October, 1910, to Huntly Ward Davis, an architect of Montreal,
and they have one daughter, Evelyn Clare Ward Davis, who is of
the fifth generation of the family in Canada.
SERAPHIN OUIMET.
Seraphin Ouimet, member of the civil engineering firm of Ouimet
& Lesage, connected with important municipal and railroad work
in Montreal and in various other sections of the province and
Dominion, was born October 8, 1879, in Ste. Rose, in the county
of Laval, P. Q. The earliest record of the Ouimet family in this
province is of Jean Ouimet, who was born in 1634 and died on
the 19th of November, 1687, at Ste. Famille. He married Renee
Gagnon about 1660 and their son, Louis Ouimet, who was one of
nine children, was married February 3, 1693, at Ste. Famille to
Marie Anne Genest, by whom he had thirteen children. Anselme
Ouimet, father of Seraphin Ouimet, was born at St. François de
Sales, about 1840 and married Emelie Gauthier, who was born in
Montreal about 1850. Their son, Seraphin Ouimet, attended school
in his native town of Ste. Rose and afterward pursued a classical
course at Ste. Thérèse in the county of Terrebonne, where he
remained for seven years and was leader of his class, and where
he gained his B. C. es Lettres. Later he became a student in
the Polytechnic school at Laval. He passed his examination with
distinction, graduating June 10, 1904, with the degree of B. C.
es Sciences. He next engaged with the dominion government as
superintendent of Marconi stations on the Gulf, having charge of
five stations. He continued in that position for one season and
was appointed assistant engineer of the Georgian Bay Ship Canal
survey. After four months in that position he was promoted to
first assistant and two months later to chief. He continued for
eighteen months in that capacity, rendering efficient, capable
and acceptable service until, desiring to engage in the private
practice of his profession, he opened an office in Montreal. He
passed his examination as Quebec land surveyor on June 17, 1908,
before the board of the Quebec Land Surveyors Association. For
a year he was associated with James H. Parent, at the close of
which time he entered into partnership with Royal Lesage and has
since continued under the firm name of Ouimet & Lesage. Their
clientage has steadily increased in the interim and their work
today extends largely over the province, including many contracts
for municipal engineering and railroad work. They have been
connected with the building of a branch of the Transcontinental,
extending from Montreal and have acted as experts for municipal
civil engineering projects in connection with important work
for electric and other companies. They employ over twenty men,
and the business is one of growing importance. Mr. Ouimet is
recognized as a clever, energetic and successful representative
of his profession, widely known and highly respected. His
ability, close study and developing powers have gained him wider
and wider recognition until he stands today as one of the able
representatives of the profession in Montreal.
DUNCAN CAMPBELL MACCALLUM, M. D., M. R. C. S.
Distinguished honors came to Duncan Campbell MacCallum, M. D.,
in recognition of his marked ability as a medical practitioner,
educator and author. He was in the vanguard of those men to whom
science revealed in considerable measure her secrets, his wide
research and investigation giving him place with the most eminent
of the Canadians connected with the medical profession. He was a
fellow of the Obstetrical Society of London, a foundation fellow
of the British Gynecological Society and professor emeritus of
McGill University. He was born at Ile aux Noix, in the province
of Quebec, on the 12th of November, 1825, and died November 13,
1904. He came of pure Scotch ancestry, his parents being John
and Mary (Campbell) MacCallum. His maternal grandfather, Malcolm
Campbell, of Killin, was a near kinsman, through Lochiel Cameron,
of the Earl of Breadalbane.
Dr. MacCallum’s early professional training was received in
McGill University, from which he was graduated M. D. in 1850. He
then proceeded to Great Britain and studied in London, Edinburgh
and Dublin, pursuing post-graduate courses in all three cities.
Upon examination he was admitted to the Royal College of Surgeons
in England in 1851 and his preliminary training was so thorough
and comprehensive as to place him beyond the point of mediocrity
even at the outset of his professional career. Returning to
Montreal, he entered upon active practice in this city and
almost immediately became known, as well, as an able educator
and writer upon medical topics. He was appointed demonstrator of
anatomy in McGill in 1854 and was connected with the faculty of
medicine until his death. In 1856 he was appointed to the chair
of clinical surgery and in November, 1860, was transferred to the
chair of clinical medicine and medical jurisprudence, occupying
that position until April, 1868, when he was appointed professor
of midwifery and the diseases of women and children. He retained
that professorship until 1883, when he resigned, at which time
the governors of the university made him professor emeritus, so
that he retained his precedence in the university, in which he
had continued as a professor for almost thirty years.
