him the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1864. In 1868 he was

called to the bar and entered at once upon active practice. In

1895 he was created king’s counselor by the Earl of Aberdeen.

From the outset of his professional career his advancement has

been continuous and long since he has reached a foremost position

among the advocates of Montreal. He finds ready and correct

solution for intricate and involved legal problems and possesses

rare analytical and inductive powers.

The question of public policy as set forth by the political

parties of the day are of deep interest to him and at one time he

was secretary of the Liberal-Conservative Association. For many

years he served as one of the aldermen of Montreal and exercised

his official prerogatives in support of various measures and

movements for the benefit and improvement of the city. In 1901

he advocated the appointment of a Canadian as governor general

of the Dominion. Aside from his interest in his profession and

the public questions of the day he has been a close student of

natural history and has formed at his residence the nucleus of

a natural museum. His religious faith is that of the Anglican

church. Today his opinions are accepted as authority upon all

matters relating to the annals of the country and of him the

Montreal Herald said: “He probably has a more intimate knowledge

of early Canadian history than any other man living.” His

studious habits have brought him familiarity with a wide range

of subjects, and his scholarly attainments have gained him place

among the respected and honored residents of Montreal.

INDEX

Adami, J. G., 301

Allan, Sir Hugh, 635

Allan, Sir H. M., 660

Allan, John, 295

Almond, J. M., 215

Ames, H. B., 618

Angers, E.-R., 562

Angus, D. F., 554

Angus, R. B., 5

Angus, W. F., 537

Archambault, A. S., 418

Archambault, J. B., 632

Archambault, J. L., 19

Archibald, J. S., 488

Ardley, W. H., 151

Arnton, J. J., 609

Asselin, Joseph, 502

Asselin, J. F. O., 501

Asselin, N. H., 508

Atherton, W. H., 648

Avard, J. G., 489

Badeaux, L. G., 505

Badgley, J. C. N., 20

Bagg Family, 406

Barlow, J. R., 169

Barron, R. H., 98

Baudouin, Philibert, 37

Beaudin, Simeon, 638

Beaudoin, Louis, 368

Beaudry, J. P., 355

Becket, R. A., 216

Bélanger, Leandre, 586

Bell, James, 14

Bennett, James, 422

Benoit, D. A., 526

Benson, G. F., 87

Bernier, Charles, 620

Berryer-Saint-Pierre, H. C., 550

Biron, Edouard, 436

Bissonnet, A. E. J., 479

Black, C. M., 119

Blaiklock, M. S., 139

Bloomfield, Baruch, 314

Bloomfield, Harry, 297

Bolton, W. E., 80

Bond, W. L., 216

Bonin, J. A., 412

Bourgault, J. A., 170

Boyd, L. H., 465

Boyer, Aurelien, 205

Briggs, C. A., 156

Brisset des Nos, Paul, 580

Brodeur, Donat, 273

Brophy, J. C., 398

Brossard, Edmond, 358

Brosseau, A. S., 523

Brown, E. N., 620

Brown, G. A., 31

Browne, A. A., 266

Browne, Fitz-James E., 579

Browning, J. M., 144

Buchan, J. S., 239

Buchanan, A. W. P., 473

Buller, Frank, 105

Bulmer, T. C., 398

Burke, David, 129

Busby, Thomas, 566

Byrd, Charles, 176

Cahan, C. H., 585

Cameron, A. G., 235

Cameron, J. C., 506

Campbell, A. H., 490

Campbell, D. W., 279

Campbell, F. W., 63

Campbell, G. A., 434

Campbell, M. A., 598

Campbell, Rollo, 58

Cantile, G. S., 559

Cassils, A. M., 240

Caverhill, George, 65

Champagne, E. O., 590

Chaput, Charles, 656

Charbonneau, Napoleon, 517

Charters, Frank, 174

Chaussé, J. A., 373

Chasse, Aime, 660

Cholette, Edouard, 284

Choquet, F. X., 594

Cleghorn, J. P., 145

Clouston, Sir E. S., 32

