=Silver, William Chamberlain=, President of the Chamber of Commerce,

Halifax, Nova Scotia, was born at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on December 3rd,

1814. He is a son of William Nyren Silver, of Port Lee, Hampshire, of

the Silvers of Ropley, Whitechurch, Southampton, England; and of

Elizabeth Chamberlain, whose family left New England at the close of the

revolutionary war. Mr. Silver received his education at the Halifax

Academy. When only twenty years of age he served as a colour sergeant in

the Light Infantry volunteers, and participated in the military display

held in honour of the coronation of Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, in

1838. He went early into business, and only of late years relaxed his

habit of constant application, so far as to spend the summer months with

his family, at a beautiful spot about six miles from Halifax, known as

River Bank, overlooking a long reach of Little Salmon River, a stream

well stocked with sea trout and salmon. This place was for a long time

the country seat of his father, and here Mr. Silver, when young,

naturally developed a strong _penchant_ for the “gentle art,” and became

a devoted disciple of Izaak Walton. Although he has taken a close

interest in politics, and been repeatedly pressed to accept nominations

for the Local and Dominion legislatures, as well as for the mayoralty of

his native city, yet, in consequence of lack of robust health, and the

heavy demands on his time of other public and private duties, he has

invariably declined. Mr. Silver, throughout the whole course of his

life, has incessantly laboured in the ranks of the temperance reformers,

and his name has stood prominent in every fresh effort to advance a

cause he has so much at heart. He joined the order of the Sons of

Temperance soon after its introduction into Nova Scotia, and in 1882 the

brotherhood conferred upon him the office of grand worthy patriarch of

the Grand Division of Nova Scotia. He has served as president of the

Halifax School Association, an association which carried to a successful

issue the object for which it was formed, viz., the establishment of a

public high school, the elevation of the standard of education in the

city schools, and the securing of equal rights to all in the educational

system. For many years he was vice-president of the Halifax Chamber of

Commerce, and as chairman of the Internal Trade Committee, he, with

others, took an active part in urging the government to base the tariff

of the Intercolonial Railway Company on principles adapted to national

development, as distinguished from trade principles. Mr. Silver also

served as chairman of the Joint Committee of Citizens and the Chamber of

Commerce, whose urgent representations to the government of the great

importance of extending the Intercolonial Railway to a more central

point of the city than the Richmond terminus, of the necessity for

building a deep water terminus and grain elevator, and of landing the

British mails at Halifax instead of Portland, contributed largely to the

accomplishment of these objects. Since 1884 Mr. Silver has been

president of the Chamber of Commerce. For many years he acted as

treasurer, and is now president of the Halifax Western Agricultural

Society, and was always an active promoter of the industrial and

agricultural exhibitions held in Halifax from time to time. For about

twenty years he has been treasurer of the Institute of Natural Science,

a society whose useful work is well known, and whose valued publications

are widely distributed through the scientific world. He has also filled

the office of president of the St. George’s Society, and for some years

was vice-president of the Halifax Library (eventually transferred to the

city). For many years he has been president of the Halifax Medical

Dispensary, and vice-president of the School for the Blind of the

Maritime provinces. In politics he was a Conservative up to the time of

confederation, when he joined the Liberals in opposing it. After the

Hon. Joseph Howe’s return from England, when it became clear that repeal

was impossible, he accepted the situation, and returned to the ranks of

the Conservatives, but on the unearthing of the Pacific scandal he again

changed sides. He took no part in the recent attempts to separate Nova

Scotia from the confederation. Mr. Silver has travelled a good deal. In

January, 1840, he sailed from Halifax for Liverpool in the barque

_Corsair_, steam navigation at that date being still in its infancy.

After a succession of heavy gales the ship was cast away near the mouth

of the Mersey river, when Mr. Silver and the other passengers were saved

by a lifeboat. On other occasions he has visited Europe with Mrs.

Silver, and in 1879 spent part of the summer in that garden of England,

the Isle of Wight. He has been a member of the Church of England from

childhood, but has always been found working shoulder to shoulder for

the common good with members of other religious bodies. He has acted as

representative of the church, first in the Diocesan Church Society, and

in later years both in the local and provincial synods, the latter of

which holds its sessions in Montreal. Among other offices connected with

church work, he filled the post of vice-president of the British and

Foreign Bible Society; president of the Halifax Church Institute;

vice-president of the Young Men’s Christian Association; chairman of the

Church Endowment Fund; vice-president of the Alumni of King’s College;

and governor of the same university. In 1885 he took part in an effort

to confederate the colleges of Nova Scotia, which, however, failed to

effect the object aimed at. Mr. Silver was married on the 2nd September,

1840, to Margaret Ann, daughter of Benjamin Etter, of “Bellevue,”

Halifax, N.S. Mrs. Silver’s mother was the daughter of a loyalist (and

also Mr. Silver’s mother). They left fortune and position in New England

at the close of the war of independence to follow the British standard

to Nova Scotia. Eight sons and five daughters were the fruit of this

union, all of whom are still living save two. Three of his sons are

associated with him in business; one, a graduate of Kings College and a

LL.B. of Harvard University Law Faculty, is practising law in Halifax;

and another is preparing for the medical profession at the University of

Edinburgh. One of his daughters is the wife of John Y. Payzant,

solicitor; another is married to Rev. John Morton, organizer of a most

extensive and successful missionary enterprise in the island of

Trinidad, British West Indies.

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=Murphy, Martin=, Civil Engineer, Halifax, Nova Scotia, second son of

Thomas Murphy, contractor, was born at Ballindaggin, near Enniscorthy,

county Wexford, Ireland, on the 11th November, 1832. He received his

education at the best schools in his native county; and having selected

engineering as a profession, he has been employed without intermission

as a civil engineer and contractor from 1852 to the present time. When

only nineteen years, of age he joined the engineering staff of the late

William Dargan, and continued in the same employment for eleven years.

During this period his practice extended over the various public works

of the time constructed by Mr. Dargan throughout Ireland. At the age of

twenty-four he was engineer and manager of railway construction, and at

thirty was resident engineer of the Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway,

then in operation to Enniscorthy, in which position he continued until

he came to America in 1868. He was employed during 1869 and 1870 as

engineer for extension of streets and sewerage in the city of Halifax;

then for the next two years in making surveys for the extension of

railways in Nova Scotia. For the next four years he was contractor on

the Intercolonial Railway of Canada. He was appointed provincial

government engineer for the province of Nova Scotia in 1876, a position

which he still holds. In Nova Scotia he exercised supervision over the

construction of the Western Counties, the Eastern Extension, and the

Spring Hill and Parrsboro’ railways, now in operation, and the Nova

Scotia Central and Maccan and Joggins railways, now being constructed.

He was consulted by the colonial government of Newfoundland respecting

railways. He has replaced nearly all the old wooden bridges of the

province of Nova Scotia with permanent structures of stone, concrete and

iron, and is now urging a system of road-making and maintenance. Mr.

Murphy is a member of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers; a member

of the council of the Institute of Natural Science of Nova Scotia; and

also the author of several engineering papers. In 1861 he married Maria

Agnes Buckley, youngest daughter of Cornelius Buckley, of Banteer,

county Cork, Ireland.

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=Barclay, Rev. John=, D.D., Presbyterian Minister, and honorary Chaplain

of the St. Andrew’s Society of Toronto, was born in Ayrshire, Scotland,

and died at Toronto on the 27th September, 1887, in his seventy-fifth

year. He came to Canada in 1842, and in December of the same year was

inducted pastor of the St. Andrew’s Church, then on the corner of Church

and Adelaide streets, Toronto. He retained the pastorate of this church

until 1870, when he was succeeded by the Rev. D. J. Macdonnell. Shortly

after this event the congregation divided, the majority going west to

the new church erected on the corner of King and Simcoe streets; and the

remainder, after a few more years occupation of the venerable church

edifice, also removed to a handsome church erected on the corner of

Jarvis and Carlton streets, the old pile being then removed to give

place to a block of new buildings. During his lifetime Rev. Dr. Barclay

was one of the business men of the church, and for some years clerk of

the presbytery; a member of the Temporalities Board; a trustee of

Queen’s College; and withal an ardent curler. In 1855 the University of

Glasgow conferred upon him the degree of D.D. He was not in good health

for some time previous to his death. The deceased gentleman began

immediately after his arrival in this country to take an active interest

in curling, and many of his friends remonstrated with him at that time,

considering it unbecoming a clergyman to indulge in such recreation; but

he maintained that the mind and body were only strengthened by such

invigorating exercise as the participation in this sport afforded, and

now-a-days there are many enthusiastic curlers in the ministry. About

seven years ago a controversy arose in the Ontario branch of the Royal

Caledonian Curling Club, as to whether the Ontario branch should cut

loose altogether from the older institution. James Russell proposed that

the Ontario branch should retain its connection with the R.C.C.C., on

condition that it be permitted to make its own laws and regulations, and

spend its money in the way best calculated to promote curling in

Ontario. Dr. Barclay strongly opposed any change from the original

arrangement, by which the Ontario branch was subservient to the

R.C.C.C., but after a struggle, Mr. Russell’s idea was adopted. Dr.

Barclay was chaplain of the Toronto Club for many years, and of the

Ontario branch since its formation. He made many friends in the city of

his adoption during his long and useful career, and his remains were

conveyed to their last resting place accompanied by a large concourse of

his acquaintances.

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=Laviolette, Hon. Joseph Gaspard=, Montreal, M.L.C. for the Division of

De Lorimier, is a son of the late Lieut.-Colonel Laviolette, of St.

Eustache, county of Two Mountains, and Madame Adelaide Lemaire, St.