The active work of the profession aside from private practice was
carried on by Dr. MacCallum as visiting physician to the Montreal
General Hospital from 1856 until 1877, when, after twenty-one
years’ service, he resigned and by vote of the governors was
placed on the consulting staff of the hospital. From 1868 until
1883 he had charge of the Lying-in Hospital and for fourteen
years was physician to the Hervey Institute for Children.
His writings gained him almost a world-wide reputation. He
contributed articles to the British American Medical and Surgical
Journals, to the Canada Medical Journal and the Transactions
of the Obstetrical Society of London, England. In 1854 he was
associated with Dr. William Wright in establishing and editing
the Medical Chronicle, which paper remained in existence for six
years. Dr. MacCallum was vice president for Canada of the section
of obstetrics in the Ninth International Medical Congress, which
was held at Washington, D. C., in September, 1887. His eminent
ability and broad learning made him looked upon as a leader in
the ranks of the medical profession on the American continent and
also gained him recognition abroad, so that he was elected to
fellowship in the Obstetrical Society of London and was chosen to
become one of the foundation fellows of the British Gynecological
Society. On the 1st of March, 1855, he was appointed assistant
surgeon of the Sixth Battalion of Montreal Militia and on the
15th of February, 1856, was appointed surgeon to the same.
In October, 1867, Dr. MacCallum was united in marriage to Miss
Marie Josephine Guy, the second daughter of Hon. Hippolyte Guy,
judge of the superior court of lower Canada and a representative
of ancestry, honorable and distinguished. The children born
to Dr. and Mrs. MacCallum were: Marie Josephine, who married
Professor Thomas A. Starkey of McGill University, of whom there
is mention in these volumes and by whom she has one son, Hugh
Starkey; Esther Melina; Marianne, who married Edward Desbarats,
of Montreal, and has seven children--Edward, Duncan, Josephine,
Henry, Lucy Anne, Cecile and Henri; Flora Victoria, who married
de Les Derniers Shepherd, of Montreal; and Duncan Guy, who won
the degree of M. D. at McGill University in 1907 and is now a
medical practitioner of Sherbrooke, Quebec.
The life work of Dr. MacCallum was one of signal service and
benefit to mankind and his name deserves to be enrolled with
those of the benefactors of the race.
JOSEPH ALEXANDRE BONIN.
Joseph Alexandre Bonin, one of the prominent and successful
barristers of Montreal, where he practices as a member of the
firm of Taillon, Bonin & Morin, was born in D’Autray, Lanoraie,
province of Quebec, a son of the late J. B. Bonin. In the
acquirement of an education he attended Joliette College and was
called to the bar as advocate in 1874, being made king’s counsel
in 1893. He has been for many years in the successful practice of
his profession in Montreal, where the firm of Taillon, Bonin &
Morin is regarded as one of the strongest in the city, connected
through an extensive and representative clientele with a great
deal of notable litigation. Mr. Bonin’s wide experience and
successful practice have secured for him a large following, and
his comprehensive knowledge of legal principles has made him very
successful in the conduct of cases intrusted to his care. His
mind is incisive, analytical and deductive and his powers have
been developed through the years, until today he is one of the
most able and prominent barristers in the city where he makes his
home.
[Illustration: J. ALEXANDRE BONIN]
Mr. Bonin married a daughter of the late J. L. Leprohon, M.
D., vice consul for Spain in Montreal, and Mr. and Mrs. Bonin
are well known in social circles of this city. Mr. Bonin is a
member of the Roman Catholic church and is a conservative in his
political beliefs, taking an intelligent and public-spirited
interest in municipal growth and advancement. He has gained
prominence and distinction in a profession where advancement
depends entirely upon superior merit and ability and stands among
the barristers whose work is important as an element in the legal
history of this province.
GUY FAMILY.
