usefulness, for he constantly exemplifies in his actions the high
doctrines in which he believes. A man of good business ability,
he has proved an excellent administrator of the business affairs
of his parish, and his example of spiritual attainment and
self-sacrificing labor may well serve as an inspiration to his
people.
THOMAS CAMPBELL BULMER.
The attractive suburb of Westmount is largely the monument to the
business enterprise and progressive methods of Thomas Campbell
Bulmer, now deceased, who was almost a lifelong resident of
Montreal, and for a long period an active factor in its business
circles. He was born at Three Rivers, Quebec, in 1846, and was
educated in the public schools there and in Montreal, being
brought to the latter city when a youth of ten years by his
father, Thomas Bulmer, who was a native of Yorkshire, England,
and on coming to Canada settled at Three Rivers, but in 1856
removed to Montreal, where for many years he was active as a
contractor and builder. He married Anna Phoebe Fearon, also a
native of England.
When his school days were over, Thomas Campbell Bulmer served an
apprenticeship to the book binding trade, became proficient as a
workman and in 1868 joined Henry Morton and Charles Phillips in
a partnership under the style of Morton, Phillips & Bulmer. The
business developed and grew until the firm occupied a prominent
position among stationers, blank book makers and printers. A
few years prior to his death Mr. Bulmer withdrew from that
connection, in which he had realized a handsome profit, to engage
in the real-estate business at Westmount. He was recognized as
the father of that beautiful suburb, having been one of the
first men to foresee the value of that section as a residential
district. He was actively engaged to the time of his death in its
improvement, development and upbuilding and made it one of the
beautiful suburban districts of Montreal.
Mr. Bulmer passed away on April 7, 1902. For many years he had
been an exemplary representative of the Masonic fraternity and
had been equally faithful as a member of the Anglican church.
Sterling motives and high principles guided him in all of his
relations and made him an upright man, so that he left behind him
not only the substantial rewards of earnest, persistent labor,
but also that good name which is to be chosen in preference to
great riches.
NAPOLEON GIROUX.
Napoleon Giroux, a native of Montreal, where he was born August
12, 1863, is a successful merchant of this city, where he has
also other property interests. He conducts a book and stationery
store, which he owns. He is a son of Carolus and Mary (Hayes)
Giroux, the former a carpenter-contractor.
Napoleon Giroux received his education in the Jesuit College and
the University of Ottawa. He chose the book-selling line as his
life vocation and became a clerk in an establishment of that
character. He later made himself independent and now owns one of
the most profitable stores in the city of this character.
On the 13th of October, 1884, Mr. Giroux was married in Montreal
to Miss Rose Anna Galipeau, a daughter of Louis and Vitaline
(Gariepy) Galipeau, the former a contractor-builder. Mr. and
Mrs. Giroux have five children: Charlemagne; Albina, who married
Joseph Casgrain; Eva; Emile, who married Miss Juliette Jalbert;
and Hubert. Both Mr. and Mrs. Giroux are popular in social
circles of the city. The former is public-spirited and has always
taken a deep interest in municipal affairs, public honors having
come to him in his election to the office of alderman of the city
of Montreal, in which capacity he has served since 1902. Both he
and his family are devout communicants of the Catholic church.
He is president of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul of the
parish of St. Pierre and also belongs to the Cercle St. Pierre.
The success which Mr. Giroux has achieved as a bookseller must
be ascribed to his discriminating taste as a man of letters.
His excellent education has well prepared him for carefully
selecting his stock of books, and his gracious and kindly
demeanor to his patrons is continually adding to the list of his
satisfied customers. Mr. Giroux has widened his views upon life
and enhanced his classical education by extensive travels, having
visited Europe on various occasions.
JOSEPH EMILE VANIER.
In the ranks of civil engineers and architects of Montreal Joseph
Emile Vanier has constantly forced his way to the front until he
is today widely and favorably known as a specialist in municipal
engineering and architecture. He was born at Terrebonne, P. Q.,
January 20, 1858, a son of the late Emilien and Lucie (Soucy)
Vanier, the former at one time a produce merchant of Montreal.
