the volunteer service. He has been lieutenant colonel in command
of the Fifth Regiment, Royal Highlanders of Canada, since May
11, 1905. He commanded this regiment at the Quebec Tercentenary
celebration in 1908 and at the Lake Champlain celebration at
Plattsburg, New York, in 1909, when he received high commendation
from President Taft on the splendid appearance of his men. In
1908 he was awarded the long service decoration.
In November, 1896, Mr. Cantlie was married to Miss Beatrice
Campbell, a daughter of the late W. D. Campbell, queen’s notary,
of Quebec. Mr. and Mrs. Cantlie make their home at No. 502
Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal. He is a member of the Mount
Royal, St. James, Montreal Hunt, Forest and Stream, Back River
Polo, Auto and Montreal Jockey Clubs. He also is enrolled in the
York Club of Toronto and is a member of the Montreal Amateur
Athletic Association.
CHARLES LYMAN.
One of the best known men in his line of business in Canada was
the late Charles Lyman, wholesale druggist, who died November
17, 1909, after a successful business career of nearly two
score years, all of which was spent in his native city. He was
born in Montreal, April 3, 1849, a son of Benjamin Lyman and
Delia A. Wells. These parents, both natives of the state of
Vermont, whose ancestry in the United States dated back almost
to the landing of the Mayflower, might account for the strong
interest in the affairs of that country which was one of the
pronounced characteristics of Mr. Lyman. He was educated in the
Montreal high school, the Hopkins grammar school of New Haven,
Connecticut, and Yale University, from which he graduated in the
class of 1871.
In his senior year at college he was elected a member of the
Scroll and Key Society, then as now one of the most coveted
distinctions outside of the purely academic sphere. He always
retained a very absorbing interest in the affairs of Yale,
returning almost annually to his class reunions.
After leaving college he entered his father’s business, Lyman,
Clare & Company, in which he shortly became a partner. This
business in 1879 was styled Lyman, Sons & Company, under which
name it was known until 1908, becoming incorporated then as
Lymans, Limited.
In 1887 Mr. Lyman together with James W. Knox and F. Gold
Lyman established the business of Lyman, Knox & Company, which
continued under this style until in 1906 it became part of the
National Drug & Chemical Company, Limited, of which corporation
Charles Lyman was secretary from its inception until he retired
from business in 1908. Mr. Lyman was of a studious disposition,
and his chief interest was perhaps centered in his family life.
He was known for his broad culture and was a close follower of
the public affairs of both the United States and Canada. Together
with the late Goldwin Smith he was a firm believer in the
eventual unity of political interest of these countries.
Mr. Lyman was married October 1, 1874, at Stelton, New Jersey,
to Kate Dean, daughter of the late Henry Dean of New York, who
survives him, together with their three children: C. Philip Lyman
and Frank D. Lyman, both of Montreal; and Ruth Delia, the wife of
William G. MacNaughton of Port Edwards, Wisconsin.
Mr. Lyman was a member of The University Club, of which he
was one of the founders and The Montreal Amateur Athletic
Association. He was a member of the American Presbyterian
church, the corner stone of the present edifice having been laid
by his father, Benjamin Lyman. The higher, better elements of
life always made strong appeal to him, and the principles which
governed his conduct make his example as a man and citizen one
well worthy of emulation.
FREDERIC ORR-LEWIS.
Frederic Orr-Lewis was born at Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is
the second son of the late William Thomas Lewis and Mary (Graham)
Lewis, and a grandson of the late William Lewis, sheriff of
Glamorganshire, Wales. The father was a shipowner in Canadian
Inland Lakes. William Thomas Lewis came to Canada from Swansea,
Wales, in 1852, locating at Hamilton. He became a prominent
figure on the inland lakes between Chicago and Kingston and was
a large shipowner. He retired from active business in 1890 and
moved to Montreal, where he departed this life in 1908. For more
than two decades he had survived his wife, who passed away in
1886.
