=Scott, Lieut.-Col. Thomas=, Collector of Customs, Winnipeg, was born in

Lanark county, Ontario, 16th February, 1841. He is of Irish parentage,

and has proved in all the departments of activity in which he has been

engaged throughout an unusually active life that he has inherited the

best qualities of the Celtic race braced with the increased vigor which

a fine climate and free institutions give to Canadians. The subject of

this sketch was educated at the public and high schools of his native

county, and at an early age entered on journalism, and when only twenty

he founded a journal to advocate the principles of the Conservative

party. This journal was the _Perth Expositor_, which under the energetic

management of its founder soon became a power in the county. Two years

later he married Miss Kellock, second daughter of Robert Kellock. Born

with the instincts of a soldier, young Scott joined the volunteer corps

of his town, at the time of the _Trent_ affair, and shortly afterwards

became its captain. No better commanding-officer or more enthusiastic

militiaman was to be found in the province than he. When the Fenian raid

of 1866 set the country in a ferment, Capt. Scott was one of the first

to ask on behalf of himself and his company to be assigned for active

service. They were ordered to the St. Lawrence frontier, where they were

kept on duty for four months. For his services he was raised to the rank

of major. He was next called into active service in 1870, when he was

placed in command of a company of the Ontario Rifles, part of Col. (now

Lord) Wolseley’s expedition to the North-West to suppress the first Riel

rebellion. In the toilsome journey Major Scott distinguished himself by

his power of inspiring enthusiasm in the men under his command, which

won such high encomiums from the brilliant young commander of the

expedition. When, just after his return, it became necessary to send

another expedition to the North-West to resist the threatened Fenian

invasion of Manitoba, Major Scott, raised to the rank of brevet

lieutenant-colonel, was chosen to command the force. A considerable part

of the journey through what was then an almost untrodden wilderness was

made in winter, and the men suffered great hardships, but made their way

through to Fort Garry with wonderfully few mishaps. Liking the country,

and appreciating the opportunities it offered for men of pluck and

energy, Col. Scott sold out his newspaper business and removed to

Manitoba. He at once took a prominent part in public affairs. He first

essayed in 1874 to be elected to the Legislature of Manitoba against the

then premier, Hon. R. A. Davis, but was unsuccessful. Three years later,

however, he became mayor of Winnipeg after a keen electoral contest, but

administered affairs so satisfactorily to the people, during his year of

office, that he was elected by acclamation for a second term. While

still occupying the place of mayor, he was nominated for a seat in the

Legislative Assembly, and was elected. The general election came on in

the following year, and Col. Scott was again successful. In 1880, the

seat in the House of Commons for Selkirk becoming vacant by Hon. (now

Sir) Donald A. Smith being unseated, Col. Scott resigned his place in

the legislature, and ran in the Conservative interest, defeating Sir

Donald by 169 majority. In the general election of 1882 he again was the

Conservative standard-bearer for Winnipeg, in some respects the most

important political division of the province. He was triumphantly

returned and served throughout that parliament. He was appointed

collector of customs in 1887, which position he still holds. Lieut.-Col.

Scott, while always a strong party man, and almost fiercely active in a

political contest, has those qualities of generosity and

kind-heartedness which make men who are his opponents his friends. He is

a man beloved by the people because of his strong sympathy with them,

and his manifest desire to do all in his power to defend their

interests.

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=Ogden, William Winslow=, B.M., M.D., one of the leading medical

practitioners of the city of Toronto, was born in the township of

Toronto, county of Peel, 3rd July, 1837. His parents were William J.

Ogden, an officer in the militia of York county in those days, and

Rebecca Ogden. His father was descended from old English stock,

traceable as far back as the time of Charles the Second. One of his

ancestors, performed distinguished services for this fickle monarch at a

critical period of his career, and received at his hands in return

important recognition, and the _coat armor_ now held by his descendants.

