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CYCLOPÆDIA OF CANADIAN BIOGRAPHY ***

REPRESENTATIVE CANADIANS

RT. HON. SIR R. L. BORDEN. P.C., K.C.M.G., K.C., LL.D.,
Ottawa

NATIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL SERIES III

A CYCLOPÆDIA
of

CANADIAN BIOGRAPHY
Brief Biographies of Persons Distinguished in the Professional, Military
and Political Life, and the Commerce and Industry of
Canada, in the Twentieth Century.

Edited by
HECTOR CHARLESWORTH

TORONTO
THE HUNTER-ROSE COMPANY, LIMITED
1919

PREFACE

I ttheis title
now thirty-three years since the first volume of biographies bearing
“Representative Canadians” was issued by the present firm of
publishers. In 1886 the scope of the work was unique, so far as this country
was concerned, for previous volumes of the kind had confined themselves
to the careers of Canadians who have won fame in either a political or
military capacity. The aim of the editors of the first volume of
“Representative Canadians” was to give recognition of the emergence of
Canada from a colonial to something like a national status by recording
something of the achievements of those who had contributed to the
intellectual, industrial and commercial growth of the country, as well as of
its political leaders. The purpose remained the same in the second volume
published in 1888, and is once more the impulse of the present book.
The vast majority of those whose careers were recorded in 1886 have
passed away; and the same is true of those who figured in the second
volume of the series. Consequently, the earlier issues of “Representative
Canadians” grow every day more precious, for, in many cases, they contain
the sole records of men who initiated great enterprises or furthered
important movements which have left a lasting mark on the history of
Canada. We cannot but think that the reader who, thirty or forty years
hence, may chance to scan the pages of the present volume will gather a
very vivid picture of Canada as it was in one of the crucial periods of the
world’s affairs—a picture in which the characters of those Canadians who
lived and “carried on” through the years of the greatest war in all history
may be discerned in the records of their lives. There is hardly a page in this
book into which the war does not enter directly or indirectly in some form
or other, by way of allusions to services rendered, bereavements endured, or
honours gained on the field of battle. In that sense the 1919 volume must
remain unique, and a mine of useful information for students in future
generations.
Generally speaking, in comparing the biographies of the Canadians of
to-day with those of 1886 and 1888, the reader gains a sense of this
country’s continuous expansion. The present century has witnessed a
marvellous development in the Canadian West, so that in these pages we
find numerous records showing not merely the commercial, but the
intellectual, progress of the Provinces West of the Great Lakes—stories of
brilliant careers built up by men who were mere children in the East when
the first volume was published. The reader will also note in the biographies

of business men which abound in these pages, the ever-increasing scale on
which Canadian commerce and enterprise everywhere is conducted, so that
what seemed large in 1886 is relatively small to-day. Though some of the
men whose names figure in the index are of less importance than others, all
play their part in our complex and vigorous social life, and the story of their
progress and fortunes cannot be really tedious to any sympathetic student of
humanity.
Toronto, 1919.

INDEX
Adamson, Alan Joseph, 124
Adamson, John Evans, 121
Aikenhead, Thomas E., 47
Aikins, Lieut.-Col. Sir James Albert Manning, 81
Allan, John, 98
Ames, Sir Herbert B., 4
Ami, Henry M., 142
Amyot, Lieut.-Col. John A., 299
Anderson, Alexander James, 126
Anderson, Frederic William, 75
Anderson, Prof. George R., 144
Anderson, James T. M., 65
Antliff, Rev. James Cooper, 52
Arkell, Thomas Reginald, 180
Armstrong, Samuel, 174
Arnold, William McCullough, 114
Arrell, Harrison, 52
Arsenault, Hon. Aubin E., 215
Ashby, Joseph Seraphin Aime, 127
Ashton, Major-General Ernest, 270

Askwith, John E., 106
Asselin, Major Olivar, 144

Bâby, Wolstan Alexander Dixie, 229
Bachand, Leonide Charles, 69
Bailey, Charles Frederick, 218
Baillie, Sir Frank, 110
Bain, John, 66
Ball, Emerson Ewart, 61
Ball, Robert James, 64
Ballantyne, James, 145
Barnard, Sir Frank Stillman, 223
Barnard, Hon. George Henry, 126
Barrow, Hon. Edward Dodsley, 205
Barry, Walter H., 124
Baskerville, William Joseph, 148
Bates, Joseph Lever, 165
Bates, Thomas Nathaniel, 272
Beach, Mahlon F., 49
Beaumont, Ernest Joseph, 56
Bégin, Louis Nazaire, 17
Beith, Hon. Robert, 40
Bellemare, Adelard, 125
Bell, Clarence A. H., 274
Bell, Hon. George Alexander, 230
Bell, John Howatt, 74
Bell, John Percival, 257
Belcourt, Hon. Napoleon Antoine, 61
Bender, Prosper, 31
Bennett, Richard Bedford, 255
Berthiaume, Arthur, 147
Best, John, 43
Bethune, Rev. Charles James Stewart, 76
Birkett, Thomas, 125

Black, Henry, 133
Blair, Lieutenant James K., 273
Blondin, Hon. Pierre Edouard, 212
Bole, David W., 221
Borden, Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Laird, 1
Boudreau, L. N. H. Rodolphe, 180
Bowell, Sir Mackenzie, 44
Bowes, James Leslie Llewellyn, 69
Bowie, Lieut.-Colonel Henry William, 251
Bowman, Charles Martin, 275
Boyd, Leslie Hale, 98
Boyer, Major Gustave, 90
Boyer, Louis, 40
Braden, Norman Short, 250
Braithwaite, Edward Ernest, 73
Breadner, Robert Walker, 132
Breithaupt, John C., 228
Breithaupt, Louis J., 43
Brennan, John Charles, 131
Briggs, William, 68
Bristow, Michael George, 73
Brock, Lieut.-Colonel Henry, 70
Brock, William Rees, 71
Brodeur, Hon. Louis Philippe, 220
Bronson, Hon. Erskine Henry, 65
Bronson, Henry Franklin, 34
Brossoit, Numa Edouard, 274
Buchanan, William A., 171
Buckles, Daniel, 119
Bulman, William John, 131
Burgoyne, William Bartlett, 186
Burpee, Lawrence Johnston, 39
Bulyea George Hedley Vicars, 143
Butler, Lieut.-Colonel Thomas Page, 282

Butterworth, John George Bissett, 256
Byrne, Daniel J., 129

Callahan, John, 190
Camaraire, Alfred Frederick, 115
Cameron, Lieut.-Colonel Sir Douglas, 16
Campbell, Colin, 103
Campbell, Donald Grant, 151
Campbell, William Brough, 234
Cane, James Gilbert, 111
Carew, John, 22
Carson, Hugh, 145
Cartwright, Lieut.-Colonel Robert, 168
Casgrain, Philippe Baby, 27
Cash, Edward L., 157
Cassils, Charles, 151
Cave, James G., 138
Chabot, Lieut.-Colonel John Leo, 63
Chadwick, Edward Marion, 37
Chamberlain, Theodore F., 45
Chambers, Colonel Ernest John, 283
Champagne, Napoleon, 209
Chapleau, Maj. Samuel Edmour St. Onge, 47
Chaplin, James D., 184
Charlesworth, Hector, 254
Charlton, William Granville, 64
Chauvin, Hon. T. Hector, 150
Chisholm, William Craig, 108
Choquette, Ernest, 138
Choquette, Philippe Auguste, 137
Chrysler, Francis Henry, 80
Clark, Lieut.-Colonel Hugh, 100
Clark, John Murray, 78
Clute, Arthur Roger, 34

Coats, Robert Hamilton, 104
Coburn, John W., 123
Cockshutt, William Foster, 2
Cody, Hon. Henry John, 109
Cole, George M., 63
Cole, Col. Wilmot Howard, 28
Colquhoun, Arthur Hugh Urquhart, 261
Commeford, James W., 139
Conant, Gordon Daniel, 131
Connolly, Bernard Gervase, 190
Coombs, Albert Ernest, 64
Coristine, Major Stanley B., 295
Corrigan, Ambrose Eugene, 206
Côté, Narcisse Omer, 221
Cotton, Major-General W. H., 249
Cousineau, Joseph Philemon, 192
Cousins, George Vipond, 159
Cowan, William Frederick, 84
Cox, Herbert Coplin, 26
Coyne, James Henry, 14
Crannell, Levi, 302
Creelman, Lieut.-Colonel John Jennings, 185
Cronyn, Hume, 228
Cross, Alexander S. G., 151
Cross, Charles Wilson, 32
Crossland, E. F., 136
Crothers, Hon. Thomas Wilson, 90
Crowther, William H., 190
Cudmore, Sedley Anthony, 302
Currie, General Sir Arthur William, 165
Cutten, George Barton, 193

Dalley, Frederick Fenner, 218
Dalton, Hon. Charles, 204

Daniels, Hon. Orlando T., 206
Dargavel, John Robertson, 133
Davey, James, 68
David, Hon. Laurent Olivier, 182
Davidson, James Wheeler, 191
Davidson, William McCartney, 225
Davis, Albert Mayno, 229
Davis, Aubrey, 176
Dawson, Arthur Osborne, 32
De Celles, Alfred Duclos, 66
Delage, Cyrille F., 195
Demers, Joseph, 160
Denis, J. Wilfred, 69
Denton, Frank, 62
Deroche, William Paschal, 172
de Tremaudan, A. H., 76
Detwiler, Noah Bechtel, 277
Dewart, Herbert Hartley, 275
Dickson, Rev. James A. R., 136
Dinnick, Lieut.-Col. Wilfrid Servington, 193
Diver, Frederick, 125
Dobell, Sir Charles Macpherson, 24
Doherty, Hon. Charles Joseph, 156
Dollard, Rev. James B., 184
Donogh, John Ormsby, 161
Donovan, Albert Edward, 300
Doughty, Arthur George, 297
Douglas, James, 32
Douglas, William James, 195
Dowling, John S., 176
Drayton, Sir Henry Lumley, 23
Drayton, Philip Henry, 276
Drysdale, William, 186
Duclos, Arnold Willard, 285

Duff, Hon. Lyman Poore, 271
Dunlop, Edward Arunah, 237
Dunning, Hon. Charles Avery, 216
Dwyer, William Henry, 72
Dymond, Allan Malcolm, 41

Earle, Rufus Redmond, 119
Easson, Robert Henry, 281
Eddis, Wilton C., 69
Edwards, John Wesley, 45
Edwards, Hon. William Cameron, 123
Elliot, Major-General Harry Macintire, 284
Elliott, John Campbell, 60
Ellis, James Albert, 102
Ellis, John F., 178
Elson, John Melbourne, 288
Englehart, Joel Lewis, 173
Ethier, Joseph Arthur Calixte, 133
Evanturel, Gustave, 67
Ewart, David, 174
Ewing, William, 194

Farris, Hon. John Wallace de Beque, 214
Farrow, Robinson Russell, 238
Faulkner, Hon. George Everett, 206
Ferguson, Hon. George Howard, 196
Ferguson, Hon. William Nassau, 39
Fielding, Hon. William Stevens, 279
Fifield, Albert Frank, 198
Finlayson, George Daniel, 239
Finnie, David Maclachan, 179
Fisher, His Honor Walter George, 185
Flavelle, William M., 134
Flint, Thomas Barnard, 79

Flynn, Edmund James, 263
Foran, Joseph Kearney, 280
Forin, John Andrew, 122
Forman, James C., 247
Forster, J. W. L., 172
Foster, Thomas Wilfred, 248
Foster, Hon. Walter Edward, 254
Fraleck, Edison Baldwin, 67
Fraser, George B., 71
Freiman, Archibald J., 132

Galbraith, Walter Stuart, 147
Gale, George Charles, 134
Gale, Robert Henry, 288
Gariepy, Wilfrid, 127
Garland, John L., 105
Garneau, Sir George, 25
Gartshore, Lieut.-Colonel William Moir, 180
Gibbon, Arthur Playford, 232
Gibbons, John Joseph, 69
Gibson, Brig.-General Sir John Morison, 242
Gibson, Theron, 27
Gill, Robert, 289
Gillespie, Professor Peter, 74
Girard, A. D., 167
Girard, Joseph, 31
Godfrey, Oswald Julius, 149
Goodeve, Hon. Arthur Samuel, 34
Goring, C. C., 193
Gouin, Hon. Sir Jean Lomer, 22
Graham, Hon. George Perry, 267
Grange, Edward Alexander Andrew, 74
Grange, Edward Wilkinson, 39
Grant, Gordon, 197

Grierson, Hon. George Allison, 133
Groves, Abraham, 38
Guilbault, Joseph Pierre Octave, 34
Gwatkin, Major-General W. G., 260
Gwynne, Brig.-General Reginald John, 286

Hackett, Edward, 37
Hagedorn, Charles Kappler, 116
Hamilton, Frank Kent, 223
Hamilton, Ralph Bergen, 189
Hanna, Hon. William John, 287
Hannon, James Willson, 159
Hara, Frederick North, 198
Hare, Rev. John James, 269
Harkin, James, B., 174
Harper, John Murdoch, 129
Harris, Reginald V., 59
Harris, William Gean, 175
Harrison, Nathaniel Isles, 147
Hastings, David, 75
Hazen, Hon. Sir John Douglas, 93
Heakes, Francis Riley, 152
Hearst, Hon. Sir William Howard, 7
Heaton, Ernest, 87
Hebert, Zepherin, 88
Helmer, Brig.-General Richard Alexis, 265
Henderson, Alexander, 235
Henderson, William Andrew, 118
Henry, David Edouard, 231
Henry, Hon. George Stewart, 282
Higinbotham, John D., 143
Hill, Hamnett Pinhey, 140
Hinds, Leonard D’Arcy Bernard, 33
Hocken, Norman Cecil, 195

Hodgetts, Colonel Charles Alfred, 223
Hogg, Andrew Brydon, 121
Hogg, William Drummond, 285
Honeywell, Major Frederick Henry, 164
Hook, Thomas, 300
Hopkins, Arthur George, 150
Hopkins, Innes, 188
Hore, George Charles, 134
Hough, John Atwell, 198
Hudson, Hon. Albert Blellock, 145
Hughes, Brig.-General William St. Pierre, 258
Hunnisett, James Edward, 201
Hunter, Lieut.-Colonel A. T., 37
Hunter, Major W. E. Lincoln, 281
Hurdman, George Charles, 271
Hutchison, Colonel William, 241

Ingersoll, James Hamilton, 178
Ingram, George C., 123
Innes, Hugh Patterson, 199
Irwin, William Nassau, 234
Izzard, Dennis Jabez, 95

Jacobs, Samuel W., 89
James, Edgar Augustus, 178
Jarvis, Ernest Frederick, 191
Jenkins, Lieut.-Col. Stephen Rice Jenkins, 213
Jetté, the Hon. Sir Louis, 10
Johnson, Hon. Thomas Herman, 238
Johnston, Ebenezer Forsyth Blackie, 97
Jones, George Burpee, 95
Jones, Henry Victor Franklin, 87
Jones, James William, 161

Kastner, Gideon, 163
Keefe, R. Daniel, 86
Kelso, John Joseph, 194
Kemp, Hon. Sir Albert Edward, 16
Kennedy, William Costello, 11
Kent, Joseph, 110
King, Hon. James H., 195
King, Hon. William Lyon Mackenzie, 286
Kyte, George William, 77

Labelle, Alfred Eugene, 158
Laidlaw, Lorne Nelson, 148
Landry, Hon. David V., 142
Langelier, Hon. Sir François-Xavier, 18
Langley, James P., 44
Langton, Brig.-General Joseph Graham, 266
Laurier, the late Rt. Hon. Sir Wilfrid, 3
Law, Bonnar B., 200
Lawlor, H. W., 36
Leblanc, Sir Pierre-Evariste, 159
Lemieux, Auguste, 35
Lemieux, Hon. Sir François-Xavier, 12
Lennie, Robert Scott, 141
Lennox, Lieut.-Colonel Thomas Herbert, 207
Leonard, Lieut.-Colonel Reuben Wells, 268
Lesperance, Albert Paneran, 246
L’Esperance, Hon. David Ovide, 85
Levy, Gabriel Herman, 221
Lighthall, William Douw, 101
Longley, Hon. J. W., 51
Lumsden, John, 315
Lynch, Hon. William Warren, 19

MacAulay, Brock, 157

Macaulay, John, 101
Macaulay, Thomas Basset, 99
Macdonald, Sir Donald Alexander, 225
MacDonald, Donald D., 175
Macdonald, John, 50
MacDonald, Neil S., 48
Macdonald, Selkirk M., 96
Machado, Jose Antonio, 211
Machin, Lt.-Col. Harold Arthur Clement, 203
Mackay, Hon. Col. Alexander Howard, 191
Mackenzie, Daniel D., 294
Mackenzie, Hugh Blair, 158
MacKenzie, John Angus, 177
Mackenzie, Norman, 93
Mackie, George D., 150
Mackintosh, Charles Herbert, 56
MacLean, Archie, 86
MacLean, Hon. John Duncan, 117
Mann, Alexander Robert, 168
Marchand, Pierre, 249
Marcile, Joseph Edmond, 155
Margeson, Lieut.-Colonel Joseph Willis, 217
Marnoch, George Robert, 104
Marsh, Lieut.-Colonel Lorne Wilmot, 88
Marshall, Lieut.-Col. Kenric Reid, 302
Marshall, Lieut.-Colonel Noel G. L., 169
Martin, Hon. William Melville, 231
Massey, C. D., 53
Massey, Charles Vincent, 202
Mather, James, 205
Matthews, George Sands, 155
McBrien, Frederick George, 155
McCarthy, Jesse Overn, 201
McClennaghan, Stewart, 169

McConnell, Richard George, 165
McCorkill, Hon. Justice John Charles, 20
McCuaig, Clarence James, 111
McCuish, Robert George, 120
McCullough, Charles Robert, 48
McCurdy, Fleming Blanchard, 266
McEvoy, John Millar, 283
McFall, Robert James, 298
McGiverin, Harold Buchanan, 177
McInenly, William, 60
McInnes, William, 203
McKay, Hon. James, 159
McKeon, Very Rev. Dean P. J., 178
McLean, Angus Alexander, 240
McLean, Hon. Daniel, 160
McLean, Major-Gen. Hugh Havelock, 62
McMahon, Edward, 89
McMahon, James Alexander, 259
McNeeley, John Strachan Lewis, 153
McNeil, Most Rev. Neil, 175
McNeillie, James Richardson, 36
McQuarrie, William Garland, 188
Meek, Edward, 58
Meighen, Hon. Arthur, 8
Merner, Jonathan Joseph, 154
Middlebró, William S., 87
Mikel, William Charles, 54
Mills, Charles Henry, 93
Miller, Frederick Robert, 213
Miller, Lieut.-Colonel John Bellamy, 262
Mitchell, Hon. Robert Menzies, 11
Mitchell, Hon. Walter George, 245
Minehan, Rev. Lancelot, 85
Mondou, Alberic Archie, 153

Montgomery, Hugh John, 96
Morehouse, Oscar Emery, 135
Morgan, Colin Daniel, 52
Morin, Pierre Alphonse, 270
Morin, Victor, 75
Murphy, Hon. Charles, 28
Murray, Hon. Robert, 252
Musson, Charles Joseph, 53

Nanton, Sir Augustus Meredith, 183
Nash, Charles William, 280
Nasmith, Colonel George Gallie, 263
Neill, Charles Ernest, 278
Nesbitt, Arthur Russel, 249
Nicholls, Lieut.-Colonel Hon. Frederic, 264
Nicholson, Arthur Edwin, 277
Nickle, William Folger, 107
Norcross, Joseph W., 201
Northrup, William Barton, 250
Notman, John Charles, 177
Noyes, John Powell, 257

Odlum, Edward, 141
O’Hara, Francis Charles Trench, 118
Oliver, Hon. John, 196
O’Reilly, His Honor James Redmond, 86
Owens, Edward W. J., 299

Paisley, James K., 83
Panet, Lieut.-Colonel Charles Louis, 279
Paquet, Eugene, 157
Pardee, Frederick Forsyth, 33
Pardoe, Avern, 176
Parent, Hon. Simon Napoleon, 226

Parmelee, William George, 20
Parsons, S. R., 246
Paton, Hugh, 177
Patrick, John Alexander Macdonald, 120
Patterson, John Pratt, 61
Payne, Francis Freeman, 150
Pedley, Frank, 213
Pennington, David Henry, 117
Perley, Sir George Halsey, 205
Perry, Nathaniel Irwin, 139
Petrie, Harry David, 275
Peuchen, Lieut.-Colonel Arthur Godfrey, 121
Pope, Major William Walter, 82
Poulin, Stanislas, 101
Power, William, 161
Pratt, Edward Courtney, 82
Price, Samuel, 95
Price, Sir William, 15
Pringle, Robert Abercrombie, 105
Pritchard, Henry Thomas, 215
Proudfoot, William, 210
Proulx, Edmond, 161
Pugh, Thomas James, 181
Pullan, E., 277
Pyne, Lieut.-Colonel Hon. Robert Allan, 90

Rawlings, Henry Edward, 197
Regan, Frank, 189
Reid, Frank, 85
Reid, William Brown, 237
Rhodes, Hon. Edgar Nelson, 13
Richardson, John, 297
Riddell, Hon. William Renwick, 82
Roadhouse, William Albert, 109

Robb, Thomas, 54
Robertson, Edward Blake, 184
Robertson, Hon. Gideon Decker, 240
Robertson, John Ross, 5
Robertson, Norman, 94
Robertson, William John, 91
Robertson, William Robert, 199
Robinette, Thomas Cowper, 252
Roche, Hon. William James, 102
Roche, Francis James, 292
Rogers, Albert S., 183
Rogers, John Morrison, 261
Rose, George Maclean, 272
Rose, Hon. Mr. Justice Hugh Edward, 93
Rose, William Oliver, 188
Ross, James Gibb, 21
Ross, John Theodore, 261
Rowell, Hon. Newton Wesley, 202
Russell, Adam Lothian, 235
Rust, C. H., 124
Rutherford, Colonel Hon. Alexander Cameron, 278
Rutherford, John Gunion, 226

Saint Cyr, Joseph Fortunat, 98
Sainte-Pierre, F., 97
St. Jean, Ulric, 157
Samuel, Sigmund, 92
Sauvé, Arthur, 203
Sayles, Edwin Roy, 164
Scott, F. Stewart, 183
Scott, James Guthrie, 30
Scott, William Duncan, 106
Seguin, Paul Arthur, 92
Senecal, Francis Albert, 204

Sharpe, Samuel Simpson, 100
Shepherd, Simpson James, 123
Shier, Walter C., 91
Shillington, Lieut.-Col. Adam Tozeland, 236
Shortly, Orville Benjamin, 248
Shutt, Frank Thomas, 96
Sifton, Hon. Arthur Lewis, 209
Sinclair, Robert Victor, 234
Sinclair, Victor Albert, 94
Sine, Frederick, 158
Sloan, Hon. William, 207
Smart, Russell Sutherland, 259
Smith, Hon. Ernest Albert, 214
Smith, John Charles, 92
Smith, William, 53
Stapells, Richard A., 219
Starr, J. R. L., 156
Stewart, Charles, 99
Stewart, Dougald, 160
Street, Lieut.-Colonel Douglas Richmond, 140
Struthers, James Douglas, 163
Studholme, Allan, 115
Sutherland, Donald, 60
Sutherland, Fred C., 296
Sutherland, Thomas Fraser, 181

Taschereau, Hon. Louis Alexander, 21
Taylor, Albert William, 204
Taylor, Hon. George Edward, 151
Taylor, Lt.-Col. Hon. George, 296
Tessier, Auguste Maurice, 111
Tetreault, Joseph Sylvini, 108
Thoburn, William, 135
Thompson, Alfred, 162

Thomson, Levi, 70
Thornton, Hon. Robert Stirton, 217
Todd, John Lancelot, 121
Tory, John A., 108
Tourigny, Alfred F. X., 115
Trahan, Arthur, 103
Tremeear, William J., 68
Turgeon, Hon. Adelard, 12
Turgeon, Hon. William Ferdinand Alphonse, 215
Turnbull, Walter Renwick, 169
Tytler, William, 138

Vance, His Honor, George M., 160
Vaughan, Marshall, 293
Veale, Philip Henry, 239
Veniot, Hon. Peter John, 208

Wade, Mark Sweeten, 144
Wainwright, Arnold, 164
Walker, William Simpson, 187
Wallace, Thomas George, 152
Wallis, Horace, 116
Ward, Lieut.-Colonel Henry Alfred, 105
Watson, Brigadier-General Sir David, 162
Watson, Senator Robert, 295
Watt, John Ralston, 116
Webber, John A., 233
Weichel, William George, 154
Weir, William M., 158
Weld, Edmund, 220
Weld, John, 253
Wetherell, James Elgin, 222
Whalen, George Frederick, 192
White, Arthur V., 55

White, Gerald Verner, 136
White, James, 236
White, John T., 181
White, Rt. Hon. Sir William Thomas, 13
Whitney, Edward Canfield, 293
Widdifield, John W., 115
Wilkes, Alfred John, 112
Williams, Herbert Hale, 171
Williams, Right Rev. Lennox Waldron, 216
Williams-Taylor, Sir Frederick, 200
Willis, James E., 264
Wilson, Henry George Wilberforce, 148
Wilson, James Lockie, 114
Wilson, Peter Edward, 168
Winkler, Hon. Valentine, 208
Wood, Rev. William Robertson, 253
Woods, Lieut.-Colonel James W., 146
Workman, Mark, 113
Wright, Alexander Whyte, 290
Wright, George, 149
Wright, George Craig, 277
Wright, Harry George, 199
Wright, William J., 104
Wrong, Professor George McKinnon, 113
Wylie, Newton, 294

LIST OF PHOTOGRAVURES
Askwith, Jno. E, Ottawa.

Baillie, Sir Frank W., Toronto.
Baskerville, W. J., Ottawa.
Beach, the late M. F.
Beaumont, E. J., Kitchener.
Birkett, Thomas, Ottawa.
Blondin, Hon. P. E., Ottawa.
Borden, Right. Hon. Sir R. L., Ottawa.
Bowman, Charles M., Southampton.
Breadner, R. W., Ottawa.
Breithaupt, J. C., Kitchener.
Breithaupt, L. J., Kitchener.
Brennan, J. C., Ottawa.
Bristow, M. G., Ottawa.
Bulman, W., Winnipeg.
Butterworth, J. G. B., Ottawa.

Cowan, the late W. F., Ottawa.
Currie, Major-General Sir Arthur William, Victoria, B.C.

Dwyer, W. H., Ottawa.

Edwards, Senator W. C., Ottawa.
Englehart, Jacob L., Petrolia, Ontario.

Finnie, D. M., Ottawa.

Gale, R. H., Vancouver, B.C.

Gariepy, Hon. Wilfrid, Edmonton.
Garland, John L., Ottawa.
Gibson, Brig.-General Sir John M., Hamilton.
Gouin, Sir Lomer, Quebec.
Graham, Hon. Geo. P., Brockville.
Grant, Gordon, Ottawa.

Harris, W. G., Toronto.
Hebert, Zepherin, Montreal.
Henry, D. E., Ottawa.
Hodgetts, Colonel C. A., Ottawa.
Hunter, Major W. E. Lincoln, Toronto.
Hutchison, Colonel Wm., Ottawa.

Kennedy, W. C., Windsor.
King, Hon. W. L. Mackenzie, Ottawa.

Laurier, the late Right Hon. Sir Wilfrid

Macaulay, T. B., Montreal.
Machin, Colonel H. A. C., Kenora.
Mackenzie, John Angus, Ottawa.
McClennaghan, Stewart, Ottawa.
McInenly, William, Ottawa.
McMahon, E., Ottawa.
Mitchell, Hon. W. G., Quebec.

Parsons, S. R., Toronto.
Paton, Hugh, Montreal.
Peuchen, Lieut.-Colonel Arthur, Toronto.

Reid, W. B., Toronto.
Robertson, E. Blake, Ottawa.

Shillington, Colonel A. T., Ottawa.
Shortly, Orville B., Toronto.
Sifton, Hon. Arthur L., Ottawa.
Stapells, R. A., Toronto.
Sutherland, F. C., Toronto.

Turgeon, Hon. Adelard, Quebec.

Vaughan, Marshall, Welland, Ontario.

White, Right. Hon. Sir W. T., Ottawa.
Whitney, E. C., Ottawa.
Woods, Lieut.-Colonel James W., Ottawa.
Wright, George, Toronto.

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CANADIAN BIOGRAPHY

Borden, Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Laird, P.C., K.C.M.G., K.C.,
LL.D., Premier of Canada (Ottawa, Ont.), eldest son of Andrew Borden and
Eunice Laird, was born at Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, on June 26, 1854. He
was educated at Acadia Villa Academy, Horton, and for a time a Professor
in Glenwood Institute, N.J. His great-great-grandfather went to King’s
County, Nova Scotia, with early settlers from New England, in 1760, and
upon returning to Massachusetts gave his land in Nova Scotia to his son, the

great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch. Upon returning to Nova
Scotia, Sir Robert studied law and was called to the Bar in 1878. He first
practised at Kentville, N.S., and later moved to Halifax, succeeding the late
Sir John Thompson, then Prime Minister of Canada, in the firm of
Thompson, Graham and Tupper. Before removing to Ottawa he was head of
the law firm of Borden, Ritchie & Chisholm, of Halifax, and for ten years
was President of the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society. He was made a Q.C.
in 1900; an Honorary LL.D. of Queen’s University in 1903; an Honorary
LL.D., St. Francis Xavier University in 1905; an Honorary LL.D. of McGill
University in 1913. In 1896 he was elected to the House of Commons from
Halifax in the General Elections, and re-elected in 1900, but was an
unsuccessful candidate at the General Elections in 1904. Upon the
retirement of Edward Kidd, M.P., for Carleton, Ont., he was elected by
acclamation in his stead at the by-election held on February 4, 1905, and
was re-elected by a large majority at the general elections in 1908, when he
was also elected in Halifax, N.S. He later resigned his Carleton seat,
preferring to represent Halifax. At the General Elections of 1911, he was
again returned for Halifax, and continued to represent that constituency up
to the present time (1918). On February 6, 1901, he was chosen leader of
the Conservative Party in the House of Commons, and upon the resignation
of Sir Wilfrid Laurier and his Cabinet on October 6, 1911, following the
defeat of the Liberal Government on the question of Reciprocity with the
United States, he was sent for by His Excellency Earl Grey and was
entrusted with the task of forming a Cabinet. With a very large majority at
his disposal, he found the task an easy one, and was successful in gathering
around him men who have since carried on the government of the country
in one of the most critical periods of its existence. At the time the first
Borden government assumed office the world war was unthought of except
as a vague speculation, which few students of world finance and world
politics believed would ever become a fact, and the new Premier did not
foresee that before him lay the most difficult task that had ever confronted a
Canadian Government. In the summer of 1914 the conflict which ultimately
developed into a war between the Central Empires and most of the other
civilized powers, came like a bolt from the blue. On August 4, 1914, there
was great curiosity in the chancelleries of Europe as to whether the overseas
dominions of the British Empire would stand behind Great Britain.
Germany, on the day she started the war, believed that they would not, and

it was prophesied in Berlin that Canada would seek separation from the
Empire. Sir Robert Borden at once gave the answer by placing the entire
resources of the Dominion at the disposal of the Motherland; and on
receiving an intimation from the late Lord Kitchener, that men were the first
necessity, immediately called Parliament together to vote the necessary
money. His government commenced the training and equipment of a first
volunteer expeditionary force of 35,000, with provision for its further
extension at need. This expeditionary force was partly trained at Valcartier
camp, Quebec, and partly at Salisbury Plains, England, and first went into
action at the second battle of Ypres in the spring of 1915. In the words of
Viscount French, at that time Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in
France, it “saved the situation” and barred the way to the Channel Ports
from the Germans. In 1915 Sir Robert, who had been honored with the title
of G.C.M.G. shortly before the outbreak of the conflict, visited Great
Britain and France and, convincing himself that the struggle would be very
long and difficult, pledged Canada to provide an aggregate of 500,000
trained men should the need arise. He and his government also made
arrangements whereby Canadian manufacturers should engage largely in
the production of munitions, the credits for such contracts being financed
by the Canadian administration. The same policy was pursued in connection
with contracts for food supplies, with the result that throughout the war
there was a continued trade expansion and financial opulence that enabled
Canada to make sacrifices that would otherwise have been impossible to
her. During his visits to the front Sir Robert kept himself fully in touch with
the needs of the Canadian army, and resolved to make it a first
consideration in all his policies. A trip to Great Britain and France in the
early part of 1917 convinced him that, in view of the dark outlook for
peace, it would be necessary for Canada to adopt the policy of conscription,
which had already been reluctantly adopted in Great Britain by Mr. Asquith,
and had become the policy of the United States, which had recently entered
the war. It was clear to Sir Robert that this policy could only be effectively
imposed by consent of both parties in the House of Commons, and on his
return to Canada in May, 1917, he announced conscription as his policy and
an abandonment of party government. He was at first stoutly opposed both
in the ranks of his own party and by his political opponents. Nevertheless,
after long and patient negotiations he was successful in winning practically
the entire body of English-speaking Liberals to his way of thinking, and

conscription carried in the House of Commons in the latter part of July,
1917, by the greatest majority ever given so momentous a measure. He then
proceeded to form a Union Government almost equally representative of
Conservatives and Liberals. Early in December of 1917 this government,
with Sir Robert as Prime Minister, appealed to the people, and was
supported by almost the entire mass of English-speaking constituencies,
giving him the largest majority that any political leader has ever enjoyed in
this country. As a result of the adoption of conscription, Canada was
enabled by the time peace was declared to fulfil her pledge of sending
500,000 men to aid in the war against autocracy—a contribution which has
made this country famous throughout the world. Already, on January 1,
1912, Sir Robert had been sworn in as a member of the Imperial Privy
Council, the highest office that up to that time had been held in the
Motherland by a Canadian. On his arrival in London in June, 1918, he was
invited by the Prime Minister, Hon. David Lloyd-George to become a
member of the Imperial War Cabinet, a post which he held during the
duration of the war. This was followed in November of 1918 by an
invitation to become one of Great Britain’s Imperial representatives at the
negotiations preliminary to and coincident with the Peace Conference to
resolve the disasters of the war and at once proceeded overseas. Sir Robert’s
Imperial services have been such, and his legal attainments are so well
known that at the time of writing his elevation to the peerage as a colonial
representative on the legal committee of the Privy Council, which is the
Court of Appeal for the whole Empire, is being strongly advocated in the
Motherland. In his private relations Sir Robert is greatly beloved, and
though his duties have brought him in contact with all the leading figures of
Great Britain, France and the United States, he is a thorough democrat in
bearing. His favorite recreation is golf and he has played with many world-
famous statesmen, though he does not claim to be a champion. He is an
Anglican in religion and a member of many clubs on both sides of the
Atlantic. In September of 1889 he married Laura, daughter of the late T. H.
Bond, of Halifax, and never fails to acknowledge the great aid and
assistance that has been rendered him by Lady Borden in building up his
illustrious career. They reside at 201 Wurtemburg St., Ottawa.

THE LATE RIGHT HONORABLE SIR WILFRID LAURIER

Laurier, the late Rt. Hon. Sir Wilfrid, P.C., G.C.M.G., K.C.,
D.C.L. (Oxon.), LL.D. (Ottawa, Ont.), son of the late Carolus Laurier,
P.L.S., and his wife, Marcelle Martineau; born at St. Lin, Quebec, on
November 20, 1841, and educated at mixed schools in his native parish and
at L’Assomption College. As a law student he entered the office of the late
Hon. R. Laflamme in 1860, and studied at McGill University; received

B.C.L. in 1864 and was called to the Bar in the same year; was appointed a
Q.C. in 1880, and became head of the law firm of Laurier & Lavergne. In
the earlier years of his professional career he edited and contributed to
several newspapers. In May 13, 1868, he married Miss Zoe Lafontaine. He
was elected to the Legislative Assembly for Drummond and Arthabaska in
1871, and resigned to contest the same riding for the House of Commons at
the general elections in 1874, and was elected; was sworn in a Privy
Councillor and appointed Minister of Inland Revenue in the Mackenzie
administration, on October 8, 1877, and on going back for re-election, was
defeated by D. O. Bourbeau, who obtained a majority of forty. Later he was
elected for Quebec East, a seat vacated by I. Thibaudeau, and was re-
elected for the same Riding at the general elections of 1878, 1882, 1887,
1891, 1896 and 1900, and also elected for Saskatchewan, N.W.T., at the
general elections of 1896; was re-elected to the House of Commons at
general elections of 1904 for Quebec East and Wright, and elected to sit for
Quebec East; in 1908 was re-elected for Quebec East, and was also returned
for the City of Ottawa, and again elected to sit for Quebec East; in 1911 he
was elected for both Quebec East and Soulanges; and in 1918 for Quebec
East. In October, 1878, he resigned with the Mackenzie Government, and
was elected leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Commons in 1887.
He issued a call for a Dominion Liberal Convention in 1893, which was
held at Ottawa. Upon the defeat of the Tupper Government at the general
elections, June 23, 1896, he was called on by Lord Aberdeen, Governor-
General, to form a ministry on July 8, 1896, on which date Sir Charles
Tupper resigned office; was sworn in as President of the Privy Council, July
11, 1896, and formed his Ministry, July 13, 1896. He was appointed by a
sub-committee of the Privy Council to arrange for the settlement of the
Manitoba School Question and an agreement was reached in November of
the same year. On the occasion of the celebration of Her Majesty Queen
Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee at London, Eng., June, 1897, he represented
Canada, and was created a Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished
Order of St. Michael and St. George; was received in audience by the
Sovereign and accorded the leading place in the great Jubilee State
Procession of all the Colonial dignitaries. Oxford and Cambridge
Universities conferred upon him the degree of D.C.L. (hon.) during this
visit. He was sworn in an Imperial Privy Councillor July 6, 1897; was made
an honorary member of the Cobden Club, and received from it a gold medal

in recognition of his services in the cause of international free exchange;
was presented by the President of France with the Star of a Grand Officer of
the legion of Honour, at Havre, July 29, 1897, being the highest but one of
that order; was received in audience by His Holiness the Pope, August 12,
1897. While in England he succeeded in securing Her Majesty’s
Government’s assent to the denunciation of the commercial treaties with
Germany and Belgium, which stood in the way of Canada’s new tariff,
extending a preference to the United Kingdom. On his return to Canada he
was accorded public receptions at Quebec, Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa,
and received from Toronto and Queen’s Universities the honorary degrees
of LL.D. In November, 1897, he went to Washington in the interest of better
relations between the two countries, and was a member of the Joint
Commission which met at Quebec, August 23, 1898, to discuss questions
affecting jointly Great Britain, Canada and the United States. He welcomed
the present King, then Duke of Cornwall and York, to Canada in September,
1901, and accompanied the Royal Party through the Dominion; was invited,
and attended, the Coronation of King Edward VII, in 1902, sailing June 14,
arriving in Liverpool June 21, and in London, June 22. The Coronation,
fixed for June 26, was postponed on June 24, but took place on August 9.
On June 30 he attended a Colonial Conference at London, and on July 26
received the freedom of the City of Edinburgh, and was honored with the
degree of LL.D. by the Edinburgh University. He was entertained by the
City of Glasgow, July 28, visited the continent, and sailed for Canada on
October 7, arriving at Quebec, October 17, and at Ottawa, October 18,
receiving a great civic welcome at the City Hall. On New Year’s Day, 1904,
he was presented by His Excellency the Governor-General, with the Fenian
Raid medal for services as a volunteer in 1866. In 1907 he attended the
Imperial Conference at London, Eng., as a representative of Canada, and
was accorded the freedom of London, Bristol, Liverpool and other cities;
and in 1911 he attended the Imperial Conference in England and
represented Canada at the coronation of King George and Queen Mary.
Following the defeat of his Party at the polls on September 21, 1911, on
October 6 he tendered the resignation of himself and Cabinet to Earl Grey,
and advised His Excellency to call upon Mr. R. L. Borden, to form a
Cabinet. From that date until his death on Feb. 17, 1919, he continued to
lead the Liberal Party, and in 1917 celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday. He
again led his party in the general election of December, 1917, but was

defeated owing to the fact that many followers had parted company with
him on the issue of Conscription. Sir Wilfrid’s end came suddenly as a
result of an effusion of blood to the brain. He was stricken while preparing
to go to church on Sunday, Feb. 16, and passed away the following
afternoon. The death of no Canadian had previously evoked such tributes as
were printed and uttered, not only in Canada, but throughout the British
Empire and the United States. His remains were accorded the honor of a
State funeral in Ottawa on Saturday, Feb. 22, 1919, which was the most
impressive function of its kind known on any continent since the death of
Lincoln.

Ames, Sir Herbert B., K.B., LL.D., M.P. (Montreal, Que.), born
June 27, 1863, at Montreal, of which city he has been a life-long resident.
He is the only son of the late Evan Fisher Ames (who founded the shoe
manufacturing concern of Ames, Holden & Company in 1856), and of
Caroline Matilda Brown, his wife, who was a native of New York City. Mr.
E. F. Ames came to Canada from Conway, Mass., which district he
represented in the Massachusetts Legislature in 1852. He established
himself in Montreal, and became one of the leading Canadian
manufacturers. Sir Herbert Ames was educated in the schools of Montreal,
subsequently entering Amherst College at Amherst, Mass., graduating from
there with the degree of B.A. in 1885, and having had conferred on him the
further title of LL.D. in 1915. When in college he was a member of the
Alpha Phi Fraternity. In August, 1885, after leaving Amherst, he entered the
firm of Ames, Holden & Company, at Montreal, remaining in that business
until 1893. He next interested himself in municipal reform and became
President of an organization of young men known as the Volunteer Electoral
League, which body was largely instrumental in bringing about the
reformation of the City Council. In 1898 Mr. Ames was elected a member
of the Montreal City Council for St. Antoine Ward, and served his
constituency for eight years. During that period he was a member of the
Police Commission, of the Road Commission and for four years served as
Chairman of the Board of Health. In 1895 Mr. Ames was named a member
of the Council of Public Instruction of the Province of Quebec, which body
supervises the entire school system of the province. Mr. Ames was first
elected a member of the House of Commons, Canada, in 1904, having a

majority of 650. In 1908 he was again elected by 850 of a majority, and in
1911 elected for the third time by a majority of over 2,000; again re-elected
in December, 1917. On the formation of the Borden Government, in 1911,
Mr. Ames was appointed to the important position of chairman of the Select
Standing Committee on Banking and Commerce, to which all bills
pertaining to Banks, Trust and Loan and Insurance Companies are referred
for examination and report. In 1903 he was a member of the National
Committee to entertain the Chambers of Commerce of the Empire, and with
them travelled throughout the Dominion. In 1909, as representative of the
Montreal Board of Trade, Mr. Ames attended the meeting of the Chambers
of Commerce at Sydney, Australia. He has travelled extensively throughout
Australia, Japan, Egypt, India, Europe, the United States and West Indies,
and has given much time and attention to the discussion of trade questions,
tariff and treaties with other countries. In 1896 he wrote and published a
monograph entitled “The City Below the Hill,” being a sociological study
of the District of the City of Montreal, in which such questions as wages,
rents, health conditions, etc., were carefully received. At the request of the
Department of Commerce and Labor of the United States Government, Mr.
Ames prepared an article on the same subject which appeared in the
journals of this department. At the present time Sir Herbert Ames is a
Director and Vice-President of the Ames, Holden, McCready Company. He
is also one of the three gentlemen composing the Canadian Board of the
Gresham Life Insurance Company, and also a Director of the Dominion
Guarantee Company. He is a member of the Mount Royal Club, the
Montreal Club, the Montreal Curling Club, the University Club of
Montreal, the Rideau Club, Ottawa. On May 19, 1890, Mr. Ames was
married to Louise Marion Kennedy, daughter of Sir John Kennedy, C.E., of
Montreal, and they occupy a residence on the slopes of Mount Royal. He is
an elder in the Presbyterian Church, a Director in the Y.M.C.A., a governor
in several benevolent institutions. At the outbreak of the great War, Mr.
Ames was asked by His Royal Highness, the Governor-General of Canada,
to assume the position of Honorary Secretary of the National Canadian
Patriotic Fund, which provides for the wives and dependent relatives of
soldiers serving in the armies of the Allies. On behalf of the Fund he has
visited all parts of Canada, speaking and organizing, and the marked
success to his initiative and effort. Through this great national benefaction
there will have been raised and expended during the war period no less a

sum than $45,000,000. On June 3, 1915, Mr. Ames had conferred upon him
the Honor of Knighthood by His Majesty the King, and in 1916 was made a
Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England. On
December 1, 1918, the Government of Canada created by Order-in-Council
a National War Savings Committee for the encouragement of thrift and the
promotion of investment of small savings in government securities. Of this
Committee Sir Herbert Ames has been appointed Chairman.

Robertson, John Ross, journalist. The direct descendant of Duncan
R., chief of the clan of Robertson of Strowan, 1347; eldest son of the late
John Robertson, wholesale dry goods merchant, Toronto, and Margaret R.,
daughter of Hector Sinclair, Stornoway, Island of Lewis, Scotland. He was
born in Toronto, Dec. 28, 1841, and educated at Upper Canada College;
married, 1st, in 1871, Maria Louisa (d. Aug., 1886), daughter of Edward
Earle Matthew Gillbee, Northamptonshire, Eng., grandson of the late Rev.
Dr. Edward Gillbee, Vicar of Barby, near Rugby, descendant of the noted
Anthony Gilby, one of the translators of the first edition of the Geneva or
“Breeches” Bible, 1560; 2ndly, 1888, Jessie Elizabeth, daughter of George
B. Holland, a prominent insurance man of Toronto. While still at college he
occupied his spare hours in acquiring a knowledge of the printer’s craft, and
was a fairly rapid compositor; commenced a small office which he
established in his father’s residence, John St., Toronto, and with a few fonts
of type he issued to the boys at Upper Canada College a paper under the
name of the “College Times,” which later took the name of the “Boys’
Times,” a monthly publication that existed 1857-60. He also published in
succession to the “Boys’ Times,” during a year at the Model Grammar
School, a newsy paper for boys called “Young Canada.” Picking up a
general knowledge of setting type and small job work in city offices, his
face was a familiar one in the old “Christian Guardian” office, where
occasionally he used to work off odd jobs, the composition of which he did
in his own office; in the “Globe” Office, where in 1859, when opportunity
offered, he sometimes used to feed one of the Hoe single cylinder presses
when printing the inner pages of the four-page “Globe,” for the inside was
always printed the afternoon before the morning issue; in the “Leader,”
where he at times worked off on a small job cylinder Hoe press, the
“Grumbler,” the weekly that he issued in 1860; the following year he

equipped a newspaper and job office, and issued “Sporting Life,” the first
paper in Canada to be devoted to athletic sports, and subsequently
continued the publication of the “Grumbler,” a weekly satirical paper, at
one time edited by W. J. Rattray, W. A. Foster, and the late Chief Justice
Thomas Moss. He worked on the reportorial and advertising staff of the
“Leader,” when Charles Lindsey and Charles Belford were editors and
Ephraim Roden, City Editor, continuing at the same time the management
of his printing office. He also issued for a year, Robertson’s Canadian
Railway Guide, the first of its kind in Canada, and early in 1865 joined the
Toronto “Globe” staff as city Editor, in May, 1866, becoming one of the
founders of the “Daily Telegraph,” a journal that had a high reputation
among the newspapers of Canada. Owing to political complications it
ceased publication in 1872. Prior to this, in December, 1869, Mr.
Robertson, then of the “Daily Telegraph,” made a trip to the North-West,
accompanied by Mr. Robert Cunningham of the “Globe.” They travelled by
rail from Toronto to the end of steel at St. Cloud, Minn., and there with a
French half-breed guide and a two-horse farmer’s sleigh, fully equipped,
began a journey of about 400 miles over the prairie. Snow storms raged and
the thermometer ran from zero to 20 below. The travellers camped every
night in the woods along the Red River, and arrived in Fort Garry after a
perilous journey of ten days, to be locked up by the so-called “President”
Riel, in Fort Garry for a week, and only allowed out to see their friends in
the town, under a guard. They both secured interesting information, but
were ordered out of the territory, as Riel thought they were “dangerous
characters,” so they left Fort Garry for Pembina, U.S., the boundary post,
one day when the thermometer was about 40 below zero. They declared
they would not do the trip again for the whole North-West. Mr. Robertson,
after the “Daily Telegraph” ceased publication, proceeded to London, Eng.,
where for three years he acted as resident correspondent and business
representative of the Toronto “Daily Globe.” On his return to Canada, 1875,
he assumed the business management of the “Nation,” edited by the late
Prof. Goldwin Smith. It is said that during his managership of the “Nation,”
his friend, Mr. Goldwin Smith asked his opinion as to the opportunities
offered for an independent daily evening paper in Toronto, and that this
conversation led up to the establishment of the “Evening Telegram,” which
first saw light in April, 1876. It is said to be the only daily paper in Canada
that has paid its way from the start. Mr. Robertson continued to conduct it

until his death, May 31, 1918. “The immediate success of this paper,” said
the “Globe,” in a sketch of his career published during his lifetime, “is
ample evidence that he has graduated from a good school of journalism.
Neither accident or luck had aught to do with his success. He launched out
in new and original lines, and the good fortune that attended his efforts was
the outcome of his energy, enthusiasm and experience, reinforced by a
persistence and resource that would admit of no failure; it is these qualities
that he brings to his every undertaking, and on the “Globe” he left behind
him a reputation that is worthy of his later achievements.” This was
publicly demonstrated by his Masonic career and his management of that
great charity—the Hospital for Sick Children. From the first he has held
high rank in the Masonic order. He entered the Craft in 1867, and was W.M.
of his Mother Lodge, King Solomon’s, in 1880-1, and of Mimico, No. 359,
in 1879-80. After having served successively as Grand Senior Warden, as
District Grand Master of the Toronto District in 1886, he became in 1890
Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Canada, and was subsequently chosen
Grand First Principal of the Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Canada, 1894-5,
and Provincial Grand Prior, Ontario Centre, Sovereign Great Priory of
Canadian Knights Templar, 1882; was Grand Representative of the Grand
Lodge of England in Canada, having been appointed to succeed Sir John A.
Macdonald in that office on the latter’s death, 1891; indeed, every honor at
the disposal of his fellow-craftsmen had been accorded him. In September,
1902, in commemoration of the coronation of His Majesty King Edward,
the Duke of Connaught (q.v.) then and now Grand Master, was pleased to
confer the honorary rank of Past Grand Warden of England upon several
eminent personages, including the subject of this sketch. For many years
Mr. Robertson was president of the Canadian Copyright Association and
rendered important services in that regard, and also Vice-President and
President of the Canadian Associated Press, and Hon. President of the
Toronto Press Club. He was present, with his wife, by invitation, in
Westminster Abbey, at the coronation of King Edward and Queen
Alexandra. As an author of Masonic works, Mr. Robertson is well known,
having written the “History of the Degree of the Cryptic Rite in Canada,”
etc. (1888); “History of the Knights Templar of Canada, from the
Foundation of the Order to the Present Time” (1890); “Talks with
Craftsmen” (1893); “Freemasonry in Canada,” 2 vols., 1,000 pages each
(1899). He was a contributor to the U.C. College Memorial Volume, 1893,

edited the “Diary of Mrs. John Graves Simcoe, wife of the First Lieutenant-
Governor of Upper Canada, 1792-6” (1911), as a press notice said, “The
book of the year, a superb work,” and the author and compiler of
“Robertson’s Landmarks of Toronto” (7 vols.). In 1888 the ambulance
system in Toronto was unsatisfactory, and with a view to making it
efficient, he imported from London, Eng., a modern ambulance, fully
equipped, and presented it to the city. There are about sixty ambulances in
Canada made from this model. The presentation marked a new era in this
branch of humane work. He later gave a collection of 4,000 Canadian
historical pictures to the Toronto Public Library, the largest collection of its
kind in the world, valued at $150,000. In January, 1917, he acquired and
presented to the Public Library a magnificent ornithological collection of
birds and game of Canada, done in water-color by William Pope, an English
sportsman and artist, who resided for forty years at Port Ryerse, Ont. This
collection of water-colors is pronounced by eminent Canadian biologists to
be equal of and in some respects superior to, the work of Audubon. Mr.
Robertson later added to this another collection of Canadian birds, exquisite
reproductions in color of hundreds of birds that are not in the Pope
Collection, so that the entire collection is unparalleled in Canada. He
founded and gave three magnificent silver cups, made by eminent British
silversmiths, from special patterns, for the promotion of cricket, hockey and
bowling; but it was as chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Hospital for
Sick Children, Toronto, that he will be most gratefully remembered. For
thirty-five years he carried the chief burden of this important charitable
institution, bringing to its needs not only much money of his own, but
aiding it with the full force of his powers as a financier and organizer. He
took an active part in the management and visited the Hospital every day.
His gifts to the Hospital amounted to about half a million dollars during his
lifetime, for he completely equipped the Hospital buildings on College St.
and on Elizabeth St., and built and founded, in connection with the
Hospital, the Lakeside Home for Little Children, at Lighthouse Point,
Toronto Island, with an accommodation for 250 patients and an entire
hospital equipment; here, during the summer months, the suffering little
ones are won back to health and strength with the aid of the cool breezes
which sweep across Lake Ontario. Included in his benefactions to the
Hospital he erected, equipped and presented to the Hospital (as a memorial
of his first wife) a five-storey nurses’ brick residence, containing 125

rooms, which has been declared to be the most perfect building of its kind
ever erected; in July, 1911, he presented to the Heather Club an extension to
the pavilion for tubercular children in connection with the Lakeside Home.
He built and established a complete plant for the pasteurization of milk, on
the Hospital grounds, College St., Toronto, the only one of its kind in the
Dominion. By his will the whole of his estate will ultimately go to this
philanthropy. He was an all-round amateur athlete, and has been sometimes
called “The Father of Amateur Hockey in Ontario”; was President of the
Ontario Hockey Association, 1899-1905. He sat for East Toronto in 1896-
1900 in the House of Commons as an Independent Conservative, pledged to
oppose any Government which would attempt to establish separate schools
in Manitoba, to support the “National Policy,” and to vote for the general
good of the country. According to Sir Charles Tupper (q.v.) he was in all
respects “a model member,” and a devoted Imperialist. In religion he was a
Presbyterian. In February, 1917, Mr. Robertson was offered in the New
Year’s honors a knighthood and a senatorship, both of which honors he
gratefully declined. A well-known politician said, “It is the first time in the
history of Canada that anyone declined a knighthood and a senatorship in
the same day.” He was a member of the National, Victoria and Arts and
Letters Clubs; Constitutional (Conservative) Club, London, Eng. “A born
journalist”—“Canada,” of London, Eng.; “A truly independent man”—D.
McCarthy, Q.C., M.P.; “Possesses a heart as big as that of an ox”—
Hamilton “Spectator”; “The good angel of many of Toronto’s charitable
institutions”—Hamilton “Times”; “No man need desire a more noble
monument than these Hospital buildings, which would keep Mr.
Robertson’s memory green if all other achievements were forgotten”—
Toronto “Globe”; “He has risen step by step until he is to-day recognized as
one of the keenest, most practical and successful publishers of the
Dominion. The blind goddess had nothing to do with his success”—Ottawa
“Citizen.”