Frederic Orr-Lewis was educated in Kingston, Ontario, and on
leaving school went with J. Muckleston & Company, wholesale
hardware merchants of the same city. He resigned from that
position to establish his own business in Kingston in 1888 and
removed the establishment to Montreal in 1889, associated with
his brothers James Graham Lewis and Thomas Graham Lewis. The firm
was then Lewis Brothers, which was later formed into the limited
liability company of Lewis Brothers, Limited, of which he is
still the president. From the beginning their trade has extended
to such an extent that they now occupy the entire eight-story
building which covers Nos. 20 to 42 inclusive on Bleury Street,
Montreal, with sales offices in Ottawa, Toronto and other western
cities. They have been recognized as one of the leading hardware
establishments of the Dominion.
Frederic Orr-Lewis is also a director of the Merchants’ Bank of
Canada and director of the Montreal Cotton Company and president
of Canadian Vickers, Limited, which is associated with the
English firm of Vickers, Sons & Maxim. In 1903 he was elected
to the presidency of the Dominion Wholesale Hardware Merchants’
Association.
On the 18th of June, 1896, at Christ church, Montreal, was
celebrated the marriage of F. Orr-Lewis and Maude Mary Helen
Booth, daughter of William Booth of London, Ontario. They now
have three children, a son and two daughters, John Duncan, Helen
Merryday and Mary-Graham. The religious faith of the family is
that of the Presbyterian church, Mr. and Mrs. Orr-Lewis holding
membership therein.
He is widely and popularly known in club circles, holding
membership in the leading organizations of that character in
Montreal, including the St. James, Canada, Forest and Stream,
Montreal Hunt, Montreal Jockey, Mount Royal, Montreal Royal Golf
and Royal St. Lawrence Yacht Clubs. He is likewise a member
of the Rideau Club of Ottawa, Ontario; and the Canada, the
Wellington and Junior Carlton Clubs of London, England.
EUGENE-REAL ANGERS.
Eugène-Réal Angers, a well known barrister and solicitor in
Montreal, was born in that city, October 1, 1883, a son of Réal
and Joséphine (Trudel) Angers, and a grandson of François-Réal
Angers, K. C., one of the leaders of the Quebec bar. The father,
Réal Angers, was born in Quebec and for many years was a member
of the wholesale hardware firm of Frothingham & Workman in
Montreal. He died December 22, 1901, and his widow passed away
in 1908. They were the parents of two sons and a daughter:
Eugène-R.; Charles, who is with Frothingham & Workman, Limited,
of Montreal; and Joséphine, the wife of Robert La Roque de
Roquebrune, of Beloeil, Quebec.
Eugène-Réal Angers was educated in Montreal, winning the Bachelor
of Arts degree upon the completion of a classical course in St.
Mary’s College. He was graduated from Laval University with the
degree of LL. L. in June, 1907. In July of that year he was
admitted to the bar at Quebec and soon after formed a partnership
for the practice of law in Montreal with Ernest Guimont under the
firm name of Guimont & Angers. A year later the senior partner
removed to St. Hyacinthe and Mr. Angers entered into other
partnership relations, leading to the adoption of the firm style
of Brosseau, Brosseau, Tansey & Angers. In September, 1913, he
joined with Howard Salter Ross, K. C., in forming the law firm
of Ross & Angers. They now have offices in the Transportation
building, where they care for the interests of a growing
clientele. Broad reading and study have constantly augmented Mr.
Angers’ ability to handle complex and intricate problems of law,
and he is becoming recognized as one of the ablest of the younger
representatives of the Montreal bar.
[Illustration: EUGENE-REAL ANGERS]
On the 15th of September, 1909, Mr. Angers was married to
Germaine Tousignant and they have one son, Pierre.
REV. THOMAS F. HEFFERNAN.
Rev. Thomas F. Heffernan is now in the sixth year of his able
service as pastor of St. Thomas Aquinas’ church in Montreal, a
parish which he has built up through his energy, zeal and well
directed enterprise into one of the most popular and well managed
in the city. He was born December 22, 1869, on Colborne
Street, in St. Anne’s parish, Montreal, a son of the late Thomas
and Ellen (Murray) Heffernan. In his infancy the parents moved
to the east end of the city, where the father purchased several
properties, some of these on Craig, Lagauchetiere and Dorion
Streets.
As a child Father Heffernan attended St. Bridget’s school,
taught by the Christian Brothers, and when he was twelve years
of age he entered St. Mary’s College. After one year and a half
he enrolled in St. Lawrence College, conducted by the Fathers
of the Holy Cross. Here success attended his efforts and in due
time he became professor. He afterward took a four years’ course
in the Grand Seminary and was ordained to the Roman Catholic
priesthood December 22, 1894, when he was twenty-five years of
age. His first appointment was with the Rev. William O’Meara,
pastor of St. Gabriel’s, with whom he remained for three years.