Cohen, Hirsch, 296

Cohen, Lyon, 624

Cooke, J. P., 665

Cotton, C. M., 92

Cousineau, Philemon, 230

Couture, J. A., 161

Cramp, G. B., 188

Creak, George, 380

Creelman, J. J., 430

Crépeau, F. G., 520

Curran, J. J., 260

Cushing, Dougall, 53

Dale, J. A., 350

Daly, George, 357

Daoust, Maxime, 519

David, L. O., 382

Davidson, Thornton, 80

Davis, H. W., 103

Davis, M. B., 375

Dawes, A. J., 192

Dawson, T. J., 369

Day, J. G., 387

Decary, E. R., 242

Decary, L. J. T., 310

DeCew, J. A., 334

Deguire, A. S., 606

Delisle, Arthur, 98

de Lorimier, A. E., 672

de Martigny, R. L., 517

Desautels, Oscar, 363

Desbarats, G. E., 469

Descarries, J. A., 38

Desjardins, J. L., 296

de Sola, Abraham, 69

de Sola, C. I., 571

Desroches, J. I., 493

Dickson, Norval, 69

Dillon, John, 164

Dodds, W. O. H., 59

Donnelly, J. E., 356

Drouin, Joseph, 544

Drummond, Sir G. A., 304

Dubreuil, J. F., 180

Duclos, C. A., 212

Dufresne, A. B., 211

Dupuis, J. N. O., 376

Dupuis, L. N., 88

Dupuis, P. L., 400

Dupuis, Rosaire, 448

Dussault, J. C. H., 241

Ecrement, Arthur, 174

Edgar, John, 252

Eliott, G. O. R., 205

Elliot, James, 158

Elliott, H. J., 598

Emard, J. U., 531

Emery-Coderre, Joseph, 574

England, F. R., 132

Evans, W. N., 381

Ewing, A. S., 131

Ewing, S. H., 483

Ewing, W. H., 421

Findlay, W. E., 380

Fineberg, Zigmond, 625

Fontaine, D. A., 499

Forbes, J. G. L., 478

Forest, Alfred, 495

Forget, L. J., 112

Forget, Sir Rodolphe, 577

Fortier, L. E., 662

Fowler, Robert, 273

Frigon, A. P., 286

Gadbois-Van dan Daigue, Emilien, 532

Gagnier, L. A., 556

Gale, Samuel, 54

Gauthier, Thomas, 538

Geoffrion, Aime, 361

Geoffrion, Amedee, 623

Gibeault, Arthur, 525

Giroux, Napoleon, 399

Gohier, Edouard, 573

Gohier, Remi, Sr., 418

Gonthier, Georges, 100

Gordon, C. B., 464

Gordon, John, 678

Gordon, J. A., 271

Gordon, Nathan, 283

Gouin, Sir Lomer, 583

Gould, C. H., 272

Grandbois, H. A. E., 252

Gravel, J. O., 18

Gravel, Ludger, 344

Gray, H. R., 11

Greene, David, 99

Guerin, J. J. E., 130

Guertin, C. A., 338

Guimond, J. L. A., 97

Guindon, J. M., 644

Guy Family, 415

Guyon, Louis, 42

Hadrill, George, 43

Hague, George, 322

Hamilton, W. F., 83

Hannaford, E. P., 439

Hart, A. J., 111

Hart, R. A. B., 111

Harwood, C. A. de L., 668

Hastings, George, 349

Hastings, W. A., 93

Hawksworth, Alfred, 403

Hayes, C. A., 167

Hays, C. M., 44

Hébert, Albert, 484

Hébert, C. P., 328

Hébert, E. N., 233

Hébert, René, 338

Hébert, Zéphirin, 364

Heffernan, T. F., 562

Henderson, L. L., 285

Henry, A. C., 86

Henshaw, H. H., 379

Heward, E. H., 666

Hibbard, F. W., 198

Hickson, Sir Joseph, 614

Hill, C. G., 254

Hingston, Sir W. H., 641

Hogan, Henry, 152

Holgate, Henry, 555

Hope, W. H., 223

Hopper, R. T., 428

Hunt, T. S., 194

Hurtubise, Gabriel, 187

Hutchison, A. C., 274

Inglis, R. J., 463

Jamieson, R. C., 440

Johnston, James, 12

Kavanagh, A. O., 446

Kavanagh, Walter, 393

La Badie, J. A. O., 524

Labelle, A. E. D., 416

Lacasse, N. U., 104

Lacasse, P.-C., 265

Lachapelle, E. P., 182

Ladouceur, B. N., 245

Lafontaine, Adrien, 387

Lamarche, J. P., 613

Latour, L. D., 280

Laurendeau, Charles, 512

Learmont, J. B., 218

Leclerc, C. E., 64

Leduc, F. G., 319

Legare, J. B. D., 268

Letourneau, Severin, 345

Lighthall, W. D., 542

Linton, Robert, 445

Loranger, L. J., 393

Loranger, L. O., 589

Lovell, R. K., 59

Lyall, Peter, 210

Lyman, Charles, 560

McArthur, Colin, 466

McCaskill, D. A., 480

McConnell, J. B., 298

McCord, D. R., 681

McDonald, Duncan, 613

McDougall, Thomas, 267