The Guy family is one of the oldest and most prominent in
Montreal. Pierre Guy, the first of the name to settle in Canada,
joined the French army under M. de Vaudreuil and rose rapidly
through intermediate positions to the rank of captain. He
participated in the engagements which occurred with frequency
between the French in Quebec and the English in Massachusetts
and New York and he died at the age of forty-eight years. His
son, a namesake, Pierre Guy, Jr., was educated in France and also
joined the French army in Canada, serving under General Montcalm
in the French and Indian war. He participated in the battles of
Caillion, Montmorency and the battle on the Plains of Abraham.
When the power of France in Canada was set at naught, he with
others left for France, where he remained until 1764. He then
returned to Canada and accepted a business situation in Montreal,
becoming a loyal subject of Great Britain. Soon afterward when
General Montgomery invaded Canada he took up arms for the defence
of the country which so exasperated the Americans that they
sacked his stores after the capitulation of the city. In 1776
he received from the Crown the appointment of judge and in 1782
became a colonel of militia. He was also active in founding
the college of St. Raphael and was thus prominently identified
with the military, commercial and educational interests of the
province of Quebec. He received from the Crown a large land
grant in Montreal in that part of the city known as Bourgoyne
and he it was who gave Nuns Island to the nuns and he also gave
one-half of Viger Square to the city. At one time he conducted a
large business as a fur trader between Montreal and France. His
activities were so important and his ability so pronounced that
he was a recognized leader in the different fields in which his
labors and efforts were put forth.
Pierre Guy, Jr., died in the year 1812, leaving several sons and
daughters. Of these Louis Guy, who by the death of his father
became the oldest representative of the family, was made a
councillor by King William in February, 1831, and died in 1840.
Guy Street in Montreal was so called in his honor.
He had six children: Emily, who married Lieutenant Colonel De
Salaberry; Caroline, who became the wife of Joseph Baby; Henry,
who was a colonel in the British army; Hippolyte; Joseph, who was
a lawyer of Montreal; and Adine, who married Mr. Pemberton of
Quebec.
Judge Hippolyte Guy, judge of the superior court of Lower
Canada, and the second son of Louis Guy, married Marianne Esther
Nelson, a daughter of James Frederick Nelson and his wife Mary
Ann Adelaide Regnault, the adopted daughter of Chief Justice
Vallieres of Three Rivers, P. Q. Judge Guy died April 19, 1860.
Unto him and his wife were born three daughters and a son. Marie
Louise, the eldest, became the wife of Hon. Chief Justice Austin,
of Nassau and they had three children: Barry, Gloucester and
Charlotte, now Lady Napier. Marie Josephine married Dr. Duncan
Campbell MacCallum, of whom there is made mention on another
page of this work. Marie Ann became the wife of Alex de Lusignan
by whom she had two children, Guy de Lusignan and Esther de
Lusignan. She afterward married Gustave Fabre and by him has
one daughter, Terese, the wife of Mr. L’Africanne. Pierre, the
youngest in the family, died at the age of four years.
LIEUTENANT COLONEL ALFRED EUGENE DAMASE LABELLE.
Few men occupy a more enviable position in business and military
circles than Lieutenant Colonel Alfred E. D. Labelle. He has been
termed “the beau ideal of a soldier,” and his position as one
of the captains of industry in Montreal none question. Montreal
claims him as a native son. He was born August 23, 1866, his
parents being Hospice L. and Leocadie (Masson) Labelle, the
former a grain inspector of Montreal. The son was a student
in Bishop’s Academy and in a commercial school of his native
city, his training in that institution fitting him for the
responsibilities which came upon him after he entered business
circles in 1883 in the employ of the late W. W. Ogilvie, the
miller king. He remained in that connection until the business
was merged into the Ogilvie Flour Mills Company, Limited, in
1897, at which time he became sales manager for Montreal, so
remaining until his retirement from active connection with the
business in 1910. In that year he became managing director of
the St. Lawrence Flour Mills Company, of which he was one of
the principal promoters and as such he stands today as one of
the leading representatives of the productive industries of the
province, bending his energies to constructive direction and
executive control of a business that has already reached mammoth
proportions.