Germain, and was born at St. Eustache, on the 2nd March, 1812. After

attending the primary schools of his native town, he was sent to the

College of Montreal to complete his education, and went through a

thorough course of classical studies. He is seignior of the seigniory of

Sherrington, county of Napierville, and holds a commission of

lieutenant-colonel in the militia. He was appointed census commissioner

by the government of Canada in 1860, and again in 1870 by the same

government. He has occupied the post of warden of the county of

Napierville, and was also elected mayor of the town, and held a

commission of justice of the peace and commissioner for the summary

trial of small causes. Hon. Mr. Laviolette has always been an active

politician and a supporter of the Conservative party. He was appointed

to the Legislative Council of the province of Quebec, in 1876, for the

division of De Lorimier. For several years he was a director of the

Montreal and Champlain Railway. He was married twice, the first time to

Célanire, a daughter of the late Lieut.-Colonel Portelance, M.P.P.; the

second time to Corine, a daughter of André Bédard, N.P., brother to

Justice Bédard. He has a family of six children, two sons and four

daughters; one son is a merchant in San Francisco, Cal., the other a

druggist and M.D., in Montreal; three sons-in-law: A. Bélaire, merchant,

of St. Eustache, J. Girouard, M.D., of Longueuil, A. Marsolais, M.D., of

Montreal, and the late L. N. Duverger, merchant, of Montreal.

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=Campbell, Francis Wayland=, M.A. (Bishop’s College), M.D. (McGill),

L.R.C.P. (London, England), was born in the city of Montreal, where he

still resides, on the 5th November, 1837. His father, the deceased Rollo

Campbell, for many years carried on the business of printer and

publisher, and was the proprietor of _The Pilot_, a political newspaper

that exerted a great influence in its day. This gentleman was born at

Dunning, Perthshire, Scotland, and settled in Canada many years ago. He

could trace his descent as far back as 1670, there being in the village

in which he was born a stone cottage, with a slab over the doorway with

the initials engraven thereon of “R. C. and J. F., 1670,” these letters

standing for “Rollo Campbell” and “Janet Fenton,” and from this pair Dr.

Campbell has sprung. On the maternal side, Dr. Campbell’s mother was

Elizabeth Steel, who was a native of Kilwinning, Scotland. He received

his general education at the Baptist College, Montreal; his medical

education he received at McGill University, in the same city, graduating

in 1860, and subsequently at the universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow,

and finally at London, where he took the English qualification of

licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians. On his return to Montreal

he commenced practice, and has succeeded in building up a lucrative

business. In 1872 Dr. Campbell joined with the late Drs. David and

Smallwood, and Drs. Hingston and Trenholme, in organizing the present

medical faculty of Bishop’s College in Montreal, and he was appointed

professor of physiology, and registrar. These offices he filled till

1882, when, on the death of Dr. David, he was chosen to fill the chair

of practice of medicine, and elected dean of the faculty, both of which

positions he still fills. Dr. Campbell represents Bishop’s College in

the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the province of Quebec; and

for the last seven years has been the secretary of this—the licensing

board of that province. He is a physician to the Montreal General

Hospital, and to the Western Hospital. This latter is at present the

only hospital in Canada devoted to the diseases of women. Although

others were connected with him in the early organization of this

hospital corporation, its equipment, and its actual commencement of

work, was due to Dr. Campbell, who assumed its rental, organized its

committee, and, till self-sustaining, supplied for two years a

considerable amount of money to sustain it. He is a consulting physician

to the Montreal Dispensary. Dr. Campbell is known as one of the best

life insurance medical men in the Dominion. Since 1868 he has been an

examiner for the New York Life, and two years ago was given charge, by

this company, of all its medical matters in Canada. His work with this

company occupies much of his time. He is also the chief medical officer

of the Citizens’ Life and Accident Company of Montreal; this he has held

for over eight years. Dr. Campbell takes a deep interest in the

volunteer movement, and his record as a volunteer is one of which any

man might be proud. He is surgeon of B. company Infantry School Corps,

permanent militia, and was lately promoted surgeon-major after twenty

years service as surgeon. He joined No. 2 company of Montreal

Independent Rifles as a private in the summer of 1855, at the age of

sixteen years. In 1858, when it formed No. 2 company of the 1st

Battalion Volunteer Militia Rifles of Canada, he became hospital

sergeant of the battalion. In May, 1860, on his graduation as M.D., he

was gazetted its assistant surgeon, and in 1866 served with it (then

become the 1st Prince of Wales Rifles) on the eastern frontier during

the Fenian raid. On the 6th October, 1866, he was gazetted surgeon of

the regiment, and again served with it at Pigeon Hill and St. John’s,

Quebec, during the Fenian raid of 1870. He continued as surgeon of the

Prince of Wales Rifles till the 21st December, 1883, when he was

transferred to the permanent force as surgeon of Infantry School Corps.

On leaving the Prince of Wales Rifles, with which he had been connected

for twenty-eight years, Dr. Campbell addressed a letter to his brother

officers, in which he made a statement such as few men in the force

could make, viz.: that up to that date, during his entire connection

with it, the regiment had never turned out, either for active service or

holiday parade, that he had not been with them. What this means can only

be fully appreciated by those who know the large amount of varied

service which the Prince of Wales Rifles have performed. Dr. Campbell is

a past master of Victoria lodge, late C.R., A. F. and A. M., and now an

active member of Royal Albert lodge. He is president of the Upsalquitch

Salmon Club, holding a lease on the Restigouche river, in New Brunswick,

and is an enthusiastic salmon fisherman. In politics he is a

Liberal-Conservative, and a member of the Junior Conservative

Association of Montreal. He has travelled a good deal, having crossed

the Atlantic twelve times, and been over most of the European continent.

In religious matters he is a Baptist. He was married in October, 1861,

in Greenock, Scotland, to Agnes Stuart Rodger, of the same town. Her

maternal grandfather, Walter Washington Buchanan, was born at

Morristown, New Jersey, U.S.A., and was christened in General

Washington’s arms, Kosciusko and Lafayette being his godfathers. On

Washington’s death, he bequeathed to him his camp knives and forks,

which are now in possession of Mrs. Campbell’s brother, Walter

Washington Buchanan Rodger, of Bagatelle, Greenock. In Dr. Buchanan’s

early life he was an intimate playmate of Washington Irving, and the two

have often rolled hoops around New York city. He subsequently entered

the American navy, and was afterwards professor of midwifery in Columbia

College, New York. While in the navy he served under Commodore Sands,

and was on Lake Ontario during the war of 1812. He subsequently

inherited property in Scotland, and removed thither, where he died.

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=Park, William A.=, Newcastle, M.P.P. for the County of Northumberland,

New Brunswick, was born at Douglastown, Miramichi, N.B. on the 27th

June, 1853. His father, William Park, a merchant in Newcastle, N.B., is

a native of Dumfries, Scotland, who settled in Miramichi about five

years before the great fire of 1825, and engaged extensively in the

milling and lumbering business. His mother, Margaret McLaggan, is a

native of New Brunswick, and is a daughter of the late Alexander

McLaggan, of Blackville, Northumberland, N.B. William A. Park, the

subject of our sketch, received his education at the Presbyterian

Academy, Chatham, and at Harkin’s Seminary in Newcastle. He studied law

as a profession; was admitted as an attorney for New Brunswick in April,

1875, and called to the bar of the same province in April, 1876. He

carries on his practice in Newcastle, and does a good business. For some

time Mr. Park was connected with the volunteer militia, but of late

years his numerous other engagements have precluded him from taking an

active interest in the force. From 1876 to 1879 he was a municipal

councillor for Newcastle; and was warden of the county of Northumberland

in 1877. In 1882, at the general election held that year, he was elected

to the New Brunswick legislature for Northumberland county, and was

again returned at the general election in 1886. Mr. Park is a

Liberal-Conservative in politics, and has always supported the policy of

the Dominion government, led by Sir John A. Macdonald. In religion he is

an adherent of the Presbyterian church.

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=Inch, James R.=, M.A., LL.D., Sackville, New Brunswick, President of

the University of Mount Allison College, Sackville, is one of the

veteran educationists of Canada, having been engaged in the work of

teaching for the last thirty-seven years. He is of Scotch-Irish descent.

His parents, Nathaniel Inch and Anne Armstrong, emigrated from the

neighbourhood of Enniskillen to New Brunswick in 1824, and settled in

Petersville, Queens county, where the subject of this sketch, the

youngest of eight children, was born on the 29th of April, 1835. His

early education was in the district school of his native place and at

the High School of Gagetown, the county town. In 1850, after attendance

at the St. John Training School, he received the license of a

first-class teacher. After spending three years in the Public school

service, he accepted in 1854 a situation at Mount Allison Academy, an

institution founded by the late C. F. Allison, at Sackville, and then

under the principalship of the Rev. H. Pickard, D.D. In 1862 Mount

Allison College was organized with university powers. Mr. Inch entered

the junior-class, and took his B.A. degree in 1864, and M.A. three years

later. Upon receiving the baccalaureate degree in 1864, he was called to

the charge of the Ladies’ Academy, at that time without financial

resources, heavily burdened with debt, and having but a slight hold upon

public confidence. In the arduous and important work of building up this

branch of the Mount Allison institutions he laboured for fourteen years,

and not without marked success; for when in 1878 he was elected to the

presidency of the college, he left the Ladies’ Academy in a high state

of efficiency, the buildings having been renovated, greatly enlarged and

refurnished, the debt paid, and the public confidence and patronage

fully secured. Before entering upon the duties of the presidency and of

the chair of philosophy and logic, he was honoured by his _alma mater_

with the degree of LL.D. As president of the college, Dr. Inch has been

obliged, in addition to his professional duties, to devote much of his

time and energy to the work of extending and strengthening the material

resources of the institution. Under his _régime_, besides many general

improvements, the endowment fund has been increased, by about one

hundred thousand dollars, and a handsome stone university building

erected at a cost of thirty-five thousand dollars. In 1876 the

government of Nova Scotia appointed Dr. Inch a Fellow of the University

of Halifax, a degree-conferring university, modelled after the

University of London, and intended to consolidate university education

in the province of Nova Scotia. The University of Halifax, from causes

which need not be here mentioned, had but a brief existence; yet during

its organization and its subsequent history, Dr. Inch, as a member of

the Senate and examiner in mental science and logic, rendered it loyal

and valuable service. In 1880, accompanied by his daughter, Dr. Inch

spent three months in Europe, travelling extensively in England,

Scotland, Ireland, Holland, Germany, France, and Switzerland. In

crossing the Atlantic the steamship _Anchoria_, in which he had taken

passage, when about three hundred miles from Sandy Hook, came into

collision, during a dense fog, with the steamship _Queen_, both vessels

being under full headway. The _Anchoria_ was struck abaft the foremast

and cut down nearly to the keel; the _Queen_, though not so badly

damaged as the _Anchoria_, had her bow completely demolished and her

forward compartment opened to the waves. The _Anchoria’s_ passengers

hastily took to the boats, were transferred to the _Queen_, and brought

in safety back to New York. More than a thousand human beings, many of

them women and children, were by this accident placed for hours in

deadly peril, and yet, through the mercy of Providence, not a life was

lost. It is doubtful whether the records of ocean disaster furnish a

parallel case. Dr. Inch is an active member of the Methodist church, and

a member of the General Conference Special Committee, to whose care the

general interests of the denomination are entrusted during the interim

between the conference sessions. As representative of his district he

has attended all the general conferences except the first—at Montreal

in 1878, at Hamilton in 1882, at Belleville in 1883, and at Toronto in

1886. He is also a member of the Board of Management of the Church

Educational Society, and lay treasurer of the fund for supernumerary

ministers. In 1886 he was elected vice-president for the province of New

Brunswick of the American Institute of Christian Philosophy. Dr. Inch

was married in 1854 to Mary Alice Dunn, of Keswick, York county, and has

one daughter, now the wife of Prof. Sidney W. Hunton, of Mount Allison

University.