The doctor’s mother was from Ireland, and has been dead over twenty

years, but his father, now in his eighty-sixth year, is still alive, and

resides near Port Credit. Dr. Ogden received such primary education as

the schools of his native place supplied in those early days, and then

went to the Toronto Academy (since extinct), at that time connected with

Knox College. He afterwards attended, until he was eighteen years of

age, Victoria College, taking the ordinary arts course, and from this

until he reached the age of twenty-two, he attended the Toronto School

of Medicine, taking at the same time several special subjects in natural

science in the University of Toronto. He graduated in honors in medicine

from Toronto University in 1860, and at a later date in the same science

from Victoria College, Cobourg. He then settled in Toronto, in which

city he has ever since successfully practised his profession. In 1869

Dr. Ogden was appointed lecturer on medical jurisprudence and toxicology

in Toronto School of Medicine, and lectured on these subjects, and that

of diseases of children, from that date until 1887, when, on the

creation of the medical faculty of Toronto University, he was appointed

professor of forensic medicine, which includes toxicology and medical

psychology. He takes a deep interest in all educational matters, and has

been a member of the public school board continuously since 1866, a

period of twenty-two years. He is always found at his post, is generally

a member of all important committees, for two years was chairman of the

board, and no one rejoices more than the worthy doctor at the great

progress our schools have made since he first began to take an active

interest in their management. Being a public spirited gentleman, he is

deeply interested in everything that helps to improve the social and

material condition of his countrymen. He is a member of the Middlesex

lodge, Sons of England Benevolent Society, and its medical examiner in

the beneficiary department, is president of the Royal Oak Building and

Savings Society, and of the Sons of England Hall Company of Toronto. For

many years, till recently, he was an active member of the Toronto Reform

Association, and for a long time was its vice-president. Ever since the

Brown-Cameron struggle, in 1858, he has taken an active part in all the

political contests held in Toronto, and had the distinction of being

nominated as the Reform candidate for the Ontario legislature in 1879,

but, although he succeeded in greatly reducing the majority generally

polled against the Reform candidate, he failed to secure his own

election. In religion, Dr. Ogden was brought up in, and has always taken

a deep interest in, the Methodist form of worship, and for over thirty

years has held the office of leader in the Methodist church. He has been

a member of all the general conferences save one, and of the annual

conferences up to the present. He supported and voted for the union of

the several Methodist bodies, and was well pleased when the union took

place. In politics, it is almost needless to say, he is a staunch

Reformer, and has during his long and useful life sacrificed largely in

time and labor to advance the cause he has so much at heart. On the 27th

May, 1862, he was married, to Elizabeth Price, daughter of the late

William McKown, and niece of the late George Price, who died in 1880.

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=Burrill, James=, Merchant, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, is the second son of

William Burrill and Catharine Sullivan, and was born on the 22nd

February, 1844, at Yarmouth, N.S. He received a common school education,

and on the retirement of his father in 1869, succeeded to his business,

in company with his two brothers, and they now trade under the style of

William Burrill & Co. The firm is largely interested in shipping. Mr.

Burrill, the subject of our sketch, is a member of the Board of Trade,

and since 1876 he has had a seat on the Board of School Trustees. In

1880 he was elected councillor for Milton, and was re-elected to the

same position in 1882, 1884, and 1886. He was chosen warden of the

municipality of Yarmouth in 1884, and again elected to the same office

in 1886. Mr. Burrill takes an interest in all social reforms and belongs

to the order of the Sons of Temperance and to the Temple of Honor. In

politics he is a Liberal, and in religion he belongs to the Presbyterian

church. Though comparatively young in years, he has devoted a good deal

of time for the benefit of his fellow-citizens, among whom he is highly

respected as he deserves to be. On the 20th September, 1887, he was

married to Jane J., eldest daughter of George H. Lovitt.

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=Murray, Lieut.-Col. John Robert=, Superintendent of Stores and

Paymaster of Military district, No. 9, Halifax, was born at Halifax,

N.S., February 9th, 1836, and is the eldest son of Thomas Murray of

Dartmouth, N.S., (born February 11, 1811), and Caroline Maria Tapper of

Blandford, England (born March 5, 1813), who married at Halifax,

December 6, 1834. Col. Murray was educated at the National School and

the Grammar School (Academy) Halifax, and early entered into mercantile

pursuits. He became interested eventually in the hardware business as a

partner in the firm of Boggs & Ross, and Thos. Boggs & Co. Colonel

Murray served his native town for three years as an alderman for Ward 1,

from 1872, and was a justice of the peace for the town. As a young man,

he took an active interest in the militia, and this strengthened with

each succeeding year. His connection with the militia of Nova Scotia and

the Dominion covers a period of over twenty-nine years, and for over a

quarter of a century he has held her Majesty’s commissions, viz:—In the

3rd Queen’s, N.S. militia, second lieutenant, February 5, 1863; first

lieutenant, June 10, 1863; captain, December 11, 1864; adjutant, July

14, 1865, in the 66th Princess Louise Fusiliers; captain, June 18, 1869;

