=Burwash, Rev. Nathaniel=, S.T.D., Professor of Biblical and Systematic

Theology, and Dean of the Faculty of Theology, Victoria University,

Cobourg, Ontario, was born in Argenteuil, province of Quebec, on the

25th July, 1839. His father, Adam Burwash, was a descendant of an

English family from Burwash, in Sussex; and his mother, Ann Taylor, was

from Argyleshire, Scotland, and was the eldest sister of the late Rev.

Lachlin Taylor, D.D. His great-grandfather was a United Empire loyalist.

Nathaniel received his rudimentary education in the schools of his

native place, and then entered Victoria University, where he took the

arts course, and graduated B.A. in 1859. He then devoted his time for

two years as a Public and Grammar school teacher; and in 1860 entered

the ministry of the Methodist church. From this year to 1866 he filled

the position of pastor in churches in Belleville, Toronto, and Hamilton.

In 1866 he left Canada for a time, and entered Yale College, New Haven,

U.S., for the purpose of studying the natural sciences, and having

completed his course, he returned home in 1867, and was appointed

professor of natural sciences in Victoria University, Cobourg. In 1873

he was promoted to the professorship of Biblical and Systematical

Theology, and was also made dean of the faculty of theology in the same

institution. This important position he still occupies, and since his

appointment fully one-fifth of the entire ministry of the several

Western conferences of the Methodist church have been his students.

Professor Burwash some years ago took an active interest in the

Volunteer movement, and was one of those who risked his life at

Ridgeway, in repelling the Fenian hordes who attempted to desecrate

Canadian soil. He has travelled a good deal, and has visited several of

the universities and educational institutions of Great Britain, France

and Germany. The professor has not been an idle man, as the record of

his life amply testifies, and to those who would like to peruse some of

his literary productions, we recommend them to examine his works on:

“Nature, Genesis and Results of Sin”; “Relation of Childhood to the

Fall, the Atonement and the Church”; “Wesley’s Doctrinal Standards”; and

his “Commentary on Romans.” On the 25th December, 1868, he was married

to Margaret Proctor, only daughter of E. M. Proctor, registrar of

Lambton, a graduate of the Ladies’ College, Hamilton.

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=Currie, John Zebulon,= A.B., M.D., &c., Fredericton, New Brunswick, was

born at Keswick, parish of Douglas, York county, New Brunswick, January

3, 1847. He is the second son of Thomas Gilbert and Patience Currie.

Both parents belonged to old loyalist families. His father’s family is

descended from John Currie (Currey), who came from Leeds, Yorkshire,

England, and settled in New York about A.D. 1700. At the outbreak of the

American revolution, Joshua, a son of Richard, refusing to join the

insurgents, escaped to the British army, served as a lieutenant in that

force, and at the close of the war came to St. John, New Brunswick, with

the fall fleet. He brought three sons with him, of whom Richard, the

eldest, having married Barbara Dykeman, became the founder of this

family in New Brunswick. Dr. Currie’s mother is a daughter of the late

Major Abraham Yerxa, who lived at Keswick, York county, N.B. John Yerxa,

father of Abraham Yerxa, came from Holland to New York, with his

parents, at the age of fourteen years. He was married to Katie Gerow,

and throughout the American revolutionary war served as a volunteer in

the British army. At the close of the war he came to St. John, N.B.,

being a member of one of the two regiments that were disbanded and given

lands in New Brunswick. When he came to St. John there was but one house

where the city now stands. Subsequently he settled upon lands on the

Keswick stream, York county, and remained there until his death. Dr.

Currie remained at Keswick until about fifteen years of age, and

received his preliminary education in the schools of his native parish.

When in his sixteenth year he attended the Provincial Normal School in

St. John, and at the close of the term of study there, received a second

class teacher’s certificate. In 1864, he became a student at the Baptist

Seminary, Fredericton, New Brunswick, where he remained two years. In

September, 1867, he matriculated at the University of New Brunswick, and

pursued the regular course of study there. During his undergraduate

course at this institution he was the successful competitor for the

scholarship in English Language and Literature, besides taking honours

in this and other departments. Having completed the course of study he

received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in June, 1870. He at once began

the study of medicine, entering the medical department of Harvard

University, Boston, the same year. Having completed the regular course

of study in this institution he received the degree of Doctor of

Medicine (M.D., Harvard) in 1873. At the same time he passed the

required examination for, and was admitted a fellow of, the

Massachusetts Medical Society. He then went to Scotland to complete his

professional studies, and matriculated at the University of Edinburgh,

and at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Edinburgh. At the

completion of the course in the University of Edinburgh he was awarded

the first medal in midwifery and diseases of women and children, with

the highest standard which had at that time been attained. He also

received a special license in the same department. In the College of

Physicians and Surgeons he was the successful competitor for the second

prize in surgery under Prof. Patrick Heron Watson. He then went to

London, England, where he spent some time in visiting the different

hospitals and in further professional study. In the latter part of 1874

he returned to Fredericton, N.B., began the practice of his profession,

and has remained there ever since. Dr. Currie’s student life was marked

by careful study and constantly advanced standing. On June 15, 1881, he

was appointed assistant surgeon of the 71st York battalion of the Active

Militia of Canada, and on the 25th of December, 1883, was promoted to be

surgeon of the same corps, which office he still holds. Dr. Currie is

secretary and registrar of the Council of Physicians and Surgeons of New

Brunswick, and has constantly held this office since the organization of

the council in July, 1881. He is a member of the Provincial Board of

Health of New Brunswick, and also secretary of the board; both

appointments date from June 1st, 1887, when the Public Health Act went

into operation. In virtue of his position as secretary of the Provincial

Board of Health, he is chief health officer for the province. Dr. Currie

is at present a member of the council of the Associated Alumni of the

University of New Brunswick, and has been since June, 1885. He is also a

coroner for York county, N.B. This appointment dates from October 17,

1882. He is a member of the New Brunswick Medical Society and of the

Canada Medical Association, and at present is vice-president for New

Brunswick of the Canada Medical Association. In 1886 he was appointed a

delegate from this association to the meeting of the American Health

Society, held in Toronto, October, 1886. He is also a member of several

secret societies. He became associated with the Independent Order of

Oddfellows, August 22, 1881; with the Independent Order of Foresters,

October 1, 1881; and with the American Legion of Honour, September 28,

1880. He still continues his membership in, and is physician to, each of

these societies. His travels were not important, and only such as were

necessary in the prosecution of study or on business. His religious

views have always been those held by the Baptist church, but he was not

united with any religious society until 1867, when he became a member of

the Fredericton Baptist Church. On the 5th of June, 1877, he was married

to Helen M. Estey, second daughter of the late Harris S. Estey. The

first representative of this family in New Brunswick was Zebulon Estey,

who came to New Brunswick from Newburyport, Mass., about 1765. Before

leaving Newburyport he was married to Mollie Brown. After coming to New

Brunswick they had a large family, one member of which, Nehemiah B.

Estey, was great-grandfather of Harris S. Estey. Dr. Currie has been

eminently successful in every respect in the practice of his profession.

He was the originator and one of the principal promoters of the movement

which led to the passage of the New Brunswick Medical Act. He is devoted

to his profession, giving his whole time to it, and taking a lively

interest in everything which pertains to its well-being.

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=Elliott, Andrew=, Almonte, one of the most enterprising of our woollen

manufacturers, was born on the 3rd April, 1809, at Stanishwater, parish

of Westerkirk, Eskdale, Scotland. His father, William Elliott, and his

mother, Jane Jardine, were both natives of Dumfriesshire, Scotland. Mr.

Elliott received his education at the Langholme and Corrie school, near

Lockerby, which he left at the age of thirteen, and began the battle of

life unaided. In 1834 he came to Canada, and two years after his arrival

he began business as a grocer in Galt, Ontario. Here he did a good

business, built a distillery, ran it for several years, sold it out, and

joined Robert Hunt, of Preston, in the woollen business. In 1853 they

changed the factory into a four-set mill, and worked it very

successfully for about ten years. About 1864, while Mr. Elliott was in

Great Britain buying wool, the mill was burnt down, but on his return he

rebuilt it, and associated with him in his new venture (the old

partnership having been dissolved) J. L. Hunt and George Stephen (now

Sir George Stephen, bart.). The new firm abandoned the manufacture of

cloth, and went into that of flax and linseed oil. After spending a

great deal of money in importing first-class machinery from Great

Britain, Ireland and the United States, and pushing the business for

about four years, they found that Canada was unsuited for such an

enterprise, and parted with the concern, having lost a considerable sum

of money by the venture. Mr. Elliott then sold out all his property in

Preston and Galt, and purchased a woollen mill in Almonte, where for the

past seventeen years he has successfully prosecuted his business. Mr.

Elliott was elected district (Gore district) councillor for the township

of Dumfries (Upper Canada), and in 1840 he was chosen the first reeve

for the village of Galt, and occupied the position for several years.

The late Hon. Robert Baldwin made him a magistrate, and in this capacity

he acted for about ten years; and was sent as a delegate from the

village of Galt and the township of Dumfries with an address to Lord

Elgin, in Montreal, shortly after the destruction of the Parliament

buildings by a mob. Mr. Elliott took an active interest in railway

extension, and did his share in getting the Great Western Railway

Company to build a branch line from Harrisburg to Galt. In his younger

days he was a strong supporter of the Baldwin administration, and even

supported the late Hon. George Brown, but refused longer to follow him

as a party leader when he left the government of the day and formed the

“Grit” party; and he has ever since been an opponent of the Reform

party. Mr. Elliott has been a Presbyterian from his youth up. In 1839 he

married Mary Hanley, a native of the county of Longford, Ireland. He has

been a busy man, and now enjoys the fruits of his industry.

* * * * *

=Morson, Walter Augustus Ormsby=, Barrister, etc., Charlottetown, Prince

Edward Island, was born on the 24th December, 1851, at Hamilton, Prince

Edward Island. His father, Richard Willock Morson, formerly of the

island of Montserrat, in the West Indies, now of Upton, Dundas, Prince

Edward Island, was a son of the late Richard Willock Morson, of

Montserrat, and nephew of the Hon. Walter Morson, M.D., physician to the

late Princess Sophia, daughter of George III. His mother, Elizabeth

Codie, daughter of the late Hon. Patrick Codie, of Cascumpec, P. E.

Island, and Annabella Stewart, his wife, daughter of the late Dugald

Stewart, of Hamilton, P. E. Island. Mr. Morson, jr., received his

education at Hamilton, and in 1866 removed to Charlottetown, where he

secured employment in the “City Hardware Store.” In this situation he

remained until 1872, when he gave up mercantile pursuits, and began the

study of law with the Hon. W. W. Sullivan, the present attorney-general

and premier of Prince Edward Island. In February, 1877, he was admitted

as an attorney of the Supreme Court, and became a member of the firm of

Sullivan, Maclean & Morson. In February, 1878, he was called to the bar

of the Superior Court and admitted as solicitor of the Court of

Chancery. In March, 1877, he was made a notary public. Mr. Maclean

having retired from the above firm in 1878, it then became Sullivan &

Morson, and so continued until December, 1882, when it was dissolved.

Mr. Morson then entered into partnership with the Hon. Neil Macleod,

M.A., and this arrangement continued until October, 1883, when Neil

Macquarrie, the stipendiary magistrate of Sommerside, was admitted a

partner, when the name was changed to MacLeod, Morson & Macquarrie, with

offices at Summerside Charlottetown. Mr. Morson was appointed master in

Chancery in 1885. In April of the same year, on the death of the Hon.

John Longworth, he was appointed clerk of the Crown and prothonotary of

the Supreme Court of Prince Edward Island, and also registrar of the

Court of Chancery, all of which positions he resigned in June, 1885. On

the formation of the Prince Edward Island Provisional Brigade of

Garrison Artillery, Mr. Morson was appointed adjutant, with rank of

lieutenant, 2nd June, 1882; and on the 8th November, 1884, he obtained a

first class special course certificate from the Royal School of

Artillery in Quebec. He volunteered with two batteries of the brigade

for the North West Territory on the outbreak of the rebellion in 1885.