McKenna, James, 428

McKenna, Patrick, 424

McShane, G. F. J., 567

McShane, James, 631

Macaulay, T. B., 405

MacCallum, D. C., 411

Macdonald, J. K., 441

MacDougall, D. L., 417

MacDougall, G. C., 240

Macfarlane, Lawrence, 362

Mackay, Hugh, 289

MacMahon, T. J., 332

Maguire, C. H., 392

Mann, J. A., 530

Manson, A. C., 331

Marechal, L. T., 502

Martin, J. E., 167

Martin, R. D., 94

Martineau, J. F. V., 430

Mathieu, Michel, 84

Matthews, G. H., 126

Maxwell, W. S., 340

Mayrand, Georges, 566

Meighen, Robert, 74

Melancon, Bernard, 187

Mercier, Honore, Jr., 494

Mercier, Honore, 544

Mercier, P. E., 604

Michaud, Alexander, 140

Michaud, J. L., 529

Michaud, J. W., 530

Miles, Henry, 388

Mitchell, John, 313

Mitchell, V. E., 150

Monette, G. A., 518

Morgan, F. C., 637

Morgan, Henry & Co., Ltd., 629

Morgan, James, 605

Montgomery, G. H. A., 352

Monty, Rodolphe, 303

Morin, Victor, 248

Morrice, David, 179

Moyse, C. E., 321

Mullin, Patrick, 447

Mullin, R. T., 511

Mussen, Thomas, 209

Nicholls, A. G., 125

O’Connor, James, 224

Ogden, I. G., 584

Ogilvie, W. W., 106

O’Meara, William, 367

Orr-Lewis, Frederic, 561

Ouimet, J. A., 199

Ouimet, Seraphin, 410

Patenaude, E. L., 488

Paterson, William, 496

Paterson, W. S., 356

Paton, James, 514

Patterson, William, 647

Perham, L. D., 424

Phillips, C. S. J., 234

Phillips, Thomas, 434

Phillips, Thomas, Jr., 422

Piché, J. G., 487

Pigeon, R. A. J., 376

Pillow, H. W., 609

Pillow, J. A., 157

Pratt, John, 120

Prefontaine, Isaie, 60

Préfontaine, Raymond, 651

Prendergast, W. J., 435

Pringle, Thomas, 191

Rainville, J. H., 535

Rankin, John, 181

Reford, Robert, 134

Reynolds, M. M., 156

Richer, A. J., 599

Rielle, Joseph, 236

Rinfret, Thibaudeau, 568

Riordon, Carl, 284

Ritchie, T. W., 124

Rivet, L. A. A., 370

Robb, Thomas, 259

Robertson, Andrew, 474

Robertson, Farquhar, 292

Robertson, William, 327

Robichon, X. A., 610

Roddick, Sir T. G., 316

Rodier, C. S., 85

Rogers, D. B., 391

Rondeau, A. O., 290

Rosenberg, Carl, 246

Ross, James, 22

Ross, J. G., 206

Routh, C. H., 346

Roy, F. X., 103

Roy, Henri, 343

Roy, R. J., 91

Rutherford, William, 245

St. Jacques, J. L., 346

St. Julien, J. A., 512

Sammett, M. A., 626

Scott, Gilbert, 235

Seath, David, 671

Shanks, W. R. L., 31

Shatford, A. P., 247

Shepherd, R. W., 333

Ship, Fischel, 337

Skinner, W. W., 259

Smith, C. F., 200

Smith, D. A., Lord Strathcona, 448

Smith, William, 170

Starkey, T. A., 655

Stephens, G. W., 146

Stevenson, S. C., 291

Stewart, A. D., 313

Strathy, J. A. L., 168

Surveyer, Arthur, 500

Surveyer, E. F., 536

Surveyer, L. J. A., 66

Symonds, Herbert, 151

Taylor, R. B., 667

Tellier, Louis, 597

Tessier, Camille, 253

Thomas, F. W., 394

Thompson, F. E., 320

Thompson, F. W., 221

Tremblay, Joseph, 600

Vanier, J. E., 400

Venne, Joseph, 508

Versailles, Joseph, 423

Villeneuve, J. O., 162

Villeneuve, Leonidas, 8

Vineberg, Harris, 227

Walker, H. E., 217

Walsh, M. J., 13

Ward, J. K., 643

White, W. J., 133

Whitehead, E. A., 442

Whyte, W. H., 513

Wilson, Daniel, 173

Wilson, J. T., 175

Wray, J. C., 362

Young, John, 675

Transcriber’s Notes:

Each illustration page was followed by a blank page, both of

which were numbered. These are the sources of the apparently

missing pages. No pages are actually missing. Some illustrations

have been moved a page or two forward or backward to co-locate

them with the appropriate biography, or to remove them from the

middle of a paragraph.

Commas and periods missed by either the printer or the scanning