Hearst, Hon. Sir William Howard, K.C.M.G., K.C., M.P.P.,
Prime Minister of the Province of Ontario, was born on February 15, 1864,
in the township of Arran, Bruce County, Ontario, the son of William and
Margaret (McFadden) Hearst. His father was a farmer, and the subject of
this sketch was educated at the public schools of Arran Township and later

at Collingwood Collegiate Institute. Subsequently he studied for the legal
profession at Osgoode Hall, Toronto, and was called to the Bar of Ontario
in 1888. He commenced the practice of law in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., where
he became prominent in municipal affairs and active as a speaker in the
Conservative interest. He was an unsuccessful candidate in Algoma East in
1894, but in the Ontario Legislative elections in 1902 he helped to organize
a group of newly defined constituencies in Northern Ontario for Mr.
(afterward Sir) James P. Whitney, and by his effective methods largely
assisted in placing them in the Conservative column. When the Whitney
Government was formed in 1905 Mr. Hearst was appointed Government
agent in connection with the guarantee loan furnished to the Lake Superior
Corporation, under the provisions of which the Government had a voice in
the management of the corporation until the loan should be liquidated. In
this capacity Mr. Hearst proved a business success but resigned the office in
1908 to contest the riding of Sault Ste. Marie for the Ontario Legislature.
He was successful and in September, 1911, when Hon. Frank Cochrane
resigned the Portfolio of Forests and Mines to become Minister of Railways
and Canals in the first Borden cabinet, Sir James Whitney tendered the
vacancy in his cabinet to Mr. Hearst. The latter accepted and was re-elected
by acclamation by his constituents, whom he has ever since continued to
represent. On the death of Sir James Whitney in 1914, he was asked to form
a Government, all his former colleagues accepting office under him. He was
sworn in as Prime Minister and President of the Council on October 2,
1914, this being practically the last official act of Sir John Gibson, as
Lieutenant-Governor. Following the death of Hon. James Duff in
December, 1916, he also assumed the post of Minister of Agriculture,
retaining it for two years until the elevation of Hon. George Henry to the
cabinet in 1918. In connection with his profession as a lawyer he was
created a K.C. in 1908 and was elected a bencher of the Law Society of
Upper Canada in 1912. On February 13, 1917, he was created a Knight
Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. The Premiership of
Sir William Hearst has been marked by energetic administration and
progressive legislation. He took office at a time of peculiar difficulty in
Canadian affairs, when the great war had been in progress for two months
and when it was becoming evident that it would be necessary for a vast and
united effort if it was to be successfully prosecuted. Perhaps his most
radical step was his act of 1916, to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors

throughout the province of Ontario. Subsequent orders-in-Council by the
Federal government gave this act the effect of absolute prohibition. In 1917
he introduced and carried an act to confer the Parliamentary franchise on
women. Under his leadership a comprehensive measure previously enacted
providing for compensation to workmen for injuries was put into successful
operation and extended. An important measure of his provides for loans to
settlers, and he has also taken practical steps to deal with the housing
problem. The policy of Sir James Whitney and Sir Adam Beck of
government control and operation of the water powers of the province,
known as the Hydro-Electric system has been amplified under Sir William
Hearst. In connection with the war he visited the battlefront to personally
ascertain the needs of the situation. Under his administration the Orpington
Military Hospital in England was built as the gift of the people of Ontario.
As Minister of Agriculture he organized measures for increased food
production to meet the needs of soldiers and civilians overseas; and is
taking active measures to assist in reconstruction, by helping returned
soldiers to settle on the land. In religion Sir William is a Methodist. On July
21, 1891, he married Isabella Jane Dunkin of Sault Ste. Marie by whom he
has four children, Lieutenant Howard Vernon Hearst and Lieutenant Irving
Hearst, both of whom are on active war service; and Misses Isabel and
Evelyn Hearst. Sir William resides at Toronto.

Meighen, Hon. Arthur, K.C. (Portage la Prairie, Man.), was born
June 16, 1874, at Anderson, Blanchard Township, Perth County, Ont., and is
the son of Joseph and Mary Meighen, of St. Mary’s, Ont. He was educated
at St. Mary’s Collegiate Institute and Toronto University; received degree
B.A. (Tor.), 1896; graduated with honors in mathematics. Taught High
School, Caledonia, Ont., 1897-98. After graduating as a Barrister, he
entered business for himself, 1902, and built up a large practice at Portage
la Prairie. Bencher Manitoba Law Society since 1908; Bencher of Upper
Canada Law Society since 1914. Having a capacity for public life, at the
solicitation of his friends, he accepted the nomination as Conservative
candidate for the Constituency of Portage la Prairie, Man., and was elected
by a majority of 250. In 1904 Mr. Crawford, Liberal, had been elected by a
majority of 358. In the general elections, September 21, 1911, when the
Laurier Administration was defeated at the polls on the question of

Reciprocity with the United States, Mr. Meighen was again elected by a
majority of 675 over his opponent R. Patterson. When the position of
Solicitor-General became vacant, June 26, 1913, Sir Robert Borden invited
Mr. Meighen to accept that office, and at a bye-election held July 19, 1913,
he was returned by acclamation. In August, 1917, he became Secretary of
State for Canada and Minister of Mines, and as such devised and installed
the organizations in Canada and overseas for the holding of the war election
of that year. On the formation of the Union Government in the autumn of
1917 he accepted the portfolio of Minister of the Interior, and was re-
elected by a handsome majority at the general elections which ensued. As a
parliamentarian he has been a success, and is held in high esteem by
members on both sides of the House. As a debater he is considered one of
the ablest, and always commands the respect of his colleagues when he
rises to speak on any important subject. Mr. Meighen was married June 1,
1904, to Jessie Isabel Cox, to whom were born three children, Theodore
Roosvelt Meighen (1905), Maxwell Charles Gordon Meighen (1908), and
Lillian Meighen (1910). In religion he is a Presbyterian; in politics, a
Conservative. Clubs, Portage la Prairie, Rideau, Ottawa. Address, 21
Cooper St., Ottawa.

MAJOR-GEN. SIR. ARTHUR WILLIAM CURRIE
Victoria, B.C.

Cockshutt, William Foster, M.P., and Financial Agent (Brantford,
Ont.), is the son of I. Cockshutt, merchant of Brantford, and E. Foster
Cockshutt, was born in Brantford, October, 1855, and educated at the
Brantford and Galt Collegiate Institutes. Mr. Cockshutt’s chief public

efforts have been exercised in the direction of Imperial Unity and Empire
Trade development. He has been associated largely with Boards of Trade
and has attended several Congresses of the Associated Boards in London,
England, Montreal and Sydney, Australia, and in this direction has been
able to exercise considerable influence in Empire trade co-operation. In the
year 1909 he visited in this connection the Commonwealth of Australia,
making a very extensive tour of that great country, and delivering addresses
at all the important centres on the theme of Empire Trade and Defence, and
received much credit for the work accomplished there. He also made an
extensive tour of India, visiting most of the cities of that great member of
the Empire, and studying the conditions of the country as well as trade
matters and has taken part in two extended campaigns in Great Britain,
addressing many large meetings at the important centres, including London,
Manchester, Newcastle, Portsmouth, Bournemouth, Torquay and many
other towns and cities, for which he was honored by letter from the then
leader of the opposition, the Honorable Arthur Balfour. Mr. Cockshutt was a
member of the first Hydro-Electric Commission of Ontario, appointed by
the Municipalities and labored in that work for nearly three years. The
report of the Commission has been a standard reference for development in
this line ever since, and was really the basis of the development that has
taken place more recently at Niagara Falls. He has travelled in most of the
great countries of Europe, made many tours in the United States and the
West Indies and Mexico, as well as having visited all the principal cities of
the Dominion and has addressed meetings in a great number of them. He
was first elected to the House of Commons in 1904, where he served until
1908, being defeated in that year and re-elected in 1911, and is at present
serving throughout the present long Parliament. He is ex-President of the
Cockshutt Plow Co.; has been six times a delegate to Chambers of
Commerce of the Empire and is connected with a large number of industrial
enterprises, particularly in Brantford and also in other centres, and has
served on many industrial boards. In 1891, married M. T. Ashton, daughter
of Rev. Robert Ashton of Brantford, Principal of the Mohawk Institute and
has six children, Ashton, George, Eric, Maude, Clarence and Phyllis. In
politics he is an Independent Conservative and is a member of the Anglican
Church; has been a representative of the Church of England at many
important gatherings and a member of the Huron Synod for close on to
twenty-five years, been elected and re-elected to the Provincial General

Synod on many occasions and is still an active member of all these Church
organizations; is also Chairman of the Orphanage situated on the outskirts
of Brantford, known as the Jane Laycock School; has taken considerable
interest in local hospital work. Mr. Cockshutt had the honor of being the
official representative of Brantford at the funeral of King Edward the
Seventh; is Hon. Colonel of the 125th Battalion, C.E.F., and is a remote
relative of the late Florence Nightingale, the distinguished woman who did
such great work for the British Army during the Crimean War and was one
of the first women to relieve soldiers of their sufferings on the battlefield.
Mr. Cockshutt took great interest in the recruiting of the 125th Battalion at
present overseas and has the honor of being the father of three sons, all of
whom are serving in the army at present and have all reached the front at
least once. His son, Major Ashton Cockshutt, now of the 125th but formerly
of the 10th Battalion, 1st Contingent, was a fully qualified Lieutenant in the
103rd Calgary Rifles when the war broke out and immediately enlisted and
went overseas with the first Contingent, training during the winter at
Salisbury Plain, crossing to France in the early spring, saw heavy fighting at
St. Julien, Festubert, and Givenchy, was wounded on June 6, 1915, and
after convalescing at various military hospitals was given furlough back to
Canada and after a long hard struggle regained his health and immediately
re-enlisted with the 125th Battalion and is now serving at Bramshott Camp.
Another son, Lieut. George Cockshutt, also enlisted early in the war with
the 19th Overseas Battalion, was a qualified Officer of the Dufferin Rifles,
he served the 19th at the front for many months and was invalided home in
September, 1916, owing to ear trouble and at the present time is serving
with the 205th Machine Gun Section, and now overseas with 1st Tank
Battalion. The third son, Lieut. Eric Cockshutt, was at one time Captain of
the Cadet Corps of Upper Canada College, Toronto, and upon going to
McGill University, Montreal, later joined the Officers Training Corps of
that University, was accepted as a candidate at the Royal Artillery School at
Kingston, March, 1915, and after duly qualifying, trained at Petawawa,
going overseas from there with a draft, took further training at Ross
Barracks and Woolwich and then crossed over to France and served with
the First Divisional Artillery, First Canadian Brigade, and is at present
serving with the 2nd Howitzers. Mr. Cockshutt is a member of the
Brantford Golf and Country Club, the National Club, Toronto, and also
connected with the Empire Club and Imperial Institute. His recreations

include golf, tennis and skating, and he has spent many summers in the
Highlands of Canada occupying an extensive tract of land on the shores of
Lake of Bays.

Jetté, The Hon. Sir Louis, Chief Justice and late Lieutenant-
Governor, was born at L’Assomption, P.Q., on January 15, 1836. He is the
son of the late Amable Jetté, who married Miss Caroline Gauffreau, the
daughter of a wealthy planter of Guadaloupe, in the West Indies. Finishing
the full course of study at the College of L’Assomption, he became a
member of the Provincial Bar, establishing himself as a legal practitioner in
the city of Montreal, where in a few years he came to be recognized as an
astute advocate as well as a prospective candidate for political honors. In
1870 his legal fame was enhanced by the part he took professionally in the
famous Guibord Case, and by his service before the Privy Council in
England in behalf of the Provincial Government of Quebec. At length, in
1872, he was elected member for Montreal East, defeating Sir George E.
Cartier, the French-Canadian colleague of Sir John A. Macdonald. When
the Liberal Leader, the Hon. Alexander Mackenzie was Prime Minister, Mr.
Jetté was offered the position of Minister of Justice, but accepted in
preference a place on the Bench. This he retained for twenty years up to
1898, when he was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of his native province.
While still practising his profession in Montreal, he became Professor of
Civil Law in Laval University and a Dean of its Faculty, having been
honored by the same with the degree of LL.D., as well as by Bishop’s
College University with a D.C.L. and by Toronto University with an LL.D.
In 1891 he was appointed Chairman of the Royal Commission charged with
the investigation of affairs connected with the Baie-des-Chaleurs Railway,
finally refusing to agree, however, to the decision of his two colleagues.
The several other offices he has filled are many and important. After his
term as Lieutenant-Governor had expired, he was given a second term. And
at the end of his second term he was appointed Chief Justice of the Court of
King’s Bench, retiring in 1911. Few Canadians have had so many honors
conferred upon them as has Sir Louis Jetté. These include his university
degrees; his knighthood from the King of England; his Legion of Honour
from France, of which he is a Commander; the many addresses he has
received from his fellow-members of the Bar, as well as from the people;

not to speak of his receptions by King George and his late royal father, King
Edward, and His Holiness the Pope. He has been associated with the
Société de Legislation Comparée; with the Société d’Histoire Diplomatique
of Paris (France); was a member of the Alaska Boundary Tribunal; a
Director of the Montreal Polytechnic School; a member of the Council of
Public Instruction, and an honorary member of the Literary and Historical
Society of Quebec. In his earlier years he was a contributor to certain city
journals, having been editor of one of them known as “L’Ordre.” His
“Observations Relating to the Code of Civil Procedure” proves him to be
possessed of a wide vision and keen insight, both as a lawyer and a literary
expositor. The encomiums which have been passed upon his services as a
public servant go to show Chief Justice Sir Melbourne Tait was in no way
astray in his high estimate of Sir Louis Jetté’s mental culture and
administrative astuteness, not only as a public speaker, but as a writer and
overseer of what is in line with justice and dignity of rule. He was married
in 1862, to Miss Bertha Laflamme, daughter of the late Touissant
Laflamme, and sister of the Hon. R. Laflamme, the distinguished barrister
and advocate of Montreal. Lady Jetté, who is an authoress in her own right,
having written a Life of Madame d’Youville, won a further good name for
herself and her distinguished husband for the hospitalities they were always
pleased to extend to their guests at Spencer Wood during the two terms and
more of Governor Jetté’s residence there as Governor.

Kennedy, William Costello, Member for North Essex in the House
of Commons of Canada, is a resident of Windsor, Ont., and a prominent
figure in the oil and gas industry of the Essex Peninsula. He was born at
Ottawa, Ont., August 27, 1868, the son of William and Julia (Costello)
Kennedy. While he was yet a boy his parents moved to Toronto to reside
and he was educated in the Separate Schools and De La Salle Institute, of
that city. He began his business career in 1887 as a clerk in the offices of
the London and Canadian Loan and Agency Company, Toronto, at that time
one of the best known financial corporations of the province. With this
company he remained until 1897 when he accepted an offer to go to
Windsor, Ont., and engage in the oil and natural gas industry. In 1903 he
became President of the Windsor Gas Company and continued in that office
until 1917. At the present time he has many interests in the city of his

adoption. He was President of the Board of Trade for the years 1909 and
1910, and a member of the Windsor Board of Education from 1913 to 1918;
and also a councillor of the municipality of Ojibway during the same
period. From early manhood Mr. Kennedy had been a Liberal in politics
and in 1917 when Sir Robert Borden formed a Union Government and
decided to carry out the policy of conscription without submitting the
question to the Canadian people through the medium of a referendum, he
was one of those Liberals who stood back of Sir Wilfrid Laurier in opposing
such a course. Though at the time it was supposed that he was facing almost
certain defeat he accepted the Liberal nomination for North Essex. He was
opposed by Col. Wigle, who was generally regarded as a very strong
candidate. In the two months’ campaign that ensued Mr. Kennedy made
many friends by his sane and reasonable methods of electioneering and
when the ballots were counted on December 17, 1917, it was found that he
had been elected by a handsome majority, which was not annulled by the
vote of the soldiers overseas, details of which were received later. During
the parliamentary session Mr. Kennedy made his maiden speech as a
legislator in the budget debate, and made a very fine impression on friends
and political opponents alike by his brilliant handling of financial questions.
Old parliamentarians were agreed that it was one of the most promising
initial speeches ever made at Ottawa, and ever since the member for North
Essex has been regarded as an important factor in the future of his party.
His recreations are golf and motoring, and he is a member of the following
clubs: Detroit, Detroit Athletic, Essex County Golf, Windsor and Ontario,
Toronto. In religion he is a Roman Catholic and on May 8, 1907, married
Glencora, daughter of George W. Bolton, Detroit, Michigan.

Mitchell, Robert Menzies, Hon. (Weyburn, Sask.), is a native of
Port Union, Ont., where he was born October 28, 1865, the son of James
Mitchell, a farmer, and Elizabeth Rodger, his wife. His father came of
Scottish ancestry, some of whose descendants settled in Canada and some
in Australia. Madame Melba, the great Australian prima donna, whose
maiden name was Nellie Mitchell, is a cousin of the subject of this sketch.
The latter was educated at Orangeville High School and Trinity Medical
School, Toronto, graduating M.D., C.M. in April, 1892. He at once
commenced the practice of medicine at Dundalk, Dufferin County, Ont.,

and remained there until 1899, when he settled at Weyburn, Sask., and
continued in active practice there until 1907. He was Chairman of the
Weyburn Public School Board for ten years, and of the High School Board
for five years. In August, 1908, he was elected to the Saskatchewan
Legislature as a Liberal for the constituency of Weyburn, and has been re-
elected at each ensuing election. He was Chairman of the Private Bills and
Railways Committee of the Legislature for six years, and was chosen as
Deputy Speaker in 1916. Shortly afterward he was made Speaker, and on
his return to the House after the general elections of 1917 was re-elected to
that office. Though a Liberal his fairness and impartiality in the conduct of
debate has made him universally popular among politicians of all shades of
opinion. He is a member of the following fraternal orders: A.F. & A.M.,
I.O.O.F., and C.O.F.; of the Weyburn Club, and the Assiniboia Club,
Regina. His recreations are football and curling, and in religion he is a
Presbyterian. On August 17, 1892, he married Margaret, daughter of Donald
and Flora McKinnon, Badjeros, Ont., and his two sons have both served
their country with honor in the great war. R. C. Mitchell, born July 11,
1893, went overseas with the First Canadian Expeditionary Force in 1914,
and D. J. Mitchell, born February 15, 1895, became a member of the Royal
Air Force a year or so later.

Lemieux, the Honorable Sir François-Xavier, Chief Justice of
the Superior Court of Quebec, was born at Levis on the 9th of April, 1851,
the son of Antoine and Henriette (Lagueux) Lemieux. From the Levis
College he entered the Quebec Seminary and afterwards graduated from
Laval University, in 1872, taking the degree of LL.B. In the same year he
started on his career as a lawyer in the city of Quebec, taking rank almost
immediately as an efficient pleader in the criminal courts of the Lower St.
Lawrence districts. His eloquent fluency and finesse as a defender brought
him into a lucrative practice; and there were in time few prominent cases of
criminality brought into court in which his services were not sought after.
Nor did his legal acumen in winning cases arouse any envious feeling
against him among his legal brethren, since in 1896 he was elected
Batonnier of the Quebec Bar, and in the following year Batonnier-General
of the Provincial Bar. Turning his attention to politics, he sat as member of
Levis in the Legislative Assembly for nine years, and afterwards as member

for Bonaventure, for three years. As an orator, he has a marvellous faculty
on the hustings of carrying any large audience with him in his argument. At
length the widest fame came to him when he was called upon to defend
Louis Riel, the rebel leader of the half-breeds and Indians in the North-
West, in 1885. The charge of high treason against the culprit was sustained,
but his legal defender was nevertheless acclaimed as one of the shrewdest
lawyers that could have been engaged to defend him. Subsequently, in
1892, he was chosen to defend the Honorable Honore Mercier, Premier of
Quebec, before the criminal court, under charges of maladministration. Mr.
Mercier was honorably acquitted. Five years after the subject of this
biography was appointed Puisne Judge in the district of Arthabaska and
afterwards in Sherbrooke. From Sherbrooke, he was finally removed to
Quebec where he holds the office of Chief Justice for the Province of
Quebec. The literary talents of Sir François have been proven by his
lectures and essays. His acumen as a judge has been openly acknowledged
by his professional associates. He is a citizen well worthy the honor
conferred upon him by King George and by Laval University, in the one
case of Knighthood and in the other an LL.D. His father-in-law, the late
Justice Plamondon, was a judge of the Superior Court of Quebec, Miss
Diana Plamondon becoming his wife in 1874.

Turgeon, The Hon. Adelard, LL.D., C.M.G., C.V.O., Knight of
the Legion of Honour of France (Quebec City), President of the
Legislative Council of the Province of Quebec, and a Governor of Laval
University, was born at Beaumont in the Province of Quebec, on December
19, 1863. He is the son of Mr. Damase Turgeon, and was educated at Levis
College and at Laval University. Called to the Bar in 1887, he opened a law
office in Levis, but afterwards entered into partnership in Quebec with the
prominent legal firm of Roy, Langlais & Godbout. His career as a
parliamentarian was inaugurated by his election as member for Bellechasse
in 1890, a constituency which he continued to represent up to 1909, when
he retired from the Legislative Assembly to take his seat in the Legislative
Council and assume the high office of Speaker or President of that body.
While a member of the Assembly his eloquence became an attractive
feature in the many important debates in which he took part, alike as
Member and Minister. As an administrator and public-spirited citizen, he

has taken high rank as a publicist, having retained the favor of Bellechasse
from term to term for over a decade. During the Tercentennial Celebration
at Quebec in 1908, he was honored by the Prince of Wales, now King
George V, and was shortly afterwards chosen as one of the members of the
National Battlefields Commission, which has ever since been engaged in
laying out and beautifying one of the most spacious public parks in Canada.
In 1897 he was called to join the Marchand Government as Minister of
Colonization, holding the same office in the Parent Cabinet, until he was
chosen to act as Minister of Agriculture and Provincial Secretary. In 1905,
the Parent Administration was transformed into the Gouin Administration,
and in the latter Mr. Turgeon accepted the portfolio of Lands and Forests,
holding the same up to 1909. On resigning his seat in the Assembly as a
challenge to some of his detractors, he was re-elected against Henri
Bourassa by the electors of Bellechasse as an acknowledgement of his
mature administrative abilities, and a warrant to his resuming his place in
the Gouin Cabinet, as well as preparing the way for his being called to the
high office of President of the Legislative Council. During his public career,
he has held many important positions outside of his parliamentary
functions, among these being President of the Quebec Land Company,
Vice-President of the Provincial Securities Company, Director of the
Quebec Transfer and Cartage Company, and member of the Comptoir
Mobilier-Franco-Canadien Company. He was one of the founders of the
Society of L’Union Liberale, and prominently connected with various
political clubs. In July, 1887, he married Miss Eugenie Samson, the
daughter of Mr. Etienne Samson, of Levis. As President of the Upper
Chamber of the Provincial Parliament, Mr. Turgeon has his residence within
the precincts of the Parliament Buildings, wherein his hospitalities form a
prominent feature in the social life of the community when parliament is in
session, as well as at other times.

Rhodes, Hon. Edgar Nelson, K.C., B.A., LL.B. (Amherst, N.S.),
son of Nelson A. Rhodes and Sara D. C. Curry. Born at Amherst, N.S., on
January 5, 1877. Educated at Amherst Academy, Horton Collegiate
Academy, Acadia University and Dalhousie University. Degrees: B.A.,
Acadia; LL.B., Dalhousie. Member of the Board of Governors of Acadia
University. Married, July 12, 1905, to M. Grace, second daughter of Hon.

W. T. Pipes, K.C., Attorney-General of Nova Scotia. He is the father of the
following children: Edgar N. Rhodes, Jr., born on April 19, 1906, and Helen
S. Rhodes, born on October 18, 1907. Appointed a King’s Counsel in May,
1916, by the Provincial Government of Nova Scotia. President Brooklyn
Lumber Company, Ltd.; director Nova Scotia Trust Co., Ltd.; British
America Nickel Corporation, Ltd.; Amherst Boot & Shoe Company, Ltd.,
and Amherst Pianos, Ltd. Has been, since its inception, a member of the
Dominion Executive and of the Nova Scotia Executive of the Canadian
Patriotic Fund; also an Honorary Vice-President and member of the
Dominion Council of the St. John’s Ambulance Association. First elected to
House of Commons at General Elections, 1908; re-elected, 1911 and 1917.
Elected Deputy-Speaker at the opening of the 6th session of the 12th
Parliament, January, 1916. Was one of the Canadian representatives at the
Imperial Parliamentary Conference in London, 1916, and accompanied the
members of that body on their visit to the Munitions plants, The Fleet, and
to the front. Elected Speaker of the House of Commons, January 18, 1917.
Re-elected Speaker at the opening of the first session of the 13th
Parliament, 1918. Member Rideau Club and Country Club, Ottawa. A
Unionist. Amherst, N.S.

White, Rt. Hon. Sir William Thomas, P.C., M.P., Finance
Minister of Canada, is a Canadian statesman whose meteoric rise to fame
during less than a decade, has attracted more than national attention. He
was born at Bronte, Ont., November 13, 1866, the son of James and
Elizabeth (Graham) White. His father was a farmer and his early education
was obtained at Oakville public school and Brampton High School. Later
he entered Toronto University and graduated in 1895 with the degree of
B.A. and honors in classics. During his university career he won two first-
class scholarships and a gold medal. Subsequently he took up a course of
law at Osgoode Hall, Toronto and was called to the Bar of the province in
1899, but never practised. During his period as an arts and law student he
supported himself, first as a reporter on the Toronto “Telegram,” where his
writings showed singular eloquence and ability; and later, as one of the
assessors of the Civic Assessment Department. The knowledge of real
estate values and of financial questions which he had gained in the latter
capacity, as well as his general abilities, led a group of Toronto capitalists to

tender him in 1900, the General Managership of the National Trust
Company, which they had recently formed. This post he held for nearly
eleven years and during that interval attained a high status in the financial
community. Though a Liberal in politics, he had never been known as an
active politician. In the summer of 1911, when Sir Wilfrid Laurier, then
Prime Minister, appealed to the country to ratify the Knox-Fielding pact
calling for reciprocity in natural products between Canada and the United
States, Mr. W. T. White, as he was then known, was one of eighteen
prominent Toronto Liberals who issued a manifesto against the proposals of
their former political chieftain and decided to support Mr. Robert Borden.
He himself took the platform against the pact as liable to disturb the
equilibrium of trade at a time when Canada was enjoying unexampled
prosperity. The result of this and other appeals was that many thousands of
voters, previously Liberal, abandoned the party lines and defeated the
Laurier administration by a large majority. When called upon to form a
government in the latter part of September, 1911, Mr. Borden felt that it was
due to the large number of Liberals who had supported him, that they
should be represented in the Cabinet. On consultation with the leaders of
the group, known as “Borden Liberals,” they were unanimously of the
opinion that Mr. White was the best available choice. Despite the fact that
he was without previous political experience, the Conservative Leader
decided to offer him the most important portfolio in the Cabinet, that of the
Ministry of Finance. On Mr. White’s accepting the office, a seat was found
for him in the House of Commons by the elevation of Mr. George Taylor,
M.P. for Leeds, and formerly Conservative whip, to the Senate. At a by-
election held on November 4, 1911, Mr. White was elected to Parliament by
a considerable majority, despite the fact that the election was marked by
severe personal attacks on him, because of his so-called “desertion” of the
Liberal party. Mr. White answered the challenge by the statement that he
“believed that there was no healthier sign of the times than that an honest
man should change his party in the interests of his country.” His maiden
speech in the House of Commons, which was delivered on Nov. 29, 1911,
was awaited throughout the country with great interest, and at once stamped
him as one of the coming men in Canadian politics. Since then his budget
speeches have proclaimed him as a financier of masterly intellect. Had Mr.
White known in 1911 that the task lay before him of financing Canada’s
contribution to the prosecution of the greatest war the world has ever

known, he would possibly have declined office. When in 1914, Germany
made war against all Europe, and Canada decided to support the
Motherland, perhaps the gravest task of all fell on the Minister of Finance,
because up to that time Canada had been a heavy borrower from the
Motherland, and these sources of supply would naturally be cut off if the
war continued for a lengthy period. In fact, in 1914, many eminent
financiers believed that the financial resources of the world would not stand
the strain of a war of more than six months’ duration. The Canadian
Minister of Finance however laid his plans for a long war; and in addition
to the task of financing Canada’s magnificent military effort, applied
himself to the problem of keeping up Canada’s trade at a figure that would
enable her to continue as a belligerent. He had also the task thrust upon him
of acting as banker for Great Britain, France, Russia and other belligerents,
who made the finance department at Ottawa the clearing house for their
enormous financial dealings with the merchants and manufacturers of the
United States. During the first year of the war Great Britain was able to
render financial assistance to Canada and others of the overseas dominions;
and Mr. White floated some large loans in the United States. But it was
already apparent that Canada must shortly finance herself. In 1916 he
visited England and fully acquainted himself with the situation, and in the
same year was created a Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George,
in recognition of his war services. Sir Thomas decided to test Canada’s own
resources and floated a large war loan the bulk of it being taken by
Canadian capitalists, although a certain number of small investors were also
attracted to it. Up to 1917, however, there were only about 60,000 holders
of Canadian bonds in this country. In the summer of 1917, when Canada
seemed to face a serious financial crisis, Sir Thomas decided to try the
experiment of a great popular loan to be known as the Victory Loan, on the
lines of the popular loans floated during the American Civil War, by the
celebrated financier Jay Cooke. He collected a superb organization,
embracing all the leading financiers, newspapers and selling agencies of
Canada and asked the people to lend their government $300,000,000, to be
spent entirely in Canada for war purposes. The result passed all
expectations, for the loan was over-subscribed by more than one hundred
million dollars, and about 875,000 became holders of Victory Bonds.
Canada was enabled to do this by the fact that Sir Thomas and the Borden
administration as a whole had, by adopting the policy of financing British

credits in this country, secured enormous war orders for agricultural
supplies and munitions for her farmers and manufacturers, so that the flow
of money during the war reached unexampled heights. The first Victory
Loan of 1917 was fruitful of good results, because it enabled Canada to
continue this policy on a more extended scale, so that, though this
enormous sum was invested in bonds, and added to the savings of the
people, a few months later the average of deposits in the savings banks of
the country was larger than it had been before the first Victory Loan was
floated. In the latter part of 1917 the health of Sir Thomas broke down as a
result of his stupendous anxieties and labors, but after a vacation of several
months in California he returned to this country restored in health. In the
autumn of 1918 he decided to float another Victory Loan, asking, as in
1917, for $300,000,000, but setting the real objective at $500,000,000. The
result was another enormous over-subscription, nearly $700,000,000 having
been subscribed. That such a showing should have been made by a country
so limited in population as Canada, is the best proof of his skill as
administrator of the nation’s finances during the most trying epoch in the
history of the world. So thoroughly has Sir Thomas the confidence of his
leader, Sir Robert Borden, that when in November, 1918, he left Canada for
an indefinite absence as a member of the European Peace Conference, he
appointed the Minister of Finance Acting Prime Minister, to take charge of
the hazardous task of re-organizing the country on a peace basis. Sir
Thomas is a profound student and thinker and a public speaker of rare
ability. Among his activities prior to his removal to Ottawa were those of a
member of the Board of Governors of Toronto University and Trustee of
Toronto General Hospital. He is a Methodist in religion, and a member of
the Rideau Club, Ottawa, and the York and Toronto Clubs, Toronto. On
Sept. 20, 1890, he married Annie Isabel, daughter of Ellis Silverthorne,
Jarvis, Ont.

Price, Sir William, the prominent capitalist of Quebec City, who has
been engaged in military operations during the European War as Colonel of
the 171st Battalion, at Valcartier, and later as an officer at the front, is a son
of Mr. Henry Ferrier Price, who married Miss Florence Rogerson. He was
born at Talca, Chili, on August 30, 1867. His uncle was the Hon. Senator E.
J. Price, on whose death he became leading partner of the firm of Price

Brothers & Company, in 1886. He was educated at Bishops College School,
Lennoxville, P.Q., and later at St. Mark’s School, Windsor, England. He has
been prominent in the public life as well as the business circles of Quebec,
having been a member of parliament for one of the electoral divisions of the
place and afterwards Chairman of the Harbor Commission. It was while he
held the latter office that he took service as one of the organizers of the
Valcartier Military Camp, earning high praise from the Governor-General
and the Militia Department, and finally receiving his knighthood at the
hands of King George. As Colonel in Command he raised the 171st
Battalion, which he took over to England in 1916, continuing his services
with the army as one of the officers of a Railway Construction Battalion in
France, after the 171st had been absorbed in other battalions, in terms of
what is known as the Territorial System. No citizen of Quebec has earned
higher credit for patriotic effort than Sir William. Setting aside his many
business duties and resigning a lucrative government position, he ably
fulfilled the duties assigned to him as a soldier. The responsible positions he
has held as a business man and a public-spirited citizen have been manifold.
Besides being President of the Price Brothers & Company, he has been
Director and Honorary Chairman of the Union Bank; a Director of the
Quebec Railway, Light, Heat and Power Company; Vice-President of the
Canadian Lumberman’s Association; as well as being President of the Metis
Lumber Company, the Jonquiere Pulp and Paper Company, the Gravel
Lumber Company, and President of the Canadian Export Co. Nor did his
business engagements hinder him from taking an active part in civic and
charitable enterprises to which he has given beneficently of his means. At
one time he was a Governor of the Jeffrey Hale Hospital, President of the
Board of Trade, Director of the Trans-Canadian Railway project, an
energetic supporter of the movement in favor of the National Battlefields
Park, and President of the Quebec Turf Club. As far back as 1887, he took a
practical interest in local military affairs, having been a lieutenant in the
Eighth Royal Rifles, and being raised to his captaincy before his withdrawal
from that company in 1903. As a prelude to his activity as a military
organizer at the Valcartier Camp, he raised two companies for service
during the Boer War, and encouraged rifle practice by presenting the Price
Cup for competition at the targets. As a parliamentarian he had a term of
three years; but his earlier defeat in the Rimouski constituency was repeated
by Quebec West in 1911. As has been well said of him, he has proved

himself to be a citizen of whom any community might well be proud. He
was married in 1894, to Miss Amelia Blanche Smith, daughter of Mr. R. H.
Smith, another of Quebec’s most prominent and worthy lumber merchants.
His family consists of four sons and two daughters. Sir William has since
his early days been an enthusiast as a “portageur,” and a keen sportsman.
He owns two salmon-breeding rivers and extensive hunting grounds. While
soldiering abroad, he continued head of his firm, which has in its
employment several thousands of employees.

Kemp, Hon. Sir Albert Edward (Toronto, Ont.), son of Robert
Kemp, an Englishman, and Sarah A. Kemp, his wife, a Canadian; born at
Clarenceville, Que., August 11, 1858, and educated at Clarenceville and
Lacolle Academy. For many years the subject of this sketch has been one of
the leading manufacturers of Canada, and a successful business man. Since
1895 he has devoted considerable time to questions of public interest. In
1879 he married a Miss Wilson, of Montreal. He was President of the
Canadian Manufacturers Association in 1895 and was re-elected in 1896.
He was elected President of the Toronto Board of Trade for the year 1899,
and re-elected in 1900. In 1898 he was appointed a delegate by the Board to
the British Association, at its annual meeting held in Bristol, also to the
Fourth Congress of the Chambers of Commerce of the Empire, held in
London, June, 1900. He is a member of the Board of Regents of Victoria
University, Toronto; a member of several Orders, among which is included
the Orange Order, and many National and Philanthropic Societies. Mr.
Kemp was first elected to the House of Commons at the general elections in
1900, and again returned in 1904. In 1908 he was defeated, but was re-
elected at the general elections in 1911 by a very large majority. Upon the
resignation of Sir Wilfrid Laurier and his Cabinet on October 6, 1911,
following the defeat of the Liberal Party at the polls the previous
September, he joined the Borden Government as Minister without Portfolio,
and was sworn in a member of the Privy Council for Canada on October 10,
1911. After the outbreak of the war he was called upon by his Government
to assume many important positions, among which was included the
Chairmanship of the War Supplies Purchasing Commission, a position that
required the keenest foresight, courage and action, and which practically
demanded all his time. It later developed that the Government made no

mistake in placing him at the head of this Commission, and great credit is
due him for the manner in which he conducted its affairs. Upon the
resignation of Sir Sam Hughes, Minister of Militia in the Borden
Government, in November, 1916, Mr. Kemp was asked by Sir Robert
Borden to accept the position as Minister of Militia, and accepted, and on
December 14, 1916, was re-elected by acclamation by his constituents in
East Toronto. Subsequently he was asked to accept the post of Overseas
Minister, resident in London, and in this capacity he served throughout the
momentous period of 1918, when he was directly in touch with Canada’s
Army in France. In social life he has many friends, and is always ready to
receive them in a manner that draws them closer to him. As a public man
there is a great future before him, and he has won praise for having
accepted office at the most critical moment in the history of Canada. When
the greatest war the world has known draws to a close, and the history of
the noble sons who fought and worked with the Allies in their different
nations is written, the name of Hon. Albert Edward Kemp will come in for a
full share of credit for the able and systematic methods adopted in helping
the Motherland to continue to wave the flag that stands for freedom and
justice. In religion he is a Methodist.

E.J. Beaumont, KITCHENER
M.G. Bristow, OTTAWA

Cameron, Lieut.-Colonel Sir Douglas, K.C.M.G., ex-Lieutenant-
Governor of Manitoba (Winnipeg, Man.), was born in Prescott County,
Ont., June 18, 1854, the son of Colin and Annie Cameron, and was
educated at the High School, Vankleek Hill, Ont. He was engaged in

farming in the Province of Ontario from 1871 to 1880, afterwards moving
to Winnipeg, in 1880. He engaged in various occupations until the fall of
1883, when he entered the lumber business under the firm name of
Cameron & Company; later, Cameron & Kennedy. The business was
incorporated as the Ontario & Western Lumber Company in 1892, and was
later changed to the Rat Portage Lumber Company, and he has acted as
General Manager since 1892, and President since 1894. He is also President
of the Maple Leaf Flour Mills, a Director of the Northern Crown Bank, and
a Director of the Manitoba Bridge and Iron Company. In 1902 he was
elected to the Ontario Legislature for Fort William and Lake-of-the-Woods,
and was defeated in the general elections of 1905 and 1908; was also an
unsuccessful candidate for the House of Commons for Winnipeg in the
Federal general elections in 1908. On August 1, 1911, he was appointed
Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Manitoba, which office he filled
with the greatest satisfaction until succeeded by the present incumbent, Sir
James Albert Manning Aikins, K.B. He was a Councillor for Rat Portage in
1891, and Mayor from 1891 to 1894; was appointed a K.C.M.G., December
31, 1913. In 1910 he was appointed Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel of the
79th Highlanders, and has been very active in connection with the Militia
since the outbreak of the war, as well as in Patriotic work. He married
Margaret Cameron Ferguson, of Vankleek Hill, in 1880, to whom were born
two sons and one daughter; is a member of the Manitoba Club and the St.
Charles Country Club, and as a recreation is an admirer of horses. Sir
Douglas is a staunch Liberal in politics, and is considered, by the leaders of
his party, as one of the ablest statesmen in Canada. In religion he is a
Presbyterian and an active worker in Church and Social Reform
movements.

Bégin, Louis Nazaire, Cardinal Archbishop of Quebec, was born
on January 10, 1840. He is the son of Charles Bégin, of Levis, his mother’s
maiden name having been Miss Luce Paradis. His earlier education was had
in the schools and colleges of the Quebec district, up to the time of his
leaving for Europe, to prepare himself as a priest and professor. Ordained in
Rome in 1865, he returned to Quebec to assume the duties of Professor of
Theology and Church History in Laval University, with collateral duties for
a time as Prefect of Studies in what is known as Le Petit Séminaire. It was

in 1885 he was appointed Principal of Laval Normal School at the time that
institution occupied the premises of the old Chateau Haldimand, over the
site of which the spacious Chateau Frontenac now extends its massive
wings. Three years after, he was named Bishop of Chicoutimi, eventually
returning to Quebec to take up his residence in the Archbishop’s Palace as
Coadjutor of Cardinal Taschereau, under the title of Archbishop of Cyrene.
From 1894 to 1898, he continued to be the Administrator of the
Archdiocese of Quebec, during the declining years of Cardinal Taschereau.
On the death of the latter, he succeeded him in the See of Quebec, the
ceremony of his official investiture in 1899 being an historic event of the
greatest interest to the whole province, as was the later celebration of his
election as a Cardinal under the title of Saint Vitalis. The details of the
distinguished ecclesiastic’s career form a brilliant page in the annals of
Canada. Alike at home and abroad, His Eminence Cardinal Bégin has ever
been known to fulfil his duty towards his Church and as a loyal citizen of
Canada. Frequently he has been called to foreign parts to share in
celebrations, such as the solemn coronation ceremonies of Our Lady of
Guadalupe at Mexico City, in 1895, where he preached one of the memorial
sermons, as well as at Rheims, during a like celebration in 1896, and at
Grosse Isle in 1909, when he was the principal speaker at the unveiling of
the monument erected to the memory of the Irish immigrants who had
fallen victims to the typhus epidemic in 1847. He has also been several
times a guest at the Vatican, having enjoyed the confidence of the three
successive popes, Leo XIII, Pius X, and Benedict XV, from the last of
whom he received his red hat. He has ever been a participant in all the
public movements that tended to improve the social and educational
conditions in his diocese, having taken a leading part in the founding of one
of the leading newspapers of Quebec, known as “L’Action Catholique” and
having likewise obtained the restoration of the Cathedral Chapter of
Quebec, an institution that had become extinct from the days of the
Conquest. He was prominent in the enterprise of unveiling a monument to
the memory of Bishop Laval, as he has also been in the various efforts put
forth towards beautifying the city with parks and monumental structures
commemorative of historic events. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of
Canada, and has been honored by scholastic degrees of the highest merit,
bestowed on him by the University of Innsbruck, in Austria, as well as those
he has received from Laval and the Gregorian University of Rome. He

virtually began his professional career as a teacher of the young, and has
never lost his zeal in promoting, as a Member of the Council of Public
Instruction, the reforms that make for a right pedagogy in school and
college work. His pen has been an active one in adding to the literature to
be found in the library collections of his Church, such as “La Règle de Foi”
and the “Culte Catholique” not to speak of his writings on Canadian
historical topics, as for instance, his “Chronologie d’Histoire du Canada,”
his pastoral letters on the “Three Hundredth Anniversary of the Foundation
of Quebec,” and his address on the “Second Centenary of the Death of
Bishop Laval.” So wide is his knowledge of human affairs, so urbane is he
in his manner and so just in his decisions, so charitable is he in his approach
to the two sides of a public question, that he has more than once been called
upon to act as arbitrator between employer and employees. During the
many years of his episcopate he has organized over fifty new parishes, and
has never failed to urge the building of spacious churches and school-
houses and convents in the most of them. The events of his life have been
for the most part the events of his native province and of Canada as well.
Even during his travels abroad he always seems to have had in his mind the
maturing of a policy of betterment for his people, and the fostering of good
will among the various elements of the populations of Canada.

Langelier, The Honorable Sir François-Xavier, Statesman, and
Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec, comes of very distinguished ancestry, and
is one of the most respected, capable and learned of French-Canadian
gentlemen, who has taken a leading part in the public life of Canada, and by
his brilliant achievements, ripe scholarship and administrative ability, has
served as an inspiration and shining example to all who would win a high
place in the confidence and esteem of their fellow-countrymen. His parents
were Louis Sabastien Langelier and Julie Esther (Cassault). Paternal
ancestor came to Canada from Fresquiennes, near Rouen, Normandy, 1652;
mother’s family from Granville, France; born at Ste. Rosalie, Province of
Quebec, Dec. 24, 1838. Educated at St. Hyacinthe College and Laval
University (LL.B., 1860; LL.L., avec grande distinction, 1861; LL.D.,
1878), and Paris, France; D.C.L. (honorary) Lennoxville, 1903; married,
first Feb., 1884, Virginie Sarah Sophie (died May, 1891), daughter of the
late I. Legare, Quebec; secondly, May, 1892, Marie Louise, daughter of late

Frederic Braun, late Civil Service, Ottawa; advocate, 1861; was one of the
leaders of the Provincial Bar; K.C. (Province Quebec), 1878; also created
K.C. by Dominion Government, 1880 (Marquis of Lorne); Batonnier
(district Quebec) 1887; Batonnier-General of the Province, 1888; practised
his profession successfully in the city of Quebec, where he was many years,
from 1866, a member of the law faculty, Laval University, and
subsequently, Dean of the Faculty and a member of the Council of the
University; was also Vice-President of the Canadian Bar Association;
President of the Institute Canadien and President of the Council of the Arts
and Manufacturers’ Association; served as Mayor of Quebec, 1882-90;
entered political life as a Liberal, and a free trader; was in turn a follower of
Mackenzie, Blake and Laurier; unsuccessfully contested Bagot (Local),
1871; subsequently successively sat for Montmagny and Portneuf; sat for
Megantic (House of Commons), 1884-87, and for Quebec Centre, 1887-
1898; was Commissioner of Crown Lands and Treasurer, successively, in
the local Administration of Sir H. G. Joly de Lotbinière, 1878-89; one of the
signers of the address from the Liberal party to the Pope, 1896, resulting in
the appointment of a Papal ablegate to Canada; a puisne Judge of Supreme
Court of Province of Quebec, Jan. 14, 1898; delegated to perform the duties
of the Chief Justice for the District of Quebec, June 6, 1906; as Chief
Justice, became a member of the Board of Arbitrators, appointed 1891, for
the settlement of accounts outstanding at Confederation between the
Dominion and the Provinces of Quebec and Ontario; acted as Administrator
of the Government of Quebec during the absence of Sir L. A. Jetté, 1903;
knighted by his late Majesty King Edward, 1907; and made a Knight of
Grace in the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England in 1912; appointed
Lieutenant-Governor, Province of Quebec, May, 1911; died February 8,
1915; has served as a Royal Commissioner on several occasions; was
prominently identified with the movement for the organization of the Anti-
Alcoholic League and its first President, 1907; was also President of the
special committee appointed in connection with the tercentenary of the
foundation of Quebec, 1906. Elected F.R.S.O., 1908; President, 1910; in
addition to other legal productions, is the author of “Traite de la preuve, en
matiere civile et commerciale,” and of “Cours de Droit Civil de Quebec.” Is
the father of the following children: Juliette, Braun, who took service in the
present war, was wounded three times, got the military cross for his bravery,
and was promoted captain in the 22nd Batt. French Canadians; Françoise,

Marc and Gerard. His Honor is a member of the following clubs: The
Quebec Garrison and The Canadian. In religion, a Roman Catholic.

Lynch, Hon. William Warren, B.C., Q.C., D.C.L., LL.D., was
born near the Village of Bedford, County of Missisquoi, Province of
Quebec, on September 30, 1845. His father, Thomas Lynch, came from the
County of Cavan, Ireland, about the year 1830. He served during the
Canadian Rebellion in the Shefford Troop of Cavalry, and died at
Knowlton, Brome County, on March 19, 1883. His mother, Charlotte R.
Williams, was born at Stukely, County of Shefford, Province of Quebec, in
the year 1805. Her parents were descendants of U.E. Loyalists, who came
from the State of Vermont at the close of the American Revolutionary War.
She died in 1885. Mr. Lynch, after taking advantage of the elementary
schools in the vicinity of his birthplace, went to Stanbridge Academy in
1858, then a most flourishing institution, under the direction of Hobart
Butler, M.A., where he prepared himself for a university course. During his
last years at Stanbridge he acted as assistant teacher to Mr. Butler, and then
entered the University of Vermont, Burlington, in August, 1861, but owing
to the Civil War, which had shortly before broken out, the university course
was considerably affected, and Mr. Lynch did not continue his studies there.
In September, 1862, he entered the Arts Course of McGill University,
Montreal, having secured one of the scholarships offered at a competitive
examination. His health failing, he was obliged to abandon his studies
before the Christmas examinations. He then engaged in school teaching in
winter, and worked on his father’s farm in summer. In 1865 he was
admitted to the study of the law, and pursued his studies in the office, first
of S. W. Foster, of Knowlton, and afterwards of John Monk, of Montreal.
He took his degree of B.C.L. at McGill in May, 1868, and secured the
Elizabeth Torrance gold medal, and was admitted to practice in June. The
following year he commenced the practice of his profession at Knowlton,
and subsequently removed to Sweetsburg, the chef lieu of Bedford District.
In the fall of 1870 he assumed the editorial control of the “Observer,” which
was started at Cowansville, an adjoining village, and which became an
influential organ of public opinion in the district. In June, 1871, during the
provincial elections, which were then in progress, he went to Knowlton to
report for his paper the proceedings of nomination day. There were then two

candidates in the field, and to the surprise of Mr. Lynch, and without his
interference, both candidates withdrew, and he was declared member elect
for the County of Brome. During the Fenian troubles of 1866 Mr. Lynch
took an active part in the formation of a company of volunteers at Brome,
of which he became lieutenant, and remained such until his resignation in
1871. During the Fenian raid of 1870 he was at the front with his battalion.
In keeping with the promise made to his electors, he became a resident of
the County of Brome, returning to Knowlton in the fall of 1871. He has
held successively the offices of school commissioner and chairman of that
body for a number of years; and was also the Mayor of the Township of
Brome, and Warden of the County. In May, 1874, he married Ellen
Florence, eldest daughter of J. C. Pettes, a successful merchant of
Knowlton, by whom he has two children. He is a member of the Masonic
fraternity, and was some years since, deputy grand master for the District of
Bedford. Mr. Lynch early in life identified himself with the Conservative
party, to which he has ever borne faithful allegiance. He took an active part
in the political discussions in the Legislature of Quebec on the subject of
the dismissal of the De Boucherville Government, by M. Letellier, and it
was upon a motion made by him that the Joly Government were defeated on
October 30, 1879. He was made a Q.C. by the Joly Government in 1879,
which was subsequently ratified by a similar title conferred upon him by the
Federal authorities in 1881. When M. Chapleau assumed office as premier
of the province, he invited Mr. Lynch to the council as Solicitor-General,
which appointment was subsequently ratified by the electorate of Brome.
On the abolition of the office of Solicitor-General, Mr. Lynch was
appointed Commissioner of Crown Lands, on July 31, 1882. In September,
1887, his constituents tendered him a reception in the shape of a picnic,
which was attended by a large number of public men, and at which a
presentation of a handsome sum of money was made to him by his political
admirers and friends. He then went to Montreal to resume the practice of
his profession, in partnership with the present Mr. Justice Archibald and Mr.
Geo. G. Foster, K.C. Shortly after, he was appointed by the Dominion
Government a Commissioner, in conjunction with the late Mr. Justice
Burridge, then Deputy Minister of Justice, and Mr. Dingman, of the
Department of the Interior, to settle the Indian title to certain lands in the
Township of Dundee, County of Huntington, and continued to hold that
office during the successive administrations of Messrs. Mousseau, Ross and

Taillon, and until the defeat of the last-named administration in January,
1887. During the session of 1887 he was named by the House of Assembly
one of the Commissioners to perfect the revision of the provincial statutes.
He was one of the leaders of the Opposition to the Government of the late
Honore Mercier until his appointment to the bench in July, 1889, as Judge
of the Superior Court for the District of Bedford, his native district. He has
always taken a warm interest in educational matters, was twice President of
the Provincial Association of Protestant Teachers, was for some years a
member of the Protestant Committee of the Council of Public Instruction,
and was the first President of the District of Bedford McGill Graduates’
Society. In June, 1883, the University of Bishops’ College offered him the
degree of D.C.L., but owing to absence it was not conferred. In 1904,
McGill University gave him the degree of LL.D. He is a devoted member of
the Church of England and has often been a delegate to its synods. Since he
became judge he has devoted his leisure to the promotion of various matters
of local concern, such as good roads, historical societies and the Knowlton
Conference.

Parmelee, William George, LL.D., D.C.L. (Quebec City), English
Secretary of the Department of Public Instruction, and Joint Secretary of the
Council of Public Instruction of the Province of Quebec, was born at
Waterloo, in the Eastern Townships, in 1860. He is a son of Rufus E.
Parmelee, whose father had come originally from the United States. On the
mother’s side, the subject of this sketch is of Scottish descent. He received
his early education at Waterloo Academy, finally graduating as a teacher
from the McGill Normal School of Montreal. He afterward became head
master of the Model School Department and, later, a Professor of the
Normal School. Previous to his holding these positions, he had been a
member of the staff of St. Francis College, Richmond, P.Q., from 1881 to
1885. From McGill Normal School he was selected for his present position
in 1891; and for more than a quarter of a century he has been in touch with
the educational affairs of Quebec. He has proved himself a departmental
administrator of widely recognized professional acumen. The academic
honors that have been bestowed upon him from the time of his extra-mural
course at Queen’s University, from which he graduated in 1889, stand as an
endorsation of his scholarship, these including a D.C.L. from Bishop’s

College in 1902, and an LL.D. from McGill University in 1911. He has
likewise been honored by being chosen more than once, President of the
Teachers’ Association of his native province; President of the Literary and
Historical Society of Quebec for three several terms; President of the Young
Men’s Association; a delegate to the Federal Council of the United Empire
Educational League in London, England, and later on as a delegate to the
Imperial Conference on Education in the same centre. Taking an interest in
local military affairs he was awarded a Captaincy in the 8th Royal Rifles
Company, and later on received the honorary rank of Colonel. Nor has he
neglected literary pursuits in his spare moments, having had published two
of his papers read before the Literary and Historical Society, and entitled,
“Wolfe as a Man and a Soldier,” and “The Fraser Highlanders.” He has also
won high literary credit as joint-collaborateur with Dr. Arthur Doughty, the
Dominion Archivist, in six volumes dealing with the “Siege of Quebec.” In
1886 he married Miss Louise Foss, of Waterloo. Their family consists of
four daughters.