Mr. Morson is a busy man, yet he finds time to devote his attention to

Masonry. He has been a member of Victoria lodge, No. 383, of the

Registry of Scotland, since April 1870, and has held several important

offices in his lodge, and been depute master. In religion Mr. Morson is

a member of the Episcopal communion, and in politics belongs to the

Conservative party. He is a rising man, and has a grand future before

him.

* * * * *

=Gray, James=, Manager of the Merchants Bank of Canada, Perth, Lanark

county, Ontario, was born on the 3rd of September, 1820, at Black Hills,

parish of Elgin, Morayshire, Scotland. Arthur Gray, the father of the

subject of this sketch, was a native of Morayshire, Scotland, and joined

the active militia in 1809, and in 1811 was gazetted ensign in the 2nd

battalion of the 24th Regiment of the line. In November of the same year

he proceeded with his regiment to the Peninsula, where he joined the

army under the command of the late Duke of Wellington, and served till

the end of the war, during which he was present at the following battles

and sieges: In the covering division at the siege and capture of

Badejoz; the battle of Salamanca (where he carried the colours); the

capture of the Retiro and the siege of Burgos, where he was engaged in

the storming of the outer line, on which occasion the battalion suffered

so severely that it became necessary to incorporate it in a provisional

battalion with the 58th Regiment; on the raising of the siege of Burgos

he was the last officer to quit the trenches, having been left with a

piquet to see the works blown up at all hazards, and at the imminent

risk of being taken prisoner, being fortunate enough, however, to regain

his regiment after executing the orders he had received; he commanded a

company during the rest of the retreat into Portugal, and suffered great

hardships consequent upon such retreat. He was also engaged in the

battle of Vittoria, and the actions in the Pyrenees for four successive

days, including the attack on the heights of Echellar, where the

battalion in which he was serving received on the grounds the thanks of

Lord Dalhousie for their gallant conduct. He was also at the battles of

Nevelle and Orthes, the investment of Bayonne, besides a great number of

affairs of outposts and skirmishes, and was not absent from his

battalion for one day during the whole period of these memorable events.

On the return of the battalion he was removed to the 1st Battalion of

the 24th Regiment, and proceeded to join it in the East Indies in

February, 1815. He served with this corps in the Nepaul war, the

campaigns of 1815 and 1816, including the battle of Harriagrove; and in

the Mahratta campaigns of 1817 and 1818. During the Indian campaign he

fell a victim to severe liver disease, and was compelled to return to

England in 1819, and on the expiration of his leave in 1820, still being

disabled from active duty from this cause, he was retired on half-pay.

His health having been restored, in 1839 he was appointed to the first

battalion Royal regiment, with which he served at Gibraltar to August,

1841, when Lord Hill removed him to the Royal Canadian rifle regiment.

In 1847 he was appointed by His Grace the Duke of Wellington captain in

the Ceylon rifle regiment, and proceeded to Ceylon. An insurrection

breaking out there he was placed second in command, and shortly after

the commander of a corps to scour the jungle and disperse the rebels. In

consequence of exposure while on this mission he was attacked with

dysentery, and being carried along with his column to Kandy he there

died. James Gray received an English and classical education in the St.

Andrew’s school of his native shire, and came to Canada in 1844, and

settled in Montreal. The same year he entered the service of the Bank of

Montreal, in that city. He was over a quarter of a century in the employ

of this great monetary institution, and during this time resided in

Kingston, Picton, and Perth. In 1868 he resigned his position in the

Bank of Montreal, and was appointed manager of the branch of the

Merchants Bank in Perth, which position he still occupies with credit to

himself and satisfaction to his employers. Mr. Gray is connected with

the Presbyterian church; but in politics he takes little interest. He is

married to Mary Robinson, a daughter of the late Dr. Moore, of Picton,

who, during his lifetime, was a staunch supporter of the late lamented

Hon. George Brown, and in sympathy with the political reforms advocated

by that great man.

* * * * *

=La Mothe, Guillaume Jean Baptiste=, Postmaster, Montreal, was born in

Montreal on September 24th, 1824. He is the son of Capt. Joseph Maurice

La Mothe, who married Marie J. Laframboise, in Montreal, on the 1st

February, 1813. Captain Joseph Maurice La Mothe was superintendent of

the Indian Department from 1816 until his decease in 1827. He was also

captain and in command of the Indian allies at the battle of

Chateauguay, and was favourably reported in the orders of the day for

gallant conduct. His grandfather was Captain Joseph La Mothe, who was

born 26th January, 1742, and married 24th November, 1777, to Catherine

Blondeau. In March, 1776, the military commandant in Montreal entrusted

Captain J. La Mothe with most important despatches for General Guy

Carleton, then besieged in Quebec by the American army. Accompanied by

Mr. Papineau (father of the Hon. L. J. Papineau), he started from

Montreal on foot, and after a long and dangerous tramp, managing to

cross the American lines at night, safely delivered the despatches in

proper time, which contributed to the salvation of Quebec. His

great-grandfather was Pierre La Mothe, married first to Marie Anne St.

Ives, and in January, 1740 (being then a widower), he married Angélique

Caron, in Montreal. His father and mother were Bruno La Mothe and Jeanne

Le Valois, who came originally from the diocese of Bordeaux, France. The

family, whose correct name is de La Mothe (as mentioned in old family

documents), was residing in Montreal as early as 1673, and in 1689

Pierre de Saint Paul de La Mothe had the command of the town and island

of Montreal. The subject of our sketch received his education at St.

Hyacinthe College and at Montreal College. In September, 1852, he

received a commission as lieutenant in the Montreal Sedentary Cavalry,

but this position he resigned in March, 1854. On the 17th of January,

1856, he was appointed lieutenant in No. 2 troop Militia Cavalry,

Montreal, and on the 23rd of April, 1857, was retransferred to and

promoted captain in the Sedentary Cavalry of Montreal. On the 7th of

November, 1862, he was transferred to and promoted major commanding the

Rifle Companies (Police) Active force in Montreal. On the 26th of

November, 1861, Captain La Mothe was appointed chief of police for

Montreal. This office he held until the 30th January, 1865, when he

resigned. He effected the capture of the famous St. Albans raiders a few

months previous. And on the 15th of July, 1874, he was appointed to the

postmastership of his native city, and this important position he fills

to-day. Mr. La Mothe has been actively connected with the development of

gold mines in Nova Scotia; copper mines in the Eastern Townships, and

iron mines in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where he discovered the magnetic

iron ore deposit at Moisie. Upon report made to friends respecting the

value of the ore and extent of the deposit, the Moisie Iron Company was

formed. This company has manufactured malleable iron pronounced in

England and France equal to the best. During the years from 1846 to 1851

inclusive, Mr. La Mothe travelled extensively through England, France,

Switzerland, and Italy; and while in England he joined the expedition

against Ecuador (South America), which, after putting to sea, was

overtaken by a British man-of-war, and brought back to London. He also

took part in the French Revolution of 1848, and at the storming of the

Tuileries he was one of the first to enter the place. After this event

he travelled through Switzerland on foot, then on to Italy, where he

married, and then returned to Canada. For fifteen years of his life, Mr.

La Mothe was actively engaged in politics on the Liberal side. In

religion he is a respected member of the Roman Catholic church. He was

married in Florence, Italy, in 1850, to Marguerite de Savoye, and his

family consists of one son and four daughters, all living. The son,

Henri, is married to Marie, youngest daughter of the late Hon. Judge

Bossé, of Quebec. The eldest daughter, Marguerite, is married to Hon. J.

R. Thibaudeau, senator for division of Rigaud. His second daughter is

married to Henri Hamel, of the firm of J. Hamel & Frère, Quebec. The two

youngest daughters, Juliette and Marie, are unmarried.

* * * * *

=MacColl, Evan=, Kingston, Ontario, was born at Kenmore, Lochfyne-side,

Scotland, on the 21st of September, 1808, where he is well-known as the

“Mountain Minstrel.” He early developed a taste for poetry, and in 1837

contributed to the Glasgow _Gaelic Magazine_. The poet gives a very

striking account of his first attempt at Gaelic verse. He took into his

confidence a young friend, a capital singer, taught him a song without

mentioning that he was the author of it, and got him to sing it the same

evening at a neighbour’s house at Kenmore. It was received with great

applause. From that hour Evan MacColl felt himself a bard and became

supremely happy. Some time after he published a small volume of poems in

Gaelic, and another in English, which were reviewed by Dr. McLeod, Hugh

Miller, the celebrated geologist, and other British critics, in the

highest terms of admiration. In 1831 Mr. MacColl’s father, with the rest

of his family, emigrated to Canada, but Evan remained behind, and eight

years afterwards he accepted a position in the Customs at Liverpool. In

1846 he published a second volume of poems which was even more highly

appreciated than the first. Of this work, Dr. Norman McLeod wrote: “Evan

MacColl’s poetry is the product of a mind impressed with the beauty and

grandeur of the lovely scenes in which his infancy has been nursed. We

have no hesitation in saying that this work is that of a man possessed

of much poetic genius. Wild, indeed, and sometimes rough are his rhymes

and epithets; yet there are thoughts so new and striking—images and

comparisons so beautiful and original—feelings so warm and fresh—that

stamp this Highland peasant as no ordinary man.” In 1850, in consequence

of ill-health, he visited Canada, and while here received an appointment

to the Customs at Kingston. He never solicited any favour from the

Conservatives, and the overthrow of the Mackenzie government in 1878

effectually quenched his hopes of preferment, and two years afterwards

he was superannuated. No man ought to know Mr. MacColl better than his

friend, Charles Sangster, a poet of considerable repute, who speaks thus

of him in his article in Wilson’s work on Scottish, bards:—

“In private life he is, both by precept and example, all that

could be desired. He has an intense love for all that is really

good and beautiful, and a true and manly scorn for all that is

false, time-serving, or hypocritical; there is no

narrow-mindedness, no bigotry in his soul. In the domestic

circle, all the warmth in the man’s heart—the full flow of

genuine feeling and affection—is ever uppermost. He is a

thoroughly earnest man, in whose daily walks and conversation as

well as in his actions, Longfellow’s ‘Psalm of Life’ is acted

out in verity. In his friendship he is sincere; in his dislikes

equally so. He is thoroughly Scottish in his leanings. His

national love burns with intensity. In poetry, he is not merely

zealous, but enthusiastic, and he carries his natural force of

character into all he says and does.”

All his virtues he inherited from his parents. Among Evan MacColl’s old

country friends have been John Mackenzie, of “The Beauties;” the late R.

Carruthers, LL.D., Hugh Miller, the brothers Sobeiskie Stewart, at

Eilean-Aigais, and drank with them out of a _cuach_, once the property

of Prince Charlie; Dugald Moore, author of “Scenes before the Flood,”

and “The Bard of the North;” Alexander Rogers, the author of “Behave

yourself before Folk,” Rev. Dr. Norman McLeod, Dr. Chambers, Bailey, the

author of “Festus;” Leighton, author of “The Christening of the Bairn;”

J. Stuart Blackie, the great Edinburgh professor; James Logan, author of

“The Scottish Gael;” Fraser, of _Fraser’s Magazine_, and Hugh Fraser,

the publisher of “Leabhar nan Cnoc.” He is a member of the Royal

Canadian Literary and Scientific Society, founded by the Marquis of

Lorne, and was the guest several times of his lordship and the Princess

Louise at Rideau Hall, Ottawa. MacColl has been twice married. Of a

family of nine sons and daughters, Evan, the poet’s eldest son, has been

educated for the ministry, and is now pastor of the Congregational

Church at Middleville, Ontario. His eldest daughter’s productions have

merited a very high admiration, and the more youthful members of his

family give promise of proving worthy of the stock from whence they

sprang. John Massie, of Keene, a brother poet, not having heard from the

“Bard of Lock Fyne” for over six weeks after having written him a

letter, thus addressed the Limestone City:—

Say, Kingston, tell us where is Evan?

