=MacCoy, William Frederick=, Q.C., Barrister, M.P.P. for Shelburne, Nova

Scotia, Halifax, is a native of Ireland, he having been born at Lysrian,

in the county of Longford, on the 15th May, 1840. His father, Thomas

MacCoy, emigrated to Nova Scotia when William was only eight years of

age. His mother, of whom he has no personal knowledge, died a few hours

after giving birth to her boy; and his father died about twenty-four

years ago. William Frederick MacCoy commenced his educational studies at

the National School in Halifax, and graduated at Sackville Academy, New

Brunswick. He adopted law as a profession, and was called to the bar of

Nova Scotia, in 1864. On the 11th October, 1880, he was appointed a

Queen’s counsel. He practised his profession in Shelburne for about nine

years, and then removed to Halifax, and is now the head of the firm of

MacCoy, Pearson, Morrison, and Forbes, barristers, notaries and

solicitors in Admiralty. The firm does a large and lucrative law

business. He was elected one of the aldermen of the city of Halifax, in

1881, and in 1882 was offered the position of attorney-general in the

Liberal government of that day, but declined the honour, considering

that his colleague had a prior claim. Mr. MacCoy was an unsuccessful

candidate for a seat in the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia at the

general election of 1878, but at the next general election, he succeeded

in securing his election by 247 of a majority, and in January, 1887, he

was again elected to his old seat. He is a Liberal in politics, and in

religion an adherent of the Methodist church. In 1864, he received a

commission as captain in the militia, and takes a lively interest in our

citizen soldiers. The year after he joined the Masonic order, and is now

a past master of St. Andrew’s lodge, Halifax. He, we are glad to say, is

a strong temperance man, and for years, has taken a deep interest in the

advancement of temperance legislature, and is the author of the present

Temperance Act of Nova Scotia. He is a member of the Independent Order

of Good Templars, and his eminent legal knowledge renders him a very

useful member of his lodge, when constitutional questions come up for

discussion. In the legislature he has won a position of prominence, and

has aided in shaping to a great extent the progressive measures

introduced of late years, and is one of the recognized leaders of his

party. On the 14th July, 1868, he was married to Maud L., daughter of

Robert P. Woodill, merchant, Shelburne, and has a family of two

children.

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=Whidden, Charles Blanchard=, ex-M.P.P. for Antigonish, Nova Scotia, was

born at Antigonish, on the 5th June, 1831, and still resides in the

place of his birth. He is the youngest son of John Blair Whidden, who

was born in Stewiacke, Colchester county, N.S., in 1791, and great

grandson of James Whidden, who immigrated from New Hampshire and settled

in Truro in 1760. His mother, Harriet Elizabeth Symonds, was a daughter

of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Symonds, who came from New Hampshire in 1804,

and were among the first settlers in Antigonish. Mr. Whidden, sen., when

a lad of ten years of age, having lost his father, spent some years with

an elder sister in the district of St. Marys, and afterwards came to

Antigonish in 1807, where he purchased a small property in what is now

the town of Antigonish, and in December, 1816, married the mother of the

subject of this sketch, the lady alluded to above. C. B. Whidden’s

father was ordained to the Baptist ministry in 1834, and continued to

labour for that denomination in the destitute parts of Nova Scotia until

his death, which occurred on the 19th July, 1864. His wife survived him

a number of years, and passed away to the higher life in May, 1878,

wanting only two months of reaching her eightieth year. Charles was

educated at the Grammar School and at the Academy in Antigonish. After

leaving school, he continued on a farm for some time; but in 1863 he

began business on his own account on a small scale, and devoting all his

energies to what he had undertaken, soon became independent. He at one

time was largely interested in shipping, and is still to a limited

extent. In 1883 he retired from active business pursuits in favour of

his two sons, David Graham and Charles Edgar. Mr. Whidden is a member of

the Baptist church, and in politics a Liberal-Conservative. He ran as a

candidate for a seat in the House of Commons at Ottawa in 1878, but was

defeated by a small majority. Again, in June, 1882, he made another

attempt to gain a seat in the Commons, but met with defeat. However, in

September of the same year, he became a candidate in the local election,

and was chosen to represent his native county in the House of Assembly

of Nova Scotia. In this house he sat for four years, until the general

election in 1886, when he suffered defeat on presenting himself for

re-election, in consequence of the repeal cry, he being opposed to any

change in the political status of his province so far as the Dominion is

concerned. In 1866 and 1867 he showed himself strongly in favour of the

confederation of the provinces, and worked hard in its favour. He is a

strong believer in our common country, and predicts a great future for

it. He always places country above and beyond all minor interests. In

December, 1856, he was married to Eunice C. Graham, second daughter of

the late Captain David Graham, and Mary Bigelow, his wife. The fruit of

this marriage has been seven children, four of whom have been carried

away by death. Two of his sons, as will be seen above, have succeeded

their father in business, and his youngest son, Howard P., is now taking

a college course at Wolfville.

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=Cuthbert, Edward Octavian J. A.=, Seignior of Berthier, ex-M.P. for the

county of Berthier, province of Quebec, was born at the Manor House,

Berthier (_en haut_), on the 3rd December, 1826. His father, the late

Hon. James Cuthbert, was a scion of the Cuthberts of Castle Hill,

Inverness-shire, Scotland; seignior of Berthier, province of Quebec; for

many years a member of the Special Council of Lower Canada; and in his

lifetime rendered valuable service to the state. His mother was Mary

Louise A. Cairns. His grandfather, the first Hon. James Cuthbert, was

seignior of the seigniories of Lanoraie, Berthier, and Maskinongé, and

in his early days served in the Royal navy as a lieutenant. He was on

board the flagship at the bombardment of Carthagena, and was selected to

carry home to Britain the tidings of the capture of that stronghold. On

his retirement from the navy he was appointed to the command of one of

the independent military companies formed in Inverness, which afterwards

was called the “Black Watch,” and is now known as the 42nd Highlanders,

and for some time served in that regiment. While in Inverness he was

presented with a handsome piece of plate by the citizens for special

services. He afterwards joined the 15th regiment of foot, and assisted

at the taking of Louisburg. He was also with General Wolfe at the battle

of the Plains of Abraham, and had the honour of being selected by

General Murray, to whom he acted as _aide-de-camp_, to carry to Britain

the news of the fall of Quebec. On his return to Canada he again joined

General Murray’s staff, and in this position he remained until peace was

fully restored, when he retired from the army. He was then appointed by

Lord Dorchester one of the members of the first Legislative Council

formed after the conquest, and became one of the first permanent British

settlers in Lower Canada. During the American revolutionary war he was

particularly active in suppressing insurrection, and instilling into the

minds of the Canadians sentiments of loyalty and attachment to the

British Crown. Edward, the subject of our sketch, received his first

education at the Berthier Academy, and then at Chambly College, at

Chambly. Soon after leaving college he began to take an interest in

public affairs, and was afterwards elected mayor of Berthier, and

president of the County Agricultural Society. In 1867 Mr. Cuthbert

entered the field of politics, and at the general election held in 1872

he ran in the Conservative interest, but was defeated. A few years

afterwards his political opponent, Mr. Pâquet, having been called to the

Senate, he again presented himself to the electors, and was returned by

them as their representative in the House of Commons at Ottawa. From

this time until the dissolution of the house in 1886 he occupied a

prominent position in the legislature, when he was forced, through

failing health, to abandon political life, and retire to his quiet home

at Berthier. Mr. Cuthbert took a lively interest in the construction of

the North Shore Railway; and has also done a good deal to improve the

live stock in his native county. In politics he always sided with the

Conservative party; and in religion is a member of the Roman Catholic

church. On the 1st December, 1853, he was married to Mary, eldest

daughter of Augustus Bostwick, who in his lifetime was an advocate and

Queen’s counsel at Three Rivers, province of Quebec, and Georgiana

Cuthbert (Mr. Cuthbert’s cousin), who was a daughter of the late Hon.

Ross Cuthbert, seignior of Lanoraie and Maskinongé. Mrs. Cuthbert died

in February, 1885, leaving two sons and twin daughters.

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=Baby, Hon. Judge Louis François Georges=, Judge of the Court of Queen’s

Bench of the Province of Quebec, was born in the city of Montreal, on

the 26th August, 1834, and is descended from one of the oldest and most

respected families in Quebec province. The founder of the family in

Canada was Jacques Baby de Ranville, a nobleman from the south of

France, who was an officer of the celebrated regiment of

_Carignan-Salieres_, and arrived here in 1662. By the family records and

papers it can be traced up to 1375 without interruption. Representatives

of the family have distinguished themselves on the battle-field, as well

as in the councils of the state both here and in France. Several of them

have been knights of Malta and of St. John of Jerusalem. The last

governors under the French régime, had many a time occasion to call the

special attention of the king of France to the meritorious deeds and

gallant actions of members of this notable family. Several of the

distinguished men who bore this name were killed in these early days in

battle. The grandfather of Judge Baby was the Hon. François Baby, an

executive and legislative councillor of the province of Quebec, and in

1775, adjutant-general of the same province, who with his brother-in-law

Charles Tarieu de Lanaudière, then _aide-de-camp_ to Lord Dorchester,

took a very active part in the stirring events of the time. His

grandmother was Marie Anne de Lanaudière, a descendant of M. de

Lanaudière, governor of Montreal in 1664, and of Madelon de Verchères,

the heroine of “La Nouvelle France.” Judge Baby’s father was Joseph

Baby, a colonel in the militia and long a notary public and prominent

citizen of Joliette, where he died in 1871. His mother, Caroline Guy,

was a daughter of the Hon. Louis Guy, in his lifetime king’s notary, and

a member of the Legislative Council of the province of Quebec. The

subject of our sketch, Judge Baby, was educated in St. Sulpice College,

in his native city, and also at Joliette College. After leaving school,

where he had attained high distinctions, he chose the law as a

profession, and studied in the office of Drummond and Loranger, of

Montreal, both of whom became ministers of the Crown and were afterwards

made judges. However, previous to his admission to the bar, he entered

the civil service of Canada, in the attorney-general’s department for

Lower Canada and for several years occupied the position of clerk, under

the government, but was invited by the late Sir G. E. Cartier to

relinquish this position for a more extended field of usefulness. He was

a particular friend of the late Chief Justice Harrison, who was also a

clerk in the civil service at the same time as he. In 1857 he was called

to the bar, and practised his profession in Montreal, in partnership

with the Hon. Louis T. Drummond, when his health becoming impaired, he

removed to Joliette, where he continued his practice with considerable

success, in partnership with the late Hon. L. A. Oliver, who was

appointed a judge in the superior court, in 1875, having been previously

a legislative councillor and a senator, and was also mayor of that place

for four or five terms. Though long deeply interested in politics, Mr.