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=Evanturel, Francis Eugene Alfred=, LL.B., St. Victor d’Alfred, M.P.P.

for Prescott, was born at Quebec, on 31st August, 1849. He is the eldest

son of the Hon. Francis Evanturel, who was minister of agriculture in

the Macdonald-Sicotte administration in 1862. His grandfather, François

Evanturel, after serving in the French army under Napoleon Bonaparte,

when he took part in some of his great battles, emigrated to Canada and

settled in Quebec, where he died. Mr. Evanturel received his education

at the Seminary of Quebec, and after completing his classical studies at

that institution, followed the law course of Laval University, graduated

B.A. and LL.B. in 1870, and was admitted to the bar of the province of

Quebec in January, 1872. He then entered into partnership with the late

Judge McCord, and they practised for a year under the firm name of

McCord & Evanturel. At that period he was offered a position in the

civil service at Ottawa; he accepted and removed to the latter city,

where he remained for several years. During his residence in Ottawa he

took a prominent part in the organization of the Institut-Canadien and

St. Jean Baptiste Society. He was elected school trustee in 1874, for

the most important ward—Wellington—of Ottawa, and held the position

for two years. In 1878 he resigned his position in the civil service and

removed to Prescott county, where the French population was fast coming

to the front, and had no interpreter before the public and the courts.

In 1883 he presented himself to the electorate of the county of

Prescott, for the Provincial legislature, against Mr. Hagar, the old

member, and was defeated by a few votes. At the last general election,

however (December, 1886), he again entered the field against James

Molloy, and was elected by a majority of 200, as a supporter of the

Mowat administration. Mr. Evanturel had always been a supporter of the

Tory party until that period, but the savage attacks of the _Mail_ upon

the French Canadians and the Catholics of the country, coupled with the

intolerance and bigotry displayed by a certain portion of the population

of Ontario, caused him to sever his connection with the Conservatives,

and become an out-and-out Liberal. He did effective work in the county

of Ottawa during the by-election held in that county in September, 1887,

and it was largely due to his exertions that Mr. Rochon, mayor of Hull,

was elected to the legislature of Quebec by an immense majority (over

1,200), as a supporter of the Mercier cabinet. Mr. Evanturel, who is a

distinguished English scholar, and an eloquent and forcible speaker, had

the honor to be chosen by the Hon. Mr. Mowat to second the address in

reply to the speech from the Throne, at the opening of the session of

1887, of the Ontario legislature. The speech he delivered on this

occasion was highly praised, even by the newspapers which are the

bitterest foes of the race he so ably represents in the legislature. A

couple of obscure sheets tried to cast aspersions on his able effort,

and yet the manly and independent stand he took forced the admiration of

all, and he was accorded “British fair play,” in the broadest sense of

the term, by almost the entire community of Ontario. He was also greatly

admired for his attitude on the _home rule_ question when it was brought

up in the legislature during the same session. Having inherited the

chivalrous nature of his ancestors, he could not see a people oppressed

without raising his voice on their behalf. Mr. Evanturel has a bright

future before him, and the capabilities he displayed on the threshold of

his parliamentary career will soon bring him to the front rank of the

able politicians of the country, and he will thus enjoy the pre-eminence

attained by his father in Canadian politics. He was invited by the

French societies of the counties of Essex, Russell, Glengarry, etc., to

deliver orations on important occasions. As a writer, Mr. Evanturel is

well known, having contributed several articles on political topics to

the English and French press, and at the present time he is

editor-in-chief of _L’Interpréte_, a newspaper published at Alfred,

Ontario, in the interests of the French population of Eastern Ontario.

In 1873 he married Louisa Lee, granddaughter of the late Justice Van

Felson, judge of the Superior Court for the district of Montreal, by

whom he has issue two children, one son and one daughter.

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=Jolliffe, Rev. William John=, B.C.L., Methodist Minister, Quebec city,

was born in Liskeard, Cornwall, England, on the 22nd December, 1846. His

father, John Jolliffe, who was born in Liskeard, was reared in the

Church of England, but when a young man joined the Methodist

denomination. His mother, Ann Berbeck Vyvyan, was a native of Plymouth,

in Devonshire, England. She died in 1873. The Rev. Mr. Jolliffe’s

father, intending his son to follow business, educated him in the public

and private schools of his native place, the former of which he left

when thirteen years of age. But young Jolliffe, having a strong

impression that he would some day enter the ministry, and, being very

fond of reading, his further studies were pursued with that end in view.

On his eighteenth birthday he preached his first sermon. While preparing

to enter the ministry in England he was induced by the late Rev. Mr.

Saunders, then of Oshawa, Ontario, who was at that time on a visit to

Britain, to come out to Canada. Accordingly he left his native land, and

landed in Quebec in November, 1868. Proceeding west he was appointed a

junior preacher in the Bowmanville circuit, the Rev. Richard Whiting,

now an ex-president of the Montreal Conference, being his first

superintendent. He was ordained in London, Ontario, in June, 1873, the

Rev. Dr. Rice being the president of the conference. While stationed in

Montreal the Rev. Mr. Jolliffe entered McGill University as a law

student, and graduated in 1882 with the degree of B.C.L. For some time

he was stationed at Coaticooke, a growing town in the Eastern Townships,

province of Quebec; and is now pastor of the Methodist Church in the

ancient capital. He is also chairman of the Quebec district. The Rev.

Mr. Jolliffe, we have no hesitation in saying, is a minister of very

superior abilities, “rightly dividing” and clearly expounding the Word

of God. He has been highly esteemed in every station he has occupied,

and may be considered in every respect a fine example of what a

Christian minister should be—faithful to duty, and most courteous in

his intercourse with all classes of the community. He has been active in

all good works, especially in the temperance movement, and been

connected with the Sons of Temperance and the Good Templars. In politics

he has always voted for the _man_ and not the _party_. While in England

he was allied with the Liberal party, and would still be if he were

residing there, but in Canada his sympathies incline to the Conservative

party. Rev. Mr. Jolliffe has two brothers in the Methodist ministry: the

Rev. C. E. Jolliffe, now stationed in England, and the Rev. E. Jolliffe,

a missionary in British Honduras. While a strong believer in the

doctrines of the Methodist church, the Rev. Mr. Jolliffe is in favor of

the extension of the pastoral term, and believes, as many others also

do, that it would be in the interests of the church as a whole if the

time-honored system of frequent changes were abolished. He was married

on the 8th of July, 1874, to Clara Robinson, fifth daughter of Isaac

Robinson, of Toronto.

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=Armstrong, Hon. James=, Q.C., C.M.G., Sorel, province of Quebec, son of

Charles Logie Armstrong, descendant of a United Empire loyalist, and of

Marjory Ferguson, daughter of Alexander Ferguson, of Restigouche,

district of Gaspé, was born at Berthier, province of Quebec, in 1821. He

was educated at Berthier and Sorel academies, and called to the Quebec

bar, 1844. Mr. Armstrong was appointed Crown prosecutor for the district

of Richelieu in 1864, and as such conducted the trial of Provencher, for

the murder of Joutras, poisoned by strychnine, being the first case

actually tried for such an offence in Canada, and when the “color test”

of Messrs. Girdwood & Rogers was established. The _Evening Telegraph_ of

the 15th April, 1867, referring to the celebrated trial, said: “The

crime was clearly proved on a trial of unusual length. We mention the

matter particularly now to express in a marked manner our appreciation

of the way in which the case was got up and conducted throughout for the

Crown. Having followed it day by day, and carefully gone over the

evidence since, we feel justified in saying that there has not been

these twenty years in Lower Canada a criminal case of the magnitude and

difficulty so carefully and thoroughly prepared, and so completely and

convincingly placed before the jury. If it lacked the fire-work flashes

of eloquence, to which too many criminal lawyers trust, it showed at

every step of its long course the true genius, intelligence directing

patient labor in mastering every difficulty, seeking for, finding, and

welding into one chain the many far scattered and deep hidden links of

evidence.” He was appointed chief justice of St. Lucia, West Indies,

1871, where the old French law was in force, and in 1880 to the chief

justiceship of Tobago, which he held, conjointly with that of St. Lucia.

He was created a companion of the most distinguished order of Saint

Michael and Saint George in 1879. He is author of a “Treatise on the Law

of Marriage of the Province of Quebec,” and of the “Law of Intestacy of

the Dominion” (1886). In conjunction with Sir George William Desveaux,

then governor, he prepared the civil code of St. Lucia, based in a great

measure upon that of Quebec in civil matters, and succeeded in having

laws passed by the legislature, enacting that the laws of England should

prevail in commercial and criminal matters. He afterwards prepared a

code of civil procedure. He received the thanks of the Legislative

Council of St. Lucia “for the great service rendered by him in the

preparation of the codes.” He resigned office in December, 1881. The

governor, in announcing this to the Legislature, said: “He regretted to

have to inform the Council that he had received a despatch from the

Secretary of State, notifying him of the retirement of Chief Justice

Armstrong, which he considered would be a serious loss to the colony.”