process were added. Commas and periods interchanged by the

printer were corrected.

Several proper names, printed inconsistently, were made

consistent:

Francois, Francoise, Francais and Francais were normalized to

François, Françoise, Français and Française

Pointe aux Trembles was normalized to Pointe-aux-Trembles.

Lotbinere and Lotbiniére were normalized to Lotbinière.

Accents on other proper names were are unchanged from the

original.

Smallpox and small-pox were inconsistently hyphenated in multiple

places and so were left as printed.

Accents and other diacritical marks do not appear over or under

capital letters, and were not added.

Some words which appear incorrect today have been acceptable

spellings in the past. These words (e.g. employe, malster,

Hainout, Scotish, threshhold, etc.) were left as printed. Words

which are rendered with more typically French spelling, such as

“interne” reflect the significant French influence on the English

of the time and place and are therefore not corrected to standard

English spellings. Similarly, accents on French words used in

English text are very frequently omitted, and they have not been

added except as noted below.

Capitalization of the words “street”,“place”,“lane” and “avenue”,

when part of proper names was inconsistent, and corrected. Other

proper names lacking capitalization were corrected.

The following proper names are probably incorrect, but as that is

not certain, they are unchanged:

On page 280, Latour dit Dufour is probably Dufour dit Latour

On page 394, Moorwinstow is probably Morwenstow

On page 484, LsRaoul de Lorimer is probably Louis-Raoul de Lorimer

On page 598, Port Elain is probably Port Elgin

On pages 531-532, Hon. J. Ald Ouimet is probably Hon. J. Alderic

Ouimet.

There are several places where words appear to be missing.

They were added only when the missing word was certain and are

included in the following list of corrected printer’s errors.

“mediaeval” was changed to “mediæval” on page 69 to match other

instances in the volume (during those mediæval times)

“over-estimated” changed to “overestimated” on page 73 to match

other instances in the volume (could scarcely be overestimated)

“broadmindedness” changed to “broad-mindedness” on page 84 (from

a deficiency in that broad-mindedness)

“whch” changed to “which” on page 91 (from which he was graduated)

“Portoria” changed to “Portora” on page 99 (the Royal School of

Portora)

“Canado” changed to “Canada” on page 100 (Canada-French Trade

Development Committee)

“Societe” changed to “Société” on page 104 (La Société St. Jean

Baptiste)

“opthalmologists” changed to “ophthalmologists” and

“opthalmoscopy” changed to “ophthalmoscopy” on page 105 ( one of

the most celebrated ophthalmologists; method of ophthalmoscopy;

He was the first ophthalmologist)

“enthusiam” changed to “enthusiasm” on page 116 (His greatest

enthusiasm was aroused)

“became” changed to “become” on page 130 (he has also become

equally widely known)

“reelcted” changed to “reelected” on page 130 (and was reelected

in 1896 and 1897)

“eun” changed to “eund” on page 132 (ad eund)

“Quarreau” changed to “Ouareau” on page 150 ( the Charlemagne &

Lac Ouareau Lumber Company)

“researth” changed to “research” on page 194 (his original

research work was published)

“far” changed to “for” on page 230 (who for a number of years)

“wholsale” changed to “wholesale” on page 240 (a wholesale

leather merchant)

“Batallion” changed to “Battalion” on page 266 (Eighty-third

Battalion of Infantry)