Baby did not enter public life until 1867, when he became a candidate

for Joliette in the Dominion parliament. At this time, however, through

the over confidence of his friends and supporters, he failed to be

elected. Five years later, at the general election of 1872, he was

returned by acclamation; was re-elected in 1874; unseated on petition on

the 28th October of that year; was re-elected on the 10th December

following, by a much larger majority; and again, at the general election

in September, 1878, he was returned by a still increased majority. On

the 26th of the next month, on the return of the Conservatives to power,

he entered the cabinet with his friend the Hon. L. R. Masson, and was

made minister of Inland Revenue. During the time he held this portfolio,

he displayed great tact and firmness, and gave great satisfaction to the

public. In 1875 he had the honour of introducing the bill for the

abolition of the death penalty in cases of assault with intent to commit

rape—a bill which was subsequently taken up by the Hon. Mr. Blake, the

then minister of Justice, and carried through parliament. During his

term of office, he successfully carried through the House of Commons

acts for the consolidation and amendment of the weights and measures,

the excise laws, stamp act, tobacco laws, etc., and took generally a

very active and patriotic part in the affairs of the nation; in 1880 he

retired from political life, and was made judge of the Superior Court of

Quebec, and subsequently, in September, 1881, promoted to the Court of

Queen’s Bench, which position he fills with dignity, and is very much

respected by his _confrères_ on the bench. Among the many praiseworthy

deeds of Judge Baby’s life is the valuable assistance he rendered in the

founding of the Montreal Historical Society, of which he has been an

efficient member since its formation. He is himself a historian of some

repute, having, like the late Chief Justice Lafontaine, devoted a good

deal of his time in researches of a historical character, particularly

with reference to Canada, and has brought together, not however without

considerable expense and trouble, one of the finest collections of

Canadian manuscripts in existence, and the historical department of his

extensive library is especially rich and attractive in Canadian

literature. He is an honorary member of the Institut-Canadien of Quebec,

and also of Ottawa, and a member and the president of the Antiquarian

and Numismatic Society of Montreal. For this last branch of study Judge

Baby seems to have a passion,—having devoted more or less time to it

for a number of years—and his collection of coins and medals, foreign

and domestic, is one of the best in Canada. He is a member of the Roman

Catholic church, a prominent and much respected citizen, and a notable

figure in literary and religious circles, and appears never to forget

his family motto, “_Dire vrai; faire bien_.” In July, 1873, he was

married to Maria Helene Adelaide, daughter of the late Dr. Berthelet of

Montreal (knight of the order of St. Sepulchre of France), and Dame

Helene Guy. They have no children.

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=Ritchie, Hon. Joseph Norman=, Judge of the Supreme Court of Nova

Scotia, Halifax, was born on the 25th May, 1834, at Annapolis Royal,

Nova Scotia. His parents were Hon. Thomas Ritchie, judge of the Court of

Common Pleas of Nova Scotia, and Anne, daughter of I. N. Bond, M.D.,

Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Judge Joseph Norman Ritchie was educated at

King’s College, Windsor, Nova Scotia, where he took the degree of M.A.

He afterwards studied law, and was called to the bar of Nova Scotia on

the 30th November, 1857; was made a Queen’s counsel on 26th September,

1872; and was raised to the bench as a judge of the Supreme Court on the

26th September, 1885. For several years previous to his elevation to the

bench he acted in the capacity of recorder for the city of Halifax. In

1859, on the organization of the volunteer militia in Nova Scotia, Judge

Ritchie joined the force and continued in it and the active militia of

Canada until 1879. He holds a lieutenant-colonel’s commission, bearing

date 17th March, 1876. For several years he was also one of the

directors of the Merchants Bank of Halifax. In religion the judge is and

always has been an adherent of the Church of England. He has for wife

Mary, daughter of John Cochran, of Newport, U.S.

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=Lorrain, Right Reverend Narcisse Zephirin=, Bishop of Cythera and Vicar

Apostolic of Pontiac, with his residence at Pembroke, Ontario, was born

the 13th June, 1842, at St. Martin, county of Laval. His father,

Narcisse Lorrain, is a descendant of that sturdy stock of pioneers who

settled the northern district of the province of Quebec, and have

representatives in the counties of Terrebonne, Two Mountains,

Argenteuil, etc., and is considered one of the well to-do farmers of the

rich county of Laval. Mr. Lorrain, sr., was married to Sophia Goyer. In

1855 Mgr. Lorrain was sent to the seminary of Ste. Thérèse, in the

county of Terrebonne, where he commenced his classical studies. That

institution, which had been founded some forty years before by the Rev.

Messire Charles Ducharme, a venerable priest whose memory will for ever

live in the hearts of the people of that district, was then under the

direction of Messire Dagenais, superior, and Messire Nantel (an elder

brother of the M.P.P. for Terrebonne), as prefect of studies. Messire

Nantel is well known as a _littérateur_ of no mean order, one of his

principal works being a translation into French of Ollendorf’s English

Grammar. These gentlemen soon discovered that the youth was an unusually

bright pupil, and they resolved to spare no endeavour to further his

studies, thinking, and not without good grounds, that in the future he

would be an honour to the seminary. The career of Mgr. Lorrain has

proved that they were not wrong, as he has taken a prominent place among

the scores of other men of note who have graduated at that institution;

among others the Hon. Théodore Robitaille, ex-lieutenant-governor of the

province of Quebec; Hon. Gédéon Ouimet, superintendent of public

instruction, Quebec, and many members of parliament and senators,

besides many lawyers and doctors. To a quick and perceptive mind, Mgr.

Lorrain joined a sound judgment, with more than his share of energy, the

latter quality being in fact one of the distinguishing traits of his

character. It is to the knowledge of the writer of this sketch, who was

a school mate of Mgr. Lorrain, that at the end of each month, when the

notes were read by the director of the seminary, his conduct was always

marked down as “exemplary.” One year he carried eighteen prizes in his

class. He entered on the study of theology at the end of his classical

course, teaching a class at the same time, and was beloved by the pupils

under his charge on account of his kindly disposition and gentle

manners, which were not, however, without an admixture of firmness. He

knew how to instil the love of discipline which he himself possessed in

such an eminent degree. In 1864, Mgr. Lorrain graduated at Laval

University, where he received the degree of Bachelor of Sciences, and he

was ordained priest on the 4th of August, 1867, being then appointed

assistant director at the Seminary of Ste. Thérèse, which position he

filled until the 15th of August, 1869, when he was appointed pastor to

the congregation of Redford, Clinton county, in the state of New York.

On the 3rd of August, 1880, he was promoted and appointed vicar-general

of the diocese of Montreal. His appointment caused some surprise to a

great many people who did not know him intimately; but the ability he

displayed in the management of the affairs, and in the liquidation of

the debts of the episcopal corporation, then in financial troubles, soon

justified the choice the bishop of the diocese of Montreal had made of

his person for such an important position as that of vicar general. And

the surprise changed to wonder when two years later, being barely forty

years of age, on the 21st of September, 1882, he was consecrated

titulary bishop of Cythera and vicar apostolic of Pontiac, with place of

residence at Pembroke, he being the first bishop of that diocese. In

this new field of labour Mgr. Lorrain has distinguished himself, doing

his utmost to concentrate the scattered elements of his extended but

sparsely-settled diocese, and the energy and strong will which had

characterised his student life were displayed on a larger scale, an

instance of which may be cited from the fact of his having travelled, in

1884, a distance of 1,500 miles, in a bark canoe. And here we cannot do

better than reproduce the account of this trip, which appeared shortly

after his lordship’s return, in the Pembroke _Standard_, and is of great

interest:

His lordship’s tour has been an extended one of some sixty-four

days. His up voyage to Abbitibi has already been described in

our columns. The story of the trip from Abbitibi northwards will

be narrated in a series of articles containing, besides the

description itself, copious and reliable information on the

agricultural, mineral and timber interests of this vast expanse

of virgin soil. Suffice it to say now that the Temiscamingue

region is represented as waiting colonization; and that from the

height of land northwards, a stretch of 150 miles across,

extending indefinitely east and west, gains, by lowness of the

situation, a mildness of temperature that probably lasts long

enough to mature the luxuriant growth of early vegetation.

Around Hudson Bay and for a considerable distance southwards,

the land is low, swampy, and impoverished; the soil unproductive

and the timbers dwarfed. Geological specimens have been brought

back by the party, and sketches of the more picturesque points

have been taken by the master hand of Father Paradis. Travelling

through these northern wilds, while it may have its interest for

the geologist or the artist, is by no means the embodiment of

physical happiness. On water and on land the inconveniences are

many and annoying. To paddle over rough waves and through

beating rain, to portage a hundred rapids, some of them three

miles in length, over rocks and ravines and fallen trees,

through wet and tangled grass and brushwood; to camp in swarms

of mosquitoes and sand-flies, on swampy ground, where more than

once after the tents had been beaten through by nights of

falling rain, a half a foot of water has flooded the tent-floor,

branches and blankets; to wade knee deep for a mile or even two

miles through sharp cut stones and slough and water, in the

endeavour to reach the shore and wait the tide that alone can

give sufficient depth on certain parts of James Bay, to bear

along a laden canoe; to endure all this and more, is but a

specimen of the hardships gone through by travellers to these

northern districts. Though the Indians are cool intrepid guides,

the most provoking shortcomings have to be accepted from their

hands, no matter how reluctantly, still with silence and

patience. On the water they work well, but once on shore, to

camp for the night, or to get out of catching gales, or at the

posts where missions are given, it is almost impossible to get

them under way again; teasing disappointments and delay, an axe,

a blanket, a tin pan left behind prolong the stay, and time is

killed, and programmes spoiled, and patience tried. The fiercest

storm encountered, perhaps, was on the 24th of June, the day

after the party left Abbitibi, when the thermometer fell 43°,

and the north-western extremity of the lake rolled mountain high

before the sweeping hurricane. To advance was impossible; the

camp was pitched, and beneath the swaying trees, and storming

rain, the day was passed wretchedly beyond description.

Disappointments like this have often to be encountered on the

trip. They are annoying in more ways than one. Even the

provisions stand a chance of running short, the more so as the

Indians, during these delays, pass the time in gorging, being

content with nothing less than half a dozen meals each day. The

portages from Abbitibi to Moose Factory are twenty-one in

number; some of them may be run in a canoe, but the greater

number have to be footed. From the 25th to the 27th of June the

voyage was agreeable enough, excepting that at times, and for a

distance, during these days, of fifteen miles, the oft repeated

feat of wading waist deep through water and struggling along

rugged banks, had to be resorted to through sheer necessity of

making any headway. On the 28th the hair-breadth escape of the

journey occurred. It was the _Rapide de L’Île_. Ordinarily the

rapid is run without imminent risk by keeping aloof from the

whirling eddy half way down its course; but the bowsman did

slovenly work, and before the approach of danger was realized

the canoe was sucked into the engulfing seething pool, and was

spun twice around as on a pivot, in the very centre of the rapid

where the broken waves leaped high, and the foam splashed

fiercely, blinding the paddlers and filling the boat. Two feet

more and the canoe was beyond all rescue. It was a thrilling

moment. Death, swift and sure, was but the moiety of a minute

off; but the long-made resolves of coolness in case of such an

accident stood well to the occupants of the boat. The

steersman—the most intrepid perhaps on the northern

waters—muttered one short monosyllable, and in the twinkling of

an eye every paddle was in its position, and the canoe leaped

forward, rocked in the hollows of the waves and forced sideways

up the billows to be hurled down again below, till the main

current was reached, one stroke of the brave steersman swung it

half round and sent it dashing down to the more placid waters at

the foot of the rapids. “God be blessed,” went up from the

hearts of the bishop and his missionaries; and flowing bowls of

strong tea rewarded the proud Indians. On the 29th June the

party arrived at New-Post, a fort of the Hudson Bay Company,

some 150 miles from Abbitibi, and 120 from Moose Factory. Here a

mission was given during the day, and at evening the start was

made for Moose Factory. Four portages more are passed ere the

party reaches Moose Factory on the 2nd July. This fort is the

headquarters of the company, and is by far the most important on

the whole route. The following morning the canoe heads for

Albany, another post of the H. B. Company, situated on the river

Albany, which flows into James Bay. But neither the heavens nor

the sea was propitious, and nine miles from the Factory the

canoe was brought to a stand-still by a face-beating wind, and

by a low tide, whose influence is felt even twenty-five miles up

the Moose river. For three days the camp is pitched on the river

bank, the wind blows, the rain pours down, a tempest rages, it

hails and even snows; till a consultation being held, the whole

party picked up their effects and put back to Moose. This was on

Sunday, the 6th July. On Tuesday a new and more successful

departure is made for Albany, which is reached on the 11th of

the month. A mission, most gratifying in its results, was given

here till the 15th, when the home trip was begun. At Albany

there is a magnificent wooden church, 50 feet by 26;