He has active connection and voice in the management of many
organizations looking to the betterment of trade and commercial
relations. He is a member of the Montreal Harbor board, the
Montreal Board of Trade, was president of the Chambre de
Commerce, and is vice president of the Montreal Industrial
Exhibition Association and the Montreal Vehicular Traffic
Association. He is also connected with movements touching
the general interests of society outside the strict field of
business, being councillor of the Red Cross Society and of the
Boy Scout movement. His military career is perhaps even more
brilliant than his business record. He has been long connected
with the volunteer militia service, having joined the Sixty-fifth
Regiment as a private in 1882. He was advanced through various
ranks until he became lieutenant colonel, commanding in 1897 and
in 1902 his name was placed upon the list of retired officers.
Subsequently he commanded the Seventh Infantry Brigade, was
appointed a second time to the command of the Sixty-fifth
Regiment in March, 1907, and is now in command of the Twelfth
Infantry Brigade. He served in the Northwest rebellion in 1885
and was one of its medallists. He was on the staff of the
Victoria Jubilee contingent in London, England, in 1897, when
he was again accorded a medal. He commanded the troops sent
to Valleyfield, P. Q., during the trade riots in 1900, and he
commanded the Canadian Bisley team in 1908. In the previous
year he received a long service decoration and became actively
connected with military training in 1896 as president of the
Montreal Military Institute. He was likewise president of the
Montreal Amalgamated Rifle Association in 1901-2. The Montreal
Witness speaks of him as a “splendid officer, popular and
respected by all.”
Colonel Labelle was married in 1900 to Amelie Sicotte, the second
daughter of the late Hon. L. W. Sicotte. Colonel Labelle is a
Roman Catholic in religious faith and a conservative in political
belief. His club relations are with the leading organizations of
that character in Montreal, including the St. James Club, Club
Lafontaine, Club Canadien, the Military Institute and Club St.
Denis. The analytical trend of his mind readily enables him to
understand the various factors which enter into the successful
control of military interests and of business affairs. He has
ever followed the broad policy of building up rather than of
destroying and in all of his commercial interests has employed
constructive measures, never sacrificing interests of others
to corporation gain. While in military circles he is a strict
disciplinarian, he has at the same time, those qualities which
win personal popularity and respect among subordinates and the
expressions of praise again and again heard from those who have
served under him show that he is justly entitled to be termed
“the beau ideal of a soldier.”
DUNCAN LIVINGSTONE MACDOUGALL.
Duncan Livingstone MacDougall, a merchant of Montreal for many
years and an active church man, whose life was one of broad
usefulness as well as of material success, was born in Kendelton,
Scotland, in 1848, a son of Archibald L. MacDougall, who in the
year 1861 established his home in Montreal. He married Agnes
Livingstone, a cousin of the great explorer and missionary who
was the first man to penetrate into the heart of Africa. Mr. and
Mrs. MacDougall became the parents of two sons, Duncan L. and
John, and a daughter, Mrs. Robert Logie.
Duncan L. MacDougall was a youth of thirteen years when the
family crossed the Atlantic to Canada. His education was acquired
in the schools of Scotland and of Montreal and he crossed the
threshold of business life as bookkeeper for Cochran, Cassills
& Company, boot and shoe merchants, in whose employ he was
continually advanced in recognition of his merit and capability
until eventually he was admitted to partnership, continuing a
member of the firm to the time of his death. He devoted his
undivided attention to the interests of the business and became
an active factor in guiding its affairs. He possessed in large
measure that quality which for want of a better term has been
called commercial sense, seeming to recognize almost intuitively
the points and propositions of business that led toward
prosperity.
Mr. MacDougall was married in Montreal in 1872 to Miss Margaret
B. Patterson, a daughter of William Patterson, who came to Canada
from Edinburgh, Scotland, at an early day and was a veterinary
surgeon of the city to the time of his death. His wife bore
the maiden name of Isabella S. Dunnett. Mrs. MacDougall by her
marriage became the mother of three sons and two daughters,
Archibald Lorne, Alice Maud, William Percival, Edith Margaret and
Duncan Livingstone.
Mr. MacDougall was a member of the Metropolitan Club and was
a very active worker in the American Presbyterian church
cooperating in various lines of church work and contributing
generously to its support. His life was actuated by high and
honorable principles, that found expression in noble deeds and
helpfulness toward those who needed assistance.
