=Wallace, Rev. Robert=, Pastor West Presbyterian Church, Toronto, was

born on the 25th of April, 1820, at Castleblaney, county Monaghan,

Ireland. His people were originally from Ayrshire, Scotland, and like

the Ulster Presbyterians generally are called the Scotch-Irish. His

father, Samuel Wallace, was in early manhood chosen as an elder, and

long held a leading position in the church as such. For many years he

acted as superintendent of a Sabbath school, and also conducted a

prayer-meeting at his own house, where the young people were often

examined in the Shorter and Brown’s catechisms. He was often sent for to

visit the sick, and to draw up wills for the dying, and was the kind and

sympathizing friend of the poor and afflicted, Roman Catholic as well as

Protestant. He was greatly esteemed by all who knew him as a man of most

loving and amiable disposition, and of great spirituality of mind, who

held constant and intimate communion with his God and Saviour. Mr.

Wallace’s mother, Agnes Stephenson, was born at Poyntzpass, county

Armagh. Her brothers had as tutor a French officer of the old regime.

Her elder brother, Robert, bought a commission as lieutenant in the

regular army, and was shot in the battle of Coruna, under Sir John

Moore, and died in London on his way home. Her younger brother, Thomas,

was for some years a Presbyterian minister in Dublin, but died early.

Robert, the subject of our sketch, was the youngest of four sons and

five daughters. His father and family emigrated to Canada, in 1829,

while he was still a little boy, and he attended school in Toronto for

some time, his teacher being the late Mr. Barber, afterwards secretary

of the School Board. The school was then called the Central School, on

the corner of Adelaide and Jarvis streets, and it ultimately became the

Collegiate Institute. His father purchased two hundred acres of college

land, being No. 1, third concession East Chinguacousy, where Mr. Wallace

lived some years, attending the public school there. He was early

dedicated to the Gospel ministry by his father. When about twelve years

of age he read the life of Rev. Levi Parsons, the first missionary to

the Jews of Palestine sent out by the American Board from New England,

and he then desired to be a missionary to the Jews of Palestine. But

years after, when studying for the ministry, Rev. William Rintoul, of

Streetsville, said to him that we needed all our young men for Canada,

and he then resolved to give up that primary desire of his heart. Rev.

Angus McColl, now of Chatham, Ontario, was the first of the Canadians

who studied wholly in Canada for the Presbyterian ministry. He began in

1835. The Synod appointed Dr. John Rae, principal of the Grammar school

at Hamilton, to take charge of any young men who might wish to study for

the ministry. Mr. Wallace began his studies under Dr. Rae in February,

1838, and continued under his care during 1838, 1839, and 1840, taking

the lead as head of the Grammar school most of the time (Mr. McColl

taking lessons in private). During 1841 he studied with the Rev. Mr.

Rintoul, of Streetsville, and Mr. Adam Simpson, of the Grammar school.

In February, 1842, Queen’s College was opened, and Mr. Wallace, with six

others, entered the theological classes under Rev. Dr. Liddell,

principal, while also attending the Greek class under professor

Campbell, along with John Mowat, now professor in Queen’s College. Mr.

Wallace attended Queen’s College during three sessions, when, because of

the disruption in Scotland, he and five others—that is six of the seven

theological students—left Queen’s College and joined the Free Church of

Canada, formed in June, 1844. Rev. Dr. Charles King, of Glasgow, was

sent out by the Free Church as professor of theology in the new Free

Church College at Toronto, called Knox College, after the heroic founder

of the Church of Scotland. The synod appointed Rev. Henry Esson and Rev.

William Rintoul to assist the Rev. Dr. King. The first session, 1844-5,

was held in a small private house, the residence of Professor Esson, on

James street, Toronto, and was attended by fourteen students. That was

the last year of Mr. Wallace’s course. In April, 1845, he began his

preaching tours over the land, and as the Rev. Mr. Rintoul wished the

three young men who had finished their studies (Messrs. McColl, McKinnon

and Wallace) to give at least a year to mission work, Mr. Wallace

resolved to carry out his wishes, and he refused all calls to settle as

a pastor until after fifteen months of most laborious work. The Rev. Mr.

Rintoul advised him to accept the next call, as he saw that his health

was breaking down with overwork and privation. During that time he

travelled about six thousand miles on foot or on horseback, preached

about four hundred times, and visited several hundred Presbyterian

families scattered over the country from Kingston to Goderich. The roads

were then in a primitive condition, and Mr. Wallace often travelled

through rain and deep mud, his horse and himself covered with mud; and

the fatigue was so great that he broke down several horses, and, at the

same time, occasionally went without dinner in the new settlements. He

thus organised or supplied in their earlier stages a large number of

small congregations near Toronto, in Scarboro’, Markham, Vaughan, King,

West Gwilliambury, Bradford, Inisfil, Chinguacousy, Toronto Township,

Esquesing, Trafalgar, Oakville, etc., and a few times Stratford and

other places up to Goderich, London Township and Westminster, besides

preaching at Kingston, Belleville and places north of it. On the 15th

July, 1846, Mr. Wallace was ordained at Keene, Otonabee, a place at that

time very subject to fever and ague; and, as his constitution was very

much run down, he was only three weeks there when he was stricken down

by that disease till the close of the year 1847, when the doctor

declared he was in danger of paralysis if he attempted to preach any

more, and ordered him to return home and recruit. He remained at his

mother’s during that winter, and regained his health, though with

occasional symptoms of the old trouble. During the summer of 1848 he was

sent by the Rev. Mr. Rintoul to take charge of the Free Church at the

town of Niagara, a place free from malaria, and while there was greatly

benefited. Towards the close of that summer he was advised to visit

Ingersoll, and preach in a new church without a pastor. He did so, and

was called and settled there in January, 1849. The congregation grew

from being a handful of people to be a large, flourishing centre, and

after some years the church had to be enlarged, which was done by

erecting a gallery, without ventilators. The result was that soon after

the re-opening, owing to the great heat from stove pipes meeting in

front of the pulpit, Mr. Wallace took tonsillitis, or clergyman’s sore

throat; and, after trying various remedies, was advised to resign his

charge and visit Britain for the removal of his trouble. In January,

1860 he did so, and accepted the situation of agent for the French

Canadian Missionary Society. In less than five months he collected over

$4,000 for that mission in Canada, nearly double what had been collected

the previous year. On the 30th June, 1860, he left for Britain, by the

Allan steamer _Hibernian_. He collected in Scotland and England between

$4,000 and $5,000, and introduced the mission among the higher classes

in London, by addressing the annual soiree of the Evangelical Alliance,

and getting subscriptions from such men as Lord Lawrence and the late

Duke of Marlborough. He had reason to believe that he could have raised

twice as much in an ordinary year; but that year about $1,500,000 had

been contributed in England for three special objects—the famine

stricken in India, the friends of the massacred Christians at Damascus

and on Lebanon, and towards the sixty thousand silk weavers at Coventry,

thrown out of employment by free trade with France. He also preached in

Dr. Cooke’s church, Belfast, and got a grant of £100 a year from the

Irish Presbyterian church, which was afterwards increased to £200 a

year. After an absence of eleven months he arrived home on the 23rd of

May, 1861, fully restored in health and vigor. He continued to labor for

the French Canadian Mission till June, 1862, when he accepted a call to

Thorold and Drummondville, where he labored for over five years. During

that time the membership of the church at Thorold more than doubled, and

at Drummondville was about trebled. In October, 1867, he received a call

to West Church, Toronto, where he was inducted by the presbytery on the

6th November, 1867. Since then he has received about one thousand eight

hundred into church fellowship, and a new, commodious and well-built

brick church, seating about one thousand, has been erected, and a good

work carried on. West Church has now a membership of about seven hundred

and forty communicants. In February, 1839, while Mr. Wallace was a

student at Hamilton, the late John Dougall, of Montreal, gave an address

on the duty of Christians to give up the use of all intoxicants, in

order to set an example to others, and thus prevent them from becoming

drunkards—on the principle set forth by the great apostle in Romans

14th, and 1st Corinthians, 8th chapter. Mr. Wallace at once accepted the

principle, and took the total abstinence pledge, and ever since it has

been one of the chief aims of his life to promote the cause of

temperance, through total abstinence, as the only effective way of

preventing drunkenness. He often lectured, even while a student, and

still more frequently since, and several times he has published sermons

and pamphlets on the subject, such as “Temperance from the Bible

Standpoint,” while labouring, as a member of the executive of the

Ontario Temperance and Prohibitory League, to secure the Scott Act,

which was carried at Ottawa as the result of a petition signed by about

five hundred thousand persons. While residing at Ingersoll he leavened

the county of Oxford with his views, and thus prepared the way for the

Scott Act there. A few years ago he was appointed to prepare a tract for

the executive of the Ontario Alliance, entitled, “The Lesson of

Statistics; or, Facts and Figures on the Temperance Question,” five

thousand copies of which were circulated. Since then he read a paper, by

request, before the Toronto Ministerial Association, on “The Scriptural

Argument for Prohibition,” which was published, by request, in the

_Canada Citizen_, the organ of the Alliance. He also wrote, “The Scott

Act and Prohibition the Hope of Canada,” published by the Methodist Book

Room. Soon after the confederation of the provinces, Mr. Wallace wrote a

pamphlet entitled “The New Dominion,” giving a description of the

several provinces, with their various characteristics and resources. He

has also written a good deal for _The Presbyterian_ and other papers, on

Missions, the Sabbath, etc. His life has been a very busy one, a hard

worker, working generally twelve to fifteen hours a day ever since he

entered on his course of studies for the ministry. He has received about

three thousand into church membership, and supplied or fostered a large

number of stations in their earlier stages. He has several times been

moderator of his own presbytery, at London, Hamilton, and Toronto, and

has been honored by his brethren by being made president of the Toronto

General Ministerial Association, and also president of the Toronto

Presbyterian Ministerial Association. He was married at Ingersoll,

Ontario, on the 3rd September, 1850, to Marianne Barker. Mr. Wallace had

only one son, now the Rev. F. H. Wallace, M.A., B.D., born at Ingersoll,

county of Oxford, on the 5th of September, 1851. He has had a very

brilliant career as a student. After studying some years at the High

School of Drummondville, Niagara Falls, he came out “head boy” of Upper

Canada College in 1869, carrying off the Governor-General’s prize, and

several other prize books. During his course at Toronto University, he

held the three first scholarships in classics, modern languages, and

general proficiency, and when he graduated he obtained the gold medal in

classics. He took part of his theological course in Knox College,

Toronto, and studied two sessions at Drew Theological Seminary, New

Jersey, where he took his degree of B.D. Then he went to Germany, and

spent the session of 1876-77 at Leipsic University. He has since been in

the Methodist ministry in Toronto, Cobourg and Peterboro’. He has lately

been appointed professor of New Testament Exegesis in Victoria

University, Cobourg. Mr. Wallace had only one daughter who grew up to

maturity. She held a first position all through her course of study, and

was married in December, 1879, to Rev. Donald Tait, of Berlin, Ontario,

and died in September, 1881, greatly beloved, leaving one little boy

behind her, Francis Wallace Tait, who, through the kindness of his

father, is still left with his grandparents.

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=Dobell, Richard Reid=, Timber Merchant, Quebec, was born in 1837, at

Liverpool, England. His father, George Dobell, was a successful

tradesman in Liverpool, and well known for his strict integrity and

stern independence. Richard Dobell, the subject of our sketch, secured

his education at the Liverpool College, and came out to Quebec in

August, 1857. For many years he carried on the business of timber

merchant, under the name of Richard Dobell & Co.; but since 1885 the

firm has been conducted under the title of Dobell, Beckett & Co., with a

branch house in London, England. Mr. Dobell has always been deeply

interested in the trade and prosperity of Quebec. He served as president

of the Board of Trade, and was delegated by the Dominion Board of Trade

to organize a conference in London to consider the advisability of a

closer fiscal policy between Great Britain and her colonies. He is a

member of the Executive Council of the Imperial Federation League in

London, and is a firm advocate of a closer union being established

between all the British colonies. He has been a member of the Quebec

Harbor Commission since it was re-organized by the government, and was

mainly instrumental in the construction of the Louise basin and docks.

He is a Conservative in politics; and in religion a member of the Church

of England. He is married to Elizabeth Frances, eldest daughter of Sir

David MacPherson, and has three sons and two daughters.

* * * * *

=Carrier, Charles William=, Manufacturer, Lévis, province of Quebec, was

born at St. Henri de Lauzon, county Lévis, on the 20th January, 1839. He

was one of the first pupils of the College of Lévis, having entered that

institution in the year it was founded. He went through the usual course

of studies, and showed himself one of the brightest pupils of the

school. In 1855 he took a situation as clerk in the commercial house of

L. & A. Carrier, where he remained six years, gaining the highest step

in the ladder by hard work, integrity, and attention to business. In

1861 he opened a store on his own account, and in a few years was at the

head of an extensive business. In the year 1864, a young mechanic, of

Lévis, Mr. Lainé, asked Mr. Carrier to give him the help of his

experience and money to establish an iron foundry in Lévis. Many a less

enterprising or more timid man would have refused, under the specious

plea that he was doing a prosperous business, and could see no reason

why he should abandon a sure trade to embark into a risky undertaking.