Thy bard o’ pure poetic leaven!

And is he still amang the livin’?

Or plumed supernal,

Has taen a jink and aff to heaven,

There sing eternal!

Or if within your bounds you find him,

A’ bruised and broken, skilfu’ bind him;

Or sick, or sair, O! carefu’ mind him,

Thy darling chiel!

And dinna lat him look behind him

Until he’s weel.

But if he’s gane, ah, wae’s to me!

His like we never mair shall see,—

Nae servile, whinging coof was he,

Led by a string,

But noble, gen’rous, fearless, free,

His sang he’d sing.

Hech, sirs! we badly could bide loss him,

For should this world vindictive toss him.

Or ony hizzie dare to boss him.

Clean gyte he’d set her;

The deil himsel’, he daur’dna cross him,

Faith, he ken’d better!

Let any man, o’ any station,

But wink at fraud, or wrong the nation,

E’en gowd, nor place, ’twas nae temptation

To sic a chiel,—

He’d shortly settle their oration,

And drub them weel.

Or let them say’t, be’t high or low,

Auld Scotia ever met the foe,

That laid her in the dust fu’ low,

Right at them see him!

Professor George still rues the blow

MacColl did gie him.

Is history in Fiction’s grip,

Does Falsehood let her bloodhounds slip,

Crack goes his castigating whip,

With patriot scorn!

Macaulay laid upon his hip.

Amidst the corn.

Does English critic meanly itch,

To cast old Ossian in the ditch,

And trail his laurels through the pitch

Of mind benighted;

Our bardie gies his lugs a twitch

And sees it righted.

In a’ this warld, there’s no a skellum,

Nor silly self-conceited blellum,

But Evan, lad, wad bravely tell ’em

The honest truth;

E’en if he kend that they should fell ’im

Withouten ruth.

Ye feathered things in mournfu’ tune,

Come join my waesome, doleful croon;

Ye dogs that bay the silver moon,

Your sorrow show it;

And a’ ye tearfu’ starns aboon,

Bewail our poet.

What though this grasping world, and hard,

May barely grant him just reward,

Still shall his genius blissful starred,

Effulgent shine,

And endless ages praise the bard

Of fair Loch Fyne.

Mr. MacColl has many admirers in Canada, in proof of which he has lately

issued the third edition of his poems here, and they are having a good

sale. His Gaelic Lyrics, lately issued in Edinburgh, is also attracting

attention among his countrymen on this side of the Atlantic.

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=Lake, John Neilson=, Stock Broker, Toronto, was born on the fourth

concession of the township of Ernesttown, county of Addington, Ontario,

on the 19th August, 1834. His great-grandfather and grandfather owned

part of Staten Island, New York state, and when the war of independence

broke out they took sides with the British, and with sons and

sons-in-law fought for their king and country. The family removed to

Upper Canada about 1782, and as U. E. loyalists received a grant of

15,000 acres of land, and settled near the village of Bath, west of

Kingston. James Lake, the father of the subject of our sketch, was born

near Bath in 1791, and with the exception of a short period, he resided,

until his death, in the township of Ernesttown. His mother was Margaret

Bell, daughter of John Bell, of Ernesttown, who, though a U. E.

loyalist, did not remove to Canada until 1810. John, until his sixteenth

year, attended school, when he joined his brothers in the carriage

business, and at the same time he learned drafting and architecture. At

twenty-one he gave up this profession and entered the ministry of the

Wesleyan Methodist church as a probationer, and spent the years 1855-6

in the town of Picton; 1857 in Aylmer; 1858 in Ingersoll; 1859 in

Hullsville; 1862 in Markham; 1865 in Pickering, followed as stations in

succession; but in 1866, in consequence of a peculiar affection of the

eye producing double vision, and preventing all study, he was compelled

to relinquish the ministry for awhile. In 1869, his health being

somewhat improved, he again attempted the ministerial work, and was

stationed at the town of Niagara; but in less than twelve months

thereafter it became evident that this mode of usefulness could not be

continued, and he was reluctantly compelled to abandon the ministry. He

moved to Toronto, and in 1870 opened a real estate and loan office, just

at the time when the value of property was beginning to improve, and

when there were only two real estate brokers in the city. In 1875 he was

joined by J. P. Clark, of the town of Brampton, and soon the firm of

Lake & Clark became widely known and highly trusted. In 1882 Mr. Lake

retired from the firm, and four years later Mr. Clark gave up business,

when the firm of Lake & Clark ceased to be longer known as dealers in

real estate. During all these years Mr. Lake was very intimately

associated with church work, and the Sherbourne Street Methodist Church

owes not a little of its success to his labours and generous

contributions. In 1881 he was induced by his numerous friends to permit

himself to be put in nomination as alderman for St. Thomas ward, and

having surrendered his standing as a minister, he consented, and was

elected a member of the city council. One year in the council seems to

have satisfied Mr. Lake, for although next year he was strongly urged by

his St. Thomas ward constituency to again act as their representative,

he refused to concede to this request, and retired from municipal

politics. Politically Mr. Lake has always been a Reformer, but he is not

a person who would support a party without a good and sufficient reason.

He has been a member of the Toronto Stock Exchange, and of the Toronto

Board of Trade, for many years, and is president of the American Watch

Case Company; secretary of the Ontario Folding Steel Gate Company;

director of the North American Life Assurance Company, and chairman of

the agency committee. He is also treasurer of the Union Relief Fund, and

of the Church and Parsonage Aid Fund of the Methodist church; has been

treasurer from the beginning of the Sherbourne Street Methodist Church,

and was organizer and superintendent of its Sunday school for the first

eleven years. Mr. Lake was lately elected chairman of the committee on

plans for the new Victoria College buildings to be erected in the

Queen’s Park, Toronto, for the Methodist Church, at a cost of about

$200,000. We may add that Mr. Lake has done a good deal to improve

Toronto during the past fifteen years, having built residences worth

about $200,000, in the most improved style of architecture, and his own

residence,—286 Sherbourne street—is a model of completeness and

convenience. In June, 1859, he was married to Emily Jane, youngest

daughter of S. V. R. Douglas, of Burford, Brant county, and

granddaughter of the Rev. Thomas Whitehead, a gentleman who occupied a

prominent position in the Methodist church from 1790 to 1840.

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=De Sola, Abraham=, LL.D.—The late Dr. de Sola was one of the most

distinguished scholars who ever graced an American-Jewish pulpit. His

reputation as an Orientalist, theologian and linguist, was not confined

to his own people; the profundity and extraordinary intellectual acumen

which characterized his numerous writings and researches having won for

him wide renown among the _savants_ both of this continent and of

Europe. He was descended from a very ancient and celebrated Jewish

family, his ancestors having, in their migration from Judea, gradually

moved across Northern Africa, until, crossing the Straits of Gibraltar,

we find them settled in Spain as early as the close of the sixth

century. Here the de Solas became very distinguished in the higher walks

of life. They assisted the Saracens, when the mighty sons of the desert

overran the Iberian Peninsula, and in return were received in high

favour at the court of the Caliphs. The Gothic princes also treated them

with distinction; and in Navarre, where a branch of the family settled,

Don Bartolomé de Sola attained to such influence as to be ennobled and

created a minister of state, and at one time exercised the functions of

Viceroy. Another de Sola won renown by his prowess in battle, when

fighting under the Infante of Aragon, in the fourteenth century. For

several centuries they continued to flourish in Spain, the family being

famed for the large number of illustrious men it produced, eminent as

authors, rabbis, physicians, and courtiers. In 1492, in consequence of

their adherence to Judaism, they suffered the fate of all Spanish Jews,

being condemned to exile by the edict of the bigoted Ferdinand and

Isabella. They fled to Holland, where they soon again rose to

distinction in the world of letters. One member of the family, however,

lingered behind in Portugal, eluding the vigilance of his persecutors by

professing to become a New Christian (as Jewish converts to Christianity

were styled), while he secretly continued to follow Judaism. During

several generations some of his descendants continued to reside in

Lisbon, where they possessed much wealth, remaining ever true to their

ancestral faith, and all resorting to the same hazardous expedient to

escape the notice of the Inquisition. But the fact that they often sent

their children to Holland, that they might be the better able to follow

Judaism, at length aroused the suspicions of the Holy Office; and

towards the close of the seventeenth century David de Sola was suddenly

pounced upon and incarcerated in the cells of the Inquisition-House. He

bore the most frightful tortures heroically, and, as no confession could

be forced from his lips, nor aught proved against him, he was released;

but his shattered frame never recovered from the terrible agonies he had

suffered. Years afterwards the suspicions of the Inquisition were again

aroused, and two members of the family were seized, tortured, and having

been found guilty of secret adherence to Judaism, suffered death at an

_Auto-da-Fé_. Aaron de Sola (son of the above-mentioned David) was then

the head of the Lisbon branch of the family, and, alarmed at the

frightful fate of his two relatives, took refuge with his wife and

children on an English man-of-war, which then lay at the mouth of the

Tagus, only just in time to escape the officers of the Holy Office, who

were in pursuit of him. Landed safely in London, by the friendly English

captain, Aaron de Sola had no sooner put foot upon free soil, than he

openly proclaimed his adherence to the faith which he and his fathers

had so long followed in secret. This was in 1749. He proceeded shortly

after with his family to Amsterdam, where he took up his abode. His

eldest son, David, was the ancestor of the Abraham de Sola who forms the

subject of this sketch; while his youngest son, Benjamin, became one of

the most eminent practitioners in Holland, and was Court Physician to

William V., and the author of numerous medical works. Another son of

Aaron de Sola settled in Curaçao, and was the progenitor of that General

Juan de Sola who won such high military distinction fighting under

Bolivar and Paez in the revolt of the South American Colonies from

Spain. In 1690 another member of the family, Isaac de Sola, became famed

in London as a preacher and author. Some volumes of his writings are

still to be seen among the rare collections of European libraries.

Abraham de Sola was born on the 18th September, 1825. His father, David

Aaron de Sola, was a very prominent rabbi, celebrated for his

theological writings, and had removed from Amsterdam to London, England,

early in the present century, where the subject of this sketch was born.

His mother was of the illustrious Meldola family, who had furnished

leading rabbis to the Jews of Europe for twelve consecutive generations.

From childhood Abraham de Sola betrayed a strong inclination for study,

and having received a thorough training in those branches which form the

usual curriculum of higher education, he turned his attention to

theological and linguistic studies, and early laid the foundation of

that deep acquaintance with oriental languages and literature which

afterwards won him such renown. In 1846 he was offered the position of

minister of the Congregation of Portuguese Jews of Montreal, and, having

accepted this call, arrived in Canada early in 1847. Here began the

great work of his life. Shortly after his advent to Montreal his

eloquent sermons in the Synagogue attracted the attention of the

Mercantile Library Association, and upon invitation he delivered before

this body a series of lectures upon the history of the Jews of England.

The interest evoked by these efforts led to his delivering a further

course of lectures upon Jewish history before this association the

following year, and also before the Mechanics’ Institute. In 1848 he

published his “Notes on the Jews of Persia, under Mohammed Shah.” This

was followed by “A History of the Jews of Persia,” and within the same

year he published his “Lectures on Scripture Zoology” which was

succeeded by his “Lectures on the Mosaic Cosmogony.” Shortly afterwards

he gave to the world “The Cosmography of Peritsol,” a work which at once

attracted great attention and brought its author prominently to the

front. It received such favourable notice from leading reviews as to be

republished in part by the _Occident_ and other magazines, and

translations in various languages were brought out by publishers in

foreign countries. As late as 1881 we find it attracting the attention

of the learned Chevalier Pesaro, of Italy, in the columns of an Italian

review. His next important work “A Commentary on Samuel Hannagid’s

Introduction to the Talmud,” displayed a deep and broad acquaintance

with rabbinical literature, and was received with marked approbation by

the _literati_ of this continent and Europe. His literary labours had

now made him a prominent figure among the learned bodies of Montreal,

and in 1853 he was appointed Professor of Hebrew and Oriental literature

at McGill University, Montreal, a position which he continued to fill

with marked ability during the rest of his life, and for which his deep

knowledge of Semitic tongues particularly adapted him. He was also a

co-labourer of Sir William Dawson in the Natural History Society, as

well as at McGill, and did much towards vitalizing and extending the

usefulness of that body. In 1853, in conjunction with the Rev. J. J.