tower-crowned, gothic style, and bell-decked. Some 500 Indians

are attached to this mission church. On the 18th July, Moose

Factory was reached on the home voyage. The next day the canoe

is off again for New-Post, but more disappointment is ahead. A

high tide coming in at night submerges the canoe and cargo lying

on the river shore; and for the following days so strong is the

current that 15 miles have to be tramped on foot before New-Post

comes in sight. To walk 15 miles is nothing in itself, but to

walk 15 miles, up to the waist in cold water, piercing one’s

feet with the sharp cornered pebbles of the river bottom, and to

drag along a boat and its effects through the opposing stream,

all this is something. New-Post is entered on the 25th, and is

left the next evening, a large number of Indians accompanying to

15 miles from the post, where, after a portage of three miles in

length has been made, mass is celebrated for the crowd on Sunday

morning. On the 2nd August the return party arrives at Abbitibi,

where a large congregation of Indians are assembled to attend

divine services on the following Sunday. On Monday, the 4th

August, the prow points towards Temiscamingue, which gives glad

welcome to the party on the 7th. The three following days are

devoted to the mission; and on Monday afternoon a start is made.

The next day, after running five rapids and portaging over

three, the party paddled into Mattawa at 8 o’clock in the

evening. The voyage home, and reception, we have referred to in

the beginning of this article. The trip has been fraught with

spiritual blessings for 1,400 Indians, that are proud to be the

subjects of the zealous and hard-working bishop of Pembroke.

_Non recuso laborem_, “I flee not work,” we read on his

coat-of-arms two years ago, when he took possession of his See

in this town. His heart, even then, when he devised this motto,

must have beat love for the poor Indians of Hudson Bay.

In 1887, Mgr. Lorrain travelled 1,700 miles on his pastoral visit to the

Indian missions on the Upper Ottawa, Rupert’s Land and the Upper St.

Maurice. His route was from Ottawa, _via_ Pembroke, to Lakes

Temiscamingue, Obaching, Kepewa, etc., thence to the source of the River

du Molhe; from here through a chain of lakes to the “Lac Barrière”

mission, now on Lake Wapous; thence to Lake Wassepatebi, lying between

the province of Quebec and Rupert’s Land; through Cypress Lake, River

Pekeskak, by a chain of five lakes, the Laloche river to Lake Waswanipi.

The return trip was made by the same route as far as Lake Waswanipi, to

the Mekiskan river and the upper waters of the St. Maurice; thence

through various lakes, Lake Long, Lake Coucoucache and others to the

Grand Piles. This involved a trip of 1,700 miles, mostly by water in

bark canoe, occupying two months and six days, and 1,172 miles being

travelled by canoe. The portages were from an arpent to four miles long,

and there were 157 of them. During the five years Bishop N. Z. Lorrain

has been in Pembroke he has paid an old debt of $11,000 on the church;

built a magnificent episcopal residence at a cost of $18,000, upon which

sum $8,000 has been paid; bought twenty-nine acres of land for a

graveyard; purchased plots of sixteen acres of ground in the most

beautiful part of the town, as sites for charitable institutions in the

future. Mgr. Lorrain is an eminent English scholar. There is no doubt he

is destined to do a great work for his country, and that his wise

counsel will always have weight in the periodical councils of his

church.

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=Coleman, Arthur Philemon=, Ph.D., Professor of Geology and Natural

History, Victoria University, Cobourg, was born on the 4th of April,

1852, at Lachute, province of Quebec. His father was the Rev. Francis

Coleman, a minister of the Methodist Church of Canada, and his mother,

Emmeline Maria Adams, was a descendant of John Quincy Adams. His early

education was obtained in various public and high schools of Ontario,

according to the station occupied by his father, as an itinerant

Methodist minister; and this ended in a course of two years in Cobourg

Collegiate Institute. In 1872, he matriculated in Victoria University,

Cobourg, and after four years’ residence, graduated in 1876 as Bachelor

of Arts, taking honours and a gold medal. On the advice of Dr. Haanel,

whose eloquence and ability as a professor had inspired him to study

science, he sailed for Europe, and in 1880, matriculated in the

University of Breslau, in Prussia, Dr. Haanel’s _alma mater_. During

four semesters he studied geology, mineralogy, botany, histology,

chemistry, etc., under such distinguished men as Roemer, Cohn, Goeppert,

Dilthey, Poleck, Liebisch, and others. His dissertation which was on the

“Melaphyres of Lower Silesia,” and demanded hard work in microscopic

petrography, as well as some months geologizing in the Giant Mountains,

on the border between Silesia and Bohemia, was accepted, and after

examination he was admitted to the degree of Doctor Philosophiae (_cum

laude_) in 1882. While in Europe, Professor Coleman made numerous

geological expeditions in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and

Scandinavia, and most of one summer he spent in Norway, wandering on

foot over the mountains and fields collecting specimens, and observing

the results of glacial action. The most notable points in this journey

were the ascent of Galdhoepig, the highest mountain in Norway, and a

voyage along the coast to Hammerfest and the North Cape, to see the

Lapps and the midnight sun. At Knivskjaerodden, a few miles from the

North Cape, the ship on board of which he was, _The Nordstjern_, went

ashore in a fog, and became wrecked on that bleak coast. The misfortune

occurred at about two o’clock in the morning, but aided by the perpetual

daylight, the passengers and crew succeeded in reaching shore, and

within twenty-four hours thereafter, they were rescued by another

steamer and landed at Hammerfest. After a short visit to France and

England, he returned to Ontario, and towards the end of 1882, was

inaugurated as professor of geology and natural history in Victoria

University, Cobourg. Since that date he has continued in the same

position, varying his life by journeys with geological ends in view; in

this way he visited the Rocky Mountains, the valley of the Columbia, and

the Selkirks, before the Canadian Pacific Railway was built, travelling

by pack pony, canoe or on foot. The professor belongs to the Methodist

church, and in politics is a Liberal.

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=Macdonnell, Rev. Daniel James=, B.D., Pastor of West St. Andrew’s

(Presbyterian) Church, Toronto. This popular minister was born at

Bathurst, New Brunswick, on the 15th January, 1843. His father, the Rev.

George Macdonnell, who was born in Kirkcaldy, Fifeshire, Scotland, came

in childhood to Halifax, Nova Scotia, received his early educational

training in the schools at Halifax, and finished his course of studies

at the Edinburgh University. He afterwards was minister of St. Luke’s

Church, (Church of Scotland), at Bathurst, from 1840 to 1851; spent two

years in Scotland; came to Upper Canada in 1853, and was settled

successively in Nelson and Waterdown, Fergus and Milton, and died at the

latter place in 1871. His mother was Eleanor Milnes, who was born at

Pictou, Nova Scotia, and belonged to a branch of the family of Milnes,

of Derbyshire, England. Daniel James Macdonnell, the subject of our

sketch, began his education at Bathurst when but a lad of six years of

age,—the study of Latin being included in his course at this

unreasonably early age. He was afterwards sent to Scotland, and pursued

his studies for some time at Kilmarnock and Edinburgh, and on his return

to Canada, at Nelson, under the care of the late Dr. Robert Douglas, of

Port Elgin, who taught at “The Twelve,” while he was prosecuting his

studies. Mr. Macdonnell was then taken in hand by the late Dr. Tassie,

then head master of the Galt Grammar School, who prepared him for the

university. In October, 1855, when in his thirteenth year, he entered

Queen’s College, Kingston, and he held the first place in classics and

mathematics during his course there. In 1858 he graduated B.A., and two

years later M.A. Some time after he took a portion of his theological

course in the Queen’s Divinity Hall, Kingston, under Principal Leitch

and Professor Mowat, and spent the session of 1863-64 in Glasgow, where

Dr. Caird was professor of divinity. He completed his course in

Edinburgh, having attended the classes of the late Professor Crawford

and Robert Lee, and received the degree of Bachelor of Divinity. The

winter of 1865-66 he spent in Berlin in acquiring some knowledge of the

German language, and picking up whatever theological instruction he

could gather from the imperfectly understood lectures of Professors

Dörner and Hengstenberg. On the 14th June, 1866, he was ordained by the

Presbytery of Edinburgh (Church of Scotland); and returning to Canada he

was inducted to the charge of St. Andrew’s Church, Peterboro’, Ontario,

on the 20th November, 1866, where he spent four years. He was then

called to St. Andrew’s Church, Toronto, and inducted on the 22nd

December, 1870. The advent of Mr. Macdonnell was the signal for an

immediate revival of the condition of the church. He was young,

energetic, and more than all, earnest and original in his preaching.

Within a few years it was found that the old building was inadequate for

the purpose, and a new and imposing structure was built at the corner of

King and Simcoe streets, at the cost of $86,000 for building and $14,000

for additional ground. It is one of the finest and most complete in all

details of the many fine church edifices in Toronto, and is built of

stone in the Norman style, with a massive tower on the south-west angle.

Mr. Macdonnell’s popularity has steadily increased year by year since he

came to Toronto, and although some are inclined to consider him, from

“the Westminster Confession” standpoint, rather liberal in his

theological views, yet his large congregation listen with great

satisfaction to his gospel of common sense, and are most sincerely

attached to him. Rev. Mr. Macdonnell was one of the most cordial

supporters of Presbyterian union, and contributed largely to its

consummation in 1875. He is a member of the Senate of Toronto

University, having been appointed by the Ontario government. He also

takes an active part in works of charity, and indeed in everything that

has a tendency to help and elevate humanity. During his college career,

Rev. Mr. Macdonnell taught for about three years; was head master of

Vankleek Hill Grammar School for six months, when only seventeen years

of age; was assistant to Mr. Campbell (now Rev. Robert Campbell, D.D.,

minister of St. Gabriel street Church, Montreal) for a year in the

Queen’s College Preparatory School, and head master of the Wardsville

High School for a year and a half. While a student in Scotland, Mr.

Macdonnell, during vacation, took a couple of walking tours with fellow

students through Switzerland and parts of Germany, and since he settled

in Canada he has taken several trips to Great Britain. On the 2nd of

July, 1868, he was married to Elizabeth Logie Smellie, eldest daughter

of the Rev. George Smellie, D.D., of Fergus. Rev. Dr. Smellie was one of

the pioneer Presbyterian ministers of Western Ontario, and although now

in his seventy-sixth year, he still preaches every Sunday to the people

to whom he has ministered for forty-four years. There are four sons and

a daughter in St. Andrew’s manse. Mr. Macdonnell’s eldest boy, George

Frederick, aged fifteen, is attending Upper Canada College, and, taking

after his father, occupies the position of head boy in his form.