Not so with Mr. Carrier; he saw at a glance that the enterprise had a

good chance of success, would be the means of giving employment to a

large number of people, and enthusiastically concentrated all his skill

and interest in the advancement of the town of Lévis. Time amply proved

that he was right in his surmises. In 1872, eight years after its

foundation, the small foundry had grown up to the immense

“Carrier-Lainé” works, known all over the country. In this undertaking

Mr. Carrier gave the full measure of his capabilities as a business man

and manager. When he thought of establishing this new industry the

building of wooden ships, which had been almost the sole support of the

working population, was in the wane, so much so, in fact, that the

question was anxiously asked how the deserted ship-yards were to be

again put in operation, and what would be the outcome of the enforced

idleness of willing workers. Mr. Carrier came just in time to raise the

courage of the inhabitants of Lévis and put new life into trade. He had

to create and organize everything. After twenty years of ceaseless toil

he has succeeded in gathering as good a gang of iron workers as can be

found in the province, and to-day the Carrier-Lainé works are among the

first in the Dominion in extent, perfected machinery, and finish and

solidity of work. Besides making a financial success of his enterprise,

Mr. Carrier has earned the gratitude of his countrymen, for having

opened the doors of his works to the aspiring youth desirous to learn.

In a country where industrial schools are in an embryo state, it is

opportune to recall to the memory of those who will come after us the

name of the man who was the first to open new avenues to the young

generation. The Carrier-Lainé workshop has been a nursery from which

have issued mechanics of all kinds, who are eagerly sought after in all

the great centres of industry. How many families owe the future of their

children to this good man? Mr. Carrier was beloved by his employees,

chiefly on account of the interest he took in their welfare. For each

and every one of them he had a word of encouragement or a good advice.

Unlike the majority of employers who have become wealthy, he knew and

instinctively felt that a little consideration to an employee at the

right time is never out of place. In times of depression he never closed

his works, even temporarily. “Profits are not large these times,” he

would say, “but my workmen earn a living, and I am glad of it.” Such an

example might be advantageously followed in many quarters. In the midst

of his numerous occupations, Mr. Carrier found time to devote himself to

everything tending to better the condition of the working classes. He

was one of the founders of the Permanent Building Society of Lévis, and

of the Loan and Investment Society of Quebec, having been a director of

the latter company from its foundation until his death. Since 1870 he

held a seat in the Council of Arts and Manufactures, over which he

presided for two years. He devoted both his time and wealth to acts of

charity and works of public interest. In 1882 he gave the town of Lévis

a bronze statue of its founder, which is erected in Deziel square, and

the municipal authorities have had the name of the generous donor

engraved on the pedestal of the monument. Worn out by incessant labour,

Mr. Carrier went to California to improve his health, but after a few

months sojourn in that country he returned to his home, where he died on

the 18th of September, 1887. In 1864 Mr. Carrier was married to

Henriette Camille, the only daughter of Louis Carrier, who was the first

mayor of Lévis, and occupied that position for seven consecutive years.

* * * * *

=Sedgewick, Robert=, Q.C., Barrister, Halifax, Nova Scotia, is a

Scotchman by birth, having been born in Aberdeen on the 10th May, 1848.

His father, the Rev. Robert Sedgewick, D.D., was born in Paisley,

Scotland, was a minister of the United Presbyterian church, and for

several years pastor of the U. P. Belmont street Church, Aberdeen. In

1849 he came to Nova Scotia, and was inducted as the minister of the

congregation of Musquodoboit, where he died in 1885. His wife was Anne

Middleton, a native of Perth, Scotland. The Rev. Dr. Sedgewick was the

author of several works, which at the time of their publication

attracted considerable attention; among others, that on “The Proper

Sphere and Influence of Women in Christian Society;” “Amusements for

Youth,” and “The Papacy: the Idolatry of Rome.” His eldest son, the Rev.

Thomas Sedgewick, of Tatamagouche, N.S., a graduate of King’s College,

Aberdeen, was, in the year 1886, the moderator of the Synod of the

Presbyterian church in the Maritime provinces, and is a leading member

of that communion. Robert Sedgewick entered as an undergraduate at

Dalhousie College, Halifax, N.S., in November, 1863, where he obtained

the degree of B.A. in May, 1867. In 1868, he commenced the study of the

law in the office of the late John Sandfield Macdonald, premier of

Ontario, at Cornwall, and in November, 1872, he was called to the bar of

Ontario. He was admitted by Act of Parliament to the bar of Nova Scotia

in May, 1873, in which province he has since practised his profession.

In 1880 he was made a Queen’s counsel by the Dominion government. In

1885 he was appointed and now holds the office of recorder of the city

of Halifax. In 1874 he unsuccessfully contested the county of Halifax in

the Conservative interest for the local legislature. He was for four

years an alderman of the city of Halifax, and for two terms he was a

commissioner of schools for the same city. He was for several years

president of the Alumni Association of Dalhousie College, and is now a

governor of that university. He is also lecturer on Equity-Jurisprudence

in connection with the Dalhousie Law School. In 1886 he was

vice-president of the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society, and he is now a

member of its council. He was for some years secretary of the North

British Society and was eventually its president. Mr. Sedgewick is a

Presbyterian in religion and a Liberal-Conservative in politics. He is

at present the senior member of the legal firm of Sedgewick, Ross, and

Sedgewick, Halifax, N.S. In 1873 he married Mary Sutherland Mackay,

eldest daughter of the late William Mackay, of Halifax, N.S.

* * * * *

=Sangster, Charles=, Kingston, Ontario, was born 16th July, 1822, at the

Navy Yard, Point Frederick, Kingston. His father, who was a shipwright

at a naval station on one of the upper lakes, died before his son was

two years old. Mr. Sangster’s education was limited, so much so, indeed,

that had he not studied zealously when he reached man’s estate, we could

not probably now have included his name among our Canadian celebrities.

At the age of fifteen he left school to seek employment, that he might

aid in supporting his mother, and was received in the laboratory of Fort

Henry during the rebellion of 1838. For ten years after this date he

filled a humble position in the Ordnance office, Kingston. In 1849,

seeing no prospect of promotion, he resigned and went to Amherstburg,

where he edited the _Courier_ until the death of its publisher, which

event occurred in the following year. He then returned to Kingston, and

filled the position of sub-editor of the _Whig_, which office he held

till 1861, when he resigned. In 1864 he joined the staff of reporters

for the _Daily News_, and in 1867 again resigned his post to enter the

civil service at Ottawa. Through his writings, years ago, he established

his claim to a place in the front rank of Canadian poets. In 1856 he

published “The St. Lawrence and the Saguenay, and other poems.” Of this

work, Mrs. Susanna Moodie says: “If the world receives them with as much

pleasure as they have been read by me, your name will rank high among

the gifted sons of song. If a native of Canada, she may well be proud of

her bard, who has sung in such lofty strains the natural beauties of his

native land;” while the London _National Magazine_ remarks: “Well may

the Canadians be proud of such contributions to their infant literature;

well may they be forward to recognize his lively imagination, his bold

style, and the fulness of his imagery. . . . There is much of the spirit

of Wordsworth in this writer, only the tone is religious instead of

being philosophical. . . . In some sort, and according to his degree, he

may be regarded as the Wordsworth of Canada.” In 1860 he published

“Hesperus, and other poems and lyrics.” In “Hesperus,” a legend of the

stars, it is said: “The poet essays a lofty flight.” Why not? How

otherwise could he obtain a firm grasp of his subject, a matter too

little thought of by many of our poets who bring the accessories so

prominently forward that the subject is in danger of being utterly

eclipsed? Even so is it with this poem, “Hesperus.” Though Mr. Sangster

took a high flight, aye, even to the stars, to grasp his subject—and

though he may have grasped it in his own mind, he has failed to

delineate it clearly. We think in writing this poem, Mr. Sangster has

been unduly swayed by some critic who was in love with the misty style

of verse-writing so popular at the present day, which is considered most

beautiful when most incomprehensible, as he does not often err in this

way. It would be well if the young aspirant for the laurel-wreath would

remember that poetic words thrown together promiscuously, or even with

some attempt at form; aye, even with a perfect lyrical ring, will not

make poetry, any more than a number of lovely tints, all in perfect

harmony, thrown upon canvas will make a picture. There must be form as

well as harmony of color, and the subject must stand boldly out from the

accessories. We like much of Mr. Sangster’s writing; besides being good

descriptive verse, it recalls pleasant scenes, illustrative of the

simple amusements of the earlier settlers of our country, when there

were no lectures, concerts, etc., and folk spent their evenings at home,

or at little rustic gatherings, such as described by our poet in the

“Happy Harvesters.” We quote the following:—

From hand to hand the ripened fruit went round,

And rural sports a pleased acceptance found;

The youthful fiddler, on his three-legged stool,

Fancied himself, at least, an Ole Bull;

Some easy bumpkin, seated on the floor,

Hunted the slipper till his ribs were sore;

Some chose the graceful waltz, or lively reel,

While deeper heads the chess-battalions wheel.

. . . . . .

Old grey-beards felt the glow of youth revive,

Old matrons smiled upon the human hive;

Where life’s rare nectar, fit for gods to sip,

In forfeit-kisses, passed from lip to lip.

We were once witnesses of a scene of this description, where an aged,

white-haired son of “Auld Scotia” was called upon to make an osculatory

impress upon the damask cheek of a maiden of sixteen summers, and when

the performance was over, the octogenarian turned to the assembled

multitude and said: “Aye, but isn’t that refreshing.” We do not agree

with the writer of “Life and Times of Sir John A. Macdonald,” when he

says, with ill-advised harshness, that Mr. Sangster’s verse “is not

worth a brass farthing.” In 1856, when Mr. Sangster published his first

volume, Canadian literature was in its infancy; and we have not yet

advanced so far that we can afford to scoff at his unassuming efforts to

aid in a good cause. We think (Mr. Collins to the contrary) that there

is much of Mr. Sangster’s work that is worth a great deal, as all

writing must be that tends to elevate the soul of man; and Mr.

Sangster’s work, however faulty it may be as poetry, is decidedly

elevating. There has in the past been much poetry written that is gross

and sensual; let us turn our backs on that, and foster the pure and

true, until our country has a poetic literature without spot or blemish.

Mr. Sangster has written much good verse in aid of this achievement. His

“Falls of the Chaudière” is very good, and we must do his ungenerous

critic the justice to suppose that he never saw “The Light in the Window

Pane,” or he could not have made such an uncalled-for assertion. We give

the following:—

A joy from my soul’s departed,

A bliss from my heart is flown,

As weary, weary-hearted,

I wander alone, alone;

The night wind sadly sigheth

A withering, wild refrain;

And my heart within me dieth,

For the light in the window-pane.

The stars overhead are shining,

As brightly as e’er they shone,

As heartless, sad, repining,

I wander alone, alone,

A sudden flash comes streaming,

And flickers adown the lane;

But no more for me is gleaming

The light in the window-pane.

The voices that pass me are cheerful,

Men laugh as the night winds moan;

They cannot tell how fearful

’Tis to wander alone, alone;

For them with each night’s returning,

Life singeth its tenderest strain;

Where the beacon of love is burning

The light in the window-pane.

Oh, sorrow, beyond all sorrows,

To which human life is prone;

Without thee, through all the to-morrows

To wander alone, alone!

Oh, dark deserted dwelling,

Where hope like a lamb was slain,

No voice from thy lone wails welling,

No light in thy window-pane!

Pathos is the very soul of poetry, and here we have it in abundance. Who

that has watched, night after night, when home returning, for the “Light

in the Window-pane?”, who will not feel its power when he realizes,

without any strain of imagination that the hand that placed it there is

cold and dead? All is dark in the window-pane, and the darkness of

desolation reigns in the heart of him who returns nightly to that

doubly-desolate home. We cannot realize this and not feel that Mr.

Sangster’s verse is well worthy of the place in Canadian literature that

it has already won.

* * * * *

=de La Bruère, Hon. Pierre Boucher=, St. Hyacinthe, Speaker of the

Legislative Council of the Province of Quebec, was born in St.