The Legislature passed a vote of thanks embodying the opinion of the

governor. In a despatch to the Earl of Kimberley, the governor wrote: “I

cannot close this despatch without placing on record my appreciation of

the invaluable services rendered to the colony by Mr. Armstrong during

his term of office of chief justice,” and after mentioning Mr.

Armstrong’s labors on the code and revision of the statutes, added:

“Measures such as these will stamp Mr. Armstrong’s term of office as one

which, whilst reflecting the greatest credit upon himself, will be

remembered in this island as the inauguration of a new and more simple

machinery for the administration of law and justice.” Mr. Armstrong was

appointed, in 1886, by the Dominion government, a member of the

commission for the purpose, among others, of inquiring into and

reporting upon the subject of labor, its relation to capital, and to

inquire into and report on the practical operations of courts of

arbitration and conciliation in the settlement of disputes between

employers and employees, and the best mode of settling disputes. He is

married to Charlotte, daughter of the late Major Hercule Olivier, who

was wounded in the engagement at Plattsburg, in 1812.

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=Steeves, Chipman Archibald=, Barrister, Moncton, New Brunswick, was

born at Hillsborough, N.B., on the 28th of January, 1880. His father,

Joseph A. Steeves, was descended from a German family, formerly called

“Steiff,” a common name in Germany, who, after leaving Fatherland,

resided for some time in Pennsylvania, and then made their home in New

Brunswick a few years before the arrival of the U. E. loyalists. His

mother, Rebecca Taylor, is of Irish descent, her people having come from

the north of Ireland. Mr. Steeves was educated at the public schools in

Albert county, and at the Baptist Seminary in Fredericton; and studied

law with the present Judge Palmer, at St. John, N.B. He was admitted an

attorney on the 21st October, 1876. In September, 1878, Mr. Steeves was

appointed by the Mackenzie government official assignee under the

Insolvency Act of 1875, for the county of Westmoreland, and this office

he held until the repeal of the law. At present he is one of the school

trustees for the town of Moncton, and is also a member of the Moncton

town council. From early youth he has been connected with the temperance

movement, though at this moment he is not a member of any of the

existing temperance organizations. Mr. Steeves has travelled,

accompanied by his wife, through portions of the United States and

Europe, and has visited Rome and Naples, and been up Vesuvius and down

into the Catacombs. He was brought up in the Baptist faith, and is a

member of the Baptist church. On the 15th November, 1877, he was

married, at St. John, N.B., to a daughter of Dr. W. Y. Theal, formerly

of that city. This lady has a number of brothers and sisters, one of

whom, George M. Theal, resides in, and fills a government position at,

Cape Town, South Africa, and has written and published several works on

the history, geography, and folk-lore of Africa, which have been adopted

and used in public schools. Mr. Steeves has two brothers, who are

masters of British iron steamers, and one sister, who is married, and

resides in St. John, N.B.

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=Bourinot, John George=, LL.D., Ottawa, Honorary Secretary of the Royal

Society of Canada, Fellow of the Statistical Society of London, Honorary

Corresponding Secretary of the Royal Colonial Institute, Clerk of the

House of Commons, Canada, and author of several important works and

essays, was born at Sydney, Nova Scotia, on the 24th of October, 1836.

He is a son of the late Hon. J. Bourinot, senator of the Dominion, and

grandson of Judge Marshall, of Nova Scotia. His mother was a daughter of

the late Judge Marshall, well-known as an advocate of temperance, and

for his works on religious and social topics. His father’s family came

originally from Normandy, were Huguenots, and settled in the Island of

Jersey. The Marshalls were Irish originally. The father of Judge

Marshall was a captain in the British army, and a loyalist. In his early

days Mr. Bourinot received his intellectual training under the tutorship

of the Rev. W. Y. Porter, at Sydney. The preceptor saw much promise in

the lad, and often spoke highly of his quickness and perception, and of

the strength of his intellectual grasp. When this period of tutorship

was over, his father conceived the idea of sending him to the University

of Trinity College, Toronto. At college young Bourinot distinguished

himself, and he always was a prominent figure in his class. His industry

frequently called forth admiration; and he secured the Wellington and

other scholarships. When he left college he could not easily decide upon

a calling. It was with the young graduate as it has been with all men

possessed of a pervading literary instinct. He was restive, and looked

with dissatisfaction at any course of life that promised only a drudgery

and a routine, removed from the dear aspiration that was in him. The

newspaper press has always afforded a sort of escapement for literary

yearning; and as was quite natural to expect, to the newspaper press the

young man attached himself in the meantime. He became parliamentary

reporter and editor, continuing in such position for some time.

Subsequently, in 1860, he established the Halifax _Reporter_, and was

chief editor of that journal for a number of years. From 1861 to the

year of confederation, Mr. Bourinot was likewise chief official reporter

of the Nova Scotia Assembly. In 1863 he was appointed to the Senate as

shorthand writer, and this office he retained until appointed second

clerk assistant of the House of Commons, in April, 1873. In February,

1879, he was appointed first clerk assistant, and on the 18th of

December, 1880, he became chief clerk of the House of Commons. Through

the greater part of his life Mr. Bourinot has been a tireless literary

worker, and his articles are remembered by all who take an interest in

the discussion of important public questions. His essay on the

“Intellectual Development of Canada,” which appeared in the pages of the

“Canadian Monthly,” was a careful, elaborate and valuable treatise on

the intellectual development of the colonies as an unwedded brotherhood,

and of Canada subsequent to the union. He has contributed to many

leading papers of this continent, to the Toronto _Mail_ in its

inception, and to the New York _World_. He was for years one of the best

known contributors to the “Canadian Monthly.” His desire has always been

to create a love for Canadian subjects. He has contributed papers to the

Royal Colonial Institute, which have attracted much attention. One of

these papers, which referred to the federation of the empire, was deemed

so important that Justin McCarthy devoted a whole chapter of his

“History of our Times” to its consideration. An article in “Blackwood”

(to which he has been one of the very few Canadian contributors), on the

“Progress of the New Dominion,” was reviewed by the London _Times_ as

“the best article that has yet appeared on the subject in a British

periodical.” He has also written other papers in the “Westminster

Review,” the “London Quarterly,” the “Scottish Review,” and other

leading British periodicals, with the view of making Canada better known

to the British world. A monograph on “Local Government in Canada,” which

appeared in 1886, attracted much attention in England and Canada, and

was reprinted in the series of historical and political science, which

is published by the Johns Hopkins University, Maryland. Of late years he

has devoted his leisure time for the most part to constitutional and

parliamentary studies, and has written a large work on “The Practice and

Procedure of Parliament, with a review of the origin and growth of

parliamentary institutions in the Dominion of Canada,” which has been

most favorably reviewed in England and Canada, and has already been

accepted as a constitutional authority in every dependency of the Crown.

The London _Times_, in a three-column review, wrote most approvingly of

the work, and the Australian press has also noticed it in very

eulogistic terms. Mr. Bourinot is an advocate of the grand idea of

Imperial Federation, and a member of the executive committee appointed

at a public meeting in Montreal, in May, 1885, with the object of

promoting the scheme. In April, 1887, Mr. Bourinot received the honorary

degree of LL.D. from Queen’s University, Kingston. Mr. Bourinot was

married in October, 1865, to Emily Alden Pilsbury, daughter of the

American consul at Halifax, who was distinguished for her remarkable

beauty and many accomplishments. She died in September, 1887, amid the

regrets of a very large circle of friends. She belonged to a well-known

family of Maine, which is connected with that of the famous Governor

Endicott, who played so important a part in the annals of the old

colonial times of New England.

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=Moles, Robert George=, Arnprior, Ontario, was born in the township of

Yonge, county of Leeds, on the 7th October, 1845. He is the youngest son

of the late Edward Moles, Leeds county. Mr. Moles received his education

in the public school of his township; and in 1866 he began business as a

photographer in the city of Hamilton, and remained there until 1868,

when he removed to Arnprior, in which place he has since resided and

built up a good business. In 1873 he established the Art Union Copying

Company, of which he was manager for several years; and did a large

business throughout Canada in copying and enlarging portraits for the

trade. In 1874 Mr. Moles took an active part in the establishment of

Vivian lodge, No. 146, Independent Order of Oddfellows, of which he was

a charter member, and was four times elected to represent it in the

Grand Lodge of Ontario. He is also an active Freemason, and for several

years held the position of master in Madawaska lodge, No. 196. Mr. Moles

has been a member of the Arnprior Board of Education for the past

fifteen years; and in 1884 and 1885 occupied a seat in the municipal

council. In January, 1886, he was chosen reeve of Arnprior, and occupied

the position with honour to himself and credit to the town. He has

always been closely identified with every enterprise which has had for

its object the improvement and advancement of the place in which he

resides, and his fellow-citizens duly appreciate his work. In politics

Mr. Moles is a Conservative, and is secretary of the South Renfrew

Conservative Association. On the 20th March, 1866, he was married to

Mary, youngest daughter of John Burgess, Hamilton, and has a family of

six children, four daughters and two sons.

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=Doney, Charles=, Merchant, Ottawa, province of Ontario, was born at

Lannevet, in Cornwall, England, on the 10th March, 1854. His father,

William Doney, was one of the earliest railway contractors in Great

Britain, and aided in the construction of most of the trunk lines in the

west of England. He is at present one of the twenty-five individuals who

receive a life pension from the Railway Association of Officers in Great

Britain as a reward for distinguished railway services. This pension is

granted by a majority of votes from the railway officers throughout the

kingdom. His mother, Elizabeth Hawke, is descended from one of the

oldest families and landed proprietors of Cornwall; her father being

Thomas Hawke, of Tintagel, whose father was Thomas Hawke, of St. Kew.

They owned estates in different parts of the county, and carried on

business at (1) the Pollard Tucking Mills, weaving blankets; (2) the St.