Lyons, of New York, he published his work on “The Jewish Calendar

System,” containing a very exhaustive and abstruse treatise upon the

Jewish mode of calculating time by the lunar system. Some years after

this he completed one of his greatest and most learned productions, “The

Sanitory Institutions of the Hebrews;” a work containing a most

elaborate and critical consideration of the rabbinical dietary and

hygienic laws, as based upon the Jewish traditional exposition of the

hygienic statutes of the Bible, viewed in the light of modern scientific

discoveries. The work excited alike the applause of scientists and of

rabbinical scholars, and the eminence to which its author had now

attained resulted in his having the degree of LL.D. conferred upon him

in 1858. Shortly after the publication of “The Sanitory Institutions of

the Hebrews,” Dr. de Sola published a supplemental work to it, entitled,

“Behemoth Hatemeoth;” and in 1860, when Dr. Hall founded the _British

American Journal_, devoted to the advancement of medical and physical

sciences, Dr. de Sola accepted an invitation to assist the publication,

and among many others of his writings that appeared in this journal his

articles “Upon the Employment of Anæsthetics in cases of Labour, in

connection with Jewish Law,” is specially worthy of notice. During the

succeeding decade he was particularly active with his pen, bringing out

in rapid succession numerous works and treatises, besides constantly

lecturing before various literary and scientific associations. Of his

writings and lectures at this period the principal ones were: “Scripture

Botany,” “Sinaitic Inscriptions,” “Hebrew Numismatics,” “Philological

Studies in Hebrew and the Aramaic Languages,” “The Ancient Hebrews as

Promoters of the Arts and Sciences,” and “The Rise and Progress of the

Great Hebrew Colleges.” For several years he occupied the position of

President of the Natural History Society, and in that capacity he

received Prince Arthur (now Duke of Connaught) when His Royal Highness

visited the society in 1870. His address upon “The Study of Natural

Science,” delivered before the Prince upon this occasion, called forth a

letter of approbation from Queen Victoria. In 1869 Dr. de Sola completed

his valuable historical work entitled, “The Life of Shabethai Tsevi, the

Jewish False Messiah.” This was followed by two other important

historical works: “The History of the Jews of Poland,” published in

1870, and “The History of the Jews of France,” published one year later.

Ever since his arrival in Canada Dr. de Sola had been labouring

zealously in every movement that tended to the advancement of the Jewish

people. His eloquence as a preacher, added to his intimate knowledge of

rabbinical learning, placed him among the very foremost exponents of

Jewish thought of the day, and he was recognized as one of the chief

leaders of the orthodox Jews of America. Broad-minded and tolerant in

all things, he was at the same time strictly orthodox in his Judaism.

His deep studies in the paths of science, literature and philology all

tended the more to confirm him in his abiding faith in the Book of

Books; hence we find that throughout his career he was constantly

engaged, both in the pulpit and press, in giving battle to those who

would assail the Hebrew Scriptures. Scarcely a work ever left his hands

that did not contain many a well directed shaft at the infidel teachings

of certain modern sceptics. In the columns of the Jewish press he was

particularly active in this respect, and for many years he was a very

regular contributor to various Jewish journals, particularly to the

_Occident_ of Philadelphia (edited by the gifted Isaac Leeser), with

which he was closely identified. He also frequently visited the United

States, where his lectures invariably attracted large audiences and

brought him into great prominence. In 1872 Dr. de Sola was invited by

General Grant’s administration to open the United States Congress with

prayer, and for the first time in history the extraordinary spectacle

was witnessed of one who was not a subject of the United States nor of

the dominant faith—one who was a British subject and a Jew—performing

the opening ceremonies at the assembling of Congress at Washington. This

high example of liberality upon the part of the government of the United

States was generally looked upon as one of the earliest indications of

the birth of a more friendly feeling between the United States and

Britain, whose relations had then been but recently strained by the

_Alabama_ Claims; and Sir Edward Thornton, the British Minister at

Washington, as well as Mr. Gladstone—who was then premier,—extended to

Dr. de Sola the special approbation and thanks of the British

Government. Having purchased the stereotype plates and copyright of

Isaac Leeser’s works, Dr. de Sola published about this time a new and

carefully revised edition of that author’s English translation of the

Bible, according to Jewish authorities. He also brought out a new

translation of the Jewish Forms of Prayer, based upon the editions of

his father (D. A. de Sola) and of Leeser. These were heavy undertakings,

and their completion entailed several years of severe work. In addition

to his other arduous duties, Dr. de Sola had now been appointed Hebrew

Lecturer at the Presbyterian College, Montreal, and also Lecturer in

Spanish Literature at McGill—a literature with which he was

particularly familiar. But the heavy strain of such intense application

to work at length undermined his naturally strong constitution, and in

1876 his health suddenly gave way. After a year’s rest in Europe he was

so far recuperated as to be enabled to partly resume his duties, and in

1878 and 1879 he was again an active contributor to the Hebrew press.

Among other of his writings at this time one of the most noteworthy was,

“Yehuda Alcharizi, and the Book Tachkemoni.”—In 1880 he produced his

last great work, “Saadia Gaon”—a book which gives a vivid picture of

the political struggles and literary labours of one who played so

important a part at the court of a Prince of the Captivity. But Dr. de

Sola’s health was now rapidly failing, and, while in New York, on a

visit to his sister, he was prostrated by an attack of illness which

finally culminated in his death on June 5th, 1882. The remains were

removed to Montreal, and there interred. In his decease the _literati_

of Canada felt that they had been bereft of one of their brightest

luminaries, while the Israelites throughout the Dominion mourned the

loss of one who had literally _built up_ Judaism in Canada. As his

remains were being consigned to their earthly tenement with truth indeed

did the officiating rabbi exclaim, “If respect be attached to the name

of Jew throughout these Canadas, to Abraham de Sola belongs the chief

glory of having gained it.” For thirty-five years he had ruled his

co-religionists in his adopted country with a sway that was almost

absolute—for his influence extended far beyond his own immediate flock.

He had bent every energy to improve and advance his people, and in his

death it was felt that there had passed away one who above all others

had energized and elevated the Jewish community in Canada. Dr. de Sola

was married to Esther Joseph, in 1852, and had several children. His

eldest son succeeded him as minister to the Portuguese Jewish

congregation at Montreal. His wife’s father—Henry Joseph—was one of

the earliest Jewish settlers in Canada, while her brothers stand among

the most prominent and most respected citizens of Montreal and Quebec;

one of them, Jesse Joseph, being president of the Montreal City Gas

Company, president of the Montreal Street Railway Company, and director

of the Montreal Telegraph Company; while another brother, Abraham

Joseph, of Quebec, was president of the Dominion Board of Trade, first

president of the Stadacona Bank, and a director of the St. Lawrence

River Navigation Company and of the Gulf Ports Steamship Company. He was

nominated for mayor of Quebec some years ago and generally claimed to

have been elected. Another brother, J. H. Joseph, has long been director

of the Montreal Elevating Company.

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=Carleton, John Louis=, Barrister, St. John, New Brunswick, was born at

St. John on 1st October, 1861. His father was William Carleton, and

mother, Bridget O’Connor. Mr. Carleton received his education in the

schools of the Christian Brothers in his native city, and studied law in

the offices of Weldon & McLean, and Allen & Chandler, St. John. He was

admitted an attorney in October, 1882, and called to the bar the

following year. Mr. Carleton having made the study of criminal law a

specialty, he has in consequence been engaged on all the principal

criminal cases tried in the province since he began practice, besides

many important civil cases. In November, 1886, he was appointed Official

Referee in Equity by the Provincial government. For several years he has

been an active member and held office in the Father Matthew Association,

and in the Irish Literary and Benevolent Association. He is also a

member of the Young Men’s Liberal Club. Mr. Carleton is a respected

member of the Roman Catholic church, and was married on the 22nd of

September, 1886, to Teresa G. Sharkey, of St. John. He is a rising man

in his profession, and has a promising future before him.

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=Finnie, John Thom=, M.D., L.R.C.S., Edin., Montreal, was born on the

14th September, 1847, at Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. His father,

Robert Finnie, carried on business for many years in Peterhead as tailor

and clothier. Dr. Finnie was educated partly in the parish school of his

native town, and after coming to Canada continued his studies at the

High School and McGill University, Montreal, and graduated from the

latter institution as doctor of medicine early in 1869. He then went

over to Britain and prosecuted the study of his profession in the

hospitals of Edinburgh, London and Paris, and in October, 1869, passed

the necessary examination at the Royal College of Surgeons, of

Edinburgh, and received from that college the degree in surgery and

midwifery. In 1870 he returned to Montreal, and since that time he has

successfully practised his profession. The doctor has for many years

taken an active part in various societies, national and other kinds, and

has on two occasions been elected president of the Montreal Caledonia

Society. He has been for several years and now is the president of the

Montreal Swimming Club. His large and increasing practice has prevented

him from taking any active part in either municipal or provincial

politics; yet he is a man of large and liberal ideas, and we have no

doubt, if time permitted him, he could be of great practical use to any

party with whom he might choose to connect himself. He is an adherent of

the Episcopal church. He was married on the 9th of April, 1874, to

Amelia, daughter of the late Christopher Healy, and has a family of four

children.

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=Alward, Silas=, A.M., D.C.L., M.P.P., Barrister-at-Law, St. John, New

Brunswick, was born at New Canaan, Queens county, N.B., on 14th April,

1841. His father, John Alward, a successful agriculturist, was the son

of Benjamin Alward, a U. E. loyalist, who emigrated with his family from

the state of New Jersey, at the close of the American revolution, and

made his home in Queens county, New Brunswick, and there he died at the

age of ninety years. The mother of Silas Alward was Mary A. Corey, whose

family also settled in New Brunswick, at an early date. Silas received

his education at Acadia College, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, and graduated

B.A. in 1860, standing at the head of his class. The following remarks

may be seen on the records of Acadia College, with regard to Mr. Alward:

“I now come to probably the most brilliant class that ever took

the prescribed course at Acadia, the class of 1860. * * * There

is Silas Alward, one of the most persevering, indefatigable,

attentive students who ever attended college. Of strong physical

frame, with great aptitude for study, a good linguist, an

ambitious young man, it is not improbable that in his daily and

terminal reckoning he stood in his class where the alphabet has

placed him dux.”

In 1871, he received the degree of A.M., from Brown University,

Providence, Rhode Island. After getting through with his college course,

he began the study of law in the office of the Hon. Charles N. Skinner,

Q.C., now Judge of Probate in St. John; was admitted to practice in

1865, and called to the bar in 1866, since which time he has steadily

applied himself to his professional duties, and is now noted for his

high legal attainments, and is without doubt an ornament to the bar of

New Brunswick. He has been on two occasions president of the St. John

Mechanics’ Institute, and is a trustee of the St. John School Board. In

1867, Mr. Alward took a tour through Europe, and spent some time in the

cities of Rome and Naples. He afterwards wrote for a St. John newspaper

some very interesting articles, descriptive of the various places of

note he visited on this occasion. He has since then twice visited the

old world. He is well versed in general literature, and occasionally

takes the platform as a lecturer. Amongst his favourite lectures we may

mention: “Our Western Heritage,” “A Day in the Heart of England,” “The

Permanency of British Civilization,” and “The Great Administration.” In

February, 1887, Dr. Alward was elected by acclamation to the legislature

of New Brunswick, for the city of St. John. In politics, Mr. Alward is a

Liberal, and in religious matters, he belongs to the Baptist

denomination. On October 12th, 1869, he was married to Emilie, daughter

of Peter Wickwire, of Nova Scotia, and sister of Dr. Wickwire, of

Halifax. Mrs. Alward died in 1879, leaving no children.