“McCallum” changed to “MacCallum” on page 266 (Professor Duncan

MacCallum)

“Assocation” changed to “Association” on page 272 (American

Library Association)

“Christ’s” changed to “Christ” on page 273 (Christ Church

Cathedral)

“vangaurd” changed to “vanguard” on page 301 (He keeps in the

vanguard)

“Baptist” changed to “Baptiste” on page 310 (son of Jean Baptiste

and Marie Theolinde)

“boom” changed to “bloom” on page 315 (freshness and bloom of

life)

“discernable” changed to “discernible” on page 324 (are easily discernible)

“physicain” changed to “physician” on page 338 (superintendent of

St. Paul’s Hospital, physician to)

“Hebert” changed to “Hébert” on page 340 (of which Philip Hébert

was the sculptor)

“Beauprè” changed to “Beaupré” on page 358 (the Preparatory

College at Ste. Anne de Beaupré)

“Therese” changed to “Thérèse” on page 367 (the College of Ste.

Thérèse)

“come” changed to “came” on page 367 (In the latter year he came

to St. Gabriel’s)

“Featherstonehough” changed to “Fetherstonhaugh” on page 376

(Fetherstonhaugh, Dennison & Blackmore)

“Clerge” changed to “Clergé” on page 385 (Le Clergé Canadien)

“Boisbrand” changed to “Boisbriand” on page 392 (The Glade,

Boisbriand, province of Quebec)

“it” changed to “at” on page 418 (pursued his education at St.

Hyacinthe College)

duplicate word “of” removed from page 428 (on the 12th of July)

“stateman” changed to “statesman” on page 458 (he was not a

statesman)

“shorts” changed to “short” on page 462 (A few short hours of

frozen day)

missing word “in” added on page 466 (and died in 1902)

“Avocatau” changed to “avocat au” on page 469 (Avocat au

Parlement)

“colonal” changed to “colonel” on page 470 (lieutenant colonel of

militia)

“sucessful” changed to “successful” on page 472 (made his life

brilliantly successful)

“professionl” changed to “professional” on page 512 (concentrate

his energies upon his professional interests)

“Abbe” changed to “Abbé” on page 531 (a private school conducted

by Abbé Villeneuve)

“to day” changed to “today” on page 553 (Shortis is today

detained)

“non-essential” changed to “nonessential” on page 555 to match

other instances in the volume (essential and the nonessential)

“non-sectarian” changed to “nonsectarian” on page 556 to match

other instances in the volume (nonsectarian in his religious belief)

“Brown’s” changed to “Browne’s” on page 579 (Mr. Browne’s

advertising measures)

“ninteenth” changed to “nineteenth” on page 589 (the later half

of the nineteenth century)

“Eteves” changed to “Elèves” on page 605 (Association des Anciens

Elèves de L’Ecole Polytechnique)

“cloest” changed to “closest” on page 605 (will bear the closest

investigation and scrutiny)

“farreaching” changed to “far-reaching” on page 605 (of

far-reaching importance)

“gardner” changed to “gardener” on page 606 (The father was a

gardener by profession.)

“beneficient” changed to “beneficent” on page 606 (extend to many

beneficent projects)

extra character “a” removed from page 614 (He left that

corporation to accept)

“Lafontain” changed to “Lafontaine” on page 618 (Lafontaine Club)

“repesentative” changed to “representative” on page 618 (a

representative of that corporation)

“beneficient” changed to “beneficent” on page 626 (the beneficent

spirit)

“tome” changed to “come” on page 630 (have come to include)

“eqully” changed to “equally” on page 635 (was almost equally

well known)

“opportunties” changed to “opportunities” on page 637 (Liberal

educational opportunties)

“sumitted” changed to “submitted” on page 643 (questions which

were submitted for consideration)

“Ecolé” changed to “Ecole” on page 651 (Ecole des Hautes Etudes

Commerciales)

“Monteral” changed to “Montreal” on page 652 (progress of

Montreal was slow)

“Subsequetly” changed to “Subsequently” on page 655 (Subsequently

he pursued)

“succcess” changed to “success” on page 665 (and win success)

“distingnuished” changed to “distinguished” on page 667 (such

distinguished men as Lord Strathcona)

“he” changed to “the” on page 677 (where the bridge should be

built)

“Champlin” changed to “Champlain” on page 677 (Lake Champlain)

Angus, R. B. added to the Index.