Tudy flouring mills; (3) the Polrade farms and the Soloden’s farm in the

parish of St. Tudy; (4) the Trevilla farm in the parish of St. Teath;

(5) the Fenteonadel farm, in the parish of St. Brewevard; (6) the Tippen

farm, in the parish of Tintagel, near King Arthur’s castle; and (7) the

Beslow farm, in the parish of Tintagel. Mr. Doney’s parents now reside

in Plymouth, England. Charles Doney, the subject of our sketch, being of

an adventurous and speculative turn of mind, decided against his

parents’ wishes, to leave his native land, and sailed for America.

Arriving in Canada on the 2nd of February, 1874, he went direct to the

city of Ottawa, where he filled a humble position until November of the

same year, when he decided to prepare himself for a commercial career.

Entering the Ottawa Business College, after three months’ study, the

shortest on record, he graduated, receiving a diploma. He then received

the position of book-keeper and assistant manager of the Clarendon

Hotel, Ottawa. He remained here nine months, and then was appointed,

through the introduction of the late Hon. James Skead, caterer to the

Senate of Canada. At the same time he received the appointment of

steward of the steamer _Queen Victoria_, of the Ottawa River Navigation

Company, which gave him employment during the summer months. Two years

after the _Queen Victoria_ was destroyed by fire, and then he made use

of his time by travelling through the Western States and Canada, and

spent some months studying the French language in the College of Ste.

Thérèse, in the province of Quebec. In 1881 he resigned his position as

caterer to the Senate for the purpose of entering into business as a

retail shoe merchant, and opened a store at 65 Sparks street, Ottawa,

where after three years he removed to his new and handsome store in the

Scottish Ontario Chambers, 52 Sparks street. Within six years after this

he placed himself at the head of the shoe business in Ottawa, being now

president of the Ottawa Shoe Company, and proprietor of the store in the

Scottish Ontario Chambers, which is recognized as being the leading shoe

establishment in Ottawa. As a merchant, for his years, and without any

other aid or capital to start him in his Canadian career, save youth and

energy, he has certainly been remarkably successful; but as a writer he

stands out unique. The talents which make a successful trader and those

which tend to success in the field of literature are generally supposed

to be diametrically opposed to each other, and they really are; yet he

has demonstrated beyond dispute that he is possessed of both. In 1881 he

started out in his career as a trader; in 1887 he is the recognized

leader in his city of his particular line of trade. In May, 1886, he

entered the field of “trade” literature in the United States. To-day,

1887, he is recognized and has fairly earned the recognition of being

the first and best writer throughout the continent of America among shoe

merchants. In the early part of 1886 the publishers of the _Boot and

Shoe Recorder_, of Boston, the leading shoe paper of the United States,

offered three prizes, first, second, and third, for the best essays from

shoe merchants, on “How to Manage a Retail Shoe Store.” Mr. Doney was

the first to reply, sending in his essay within four days after the

prizes were offered. The _Recorder_ acknowledged the receipt of the

essay with many compliments, and decided to publish it in their next

issue, May 19, 1886. From this day it can be fairly claimed that Mr.

Doney has been famous throughout America as a writer upon shoe topics,

and his name is continually in the ascendency. This competition went on

for over five months, and although all the other writers had the

advantage of reading Mr. Doney’s essay, and the president of the Shoe

Dealers’ Association of the United States was among the competitors, yet

by vote throughout the United States and Canada, the shoe merchants

awarded Mr. Doney the first prize, giving to their president the second.

The _Boot and Shoe Recorder_ on June 8, 1887, forwarded to him a

beautiful silver tea and coffee service of six pieces in recognition of

first prize. Inscribed on the coffee pot are the words, “Presented to C.

Doney for Prize Essay, 1886.” Mr. Doney is the only known shoe merchant

holding a prize for a similar effort or for any other production in the

field of literature throughout America. In his youth he always found

pleasure in writing upon subjects beyond his years. When a boy of

fourteen he wrote for self-amusement an essay upon the “Lord’s Supper,”

which obtained quite a circulation among his private circle. During the

time he held the position of caterer to the Senate, about 1877, he wrote

a small temperance novel of one hundred pages, and published it some

five years after it was written, its title being “John the Flunky.” This

little work has many faults, some of them slightly ridiculous; but the

book, as a boy’s mere free will effort, shows the bent of the author’s

mind and undoubted mental capacity. He has completed a second novel

which he intends to publish in 1888, and as G. W. Bengough has consented

to illustrate it, we may infer that it is at least creditable. It will

make a book of 244 pages, and with illustrations by Mr. Bengough, will

become a volume of 275 pages. Its title is “David Morrice; or the

Reunion of the Races.” Mr. Doney is a constant contributor to the _Boot

and Shoe Recorder_, of Boston; the _Shoe and Leather Review_, of

Chicago, and occasionally to _The Merchant_, of Toronto, and _Leather

Gazette_, of St. Louis. The _Review_, of Chicago, pays him regularly for

editorials for its shoe dealers’ department. As an inventor he is the

possessor of two patents; one for a plate for the heel of a rubber shoe

which it is generally conceded will bring him good returns. It is a

simple device, but being a universal want in a climate such as Canada

possesses, it has the merit of being an excellent commercial idea. The

other is a plate for the heel of a leather boot or shoe. This plate will

also in all probability become much used, as it is decidedly the best of

its kind ever invented. We think it is not too much to predict for Mr.

Doney a successful career.

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=Longworth, Hon. John=, Q.C., Prothonotary of the Supreme Court of

Prince Edward Island. The Hon. Mr. Longworth, who died at Charlottetown,

on the 11th of April, 1885, in the seventy-first year of his age, was

born in Charlottetown, on the 19th September, 1814, and was a son of

Francis Longworth, who came to the island when a young man, and during

his residence there held many important and responsible offices. He was

a member of a highly respectable Irish family, and married Agnes Auld, a

native of Prince Edward Island, her parents being from Ayrshire,

Scotland. Hon. Mr. Longworth received his education at the old Central

Academy, Charlottetown, and studied law with Sir Robert Hodgson, when he

was attorney-general of the province. He was admitted as an attorney of

the Supreme Court in the autumn of 1837, and was called to the bar in

the autumn of the next year. He went to England for a year, and

returning to Charlottetown, opened a law office there in 1840, and was

created a Queen’s counsel on the 23rd of May, 1863. He served as a

deputy judge of the Vice-Admiralty Court of the province, a member of

the legislature for twelve years, a member of the government for eight

years, at various times, as Queen’s counsel, and as attorney-general,

with credit to himself and advantage to the country. The administration

of which he was an influential member, first led by the Hon. Edward

Palmer, now chief justice of the province, afterwards by the Hon.

Colonel Gray, C.M.G., was a strong and able one, and during its

existence many measures of great importance to the well being of the

province were carried into effect. Amongst them was the purchase by the

government of the Selkirk and Cunard estates, two of the largest and

most valuable estates in the province, made upon terms highly favourable

to the interests of the government and tenantry; and as a mark of the

Queen’s approval of the general policy of the administration, Mr.

Longworth and his colleagues, on their retirement in May, 1867, received

Her Majesty’s special sanction and authority to retain the rank and

title which they held as members of Her Executive Council. Mr.

Longworth’s politics were Conservative, but it is well known that the

acts and legislation of the present Dominion government, especially in

connection with the Pacific Railway, and its trade or national policy,

did not meet his approval, this policy being especially, in Mr.

Longworth’s opinion, highly detrimental to the most vital interests of

Prince Edward Island and the other Maritime provinces. The deceased

gentleman was well known as a consistent and devoted member of St.

Paul’s, Church of England. He was a man of sound Christian character,

generous impulses, a kind friend to the unfortunate, and his career as a

public and private member to the community, won for him the warm respect

of all who had the pleasure of being intimately acquainted with him. He

married in March, 1847, Elizabeth W. Tremaine, daughter of Richard

Tremaine, of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and by her had six children, of whom

three died. He left a widow, two sons and one daughter to mourn his

loss.

* * * * *

=Hossack, William=, of Mount Pleasant, Quebec, was born in the ancient

capital, on the 12th January, 1814, and has continued to reside there

ever since. He is the eldest of twelve children of the late William

Hossack, who for so many years was engaged in the grocery trade in

Quebec. The Hossacks came to Quebec from Morayshire, Scotland, about the

middle of last century, though their origin is Danish. For several

generations the name has been a prominent one in Quebec in connection

with the grocery trade, the family business being still in the hands of

a member of the family, George Hossack, of Garden street. The subject of

our sketch, after receiving a good English and commercial education at

old Mr. Thom’s Academy, became associated with his father in business,

and continued with him until he was in a position to start in life for

himself. His first venture was in the leather trade, but the great fire

of Quebec in 1845, which destroyed millions worth of property, destroyed

Hossack’s tannery and warehouse, involving the young and enterprising

owner of it in what seemed at one time the commercial ruin of the city.

Nothing daunted, however, the young merchant set to work to recruit his

fallen fortunes. A short time after the terrible calamity which befell

his native city, he once more took to his father’s line of business, and

soon forgot his first commercial drawback in the prosperity which began

to smile on his new enterprise. After many years of close attention to

his business, he eventually found himself in a position to retire on a

competency. His inclinations had always been those of a careful reader

of books and events, and now, when he found leisure on his hands, even

while he had but yet attained to the prime of life, he determined to

travel in Europe and Egypt, where for months he passed from city to

city, visiting the scenes of historic interest, and deepening the

impressions gained of such by desultory study. Even while busily engaged

with his daily occupations as a business man, he was known to be one who

was fond of what people call heavy reading; and he was now able to

mature his native intelligence within the broader and deeper light of a

personal experience with the scenes of which he had read. On his return

to Quebec he began to take an active part in public affairs. For eight

years he represented St. Louis ward in the city council, and was at the

end of that period chosen mayor of Quebec, an office, however, which he

held only for a short period, on account of some legal technicality in

connection with his residing beyond the city limits. In addition to this

high honor conferred upon him by his fellow councillors, he was for some

time president of the St. Andrew’s Society, president of the Eastern

Townships Colonization Society, and vice-president of the Society for

the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Few men have been more highly

respected as a public man. Straightforward in his dealings, he has

easily won and retained the confidence of those associated with him in

conducting public business. At present he is president of the Quebec

City Mission; vice-president of the Literary and Historical Society, and

chairman of the Protestant Board of School Commissioners. These offices

he has held for a long period of years. For fifteen years he fulfilled

the duties of treasurer of Chalmers’ Church, Quebec, a congregation in

which he is one of the most highly-respected members and adherents.