At the end of that time, at the request of His Grace Archbishop
Bruchesi he was appointed in September, 1898, professor extreme
at Montreal College and did excellent work in this field for
two years. Resigning at the end of that time, he was appointed
assistant to Rev. J. E. Donnelly, pastor of St. Anthony’s, and he
retained this connection for eight years, severing it in order to
accept the appointment to the newly-founded parish of St. Thomas
Aquinas. This was established for the English-speaking people
of the west end who were living within the district bounded on
the east by Atwater Avenue, on the west by the middle of Cote
St. Paul Road, on the south by the canal and on the north by the
Canadian Pacific Railroad track. There were about three hundred
families; about one hundred residing between Atwater and Rose
de Lima Streets, who belonged to St. Anthony’s parish; and two
hundred attached to St. Henry’s. For a number of years previous
there had been dissatisfaction among the St. Henry’s portion
inasmuch as it was difficult for the Rev. Canon Decary to meet
their needs satisfactorily. Accordingly a new parish was formed
and placed in charge of Father Heffernan, who has since made St.
Thomas Aquinas one of the most important Catholic congregations
in the diocese. He has accomplished during the period of his
incumbency a great deal of remarkable work. He had no money and
he required fifteen thousand dollars to pay for the ground. He
secured thirty thousand dollars from the Travelers Insurance
Company and fifteen thousand dollars from Molson’s Bank and
erected a thirty-five thousand dollar building now used as a
church. The structure is two stories in height and so constructed
that an additional two stories may be added if necessary. Father
Heffernan also erected an attractive residence and has now a
property valued at one hundred and fifty thousand dollars and a
debt of only thirty thousand dollars. During the year of 1914 he
is to build a new church of Florentine style of architecture,
on Convent Street. When asked to explain how this work was
accomplished Father Heffernan said: “God has visited his people
and this people received him. My people work from conviction,
illumined by the light of faith. I have no sick, no infirm, no
needy. Health, wealth and blessings are ours. But you must leave
here. Never, until they sing my Mass of Requiem. I attribute the
whole success to the prayers of the children and to the good work
of my Reverend assistant, Father Polan.”
Father Heffernan gives all of his time and attention to the
affairs of his parish, working zealously and conscientiously in
the promotion of the spiritual and material interests of his
congregation. He has indeed accomplished a wonderful work at St.
Thomas Aquinas and has the love of his people in large measure
as well as the high regard and warm confidence of people of all
denominations.
THOMAS BUSBY.
Thomas Busby, an old time Montreal merchant and in his day well
known in connection with the retail hardware trade, was born in
Montreal, a grandson of Thomas Busby, who was the founder of the
family in Canada.
This first Thomas Busby came from Ireland and had charge of
landscape gardening for the Baroness of Longueuil. He became a
man of considerable property for those days. His daughter married
Dr. Digby of Brantford, Ontario, and their daughter became the
wife of Dr. Henwood of Brantford. Thomas Busby had a son Thomas,
who married Mary Lacasse, and they were the parents of Thomas
Busby of this review.
Thomas Busby, the third, was educated in the schools of Montreal
and when a young man began to learn the hardware business in this
city. He later lived for a few years in what was then called
Upper Canada but in 1857 returned to Montreal and established
himself in the hardware business, which he successfully conducted
until his death, which occurred April 20, 1862.
Mr. Busby was married in Montreal in June, 1853, to Miss E. C.
Greene, a daughter of Thomas J. Greene, who came to this city
in early life from Saratoga, New York. He was a furrier and was
for years at the head of the firm of Thomas Greene & Son, while
later the sons continued the business under the style of Greene
& Sons. Mr. and Mrs. Busby became the parents of four children,
but the only one now living is Fred Busby, a resident of Denver,
Colorado. Mrs. Busby still makes her home in Montreal, where she
has now resided for more than six decades, witnessing therefore
much of the development and modern progress of the city, and she
is one of the highly esteemed of Montreal’s older residents.
GEORGES MAYRAND.