ANTHUNE SERGIUS ARCHAMBAULT.
Anthune Sergius Archambault, member of the bar, practicing at
Montreal as an advocate, specializes in the administration of
estates, and is one of the few in Montreal’s legal profession
giving special attention to work in a fiduciary capacity. He was
born at St. Antoine, Vercheres county, on the 9th of November,
1874, a son of Alphonse Archambault and Hermenie Gladu, the
former a farmer by occupation. While spending his youthful days
under the parental roof A. S. Archambault pursued his education
at St. Hyacinthe College, from which he was graduated with the
Bachelor of Arts degree in 1894. He then entered upon the study
of law, which he pursued in Laval University, in 1898 winning
the LL. L. degree. He is an advocate of considerable power and
ability and has made continuous progress in his profession since
taking up the active duties thereof fifteen years ago. He has
gained a good clientage and his practice is of an important
character. He was for some time the legal adviser of the parish
of Sault au Récollet.
[Illustration: ANTHUNE S. ARCHAMBAULT]
Mr. Archambault has been married twice. He first wedded Rose
Helene Patenaude at Montreal on the 7th of May, 1901, and her
death occurred on the fifth anniversary of their marriage. On the
17th of November, 1909, Mr. Archambault was again married, his
second union being with Annie Michaud, of Ahuntsic. There are two
children, Annette and Paul, of the first marriage and also two of
the second, Jean and Marie.
REMI GOHIER, SR.
Remi Gohier, Sr., of Montreal, actively engaged in the
real-estate business which has proved to him a profitable
field of labor, was born on the 7th of September, 1841, at St.
Laurent, Jacques Cartier county, P. Q., a son of Augustin Gohier
dit Belisle and Marguerite Martin dit Ladouceur. The early
ancestors of the Gohier family in the province of Quebec
spelled the name in various ways, including Goyer, etc., but in
France it was spelled Gohier and one of the name was of great
prominence during the reign of Napoleon I.
Remi Gohier was a student in the St. Laurent College and with
his entrance into commercial circles at the age of twenty-two
he became a dry-goods merchant, and for twenty-seven years
was engaged in that business at what is now the corner of
St. Lawrence and DeMontigny Streets. In January, 1891, he
became connected with the real-estate and insurance brokerage
business with his two sons, Arthur E. and Alexandre. Having won
substantial success he has since continued in that business.
He has negotiated many important realty transfers, bought and
sold property on his own account and has won a creditable and
gratifying measure of success. For eight years he was a director
of the Montreal Turnpike Trust Company, and he has done active
public service as justice of the peace for about ten years. About
1906 Mr. Gohier became connected with La Compagnie Des Terrains
Maisonneuve, Limited, and has since been a director of the same,
in which he is extensively interested.
On the 25th of November, 1863, in Montreal, in Notre Dame
Cathedral, Mr. Gohier was united in marriage to Miss Anne
Jeanne Wright, a daughter of Alexander Hamilton and Marguerite
(Scally) Wright. Their children are: Remi, who married Alice
Faille; Emma Isabella, the wife of J. A. Lesieur Desaulniers;
Arthur Edouard, who married Adelina Tetrault; Corrine, the wife
of Eugene Tetrault; Alexandre, who married Charlotte Mongenais;
and Bernice. The family are communicants of the Catholic church,
and Mr. Gohier is a Knight of Columbus. He has membership with
the Liberal Club, which indicates his political belief, and he
is also a member of the Montreal Canadian Club. The family is
highly respected, warm regard being extended father and sons.
The business record of Mr. Gohier has gained for him confidence
and good-will as well as substantial success, and his prosperity
has been the merited reward of his capability and indefatigable
enterprise.
WALTER HAMILTON EWING.
Walter Hamilton Ewing, who is well known throughout Canada and
the United States as a champion shot, is the eldest son of the
late Alexander Miller Ewing and Ida F. (Appleton) Ewing, of
Montreal, and was born in this city on the 11th of February,
1878. He is descended from Irish ancestry. He pursued his
education in the schools of his native city and made his initial
step in the business world with Hodgson Sumner & Company.
Subsequently he became connected with the Hart & Adair Coal
Company and in 1904 organized the Lackawanna Coal Company, Ltd.,
of which he is president.