Indeed, in every good work Mr. Hossack is always to be depended upon to

take his share. In 1868 he married Helen, daughter of the late Philip

Peebles, of Quebec. His youngest sister is married to William Cassils,

one of Montreal’s most prominent citizens.

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=Smith, Robert Barry=, Barrister, Moncton, New Brunswick, was born at

Portland, St. John, N.B., on the 15th May, 1852. His father was the Rev.

William Smith, Wesleyan minister, who came to Nova Scotia from

Nottingham, England, as a missionary, in 1827, and who died at St.

Andrew’s, N.B., in 1862. His mother, Ellen Barry, was the fourth

daughter of Robert Barry, who went to Virginia in one of the king’s

ships, and having procured his discharge, settled there, and when the

revolutionary war began left a very valuable property and emigrated to

Nova Scotia, settling near Shelburne, and afterwards removing to

Liverpool, N.S., where he died in 1839, greatly esteemed. Mr. Smith was

educated at Mount Allison College, Sackville, N.B., and went through the

arts course, but left without taking any degree. He studied law with A.

A. Stockton, LL.D., now member of the New Brunswick legislature for St.

John city and county. He was admitted an attorney in 1874, and called to

the bar in 1875. In 1880 he removed to Dorchester, and practised in

partnership with J. B. Beck, then clerk of the courts. In 1881 he,

however, returned to Moncton, and has since been engaged in nearly every

important case tried in the county. In 1885 he argued the “Scott Act

Scrutiny” case before the Supreme Court of Canada at Ottawa, in the

interests of the liquor dealers, in which, after six months’

consideration, a majority of the court gave an adverse opinion. In 1886

he argued before the same court against an appeal taken by the town of

Moncton from the Supreme Court of New Brunswick, which had decided that

the mode in which the town carried on its tax-sales of land was illegal,

and was successful. He was counsel in the Cadby extradition case, in the

interest of the United States, and succeeded in obtaining the prisoner’s

extradition after much delay and argument. In this case he was

associated with W. F. MacCoy, Q.C., of Halifax, and C. A. Palmer, of St.

John, leading on the arguments. Mr. Smith is thought to be successful in

criminal trials, and is generally employed for the defence. In 1884 he

was appointed clerk of the circuits for Westmoreland county, and in the

same year a police judge for Moncton, and holds these offices still. In

1886 he entered into a professional partnership with James Kay, and the

firm is now doing a large business. Mr. Smith is a strong Liberal in

Dominion politics, and supporter of the present local government. He has

taken an active part in politics, both in canvassing and speaking

throughout the constituency. In municipal politics he offered, in March,

1887, as a candidate for councillor in the 2nd ward, but was defeated by

a small majority, on account of his opposition to the Scott Act. In

religious matters he inclines to Methodism in most points, but is

generally opposed to creeds and dogmas. He was married on the 29th June,

1875, to Miss T. W. Knapp, daughter of Charles E. Knapp, clerk of the

peace for Westmoreland county, and a great-granddaughter of Major

Dickson, who was a sturdy Indian fighter, and who commanded Fort

Beauséjour (Cumberland) for some time. She was also a direct descendant

of U. E. loyalists who settled near the fort.

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=Kennedy, James Thomas=, Contractor and Builder, Indiantown, St. John,

New Brunswick, was born in 1809, at Westfield, Kings county, New

Brunswick. The paternal grandfather of Mr. Kennedy was born at Covent

Garden, London, Eng., and before he attained his majority sailed for

America in the frigate _Cumden_, which was laden with supplies for the

loyalists during the American revolution. This vessel was cast away on

the east end of Long Island, but the crew and passengers escaped with

their lives. Soon after this, James Kennedy joined one of his Majesty’s

foot regiments stationed near Boston, in which he served until the close

of the war, and was afterwards removed to Fredericton, where he got his

discharge. Here he married Elizabeth Belmain, who was born in

Londonderry, Ireland, May 27th, 1750, and settled in Westfield, Kings

county, where he died, leaving four children—James, Anne, John and

Joseph, all of whom are now dead. John Kennedy, the father of James

Thomas, was born at Westfield, June 27th, 1788, and was married to Mary

Trott in 1810, by Parson Scoville, rector of the Episcopal Church, at

Kingston, Kings county, by whom he had a family of twelve

children—John, James T., Elizabeth, Mary B., Joseph E., Kate A.,

William D., Polly S., Samuel P., Sophia R., Sarah C., and Moses R.,

seven of whom are now residing in California. On 1st November, 1819,

John Kennedy removed with his family from Westfield to the United

States, James T. being at this time about ten years of age. They set

sail from St. John in the fishing schooner _Bunk_, but as the war of

1812 had not yet been brought to a close, they were landed in a small

boat at the mouth of the Penobscot river, and shipped in the coasting

schooner _Seven Brothers_. The weather was cold and stormy, and on the

1st of December they were wrecked during a snowstorm on Cranberry

Island. Here they remained on the beach from eight o’clock in the

evening until two o’clock the following day. Mrs. Kennedy and the

children suffered great hardships, the passengers having been brought to

land by boats attached to a line. After a short delay on the island they

sailed for Castine in a fishing schooner, and on their arrival at this

place the unfortunate castaways were treated with great kindness by the

inhabitants. The family remained in Maine until 1822, when they returned

to New Brunswick and settled in Carleton county. James Thomas Kennedy,

the subject of this sketch, received his education in Westfield, and was

married on the 4th July, 1838, to Cynthia Waters, of Westfield, who was

of loyalist descent. This lady died on the 17th July, 1839; and on the

27th November, 1845, he married Eliza Lingley, also of Westfield. Miss

Lingley was a daughter of Abraham Lingley, a grandson of Jane Astor, a

sister of the late John Jacob Astor, of New York, who came with a party

of U. E. loyalists to New Brunswick in 1773. Her grandfather bore arms

through the revolutionary war, and at its close settled at Nerepis

Creek, Kings county, where he died in 1861, at the age of ninety-one

years, and was buried on the anniversary of his birth. His wife died

three weeks after him in the same place at the age of eighty-six years.

Early in life Mr. Kennedy displayed that aptitude in business which has

made nearly every enterprise in which he has engaged a success. In 1842

and 1843, we find him sailing a passenger steamer, and also in command

of a boat, towing logs from Fredericton to St. John. And about the same

time he erected two sawmills which he worked successfully. In 1841 he

removed his family from Westfield to Indiantown, St. John, where he took

up his residence. In 1843 he transported in boats from Spoon Island the

granite that was used in the construction of the North Wharf buildings

in St. John; and also conveyed from the same quarries the granite used

in the building of the custom-house on Prince William street, destroyed

by the great fire in 1877. This was one of the most imposing buildings

erected in the Maritime provinces previous to confederation. He also

transported the stones used in the fortifications about St. John,

including those at Partridge Island, the Hampton Jail, and for the

capital of the province at Fredericton. During the years 1878, ’79, ’80

Mr. Kennedy was engaged in the construction of the deep-water terminus

of the Intercolonial Railway at Lower Cove, St. John, which is one of

the most substantial structures of the kind on the coast of the

Dominion; and in 1882 he completed the St. Peter’s canal at St. Peter’s,

Cape Breton. It is half a mile in length, fifty-eight feet in breadth,

eighteen feet in depth, and has a lock two hundred feet long and

forty-eight wide. This canal—its usefulness being of great value—will

stand for centuries as a monument to its builder. He took a great

interest in the centennial celebration of the landing of the U. E.

loyalists in St. John, which was held on the 17th May, 1873; and on the

occasion presented to Portland an elegant freestone drinking fountain

for man and beast, in commemoration of the day, and in memory of his

only son, born 24th November, 1854, and who died on the 30th October,

1877. Mr. Kennedy was made a freeman of the city of St. John in 1839,

and was appointed a magistrate in 1873. Although his business life has

been a most active one, yet he has found time to travel through several

of the states of the neighbouring Republic and in the provinces of

Canada. During these rambles he has been a keen observer, and never

failed to store his mind with facts likely to prove useful to him in the

prosecution of his business. He has never been an aspirant for official

honours, the only office he ever accepted being a seat in the Portland

town council in 1874 and 1875. He has always been a constant advocate of

temperance, and is a member of several temperance societies. In

religious matters he is an adherent of the Episcopal church. Active in

all movements calculated to improve the condition of the poor and to

elevate the masses to a better appreciation of the duties and

responsibilities of life. Five children have been born to Mr. Kennedy,

one son and four daughters. Mr. Kennedy, we may add, is a Conservative

in politics.

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=Cameron, Charles=, Manager of the Great Northern Transit Company,

Collingwood, Ontario, was born on the 24th February, 1835, in

Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He is the son of Donald Cameron, of Appin,

Argyleshire, one of the clan of Lochiel, and a slate manufacturer. His

mother was Isabella Harper, and belonged to the parish of Marnoch, in

Banffshire, Scotland. Mr. Cameron received a liberal education at the

public schools of his native town, and was apprenticed to the joiner and

millwright trade, and came to America in 1853. After spending one season

in Cleveland, Ohio, and a second in Toronto, he went north to

Collingwood, arriving in that place on the 7th February, 1855. After

working at his trade for about two years, on the fine railway station,

which is so conspicuous an ornament of the town of Collingwood, he went

into the hotel-keeping, combining therewith livery stables, and

controlling the principal mail stage routes of the vicinity, until 1871,

when he retired from this business, and since that time has devoted his

time mostly to the shipping enterprises with which he has since become

identified. Mr. Cameron has ever been in the front with any and every

undertaking calculated to benefit the town he has chosen as his home. He

built the first schooner ever launched in the port, and was the primary

promoter of the Collingwood Tug and Wrecking Co., the Georgian Bay

Transportation Co., the Great Northern Transit Co., and the Collingwood

Iron Foundry—all of them pioneer enterprises. Mr. Cameron is also an

active member of the Agricultural and Horticultural societies in the

county of Simcoe, and has been of great service to the farming community

of this part of the province. He has aided greatly in the importation of

valuable draught stallions, and thus gave an early impulse to the

improvement of the breed of horses, now so noticeable in the local fall

shows. Mr. Cameron held the offices of a councillor, reeve, and

deputy-reeve for nine years, closing with the office of warden, to which

he was elected by a unanimous vote of the county council of Simcoe,

which at that time numbered fifty-four members, and ranked the fourth

largest legislative body in the dominion. Although declining all

municipal honours since 1881, he still enjoys the esteem of his former

colleagues by representing them on the Collegiate Institute board, and

this position he has held for the past fourteen years consecutively. Mr.