Hyacinthe, on the 5th of July, 1837. His father, Pierre Boucher de La

Bruère, a physician, was a descendant of Pierre Boucher, at one time

governor of Three Rivers under the French domination; and his mother was

a descendant of an old French family of noble extraction, H. Boucher de

La Broquerie. The ancestors of Hon. Mr. de La Bruère distinguished

themselves during the war of 1812-13 between England and the United

States, and the latter has still in his possession two flags presented

to the battalion his grandfather, René B. de La Bruère, commanded, by

Princess Charlotte of England, and the medal of Châteauguay, presented

also to his grandfather by Queen Victoria. Mr. de La Bruère received his

education at the College of St. Hyacinthe. In 1870 he was appointed

prothonotary of the Superior Court for the district of St. Hyacinthe,

and held the position until 1875, when he resigned to take the editorial

chair of the _Courier de St. Hyacinthe_. He was one of the chief

promoters of the Dairymen’s Association of the province of Quebec, and

has been its president since its formation. The efforts he made to

advance the interests of this industry in his province have been crowned

with success, as it was amply proved when the association met in annual

meeting at St. Hyacinthe, when the delegates received a right royal

reception at the hands of their president. He was also one of the chief

factors in the establishment of beet root sugar factories in Canada. In

1877 he was called to the Legislative Council of the province of Quebec;

in March, 1882, Hon. Mr. Chapleau made him a member of his cabinet, and

he was appointed Speaker, to which position he was re-appointed in

January, 1887. Hon. Mr. de La Bruère is a lifelong Conservative, and has

never flinched from his allegiance to the party. In his younger days he

belonged to the active militia of Canada, and was lieutenant in the

volunteer corps of St. Hyacinthe. He has written several historical and

political pamphlets, among which may be mentioned “Le Canada sous le

Domination Anglaise,” “Le Saguenay,” “De l’Education,” “L’Existence de

l’homme,” “Le droit de tester,” and “L’Histoire de Saint Hyacinthe.” In

January, 1861, he married Marie Victorine Leclère, daughter of the late

Pierre Edouard Leclère, notary public.

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=Fulford, Francis=, D.D., Lord Bishop of Montreal and Metropolitan of

Canada, was born at Sidmouth on the 3rd of June, 1803. He was the second

son of Baldwin Fulford, of Great Fulford, and came of an old English

family who trace back their ancestry for more than six hundred years. He

received the rudiments of his education at Tiverton, and entered Exeter

College, Oxford, in 1821, and in 1824 took his degree of B.A., and was

elected a fellow of his college in the following year. In 1826, at

Norwich cathedral, he was ordained deacon, and priest at Exeter

cathedral on the 22nd of June, 1828. In 1830 he married Mary, daughter

of Andrew Berkeley Drummond, of Cadland, Hants, and the lady Mary,

daughter of John, second earl of Egmont, and sister of the Right

Honorable Spencer Percival, first lord of the treasury, and prime

minister of England, who was murdered by Bellingham in the lobby of the

House of Commons. After filling successive curacies in two parishes,

Francis Fulford became rector of Trowbridge, in Wiltshire, and there

resided from 1832 to 1842, and at the request of the government acted,

for several years, as a magistrate. In 1838 he received his degree of

M.A., and was appointed chaplain to her Royal Highness the late Duchess

of Gloucester. In 1842 he resigned the position of rector of Trowbridge,

and accepted that of Croydon, in Cambridgeshire, where he remained until

1845, when he removed to Mayfair as minister of Curzon chapel. This

appointment he held until selected by Her Majesty as the first bishop of

the new diocese of Montreal. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred

on him by the University of Oxford, and he was consecrated at

Westminster Abbey on the 25th of July, 1850. On the 12th of September of

the same year he, with his wife, and their son and daughter, arrived in

Canada. At St. John’s he was met by the bishop of Quebec, and a number

of the clergy and laity of Montreal. After divine service had been held

in the parish church at St. Johns, an address of congratulation was

presented by the clergy and churchwardens of the Richelieu district, and

the whole party were hospitably entertained by a prominent layman of the

place. On his arrival at Montreal he was warmly received by the clergy

and laity, who presented several addresses of welcome expressive of an

earnest desire to co-operate with him in his labors for the spread of

the Gospel. On the following Sunday, the 15th September, 1850, the

ceremony of the bishop’s enthronement took place at Christ church, which

thenceforward became the Anglican cathedral of the diocese. On this

occasion the bishop preached a sermon from the text: “Lord, I will

follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest.” It was remarkable for felicity of

language and reverence of style; but especially, says a writer, “for the

preacher’s modest and clear appreciation of the difficult duties of his

office.” On the 11th of October, 1850, the Church Society of the diocese

of Montreal was organized, and on the 10th of October, 1851, an

auxiliary branch of the “Colonial Church and School Society,” of London,

was formed for the district of Montreal, with his lordship as president.

In 1860 he was promoted to the office of Metropolitan of Canada, which

office he filled, with honor to himself and the cause of Christ, until

his death. Bishop Fulford was one of the most self-denying,

large-hearted, broad-minded Christians the record of whose life it has

been our privilege to read. True to the Church of England, he was,

nevertheless, anxious to promote good feeling amongst all denominations.

On his first landing in Montreal, in answer to an address, he made the

following remarks:—“While we are bound to seek, to provide for the

wants of our own people, and I must ever remember my duty to the church

of which I have been appointed a chief pastor and overseer, yet still I

hope to cultivate a spirit of charity to all around me.” With this end

in view he accepted the suggestion that denominational distinctions

should not be perpetuated in the grave, and consecrated the cemetery of

Montreal that was free to all who wished for a resting-place therein.

There came a time when Christ Church, the cathedral church of his

diocese, was so completely demolished by fire that it became necessary

to build a new one, and of this building Bishop Fulford laid the corner

stone on the 21st of May, 1857, and on Advent Sunday, 1859, he preached

the opening sermon. The new cathedral, which those engaged in its

construction had wished “should be beautiful exceedingly,” was, through

the death of the architect and other unforeseen circumstances, burthened

with an oppressive debt, which weighed heavily on the mind of the

bishop, who, in his straightforward old world style, knew of but one way

of liquidating—a way which bishops, clergy and laymen, under similar

circumstances, might adopt to their credit. He moved to a small

dwelling, and laid aside, not only every indulgence, but almost every

convenience. “His new mansion was modest enough, for it was built for

the official residence of the parish school master, and the school rooms

became his salons for the reception of guests,” the whitewashed walls

being decorated with maps, instead of pictures and statuary. Here the

heir presumptive of Great Fulford, and Metropolitan of Canada, with his

delicate, high-bred wife, lived for years, and practised economy so

patiently and self-sacrificingly in order to attain the darling wish of

his heart, namely, to see the cathedral free from debt, that his heroic

example stands forth as a shining light to “lighten the darkness,” not

only of those who give grudgingly but of those who fancy that social

status depends upon the size of the domicile, the costliness of its

decorations, and the silks, satins, and velvets with which they adorn

their bodies, regardless of the fact that nobility is to be found in the

heart and soul of the individual, not in the outside covering. It is

believed he lived to know the pleasure of having the debt liquidated,

and it was from this humble home, prepared for the parish schoolmaster,

that the great and good Bishop Fulford, Metropolitan of Canada, passed

to his eternal rest on the 9th of September, 1868. His remains were

interred in Mount Royal cemetery, Montreal. Near to him lies a member of

the Church of Scotland, and one of the most eminent and highly esteemed

citizens of Montreal, the Honorable Peter McGill, “who loved the English

prelate as one friend loves another,” and was happy to know that in

death he would rest beside him.

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=Sturdee, Henry Lawrance=, M.A., Barrister-at-law, Solicitor, etc.,

Mayor of Portland, New Brunswick, was born in St. John, N.B., on the

11th April, 1842. His father, Henry Parker Sturdee, was born in Topsham,

Devonshire, England, and his mother, Emily Lawrance, in London, England.

Mr. Sturdee was educated at private schools in St. John, and at the

Collegiate School, and at King’s College, Fredericton, N.B. He

matriculated there in September, 1858, and in the following year was

awarded the Douglas gold medal. He received the degree of B.A. in June,

1861, and M.A. in June, 1883, in course. He studied law in his native

city with Messrs. Gray and Kaye, barristers; was admitted an

attorney-at-law in June, 1864, and called to the bar in June, 1865. He

has since practised law in St. John. He is one of the referees of the

Supreme Court of New Brunswick, equity side. He takes an interest in

military matters, and is major of the 3rd St. John reserve militia. Mr.

Sturdee resided in St. John until November, 1877, when he removed to the

adjoining city of Portland. In April, 1883, he was elected an alderman

for ward four of Portland, and was re-elected alderman the two following

years. On taking his seat at the council board in that year he was

appointed by the Portland city council to represent ward four of that

city in the municipal council of the city and county of St. John. In

April, 1884, he was elected warden of the municipality of the city and

county of St. John; and in April, 1885, was re-elected warden without

opposition. This office he held until April, 1886, when, having been

elected mayor of Portland, he declined re-nomination as warden. On the

11th April, 1887, he was again chosen mayor of Portland, without

opposition, and this responsible position he still holds. He has been

vestry clerk and treasurer of Trinity Church, St. John (Church of

England), since May, 1871; and secretary-treasurer of the Madras School

Board since September, 1877. He is a vice-president of the St. George’s

Society; and a member of Portland Union Lodge A. F. and A. M., and of

New Brunswick Royal Arch Chapter, St. John. He was married at Christ

Church Cathedral, Fredericton, on the 26th September, 1866, to Jane

Agnes, daughter of the late William R. Fraser, Esq., M.D. (Edinburgh),

of Fredericton, and has a family of three sons and two daughters.

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=Hensley, Hon. Joseph=, Charlottetown, Assistant Judge of the Supreme

Court of Judicature, and Vice-Chancellor in the Court of Chancery,

Prince Edward Island, was born on the 12th June, 1824, at Tottenham,

Middlesex, England. He is the second son of the late Hon. Charles

Hensley, who at the time of his death, in 1875, was a commander in the

Royal navy, which service he entered in 1805, and was actively engaged

in it for ten years—1805 to 1815—during the last war with France.

Subsequently he lived in Prince Edward Island, and was a member of the

Legislative and Executive Council there, and treasurer of the province.

The Hon. Joseph Hensley was educated in England by private tuition, and

afterwards at the Hackney Grammar School, Middlesex. In the year 1841 he

came out with his father and family from England to Prince Edward

Island, where he has since resided, and has now been a resident for

upwards of forty-six years. In 1842, he commenced his studies for the

bar in the office of the Hon. Robert Hodgson, then attorney-general of

the island. He was called to the bar in January, 1847, and practised in

Charlottetown from that time until his elevation to the bench, on the

18th June, 1869. Has since sat uninterruptedly as judge of the Supreme

Court and vice-chancellor in Chancery. Judge Hensley has filled the

following public offices under the government of Prince Edward

Island:—In 1851 he was law-clerk to the House of Assembly, and also

solicitor-general; in 1853 and 1854, attorney-general; from July, 1854,

to July, 1858, attorney-general; from March, 1867, to June, 1869,

attorney-general; in 1857, Queen’s counsel by her Majesty’s warrant;

during the years 1853-8 inclusive, member of the Legislative Council;

from 1861 to June, 1869, member of the House of Assembly; in 1868-9,

president of the Executive Council, and leader of the government; from

1853 to 1876, member of the Board of Education; and from 1869 to 1876,

chairman of the Board of Education. He was married on the 8th September,

1853, to Frances Ann Dover Hodgson, only daughter of the late Hon. Sir

Robert Hodgson, knight, formerly attorney-general, afterwards

chief-justice, and, lastly, lieutenant-governor of Prince Edward Island,

who died in 1880. He has had four children, three of whom still survive,

namely: Fanny Louisa Catherine, married to George Macleod, manager, in

Charlottetown, of the Bank of Nova Scotia; Mary Eva; and Katherine

Emily, married to Lieutenant Waldemar D’Arcy Rose, United States navy.

Hon. Joseph Hensley’s residence is in Charlottetown. He is a member of

the Church of England, and has always taken an active part in connection

with the work of various religious societies and associations,

particularly that of the Charlottetown Young Men’s Christian

Association, since its formation, in 1856, filling at various times the

position of its president, etc.