HON. P. E. BLONDIN
Ottawa

McCorkill, The Hon. Justice John Charles (Quebec City), was
born in the town of Farnham, P.Q., on August 31, 1854. His father was Mr.
Robert McCorkill, of Farnham and the Eastern Townships. His mother’s
maiden name was Miss Margaret Meighen. His wife is a daughter of the

Hon. Senator Leonard of London, Ontario, their marriage having taken
place in 1884. From the district elementary school, he entered the classes of
the McGill Model School, and in time obtained a certificate to teach from
the McGill Normal School. For a period he acted as Principal of the
Montreal British and Canadian School, thereafter taking his degree of
B.C.L. as a preliminary step to his becoming a lawyer. At first he became a
partner in the Greenshields legal firm, but subsequently removed to the
Bedford District and finally opened a central office at Cowansville. While
rising to a high rank as an advocate, he was encouraged to enter the political
field, and after suffering defeat twice in succession, was at length elected to
the Legislative Assembly as the representative of Missisquoi. In time he
was appointed Legislative Councillor for the District of Bedford, where he
was so appreciatively known as a public-spirited citizen and an able lawyer,
who had held the position of Batonnier of the Bar and other offices of rank.
In 1903, he resigned his seat in the upper chamber of the Provincial
Parliament, to become Provincial Treasurer in the Parent Administration,
and was elected to the Legislature by the Constituency of Brome. This
office he held for three years, up to the time of his appointment as a Judge
of the Supreme Court for the District of Quebec. While Treasurer, his term
was marked by important legislation, such as the revision of the taxation
laws relating to banking institutions and succession duties, which resulted
in a surplus for the province of half-a-million dollars. After the date of his
appointment to the Bench, he was made a Joint Commissioner with the
Hon. Mr. Mathieu and Mr. L. J. Gauthier, to revise the Municipal Code of
the Province of Quebec. His record as a legal practitioner and advocate, as
well as a financier and public-spirited citizen, has been a full one, wherever
he has resided, in Montreal, in the Eastern Townships, or in the city of
Quebec. For several years he was Mayor of Cowansville, where he was also
President of the Missisquoi Historical Society. He has been President of the
Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, and is a member of the Council
of Public Instruction. Even in military affairs he has taken an active part,
having been Captain as well as Major in the Militia between the years of
1879 and 1887. His literary tastes have expressed themselves in the
historical papers he has written from time to time. Altogether the Hon.
Justice McCorkill may truly be spoken of as possessing a forceful and clear-
visioned personality, able and willing always to share in the civic and
provincial advancement of the community in which he lives or has lived.

Taschereau, The Hon. Louis Alexander (Quebec City), Minister
of Public Works for the Province of Quebec, is the son of the Hon. Justice
Taschereau, who married Miss Josephine Caron, the daughter of the Hon.
Justice Caron, formerly Lieut.-Governor. He was born on the 5th of March,
1867. He was educated at the Quebec Seminary and Laval University,
graduating as a Licentiate of Law in 1889, preliminary to his entering upon
his professional career as partner of Sir Charles Fitzpatrick, now Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. Later he became associated with
what is now the legal firm of Taschereau, Roy, Cannon, Parent & Casgrain.
As a lawyer, Mr. Taschereau came at once to be recognized as one of the
leading legal practitioners of the district, among his successes being the part
he took in the Gaynor and Greene extradition case in 1902. In addition to
his duties as an advocate he took part in civic affairs, and for a time held a
seat as an alderman of his native city. In 1900, he was elected for the
constituency of Montmorency in the Legislative Assembly, and has
continued ever since to be its representative. Seven years after, with his skill
in debate, duly recognized by his parliamentary associates, he was selected
to take his place in the Gouin Administration as Minister of Public Works
and Labor. His administrative ability has been in keeping with his
statesmanlike insight and foresight, and his skill in debate. His advice is
ever in demand when any legal technicality has to be examined and
explained to both sides of the Assembly. In fact, he has taken a high place
as the Premier’s ally in all matters pertaining to the progress of the
province, while he has won the highest credit within parliamentary circles
and beyond them, for the efficiency of the Department in his charge. He has
been a member of the Battlefields Park Commission since the day it was
organized, and is likewise a Governor of the Catholic Church Society. He is
a nephew of the late Cardinal Taschereau, Archbishop of Quebec. In 1891
he married Miss Adine Dionne, daughter of the Hon. E. Dionne, of the
Legislative Council of Quebec, by whom he has had three sons and two
daughters. Altogether he has made a record for himself in his native city
and province as an able advocate, an astute governmental administrator, and
a loyal citizen. Sprung from a distinguished and talented family, his career
as a public man has added to its fame.

Ross, James Gibb (Quebec City), Senator of Canada, was born in
Carluke, a village of Lanarkshire, in Scotland, on April 18, 1819. He came
out to Canada in 1832, in company with his elder brother, John Ross; and,
after attending one of the private schools of Quebec for a year or two, he
entered the business office of his uncle, Mr. James Gibb. At this time the
firm of James Gibb & Company was one of the largest of the wholesale
grocery and provision houses in what has always been known as the Lower
Town of Quebec; and there the Scottish lad laid the foundation of his
business career, which was eventually to place him among the wealthiest
merchants of Canada. In 1843, Mr. Thomas O. Gibb, son of Mr. James
Gibb, returned to Quebec, after finishing his school education in Edinburgh;
and in the same year a company was formed in which Thomas O. Gibb,
John Ross, and James G. Ross were the partners, until the first mentioned of
the three died in 1845. Eventually, on Mr. James Gibb’s death, the two Ross
brothers took the business name of Ross & Co., and as such continued in
active operation up to the year 1868. By this time the firm had amplified its
business by other branches of trading; and in 1868 the older of the two
members of the firm withdrew to conduct a business of his own, for the
most part confined, as it was, to the grocery and provision trade. With him
was associated his youngest brother, Frank Ross. At the time of the
Senator’s death, in 1888, the firm of Ross & Co. had developed into one of
the wealthiest business concerns in the country, having depots for the
distribution of their wares in nearly all the larger cities of Canada and the
United States. With millions at his command, the sole partner of the firm
took an active interest in shipbuilding and railroad construction. Nearly
every branch of industry was enhanced by the money advances of the multi-
millionaire. The shipping interests, especially, felt the effects of his business
acumen, especially when he took in charge for sailing purposes the ships
the building of which he had assisted with advances of money, but which,
for market reasons could not for a time be sold. The railroads which came
in for assistance included the Quebec and Lake St. John Railway and the
Quebec Central, both of which may trace their success as paying concerns
to the financial foresight of Senator James G. Ross, who thus both directly
and indirectly aided the colonization of the country and its trading interests
by the assistance he extended to their promoters. Nor was it easy for one so
prominent in the commercial interests of the ancient capital to refuse to be
nominated as a candidate for parliamentary honors. On two several

occasions he was called upon to contest the electoral division of Quebec
Centre, once in the Conservative interest in 1872, against Mr. Cauchon,
afterwards Governor of Manitoba, and a second time as an Independent, in
1878, against Mr. Malouin. In both instances he was defeated, though
afterwards he was considered worthy to succeed the Hon. David Price as
Senator, in 1884. He was unmarried; but in the families of his two brothers,
John and Frank, he is notably represented to-day by Mr. John Theodore
Ross, the only son of the former, and Frank W. Ross, surviving son of the
latter, both of whom have evidently in them the desire inherited from their
uncle, James G. Ross, to advance the interests of their native city. The Hon.
Senator Ross was a prominent citizen other than in business and political
circles. He took an interest in school improvements and church
advancement. He was for many years President of the Quebec Bank, a
Director of the Quebec High School, and an elder in Chalmers Church. As
may well be said of his beneficent uncle, James Gibb, Senator James Gibb
Ross was a liberal benefactor to the institutions of Quebec, both before his
death and after it. He accumulated his millions in Peter Street, and every
Protestant institution in the city of his adoption benefited by his wealth in
some way or another.

Gouin, The Hon. Sir Jean Lomer, K.C.M.G., LL.B., LL.D.,
Premier of the Province of Quebec, was born at Brondines, of the County of
Portneuf, on March 19, 1861. He comes from a French-Canadian stock
whose lineage can be traced as far back as 1662. His father was J. N. Gouin,
M.D., who married Miss Victoire Seraphine Fugère in 1852. In his earlier
years, their son Lomer became a pupil of Sorel College, thereafter entering
as an under-graduate the College of Levis, and afterwards graduating at
Laval University. His collegiate honors include the degree of LL.D.,
received successively from Laval in 1902, from Bishop’s College
University in 1913, and from Toronto University in 1915. He was called to
the Bar in 1884, after studying law under the late Sir John Abbott and the
Hon. B. Laflamme. He had thus been a student under the supervision of a
Prime Minister of Canada and of a Minister of Justice. During his
partnership with Judge Pagnuello and the Hon. Premier Honore Mercier,
whose daughter Eliza he married in 1888, he came into prominence in the
law courts of Montreal, being finally elected Batonnier-General in 1910,

after having served a term as Alderman of that city, and elected a Member
of the Local Legislature. In 1900 he became Commissioner of Public Works
in the Parent Administration for four years. Resigning his place in the
Parent Cabinet in 1904, he was called to the premiership the year after,
holding the portfolio of Attorney-General up to the present time. During the
general election of 1916 his administration of public affairs was upheld by a
majority never before vouchsafed to a Quebec premier; while the list of
honors conferred upon him since his advent to power is perhaps one of the
longest on record. He was knighted by the reigning Sovereign of the Empire
at the Quebec Tercentenary Celebration of 1908, and was made a K.C.M.G.
in the year 1913. Ever animated with a desire to see his native province an
advancing factor in the general progress of the Dominion of Canada, as well
as of the British Empire, he has been diligent in promoting the public works
that have to be fostered within the counties and parishes, as well as in the
cities and larger towns, in line with the general advancement of the
commonwealth. He has done his best to improve the educational conditions
of the communities, not forgetting likewise to improve the highways and
the industrial activities all over the province. His zeal in establishing and
liberally subsidizing Industrial Schools and Technical Colleges has become
a proverb in all the provinces; while, in view of his support of a provincial
grant of one million dollars to the Canadian Patriotic Fund during the time
of war, his reputation as a broad-minded Canadian citizen has been placed
beyond all questioning. Senator David has pronounced a eulogium on
Premier Gouin that places him in rank with, if not beyond, those who have
preceded him in the Quebec premiership. Within these war-times he has
advocated a National War Service in the most fervent terms, illustrating
Senator David’s estimate of his statesmanship as that of a highly capable
servant of the State, in his impartial judgment, prudence, eloquence, and
administrative acumen. His share in the Bonne Entente mission to Ontario
in 1917, to plead, with others, for a closer mutual understanding between
the two leading races in Canada, has given an éclat to his statesmanship. He
would see Canada a unit while aiding the mother lands in Europe by force
of arms, and thus uphold the prestige of the British Empire. And the various
offices Sir Lomer Gouin has held from the day he entered public life in
1891, indicate the strenuous part he has played as a public-spirited
Canadian. In 1891, he was President of the National Club in Montreal,
which was virtually “the Executive of the Liberal Party” in the Montreal

district. That year he was defeated in his first election contest. Six years
after he was elected representative for the St. James Electoral Division of
Montreal, and thereafter has been member for his native County of
Portneuf. He has continued to be a Member of the Council of Public
Instruction since 1898; became President of the American Fish and Game
Protection Association in 1910; was Chairman of the Ottawa Inter-
provincial Conference in 1906, and afterwards a delegate to a like
Conference in 1910. As from one “learned in the law,” his edition of the
Municipal Code is a standard work; while no one has so well at his
command the details of parliamentary law-and-order as he has, as leader of
the House of Assembly. The record of his regime is concisely given in a
neat little volume published in 1916, under the title of “Le Gouvernment
Gouin et Son Oeuvre.” Another volume referring to the federal subsidies in
favor of the provinces was published in 1903, giving the amplified record of
an address delivered by Sir Lomer under the heading of “The Actual
Question.” These volumes, together with the reports of his speeches from
time to time, indicate how Sir Lomer Gouin has ever had in mind the public
interest—seeing to the improving of the conditions in his native province,
even to the widening out of its area as in the case of the annexation of the
District of Ungava, building government works, and highways, and bridges,
and never forgetting to urge it to keep pace with its sister provinces in the
federacy which includes them all within the Dominion of Canada. In seeing
to the advancement of the province he has in charge as premier, he has
made fame for himself as a loyal statesman and dignified scholar, duly
honored by the King and his country’s seats of learning. He was married to
Miss Alice Amos, his second wife, in 1911. By his first wife he has had two
sons—Leon, who is practising law in Montreal; and Paul, who is a
lieutenant on active service.

Drayton, Sir Henry Lumley, K.C., K.B., Chief Commissioner,
Board of Railway Commissioners for Canada, was born in Kingston,
Ontario, April 27, 1869. He is the son of Philip Henry Drayton, who came
to Canada with the 16th Rifles of England, and Margaret S. (Covernton)
Drayton. He was educated in the schools of England and Canada. On
September 14, 1892, he married Edith Mary Cawthra, daughter of the late
Joseph Cawthra, Toronto, and has three daughters. Sir Henry Drayton was

called to the Ontario Bar in 1891 and soon became recognized as one of the
leaders in the legal profession. In September 1893, he was appointed
Assistant City Solicitor for Toronto, and when he resigned in September,
1900, he was presented with a gold watch in recognition of the valuable
services he had rendered to the city in his legal capacity. He immediately
(September, 1900), formed partnership with Charles J. Holman, K.C., and
in January, 1902, was appointed Counsel to the Railway Committee of the
Ontario Legislature by the Chairman, the Hon. John Dryden. The following
year he was appointed representative of the Ontario Government for the
purpose of adjudicating upon and paying, on behalf of the Government, the
claims of workmen of the different Clergue Companies operating at Sault
Ste. Marie, and on January 29, 1904, he was appointed County Crown
Attorney for the County of York, on the recommendation of the Hon. J. M.
Gibson. In 1905 he was appointed Counsel on Civic Bribery Investigation,
Toronto, the Civic Investigation Court House in 1906, the Public School
Board Investigation, and also the Civic Investigation into the Medical
Health Department. January the 20th, 1908, he was created K.C. He
resigned his position as County Crown Attorney in 1909, and the following
year, April 25, 1910, was appointed Counsel for the Corporation of the City
of Toronto. May 11, 1911, he was appointed as representative of the Ontario
Government a member of the Toronto Power Commission. When on July 1,
1912, he was appointed Chief Commissioner of the Board of Railway
Commissioners for Canada the Toronto City Council presented him with an
illuminated album. In July, 1913, he was appointed Commissioner to deal
with the question of Control of Ocean Freight Rates. In 1917 Sir Henry
Drayton was appointed a member of the Drayton-Smith-Acworth
Commission which investigated the Canadian railway situation. When the
work of the Commission was completed and their report presented to the
Government, he, as his fee for his able services on the Commission, was
presented with a cheque for $15,000 by the Dominion Government. He
refused to accept payment and returned the cheque. Acknowledging the
receipt of the returned cheque the then Minister of Railways and Canals,
Hon. Mr. Cochrane, wrote in part as follows: “I can assure you that your
very patriotic attitude in this matter is most sincerely appreciated by the
Government at a time when every dollar which can be saved is of material
importance to the successful prosecution of the war.” In very many other
ways since the war commenced in 1914, Sir Henry Drayton has rendered

valuable services—financially, as a member of committees and in the
direction of transportation, supply and other matters. He is ever to the fore
to do all he can to help Canada successfully bear the burdens—financially,
commercially and otherwise—that this war has forced her to carry and no
one has ever rendered such services more freely and willingly. Sir Henry
Drayton is a member of the Toronto, Toronto Hunt, Ontario Jockey, Rideau,
Ottawa Royal Golf, Country (Ottawa), Connaught Park Jockey (Ottawa),
and the Kaministiquia (Fort William) Clubs. His address is 233 Metcalfe
St., Ottawa.

S. R. PARSONS
Toronto

Dobell, Sir Charles Macpherson, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O.
(Quebec City), Lieutenant-General of the British Army, is a son of the late
Hon. R. R. Dobell, lumber merchant, of Quebec, and a grandson of Senator
Sir David Macpherson, at one time Speaker of the Canadian Senate. He is a

native of Quebec, having been born on June 22, 1869. Receiving his
elementary education at the Rev. Canon Von Iffland’s Private School, he
became a student at the Quebec High School and later at the Charterhouse
School in England, previous to his entering the Royal Military College at
Kingston, Ontario. From that institution he graduated in 1890. After serving
as a Lieutenant in the Hazara Expedition, wherein his bravery was
mentioned in dispatches and by the award of a medal and clasp, his
advancement has proceeded steadily with his experience in active service.
He took part with the International Forces in the occupation of the Island of
Crete, and was there raised to the rank of Major. During the South African
War, he joined the Canadian Contingent, and won his D.S.O. with other
honors, during the several engagements of the campaign. In command of a
regiment of mounted infantry he shared in conflict after conflict with the
Boers, taking part in the relief of Kimberley, and in the engagements of
Paardeberg, Poplar Grove, Prefontaine, Johannesburg, Pretoria and
Diamond Hill, and many others. After serving in Nigeria, he was given the
rank of Lieut.-Colonel, his name from time to time occurring in the
dispatches to the War Office. As an interruption to his service in Nigeria, he
was called to China during the Boxer uprising, and was present at the relief
of Pekin by the International Forces. On his return from China, he was
appointed by the War Office to the South African Intelligence Department,
and became an A.D.C. to the King. Later on he was gazetted as Inspector-
General of the West African Field Force, with the rank of Brigadier-
General, a position he was holding when Germany declared war in 1914.
Since then he has gained further distinction and promotion. With a
combined force of French and English troops numbering nearly ten
thousand, he shared in the conquest of the German Colony of the
Cameroons, a territory covering an area in all of 300,000 square miles. On
New Year’s Day, 1916, the order of C.M.G. was bestowed upon him by
King George, and eventually, at the close of the Cameroon Expedition, he
received the honor of K.C.B., as well as the Legion of Honor from the
President of the French Republic, being at the same time gazetted as a
Major-General of the British Army. A still later event in his career as a
“soldier of the king” led to his being placed in command as Lieut.-General
of the Coast Forces that were to advance from the Suez Canal into
Palestine. Altogether Sir Charles Dobell’s career has been a splendid one.
Hailing as he does from a district in Canada that has provided several

military officers of high rank to the forces of the Motherland, his fellow-
Canadians cannot but be proud of the record made by one of their own as a
soldier and commander. He was married in 1908, to Mrs. (Elsye Bankes)
Campbell, daughter of the late Lieut.-Colonel Meyrick Bankes, of London,
and widow of Captain F. L. Campbell, R.N. His two brothers, Mr. William
Molson Dobell, lumber merchant, and Mr. Alfred Dobell, advocate, as well
as his uncle, Mr. William Molson Macpherson, banker, are prominent
citizens of the city of Quebec.

Garneau, Sir George, formerly Mayor of Quebec City, and one of
the prominent merchants and capitalists of that city, who has been for many
years President of the National Battlefields Commission, is a son of the late
Hon. Pierre Garneau, Member of the Legislative Council of the Province of
Quebec, and several times member of the Provincial Cabinet. On the
mother’s side he was a grandson of Mr. Edward Burroughs, the
Prothonotary. Sir George is a native of Quebec, having been born on
November 19, 1864. He received his earlier education at the Quebec
Seminary, afterwards entering as a student the Montreal Polytechnic
School, where he graduated as Civil Engineer, in 1884. Four years
afterwards he took the degree of Bachelor of Applied Science in Laval
University, where for a period he was Titular Professor of Analytical
Chemistry. For a time he held the position of assistant engineer on the
construction staff of the Quebec and Lake St. John Railway, previous to his
being taken in as a partner in his father’s wholesale dry goods
establishment. Aside from his business pursuits, he identified himself with
civic affairs, and on being elected alderman, he was chosen as Mayor in
1906, and at the close of his term was unanimously re-elected for a second
term of two years. It was while he was Mayor that he became Chairman of
the National Battlefields Commission, in 1908. During that year there
occurred the Tercentennial Celebration of the founding of Quebec. In
association with Earl Grey, he was prominently identified with the
supervision of the preliminaries to that Celebration, and has since deeply
interested himself, with his associate Commissioners, in the laying out of
the Battlefields Park, which is still in course of completion as one of the
most striking of Canada’s historic landmarks. His zeal as an overseer of that
enterprise and the interest he took in the events of the Celebration, graced,

as it was, by the presence of the Prince of Wales, now King George V, and
other notables of Canada and the Motherland, was signalized by the honor
of knighthood at the hands of King Edward VII, an honor subsequently
supplemented by the President of the French Republic, in the bestowal of
the Legion of Honor. On the creation of the Quebec Public Utilities
Commission, in 1910, he was appointed member of the same and acting
President, the appointment being extended for a period of ten years. His
career has been marked by the holding of many other high positions
connected with the progress of his native city. For a time he was a Director
of the Railway Company, under which he had been in his earlier years a
civil engineer. He has been Director of the Prudential Trust Company, a
Director of the Quebec Steamship Company, a member of the Advisory
Board of the Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Company, a Director of the
Quebec Land Company, and a Governor of Laval University. His brother,
the Hon. E. B. Garneau, was appointed to the Legislative Council on the
death of his father. Since the demise of both of them, Sir George has
continued to be President of the firm of “Garneau Limited.” He was married
in 1892, to Miss Alma Benoit, daughter of Alphonse Benoit, for many years
Secretary of the Department of Militia and Defence of Canada. His family
consists of five sons and three daughters. In these later years Sir George has
taken a deep interest in the Entente Conferences for the promotion of unity
between the two distinctive races of Canada; and during the Toronto
Conference, he was received at a special Convocation of the University of
Toronto, and had the honor of LL.D. conferred upon him. The ancestors of
the Garneau family came originally from France in 1663; and the subject of
this sketch as a French-Canadian, using the French and English languages
with equal facility, has never failed to acknowledge himself as an all-
Canadian, devoted to the cause of a common Canadianism, under the aegis
of the British Empire. He also served in the Canadian Militia, from which
he retired with the rank of Captain of Field Artillery in 1894.

Cox, Herbert Coplin (Toronto, Ont.), son of the late Hon. George A.
Cox, Senator, and Margaret (Hopkins) Cox, was born at Peterborough, Ont.,
on June 29, 1873, and received his education at Jarvis Street Collegiate
Institute and Victoria University, Toronto. Mr. Cox was trained to business
life and in an extensive experience under his father early developed aptitude

and ability as a financier. In July, 1895, he married Louise Bogart Brown,
daughter of Charles Brown, Toronto. On completing his education Mr. Cox
entered the service of the Canada Life Assurance Company and rapidly rose
to the management of the company’s largest branch. He entered into
partnership with his father under the firm name of George A. & H. C. Cox,
in the management of the Eastern Ontario and Michigan branches of the
company in July, 1899, and became sole manager of the business of that
territory upon his father’s appointment to the presidency. In October, 1912,
he was invited to accept the presidency of the Imperial Life Assurance
Company, where he obtained an invaluable experience in executive work.
He retired from this position in August, 1914, to become President of the
Canada Life Assurance Company on the death of his brother, E. W. Cox. He
also assumed the responsibility of various other offices and directorates
held by his late brother. While, however, his career as an insurance man and
financier has been such as very few men of his age have attained, that
represents but one side of a character remarkable for activity and public
spirit, as well as ability. In movements toward the betterment of conditions
in the life insurance business Mr. Cox has naturally taken a keen interest,
but his pursuits outside of business, especially in the field of social
betterment, are varied and important. He took a deep and active interest in
the erection of Toronto’s General Hospital, serving upon several committees
in this connection. He is a director of the Toronto Conservatory of Music
and is a member of the Music Committee of the Metropolitan Church, of
which he is also a trustee. He is likewise chairman of the Toronto
Symphony Orchestra, and Honorary Colonel of the Mississauga Horse. Mr.
Cox is President and General Manager of the Canada Life Assurance
Company, President of the Imperial Guarantee and Accident Company,
President of the Toronto Savings and Loan Company, President of the
Provident Investment Company, Vice-President of the Central Canada Loan
and Savings Company, Director of the Dominion Securities Corporation,
Director of the National Trust Company, Director of the Canadian General
Electric Company, Director of the British American Assurance Company,
Director of the Western Assurance Company, Director of the Dunlop Tire
and Rubber Company, and Director of the Robert Simpson Company. He is
a member of the following clubs: Toronto, York, Toronto Hunt, Toronto
Golf, Mississauga Golf, Royal Canadian Yacht, National, Ontario, Arts and
Letters. In religion Mr. Cox is a Methodist.

Carew, John, M.L.A. (Lindsay, Ont.), born Jan. 5, 1862, at Emily
Township, County of Victoria, son of John Carew and Jane Wilson, both
Irish. He was educated at Lindsay Public School. Married, Feb. 11, 1885, to
Margaret, daughter of Francis and Margaret Kelly, of Red Rock, Verulam
Township, County of Victoria, and is father of the following children: Hazel
May, Lieut.-Col. Francis John Carew, Annie, Ethel, Gertrude J., Charles
Lawrence, Arthur W. and Roberta Grace. Mr. Carew has been successfully
engaged in the lumber business at Lindsay for about thirty years and is a
large employer of labor. He is President and General Manager of The John
Carew Lumber Company, Limited; Vice-President of Horn Bros. Woollen
Mills; Vice-President Hodgson Bros. Chemical Co.; Vice-President The
Halton Brick Co.; Vice-President The Canada Sand Lime Brick Co. Was
elected a member of the Ontario Legislature at the general elections in 1914
as the Conservative representative for South Victoria. Mr. Carew is a
Presbyterian in religion, a member of the Masonic Order, and of the
Independent Order of Oddfellows. He is a Governor of the Ross Memorial
Hospital at Lindsay, a member of the Board of Education of the town, and
President of the Lindsay Central Exhibition. Mr. Carew is an enthusiastic
member of the Lindsay Curling Club. He is recognized as one of the
country’s most public spirited and progressive citizens.

Casgrain, Philippe Baby (Quebec City), lawyer, parliamentarian
and author, is of an old and distinguished family, which includes in its
record besides himself, the late Abbé P. H. Casgrain, of literary fame; the
Hon. Senator Charles E. C. Casgrain, M.D.; the Hon. Thomas Chase
Casgrain, the distinguished lawyer and Minister of the Crown, and the Hon.
Senator J. P. B. Casgrain. The subject of this sketch was born in the city of
Quebec, on the 30th December, 1826. He is the son of Mr. C. E. C.
Casgrain, who was at one time the Deputy Commissioner of Public Works.
His mother’s maiden name was Miss Anne Baby, a daughter of the Hon.
James Baby, Cabinet Minister. He had his earlier education at St. Anne’s
College. In 1850 he was called to the Bar, and was given his K.C. in his
thirty-third year, after being associated as a law-partner with the Hon. Mr.
Cauveau, the Solicitor-General of his time. After this he was given a
position as assistant in the Prothonotary’s Office, and was later on chosen

Clerk of the Circuit Court. Subsequently he was elected a member of the
House of Commons for the constituency of L’Islet, which he continued to
represent from term to term for nearly twenty years. It was not until 1891 he
was defeated by Mr. Georges Desjardins. During his parliamentary days he
was ever diligent in assuming his share of committee work, having taken a
prominent part in the Royal Commission appointed to investigate the
administration of public affairs in the constituency of Rimouski. Two years
after his defeat in L’Islet, he was given the presidency of a second Royal
Commission to enquire into the affairs of the Montreal and Sorel Railway.
During his long term of office in the Court House, he gained a prominence
as a writer and investigator of the traditions that fringed the historical
atmosphere of his native city. He was elected for a term of two years
President of the Literary and Historical Society in 1898, and seven years
afterwards he was chosen for the same position a second time. He also was
a member of the Navy League, and took an active part in securing the
Plains of Abraham as a federal asset, thus preparing the way for its
becoming a permanent acquisition of the National Battlefields Parks
Commission. In 1907 he was elected Vice-President of the Canadian
Landmarks Association, and was later awarded a diploma from the Royal
Society of Canada for his zeal in archæological research. The Transactions
of the Royal Society and of the Literary and Historical Society bear
testimony to his industry in preparing historical and antiquarian matter for
publication, which otherwise might have been lost. For instance, he
successfully located the site of the fountain from which the founder of the
colony, Samuel de Champlain, had water drawn to supply his habitation, as
well as the site of the house in which General Montcalm lived during his
sojourn in Quebec, and the house in which he died; the site of the place of
abode of Abraham Martin, whose name is perpetuated in the name of the
historic battlefield; the site of Dumont’s Mill, near the baylet curvature of
the St. Lawrence known as Wolfe’s Cove; the location of Claire Fontaine,
that gave its name to the street which, as an elevated pathway on the brow
of Perrault’s Hill, saw the marshalling of Montcalm’s troops in three
divisions; besides the locations of many other historical landmarks in the
Ancient Capital. Learned in the law, he was held in high respect as an
official of the Palais de Justice. His long tenure of office in Parliament and
out of it has always been characterized by integrity of purpose in dealing
with public matters.

Gibson, Theron (Toronto, Ont.), Valuator and Financial Agent, began
his career as an accountant with John Hogg, dry goods merchant, Guelph,
Ont., in 1875, after an early education in the Public Schools and British
American Business College. He was successively, Treasurer of the Guelph
Lumber Company, 1878-1880; Office Manager, John Hogg & Son, Guelph,
1880-1885; Financial Manager, A. R. McMaster & Bro., Toronto, 1885-
1886; Accountant, Freehold Loan & Savings Co., Toronto, 1886-1887;
Inspector of the same, 1887-1898; and Inspector, Canada Permanent &
Western Canada Mortgage Corporation, 1898-1903. Since when he has
been engaged in business on his own account valuing real estate for
investors, conducting arbitrations, managing estates, in addition to
negotiating investments and fire insurance. He is interested in State
Consolidated Oil Co., and a director both of Wm. Cane & Sons Co.,
Newmarket, and of Fire Insurance Exchange Corporation, Toronto. Mr.
Gibson has always taken a prominent part in church and benevolent work.
For some years he was President of the Guelph Y.M.C.A. and Treasurer and
Member of the Board of the Toronto Y.M.C.A. For thirteen years he has
been Superintendent of Central Presbyterian Sunday School, and for seven
years Treasurer of the Ontario Branch of the Dominion Alliance. Since
1905 he has been a member of the Executive of the Provincial Sunday
School Association, and is to-day Vice-Chairman of that body, as also a
member of the Executive Committee and Board of Trustees of the
International Sunday School Association, and Secretary of that board and
life member of the Association; Treasurer and Member of the Executive
Committee, Presbyterian Sunday School Association; Vice-President of the
Toronto Sunday School Association, and director of the Upper Canada
Bible Society. He has been an elder in the Presbyterian Church since 1883.
Mr. Gibson was born in Huron County, Ont., February 19, 1852, the son of
David and Sarah Jane Gibson, and married Mary Jean, daughter of the late
John Stephen Holmwood, Flamboro W., Ont., September 11, 1877. He has
five children, David Holmwood, Norman Rothwell, William Ernest,
Douglas and Jessie Winnifred.

Murphy, Hon. Charles, B.A. The son of James Murphy of Birr,
King’s County, Ireland, and Mary Conway, of Limerick, was born in

Ottawa, December 8, 1863. He was educated in the Separate Schools, the
Collegiate Institute and Ottawa University (B.A.), and Osgoode Hall,
Toronto. He is a Barrister-at-law and has been for several years honorary
solicitor for the Christian Aid Society. In September, 1908, upon the
retirement from the Cabinet of Hon. R. W. Scott, Secretary of State, Mr.
Murphy was chosen to succeed him and was sworn in on October 10. This
office he held until the resignation of Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s Cabinet, October
6, 1911. He was nominated by the Liberals of Russell County as their
candidate for the House of Commons, and at the general election of 1908
was elected by a large majority. He was re-elected at the general election of
1911. He is recognized throughout Canada as one of the most persistent
advocates of Home Rule for Ireland, and his efforts and eloquence have
ever been prominently evident in that cause. He is a member of the
Laurentian, University and Rivermead Golf Clubs, Ottawa, and the Ontario
Club, Toronto. He is a Roman Catholic, a Liberal in politics, and resides at
174 Maclaren Street, Ottawa. His father, the late James Murphy, was a well-
known contractor and built, among other important public works, the
Pembina branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Cole, Wilmot Howard, ex-M.L.A., Colonel (Brockville, Ont.), was
born at Brockville, February 16, 1834. The patronymic Cole is of very
ancient Saxon origin: It appears in the “Domesday Book.” The public
records show that in the year 1640, Sir John Cole, of Shenley, in
Hertfordshire, England, was a landed proprietor. His son, Adam, married
and had issue a son, Cornelius. This Cornelius Cole emigrated to America
in the year 1708; in 1711 he became a justice of Albany County comprised
within the limits of what was called “Livingston Manor.” His land was next
to that of W. T. Livingston, and extended from the Manor House road to
Jansens’s Kill, or creek, and was one of the finest farms in the Manor. He
had three sons, named Nicholas, John and Adam. On the breaking out of the
rebellion, Cornelius Cole and his sons, John and Adam, espoused the cause
of England, and the sons joined the Royalist forces. As the war proceeded
the feeling ran so high against the “Tories,” as the Royalists were called,
and Cornelius Cole, although an old man, was seized and imprisoned,
where he died a victim of fidelity to Motherland. His property was
confiscated, and his sons forced to seek a home in the wilds of Canada. In

1773 John and Adam Cole with his wife and her two brothers, Jonathan, Jr.,
and Abel Fulford, left with other United Empire Loyalists for Canada, and
passing up the St. Lawrence, they landed and settled in the County of
Leeds, in that part now called the Township of Elizabethtown, at a point on
the River St. Lawrence about five miles west of the present town of
Brockville, which place is still called “Cole’s Ferry.” Here Adam Cole
settled, being, as he was frequently heard to say, the first person to begin a
settlement in the Township of Elizabethtown. Some years after the close of
the war, Peter, a son of John Cole, returned to his grandfather’s old home in
Ulster County, to ascertain whether he could recover some of the family
estate, which had been confiscated, but failed, as the authorities had granted
the property to other persons. Adam Cole’s wife was Thankful Fulford, also
descended from Loyalist stock. Her father, Jonathan Fulford, sen., with the
rest of his family came in 1784, and settled in the same neighborhood, and
left numerous descendants. Adam Cole’s family, in 1812, consisted of nine
sons and seven daughters, besides four who died in infancy. Five of the sons
served in the War of 1812, the eldest, Peter, having assisted in the capture of
Ogdensburg, and subsequently held the rank of captain. The house of Adam
Cole was the general headquarters of the military, when they were in that
section of country, or when moving between Montreal and Kingston. It is
related of Peter Cole, the eldest son, that in the year 1810, the mail carrier
was taken sick at his father’s house, and Peter took the mail to Kingston,
where he received that from Toronto and carried it back to Montreal. At
Montreal he took charge of the mail for the west, which had been
accumulating for a month and weighed upwards of sixty pounds, and
carried it to Kingston. He accomplished the whole trip, going and coming,
of 430 miles on foot, in fourteen days, and this was in March, when the trail
most of the way was through the forest and very difficult. He received for
this service, from the Government the sum of fifteen dollars. Abel Cole,
who was the youngest son of Adam Cole, died December 9, 1893, aged 88
years. His wife, Catherine Seaman, a grand-daughter of Caleb Seaman, died
Nov. 2, 1893, aged 83 years, being one of the sons of Caleb Seaman who
was with Lord Cornwallis at York Town. Wilmot Howard Cole, second son
of Abel Cole, was educated at Brockville. He commenced mercantile
business in 1855, and continued in the same until 1882. The old spirit of
loyalty which he inherited, prompted him upon the organization of the
Volunteer Militia of Canada in 1855, to become a member of the old

“Brockville Rifle Company,” commanded by Major Smythe (later of the
100th Regiment, British Army). The late Col. James Crawford, William
Fitzsimmons (a former postmaster of Brockville), the late Samuel Ross,
William Morris, Thomas Camm and other business men of Brockville,
shouldered their muskets and learned the drill at the same time. Wilmot
Howard Cole filled every position in rank from private to colonel of
battalion. In December, 1864, he went with the Brockville Rifle Company,
as lieutenant, to Amherstburg, in the County of Essex, remaining there on
duty until the following May. In November, 1865, the fear of a Fenian Raid
was so strong in the vicinity of the River St. Lawrence, that the officers of
the Brockville Rifle Company (who were at the time, the late Col. Crawford
in command, Lieut. Cole, Lieut. Robert Bowie, and the late Lieut.
Windeat), offered their services without pay, and to increase their company
to 100 men to do duty for the protection of Brockville and vicinity, by
drilling the men and mounting a heavy guard every night, with sentries
posted in different parts of the town, the men only being paid twenty-five
cents per day. The offer was accepted by the government and that duty
performed until the ensuing March, when a large portion of the volunteer
force were called out, and a provisional battalion formed at Brockville,
under command of Col. Crawford, Lieut. Cole assuming command of the
Brockville Rifle Company, with which he remained on duty until the next
November, part of the time at Brockville and part at Cornwall. Again in
1870, as major of the 41st battalion, he was on duty at Cornwall during the
Fenian excitement. On June 28, 1871, he was appointed to the command of
the 41st battalion; on June 28, 1898, he resigned, having held the command
for 27 years, and was a member of the active force for 43 years. In 1913 the
Militia Department honored him with the full rank of Colonel. Col. Cole
occupied various positions of trust and importance in the gift of his fellow-
citizens. He was a member of the Town Council of Brockville for fourteen
years; a director for many years, and president of the Johnstown Mutual
Fire Insurance Company; a member of the Independent Order of
Oddfellows for many years, filling various offices in the local lodge and
also in the Grand lodge and Grand Encampment. He was chosen by his
brethren to fill the position of Grand Master the year the Sovereign Grand
Lodge met in Toronto, in September, 1880, who were entertained by their
Ontario brethren. He always took an active part in everything that would
advance the interests of his native town. In connection with the late Allan

Turner, he worked for many years to obtain a system of waterworks for
Brockville, and in 1881 they organized a company, consisting of Allan
Turner, John McMullen, Thomas Gilmour, George A. Dana, and Wilmot H.
Cole, to construct waterworks; and as a result of the efforts of these
gentlemen, Brockville has now a most excellent system of water supply for
all purposes. Colonel Cole was elected a member of the Legislature of the
Province of Ontario for the Brockville riding, in the Liberal interest, at the
general elections in 1875, and was a warm supporter of the Mowat
Government. He received the appointment of Registrar for the County of
Leeds in February, 1882. He was president of the Brockville Loan and
Savings Company. Col. Cole was a member of the Methodist Church, and
for over fifty years a trustee of the Wall Street Church in Brockville, and
was looked upon by his fellow church members as ready to assist in
carrying forward all enterprises for the benefit of the church. Col. Cole
married Jane Adelaide, youngest daughter of the late Abram Philips, of New
York. Their family consisted of four children, two sons and two daughters.
The sons, following the traditions of the family, entered the volunteer force
very early. The elder, Eugene Maurice Cole, was bugler in the Brockville
Rifle Company in 1866, and did duty with that company whenever on
service; he subsequently became lieutenant, after which he resigned, having
removed from Brockville. The youngest son, Capt. George Marshall Cole,
was captain of No. 4 company, 41st battalion. The latest enterprise which
Col. Cole had been connected with and will eventually benefit his native
town more than all the others, was the Brockville, Westport and Sault Ste.
Marie Railway. The idea of a railway from Brockville to Westport had been
entertained, and a charter was procured, but nothing further was done, and
after a time the charter expired. Subsequently, Eugene M. Cole, who was in
business in New York City, and enjoyed commercial relations with
gentlemen interested in building railways and other public works,
conceived the idea that a line of railway from Brockville to Sault Ste. Marie
would prove an advantageous route in many ways, and at the same time
benefit his native town. After much labor in gathering statistical
information, he laid the whole matter before his father, who had it brought
before the leading men of the County of Leeds, and the proposition made
that if the municipalities would bear the expense of preliminary survey and
obtain the charter, and grant aid by way of bonus to the extent of $125,000,
Eugene M. Cole would work up the scheme and obtain the capital and

contractors to build at least the first section of the road to Westport. This
was agreed to, the last bonus by-law being passed on July 15, 1885, and
work on the construction of the railway commenced on January 13, 1886.
Although ably assisted by many persons in the County of Leeds in
connection with the enterprise, the credit of the inception of the scheme,
and the labor in working it up materially and financially, belong to Eugene
M. Cole. Colonel Cole died December 13, 1915, in his eighty-second year,
being pre-deceased by his wife by about two months.

Scott, James Guthrie, the prominent railway manager of Quebec
City, was born in that city on February 13, 1847, the son of Hugh Erskine
Scott. His mother’s maiden name was Margaret Chillas. The family of the
Scotts has filled an important place in the community since the days of Mr.
Scott’s grandfather, who came from Scotland. Mr. Henry S. Scott, hardware
merchant, was his uncle, and Mr. William C. Scott and Mr. Charles Scott,
his brothers, all of whom took an active interest in the progress of the city,
as has their distinguished relative. The latter received his early education at
the Quebec High School. In his seventeenth year he had his first start in
business in the offices of the Montmorency Lumber Mills, where he
eventually became head of one of the departments. In 1879, he entered the
service of the Quebec and Lake St. John Railway, becoming, in time, its
general manager and assuming the onerous task of having that line
completed as far as Chicoutimi and extended, under the name of the Great
Northern, to Hawkesbury, Ont., across the Ottawa, a distance in all of five
hundred miles. But for Mr. Scott’s supervisory tact and engineering skill,
Quebec would hardly have become the important railway terminal that it
now is, not only of the Canadian Northern System, but of the National
Transcontinental. During the earlier operations of the Quebec and Lake St.
John Railway, Mr. Scott and his Board of Directors organized a system of
assisted colonization that peopled the parishes all along their line, as many
as from ten to twelve thousand families being induced to take up
homesteads in the districts opened up for settlement. For twenty-five years
Mr. Scott was facile princeps in these beneficent operations; and it was only
when the Canadian Northern Railway Company took over the properties
supervised by him in 1908, that he decided to retire from office to take up
other work involving the commercial advancement of his native city. In

1916 he was elected President of the Quebec Board of Trade, after many
years of active service as one of its members, and is also President of the
British Columbia Skeena Coal Company. For many years he has been a
member of the Quebec Geographical Society and other associations; and his
contemporaries can look back with satisfaction at the civic progress he
awakened as a railway projector and business man, and the manufacturing
centres he succeeded in locating from the time he undertook to complete the
Lake St. John Railway. In June, 1908, upon his retirement from the
management of the railway, he was given a banquet by the citizens of
Quebec at the Chateau Frontenac, in recognition of the enterprising and
successful work he had done while completing extensions north and west
from the city, and at the same time was presented with testimonials of
value. And in addition to the story of his life as a railway manager and
projector, Mr. Scott has to his credit twelve years’ service in the Militia,
having been called out to frustrate the advance of the enemy in certain
border raids near Windsor, Ontario, in 1865, as well as to protect Canada
from the Fenian Raids, during the four years succeeding that date. In 1873
he married Miss Sophy Mary Jackson; and in 1901 was married, for a
second time, to Miss Cordelia Mary Jackson, daughter of Dr. Alfred
Jackson, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Laval University. By his first
marriage he has had two sons and a daughter, and by his second, one son
and one daughter.

Bender, Prosper, M.D., and Litterateur (Quebec City), was born in
Quebec on July 30, 1844. He was the son of L. P. Bender, Advocate, his
mother’s maiden name having been Miss Jane McMillan. His school
education began at the Quebec Seminary and was continued at Laval
University, where he went through a successful course in belles lettres and
collateral studies. Thereafter he entered McGill University, where in 1864
he took his degree of M.D. On the following year he entered upon his
career as a medical man in his native city, where, in 1868, he married Miss
Amelia Scott, daughter of A. S. Scott. At the time of his graduation, the
Civil War between the Northern and Southern States of the American
Republic was nearing its climax, and in the excitement of events an
opportunity offered itself to the young student to mature his skill in surgery
and the healing art on the battlefield. He was given employment in the army

in North Virginia, which was then under the command of General Ulysses
Grant. As an assistant surgeon he remained with that army up to the time of
General Lee’s surrender, his faithfulness and skill bringing him to the notice
of his medical associates and eventually to the notice of the General in
person. After the war, Dr. Bender proceeded to New York to gain further
professional experience in the hospitals, before entering upon the first
period of his residence in Quebec as a medical practitioner. During that
period he came into touch with several of the rising public men of the town,
who made a kind of literary rendezvous of his residence, much as years
afterwards the Circle de Dix used to hold their seances out at Spencer
Wood, under the hospital auspices of Sir Adolphe Chapleau. The social
gatherings at Dr. Bender’s had no doubt the effect of turning the attention of
the successful physician to literary work, leading him to publish two
volumes, respectfully titled, “Literary Sheaves,” and “Old and New
Canada.” In 1884 he removed to Boston, where he practised as a
homeopathist, and won a reputation among the literary men of that city, as a
contributor to the magazines and reviews. Within the last ten years
preceding his death in 1917, he had his residence again in Quebec. During
these years he published in amplified form a series of sketches about the
friends of his earlier comradeship. These sketches embodied the
characteristics of the brilliant literary guests who had once met round his
table, and were read with the greatest of interest by the public as they
appeared from time to time, as an illustration of the author’s geniality of
spirit and literary acumen. Altogether, Dr. Prosper Bender’s professional
and literary career stood as a blend of duly recognized medical skill and
critical literary insight, holding always the confidence of his patients and
being widely esteemed for his bonhomie and intellectuality as a writer of
books worth reading.

Girard, Joseph (St. Gideon, Que.), son of Patrice Girard and Marie
Tremblay, his wife, both French-Canadians. Born at St. Urbain, County of
Charlevoix, Aug. 2, 1854. Educated at the Seminary of Quebec. Came to
Lake of St. John in 1880 as a settler, cleared his land and lived on it all the
time, and has been one of the most progressive and influential farmers of
the district. Was President of the Dairy Society of Quebec Province and
President of the School Commission. On April 5, 1875, Mr. Girard was

married to Emma Cote, daughter of Vitol and Ursule Cote, and is the father
of the following children: Meridee, Philippe, Tanevide and Marie Louise.
First elected to the Quebec Legislative Assembly for Lake St. John District
at the general elections of 1892 and re-elected in those of 1897. In 1900 he
was elected to the House of Commons at the general elections, for
Chicoutimi and Saguenay, which includes the local riding of Lake St. John;
he was re-elected for the House of Commons in the general elections of
1904, 1908 and 1911. Mr. Girard is a member of the following societies:
Dairy Society of Quebec, Agricultural Society of Lake St. John and
Farmers’ Club of St. Gideon; he is also a member of the Automobile Club
of Chicoutimi. In religion Mr. Girard is a Roman Catholic and in politics is
an Independent Conservative.

Dawson, Arthur Osborne (Montreal, Que.), was born at New
Borden, N.B., March 28, 1864, son of Richard Dawson and Mary Lockhart,
his father being a farmer and a grindstone manufacturer. Rev. G. F. Dawson,
M.A., St. John, N.B., and W. J. G. Dawson, M.D., Eldridge, Cal., U.S.A.,
are brothers, and Rev. James Henderson, D.D., pastor of the Timothy Eaton
Memorial Church, Toronto, is father-in-law of Mr. Dawson, who was
educated at Campbellton, N.B., and Montreal. Married, June 30, Mary A.
Le Rossignol, step-daughter of Rev. Dr. Henderson of Toronto, mentioned
above. Five children are the fruit of the union, viz., Ruth, Howard,
Katharine, Isabel and Olive. Mr. Dawson is a Methodist in religion, a
Conservative, a member of the Montreal Club and a Justice of the Peace for
the District of Montreal and connected with the following large business
enterprises, Vice-President and Managing Director Canadian Cottons,
Limited; President Belding, Paul, Corticelli, Limited; Vice-President D.
Morrice Co., Limited; President Inter-provincial British Company of
Canada, Limited, Toronto; Vice-President Gowland Optical Company,
Limited, Montreal. Recreations, fishing, tennis and boating.

Douglas, James (Hepworth, Ontario), son of James Douglas,
Roxborough, Scotland, and Isabella Dixon, Lauderdale, Scotland, was born
in the township of Brant, Bruce County, in August, 1858. Here he spent his
early days, receiving his education in the public schools. For a time he

followed farming as an occupation. However, he was inclined towards
mercantile pursuits and gave up the farm to become a general merchant at
Dobbington, in the township of Elderslie. The lumbering business attracted
his attention and he gave up the store for that occupation, which was
extensively carried on in those early days in Bruce. In 1902 he moved to the
village of Hepworth, where he became Vice-President of the Hepworth
Manufacturing Co., and also manager. Here he has resided ever since,
successfully conducting the business he is connected with. Beside this he is
interested in a number of other enterprises, being a director of the Canada
Beds Co., of Chesley, and a shareholder in the Vincent Steel Process Co., of
Detroit. He has always had a love for municipal life, and for eight years has
served the village of Hepworth as reeve in a most competent manner. As a
member of the County Council he has served on most of the prominent
committees, but the Educational Committee has always been his favorite.
Being a self-educated man, he strove hard for the vast fund of knowledge
he has acquired. This has made him a warm friend toward all branches of
education, and he is ever ready to forward its best interests. His ripe
business judgment has ever been recognized by his colleagues in the
County Council. He is a man of genial disposition and well liked by all. He
is a member of Burns Lodge, No. 436, A.F. & A.M., Hepworth. In religion
he is a Presbyterian, and in politics he is a Liberal. He was twice married,
his first wife being Francis Bradley, daughter of John Bradley, of Greenock
township.

Cross, Charles Wilson (Edmonton, Alta.), Attorney-General for the
Province of Alberta, was born in Madoc, Ont., November 30, 1872, the son
of the late Thomas and Marie Cross. He was educated at Upper Canada
College, Toronto University and Osgoode Hall, graduating in 1895 as B.A.,
and the following year as LL.B. He married Annie Louisa, daughter of
Frederick and Isabella Lynde, in 1900, by whom he has three children—
Thomas, Helen and Margaret. Becoming a barrister in 1898, he has since
practised his profession at Edmonton, and is a member of the firm of Short,
Cross, Maclean, Ap’John & Laidlaw; his present office as Attorney-General
of the province he has held since 1905, sitting as member for Edmonton and
Edson in the Legislature. While at college he was a famous lacrosse player
and is Vice-President of the Canadian Amateur Athletic Union for Alberta.

He was a member of the Ottawa and Quebec Interprovincial Conferences in
1906, is a Liberal in politics and a Presbyterian in religion.

HON. ARTHUR L. SIFTON
Ottawa

Pardee, Frederick Forsyth, K.C., M.P. (Sarnia, Ont.), son of the
late Hon. Timothy Blair Pardee and Emma K. Pardee, née Forsyth, was
born at Sarnia, Ontario, on December 29, 1867, and was educated at the

Sarnia School and at Upper Canada College. He subsequently entered the
study of Law and graduated at Osgoode Hall, being called to the Bar in
1890. He was created a King’s Counsel in 1908, and became head of the
law firm of Pardee, Burnham & Gurd. In his student days and in the earlier
years of his professional career he took a keen interest in various athletics
and was a cricket player of note. He married, on December 31, 1892, Mary
E. Johnston, daughter of Hugh Johnston, and to them was born one
daughter, Pauline L. Early in life Mr. Pardee began to interest himself in
public problems and public affairs, and in 1898, when but 31 years of age,
he was chosen as Liberal candidate for the provincial riding of West
Lambton, being elected to the Legislature of Ontario the same year. He sat
in the Provincial House until 1902, when he was defeated by Hon. W. J.
Hanna, who subsequently became Provincial Secretary in the first cabinet
of Sir James Whitney. In the Dominion by-election of November 22, 1905,
made necessary by the death of Dr. Johnston, the sitting member, Mr.
Pardee was chosen by the electors of West Lambton to represent them in the
Dominion House of Commons. He was re-elected at the general elections of
1908 and 1911. In November, 1909, on the nomination of Sir Wilfrid
Laurier, then Prime Minister of Canada, he was unanimously chosen as
Chief Government Whip, and still retains the important position of Chief
Liberal Whip to the present time (1917). In the Dominion Parliament, as
well as throughout the country, Mr. Pardee’s public work soon won him a
position of usefulness and responsibility. He is a forceful and effective
public speaker, and few public men are so universally popular and so highly
esteemed. During his parliamentary career he has presided over, and served
upon, many of the most important legislative committees of the House of
Commons and Senate. In 1910 he was chosen by Sir Wilfrid Laurier to
accompany him on his memorable tour through the Canadian West, making
the first visit with the then Prime Minister to the new Pacific port of Prince
Rupert. When, in 1911, the Administration of Sir Wilfrid Laurier was
defeated at the polls upon the issue of reciprocal trade in natural products
with the United States, and the Liberal party passed into Opposition, Mr.
Pardee continued as Chief Whip and had a large share in the arduous
parliamentary and organization work which ensued. Following the outbreak
of the great war it was he who defined in Parliament, amid hearty approval
from both sides of the House, the patriotic obligations which devolved upon
Government and Opposition. He devoted his time and energy, both in the

House and out of it, to patriotic endeavor, addressing recruiting rallies and
contributing to the various national efforts of service and sacrifice. He
moved in Parliament for the appointment of a special committee to consider
national steps to recompense and aid returning wounded and maimed
soldiers and was named by the House as a member of that committee. In
1918 he resigned the post of Liberal Whip and supported Sir Robert Borden
on the question of Conscription, but declined a portfolio in the Union
Government. In the general elections of that year he was again re-elected
for West Lambton by a handsome majority. Mr. Pardee is strongly
democratic in spirit, and during the parliamentary session of 1913-14, made
a vigorous plea to the House against the indiscriminate bestowal of titles in
Canada, and issued a warning against the danger of creating a pseudo-
aristocracy in this young Dominion. In religion he is an Anglican and is a
member of St. George’s Church, Sarnia.