brevet major, September 20, 1872; brevet lieutenant-colonel, December

12, 1874. On February 1, 1884, he was appointed to the district staff,

and has since filled the offices of store-keeper and district paymaster,

in a most satisfactory manner. In religion he is a Presbyterian, being a

member of St. Andrew’s Church. He is a pleasant, agreeable citizen, a

good soldier, and a splendid officer. He was married, September 19,

1861, to Eliza Jane, eldest daughter of the late James Reeves of

Halifax, and has had issue five children, of whom three survive: James

Reeves, who occupies the position of accountant in the Nova Scotia Sugar

Refinery, Halifax; Charles Grant, gentleman cadet at the Royal Military

College, Kingston, and George William, who is a student at the Halifax

Medical College.

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=Lawson, Professor George=, Ph.D., LL.D., F.I.C., F.R.S.C., Halifax,

N.S., was born at Newport, parish of Forgan, Fifeshire, Scotland, 12th

October, 1827. He is the only son of Alex. Lawson, of a family long

resident in the county, and his wife, Margaret McEwen, daughter of Colin

McEwen, for many years a civic officer in the town of Dundee. He was

educated at a private school, and after several years of private study

and law-reading, entered the University of Edinburgh, devoting his

attention specially to the natural and physical sciences—chemistry,

botany, zoology, anatomy, mineralogy, and geology. His studies at

Edinburgh extended over a period of ten years, during which time he was

also occupied with scientific and literary work in connection with the

university and several of the scientific institutions of that city. He

occupied the position of curator of the university herbarium, until it

was removed from the university building to the Royal Botanic Garden,

and was thus early brought into personal contact and correspondence with

the leading botanists of the time. He assisted the professor of botany,

Dr. Balfour, in his class-work and field and mountain excursions, and,

as demonstrator under the professor’s direction, conducted a select

class in histology for advanced students, teaching the practical use of

the microscope and the methods of research in regard to the minute

structure and development of plants. This class, formed in the Herbarium

room at the Royal Botanic Garden, in Edinburgh, in 1853, was one of the

first, if not the first organization of the kind in Britain

corresponding to what are now known as biological laboratories. This

Edinburgh Botanical Laboratory is now greatly extended and well supplied

with recent improvements in apparatus and implements of research. On the

death of Dr. Fleming, professor of natural science in the New College,

Edinburgh, Dr. Lawson, in conjunction with the late Andrew Murray,

continued the lectures through the winter session. He prepared, and

carried through the press, the catalogue of the library of the Royal

Society of Edinburgh, a work which was thus noticed by Sir R. Christison

in his presidential address: “The council, in noticing the completion of

this important labor, cannot express too highly the sense they entertain

of the services of Dr. Lawson, who has applied himself to the task put

before him with a zeal, diligence, method, and ability which led the

council to congratulate themselves and the society on the choice which

was made in appointing him.” He acted as secretary for several other

societies, being joint secretary with the late Sir Wyville Thomson, of

the Royal Physical Society. Being an adherent of the Church of Scotland,

he was an active member of the High Church of Edinburgh. In the year

1858 Dr. Lawson accepted the appointment of professor of chemistry and

natural history in Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, and

relinquished the several offices held in Edinburgh. On leaving that city

for Canada, a number of the professors of the university and members of

societies, including Professor Balfour, Sir R. Christison, Sir J. Y.

Simpson, Sir J. Gibson-Craig, Sir A. Douglas Maclagan, Professor Wilson,

Sir A. Fayrer, and others, presented him with a purse of sovereigns and

a silver salver bearing the following inscription—“Presented to Dr.

George Lawson (along with a purse of sovereigns), on the occasion of his

departure from Great Britain, to fill the chair of chemistry and natural

history in Queen’s College, Kingston, Canada, by some of his friends,

who desire thus to testify their high esteem and regard for him, and

their appreciation of the services which he has rendered to science in

Edinburgh. 5th August, 1858.” One of the speakers at the farewell

meeting (father of the professor of botany in the Dublin College of

Science), remarked as a reason for the presentation: “We do not know

what the Canadians may think of you, but we want them to know what we

think of you here.” At Queen’s College, a new laboratory and class-rooms

for medical teaching being in course of construction, Dr. Lawson

organized there a system of practical laboratory teaching similar to

that then in operation by Drs. Wilson and Macadam at Edinburgh. The

college grounds were laid out as a botanic garden, and the Botanical

Society of Canada was formed, chiefly through his exertions. Whilst at

Kingston, he acted as an examiner at Toronto University. In consequence

of the disturbed state of affairs in Queen’s College, in 1863, Dr.