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=Hunton, Sidney Walker=, M.A., Professor of Mathematics in the

University of Mount Allison College, Sackville, New Brunswick, was born

in the city of Ottawa, Ontario, on the 4th July, 1858. His father,

Thomas Hunton, was for a long time a leading merchant at the capital,

and died a few years ago. His mother, Amelia Hunton, is still alive and

resides at Ottawa. Professor Hunton was educated at the Collegiate

Institute, Ottawa, where, in 1875, he won the two medals offered by Lord

Dufferin for mathematics and classics. In September, 1876, he entered

McGill College, Montreal, where he studied for two years, and won first

scholarship in each year. In September, 1878, he won the Canadian

Gilchrist scholarship of the value of £100 stg. per annum, tenable for

three years, and then proceeded to London, England, where he studied at

University College, making a specialty of mathematics. In June, 1881, he

won the Rothschild scholarship of the value of £56, which was awarded

for the greatest proficiency in mathematics in University College. He

graduated at the University of London, in Oct., 1881, and was appointed

assistant to the professor of mathematics in University College, and

held the position for two years. In 1882 he became lecturer on

mathematics in the Electrical Engineering College, London, which

position he resigned in 1883, on being appointed to the professorship of

mathematics at Mount Allison College, N.B. During his stay in Europe he

also studied at Cambridge, England, and Heidelberg, Germany. He was

married on December 25th, 1884, to Annie Inch, daughter of J. R. Inch,

LL.D., president of Mount Allison College. Professor Hunton is a credit

to “Young Canada,” and we hope many will be found imitating his example.

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=Kay, Rev. John=, Pastor of the First Methodist Church, Hamilton, was

born in the town of Napanee, Ontario, on the 20th of May, 1838. His

father was Enoch Kay, who was born in the county of Wicklow, Ireland, in

1812. His mother, Elizabeth Coulson, was a native of Stockton, near

Hull, England, and was born in 1815. His grandfather, Joshua Kaye (the

family name was originally spelled _Kaye_) emigrated with the family

from Ireland many years ago, and settled in the eastern part of Ontario,

where he followed the same occupation as he had done in his native

country, namely, that of wheelwright. He was a man of small stature, but

of marked intelligence and great amiability of character, and a leader

among the Methodists of his day. The wife of this worthy man was a

Fitzhenry, a name of some considerable note in Ireland. She was tall and

fine looking, and evidently had her early training in an advanced circle

of society. Both died in the village of Newburg, and their bodies rest

in the small rural cemetery near the village of Napanee Mills. His

maternal grandfather was a miller from his youth up, and for several

generations some of the Coulson family have been engaged in this

business, and in that of shipbuilding in England. The father and mother

were married in 1837, the year of the coronation of Queen Victoria, and

took up their residence on a farm a short distance north of Napanee

Mills. Here Mr. Kay, sen., farmed, and also carried on the trade of

carriage-building and blacksmithing, employing a number of workmen. The

farm he afterwards sold, and moved into the village of Newburg, where he

engaged in the lumber business. Here young Kay received the rudiments of

his education, first in a private school and afterwards in the Newburg

Academy. When he had scarcely reached his fourteenth year his father

died at the early age of thirty-nine, leaving a widow and three children

in poor circumstances, the subject of our sketch being the oldest. This

necessitated his giving up school and entering on the battle of life for

an existence, his mother with the other children returning to her

father’s home until he could provide for them elsewhere. After a hard

struggle of several years he succeeded so well as to be able to bring

the family again together, and he made a home for them at Cramborne, a

small village about five miles north of Cobourg. Here he was led to

think more seriously of religious matters, and made up his mind to

consecrate himself to the work of the church. He at once set about

preparing himself, and acted in the capacity of local preacher for some

time. Having been relieved soon afterwards of much business anxiety, he

gave himself up to labour and study. After a hard struggle he succeeded,

and to his surprise and satisfaction, in the spring of 1862, he was

informed by the officials of the Methodist New Connexion Church of

Baltimore, Ontario, with which he had connected himself a few months

before, that they would gladly recommend him to the work of the

ministry, and on his case being brought before the conference he was

appointed to assist the late Rev. S. B. Gundy, in the town of St.

Mary’s. This was a fortunate circumstance for the young preacher, for

the Rev. Mr. Gundy was a man of excellent ability and one of the finest

preachers in the denomination. The death of the superintendent some time

afterwards was a great loss to Mr. Kay. He then took up the course of

study prescribed for his work, which by no means was a light one. His

studies were now chiefly directed by the late Rev. William McClure, who

was appointed at that time to the chair of theology, philosophy and

literature, for the student probationers of the church, and under his

able tuition he succeeded in mastering the curriculum appointed by the

Board of Education of the conference. Since then he has been successful

in gaining some knowledge of Latin and Greek, with a little of German,

but still thirsts for more knowledge, as he considers all possible lines

of study are needed by the efficient and progressive Christian minister.

The Rev. Mr. Kay first began his ministry, as will have been observed,

at St. Mary’s, and here he spent one year; next he went to Manvers,

where he preached for two years; then he went to Ingersoll, and spent

two more years; in Milton he preached for three years; in Waterdown for

three years; Tilsonburg, two years; London, two years; then he again

spent two years in Ingersoll; and then moved to Waterford, where he

spent three years; in Thorold, three years, and for the last three years

he has been in Hamilton. In 1872, when the subject of Methodist union

was a live topic in the churches, Rev. Mr. Kay was secretary of

conference, and contributed by both voice and pen to bring about union,

and when this great movement was accomplished he was removed from

Tilsonburg to London by the conference of 1875, and during his stay

there he helped to build the Wellington Street Church and parsonage,

which is now one of the most prosperous churches in the denomination.

This reverend gentleman has been several times financial secretary of

the districts in which he has been stationed; and in 1886 he was a

representative at the General Conference which was held in Toronto. He

has found time, also, to attend to the temperance movement. From boyhood

he has been a teetotaller, having joined the Cadets of Temperance in

Newburg, and subsequently entered the orders of the Sons of Temperance

and Good Templars; and later held for two years the office of grand

counsellor, and for three years that of chaplain in the Supreme Lodge of

the Royal Templars,—which holds its annual sessions in the city of

Buffalo, where the order was first organized in 1870. As a natural

consequence he is a firm and uncompromising prohibitionist, holding that

the only way to elevate the masses and improve the financial condition

of the country is the entire abolition of the traffic in intoxicating

drinks. Mr. Kay also belongs to the United Order of Workmen, and did for

some time belong to the orders of Oddfellows and Foresters, but a few

years ago found it necessary to retire from them. As we have seen, the

subject of our sketch was brought up in the Methodist fold, and he has

seen no reason since to change his belief in the doctrines that were

taught him at his mother’s knee; but, nevertheless, he is not opposed to

a progressive theology, and can see no reason why a person should be

compelled to follow all the old methods of reasoning and forms of

expression. The words of modern use are often as expressive as those

used aforetime, and some of the old ones are none the worse for being

used before. The Augustinian school of theology finds no favour with

him. He believes in a free will—without the necessitarian adjuncts of

such limitations as affords it only to a few favoured persons—the free

and full salvation for all, and the kindest and most gracious invitation

to all to come to the fountain and drink. The gospel freely offered is

God’s expression of love. He has also devoted some time to literature,

and in 1871 published a very interesting “Biography of the Rev. William

Gundy,” his father-in-law. This volume was very favourably received, and

highly praised by the press. He is a diligent student, and has also on

several occasions contributed to the columns of our newspapers and

periodicals. On the 20th of October, 1864, he was married to Eliza,

second daughter of the Rev. William Gundy, who for more than half a

century was a preacher of the gospel, and though now dead for over

sixteen years, yet speaketh. Six of a family have been born of the

union, four of whom survive, two sons and two daughters.

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=Macdonald, Rev. James Charles=, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, is

descended from an old Highland family, who emigrated to Prince Edward

Island in the last century. His ancestors formed part of the gallant

band brought out by the Laird of Glenaladale, in the _Alexander_ in

1772. His father, John Macdonald, of Allisary, and his mother, Ellen

Macdonald, of Garahelia, were natives of Prince Edward Island. Their son

was born at Allisary, in the parish of St. Andrew, in that province, on

the 15th July, 1840, and was baptised in the old St. Andrew’s Church,

built in that mission, by Bishop McEachern, in the early days of

Catholicity in Prince Edward Island. After preliminary studies in a

district school, Mr. Macdonald entered St. Dunstan’s College in 1866. He

remained there for four years, and in 1870, went up to the Grand

Seminary, at Montreal. After a three years’ course, he was ordained by

the Bishop of Charlottetown, and at once proceeded to St. Dunstan’s

College, to fill a vacant professorship in that institution. In 1875,

Mr. Macdonald was appointed to the missions of St. James, Georgetown,

and All Saints, Cardigan Bridge. In 1876, the mission of St. Theresa,

Baldwin’s Road, was added to these; but in 1878, it was placed in the

charge of another priest. In 1881, the late Very Rev. Dr. Macdonald was

associated with Father Charles Macdonald, in the care of the missions of

St. James and All Saints, to which was annexed St. Paul’s, Sturgeon. In

September, 1884, to the great regret of his parishioners, Father

Macdonald was removed from Georgetown, and installed as rector of St.

Dunstan’s College, Charlottetown. During the period in which he has

presided over that institution, St. Dunstan’s has prospered exceedingly,

and now boasts a staff of eight professors, three clerical and five lay,

and a roll of eighty-six students, several of whom give promise of doing

great credit to their _alma mater_.

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=Macpherson, Henry=, Braeside, Owen Sound, Ontario, Judge of the County