Hinds, Leonard D’Arcy Bernard, Judgment Clerk of the Supreme
Court of Judicature for Ontario, born Oct. 19, 1868, at Barrie, Ontario.
Educated at Barrie Collegiate Institute, St. Michael’s College, Toronto, and
Osgoode Hall Law School, of Toronto. Past President of the Toronto
Liberal-Conservative Club. Secretary of the Toronto Branch of the United
Irish League. Appointed to present office by the Whitney Government in
1905. Son of the late Bernard Hinds of Barrie, a native of Omagh, County
of Tyrone, Ireland (whose father, Bernard Hinds, Irish “Aidhne,”
pronounced Aion, anglicized the name to Hinds, and settled with a large
family in Vespra Township, Simcoe County, in the year 1842), and Anna
Leonard, formerly a teacher in the French settlement public school at
Penetanguishene. Married Pauline Matson, the daughter of R. H. Matson,
founder of the National Life Insurance Co. of Canada. Holds commission as
Captain and Paymaster in the 110th Irish Regiment, Toronto, which
Regiment he was authorized to establish in 1914, by Sir Sam Hughes, then
Minister of Militia. Captain Hinds largely helped to establish the 208th
Canadian Irish Bn. C.E.F., in which he was also appointed Paymaster with
the rank of Captain. He was forced to withdraw from the 208th, on account
of an injury which he received at Camp Borden. He has one son, Paul I.
Bernard, who is on active service as an officer in the British Expeditionary
Force. Captain Hinds is an ardent student of Gaelic Literature, Language

and Art, and possesses one of the best Erse Libraries in Canada. He is a
Catholic in religion. Address: Osgoode Hall, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Clute, Arthur Roger (Toronto, Ont.), was born in Belleville, Ont.,
on August 24, 1874. He attended the Belleville Collegiate Institute, from
which he matriculated with honors in 1892, and thereupon entered the
University of Toronto, from which he graduated as Bachelor of Arts in
1896, with first-class honors, in the Department of Political Science and
History, having been awarded during his course one of the Alexander
Mackenzie Scholarships in that department. In 1901 he received from his
Alma Mater the Degree of LL.B. He was articled as a student at law to his
father, the Honorable Justice Clute, in 1896; and studied law at the Law
School at Osgoode Hall, Toronto, where he obtained first-class honors and
was awarded a scholarship in each year of his course, together with medal
upon his call to the Ontario Bar in June, 1899. Since that time Mr. Clute has
practised his profession in the city of Toronto, and has acted for several
years as examiner at the University of Toronto, and at the Law School, and
is now also a Lecturer at the University of Toronto. In politics he is a
Liberal.

Goodeve, Hon. Arthur Samuel (Ottawa), Dominion Railway
Commissioner, English and Canadian origin, son of Arthur Henry and
Caroline Goodeve, born at Guelph, Ont., Dec. 15, 1860, where he received
his education at the Public Schools and Collegiate Institute. A graduate of
the Ontario College of Pharmacy. Mayor of Rossland, B.C., 1889-1900.
Appointed Provincial Secretary in the first Conservative Government in
British Columbia, June, 1903, the McBride Administration; resigned
portfolio, returned for Kootenay District, in the House of Commons,
general elections 1908, appointed a member of Timber and Forestry
Commission, B.C., 1909-10, a Conservative Whip, House of Commons,
1910; resigned seat on being appointed a Dominion Railway Commissioner.
Married, April, 1884, Ellen Elizabeth Spence, daughter of James Spence,
Toronto; father of four boys and two girls. Member of following clubs:
Rideau, Ottawa, and Rossland, B.C.; and the Masonic order, Blue, Chapter
and Commandery. A Presbyterian in religion. Before accepting his present

office, Hon. Mr. Goodeve was recognized as a formidable campaigner and
painstaking representative.

Guilbault, Joseph Pierre Octave, B.A., LL.D. (Joliette), Notary,
was born Sept. 3, 1870, at St. Paul de Joliette, Province of Quebec, son of
Joseph Guilbault and Adelaide Renaud, French-Canadians; educated at
L’Assomption College, P.Q., and Laval University, Montreal. Married, Sept.
20, 1898, Clementine, daughter of Urgel Richard, of St. Jacques de
L’Achigan, has one son, Fernand, and one daughter, Germaine. For ten
years Secretary-Treasurer of Commissioners for Schools in Joliette, where
he practices his profession of a Notary. Elected to the House of Commons
for the constituency of Joliette in 1911. A Liberal-Conservative in politics.
Mr. Guilbault has not been defeated—sickness prevented him from being a
candidate in the election of 1917. In religion Mr. Guilbault is a Roman
Catholic.

Bronson, Henry Franklin (Ottawa, Ont.), the one man, it has been
said, who understood the feasibility of converting the large lakes and
furious foaming falls of the Ottawa River into a channel for the driving of
saw-logs, was born in the town of Moreau, Saratoga County, New York
State, on February 24, 1817. His parents were Alvah Bronson and Sarah
Tinker. Mr. Bronson is of mixed Scottish and Welsh descent, and the family,
which is now scattered through most of the Northern States, at an early
period settled in New England. Members of this enterprising and clever
family were the Hon. Greene C. Bronson, of the New York bench, and the
Rev. Asa Bronson, who was for many years pastor of the First Baptist
Church, at Fall River, Massachusetts. The first of the family to find his way
to Canada was the subject of our sketch, and shortly after he came here he
led off in the lumber business. H. F. Bronson spent his youthful days at
Queensbury, Warren County, New York, in the family of the late J. J. Harris,
and he concluded his education at the Poultney Academy, of Vermont.
“Young Bronson,” says a reliable authority, “became an apt scholar in
agricultural sciences, but soon showed a preference for woodland foraging,
pre-destined, as he was, to become a great marauder of pine forests.” In
1840, Mr. Harris, already alluded to, purchased extensive pine tracts,

erecting mills on one of the upper Hudson lakes. He formed a partnership
with his young and trusted friend, Mr. Bronson, “whose assets consisted of
a sound constitution, a resolute will, unbending integrity, skill with the
hand, and a mind to work.” The partnership continued for twenty-two years,
and during the last ten years of the association, the greater portion of the
business responsibility fell upon our subject, owing to the failure of Mr.
Harris’ health. It soon became plain that the pine was rapidly disappearing
from the upper Hudson; therefore, in 1848, Mr. Bronson passed over to
Canada, proceeding along the Ottawa Valley till the thunder of the
Chaudiere Falls burst upon his ears. At once he was satisfied that here was
an excellent place to begin lumber operations; for the timber seemed
inexhaustible, and the water power magnificent. He returned home, but in
1852 he persuaded Mr. Harris to accompany him to the Ottawa Valley.
When they reached again the region of kingly pines and booming
waterfalls, they were everywhere met with testimony from river experts,
saying that the Ottawa was not suitable for the safe driving of saw logs, but
Mr. Bronson recommended to his partner the purchase of hydraulic lots at
the Chaudiere Falls, then held by the Crown. At the sale of the lots, made
by Mr. Horace Merrill, general superintendent of the Ottawa River works, a
purchase was made, and here, under the personal supervision of Mr.
Bronson, their mills were built within sound of the thunder of the falls. The
mills having been erected, Mr. Bronson removed his family to Ottawa, and
there they were established permanently. The relation of Mr. Bronson to the
sawn lumber trade of the Dominion of Canada will be better understood
when it is learned that his was the first movement in the Ottawa District for
the manufacture of sawn lumber for the United States market. The original
mill embodied all the modern improvements of the times, including iron
gates of novel model, a contrivance planned by Mr. Bronson himself, and
afterwards used in most of the gang saw mills on the Ottawa River. Several
other gentlemen, stimulated by the enterprise and success of Mr. Bronson
and his partner, likewise set out for Ottawa; and, after a time, chiefly owing
to the persistency of Mr. Bronson, a series of costly river improvements
were constructed, which made the driving of logs upon the Ottawa a matter
of greater convenience than upon many a smaller stream, which has no
large lakes to act as a reservoir for checking the fury of the spring freshets.
In 1864, Mr. Harris retired from the business, Mr. Bronson still continuing
the extensive manufacture of sawn lumber, and owing to his splendid

abilities as a manager, his operations not alone maintained their ground, but
gradually increased. The present firm at Ottawa is known as The Bronson
Company. Mr. Bronson married, on November 5, 1840, Editha E. Pierce, of
Bolton, N.Y., and had four children. Gertrude, the only daughter, is the wife
of Levi Crannell. The sons are Erskine Henry, Frank P., and Walter G. The
family are members of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Bronson, like another
great prince of business men, Sir Hugh Allan, did not care for political life,
and held himself aloof from parties, but he was connected with several
benevolent institutions and business enterprises. In 1889, death called this
pioneer Canadian lumberman and high-principled citizen. His private and
social relations had won for him everywhere good will and highest regard.
Men had learned to esteem the man because of his tested and sterling worth.
In the commerce of Canada Mr. Bronson’s name will go down in history as
the first lumberman in the Ottawa Valley to manufacture sawn lumber for
the American market, and as a pioneer in the development of the resources
of that section of Canada to the point where its principal city was deemed
worthy of being named as the Capital City of the Dominion. Business
courage and keenness of perception were required to accomplish these ends,
but in more ways than one Mr. Bronson had shown himself to be a man of
practical vision and rare foresight. To men like the late Henry Franklin
Bronson, Canada and in particular the business life of the Capital, must ever
remain in debt.

Lemieux, Auguste, K.C., F.R.C.I., LL.B. Few barristers in Ottawa
are better known or more popular than the subject of this sketch, who
occupies offices at No. 30 Rideau Street. Mr. Lemieux was born in
Montreal, February 20, 1874. His father, H. A. Lemieux, was Inspector of
Customs for the Province of Quebec until 1911. Some of his elder brothers
are Hon. Rodolphe Lemieux, K.C., P.C., M.P., ex-Postmaster-General and
Minister of Marine and Fisheries in the Laurier Cabinet; Dr. L. J. Lemieux,
Sheriff of Montreal, and Chairman of the Board of Censors of the Province
of Quebec, and Dr. Gustave Lemieux, M.L.A., for Gaspé, P.Q. Mr. Auguste
Lemieux received his education at L’Assomption College and St. Mary’s
College (Jesuits), Montreal, graduated from Laval University with honors
and was conferred the degree of Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) in 1898. He was
called to the Quebec Bar in the same year and to the Ontario Bar four years

later. In 1908, at the early age of 34, he was created K.C., and practised,
successfully, his profession in Montreal from 1898 until 1902, when he
located in Ottawa, and has since established a wide and ever increasing
clientele in that city. His brilliant defence saved Laderoute from the gallows
in the Bryson murder trial of 1906, and Blondin (charged with murdering
Dr. Empey) at L’Orignal, in 1910. He was Councillor of the Ontario Bar
Association from 1910 to 1913; President of L’Institut Canadien Français,
of Ottawa, 1903 to 1905; President of La Société du Monument National,
Ottawa, 1909 to 1910; President of the Belcourt (Liberal) Club for several
years; Vice-President of the Ottawa Reform Association, 1904 to 1906;
President of Le Club Littéraire Canadien Français, Ottawa, 1911 to 1918.
He is a member of the Y.M.C.A., and also a member of the Ontario Club of
Toronto. Mr. Lemieux has been frequently mentioned as candidate for
Parliament. He is the author of the work on the Quebec Law of Landlord
and Tenant and writes frequently for the French and English Press. In April,
1914, the French Government, in recognition of Mr. Lemieux’s proficiency
in French literature, conferred on him the decoration of “Officier
d’Académie” (Academic Palms), through Monsieur Réné Viviani, then
Minister of Public Education of France. He was also elected, in 1913,
Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute of London, England, for life. Mr.
Lemieux is an eloquent platform speaker and has frequently rendered
services to his party. He married Esther Barbeau, daughter of the late Henry
Barbeau, General Manager of the City and District Savings Bank and
Assistant Receiver-General, Montreal, in October, 1899, and has one son
and two daughters. He resides at 16 Somerset Street West.

Lawlor, H. W. (Hawkesbury, Ont.), was born at Hawkesbury,
September 12, 1863, of Irish and American parentage. The son of Richard
Lawlor, of Hawkesbury, for many years Coroner of this district, and
grandson of William Lawlor, for over forty years manager for Hamilton
Bros., and Sarah Hersey, daughter of Z. S. M. Hersey, a New England
pioneer, who settled in Hawkesbury shortly after the British-American War
of 1812, and who at the time of his death was the town’s most prominent
citizen; he was educated in the Provincial Schools and graduated from
Osgoode Hall in law in 1890. In 1896, was appointed agent for the Justice
Department in his district, and has conducted some important litigation on

behalf of the Crown, the most prominent being the Exchequer Court Case
of Stewart vs. King, in which the late B. B. Osler made his last public
appearance. He has been Police Magistrate of Hawkesbury for over
eighteen years and has never had a conviction appealed or quashed. Has
been Local Solicitor for the Canadian Northern Railway since the date of its
construction; is Town Solicitor and also Solicitor for the several banking
institutions. Has never entered Municipal politics, but has sat on the Board
of Education; was first President of Hawkesbury Board of Trade. Is a
Presbyterian and a Liberal-Unionist.

McNeillie, James Richardson, Clerk and Treasurer, County of
Victoria, Lindsay, Ont., was born in the Parish of Johnstone, Dumfries-
shire, Scotland, July 18, 1846, and came to Canada with his parents, Rachel
Kerr and James Richardson McNeillie, public school teacher, in 1853, who
settled in the County of Durham, where he was educated in the Public
School. He spent eleven years, from 1861 to 1872, in the village of
Omemee, where he was associated in the drug business and in municipal
work with Mr. Thomas Matchett, who was the first member of the
Legislative Assembly for South Victoria after Confederation. From 1872 to
1875 he was engaged in the business department of the Montreal Telegraph
Company at Toronto, but returned to the County of Victoria on the
invitation of the Hon. S. C. Wood, to become his assistant in the office of
Clerk and Treasurer. When the latter became Provincial Secretary, Mr.
McNeillie retained the same position under Mr. Matchett from 1875, until
his own appointment as Clerk and Treasurer of the County, in 1900. When
the Ross Memorial Hospital was founded by the late James Ross, of
Montreal, in 1902, he was appointed a Governor under the Act of
Incorporation, and is Secretary-Treasurer of the Trust. He is also a member
of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, and was
Chairman of the Board of Education of the Town of Lindsay for nine years,
following on nineteen years’ service as member. Always taking an active
interest in movements for the betterment of the criminal and mentally
enfeebled classes of the Province, he was President of the Canadian
Conference of Charities and Correction for the year 1909. In politics he is a
Conservative, and in religion a Presbyterian. He married Esther (deceased),
daughter of William Thorton, of Emily, January, 1872; and Loretta,

daughter of Ralph Gardiner, of Morpeth, 1882. He has three sons, James
Kerr, Ralph Gardiner and George Gardiner, and one daughter, Alice
Gardiner. J. K. McNeillie has been successively, Divisional Superintendent
of the Canadian Pacific Ry., General Superintendent of the Canadian
Government Railways, and now Superintendent of the Susquehanna
Division of the Delaware and Hudson Railway. R. G. McNeillie is Assistant
General Passenger Agent of the Canadian Pacific Ry. at Winnipeg, Man.,
and G. G. McNeillie is a member of the Albert Kerr Company, Limited,
Toronto.

Chadwick, Edward Marion, K.C. (Toronto, Ont.), was born at
Cravendale, Township of Ancaster, Ont., Sept. 22, 1840, and is the third son
of the late John Craven Chadwick, Guelph, Ont. He received a thorough
scholastic training. The bend of his mind being in the direction of the law,
he pursued his studies therefor, and was called to the Bar and associated
himself with the late W. H. Beatty, and has been a partner in the firms
successively formed by him in which many prominent members of the legal
profession have been partners, during a period of more than fifty years, the
firms being recognized as among the most important engaged in their
profession in Ontario. While perhaps it is unnecessary to say anything here
as to Mr. Chadwick’s ability as an author, we cannot refrain from noting the
publication of a work entitled “Ontarian Families” (1894), being the
genealogies of United Empire Loyalist and other pioneer families of Upper
Canada; he has also been a writer for magazines on heraldic subjects, in
which he is reputed to be the leading authority on this side of the Atlantic.
Mr. Chadwick was for a number of years an officer in the Queen’s Own
Rifles, retiring in 1882, with the rank of Major. For the last forty years Mr.
Chadwick has been identified with church work, being an indefatigable
worker, and he at present holds the important office of Treasurer of St.
Alban’s Cathedral.

Hackett, Edward (Orangeville, Ont.), was born at Ballinasloe,
County Galway, Ireland, son of the late William and Mary Hackett. He was
educated at Ranelagh School, Athlone, and at Santry School, Dublin,
graduating from the Royal University in the Irish Capital in 1905, with the

degree of B.A., and is recognized as being one of the prominent
educationalists of the Province of Ontario. Mr. Hackett came to Canada in
1908, and before leaving Ireland, was Senior Mathematical Master in the
Blue Coat School, Dublin, an institution which was established by Charles
the Second. He attended the Faculty of Toronto University, and taught
mathematics in the Galt Collegiate Institute for the year 1909-10, also at
Meaford High School for four years (1911-15), and succeeded as principal
the late Alexander Steele, who had been the head of the Orangeville High
School for upwards of thirty years, the present staff consisting of five
teachers and the splendid standing and prestige of the school being
maintained under his principalship. In 1914, Principal Hackett married
Winnifred, the daughter of Dr. J. G. Clarke, of Meaford. He is a member of
the Canadian Club of Orangeville, and Chairman of the Public Library
Board, and is a member of the Masonic, Oddfellows and Orange Orders. He
is an adherent of the Church of England, and a Liberal-Conservative in
politics. Recognizing the usefulness of the Cadet movement he has taken
the course prescribed for instructors and the Orangeville High School
Cadets have attained much efficiency under his direction. Principal Hackett
is a man in the prime of life, well informed on all matters of national
importance, and gives generously of his time and talents in the promotion of
the best interests of the community, in which he occupies so important a
position. His chief recreation is motoring.

Hunter, Lt.-Col. A. T. (Toronto, Ont.), was born on the 25th of
October, 1869, and after having received a thorough primary and
elementary education at the public and high schools, he entered the Toronto
University where, in 1890, he had the distinction of having the degree of
LL.B. conferred upon him. He was duly admitted to the Bar in 1892 and at
once embarked in the active practice of his profession, in which, he has
been very successful. He maintains a handsome suite of offices at 706
Temple Building, Bay and Richmond Streets, where he enjoys a large and
lucrative practice, his services being constantly retained by some of the
leading firms and corporations of the city and province. Colonel Hunter is
prominently identified with the Masonic craft, and is an active and
influential member of the I.O.F., A.O.U.W., and a Past Master of L.O.L. No.
613. As an author Colonel Hunter is well known, and among the works

emanating from his pen may be named “Power of Sale Under Mortgage,”
“Foreclosure Under Mortgage,” and “Real Property Statutes.” The Colonel,
prior to this war, was courageous in pointing out in speeches and
contributions to the “Military Gazette,” absurdities in our military
organization. Colonel Hunter has devoted some time to politics and was
candidate for the riding of West Toronto in the Dominion House, of the
McCarthyites in 1896, and of the Liberals in 1904. In 1914, when war was
declared by Germany on England and her colonies, Colonel Hunter at once
responded to the call to duty, laid aside his business and other connections,
and went overseas with the 4th Battalion C.E.F. On April 23, 1915, he was
wounded in the battle of St. Julien, but returned to duty in time for the battle
of Festubert; after this he was placed on duty in England, and later returned
to Canada on leave of absence; while in Canada he acted as Brigade-Major
at Camp Borden in 1916. He again returned to England on active service,
and in February, 1917, was attached to the Princess Patricias on service in
France and was present with them at Vimy Ridge. He returned to Canada in
November of same year and has been gazetted Lt.-Colonel of the 12th Regt.
York Rangers.

Groves, Abraham, M.D. (Fergus, Ont.), was born in the town of
Peterboro’, on Sept. 8, 1847. He is a son of Abraham Groves, and Margaret,
daughter of Gideon Gibson, one of the early pioneers of Canada, who
served through the war of 1812-15, and fought at Lundy’s Lane. Mr. Groves
came to this country with his parents from the County of Wicklow, Ireland,
about 1826, and settled in the vicinity of Peterboro’. In 1856 Mr. Groves
removed to the County of Wellington, taking up his abode in the Township
of Garafraxa, where he pursued the occupation of farmer. During the
Mackenzie Rebellion Mr. Groves took part on the Loyalists’ side. The fruit
of the marriage was thirteen children, the subject of this sketch being the
second eldest of the family. He at first attended the common schools, but
afterwards entered the High School at Fergus. Some time after leaving
school he resolved to study medicine, and in 1868 entered the Toronto
School of Medicine, where he remained until 1871, graduating M.D. in the
same year, from the Toronto University. After graduation he at once went to
Fergus and entered into partnership with the late Dr. Munro, under the firm
name of Munro & Groves, which partnership existed two years. After

dissolution Dr. Groves practised by himself until 1874, when he took into
partnership Dr. John Wishart, now lecturer at the Western University, at
London, Ont., which partnership existed one year, Dr. Wishart then retiring.
However, again in 1879, he took into partnership Dr. Thomas Chisholm, the
association continuing for a year. In 1882 he again took another partner, Dr.
J. F. McMahon, now of Toronto, but this combination too dissolved in 1883,
and since that time Dr. Groves has singly conducted one of the largest
practices in Fergus. In 1869 he graduated from the old Toronto Military
School; in 1882 he was elected to the Village council of Fergus, and was re-
elected for the years of 1883 and 1884. He was elected reeve for 1885, but
owing to his position of surgeon of the county poor house, he could not
retain his seat. Dr. Groves is largely interested in real estate in the village,
owning some of the finest buildings there, among which structures may be
mentioned the Royal Bank building, constructed of brown stone. He is a
member of the Mercer Lodge, A.F. and A.M., No. 347; is surgeon and
member of the Oddfellows’ lodge No. 73, and has held all of the offices in
that order. He is also a member of the Royal Templars, and physician to
lodge No. 124. In 1878 Dr. Groves was appointed physician and surgeon to
the Grand Trunk Railway at Fergus, which position he still holds. In 1882
he was appointed physician and surgeon to the Wellington County House of
Industry, and this office he still likewise retains. In politics he has held aloof
from parties, though sincerely interested in the welfare of the country. He is
a member of the Church of England, and has been churchwarden for twelve
years of St. James’ Church, Fergus. He married in 1874, Jennie, daughter of
the late William Gibbon, of Elora, and by this lady has a family of two
children; she died in 1886. On January 29, 1910, he married Ethel May
Burke, only daughter of the late D. S. Burke, Esq., of Fergus. Dr. Groves
enjoys the repute of being a very skilful surgeon, and he was the first to
perform in Canada the operation technically known to the profession as
supra pubic lithotomy. In January, 1901, he established, in Fergus, the
Royal Alexandra Hospital, which has already become widely known
throughout Western Ontario. He also installed the Fergus and Elora Electric
Light Plant, since taken over by the Hydro-Electric. In 1911 he was
tendered by unanimous vote the Conservative nomination for the House of
Commons for the South Riding of the County of Wellington, but the
pressure of his professional work prevented his accepting.

Grange, Edward Wilkinson (Ottawa, Ont.), was born at Napanee,
July 4, 1876, a son of Alexander W. Grange and his wife, Annabella Daly;
educated at Napanee Collegiate Institute and Victoria University, taking an
Honor Course in Modern Languages at the latter institution, from which he
graduated with a degree of B.A., in 1899, upon which he took up journalism
as a profession and has since had a very extended experience, serving first
on “The Toronto News” for three years, afterwards on “The Mail and
Empire.” Was in charge of “The Globe’s” Ottawa Bureau and contributor to
editorial columns. During Mr. Grange’s University course he was editor of
the “Acta Victoriana,” in his final year; and President of Athletic Union and
first holder of the college “Athletic Stick”; was editor of Eastern Press
Service, serving all papers in the Maritime Provinces during Parliamentary
sessions, made Honorary Lieutenant in Canadian Expeditionary Forces and
had charge of daily press bulletin service to troops Overseas; has been
Ottawa correspondent of Toronto “Globe” since 1907, also of “The
Chronicle,” Halifax; “Telegraph,” St. John; “Standard,” London, Eng.
Secretary for three years of the Parliamentary Press Gallery and President,
1912-13. Resigned from “Globe” staff, November, 1918, to engage in
special work for government branches connected with re-construction
problems and also to look after private business interests. Mr. Grange is a
Liberal and was nominated in April, 1915, as Liberal candidate for the
House of Commons for the riding of Lennox and Addington. Ran as an
Independent-Liberal supporting Military Service Act in General Election of
1917. Belongs to the following clubs: Rideau Club, Rivermead Golf Club
and Rideau Aquatic Club, Ottawa. He married, in 1915, Marion McDougall,
a daughter of the late John Lorne McDougall, C.M.G., Auditor-General of
Canada, and has one son, Edward Alexander McDougall, born June 26,
1917.

Ferguson, Hon. William Nassau (Toronto, Ont.), Judge of the
Supreme Court of Ontario, Court of Appeals Division, was born in
Cookstown, Ont., in 1870, the son of Isaac and Emily (Gowan) Ferguson,
and received his education at Upper Canada College and Osgoode Hall,
graduating from the latter institution in 1894. He is a brother of Mrs. Arthur
Murphy of Edmonton—better known by her pen name of “Janey
Canuck”—and of Thomas R. Ferguson, K.C., of Toronto and Winnipeg. He

is also a nephew of the late Lieutenant-Colonel T. R. Ferguson, M.P. for
South Simcoe, and a grandson of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Ogle R.
Gowan, M.P. for Leeds and Grenville, who founded the Orange Order in
Canada; also a cousin of the late Hon. Justice Ferguson of the Supreme
Court of Ontario. The present Mr. Justice Ferguson became King’s Counsel
in 1908, was elected a Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada in
1916, and received his present appointment in the same year. He has always
been prominent in outdoor sports, having been captain of Upper Canada
College and Osgoode Hall Rugby teams, President of the Ontario Rugby
Union and a Director of both the Toronto Baseball and Lacrosse Clubs.
Judge Ferguson is a member of the following clubs: Albany, Toronto,
National, R.C.Y.C., Ontario Jockey and Toronto Hunt, and also of the
Masonic and Orange Orders. He is a Trustee of the Hospital for Sick
Children and a member of the Executive of the Toronto and York Patriotic
Fund, an Anglican in religion and a Conservative in politics. His recreations
are golf, fishing and motoring. “A lawyer in love with law and enamored of
common sense, the Ontario Judiciary will be strengthened by his ability and
vigor.”—Toronto “Telegram,” December 9, 1916.

Burpee, Lawrence Johnston (Ottawa, Ont.), the son of Lewis
Johnston Burpee and Alice DeMill Burpee, was born at Halifax, N.S.,
March 5, 1873, and educated at public and private schools. In 1899 he
married Maud Hanington, daughter of the late Rev. Canon Hanington, of
Ottawa, and has five children—Ruth, Lawrence, Margaret, Edward and
Arthur. He is Secretary of the International Joint Commission and has acted
as private secretary to three successive Ministers of Justice in the Dominion
Government, and for several years was Librarian of the Ottawa Public
Library; is the author of several publications, namely: “Canadian Life in
Town and Country” (1905); “The Search for the Western Sea” (1908);
“Flowers from a Canadian Garden” (1909); “Fragments of Haliburton”
(1909); “By Canadian Streams” (1909); “Songs of French Canada” (1909);
“A Little Book of Canadian Essays” (1909); “A Century of Canadian
Sonnets” (1910); “Canadian Eloquence” (1910); “Dictionary of Canadian
History” (1911); “Scouts of Empire” (1912); “Canadian Humor” (1911),
“Among the Canadian Alps” (1913); “Sandford Fleming, Empire Builder”
(1915); “Pathfinders of the Great Plains” (1915); “Soldier’s Dictionary”

(1916); and has in press at the present time, “Journals of La Vérendrye”
(Champlain Society), and “Fur Traders of the West” (Oxford Press). He has
also contributed to Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Americana,
Canada and its Provinces, Royal Society Transactions, British Association,
etc.; is a member of the Royal Society of Canada, Royal Geographical
Society, Société Archæologique de France, American Library Institute,
Ontario Historical Society, American Library Association, Champlain
Society, Nova Scotia Historical Society, Historical Society of the
Mississippi Valley, Bibliographical Society of America. He is a member of
the Church of England, Conservative in politics, and Captain in the
Governor-General’s Foot Guards, Ottawa, and the 2nd Depot Battalion,
E.O.R. Mr. Burpee is a member of the Royal Ottawa Golf Club, and also
takes a deep interest in chess.

Boyer, Louis (Westmount, P.Q.), the son of a merchant, L. Alphonse
Boyer, M.P., and Alphonsine Meilluer, and relation of Hon. Arthur Boyer
and Hon. George Simard; was born in Montreal, Que., January 23, 1872,
educated at the Normal School, Montreal College and McGill University;
graduated from Laval and McGill with the degrees of B.A., B.C.L., K.C.;
was formerly attorney for the city of Westmount and the town of
Cartierville. Is a member of the Roman Catholic Church, and on November
3, 1898, married Marie Sophie Alice Mathieu, the daughter of Aimé
Mathieu, of Montreal, her father being a merchant of that city. They have
ten children, Jeanne, Marthe, Claire, Simone, Marcelle, Pauline, Madeleine,
Thérèse, Lucienne and Cécile. Mr. Boyer is a member of the following
clubs: namely, University, Montreal Reform, Shawinigan Fish and Game
and the St. George Snow Shoe Club; is a Liberal in politics and is well
known as a prominent speaker and is in great demand at political
campaigns. He is a Director of the Franco-American Chemical Co., also of
the Canadian Inspections and Testing Laboratories, Ltd.

Edwards, John Wesley, B.A., M.D., C.M., M.P., son of George
Edwards of the County of Norfolk, England, and Elizabeth Jane Lyon, of
the County of Frontenac, Ont., the latter being of U.E. Loyalist stock and
among the first settlers in Frontenac. Born in the County of Frontenac May

25, 1865, and educated at the Sydenham High School, Ottawa, Normal
School and Queen’s University, Kingston; graduated from the latter in Arts
and Medicine in the year 1900. Married August 12, 1890, to Hester Jane
Purdy, daughter of Robert G. Purdy, and is the father of the following
children: Edna, John Worden, Sadie, Evelyn, and Elizabeth. Before
graduating in medicine the subject of this sketch taught school for several
years, and was County Clerk of Frontenac from 1899 to 1909, and Gaol
Surgeon of the County Gaol at Kingston from 1907 to 1909. First elected to
the House of Commons for Frontenac County in the general elections of
1908 by a majority of 421, re-elected at the general election of 1911 by a
majority of 851, and again returned in the war time election of 1917 by a
majority of nearly 2,000. Doctor Edwards is regarded as one of the best
informed and energetic of the Conservative members of the House of
Commons, and was selected as one of the Liberal-Conservative whips for
Ontario in the Session of 1911 and 1912. He is a member of the Executive
of the Canadian Order of Chosen Friends, and for the past three-and-a-half
years has been the Executive Head of that Order. He is a prominent
Orangeman, being Deputy Grand Master for Ontario East. In religion he is
a Methodist.

Beith, Hon. Robert (Bowmanville, Ont.), was born on May 17,
1843, of Scotch parentage, and is the son of Alexander Beith and Catharine
McTaggart, of Argyllshire, Scotland, who migrated to Bowmanville many
years ago. He was educated at the public and private schools of that town
and later took a commercial course at Day’s College, Toronto. After
receiving his education he started business life as a farmer, later becoming
one of the largest stock breeders in Ontario, and has imported much of the
finest breeding stock in the country during the past thirty-five years. As a
citizen and public man he is held in the highest esteem, and has received the
highest honors to be had from his home town and surrounding localities.
Having ambitions other than business, he drifted into public life, and
received the nomination as the Liberal candidate for the House of
Commons for West Durham in 1891 and was elected; was re-elected in
1896, and defeated in 1900. In the by-election of 1902 he was again elected,
and retained his seat up to 1904, when he voluntarily retired. West Durham
has been the scene of many hard fought political battles, and at times was

contested by men high up in the ranks of both political parties, brought in
from outside places, among whom were the late Hon. Edward Blake and
Mr. George Tate Blackstock, one of the most learned legal lights in Canada.
It has always been conceded that Robert Beith was the one man who could
win West Durham for the Liberal Party. On January 15, 1907, he was
summoned to the Senate by Sir Wilfrid Laurier, and is recognized as an able
Senator. He is a bachelor, and in religion a Presbyterian. On all occasions,
during the world-wide war, he was ready to help Canada do her share, and
contributed in many ways that will never be known to the public at large, in
helping the Motherland and her Allies to keep flying the flags that stand for
freedom against Prussianism.

Dymond, Allan Malcolm (Toronto, Ont.) was born at Brixton,
Surrey, England, September 25, 1864, came to Canada with his parents in
1869 and received his education at Upper Canada College. He studied law
in the office of Blake, Kerr, Boyd & Cassels, and subsequently with the
Hon. A. S. Hardy, and Henderson & Small, and was called to the Bar in
1885. He practised law in Toronto until 1889, when he entered the service
of the province as Law Secretary to the Attorney-General; was appointed
Law Clerk of the Legislative Assembly in 1890. In November, 1890, he
married Emma Stanton Mellish, Mus. Bac., eldest daughter of the late Rev.
H. F. Mellish, Rector of Caledonia, Haldimand County, Ontario. Was a
member of and acted as Secretary to the Commission for the Revision of
the Statutes in 1897, and the Commission (1906-1914) which prepared the
Revised Statutes of Ontario, 1914. Was appointed King’s Counsel by the
Ontario Government in 1902. He is a specialist in the construction of
Statutes and Parliamentary draughtsmanship, and has been concerned in the
preparation or revision of most of the important legislation of the province
since his appointment. Is a member of the Church of England—a liberal
High Churchman.

Coyne, James Henry, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S.C. (St. Thomas, Ont.),
was born at St. Thomas, Ont., October 3, 1849. James H. Coyne is the
second son of William and Christina Coyne, and was educated at the
common school in his native town, until he was eleven years old, when he

passed into the Grammar School, then under the charge of the late Mr.
(Rev.) Nelson Burns, M.A. At fourteen years of age, he matriculated in the
University of Toronto, carrying off the first general proficiency scholarship,
and first-class honors in classics, mathematics, French, etc. Owing to his
extreme youth, he did not enter University College until 1867. He devoted
himself chiefly to classics and modern languages, and, after gaining
numerous scholarships and prizes at the University and college during his
undergraduate course, graduated in 1870, carrying off the Prince of Wales’
prize for general proficiency, the gold medal in moderns, a silver medal in
classics, the French essay prize, and first-class honors in history and
ethnology. In 1884 he was elected by his fellow-graduates a member of the
Senate of the University, a position he still holds. After graduating, the
subject of this sketch entered the law office of the late Colin Macdougall,
Q.C., at St. Thomas; interrupted his law studies for a year to take charge of
the Cornwall High School, where he was headmaster during the year 1871;
returned then to Mr. Macdougall’s office for a year, and then removed to
Toronto, where he served for two years in the office of Bethune & Hoyles.
He was admitted to the bar in Michaelmas term, 1874, passing first without
an oral, both as barrister and as attorney; and at once entered into
partnership with his former principal, Mr. Macdougall, at St. Thomas. The
law firm of Macdougall & Coyne existed until 1880, when it was dissolved.
Shortly afterwards, Mr. Coyne entered into partnership with J. Mann, under
the firm name of Coyne & Mann. The partnership continued until Mr.
Coyne’s appointment in Dec., 1888, as Registrar for the County of Elgin.
During the Fenian excitement of 1866, Mr. Coyne joined the St. Thomas
Rifles, and served during three campaigns in that year: First at London,
during March, when some thousands of regulars and volunteers were
brigaded there; then at Port Stanley and Sarnia, in June; and finally in camp
at Thorold in August, where he acted as quartermaster-sergeant to the
Provisional Battalion of volunteers, who were then brigaded with regulars
and other volunteers under Wolseley. He holds the Fenian Raid medal. The
following year he joined the famous University company of the Queen’s
Own Rifles, of which he remained a member until his graduation, with the
degree of B.A., June, 1870. He received the degree of M.A. (with honors)
Toronto University, 1905, and the degree of LL.D. (honorary) from Queen’s
University, Kingston, 1909. He was a member of the great Reform
Convention, at Toronto, in 1883, and was selected to speak to one of the

resolutions passed by the convention. He also attended the Young Liberal
Convention of 1885, as a delegate. In 1876, owing to a serious illness, he
was obliged to give up work for a year and a half. Eleven months of this
vacation were devoted to a visit to Europe, including England, Scotland,
Ireland, Belgium, the Rhine, Switzerland, France and Italy. On Nov. 21,
1877, Mr. Coyne married Matilda, third daughter of the late John George
Bowes, for several years Mayor, and M.P.P. for the city of Toronto, and is
the father of four sons and two daughters, viz., James Bowes, Annie
Christine Elliott, John George Bowes, Margaret Adelaide, Henry Everyll
Bowes, and William Gordon Bowes. A member of the following clubs and
societies, viz.: Golf and Country Club, St. Thomas, President Elgin
Historical and Scientific Institute, which he organized in 1891; President
The Veterans’ Association, St. Thomas; The University of Toronto Alumni
Association of the County of Elgin; Honorary President The St. Thomas
Philharmonic Society; Vice-President and Ex-officio Councillor The
Ontario Historical Society; Member of the Council of the Champlain
Society since organization, member of the executive Committee of the
Board of Management of Alma College, St. Thomas; member of the
American Historical Association, and of the National Geographic Society,
member of the Société du Parler Français du Canada, member Methodist
Historical Society; Canadian Folk-lore Society, St. Thomas Horticultural
Society, Corresponding member Buffalo Historical Society, member
Canadian Defence League and the Canadian National Peace Committee;
also of Committee of Memorial to Heroes of 1812-14 Association;
Chairman of the Soldiers’ Aid Commission and member of Council of
Serbian Committee for the County of Elgin and City of St. Thomas. Has
held the following offices besides those mentioned above: Member of
Executive Committee of the University of Toronto; President of The
Children’s Aid Society of the County of Elgin on its organization; President
(1882) of the East Elgin Reform Association; President (1883) of St.
Andrew’s Society; President (1905-8) of the Handel Society; President
(1909-10) of the St. Thomas Operatic Society; Chairman for many years of
the Executive Committee of Board of Management Alma College. He was
one of the first vice-presidents of the University of Toronto Alumni
Association (general organization) and first honorary president of the St.
Thomas Liberal Club. In 1886 he contested West Elgin at the Provincial
general elections, but was defeated by A. B. Ingram, by 43 votes. In 1888,

appointed by the government of Sir Oliver Mowat, Registrar of Elgin, and
in 1892, at the request of the County Council, Local Master of Titles for the
County of Elgin and the city of St. Thomas, on the introduction of the
Torrens System of land registration. In 1897 was elected President of the
Pioneer and Historical Association of the Province of Ontario, founded by
the late Rev. Dr. Henry Scadding, and at once proceeded to organize it upon
a wider basis of membership and with a much wider scope, under the name
of The Ontario Historical Society (incorporated in 1899 by special Act of
the Ontario Legislature). The presidency of the new society was held by
him until 1902, when he was succeeded by the late C. C. James. Under the
auspices of the Society was held, in 1899, the great Historical Exhibition at
Victoria College, Toronto. In 1906 was elected a Fellow of the Royal
Society of Canada. He was President of Section II (English Literature and
History) in 1910-1911. In 1892 was member of Central Committee for the
celebration of the Centennial of Upper Canada. Dr. Coyne is a gentleman of
indefatigable energy, ripe scholarship, and possessed of a fine style and his
literary investigations have been of great public value. Notwithstanding
large professional duties, he has delivered many notable addresses and is
the author of several interesting publications, among which may be
mentioned, “The Southwold Earthwork and The Country of the Neutrals”
(1893); “The Country of the Neutrals from Champlain to Talbot” (1895);
“Presidential Addresses to The Ontario Historical Society” (1898-1902);
“First Steps in the Discovery and Exploration of Ontario” (1899); “A
Century of Achievement” (1899) reprinted with some changes and additions
in Methodist Magazine (1901); “Exploration of the Great Lakes (1669-
1670), by Dollier de Casson and de Bréhant de Galinée, Galinée’s narrative
and map with an English version, including all the map legends” (1903);
“Richard Maurice Bucke,” a sketch (1906); “The Talbot Papers with
Preface, Introduction and Annotations” (1909); “Pathfinders, of the Great
Lakes” (1912); “The Indian Occupation of Southern Ontario” (1916). In
religion Dr. Coyne is a Methodist, and finds recreation in golf.

Breithaupt, Louis J. (Kitchener, Ont.), Leather Manufacturer, is
President of the Breithaupt Leather Company, Limited, with tanneries at
Kitchener, Penetanguishene and Woodstock, and Secretary of the Hastings
Tanning Company, Limited, Hastings, Ont. For years Mr. Breithaupt was a

member of the Berlin—now Kitchener—City Council as Councillor,
Deputy Reeve, Reeve and Mayor, which last office he held for two years.
He was also a member of the Waterloo County Council; Warden of the
County in 1898, and a member of the Provincial Legislature of Ontario
from 1900 to 1902. His fellow-citizens, in fact, have honored this
representative Canadian with practically every office in their gift, he having
also been Chairman of the Schools and Park Boards, and at various times
President of what was then the Berlin Board of Trade. He has taken an
active interest in the work of the local Canadian Patriotic Fund, of which he
was Vice-President for two and a half years, and afterward became
President. Mr. Breithaupt was on the first board of the Kitchener-Waterloo
Hospital and has been a Director of the Economical Fire Insurance
Company of Kitchener for many years, and also a Director and member of
the Executive Board of the Mutual Life Assurance Company of Canada,
whose head office is at Waterloo, Ont. Louis Breithaupt is the eldest son of
Louis and Catharine (Hailer) Breithaupt, his grandfather having come to
Waterloo County in 1831, where he was one of the earliest manufacturers
and built the fifth or sixth house in the embryo city of Berlin. At the time of
his demise in 1880, after an active life, Mr. Louis Breithaupt, Senior, was its
Mayor. The subject of this sketch was born at Buffalo, N.Y., March 3, 1855,
and was educated in the Public and Grammar Schools of Berlin (now
Kitchener), and in Toronto. He married Emma Alvarene, second daughter of
the late Benjamin Devitt, J.P., ex-Mayor of Waterloo, by whom he has eight
children, Louise Evelyn, Emma Lilian, Martha Edna, Rose Melvina, Louis
Orville, William Walter, Catharine Olive and Paul Theodore. Among his
clubs are the Grand River, Country and Golf, and Kitchener Clubs, of
Kitchener, and the Ontario, of Toronto. He is a member of the Evangelical
Association in religion, and an Independent Liberal in politics.

Best, John (Shelburne, Ont.), was born in Australia in 1861, of Irish
parentage. His father, John Best, was a farmer, and his mother was
Elizabeth Rolland. The subject of this sketch received his education in the
public school at Whitfield, in the County of Dufferin, and for many years
has been prominent in the municipal life of his township and county. For 14
years he was a member of the County Council, and for 7 years President of
The Dufferin Fire Insurance Company. In 1909 he was selected as successor

to the late Dr. L. John Barr, M.P., as the Liberal-Conservative candidate for
Dufferin in the House of Commons, being returned by acclamation in 1911.
He was again elected on the Reciprocity issue by the large majority of
1,459. Elected in 1917 by over 2,600 majority. Mr. Best has proven a most
capable and efficient representative, being thoroughly well versed in all the
problems which especially concern his constituents. A practical farmer, he
takes a lively interest in everything tending to promote the advancement of
the basic interest industry of agriculture. Realizing the importance and
advantage of the governmental scheme of Rural Mail Delivery, and its
necessity and benefit, he advocated its extension and development in his
own riding, where it has now reached the highest degree of efficiency and
service. He is also a liberal supporter of Agricultural Societies. Mr. Best is
well informed on all matters of National importance, and is a ready and
effective speaker. The inclination and ability for public service is a family
characteristic, for two of Mr. Best’s cousins are in the Imperial Parliament,
Mr. James Best, M.P., and Mr. Thomas Best, M.P., who represents an Irish
constituency. In 1887 Mr. Best married Charlotte, only daughter of Mr.
Thomas Thompson, of Thornbury, and has one son John Chester. The
member for Dufferin is prominent in the Orange Order, being Past County
Master. In religion he is a member of the Church of England. Recreations:
Motoring and fishing.

Bowell, Sir Mackenzie (Belleville, Ont.). A name universally known
in Canada is that of the late Hon. Sir Mackenzie Bowell, K.C.M.G., ex-
Premier of the Dominion and ex-Leader of the Conservative Party in the
Senate. He was born on December 27th, 1823, at Rickinghall, Suffolk,
England, the son of the late John Bowell, a carpenter and builder. He came
to Canada with his parents, ten years later, the family locating at Belleville,
Ont., then Upper Canada, which has ever since remained his home, and
where he was shortly afterwards apprenticed to learn the trade of a printer
in the office of the Belleville “Intelligencer,” a newspaper of which in after
years he became editor and proprietor. As a young man, Sir Mackenzie
became prominent in public affairs. He became an Ensign in the Belleville
Rifle Company, which he assisted in organizing in 1857, and was one of the
corps of observation on service in Western Ontario during the American
Civil War. During the Fenian Raids of 1866 he was on service at Prescott.

In 1874 he retired from the service with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel of
the 49th Battalion. He also became prominent in the Orange Order and rose
to the position of Grand Master and Sovereign of the Order for British
North America and President of the Tri-annual Council of the Orangemen
of the World. He also took an interest in educational matters and served as
Chairman of the Public and Grammar School Boards, as Vice-President of
the Agricultural and Arts Association of Ontario, and as President of the
Ontario Press Association. A Conservative by conviction, he was a
candidate in North Hastings for the Canadian Assembly, in 1863. He was
defeated. In 1867, he was elected to the House of Commons for the same
constituency and held the seat continuously for twenty-five years, until his
elevation to the Senate in 1892. He was a member of the select committee
of Parliament to inquire into the troubles in the North-West Territories in
1869-70. When the rebel leader, Louis Riel, was elected to the House of
Commons, shortly afterwards, the subject of this sketch moved his
expulsion as a traitor to the Crown. After the Conservative victory of 1878,
he entered Sir John A. Macdonald’s Cabinet as Minister of Customs, and
held that portfolio for thirteen years. In that capacity it devolved upon him
to carry out the new tariff system known as the National Policy. On the
death of Sir John A. Macdonald, he became Minister of Militia in Sir John
Abbott’s Cabinet, and on the demise of the latter, Minister of Trade and
Commerce in Sir John Thompson’s Ministry. After the latter’s tragic death
at Windsor Castle, England, he was called on in December, 1894, to form a
Cabinet, which he succeeded in doing, taking the portfolio of President of
the Council, and on January 1, 1895, was made Knight Commander of the
Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George. When the
Manitoba School question arose, he was a strong advocate of justice to the
minority, and after some differences with his colleagues, he resigned the
Premiership on April 27, 1896. He was succeeded by Sir Charles Tupper,
who paid him the compliment of adopting his policy. In 1893, during his
incumbency as Minister of Trade and Commerce, he went to Australia to
promote inter-Imperial trade and the laying of an all-British Pacific cable
between Canada and that continent. Early in 1896 he went to England to
urge forward the Canadian-Australia or “all-red” cable, now an
accomplished fact, and sat in the third congress on the subject which met in
London, England. In 1896 he resumed the active control of the “Belleville
Intelligencer,” which he had relinquished when he entered Sir John A.

Macdonald’s Cabinet in 1878. In Belleville he was regarded as the “grand
old man,” and no Canadian boasted a wider circle of friends in the country
at large. The amiability of his nature, his large intellectual capacity and his
ability as a public speaker, marked him for distinction. In religion he was a
Methodist, and was married in December, 1847, to Harriet Louisa, eldest
daughter of the late Jacob G. Moore, of Belleville. His helpmate died in
1884, and he followed her to the grave in 1918. Of nine children born to
them, five survive.

Langley, James P. (Toronto), was born in the Provincial Capital on
June 15, 1864, and educated in Toronto, graduating from the Model School
in 1877. Son of Aylmer Langley and Alice (Thornber), his father being a
native of Ireland and his mother born in New York State. The subject of this
sketch early developed a marked ability as an expert accountant and was
one of the early members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of
Ontario, an institution which has done much to stimulate the study of higher
accounting and to keep pace with the commercial and municipal necessities
of the day, and is a Fellow of the Institute so founded. Mr. Langley is
recognized as a man with a large and intimate knowledge of industrial and
financial enterprises, and his services are in constant requisition by such
institutions throughout the Dominion. He is retained annually as the auditor
of many leading business concerns, and is trustee of large estates, his
extended experience making his advice particularly dependable. Mr.
Langley married Carrie, daughter of Nathan Brower, of New Jersey, U.S.,
and has one son, Clarence Aylmer. He is a member of the Masonic order
and of the Granite and Albany Clubs, Toronto. He is also a Justice of the
Peace; a member of the Church of England. Politically he is a Liberal-
Conservative. Recreations, motoring and golf. Mr. Langley is one of the
best known business men in the province and enjoys the confidence of the
mercantile community in a marked degree.

Chamberlain, Theodore F., M.D., only son of Asher A. and Eliza
Ann Chamberlain. Born at Harlem, County of South Leeds, Ontario, July 6,
1838. His family came from Birmingham, England, and were in politics,
Cobdenites. The family crest bears the motto “Sapiens et Fidus.” His father

was born in Vermont, U.S., Feb. 12, 1810, and came to Upper Canada in
1815, locating in the County of South Leeds. After attending school at
Potsdam, N.Y., he entered the Medical College at Fairfield, N.Y., after
which he returned to Harlem, South Leeds, and began the practice of
medicine, which profession he followed with more than common success,
until his death at Athens, on February 20, 1883. He was Past Master of
Harmony Masonic Lodge, Leeds, one of the oldest, if not the oldest,
Masonic lodge in Upper Canada. He was Major in the Eighth Battalion,
Leeds Militia, was a staunch temperance man, a member of the Methodist
Church, and always took an active part in politics, from the troublous times
of the Rebellion of 1836-7 down to the time of his death. At the time of the
Beverly Election Riots in South Leeds, he nearly lost his life at the hands of
the Tory Party under the leadership of Ogle R. Gowan’s Orangemen. He
was one of the deputation from Upper Canada who went to the rescue of
Lord Elgin at the time of the burning of the Parliament Buildings in
Montreal in 1849. His connection with the Masonic lodge has already been
noticed; this lodge he resuscitated at Farmersville, in 1859, under the name
of “Rising Sun Lodge,” and was for several years its Master; was a Justice
of the Peace, Postmaster at Harlem, and held other positions of trust. Dr.
Chamberlain’s mother was Eliza Ann Toffey, and was born at Quaker Hill,
N.Y., Oct. 15, 1803, and died at Athens, formerly Farmersville, on March
20, 1894. The grandparents on both sides lived to very advanced years. The
doctor has one sister, born at Harlem, August 2, 1836, and now living
(1913) in Toronto. She is the widow of the late J. C. Miller, ex-M.P.P. for
Parry Sound and Muskoka District, and owner of the Parry Sound Lumber
Co. The early education of the subject of this sketch was gained from
parental instruction at night around the old home fireside, and at the
Township School. He attended the Grammar School at Perth for some
months in 1851, and then served some two years as clerk in the general
mercantile establishment of Henry Laishley, at Elgin, where he gained the
business training and experience that stood him so well in later life. In 1851
he served as Lieutenant, under Capt. Wm. J. Smith, and Col. Young, in the
8th Battalion of Leeds Militia. Later he took up the study of dentistry in the
office of F. D. Laughlin, Ottawa. After practising his profession for some
time, he went, in the fall of 1857, to New York City, but later, yielding to
solicitations of his father, he returned to his home in Athens, to take up
medicine. He matriculated at Queen’s College, Kingston, in 1859, and

passed the final examination in March, 1862, receiving the degree of Doctor
of Medicine and Surgery, and his license to practice in Canada, from the
hands of Governor-General Monk. On the 13th of April following, Dr.
Chamberlain located at Morrisburg, County of Dundas, on the St. Lawrence
River, and during the succeeding years built up a large and lucrative
practice. In 1859 he was requested by the government of Sir Oliver Mowat
to take the Inspectorship of Public Institutions of Ontario. The history of the
doctor during these years is the history of a busy life. Besides following his
profession, he served as Reeve of his municipality, member of the Counties’
Council, and Warden of the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and
Glengarry, Justice of the Peace, Health Officer, member of the High and
Public Board of Education, Director of the Agricultural Association, and
Director of the Parry Sound Lumber Company. Inspector of schools for
County of Dundas. At the time of the Fenian Raid, he was member of a
strong company of volunteers under Captain I. N. Rose, Superintendent of
the Williamsburg Canals, and with other members of the company was out
night and day on guard at the locks, and in the village, as an attack was
daily expected to be made by General O’Neal. On the 1st of July, the
General with 1,600 men appeared on the bank of the river opposite
Morrisburg. The Government of Sir John A. Macdonald, realizing the
seriousness of the situation, and desirous of keeping informed of O’Neal’s
movements, appointed a man to keep in touch with O’Neal’s forces, but this
man failing to accept, Dr. Chamberlain, a strong personal, but not a
political, friend of Sir John’s, was detailed for this duty. He accepted the
appointment, and taking his horses and buggy, and accompanied by a young
man named Leslie Weaver, set out to follow the Fenian force, and to report
as fully as possible their movements and designs. Crossing the river to
Waddington, N.Y., on Capt. Murphy’s Ferry, on July 9, he found that the
Fenians had moved, and he followed them to Malone, about 50 miles
distant, over-taking them about dark. Staying over night and having
obtained all information possible, he left the next morning for Plattsburgh,
which place he made that evening. After a wearisome and anxious night, he
left Plattsburgh for Whitehall, at the foot of Lake Champlain, arriving there
the next morning, and at Saratoga in the evening. He continued the journey
to Troy and Albany, and returned thence to Ogdensburg, Prescott, and home
to Morrisburg. The result of this close espionage, and prompt reports by the
scouts, and the careful guarding of the river, was that the invaders were

compelled to abandon their design of crossing the river, and to turn their
faces to the west. The doctor’s services on this occasion were most effective
and valuable, yet he never applied for nor received land grant, or medal, nor
refund of his expenditure. In 1879, the doctor, as Warden, was appointed by
the Counties’ Council, then in session, to go as their representative to the
eastern boundary of the province, to meet their Excellencies, the Governor-
General, the Marquis of Lorne, and the Princess Louise, and welcome them
to Ontario. Later in the year he presented to their Excellencies at
Government House, Ottawa, an address on behalf of the inhabitants of the
United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry. The doctor has always
been an ardent politician, an indefatigable worker, and a vigorous but
generous opponent. He was the candidate of the Reform Party for the
Legislative Assembly for the county in 1879, and was defeated by 81 votes.
In 1882, he was again the party candidate, this time for the House of
Commons, and again defeated by 79 votes. Nothing discouraged, he again
came before the Electors, in 1886, for the Assembly, and was elected by 25
majority. He was defeated next election by 28 votes, and again in 1904, was
defeated for the Commons. In conjunction with his brother-in-law, Mr. W.
G. Parish, of Athens, he established in the seventies, the first three cheese
factories in Eastern Ontario. He carried on an extensive drug business in
Morrisburg, from 1886 to 1873, when he sold it to Messrs. Carman and
Brown. In 1871, he received the degree of L.R.C.P.S. from Queen’s
College, Kingston, as well as that of F.B.S. During his practice in
Morrisburg he had as students, Messrs. Hart, McLean, Howes, Musgrove,
Lane, Shibbley, Beckstead and McKay, all of whom became successful
practitioners. He was always a strong advocate of temperance, and a
member of the Methodist Church. He became a member, under dispensation
of the Grand Master, of Rising Sun Masonic Lodge, Athens, in 1857, and
joined Excelsior Lodge, Morrisburg, No. 142, G.R.C., in 1862, and is yet an
honorary life member, having filled every office in the gift of the lodge, and
having received various decorations and gold medals. In 1867 he became a
member of the Grenville Royal Arch Chapter, No. 23, at Prescott. In 1869-
70 he was elected by the Grand Lodge, District-Deputy Grand Master for
St. Lawrence District. In 1885 he received the 95 degrees in the Supreme
Rite of Memphis, known as the Sovereign Sanctuary Degrees. In 1873 the
doctor explored the country east and north of Lake Superior to the height of
land, examining for timber and minerals. In 1878 he explored the country

along the shores of Georgian Bay, the “Soo,” and to the head of Lake
Nipissing. In 1883 he visited part of the southern, middle and western
States, including California, Colorado, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico and
Mexico. In 1889, leaving Montreal, he travelled through the North-Western
Territories, and Victoria, Vancouver, Puget Sound, and Washington
Territory. From 1889 to 1904, he acted as one of the Provincial Inspectors
of Asylums, Prisons, Gaols and Hospitals, serving in that capacity until
1904, when he resigned, owing to ill health. In 1906 he was appointed by
the Dominion Government, under the Public Health Department, Inspector
of all the doctors employed on Public Works, from the Red River to the
Pacific Ocean. In pursuance of the duties of this position, he had to travel
distances of from 1,000 to 1,500 miles at a trip, ford rivers, make his own
trail over prairies, sleep in a tent wherever night overtook him, in that great
lone land. In the winter of 1907, he sent in his resignation, and in the spring
of 1908, inspected and estimated the timber on the Dokis Indian Reserve,
Lake Nipissing. The pine timber on this Reserve was sold by the
Government at Ottawa in June, and the doctor bought one of the limits, and
in the fall had buildings, appliances, and materials complete for lumbering
operations. During the winter he took out, and in the spring sent, 2,300
pieces of board timber, for the English market, by way of Lake Nipissing to
Callender, thence by rail to Kingston, and rafting it thence to Quebec. He
closed up this deal, and in 1910 went to California, visiting by the way, the
principal cities in the West. During the past 30 years, he has bought and
sold large quantities of pine timber in Ontario, and prospected for and
located mines in the Rainy River and Lake-of-the-Woods Districts, and
explored almost every part of Northern Ontario mining and timber lands.
Dr. Chamberlain married, in 1862, Annetta, third daughter of Arza Parish,
Esq., merchant, Athens. He has one son, W. P., born at Morrisburg on May
19, 1863, and one daughter, also born at Morrisburg, March 8, 1871. The
Dr. and Mrs. Chamberlain celebrated their golden wedding on July 3, 1912.
They had resided in Toronto since 1890, but the lure of his profession
became too strong, and so the doctor has improved and embellished his
beautiful residence in Morrisburg, fitted it up with all the latest devices and
scientific appliances, and is conducting most successfully a Sanatorium for
the relief and cure of suffering humanity.