Lawson resigned his position there, and accepted the professorship of

chemistry and mineralogy in Dalhousie College and University, Halifax,

Nova Scotia, then being reorganized, and which he still holds. Soon

after his arrival in Nova Scotia, a board of agriculture was established

by the provincial government, and he was elected secretary. He continued

to discharge the duties of that office from 1864 till 1885, when the

board was abolished, and its duties assumed directly by the provincial

government. His services were retained under the new arrangement as

secretary for agriculture of the province. In 1857 Dr. Lawson took the

degree of Ph.D. at the University of Giessen. In 1863 the University of

McGill College, Montreal, conferred upon him the honorary degree of

LL.D. He is a fellow, and at present president, of the Royal Society of

Canada; fellow of the Botanical and Royal Physical Societies of

Edinburgh; of the Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain and Ireland;

honorary member of the Edinburgh Geological and Scottish Arboricultural

Societies; corresponding member of the Royal Horticultural Society of

London, and of the Society of Natural Sciences at Cherbourg; also member

of the following: British Association for Advancement of Science,

American Association for Advancement of Science, Royal Scottish Society

of Arts, Nova Scotian Institute of Natural Science, Historical Society,

Ottawa Naturalists’ Club, etc.; associate of the Canadian Society of

Civil Engineers. Dr. Lawson’s contributions to scientific literature

have been published chiefly in the transactions of societies and

scientific periodicals, as in “Transactions” respectively of the

Botanical Society of Edinburgh, Royal Society of Canada, Nova Scotian

Institute of Natural Science, and in the “Edinburgh New Philosophical

Journal,” the “London Phytologist,” the “Annals and Magazine of Natural

History,” the “Canadian Naturalist,” the “Chemical News,” etc. A

separate work on “Water-lilies,” and one on “British Agriculture,” were

published in Edinburgh. During his residence there he was a frequent

contributor to “Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal,” and other literary

periodicals in London and Edinburgh, and he edited and rewrote a portion

of one of the editions of “Chambers’s Information for the People.” He

married, in Edinburgh, Lucy, daughter of Charles Stapley, of Vale

Cottage, Tunbridge Wells, and King’s road, Chelsea, who died on 1st

January, 1871, leaving two daughters. At Halifax, in 1876, he married

Caroline Matilda, daughter of William Jordan, Rosehall, Halifax, sister

of Rev. Louis H. Jordan, M.A., B.D., Montreal, and widow of George

Alexander Knox, lost in the steamship _City of Boston_, which sailed

from Halifax harbor in January, 1870.

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=Allison, David=, M.A., LL.D., Halifax, N.S., Superintendent of

Education for the province of Nova Scotia, was born at Newport, Hants

county, N.S., July 3rd, 1836. His father was James W. Allison, and his

mother, Margaret Elder, both Nova Scotians, but descendants of North of

Ireland parents, who had settled in this province. Dr. Allison’s father

and grandfather both occupied seats in the local legislature. His

preliminary education was received at the Halifax Academy, and the

Wesleyan Academy, Sackville, New Brunswick. After studying four years at

the latter institution, he entered the Wesleyan University, Middletown,

Conn., U.S.A., and graduated in 1859. He then became classical

instructor at Sackville Academy, and changed that position in 1862, to

take a similar position in Mount Allison College. In 1869 Rev. Dr.

Pickard resigned the presidency of the college, and the directorate

unanimously elected Mr. Allison to the office, a tribute to his

scholarship and character. He occupied the position of president for

nine years, and under him the college work was very successfully and

effectively performed. In the year 1877 he was appointed to the office

of superintendent of education for the province of Nova Scotia, which

position he still holds. Under his administration the whole system of

the public schools of the province has grown and developed, till it is

in the most satisfactory condition that could be desired or expected.