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=Kellond, Robert Arthur=, Solicitor and Attorney for Inventors, Toronto,

Ontario, was born in Montreal, Quebec province, on 6th November, 1856.

His father belonged to an old Devonshire (England) family, and was the

only son of the name who emigrated to Canada about 1850. His grandfather

had the honour of fighting under Lord Nelson on board the _Victory_ at

the battle of Trafalgar. Robert Arthur received his education at McGill

Normal School, and under private tutors in Montreal, and also in

England. He was also a pupil of the late Charles Legge, C. E., and was

engaged with him in the preliminary surveys and work upon the lines of

railway between Montreal and Ottawa, now known as the Canadian Pacific

Railway and the Canada Atlantic Railway, of which Mr. Legge was chief

engineer. Mr. Kellond studied law while in the office of Charles Legge &

Co., and paid particular attention to the patent soliciting branch of

that firm, and on the death of Mr. Legge, he and his partner, F. H.

Reynolds, succeeded to the business of the firm. Mr. Kellond has now in

successful operation offices in Montreal, Toronto, and Washington, D.C.,

United States, and has representatives in nearly all the capitals of

Europe. By this means he does a large business as a solicitor and

attorney for inventors, and as counsel and expert in patent and trade

mark causes, his _clientèle_ including many of the largest manufacturing

firms and corporations throughout Canada. He served eleven years in the

3rd battalion Victoria Rifles, of Montreal, and retired in 1886 with the

rank of captain. As a Mason he stands high in the order, being past

master of Hochelaga lodge, No. 57, Q.R., Montreal; past grand orator of

Sovereign Sanctuary of Canada and Newfoundland, 33°, 96°, 90°; is a

member of Carnarvon Chapter Royal Arch Masons; Delta Rose Croix Chapter,

and Richard Cœur-de-Lion and Odo de St. Amand perceptories of Knights

Templar; and is a member of the Rosicrucian Society, and Baltimore Unity

of Oddfellows. Politically Mr. Kellond is a Liberal, but since 1878 he

has been a supporter of the National Policy and protection to home

industries. He has declined several public offices on account of

professional duties. In religious matters he is a supporter of the

Episcopal church, but nevertheless is an admirer of many of the methods,

and social efforts of the Methodist and other independent bodies. He has

travelled through most of the southern and western states of the

neighbouring Union, and also in England, having a large number of

clients and professional associates in both countries. He has two

brothers, the eldest of whom was an officer under Lord Wolseley when he

went to Fort Garry, and is now a resident of Kentucky, U.S. The other

brother is a prominent railroad official in Louisville, Kentucky state.

Mr. Kellond was married in 1880 to a daughter of the late Henry Ryan

Hurlburt, barrister, Prescott, Ontario.

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=Maunsell, Lieut.-Col. George J.=, Deputy-Adjutant General district No.

8, New Brunswick, Commandant of Royal School of Infantry, Infantry

School corps, Fredericton, was born at Bally-William House, Rathkeale,

county of Limerick, Ireland, on the 25th of August, 1836. His father was

George Meanes Maunsell, J.P., of Bally-William House, Limerick county,

_vide_ “Burke’s Irish Landed Gentry.” His mother was M. Maunsell,

daughter of Rev. J. Stopford, son of the Bishop of Cloyne and Ross, Cork

county, and was a descendant of the Lord Courtown family, “Burke’s

Peerage.” Lieut.-Col. Maunsell, was educated at home and afterwards

studied for the profession of arms, and passed his final examination at

Sandhurst Royal Military College in May, 1855, and was gazetted ensign

in her Majesty’s fifteenth regiment on the 15th of the same month. He

attended a course of instruction in military engineering (branch of

senior department of the Royal Military College) at Aldershot in 1857,

and was subsequently employed, temporarily, on the staff at Aldershot in

connection with this course of instruction. On November 27th, 1857, he

was gazetted lieutenant in his regiment, and in 1858-9 attended the

course of instruction at the School of Musketry, Hythe, receiving a

certificate of the first class, on January 26th, 1859; and on February

10th following was gazetted as instructor of musketry. He was promoted

to a captaincy of the Fifteenth regiment on March 12th, 1861, and in

1861-2 was acting adjutant and instructor of musketry at the Eighth

Depot Battalion. He sailed for Halifax _en route_ to New Brunswick in

January, 1864, and soon embraced an opportunity that offered to see

active service in the field, for he was with the army of the Potomac

during the whole of the spring campaign of 1865, ending with the capture

of Richmond, and was at that time temporarily attached to General

Grant’s staff. On Nov. 22, 1865, he was gazetted adjutant-general of

militia of New Brunswick, and besides the organizing work was speedily

called upon to more arduous duties, for in 1866 came the Fenian

invasion, and Colonel Maunsell was engaged in the defence of the western

frontier of New Brunswick. In 1868, after confederation, the Militia Act

was passed and under it, on Jan. 1st, 1869, Colonel Maunsell was

gazetted adjutant-general of the military district No. 8, province of

New Brunswick. Between 1871 and 1880 he commanded tactical brigade corps

at Fredericton, Woodstock, and Chatham, and attended course of studies

at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich (certificate granted). On the 1st April,

1881, Colonel Maunsell was transferred from the command of military

district No. 8 to No. 4, with headquarters at Ottawa, and commanded the

brigade camps at Ottawa and Brockville, and the School of Instruction

(infantry) at Ottawa. On the 21st July, 1883, the Colonel sailed for

England, to be attached to her Majesty’s forces at Aldershot for

instructional purposes, and while in Europe he visited various towns in

Belgium, Germany and France, and also examined several of the battle

fields connected with the Franco-German war, in search of information.

He returned to Canada in November of the same year, and on 31st December

was gazetted commandant of the School of Infantry, Infantry School

corps. On the 16th May, 1884, he was re-appointed deputy adjutant

general district No. 8, New Brunswick, holding at the same time command

of the school and corps which he had successfully organized. In May,

1885, Colonel Maunsell formed a temporary battalion, composed of the

School corps and companies (6) active militia of New Brunswick, and (2)

of Prince Edward Island for immediate active service in the North-West

Territory, and proceeded with this battalion _en route_ to the

North-West, but on the 18th of that month was ordered into camp at

Sussex, to await further orders. On the 25th May he received the thanks

of the authorities, and the different companies were sent to their local

headquarters, their services not being further required. In addition to

the above Colonel Maunsell served with the fifteenth regiment in several

Mediterranean stations, when his regiment was sent to reinforce troops

during the Crimean war; and in the years 1855-6 he travelled on foot and

on horseback throughout Spain. He has been from youth up an adherent of

the Episcopal church. On the 9th August, 1862, Colonel Maunsell married

Miss Moony, elder daughter of the late F. E. Moony, J.P., D.L., of “The

Doon,” King’s county, Ireland, and has a family of seven children, four

sons and three daughters. His eldest son is captain in the 8th regiment

P.L. cavalry, New Brunswick, and his eldest daughter is married to J. W.

de Courcy O’Grady, of the Bank of Montreal, Ottawa.

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=Baxter, Robert Gordon=, M.D., Moncton, New Brunswick, was born on 28th

April, 1847, at Truro, Nova Scotia. His father was John Irving Baxter,

born in Annan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, in 1803; educated in Pictou,

Nova Scotia, and for years was the Presbyterian minister at Onslow, N.S.

His mother, Jessie Gordon, was a daughter of the Rev. Mr. Gordon, of

Prince Edward Island, whose mother afterwards married the Rev. Dr.

McGregor, Presbyterian minister of Pictou, N.S. Dr. Baxter received his

early education in Truro, and pursued his medical studies in New York

and Philadelphia, and in London, England. In 1868 he began the practice

of his profession in Philadelphia, and in the following year removed to

Tatamagouche, N.S., and in the summer of 1870 to Moncton, where he has

resided since. He has held a lieutenant’s command in the third regiment

Colchester County Militia since June 21st, 1865; and was the first

chairman of the Board of Health of Moncton. He takes a great interest in

public enterprises, especially in agriculture, and was the first to

introduce into New Brunswick and bring to public notice the system of

ensilage, now so popular in Great Britain, and of so much advantage to

stock raisers. He has travelled over the greater part of Canada and the

United States, and has visited England, Scotland and several of the

continental cities. The doctor is in religion a Presbyterian. On the

29th January, 1872, he was married to Jean McAlister, of Moncton, and

has two children, a son and a daughter.

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=Branchaud, Moise=, Q.C., Beauharnois, Quebec province, was born at

Beauharnois, on the 6th March, 1827. His father, Jean Baptiste

Branchaud, _bourgeois_, of Beauharnois, and his mother, Louise Primeau,

were both descendants of two of the earliest colonists of the Seigniory

of Beauharnois. His father died in 1883, at the advanced age of

eighty-three, enjoying the esteem and respect of his fellow citizens.

Mr. Branchaud was sent, at an early age, to the College of Sainte

Thérèse de Blainville, where he made a brilliant course of classical

studies. On leaving college he entered the office of the Hon. Lewis T.

Drummond, to study law, and he was admitted to the bar on the 27th

February, 1849. Immediately after his admission he took up his residence

in Beauharnois, where he has practised his profession to this day. At

that time there was only a circuit court sitting in the district of

Beauharnois, with a jurisdiction of $80.00; this was increased, in 1851,

to the sum of $200.00. In consequence of this limited jurisdiction, his

professional advancement was but slow. However, when the “Act relative

to the division of Lower Canada into districts for the administration of

justice” came into force, there was a decided change. By virtue of said

act, a Superior Court was established in the district of Beauharnois,

with an unlimited jurisdiction in all civil and commercial cases; as

well as a criminal court and a circuit court. His practice then took

such an extension that, after a few years of assiduous toil, he

possessed a competency which enabled him to look tranquilly to the

future of his young family. His zeal and honesty in the exercise of his

profession was never challenged, either by his numerous clients or his

_confrères_. In 1858 he formed a partnership with Sir John Rose, for the

administration of the legal business of the seigniory of Beauharnois,

which was then very important and extensive. This partnership existed

until the departure of Sir John for London, England. The following

letter, written by Sir John before his departure, shows the high esteem

in which the baronet held his young partner:

“MONTREAL, 30th September, 1869.

“MY DEAR BRANCHAUD,—A thousand thanks for your kind note, the

contents of which affect me very deeply. Every recollection

associated with our intercourse is, I can assure you, of the

most pleasant character, and I look with great regret at having

to say good-bye to so many attached friends. I would have been

deeply gratified to have seen you at the dinner, but the

expression of your kind wishes will long be remembered by me.

That every good thing may attend you is the earnest wish of your

sincere friend—=John Rose=.”

This affectionate letter, coming from such an eminent man as Sir John

Rose, who attained such a high position among the most eminent men in

England, is preciously preserved by Mr. Branchaud, and the feelings of

friendship and esteem he always held towards the baronet are still warm

in his heart. During his sojourn in Beauharnois, in the summer of 1858,

the Right Honourable Edward Ellice, then proprietor of the seigniory of

Beauharnois, showed special marks of honour to Mr. Branchaud. He was

invited to all the dinners which he gave, whether to the principal

citizens of the place, or to his distinguished visitors from England. On

one of these occasions he met Lord Frederick Cavendish, the victim of

the Phœnix Park murder, Dublin, and Lord Grosvenor, now Duke of

Westminster. They were both very young then, and were going on a hunting

expedition to the western prairies. On returning home Mr. Ellice tried

to induce him to accompany him, and made him very flattering promises,

but the extended practice Mr. Branchaud had acquired did not permit him

to accept such an agreeable invitation. He regrets having declined now,

for he will never have an opportunity, if he should take a trip to

Europe, of forming acquaintances which the high position of Mr. Ellice

could have facilitated. He nevertheless keeps a grateful remembrance of

the old gentleman, who had so much regard for him. In 1859 Mr. Branchaud

married Marie Elizabeth Henrietta Mondelet, a daughter of the Hon. Judge

Charles Mondelet, of the city of Montreal, one of the judges of the

Superior Court for Lower Canada, and of Dame Maria Elizabeth Henrietta

Carter, a daughter of the late Dr. Carter, of Three Rivers. Madame

Mondelet was the niece of Captain Brock, a nephew and _aide-de-camp_ to

General Brock, and of Dr. Johnston, in his lifetime inspector general of

military hospitals in the Ionian Islands; and a first cousin of the late

Judge Short, of Sherbrooke. Mr. and Madame Mondelet died many years ago.