Chapleau, Major Samuel Edmour St. Onge, ex-clerk of the
Senate, clerk of the Parliaments and master in chancery, was born at
Syracuse, New York, in 1839. He is the second son of the late Pierre
Chapleau, of Terrebonne, Quebec, and was educated at Terrebonne College.
In 1860 he went to the United States, and at the outbreak of the Civil War,
in 1861, entered the regular army of that country and received in
succession, promotion to the ranks of second lieutenant, first lieutenant and
Captain of the 16th Regiment of Infantry. He also received the rank of
brevet-Captain for gallant and meritorious service at the battle of
Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and that of Major for gallant service during the
Atlanta campaign and at the battle of Jonesboro, Georgia. He was at the
battle of Shiloh, at the Siege of Corinth, and at the battles of Chickamauga
and Chattanooga. He was sent to Memphis in 1866 during the riots in that
city, and in 1868 was in command of the troops at Augusta, Georgia, during
the riots which took place between the whites and the colored people on the
occasion of the first election of President Grant. He retired from the United
States Army, January 1, 1871, and September 15, 1873, entered the Civil
Service of Canada. He successively held the appointments of Secretary
Department of Public Works, Sheriff of the North-West Territories, and
Clerk of the Crown in Chancery. On January 27, 1900, he was appointed
Clerk of the Senate and held that position until he retired, in the early part
of 1917. In view of his long and faithful service in the Senate, Major
Chapleau was appointed an honorary officer of that house and is allowed
entree and seat at the table on the occasions of ceremony. He married
Caroline K., third daughter of the late Lieut.-Col. G. W. Patten, of the
United States Army. Major Chapleau declined the honor of C.M.G.
tendered to him in 1914.

Aikenhead, Thomas E. (Toronto, Ont.), was born at Toronto,
September 14, 1859, and received his education in that city. In 1873 he
entered his business career with his father’s firm, which was originally
established in the year 1830, and conducted for many years by his late
father, Mr. James Aikenhead and Mr. A. T. Crombie, under the name of
Aikenhead & Crombie. To-day this firm has some 100 employees, and the
subject of this sketch is President and General Manager, under the firm
name of Aikenhead Hardware, Limited, with extensive premises on

Temperance Street. During the earlier days of Canada there were but few
hardware houses of such importance, and Mr. Aikenhead set to work to
build up a business to suit the rapid development of the country and has to-
day made a reputation for himself as a leader in his own particular branch.
Besides his business connections he is an ardent worker in church circles
and a regular attendant of the Timothy Eaton Memorial Church. He is a
member of the Ontario Club, Toronto Bowling Club, Board of Trade and
the Ontario Motor League, taking an active interest in the good roads
campaign of 1910. He is also a director of the Tisdale Iron Stable Fittings
Co. In looking over the extensive buildings erected in Toronto, one can only
imagine the important part Mr. Aikenhead has played from a business
standpoint, and he can truly be classed as one of the builders of Canada.

MacDonald, Neil S., B.A., D.Paed. (Toronto, Ont.), Public School
Inspector, is the son of the late John F. MacDonald and Mrs. MacDonald,
formerly of Darlington, now of Toronto. Born in Bowmanville, Durham
County, Ont., on January 28, 1872, he received his early education in
Clarke Union Public School and Bowmanville High School. At the end of
six months in the latter school, he obtained a Third Class Teacher’s
Certificate, and at the next Departmental Examination he obtained a Second
Class Certificate and spent several years teaching in the rural schools of the
Townships of Cartwright, Darlington and Hope. Feeling that he had learned
all he could in these schools, he returned to Bowmanville High School to
prepare for honor matriculation into Toronto University, and at his
matriculation made a splendid record, receiving honors in Mathematics,
Science, English, History and Geography. He did not enter the University,
however, but took a year’s course in practical teaching in the Ontario
Normal College at Hamilton, after which he was engaged as Principal in
Richmond Hill Public School, where he stayed for one year, going from
there to Toronto to accept the office of Vice-Principal of Ryerson School,
which he held for six years, receiving while there training in the method of
city schools under Principal McAllister. Then he was promoted to the
Principalship of Duke Street Public School and after three years there was
once more promoted, to be Principal of Cottingham Street Public School.
He spent one year here, when he was promoted to Bolton Avenue School.
Mr. MacDonald held a high ideal of success ever before his mind and

backed it up with praiseworthy perseverance, and he owes his marked
success in life to the stick-to-it-iveness which is one of his special
characteristics. In 1910 he graduated from Queen’s University with the
degree of B.A., very much to his credit, for he obtained this degree by
private study while filling the position of Principal in a city school. Mr.
MacDonald married Christina Lamb, the daughter of William Lamb, and
has one son, Donald, born on August 29, 1913. Upon the retirement of Mr.
R. W. Doan, in June, 1914, Mr. MacDonald became Principal of Dufferin
School, Toronto, and it has been said of him, “His educational attainments,
energy and enthusiasm mark him as a man well qualified to fill the highest
position a School Board may offer.” Besides managing the regular school
work, he took an active interest in the school sports and cadet drill, and his
scholars always obtained good standing in these. After three years as
Principal of Dufferin School, Mr. MacDonald was transferred, in
September, 1917, to Ryerson School, as Principal in succession to the late
W. E. Groves. Ryerson School is the school for practice teaching in
connection with the Faculty of Education. As Principal he was chief critic
teacher and supervisor of critic teachers. In February, 1918, the Toronto
Board of Education appointed him Public School Inspector in District Five,
a position left vacant by the death of Inspector W. F. Chapman, B.A. He is a
Presbyterian in religion, belonging to St. John’s Presbyterian Church, where
he is also Superintendent of the Sabbath School; a Conservative in politics
and a member of St. Andrew’s Masonic Society, St. Patrick’s Royal Arch
Masons and Cyrene Preceptory. In the spring of 1918 the degree of Doctor
of Pedagogy was conferred upon Mr. MacDonald, and in partial fulfilment
for the degree he submitted a thesis on “Open Air Schools,” which he has
recently published.

McCullough, Charles Robert (Hamilton, Ont.), was born in
Bowmanville, Ont., Feb. 18, 1865, educated at Private, Public and High
Schools, Bowmanville, and special schools in Belleville and Toronto.
Married in 1897 to Eola Luxton, second daughter of George and Harriet
Luxton, of Hamilton. Children: Evan (deceased), Luxton and Kathleen. A
member of the Canadian Club of Hamilton, and the Hamilton Club, a
Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute; Honorary President Assn. of
Canadian Clubs, teacher mercantile subjects, 1885-1903, founded Federated

Business Colleges, founded Business Educators’ Assn. of Canada, first
President of the latter; founder Canadian Club Movement in Hamilton,
December 6, 1892; President Hamilton Canadian Club, 1895 and 1910;
together with John Cousins founded the General Council of Canadian Clubs
and Societies, Niagara Falls, N.Y., July, 1905; is President of the Ontario
Engraving Co., and Hamilton Conservatory of Music; one of the Founders
and first Governors Art Gallery of Hamilton; represented Collegiate
Institute on the Board of Education for three years; member of the Canadian
Manufacturers Assn., ex-Chairman Industrial Committee thereof; Vice-
President and Chairman of Executive Committee Win-the-War league of
Ontario, and President Win-the-War League of Hamilton; President Union
School Club of Bowmanville; gazetted Capt. 91st Regt., Canadian
Highlanders, 1907, and Lieut.-Colonel, 1916, organized the first recruiting
league in Hamilton, 1915, has done a great deal to promote recruiting
throughout the Province, at various points, especially in connection with the
Canadian Club of Hamilton and the Recruiting Committee of the Citizens’
Service League in affiliation therewith. Lieut.-Col. McCullough projected
Semi-Centennial Celebration of Canada for 1917 as far back as 1910. He
believes that a mutual respect for, and confidence in each other, should be
entertained by the great English and French-speaking peoples constituting
the Canadian nation. Lieut.-Col. McCullough has addressed various
Canadian Clubs throughout the Dominion and has done excellent work in
inculcating a robust Canadian sentiment. F. D. Monk, K.C., M.P., said a few
years ago: “In initiating the Canadian Club movement, Mr. McCullough has
done a better work than any politician since Confederation.” Lieut.-Col.
McCullough’s recreations are, skating, golfing, canoeing. In religion he is a
member of the Church of England and of the Church of the Ascension of
Hamilton. Colonel McCullough was an active, early promoter of a Union,
non-partizan Government. Made three public speaking tours of District of
Columbia, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland, 1917-1918, as guest of
the American Red Cross.

Beach, Mahlon F., Manufacturer (Iroquois, Ont.), who died January
4, 1917, at the ripe age of more than eighty-three years, was one of the most
remarkable self-made men in Eastern Canada and belonged to a family
which can boast one of the most striking genealogical records in the

Dominion. The family record shows his lineage back to John Beach, one of
three pilgrim brothers who migrated from England to New Haven Colony,
Conn., early in the Seventeenth Century, the two other pilgrim brothers
being Richard and Thomas. Richard first appears in the New Haven Colony
in 1638, and was a man of some note in his day. Thomas first appears in the
records in 1646, and settled in Milford, Connecticut. John is first mentioned
in the New Haven Colony records, January 4, 1643. Four years later he
bought “an house lott” there and in 1650 married Mary ——. Next we find
him at Stratford, Connecticut, where he acquired land in 1660 and was
chosen “Town Crier” in the following years, being allowed fourpence “for
everything he should crye and every time he cryed.” He signed the Articles
of Agreement for the Wallingford Plantation in 1670, and was granted a
“house lott” there in 1671. He appears fourth in a list of six persons of
“Hiest Rank,” July 29, 1672, and in 1675 was one of a committee to
establish a Church, dying between the years 1678 and 1680, the ancestor of
a large number of Beaches, scattered over United States, Canada and South
America. Mahlon Ford Beach, the subject of this sketch, was born
November 10, 1833, in Oxford Township, Grenville County, Province of
Ontario, where his father, Mahlon Beach, son of David Beach, arriving
from New Jersey, was one of the first settlers. His Mother, Mercy May, born
in New York State, May 12, 1798, was a daughter of Lyman Clothier, who
migrated to the vicinity and built the first mills in what is now known as the
Village of Kemptville. Married Louise C. Wickmire, of Augusta Township,
Grenville County, in 1865, and leaves a family of ten boys, all of whom are
living, born as follows: Charles A., of Cornwall, 1866; Fred. W., of
Morrisburg, 1868; Dr. Anson W., of Toronto, and Benson C., of Ottawa
(twins), 1870; Mahlon W., of Kingston, 1872; Howard B., of Iroquois,
1873; D. Easton, of Ottawa, and G. Weston, of Winchester (twins), 1875; J.
Russell, of Ottawa, 1878; and Olin A., of Ottawa, 1882. One daughter, born
in 1877, died in infancy. Mrs. Beach died in 1907, aged seventy-one years
and eleven months, and Mr. Beach married Mrs. Hannah M. Barber, of
Winnipeg, in 1912, by whom he is survived. Although controlling probably
a quarter of a million dollars at his death, Mr. Beach started life like
thousands of other poor boys, with only his native industry, wit and
enterprise to raise him above his restricted circumstances and give his
talents a larger field of activity. He was a born captain of industry and
remarkable in many ways, exciting a big influence not only in his

community, but throughout the county. Possessed of a strong personality, an
untiring energy, quick perception and bold and fearless in his business
enterprises, he left his stamp on the community in which he lived and his
name will always be connected with the village and township of
Winchester. This place was hardly a settlement when Mr. Beach first came
there, and when he erected his first mill it was the beginning of a new life in
the community, as previously the nearest mill was at Iroquois. He was
educated at the common schools of his native place and set out to carve his
own fortune early in life. He first worked at the millwright business, and in
1856 went to the Township of Winchester, Dundas County, where he built a
small saw mill, later adding other machinery and buildings, such as planing
mills, sash and door, and flour mills. During the years 1861-1864 he
engaged in square timber operations, taking the timber to Quebec. In the
spring of 1883 he bought a water privilege on the St. Lawrence Canal, at
Iroquois, and moved there in June of the same year, where he commenced a
roller flour mill, which was put in operation in the fall of 1884. At Mr.
Beach’s place in Winchester, where the old business is still continued, he
saw grow up what is now a flourishing village. Between the years 1861-
1878 Mr. Beach was connected directly and indirectly with the general store
business and has always been successful in his undertakings. In 1884 his
mills at Winchester were destroyed by fire, and a number of other valuable
buildings, also a quantity of sawn lumber, flour and wheat to the amount of
about $75,000, were all swept away without any insurance to cover the loss.
This naturally crippled him financially, but nothing daunted, he commenced
again, rebuilding the mills in a much better manner than before and adding
a furniture factory to them, thus showing that the spirit of the man was
bigger than any adversity and that he did not know the meaning of failure.
He met every obstacle with indomitable faith in himself as the biggest asset
of human enterprise, which, more than any other, was a characteristic of Mr.
Beach. He had absolute faith in his own judgment and with great capacity
and resource he soon recovered his losses. He was President of the Beach
Foundry Co., Ltd., of Ottawa, and also with his son Charles A., established
the Beach Furniture Factory, at Cornwall. In 1909 he completed a water
power development in Iroquois, one of the latest and most improved hydro-
electric power plants in America. In order to carry out this undertaking, he
was obliged to resort to the European markets for the electrical apparatus.
The generators came from Sweden, where they were designed and made

especially for the conditions met with in development. It might truly be said
that this was the pioneer plant in Canada for the vertical type, direct
connected to wheel, operating under a low head of water. This fact was
attested to by many eminent engineers from all over the American
continent, who inspected the plant after its completion. In 1910, with his
two sons, Benson C. and Charles A., he was interested in the development
of a 4,000 h.p. Hydro-Electric Power Plant at Hound Chute, on the
Montreal River, furnishing the first electrical energy used in the Cobalt
District. Associated with the late Hon. Andrew Broder, M.P., he secured in
1882, a charter for the Montreal and Central Canada Railroad. With the
charter they interviewed Sir Wm. Van Horne, of the C.P.R. Asked what they
wanted for their charter and expense of promoting, the reply was “We want
a railroad.” The C.P.R. took over the charter, the line was built and now
forms part of the main line between Toronto and Montreal. Mr. Beach was
one of the foremost men interested in the erection of the present
magnificent Methodist Church at Winchester. His public career has been
confined to municipal affairs. He was warden of the United Counties of
Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry for the year 1873. In politics he was a
Liberal, and in religion a broad-minded adherent of the Methodist Church,
and opposed to ostentation. Even passing his eighty-third birthday, Mr.
Beach exhibited remarkable vitality of mind and body, being still actively
engaged in his several interests, but on January 4, 1917, he suddenly passed
away, the direct cause being due to acute congestion of the kidneys,
complicated with pneumonia. His useful and successful life will long be
remembered with respect.

Macdonald, John (Toronto, Ont.), the present head of the great
wholesale dry goods firm of John Macdonald & Co., of Toronto, is still a
young man. He bears the name of his father, the founder of the business,
and was born on the 4th of November, 1863, at the old family homestead,
Oaklands, a beautiful villa on the hills overlooking the city of Toronto. He
was educated at Upper Canada College, which boasts the names of a very
large number of distinguished families on its rolls, and while still a lad
entered (1880) the great dry goods establishment which then bore his
father’s name and was founded by him in 1849. Under his distinguished
father’s guidance he received a sound business training, and was thus, on

the death of the latter, able to undertake the great responsibility devolving
upon him. The firm was made a Joint Stock Company, of which he was
appointed President in 1906. He is a Director of the following: Bank of
Toronto, Confederation Life Association, Toronto Hotel Co., Ltd.,
Guarantee Company of North America, Millers and Manufacturers
Insurance Co., Humane Society, Hospital for Incurables, Academy of
Music. Honorary Governor Toronto General Hospital; member Toronto
Board of Trade; Chairman Bureau Municipal Research; Trustee and
Official, Yonge St. Methodist Church; Vice-Chairman, Financial
Committee; member Defence League. The late Hon. John Macdonald sat in
the Senate of Canada for several years, and was a most distinguished figure
in religious and philanthropic work. The subject of this sketch is a man of
varied interests and wide social popularity, while retaining the sound
business energy characteristic of his family. In the affairs of his alma mater,
Upper Canada College, he has taken a deep interest, and was one of those
public-spirited graduates who took an active part in the work of
reorganization which a few years ago put it on a sound basis and largely
increased its usefulness. He is also a member of the Methodist Communion,
in which his father was so long an eminent figure, and has interested
himself in the affairs of Yonge Street Methodist Church, of which he is a
Trustee. He holds the office of Justice of the Peace, but fortunately is not
compelled to frequently exercise his function as a magistrate. Among the
commercial organizations with which he is identified, may be mentioned
the Toronto Board of Trade, in which he is prominent in the dry goods
section. His is also one of the best-known names on the roll of the
Commercial Travellers’ Association, one of the most powerful
organizations in Canada. He is also a member of the British Empire League,
the object of which is to further the progress of an enlightened Imperialism
in Canada; of the well-known benevolent society, the Ancient Order of
United Workmen; of the Caledonian Society, to which he belongs by virtue
of his Scottish descent; and is a member, also, by virtue of the family
traditions, of the York pioneers; a member also of the Methodist Union
College Heights Association, Upper Canada College Old Boys’ Association,
St. Andrew’s Society, and the Canadian Institute. Clubs: York, National,
British Empire. Like all men of active mind, Mr. Macdonald has a hobby,
and in his case the hobby is horseflesh. His beautiful home at Oaklands
always boasts some fine animals in its stables, and he has earnestly devoted

himself to the improvement of Canadian stock. He was one of the original
promoters and is a Director of the Annual Horse Show at Toronto, and is
also an active member of the Horse Breeders’ Association, and of the
Hackney Horse Association. It will thus be seen that Mr. Macdonald is a
man of catholic tastes and wide energies. He resides at 116 Farnham
Avenue, Toronto.

Longley, Hon. J. W. (Halifax, N.S.), Judge of the Supreme Court of
Nova Scotia. One of the best-known men in Canadian public life, and a
gentleman who combines literary graces with a practical public spirit, is
Hon. James Wilberforce Longley, late Attorney-General and Commissioner
of Crown Lands for the Province of Nova Scotia. Hon. Mr. Longley was
born at Paradise, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, on January 4, 1849, the
son of Israel Longley and Frances Manning. Like so many noted Nova
Scotians, he is a descendant of an old New England family, and his
grandfather, William Longley, came to Nova Scotia from Massachusetts in
1760, and settled at Belleisle, in Annapolis County. The subject of this
sketch attended school first at Paradise and later received his education in
the higher branches at Acadia University, Wolfville, N.S., where he received
the B.A. degree in 1871; M.A., 1875; D.C.L., 1897; Hon. LL.D. St. Francis
Xavier College, Antigonish, N.S., 1905. He began the study of law in the
office of Hiram Blanchard, K.C., of Halifax, and completed his course with
the legal firm of Johnston & Bligh; read law with Bethune & Hoyles,
Toronto, and W. A. Johnson, Halifax, N.S.; he also attended for a term at
Osgoode Hall, Toronto, and was called to the Nova Scotia Bar at Halifax in
1875, where he immediately began the practice of his profession; two years
as Bligh & Longley; four years with Mr. Motton, and as McCoy & Longley.
He quickly made a reputation by his ability, and in 1883 was appointed by
the Provincial Government as one of the commission for the revision and
consolidation of the Statutes. Journalism had always attracted Mr. Longley,
and while a law student he had become identified with the “Acadian
Recorder,” of Halifax, as its chief editorial writer. Subsequently he joined
the staff of the “Halifax Morning Chronicle,” and for some time filled the
responsible post of managing editor. Mr. Longley’s literary and clear
attractive style has borne fruit in contributions to many of the leading
reviews and periodicals of England and the United States. In 1898, “Love,”

a religious and philosophical essay appeared in book form and has passed
through several editions. He has also written “Socialism, Its Truths and
Errors”; “The Greatest Drama”; “A Material Age”; “Canada and Imperial
Federation”; “Religion in the 19th Century”; “Makers of Canada” (Series);
“The Political History of Canada” (four volumes complete); “Life of Joseph
Howe,” and “Life of Sir Charles Tupper.” He was President of the Nova
Scotia Historical Society and a member of the Royal Society of Canada.
Coincident with his legal and literary activities, Hon. Mr. Longley has taken
an active part in politics. He was for some years President of the Young
Men’s Liberal Club of Halifax, and entered public life in 1882 as member
of the Nova Scotia Legislature for Annapolis County, which constituency he
represented until 1905. Two years later Hon. W. S. Fielding, in forming his
Government, invited Mr. Longley to enter it, and in July, 1884, he was
sworn in as a Minister without Portfolio. In 1886 he was appointed
Attorney-General. In 1896 he resigned to enter a contest for Federal honors
in the House of Commons. Being defeated, his old constituents in
Annapolis at once re-elected him by acclamation. At the request of the
Premier, Hon. Mr. Murray, he resumed the duties of Attorney General for
Nova Scotia, which position he held for over nineteen years. In his public
capacity, he was a member of the famous inter-Provincial Conference at
Quebec in 1887, and was one of the prominent figures in the historic
convention of the Reform Party in 1893, when the platform of the then
Opposition was struck. As a legislator he has initiated many useful
provincial measures, embracing important changes in the criminal
procedure, the abolition of imprisonment for debt, consolidation of County
Court Procedure and the incorporation of towns. He is a director of the
British Empire Financial Corporation, and is a great social favorite in most
of the cities of Canada. Has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
and was elected Honorary President. On September 4, 1877, he married
Annie Brown, daughter of Mr. Newton Brown (deceased, October, 1899);
secondly, Lois Fletcher, daughter of George Fletcher, Yorkshire, Eng., April,
1901, and has five sons and one daughter. He is a member of the Halifax
and Saraquay Clubs; a director of the Home Life Association, and received
his present appointment in 1905; also a member of A.F. & A.M. He was
created K.C. by Lord Stanley (afterwards Earl of Derby) in 1890.

Morgan, Colin Daniel (Montreal, Que.), Merchant, is the son of
William Morgan and Jane Brown; was born at West Linton, Scotland, in
1846, and educated at Edinburgh, Scotland. He married Martha Gold, the
daughter of Hon. Theodore S. Gold, an agriculturist, of West Cornwall,
Conn., and has four children, Theodore, Marjorie, Henry and Alice. He is a
member of the Presbyterian Church, and takes his recreation motoring, etc.

Antliff, Rev. James Cooper, M.A., D.D., 41 St. Mark Street,
Montreal. Born February 1, 1844, at Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England. Son
of Rev. Wm. Antliff, D.D., and Barbara Cooper. Educated at Haslingden
Wesleyan School and Edinburgh University from which he graduated with
the degree of M.A., 1873, B.D. in 1874. Left England for Canada by
appointment of Primitive Methodist Conference, 1878. Professor in
Wesleyan Theological College, Montreal, for nine years. Received degree
of D.D. Victoria University, 1887. Member of First Œcumenical
Conference. President of Montreal Conference, 1891. Secretary of First
General Conference of Methodist Church. Canadian delegate to Wesleyan
Methodist Conference, 1907. Was editor of Christian Journal for three
years; and is the author of several illuminating magazine articles on various
subjects. Married first, Fanny Holden, daughter of John Holden Esq., of
Dalbury Lees, Derby, England; second, Jane Elizabeth Gooderham,
daughter of the Rev. Ezekiel Gooderham of York Mills, Ont., has one
surviving son, born the 22nd of March, 1869. Rev. Dr. Antliff has traveled
extensively and is a man of ripe scholarship.

Arrell, Harrison (Caledonia, Ont.), was born at the Township of
Onondaga, Brant County, November 14, 1874, son of Samuel Arrell,
farmer. Educated at Caledonia High School and after matriculating, studied
law in the office of Mr. Justice Teetzel, Hamilton, and Osgoode Hall,
Toronto, and was called to the bar in 1898. Married, in 1907, to Eva,
daughter of H. B. Sawle, of Caledonia, and is the father of two children:
Alec. and Hugh. Is a member of the Masonic Order, and in religion is an
Anglican. Politically, he is a Conservative. Was appointed Crown Attorney
and Clerk of the Peace for the County of Haldimand, in June, 1915.

Musson, Charles Joseph (Toronto, Ont.), Publisher, is the President
of The Musson Book Co., Ltd., and Vice-President of Hodder & Stoughton,
Ltd. He is the son of Elizabeth and the late Capt. Thomas Musson, general
merchant and postmaster, Islington, Ont., where he was born on September
15, 1869, receiving his education at Islington Public School, Streetsville
High School and Parkdale Collegiate Institute, Toronto. Mr. Musson
married Jennie Bird, daughter of the late Wm. Williams, farmer,
Bowmanville, Ont., and has two children, Ralph Thomas Musson,
Lieutenant, Royal Garrison Artillery, and Glena Elizabeth Musson. He is a
life member of the Historical Landmark Society of Canada, and of
Harmony Lodge A.F. & A.M. Scottish Rite, a 32nd Degree Mason, a
Workman, and Past Grand Master Canadian Order of Oddfellows. In
politics Mr. Musson is a Conservative, and in religion a member of the
Church of England.

Massey, C. D. (Toronto, Ont.). The name of Massey is known
throughout the length and breadth of Canada, not only on account of the
vastness of the business interests associated with that name, but because of
the great philanthropies with which it is also synonymous. As the surviving
head of the family that has built up Canada’s greatest individual industrial
enterprise, the figure of Mr. Chester Daniel Massey, the subject of this
sketch, is doubly fraught with interest. He is the son of the late Hart A.
Massey, who was the son and successor in business of Daniel Massey, the
founder of the great establishment for the manufacture of agricultural
implements now known as the Massey-Harris Company, Limited, and has
been associated with that business, of which he is now the Honorary
President, since boyhood. Both the brothers who had also been identified
with the growth and management of the enterprise, Charles A. Massey and
Walter E. H. Massey, have also passed away. But Mr. Chester D. Massey is
splendidly carrying out the traditions of the family. He was born on June 17,
1850, in Haldimand Township, in the County of Northumberland, Ontario,
and received his education at the Public Schools of the province. While still
a boy he entered the business establishment of his father, then centred at
Newcastle, Ontario. Literally speaking, he has grown up with the business,
which in turn has grown up with the country (coincident with the vast
expansion of agricultural enterprise in Canada). In 1879 the headquarters of

the Massey firm were removed to Toronto, where Mr. Massey has resided
since the year 1882. In 1884 his eldest brother, Charles A. Massey, died,
and the duties devolving on him became the heavier. The period that has
elapsed since then has been one of immense expansion, which the firm
attained by a judicious policy of amalgamation and by extending its
agencies not only from the Atlantic to the Pacific, but beyond the seven seas
in all the corners of the earth. As has been intimated, commercial interests
do not by any means absorb the entire attention of Mr. Massey. He is largely
interested in all religious and philanthropic movements. He is a member of
the Methodist Church, to which he is greatly attached, and his voice is at all
times valued in its councils. He is a Governor of the University of Toronto;
a Regent of Victoria University, and a Trustee of the Metropolitan Church
and the Methodist Deaconess Home and Training School, all of Toronto. He
is also a Trustee of Massey Music Hall, one of the finest buildings that
unselfish citizenship ever gave to a community. As chief executor of his
father’s estate, he necessarily takes a deep interest in the valuable works of
philanthropy which have been carried out under the provisions of the will.
On March 17, 1886, Mr. Massey was married at Erie, Pa., to Miss Anna D.
Vincent (deceased, London, England, November 11, 1903), and secondly to
Miss Margaret Phelps, of Gloversville, N.Y., Jan. 3, 1907; has two sons by
first wife, Charles Vincent and Raymond Hart Massey.

Smith, William, M.P., for South Ontario (Columbus, Ont.), was born
in the Township of East Whitby, November 16, 1847, is the son of William
Smith and Elizabeth Laing, his wife, natives of Morayshire, Scotland. He
was educated at the public school, Columbus, and Upper Canada College,
Toronto. He was Paymaster of the 34th Battalion for a number of years. He
has been a Trustee of Columbus Public School for over 21 years. Was
President of the South Ontario Agricultural Society in 1881. Was Deputy
Reeve for the Township of East Whitby from 1878 to 1882, and Reeve from
1883 to 1887. Was Vice-president and President of the Clydesdale
Association of Canada for a number of years. Is President of the Record
Board since 1912. Is President of the Maple Leaf Farmers’ Mutual Fire
Company, and has been since its incorporation in 1896. Is a Director of the
Dominion Shorthorn Association. He has always taken an active interest in
municipal and political affairs: Contested South Ontario, 1882, 1887, 1891,

1892, 1896, 1900 and 1911; successful in 1887, 1892 and 1911. In politics
he is a Conservative and in religion a Presbyterian. He was married, May
25, 1880, to Helen Burns, daughter of the late James Burns, of the
Township of East Whitby. Three children: Bessie, Robert B., and Wm.
Bruce. Robert B. is senior Major of the 116th, now in England, and went
over with the first contingent in 1914. Mr. Smith is a farmer, and takes a
great interest in Clydesdale horses, Shorthorn cattle and Cotswold sheep.

Mikel, William Charles, K.C., B.C.L. (Belleville), was born in
Belleville, Ont., the son of W. V. and Matilda (Wilson) Mikel, a descendant
U.E.L. family. His great-grandfather fought on the side of Great Britain in
the American Revolution, after which he came to Canada and was granted
300 acres of land in Ameliasburg Township, Prince Edward County. Again
he fought on the side of the Government forces in Rebellion of 1837. The
subject of this sketch was educated at Belleville High School and the
Ontario Business College, Albert College (honors), and Trinity University
(B.C.L., 1897). Practises law at Belleville; has been Crown Prosecutor at
Ottawa, Toronto and other places throughout the province. Appeared before
Legislature and Parliament in several important matters, and acted as one of
the Counsel for the depositors of the Farmers Bank of Canada, when the
Government and House of Commons approved of payment of over one
million dollars to depositors. Served as Alderman, Auditor and City
Solicitor of the Corporation of the city of Belleville; created King’s
Counsel, 1908. One of the founders of the Ontario Bar Association and
President 1911-12; President Liberal-Conservative Auxiliary, Belleville;
President Ontario Municipal Association, 1907-08. Grand Master
A.O.U.W., 1914-15-16; President Canadian Fraternal Association, 1918-19;
P.M. Moira Lodge, No. 11, A.F. & A.M., 1st P. Moira Chapter, No. 7,
G.R.C.; member King Baldwin Preceptory; member L.O.L. No. 274, and
Royal Black Knights of Ireland. Member of Albany Club, Toronto; a
Presbyterian in religion. Formerly Captain 15th Batt. A.L.I., volunteered,
1915, for service in the Great War, but was rejected. Offered to organize and
take command of a battalion, not accepted. Secretary Speakers’ Patriotic
League at Belleville; assisted in recruiting several military organizations for
service overseas; member of Council of the Win-the-War League, and was
one of the Committee of the League which presented to Sir Robert Borden,

August, 1917, the resolutions of the League supporting Union Government,
conscription and other patriotic measures. Strong supporter of the Union
Government, and assisted many of the Union Government candidates in the
election of December, 1917. Married Miss Lillian Ewen, daughter of T. E.
Ewen, M.A., veteran of the Fenian Raid; has one daughter, Miss Audrey
Mikel. On July 25 and 26, 1918, he presided over a meeting at Belleville
called by him, as President of the Canadian Fraternal Association,
comprised of delegates from a number of Canadian Fraternal Societies
representing Protestants and Roman Catholics, both English and French
speaking, for the purpose of promoting a better understanding between the
English and French speaking Canadians; and again at Ottawa on November
28, 1918, he presided over a similar meeting called by him. His brother, R.
Y. Mikel, served in France with the American Flying Corps in the Great
War, so that the great-grandsons of the men who fought against the
American army in the Revolutionary war, served in that army, showing how
closely the people of the British Empire and of the United States have been
brought together by this war.

Robb, Thomas (Westmount, Que.), Manager and Secretary of the
Shipping Federation of Canada, is Managing Director of the Marconi
Wireless Telegraph Co., and a Director of George Davie & Sons, Limited.
He has been employed as Acting Staff Embarkation Officer, with the rank
of Major, under Generals McDonald and Biggar, and has also rendered
valuable services to the Marine and Naval Departments in connection with
the war. Royal Commissioner on Pilotage, 1911; Chairman of Royal
Commission on Pilotage, 1918, arising out of Halifax disaster.
Commissioner on Traffic Regulations dealing with explosives, and also
Royal Commissioner on Commission appointed to investigate labor unrest
in Shipbuilding industry in Province of Quebec. He was a member of the
delegation sent to Washington, D.C., in opposition to the proposed Long
Sault Development, and has been called to that city on several occasions,
notably in connection with the revision of the American Seamen’s Act. He
is a member of the American Geographical Society, and has delivered an
address on “Navigation—Ancient and Modern” before the Nomad’s Club,
which was subsequently published in pamphlet form, also other addresses
on Marine subjects. Mr. Robb’s chosen recreations are golf and fishing. He

is a Justice of the Peace, a Mason, and a member of the Canadian Club and
Canada Club, both of Montreal. Mr. Robb was born in Glasgow, Scotland,
in 1863, where he received his education at McLaren Academy. Thomas
Robb is the son of Ann Thomson and Thomas Robb, an able writer. He
married Elizabeth Andrew, daughter of James McLaren, merchant, of
Stirling, Scotland, in 1890, by whom he has three daughters and one son,
Elizabeth, Mabel, Chrissie, Robert.

White, Arthur V., Consulting Engineer, Toronto, Ontario, was born
in Woodstock, Ontario, August 21, 1871. His father was the late James
White, Esq., a prominent merchant, well known throughout South-western
Ontario, and for more than twenty-five years Clerk of the County of
Oxford, in which office he succeeded his father, who was one of the early
Scotch pioneers of Woodstock. His mother was Dorothy Jessie McLeod,
eldest daughter of W. C. McLeod, Esq., one of the most widely-known
merchants and financiers of pioneer days in Ontario. Mr. White’s early
education was carried on in the Woodstock Public and High Schools, after
which he entered the University of Toronto, where he graduated from the
School of Practical Science with high standing in 1892. He later obtained
from the University of Toronto the degree of M.E. (mechanical engineer),
being the first graduate of that institution to receive this degree. After
graduating, Mr. White followed his profession in connection with
manufacturing establishments in Canada and the United States, and for
some years was Chief Draughtsman for the Canadian General Electric
Company, at Peterboro. Subsequently, he was Lecturer in Mechanical
Drawing and Machine Design at the Toronto Technical School. He spent
about five years in London, England, as engineering expert to Messrs.
Brown Brothers, for whom he executed important commissions on the
Continent, as well as in the United States, travelling extensively in
connection therewith. August 28, 1901, Mr. White married Aidine Squire,
eldest daughter of Hon. Watson C. Squire, LL.D., of Seattle, Wash., ex-
United States Senator from that State, and formerly Governor of
Washington Territory, and Ida Remington, eldest daughter of Philo
Remington, Esq., the noted manufacturer of firearms. Mr. White has three
children—James Arthur, Remington, and Caroline Lathrop. Returning to
take up his residence in Canada in 1902, Mr. White continued his

professional work. In 1905, representing the noted engineers, Messrs. Ross
& Holgate, Mr. White personally canvassed leading manufacturers in
South-western Ontario respecting power requirements and collected much
of the field data basic to the recommendations of the Ontario Power
Commission, the precursor of the present Hydro-Electric Power
Commission of Ontario. Later he worked chiefly upon constructional
engineering and devoted considerable time to designing in connection with
Harbor Works for the Department of Public Works, Canada. In 1910, he
was engaged by the Commission of Conservation, Ottawa, with which he
still remains as Consulting Engineer. He has reported for this Commission
upon the Water Powers of the Provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick,
Ontario and British Columbia; also upon the St. Lawrence Long Sault
Rapids, the Chicago Drainage Canal, Niagara Power and other matters. In
1911, he was appointed Consulting Engineer representing Canada to the
International Joint Commission, under the Boundary Waters Treaty, to
report jointly with the consulting engineer from the United States upon the
official reference relating to the levels of the Lake of the Woods, including
the control and utilization of its waters and those tributary thereto. The
Report upon this subject was completed in 1917 and is a comprehensive
work to which the engineering press has referred as reflecting great credit
on its authors. Mr. White has written extensively upon engineering subjects,
but his principal efforts have been devoted to his various reports for the
Federal Government. He is regarded as a high authority on many questions
connected with International waters, and has made a special study of
Niagara power and the exportation of electric energy with its relationship to
coal supply. To the important subject of Canada’s fuel problem, Mr. White
has, for many years, devoted special attention. Since as early as 1910, he
has contributed valuable articles to such periodicals as the “University
Magazine,” the “Monetary Times,” and prominent engineering and
technical journals, as well as to the daily press, urging that this subject be
viewed and dealt with in its broad national aspect, and that Canada take
immediate steps to secure the greatest possible independence with respect
to her fuel supply. Mr. White possesses a very comprehensive collection of
rare books dealing with the early History of Astronomy. He is opposed to
the views of modern theoretical astronomy as represented by the
Copernican System, and an article from his pen in the University Monthly,
in 1909, entitled “The Shape of the Earth,” has excited considerable

comment. In religion Mr. White is a Protestant. He is non-sectarian, but of
strong Christian belief and is a staunch supporter of the Scriptures. In
politics, as in religion, he is independent.

Beaumont, Ernest Joseph (Kitchener, Ont.), Local Registrar of the
Supreme Court, is the son of Joseph Wilson Beaumont, D.D., and Louisa
Beaumont. He was born at Mirfield, Yorkshire, England, February 28, 1855,
and received his early education at “The Grammar School,” Sheffield, Eng.
Coming to Canada as a young man, Mr. Beaumont practised law in Galt,
Ont., for twenty-seven years, and served as Town Solicitor of that place for
eighteen years. He was also a member of the Public School Board for 4
years, and late Major of the 29th Waterloo Battalion, retiring with rank in
1888. He received his present appointment as local Registrar of the
Supreme Court of Ontario in January, 1908, is a Roman Catholic in religion
and a member of the Canadian Order of Foresters. Ernest J. Beaumont
married Helen McNab, daughter of Benjamin Wood of Ingersoll, Ont., and
had one son, George Joseph Beaumont, Lieutenant in the 11th (S.)
Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment, B.E.F., France, who died of wounds
in France on January 24, 1917.

Mackintosh, Charles Herbert (Ottawa, Ont.), was born in London,
Ontario, in 1843; a son of the late Captain William Mackintosh, county
engineer of Middlesex, Ontario, and Leonora Sophia, daughter of Colonel
Dickenson of Jamaica, West Indies. Captain Mackintosh came to Canada as
an attaché of the ordnance branch of the British Army. Mr. Mackintosh has
led an unusually active life, succeeding in making his way, unaided, to
positions of honor and influence. He was educated at the Galt Grammar
School (Tassie’s), and Caradoc Academy (Middlesex Co.), two well-known
institutions at that time. When the Prince of Wales (afterwards King Edward
VII) visited Canada in 1860, an ode of welcome from the pen of Mr.
Mackintosh, then a youth of seventeen, was presented to His Royal
Highness. Two years later, under the title of “Fat Contributor,” he wrote for
the London “Free Press,” a series of articles, characteristically entitled
“Hurry-Graphs.” These attracted wide attention, and the entrance of the
young writer into journalism was a foregone conclusion. He relinquished

the study of law, and became, first, reporter, and soon afterwards city editor
of the “Free Press.” Believing that the early history of pioneer life in Upper
Canada should be heard from the lips of those who had passed through the
ordeal, Mr. Mackintosh organized a Committee, the result being a Pioneer
Banquet, at which 400 old settlers from local and distant points were in
attendance. Col. J. B. Askin, one of the early pioneers acted as chairman,
Mr. Mackintosh, as the youngest Canadian, acting as Secretary. Subsequent
to this, he assisted in promoting the Western Fair, which to-day has
expanded to noticeable proportions. His journalistic career was marked by
rapid progress. In 1864 he was city editor of the Hamilton “Times.” A year
later he founded the “Dispatch,” of Strathroy, which he conducted until
1873. In 1868 he married Gertrude Cooke, daughter of T. Cooke, J.P., of
Strathroy. In 1871 he founded the Parkhill “Gazette,” which he controlled
for some time, while still managing the “Dispatch.” In the same year, he
unsuccessfully contested North Middlesex as Conservative candidate for
the local legislature. In 1871 he visited Chicago during the fire, and wrote a
description of the terrible event; 60,000 copies being sold in two weeks. He
was also elected a member of the town council of Strathroy, in which
capacity he exhibited talents, which afterwards showed to better advantage
in a wider sphere. Believing in himself, as all men do who come to the front
in human affairs, he proceeded to prepare for a higher sphere in public life
which he was destined to fill. Deciding that the protection system which
had long been established in the United States, deserved consideration in
Canada, he accepted the position of managing editor of the Chicago
“Journal of Commerce.” While resident in the western metropolis, he
studied carefully the protection system, as well as other issues in the United
States. He also wrote a graphic account of the United States’ “panic of
1873.” Returning to Canada, at the request of Sir John A. Macdonald the
day after his government was defeated in 1873, he declined an editorial
position on the “Mail”; sold out his interest in the Strathroy “Dispatch,” and
went to Ottawa, being appointed editor of the Ottawa “Citizen,” the
Conservative journal of the capital. He at once attracted attention, not only
because of the vigorous management and writing of the “Citizen,” but
because of knowledge of public questions. At the celebration of the
O’Connell Centennial, he wrote a poem which won the gold and silver
medal over many others submitted. He was an ardent protectionist long
before the Conservative party accepted that system as a plank in their

platform, and must be counted as one of the leaders in that economic
movement. In 1877, the late John Riordon, of St. Catharines, urged Mr.
Mackintosh to co-operate with him in reorganizing the “Mail,” but the offer
was again declined. His active interest in public affairs, combined with an
unusual share of those qualities which make men popular with their fellows,
caused him to be nominated for the Mayoralty of Ottawa in 1879, the result
of the election being his return by a large majority. He promoted the first
Dominion Exhibition, which was opened by the then Governor-General,
Lord Lorne—afterwards Duke of Argyle. In the two succeeding years he
was re-elected, and though unseated on a technicality after the third contest,
was a fourth time favored with the support of the people. As Mayor of the
Capital of Canada, he inaugurated many reforms, which proved of great
benefit to the city. When retiring from the Mayoralty, the city presented him
with an address; also, citizens generally passed resolutions and presented an
illuminated address. In the General Election of 1882 he was one of the
Conservative candidates in Ottawa for the House of Commons, and was
elected senior member by a sweeping majority. During his term in
Parliament, he made several speeches which were notable for keen common
sense. He spoke but seldom; when he did he always secured an attentive
hearing. He became President of the Ottawa and Gatineau Valley Railroad,
now a part of the Canadian Pacific, and was also a Director of the Canada
Atlantic Railroad, now a part of the Grand Trunk System. Mr. Mackintosh
resigned his seat for Ottawa in July, 1886, but at the request of friends
agreed to hold it until the dissolution, which he did. The Capital of Canada
is no bed of roses for any active or generous man, and thus the senior
member found it, hence his positive objection to being again a candidate at
that time. In the General Election of 1887, Mr. Mackintosh, by the
unanimous wish of the Conservative party, contested Russell against Mr. W.
C. Edwards, the largest lumber manufacturer, and most popular Liberal in
the County, and was defeated by a narrow majority, owing mainly to the
feeling against the Government among the French-Canadians, aroused by
the execution of Riel. He polled 2,146 votes, or between 400 and 500 more
than were ever given to a Conservative candidate in that county. The Home
Rule and Riel cries concentrated at least 1,600 votes solidly against any
Conservative nominee, the Constituency being largely Catholic. It should
be said, however, that Mr. Mackintosh was an ardent advocate of and
believer in Ireland’s right to control her own local affairs. But he had voted

in favor of Orange incorporation, publicly declaring that such would, in the
end, ameliorate the bitterness between Protestants and Catholics. Mr.
Edwards upon a protest was unseated for Russell, and a score of his
supporters reported for corruption. The Conservative party let the matter
drop; another election took place with the same result, Mr. Edwards (now
Senator) being returned. In 1888 Mr. Mackintosh declined to accept
nomination for the Mayoralty, and also to be a candidate for the County of
Carleton. In 1890, upon the death of the sitting member, Mr. Perley, a
requisition was presented, signed by prominent Liberals and Conservatives,
asking Mr. Mackintosh to be a candidate. There were four candidates in the
field, but he was elected by over 1,000 majority, and was again returned at
the General Election of 1891. During this time he became interested in the
“Lake Manitoba Railway and Canal Company,” which subsequently was
merged with the Canadian Northern Transcontinental Line. His leader, Sir
John A. Macdonald, died in June, 1891, and until Sir John Thompson
became Premier, Mr. Mackintosh took little interest in political affairs,
disposing of his newspaper the Ottawa “Citizen.” In October, 1893, he was
appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the Canadian North-West Territories,
then including the Yukon. Before leaving Ottawa he was presented with a
testimonial and address by the workingmen of Ottawa, the Conservative
Association, and a dinner tendered by the members of the Rideau Club, at
which Judges of the Supreme Court, Sir John Thompson and other
Ministers were present. During his term, he organized a Dominion
Territorial Exhibition in 1895, spoken of as inaugurating a very beneficial
settlement in the North-West. Prize competition entries reached nearly
8,000 in the various departments. It was opened by Lord Aberdeen, then
Governor-General. On this occasion the city of Regina presented him with
an oil painting of himself and a complimentary address. In January, 1898,
Mr. Mackintosh resigned his high position, going to British Columbia,
successfully organizing the British America Mining Corporation, of which
he was Managing Director, until he resigned, about 1900. In 1902, when
King George V (then Duke of York) visited Canada, Mr. Mackintosh, upon
behalf of the Miners of British Columbia, presented him with unique gold
specimens extracted from the western mines. Mr. Mackintosh remained in
the western province for several years, engaging in literary work. In 1908
he was awarded the 1st prize for an essay on “British Columbia—Its
Resources.” He was for some time in Toronto, where (in 1910) he wrote a

series of articles for the “Mail and Empire,” forecasting Germany as the
storm centre of a coming war. In 1911, when the Reciprocity issue was
before the electors, he wrote a series of articles against the proposition,
visiting nearly every constituency in Ontario, publishing a signed telegram
in the “Montreal Star,” the day before the election, forecasting the defeat of
the Laurier Government and allowing them not more than fourteen seats in
Ontario. When his party returned to power, he accepted a position as
Inspector of Customs, and has also written many articles on the European
War, which broke out in August, 1914. In May, 1917, a pamphlet written by
Mr. Mackintosh, dealing with the Home Rule issue and entitled “Are
Ireland’s Problems on the Eve of Solution?” attracted much attention, being
quoted from at the Irish Conference by several delegates. Mr. Mackintosh
spends much of his time in British Columbia where he is Chairman of the
Halcyon Springs Company, and is greatly interested in the development of
that province’s mining resources.

Meek, Edward (Toronto, Ont.), Barrister, was born in the village of
Port Stanley, Ontario, on December 27, 1844. His father, James Meek, came
to Canada at the early age of three years with his parents, in 1818, from
Ballymena, North of Ireland. They settled in the same year in Talbot
District, and took up a tract of land near Port Stanley, being among the
earliest pioneers of that part of the country. At the time of Edward’s birth
his father was a carpenter and builder, but afterwards became a partner in a
foundry which was carried on successfully for a number of years; but a
disastrous fire destroyed the whole of the extensive establishment, and he
returned to his farm, on which he remained till his death. Edward received
his early education at the Port Stanley school, and afterwards at the
Grammar School, St. Thomas. After leaving school, at the age of seventeen,
he was granted a certificate to teach, which occupation he followed for
three years. He then accepted a position as bookkeeper in a grain
warehouse, at which he continued for a short time only; but thinking a short
journey among strangers would improve his prospects, he went to Boston
and engaged with a publishing house of a prominent firm there. After a
short sojourn he returned to London, Ontario, and there commenced the
study of law. In 1873 he removed to Toronto, where he continued his
studies and finished his law course in the office of Harrison, Osler and

Moss, three gentlemen who afterwards became distinguished judges. He
was called to the Bar of Ontario in the spring of 1874, and he then formed a
partnership with the Hon. John O’Donohoe, which continued for four years,
when it was dissolved. He then opened an office of his own until he formed
a partnership with the late William Norris, of Woodstock, which lasted till
Mr. Norris returned to Woodstock. In 1877 he commenced to take an active
part in the politics of the country, and especially in the promotion of the
National Policy; in fact, he was one of the originators of the word, and
travelled over Ontario assisting in the formation of political organizations to
enable the National Policy party to carry their new platform to a successful
issue. He continued from that time to take an active part as one of the
political writers and speakers on the platform until the winter of 1884, when
he and a number of other politicians conceived the idea of forming a
coalition government for the Province of Ontario, their object being to do
away with partyism in the local legislature. Others were brought into the
scheme who were impatient of the slow method of bringing about the
change by argument, and thought that a sufficient number of the members
of the Legislature could be secured by offers and promises to at once defeat
the Mowat Government, when the coalition could be immediately formed
during the spring session of 1884. The plans were disapproved of by the
originators of the idea, but the hot heads could not be kept under control,
and the public know the result of the unfortunate conspiracy case which
sprung from it, involving those more actively concerned in the long and
tedious investigation and prosecution before a Royal Commission and in
the criminal courts. The Royal Commission brought in a divided report,
which the House never acted upon. The verdict of the jury in the criminal
court, in the trial of May, 1885, acquitted the accused. Since that time Mr.
Meek has devoted himself strictly to the practice of his profession in
Toronto, and the promotion and formation of joint stock and other
companies. Mr. Meek was joined in marriage, on June 30, 1873, to Anna
Margaret McBride, daughter of Samuel McBride, of London, Ontario, by
which union they have issue two sons and one daughter. Mr. Meek and
family are members of the Church of England. Since the publication of the
preceding matter in the second edition of “Representative Canadians,”
about thirty years ago, Mr. Meek has continued to practise law in all its
branches in the city of Toronto, and is considered a well-read lawyer, a
sound legal adviser, and a successful practitioner. While carrying on his

legal practice, during the past twenty-five years, he has written many
thousands of “Legal Opinions,” published weekly in the Saturday edition of
the “Mail & Empire” newspaper. These concise and clearly expressed
statements of the law have been widely read, and highly appreciated by
many thousands of readers of that journal, and have been copied in other
newspapers. Mr. Meek has also written and published pamphlets; and
essays on Legal and Constitutional questions in reviews and magazines
which have been favorably criticized and commented upon—notably two
essays comparing our Canadian System of Federalism with the American
System of Federalism, entitled, “Some Observations on the Constitution of
the Dominion of Canada,” published in the American Law Review of 1895,
1896; “The Legal and Constitutional Aspects of the Manitoba School
Questions,” published in the “Canadian Magazine” and in pamphlet form in
1895; “Political Lessons from the Time of Cicero,” “Representative
Government and Federalism,” the “Plebiscite”—an answer to an Essay
published by the late Sir Geo. W. Ross—and other Essays, all to be found in
the “Canadian Magazine” between 1898 and 1904; “Sunday Laws,”
published in the “Canadian Law Review” in 1904; “The Mistakes made by
the Framers of the Constitution of the United States of America,” and
“Government and Political and Municipal Corporations,” etc., published
later. In 1913 Mr. Meek published a book of 600 pages, entitled, “Business
and Law,” which has had a wide circulation. Mr. Meek was created a Q.C.
in 1896, but for political reasons the patent was never issued. He was,
however, made a K.C. by the Ontario Government in 1908. He has recently
published a few short poems which have been much admired. Now 72, he is
in robust health, and his writings are as clear and concise, and his forensic
abilities as convincing as 30 years ago, with the added copiousness and
accuracy acquired by long years of experience. His eldest son, Mr. Charles
S. Meek, is managing director of the British Pacific Engineering &
Construction Company, of Vancouver, where he resides with his family,
consisting of a wife and two daughters. His second son, Mr. E. J. Meek, is
the chief accountant of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, and resides in
Toronto with wife and two children—a son and daughter. Mr. Meek lives at
177 Jamieson Ave., with his wife and unmarried daughter, Miss Gertrude
Meek.