Through individual effort and ability Georges Mayrand has
attained to a position of prominence as a representative of the
notarial profession in Montreal, being now senior partner in the
firm of Mayrand, Loranger, Ecrement & Melancon. A native of Port
Neuf county, he was born at Grondines, on the 21st of August,
1876, and was educated under Jesuit instruction, attending St.
Mary’s College of Montreal and afterward Laval University, in
which he pursued the study of law, winning his B. L. degree on
the completion of his law course in 1900. Having determined
to concentrate his energies upon practice as a notary public,
he opened an office in Montreal in September following his
graduation and has created and developed an important business
at No. 99 St. James Street. He has been joined by others as his
clientage has grown until he is now head of the firm of Mayrand,
Loranger, Ecrement & Melancon. He has also taken an active and
helpful part in promoting the growth and progress of the city and
is associated with several land companies, including the Greater
Montreal Land Company, the Summerlea Realty Company and the Sault
au Recollet Island Company. He has become thoroughly conversant
with property values, readily recognizes a possible rise or
diminution in realty prices and accordingly makes his investments
so that he has secured good returns from his property holdings.
Mr. Mayrand’s public service has also included prompt and
faithful discharge of the duties of alderman, he being elected
to that position from the Delorimier ward and his efficiency was
rewarded by reelection in April, 1914. He has likewise filled
the office of school commissioner and coming prominently before
the public in these positions has made an excellent record,
creditable to himself and satisfactory to his supporters. In
politics he is a liberal and in addition to the local offices he
has filled he is representing Dorion county in the provincial
legislature. He is now vice president and secretary of the
Club Delorimier, is a member of the National Amateur Athletic
Association and takes an exceedingly active interest in outdoor
sports. He is a typical man of the times, alert and energetic
in action, progressive in purpose and thoroughly alive to the
opportunities which are presented for business advancement and
public improvement.
REV. GERALD FRANCIS JOSEPH MCSHANE.
The Roman Catholic church numbers among its most distinguished
representatives in Canada Rev. Gerald Francis Joseph McShane,
pastor of St. Patrick’s church in Montreal and one of the best
known lecturers and preachers in this province. He has been
identified with religious activity in this city since 1900 and
has since that time accomplished a great deal of constructive
work here, his lectures, his eloquent preaching, his organizing
and administrative activities constituting forces in the later
development in Montreal of the doctrines in which he believes.
He was born in this city, December 5, 1872, and is a son of
Michael and Margaret (Loftus) McShane, of Irish origin. In the
acquirement of an education he attended Belmont school, the
Archbishop’s Academy and Montreal College and later the Grand
Seminary in that city, supplementing this by a four years’ course
of study in Paris and Rome, receiving in the latter city degrees
in philosophy and divinity. In 1896 he joined the Sulpician Order
of this city and the same year left to complete his studies
at St. Sulpice in Paris. In 1897 he was ordained priest, and
three years later, in 1900, returned to Canada as curate of St.
Patrick’s church, Montreal. For three years he did able work
in that capacity and was then transferred to Notre Dame church
in this city, where his sermons delivered in both French and
English attracted much attention, they first bringing him into
prominence as an orator. He has since that time become one of the
most eloquent and widely known speakers in the city and is in
great demand for lectures, sermons or orations of any kind. Since
December, 1907, he has been pastor of St. Patrick’s church in
Montreal and his address at his inaugural was regarded as more
than an ordinary piece of tact and eloquence. Since that time
he has carried forward a great deal of earnest and consecrated
work in the management of his parish, which, being an important
one, requires at its head a man of wide attainments, broad
knowledge and discriminating business ability--qualities which
Father McShane possesses in an unusual degree. He has been one
of the greatest individual forces in the development of Catholic
institutions in Montreal, having founded the Columbian Club, a
social organization for Catholic students of McGill University.
He is also a director and trustee of St. Patrick’s Orphanage. His
congregation is one of the largest and most important in Montreal
and its prestige is continually increasing as Father McShane’s
ability as a pastor, a business man, an organizer and an orator
becomes more widely recognized.
One of the city’s most brilliant, sincere and earnest Christian
gentlemen, he occupies an enviable place in the regard of
his parishioners and, indeed, of all who know him. The late
Judge Curran, speaking of him, called him “a man of scholarly
attainments, of fine tastes, of patriotic impulses and of
considerable gifts as a speaker,” and this opinion is almost
uniformly held throughout Montreal, where Father McShane has
always made his home.