Court of the county of Grey, Local Judge of the High Court of Justice,

Surrogate Judge of the Maritime Court, was born 17th August, 1832, at

Picton, county of Prince Edward, province of Ontario. He was son of

Lowther Pennington Macpherson, late of Picton, barrister-at-law, and of

Eliza Isabella Louisa McLean, his wife. Lowther was the son of

Lieut.-Colonel Donald Macpherson, of the 10th Royal Veteran Battalion,

who commanded at Kingston at the commencement of the war with the United

States in 1812; and was afterwards ordered to Quebec, where he remained

till the close of the war in 1814, when he returned to his property of

Cluny, near Kingston. Colonel Macpherson was the son of Evan Macpherson,

chief of the clan Macpherson, who joined the standard of Prince Charles

Edward Stuart at the time of the rebellion in Scotland in 1745. Lowther

was born on shipboard, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, when his father was

coming out to Canada with his regiment, and died at sea near the West

India Islands, where he had gone for his health in 1836. Eliza

Macpherson was the youngest daughter of Lieut.-Colonel Allan N. McLean,

of “The Grove,” Kingston, and who practised law there. In 1812 he closed

his office, and was greatly instrumental in raising the Incorporated

Militia, which regiment he commanded until he was superseded by an

officer of the line. One of his sons was a lieutenant in the Glengarry

Fencibles, and was killed at Queenston Heights, and his son-in-law,

Captain Walker, commanded a company of the Incorporated Militia, and was

killed at Lundy’s Lane. Colonel McLean represented the county of

Frontenac in the Provincial parliament for many years, in the early part

of the present century, and was for sixteen years Speaker of the House

of Assembly. Eliza Macpherson died in 1885 in her eightieth year. Henry

Macpherson was educated at the Grammar School, Kingston, and afterwards

at Queen’s College, where he graduated as Bachelor of Arts in April,

1851. He studied law in the office of Thomas Kirkpatrick, Q.C., of

Kingston, who was afterwards M.P. for the county of Frontenac. He was

admitted as an attorney in Easter term in 1854, after which he entered

the law office of George A. Phillpotts, of Toronto, afterwards Junior

Judge of the county of York, where he remained until called to the bar,

in Hilary, term 1855. In March of that year, he commenced the practice

of his profession at Owen Sound, in the county of Grey, where he

continued until appointed judge of the County Court of that county in

January, 1865. Owen Sound was at that time a portion of the township of

Sydenham, but in 1856 it was incorporated as a town, having a population

of about 2,000. It was the county town of the county of Grey, which,

with the adjoining county of Bruce, was then comparatively a new

settlement, the population of Grey, according to the census of 1852,

being something over 13,000 and that of Bruce being between 2,000 and

3,000. The peninsula north of Owen Sound, between Georgian Bay and Lake

Huron, was then a wilderness and not yet surrendered by the Indians. The

roads through the counties were in a very bad condition, and until the

opening of the Northern Railway to Collingwood in the winter of 1854-5,

everything had to be brought to Owen Sound by vessel from Coldwater, or

teamed up from Guelph. A few years after this, the county of Grey

expended $200,000 in building about 180 miles of gravel roads through

the country, on which no toll gate was ever placed, and the county of

Bruce a few years after followed the example thus set of building a

number of leading gravel roads through the county without placing toll

gates on them. The population of the county of Grey at the last census,

in 1881, was over 75,000, and that of Bruce over 65,000. A number of

railways are now running through the counties, the Canadian Pacific

Railway having a lake terminus at Owen Sound, which has a population of

about 6,000, a dry dock capable of receiving very large steamers (the

first built in Canada above the Welland Canal), an excellent system of

waterworks, is lighted by electric lights, and to and from its harbour a

large fleet of steamers (including the Canadian Pacific Railway’s steel

steamships), and sailing vessels run to all the various ports on the

upper lakes. Besides the position of county judge to which Mr.

Macpherson was appointed in 1865, he holds the position of local judge

of the High Court of Justice, to which he was appointed in March, 1882;

of surrogate judge of the Maritime Court of Ontario, to which he was

appointed in February, 1879, and of revising officer of the North Riding

of Grey, to which he was appointed in October, 1885. Judge Macpherson

has long taken a great interest in Freemasonry, into which he was

initiated in June, 1857, in the city of Toronto, and in the fall of that

year, assisted by other brethren, he opened a lodge in Owen Sound under

a dispensation from Sir Allan Napier MacNab, grand master of the Ancient

Grand Lodge of Canada, and of which lodge he was the first worshipful

master. He is the only survivor of the original members of that lodge.

The Ancient Grand Lodge was in July of the following year merged in the

Grand Lodge of Canada. He has been a regular attendant at the meetings

of the Grand Lodge, and in 1863 was elected grand senior warden. He has

been, with the exception of two years, continuously a member of the

Board of General Purposes since its formation in 1861, has frequently

been and is at present vice-president of that board, and is also

chairman of the sub-committee on jurisprudence. He is also the

representative of the Grand Orient of Uruguay, and of the Grand Lodge of

Maryland, near the Grand Lodge of Canada. He has also taken an active

part in Capitular Masonry. He was exalted in February, 1858, and in

1866, assisted in the formation of a chapter in Collingwood, of which,

in 1867, he became first principal. In 1873, he assisted in the

formation of a chapter in Owen Sound, of which, at the commencement he

was first principal. In Grand Chapter, after filling the chairs of 3rd

and 2nd principal, he was, in 1883, elected grand first principal, which

office he held two years. He is also representative of the Grand Chapter

of California, near the Grand Chapter of Canada. He has also been

instrumental in the formation or carrying on of many local and other

societies. Judge Macpherson was the first secretary and afterwards

president of the Mechanics’ Institute. He has been president of the

North Riding of Grey Agricultural Society, and has been several times

and is now president of the Horticultural Society, and has been

vice-president of the Fruit Growers’ Association of Ontario. He was the

first captain and several years president of the Cricket Club, was

several years president and is now patron of the Curling Club, and has

been president of the Ontario branch of the Royal Caledonian Curling

Club. He also, in 1874, assisted in the formation of a joint stock

company to build a curling and skating rink, of which he was the first

president. This was the first company formed for this purpose under the

Ontario Act. He has also been president of the First Canada Rifle Club,

of the Gun Club, and of the Fish and Game Protection Society, and is now

chairman of the managing committee of the Owen Sound Club. In this age

of locomotion his travels can hardly be considered important, yet he has

travelled through Canada from Manitoba to Newfoundland, and through all

the great lakes. He has been through most of the states east of the

Mississippi from Minnesota to Florida; and has visited a number of

cities of the United States from St. Paul and Minneapolis to New

Orleans, and from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi. He was at the

Paris Exhibition of 1867, the Centennial Exhibition held at Philadelphia

in 1876, the Colonial Exhibition at London, and the International

Exhibition at Liverpool in 1886. He has visited the Bahama Islands, and

last winter travelled by sea from New York to New Orleans, up the

Mississippi to Memphis, and across home by rail, paying visits to the

different cities on the way, and also visiting the mammoth cave of

Kentucky, his journey being nearly 5,000 miles. He has also visited most

of the important cities and other points of interest in England and

Scotland, including the islands of Skye, Staffa, Iona, Man, Wight, etc.

During last summer, he also visited Egypt, including the Suez Canal, the

Nile, Cairo, the Pyramids, the battle field of Tel-el-Kebir, etc., going

by way of the Mediterranean and calling at Gibraltar and Malta,

travelling in all nearly 15,000 miles. He is a member of the Church of

England. In May, 1875, he married Eliza McGill McLean, second daughter

of Allan N. McLean, formerly of Toronto, now of London, England, and

grand-daughter of the late John McLean, formerly sheriff at Kingston,

who was a brother of the late Hon. Chief Justice McLean, of Toronto;

Mrs. Macpherson died in April, 1880, leaving two children, only one of

whom still survives.

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=Campbell, Rev. Kenneth A.=, Orillia, Ontario, was born in the township

of Thorah, Ontario county, on the 30th of November, 1837. His father,

Kenneth Campbell, was born in the county of Glengarry, Ontario, and was

one of the earliest settlers in the township of Thorah, and rendered

most valuable assistance to the Scottish immigrants, who afterwards

settled in that and neighbouring townships. Mr. Campbell was captain of

militia. Rev. Mr. Campbell received the rudimentary part of his

education in a public school of his native section, and afterwards made

a full course, preparatory to ordination, in St. Michael’s College,

Toronto, and was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Lynch, in St.

Joseph’s Church, Beaverton, on the 21st of September, 1854. He was

appointed assistant to the Very Rev. G. R. Northgroves, in the parish of

Barrie, and in April, 1856, he was appointed parish priest of Mara and

Orillia. In this charge he laboured with zeal for eight years. He built

a neat substantial brick church in the village of Brechin; attended to

the wants of the settlers of his faith in the district of Muskoka, and

discharged efficiently the duties of local superintendent of schools in

the townships of Mara and Rama. In June, 1872, he built the Church of

the Angels Guardian, in Orillia, a solid structure of fine architectural

design, and an ornament to the town. The interest of the congregation of

Orillia requiring a resident priest, the village was erected into a

separate parish, and Father Campbell was appointed to the charge in

1874. Upon his removal to Orillia, he set to work to erect the handsome

presbytery in which he now resides. Subsequently he built a solid,

well-planned, well-appointed separate school-house, and a tasteful brick

church in the village of Warminster. He not only attends to the

elementary instruction of the children under his care, but takes a deep

interest in higher education. Four years ago he was appointed by the

county council of Simcoe trustee of the High School Board, and on that

board he has held the position of chairman for the four years that he

has been a member thereof. Father Campbell has left his imprint for good

in the various important positions he has held, and we hope he may be

long spared to bless mankind.

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=Bruce, Rev. George=, B.A., Pastor of St. David’s (Presbyterian) Church,

St. John, New Brunswick, is a Scotchman by birth, having been born near

Aberdeen, Scotland, on 6th of September, 1837. His parents were John

Bruce and Elspeth Cadger. The family is an old one and can be traced far

back in the annals of Scotland. The Simpsons (Sir George and Thomas), of

Hudson Bay notoriety, were relatives, and Mr. Bruce, sen., remembers

when young George Simpson came to bid them good-bye before leaving for

America. Alexander Bruce, the eldest brother of John Bruce, was educated

in King’s College, Aberdeen. When the Rev. George Bruce was only four

years of age he was brought to Canada. The family settled in Markham,

near Toronto, and there they have been extensively engaged in various

kinds of business ever since, chiefly, however, in farming and milling.

George, the subject of this sketch, after receiving the usual public

school training, attended the Normal School in Toronto for some time;

and in 1863 he went to Whitby, where, under Thomas Kirkland, now

principal of the Toronto Normal School, he prepared himself for the

university. In September, 1864, he matriculated in the University of

Toronto, and four years afterwards he graduated from the same

institution. While attending the university he devoted himself to

general study, principally, however, in the direction of mathematics,

metaphysics, political economy and natural science (especially in regard

to its more modern developments, in which he took an exceptional

interest). He then entered Knox College, in the same city, and from this

college he graduated in 1871. While a student, Mr. Bruce became deeply

impressed with the great loss sustained by the church through the

frequent removal of student missionaries from their fields, on account

of their return to college every winter to pursue their studies, leaving

the fields unsupplied to the manifest and serious loss of the interest

and organization which had resulted from the labours of the missionary

during the summer. As licentiates were almost always settled in

congregations at once upon the completion of their studies, the smaller

and more sparsely settled mission fields were left almost entirely to

the student supply in the summer vacation. It seemed to him that the

only relief for this lay in getting students to give from one to two or

more years of voluntary work to these fields after they were licensed,

so as to bring them up to a stable and self-sustaining position. He

wrote a considerable number of articles calling attention to this

matter, and brought it before the General Assembly. In order to make

practical trial and do, himself, what was recommended, he took such work

for four years after he was licensed, declining to be ordained, though

he is not sure of the wisdom of that part of his course now, as

ordination gives additional fitness for the work falling to the hand of

the missionary. The system, however, gradually gained favour, and is now

almost universally put in practice in such fields, as far as young men

can be found willing to undertake such work. Rev. Mr. Bruce’s field lay

in the region of Newmarket and Aurora, Ontario, which, though old and

prosperous settlements, had suffered very much so far as the

Presbyterian church was concerned, from the system he had spoken of. Two

brick churches were built during the four years he resided there, and

the congregations were separated soon after and are both prosperous. In

September, 1876, he was ordained over the First Presbyterian Church in

St. Catharines, Ontario, where he remained seven years. This charge had

been one of the congregations established by the American Church, and

retained its name as such and its connection with the Presbytery of

Buffalo till immediately before his ordination. He was, therefore, the

first minister in the new relation, although it was a very old

congregation. During his ministry a brick church, the one now in use,

was erected. Rev. Mr. Bruce was for six years convener of the Home

Mission Committee of the Presbytery of Hamilton, and member of the

General Home Mission Committee of the church. In 1881 he was sent out

with the Rev. Dr. Cochrane by the Home Mission Committee to visit the

churches in Manitoba, and to meet with the presbytery and arrange for

the designation of the Rev. James Robertson as superintendent of

missions, as well as for the settlement of various other questions which

had been before the committee. On his way up to fulfil this appointment

he was on the steamer _City of Winnipeg_ when she was burnt at Duluth.