Harris, Reginald V. (Halifax, N.S.), Barrister-at-Law, son of Rev.
Canon V. E. Harris, Secretary, Diocesan Synod of Nova Scotia. Honorable
W. B. Troop, M.L.A., in Holmes-Thompson Government of Nova Scotia
(1878-82) grandfather; Honorable Chief Justice Harris, of Nova Scotia,
uncle; was born March 21, 1881, at Londonderry, N.S.; educated at
Amherst Public Schools; Trinity College School, Port Hope, Ont., and the
University of Trinity College, Toronto, from which latter institution he
graduated with the degree of B.A., 1902 (honors); and also received the
degree of M.A., Toronto University (1910), and a similar degree from
King’s University (1911). Barrister and Solicitor, Bars of Manitoba (1906)
and Nova Scotia (1905). Member of Henry, Rogers, Harris & Stewart,
Barristers, Halifax, since 1908. Mr. Harris is the author of the following
publications: “The Governance of Empire” (1910); “Organization of a
Legal Business” (1909); and is a frequent contributor to the press and
magazines on Educational, Municipal and Imperial subjects. Mr. Harris has
taken a large interest in the municipal affairs of the city of Halifax, of which
he was Alderman (1911-13), and Controller (1913-15). He was also Vice-
President of the Union of Canadian municipalities (1912-13); Vice-
President, Union of Nova Scotia municipalities (1913-15); Commissioner
of Schools, Halifax (1911-14); Chairman, School Board, Halifax (1913-14).
Appointed Lieutenant 246th Overseas Battalion Canadian Expeditionary
Forces, September, 1916. Captain and District Casualty Officer, Military
District No. 6, June, 1917; District Military Representative (M.S.A.),
October, 1917; Chief Public Representative, N.S. (M.S.A.), February to
October, 1918. Is Governor and Treasurer of King’s College, Windsor, N.S.;
member of Diocesan, Provincial and General Synods of Church of England
in Canada; member and Secretary Board of Management, King’s College
School, Windsor, N.S.; member of Council, Halifax Board of Trade (1911-
14); President Commercial Club, Halifax (1914-15); member of the City
Club, Halifax, and also a member and Secretary (N.S.) of the Royal
Colonial Institute. Chairman Halifax Centre St. John Ambulance
Association; District Superintendent St. John Ambulance Brigade; Esquire,
Order of Hospital of St. John, December, 1917. In religion, a member of the
Church of England, and in politics a Conservative. Mr. Harris married, June
4, 1907, Ethel W., daughter of Edmund G. Smith, merchant, of Halifax, and
has two sons, R. Gordon Harris and Arthur St. G. Harris.

Sutherland, Donald (Ingersoll, Ont.), son of Robert Sutherland and
Elizabeth Hutchison, both born in the County of Oxford, of Scotch
parentage; born in West Zorra, Oxford County, April 8, 1863. Educated in
the local county schools. Married, April 22, 1896, to Minnie Pearl Hossack.
First elected to the council of North Oxford Township in 1896. Reeve
during 1897 and 1898; County Commissioner for the Town of Ingersoll,
North and West Oxford, 1901-2. Elected to represent South Oxford in the
Ontario Legislature at the general elections held on May 29, 1902. Election
unsuccessfully protested, re-elected at the general election, January 25,
1905. Seconded the address in reply to speech from the throne at the session
of 1907. Defeated by a small majority at the general election, June 8, 1908.
A candidate at the general election for the House of Commons on October
26 of the same year, and again defeated by a small majority. Appointed
director of Colonization and Immigration for the Province of Ontario by the
Whitney Government, March 10, 1909, when an active campaign was
entered upon in Great Britain by provincial officers to promote immigration
to the Province, and the system of advancing assisted passage to farm
laborers and domestic servants was adopted. Resigned as Director of
Colonization, August 8, 1911, to become a candidate for the House of
Commons at the general elections held on Sept. 21, 1911, in response to a
unanimous nomination tendered him by the Liberal-Conservative
Association of the Riding, when he was elected over the late representative,
and re-elected at the general elections held in December, 1917. Moved the
address in reply to the speech from the throne at the special war session of
August, 1914. Mr. Sutherland is a practical farmer, and extremely popular
with all classes. He was the first Conservative elected to represent the riding
in the Legislature, and also in the House of Commons. He is the father of
seven children, viz.: Robert Bruce, William Evans, Donald Baikie, James
Burleigh, John Angus, Jean Elizabeth and Olive Helen. The eldest, Robert
Bruce, enlisted at 17 years of age and went overseas with the 1st Canadian
Contingent, served at the front in France and Belgium, 1915-16, qualified
as pilot in the Royal Air Force and served in Egypt and Palestine under
Generals Murray and Allenby during 1917-18 until the end of the war;
promoted to a Captaincy and Flight Commander, and awarded the
Distinguished Flying Cross for conspicuous gallantry. William Evan also
enlisted at 18 years, and was a member of the R.A.F. at close of war. Mr.
Sutherland is a Presbyterian and a member of the Masonic Order.

McInenly, William, Electrical Contractor, was born at Sillery,
Quebec, January 20, 1874. He was educated at the Quebec Commercial
Academy from which he graduated in 1888. From 1889 to 1910 he was
engaged in the lumber business in Quebec, and in 1911 started in the
electrical machinery business in Ottawa, and at once became General-
Manager of the “Mac Electric Company,” whose works and offices are at
52 Queen Street, Ottawa. While the company has never undertaken the
wiring of residences, ordinary apartment houses, or accepted any like
contracts, it repairs anything electrical from an electric iron to a 500 horse-
power electric motor. Among the principal electrical contracts accepted by
the firm and carried out to completion are the New Ottawa Gas Company
plant, the Ottawa Electric Company’s new plant on Middle Street, and the
Ottawa Car Manufacturing Company plant on Albert Street. Every kind of
electrical machinery is built by the company—motors, dynamos,
generators, etc. Mr. McInenly is the son of the late James McInenly, lumber
merchant, and Ellen M. Paul. On June 19, 1901, he married Miss Norah
Ahearn, the daughter of the late Maurice Ahearn, who became distinguished
as an artist, and a brother of Thomas Ahearn, president of the Ottawa
Electric Railway Company, etc. He has four sons, James, Maurice, Bertram
and Thomas. He is Chairman of the Electrical Dealers and Contractors
Association of Ottawa, is a director of Weir & Company, Limited, Ottawa,
manufacturers of aerated waters; a director and secretary-treasurer of the
Simmons Printing Company, of Ottawa, and of the Ottawa Electrotype
foundry. He is connected with the following clubs: The Canadian,
Laurentian, Rideau Curling and Golf, and the Peckanoc Fish and Game. His
principal recreations are fishing and curling. In religion he is a Roman
Catholic. In politics, Independent. His residence is 439 Elgin Street,
Ottawa.

Belcourt, Hon. Napoleon Antoine, Senator (Ottawa). Parents,
Ferdinand Napoleon Belcourt and Marie-Anna Clair; profession, barrister-
at-law. Was born at Toronto, September 15, 1860. Educated at St. Joseph’s
Seminary, Three Rivers, in arts and Laval University in law. Graduated at
Laval in Law, Master of Laws, cum summa dignitate 1882. Admitted to the
Quebec Bar, July, 1882; Ontario Bar, September, 1884. Member of Law

Faculty, Ottawa University, since 1891. An LL.D. of Ottawa University
(1895); also LL.D. of Laval University. Crown Attorney for Carleton
County, June, 1894, to May, 1896. Resigned to become candidate for House
of Commons. K.C. in Ontario and Quebec Provinces. Founder and First
President of the Club National d’Ottawa, retaining that office for ten years
consecutively. Former Vice-President of Ontario Liberal Association; first
elected to House of Commons at general election, 1896; re-elected 1900,
and general election 1904, his majority being nearly 2,000. Elected Speaker
of the House of Commons, March 12, 1904, and sworn as Privy Councillor,
January 11, 1905. Resigned his seat in House of Commons and appointed to
the Senate November, 1907. First President, Ottawa Hunt Club; member,
Rideau Club, Ottawa; Reform Club, Montreal; Reform Club, Toronto;
University Club, Ottawa; President, Connaught Park Jockey Club of Ottawa
also member of Country and other Clubs. Married (1st) Jan. 29, 1889, to
Hectorine, eldest daughter of Hon. Jos. Shehyn; (2nd) Jan. 9, 1903, to Mary
Margaret Haycock, of Ottawa. Hon. Mr. Belcourt has taken a prominent
part since the inception of the war in promoting recruiting and in the work
of the Patriotic Fund, Red Cross and other kindred war activities. As leader
in the defence of the French language in the schools of Ontario he has on
the platform and in many pamphlets, as well as before the Courts of
Canada, and the Privy Council, earnestly and constantly labored for the
preservation and propagation of the French language in the Dominion and
for the development of a spirit of true national unity.

Ball, Emerson Ewart (Chesterville, Ont.), was born October 31,
1880, at the Village of Orono, in the County of Durham. Is the son of Edwin
Ball, of Islington, Ont. Educated at Willowdale Public School, Richmond
Hill High School, Toronto Junction High School and Humberside
Collegiate Institute. He then attended Toronto University, graduating in
1906 with honors in Modern Languages, and is now Principal of
Chesterville High School. Was married, July 22, 1908, to Cora M., daughter
of John Harris, of Whitevale, Ont., and is the father of two children:
Dorothy, born Mar. 2, 1910, and Gordon, born June 2, 1914. In religion Mr.
Ball is a Methodist and a member of Trinity Methodist Church,
Chesterville. In politics he is Independent. Member of Independent Order of
Oddfellows, Chesterville Lodge, No. 288.

Patterson, John Pratt, President and General Manager of Norris-
Patterson, Limited, Advertising Agency, 10 East Adelaide Street, Toronto,
Ontario, was a Councillor of the Town of North Toronto prior to its
annexation by the city, and is to-day a Justice of the Peace. Mr. Patterson is
a member of the National Club, the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, the Albany
Club, Rotary Club, Board of Trade, Canadian Club and Empire Club, all of
Toronto; in addition to York Lodge, A.F. & A.M., St. Paul’s Royal Arch
Chapter, the Scottish Rite and the Canadian Order of Foresters. He is an ex-
member of the Queen’s Own Rifles, a Liberal-Conservative in politics and a
member of the Church of England in religion. The subject of this sketch
was born in Toronto, August 18, 1874; the son of Thomas and the late Jane
Williams Patterson, receiving his education at Upper Canada College. He
married Millie, daughter of the late Richard Harold, of Palmerston, June 21,
1893, and had one son, Thomas Harold Patterson, since deceased.

McLean, Major-General Hugh Havelock, K.C., A.D.G., M.P.
(St. John, N.B.), son of Lauchlin McLean and Sophia Marsh. Born March
22, 1855, at Fredericton, N.B. Educated at the Grammar School there.
Married, September 2, 1879, to Jennie Porteous. Children: Colonel C. W.
Weldon McLean, D.S.O. (two bars), Commanding Divisional Artillery, 9th
Scottish Division, B.E.F,; W. W. McLean, who served through the war in
South Africa; Jennie Elise Stetson and Major Hugh H. McLean, Jr., C.E.F.
Is a Barrister-at-law, senior member of the firm of Weldon & McLean,
established in 1878. Has a large corporation counsel practice, being counsel
in New Brunswick for Canadian Bankers’ Association, Bank of Montreal,
Canadian Pacific Railway Company and a number of other companies. Is
President and Director of a number of railway and other companies. He has
been actively associated with the Militia for forty-five years. He was for
many years Captain and Adjutant of the 62nd St. John Fusiliers, and was in
command of that Regiment for a long period. In 1892 he was appointed to
the command of the 12th Infantry Brigade, a post which he retained until
January, 1911. He raised in 1911, in New Brunswick, a Regiment of
Cavalry of four squadrons (28th New Brunswick Dragoons), and was
gazetted to the command of this Regiment on March 1, 1911; in 1912,
appointed to command of Cavalry Brigade. In 1878, when war was

imminent between England and Russia, General McLean raised a company
of sixty men and offered his own and their services in case of war. For this
offer he received the thanks of the Imperial Government. In 1885 he was
appointed Captain and Adjutant of the Regiment raised in New Brunswick
and Prince Edward Island, for service in the North-West. In 1890 he went to
England in command of the Bisley Team. In December, 1899, he offered
himself and one hundred men for service in South Africa, the men to be
raised at his own expense, and to consist of guides and trappers. For this he
received the thanks of the General Officer Commanding. In October, 1901,
he was appointed to the command of all the troops in New Brunswick
assembled at St. John during the visit of his Royal Highness the Duke of
Cornwall and York. In the same month he was in command of a brigade at
the Royal Review, Halifax. He was in command of the Maritime Provinces
Brigade at the Tercentenary in Quebec in 1909. He has been President of
the Provincial Rifle Association since 1900, and has taken a very active
interest in rifle shooting. In 1905 he raised the St. Andrew’s Boys’ Brigade.
He is the Vice-President of Canada for the British and Foreign Sailors’
Society; was appointed by Earl Grey, Honorary A.D.C. Commanded the
troops sent from Canada to the Coronation of our present King and Queen.
For this service was promoted to the rank of full Colonel. At the
commencement of the war was appointed to the command of all Overseas
Troops in New Brunswick, and then to command of 7th Overseas Brigade.
Promoted Brig.-General, 1915; promoted Major-General, 1917. Is a
member of the following Clubs: Union Club, Cliff Club, St.John; Mount
Royal, Montreal; Rideau Club, Ottawa. First elected to Parliament, 1908,
and re-elected 1911 and 1917 for the constituency of Royal. A Unionist and
a Presbyterian. Gen. McLean is of Loyalist descent, and is an ardent
Imperialist.

Denton, Frank, K.C., D.C.L., of English (Yorks) origin, son of the
late William Denton, J.P., and Mary D. (Lucas) his wife, born at Richmond
Hill, York County, Ont., 1858, educated Richmond Hill and Orangeville
High School, Collingwood Collegiate Institute, Toronto Normal School,
Trinity University, B.C.L. 1883, D.C.L. 1893, and Osgoode Hall, Toronto.
Taught two years as English Master in Cobourg Collegiate Institute (when
affiliated with Victoria University). Married 1884, Elizabeth Clingan,

daughter of the late Fleming Clingan, J.P., of Orangeville. Has six children.
Called to the Bar in 1886, he practised his profession with distinction and
specialized as a Corporation and Commercial lawyer. Took silk in 1899,
having for years been head of the firm of Denton, Dunn & Boultbee (now
Denton, Grover & Macdonald). He acted for some time as City Solicitor of
Toronto. He has always taken a keen interest in public affairs, particularly
in education, serving for several years as President of the Board of Trustees
of the Toronto Collegiate Institutes. Has acted as delegate to the annual and
general conferences of the Methodist Church, of which he is a prominent
supporter. A fluent and eloquent public speaker, he has been a candidate
(Liberal) for the Federal Parliament. He is a member of the Masonic Order
(Past Master), and of the Canadian, National, Ontario and Rosedale Golf
Clubs. Recreations, golfing and curling. Address, 42 Admiral Road,
Toronto.

Chabot, Lt.-Col. John Leo, M.D., C.M., M.A. (Ottawa, Ont.), born
on February 23, 1869, at Ottawa. Son of P. H. Chabot and Marguerite
Ethier. Ancestors on father’s side were Normans, and one was Admiral,
under the first Napoleon. His maternal grandfather, Ethier, fought under
Drs. Nelson and Papineau in 1837. Educated at a Private Academy, Ottawa
University and McGill University, Montreal, successively, receiving the
Academic degrees of B.A., M.A., and M.D., C.M. Has successfully
practised his profession at Ottawa for a number of years. Is Senior Surgeon
of The Ottawa General Hospital, also Physician and Surgeon to the
University of Ottawa, and has been Police Surgeon of the City since 1900.
Has always taken a keen interest in athletics, believing that clean sports and
games make young men more healthy, manly and self-reliant. The doctor
has been an active supporter of the Canadian Militia, holding the rank of
Lt.-Col., R.M.S., and still member of the 5th Princess Louise Guards since
beginning of the war; has been acting as Officer Commanding, Ottawa
General Military Base Hospital; is an ex-President of the Old Chirurgical
Society; also of the Ottawa Medical Society and latterly of the Medico-
Chirurgical Society. Was Conservative Candidate in Ottawa against Sir
Wilfrid Laurier in 1898, and reduced the Liberal majority of 1,800 to 630.
First elected to the House of Commons as one of Ottawa’s representatives
at the general elections of 1911, and again returned in the general elections

in December, 1917, as Union Government supporting Win-the-War
candidate, defeating Sir Wilfrid Laurier by over 5,000. Is interested in
several industrial concerns and commercial enterprises. Married June 25,
1894, to Mary, daughter of the late Edward Devlin, of Ottawa, who died;
married in 1916 Miss Hope Brunel, daughter of W. H. Brunel, of Ottawa.
Dr. Chabot is a member of several clubs and societies, including Rideau
Club, Ottawa Golf Club, Knights of Columbus, Canadian Club, Royal
Arcanium, I.O.F., C.O.F., A.O.U.W., L. Institut Canadien, University Club,
Fish and Game Club, Honorary President Capital Lacrosse Club and City
Lacrosse League, and ex-President of C.A.A.A. Dr. Chabot is extremely
popular in his native city and has long occupied a prominent place in the
medical, military, political and athletic life of the Capital.

Cole, George M., President and Manager of the Plattsburgh Gas and
Electric Company, Plattsburgh, N.Y., U.S.A., was born at Brockville, Ont.,
December 31, 1862, his father being W. H. Cole. Receiving his early
education at the Brockville Public and High School, Mr. Cole migrated to
the United States in 1887 where, as a contractor, he was connected with the
construction of several early street railways in that country; building the
first in Columbia, South Carolina; Ansonia, Connecticut; and Newburgh,
New York; in addition to an extension to existing lines in Brooklyn, New
York. Two years later, in 1889, he purchased the Plattsburgh Gas Works in
partnership with a New York capitalist and became the Manager of the
business, which position he still occupies. So successful was the
undertaking that Mr. Cole was approached by the owners of the Plattsburgh
Electric Lighting Plant with the result that the two works were amalgamated
in 1890 and very considerably enlarged. By this time the old-fashioned
horse cars had become a thing of the past and George Cole obtained a
franchise for the construction of a modern street railway, which he built and
managed for some years in addition to supplying the necessary power for its
operation. This railway was later purchased by the Delaware & Hudson
Railway Co., the present owners. To-day the Gas and Electric Company
controls its particular field in Plattsburgh and vicinity, owning and
operating two water power developments on the Saranac River, which is the
outlet of the Upper and Lower Saranac Lakes, among the largest in the
Adirondacks. Mr. Cole married Emma, daughter of W. H. Chappel, in 1891,

by whom he has two sons, Eugene M. and Howard C. He is a member of
the Presbyterian Church and a Republican in politics. Among the societies
of which he is a member are Plattsburgh Lodge 828, A.F. &. A.M.,
Plattsburgh Chapter, No. 39, R.A.M., De Soto Cun. No. 49, K.T.,
Plattsburgh and Oriental Temple A.A.O.N.M.S., Troy, N.Y.

Charlton, William Granville, Editor and Publisher (Aylmer, Ont.),
the son of John R. and Emily J. Charlton, one of six children, one girl and
four boys, all living except one, was born in the Township of South
Dorchester, January 1, 1868; his earlier education took place at the St.
Thomas Collegiate Institute, going from there to the Transylvania
University, Lexington, Ky., and finally to Bethany College, Bethany, Va.,
where he graduated in 1893. He married Martha N. Black, the daughter of
Martha M. Wells, widow of the late Noris Black and has one daughter,
Eunice Eva Charlton, born May 13, 1901. Mr. Charlton was brought up on a
farm and has practically devoted his energies to farming most of his life,
and almost by his own efforts secured his education. He is a member of the
Church of Christ, and for twenty-seven years has preached the Gospel with
little intermission due only to illness. He is a great Bible School worker,
and has been preaching and teaching prohibition for thirty years, and happy
to be living to see the fruits of his labor in that direction. He has been
connected with newspaper work since January 1, 1916, when he became
editor and publisher of the “East Elgin Tribune.” In politics he is a Liberal
and in 1913 was chosen by that party as a candidate for Federal honors to
represent East Elgin at the next Dominion Elections.

Ball, Robert James, M.P. for South Grey, Ont. (Hanover, Ont.),
was born at Allan Park, Township of Bentinck, Ont., on Jan. 15, 1857. Is the
son of James Ball and his wife, Jane, formerly Jane Cain. Lived on his
father’s farm till eighteen years of age. Was educated at Hampden Public
School, Collingwood Collegiate Institute and Ottawa Normal School, from
which latter institution he graduated with a Second-class Teacher’s
Certificate, Grade A. On graduating, he taught school for ten years, then
spent five years as an accountant, three years as a private banker, and two
years in the life insurance business, when he became a furniture

manufacturer, which business he has carried on for twenty-two years. He is
managing director of the Ball Furniture Co., Limited, and also director in
Morlock Bros., upholsterers; he is also President of The Reliance
Investment and Developing Co., Ltd., of Hanover, Ont. Politically, Mr. Ball
has been very active, being three years Municipal Councillor of the Town of
Hanover, two years Commissioner for the County of Grey, two years Reeve
of the town of Hanover, and, in 1908, was Warden of the County of Grey. In
1908, he was Conservative candidate for South Grey against H. H. Miller,
and was defeated, but reduced Miller’s majority from 316 to 87. In 1911 he
was elected to the House of Commons over H. H. Miller by a majority of
48. Mr. Ball was married August 11, 1882, to Mary Jane, daughter of
Anthony and Mary Leonard, of the Township of Normanby, and is the
father of six children: Milton Leonard, Austin Elmer, Ethel May, Elma
Lilian, Captain Stanley Stafford Ball, M.D., and Mabel Lottie. He is a
member of the Masonic Order and also of the Independent Order of
Foresters. In religion he is a Methodist, and politically is a Liberal-
Conservative.

Coombs, Albert Ernest (St. Catharines, Ont.), son of John and
Susan Coombs. Was born on a farm near Richmond Hill in the County of
York, April 2, 1871. Educated at the public and high school of Richmond
Hill and at Toronto University, from which he received the following
degrees: B.A. with honors in classics, 1892; M.A., 1895, and B.Paed., 1897.
Principal Coombs began his teaching career in 1892 and was principal of
Richmond Hill High School, 1895-99. Principal of Newmarket High
School, 1899-1909, when he accepted the position of principal of St.
Catharines Collegiate Institute, which he now holds. He served three years
as examiner at Normal College, and set papers in History of Education and
School Management. Is a Past President of the Classical Association of
Ontario and has frequently acted as Association Examiner. Successively a
director, Horticultural and Agricultural Societies; member Town Council
and chairman Public Library Board, Newmarket. Has had considerable
experience as a lecturer on a variety of subjects. Was formerly in the Militia
and holds a Captaincy in the 19th Lincoln Regiment and served in that
capacity on the Welland Canal Protective Force in 1914. Has always been
opposed to the abolition of written examinations in our educational system,

and is a strong friend of the Boy Scout movement, being Boy Scout
Commissioner of St. Catharines district. Married in 1897, to Miss Beatrice
Elliott, daughter of the late Wm. Elliott, V.S., of Palmerston, Ont., and is the
father of three children: Alice, born 1899; Adele, born 1905; Margaret, born
1908. Is a member of the Canadian Club, St. Catharines, of which he is a
Past President; also is Past Master of the Maple Leaf Lodge, A.F. & A.M.,
St. Catharines, and Past Principal of Mount Moriah Chapter; Member of the
I.O.O.F. Principal Coombs was formerly a long-distance bicycle rider and
association football player. He now takes a lively interest in lawn bowling.
In religion he is a Methodist and a member of St. Paul Street Methodist
Church, St. Catharines. Politically, he may be classed as an Independent-
Liberal.

Anderson, James T. M., M.A., LL.B., D.Paed., Yorkton, Sask. One
of the many graduates of the Ontario “little red school-house” who have
achieved success in their chosen professions is Dr. James Thomas Milton
Anderson, M.A., LL.B., of Yorkton, Saskatchewan. Dr. Anderson, who has
won many scholastic honors, is at present inspector of schools for the
Yorkton district. Dr. Anderson was born at Fairbank, Ontario, July 23, 1878.
His parents were Mary and James Anderson and the present inspector of
schools had all the advantages of early life on a farm. One must consider it
an advantage when one remembers the sons of farmers who have gone to
the top in scholastic circles. The subject of this sketch began his education
at Public School, S.S. No. 15, York, and went from there to West Toronto
Collegiate Institute. Going west he won his degree of Bachelor of Arts at
the University of Manitoba in 1911, when he was Silver Medallist in
Classics. He gained his LL.B. at the same university in 1913, and his M.A.
in 1914, completing his preparation for his present work by graduating as
Doctor of Pedagogy in 1917. Dr. Anderson showed rare power of
concentration in study as these three degrees were obtained extra-murally
and he is also a medallist in penmanship and a clever cartoonist. His life for
the last ten years has been devoted to teaching and working among the
foreigners who have come to Canada’s great “melting pot.” Dr. Anderson is
intensely interested in the work of assimilation which means so much to
Canada’s future as a nation. He has published a number of articles on the
subject and a book on the “Education of the New-Canadian” (J. M. Dent &

Sons, Toronto). Dr. Anderson, whose mother resides in Saltcoats, Sask., was
married on July 26, 1911, to Edith, daughter of Mrs. M. Redgwick,
Grenfell, Saskatchewan, and has two children: Byron R., born October 10,
1913, and Edith Elaine, born March 31, 1917. In religion he is an Anglican,
a member of the Orange Order, and President of the School Inspectors’
Association of Saskatchewan.

Elliott, John Campbell, D.C.L., M.L.A. Middlesex West (Glencoe,
Ont.). Son of George Campbell (Irish descent), and Jane Elliott (Scotch
descent); both parents were born in Canada. Was born at Ekfrid Township,
Middlesex County, on July 25, 1872; educated at Ekfrid Public School,
Glencoe High School, and Trinity University, B.C.L. 1898, and Toronto
University, D.C.L. 1905. Mr. Elliott’s early days were spent on the farm
where he was born; he took a third-class certificate in 1890; second-class in
1891, and Matriculation 1892, and was called to the Bar in 1898, having
taken a high standard at the Law School at Osgoode Hall. First elected to
the Ontario Legislature at the general elections in 1908; re-elected 1911-
1914. He is a member of the Ontario Club, and the Masonic Order, of
which he was Past District Deputy, Erie District; of the Sons of Scotland
and the I.O.O.F. He is a member of the Baptist Church, and a Liberal in
politics. Mr. Elliott is recognized as a clever lawyer and an able speaker,
and enjoys the confidence and respect of the members on both sides of the
House. He is unmarried.

Bronson, Hon. Erskine Henry, was born at Bolton, Warren
County, New York, September 12, 1844. He is the son of the late Henry
Franklin and Edith (Pierce) Bronson, the one man who, coming to Ottawa,
Canada, in 1852, understood the feasibility of converting the large lakes and
furious and foaming falls of the Ottawa River into a channel for the driving
of saw-logs, and erecting mills on its banks, placed in operation a lumber
industry that soon had in its employ hundreds, and afterwards thousands of
employees. Having received a good education at Sandy Hill, N.Y., and at
the Grammar School, Ottawa, when quite a youth, the Hon. Erskine Henry
Bronson, joined his father’s company, The Bronson-Weston Lumber
Company, and in 1867 acquired an interest in the company. In 1870 he

became a member of the Ottawa City Council and chairman of the Finance
Committee, and continued as such until 1878, when he retired. For fourteen
years he was a member of the Ottawa School Board. He is ex-Trustee of
Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. Unlike his father, who never
interested himself in politics, in 1882 Mr. Bronson was an unsuccessful
candidate to the House of Commons for Carleton County, Ontario; but in
1886, having had presented to him a petition signed by thousands of the
best and most influential residents in the Capital urgently soliciting him to
become a candidate for the local Legislature, he consented to run and was
elected by a large majority, and re-elected at every succeeding election until
1898, when he retired from active political life. In 1890, September 10, four
years after he was first elected, he joined the Mowat Government without
Portfolio and held a similar position when the Hardy Government was
formed. Had he so desired he could probably have remained a member of
the local Legislature even to this date, as few, if any, in Ottawa were or are
more appreciated or ever received more popularity than the same Hon.
Erskine Henry Bronson. The poor of the city, to whom his firm in winter
time never failed to extend the helping hand in furnishing them with winter
fuel and in other ways, could never forget, nor overlook, his kindly and
substantial consideration of their needs and his name was, and is to-day,
cherished in every home. To others, with whom he came in contact, he was
always a valuable friend and counsellor, and his advice on financial and
other matters was eagerly sought and freely given. On his father’s decease
Mr. Bronson succeeded him as President of the Bronson-Weston Lumber
Company, in 1889. He was one of the inaugurators of the Ottawa Electric
Company. Mr. Bronson is President of the Bronson Company, Water Power
and Manufacturers of Ground Wood Pulp, 150 Middle Street, Ottawa;
President, Ottawa Improvement Company; Vice-President, Ottawa Light,
Heat & Power Company; President, Ottawa Power Company, and a director
of the Ottawa Electric Company. In 1874 Mr. Bronson married Ella H.
Webster, of Norfolk, Va. He has one son and one daughter. In religion he is
a Presbyterian. In politics, a Liberal. His residence is 75 Bronson Avenue,
Ottawa.

Bain, John, Journalist, private secretary, civil servant, promoter, and
now financial broker and departmental agent and customs specialist, Castle

Building, Ottawa, came to Canada in 1888 and engaged in law and
newspaper work. Later he was engaged as expert shorthand writer in the
New York law courts. When the Liberal Party was returned to power in
1896 he was appointed Private Secretary to the Minister of Customs, Hon.
Wm. Patterson, and accompanied the Minister to England in 1902, doing
the secretarial work there connected with the trade questions that were
discussed at the Colonial Conference. His services were also utilized in
connection with the trade negotiations with the French Government at Paris.
He held the position of Assistant Commissioner of Customs of Canada for
five years, and was Secretary of the Tariff Commission of 1906-07. He
promoted and organized the Canadian Western Natural Gas, Light, Heat and
Power Company, Calgary. He was appointed Imperial Trade Correspondent
for Ottawa District for the British Board of Trade in 1909. Although one of
the old, steadfast and prominent Liberals in the capital, he joined and
became active in the ranks of the Unionist Party during the general
elections in 1917, and, as publicity director, rendered valuable service to the
Unionist cause. His pithy paragraphs and pointed questions, such as “How
would the Kaiser Vote?” which were printed in the campaign literature and
in the press throughout Canada, attracted widespread attention and were
used with telling effect by the various public speakers during the campaign.
Mr. Bain is the son of Robert and Agnes Bain and was born at Paisley,
Scotland, June 8, 1869, where he received his education. April 5, 1899, he
married Maude Buckley, daughter of P. Buckley, Paris, Ontario, and has two
daughters—Audrey Maie, born 1900, and Alison Muriel, born 1903. In
politics Mr. Bain is a Liberal, in religion a Presbyterian. His residence is
167 James St. He is a member of the Laurentian Club, Ottawa, and the
Ranchman’s, Calgary.

De Celles, Alfred Duclos, LL.D., F.R.S.C., C.M.G., Chevalier of
the Legion of Honor, General Librarian of Parliament, was born at St.
Laurent, near Montreal, in 1844, and was educated at Laval University,
Quebec, where he graduated in letters. He is the son of Augustin D. De
Celles, a prominent notary, and Agnes Holmes, an American lady. Abbé
John Holmes, a noted preacher in Quebec, related to O. W. Holmes, was his
uncle. In October, 1876, he married Eugenie Dorion, daughter of Eugene
Dorion and Mary Panet, and has one son, Alfred Eugene De Celles. He is a

distinguished Canadian litterateur and publicist. For a time he was a
member of the Board of Civil Service Examiners. In 1867, Mr. De Celles,
on account of ill-health, left the Laval University to take up the editorial
chair of “Le Journal de Quebec” during Mr. Cauchon’s absence in Europe.
On the return of the latter he remained connected with the paper until 1872,
when he entered the “Minerve”, chief Conservative paper of the province of
Quebec, as editor-in-chief. He remained there until 1880, when he was
appointed assistant librarian of the Parliamentary Library of Ottawa. In
1886, he became joint librarian with Mr. Martin J. Griffin. For several years
after he entered the Library he had charge of “L’Opinion Publique,” a
weekly paper published in Montreal, chiefly devoted to literature and
history. Mr. De Celles, in 1896, published a History of the United States
under the following title: “Les Etats-Unis, origine—institutions—
development.” For this work he received a prize from the Academie des
Sciences Morales et Politiques of France. A few years later he wrote in
English, the Life of Papineau and Cartier, in “The Makers of Canada.” This
work was subsequently published in French, in an enlarged form, together
with a Life of Cartier, the three volumes forming a political history of
Canada. Reviewing Mr. De Celles’ Papineau, the London “Outlook” (Jan.
13, 1906) summed up this work as follows: “Mr. De Celles has traced this
out through the quarter of a century in which Papineau was the most
brilliant, if not the most wise figure in French-Canadian politics, with the
natural sympathy of a compatriot, though by no means without due
recognition of his hero’s failings. . . . He has given us an admirable picture
of a strange and picturesque career. Everyone has heard of Papineau, and
most Canadians have some idea of his achievements, but little probably of
his personality.” Mr. De Celles has also contributed to “Canada and Its
Provinces,” a synopsis of the History of Quebec under Confederation and
an extensive history of colonization under this title: “The Habitant”: and an
outline of the municipal system in Lower Canada. He has contributed to
The Chronicles of Canada the “Patriotes of 1837,” a history of the Canadian
Rebellion. In 1904, he was named Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur, and in
1907 received the title of C.M.G. In 1884, he was received Member of the
Royal Society, and since 1903 he has occupied the post of President of
l’Alliance Française. Mr. De Celles is in religion a Catholic, and he resides
in Ottawa.

Evanturel, Gustave, M.P.P. for Prescott Co. (Alfred), was born
March 19, 1880, at Ottawa, son of the Hon. Alfred Evanturel and Louisa
Lee. Father was Speaker of the Ontario Legislature from 1898 to 1902 and
Minister in the Ross Government from Nov. 22, 1904, to Jan. 25, 1905.
Educated at Bourget College, Rigaud, and Seminaire de Ste. Therese, P.Q.,
and Laval University, from which latter institution he graduated with the
degree of B.L. Married, Sept. 26, 1910, Marie Emelia, daughter of the late
Paul Chevrier, of Vaudreuil. Notary public by profession; was President of
L’Alliance Nationale, a mutual life insurance company of the Court of
Alfred, which is called “Cercle Evanturel.” Mr. Evanturel has taken an
active part in politics since the age of 17 years, especially in the County of
Prescott, which his father represented from 1884 until 1905, being the first
French-Canadian to enter the Ontario Legislature, the first representative of
that race to be Speaker of the Ontario Assembly, and the first French-
Canadian to enter the Ontario Government as Cabinet Minister. The subject
of this sketch was first returned to the Ontario Legislature to represent the
County of Prescott on December 11, 1911, with a majority of 284, and re-
elected on June 29, 1914, over two opponents by an increased majority of
350, defeating the Conservative candidate by over 1,000. Was Civil Servant
in the Privy Council Department in 1908, and, on his election as a member
for Prescott County, when he succeeded his late father, was the youngest
member of the Assembly. He is an eloquent speaker in both French and
English, and has been a strong supporter of bi-lingualism on the floor of the
Ontario Legislature, being the first member of the House to open the
discussion on the bi-lingual school question during the Session of the
Legislature in the years 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916. He has all the fire
and dash of his race and is extremely popular on both sides of the House,
and throughout Eastern Ontario, where he is well known.

Fraleck, Edison Baldwin, was born in the township of Sydney in
the County of Hastings on the 6th day of February, 1841, being descended
from United Empire Loyalist stock. His grandfather, Lewis Fraleck, a
Loyalist, came to Canada; his father, Thomas Tillotson Fraleck, served on
the Loyalist side throughout the whole period of the war 1812-15, being
engaged on the Niagara Peninsula. His maternal grandfather was Robert
Nicholson, a native of Aberdeen, Scotland, and a Major in a Highland

Regiment, served throughout the American Revolutionary War; came to
Canada about 1793. The subject of this sketch was educated at the Public
and High schools and Queen’s University, Kingston, from which he
graduated with the degree of B.A. in 1863, and was called to the Bar 1868.
Successfully practised his profession at Belleville for many years and was
appointed Junior Judge for the County of Hastings on December 28, 1881,
which office he filled for some thirty-five years, when he retired. Was
revising officer for East and West Hastings, and a Judge of the Surrogate
Court for the County of Hastings for ten years, and a member of Queen’s
University Council for over twenty-five years. Served as Lieutenant in the
49th Regiment 1868-74, and retired retaining rank. He was noted as a
strong and active writer on all political subjects before his elevation to the
Bench. Being a keen sportsman, taking a lively interest in hunting, fishing,
camping and canoeing, Judge Fraleck contributed frequently to the
“Canadian Magazine,” “Canada Sportsmen,” “Forest and Stream,” the
result of his experience. He has always been an ardent Imperialist and
Protectionist. Judge Fraleck has won distinction as a ready and fluent
speaker, and rendered splendid services as such during the Confederation
campaign and subsequently. Married August 14, 1874, to Jane E., daughter
of William Judd, of Stirling, County of Hastings, and five children were the
result of the union: Ernest Leigh (died 1909), Charles Cecil, Madeliene,
Jessie, and Helen. He is a member of the Masonic Order and Orange Order,
and in religion is a Presbyterian. Politically, the Judge was before his
elevation to the Bench, a member of the Conservative Party.

Davey, James (Ottawa, Ont). The Ottawa Manager of The Toronto
General Trusts Corporation; has been with the Company since it was first
established by the late J. W. Langmuir, in the spring of 1882, and was its
first accountant. In April, 1917, he celebrated the 35th anniversary of his
connection with the company. In length of service he is the oldest Canadian
trust company officer. He has been manager of the Ottawa branch of
Toronto General Trusts Corporation since 1905. Mr. Davey arrived in
Canada in March, 1882, after having been for nearly ten years in the
accountant’s office of one of the largest newspaper publishing houses in the
West of England. For a period of 15 years he was chief accountant of The
Toronto General Trusts Corporation, afterwards occupying the position of

secretary for several years. Subsequently he was placed in charge, for a
period of three years, of one of the largest loan company liquidations in
Canada. In January, 1902, Mr. Davey was appointed manager of the newly
opened branch of The Toronto General Trusts Corporation in Winnipeg, and
in January, 1905 (shortly after the Corporation purchased the business of
the Ottawa Trust and Deposit Company), Manager at Ottawa. Mr. Davey
was born in Alderney, Channel Islands, on September 15, 1855, and was
educated at the National Schools, Alderney, and the Grammar School,
Lostwithiel, Cornwall, England. His parents were James Davey and Mary
Anne Davey. He married Caroline Grace Gerrans, daughter of Joseph
Gerrans and Mary Gerrans, Cornwall, England, and is the father of six sons
and daughters—Joseph Frederick, Marion Elizabeth, Herbert Gerrans (now
deceased), Thomas Deslandes, Caroline Grace, Lillian James. Mr. Davey is
a member of the Laurentian Club, Ottawa, is a Methodist in religion, and an
Independent in politics. He resides at 430 Maclaren Street, Ottawa.

Tremeear, William J. (Pasadena, Cal.), Counsellor-at-Law, a native
of Bowmanville, Ont., received his primary education at the public and high
schools at Oshawa, Ont., and matriculated at Toronto University in the class
of 1881, taking honors in mathematics and modern languages. He
afterwards attended the law school of Osgoode Hall, Toronto, and was
admitted to the Ontario Bar in 1886, and practised in Toronto until 1918,
when he removed to Pasadena, Cal., to take up legal literary work. He is the
author of several legal works of recognized authority, amongst them three
editions of an annotated Criminal Code of Canada. He is a member of the
Masonic Order, the Knights of Pythias and the I.O.F.

Col. C.A. Hodgetts, Ottawa
R.A. Stapells, Toronto

Briggs, William, D.D. (Toronto, Ont.), was born in Banbridge,
County Down, Ireland, educated in Liverpool, England, and came to
Canada in 1859. He preached successfully in Montreal, London, Cobourg,

Belleville and Toronto. In 1879 he was appointed Book Steward of the
Methodist Book and Publishing House, a position he holds until July, 1919,
when, in conformity with a recent enactment placing an age limit on all
Methodist General Conference officials, he became Book Steward
Emeritus. Under his management great progress has been made, and the
Book Room is, without a doubt, one of the most profitable publishing
houses in Canada to-day. It has grown year after year on a steady basis, and
the large number of employees engaged is an indication that business must
be going on regularly to carry a staff numbering in the hundreds. The
mechanical departments are manned with all the latest devices in machinery
and everything has been so arranged that the largest publication can be
turned out on the very shortest notice. To successfully carry so large an
institution means that great care is exercised by the management. Among
the trade throughout Canada, Dr. Briggs is credited as being one of the most
economic and shrewd managers connected with the business. The name of
William Briggs is a household word throughout the Dominion and wherever
he goes at the week end to supply a pulpit he is always greeted with large
congregations. The degree of D.D. was conferred upon him by Victoria
University. He is a member of the Toronto Board of Trade.

Gibbons, John Joseph, Advertising Counsel (Toronto, Ont.), has
taken a special interest in Patriotic work in connection with the Great War;
being a member of the Organization of Resources Committee (Ontario), the
Toronto and York County Patriotic Association, the Canadian Red Cross
Society, the Belgian Relief Association, and the Canadian War Contingent
Association. He is Vice-President of the Ontario Motor League; as also a
member of the National Club, the R.C.Y.C. of Toronto; and the Brantford,
Lambton and Caledon Clubs. Mr. Gibbons was born in Boston, Mass.,
March 15, 1877, and married, May 12, 1909, Helen E., daughter of James
G. Cockshutt, founder of the Cockshutt Plow Co., Brantford, Ont., by
whom he has three children—Kathleen, Mary and John Cockshutt. His
recreation is golf.

Bachand, Leonide Charles, M.D. (Sherbrooke, Que.), son of the
late J. C. Bachand, N.P. Registrar County of Bagot, Quebec, and nephew of

Hon. P. Bachand, ex-Treasurer Province of Quebec. Was born at St. Pie,
P.Q., October 6, 1854, educated at St. Hyacinthe and Victoria College,
Montreal; graduated Victoria University, Cobourg, with degree of M.D.,
1878; married, October 6, 1878, to Marie Agnes Georgine, daughter of late
H. O. Camirand, of Sherbrooke, P.Q. Practised his profession at Coaticook,
where he was mayor, President of Board of Trade, Chairman of School
Commissioners, and also editor and co-proprietor of L’Etoile de l’Est;
removed to Sherbrooke, 1899; elected Mayor there, 1908; appointed
Coroner District of St. Francis; President of Medical Board of the
Sherbrooke St. Vincent Hospital; Specialist in eye, ear, nose and throat. Is
father of three sons, viz.: Dr. J. D. Bachand, of St. Johnsbury, C. E.
Bachand, Joint Prothonotary, Sherbrooke, and Leonidas Bachand, Notary
Public, and Secretary Board of Trade, Sherbrooke. Dr. Bachand is a Roman
Catholic in religion, and formerly was a Liberal in politics.

Denis, J. Wilfred (Nicolet, Quebec), son of Drendonne Denis, was
born at St. Cuthbert, Cte. Berthier, January 21, 1871. Educated at the
College of Joliette and Laval University, Montreal, graduating with the
degree of B.A. Mr. Denis is a Notary Public and Registrar and Prothonotary
of the Supreme Court. He has been married twice and is the father of four
children, viz.: Berthe, Germaine, Jeanne and Laure. He is a Roman Catholic
in religion, and politically a Liberal.

Eddis, Wilton C. (Toronto, Ont.), born in London, England, on
September 15, 1855, and educated at Merchant Taylors School, Mr. Eddis
has been a resident of Toronto for many years and is a prominent Chartered
Accountant, holding the degrees of F.S.A.A. and F.C.A. He married
Florence I., daughter of John Wyndham, of Dalwood, New South Wales, in
1883, and is the father of the following children: John Wyndham, Charles
Sheppard, Dorothy Wyndham, Mrs. Muriel Greenwood, Mrs. Margaret
Green, Mrs. Esther Lane. He is a member of the following clubs: Albany,
Toronto Chess Club, Royal Canadian Yacht Club, also St. George’s Society
and the Board of Trade, Toronto. In religion he is a member of the Church
of England and a Conservative in politics. Mr. Eddis is also Justice of the
Peace. His favorite recreation is chess.

Bowes, James Leslie Llewellyn (Toronto, Ont.), Merchant, was
educated at Oakwood Public School, Lindsay Collegiate Institute, and
Toronto University. After graduating from the latter, he started in the
wholesale produce business in 1902, with the firm of J. A. McLean Produce
Co., Ltd., of which he assumed the management three years later. More
recently he formed the Bowes Co., Ltd., which took over the parent
business as a going concern and in addition to its produce business,
developed the largest baker, confectioners, and ice cream manufacturers
supply business in Canada. Its connections extend from Halifax to
Vancouver, and they are both exporters and importers from all parts of the
world, besides manufacturing many lines supplied to its own trade. Mr.
Bowes was born in Oakwood, Ont., on February 26, 1877, the son of
Margaret Ellen and Thomas Bowes, farmer, live stock dealer and exporter.
He married Gladys Lansdowne, daughter of W. F. Barber, Guelph, Ont.,
September 22, 1908, by whom he has two children, Margaret Frances, born
1909, and Thomas Howard, born 1913. He is a member of the Royal
Canadian Yacht Club, Scarboro Golf and Country Club, Thistle Team
Bowling Club, and Cold Creek Trout Club. In politics he is a Liberal, and in
religion a Methodist.

Thomson, Levi (Wolseley, Sask.), Member of Parliament for
Qu’Appelle, Sask., is the son of John Thomson and Sarah McMillan,
formerly of Scotland. He was born near Hillsburgh, in Erin Township,
Ontario, February 17, 1855, and was educated in common school and
Rockwood Academy. After legal studies in Toronto he emigrated to the
North-West Territories in 1882, and engaged in farming near Wolseley,
Sask., where he now resides. Twelve years later Mr. Thomson commenced
the practice of law at Wolseley and was appointed Crown Prosecutor in
1897, which position he resigned seven years later, but became Agent of the
Attorney-General of Saskatchewan for Moosomin Judicial District in 1906.
The future legislator was not long in making himself felt in the public life
of his community, being elected a member of the Wolseley Rural
Municipality in 1887, an office which he resigned after three years’ term
only to become Councillor of the Town of Wolseley in 1902-3, and finally
Mayor, in 1904. In the same year Levi Thomson was the Liberal Candidate

for the Dominion House in Qu’Appelle constituency, but was defeated by
the narrow margin of 28 votes. Contesting Wolseley constituency for the
Saskatchewan Legislature a year later he was unsuccessful by the even
smaller majority of 20; but finally achieved his ambition in 1911, being
returned to the Federal House for Qu’Appelle, with a handsome majority.
Despite political activities, Mr. Thomson has always retained his interest in
farming and was the first President of the Wolseley Agricultural Society
when it was organized in 1885, retaining office for three years, and also
Vice-President of the Grain Growers’ Association of Saskatchewan in 1907.
At present he is extensively engaged in farming on his own account,
specializing in grain and the raising of Clydesdale and grade horses. In
1884 Mr. Thomson married Mabel Maud, daughter of the late Hon. W. D.
Perley, by whom he has five children, Harold F., born in 1885; Allen P., in
1888; Edwin E., in 1890; Florence M., in 1896, and Arthur M., in 1901.
Since 1908 he has been a member of the Board of Governors of
Saskatchewan University, and he is also a member of the Independent
Order of Foresters and the Royal Templars of Temperance. In religion Mr.
Thomson is a Disciple of Christ or Christian.

Brock, Lieut.-Col. Henry, son of William Rees Brock, M.P., and
Margaret Anna Diamond. He was born at Guelph, Ont., May 14, 1859.
Educated at Upper Canada College and The University of Toronto. B.A.,
B.C.L., D.C.L. Married, June 16, 1891, Anna Maude Cawthra, daughter of
Henry Cawthra, “Yeadon Hall,” Toronto, Barrister-at-Law. One child living,
Mildred Cawthra Brock. Is a Barrister-at-Law and for many years practised
in Toronto as a member of the firm of Cassels, Brock, Kelley &
Falconbridge. Elected a Director of the W. R. Brock Company, Limited, in
1904. Succeeded his father as President in 1918. Director of The Western
and British America Fire Insurance Companies, The British America Coal
Co., and President of The Stanstead Granite Quarries Company, Limited.
Was a Member of the Council of the Toronto Board of Trade for eight years
and President in 1913. On Council of Ontario Associated Boards of Trade
since its foundation in 1911; President of the Canadian Military Institute,
1916, 1917, 1918. An advisory member of the Council of The Aviation
Club of Canada. In religion he is an Anglican and for many years has been
Churchwarden of St. James’ Cathedral. Lieut.-Col. Henry Brock has had a

long period of service in the Canadian Militia and at the time of his
retirement from the Command of the 10th Royal Grenadiers to take a Staff
appointment as Chief Recruiting Officer in Toronto was one of the Senior
Militia Officers in Canada on Active Service. He joined the University
Company, Queen’s Own Rifles, in July, 1877, and was appointed a
Lieutenant in October, 1882; Captain, November, 1888. He served as a
Lieutenant in the North-West Rebellion, 1885, was mentioned in despatches
for distinguished conduct in the field, and received the Medal and Clasp. In
1891 he was posted to the Reserve of Officers and in 1897 was appointed to
the 10th Royal Grenadiers as Captain, becoming Brevet Major in 1899,
Senior Major in 1907, Brevet Lieut.-Colonel in 1912, and took over the
Command of the Regiment in 1913. He volunteered for active service for
the Nile Expedition in 1886, and for South Africa in 1899. Received Long
Service Decoration in 1907. For the late European Campaign he
volunteered for active service “in any position the authorities thought him
fit for.” Appointed Chief Recruiting Officer for Toronto, July, 1915; Chief
Recruiting Officer 2nd Military District, October, 1915; Director of
National Service 2nd Military District, September 30, 1916. Member of
Selective Tribunal under Military Service Act, October, 1917. Recreations:
Reading and, formerly, rifle shooting and riding, cricket and football.
Clubs: The Toronto Club, Toronto Hunt, University Club, Canadian
Military Institute, Toronto; The Constitutional Club, London, England.
Residences: 174 St. George Street, Toronto, and Park Place, Oakville.

Fraser, George B., Dry Goods Merchant (Montreal, Que.), was born
at Strichen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, September 29, 1854, and was
educated in the Old Deer Parish School. He married Rebecca, daughter of
John Morrison, Montreal, May 11, 1880, their children being Helen Edith
and James Morrison Fraser. As a Director of Greenshields, Ltd., Montreal,
he is actively engaged in the largest and oldest dry goods house in Canada.
He is also a Director of the Bank of Montreal, the Standard Life Assurance
Company and Hudson’s Bay Insurance Company. Mr. Fraser’s public
offices include the following: Member of the Montreal Board of Trade,
President of the Grace Dart Memorial Hospital, Vice-President of the
McKay Institute for the Deaf and Dumb, Life Governor of the Montreal
General Hospital, Member of the Board of Management and Life Governor

of the Western Hospital, Montreal. He is a member of the St. James,
Montreal and Canadian Clubs, Forest and Stream Club, and of St. Andrew’s
Society. Is a Presbyterian in religion and a Liberal in politics. His chosen
recreation is golf.

Brock, William Rees, the late, was born on February 14, 1836, in the
Township of Eramosa, near Guelph, Ontario. His father Thomas Rees
Brock, was of an ancient English family who were landed proprietors near
Colchester in the County of Essex. His mother was Eleanor Thompson,
daughter of Thomas Thompson, of Rusheen, Queen’s County, Ireland. The
young couple, aged respectively 17 and 21 years, were married at the Parish
Church in Guelph and after the ceremony rode on horseback to their new
home five miles away in “the wild woods.” After a few years of life on the
farm Mr. Brock was persuaded that a man of his education and attainments
could do better in the town and he removed to Guelph where he held
several appointments as Town Auditor, Secretary of the School Board,
Superintendent of the Government Road and Surrogate Court Clerk. In the
fall of 1850, while out shooting in the woods, he was accidentally shot and
died at his residence, Park Place, a few days afterwards, aged thirty-eight
years, leaving his widow with nine children surviving. The stone house he
built on the York Road is still standing. The subject of this sketch was the
second child and eldest son. He immediately left the Guelph Grammar
School and went into the law office of the Hon. Ferguson Blair, where he
remained about a year, deciding to enter commercial life, in which he
achieved so conspicuous a success. His first employment was in a general
store in Caledonia. About 1854 he located in Toronto, being engaged with
Scott & Laidlaw. He married on the 23rd of September, 1857, Margaret
Anna, second daughter of Captain John Segur Diamond, formerly of
Clonenagh, Queen’s County, Ireland, who came to Canada in 1834, and
served through the rebellion of 1837 as Adjutant of the 2nd Gore Regiment.
Capt. Diamond was at one time in the Royal Irish Constabulary and after
his arrival in this country was engaged in business with Colonel Chisholm,
of Oakville, and others, as lumbermen and vessel owners. He had died some
nine years previously to his daughter’s marriage. After his marriage, Mr.
Brock went into business in Guelph, but later sold out and entered the
service of McArthur & Co., of Bowmanville, where he remained about

four-and-a-half years, subsequently went to Ogilvy & Co., Montreal,
wholesale merchants, was English buyer for that firm for some years; was
made a partner and came to Toronto in 1871, and opened Ogilvy &
Company’s Toronto branch. In 1877, in partnership with his brother, J. H.
Brock, he started the business of W. R. Brock & Brother, at the corner of
Bay and Wellington Streets, Toronto. In 1879 a partnership was formed
with Messrs. F. Wyld and H. W. Darling, as Wyld, Brock & Darling. Mr.
Darling retired in 1883, and Mr. Wyld in 1887. The firm of W. R. Brock &
Company was turned into a joint stock company in 1897. The Montreal
branch was started in 1899, and the branch at Calgary in 1905. Besides
being President of the W. R. Brock Company, Ltd., he was a director of the
Dominion Lands Colonization Co., the British Canadian Loan and
Investment Co., Toronto Electric Light Co., Electrical Development Co.,
Ontario Accident Insurance Co., Toronto General Trust Corporation and the
Dominion Bank. He was also President of the British American and
Western Assurance Companies, the Stanstead Granite Quarries Company,
London Electric Light Company, and the Canadian General Electric
Company. Mr. Brock was one of the founders of the “Empire” newspaper,
Toronto, and served as President of the company until its amalgamation
with “The Mail” in 1895. For years he was President of the Toronto
Conservative Association and sat in the House of Commons for Centre
Toronto in the Conservative interest from 1900 to 1904. Mr. Brock was also
a director and a leading spirit in many philanthropic organizations. He was
a founder and President of the Toronto Humane Society, a life member of
the Council of Trinity University and of Upper Canada College, and
benefactor of both institutions. He was a member of the congregation of St.
James’ Cathedral, and from 1883 to 1890 was a churchwarden. His clubs
were: Toronto Club, York Club, Albany Club, Toronto Hunt Club, Toronto;
The Rideau Club, Ottawa; and St. James’ Club, Montreal. His surviving
children are Lt.-Col. Henry Brock, Lt.-Col. R. A. Brock, Mr. W. L. Brock,
and the Misses Lilian, Gertrude, and Muriel Brock. Mr. Brock died at his
residence, 21 Queen’s Park, Toronto, on November 1, 1917. He was almost
eighty-two years of age, and actively engaged in business up to within a
few days of his death. Although advanced in years Mr. Brock retained his
keen business acumen right through and served to the last in an advisory
capacity to the directors of the W. R. Brock Company. By virtue of
exceptional ability, organizing genius, hard work, adaptability, generosity

and an appreciative attitude toward those in his employment, he was able to
develop one of the outstanding mercantile houses of the Dominion. He held
the esteem of the merchants in practically all the primary markets of the
world. In Canadian industry he was declared to be an international figure.
The memory of William Rees Brock will long live as a man noted for his
commercial integrity, splendid philanthropy, and public enterprises. He was
endowed with a winning personality, and his influence in public affairs was
always for good. He was a staunch supporter of British Connection, and
believed in promoting closer trade relations between Canada and the
Mother Country. He lived a long, useful, and upright life, an inspiration to
others, who would merit the approval of their fellows, and the close of a
career so full of years and honors was regarded as a public loss.