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=Barbeau, Henri Jacques=, Montreal, is descended from an old and

distinguished French-Canadian family, allied to the de Noyons and the de

Rainvilles. The first of M. Barbeau’s ancestors to come to Canada was

the Sieur Jean Barbeau-Boisdoré, who was born at St. Vivien-du-Pont,

parish of Xaintes, France, in 1666. Having taken to a military career,

the Sieur Jean joined the troops of the marine, and at the age of twenty

his name appears on the roll of the Sieur de St. Cirque’s company, then

stationed in Canada. This progenitor of the Canadian branch of the

Barbeau family married, at Boucherville, Mdlle. Marie de Noyon, and left

many descendants, who to-day occupy prominent and influential positions

in the Quebec province. Mr. H. J. Barbeau was born at Laprairie in 1832,

of the marriage of Edmund Henry Barbeau, merchant, and Sophie Bourassa,

a daughter of captain Bourassa. His father having died at an early age,

young Barbeau’s education was undertaken by his grandfather, the late

Lieutenant-Colonel Louis Barbeau-Boisdoré, notary, of Laprairie, who

died in 1864, at the ripe age of eighty. Colonel Barbeau-Boisdoré

married Mary Powell, niece of Edmund Henry, who for many years had

control of Colonel Christie’s vast seigneuries in the neighborhood of

Lake Champlain, and afterwards became government agent for the

seigneurie of Laprairie, and notary for the district. This gentleman

inherited the military instincts of his ancestors, and when the war of

1812 broke out, he was among the first to offer his services to the

Canadian government in resisting the invasion of the country. He served

as a lieutenant in the campaigns of 1812-13, and from 1830 to 1840 held

higher commands, dying in 1864 with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. Mr.

H. J. Barbeau, the subject of the present sketch, has almost exclusively

devoted himself to commercial pursuits. He received a good commercial

education, under Mr. H. O’Regan, whom the Jesuit Fathers had made parish

teacher at Laprairie, then under their ecclesiastical supervision. Young

Barbeau commenced his commercial life at Laprairie, where he held a

clerkship, and gave promise of attaining success in business. In 1852 he

came to Montreal, and held responsible positions in several of the

wholesale houses of the city until 1858, when, having acquired the

necessary experience, he went into business for a while on his own

account at St. Hyacinthe. Later on he held positions as insurance agent,

appraiser for the Trust and Loan Company, and official assignee. In 1870

he was appointed to the management of a branch of the Merchant’s Bank,

which was then opened for the first time at St. Hyacinthe. Five years

later, the Savings Bank having established a series of branch offices in

Montreal, Mr. Barbeau was offered the management of one of them, a

position which he accepted and held till 1879, when he was called to

succeed his brother, Mr. E. J. Barbeau, as general manager of the

Montreal City and District Savings Bank. Mr. E. J. Barbeau, it may be

said, was for thirty years the able manager of the Savings Bank, and now

retired, to be succeeded by the subject of this sketch. In this new

position of responsibility as a banker, Mr. Barbeau has evinced the same

judgment, prudence and foresight which has always characterised his own

business transactions, marked the character of his earlier career, and

won for him success in all his enterprises, with the good opinion of

those with whom he came in contact. In 1859 Mr. Barbeau married

Josephine Varin, daughter of J. B. Varin, notary, and late member for

Laprairie. Eleven children were born of this union, of whom seven

survive. It may here be added, that Mr. Varin, whose high character and

profound legal attainments are well known, married Hermine, daughter of

the late Jean Moïse Raymond, who in his day was a prominent merchant,

and member for l’Assomption, and a grand-daughter of M. Jean Raymond,

for many years member for Laprairie.

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=Pope, Percy William Thomas=, Assistant Receiver-General, Charlottetown,

Prince Edward Island, eldest son of the Hon. James Colledge Pope and

Eliza Dalrymple, his wife, was born at Summerside, Prince Edward Island,

on the 8th May, 1856. He was educated at the Prince of Wales College, in

Charlottetown. During his early life he was employed in the management

of large ship-building and fishing industries in the western portion of

the island. In 1882 he emigrated to the North-West Territories, and was

one of the earliest settlers who located upon the site of the present

town of Regina, the capital of Assiniboia. After the advent of the

Canada Pacific Railroad, he engaged in the lumber business, importing

the first manufactured lumber ever brought into that district. When, in

the fall of 1882, the growth of the town rendered some form of civic

organization desirable, he was elected one of three commissioners to

represent the settlers’ interests. Mr. Pope remained there until the

summer of 1883, when the position of assistant receiver-general,

Charlottetown, rendered vacant by the retirement of the Hon. Joseph

Pope, was offered to him by the government. This office he accepted,

returned to his native island, and has since resided in Charlottetown.

In religion, he is a member of the Church of England. In politics, a

Conservative. He was married on the 15th day of April, 1882, to Mary

Louise, second daughter of John Macgowan, by whom he has issue a son and

two daughters.

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=Sullivan, Hon. William Wilfrid=, Charlottetown, Premier and

Attorney-General of Prince Edward Island, and a member of the Provincial

Parliament for the second district of Kings county, was born at New

London, Prince Edward Island, on the 6th of December, 1843. His parents,

William Sullivan and Mary McCarthy, both now deceased, were natives of

the county Kerry, Ireland. Hon. Mr. Sullivan was educated at the Central

Academy and St. Dunstan’s College, Charlottetown. He studied law with

the Hon. Joseph Hensley, then attorney-general, and now one of the

judges of the Supreme Court of Prince Edward Island. He was called to

the bar of Prince Edward Island in Trinity Term, 1867, and became a

partner of his preceptor, holding that connection until Mr. Hensley was

appointed to the Supreme Court bench two years later. No client ever

suffers at the hands of Mr. Sullivan for the want of close application

to his cause. Possessed of much coolness, clear judgment and sterling

good sense, and being candid and logical in his arguments, Mr. Sullivan

never fails to make admirable points, or to favorably impress bench and

jury. We learn from the “Historical Illustrated Atlas of Prince Edward

Island” that Mr. Sullivan was appointed a Queen’s counsel by the

government of Prince Edward Island in June, 1876, and by his excellency

the governor-general of Canada, under letters-patent, on the 19th May,

1879; that he was one of the counsel for the government in the interests

of the tenants before the Land Commissioners’ Court under “The Land

Purchase Act, 1875.” Hon. Mr. Sullivan is head of the extensive law firm

of Sullivan & Macneill, who do business in all the courts of the

province and the Supreme Court of the Dominion; is a deputy judge of the

Admiralty Court, and a notary public, and is president of the Board of

Education; president of the Board of Trustees of the Prince Edward

Island Hospital for the Insane, and a director of the Merchants’ Bank of

Prince Edward Island, and a local director of the Canada Life Assurance

Company. He first entered public life in 1872, when he was elected to

represent the first district of Kings county. He was returned for his

present seat at the general election in April, 1873, and again, by

acclamation, the following month on being appointed to office. He was

re-elected at the general elections of 1876, 1879, 1882, and again at

the last general election, 1886. He was a member of the Executive

Council from 22nd of April to June, 1872, when he resigned; was

appointed to the Executive Council, with the office of

solicitor-general, on the formation of the Pope administration, 18th

April, 1873; resigned his seat in the Executive Council upon the

resignation of the Conservative government, on the 4th of September,

1876; and was unanimously elected leader of the opposition at the

meeting of the legislature on the 14th of March, 1877. On the 1st of

March, 1879, Mr. Sullivan moved, in the House of Assembly, a resolution

of non-confidence in the government, which, after a long and animated

debate, was carried by a vote of nineteen to ten on the 6th of March,

and the administration resigned the following day. Our subject was then

invited by the lieutenant-governor, Sir Robert Hodgson, to form a

government, and take the position of premier. He succeeded in forming an

administration, and the government were sworn in on the 11th of March,

1879. He was elected leader of the government by the unanimous vote of

his party in both branches of the legislature, and was appointed

attorney and advocate general, and president of the Executive Council on

the formation of the administration, which positions he has held

continuously ever since. The House of Assembly was dissolved and a

general election held on the 9th of April, 1879, when the government

were sustained by a majority of twenty-six to four, being the largest

support ever accorded to any administration in the island. Among other

acts, Hon. Mr. Sullivan was chiefly instrumental in securing branch

lines of railway to Souris and Tignish in 1872; assisted in carrying

through the Island legislature terms of confederation in 1873; assisted

in passing The Land Purchase Act, 1875, and other acts on the same

subject in 1876; introduced and carried through the legislature An Act

for Abolishing Imprisonment for Debt, in 1879, and The Jury Act, 1880,

which provides for the trial of all civil cases by seven instead of

twelve jurors, as well as many other measures of law reform, and acts

for the general benefit of the province. The Hon. Mr. Sullivan has been,

on several occasions, a delegate to Ottawa, on public business; and, in

1886, was a delegate to London, to lay before the Imperial government

the case of Prince Edward Island, concerning the non-fulfilment of the

terms of confederation, with regard to continuous steam communication

between that province and the mainland of Canada. He declined a

nomination for the House of Commons at the general elections in

February, 1887. Hon. Mr. Sullivan has been premier for a longer period

than any of his predecessors. As a leader he matures his measures

thoroughly before submitting them to the house, hence his success in

that position; his industry is unwearied; he clings with the utmost

tenacity to the cause which he advocates, and never trusts the discharge

of any parliamentary duty devolving upon himself to another. He is a

thorough master of the English language, and speaks with exactness and

precision. He is also extremely cautious, and takes good care not to get

his party (the Conservatives) into deep water. Having a strong and

determined will, once convinced that he is right, he pushes forward,

with unflinching perseverance, and success almost invariably crowns his

efforts. He was married at Charlottetown, on the 13th of August, 1872,

to Alice Maude Mary, third daughter of John Fenton Newbery, B.A., of

Oxford, and formerly of London, England, and Siena, Italy, and they have

six children. The family are members of the Roman Catholic church. Their

residence, “Brighton Villa,” adjoining Charlottetown, is a beautiful

place.

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=Boire, Louis Henri Napoleon=, Manager of the Three Rivers Branch of the

Banque d’Hochelaga, was born on the 17th of February, 1850, in the

parish of St. Philippe, county of Laprairie, province of Quebec, of

well-to-do parents. After attending for five or six years the country

school of the place of his birth, he entered, at the age of twelve, the

Montreal College, where he remained three years, after which he became a

scholar in the Jacques Cartier Normal School in Montreal, where he

followed the whole course of studies with a decided and marked success.

Later on, in May, 1869, he was admitted to the study of medicine, but

gave it up to enter on a business career; and for this purpose he became

a student in the Montreal Business College, and after a few months he

graduated from this institution. The following years, of which a few

months were passed in Manitoba, he was employed as accountant or

bookkeeper in Montreal mercantile houses, when, in September, 1874, he

was appointed accountant in the Joliette branch of the Banque

d’Hochelaga, and six months later, in March, 1875, he was made manager

of the same branch. Here he remained until February, 1885, and was then

appointed manager of the Three Rivers branch of the same bank, and in

that town he has resided since. He was married in January, 1876, to M.

Lea Cornellier, of Joliette, P.Q., daughter of the late E. Cornellier, a

retired merchant.

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=Wade, Edward Harper=, Quebec, was born in 1846, in what was formerly

known as “the good old town of Liverpool.” His father, Samuel Mosley

Wade, and his grandfather, Samuel Wade, were long engaged as brokers in

the cotton trade of that port, and his mother was a daughter of the late

Richard Harper, of Low Hill, Liverpool. He received his commercial

training in the office of Sharples, Jones & Co., who then carried on a

large wholesale importing business in Quebec timber in connection with

their Canadian house. His father having been lost at sea in the _Royal

Charter_, when returning from a visit to Australia, he was apprenticed

to the firm named, by his uncle and guardian, the late Thomas Wilson, a

well-known Liverpool shipbuilder. Indentures were drawn up in the good

old-fashioned style, binding the apprentice to five years’ service in

consideration of being taught the trade and business of a timber

merchant. This engagement was faithfully carried out on both sides, and

every opportunity given for the acquisition of such knowledge of all

timber mysteries as the Canada Dock Quay, or the town office of the

firm, afforded; and the lesson of straightforward and truthful dealing

and liberal fulfilment of all business obligations and promises was duly

inculcated. After the expiration of the term named he remained three

years with the firm, and was then transferred to the Quebec office of C.

& J. Sharples & Co. The Quebec firm became John Sharples, Sons & Co.,

and the Liverpool house Henry Sharples, Son & Co., and all the senior

partners had passed away before he left the employ at the end of 1877,

having for several previous years travelled on contracting business in

all parts of the United Kingdom, but especially in Ireland and North

Wales, districts then largely importing Quebec goods. At that time this

portion of the business seldom fell into such young hands, but the high

standing and careful shipments of the firm served the young salesman

well, and enabled him to continue and extend the connection of the house

in the districts specially left to his care. Many little ports that are

now entirely or almost altogether supplied from larger centres at that

time imported several Quebec timber cargoes each year, and districts

which now consume little besides pitch pine, spruce deals and Baltic

goods were good customers for Canadian white pine, then commonly called

yellow pine. At the end of 1877 he entered into business arrangements

with the old and well-known Quebec firm of Roberts, Smith & Co. The

parting between Messrs. Sharples and himself was characterized by the

greatest good feeling on both sides, and the long connection left behind

it a warm friendship that has never been disturbed in the slightest

degree, even during the keen competition of the most trying selling

seasons. His respect and esteem for all members of the family have

always been strongly expressed, and their kindly feeling towards him has

remained unchanged. For three years he continued as salesman with

Roberts, Smith & Co., with a percentage on the profits of the business;

and on Mr. Joseph Roberts retiring in 1880, he was taken into

partnership by Mr. R. H. Smith, and the firm was continued under the

style of Smith, Wade & Co. Taught by the sound judgment and thorough

practical knowledge of timber and its classification and by the long

experience of all points connected with Quebec contracting possessed by

Mr. Roberts, and instructed in sound principles of finance, banking, and

details of management by Mr. Smith, whose qualifications in this respect

are so well known, the subject of our sketch obtained a thorough insight

into the working of a Quebec shipping business as it should be carried

on. Under such training it is not strange that he has established a

character for reliability, that with him a promise is as faithfully

carried out as a contract, and the spirit as well as the letter of the

agreement always kept. For many years Mr. Roberts and Mr. Smith had

entire charge of the Canadian supply to the English dockyards under

admiralty contracts through Messrs. Chapman, of London. This was a most

important business, including the annual supply of many large masts and

spars of considerable value, such as are now only obtained from the

Pacific coast. Mr. R. H. Smith retired at the end of last year, and Mr.