The fire took place at night and five lives were lost, the others

escaping with difficulty. Besides church work he has always had a deep

interest in educational matters, and has written a good deal in

connection with our system from time to time. In January, 1883, he was

inducted into his present charge, St. David’s Church, St. John, New

Brunswick. The congregation was one formed at the disruption as the Free

Church, and is a large and active one. Here as formerly he has taken a

deep interest in home mission work. Within the bounds of the large

presbytery there is a vast field. He is convener of an “Augmentation

Committee” for enlarging the salary of ministers in weak charges. Rev.

Mr. Bruce’s travels have not been great, although somewhat extended on

this continent, and almost incessant at times in church work. His trip

in 1881 to the North-West was an interesting experience of the “trail

and tent” life, as the Canadian Pacific Railway was only commenced, and

he passed the men at work several times. They had then attained a rate

of one mile per day, which was considered a wonder, although this speed

of track-laying was afterwards increased to three or even four miles per

day. His religious views have continued much the same in general

principles. He is a Presbyterian, and therefore, of course, a Calvinist

in doctrine. He has gone over all the ground carefully in connection

with scientific difficulties and other new phases, and with a mind, so

far as he knows, open to receive impressions and conviction. He believes

much enlargement has come from the study of Science in connection with

Religion, but has seen nothing to cause him to change his faith in the

“old doctrines.” It has been, he thinks, man’s narrow, mistaken, and

prejudiced construction of Bible teaching which has been the source of

the weakness, wherever there has really been a weakness. What is needed

is practical adaptation of teaching, preaching, and modes of work to the

requirements of the age. Broad sympathy and charity is the very pith and

marrow of the Gospel, and unswerving loyalty to the truth where it is

perceived. He has read extensively in rationalistic literature, the “new

theology” and evolutionary theories of revelation and man. He admires

the scientific spirit and patient research, but is deeply impressed with

the rash and superficial nature of much of the theorising so confidently

asserted. It is unscientific and unreliable. On the 18th June, 1884,

Rev. Mr. Bruce was married to Catherine Emily, third daughter of the

late John R. Dickson, M.D., president of the Royal College of Physicians

and Surgeons, Kingston, Ontario, and medical superintendent of the

Asylum for the Insane there. Dr. Dickson’s name is widely known in the

medical profession. He was especially celebrated as a surgeon, and in

the midst of a very extensive practice he found time to keep himself

abreast of the scientific progress of the age, and to take an active

interest in many matters of moral beneficence and religion. He came from

Ireland when quite young, part of the family remaining at home.

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=Stewart, John=, Superintendent of the Northern Division of the New

Brunswick Railway, Woodstock, New Brunswick, was born at St. Andrews,

N.B., on the 2nd February, 1845. His father, Duncan Stewart, was in

early life a colour-sergeant in the rifle brigade, and afterwards became

an officer in the Customs department, and served in that capacity at St.

John and at St. Stephen. John was educated at the St. Stephen and Calais

High schools. Some time after leaving school he entered the Customs

service, and acted as weigher and gauger at St. Stephen in 1864-5, when

he was appointed to the position of conductor on the New Brunswick and

Canada Railway, and acted as such until 1874, when he was promoted to a

superintendency. In 1882, after the consolidation of the line with the

New Brunswick Railway Company, he was appointed to and filled the office

of general superintendent until 1885, and then was made superintendent

of the Northern division, which office he now fills. Having a taste for

military affairs, he joined the volunteers when a mere youth, and held

the rank of captain in the St. Stephen Infantry School, and saw a good

deal of active service during the Fenian invasion of our frontiers. In

1872 he was made a Freemason, and has ever since taken an interest in

the order. Mr. Stewart is a member of the Presbyterian denomination. In

1874 he was married to Susan A. Haddock, daughter of J. Haddock, of St.

Andrews, and has a family consisting of three children.

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=Workman, Joseph=, M.D., Toronto, was born in Ballymacash, near the town

of Lisburn, Ireland, on the 26th May, 1805. He is descended from an

illustrious ancestry, the first of whom is noticed by Neale in his

history of the Puritans, namely, the Rev. William Workman, who was

lecturer at St. Stephen’s Church, in Gloucester, England, from 1618 to

1633, and whom the historian describes as a man of great piety, wisdom

and moderation. About that time Archbishop Laud had assumed power, and

was addressing himself with great energy to stemming the tide of

reformation which had set in. The images and pictures were restored to

the churches, and the clergy had begun to array themselves in gorgeous

vestments, such as those used by the clergy of the Roman Catholic

church. The Rev. Mr. Workman could not brook this state of things; and

in one of his sermons stigmatized pictures and statues of the founders

of Christianity, the fathers, and other eminent persons, as unfit

ornaments for churches, and declared that to set up images of Christ or

of the saints in the private houses was according to the Homily unlawful

and tended to idolatry. This sermon having been reported to Laud, the

Rev. Mr. Workman was brought before the Court of High Commission, and

after a short trial was convicted of heresy, deposed and excommunicated.

He now opened a school in order to support his family, but as an

excommunicated person he was inhibited from teaching youth. He then

commenced the practice of medicine, in which he had some skill, but the

archbishop forbade, and the result was that not knowing where to turn to

support his family, he fell into a settled melancholy and died. These

circumstances eventually made a deep impression on his children; and

they eagerly joined the parliamentary army, in which William Workman,

from whom the Canadian Workmans spring, held a commission, and was one

of those who met the charge of Prince Rupert on the field of Naseby.

This William served until 1648, when he went over to Ireland with Oliver

Cromwell; and on the close of the Irish campaign he retired from

military life, receiving as a reward for his services a grant of the two

town lands of Merlacoo, and two sizeacks in the county of Armagh. Of

these lands the old soldier held possession for only a short time. He

was in the midst of a hostile population, different in race and

religion, with bitter memories of defeat, and a passionate hunger for

vengeance, born of what they considered great wrongs. During Tyrconnel’s

administration he removed to county Down, near Donaghadee, whence he was

obliged to flee and shelter his old age behind the walls of Derry, soon

to be invested by King James’ army. He must have succumbed to the

appalling privations of the siege, as his name does not appear in the

history of an event which is so familiar in all its details. When at

last the besieging army, a long column of pikes and standards, was seen

retreating up the left bank of the Foyle, William Workman’s two sons and

their wives emerged from the war-scarred walls of Derry and settled in

the county of Antrim. One of the brothers settled at Brookend Mills,

near Coagh, whence he removed to Monymore, to take charge of the mill

there, and for more than a century this mill remained in charge of

successive generations of Workmans. Joseph Workman, the father of the

subject of our sketch, was the last of the family who resided at the

Monymore mill. This gentleman having made a visit of three years to the

United States, returned to Ireland and took up his abode at Ballymacash,

near the town of Lisburn, where his family, nine in number, were born,

all of whom ultimately came to Canada, and have left their mark on its

history. As will be seen from the above, the father of Joseph Workman

was of English descent, but his mother, Catharine Gondy, was descended

from a Scottish family. Joseph received his English education from a Mr.

Shields, and he was taught classics by J. Nealy, in Lisburn, Ulster, and

studied medicine in McGill College, Montreal. In 1836 he came to

Toronto, where he successfully practised his profession until July,

1853, when he was appointed by the government as medical superintendent

of the Asylum for the Insane at Toronto. This position he filled with

entire satisfaction until July, 1875, when he asked to be relieved of

the responsibility. And here we may say, Dr. Workman deserves well of

his adopted country, for no one could possibly have done more to bring

the institution over which he presided for so many years to a

comparative state of perfection, and to make the unfortunates under his

care more comfortable and happy. Dr. Workman is of a literary turn of

mind, and has contributed largely to various journals in the United

States and Canada. He is an associate member of several scientific

societies in Britain, Italy, the United States and Canada. He was one of

the commissioners appointed by the government to enquire into the

affairs of King’s College and Upper Canada College in 1848-50. In

religion the doctor may be styled a progressive liberal, and is willing

that all should search out the truth for themselves. He has generously

supported the Unitarian Church in Toronto from its infancy. In

consequence of close devotion to duty he has not been able to travel

much, yet he is very familiar with all parts of Canada. On the 30th May,

1835, he was married to Elizabeth Wassridge, a native of Sheffield,

England. This estimable lady died 16th May, 1885. The fruit of this

union has been six children, of whom three sons and two daughters now

survive.

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=Campbell, George W.=, A.M., M.D., LL.D.—The late Dr. Campbell was born

in Roseneath, Dumbartonshire, Scotland, in 1810. He entered early on his

medical studies, which he pursued in the Universities of Glasgow and

Dublin. After graduating with distinction he came to Canada in May,

1833, and settled in Montreal. His marked ability soon placed him in the

front ranks of his profession, and gave him a large share of city

practice. The success following him naturally led to his being very

frequently called in consultation by his _confrères_, and for many years

before his death very few cases of any importance were treated in

Montreal without the advice of Dr. Campbell having been obtained. His

sound knowledge of pathology, and naturally clear insight into the

varying shades of distinction between clinical conditions apt to

resemble each other, made him an expert in diagnosis. Surgery was always

his _forte_, and his great reputation chiefly made by many successful

achievements in operative work. In 1835 Dr. Campbell was appointed to

the chair of surgery in McGill University, which position he continued

to hold with credit to himself and great advantage to the school until

1875—exactly forty years—when, owing to failing health, he resigned.

He was made dean of the faculty in 1860, taking then the place of the

late Dr. Holmes. The duties of this office he fulfilled even after his

resignation of the chair of surgery, and it was only in March, 1882,

that Prof. Howard was appointed acting dean in order to relieve him of

some necessary work and supply his place during temporary absences. For

nearly half a century Dr. Campbell’s name was identified with the

medical faculty of McGill University, and it was largely due to his

ability as a teacher of surgery that this school attained the high

degree of popularity which it has so long enjoyed. As its dean, he

always possessed the fullest confidence of his colleagues, and under his

able management its policy was always dignified and liberal, whilst

internal dissensions were entirely unknown. Dr. Campbell did not write

much for the medical journals. “Deeds, not words,” was his motto. But

his work as a successful teacher, and as a member of the corporation of

the university, led to the appropriate bestowal of the honorary degree

of LL.D. His style of lecturing was free from all oratorical effort, but

it was clear, forcible and impressive. Hundreds of practitioners

throughout this continent and elsewhere owe the foundations of their

surgical knowledge to Dr. Campbell’s early teaching. As the acknowledged

head of the profession in Montreal, he was often called upon to

entertain strangers and professional visitors, and most worthily did he

perform this duty. His house always held for such a true-hearted Scotch

reception, for he was a warm-hearted host, and his pleasant, cheery

manner, his sparkling reminiscences, his stores of learning always

bright, his animated conversation, made an evening spent in his company

always something to be remembered. He took great pleasure in seeing his

friends around him, and all know well the kindly and generous

hospitality which for years has been dispensed from his house by himself

and his talented family. For some years previous to his death Dr.