The Hon. Dominique, Mondelet, a judge at Three Rivers, was the elder

brother of Mr. Branchaud’s father-in-law. They were the sons of

Dominique Mondelet, a member of the old Legislative Assembly of Lower

Canada, and also a member of the Executive Council under the

administration of Lord Aylmer. In politics M. Branchaud was an advanced

liberal in his youth, but his opinions have greatly changed during the

last few years. Experience and age always exert a soothing influence on

the ideas and sentiments of the generality of men, and Mr. Branchaud did

not form an exception to the rule. He would not be so willing, to-day,

to endorse the political and social principles formulated in the

programme of _L’ Avenir_, and which were so enthusiastically adopted by

the young men who founded that paper. However, Mr. Branchaud thinks one

may be liberal without sharing the opinions of the nineteenth century

philosophers, and without believing in the omnipotence of universal

suffrage to save society—such safety being more certain in the hands of

the few than in those of the greater number of its members. The

democratic ideas carried to extreme limits will cause the fall of modern

empires, as they have produced the fall of the older ones, and what is

happening to-day in Europe is only their natural consequences. The

actual opinions of Mr. Branchaud do not find favour with either party.

His independence of character and his well-known frankness are obstacles

which would prevent his success in politics. So for many years he has

not engaged actively in them. However, he does not conceal his opinions

when called upon to express them. Thus he desires the continuation of

Sir John A. Macdonald’s administration because he thinks the national

policy would run great dangers in the hands of Mr. Blake, and the

Canadian Pacific Railway Company would find very little sympathy with

him, in case of necessity. This company, being still in its infancy, may

yet want the support of the government, and Mr. Branchaud thinks it

would be to the interest of the country to grant such help. It is hardly

to be expected that a man who has tried to arrest its progress in each

phase of its existence would be kindly disposed towards it at a given

moment. At all times he has repudiated the Rielite movement in Lower

Canada, as tending to arouse prejudices and race hatreds, and to retard

the progress of the country, and the conduct of the government in

letting the law take its course, has had his entire approbation, as the

only practical way of restoring peace and harmony, which would have been

threatened as long as Riel would have lived. In conclusion we may state

that Mr. Branchaud has been the promoter of the Beauharnois Junction

Railway Company. The road is intended to run from Ste. Martine to

Dundee, where it will connect with the American system. The building of

this railway will place Beauharnois—undoubtedly a town of future

importance, on account of the beauty of her site on the St. Lawrence,

and the extent of her water powers—in the first rank among the

important cities of the Dominion. Mr. Branchaud has worked for several

months to organize the company, and he is confident that his efforts

will soon be crowned with success. He was ever ambitious to see his

native place prosperous, and in the evening of his life he is happy in

the hope that the earnest wish of his heart will soon be gratified. The

Hon. James Ferrie is president of the new company, and Mr. Branchaud

vice-president.

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=Irving, James Douglas=, Major, and Brigade-Major of Military District

No. 12, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, was born at Charlottetown,

on the 12th February, 1844. His father, Robert Blake Irving, was born in

Annan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, and emigrated to Prince Edward Island

about the year 1832. Here he engaged in the profession of teaching, and

in addition took an active interest in politics on the Liberal side

until the confederation of the provinces, when party lines having been

broken, he became a supporter of the Liberal-Conservative party. He was

of a literary turn of mind, and contributed largely to the columns of

the _Examiner_ newspaper when it was under the editorial management of

the late Hon. Edward Whelan, writing strongly in support of responsible

government, free schools, the settlement of the land question by the

government purchasing from the proprietors and reselling to tenants, and

for confederation. He married in 1843 Joanna Charlotte, a daughter of

Thomas Rhodes Hazzard, a U. E. loyalist, who came to Prince Edward

Island from Providence, Rhode Island, with his father and family at the

conclusion of the war with the revolted colonists. Major Irving received

his education in his native parish in the private school taught by his

father. On the 26th of March, 1867, he was appointed a lieutenant in the

Active Militia of P. E. Island, and was shortly afterwards promoted to a

captaincy. After confederation he was given a commission in the Canadian

Artillery Militia, and subsequently commanded the P. E. Island

provisional brigade of Garrison Artillery. On the 1st of April, 1885, he

was appointed brigade-major of Military District No. 12, and this

position he at present holds. He was deputy-prothonotary of the Supreme

Court of P. E. Island from 1st March, 1871, to 1st April, 1885;

registrar of the Court of Chancery, and also that of the Vice-Admiralty

Court from 28th March, 1876, to 1st April, 1885; and Clerk of the Crown

for P. E. Island from 1st August, 1883, to 1st April, 1885. For many

years Major Irving has been an active member of the Caledonian Society,

and in general takes a deep interest in all that appertains to his

native island.

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=Creed, Herbert Clifford=, Fredericton, was born at Halifax, Nova

Scotia, September 23rd, 1843. His father, George John Creed, of

Faversham, Kent, England, was clerk in the Royal Engineer department

(with rank of lieutenant), at Halifax, N.S., for thirty-five years. He

was the eldest son of Richard Creed, who also was in Her Majesty’s

service, as clerk of works, R. E. D., with the rank of captain. Both

father and son were, at the time of their decease, retired from active

service upon ample pensions. Richard Creed’s youngest daughter was the

wife of the late Hon. Jonathan McCully, senator of Canada, and

afterwards judge of the Supreme Court. The mother of the subject of this

sketch was Susan, eldest daughter of John A. Wellner, of Halifax, N.S.,

a manufacturer and at one time owner of extensive property in that city

and in the county of Hants. He was of a family that came out from

England among the original settlers of Halifax, with Governor

Cornwallis. Herbert Clifford Creed received his academic education

chiefly in the High School connected with Dalhousie College, Halifax. He

matriculated in the earliest class of undergraduates in Dalhousie

College in 1857, studying till 1860, the college proper having in the

meantime been discontinued. In 1861 he entered Acadia College,

Wolfville, N.S., and took the regular four years’ course there under the

presidency of the late Rev. J. M. Cramp, D.D. He graduated in 1865 with

honours in classics, having also held the highest place in his class

throughout the whole course. From August, 1860, to June, 1864, Mr. Creed

was teacher of French at the Collegiate Academy and Ladies’ Seminary at

Wolfville, N.S.; from the autumn of 1865 till the spring of 1869, he

filled the position of head master of the County Academy at Sydney, C.

B.; and from 1869 till June, 1872, was principal of the Seminary at

Yarmouth, N.S. In 1869 the degree of A.M. was conferred upon him. In the

following autumn he accepted the principalship of the English High

School, Fredericton, N.B., but resigned it at the close of 1873, in

order to take a position offered him in the Provincial Normal School of

New Brunswick, and here he has continued, with various changes of work,

down to the present time. His position now is officially designated as

“Mathematical and Science Master, and Instructor in Industrial Drawing,”

the term “Professor” not being applied to the instructors or teachers in

this Normal school. Mr. Creed was elected a member of the Board of

Governors of Acadia College in 1883; a senator of Acadia College in

1882, and secretary of the Senate in 1883; all of which offices he now

holds. In 1871 he was made one of the examiners of the college, and

filled the position for several years. He is secretary of the

Educational Institute of New Brunswick, having been re-elected every

year from its organization in 1877; vice-president of the Baptist

Convention of the Maritime provinces for the current year; a director of

the Baptist Annuity Association of New Brunswick and of the Maritime

Baptist Publishing Co. He was at one time president of the Associated

Alumni of Acadia College; president of the Fredericton Young Men’s

Christian Association, and for eight years secretary of the Fredericton

Auxiliary Bible Society. Mr. Creed has been connected with the following

among other Temperance societies:—The Sons of Temperance since 1857,

and is a P.W.P.; the Temple of Honour and Temperance from 1871 to 1875,

and is a P.W.C.T. and past deputy G.W.C.T.; the Temperance Reform Club;

the New Brunswick Branch of the Dominion Prohibitory Alliance. He has

also been connected with the Masonic order, in which he is a past

master; the Independent Order of Oddfellows as a P. G. and a P.D.D.G.M.,

Independent Order of Foresters, and is at present H.C.R. (presiding

officer) of the High Court of New Brunswick; and is a past commander in

the American Legion of Honour. Mr. Creed has written largely for the

press, for the most part anonymously, on educational topics; on the

temperance question; on matters of Christian doctrine and practice, etc;

and has also prepared a variety of matter for school texts and other

books. On November 4th, 1867, he was married to Jessie S., third

daughter of John F. Marsters, of St. John, N.B., customs broker and

forwarding agent, and has a family of four children, three sons and a

daughter. Mr. Creed has been a member of the Baptist church since he

attained his seventeenth year.

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=Harrison, Thomas=, LL.D., President of the University of New Brunswick,

Fredericton, was born at Sheffield, New Brunswick, on the 24th October,

1839. He is son of Thomas Harrison, by his wife Elizabeth Coburn, and

grandson of James Harrison, of the county of Antrim, Ireland, who

emigrated to South Carolina in 1767. During the Revolutionary war

Lieutenant James Harrison, with his elder brother, Captain Charles

Harrison, fought under Sir Henry Clinton, on the British side, and in

1783 these gentlemen came among the loyalists to New Brunswick. Charles

Harrison was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the militia of the county

of Sunbury, by Governor Thomas Carleton, in 1784, and the two brothers

settled at Sheffield, Sunbury county. James Harrison married Charity

Cowperthwaite, of a Quaker family from Philadelphia, and in 1806 died,

leaving five sons and four daughters. Their descendants are numerous,

and are mostly settled in New Brunswick. Thomas Harrison, the subject of

our sketch, was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, under the tutorship

of Dr. Salmon, F.R.S., whose works have for many years been the standard

treatises for advanced students in some of the highest branches of

modern mathematical science. He was a first honour man in mathematics,

and was elected a mathematical scholar in Trinity College in 1863. He

also attended law lectures, and took the degrees of B.A. and LL.B. in

the University of Dublin in 1864, and afterwards the degrees of M.A. and

LL.D. in the same university. In June, 1870, he was appointed professor

of the English language and literature and of mental and moral

philosophy in the University of New Brunswick. In 1874 he was made, by

the Dominion government, superintendent of the meteorological chief

station at Fredericton, and in August, 1885, president of the University

of New Brunswick, and professor of Mathematics by the Provincial

government. Mr. Harrison is a member of the Episcopal church. He

married, in 1865, Susan Lois Taylor, daughter of the late John S.

Taylor, of Sheffield, N.B., and niece of Sir Leonard Tilley, K.C.M.G.,

lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick. The fruit of this marriage is two

sons and a daughter. The eldest son, John Darley Harrison, is a member

of the graduating class of 1887 in the University of New Brunswick.

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=Blanchet, Hon. Joseph Goderic=, Collector of Customs, Quebec, is a

descendant of one of the first families that came from France to Canada,

and is a son of Louis Blanchet, of St. Pierre, Rivière du Sud, and

Marguerite Fontaine, whose family came from Picardy, in France. Joseph

G. Blanchet, the subject of our sketch, was born at St. Pierre, on the

7th June, 1829, and received his education in the arts at the Quebec

Seminary and at the Ste. Anne College. He afterwards studied medicine

with his uncle, Jean Baptiste Blanchet, M.D., and for many years

practised his profession at Levis, during which time he stood high among

his _confrères_ of the medical fraternity. Dr. Blanchet, jr., took an

active interest in the militia of his native province, and in 1863 he

raised the 17th battalion of Volunteer Militia Infantry, which he

commanded, holding the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He had command of the

3rd administrative battalion on the frontier during the St. Albans raid

in 1865, and the active militia force on the south shore of the St.