H. T. Walcot, for nine years past a member of the firm of John Burstall

& Co., has joined Mr. Wade in carrying on the business, under the same

style, with the same staff, and upon the same lines. Shortly after his

arrival in Canada, and during a political riot, Mr. Wade had a narrow

escape with his life in rescuing from an infuriated mob an unfortunate

man who, but for his interference, would probably have been killed.

Except in such extreme cases he is an advocate of non-intervention, and

of letting people manage their own affairs in their own way. The

Canadian system of home rule is, in his opinion, the perfection of

government. Although a firm believer in free trade, he readily admits

that sometimes there are more important questions than any connected

with the tariff, and believes it is essential to keep in power the best

men in the country. Apart from his energy, enterprise, and thorough

knowledge of that portion of the trade of which he is a worthy

representative, much of Mr. Wade’s success is doubtless due to the

genial and courteous manner which characterizes his intercourse with all

sorts and conditions of men, and which has been the means of securing

him hosts of friends and well-wishers. Mr. Wade was married in 1874 to

Margaret, eldest daughter of John Simons, of Quebec, by whom he has five

children.

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=Blanchet, Hon. Jean=, Q.C., Quebec, M.P.P. for the County of Beauce,

was born in February, 1843, in St. François, county of Beauce, and is a

descendant of one of the oldest settlers in La Nouvelle France. He is

the son of C. Blanchet, N.P., of St. François de la Beauce, and a nephew

of the Right Rev. Mgrs. Blanchet, bishops of Oregon and Vancouver

respectively, whom we may truly call the pioneer apostles of

evangelisation in British Columbia. This country is under a heavy debt

of gratitude to the reverend prelates for the detailed descriptions and

quaint narratives of their early travels in that far-off part of the

Dominion, and the historian of the future will find an inexhaustible

supply of materials in their memoirs. The subject of our sketch was

educated at the College of Nicolet, and at the termination of his

classical course of studies entered Laval University to follow the law

course of that institution, attending the office of Bossé and Bossé at

the same time. On the 3rd of October, 1863, he was admitted to the bar

of Lower Canada, and in 1876 was appointed a Queen’s counsel by the

government of the province of Quebec, and re-appointed as such by the

Dominion Government, on the 11th October, 1880, it having been decided

by the courts of law that the appointment of Queen’s counsels was _ultra

vires_ of the provincial legislatures, and rested solely with the

federal authorities. He is a member of the council of the bar, Quebec

section. On his first presenting himself for parliamentary honours in

his native county, at the general election of 1872, he was unsuccessful.

In November, 1881, he, however, was elected by acclamation, and was

sworn in as a member of the executive council on the 31st July, 1882,

taking the portfolio of provincial secretary in the Mousseau

administration. In 1884, he was again appointed to the same office,

under the Ross administration, and accepted the same portfolio in

January, 1887, under the Hon. L. O. Taillon, who resigned in the same

month. He has been elected at the general election of 1886 by 187

majority. Hon. Mr. Blanchet is an honorary member of several societies.

Among others, may be mentioned L’Athénée Louisianais, the Historical

Society of Montreal, and the Geographical Society of Bordeaux, France;

he is also president of the Asbestos Mining and Manufacturing Company of

Canada, and the Artisans’ Permanent Building Society. In politics Hon.

Mr. Blanchet is a Liberal-Conservative, and resides in Quebec, enjoying

an extensive _clientèle_ in Quebec, Beauce, and Montmagny. He is a

member of the law firm of Blanchet, Drouin and Dionne. He married on the

5th of August, 1878, Jeanie, daughter of General S. Seymour, of Albany,

late state engineer of the state of New York, by whom he has issue two

children, one son and one daughter.

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=Phillips, Rev. Caleb Thaddeus=, Minister of the Free Baptist Church,

Woodstock, New Brunswick, was born at Wakefield, county of Carleton,

N.B., on the 7th June, 1841. His father was Cornelius Ackerman Phillips,

whose grandfather was one of the U. E. Loyalists; and his mother Frances

Stevens, daughter of John Stevens and Mary Ackermann, and grand-daughter

of Colonel Lawrence, a noted officer in the British army during the

revolutionary war. Rev. Mr. Phillips received his education in his

native parish and at Acadia College, Wolfville. He afterwards entered

the ministry, and was for fourteen years in charge of the Sussex

pastorate, in Kings county. Upon his resignation he was presented with a

gold watch and an address from the citizens, and in 1884 took charge of

the Free Baptist Church in Woodstock, N.B., of which he is the present

pastor. He takes a deep interest in the temperance reform, and is a hard

worker for the advancement of the Master’s kingdom on earth. He belongs

to the fraternity of Freemasons, and is a member of Woodstock lodge. On

the 8th October, 1870, he was married to Georgia, daughter of the Rev.

Cyriac Cyrell Doucette, and has a family of four children.

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=Jetté, Hon. Louis A.=, LL.D., Montreal, Judge of the Superior Court,

was born at L’Assomption, province of Quebec, on the 15th January, 1836.

His father was Amable Jetté, merchant, whose ancestors came to Canada

from near Tours, in France, in the sixteenth or seventeenth century. His

mother, Caroline Gauffreau, was also of French descent. Her grandfather

was a planter in St. Domingo when that island was under French rule, but

left during some political troubles, and came to Canada. Judge Jetté,

the subject of our sketch, received his literary education at

L’Assomption College, and afterwards studied law (first) with Pelletier

& Belanger, barristers, and afterwards with David & Ramsay, barristers.

He was called to the bar in February, 1857. He practised his profession

in Montreal from that date until he was appointed to the bench, on 2nd

September, 1878. While at the bar Hon. Mr. Jetté greatly distinguished

himself; and in the celebrated Guibord case he won an almost world-wide

reputation for legal ability. In an extended review of the case, the

_Belgique Judiciaire_, of Belgium, Europe, thus spoke of him, quoting

largely from his pleading: “This speech, like all the pleadings of Mr.

Jetté, has a tone remarkable for sincerity and loyalty. Mr. Jetté

appears to us, moreover, to be an advocate of great merit, who must hold

the front rank at every bar where he has a great cause to plead. * * *

Voltaire, hearing the speech of Mr. Jetté, at Montreal, would find

himself more comfortable than at the Court of Appeals at Paris, or in

the Legislative Assembly at Versailles.” At one period of his life Judge

Jetté was greatly interested in politics, and was a pronounced Liberal.

At the general election in 1872 he contested Montreal East, and

succeeded in beating the late Sir George E. Cartier, baronet, the then

great statesman and leading Conservative in the province of Quebec,

having polled the unprecedented majority of twelve hundred votes. This

great triumph produced at the time great enthusiasm among the judge’s

_confrères_. At the general election held in 1874, he was re-elected by

acclamation; served through the session of the House of Commons at

Ottawa in 1878, and in the spring of that year was offered a seat in the

cabinet of the Hon. Alexander Mackenzie, who then held the reins of

government. But he declined the proffered honor, having decided to

retire from political life. In the summer of 1878 he visited Europe, and

while in Paris he received, by telegram, the information that he had

been appointed to a seat on the bench of the Superior Court of his

native province, and requesting his immediate return. Since his

elevation to the bench he has fully realized the most sanguine

expectations of his friends, and no judge in the province is more

respected than he. Amongst the important cases he has been called to

decide, since his appointment to the bench, we may mention: 1st. the

liberation from the lunatic asylum of Mrs. Lynam, a poor unfortunate

woman who had been kept there for nearly two years, a case which, three

or four years ago, attracted the attention of everyone in the Dominion,

and led to an investigation by the provincial government in the

management of those institutions; 2nd. the Laramée and Evans case, where

he stated, in a most exhaustive judgment, the law of the province on the

subject of marriage, a judgment which was deemed so important that, on

motion of Hon. E. Blake, a copy of it was laid on the table of the House

of Commons; 3rd. the case of Dobie and the Board of Temporalities of the

Presbyterian church; 4th. the case of Lambe vs. the Insurance Companies,

for the recovery of the tax imposed on those companies by the provincial

government of Quebec, where he maintained the constitutionality of the

provincial law, being confirmed in that view by her Majesty’s Privy

Council. Judge Jetté is a corresponding member of _La Société de

Legislation Comparée de Paris_; and is also a corresponding editor of

the _Revue de Droit International_ of Ghent, Belgium. He received the

honorary degree of LL.D. from Laval University, Quebec, in 1878, and is

professor of law in the Montreal branch of the same celebrated

institution of learning. In 1862 he married Berthe Laflamme, daughter of

the late Toussaint Laflamme, merchant, Montreal, and sister of Hon. R.

Laflamme, minister of justice in the Mackenzie government.

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=McLellan, Hon. David=, Lumber Merchant, Indiantown, M.P.P. for St. John

city and county, New Brunswick, was born in Portland, N.B., on the 20th

of January, 1839. His father, David McLellan, was by trade a

shipbuilder, emigrated from Kelton, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, and settled

in the Maritime provinces many years ago. His mother, Mary Knight, was a

descendant of a Quaker family in Pennsylvania, United States. Mr.

McLellan received his education chiefly in a commercial and mathematical

school in St. John, taught by William Mills, and acquired a good mental

outfit with which to begin life. After leaving school he commenced

business as a surveyor and dealer in lumber, and is now the senior

member of the firm of McLellan & Holly, doing a large trade in lumber in

the rough, handling over 60,000,000 superficial feet of logs annually.

He entered political life in 1878, and at the general election of that

year was elected to represent the city and county of St. John, in the

New Brunswick legislature. He again, at the general election held in

1882, presented himself for re-election, and was returned by his old

constituency. On the 28th July, 1883, he was sworn in a member of the

Executive Council, and was appointed provincial secretary in the Blair

administration, in place of the late Hon. Wm. Elder. His acceptance of

office necessitated another appeal to the electors, and he was again

elected. At the general election held in 1886 he was once more chosen by

a large majority. Hon. Mr. McLellan is president of the Board of

Agriculture for the province of New Brunswick. He is a Freemason, and

also belongs to the fraternity of Oddfellows. In politics he is a

pronounced Reformer; and in religion, an adherent of the Baptist church.

In December, 1864, he was married to Fanny B. Richards, daughter of

Henry Richards, of St. John, N.B., and has had a family of four

children—two sons and two daughters, one of the boys died in infancy.

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=Taschereau, Hon. Henri Elzéar=, Judge of the Supreme Court, Ottawa, was

born at the Seignorial Manor house, Ste. Marie de la Beauce, county of

Beauce, province of Quebec, on the 7th of October, 1836. He is the

eldest son of the late Pierre Elzéar Taschereau, and a near relative to

Cardinal Taschereau. His father was, prior to the union of the

provinces, for many years a member of the Legislative Assembly of Lower

Canada, and after the union he was also a representative in the

parliament of the united provinces. He had married Catherine Hénédine, a

daughter of the late Hon. Amable Dionne, who was also at one time a

member of the Legislative Council. The founder of the family, Thomas

Jacques Taschereau, settled in the province of Quebec several years

before the conquest. Many members of the Taschereau family have achieved

high distinction in Canada, no less than seven of its members having

occupied seats on the judicial bench. The subject of our sketch was sent

to the Quebec Seminary, and after completing his classical studies,

studied law in the office of his cousin, the Hon. Jean Thomas

Taschereau, one of the most eminent lawyers of the province of Quebec,

who was appointed a puisné judge of the Supreme Court of the Dominion on

its formation in 1875, and was superannuated some years ago. In October,

1857, Mr. Taschereau was called to the bar of Lower Canada, and formed a

partnership with his cousin, the eminent jurist above mentioned, and

they practised their profession at Quebec. He soon gained a high

reputation as a lawyer, and subsequently entered into partnership with

William Duval and Jean Blanchet, who afterwards became speaker of the

Legislative Assembly of Quebec, and of the House of Commons at Ottawa.