Campbell suffered from bronchitis, and was obliged to retire from active

practice and give himself more rest. He had also suffered from slight

attacks of pneumonia, and when in London, in 1882, on a visit, pneumonia

again set in, but being somewhat better, he went to Edinburgh, where,

however, more serious symptoms showed themselves, and he expired on the

30th of May of that year. The example of such a man as Dr. Campbell

cannot fail to be productive of great good. An accomplished physician

and skilful surgeon, an upright, honourable citizen, a kind and

considerate friend to the poor, a loved and honoured counsellor of the

rich, zealous in business but scrupulously honourable, a firm protector

of the dignity of his profession, and, above all, a thoroughly

consistent Christian gentleman.

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=Coburn, George Hayward=, M.D., Physician and Surgeon, Fredericton, New

Brunswick, was born at Sheffield, Sunbury county, N.B., on the 10th

March, 1855. His parents were Moses Henry Coburn and Hepzibah Coburn. He

received his literary education at the Sunbury Grammar School, and at

the University of New Brunswick. Having chosen medicine as a profession,

he spent some years at the University of Pennsylvania, United States, in

study, with that end in view, and graduated from that institution with

honours in 1875. On his return to his native province he began the

practice of his profession, and has succeeded in building up a large

business. In 1883 Dr. Coburn was appointed health officer in

Fredericton, and still retains the position. In 1885 he was chosen a

member of the Board of Health for the same city; and in 1887 he was

chosen chairman of the board. During the same year he was appointed a

member of the Provincial Board of Health. In religion he is an adherent

of the Methodist church; and in politics is a Liberal. On the 19th June,

1878, he was married to Mary Gamble, of Philadelphia, U.S. Their family

consists of two children.

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=Foster, James Gilbert=, Q.C., Barrister, Halifax, was born on the 13th

of June, 1839, at Aylesford, Kings county, Nova Scotia. His father,

Rufus Foster, was descended from a family of the United Empire

loyalists, who took refuge in Nova Scotia at the time of the American

revolution; and his mother, Christina Foster, was of Scotch descent,

having come when about seven years of age with her parents from

Scotland, and the family settled in the same province. James Foster

received a common school education, and studied law with the Hon.

Alexander James. On the 10th of May, 1864, Mr. Foster was admitted an

attorney-at-law and barrister, of her Majesty’s Supreme Court of

Judicature; and the 20th of May, 1865, he became a partner with Mr.

James in his legal business, and this partnership continued until Mr.

James was elevated, in January, 1877, to the Supreme Court of Nova

Scotia, as judge in Equity, when a dissolution took place. Mr. Foster

then took his brother, William R. Foster, into partnership with him, and

now the old business is carried on by the new firm. On the 23rd

February, 1867, he was appointed a notary public; and on the 9th of

October, 1878, he was made a Queen’s counsel by the Nova Scotia

government. In September, 1863, Mr. Foster was appointed first

lieutenant of the 6th regiment, Halifax county militia; and on the 19th

of June, 1865, was promoted to the captaincy of the 5th company of the

same corps. He attended the Military School of Instruction at Halifax,

and passed an examination, taking a second-class certificate for

candidates for commissions in the active militia, November 12th, 1869.

In August, 1883, he was appointed major in the reserve militia, of the

Nova Scotia regimental division of the county of Halifax, from No. 7

company division. From May, 1879 to May 1882, he held the office of

recorder and stipendiary magistrate of Dartmouth; and on the 29th of

May, 1879, was appointed justice of the peace for the county of Halifax.

On the 6th of July, 1884, he was made a commissioner for arranging and

preparing for the press, and indexing the fifth series of the Revised

Statutes of Nova Scotia; and in August, 1886, was appointed registrar of

the Court of Probate for the county of Halifax. From June, 1877, to

March, 1886, Mr. Foster held the position of vice-consul for the

Netherlands, at Halifax. During the years 1880 and 1881, he negotiated

with several railway syndicates, for the purpose of carrying out the

scheme for the amalgamation and completion of the Nova Scotia railways,

proposed by the Local government of the time; and in 1881, he was

authorized by Cyrus W. Field and associates, who were large owners of

the Pictou coal mines, to negotiate proposals for that purpose with the

Local government and the late Sir Hugh Allan, then owner of the Eastern

Extension Railway in Nova Scotia—one of the railways in question. The

government was, however, pledged to what was known as the Plunkett

syndicate, which, finally fell through, and the government was defeated

in the general elections of the following year, 1882. The policy of the

succeeding government being averse to the scheme for railway

amalgamation, and railway interests becoming in the meantime much

depressed, Mr. Field and his friends did not care to renew their

proposals. Mr. Foster was brought up and has always been a member of the

Church of England. He has represented the parish of Dartmouth, as a lay

delegate in the Synod of the Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward

Island, since April 13th, 1874; and on the 23rd of April, 1879, was made

one of the executive committee of the Synod. During the years 1877,

1883, and 1886, he represented the same diocese, as one of its delegates

in the Provincial Synod of Canada. Mr. Foster is a Liberal in politics;

and at the general election in 1882, was a candidate for the House of

Assembly of Nova Scotia, but failed to secure his election, having been

defeated by a trifling majority.

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=Barker, Frederic Eustace=, M.A., D.C.L., Q.C., M.P., St. John, New

Brunswick. F. E. Barker is a native of Sheffield, in the county of

Sunbury, in the province of New Brunswick, where he was born on the 27th

December, 1838. His father, the late Enoch Barker, has been dead for

some years. The family settled in Sheffield at the time of the American

revolution, having before that resided in Massachusetts. Mr. Barker,

jr., was educated at the Sunbury Grammar School, principally under the

tuition of the Rev. George S. Milligan, M.A., now superintendent of

Education in Newfoundland. He matriculated at King’s College,

Fredericton (now the University of New Brunswick), in June, 1853, and

graduated as B.A. in June, 1856. At his degree examination the examiners

voluntarily recommended him for honours, which the College Council

accordingly granted. He was admitted to the degree of M.A. in June,

1858; B.C.L. in December, 1861; and D.C.L. in June, 1866. He took all

these degrees in regular course from the University of New Brunswick, an

institution in which he has always taken an active interest. Mr. Barker

was principally instrumental in the formation of “The Associated Alumni

of the University of N.B.,” was for some time president of that body,

and one of its representatives in the University Senate. He is also one

of the Civil Law Examiners for this University. In June, 1856, Mr.

Barker was entered as a law student with the late Justice Fisher, then a

practising barrister at Fredericton. In June, 1860, he was admitted an

attorney of the Supreme Court, and a year later he was called to the

bar; and in April, 1873, he was appointed a Q.C. by the Dominion

government. Mr. Barker commenced practice at Grand Falls, in New

Brunswick, but only remained there a few months, when he removed to the

city of St. John, where he has since resided and practised. In 1863, he

formed a partnership with the present Justice Wetmore (then one of the

leaders of the N.B. bar), which continued until that gentleman went on

the bench in 1870. In 1875, Mr. Barker was appointed by the Provincial

government one of the commissioners for consolidating the Statutes of

New Brunswick. Mr. Barker at one time took an active interest in militia

matters. In May, 1864, he was gazetted ensign; in August of the same

year lieutenant; in February, 1865, captain, and in July, 1868, major in

the St. John city Light Infantry. He has been for many years one of the

benchers and a member of the council of the Barristers’ Society of N.B.,

and a member of the council of the St. John Law Society. He is now

vice-president of the Barristers’ Society; president of the St. John

Bridge and Railway Extension Company, and one of the directors of the

St. John Gas Company. Mr. Barker has always belonged to what is now

known as the Liberal-Conservative party in politics. When the retirement

of Sir Leonard Tilley, in October, 1885, caused a vacancy in the

representation for the city of St. John in the House of Commons, Mr.

Barker was almost unanimously elected as the Liberal-Conservative

candidate by a large and influential committee nominated to choose a

candidate; and at the election which took place on 24th November, 1885,

he was elected to the House of Commons by a majority of 112, about the

same as that usually obtained by Sir Leonard, his predecessor. Mr.

Barker is a member of the Church of England. He has at times visited the

chief cities in Great Britain, United States and Canada. He was married

(first) at St. John, in October, 1865, to Elizabeth Julia, daughter of

the late Edward Lloyd, of the R. E. civil staff, who died in January,

1874; and (second) to Mary Ann, daughter of the late B. E. Black, of

Halifax, and niece and adopted daughter of the late Justice Wilmot, who

was the first lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick after confederation.

By the first marriage Mr. Barker has one son and two daughters, and by

the latter two daughters.

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=Murphy, Owen=, Quebec, M.P.P. for Quebec West, was born at Stoneham, in

the province of Quebec, on 9th December, 1829. He is descended from a

long line of illustrious ancestors, as may be seen on referring to the

“Chronicles of Leinster.” This authority says; “The O’Murphys, the

O’Murchoes, or Murphy, are descended from Henry Feling, chieftain of the

Murroes, now called Macamores, in the Barony of Ballaghkeen, in the

county of Wexford. They were in possession of it before the English

invasion. This Feling was son of Cuma-Kinsellagh, King of Leinster, in

the fifth century. The head of the family, in 1634, lived in

Tubberlimmach. He was Connell O’Murchoe, gentleman, the eldest son of

Donnell More, ‘The O’Murchoe,’ son of Art, son of Tiege. This Connell

died in 1634, and was buried in Castle Ellis [the burial-place of Mr.

Murphy’s family in the county of Wexford.—ED.]. He left five sons:

Tiege was the eldest, he remained in Wexford; also James, who possessed

an estate in Killincoolly, taken from him by Cromwell. Art went to

county Louth in 1641; his descendants remained in the north. Another,

named Laughlin, lived in Ballyoughna.” The Murphys of Ballainonlart

House, in Wexford, have been known for generations as one of the most

popular families in that district, and we believe we are correct in

affirming that Owen Murphy’s father was the only member of the family

who settled in this country, which he did in the early part of the

present century. Many people still living in the city of Quebec remember

well the generous and liberal spirit that at all times actuated him, and

this, combined with his peculiarly rich attainments and cultivated mind,

rendered him a highly popular citizen, and when death came, caused him

to be greatly regretted. None the less eminent were his three brothers,

all of whom attained for themselves very high ecclesiastical honors and

dignity, one of whom being for many years bishop of Ferns, in Ireland.

Owen Murphy was educated under Robert H. Scott, of Edinburgh, a

gentleman of high culture, with a reputation far above ordinary as a

tutor. His commercial training was received in the offices of Ross,

Shuter & Co., and H. J. Noad & Co., two of the most important lumber,

ship-owning, produce and milling firms then in the city or province of

Quebec. Mr. Murphy’s aptitude and zeal in his profession gained for him

the commendation of his employers, and the result was that he soon

became not only a favourite with them, but with the public generally. He

was elected to serve in the city council, as representative for St.

Paul’s ward, the most important business section of the city, and for

several years faithfully served the citizens in that capacity. In 1874,

as a mark of the high esteem in which he was held, he was chosen mayor

of the ancient capital; and as a further mark of esteem he was again, in

1876, elected for another term of two years. During the period he

occupied the position of chief magistrate he exhibited such zeal for the

city’s welfare that on his retirement from office he carried with him

the esteem and best wishes of his fellow citizens. And here we may say

that the improvements suggested by Lord Dufferin, when he was

governor-general of Canada, and which have made Quebec one of the most

beautiful places for the tourist in which to spend a few days, were

suggested when Mr. Murphy was mayor, and through combined efforts they

were carried out to a successful conclusion. In August, 1875, while Mr.