Dr. Allison is a member of the Methodist church, and was a delegate to

the congress of Methodism held in London, 1881. He married, June 18,

1862, Elizabeth Powell, of Richibucto, N.B., whose ancestors were

loyalists. Dr. Allison received the degree of B.A., 1859; M.A., 1862;

LL.D., from Victoria College, Cobourg, Ontario, 1873. In 1876 he was

appointed a fellow of the senate of Halifax University. In his position

as superintendent of education he has been broad in his views, and

possesses a thorough appreciation of the high problem which is being

worked out by the educational system of the province under his

guardianship and direction.

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=Radenhurst, W. H.=, Barrister, Perth, Ontario, was born at Toronto on

14th September, 1835. He is the eldest son of the late Thomas M.

Radenhurst, Q.C., who settled in Perth in 1824. His paternal

grandfather, Thomas Radenhurst, came out from England to America in a

semi-military capacity at the time of the revolutionary war. He was from

Cheshire, and his mother was a sister of Lord Chief Justice Kenyon. When

a youth, he was sent up to London to enter the employ of the banking

firm of the Lloyds, in which his mother, who was related to them, had

some interest, but he preferred to go to America with the troops then

leaving for the war. At the close of the war, being stationed in

Montreal, he married Ann Campbell, a daughter of a United Empire

loyalist, one of the first who settled on the Bay of Quinté. An uncle of

hers, Sir John Campbell, was a distinguished soldier in India. He died

at Fort St. John, in early life, leaving a young family to the care of

his widow, a woman of energy and capacity. She obtained commissions in

the army for her two eldest sons, but her third son, Thomas, she had

educated at Dr. Strachan’s school at Cornwall, and he afterwards studied

law in Toronto. He commenced the practice of his profession in Kingston,

from where he removed to Perth, and built up a considerable law

practice. He married a daughter of Surveyor-General Ridout of Toronto.

He represented the county of Carleton in the Upper Canada Legislature

before the union of the provinces, and was afterwards, as the nominee of

the Reform or Baldwin-Lafontaine party, an unsuccessful candidate for

Lanark county. He was made a Queen’s counsel in 1849, and acted for a

considerable time as Crown prosecutor in the Eastern and sometimes in

the Midland Circuit. He was offered the judgeship of the Bathurst

district, but declined the honor. He acted as treasurer of Lanark county

for several years; and he died in 1854, in his fifty-first year, leaving

a large family. The following pen and ink sketch, of Thomas M.

Radenhurst, written in November, 1847, by a local scribe, signing

himself “Paul Pry,” gives us a very correct idea of the deceased Queen’s

counsel:—

Another personage in this court is entitled to a favourable

notice—Mr. T. M. Radenhurst. This gentleman lounges in his

chair with an easy familiarity when in court—you would imagine

that his soul was away into the fair land of romance, or

feasting with the great jury consultists in his library, or

arranging some circumstances that may have transpired in the

domestic or social circle; but when he stands up, and is roused

into action, you are both startled and pleased to find that all

this seeming abstraction, has no reality—he shows that nothing

has escaped his notice—his mind is found to be stored with

important facts, all bearing upon the point at issue; in the

management of these there is a complete absence of all

clap-trap—he does not seek to terrify and bewilder a witness,

but the witness finds that he is in the hands of a master, and

that his only mode of escape is in giving a plain unvarnished

tale. When he addresses the jury, he unfolds the capacity so

valuable in an advocate, that he believes that there is such a

thing as truth, and that he relies with full confidence for

success of his cause upon the truth being told. The moral

bearing of his case is then unfolded, and the conviction is

triumphantly carried and established in every unprejudiced mind

that whatever may be the merits of the suit the advocate is an

honest man.

W. H. Radenhurst, the subject of our sketch, his eldest son, at present

residing in Perth, was educated at Upper Canada College. He held the

office of treasurer of Lanark for sometime after his father’s death, but

afterwards studied law in the offices of the late Mr. Fraser of Perth,

and of Sir Matthew Cameron in Toronto, and was called to the bar. He was

a member of the town council of Perth, and mayor of the town from 1874

to 1878. He is now revising officer for North Lanark. In politics he is

a Liberal-Conservative, and in religion an adherent of the Episcopal

church.