Cameron is also vice-president of the Farmers’ North-West Land and

Colonization Co., a director of the Collingwood Horticultural Society,

treasurer of the North Simcoe Conservative Association, and manager of

the Great Northern Transit Co. He is the largest property-owner in the

town of Collingwood, and one of the largest in the county of Simcoe. Mr.

Cameron is a Knight Templar of the Masonic order, in which he has held

the office of eminent preceptor. He is a strong Conservative in

politics, and in his religious opinions adheres to the Presbyterian

church of his ancestors. He was married, in February, 1860, to Margaret

Barron, daughter of George Lunan, formerly of Lower Canada, by whom he

has had seven children. Four are living, viz., Isabella H. (married to

Chas. E. Holmes, of Toronto), Alexander B., Chestena C., and Charles H.

M. Mrs. Cameron died 12th April, 1885.

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=Cameron, William=, Farmer, Sutherland River, Pictou, M.P.P. for Pictou

county, Nova Scotia, was born at Sutherland River, Pictou, N.S., on the

25th September, 1847. His parents were Alexander Cameron and Margaret

McKay, of New Glasgow. His paternal grandfather emigrated from

Inverness, Scotland, and settled in Pictou about 1801, and his maternal

grandmother came from the same place about 1790, and her parents were

among the earliest settlers in New Glasgow. Mr. Cameron received his

education at Dalhousie College, Halifax, and graduated from that

institution in 1873 with the degree of B.A. He taught school for some

years before going to college, and afterwards during college recess. He

was for a time principal of the high schools of Westville, River John,

and Bridgewater, and closed his teaching career in the mathematical

department of the New Glasgow High School. For two years Mr. Cameron

studied medicine at the Medical School at Halifax, but his health

failing, and on account of the death of his brother, which took place in

1877, he abandoned his medical studies, and returned home to assist his

father, who was now growing old, and his mother very infirm, both of

whom demanded his company as well as his care. He has been auditor of

the municipality of Pictou since 1884. In 1873 he joined the Masonic

brotherhood, and has ever since taken an interest in the order. On the

8th March, 1887, a vacancy having occurred in Pictou county, in

consequence of the resignation of A. C. Bell, the sitting member, Mr.

Cameron offered himself as a candidate, and was elected for his native

county to a seat in the House of Assembly of Nova Scotia. In politics he

is a Conservative, of the independent type, and is a thoroughly

practical man. In religion he is an adherent of the Presbyterian church.

In 1882 he was married to Mary Catherine Dawson, of Little Harbor,

Pictou county, N.S.

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=Strothard, Rev. James=, Pastor of Grafton Street Methodist Church,

Halifax, Nova Scotia, was born at Tadcaster, a small market town in

Yorkshire, England, on the 5th August, 1847. His parents were Joseph and

Mary Strothard. His father held a position of trust under the first Lord

Londesborough, of Grimston Park, Yorkshire; and his maternal grandfather

was a person of considerable wealth and importance, and for many years

was a surveyor of highways. As a lad the Rev. Mr. Strothard attended the

National Grammar School in the village of Ulleskelf, and from a very

early age developed a love for books, often pursuing his studies long

after the rest of the family had retired to rest. He won his first prize

at school when only seven years of age, and a few years later received

as a prize a fine Reference Bible. After leaving the Grammar School he

spent two years in study at two first class boarding schools, and by

this means he secured a good English education. He was religiously

brought up in the Episcopal church, but having been converted in his

fourteenth year, joined the Wesleyan Methodist Church in his native

town. After attending the Sabbath-school as a scholar and teacher for

four years, he was sent out as a local preacher when eighteen years of

age. For several years he continued his theological studies under the

guidance and with the assistance of the several ministers who

successively occupied the circuit. Moving to Barnsley in 1868, he had

also the advantage for two years of listening to the theological

lectures from the Rev. Thos. H. Leal, at that time stationed there.

While pursuing his theological studies with a view of offering himself

to the English Wesleyan Conference for the West African mission field,

he received in November, 1870, a letter from the Rev. Humphrey Pickard,

D.D., who was then president of the Conference of Eastern British

America, informing him that he had been chosen for the ministry in the

Maritime provinces, and urging him to come out and accept an appointment

at once. Believing this to be a call of Providence, he responded by

embarking at Liverpool for Halifax on the 17th of December, 1870. His

clerical companions were the Rev. Caleb Parker, now at Souris River,

Manitoba, and the Rev. W. H. Emsley, of the Toronto Conference. After a

stormy voyage of sixteen days, the _City of Limerick_ steamed up Halifax

harbor on Monday morning, 2nd January, 1871. His destination was

Miramichi, New Brunswick. He labored on that circuit under the

superintendence of the late Rev. Ingham Sutcliffe, until the conference

of 1872; and was then appointed to take charge of the Charles Street

Church in the city of Halifax, this being a small mission church at that

time, and he was its first pastor. During his three years incumbency,

the congregation and Sunday-school grew so rapidly as to necessitate an

enlargement of the building. At the last session of the Conference of

Eastern British America, held at Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, in

1874, presided over by the Rev. John McMurray, D.D., he was ordained to

the Methodist ministry, together with twelve other candidates, among

whom were Rev. W. W. Brewer, of Centenary Church, St. John; Rev. W.

Dobson, of Fredericton, and the Rev. Ralph Brecken, of Sackville, New

Brunswick. From the conference of 1875 to 1878 he was stationed at

Avondale, Hants county. During this period the circuit was visited with

a gracious revival, and a large number was added to the church. The next

three years were spent in Canning, Kings county. From thence he removed

to Granville Ferry, Annapolis county, where he remained the full term.

In 1884 he was invited to take charge of Providence Church, Yarmouth;

and after three years of successful work in Yarmouth, he is now back in

Halifax, having received an invitation to the Grafton Street Church, of

which he is now pastor and doing good work in the Master’s vineyard. As

a youth the Rev. Mr. Strothard served seven years in the First West York

Battalion of Rifle Volunteers. He was admitted when only fourteen years

of age (the regulation age being seventeen), being exceptionally tall

for his age. He is associated with the Independent Order of Oddfellows;

with the Independent Order of Good Templars; and with the order of Sons

of Temperance, and for two years filled the office of Grand Chaplain of

the Grand Division of the Sons of Temperance of Nova Scotia. He has

travelled a good deal, and has twice visited Great Britain and France

_via_ Boston and New York. He was married on the 8th of July, 1874, in

the old Centenary Methodist Church at St. John, N.B., by the Rev. Henry

Pope, D.D., to Alice Eliza, second daughter of Henry S. Beek, bookseller

and bookbinder. Mr. Beek was born in Cork; Ireland, but came to New

Brunswick early in life, his father being connected with the Crown Lands

office in the city of Fredericton. He was married to Olivia, the

daughter of Dr. Smith, of the Royal navy, by whom he had five sons and

two daughters.

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=Trueman, Harmon Silas=, M.D., Sackville, New Brunswick, was born on the

20th August, 1858, at Point de Bute, Westmoreland county, N.B. His

father, Martin Bent Trueman (now, 1887, aged seventy-four years) was a

son of Harmon Trueman, whose father, William Trueman, came to

Westmoreland, then part of Cumberland, Nova Scotia, in 1775, from

Yorkshire, England. He came in company with his parents, his father

being also named William, and he William, junior, the only son. He, the

younger William, left, however, a large family, and those descended from

him now number over six hundred. Dr. Trueman’s mother, who is also still

living, and aged sixty-nine years, is Bethia Purdy, daughter of Samuel

Purdy, and grand-daughter of the late Colonel Gilbert Purdy. This

gentleman served in the British forces during the American revolutionary

war. For his bravery he was promoted to the rank of colonel, and on the

declaration of peace received a life pension. His home was for many

years in New York state, where he married one Phœbe Wood, and from which

place he with his wife and two of his brothers removed to Cumberland,

Nova Scotia, at the close of the war, they being of the true loyalist

stock. Dr. Trueman received his primary education in his native parish,

and afterwards carried to partial conclusion a course in arts at Mount

Allison Academy and College. He took the regular medical course at the

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, during the years 1877-1880

inclusive. In the autumn of 1880 he settled in Sackville, and having

purchased the premises of Dr. A. Fleming, who was leaving for Manitoba,

he began the practice of his profession, and has ever since carried on

practice without any interruption. He belongs to the Royal Arcanum. In

politics he is a moderate Conservative, but takes no active part in

political movements. He was brought up in the Methodist church, and

still adheres to the same denomination. In 1880 he visited Europe, and

travelled considerably in England and France. He has also visited most

of the New England cities. The doctor takes an interest in military

affairs, and has been a surgeon for two years in the 74th battalion of

Canadian infantry. On the 22nd June, 1881, he was married to Priscilla

Carlisle Bliss, daughter of the late A. A. Bliss, of Halifax, and

closely connected with the Bliss family now largely distributed

throughout America.

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=Dobson, Rev. William=, Methodist Minister, Fredericton, New Brunswick,

was born at Bedeque, Prince Edward Island. His father, William Dobson,

was a native of Yorkshire, and came to America in 1821, and settled in

Prince Edward Island, where he began farming. In 1823 he married Ann

Moys, the eldest daughter of Captain Thomas Moys, of Bedeque, and the

subject of our sketch is the second son of this union. Rev. Mr. Dobson

received his primary education at the public schools of his native

place, and when about eighteen years of age entered the Grammar School,

where he remained two years. He then went to Mount Allison College,

where for a time he studied Greek, Latin, German, and theology. After

leaving school he entered the ministry of the Methodist church, and

since then he has occupied churches in Guysborough and Digby, in Nova

Scotia; and Jacksonville, Sheffield, Albert, Potton, St. John, and

Fredericton, in New Brunswick. He entered his present charge in

Fredericton in 1886, and is very much respected by his congregation.