In his youth Joseph Emile Vanier became a pupil in the Jacques
Cartier normal school and attended successively the Commercial
Academy and the Polytechnic School of Montreal, a department
of Laval University. He was graduated therefrom with honors
with the class of 1877, and entered upon the practice of his
profession in which he has since continued, making a specialty
of municipal engineering and architecture. He has given special
attention to public engineering projects in the cities and towns
surrounding Montreal and has been retained as expert engineer
by the Dominion and Quebec governments. He is secretary for
the Architects Association of Quebec, and he designed the New
Polytechnic School of Montreal in 1904. He was elected president
of the Montreal Polytechnic School Association in 1910. He is a
member of the Society of Civil Engineers, a member of the Société
des Ingénieurs Civils de France and a member of the society of
Architects of the Province of Quebec.
The Montreal Gazette says that Mr. Vanier has ever been “a credit
to his province.” He believes in “Canada for the Canadians,”
and this has been the policy upon which he has worked in behalf
of public interests. His religious faith is that of the Roman
Catholic church. He maintains his residence in Montreal in the
winter seasons and has a summer home, Beauverger, at Ste. Rose,
P. Q. In club and sporting circles he is also well known. He
belongs to Club Canadien, Club Lafontaine, the Fish and Game
Club, the Engineers Club and the Automobile and Aero Club of
Montreal.
PIERRE LOUIS DUPUIS.
Among the recent additions to the Montreal bar is Pierre Louis
Dupuis, who has already gained a reputation which many an older
practitioner of law might well envy. He was born in the parish
of La Longue Pointe on the 3d of September, 1887, a son of
Louis Napoleon Dupuis, former merchant, one of the founders of
Dupuis Freres, Limited, and for some time controller of the city
of Montreal. The mother, who bore the maiden name of Melanie
Levesque, was a daughter of the late Pierre Thomas Levesque,
whose ancestors rendered valuable services to the province and
Dominion in judicial and legislative capacities.
[Illustration: PIERRE L. DUPUIS]
In the acquirement of his education, Pierre Louis Dupuis pursued
a classical course at L’Assomption Collège, which he attended
from 1900 until 1908, winning the Bachelor of Arts degree in that
institution. He took up the study of law in Laval University,
which he attended from 1908 until his graduation on the 26th of
June, 1911, with the LL. L. degree. On the 4th of August, 1911,
he was admitted to the bar.
His commercial course was pursued in Eastman’s Business College
at Poughkeepsie, New York, during the meantime, and he was
graduated with honors from the institution on the 30th of
September, 1910.
Before locating permanently in Montreal, for the practice of his
profession, Mr. Dupuis took an extended European trip, having
previously traveled extensively in both Canada and the United
States. He entered upon the active practice of his profession
in January, 1912. Most liberal educational opportunities had
been his and added to his knowledge is laudable ambition and
unfaltering determination, qualities which are building up for
him a large and gratifying practice. At the beginning of his
professional career in January, 1912, he became junior partner
of the law firm of Dussault, Mercier & Dupuis, recognized as
one of the strong law firms of the city. In addition Mr. Dupuis
is connected with many financial interests and his judgment
in business as well as professional interests is sound and
discriminating.
In politics Mr. Dupuis is a conservative, well informed on
significant and vital problems. He belongs to the Catholic
church, the Knights of Columbus, the Canadian Club and the
Montreal Amateur Athletic Association--associations which
indicate the nature of his interests and his recreation and the
principles which govern his conduct.
On the 15th of January, 1913, Mr. Dupuis was married, at St.
Benoit, in the county of Two Mountains, to Miss Carmel Girouard,
a daughter of Joseph Girouard, a notary and ex-deputy of Two
Mountains, who is a conservative leader of that district. The
Girouards are of the earliest and most prominent French families
of the province. Mr. Dupuis has one son, Rene, born October 9,
1913.
ALFRED HAWKSWORTH.
A spirit of business enterprise and laudable ambition advanced
Alfred Hawksworth to an enviable position among the manufacturers
of Montreal where the latter years of his life were passed. In
the course of an active career he learned to discriminate readily
between the essential and nonessential and utilizing the former
and discarding the latter he met success in his undertakings. He
was, at the time of his death at the head of the firm of Alfred
Hawksworth & Sons, Limited.