In 1861, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly for the county of

Beauce, and continued to represent that constituency until

confederation, when, at the general election of 1867, he was

unsuccessful as a candidate for the House of Commons. During that year

he was made a Queen’s counsel, and the following year he was appointed

clerk of the peace for the district of Quebec, a position which he held

only three days, resigning at the end of that time on account of a

misunderstanding with the government. He then devoted himself to

professional pursuits, and on the 12th of January, 1871, he was

appointed a puisné judge of the Superior Court of the province of

Quebec, and held that position until the 7th of October, 1878, when he

was elevated to his present position of a judge of the Supreme Court of

the Dominion. As a law writer, Judge Taschereau is an authority, he

having written several important works, among which we may mention “The

Criminal Law Consolidation and Amendment Acts of 1869, 32-33 Vict., for

the Dominion of Canada, as amended and in force on the 1st November,

1874, in the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick,

Manitoba, and on the 1st of June, 1875, in British Columbia, with Notes,

Commentaries, Precedents of Indictments,” etc., etc., in two volumes,

the first of which was published in Montreal in 1874, and contains 796

pages. The second volume, containing 556 pages, was published in Toronto

in 1875. Both volumes display much erudition, and have been highly

commended by competent legal authorities, among others by C. S. Greaves,

an English Queen’s counsel, and one of the most eminent contemporary

writers on English jurisprudence. “Le Code de Procédure Civile du

Bas-Canada, avec annotations” was published in 1876, and also received

high commendation from legal critics. The Hon. Judge Taschereau married,

on the 27th of May, 1857, Marie Antoinette de Lotbinière Harwood, a

daughter of the Hon. R. U. de Lotbinière Harwood, a member of the

Legislative Council of Quebec, and seigneur of Vaudreuil, near Montreal.

Mrs. Taschereau is a sister of Lieut.-Col. de Lotbinière Harwood. They

have a family of five children, two sons and three daughters. Hon. Judge

Taschereau has his residence in Ottawa, and is joint proprietor of the

seigniory of Ste. Marie de la Beauce, conceded to his great-grandfather

in the year 1726.

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=Williams, Right Rev. James W.=, D.D., Bishop of Quebec, was born in the

town of Overton, Hampshire, England, on the 15th September, 1825, and

was brought up in that neighbourhood. He is the son of the Rev. David

Williams, for many years rector of Baughurst, Hampshire. He was educated

by his father at home, at the Grammar School, Crewkerne, Somerset, and

at Pembroke College, Oxford. In 1851 he graduated as B.A., taking

honours in classics, and in due course obtained his degree of M.A. and

D.D. The Lord Bishop of Oxford admitted him to deacon’s orders, and in

1856 he was ordained priest by the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells. He

held curacies for a short time in Buckinghamshire and Somersetshire. His

classical attainments were of more than average excellence. For two

years he was assistant master in Leamington College. In 1857, whilst

curate of Huish-Champflower, he was chosen to organize a school in

connection with Bishop’s College, Lennoxville, Quebec. He held the

office of rector of the College Grammar School, together with that of

professor of belles-lettres in the university, until his elevation to

the episcopacy. Upon the death of the late Right Rev. George Jehosaphat

Mountain, Bishop of Quebec, in 1863, Rev. Mr. Williams was chosen by the

synod to succeed him, and on the 11th of June, of the same year, he was

consecrated at Quebec by the Most Reverend the Metropolitan, assisted by

the bishops of Toronto, Ontario, Huron and Vermont. His first episcopal

act was to advance three deacons to the priesthood. The See of Quebec,

over which the bishop’s jurisdiction extends, was constituted in 1863,

and formerly comprised the whole of Upper and Lower Canada. Owing to

various causes, and mainly to the increase in the population and growth

of the Church of England its extent has been curtailed from time to time

until it was confined to that part of the province of Quebec extending

from Three Rivers to the Straits of Belle Isle and New Brunswick, on the

shores of the St. Lawrence, and all east of a line drawn from Three

Rivers to Lake Memphremagog. Bishop Williams is a plain preacher, and

never exhibits any affectation; he is a man of scholarly tastes. He

makes no pretence to showy or transcendent gifts of pulpit oratory, but

is known as an energetic and industrious ecclesiastic, watching with

zealous care over the spiritual welfare of his flock and clergy. Several

of his lectures and sermons have been published and were highly

commended by the Canadian and American religious newspapers. Among them

may be more especially mentioned his charge delivered to the clergy of

the diocese of Quebec at the visitation held in Bishop’s College,

Lennoxville, in 1864; and a lecture on Self-Education, published at

Quebec in 1865.

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=Moody, James Cochrane=, M.D., Windsor, Nova Scotia, was born at

Liverpool, N.S., on the 1st of September, 1844. His father, the Rev.

John T. T. Moody, D.D., was born at Halifax, on the 25th of March, 1804,

and at the date of his son’s birth was rector of Liverpool, but

subsequently removed with his family to Yarmouth, N.S., to which parish

he was appointed rector in 1846. His mother was Sarah Bond, eldest

daughter of the late Henry Greggs Farish, M.D., of Yarmouth, N.S., and

was born on the 9th of July, 1807. They were married in 1830, and both

lived to the advanced age of 80 years. Dr. Moody commenced the study of

medicine under the preceptorship of his great uncle, the late Joseph B.

Bond, M.D., of Yarmouth, in 1862. He is a graduate of the University of

New York, having taken his degree of M.D. at that institution in the

spring of 1866. On his return home during the Fenian alarm of the same

year, he was appointed an assistant surgeon to the Yarmouth militia.

Commencing the practice of his profession at Richibucto, Kent county,

New Brunswick, in the autumn of 1866, he soon succeeded in building up a

good practice. Was appointed a coroner for Kent county, November 1st,

1870. He took an active part in agitating for the construction of the

Kent Northern Railway; takes a deep interest in Masonry, is a past

master of St. Andrew’s Lodge, A. F. and A. M., Richibucto, New

Brunswick, he is also a Royal Arch mason, and has been for a

considerable time connected with the order of Oddfellows. On account of

the hardships and exposure attending the practice of his profession in

northern New Brunswick, he decided to remove to Windsor, Nova Scotia,

which he did with his family in the autumn of 1882, where he at present

resides in active practice. On the eve of departure to his new field of

labour, he was presented with a very complimentary address, signed by

the leading inhabitants of Richibucto and vicinity. The following are

brief extracts:—“Your departure from Richibucto is deeply regretted by

all classes in this community. The sixteen years spent in active work in

our midst have made you personally acquainted with us all, and while

your professional skill won our trust, and commanded our admiration,

your sterling qualities, as a man, gained our enduring friendship. A

broader field of labour may await you in your new home, and a more ample

recompense favour your work, but you will search in vain for hearts more

fervent in wishes for your welfare than those you leave behind in

Richibucto.” Dr. Moody is a member of the Church of England, and has

always taken an active part in church work, having held while in

Richibucto the offices of church warden and delegate to the diocesan

synod. He is at present a warden of Christ Church, and also a governor

of the University of Kings College, Windsor, N.S. On the 9th of

September, 1880, he was married to Augusta Whipple, second daughter of

the late James H. Jones, of Digby, N.S. Their family consists of three

children, one son and two daughters.

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=Griffin, Martin J.=, Ottawa, Librarian of Parliament, was born in St.

John’s, Newfoundland, August 7, 1847. He received his collegiate

education in St. Mary’s College, Halifax, and studied for the Nova

Scotia bar; first in the office of Hon. Wm. Miller, late speaker of the

Senate; and later, in the office of Hon. James McDonald, now chief

justice of Nova Scotia. He was most successful, being called, when only

twenty-one, with a first-class certificate. From an early age he had

shown decided talent for literature, and even before he became regularly

connected with any public journal, he had contributed articles of

various kinds to the press of Halifax, and had made some ambitious

ventures in poetry and criticism for magazines in the United States. His

ability secured for him a place on the staff of the Halifax _Chronicle_,

for which he did good work while carrying on his studies. A year after

his admission to the bar, that is to say in 1868, he became editor of

the Halifax _Express_, which position he held until 1874. His writing

during that period attracted wide attention, and marked him as the

strongest journalistic champion of the Liberal-Conservative party in the

province. His wide and accurate knowledge of public affairs caused him

to be chosen as the assistant of the Hon. James McDonald, Q.C., the

representative of Nova Scotia before the Fishery Commission, whose

decision has since gone into history as the “Halifax Award.” His work in

this direction was interrupted by an election contest, in 1874, in which

he unsuccessfully sought election to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.

When the Conservatives came into power in the Dominion, in 1878, and

Hon. James McDonald was sworn in as minister of justice, Mr. Griffin was

appointed the minister’s private secretary, but resigned in three months

to accept the offer of a position on the editorial staff of the Toronto

_Mail_. His letters and despatches to the _Mail_, as well as the

editorial articles which he contributed, were marked by the same

vigorous and scholarly style which had brought him to the front in the

Maritime provinces. It was but natural, therefore, that when a vacancy

occurred in the chief editorship of this paper, Mr. Griffin should be

called to fill it. This was in 1881. He carried the _Mail_, editorially,

through the great campaign attending the general election in 1882, and

it is only just to say, that the brilliant victory achieved by the

Conservative party then, was due, in considerable degree, to the vigor

and skill with which the chief representative journal of the party was

managed by Mr. Griffin. On the death of Mr. Todd, who had so long and so

well managed the library of parliament, it was decided to have a dual

headship of the library, in keeping with the system of having both

English and French as authorized languages, and Mr. Griffin was chosen

as the fittest man for the high and responsible position of joint

librarian. He was appointed in August, 1885. No man could be more

faithful to any trust than Mr. Griffin has been in the management of the

library, and few in any country could have brought to the work an

equally wide knowledge of books. Mr. Griffin is above all else a

scholar; but his long editorial experience has given him also a

quickness of comprehension, and a systematising ability which fit him to

be the adviser of legislators and writers in mastering questions with

which they have to deal. Mr. Griffin was married in 1872 to Harriet

Starrat, daughter of the late William Starrat, of Liverpool, N.S.

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=Hingston, William Hales=, M.D., L.R.C.S. (Edinburgh), D.C.L., Montreal,

was born at Hinchinbrook, province of Quebec, on the 29th June, 1829.

His father, Lieut.-Colonel S. J. Hingston, formerly of her Majesty’s

100th Regiment, which did good service during the war of 1812-14, came

to Canada with his regiment, of which he was then adjutant. In 1819,

when his regiment was disbanded, he received from Lord Dalhousie command

of the militia force of the county of Huntingdon, which he organized,

taking up his residence on the bank of the Chateauguay river.

Subsequently Sir James Kemp gave Colonel Hingston command of the militia

of the county of Beauharnois. He was wounded at the battle of Chippewa,

and died in 1830, when his son, William Hales Hingston, the subject of

our sketch, was eighteen months old. The Hingstons are an old Irish

family, and are related to the Cotters, of Cork, the elder Latouches, of

Dublin, and the Hales family. At the age of fifteen, having received his

primary education at the school in his native place, W. H. Hingston

entered the Montreal College, where, at the end of the first year, he

carried off three first and two second prizes out of a possible five.