THE LATE M. F. BEACH

Dwyer, William Henry, President of W. H. Dwyer Co., Ltd., general
grain and produce dealers and exporters, 49 Metcalfe Street, Ottawa, is one
of the capital’s busiest and most active men. His early life was spent on the
farm at Thurso, Que., entered the employ of W. C. Edwards & Company,
Limited, at Rockland, Ont., in 1882, to learn the lumber business, in whose
employ he remained until May, 1890, when he left this company and

removed to Thurso, Que., where he operated, successfully, a steam ferry
and cartage business, which developed in 1902 into a hay and grain
business, in a small way. The growth of this business made it necessary in
1898 for him to move to Ottawa. The increased business, occasioned
principally by the South African War in 1900 and 1901, made it necessary
to form a limited company, viz., the W. H. Dwyer Co., Ltd., which was
formed in 1901, and since that time has developed to such an extent that
some years ago offices were opened at Montreal and Fort William and, in
1917, a subsidiary company was formed in Winnipeg under the name of
McGaw-Dwyer, Limited, to take care of the Western business. Mr. W. H.
Dwyer was born at Bell’s Corners, County of Carleton, Ontario, May 6,
1861. He is the son of Dennis and Jane (Hall) Dwyer, and was educated at
Thurso, Quebec. In 1885 he married Sara McDonald, Cumberland, Ontario,
and has four daughters. He is President the Dwyer Elevator Co., President
and Managing Director the Slinn-Shouldis Co., Ltd., Ottawa; President
Forwarders, Ltd., Ottawa; Vice-President the Saskatchewan Lumber Co.,
Ottawa; Vice-President Prince Rupert Timber and Lumber Co., Ottawa;
Vice-President and Managing Director Continental Bag and Paper Co.,
Ottawa; Vice-President Lawrence Dairy Supply Co., Ottawa; Vice-President
Ottawa Contractors, Ltd., Ottawa; Director McKellar Townsite, Ltd.,
Ottawa; Vice-President McGaw-Dwyer Co., Ltd., Winnipeg; Vice-President
J. W. Hennessy, Incorporated, Buffalo, N.Y. For the years 1913-1914 he
was President of the Ottawa Board of Trade, and is a life Governor of the
Protestant Hospital. He has supported the Red Cross and Patriotic causes in
many ways during the war. He is a member of the Laurentian, Canadian and
Rivermead Clubs. In politics he is Independent. In religion a Methodist, and
his address is 91 McLaren Street, Ottawa, Ontario.

Bristow, Michael George, son of the late Rev. Ernest Bristow, of St.
Paul’s Cathedral, London, England, arrived in Ottawa in 1893. He was born
at Bath, England, in 1879, where his mother still resides. His brother, Rev.
Walter Bristow, soon after the opening of hostilities in the Great War
brought about by Germany’s treachery, became Chaplain with the Imperial
forces and started for France, while his sister Ethel offered her services and
started to do her share as a nurse in a Military Hospital in France. In 1892
Mr. Bristow made Ottawa his home and took a position in the Civil Service.

Ambitious, and feeling that such employment did not offer sufficient
possibilities, he resigned and went into the typewriter business. Success
crowned his first efforts and he built up a large volume of trade. In 1897
Mr. Bristow became the representative in Ottawa, Ont., of the Underwood
Typewriter and dealer in typewriters’ supplies. He was one of Ottawa’s
best-known business men. Being a lover of music, and possessing a fine
voice, soon after his arrival in Ottawa Mr. Bristow became a member of St.
John’s Anglican Church choir and, later, its president, and always, when
solicited, freely gave his services as a singer for patriotic and charitable
purposes. He was an all-round athlete, and gained fame in cricket and
bowling; was the founder of the Ottawa Cricket Club, and president of the
Bowling Club at Chelsea, Quebec; also president of the Chelsea Athletic
Association. In 1905 he won the Massey-Harris Cup for all Canada in the
National Tennis Competition, in which he represented the Ottawa Tennis
Club. With marked ability as an amateur minstrel he organized and was
head of a local Minstrel troop that has already given many concerts of
exceeding merit. He was president of the Orpheus Glee Club, and a
prominent member of the Masonic Order Sports. Before the departure of
the 207th Battalion for Overseas he arranged a big concert for its benefit. To
other organizations he rendered similar services, and was elected President
of the War Veterans’ Choral Society. In 1897 he married Beatrice Bristow,
daughter of Arthur Bristow, who came from England and joined the
Dominion Civil Service. Three children have blessed the union—Joan,
Reggie and Marjorie. Mr. Bristow died on December 19, 1917.

Braithwaite, Edward Ernest (London, Ont.), President of Western
University, son of Mark Mell Braithwaite and Elizabeth Eckardt; born at
Unionville, Ont., March 14, 1865. Educated at Markham High School and
Toronto University, McGill University, B.A. (with first class honors in
Philosophy, ’86), Oberlin College, Ohio, (B.D., ’90), University of
Chicago, and Harvard University, where he obtained the degree of M.A.,
1901, and Ph.D., 1904. Married, November 10, 1892, to Ida Minnie Van
Camp, daughter of Rev. Albert and Isabella Van Camp, of Cleveland, Ohio.
Is the father of the following children: Harold Albert, born August 28, 1893;
Lloyd Mell, born October 22, 1896; Ernest Scott, born December 8, 1899;
Percy Bryant, born March 9, 1905; Carol Isabel, born December 25, 1906.

Dr. Braithwaite is a noted educationalist, and has occupied many important
positions in the prominent seats of learning in Canada and the United
States, and has also filled many pastorates, among which may be mentioned
the following: 1890-95, Pastor St. Louis, Mo. (Fountain Park
Congregational Church); 1896-97, Graduate Student University of Chicago
(working mainly with that eminent teacher, the late President Harper in the
Department of Oriental Languages); 1897-1900, Pastor Tabernacle Church,
Yarmouth, N.S., and Chairman of the Congregational Union of the
Maritime Provinces, also Missionary Superintendent for the Provinces of
Nova Scotia and New Brunswick; 1900-1901, began Ph.D. course in the
Graduate Department of Harvard University, and at the end of the first year
was called to Oberlin owing to the illness of Hebrew Professor. Returned to
Harvard University the following year; 1901-02, Acting Professor of
Hebrew and Old Testament Literature, Oberlin College, Ohio; 1902-03,
Graduate Student, Harvard University, from which he received the degree
of Ph.D. in 1904 and was appointed Williams Fellow; 1903-08, Pastor of
West Somerville, Mass.; 1908-11, Pastor of Northern Church, Toronto;
1912-13, Dean of Calgary College, Calgary, Alberta; 1914, was appointed
President of the Western University of London, which position he now
holds. Dr. Braithwaite is a member of the Rotary and Canadian Clubs, and
has been a Liberal in politics although not especially identified with any
parties. He is Chairman of the Military Committee of the C. O. T. C. of the
Western University and takes great interest in Military matters and all
amateur sports. He is also one of the Board of Directors of the London
Chamber of Commerce and several other local organizations.

Bell, John Howatt, M.A., K.C., Barrister, Summerside, Prince
Edward Island; was born at Cape Traverse, Prince Edward Island, on the
13th of December, 1846. His father, Walter Bell, emigrated from Dumfries,
Scotland, in 1820, and settled at Cape Traverse. His mother was Elizabeth
Howatt, daughter of Adam Howatt. Mr. Bell received his education at the
Prince of Wales College, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, and at
Albert University, Belleville, Ont., at which latter institution he took the
degrees of B.A. and M.A. He studied law as a profession with Thomas
Ferguson, Q.C., Toronto, and was called to the bar of Ontario in 1874. He
then went to Ottawa, and in partnership with R. A. Bradley, practised his

profession for eight years in that City. In 1882, Mr. Bell removed to
Emerson, Manitoba, and was admitted a member of the bar of Manitoba in
1882, and practised in Emerson for two years. In 1884 he went to Prince
Edward Island, and having passed the necessary examination, he became a
member of the bar of that Island, and has since resided at Summerside
successfully engaged in his profession. For four years, he represented East
Prince in the Federal Parliament, and in 1915, became a candidate for the
Fourth District of Prince in the Local Legislature and being re-elected, was
chosen Leader of the Liberal Opposition. On the 7th of April, 1882, he was
married to Helen, daughter of Cornelius Howatt, of Summerside, Speaker
of the House of Assembly of Prince Edward Island. He is a member of the
Presbyterian Church, and a member of the Masonic Order.

Gillespie, Professor Peter, M.Sc., C.E. (Toronto, Ont.), was born at
Grafton, Ont., April 17, 1873, the son of Peter Gillespie, proprietor of the
Vernonville Flour Mills, who died in 1873, and his wife, Eliza Hossack, a
native of Cromarty, Scotland, who still survives. Prof. Gillespie was
educated at the Cobourg Collegiate Institute, the University of Toronto and
at McGill University, Montreal. His academic connection with the
University of Toronto began in 1904, when he became Demonstrator in
Applied Mechanics in the School of Practical Science, now the Faculty of
Applied Science and Engineering. Subsequently he became Lecturer and, in
1911, Associate Professor in the same Department, the position which he at
present occupies. Since 1908 he has been a member of the Canadian
Society of Civil Engineers, now the Engineering Institute of Canada, is at
present a Councillor thereof and Chairman of the Toronto Branch. During
the years of its active existence, 1908-1912, he was President of the
Canadian Cement and Concrete Association, an organization devoted to the
dissemination of authentic information concerning the uses of Portland
Cement in building construction. To the transactions of the Canadian
Society of Civil Engineers and to the Technical press generally, Mr.
Gillespie is an occasional contributor. In addition to the duties of his
academic position, he devotes a part of his time to the practice of
engineering and as designer or consultant has been identified with
engineering projects in various parts of Canada. He has of late been actively
engaged in the training of returned soldiers for the Invalided Soldiers’

Commission of Canada. In 1910 he married Mary Hope, daughter of Mr. M.
O. Merritt, U.E.L., of Smithville, Ont., a retired farmer whose forbears
came from Fishkill, Duchess County, New York, at the time of the United
Empire Loyalist migration following the close of the American
Revolutionary War. They have two children, Mary Elizabeth and Robert
George. In religion Mr. Gillespie is a Presbyterian and in politics inclines
toward Liberalism. He resides at 358 Davenport Road.

Grange, Edward Alexander Andrew, Toronto, Principal of
Ontario Veterinary College, 110 University Avenue, Toronto, was born in
London, England, April 9, 1848. His parents were the late Lt.-Col. George
John Grange, Sheriff, County Wellington, and Mary, daughter of Capt.
Dawson. Although born in England, Mr. Grange’s education was obtained
entirely in this country, first by private tuition, then at Dr. Tassie’s School,
Galt, Ontario, and finally at Ontario Veterinary College where he graduated
with the degree of V.S. in 1873, obtaining his M.S. in 1908, at Michigan
Agricultural College. An ardent Imperialist, Mr. Grange was for many years
a staff officer of Wellington Field Battery and Brigade of Artillery, and is a
present member of the Canadian Military Institute, the Empire Club and the
Canadian Club. In his profession he has always distinguished himself. From
1875 to 1882 he was a lecturer at Ontario Agricultural College; from 1883
to 1897 he was a professor Veterinary Science, Michigan Agricultural
College; 1897 to 1899 he was principal Detroit Veterinary College; from
1899 to 1908 he was engaged in veterinary research work in New York
State, and since then has been principal of Ontario Veterinary College,
Toronto. He is a member of numerous veterinary and other scientific
societies, a Fellow of A.V.M.A., a member of N.Y. Veterinary College
Alumni Association, and an honorary member of Alpha Phi Society of
Cornell. An Anglican in religion, Mr. Grange is married to Bessie, daughter
of Lt.-Col. James Webster, registrar, Wellington County. Their union was
blessed with three children, James Webster (deceased), Flight Commander
E. Rochfort, D.S.C., R.N., holder of Croix de Guerre; and daughter,
Maynard.

Morin, Victor, LL.D. (Montreal, Que.), is the son of Jean Baptiste
Morin, a lumber merchant of St. Hyacinthe, was born at St. Hyacinthe,
Que., August 15, 1865, is a Notary and Professor of Law at Laval
University, was educated at St. Hyacinthe College, Que., and Laval
University, Montreal, graduating 1884, 1888, 1909 with the degrees of
A.B., LL.D.; is the author of several books and articles on historical,
literary, scientific, social and business subjects, and is a member of the
Royal Society of Canada, President of the Société Nationale des Beaux-
Arts, and Vice-President of the Montreal Library Commission, President-
General of the St. Jean Baptiste Society, President of the Association du
Notariat Canadien, President Montreal Historical Society and Heraldic
College, also member of the Antiquarian and Numismatic Clubs, of which
he is vice-president, besides belonging to the Reform Club, Cercle
Universitaire, St. Dennis Club, and several others; his favorite recreations
are the study of books and curios. He is a member of the Roman Catholic
Church and Liberal in politics; Past Supreme Chief Ranger of the
Independent Order of Foresters, and member of many other fraternal
societies. In business circles he is very active, being President, Vice-
President or Director of several business and financial corporations. On
January 12, 1893, he married Fannie Cote, the daughter of Hon. Daniel
Cote, of Biddeford, Maine, and after her death married Alphonsine Cote, on
May 5, 1896, the daughter of Victor Cote, of St. Hyacinthe, Que.; he is the
father of the following children, namely, Lucien, Reginald, Marc, Andre,
Gisele, Claire, Marie, Renee, Roland, Guy and Roger, besides two
deceased.

Hastings, David (Dunnville, Ont.), is the son of John and Mary Jane
Hastings, born in Toronto, Ont., October 3, 1860. He received his education
at the Toronto and Hamilton Public Schools and Hamilton Collegiate
Institute. Mr. Hastings is the editor and publisher of “The Gazette,” the
oldest paper in the County of Haldimand, which was established in 1852. It
is a Conservative journal, published at Dunnville. In February, 1915, Mr.
Hastings was appointed Police Magistrate for the Town of Dunnville and
adjoining townships in succession to the late Dr. S. W. Brown. He is a
member of the Typographical Union, the Masonic Order, Independent
Order of Oddfellows, Independent Order of Foresters and also of the

Orange Order. In religion Mr. Hastings is a Methodist. He married Rose,
daughter of Frederick Shepheard, of Toronto, and is the father of two
children: Frederick Clarke, born April 21, 1896, and Edward George, born
Oct. 22, 1900.

Anderson, Frederic William, of Kamloops, B.C., eldest son of the
late William Anderson, who was Manager of the J. R. Booth Lumber
Company for a number of years, was born at Ottawa, September 28, 1883.
Educated at the Public Schools and Collegiate Institute, Ottawa, and McGill
University, Montreal, from which latter institution he graduated in 1906
with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. After spending
a number of years on large construction works in different parts of Canada,
Mr. Anderson went to Kamloops, where he actively engaged in the live
stock industry and farming, and brought to bear upon the existing situation
his splendid knowledge as a civil engineer, and being a keen irrigationist,
developed and brought under cultivation large areas of land. He organized
and was President of the Heffley Creek Water Users’ Association. He was
elected at the general elections held in September, 1914, a member of the
Legislative Assembly for the Province of British Columbia, as a Liberal
over the former member, Mr. J. Pierson Shaw, by a majority of 569; was
Deputy Whip, session 1917, and elected chief Government Whip Session
1918. Mr. Anderson married Marion Claire, daughter of George E.
Carbould, K.C., ex-M.P., New Westminster, B.C., and is the father of two
children, Francis Marion Carbould and William Patrick. He is a Lieutenant,
Canadian Engineers, C.E.F.; a member of the Presbyterian Church, and of
the Kamloops Club, University Club, Vancouver Kappa Alpha Society, and
the Masonic Order.

de Tremaudan, A. H., Barrister (Winnipeg, Man.), was born at St.
Chrysostome, Quebec, July 14, 1874. His parents are living at Montmartre,
Sask.; father was a captain in the Franco-Prussian war, 1870, and is a direct
descendant of Sire Beaumanoir, by whom he was related to LaFayette, the
great French soldier, famous in American history. Mr. de Tremaudan was
educated at the Clerical College of Guérande, France, and at Rennes
University, France, from which he graduated with the degree of Bachelor of

Letters. He is a gentleman of fine literary attainments, and has made a
special study of all matters pertaining to the early history of Western
Canada, and the Hudson Bay route. He founded and edited for two years
(Dec., 1911, to Dec., 1913) “The Herald,” published at The Pas, Manitoba,
and is chief editor of “La Libre Parole,” a French Weekly, published at
Winnipeg. Mr. de Tremaudan is the author of numerous magazine articles,
and brochures, which have been favorably received, among which may be
noted “The Hudson Bay Route,” “Pourquoi Nous Parlons Français,” “Les
precurseurs.” A number of addresses are in press under the title of “Le Sang
Français.” A forthcoming work is entitled “The Riel Legend.” On Feb. 18,
1901, Mr. de Tremaudan married Madeleine, daughter of the late C. H.
Bastien, a stained-glass decorative artist, who painted some of the priceless
windows in the world-famous Cathedral of Rheims, France. His children,
three sons and two daughters, are: Jean (1903), Alain (1905), Gilles (1909),
Andree (1906), and Renee (1910). Mr. de Tremaudan is a Roman Catholic
in religion and a member of “Le Canada” Club of Winnipeg. He is a Liberal
in politics, has travelled extensively, and is widely read and well informed
on all questions of National importance; a man of mature judgment and ripe
experience.

Bethune, the Rev. Charles Jas. Stewart, M.A., D.C.L., the
distinguished subject of this sketch, was born at West Flamboro’, Ontario,
on August 11, 1838. He is the third son of the Right Rev. Alexander Neil
Bethune second Bishop of Toronto, and Jane Eliza, eldest daughter of the
late Hon. James Crooks. The Bethune family traces its lineage very far back
in Scottish and French historical records. The first of the name who left
Normandy for the British Isles came to Scotland in the reign of Malcolm
the Third, a contemporary of William the Conqueror, in the eleventh
century. The first of the family to come to Canada was the Rev. John
Bethune, a U.E. Loyalist from North Carolina, and chaplain to a Highland
regiment, who settled with his comrades in the county of Glengarry,
Ontario, towards the end of the 18th century. He was the father of the late
Bishop of Toronto and Dean Bethune, of Montreal, and grandfather of the
subject of this sketch. Young Bethune was educated at private schools at
Cobourg and Upper Canada College, Toronto. After leaving the latter
institution he entered Trinity College, Toronto, and graduated therefrom in

1859 with first-class classical honors and the B.A. degree. He took his M.A.
in 1861, and received the honorary degree of D.C.L. from his Alma Mater
in 1883, in recognition of his zealous and worthy services at Trinity College
School. He was ordained deacon in 1861 and priest in 1862, by the late
Bishop Strachan of Toronto. He was curate until 1866, with his father, then
Rector of Cobourg, with the exception of a short period spent in England in
1863-64, when he was curate at Carlton, near Selby, in Yorkshire. In 1866
he was appointed to the charge of the Credit Mission in the County of Peel,
Ont., where he was instrumental in building the churches at Dixie and Port
Credit. In September, 1870, he was appointed Head Master of Trinity
College School at Port Hope. From a very small beginning he raised up this
school to be one of the most widely known and successful in the Dominion.
He had a staff of eight assistant masters, about 140 pupils, and large and
handsome buildings with extensive grounds. He resigned the
headmastership in 1899, and removed to London, Ontario, where he
remained for seven years. During the greater part of that period he was
curator and librarian of the Entomological Society of Ontario. He assisted
in forming the London Horticultural Society and was its president for two
years. Dr. Bethune gave much of his attention to scientific pursuits and he is
well known in the United States and Great Britain, as likewise in Canada, as
an entomologist. He was one of the founders of the Entomological Society
of Ontario and its Secretary-Treasurer for seven years. He was president of
the same society from 1870 to 1875, and has continued since to be a
member of its council. He was entomological editor of the “Canada
Farmer” for nine years, and editor of the “Canadian Entomologist” from its
inception in 1868 to 1873, and from 1887 to 1909, when he was elected
editor emeritus. He has written a large number of papers on Practical and
Scientific Entomology in these and other publications, and contributed
repeatedly to the annual report on insects presented to the Legislature of
Ontario. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the advancement of
Science and has attended its meetings at various places in the United States,
is a member of several Canadian scientific societies and a corresponding
member of scientific societies in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Buffalo,
Davenport, Brooklyn, Halifax, and other places. He is also a member of the
Corporation of the University of Trinity College. He was Honorary Clerical
Secretary of the Synod of the Diocese of Toronto from 1869 to 1871, and
has been repeatedly elected a representative of the diocese at the meetings

of the Provincial Synod in Montreal. He was a delegate from the diocese of
Toronto to the general synod of the Church of England in Canada at
Winnipeg in 1896, and was appointed clerical secretary of the Lower House
in 1902, holding that position at the meetings in Montreal and Quebec and
resigning at the Ottawa meeting in 1908; elected Fellow of the Royal
Society of Canada in 1892, and became President of Section 4 in the year
1900; was one of the original promoters of the Sisterhood of St. John the
Divine in Toronto and filled the position of Warden for some years. On the
first of June, 1906, he was appointed Professor of Entomology and Zoology
at the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, which position he still holds.
He assisted in the formation of the American Association of Economic
Entomologists and of the American Entomological Society; of the latter he
is one of the original Fellows. He was elected President of the
Entomological Society of Ontario for its Jubilee year, 1913. He is Honorary
President of the Wellington Field Naturalists’ Club, of the Guelph
Horticultural Society and of the Trinity College School Cricket Club. Since
going to Guelph he has published bulletins on insects affecting fruit trees
and vegetables of which several editions have been issued by the
Department of Agriculture of Ontario. He has frequently visited England
and travelled in the United States and Europe. Dr. Bethune has always been
a member of the Church of England and associated with the “High Church”
school of thought. He married on April 21, 1863, Alice, second daughter of
Lieut.-Colonel Forlong, K.H., of Toronto, late of Her Majesty’s 43rd
Regiment of Light Infantry, and his wife, Sophia, daughter of the Hon.
Henry John Boulton, of Holland House, Toronto. Mrs. Bethune died in July,
1898. Dr. Bethune has four children living. His eldest son, Arthur M.
Bethune, is Manager of the Hamilton Branch of the Dominion Bank, and
Reginald A. Bethune is an officer in the Civil Service at Kamloops, B.C.
The two daughters are unmarried. An earnest and able worker for his
church, a learned and deeply skilled votary in a wide and important branch
of science, it has been given to few men whose names are written in this
volume to accomplish so much and to accomplish it so well.

Kyte, George William (St. Peters, Richmond County, Nova Scotia),
son of John Kyte, native of Templemore, County of Tipperary, Ireland, and
Elizabeth Robertson, English parentage, born July 10, 1864, at St. Peters.

Educated at the public school of St. Peters, and at the University of St.
Francis Xavier, Antigonish, N.S., from which seat of learning he graduated.
Studied law in the office of Colin F. McIsaac (for several years one of the
Transcontinental Railway Commissioners, at Antigonish, N.S.), and was
admitted to the bar Nov. 16, 1891. Married, July 5, 1893, to Tena, daughter
of Valentine and Lydia Chisholm, of Heatherton, N.S. Appointed Clerk-
Assistant of the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia, in Feb., 1892; re-
appointed in 1895, 1898 and 1901; appointed Chief Clerk, Dec. 3, 1903.
Resigned this appointment to become a candidate for the House of
Commons for Richmond County at general election of 1908 and was
elected; re-elected at general election in 1911. Created a King’s Counsel by
the Government of Nova Scotia, April 16, 1908. Solicitor for the
Municipality of Richmond County; school trustee for nine years, and is a
member of the Board of School Commissioners for the County of
Richmond. A Roman Catholic in religion and a Liberal in politics.

Clark, John Murray, M.A., LL.B., K.C. (Toronto, Ont.), born at St.
Mary’s, Ont., July 6, 1860, of Scottish descent, his parents being James and
Isabella Clark. Educated at St. Mary’s Collegiate Institute, Toronto
University and Osgoode Hall. His career at the University was particularly
brilliant. He won the prize in Logic awarded by the late Professor J. P.
Young, the Blake Scholarship on Constitutional Law, Economics and
Jurisprudence, the McMurrich Medal in Natural Science and Gold Medal in
Mathematics and Physics, and the prize on Minority Representation,
graduating with the degree of B.A. in 1882, M.A. 1884, LL.B. 1891, and
being called to the Bar in 1886, with honours, and winning the Law
Society’s Gold Medal, since which time he has practised in Toronto where
he is recognized as one of the leaders of the Bar and is head of the firm of
Clark, McPherson, Campbell & Jarvis. Has been retained as Counsel in a
large number of cases of great magnitude and importance, such as the
Quaker Case, Ontario Express Company, Fisheries Case, and the Ophir
case, and has frequently pleaded before the Privy Council in England.
Appointed a K.C. in 1889; in early life was Mathematical Master of St.
Mary’s Collegiate Institute and for several years Examiner in Physics,
Toronto University, of which he was appointed as Senator in 1892. Is also
Vice-President Toronto University Alumni Association. Formerly President

Mathematical and Physics Society and University College Literary and
Scientific Society. Few men in Canada have exhibited more scholarly
attainments than the subject of this sketch, whose versatility in Science,
Literature, as well as original research has been remarkable, and of great
benefit. Notwithstanding the high place which Mr. Clark occupies in the
field of letters and the wide knowledge he has of science and literature, he
is widely known on account of his great abilities as a lawyer which have
placed him in the front rank of the legal profession in Canada. Many of his
cases have been of first-class importance and some of them of great public
interest. Among the first in which he won a signal victory was that of
Dorland and Jones, the famous Quaker Case from Prince Edward County,
Ontario. The recent decision of the House of Lords, giving the “Wee Frees”
the property of the Free Church of Scotland recalls the Quaker Case here.
Mr. Clark argued before the Supreme Court at Ottawa that the Church had
the right to make changes in its Constitution, even though that Constitution
itself did not specifically authorize it to do so. The view was adopted by the
United Free Church lawyers in Edinburgh in the case arising from the union
of the Free and United Presbyterian Churches of Scotland, and the Court of
Session, the High Court of Justice sustained that view. The “Wee Free” (as
the Free Church minority was commonly called), appealed to the House of
Lords, and contrary to all expectation, won, and obtained possession of the
vast property of the Church. The situation was so tense that a special Act of
Parliament was passed to adjust conditions. In quite a number of
constitutional cases reaching through the Canadian Courts to the Privy
Council, Mr. Clark has figured, and invariably with success. The same is
true regarding commercial cases and large mining cases in which a long and
extended experience has given him such a mastery as few of his compeers
possess. Quite recently the “Ophir” mining case, which he brought to a
successful conclusion, through a tedious and tortuous course of litigation,
ending in the Privy Council, has excited the attention of the legal profession
and of the public, both because it decided the question of the Indian title so
far as Ontario is concerned, and because a similar situation is becoming
acute in British Columbia. Mr. Clark has made several notable speeches in
England where he is regarded as an accomplished jurist, and few men are so
well versed in the political and constitutional history of this Dominion or
more fully seized of its great resources. The London “Times” and several
other prominent English papers a few years ago referred in high praise to

Mr. Clark’s speech on “Canada and the Navy” delivered before a notable
gathering, including Lord Strathcona the late High Commissioner for
Canada. Mr. Clark is one of the foremost mathematical authorities in
Canada and his work has been commended by so high an authority as Lord
Kelvin, while he is regarded both in this country and in England as an
authority on Constitutional law. He has won distinction as an author, and
has written several standard works and papers, among which may be
mentioned “Law of Mines in Canada,” which was written in collaboration
with the Hon. W. D. McPherson, Provincial Secretary of Ontario.
“Company Law,” “The Ontario Mining Law,” “International Arbitration,”
“Canada’s Future and the Empire,” “History of the Theory of Energy,” and
“The Functions of a great University.” Has lectured on the “Value of the
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council,” “Canada and the Navy,” etc. The
work on Mining Law referred to is recognized as an authority on the subject
dealt with, and has been highly praised by the Harvard Law Review of the
Law Magazine of England as well as by the Canadian Press. The “Mining
Journal” stated that “the book had the impress of clear and legal learning,”
and the work has also been described as a monument of research, care and
industry. Recently Mr. Clark has been elected President of the Royal
Canadian Institute, founded by Sir John Lefroy (whose grandson, Lieut.
Lefroy, gallantly fell on Vimy Ridge). In referring to the new President’s
appointment “The Mail and Empire” said: “Mr. Clark well represents the
best that we have in character, intellect, scholarship and public spirit. A
distinguished graduate of Toronto University, the new President, far from
leaving the avenues of learning, as some do when they graduate, has ever
increased his stores, and has successfully striven not only to broaden and
deepen his knowledge, but to devote it to the service of his fellow-men, as
witness Mr. Clark’s strong and convincing advocacy of the Canadian
Government availing itself of the great scientific attainments and
progressive scholarship of men like Professors Macallum and McLennan.
For many years one of the foremost advocates in Canada of that great
constitutional change in Imperial relations which is to-day being forged on
the anvil of war, Mr. Clark has been a powerful and sagacious leader in that
movement on this side of the water. In the prosecution of that enterprise he
has deservedly won the regard and friendship of some of the leading
scholars and statesmen of our Empire.” The “Globe,” in the course of a
favorable review, said that his Presidential Address on “The Reign of Law,”

“will appeal to thoughtful readers as a scholarly contribution to a subject
which derives fresh interest from the war.” Mr. Clark has given
considerable study to the question of our gold supply which has proved a
potent factor in the financing of the great war, and will be even a more
important factor in the reconstruction period after the war according to the
viewpoint of Mr. Clark, who takes the position that the increase in the
production of gold be encouraged in every practical way. Politically, Mr.
Clark has always been a member of the Liberal Party, and was formerly
President of the Young Men’s Liberal Club of Toronto, but, in the Federal
general elections of 1917 he supported the Union Government. He favors
Canada remaining an integral portion of the British Empire, the utmost
practicable extension of the principle of free trade, and the development of
a vigorous Canadian National Sentiment. Married first Greta Helen Gordon,
daughter of Rev. D. Gordon, and sister of “Ralph Connor,” 1890 (deceased
1894); second, Annie Macleod Anderson, daughter of late W. N. Anderson,
Toronto, 1899 (deceased, 1910); third, Caroline Chaplin, daughter of late
William Chaplin, St. Catharines; has three daughters, i.e., Mary Gordon
(now Mrs. W. A. Riddell), Margaret Macleod, and Katie H. Burn. Is a
member of the following clubs: Toronto, Ontario, British Empire (London),
Engineers’ Club (Toronto), and belongs to A.F. & A.M. (Scottish Rite,
Zetland). A Presbyterian in religion. Recreation, golf.

Flint, Thomas Barnard, M.A., LL.B., D.C.L., Ottawa, Ont., ex-
clerk of the House of Commons, was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, April
28, 1847, and was educated at Yarmouth and Mt. Allison University,
Sackville, New Brunswick. He received his B.A. in 1867; his M.A. in 1872;
also LL.B. of Harvard University, 1871. He was called to the Bar in 1872;
was appointed a commissioner of the Supreme and County Courts in 1873;
was Sheriff of Yarmouth County from 1883 to 1887, and Assistant Clerk of
the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1887 to 1891. In 1891 he was
elected to the House of Commons and was re-elected at the elections of
1896 and 1900. He was appointed Clerk of the House of Commons, Nov.
11, 1902, and retired from that position at the beginning of session of 1918,
owing to failing eyesight. In 1903 he received the honorary degree of
Doctor of Civil Law. He edited the 3rd and 4th editions of Bourinot
Parliamentary Procedure. In 1874 he was married to Mary Ella Dane, a

daughter of the late Thomas B. Dane, who for many years was an
influential citizen of Yarmouth. Personally, Dr. Flint, an honorable man,
with high ideals of the amenities of public life, liberally educated, and
endowed with cultivated taste, entirely without prejudice of race or religion,
well posted on public affairs, an efficient, unassuming, practical man,
commanded the respect of Liberals and Conservatives alike, both as a
member of the House of Commons and as clerk. Dr. Flint at one time was
Vice-President of the Dominion Prohibition Alliance, and was one of the
founders, and for many years vice-president of the Yarmouth Building and
Loan Society, a most successful local business. After he was admitted to the
Bar he rapidly became one of its leaders in his district. As a member of the
House of Commons Dr. Flint was Chairman of Standing Orders from 1898
to 1902. During the Session of 1894-5 he moved resolutions in the House of
Commons in favor of prohibition. In 1907 he was elected President of the
Ottawa Literary and Scientific Society. As a speaker, Dr. Flint proved to be
a leading debater, forceful and pleasing in manner, ever giving evidence as
an authority on every question which he took up. He is of New England
ancestry, and the son of the late John Flint, ship owner, and Anne (Barnard)
Flint. He is an Anglican in religion and a Liberal in politics. From 1897 to
1899 he was Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Masons, of Nova Scotia.
Upon his retirement from the Clerkship of the House of Commons Dr. Flint
was by resolution of the House made an honorary official of the House and
granted an annuity in recognition of his public services. He now resides in
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.

Chrysler, Francis Henry, K.C. (Ottawa), is a son of the late Gordon
Harvey Chrysler and Jane Chrysler, daughter of Captain James Mackenzie,
R.N., who was on service on Lake Ontario under Commodore James Yee,
R.N., during the war of 1812. He is a grandson of Colonel John Chrysler, of
Chrysler’s Farm, for sixteen years member for Dundas in the Parliament of
U.C. He was born in Kingston, Ont., educated at Bath Academy and
Queen’s University, Kingston. Married in 1876 to Margaret Isabella,
daughter of Donald A. Grant, of Ottawa. He became a barrister in 1872;
K.C., 1890; has practised continuously in Ottawa and is one of the leaders
of the Bar of Canada, and one of the life Benchers of the Law Society for
the Province of Ontario. He is Counsel for many railways and other

corporations. Has declined appointment to the Canadian Bench. He acted as
Counsel for the Dominion Iron and Steel Company in their action against
the Dominion Government to recover bounties for the manufacture of liquid
pig iron; for the Government of Canada in drafting and settling the
contracts and legislation for the construction of the National
Transcontinental Railway; for the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company
in drafting and settling their mortgages upon which securities were issued
for the construction of the railway from Winnipeg to Prince Rupert; for all
the railway companies of Canada in framing and settling The Railway Act
of 1903, under which the Railway Commission was appointed; for various
railway companies, principally the Canadian Pacific Railway, in the general
enquiry before the Railway Commission into railway rates in Canada; for
the Dominion Express Company in the general enquiry into express tolls
and contracts; for the Canadian Pacific Railway Company upon the general
enquiry into telegraph tolls and contracts; for the Special Committee of the
House of Commons appointed to enquire into the question of telephone
rates and systems, and for the Railway Companies of Canada as Counsel
before the general committee appointed by the House of Commons in the
Session of 1917, to revise and consolidate the Railway Act and Amending
Acts. He has had an extensive experience and practice as a Parliamentary
Counsel, before the Railway Commission and in the Supreme Court. His
clubs are: The Rideau, Country and Royal Ottawa Golf, Ottawa; Metis Golf
Club, Little Metis, Que. His address is 87 Catharine Street, Ottawa. Mr.
Chrysler has four children, two sons and two daughters. The elder son,
Geoffrey Gordon, was for some years in the Royal Canadian Regiment of
Infantry, retiring in 1912, with the rank of Captain. He enlisted for service
in the war with Germany, going with the first contingent as a Captain in the
Second Battalion of Infantry, of which he is now a Major. He has been three
times severely wounded and has received the Military Cross for
conspicuous valor. The younger son, Philip Harvey, qualified as a
Lieutenant of Artillery and served in France in the 3rd Divisional
Ammunition Column from 1915 until October, 1917, when he was
discharged as being physically unfit for further service. Mr. Chrysler’s elder
daughter, Margaret Gordon, Mrs. Frederick H. Emra, is married to a civil
engineer, who is now a Captain, first in the Second Pioneers and afterwards
in the Engineers, and has been wounded in France. He is now doing
engineering work for the Royal Navy. His younger daughter, Constance

Harvey, is married to Dr. Ernest W. MacBride, LL.D., F.R.S., formerly
Professor of Biology in McGill University and now Professor of Biology in
the Royal College of Science, South Kensington, London, England, where
Professor and Mrs. MacBride with two young sons reside. Mr. Chrysler is
by temperament a student and has never occupied any public office; a
prominent member of St. Andrew’s Church, Ottawa, of which congregation
he is an officer. A lover of music, having been for many years an active
member and President of the Orchestral Society; a keen golfer, golf being
his principal recreation. Although for many years a leading member of the
Liberal Party, he is at present a strong advocate of the policy of carrying on
the war by means of a united Canadian party.

HON. WILFRID GARIEPY
Edmonton

Aikins, Lt.-Col. Sir James Albert Manning, Kt., M.A., K.C.,
Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba, was born in Peel County, Ont.,
December 10, 1851, the son of Honorable James Cox Aikins, who was

appointed a Senator at Confederation, and, on December 9, 1869, Secretary
of State and Registrar General in Sir John A. Macdonald’s administration,
and afterwards Minister of Inland Revenue, and later in 1882, appointed
Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Manitoba, and of the District of
Keewatin, and upon the expiration of his term of office, a second time
called to the Senate of Canada in 1896, and his wife Mary Elizabeth
Somerset. Educated at Brampton High School, Upper Canada College and
Toronto University (B.A., 1875, M.A., 1877), M.A. Ad eundem, Manitoba
University, studied law in the office of Matthew Crooks Cameron and also
Mowat, Maclennan and Downey, admitted to the Bar of Ontario, 1878, and
to the Bar of Manitoba, 1879, in which year he went to Winnipeg, where he
soon established himself as one of the leaders of the profession in the
Province and few members of the Western Bar have held more responsible
solicitorships. Sir James was solicitor and counsel for the Canadian Pacific
Railway throughout the western division since its organization until he
withdrew in 1911, to contest the constituency of Brandon in the House of
Commons, for which he was returned by a large majority, retaining the seat
until the general elections in 1917, when he was succeeded by Dr. H. P.
Whidden (Conservative-Unionist). He was also counsel for the Dominion
Express Co., Imperial Bank, Bank of Ottawa, Canadian Fire Insurance Co.,
Great West Life Assurance Co., Canada Permanent and Western Canada
Land Co., Manitoba Northwest Land Co., Scottish American Investment
Co. He is a director of the Northern Trusts Co., the Canada Fire Insurance
Co., and numerous other financial corporations. From 1879 to 1896 he
acted as counsel for the Department of Justice, and, in 1880, he was
appointed by the Dominion Government one of the Royal Commissioners
to investigate and report on the administration of Justice in the North-West
Territories; was chief counsel for the Province of Manitoba during the
administration of Hugh John Macdonald, drafting the Manitoba Liquor Bill,
which, on appeal was sustained by the Privy Council in England and
decided to be constitutional, and has been a model for similar legislation in
other Provinces. Appointed K.C. in 1884, and created Knight Bachelor in
June, 1914, Sir James Aikins is the senior of the Manitoba Bar and
President of the Canadian Bar Association, President of the Conference of
Commissioners on Uniformity of Law. Aug., 1916, appointed Lieutenant-
Governor of Manitoba. Was elected bencher of the Law Society of
Manitoba in 1886, and has filled a large number of other prominent

positions and offices, i.e., President of Y.M.C.A.; The Canadian Club;
Chairman, Wesley College, Manitoba; Honorary Bursar, Manitoba
University; President Law Society of Manitoba. In June, 1912, was
appointed to represent Canada at the second International Moral Education
Congress, held at The Hague from August 22 to 27 of that year. A director
of the Manitoba Agricultural College, Sir James takes great interest in all
educational matters. Presented silver cup to Manitoba Mounted Rifles for
general efficiency 1907; appointed Honorary Lieut.-Colonel 90th Regiment,
Winnipeg Rifles December, 1910; is also Col. (Honorary) of the 99th
Regiment, Brandon. A Methodist in religion, the subject of this sketch has
always displayed much interest in the affairs of his church; was a member
of the 20th Century Thanksgiving Fund, and of the Methodist Church
Union Committee, and in 1896 carried a resolution in Grace Methodist
Church, Winnipeg, heartily favoring organic union of Presbyterian,
Congregational, and Methodist Churches of Canada. Sir James has been
twice married—(first) to Mary B. McLellan, in 1884, (second) to Mary F.
Colby, in 1889, and has three children, Gordon Harold Aikins, Barrister-at-
Law, married to Myrtle Clint; Mary Helena Alberta Aikins; Elizabeth Grace
Colby Aikins. Sir James has always taken a very prominent part in the
affairs of the Dominion and that the success which has come to him early in
life has been the reward of merit is generally admitted. He is a strong
platform speaker, a brilliant advocate and sound lawyer, and at critical
periods in the country’s history has shown much dominant force as a
political factor. Sir James is extremely popular with the members of his
profession with whom he has a Dominion-wide acquaintance, and has
received every honor at the hands of his fellow-practitioners. He is a
member of the following clubs: Manitoba, St. Charles Country, Adanac, of
Winnipeg, Rideau Club of Ottawa, and Brandon Club, Brandon, Manitoba,
and head of the following law firms: Aikins, Loftus, Aikins and Fisher, and
Aikins, Loftus, Aikins, Bell and Bridgman, of Winnipeg.

Pope, Major William Walter, is of United Empire Loyalist
descent, was born in the County of Compton, in the Province of Quebec, in
1854, and educated there. Entered the service of the Boston, Clinton and
Fitchburgh Railway, Boston, Mass., when a young man, and later he went
to Belleville, Ontario, where he studied law. Was assistant to the late John

Bell, K.C., Solicitor for the Grand Trunk Railway, 1881 to 1904, when he
was transferred to Montreal as assistant to W. H. Biggar, K.C.; while at
Belleville was alderman for two years, also Major with the 15th Regiment,
retiring retaining rank in 1909, holds long service decoration, also medal
with one clasp for the Fenian Raid, 1866. Since September, 1909, has been
Solicitor and Secretary of the Hydro-Electric Commission of Ontario, and is
recognized as a man of great practical ability. His present address is 117
Bedford Road, Toronto. The Hon. John Henry Pope, late Minister of
Railways, was an uncle. Mr. Pope married, October 20, 1875, a daughter of
Stephen White, Belleville, manufacturer, and has one son, W. W. Macaulay
Pope. He is a member of the Victoria, Royal Canadian Yacht Club,
Canadian Empire and United Empire Loyalist Clubs, Canadian Military
Institute, Albany, and the Masonic Order, also a member of the Anglican
Church and a Conservative. His principal recreations are golfing, bowling,
and curling.

Pratt, Edward Courtney (Montreal, Que.), General Manager of
The Molsons Bank, is the son of George Henry Pratt, of Monteath, Ireland.
He was born in Ireland, on October 22, 1864, and educated in Dublin. On
October 16, 1889, he married Edith Augusta White, the daughter of Wm. J.
White, K.C., of St. Thomas, Ont., and has six children. Is a member of the
Mount Royal, Montreal and Beaconsfield Clubs, and a member of the
Anglican Church.

Riddell, Hon. William Renwick (Toronto, Ont.), Justice of the
Supreme Court of Ontario, descended from the family of “Riddell of that
Ilk,” a son of the late Walter and Mary Renwick Riddell; born in Township
of Hamilton, County of Northumberland, April 6, 1852. Educated Cobourg
Collegiate Institute and Victoria University; B.A. (1874), Prizeman in
Chemistry and Mathematics, B.Sc. (1876), LL.B. (1878), L.H.D. (Syracuse
University), J.U.D. (Trinity University, Hartford), LL.D. University of
Toronto, McMaster, Lafayette, Northwestern, Wesleyan, Rochester and Yale
Universities; graduated at Law School, Osgoode Hall. (Gold Medal and
first in all examinations); called to the bar 1883, elected Bencher Law
Society of Upper Canada 1891, re-elected until 1906, created a King’s

Counsel 1904. Successfully practised at Cobourg and Toronto, and on
removal to Ontario’s capital, enjoyed large counsel practice, civil and
criminal; was retained during Toronto Municipal Investigation in 1904.
Before taking up the study of the law was Mathematical Master of the
Normal School, Ottawa, and afterwards Chairman of the Cobourg
Collegiate Institute; President, Educational Society, Eastern Ont.; Pres.,
Alumni Association Victoria University, and member of the Board of
Regents. Senator of Toronto University; a Governor, Western Hospital,
Toronto. In October, 1906, the subject of this sketch was appointed one of
the Judges of His Majesty’s Supreme Court for the Province of Ontario, (the
last to be appointed to the King’s Bench Division), a position which he has
since occupied with great distinction. His judgments are models of beautiful
diction, in which the exposition of the law is clear and illuminating, while
his grasp of the facts makes for that clarity of deduction which always
characterizes his Lordship’s deliverances. Mr. Justice Riddell has been a
generous contributor to various American and Canadian magazines and law
journals, and the author of “The Canadian and American Constitutions.” As
a lecturer he is recognized as possessing high gifts; his ripe erudition and
polished style making his addresses of more than passing interest. During
the past few years, among the addresses delivered and magazine articles
contributed by His Lordship may be mentioned: The Dodge Lectures, Yale
University; Robert Fleming Gourlay; La Rochefoucauld’s Travels in
Canada, 1795; The First Judge at Detroit and His Court. Since the outbreak
of the war Mr. Justice Riddell has taken a deep interest in recruiting and
everything tending to forward the cause of the Allies and has given very
largely of his time and great ability, presiding at many meetings and
speaking at others in the interest of recruiting. A member of the Toronto,
York, and Rosedale Golf Clubs. Mr. Justice Riddell finds recreation in the
study of Canadian History, upon which he is an authority. He is Honorary
Member of the Bar Associations of the States of Georgia, Missouri, Illinois,
Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin and New York, and of the Lawyers’ Clubs of
Buffalo and New York; he is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
and of the Royal Historical Society. He is a Freemason, a Presbyterian, and
was formerly a Liberal. Married, March 5, 1884, Anna Hester Kirsop
Crossen, youngest daughter of the late James Crossen and Margaret Hayden
Crossen, of “Cedar Hedge,” Cobourg.

Paisley, Jas. K. (Ottawa). One of the best known and highly
respected citizens in the Capital of the Dominion and in many other parts of
Canada, both east and west, is the subject of this sketch. Following in his
father’s footsteps, who owned and successfully ran a popular hotel in
Orangeville, at an early age he became, and for years remained, cashier of
the well known hostelry—the Walker House, Toronto. His experiences in
that popular public resort and his popularity prompted aspirations and
ambitions which caused him to launch out in enterprises of his own, and he
soon became proprietor of several of the best hotels in the principal cities
and summer resorts in Canada. In 1902 he was one of the owners of the
New Royal in Hamilton where business success and increased patronage
prompted the owners to remodel it in 1907. He took management of the
Penetanguishene Hotel at Penetang and made it one of the attractive
features of the place. He reached out and got management of the Sans Souci
at Moon River, the Belvidere in Parry Sound, the Iroquois Hotel in Toronto,
the Victoria Hotel at Aylmer, Quebec, the Grand Union, Ottawa, and, with
the late Daniel O’Connor, built the Temagami Inn at Temagami, Ontario. In
each and all these ventures success and popularity followed in his train and
created for him unstinted fame as an enterprising, progressive and popular
hotel proprietor and manager. And while so actively engaged in the hotel
business Mr. Paisley, being an enthusiastic lover of the horse, found time to
give to that noble animal the most assiduous care and attention, and much
of his time for years was devoted to the purchase, the raising, and the
training of some of the finest saddle, harness and trotting steeds to be found
in any part of Canada. They established, for their owner, on many a race
track and at many a horse show enviable records. His Sealskin Joe was one
of those that won distinction on the Winnipeg racecourse many years ago.
Later his saddle horse, Jardie, was accorded the admiration of all. Shortly
after his arrival in Ottawa, where he first established himself as proprietor
of the Grand Union Hotel, he became interested in such affairs—public,
charitable, patriotic and social—as had for their goal the prosperity of the
city and the happiness and betterment of its people, and his many years
activity in these lines are well marked in the memory of thousands. Mr.
Paisley, never allowing his enthusiasm for the horse to die, took a keen
interest in, and became one of the original members of, the Ottawa Hunt
Club; was Treasurer of the Horse Show while it exhibited here; became
Chairman of the Construction Committee that built the Connaught Park

Jockey Club Track, and is now a director and one of the Management
Committee of the Connaught Park Jockey Club. For years Mr. Paisley has
been a Director of the Central Canada Exhibition Association, and held the
office of Vice-President, and for a considerable time was Chairman of the
Special Attraction Committee. In 1915, owing to the resignation of Mr.
Edward McMahon, who had held the position of Manager and Secretary of
the Central Canada Exhibition Association for over twenty years, and to
replace whose efficient management the Association had to select a
competent and reliable successor, Mr. James K. Paisley was chosen, with
the result that up to date the fair has been an increased success financially
and in attendance. In his management of the Exhibition’s affairs he carries
with him a geniality and a business acumen that attracts, establishes
confidence, and produces good results. When the Great War broke out, Mr.
Paisley’s son, familiarly known as “Pep” Paisley, who had graduated from
McGill as an architect, enlisted with A. Battery, R.C.H.A., as a gunner and
was soon, owing to meritorious conduct at the front, promoted to a
Lieutenancy. His valor and good work at the firing line received much
praise from his superior officers. Mr. James K. Paisley is the son of John
Paisley and Mrs. M. J. Kenniston of Orangeville, Ontario. He was born in
1858 and was educated in Orangeville High School and Rockwood
Academy. In 1888 he married Minnie Bairdsall Harris, daughter of the late
Isaac Harris. He has one son and two daughters. His recreations are sports
of any kind. He is an active member of the Elks, the Knights of Pythias, and
the Foresters, and an executive member of the Hotelmen’s Mutual Benefit
Association of America and Canada, Ex-President of the Ontario Hotel
Keepers’ Association, and Ex-President of the Ottawa Hotelmen’s
Association. In religion he is a Protestant, English Church. In politics a
Conservative, and his address is Kenniston Apartments, Elgin Street,
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Cowan, William Frederick, The Late, who died on October 28,
1918, at his home in Oshawa, Ont., was long one of the noted industrial and
financial leaders of Ontario. He was born in 1832, at Fintona, County
Tyrone, Ireland, the son of Thomas and Charlotte Cowan. In 1841, his
parents having decided to remove to Canada, he made with them the long
sailing and overland voyage to Toronto, the journey occupying some

months. Shortly after the family’s arrival the father died and the mother of
the subject of this sketch was left with five young children. She managed,
however, to give her boys a good education at Boyd’s Academy, Bay St.,
Toronto (conducted by the father of the late Chancellor Sir John Boyd) and
one of the pioneer educational institutions of Toronto. On leaving school,
W. F. Cowan first found employment with “The Colonist,” a newspaper
founded by Sir Francis Hincks, an eminent statesman of the mid-nineteenth
century. Subsequently he entered the employ of Alexander Laurie & Co.,
dry goods merchants, at the south-west corner of King and Yonge Sts.,
Toronto. Later he served with Walter McFarland & Co., dry goods
merchants, on Market Square, King St. East, Toronto, then the heart of the
retail district. In 1856 he and his brother John founded a dry goods business
of their own, at the south-west corner of Yonge and Richmond Sts.,
Toronto. In 1862 he removed to Oshawa, establishing a large general store,
and with a branch at Prince Albert some twenty miles north of the town. A
few years later he acquired an interest in the A. S. Whiting Mfg. Co. of
Cedar Dale, manufacturers of scythes, forks, hoes, etc., the firm becoming
Messrs. Whiting & Cowan. Largely through Mr. Cowan’s modern methods
of business organization, the wares of this firm became known throughout
America; and Mr. Cowan was also successful in developing a large market
for them in Great Britain. In 1872, in conjunction with Messrs. Wood &
Winterbourne, of Albany, N.Y., he founded the Ontario Malleable Iron Co.,
of which Mr. D. S. Wood was the first president, and on his death was
succeeded by Mr. Cowan’s elder brother John. On the latter’s death Mr. W.
F. Cowan succeeded to the Presidency. He had been a director of the
company since its inception. He was largely instrumental in making
Oshawa one of the leading industrial centres of the province. In 1893 he
established Fittings, Ltd., of Oshawa, of which he was also President at the
time of his death. Altogether his interests furnished steady employment to
about 1,000 citizens of the town, of which he was recognized as the
industrial leader. Mr. Cowan’s financial interests were even more widely
extended. In 1875 he became Vice-President of the newly formed Standard
Bank of Canada, and in 1883, on the death of the President, the well-known
capitalist, Hon. T. N. Gibbs, succeeded to that office, in which he continued
until his demise, making weekly journeys to Toronto to attend meetings of
the board until within a few days of his death. In 1886, in company with
Mr. T. H. McMillan, he also established the Western Bank of Canada,

which, after twenty-six years of active life, was amalgamated with the
Standard Bank in 1912. Though often pressed to enter Federal and
Provincial politics, he contented himself solely with municipal service and
held the post of Reeve of Oshawa, and of Mayor, after its incorporation as a
town, for some years. He was a steadfast adherent of the Anglican Church
in religion, and a Conservative in politics. In 1864 he married Susan,
daughter of the late John Groves, a well-known citizen of Toronto. On his
death he left one son, Mr. Frederick W. Cowan, of Oshawa, who succeeds
to his interests, and one grandson, Major R. C. Cowan, who has been
overseas for the past three years.