Rev. Mr. Dobson takes an active interest in any movement calculated to

advance the Redeemer’s kingdom on earth. On the 11th of August, 1874, he

was married to Ella A. Morehouse, of Digby, N.S. Her parents were of the

old loyalist stock, who settled in Nova Scotia during the American

rebellion.

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=Robertson, George=, Merchant, St. John, New Brunswick, was born on the

30th January, 1844, at Kingston, Kent county, N.B. His father, the late

Duncan Robertson, ship-builder, was a native of Aberdeen, Scotland,

whose forefathers had come from Perthshire and settled in Aberdeen. The

mother of the subject of our sketch was Georgina Jardine, a native of

Wamphray, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. Both parents first settled in

Kingston, about the year 1834. Mrs. Robertson’s brothers, J. & T.

Jardine have had a long and successful career as ship-builders and ship

owners in Kingston; and her mother, Janet Paterson, came of a family

which has provided some men of historical note: among others, William

Paterson, the founder of the Bank of England, one of the promoters of

the disastrous Darien scheme, etc., and Sir Walter Scott’s “Old

Mortality,” etc. Mr. Robertson was educated in the English branches at

the public schools, and at Sackville Academy, and spent the greater part

of his boyhood in Moncton and Cocagne. He acquired some general

knowledge of ship-building, shop-keeping, and farming; and in 1858-9

lumbered in a small way on his own account. The family having returned

to Moncton in 1860, he shortly afterwards left for St. John in search of

employment, and to make his way in the world. On his arrival in that

city he found an opening in the establishment of James Macfarlane, then

a leading grocer, and this gentleman he served in the capacity of clerk

for seven years. In 1868, Mr. Robertson having saved some money, he

began business on his own account, and continued to prosper until 1877,

when the great fire occurred in St. John, and swept away a considerable

portion of his property. He then retired from active business for about

a year, in the meantime putting his affairs in order. In 1878 he made a

fresh start, and since that period the world has gone well with him. He

is now at the head of the firm of George Robertson & Co.,—having taken

S. A. Corbitt, a few years ago, into partnership,—carrying on a large

wholesale and retail business in groceries, and as importers of West

India and Mediterranean produce. Their office is at 50 King street, and

their warehouse at 17 Water street. Like all men in business, Mr.

Robertson has had the usual amount of losses and worries, but has now

the satisfaction of feeling that he has nevertheless succeeded, and also

gained the esteem and respect of his fellow-citizens, and others, who

have done business with him for many years past. Mr. Robertson was a

captain in the St. John city light infantry militia. He is also a member

of the St. Andrew’s Society of St. John; the Board of Trade, and a

director of the Maritime Warehousing and Dock Company. He has taken part

in various political discussions, and has strongly advocated trade

reciprocity with the United States; St. John as a winter port for the

Dominion; the short line railway with Montreal; St. John Harbor

Commission, etc. In religion he is in accord with the Presbyterian form

of worship, and is an elder in St. Andrew’s Church. In politics he is a

Liberal-Conservative. He was married to Agnes Turner, a lady of Scotch

descent, on the 18th June, 1873, and has a family of six children.

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=Hopper, Rev. John Elisha=, M.A., D.D., Pastor of the Brussels Street

Baptist Church, St. John, New Brunswick, is a native Canadian, having

been born in Salisbury, Westmoreland county, N.B., on 18th December,

1841. He is son of Robert Hopper, whose father came from Hamilton,

Yorkshire, England, among the earliest settlers in New Brunswick. He

married Sarah Peck, a descendant of Joseph Peck, of Hingham, Norfolk

county, England, who, with his brother, Rev. Robert Peck, in 1636, fled

from persecution with other Puritans to New England, and settled in

Hingham, Massachusetts, where, in addition to being a representative of

the general court, he held other important offices. John Elisha Hopper

completed his academic studies in the Baptist Seminary, Fredericton,

N.B., and matriculated in Acadia College, Wolfville, N.S., taking its

course of study, save that of the junior year, which he spent at Madison

University, New York, and graduating A.B. in June, 1862. His theological

studies were pursued in part under the direction of the Rev. Dr. Cramp,

of Acadia College, and in part at Regent’s Park College, London,

England, with Rev. Dr. Angus and Rev. Dr. Ben. Davis, the celebrated

Hebraist. Here we may say Dr. Hopper comes of Baptist parentage, and was

baptized by the Rev. W. A. Coleman, at Harvey, Albert county, N.B., in

December, 1858, and preached his first sermon, 29th April, 1860, in

Greenfield, N.S. In 1865, after completing his theological studies, he

for a short time preached at Shediac, Petitcodiac, and Sussex Vale. At

the latter place the first regular services in connection with the

Baptist denomination were held by him, and resulted in the establishment

of one of the strongest churches in the place. In the same year he

accepted an invitation to become associate principal with Rev. Dr.

Spurden, of the Baptist Seminary, Fredericton, and the following year he

succeeded him as principal. In September, 1868, Dr. Hopper was ordained

a minister at Fredericton. In 1869 he resigned the principalship of the

Baptist Seminary, and on the invitation of the Baptists of St. Stephen,

began there the work of organizing a Baptist church. A handsome church

edifice and parsonage were erected, and a good congregation and

Sabbath-school gathered; and then in 1872 he accepted the pastorate of

the First Baptist Church, Burlington, Iowa, and remained there six

years, receiving into the fellowship of the church in that time over two

hundred persons. In April, 1878, Dr. Hopper having purchased a half

interest in the _Christian Visitor_ newspaper, published in St. John,

N.B., returned to Canada, Rev. Dr. George Armstrong becoming associated

with him. In 1879 he bought the other half of the paper, and enlarged

the printing, publishing and book business, editing and publishing the

_Christian Visitor_, _Canadian Record_, _Youth’s Visitor_, _Gem_, and

International Sunday school lessons. This business he carried on until

1885, when he sold it out, and assumed the pastoral charge of the

Brussels Street Baptist Church. His relationship with this church began

in 1880, and is still continued. He, however, still edits and publishes

the _Canadian Record_ and Sunday school papers. In 1870 Rev. Mr. Hopper

received the degree of M.A. from Acadia College; and in 1882 that of

D.D., from Morgan Park Theological Seminary, Chicago. In August, 1867,

he married Emma, daughter of Deacon John Smith, of St. John.

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=Irvine, Matthew Bell=, C.B., C.M.G., Commissary-General, Quebec, was

born on the 7th January, 1832, in Quebec city. He is descended from an

ancestry that have left their mark on Canada. Adam Irvine, son of Adam

and grandson of Peter Irvine (spelt Irving in the Orcadian records of

1730), of Garson, in the Orkney islands, North of Scotland, came to

Canada soon after the conquest, and was accidentally killed at Quebec,

on the 7th May, 1776. His son, James Irvine, born in England in 1766,

was a member of the mercantile firm of Irvine, McNaught & Co., of

Quebec, and for a number of years was a member of both the Executive and

Legislative councils of Lower Canada. In 1822 this gentleman was

commissioned president of the Court of Appeal of the Executive Council

in the absence of the chief justices of Montreal and Quebec; and in 1824

was nominated by letters-patent under the Great Seal, arbitrator for

Lower Canada to adjust the duties between Upper and Lower Canada. He

served in the militia of the province from 1803 until 1822, when he

retired with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. James Irvine married on the

13th July, 1801, Anne, eldest daughter of John George Pyke, of Halifax,

Nova Scotia, and had issue two sons, John George and James. The latter

died young; and the Hon. James Irvine died at Quebec on the 27th

September, 1829. John George Irvine, the father of the subject of our

sketch, was born at Quebec on the 31st December, 1802, and passed his

early life in the firm of Irvine, McNaught & Co. In 1837, on the

outbreak of the rebellion, he was appointed a captain in the Royal

Quebec Volunteers. In 1838 he was gazetted a lieutenant-colonel and

deputy-quartermaster-general of militia; and on the 5th November of the

same year was commissioned major of the Queen’s Volunteers, a regiment

raised for active service. He was appointed extra Provincial A.D.C. to

the governor-general of Canada on the 14th November, 1851; Provincial

A.D.C. on the 1st November, 1852; and principal A.D.C. on the 2nd

October, 1868. On the occasion of the visit of the Prince of Wales in

1860, Colonel Irvine was nominated acting adjutant-general to attend on

his Royal Highness during his official tour in Canada. He married, on

the 4th February, 1826, Anne, third daughter of the Hon. Matthew Bell,

of Three Rivers, and had issue four sons and four daughters. He died at

Quebec on the 1st November, 1871, in the sixty-ninth year of his age. Of

this family three sons and two daughters still survive; namely, Hon.

George Irvine, judge of the Vice-Admiralty Court, Quebec; Acheson

Gosford Irvine, lieutenant-colonel and late chief Commissioner of the

North-West Mounted Police; Matthew Bell Irvine, commissary-general,

Quebec; Eliza Inglis Irvine, and Frances Isabella Irvine.

Commissary-General Irvine was educated at the High School of Quebec. On

the 30th March, 1848, when a mere lad, he joined her Majesty’s

Commissariat department of the army, and in this branch of the service

he remained until the 1st of April, 1881, when he retired with the

honorary rank of commissary-general. During this period he served in

Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America, and Australia. He was

present in Turkey and the Crimea during the latter part of the Eastern

campaign, in 1855-56. He was created a companion of the Most

Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, for services as

senior control officer on the Red River expedition of 1870, under

Colonel (now Lord) Wolseley; and was also created a companion of the

Most Honorable Order of the Bath in 1874, for services as senior control

officer during the Ashantee campaign under Major-General Sir Garnet

Joseph (now Lord) Wolseley, K.C.M.G., C.B. In religion he is an adherent

of the Church of England. He was married at Bayswater, London, England,

on the 2nd June, 1875, to Charlotte Feodore Louisa Augusta, only child

of the Rev. N. Guerout, of Berthier, _en haut_, Quebec, and widow of

George A. L. Wood, of Quebec.

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