He was born on the 9th of October, 1846, at Glossop, Derbyshire,
England, a son of Samuel Hawksworth, who always remained a
resident of England. In early manhood Alfred Hawksworth crossed
the Atlantic to the United States and settled at Lonsdale,
Rhode Island, where he was employed in connection with the
cotton mills of that place. Subsequently he removed to Concord,
Massachusetts, and was made overseer of Daymen & Smith’s cotton
mill. His expanding powers and growing ability later lead to
his appointment to the responsible position of manager of the
largest cotton mill at Manville, Rhode Island, and during his
residence there he invented a loom for the weaving of velvet
and plush. At different times he was in charge of cotton mills
at New Bedford and Newburyport, Massachusetts, and Pawtucket,
Providence, and Pontiac, Rhode Island, being thus identified with
some of the largest manufacturing interests of that class in New
England, while in Pontiac he was for eight years superintendent
of the cotton mills of B. B. & R. Knight, and by reason of
his responsible position, was accounted one of the foremost
business men of that place. He also became an important factor
in the public life of the community, being greatly interested
in everything that pertained to the general welfare. He sought
earnestly and effectively to improve roads, schools and libraries
and in fact to advance any measure relative to the public good.
On the 19th of March, 1895, Mr. Hawksworth arrived in Montreal,
becoming manager of the Merchants cotton mills at St. Henri, now
a part of the plant of the Dominion Textile Company, Limited.
About eight years prior to his death he resigned that position
and established the mill supply house of Alfred Hawksworth &
Sons, Limited, which was incorporated in 1905 and is still
one of the important productive industries of Montreal. The
business from its inception proved a profitable one and under the
careful guidance of its founder, developed into one of the large
enterprises of this character in Canada. Mr. Hawksworth, through
long experience, was familiar with every phase of the manufacture
of cotton goods and knew the needs relative thereto, his mill
supply house being an outgrowth of his experience and knowledge.
While living in Lonsdale, Rhode Island, in June, 1871, Mr.
Hawksworth was united in marriage to Miss Esther A. Moss, a
daughter of Edward Moss of that place, and they became the
parents of a daughter and five sons: Fred, of Montreal; Edward,
who is connected with the Hawksworth & Sons Company, Limited;
Harry, who is vice president of that company; Walter L., who is
secretary-treasurer, and also assistant manager of the supply
house; and Lester A. The daughter, Miss Alice M. Hawksworth, is
at home with her mother.
Mr. Hawksworth joined the Masonic fraternity in Concord,
Massachusetts, in 1870, and in June, 1903, was made a life member
of the Mount Moriah Lodge, No. 8, F. & A. M., of Limerock, Rhode
Island. He was also made an honorary member of Mount Moriah
Club at Limerock and in Masonry he attained the Knights Templar
degree. He was a communicant in St. Simon’s church in Montreal
and his entire life was actuated by high and honorable purposes
and manly principles. He was a great reader, possessing scholarly
taste and his private library contained three thousand volumes
with the contents of which he was largely familiar, spending many
of his pleasant hours in close association with men of master
minds within the four walls of his library.
Mr. Hawksworth could truly be called a self-made man--a title
of which he had every reason to be proud. It indicated not only
his substantial success in business, but also his intellectual
growth and progress. Along the former line he possessed notable
ability in coordinating force and unifying elements into a
harmonious whole. More than his success, the breadth of his mind
and character commanded respect and endeared him to those with
whom he came in contact. In his leisure hours he was always to be
found at his own fireside or in those circles where intelligent
men were wont to meet in discussion of vital problems, and when
he passed away on the 16th of February, 1913, a feeling of deep
regret was manifested by all of his associates, for his genuine
worth had given him firm hold upon the affections of those with
whom he was brought in contact.
THOMAS BASSETT MACAULAY.
Thomas Bassett Macaulay, actuary and well known in insurance
circles, not only in Montreal but throughout Canada and the
United States, has aside from his business affairs led a life of
intense and well directed activity, being identified with various
organized movements which have to do with the promotion of moral
progress or which seek to alleviate hard conditions of life for
the unfortunate.