HON. W. L. MACKENZIE KING, C.M.G.
Ottawa

Reid, Frank (Simcoe, Ont.), Barrister and Solicitor, was born at
Vittoria, Norfolk County, February 22, 1862, the son of the late Archibald
Reid, a cabinet maker, and Elspit Shand. He was educated at the Vittoria
Public School, Simcoe High School and Osgoode Hall. He married

Katherine C. Ferguson, September 17, 1890, the daughter of the late
Alexander Ferguson, railway agent, of Simcoe, and has one son, Francis
Macdonald Reid. In politics he is a Conservative, is a member of the
Ancient Order of United Workmen and a Mason. Mr. Reid is Town
Treasurer of Simcoe, a member of the Presbyterian Church, and takes a
great interest in golf as a pastime.

Minehan, Rev. Lancelot (Toronto, Ont.), was born in Killaloe,
County Clare, Ireland, son of Michael Minehan and Hanna Skehan. He was
educated at All Hallows’ College, Dublin, came to Canada in 1884, and was
ordained at Montreal. Served as Assistant Priest at Thornhill, House of
Providence, Adjala, St. Helen’s, St. Mary’s, St. Paul’s, St. Michael’s,
Toronto. Was Chaplain for two and a half years at Penetanguishene,
transferred to Toronto, and appointed R.C. Chaplain of the Central Prison,
Mercer Reformatory and Toronto Asylum; later, was pastor at Schomberg,
Ont., where he spent three and a half years, following which he was first
parish Priest of St. Peter’s Toronto, where he built a splendid new church
and where he ministered for over eighteen years; he is now parish priest of
St. Vincent’s Church, on Roncesvalles Avenue, Toronto, which will be one
of the finest edifices in Toronto diocese. For twelve or more years Rev.
Father Minehan has been connected with “The Catholic Register,” and has
been identified with various organizations for the promotion of temperance,
social welfare and the moral uplift of the city. He is Vice-President of the
Ontario Branch of the Dominion Temperance Alliance and Vice-President
of the Moral and Social Reform League. Father Minehan is as famous for
his gifts as a pulpit orator as for his eloquence as a platform speaker. His
magnetic personality, frankness and loyalty have given him an assured
place in the esteem of all classes. He is a man of indefatigable energy,
opposed to intolerance and bigotry, with a mind fixed on the promotion of
the highest ideals in all walks of life. He is a frequent contributor to the
press, and is a writer of force and choice diction. His reverence favors a
Canadian Navy and the development of a policy of protection under the
British Flag. He exercises a wide influence both as a clergyman and a
private citizen, and at his Silver Jubilee, in 1909, was presented with many
proofs of his personal worth, and great popularity. Of him it has been said
that he is “truly Catholic in spirit and in service and charity.”

L’Esperance, Hon. David Ovide (Quebec City), Member of the
Senate and Chairman of the Harbor Commission of Quebec, was born in the
thriving town of Montmagny, in the County of Montmagny, in the Province
of Quebec. He is the son of Edouard L’Esperance, his mother’s maiden
name having been Morin. His career as a business man, banker and broker,
has been a successful one, his connection with sundry influential exploiting
firms having given him an influence in public circles which has been
enhanced by his acumen as a parliamentarian. He has been for years a
Director of the Quebec Railway Light, Heat and Power Co., a Director and
President of the Quebec Exposition Board, President of the Grande Allee
Apartments Company, and President of L’Evenement Publishing Company.
He is President of the Amable Belanger, Ltd., Manufacturing Co.,
Montmagny, and of the General Car & Machinery Works of the same place.
His prominence as a successful business man and his influence as a public-
spirited citizen, did not fail to bring him into touch with the political circles
of the Conservative Party; and in the year 1911 he was elected a Member of
the Federal Parliament for Montmagny. While a member of the House of
Commons, his influence as a deliberate speaker and his industry as a
member of committees were acknowledged by all associated with him in
parliamentary work; and, when the vacancy occurred on the Harbor
Commission of Quebec, on the withdrawal of Sir William Price, he was
selected to succeed the latter as Chairman of that Board. In July, 1917, he
was called to the Senate. His efforts to improve the harbor facilities of the
port of Quebec have been appreciated and seconded by the Federal
Government and his associates in office, with due recognition of his public
spirit and energy by his fellow-citizens and the country at large. In 1888, he
married Miss Clara Dionne, of Ste. Anne de la Pocatiere, of the Province of
Quebec. Their family residence is on Ste. Genevieve Avenue, and their
summer residence at Percé, Co. of Gaspé. Mr. L’Esperance has won for
himself a prominence in all the movements that have had for their purpose
the advancement of the city in which he has his home. He is a loyal
Quebecer. As a Conservative, he has won an influential place in his party.
And as a philanthropist he has won the good opinion of his fellow-men and
co-workers.

O’Reilly, His Honor James Redmond, is the eldest son of the late
James O’Reilly, Q.C., M.P., and Mary Jane (Redmond), born at Kingston,
Ontario, February 14, 1862, and educated at Regiopolis College, Kingston,
Collegiate Institute, Kingston, St. Mary’s (Jesuit) College, Montreal, and
Queen’s University, Kingston, from which latter institution he graduated
with the degree of B.A., and Gold Medal in Political Economy in 1882.
Called to the Bar, May, 1885. Created a K.C., 1899, successfully practised
his profession at Prescott for several years until his appointment as Senior
County Judge for Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, in March, 1900. His
Honor was formerly a Liberal. President of the South Grenville Liberal
Association for 13 years. Married December 31, 1889, Rose Mary, fourth
daughter of the late James Bermingham, and is the father of two children:
James, born November 16, 1891, and Wm. H., born December 26, 1896. In
religion the Judge is Roman Catholic. He resides at Cornwall, Ont., and is a
member of the Cornwall Club. In earlier years Judge O’Reilly had some
military experience, being Bombardier in Wellington Field Battery.

Keefe, R. Daniel (Penetanguishene, Ont.), Principal of the High
School of that town; was born at Iroquois, Ont., June 10, 1877, and is the
son of Patrick Keefe, a native of Cork, Ireland, who came to this country
when a child and later settled on the St. Lawrence in the Town of Iroquois
and became a builder and contractor, erecting a large planing mill, installed
an electric light plant for the Town and bought the waterworks system
which was afterwards sold to the municipality. Principal Keefe’s mother
was of United Empire Loyalist descent. He was educated at the Iroquois
High School, McGill University, Montreal, and the University of Toronto,
and the School of Pedagogy, Hamilton. Graduated in 1901 with the degree
of B.A., Toronto University. On graduating, taught successively in the High
Schools of Port Elgin, Colborne and Gananoque, and was then appointed
Principal of the Penetanguishene High School, where he has been for over
twelve years teaching Science and Classics. Principal Keefe has the
reputation of being one of the best after-dinner speakers in Northern
Ontario. Besides the father, one brother, W. S. Keefe, a School of Science
graduate in Electrical Engineering, survives. Principal Keefe has been an
active member of the Carnegie Library Board, having acted as Secretary
and Chairman of the Buying Committee for several years. Is President also

of the Penetanguishene Hospital. Married in 1905 to Ethel Madeline,
daughter of Norval Manning, of Toronto, and is the father of two children,
Beverley Hartle, born 1913, and Wilbur Neville, born 1916. He is a member
of the Masonic order, being Past Master of Georgian Lodge, No. 348, and
Past Z. of Kichikewana Chapter No. 67, Midland; P.G.S. of the Grand
Lodge of Canada. Is keenly interested in all manner of sports and prominent
in Association football, hockey and curling. Has played football in the
Champion team of Eastern Ontario and the Champions of Hamilton District
League, winning the Spectator Cup. Has managed several hockey teams
and is a Past President and Past Secretary-Treasurer of the Penetanguishene
Curling Club, and has been one of the District Tankard Skips for the past
four years. In religion, Mr. Keefe is a member of the Methodist Church, and
politically, a Liberal.

MacLean, Archie, R.R. No. 4, Paisley, Ont., was born in Bruce
Township, County of Bruce, in 1868, of Highland Scotch parents, and
glories in the fact that he has Highland Scotch blood flowing through his
veins. He attended the public school in the section in which he lived until he
was about thirteen years of age, when, being the eldest of the family, he had
to leave school to assist on the farm. His ambition for an education was
unquenched and he studied at home, and at the age of twenty-one took a
three-months’ course in the public school, secured his matriculation. He
went to Port Elgin and Walkerton High School and succeeded in creditably
securing a second-class certificate. He taught school for a few years, but the
profession at that time not being over-remunerative, he again took up
farming, and also engaged in grazing and shipping cattle, which occupation
he still successfully follows. In 1901 he was elected to the Township of
Bruce Council, where he served for two years. In 1903-4 he was elected to
Reeveship of the Township. In 1910 he again contested the Reeveship
successfully and held the office until 1912. This office he did not covet for
office sake, but being enthused with the true spirit of co-operation for the
benefit of all he set the log rolling for the establishment of a municipal
telephone system, for the benefit of nine different municipalities, his own
native township being the initiating one. This enterprise is now looked upon
as the greatest example of co-operation in the whole county. In his efforts
he was ably seconded by men who caught his vision. He is at present one of

a commission of three, the other two being, D. McNaughton, Ex-M.P.P., and
J. J. Hunter, who handle the business of this system. Mr. MacLean is a man
of splendid executive ability, which has been shown by his able judgment in
all public enterprises with which he has been connected. It has been said
that the farmer needs ideas. In his case he has ideas—big ones—and is not
afraid to champion them even in the face of strong opposition. He is a
leader and a safe one to follow, because of his canny Scotch nature. He is a
good public speaker and has such splendid control of himself that he has
never been known to show anger even under trying circumstances. In
patriotic endeavor he is always to the fore, having done his part ably and
conscientiously ever since the war began. As yet he has not taken unto
himself a wife. He is a Liberal in politics, and his name has often been
mentioned in connection with Parliamentary honors. He is a member of
Port Elgin Lodge, No. 429, A.F. & A.M., Camp McCrimmon, S.O.S., and
the I.O.O.F. His genial good nature, wide knowledge of municipal affairs
and splendid physique, make him an outstanding farmer in any company.

Heaton, Ernest (Toronto, Ont.), born in 1861, at Bellws-yn-Rhos,
North Wales. Is the son of Rev. Hugh E. Heaton, of Plas Heaton,
Denbighshire, North Wales. Educated at Marlborough College and
University College, Oxford (B.A., 1884). Came to Canada on his
graduation and was called to the bar of Upper Canada at Osgoode Hall,
1887. Successfully practised his profession in Toronto till 1892, when he
removed to Goderich; returned to Toronto in 1900. Now manager of
Heaton’s Agency, Toronto. Founded a semi-official system of publications,
including Heaton’s Annual, Heaton’s Provincial Booklets and Heaton’s
Handbooks of Canadian Resources. Has contributed many articles to
Canadian and English magazines and is the author of “Canada’s Problem”
(1895); “The Trust Company Idea and Its Development” (1904); and also
editor of the “Commercial Handbook of Canada.” Married Grace, daughter
of H. G. Attrill, of Baltimore and Ridgewood Park, Goderich, and is the
father of the following children: Helen Grace, born 1891, married Capt.
Ruggles George; Hugh Attrill, born 1893; Thomas Gilbert, born 1900;
Catherine Mary, born 1893. Mr. Heaton is a member of the Toronto Golf
Club, Toronto Hunt Club and Albany Club; is an adherent of the Church of

England, and has been a delegate to its Synods. He is a Conservative in
politics.

Jones, Henry Victor Franklin (Toronto, Ont.), Assistant General
Manager of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, son of the late Charles S.
Jones and Helen (MacDougall); mother sister of the late Honorable William
MacDougall, C.B., one of the “Fathers of Confederation.” Born at St.
Mary’s, Ontario, September 28, 1871; educated at Toronto; married June 4,
1904, Bunella, daughter of the late E. W. Rathbun, Deseronto, Ontario.
Entered the service of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, December 13,
1887. Was at head office and New York branch, and manager of the
London, England branch of this bank. Chairman Editing Committee Journal
Canadian Bankers Association, member Ontario Provincial Housing
Committee. He is a member of the City Club and Conservative Club, and
the Royal Colonial Institute, London, England; Richmond Country Club,
New York; The York, Toronto, National, Racquet, and the Toronto Golf
Clubs. Mr. Jones is the father of four children, three girls and one boy. His
principal recreation is golf, racquets, fishing, shooting.

Middlebró, William S., K.C. (Owen Sound, Ont.), son of John and
Margaret Middlebró. Born, October 17, 1868, at the town of Orangeville,
Ont. Educated at the Owen Sound Collegiate Institute and Osgoode Hall,
Toronto; called to the Bar, 1892, and created a King’s Counsel in 1910;
Mayor of the city of Owen Sound, 1889, and 1900. Married, September 2,
1903, to Laura J. Trethewey, who died April 21, 1907, leaving no children;
on October 22, 1913, married Pearl Irene, daughter of G. B. Ryan, of
Guelph, Ont. Mr. Middlebró, who enjoys a large legal practice in the city of
Owen Sound, was first elected to the House of Commons in 1908; re-
elected in 1911 and again in 1917, by a majority of 2,291, to represent the
constituency of North Grey. He has been a prominent member in the House
since his first election to Parliament and has been Chairman of the Public
Accounts Committee and Chairman of the Special Committee appointed to
investigate Army boots in 1915, and also chief Government Whip of the
former Borden Government and of the Union Government. Mr. Middlebró
is a fluent platform speaker and well versed in all questions of National

importance. He is a member of the Church of England, and belongs to the
Sydenham Club of Owen Sound, and has one son by his second marriage,
William George.

Marsh, Lieutenant-Colonel Lorne Wilmot (Belleville, Ont.),
born at Frankford, Ont., June 29, 1871, son of John Secord Marsh and
Lydia M. (Hunt), U.E. Loyalist descent. Educated at the Public and High
Schools, Belleville. Matriculant of Toronto University and an
Undergraduate. Married, February 13, 1894, Euretta M., daughter of John
and Isabella Smith, Point Fortune, Quebec. Father of one son, John Edward,
born June 16, 1900. Is a member of the Masonic Order and a Past Master,
and a Member of The Chapter, a Knight Templar, A.O.M.S., also the
I.O.O.F. and the I.O.F. Interested himself in the Municipal affairs of the city
of Belleville, and served as Alderman five years, 1903-1907, inclusive, and
elected Mayor in 1909 and 1910, Took active interest in military matters:
Served in the ranks of the 15th Argyll Light Infantry. Lieutenant, 1898-9;
Captain, 1899, and by gradual promotion rose to the rank of Lieutenant-
Colonel and Commanding Officer of the Battalion. Has been a successful
manufacturer since 1897, when he took over the manufacturing business of
the defunct G. & J. Brown Manufacturing Company, with the late W. H.
Henthorn, which was incorporated in 1908 and conducts the manufacture
incident to a foundry, machine shop and boiler shop, specializing in hoisting
machinery, steel tanks and general contractors’ machinery, and has recently
built a $75,000.00 plant to take care of the rapidly increasing output. The
nomenclature of his business is “Marsh Engineering Works, Limited.”
Lieutenant-Colonel Marsh is a Methodist in religion, and has been classed
as an Independent Liberal.

Hebert, Zepherin, President, Hudon, Hebert & Co., Ltd., Montreal,
Quebec, Wholesale Grocers and Wine Merchants, importing direct from
manufacturers in Europe, China, Japan, Asia Minor and United States. Born
in the city of Montreal on February 6, 1866, the son of Charles P. and Rose
(Busseau) Hebert, the subject of this sketch is in the prime of life. Having
attended the Catholic Commercial Academy and St. Mary’s College, Mr.
Hebert received a liberal education, and to this fact, marked business ability,

which he displayed at an early age, and a winning personality are due his
rapid rise, and present recognized position in the Eastern Metropolis. Mr.
Hebert’s business career and his advancement is worthy of note. He joined
his present firm as clerk in 1883, when but seventeen years of age; admitted
partner ten years later; became Director and Assistant Manager, 1906;
elected Vice-President, 1908; President, 1911. This business was
established, 1839, under the name of E. & V. Hudon; later, V. Hudon, J.
Hudon & Co.; Hudon, Hebert & Cie, 1883; incorporated under present
name, 1906, the late C. P. Hebert being first President. They now employ a
staff of 170, and have 25 travelling salesmen constantly visiting all Canada
and selling their goods from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans; their turn-
over ending January 31, 1913, was $4,000,000, an increase of $1,000,000
over the past two years’ business. For the last twenty-five years Mr. Hebert
has been a member of the Montreal Board of Trade, second Vice-President
in 1915, first Vice-President in 1916, and in 1917 was accorded the honor
of being elected President of that influential body, being the first French-
Canadian upon whom such a signal mark of distinction has been conferred.
He was appointed a member of the Council in February, 1913; elected
member Transportation Bureau December, 1913; has held most of
important offices, Dominion Grocers’ Guild, and is now President;
Chairman, Prize Committee, Province Quebec; President Montreal
Wholesale Liquor Association; Treasurer and Governor, Notre Dame
Hospital; Governor Montreal General Hospital, Governor Laval University.
Mr. Hebert is a dominant force in the cultivation of harmonious relations
between the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec, and was one of the
promoters of the Bonne Entente movement, having presided as Chairman at
the Conference when the idea was first crystallized, which led to such
happy results, and is at present a member of the executive. Of broad
opinions, and liberal views, he has been described as “a thorough-going
Canadian.” He is an ardent admirer of British institutions, with a fine pride
of his own race and its splendid traditions. His opinions on economic
questions, of which he has been a close student, are held in the highest
regard and his addresses before the Canadian Credit Men’s Association on
“Credit and Co-operation,” and before the Wholesale Grocers’ Guild, on
“Evolution of a Credit Plan” were considered masterly expositions of the
subjects dealt with. Mr. Hebert has had a distinguished military career. He
served with the 65th Regiment, Mount Royal Rifles, as private, 1882; saw

active service in the North-west Rebellion, 1885; promoted to Sergeant and
Captain, and retired with the rank of Major, after eighteen years of service.
With such a fine record he is enthusiastic on the winning of the war, and
prominent in all undertakings of a patriotic nature. With admirable diction
he is able to speak English and French, and has all the courtesy and charm
of manner which characterizes the educated French-Canadian. He married
Blanche Robidoux, daughter of J. O. Robidoux, Oct. 9, 1894; has two sons,
Charles P. and Jacques Robidoux, and two daughters, Marielle and
Gertrude. He belongs to the following clubs: Canadian, Jockey.
Recreations: General, military affairs. Politics, Independent Liberal.
Religion, Roman Catholic. Address, Montreal, Quebec.

L. J. Breithaupt, Kitchener.
Hugh Paton, Montreal.

McMahon, Edward (Ottawa), arrived in Canada from Ireland in
1882, and immediately entered into the real estate business as agent for the
owners of By Estate. In 1891 he was appointed to the Secretaryship of the

Central Canada Exhibition Association, and held that position until 1916,
when he retired. During this period he remained in the real estate business
and was also Secretary-Treasurer for Registered Sale Pure Bred Cattle. Mr.
McMahon is a member of the firm of Bate & McMahon, builders of
Connaught Rifle Range, South March (1913), and member of the firm of
Bate, McMahon & Co., Contractors with the Dominion Government for the
construction of Valcartier Camp, Quebec; Camp Sewell, Manitoba; and
Camp Hughes, Alberta; Camp Borden, the largest Military Camp in the
world; also builders of Aviation Camps, viz., Borden, Mohawk and Leaside,
under contract with the Imperial Munitions Board. Mr. McMahon is also
senior member of the firm of E. McMahon & Son, Insurance and Real
Estate Agents, and is on the Board of Directors of the following companies,
viz., Dominion Hardwoods, Limited; the Ottawa Construction Company;
the Standard Paving Company, and the Ottawa Artificial Ice Company. It
was owing to Mr. McMahon’s marked business and executive ability during
the twenty-five years that he held the Secretaryship and, practically, the
General Management, that the Central Canada Exhibition Association, next
to Toronto, is now the best institution of the kind in Canada. Each year,
from the time of his appointment, it grew stronger, more attractive and more
valuable, until to-day it is second only to Toronto’s Great Annual
Exhibition. Mr. McMahon came to Canada from Monaghan, Ireland, where
he was born, January 17, 1862. His father and mother were Edward
McMahon, farmer and accountant, and Jane Mitchell. He was educated at
the National and Collegiate Schools and graduated with honors. He married
Susan Jane Haram, daughter of Robert Haram, Ottawa, and has two sons
and one daughter, viz.: H. E. McMahon, Lillian M. McMahon and Robert
M. McMahon. He is a member of the Loyal Orange Institution and a
Mason; is a Conservative in politics and a Protestant in religion. He resides
at 87 James St. and has offices in the Central Chambers.

Jacobs, Samuel W., K.C., M.P., senior member of the legal firm of
Jacobs, Couture & Fitch, Montreal, Que. Has been President of the Baron
de Hirsch Institute, 1912-1914, and is a member of the Canadian
Committee of the Jewish Colonization Association of Paris, which
administers the Baron de Hirsch Fund. He is an Honorary Vice-President of
the Jewish Publication Society of America, and was a director and member

of the governing board of the Montreal Reform Club for many years. Mr.
Jacobs has contributed numerous papers on legal subjects to various law
Reviews, and is the author of “Railway Law of Canada,” also joint editor of
Jacobs and Garneau’s Code of Civil Procedure. He was born in Lancaster,
Glengarry County, Ontario, the son of William and Hannah Jacobs, and
received his early education at Montreal High School, graduating from
McGill University in 1893, as B.C.L., with first rank honors, and from
Laval University in the following year as LL.M. cum Laude. He was
elected to the House of Commons at the general elections in 1917 for the
George Etienne Cartier Division of Montreal by over 6,000 majority,
defeating two opponents. In 1906 he was created a King’s Counsel. Mr.
Jacobs married Miss Amy Stein, daughter of the late Michael Stein of
Baltimore, Md., in April, 1917, and they have issue one daughter, Hannah,
born in 1918. He is a member of the Jewish religion, and a Liberal in
politics.

Boyer, Major Gustave, son of Benjamin Boyer and Angelique
Latour (both French-Canadians), born November 29, 1871, at St. Laurent,
Jacques Cartier County, near Montreal. Educated at St. Laurent College and
Laval University. Married April 10, 1907 to Pamela, daughter of François
Rheaume of Montreal. Formerly a public lecturer on agriculture for the
Quebec Government. Has been connected with both “La Patrie” and “Le
Canada,” as agricultural editor. Founded the “Echo de Vaudreuil,” 1897;
was alderman and mayor of the town of Rigaud for nine years. Has had an
active military career, being Major and Second in Command of the 17th
Regiment Duke of York’s Royal Canadian Hussars, of which he organized
B. Squadron in Vaudreuil County, and afterwards organizer and first
commanding officer of the 33rd Regiment of Hussars, Vaudreuil and
Soulanges. First elected to the House of Commons as a Liberal at the
general election of 1904, and re-elected in 1908, 1911, and 1917. Major
Boyer is recognized as an authority on all matters pertaining to agriculture.

Crothers, Hon. Thomas Wilson, B.A., K.C., son of William and
Nancy (Grey), was born at Northport, Prince Edward County, Ontario,
January 1, 1850. Educated at the Public School, Northport, and Albert

College, Belleville, and graduated from Victoria College with the degree of
B.A. in 1873, taught public schools in Lennox and Prince Edward for two
years and was head master of Wardsville High School 1874-75-76. Studied
law in the office of Foy, Macdonald & Tupper, and Messrs. Bethune, Osler
& Moss, in 1877-78-79. On being called to the Bar, began practice of Law
in St. Thomas in 1880 and for a number of years was in partnership with
Samuel Price, formerly Mining Commissioner for Ontario, under the firm
name of Crothers & Price. Appointed a K.C. in 1906; contested West Elgin
as Liberal Conservative candidate for a seat in the Legislative Assembly for
Ontario at the general elections in 1879, was defeated by the late Dr.
Cascadden, who was elected by a majority of 7. Was Chairman of the Text
Book Commission appointed by the Ontario Government in 1906 to enquire
into the price of Public and High School Text Books, which enquiry
resulted in the price being very greatly reduced, when he declined to receive
any emolument for his services; appointed governor of Toronto University
1908. First elected to the House of Commons at the general elections in
1908 as a Conservative member for West Elgin, and re-elected at the
general elections in 1911 and sworn in as Privy Councillor and appointed
Minister of Labor in the Borden Government, Oct. 10, 1911. In 1917
elected as a Unionist and retained the portfolio of Minister of Labour until
November last, when he resigned owing to ill health. Upon accepting this
office was returned by acclamation. The Hon. Mr. Crothers accompanied
Premier Borden on his western tour June, 1911, and is recognized as a
platform speaker of splendid presence and much force. Married July 26,
1883, Mary E., daughter of the late Dr. J. A. Burns, of St. Thomas. The
Minister is a member of the First Methodist Church, St. Thomas.

Pyne, Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. Robert Allan, M.D., LL.D.,
Minister of Education for the Province of Ontario, was born at Newmarket,
Ontario, October 29, 1853; son of Thomas Pyne, M.D., and Hester Jane
Roberts, cousin of Field-Marshal Earl Roberts; educated at public schools,
grammar school and University of Toronto; physician and surgeon; M.B.,
M.D. College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, of which he was for
many years secretary and registrar; LL.D. (hon.) University of Toronto,
1905, and Queen’s University, Kingston. Married Mary Isobel, daughter of
His Honor Judge Macqueen, County of Oxford; has issue: Mona Aileen,

Frederick Roberts, Frank Herbert. As a youth played football and cricket as
member of the Toronto Cricket and Lacrosse Clubs. Practised his profession
in Toronto and took active part in public affairs as member of Toronto
School Board, Public Library Board and Toronto Board of Health. While
resident of Haldimand County served in the 37th Haldimand Rifles and was
subsequently Assistant Surgeon, Royal Grenadiers, Toronto. Having been
prominent in politics, was elected to Ontario Legislature as Conservative
member for East Toronto, at the general elections of 1898, and on the
redistribution of the city in 1914 was chosen to represent North-East
Toronto, which seat he resigned in 1918. Recently appointed a Governor of
the University of Toronto. On the formation of the Whitney Administration
(1905-1914) was appointed Minister of Education, and reappointed to the
same office in the Hearst Administration (1914—). In 1918 he resigned to
give place to Hon. Dr. Cody and accepted the post of Clerk of York County.
During his term of office the educational system was greatly developed, the
legislative grants to schools largely increased, the policy of cheap text-
books inaugurated, and a complete organization for technical training and
agricultural teaching in elementary and secondary schools effected. The
successful expansion of the Provincial Schools for Deaf Children (at
Belleville) and for blind children (at Brantford), is due in great measure to
his encouragement and his knowledge as a physician. In 1915 he was
requested by the Ontario Government to visit England in connection with
the gift by the province of a Military Hospital for wounded soldiers, and
gazetted a lieutenant-colonel in the Canadian Army. The hospital was built
at Orpington, Kent, England, under his supervision, and has been
pronounced the best equipped and organized institution of its kind erected
during the war. Has twice visited the Canadian forces on the battle line in
France. Is prominent in a number of societies, including the Masonic Order,
the Orange Association, Sons of England, etc., etc. In religion a member of
St. Paul’s Church of England. Clubs: Toronto, Albany, Royal Canadian
Yacht, Canadian Military Institute, Riverside Athletic Club. Residence, 21
Dunbar Road, Toronto.

Shier, Walter C., M.D. (Uxbridge, Ont.), is the son of James Shier
and Mary Ann Mooney, and was born at Leaksdale, Ont., June 23, 1869,
and educated at one of the Public Schools of Scott Township and the High

School of Uxbridge, in the County of Ontario, and also at Toronto
University, graduating in Arts with the degree of B.A. in 1897, and in
Medicine with the degree of M.B. with honors, in 1907. Doctor Shier’s
grandfather, John Shier, was one of the early settlers of the Township of
Brock, where he located in 1827, a little north of the present West Brock
Anglican Church, and was of Irish Palatine stock. His great-great-great-
grandfather was driven out of the Palatinate by the wars of Louis XIV of
France. He left his native country in 1709 and among thirteen thousand of
his countrymen, threw himself upon the generosity of the British
Government. After living one summer in England, he settled at Balligarane
in Limerick County, Ireland, August, 1709, on the estate of Lord Southwell.
The Doctor’s progenitors were all of the farming class. The story of the
expulsion of his ancestors from that portion of France which is now known
as the Provinces of Alsace-Lorraine, is of absorbing interest. Dr. Shier after
considerable trouble and research, has traced the history of his forefathers
during the interesting period referred to, and has written a book entitled “A
Family from Balligarane,” being a history of the Irish Palatines. Dr. Shier
was married on the 4th of February, 1908, to Martha Kaufmann, daughter of
the late Henry Kaufmann, of Wellesley, Ont., and has one adopted daughter,
Elsie Grace Ball, age 7. He is a member of the Oddfellows and of the
Masonic Order, being Past Master of Zeredatha Lodge, A.F. & A.M.,
Uxbridge. In religion he is a Presbyterian and a Conservative in politics.
The Doctor has been Coroner of the County of Ontario for some years and
Surgeon of the G.T.R. He devotes his attention very closely to his
profession and specializes on Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat, Consultations and
Anæsthetics. He is an ardent motorist and expert marksman. The Doctor is a
man of fine literary tastes and exceedingly well posted on all matters of
national importance. He entertains very decided opinions on public
questions and is never afraid to have them known.

Robertson, Wm. John (St. Catharines, Ont.), son of John and Emma
(Rudsdale) Robertson. Father, a Scotch Canadian; mother, a native of
Yorkshire, England. Born Westmeath, County Renfrew, Ontario, Sept. 12,
1846; educated Perth High School, Toronto University (B.A. with gold
medal in metaphysics, ethics and civil polity; silver medal in mathematics;
1st honors in history and Prince of Wales prize for highest standing in

1873); and Victoria University (LL.B., 1883). Married, 1887, Margaret K.,
youngest daughter of John Junkin, St. Catharines, Ontario, for a time
assistant to late Professor Kingston, Meteorological Bureau, Toronto, and
38 years as chief teacher of mathematics and history, St. Catharines
Collegiate Institute; for 7 years was examiner in metaphysics, ethics,
modern history, and political science, Toronto University; was also
examiner for Upper Canada College and McMaster University; was Ontario
Representative on the Committee of the Dominion Education Association
for securing and revising Canada manuscripts from a Dominion standpoint,
1892; first President Canadian History Association, 1895; founded
Robertson Prize in Canadian Constitutional History, Toronto University;
formerly a Senator Victoria University; Pres. Ontario Library Assoc.,
Mathematics Assoc., and chairman St. Catharines Free Library Board, also
Vice-Pres. Y.M.C.A. Ont. and Quebec; Pres. Canadian Club, St. Catharines,
and Pres. Local St. Andrews Society. Member of the St. Catharines College
Institute Board, Pres. of the Local Branch Bible Society. Author, sketch of
“Canadian Banking and Currency since 1867,” “The Teacher’s Relation to
the State,” “A Comparison of the Political Institutions of Canada with those
of Great Britain and Ireland, and with those of the United States,” “The
Growth of the Canadian Constitution,” “The High School History of
England and Canada,” “The Public School History of England and
Canada,” for many years of other authorized Text Books in Ontario and
other provinces, and of numerous other works of a like nature and
reputation. In politics an Independent Liberal; a Methodist in religion. A
member of the Methodist Board of Education, and for 32 years a Delegate
to the General Conference and member of Superannuation Fund Board of
the Church; a believer in Free Trade as far as it can be obtained; the
development of a Canadian sentiment and literature; and the moderation of
party feeling. Member of the Golf Club, St. Catharines, and of the Canadian
Club.

Seguin, Paul Arthur, B.S., LL.B. (L’Assomption, Que.), son of
Felix Seguin and Vitaline Noiseux, both French-Canadians. Born October 2,
1875, at Charlemagne; educated at L’Assomption College and Laval
University, from which latter institution he graduated with the degree of
B.S. and LL.B. Married, October 30, 1899, to Marie Anna Rivest, daughter

of François Rivest and Delphine McGoun, and is the father of the following
children: Roland, Rolande, Jeanette, Fernande and Pauline. Mr. Seguin is a
Notary Public by profession and has been Secretary-Treasurer of the town
of Terrebonne from 1900 to 1907, and Secretary-Treasurer of the Parish of
St. Paul l’Ermite from 1907 to 1912, and now practises his profession at the
town of L’Assomption, of which town he is the Mayor, and member of the
School Board. Mr. Seguin was first elected to the House of Commons as a
Liberal in 1908 and again in 1911, and also at the general elections in 1917.
He has always been a staunch Liberal and a member of the Roman Catholic
Church.

Smith, John Charles, B.A., son of William Smith and his wife Sarah
Josephine Whitlow, was born at Kingston, Ont., November 28, 1875.
Educated at Kingston Public Schools, Kingston Collegiate Institute, and
Queen’s University, Kingston, from which latter institution he graduated
with the degree of B.A. in 1898, with honors in Classics. Mr. Smith taught
in the Public Schools in Frontenac County, Ont., and was subsequently
Classical Master in Dutton High School and in Dundas High School,
afterwards Classical Master and Principal in the Wingham High School, and
filled a similar position in the Ingersoll Collegiate Institute. In 1916 was
appointed Inspector of Public Schools for the Inspectorate of Elgin East.
Married Rose, daughter of John Critchley, of Toronto, and has one child,
Hugh Cyprian Whitlow. Mr. Smith is a member of the Canadian Club and
the Masonic and Orange Orders, and of the Canadian Order of Foresters.
He is an Anglican in religion and a member of Trinity Church, St. Thomas,
at which city he resides.

Samuel, Sigmund, one of the most interesting of Toronto’s wholesale
merchants is Sigmund Samuel, son of Lewis Samuel, who, with his wife,
formerly Miss Kate Sickleman, came to Toronto in 1855, where Mr. Samuel
founded his iron, steel and metal business, now located at the corner of
King and Spadina Avenue, Toronto, at 120 Broadway, New York, and 18
Philpot Lane, London, E.C., England, and is also vice-president of the
Metallic Roofing Co. of Toronto. It is now the oldest established firm in
direct succession in Canada in this branch of industry. The present head of

the firm was born in Toronto on October 24, 1868, and educated at the
Model School and Upper Canada College, from which he graduated in
1884. In 1898 he married L. May Mandelson, daughter of L. P. Mandelson,
a retired merchant of London, England, and their family numbers four:
Kathleen May, Lewis Sigmund, Norman Sigmund and Florence May. Of
Jewish religion, in politics Conservative, Mr. Samuel’s chief recreations are
golf and motoring. He is a member of the York Club, Toronto Hunt Club,
the Albany, the Lambton Golf and Country Club, the Caledon Mountain
Trout Club and, in England, of the Carlton Club and the Hanger Hill Golf
Club. He is also a member of the council of the Art Museum of Toronto.
Nor is Mr. Samuel neglectful of philanthrophy, for he is a life member of
the Western Hospital, Toronto, and a governor of the Children’s Hospital,
Great Ormond St., London, England. Mr. Samuel is truly Imperialistic in
maintaining his English connections, and maintains his English address at
64 Porchester Terrace, London. His Canadian home is at 140 Madison
Avenue, Toronto.

Rose, Hon. Mr. Justice Hugh Edward, (Toronto). Son of the late
Hon. Mr. Justice J. E. Rose, LL.D., Judge of the Supreme Court of
Judicature for Ontario. Born in Toronto the 16th of September, 1869.
Educated at Toronto Collegiate Institute and the University of Toronto, from
which latter institution he graduated in 1891 with the degree of B.A., and
received the degree of LL.B. in 1892. Called to the bar in 1894. Created
K.C. in 1908. Before his elevation to the Bench, was a member of the firm
of Fasken, Cowan, Chadwick & Rose. Some time Examiner in Law,
Toronto University, and one of the examiners of the Law Society of Upper
Canada. Appointed to the Bench the 4th of December, 1916. Member of the
following clubs: Toronto Club, and Toronto Golf Club. In religion, Mr.
Justice Rose is a member of the Church of England.

Mills, Charles Henry, M.L.A. (Kitchener), was born at Clinton,
Ont., October 27, 1861; son of Rev. John Mills and his wife, Eliza
Coleman. Educated at the Grimsby High School. Was President of the
Kitchener Board of Trade, 1904-5, and Alderman for the City, 1911-12. Has
been member of the following boards in the City of Kitchener: Parks

Commissioner, Light and Power Commission, and Collegiate Institute. Was
first President of the Canadian Club in his home City in 1908. First elected
to the Ontario Legislature at a by-election, October 28, 1912, as the
Conservative representative for the constituency of North Waterloo and
again returned in the General Election of 1914 by a majority of 1454, being
the largest majority ever given a Conservative candidate in the riding. In
religion, the member for North Waterloo is a Methodist. He married Bernice
Mitton, daughter of William J. Mitton of Dutton, September 7, 1898, and is
a member of the Kitchener and Waterloo Clubs and of the following
societies: Masonic, Canadian Order of Foresters, and Knights of Pythias.

Hazen, Hon. Sir John Douglas, K.C.M.G., K.C., LL.D., O.C. (St.
John City and County). Descended from Edward Hazen, who moved from
Northumberland, Eng., to Massachusetts in 1648, and more immediately
from John Hazen, who, with his brother William, came from Haverhill,
Mass., and settled at Portland, New Brunswick, in 1775. Son of the late
James King Hazen, mother a daughter of the late Hon. John A. Beckwith.
Maternal grandfather was Provincial Secretary of New Brunswick and
member of the Legislative Council. Paternal grandfather was an officer in
H.M. Army, and Sheriff of Sunbury County for over 25 years. Born at
Oromocto, Sunbury County, New Brunswick, June 5, 1860. Educated at
Collegiate School, Fredericton, and University, New Brunswick; degrees,
B.A., B.C.L., LL.D., University New Brunswick. Married Sept. 22, 1884,
Ada C., daughter of James Tibbits, of Fredericton. Five children: Douglas
King, Katie Elizabeth, Frances Edith, James Murray (Lieutenant C.E.F.,
died of wounds in France) and Ada A. A barrister-at-law. Director of the
Eastern Trust Co., Senator of the University, New Brunswick and ex-
President Alumni Society thereof. Ex-President of the Barristers’ Society,
New Brunswick. Was Alderman of Fredericton for three years and Mayor
too. Removed to St. John, 1890. President of Horticultural Society.
Returned to House of Commons, general election, 1891, for St. John city
and county. In 1891, moved address in reply in House of Commons; an
unsuccessful candidate 1896; elected to House of Assembly 1899-1903 and
1908 (Sunbury County). Chosen 1899 Leader of the Opposition. The
Opposition Party under his leadership administered a crushing defeat to the
Robinson Government at the general election, March, 1908, and at the close

of the polls he found himself at the head of a contingent of 31 supporters, as
against 12 adherents of the government. Upon the resignation of Premier
Robinson and his colleagues, Mr. Hazen was summoned by His Honor the
Lieut.-Governor to form a government, which he did, assuming the
portfolio of Premier and Attorney-General. The Cabinet was sworn in,
March 24, 1908, and all the members thereof re-elected by acclamation
April 7. Retained office until Oct. 10, 1911, when he was sworn of the
Privy Council and appointed Minister of Marine and Fisheries in Premier
Borden’s Cabinet. Dr. Daniel, the M.P. elect for St. John City and County,
retiring, Mr. Hazen was placed in nomination and elected by acclamation.
Member of Inter-Provincial Conference, Ottawa, and of Maritime
Provincial Conference (1910), attended coronation of King George and
Queen Mary (1911) as representative of the Province of New Brunswick.
Delegate to Washington on two occasions in connection with the Hague
Award re North Atlantic Fisheries and delegate to England with Premier
Borden, re Naval affairs (1912). In the latter part of 1917 he became
Chairman of the Canadian Section of the International Fisheries
Commission to settle all outstanding fisheries questions between Canada
and the United States; appointed Chief Justice New Brunswick November,
1917. Created a K.C.M.G. for public services same year. Member of Union
Club, St. John; Mount Royal Club, Montreal; Rideau Club, Ottawa; Royal
Colonial Institute, London Eng., and of the following societies: St.
George’s, Loyalist, New Brunswick, Historical, and Natural History, St.
John, N.B. Recreation, golf and motoring. Member of St. Paul’s (Anglican)
Church, St. John, New Brunswick. Address, St. John, N.B.

Sinclair, Victor Albert, B.A., LL.B., born May 16, 1872, at
Tilsonburg, Ont., son of Dr. Lachlin C. Sinclair and Roxilana Nan Norman,
both Canadians. Dr. Sinclair contested North Norfolk on three occasions in
the Conservative interests against the late Hon. John Charlton. Educated at
the Public and High Schools of Tilsonburg, the University of Toronto and
Osgoode Hall; graduated B.A. in 1892 with first-class honors in Political
Science and English, took degree of LL.B. with honors in 1894; called to
the Bar at Osgoode Hall, in 1895, receiving medal. Commenced practice at
Tilsonburg with W. A. Dowler, K.C., as Dowler & Sinclair, has practised
alone for past eight years, entered Municipal Council of his native town in

1896, and served three years as councillor and two years as Mayor, was
high school trustee from 1910 until 1919, member of Council, Board of
Trade. President of Tilsonburg Conservative Club, President Tilsonburg
Horticultural Society 1910-1919, Vice-President Bowling Club, Vice-
President Tilsonburg Shoe Company, Limited. The subject of this sketch
was first elected to the Ontario Legislature for South Oxford at the general
elections of 1914 by a majority of four over Colonel T. R. Mayberry; on
recount this majority was increased to five, and on appeal reduced to one.
Mr. Sinclair is recognized as a valuable member of the Legislature, he was
acting Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee during the session of
1916, he is a member of several fraternal societies, including the Masonic,
of which he is now Worshipful Master, C.O.F., A.O.U.W., also O.C.H.C., of
which he is Supreme Leader for Canada, and has made a special study of
Municipal and Company law. He enjoys a large practice, and is the solicitor
for several townships in the counties of Oxford, Elgin, and Norfolk.
Married February 6, 1901, to Gertrude L., daughter of George Draper, of
Listowel, and is father of two children: Mildred Roxilana, and Gertrude
Helen. In religion the member for South Oxford is a Methodist. His chief
recreation is bowling and horticulture.

Robertson, Norman (Walkerton, Ont.), author of “The History of
the County of Bruce,” and Treasurer of the County of Bruce, Walkerton,
Ont., was born on June 27, 1845, in Belleville, Ontario. His father, Peter
Robertson, was a merchant of Scottish birth and the son of a Presbyterian
minister, at Kilmaurs, Ayrshire. Mr. Robertson’s mother, Sarah Ross, was
born in England, although of Highland descent, her grandfather being one
of those who followed “Bonnie Prince Charlie” into England in 1745.
Norman Robertson attended the Grammar School at Belleville, but left
school when only eleven years of age, that he might accompany his father
and assist him in his business when he came to the County of Bruce and
settled at Kincardine in 1856. The disadvantage arising from leaving school
at so early an age was in part overcome by private study and tuition. In
1863 he went to Montreal, taking a position in a wholesale dry goods
warehouse, rising to the position of English buyer. In 1877 he returned to
Kincardine and took over the business of his father, who retired. He was
married at Montreal in 1871, to Lilla M. Warren, daughter of S. R. Warren,

builder of church organs at Montreal, and afterwards at Toronto. His family
consists of three sons and two daughters. In religion Mr. Robertson is a
Presbyterian, and has been an active worker in Sunday School work for
over fifty years. In politics he is a Conservative. The position of Treasurer
of the County of Bruce became vacant in 1887, and Mr. Robertson was
chosen from among twenty-five applicants. A desire to have put in book
form and so preserved, the records of the settlement of the County of Bruce,
induced the County Council in 1896 to offer a prize for a Historical Sketch
of the County. The sketch prepared by Mr. Robertson carried off, jointly
with another, the prize. This initial effort was followed in 1906 by a volume
of 560 pages bearing the title “The History of the County of Bruce.” This
work has been very favorably commented upon and classed as one of the
best of the County Histories of the Province that have been published. Mr.
Robertson was with the Victoria Rifles, of Montreal, when that regiment
went to the front at the time of the Fenian Raids in 1866, and has received
his military medal therefor.

Price, Samuel, B.C.L. (Toronto, Ont.), Chairman, Workmen’s
Compensation Board. Born at Caradoc Township, Middlesex County, Ont.,
February 16, 1863, son of Richard and Mary (Whiting) Price. Educated at
local Public School, Strathroy and St. Thomas Collegiate Institutes; Trinity
University (B.C.L., gold medal); Osgoode Hall (scholarship each year, gold
medal, 1895). Taught school for some time; read law with McLean & Son,
St. Thomas, and Magee, McKillop & Murphy, London; called to Ontario
Bar, September, 1895; practised at St. Thomas; Secretary, Elgin Law
Association. Royal Commissioner (Ontario) for settlement of Cobalt mining
disputes, 1905; Mining Commissioner for Ontario, 1906-1912; Royal
Commissioner for inquiry into alleged fraudulent action of Fort Frances
Lumber Co., and Keewatin Lumber Co., 1909; Commissioner re eight-hour
day for miners in Ontario, 1912-1913; reported to Ontario Government on
eight-hour law and drafted Bill (now in force); Royal Commissioner to
investigate mining labor troubles on Vancouver Island, 1913; assisted in
general revision of Mining Act of Ontario, 1908; drafted amendments to
mining laws and other Ontario legislation, 1907-1913; refused
Chairmanship of Ontario Railway and Municipal Board; engaged (on
recommendation of late Chief Commissioner Mabee) in consolidation and

revision of Railway Act, 1912-1913; recommended by late Chief
Commissioner Mabee for appointment as a member of Railway Board of
Canada; appointed to present position Aug., 1914; President West Elgin
Liberal-Conservative Association, 1904-1905. Member Public Library
Board. Author “Mining Commissioner’s Cases,” 1910; articles on Mining
Law, “Canada Law Times” and Journal Canadian Mining Institute, 1910-
1911. Societies: A.F. & A.M., K.P., C.O.C.F., C.O.F. Liberal Conservative;
Anglican.

Jones, George Burpee (Apohaqui, N.B.), son of Stephen Jones and
Susan Eliza, his wife, both Canadians, was born January 9, 1866, at Belle
Isle Bay, Kings County, N.B. Educated at Apohaqui Superior School. At
twelve years of age Mr. Jones entered the employ of the late J. A. Sinnott,
and after six years resigned and accepted the position of General Manager
with Hugh McLean, of Salmon River, Queens County, in general business
and lumber. Resigned that position in September, 1889, and commenced
business in his present stand in Apohaqui and is senior member of the firm
of Jones Brothers, general merchants and lumber manufacturers, of
Apohaqui. Is president of the “St. John Daily Standard.” Has been a
member of the School Board of Apohaqui Superior School for the past 25
years. First elected member of the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly in
1908 and re-elected at the general elections in 1912, and re-elected general
elections in 1917. Is of Loyalist descent and a member of the Presbyterian
Church. Married August 15, 1888, to Melissa J., daughter of William
Fowler, and is the father of two children, Colby Herbert and Muriel B.

Izzard, Dennis Jabez, son of James Izzard and Elizabeth Whetstone,
was born in Norton, Hertfordshire, England. With his parents he came to
Canada in 1861, and for a time worked as a boy at farming. He secured his
education in the schools of those early days under the excellent teachers
who have left their stamp on the men and women of to-day. Growing to
manhood Mr. Izzard decided to follow contracting and building, in which
he achieved success for many years. Many of the public buildings in Bruce
County were erected under his guidance, and stand as a monument to his
ability. He made Port Elgin his home shortly after coming to the County of

Bruce, and he has ever been one of its leading men. He served as councillor
in the village council for a number of years. In 1880-81 he served as reeve.
Retiring, he was out of municipal life until 1890-91, when he again adorned
the reeve’s chair. In 1909 the people again made him their choice, and he
continuously represented them from that time until 1918. At the January
meeting of the Bruce County Council in 1917, he received the marked
honor of being elected warden of the county, by acclamation, he being the
second man in the history of the county to have been so honored. He is
kindly and courteous in disposition, and nowhere has it shown to better
advantage than in his able handling of public bodies he has been connected
with. His advice has always been received with the fullest confidence that
he knows the matters being dealt with from a first hand knowledge. In
January, 1918, he was chosen by the county council of Bruce as
superintendent of the good roads of the county. In politics he is a Liberal,
and his parents were English Methodists. He is fond of curling, fishing,
shooting, in all of which he is skilful. He is a member of Port Elgin Lodge,
No. 429, A.F. & A.M. In April, 1891, he married Mrs. Frilzinger, Waterloo
County. Two children were born, Stewart Elmo, deceased, and Miss Pearl
E., who resides at home.

Shutt, Frank Thomas (Ottawa, Ont.), son of William D. and
Charlotte Shutt. Born, London, England, September 15, 1859. Educated at
London and the University of Toronto, from which latter institution he
graduated in 1885 with honors in Natural Science; M.A., 1886; he also has
had conferred on him D.Sc. and is regarded as one of the highest authorities
on Agricultural Chemistry in America. Dominion Chemist and Assistant
Director Experimental Farms. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of
Canada, Fellow of Chemical Society (Eng.), Fellow of the Institute of
Chemistry (Eng.), and Fellow of the American Chemical Society, and also
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Since
1887 he has been Chemist of the Dominion Experimental Farms. Dr. Shutt
founded the “Cawthorne Medal” in Natural Science, Toronto University,
and has been examiner in Chemistry there. President of Toronto University
Graduates’ Club, Ottawa, 1894-5; President of Ottawa Field and
Naturalists’ Club, Ottawa, 1895; President, Ottawa Schubert Club, 1896.
President Chem. and Phys. Section Royal Society 1916-17. British Judge,

World’s Fair, Chicago, 1893, and is the author of the reports and bulletins of
the Dominion Chemists’ Experimental Farm and of many papers on original
investigations in the Royal Society of Canada. The Doctor is a man of fine
musical tastes and is especially interested in the organ. He finds recreation
in pictorial photography.

Montgomery, Hugh John (Wetaskiwin, Alta.), was born on the 31st
of July, 1876, at Bedeque, P.E.I., son of James Montgomery and Kate
McFarlane, both Canadians, born of Scotch parents. Educated at the Public
School, Bedeque, P.E.I., and Charlottetown Business College. Went to
Wetaskiwin in the Province of Alberta in 1898. Elected to the City Council
as Alderman in 1905, and served four years and elected Mayor in 1910.
First elected to the Provincial Legislature as Liberal candidate for the
constituency of Wetaskiwin at a by-election on November 17, 1914,
defeating his opponent by a majority of 501. Re-elected at the Provincial
general elections of June 7, 1917, by a majority of 817. Married December
31, 1903, Adelaide, daughter of Clifford E. Vaughn, of Minneapolis, Minn.,
and is the father of two children: Kenneth Gordon, and Lawrence Vaughn.
Mr. Montgomery is a successful general merchant. In religion he is a
Presbyterian.

MacDonald, Selkirk M., Portage la Prairie, Man. A thorough
westerner is Selkirk M. MacDonald, Deputy Clerk Crown and Pleas,
C.J.D.; Surrogate Court Clerk, C.J.D., and County Court Clerk, since
November 1, 1903. Mr. MacDonald, who succeeded his father, John
MacDonald, in the above offices, was born in Portage la Prairie on February
1, 1875. His mother was Isabella MacKay, a daughter of Selkirk Douglas
MacKay, who had the distinction of being the first white child born in
Manitoba, his parents having come to Canada with the Lord Selkirk settlers.
Mr. MacDonald is not only a westerner by birth and by all his traditions, he
was educated in Portage la Prairie and has always taken a prominent part in
the outdoor sports which are such a feature of Western Canadian life. In his
youth he played hockey and lacrosse with the Victorias of Winnipeg, and
the Portage la Prairie clubs and was also a member of the famous lacrosse
club of Victoria, B.C. In bicycling, football, baseball, running, jumping he

was always prominent, and he finds his greatest present recreations in
hunting, curling, motoring and trap-shooting. Mr. MacDonald is not
married, is a Presbyterian in religion, a prominent member of the Masonic
Society, and a member of the Portage Club, and of the Portage Country
Club.

THE LATE W. F. COWAN
Oshawa

Sainte-Pierre, F., Managing Director and Secretary-Treasurer of
Credit Canada, Limitée, the largest French-Canadian Bond houses in
Canada. Mr. Sainte-Pierre was born at Chicoutimi on the 13th December,
1885, a son of F. Sainte-Pierre, general merchant, and Josephine Saint-
Pierre. He was educated at Chicoutimi Seminary and the Commercial
Academy of Quebec, graduating at Quebec in 1902. As a student, Mr.
Sainte-Pierre was a frequent contributor to the Society Magazine. He was
married on 7th October, 1913, to Miss Noemi Decary, daughter of the late
A. C. Decary, N.P., Registrar. He has two children, Helene and Jean Sainte-
Pierre. He is a member of the Maccabees and a Roman Catholic. Mr.
Sainte-Pierre is a Liberal in politics, in which he takes a keen interest, his
name having been suggested as a candidate for parliamentary honors on
more than one occasion. Mr. Sainte-Pierre is an enthusiastic motorist and
also keenly interested in motor boating and fishing. Having been a dealer in
a very large way in municipal securities, Mr. Sainte-Pierre has for the past
few years given a great deal of attention to the improvement of municipal
borrowing. He favors the appointment of a Government Expert Officer to
safeguard and study the best methods of borrowing money, realizing that
many municipalities have not the expert financial knowledge that enables
them to decide on the most propitious times to float loans, he believes that
the suggested reforms would be greatly in the interest, not only of the
municipalities, but of the financial houses that deal in these securities. Mr.
Sainte-Pierre, as the executive head of Credit Canada, Limitée, has been
very active in the financing of large school municipalities and cities. His
firm has handled some of the largest issues floated in the Province of
Quebec in recent years. He has made various suggestions for the
improvement of School municipalities in the province. Mr. Sainte-Pierre is
also well known as an expert accountant, and systematizer. He is a member
of several fraternal societies and it is well recognized that the prominent
position obtained by Credit Canada, Limitée, is due to the energy and
financial skill of Mr. Sainte-Pierre.