Murphy was mayor of Quebec, he paid a visit to Britain, and of course to

the land of his forefathers. The Wexford _Independent_ thus kindly

alludes to the event:

THE MAYOR OF QUEBEC AT WEXFORD.—This respected functionary,

accompanied by the mayoress of Quebec, arrived here on Saturday

last from Dublin. His worship is staying at the West Gate Hotel,

and is a nephew of the late Right Rev. Dr. Murphy, the estimable

and lamented bishop of the diocese, the truly apostolic divine,

the scholar, and in every sense the well-bred Irish gentleman.

He is also a nephew of the _ci-devant_ pastor of Castlecomer, in

the diocese of Ossary, the late Very Reverend Lawrence Murphy,

and of the late Rev. Michael Murphy, for many years the zealous

collaborateur of Father Corrin in the pastoral charge of

Wexford. Although born on a foreign soil, Mr. Murphy ardently

loves the land of his ancestors—not with wild and misdirected

enthusiasm, but like his estimable uncles, with judgment,

discretion and sincerity; and in saying that he has inherited

many of their distinguished characteristics, we pay him the

highest compliment in our power to bestow. At the great

international banquet given by the corporation of London

(England) lately to the great municipal chiefs of the whole

civilized world, the mayor of Quebec was chosen to return

thanks, not only for the Dominion of Canada, but for the

municipalities of the United States, and the other rising

nations of the western world.

Mr. Murphy is a justice of the peace for the city and district of

Quebec; a director of the Quebec Central Railroad; has been president of

the St. Patrick’s Society; president of St. Patrick’s Literary Society;

for four years president of the Quebec Turf Club, and was one of the

committee of management of St. Patrick’s Church, prior to the change

being made in the temporal administration of that church. In 1880 he was

elected president of the Quebec Board of Trade, and the following year

was again unanimously elected for another term. At the general election

held in 1866 he was elected to represent Quebec West in the local

legislature. In politics he is a Liberal, but is in favour of the

national policy. In religion he is an adherent of the Roman Catholic

church. He was married in 1857 to Elizabeth, daughter of the late James

Loughry.

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=Smith, Rev. H. Percy W.=, Rector of St. Paul’s Church, Dunnville,

Ontario, was born at Islington, London, England, on the 13th September,

1837. His parents, William and Mary Smith, are both alive, and residing

in Canada. Rev. Mr. Smith received his early education at private

schools in his birthplace, and when thirteen years of age entered a

wholesale drapery establishment, where he continued for about seven

years. This business not being entirely in accordance with his taste, he

abandoned it, and entered St. Augustin’s College, Canterbury, to study

for the ministry. In February, 1864, he bade farewell to England, and

set sail on the _Bohemian_ steamship for Canada. When eighteen days out

the _Bohemian_ struck the rocks near Portland, and became a total wreck,

and through this mishap he unfortunately lost his library and outfit.

Shortly after reaching Canada, in 1864, he was ordained deacon by the

Bishop of Ontario, and two years afterwards, priest by the Bishop of

Montreal. For the past ten years he has been rector of St. Paul’s

Church, at Dunnville, and is very much respected by his parishioners. He

was married in 1866 to Lizzie, third daughter of the late Colonel

Edwards, of March, Ontario.

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=Mackay, Alexander Howard=, B.A., B.Sc., F.S.Sc. (Lond.), Pictou, Nova

Scotia. Alexander Mackay, the paternal grandfather of the subject of

this sketch, and the progenitor of a numerous family, many of whom are

favourably known in Canada as members of the learned professions, was

born in Sutherlandshire, Scotland, in 1762. He emigrated to Mount

Dalhousie, in the county of Pictou, Nova Scotia, in 1822, took up

several hundred acres of land for farming, and in 1847 died, loved and

revered by a large community who looked up to him as a patriarchal

chief. His second son, John Mackay, was born in Sutherlandshire, in

1810, and emigrated with his father and the rest of the family in 1822.

In 1836 he travelled through a portion of the United States of America,

and Ontario, in Canada, where he took up some land; but finally settled

down on the old homestead. In 1847 he married Barbara Maclean, who was

born at Roger’s Hill, in the county of Pictou, in 1823. Her father, John

Maclean, was born in the west of Scotland, about 1758, and died at

Roger’s Hill in 1848. From this marriage came a family of seven boys and

three girls. The eldest, Alexander Howard Mackay, was born on the 19th

May, 1848. His father was a man of remarkable probity of character, of

very superior intellectual powers, and enthusiastically patriotic. In

addition to the farm, a mechanic’s shop, with a turner’s and

cabinetmaker’s tools and machinery, supplied the ways and means. There

was no luxury, however. Hard manual work, alternated with study, was

used in developing the various and versatile powers of the whole man.

The play of mechanical ingenuity, original constructive effort, and

acute investigation, filled the hours of recreation. This family

discipline was a perfect success. The father, John Mackay, died February

22nd, 1879. The mother is living in good health at the date of writing,

August, 1887. Young Alexander could read and write before he went to the

public school, which was two miles distant. The farm and the school

divided his time; but the leisure hour found him constructing a sextant,

theodolite, or transit instrument, which he never previously saw, and

with which he made remarkably accurate measurements; or making some

apparatus to demonstrate a law in physics or chemistry; or exploring the

natural history of the picturesque glen running through the homestead.

In 1865 the trustees of the school section pressed him to take charge of

their school. Although he had no license, never having thought of

becoming a teacher, he accepted the position. In 1866 he graduated at

the head of his class from the Provincial Normal School at Truro. In

1867 he attended the Pictou Academy, and at the provincial examination

of teachers following, won the first place. In the fall of 1869 he

matriculated in Dalhousie College, and for four years was a leading

prizeman in his classes. He graduated a B.A. in April, 1873, with

special honours in mathematics and physics. He was also the

valedictorian of his class, and was for the last three years of his

undergraduate course an editor of the college paper, _The Dalhousie

Gazette_. He also took classes in the School of Science in the

Provincial Museum, under the provincial geologist, Dr. Honeyman; and in

the Medical College, then affiliated with Dalhousie. After graduation he

was appointed principal of the County Academy at Annapolis Royal, and a

few months later received the unsolicited appointment to the

principalship of the Pictou Academy and public schools of Pictou, which

position he holds at present. He assumed charge of the Pictou Academy,

November 1st, 1873, since which time the staff and attendance of the

institution have been more than doubled. In 1874 he was elected

president of the Education Convention of Nova Scotia, a position to

which he was re-elected. From this time he has taken a very active and

forward part in promoting educational reform through the press and

otherwise. In 1876 he spent a portion of the year in studying the

educational appliances in the leading cities of the eastern United

States. His efforts culminated in 1881, in the erection of the present

Pictou Academy, one of the finest and best equipped academic buildings

in Canada. Its facilities for scientific teaching are greater than are

those of many colleges. In 1880 he graduated a B.Sc. from the University

of Halifax, with first class honours in biology. In addition to his

educational work, he has also found time to engage in original

scientific investigation. His papers or work may be found in the

“Proceedings” of several scientific societies. His popular scientific

writings have been numerous and widely diffused. In 1884 he was elected

a member of committee of the Biological section of the British

Association meeting in Montreal. In 1886 he was elected a fellow of the

Society of Science, Letters and Art, London. And the same year he was

elected president of the Alumni of Dalhousie College and University; and

also, president of the Nova Scotia Summer School of Science. He knows no

rest, for at the same time he is a member of a multitude of local

societies, and in every sense an active citizen. He is a member of the

Kirk Session of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Pictou; but also

contributes to other denominations. He believes in a catholic union of

all Christian effort, and a scientific expansion of religious

philosophy. In local politics he independently supports educational

reform. In Dominion politics he avows a preference for the policy of the

Liberal-Conservative party. He is a Britisher, first, against the whole

world; and a Canadian all the time, and will fight. He has just started

the “Educational Review” (of which he is Nova Scotian editor), in

company with G. U. Hay, Ph.B., of St. John, New Brunswick, and Principal

Anderson, of the Prince of Wales College, Prince Edward Island. In 1882

he married Maude Augusta Johnstone, only daughter of Dr. George Moir

Johnstone, M.R.C.S., London, and his wife, _née_ Sarah Mortimer Smith,

of Pictou town.

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=Archibald, Abram Newcomb=, was born in Stewiacke, Nova Scotia, June

2nd, 1849, and died in Halifax, November 27, 1883. He was the seventh

son of Daniel Archibald, J.P., and Rebecca Newcombe, his wife, both of

whom are still living (December, 1886). Daniel Archibald is a great

grandson of Samuel Archibald, the second of four brothers from

Londonderry, Ireland, who settled in Colchester county, in 1762. This

family has produced many distinguished men, including among others the

late S. G. W. Archibald, Master of the Rolls, and his two sons, Sir

Thomas D. and Sir Edward M. Archibald, Sir Adams G. Archibald and

Senator T. D. Archibald. Mr. Archibald attended the schools of his

native place in his boyhood, and subsequently pursued his classical

studies for a couple of years under the tuition of his brother, the Rev.

E. N. Archibald, M.A. In 1867 he took charge of the public school at

Musquodoboit, Halifax county; in May, 1876, he was appointed principal

of Richmond School, Halifax city; and in November, 1879, principal of

Albro School. He resigned this latter position in July, 1881, on his

appointment to the office of secretary and superintendent, of colportage

for the British American Book and Tract Society, with headquarters in

Halifax. In the discharge of his new duties, Mr. Archibald visited all

the centres of population in the lower provinces and addressed public

meetings. Early in 1883 he proceeded to Britain, on business connected

with the society, and to present its claims to the British public, being

accompanied on this tour by his wife and son. Mr. Archibald was invited

to speak in many of the principal churches in Edinburgh and Glasgow, as

well as before the United Presbyterian Synod and the Free Church

Assembly, which met in Edinburgh in May. He was also present by

invitation and spoke at the annual missionary breakfast of the Religious

Tract Society, held in the Cannon Street Hotel, London. The interest

awakened by Mr. Archibald’s addresses was very gratifying, and resulted

in his obtaining liberal subscriptions to the funds of the society. On

his return to Halifax in the autumn, Mr. Archibald was able to present a

most satisfactory report of his mission, and received the warmest thanks

of the committee. Shortly after resuming his work in Nova Scotia, he was

seized with typhoid fever, and although a very strong man, he finally

succumbed to the attack. Many public bodies, as well as private

individuals on both sides of the Atlantic, gave formal expression to

their deep sense of the loss sustained in his death. Mr. Archibald was a

ready and persuasive speaker and a good writer. Many of his essays and

addresses have been published. He always took a leading part in

educational, temperance, Sabbath-school and all religious work. As

president of the Halifax Sunday-school Union, he occupied the chair at

the great centenary meeting held in Halifax, July 3rd, 1880; and at the

time of his death he was a member of the executive committee of the

Young Men’s Christian Association of Halifax. Mr. Archibald married,

December 14th, 1874, Mary Mellish, third daughter of James L. Mellish,

of Pownal, P.E.I. They had one son, Raymond Clare, born October 8th,

1875. Mrs. Archibald was re-appointed chief preceptress of Mount Allison

Ladies’ College, Sackville, N.B., in 1885, having held that position

previous to her marriage.

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