Mr. Macaulay is a native of the province of Ontario, having been
born in Hamilton on the 6th of June, 1860, a son of Robertson and
Barbara Maria (Reid) Macaulay. After pursuing his early education
in Hamilton he continued his studies in Montreal and made his
initial step in the business world in the service of the Sun
Life Assurance Company of Canada at Montreal in October, 1877.
He bent every energy to the mastery of the duties intrusted to
him and the recognition of his ability and faithfulness came to
him in promotion. In 1880 he was appointed actuary and in 1891
was made secretary of the company. In 1898 he was elected a
director and in 1906 became managing director of a corporation
that is acknowledged to be one of the strongest and most reliable
insurance companies of the world. By examination he became a
fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Great Britain and is
now supervisor at Montreal in connection with examinations of
the institute. He is a charter member of the Actuarial Society
of America and was honored with election to its presidency in
1899 and in 1901, while he is now a life member of its council.
He has indeed a wide reputation in his profession and extended
acquaintance. He is a member of the Royal Statistical Society of
England, a corresponding member of the Institute des Actuaires
Françaises de France and in 1895 was again a delegate to the
International Commerce of Actuaries in Brussels, and again in
1898 in London and in 1900 in Paris. At the last mentioned he was
elected vice president to represent both the United States and
Canada. He was also elected vice president of the International
Actuaries Association in 1906.
Important and responsible are the duties which have come to
Mr. Macaulay with his developing powers, and he finds rest
and recreation therefrom in his interests in farming and
stock-raising. He has valuable farming property at Hudson
Heights, Quebec. He also has other business connections, being
a director of the Illinois Traction Company, of the National
Trust Company and of the Dominion Glass Company. He is likewise
actively interested in organizations having to do with the public
welfare, being a governor of the Montreal General Hospital. He
is likewise a governor of the Congregational College of Canada
which is indicative of his church relationship. In 1911 he was
elected president of the Congregational Union of Canada. The same
year he was elected president of the Canadian and West Indian
League. He is a careful student of all the vital problems and
questions of the age and fearlessly he pronounces his opinions
yet is never aggressive. He favors the imposition of a moderate
import duty by the United Kingdom and colonies to be kept
distinct from local duties and to be applied to imperial defence.
In 1881, Mr. Macaulay was married to Miss Henrietta M. L. Bragg,
who died in 1910. She was the daughter of the late Oliver Bragg,
M. D., and a step-daughter of the Rev. J. Lawson Forster, D. D.,
of London, England. In 1912 he married Miss Margaret Allen, a
daughter of the late Rev. William Allen of London, England. Many
have expressed the opinion that he should take a more active part
in public life for his qualifications are such as would make him
a powerful factor in the discussion of important questions. He is
an agreeable speaker, clear, fluent and forceful, and he has the
ability of instructing while entertaining. It would be difficult
to mention the line along which his usefulness has been greatest
for he has accomplished much in various connections, and his
work has ever been an influencing factor on the side of reform,
progress, improvement and right.
THE BAGG FAMILY.
The Bagg family is one of the oldest English families on the
island of Montreal and one whose members have been foremost in
social, financial, religious, political and military circles
for the past century, or since the arrival of the first
representative of the name, Stanley Bagg, Esq., who was born in
County Durham, England, where this branch of the family possessed
large landed estates. In Canada for the past three-quarters of
a century such men as Lieutenant Colonel Stanley Clark Bagg,
scholar, financier and philanthropist, and his son, the late
Robert Stanley Bagg, a worthy son of an honored sire, have placed
the name on a high plane.
Stanley Bagg, Esq., the first of this family to settle in
Montreal, was born in England in 1786 and died at Fairmount,
the family residence on Sherbrooke Street, October 31, 1853,
aged sixty-seven years. He left to his son, Stanley Clark Bagg,
large landed estates in Montreal and County Durham, England.