Lawrence river, in the Quebec district, during the Fenian raid of the

next year, and also in 1871. Dr. Blanchet, during his residence in

Levis, occupied many prominent positions. For six years he was its

mayor. In 1870 he was elected president of the _Cercle de Québec_; in

1872 president of the Levis and Kennebec Railway; and in 1873 he was

appointed a member of the Catholic section of the Council of Public

Instruction for the province of Quebec. Though a busy man, Dr. Blanchet

did not neglect the interests of his country. He took an active part in

politics, and as early as 1857 he presented himself as a candidate for

Levis in the Legislative Assembly of Canada; but, although he made a

good run, in the end he was unsuccessful in securing his election. Four

years later he again presented himself as a candidate in the same

constituency and succeeded, and sat from 1861 until confederation in

1867, when he was returned by acclamation to the House of Commons. There

he continued to sit until 1874, being meantime speaker of the House of

Assembly of the province of Quebec, from the meeting of the first

parliament after confederation, until the dissolution of the second

parliament in 1875. The year before this latter date, in consequence of

the passing of the law respecting dual representation, he resigned his

seat in the House of Commons in order to continue to hold one in the

provincial assembly, which he did, as representative for Levis, until

the general elections in 1875, when he was defeated. In November of that

year, a vacancy having occurred in the representation for Bellechasse,

in consequence of the elevation of the sitting member, Mr. Fournier, who

had been made a justice of the Supreme Court of the Dominion, he

presented himself for election, and was secured this seat; and in

September, 1878, he was once more returned for Levis. At the general

election held in 1882 he was again returned by his old constituency, but

only held the seat for about a year, when he resigned to accept the

collectorship of the port of Quebec, and this office he still holds.

When the Hon. Mr. Blanchet was speaker of the Quebec House of Assembly,

he showed fine talents in that capacity, and made an admirable presiding

officer, and some time before the fourth parliament had met, his name

was again mentioned in connection with the speakership, he being a

Conservative and his party once more in power. On the meeting of the

House of Commons in February, 1879, he was unanimously elected speaker

of that august body, and the choice proved a wise one, for he soon

showed himself an adept in parliamentary rules and tactics, was prompt

and impartial, and on his retirement from office carried with him the

good will and respect of both sides of the House. In August, 1850, Hon.

Mr. Blanchet was married to Emilie, daughter of G. D. Balzaretti, of

Milan, Italy, and the fruit of this marriage has been six children, four

of whom are dead, three having died in infancy.

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=Harris, Michael Spurr.=—The late Michael Spurr Harris, of Moncton, New

Brunswick, who was born at Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, September 22nd,

1804, and married, May 11th, 1826, Sarah Ann Troop, of Granville,

Annapolis county, N.S., was descended from a long line of ancestors. One

of these, Arthur Harris, came from England, and was among the earliest

settlers in Duxbury, Plymouth county, Massachusetts. In 1640 he moved to

Bridgewater, Mass., and a few years afterwards, about 1656, he took up

his residence in Boston, where he died on the 10th June, 1674, leaving a

widow and five children. Samuel Harris, a direct descendant of Arthur

Harris, married, in 1757, Sarah Cook, in Boston, from whence, about

1763, they emigrated to Nova Scotia, and settled in Annapolis county at

a place called Mount Pleasant, near Bridgewater, and here Samuel Harris

died in 1801, leaving several children, among others the father of the

subject of our sketch, Christopher Prince Harris, who died in Annapolis

county, near Digby, 30th January, 1853, and his widow at the same place

in 1862. Sarah Cook, wife of Samuel Harris, was a grandchild of Francis

Cook, who came with the first Pilgrims from Plymouth, England, to

Plymouth, America, in 1620. Six years afterwards her grandfather, on her

mother’s side, came out to the Plymouth settlement, and he it was who,

in 1676, captured the celebrated Indian chief “Annawan.” Michael Spurr

Harris received his early education in the parish schools of Nova

Scotia, and passed his boyhood at his father’s home in Digby county,

N.S. When quite young he went to St. John, N.B., and entered the employ

of Mr. Peterson, a carriage-builder, where, after serving his

apprenticeship, he began business; and in 1826 married Sarah Ann Troop,

and settled in St. John, continuing his trade of carriage-making. A few

years later moving to Norton, Kings county, N.B., he extended his

business, and remained there until the fall of 1836, when he moved with

his family to Moncton, N.B., then called the Bend of Petitcodiac. Here

he became largely interested in the lumber trade and shipping, building

and owning vessels and sawmills. He was one of the earliest prominent

business men, and foremost in promoting the social, commercial, and

industrial welfare of Moncton. Comparatively self-educated, his manner

of life did not throw him in conflict with others in political

questions; but he held liberal and advanced views on the leading

questions of his day, and supported the policy of provincial responsible

government, the union of the provinces, and the encouragement of

manufactures. He was a magistrate, and held a justice’s court for many

years. From about 1840 to 1862 he was very actively engaged in

shipbuilding and the shipment of lumber to England, which at that time

were the leading industries of the province. His business called him

frequently to Great Britain, and he was known among shipping men in

Liverpool as a man of strict business integrity. The town of Moncton

elected him its mayor in 1859, a position which he filled with much

ability. Possessed of strong natural powers, a fine physique, a kindly

and courteous manner, and a strong belief in the orthodox Christian

faith, he lived a useful and exemplary life, and died at his home in

Moncton, January 26th, 1866, of paralysis, a malady which had for some

years previous deprived him of the active use of his limbs. His remains

are in the family lot at Moncton cemetery.

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=Bell, Andrew Wilson=, Carleton Place, Ontario, was born in the town of

Perth, county of Lanark, Ontario, on the 14th February, 1835. His

grandfather, the Rev. William Bell, who came from Scotland in 1817, and

was the first Presbyterian minister in Perth, died in 1857. His father,

John Bell, carried on business in the same town as a merchant from 1828

until 1849, when he died. A. W. Bell received his education in the old

district grammar school in Perth, and after leaving school began a busy

and useful career. In March, 1885, he commenced business at Douglas,

Renfrew county, with Charles Coulter, under the name of Bell, Coulter &

Co., general merchants, and next year having admitted into the

partnership Thomas Coulter, of Clayton, Lanark, they traded in the

villages of Douglas and Eganville under the name of Bell & Coulter, and

in Clayton as Coulter & Bell. The partnership was dissolved in the

spring of 1858, each partner taking the branch he then had in charge.

Mr. Bell was then a resident of Eganville, and in the spring of 1859 he

sold out his stock to the Coulters, and removed to Carleton Place for a

few months. In the fall of the same year he again began business in

Douglas, and in 1862 entered into partnership with Donald Cameron. The

new firm did a large local mercantile trade, and sent several rafts of

square timber to the Quebec market in 1863-4. This partnership was

dissolved in 1864. Mr. Bell, in the years 1858, 1865 and 1866, carried

on saw-mills at Eganville and Douglas; and in 1864 and 1865, having

joined William Halpenny, in Renfrew, under the name of A. W. Bell & Co.,

they carried on a general mercantile business. In 1867 Mr. Bell removed

from Douglas to Newboro’, Leeds county, and where he bought out the

business belonging to John Draffin. In this place he remained until

April, 1872, and then took up his abode at Carleton Place. Here he

prosecuted his mercantile business until 1875, and then, selling it out

to a partner he had admitted in 1873, he retired into private life. In

addition to his other business enterprises, Mr. Bell has dealt

considerably in real estate in the counties of Lanark and Renfrew, and

has bought and sold many thousand acres of farm lands, and built several

shops and dwellings in Carleton Place, which he still owns. In 1856 he

was appointed postmaster in Eganville, Renfrew county, which position he

held until 1859, when he resigned; again, in 1862, he was appointed

postmaster of Douglas, in the same county, and resigned in 1867. In

March, 1862, he was made clerk of the Seventh Division Court for Lanark

and Renfrew, but when these counties were separated in October, 1866, he

gave up the position. In 1862 he was made a notary public, and also

commissioner for taking affidavits and an issuer of marriage licenses.

In 1863 the Government conferred upon him the commission of a justice of

the peace. In 1873 the Board of Trade of Ottawa appointed him official

assignee for the county of Lanark, and in 1875 the Government appointed

him to the same office, and this office he held until the repeal of the

Insolvency Act. Mr. Bell also acted in the capacity of creditors’

assignee in the counties of Lanark, Renfrew and Pontiac, and was

arbitrator for the Canada Central Railway at Renfrew and at Pembroke,

and purchased part of the right of way for the railway company. Mr. Bell

was the originator of the Winnipeg and Hudson Bay Railway and Steamship

Company,—his name being first in the charter as passed by

parliament,—and he also had a hand in procuring two other North-West

charters. Mr. Bell is a member of the Masonic fraternity, having joined

in June, 1859. He held a commission as lieutenant, and afterwards

captain, in the militia, dating from July, 1856. Though brought up as a

Presbyterian, Mr. Bell now attends the Episcopal church, his wife being

a member of that communion. He married, 27th July, 1857, Jane Andersen,

daughter of the late James Gibb, merchant, of Glasgow, Scotland. Mrs.

Bell died on 2nd June, 1886.

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=McIntyre, Right Rev. Peter=, D.D., Bishop of Charlottetown, was born at

Cable Head, in the parish of St. Peter, Lot 41, Kings county, Prince

Edward Island, on the feast of SS. Peter and Paul, June 29th, 1818. His

parents, Angus McIntyre and Sarah McKinnon, Scotch Highland Catholics,

emigrated from Southwest Inverness-shire to Prince Edward Island,

towards the close of the last century. Providence blessed their industry

and integrity; and they were enabled not only to have “full and plenty”

for a large family of sons and daughters, but also to extend the sacred

rites of hospitality to all who came in the way. Mr. McIntyre’s house at

Cable Head was one of the principal stations of the late Bishop

McEachern in that part of the country—before there was a church at St.