Subsequently he spent a couple of years in the study of pharmacy, and

then entered McGill College, where he graduated in medicine, in 1851. He

went at once to Edinburgh, where he obtained the diploma of the Royal

College of Surgeons. While in Europe he spent most of his time in

hospitals, and brought back diplomas from France, Prussia, Austria, and

Bavaria, in addition to that from Scotland. One, the membership of the

Imperial Leopold Academy, was the first ever obtained by a Canadian, the

late Sir William Logan being the next recipient. Dr. Hingston began

practice in Montreal, where he soon succeeded in building up a

_clientèle_, surgery being his leading and special branch. In 1867 he

again visited Europe, and, when there, on the invitation of Sir James

Simpson, successfully performed, in Edinburgh, a difficult surgical

operation on one of Sir James’ patients, and was afterwards qualified by

that far-famed physician as “that distinguished American surgeon lately

among us.” Soon after beginning practice in Montreal, Dr. Hingston was

appointed surgeon to the Hotel-Dieu Hospital, where he had a large field

for the exercise of his art. There he has since given daily clinical

instruction in surgery. A recent number of a Montreal medical journal

mentions some of the operations he was the first to perform in Canada:

excision of the knee; removal of the womb; removal of the kidney;

excision of the tongue and lower jaw, etc. Dr. Hingston was one of the

organizers of McGill University Society, which secured to the _alumni_

the appointment of convocation fellows. When Bishop’s College Medical

School was organized, he was named professor of surgery and clinical

surgery, and afterwards dean of faculty; but soon resigned the

professorships. He was one of the resuscitators of the

Medico-Chirurgical Society of Montreal, and was its president many

times. He was the first secretary of the Dominion Medical Association,

and afterwards its president. He was chosen by the international council

to represent Canada at the International Medical Congress, held in

Philadelphia, in 1876, and was offered the same honor at Washington, in

1887, but preferred to remain representative in surgery. He has been,

for many years, a governor of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of

the province of Quebec, and is now its president. He is consulting

physician to several dispensaries, and to the Hospital for Women, of

which he was one of the founders. He organized the first board of health

in the Dominion, and has long been a faithful worker in behalf of the

sanitary interests of Montreal. On three different occasions he had been

urged to permit his name to be submitted as a candidate for the

mayoralty, but declined. However, in 1875, at the unanimous request of

his professional brethren, he consented, and was chosen chief magistrate

by a majority of nearly ten to one over his opponent, and, as he stated

at the time, “without having spent one moment of time, or one shilling

of money, to obtain a position which no one should seek, but which,

coming, as it did, no one was at liberty to decline.” He was re-elected

the following year by acclamation. A third term was offered him, but

that he declined. The period of Dr. Hingston’s mayoralty was one of

grave interest and anxiety to the order-loving citizens of Montreal, and

it was well that the office of chief magistrate was, at the time of the

Guibord affair especially, held by a gentleman of character, coolness,

and judgment. He received the thanks of the Governor-General (Lord

Dufferin) for his conduct on that occasion. When an epidemic of small

pox reigned in Montreal, and the anti-vaccinators offered every

opposition to vaccination, Dr. Hingston, as chairman of the board of

health, under cover of “A few instructions to the vaccinators,” wrote a

paper on the disputed points in controversy, which effectually silenced

his opponents. This paper was distributed gratuitously by order of the

city council of Montreal, and was freely quoted all over America, and

attracted attention in Europe. Again, when in 1885, the province of

Quebec was visited with an epidemic of small pox, the government called

into existence a provincial board of health, with all necessary power.

The subject of our notice was again named chairman, and so soon as

efficient sanitary measures had been completed, Dr. Hingston visited

Washington, and induced the authorities there to modify their quarantine

regulations, which had interfered severely with commercial intercourse

and freedom of travel. During his professional career he has contributed

a number of articles to various medical periodicals, chiefly on surgery.

A more considerable contribution to Canadian science was his work on the

“Climate of Canada, and its relations to life and health.” which was

published in 1885. No member of the medical profession in Canada has

been more honored by scientific bodies. In addition to those already

named, several of the state boards of medicine of the United States have

elected him honorary member, and many American state medical societies

have done so likewise; the British Association, for the Advancement of

Science, chose him as vice-president; and within the past few months the

British Medical Association elected him honorary member, and the

president of council, Sir Walter Foster, thus announced his election:

“Dr. Hingston is too well and too favourably known to the members of

this Association to require the council to give reasons for selecting

him for this honor. His reputation as a surgeon is not confined to

Canada.” The College of Physicians and Surgeons of the province of

Quebec, in noticing the last honor, ordered the following resolution to

be transmitted to England: “The College of Physicians and Surgeons of

the province of Quebec, has learned with pleasure of the honor conferred

by the British Medical Association on their president, Dr. Hingston,

whose reputation as a surgeon, whose labors in the cause of public

health, and whose delicately honourable bearing towards his professional

brethren, had already secured to him every honor the profession of this

Dominion could confer.” In 1875, Dr. Hingston married Margaret

Josephine, daughter of the Hon. D. A. Macdonald, formerly

lieutenant-governor of the province of Ontario, and has three sons and

one daughter.

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=Bergeron, Joseph Gédéon Horace=, B.C.L., Advocate, Montreal, M.P. for

Beauharnois, was born at Rigaud, province of Quebec, on the 13th

October, 1854. He is a son of the late T. R. Bergeron, who was a notary

at Rigaud. His mother was Léocadie Caroline Delphine, daughter of Gédéon

Coursol, notary, of St. Andrew’s, uncle of C. J. Coursol, M.P. for

Montreal East. Mr. Bergeron was educated at the Jesuits’ College in

Montreal, where he took a partial classical course. He then entered the

McGill University, where he graduated B.C.L. in March, 1877. He adopted

law as a profession, and was called to the bar of the province of Quebec

in July, 1877, and is now one of the law firm of Archambault, Lynch,

Bergeron & Mignault, Montreal. In 1874 he entered the Military School at

Montreal, where he took a second-class certificate and then joined the

No. 1 cavalry troop. He is an active member of the St. Jean Baptiste

Society in Montreal, having joined it in 1875; and in 1880 he became a

member of the same society in Valleyfield. He entered political life in

1879, on the death of the then sitting member, Mr. Cayley, for

Beauharnois, and was returned to the Dominion parliament. At the general

election of 1882 he was re-elected by acclamation; and in 1887, at the

general election of that year, he was once more sent to parliament to

represent his old constituency in the House of Commons at Ottawa. He is

a Liberal-Conservative in politics; and in religion is a member of the

Roman Catholic church.

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=Sicotte, Hon. Louis Victor=, St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, one of the judges

of the Superior Court of Quebec, is a son of Touissant Sicotte, of the

parish of Ste. Famille, Boucherville, and was born at Boucherville, on

the 6th of November, 1812. He was educated at St. Hyacinthe College. Our

subject entered public life in 1852, representing the county of St.

Hyacinthe in the Canadian parliament, and continued to do so for eleven

years. The opening part of his political career was an exciting period

in the history of the two provinces of Upper and Lower Canada—the

questions of clergy reserves and the seignorial tenure being still

unsettled; and in August, 1853, he was offered a seat in the Cabinet of

the Hincks-Morin administration as commissioner of Crown lands, but he

declined to accept it, because the government refused to proceed

immediately to settle those two questions. Mr. Sicotte, by his writings

on the question of the clergy reserves, extensively reproduced in the

Upper Canada papers, was greatly instrumental in creating a powerful

opinion to settle the question; the result was an overwhelming majority

in parliament for the settlement of these two important matters. In

1854, Mr. Sicotte was chosen speaker, and held that honorable post till

the dissolution in November, 1857. He was commissioner of Crown lands in

the Taché-Macdonald government; and in 1858 became commissioner of

public works in the Cartier-Macdonald administration, retiring from the

government on the Ottawa question, in December of that year. In May,

1862, when the Sandfield Macdonald-Sicotte government was formed, our

subject took the portfolio of attorney-general for Lower Canada, held

that position until May, 1863; and was made judge of the Superior Court

in the following September. In the year previous he was sent to England

on public business, relating principally to the extension of

communications with the North-West Territory, to realise what is now the

Canadian Pacific Railway, and while there acted as commissioner on

behalf of Canada at the international exhibition held in London. Before

going on the bench, he held for a long time the presidency of the Board

of Agriculture, and was also a member of the Council of Public

Instruction, resigning the latter office when he accepted the judgeship.

Judge Sicotte belongs to the Roman Catholic church, and people who have

known him the longest and most intimately, credit him with having lived

a blameless and eminently useful life. He was an intimate friend and

coworker with Mr. Ludger D. Duvernay, and, with him, took the step

towards the formation of the St. Jean Baptiste Society of Montreal. He

was married, in 1837, to Margaret Amelia Starnes, daughter of Benjamin

Starnes, of Montreal, and sister of Hon. Henry Starnes. They have ten

children living. Judge Sicotte, after serving twenty-four years’ of

judicial life, resigned in November, 1887, at the advanced age of

seventy-five years, still strong and healthy, free and anxious for the

study of the law, but outside of all litigation.

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=Thornton, John=, Coaticook, President of the Cascade Narrow Fabric

Company, province of Quebec, was born on the 3rd April, 1823, at Derby,

Vermont. His father was John Thornton, and mother, Sally Lunt. His

great-grandfather, on the paternal side, was one of the signers of the

Declaration of Independence. Mr. Thornton received his education in

Derby, and came to Canada in 1840. He settled in Stanstead for about a

year, when he removed to Barnston. Here he remained until 1855, when he

moved to Coaticook, and there he has resided since, and done business as

a general storekeeper. Being a public spirited gentleman, he was elected

a councillor; then he held the office of mayor and warden of Stanstead

county for two terms, and finally entered political life, and sat for

eight years in the Quebec legislature, representing the county of

Stanstead. He has been largely interested in the material prosperity of

the district in which he resides. For a while he was one of the

directors of the Magog Print Company, from which position he retired in

1885. He is now a director of the Coaticook Cotton Company; of the

Coaticook Knitting Company; and is also president of the Cascade Narrow

Fabric Company, the only concern in Canada where braids of all

descriptions are manufactured. He is one of the directors of the Eastern

Townships Bank, and president of the Coaticook Water Company. In

politics Mr. Thornton is a Liberal-Conservative; and in religion an

adherent of the Methodist church. He belongs to the order of Oddfellows.

He has been twice married. In 1847 to Lucy Baldwin, of Barnston,

province of Quebec, by whom he had two children, a son and daughter, who

still survive; and again on the 17th of June, 1884. to A. H. Cleveland.

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=Mountain, George Jehoshaphat=, second son of Dr. Jacob Mountain, first

bishop of Quebec, and descendant of one of the Huguenots whom the

persecutions of Louis the Fourteenth had driven out of France to take

refuge in Norfolk, England, was born at Norwich, on the 27th of July,

1789. He was of Norman and Saxon descent, claiming kindred with Michael

De Montaigne, the celebrated French essayist. At the age of seven years

he commenced his Latin grammar, while residing with his father, at

Woodfield, near Quebec. At sixteen he was sent to Little Easton, county

of Essex, England, where he prepared to enter Trinity College,

Cambridge. There he acquitted himself in such a manner as induced Dr.

Monk, professor of Greek, one of his examiners, to recommend him as

principal of a college in Nova Scotia, for which position he considered

Mr. Mountain peculiarly fitted. On leaving Cambridge he returned to

Quebec, and acted as secretary for his father while studying for the

ministry. On the 2nd of August, 1812, he was ordained a deacon, and was

appointed to assist the bishop’s chaplain, Rev. Salter Mountain. In 1814

he was admitted to the order of priest, and was appointed evening

lecturer in the cathedral, and on the 2nd of August, in the same year,

he was married to Mary Hume, third daughter of Deputy-General Commissary

Thompson, and went to Nova Scotia, where he was appointed rector of

Fredericton, and also chaplain of the troops and Legislative Council.

After three years sojourn there he resigned, and returned to Quebec, and

on his arrival was appointed bishop’s official and officiating clergyman

of Quebec. He commenced life well; his earliest noticeable act was to

establish intimate relations with the “Venerable Society for Promoting

Christian Knowledge, and for Propagating the Gospel.” His second was to

establish, at Quebec, national schools for boys and girls. Early in

January, 1818, he commenced as a simple missionary, and afterward

continued as archdeacon to visit the outlying portions of the diocese.

Such work he found, to the end of his career, to be full of attraction

and encouragement, for in heart and soul he was the _beau ideal_ of a

missionary. In 1819 he received the degree of D.D. from the Archbishop

of Canterbury, and was appointed a member of the “Board for the

Advancement of Learning in Canada.” In 1821 he became rector of Quebec

and archdeacon of Lower Canada. In 1823 he was nominated honorary

professor of divinity and principal of McGill College, Montreal. In 1825

he went to England, his chief object being to represent the claim of the

Anglican church in the matter of the clergy reserves, and also to

express his father’s wish to be relieved of a portion of the cares of

his bishopric. The suggestion he made was that the diocese of Quebec,

which covered nearly half a continent, should be divided into two parts,

each to be a separate bishopric; or, if this proposition was not acceded

to, he suggested that the Rev. Dr. Stewart be associated with his father

in the administration of the See. These plans, however, were set at

naught by the death of his father, which event occurred on the 18th of

June, 1825, while he was yet absent in the motherland, and Rev. Dr.