THIBAUDEAU RINFRET, K. C.
Thibaudeau Rinfret, a prominent and successful advocate of
Montreal, brought to the outset of his career certain rare gifts,
a strong individuality, laudable ambition and the indefatigable
energy without which success and honors are seldom won by
representatives of the bar. His advancement has been continuous
and his energies have been largely concentrated upon his
professional duties.
He was born in Montreal June 22, 1879, a son of F. O. R. and
Alvina R. (Pominville) Rinfret, the former an advocate of
Montreal, while the latter was a daughter of the late F. P.
Pominville, Q. C., and a law partner of the late Sir G. E.
Cartier, baronet. Having attended St. Mary’s (Jesuit) College,
from which he was graduated on completion of the arts course with
the B. A. degree in 1897, Mr. Rinfret afterward entered McGill
University and won his B. C. L. degree in 1900. He was created
king’s counsel in 1912, a fact indicative of the success which he
has achieved in his law practice. He entered upon the active work
of the profession in 1901 and successfully followed law practice
at St. Jerome in partnership with Hon. Jean Prevost until 1910.
Upon the appointment of Charles Archer, K. C., to the bench he
joined the firm headed by J. L. Perron, K. C. The firm is now
Perron, Taschereau, Rinfret, Genest, Billette & Plimsoll, and
Mr. Rinfret has been connected with it since 1910. He carefully
prepares his cases and is seldom at fault in the application
of a legal principle, while his analytical ability enables him
to readily understand the relation of cause and effect. Since
1902 he has been attorney for County Terrebonne for the inland
revenue department, and he contested Terrebonne in the liberal
interests at the federal general election of 1908 against the
Hon. W. B. Nantel, now minister of inland revenue. Though his
party was in the minority, he failed to secure the seat by only
seventy-nine votes. Mr. Rinfret has rendered valuable service to
the liberal party of whose principles he is a strong supporter.
[Illustration: THIBAUDEAU RINFRET]
The zeal with which he has devoted his energies to his
profession, the careful regard evinced for the interests of his
clients and an unrelaxing attention to all the details of his
cases, have won him an enviable and well merited reputation.
His acquaintance is wide, and he has a host of friends whose
high regard he has gained through his professional ability,
his deference to the opinions of others, his genial manner and
unfailing courtesy.
Mr. Rinfret was married to Miss Georgine Rolland, a daughter
of J. B. Rolland, of Montreal, where they make their home. Mr.
Rinfret holds membership in the Catholic church.
CLARENCE I. DE SOLA.
The great industrial undertakings which have led to the
substantial development and upbuilding of Canada have found a
prominent representative in Clarence I. de Sola, today regarded
as one of the foremost men engaged in public works and in
shipbuilding in Canada. Moreover, he is prominent in the consular
service and is a recognized leader in various movements for the
improvement of the economic condition of the Hebrew people, some
of his work in that direction being of world-wide significance.
Montreal numbers him among her worthy and honored native sons,
his birth having occurred here on the 15th of August, 1858. He is
a member of an ancient and illustrious Jewish family that long
resided in Spain, where it produced many distinguished men. He
is the third son of the late Rev. Abraham de Sola, LL. D., who
was one of the most eminent and scholarly exponents of orthodox
Judaism in America and an author of international repute.
Liberal educational opportunities were accorded the subject of
this sketch, and his life has been one of steadily expanding and
increasing usefulness. Step by step he has advanced in business
connections, and in 1887 he was made managing director of the
Comptoir Belgo-Canadien, a syndicate of the leading Belgian
manufacturers of steel and other structural material and builders
of bridges, railroads and canal locks. The syndicate includes the
famous Cockerill Works, of Seraing, employing eighteen thousand
hands. His duties and responsibilities in this direction are most
important. He secured and executed contracts in the building of
the Soulanges and Trent canals, in re-laying large portions of
the track of the Inter-Colonial Railway and the Prince Edward
Island Railway, and in the construction of many of our largest
public bridges. He was associated with the engineers Lafontaine
and Lemoine in the construction of the Brock Street tunnel. It
was largely due to his efforts that hydraulic lift locks were
first used in American or Canadian canals.