Peter’s—and his children were naturally enough brought to the notice of

the pious and discerning bishop. The bishop, it is needless to say,

entertained a very high regard for Angus McIntyre and his family, and

his lordship insisted that the youngest son, little Peter, should be

sent to college to be educated for the church. Mr. McIntyre was well

aware that the proposed undertaking would be exceedingly heavy, at a

time when schools were few and means were not easily obtained. But out

of respect for the wishes of his bishop, he generously acted upon the

suggestion, and his son Peter was accordingly among the first students

at the opening of old St. Andrew’s College. After the death of the good

Bishop McEachern, in 1835, young McIntyre expressed a strong desire to

be sent to Canada to pursue his studies. This wish was complied with by

his kind father, who placed him in the college of St. Hyacinthe, where

he remained for five years, entering the Grand Seminary of Quebec in

1840. After a three years’ course at the Grand Seminary he was, on the

26th of February, 1843, ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Signay in

the Cathedral of Quebec, and returned to his native diocese the same

year. We have been told by an old friend of the family that when young

McIntyre first went to college, his father had accumulated quite a large

sum in Spanish dollars, and so was enabled to promptly make generous

remittances to his son and pay the college bills on presentation. The

same good friend also tells us that by the time young “Father McIntyre”

returned from Quebec the Spanish dollars were pretty low, but not

exhausted. May it not be that the generous manner in which his venerable

father furnished him with ample funds until he was able to provide for

himself, materially helped to form and develop those generous,

hospitable and princely traits of character which we all admire in

Bishop McIntyre. The first missionary duties of Father McIntyre were

performed as assistant to Father Perry. After a short time, however, he

was appointed to the charge of Tignish, Lot 7, the Brae and Cascumpec,

with his principal residence at Tignish. There he lived and laboured for

seventeen years; and it was there that he first gave evidence of his

talent for building. The Acadian French, who form the largest proportion

of the Catholic congregation at Tignish, were, at that time, neither

rich in this world’s goods nor counted enterprising. Yet to them belongs

the very great credit of building, under the direction of Father

McIntyre, the first brick church—if we mistake not, the first public

building of brick—ever erected in this province—a church which, at

this day, is one of the finest on the island. Inspired by their

enthusiastic priest, the poor French people made the bricks, hauled them

to the site, laid the foundation, and built the church. They had little

money, but much zeal; and they were led by a man of rare administrative

ability. To the church at Tignish was added a handsome parochial house

and a fine convent, both of brick. A church and parochial house were

also about the same time built at Brae. The talents and zeal of Father

McIntyre were soon recognized by a church which—whatever her faults—is

not slow to see and reward true merit. On the death of Bishop Macdonald,

he was appointed to preside over the Roman Catholic diocese of

Charlottetown, comprising Prince Edward Island and the Magdalen Islands;

and on the 15th of August, 1860, he was solemnly consecrated Bishop of

Charlottetown. The ceremony was performed by the late Archbishop

Connolly, of Halifax, assisted by the late Bishop McKinnon and Bishop

Sweeney—the late Bishop Mullock, of St. John’s, Newfoundland, and

Bishop Dalton, of Harbour Grace, being also present. Under the

administration of Bishop McIntyre great attention has been given to the

education of the youth of the Catholic people and to the erection of

buildings in which to carry on the work of the church; and the bishop’s

talent for building has found scope. The first work of consequence which

he undertook was the rebuilding of St. Dunstan’s College. The Catholic

population of the island at the time of Bishop McIntyre’s consecration

was 35,500. There were only thirteen priests to minister to their

spiritual wants. The Catholic population is now about 55,000, and there

are thirty-seven priests with well organized missions. The new parishes

established by Bishop McIntyre are Cardigan Bridge, Montague Bridge,

Cardigan Road, Morrell, South Shore, Hope River, Lot 7, Lot 11, Brae,

Palmer Road, Little Pond, Bloomfield, Alberton, Summerside, in Prince

Edward Island, and Bassin in the Magdalen Islands, which form part of

the diocese. Besides the splendid episcopal residence in Charlottetown,

which was much required for the diocese, he has built St. Patrick’s

School (one of the finest buildings in the city); St. Teresa’s Church,

Cardigan Road; St. Francis’, Little Pond; St. Mary’s, Montague Bridge;

St. Andrew’s, St. Peter’s; St. Lawrence’s, Morell; St. Michael’s, Corran

Ban Bridge; St. Patrick’s, Fort Augustus; St. Joachim’s, Vernon River;

St. Lawrence, South Shore (the first stone church built on the island);

St. Anne’s, Hope River; St. Charles, Summerside; St. Mark’s, Lot 7; St.

Mary’s, Brae; St. Bridget’s, Lot 11; St. Anthony’s, Bloomfield; SS.

Simon and Jude, Tignish; St. Thomas’, Palmer Road; Sacred Heart,

Alberton; and in the Magdalen Islands, Notre Dame de la Visitation,

Amherst; Etang du Nord, St. Pierre; Bassin, St. François Xavier. This is

work enough, one would say, for one prelate and an indefatigable staff

of clergymen for one generation; but besides these churches, many of

them splendid specimens of architecture, there have been eight

conventual establishments erected and founded within the last

twenty-five years in various parts of the province, which educate

annually thousands of pupils. The chief part of the labour of the

churches was done by the zealous people in several of the parishes. In

1877 Bishop McIntyre organized the Central Council of the Catholic Total

Abstinence Union, with affiliated societies in every parish of the

diocese. He has accomplished a great work in the suppression of

intemperance in many parts of the island. In 1878 he founded the City

Hospital, which has already done a vast amount of good, and has

stimulated others to found another hospital for the sick. His lordship

has visited Rome four times since his consecration, and on one occasion

extended his journey to the Holy Land. He took part in the Œcumenical

Council of 1870, where it was generally conceded that no more imposing

figure was seen in the grand procession of churchmen, than that of the

venerable and stately Bishop of Charlottetown. In person his lordship is

above the medium height, his carriage is stately and his step elastic.

His activity is remarkable; few young persons could endure the amount of

travelling and fatigue which is constantly undergone by Bishop McIntyre,

upon whom it has no ill effect whatever. His voice, which is low and

sweet, is so clear that he is easily heard even at a great distance. His

prepossessing appearance and courtly manner, no less than his genuine

kindness of heart, have made him hosts of friends. He is highly esteemed

by Protestants throughout the province, from whom his blameless life and

fearless advocacy of what he deems to be right command respect. The

bishop takes a great interest in education, and is invariably present,

when his duties allow him, at the examinations in his Catholic schools.

It is to his lordship’s unflagging energy and zeal that St. Dunstan’s

College owes its present hopeful position. Besides providing for their

secular instruction, the bishop has always been much interested in the

spiritual welfare of the little ones of his flock; it is his delight to

preach at the children’s mass on Sundays, when the large congregation of

young folk listen to his clear and practical instructions with profit

and pleasure. He is a clear, forcible speaker, impressive if not

eloquent, with a perfect command of good Anglo-Saxon. Though a zealous

prelate, he has never been known to give utterance to any intolerant

expression against those differing from him in religious matters. He has

been to Charlottetown, and the island generally, a public benefactor.

Though drawing close to the seventies, his eye is bright, his lip is

firm, and his face fresh. He has a fine constitution, rises between four

and five a. m., and has a day’s work done before most Charlottetown

folks are out of bed. He has many years of usefulness ahead of him, and

hopes not to complete his labours until he shall have built a

magnificent cathedral in the metropolis of his province. That such a

great worker deserves and receives the gratitude of his own people might

be expected, that he should and does command the admiration of all

classes is only reasonable; and that he enjoys the esteem of his peers

is witnessed by the number of bishops and archbishops who did him honour

on the occasion of his silver jubilee, which was celebrated in

Charlottetown, on the 12th of August, 1885, amid the congratulations and

good wishes of all classes, creeds and nationalities in the community.

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=Fitzgerald, Rev. David=, D.D., Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

This reverend and highly respected divine was born at Tralee, in the

county of Kerry, Ireland, on the 3rd of December, 1813. He is the eldest

surviving son of William Fitzgerald, barrister-at-law of Adrivale,

county of Kerry, who married Anne, sole daughter and heiress of the Rev.

Robert Minnitt, of Blackfort, county of Tipperary, and rector of Tulla,

county of Clare, whose ancestor, Captain John Minnitt, came to the

country in the reign of Charles II. One of Mr. Fitzgerald’s ancestors

was a captain in King James’ army. This gentleman lived during the reign

of six English monarchs, and died at the advanced age of 116 years. Rev.

Mr. Fitzgerald was educated at schools in Clonmel and Limerick, and

obtained his A.B. degree and divinity testimonium at Trinity College,

Dublin. In February, 1843, he married Cherry Christina, second daughter

of Rowan Purdon, M.D., a physician of established reputation and

extensive practice in Kerry, his native county. His brother, Richard,

was a fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, and his son, George, was a

scholar in the same university. In June, 1845, after a creditable

examination by Rev. I. T. Russel, archdeacon of Clogher, he was ordained

deacon at Tuam by Lord Plunket, bishop of the diocese, and in 1846 was

ordained priest by Lord Riversdale, bishop of Killaloe, on letters

dimissory from the bishop of Clogher. He began his ministry as curate to

Rev. Geo. Sidney Smith, D.D., ex-fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, at

Cooltrain, county of Fermanagh. He then had charge of the district

church, at Maguire’s Bridge, in the same county, where as secretary to

the Poor Relief Committee of that place, he established a soup kitchen

for its famine-stricken inhabitants, and was the means by obtaining

subscriptions from absentee landlords and other benevolently disposed

persons, with a ton of rice from the Quakers, of providing daily

suitable cooked food for four hundred families for several months, and

left on his departure over £100 in the hands of the committee to carry

on the work. In June, 1847, he came out to Prince Edward Island as

assistant minister to Rev. Dr. Jenkins, then rector of St. Paul’s

Church. On the retirement of Dr. Jenkins and that of his successor, Rev.

C. Lloyd, in 1857, he was appointed rector of the parish, which he

served without intermission for thirty-eight years, when in 1885 he

retired from active duty. For upwards of twenty years he was a member of

the board of education, and a trustee of the Lunatic Asylum, and for

some time was chaplain of the Legislative Council. He is the author of

several printed sermons and pamphlets, and has delivered lectures on

various subjects for several years. In 1881 he took the degrees of A.M.,

B.D., and D.D., at King’s College, Windsor. On several occasions since

his retirement, he has occupied the pulpit in the parish church and in

other churches in the province, and hopes while he has the power of

utterance to speak a word for the Master and for the edification of his

followers. Three of his children have been called from this world, and

three remain, viz., Rowan Robert, Q.C., stipendiary magistrate and

recorder of Charlottetown; Sidney David, chemist and druggist, now

residing at Kansas, U.S.; and Minnitt John, for many years connected

with the Union Bank of Charlottetown, now amalgamated with the Nova

Scotia bank of Halifax. Mr. Fitgerald’s religious views have undergone

no change. He is to-day what he was fifty years ago, an Evangelical

churchman. He has been a member of the L. O. A. since 1832, when he

became secretary to Calvin lodge, No. 1509, then established in Dublin.

In 1848 he joined the order of the Sons of Temperance, and is a member

of the National division. He has seen some service and undergone some

labour, and trusts that the years already past have not been spent in

vain.

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=Brock, Major-General Sir Isaac=, K.B., was the eighth son of John

Brock, and was born in the parish of St. Peter’s, Port Guernsey, on the

6th of October, 1769, the same year which gave birth to Napoleon and

Wellington. He entered the army as ensign in the 8th Regiment of

Infantry by purchase, on the 2nd of March, 1785. In 1790 he was promoted

to the rank of lieutenant, and at the close of the same year obtained

his captaincy and exchanged into the 49th regiment. In June, 1795, he

purchased his majority, and on the 25th of October, 1797, he was

gazetted lieutenant-colonel. In a little more than seven years he had

risen from the rank of ensign to that of lieutenant-colonel. He served

with his regiment in the expedition to Holland under Sir Ralph

Abercrombie in 1799. He greatly distinguished himself at the battle of

Egmont-of-Zee, where he was wounded. He was second in command of the

land forces in the celebrated attack on Copenhagen by Lord Nelson in

April, 1801. On its return from Copenhagen the 49th was stationed at

Colchester till the spring of 1802, when it was ordered to Canada, where

its distinguished commander earned the fame and performed the gallant

services which have so endeared his memory to the Canadian people. At

Fort George, shortly after his arrival in Canada, Brock quelled an

attempted mutiny with great firmness and tact. His regiment soon became

one of the most reliable in the service. In 1806 Brock succeeded to the

command of the troops in Canada, and took up his residence in Quebec. In

1811 Lieutenant-Governor Gore went to England on leave, and

Major-General Brock was appointed administrator of the government,—and

thus happened to be the civil as well as the military head of the

province of Upper Canada on the outbreak of the war with the United

States in 1812. He at once threw himself with great vigour, and with the

full force of his soldierly instincts, into preparations for the war.

Upper Canada then had a population of only some seventy thousand; the

United States had a population of about ten millions. In Upper Canada

many of the settlers were aliens from the States—half-hearted, if not

absolutely disloyal. The timid viewed the outlook with grave misgivings.

In fact, the surroundings were enough to discourage the stoutest heart.

It was in these circumstances, entering upon what seemed almost a

hopeless struggle, that the noble courage, the unfaltering

determination, and the perfect faith in his country, of General Brock

shone out with such striking brilliancy. Our Canadian poet, Charles

Mair, in his drama of “Tecumseh,” has given fine expression to the

spirit which animated Brock, when he puts in his mouth these words:—