Stewart succeeded Rev. Jacob Mountain as Bishop of Quebec. Ten years

passed slowly by, and in 1835 the archdeacon, the subject of our sketch,

again went to England, his objects being the same as before—the

settlement of the clergy reserve question, and the necessity of

procuring further episcopal assistance in the diocese. Bishop Stewart

had broken down, even as his predecessor had done before him, and was

most anxious that the archdeacon, “whom he dearly loved and called his

‘right hand,’ should be appointed suffragan.” “This duty,” says his

biographer, “the latter was more than disinclined to accept, for his

desire from first to last was to serve, not to rule. He only yielded

when Bishop Stewart emphatically declared he would have no one else.” He

was consecrated coadjutor on the 14th of January, 1836, under the title

of Bishop of Montreal. On the 22nd of September, Bishop Stewart went to

England, and did not return, for, becoming weaker and weaker, he died in

the following year. Thus, despite his wishes to the contrary, the

subject of our sketch became the third bishop of the undivided diocese

of Canada. Rev. George Jehoshaphat Mountain was a true and humble-minded

Christian; all the events of his life go to prove this. While his

devotion to the sick and suffering at Quebec, in 1832, when the cholera

rushed like a cyclone from Grosse-Isle to the mainland, and hundreds of

homes were made desolate, renders his name well worthy of record among

the great and good of our land, and again his light shines before the

world in 1847, when typhus fever, the result of the famine in Ireland,

was imported into Canada. It is written: “The Anglican clergy, few in

number, with devoted zeal, took their duty at Grosse-Isle week about,

the bishop taking the first week. Most of the clergy sickened, and two

of them died of the fever. The trial, we may imagine, was acute enough,

for in the summer of 1847, upwards of five thousand interments took

place at the immigrants’ station at Grosse-Isle. ‘No one liveth to

himself or dieth to himself,’ wrote the heroic bishop. There was

chivalry as well as gentleness in his nature which, like expressed

virtue, communicated itself to all.” Bishop Mountain served his God as a

minister of the gospel for fifty years, and died on the morning of the

feast of the Epiphany, 1863, deeply respected and beloved.

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=Blair, Hon. Andrew George=, Attorney-General and Premier of New

Brunswick, was born in Fredericton, N.B., on the 7th March, 1844. He is

of Scotch descent. He was educated at the Collegiate School, in

Fredericton. He chose law as a profession, and after spending the usual

time in study, was called to the bar in April, 1866, and successfully

practised for some years. In 1878 he entered the political arena, and

was returned to represent York county in the House of Assembly of New

Brunswick, at the general election of that year. A petition, however,

having been filed against his return, he resigned the seat, and on the

issue of a new writ, was re-elected on the 14th November of the same

year. At the first session of the new house, in February, 1879, he was

chosen leader of the opposition, then consisting of only six members

beside himself, in a house of forty-one. In the last session of that

house, held in 1882, the opposition, under his leadership, had increased

to seventeen. At the general election of that year, 1882, he was

re-elected for his old constituency, and in March, 1883, defeated the

Hanington government, and was called upon to form a new ministry, which

he succeeded in accomplishing in one day. On accepting the office of

attorney-general he again appealed to his constituents on the 24th of

March, and was elected. At the general elections held in 1887 he was

once more elected, at the head of the New Brunswick Legislature as

premier and attorney-general. Hon. Mr. Blair is an independent Liberal

in politics; and in religion is an adherent of the Methodist church. He

was married on 31st October, 1866, to Annie E., eldest daughter of

George Thompson, late of the educational department, at Fredericton. The

issue of this union has been ten children.

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=Burland, George B.=, President and General Manager of the British

American Bank Note Company, Montreal.—Mr. Burland, the subject of our

sketch, is descended from a long line of illustrious ancestry. There is

an old estate in Cheshire, called “Burland,” after the family, and at

the time of the accession of Edward III. to the throne in 1327, Robert

de Burland held possession in the county of Somerset. John Burland, born

in 1696, married, in 1718, Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Claver

Morris, M.D., of the city of Wells. He died November 6, 1746, and left

four sons and two daughters: John Burland, son and heir; Claver Morris

Burland, M.D.; William Burland, fellow New College, Oxford; Robert

Burland; Mary, wife of Rev. William Hudlestone, and Anne, wife of Rev.

William Eater. John, the eldest son, was of Baliol College, Oxford,

where he entered in 1740. In 1743 he went to the Middle Temple, and was

called to the bar in 1746. In 1762 he was made sergeant-at-law; in 1773

he was given the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws; in 1774 he was

knighted and sworn one of the Barons of the Exchequer in room of Baron

Adams. This he enjoyed but one year and eleven months, and died February

29, 1776, by the rupture of a blood vessel in his brain, as he was

sitting in company with his brother, Robert Burland, and his intimate

friend, Colonel Charles Webb. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, where

a handsome monument, with the following inscription, is erected to his

memory: “Near this place are deposited the remains of the Hon. Sir John

Burland, Knt., LL.D., one of the Barons of his Majesty’s Court of

Exchequer; as a man, valued and beloved, as a judge, honoured and

revered. He died suddenly on the 29th February, 1776, aged 51 years.”

This gentleman married, in 1747, Lætitia, the daughter of Wm. Berkeley

Portman, of Orchard Portman, and Anne, his wife, only daughter of Sir

Edward Seymour, of Maiden Bradley, baronet, speaker of the House of

Commons, and comptroller of the household of Queen Anne. George B.

Burland, of Montreal, is descended from this family, and was born at

Loggan Hall, in the county of Wexford, in the year 1829. His father,

Benjamin Burland, was born in 1779, and educated for the medical

profession. He married, in 1806, Belinda Roe, daughter of Robert Roe, a

gentleman of ample wealth, and owner of large estates in Queen’s county.

He sailed for Canada in July, 1840, and died in 1842. His uncle was one

of the first to afford relief to the sufferers in the great famine of

1739. His father and his father’s brothers were gentlemen of

considerable influence, and owned extensive properties in the counties

of Wicklow and Wexford, now in possession of the DeRenzie family. They

took an active part in the troubles of 1798. One of them was reputed in

his day the best horseman and swordsman in Ireland. During the Irish

rebellion his father, at great personal risk, saved the life of a priest

by placing himself between the levelled muskets and their intended

victim. For this service the rev. gentleman presented him with a sword

now in the possession of the subject of this sketch. Tablets in Kilpipe

and Kilcommon churches note the resting-places of members of his family.

His uncle was appointed surveyor to the customs at Montreal by the

British government; and his cousin, B. Burland, is at present a

surgeon-major in the 19th Hussars. George B. Burland’s education was

entrusted to a private tutor, and when his schooling was over, he

entered upon business pursuits, in 1844, in the office of his uncle,

George P. Bull, who was at that period proprietor and publisher of the

Hamilton _Gazette_. His cousins, Rev. Geo. A. Richard, and the late Hon.

Harcourt B. Bull, were then residents of Hamilton; and he remained with

them some three or four years and then returned to Montreal. This

initial connection with the press soon led to another stage in a cognate

branch of publication. The late George Matthews, engraver, succeeded,

after many efforts, in inducing the Bank of Montreal to have its bills

printed in Canada, the plates being then engraved at the Bank of

England, in London. Having secured this step, his next important move

was to obtain for that department a manager who could be relied upon for

his intelligence and business energy to carry out the new undertaking

with success. The choice fell upon Mr. Burland; and thus having

identified himself with the undertaking from the first, and acquired an

interest in it, his energy, industry and tact enabled him soon to attain

to a full partnership. His partner, Mr. Matthews, having secured a

competency in the course of time, retired from the business, and left

Mr. Burland to conduct affairs. The latter then set about to widen the

sphere of his operations, and in spite of many obstacles, which only

seemed to stimulate his pluck and perseverance, and notwithstanding the

strenuous opposition of the American Bank Note Company and his former

partner, he successfully established the British American Bank Note

Company, which has been intimately connected with the engraving and

printing of the bank note work of the country for over a quarter of a

century. Besides being the founder, Mr. Burland is president, and has

been general manager of the company since its incorporation. In 1874 he

obtained a charter of incorporation for the Burland Lithographic

Company, the destinies of which he successfully conducted, as president

and general manager, until 1886, when he retired from that double

office, on account of his health, and because of his other multifarious

interests and occupations. Indeed, he is concerned in many important

business enterprises. He is president of the Protestant Insane Asylum of

the province of Quebec, to which charity he donated the sum of five

thousand dollars. He is a life governor of the Montreal General

Hospital, Western Female Hospital, Montreal Dispensary, Boys’ Home,

Protestant Orphan Asylum, Irish Protestant Benevolent Association, and

Protestant Orphan Asylum, Ottawa, and a life member of the Art

Association, of Montreal. To support the principles advanced by the Rev.

James Roy, who had been accused of heresy in the Methodist church, and

with the view of retaining him in the ministry, Mr. Burland built and

equipped one of the handsomest churches in the city of Montreal, at a

cost of over $50,000. We merely mention this as an instance of the

liberal assistance which he has extended to others without desiring or

allowing publicity, and in fact many other proofs of his generosity are

known to the writer, which have been carefully hidden from the world by

their donor. This sacred edifice has since become the property of the

St. Gabriel Church congregation, to which body Mr. Burland donated the

sum of $5,000. He also contributed the sum of $2,500 to the

Congregational College, Montreal, and has always been a liberal

contributor to charitable objects. He was, furthermore, one of the

original subscribers to the stock of the Windsor Hotel Company,

Montreal, and was one of the few who formed a syndicate to complete the

building at a time when its success appeared to be doubtful. He has been

one of the directors for many years, is the vice-president, and largest

shareholder in the company. He is also widely interested in the

manufacturing industries and joint stock companies of the Dominion, and

is one of the largest property-owners in the city of Montreal. Some of

its most modern and artistic buildings have been erected by him, and he

was the first of the citizens to import some of the beautiful woods of

British Columbia which have been used in their construction. Mr. Burland

married, in 1857, Clarissa, the youngest daughter of the late George

Cochrane, of Quebec, by whom he had one son and three daughters. When

his son became of age a few years ago he presented him with $25,000 as a

birthday present. His gifts to other members of his household have been

proportionately liberal on their attaining their majority. The action of

Mr. Burland in this matter, as well as in his numerous acts of

munificence to the many charitable institutions of the city of Montreal

and elsewhere, is worthy of the highest commendation, and we trust the

day is not far distant when the men of wealth and noble instincts will

follow his example, and not defer the disposal of their wealth till

after death, but witness, in the evening of their days, the great

blessings they were enabled to impart to their fellow beings. In the

year 1883 Mr. Burland paid a visit to Europe with his family, travelling

over England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Germany and Switzerland, and

thereby greatly benefiting his health; and since then, while still

keeping an eye on his numerous interests, he is free to devote much time

to works of philanthropy and public usefulness. He is still

comparatively a young man, and there is every reason to hope that he

will be spared many years to the circle of his family, and to the more

enlarged sphere of good citizenship. Men of his stamp are not met with

every day, and the lesson of patience, industry, thrift and business

management, resulting in the accumulation of large wealth, invested

where it can do most private and public good, which his career presents,

is worthy of permanent commemoration.

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=Tellier, Hon. Louis=, Judge of the Superior Court of the province of

Quebec, St. Hyacinthe, is a son of Zephirin Tellier, of Ste. Melanie de

Daillebout, yeoman, and Luce Ferland, daughter of Prisque Ferland, and

was born at Berthier-en-haut, December 24th, 1844. The Tellier family

came from France about 1789, its progenitor in this province settling at

Berthier-en-haut. Mr. Tellier was educated at Joliette College; began

the study of law at Joliette, under the Hon. Mr. Baby, who became

federal minister of inland revenue, and is now one of the judges of the

Court of Queen’s Bench, and finished at St. Hyacinthe, under the Hon.

Hubert W. Chagnon, now a puisne judge of the Superior Court, and was

called to the bar at Montreal on the 16th of October, 1866; and since

1873 has been in practice at St. Hyacinthe, being the senior member of

the firms of Tellier, DeLabruere and Beauchemin, and of Tellier, Lussier

and Gendron. He has a liberal share of business in both the civil and

criminal courts, and an honorable standing in the profession, being a

hard student, well informed in law matters, and preparing his cases with

the greatest care and credit. His opinion on legal points is not given

hurriedly, but, once expressed, can be relied on. He is very precise and

honorable in all his dealings. His law library is one of the best of its

kind in the district of St. Hyacinthe. Mr. Tellier was deputy

prothonotary of the Superior Court, and deputy clerk of the circuit

court for this district, from 1863 to 1873, and crown attorney for the

same from the last-named date until 1878. He was first elected to the

House of Commons of Canada in September, 1878, for the county of St.

Hyacinthe, and an unsuccessful candidate at the general election in

1882. His politics are Conservative, and though younger than the

majority of his political _confrères_ in the district, very few of them

have more talent, prestige and influence. When elected to parliament, he

drew more than the full party vote. Mr. Tellier was married in St.

Hyacinthe, on the 26th of May, 1868, to Hermine, second daughter of the

late Dr. Adolphe Malhiot and Hermine Lamothe, who died on the 7th of

February, 1878, leaving one son, and on the 18th of July, 1882, to

Elzire, daughter of J. A. Hamel, collector of customs of St. Hyacinthe.

The family belong to the Roman Catholic church, and on the 24th of June,

1880, Mr. Tellier was a delegate to represent St. Hyacinthe at the grand

national _fête_ of St. Jean Baptiste, held in Quebec. He was appointed a

Queen’s counsel on the 23rd of January, 1882. He has lately, and most

deservedly, been appointed judge of the Superior Court of the province

of Quebec.

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