Lieutenant Colonel Stanley Clark Bagg, son of Stanley and Mary
Ann (Clark) Bagg, was born at the manor house in Montreal on
December 23, 1820. He studied law and afterwards took up the
notarial profession, which he practiced successfully for a number
of years but abandoned it in order to give his attention to the
management of estates which he inherited from his grandfather, as
well as a freehold property in County Durham, England. He was at
one time the largest landholder on the island of Montreal, gave
many streets and squares to the city and made very substantial
benefactions to the citizens. He was an honorary member of the
Montreal Field Battery and Artillery and of the Light Infantry,
and his name figured in connection with public office through
appointment to the position of one of Her Majesty’s justices
of the peace in 1859, after which he performed judicial
duties for a time. In 1865 he was solicited to become mayor of
Montreal but declined the proffered honor. In politics he was a
conservative but without political ambition, refusing nomination
for a seat in parliament. He was, however, a deep student of
the questions of the times, wrote largely for the press and his
writings were received warmly in both England and America. He was
greatly interested in philanthropic projects and in efforts to
promote intellectual progress. He became one of the founders and
the first president of the English Workingmen’s Benefit Society,
was one of the founders of the Antiquarian and Numismatic
Society, which honored him with its presidency, and a life member
of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. He
also belonged to the Cathedral Young Men’s Christian Association,
the Natural History Society and the Mechanics Institute. His
activities had their root in principles inculcated by the
Church of England and he was a devoted member of Christ Church
Cathedral. He married Miss Catharine Mitcheson, a daughter of
Robert and Frances (MacGregor) Mitcheson, natives of England and
Scotland respectively, and died at his residence, “Fairmount,” in
Montreal, August 8, 1873.
[Illustration: ROBERT STANLEY BAGG]
Robert Stanley Bagg, son of Lieutenant Colonel Stanley Clark and
Catharine (Mitcheson) Bagg, and the head of the family in the
third generation in this country, was born at the manor house in
Montreal in July, 1848, and was educated in the Montreal high
school and McGill University, from which he graduated, after
which he proceeded to England to complete his studies. On his
return to Canada he was called to the bar of Montreal but never
practiced law extensively, although he formed a partnership with
Donald Macmaster, now a member of parliament. At his father’s
death, however, the management of the largest landed estate on
the island devolved upon him, so that he abandoned the active
practice of the legal profession.
Much of his time and energy was also given to public life and
he was considered a powerful platform orator. In 1896 he was
nominated for the St. Lawrence division seat in the house
of commons, but resigned for political reasons. His father,
Lieutenant Colonel Bagg, was a Tory and a personal friend of
the late Sir John A. Macdonald, and it was natural that the
son should espouse early in life the conservative cause. He
was frequently heard on the platform in support of principles
of the party, being known as a stanch conservative both in
and out of power, while at one time he was president of the
Liberal-Conservative Club, giving a great deal of his time to
the work of organizing as well as to public discussion. He was
well known among the French Canadian people and spoke their
language almost as fluently as his mother tongue. Mr. Bagg was
mentioned several times as the party candidate in the federal
contests, but the house of commons had no attraction for him.
He was known personally to all the party leaders from the time
of Macdonald down to the present day. Like his father, he was a
most generous supporter of charities and benevolent projects,
and he was a governor and benefactor of the Montreal General
Hospital and the Montreal Dispensary. He was likewise a member of
almost every social and sporting club on the island of Montreal;
was a splendid horseman and a good soldier, being at one time
commanding officer in the Fifth Royal Scots, taking part in the
quelling of the Quebec riots and doing much active military duty.
Mr. Bagg had been ailing for several months, but the call came
unexpectedly and he died July 22, 1912, at Kennebunk Port,
Maine, where he was spending the summer, as was his custom. In
his passing Montreal lost one of its foremost citizens, a most
prominent representative of one of the old English families, and
a man of distinction to whom opportunity meant activity, and who
in all of his business and social relations maintained a position
that reflected credit and honor upon an honored family name.
His life was not self-centered but reached out along broadening
lines for the benefit of his fellowmen and of his city, where the
family has so long been well known in the best social circles.
Mr. Bagg was married in 1882 to Miss Clara Smithers, a daughter
of the late Charles F. Smithers, president of the Bank of
Montreal, and to them were born three children, Evelyn St. Claire
Stanley, Gwendolen Katherine Stanley and Harold Stanley.