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=St. Georges, Rev. Charles=, Parish Priest of St. Athanase, Iberville,

P.Q., and Honorary Canon of the Cathedral of St. Hyacinthe, was born on

the 13th March, 1834, at Varennes, Verchères county, P.Q. He was

educated at the College of St. Hyacinthe, and ordained priest on the

15th August, 1858. The scenes of his early labors were successively

Sorel, Granby, Abbotsford and St. Charles. Since 1868 he has been in

charge of the Church of St. Athanase, Iberville, where his devotedness,

zeal, and piety have gained for him the universal esteem and affection

of his flock. His finer qualities, however, are known only to a few—his

fellow-priests and the religious under his spiritual direction—by whom

he is regarded as a model worthy of copying, and as a tender and loving

pastor. Father St. Georges has been distinguished throughout his

priestly career for the important part and interest he has taken in the

education question. Finding on his arrival at St. Athanase, that the

good Sisters of the Congregation de Notre Dame had established a convent

there, he spared no sacrifice in aiding and seconding them in their

noble efforts. For a long time it was his ardent wish to procure for the

boys of his parish a suitable educational establishment; but it was not,

however, until 1885 that this grand project was fully realized. In that

year he had the happiness of seeing opened a Commercial College under

the direction of the Marist Brothers, whose Mother-House is at St.

Genis-Laval, France. The success which has already attended the scheme

does credit to its promoter and principal supporter. At present it has

about two hundred externs and fifty boarders. Father St. Georges’ life

has been replete with all those noble virtues and fine qualities so

often met with in the priesthood, and we hope he will be long spared to

bless humanity.

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=Burrill, William=, Merchant, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, was born at Drumbo,

near Belfast, Ireland, on 30th June, 1802. He was the second son of

Henry and Rosanna Burrill, and came to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, in the

year 1834, where he at once engaged in mercantile business which he

successfully pursued until 1869, when he retired. During his lifetime he

greatly distinguished himself for his zeal in the cause of temperance.

He took a leading part in the organization of the first Division of the

Sons of Temperance in Yarmouth, and was the second Grand Worthy

Patriarch of the order in Nova Scotia. He was elected a member of the

National Division of North America in the year 1851. He held the office

of warden of the municipality of Yarmouth in 1857, and the following

year was appointed a justice of the peace. He was a Liberal in politics,

and a Presbyterian in religion. He died at Yarmouth, on the 9th April,

1883, greatly regretted by his fellow citizens, among whom he was held

in high esteem. He was married to Catherine Sullivan, of Halifax, N.S.,

on the 28th of November, 1839.

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=Charland, Hon. Justice Alfred N.=, B.C.L., St. John’s, Quebec. This

gentleman, who was raised to the bench of the province of Quebec, as one

of the judges of the Superior Court, in November, 1887, was born at

Iberville, province of Quebec, on the 28th May, 1842. He is a son of

late Joseph Charland, merchant, of the same place, one of the oldest

settlers of the county of Iberville, province of Quebec, and who was

married to Elmire Duquette, of Chateauguay, sister of the renowned

Joseph Duquette, a young patriot who was executed in 1838, when only

twenty-two years of age, for being one of the “Sons of Liberty,” an

order that existed at the time of the Canadian rebellion. This lamented

young martyr for the cause of liberty was a supporter and bosom friend

of the celebrated Papineau. Judge Charland was educated in St. Hyacinthe

College. He studied the profession of law in the office of the late Hon.

Charles Laberge and L. G. Macdonald, Q.C. (Laberge & Macdonald), in St.

John’s, province of Quebec, and was subsequently a student in the office

of Sir A. A. Dorion, now chief justice of the Court of Queen’s Bench. He

received his degree of B.C.L. from McGill University, when Judge

Torrance, Edward Carter, Q.C., and the Hon. R. Laflamme were his

professors. He was admitted to practice in September, 1863, and settled

at St. John’s, where he edited _Le Franco Canadien_ for two years, and

commenced an extensive practice with E. S. Paradis, Q.C. In 1878 Mr.

Charland was offered the judgeship of the quarter sessions for Montreal,

by the Joly government, in the place of Judge Coursol, a position which,

though honorable, he declined. The same year he was appointed Queen’s

counsel by the Quebec government, and in 1886 had this distinction

confirmed upon him by the governor-general in council at Ottawa. He was

for several years actively engaged in politics, and fought the battles

of the Liberal party till he joined the Conservatives as a protectionist

and a partisan of the ruling policy of his friend, the Hon. J. A.

Chapleau, then premier of Quebec province. Mr. Charland has particularly

distinguished himself as a criminal lawyer, having for several years

occupied the position of Crown prosecutor in the district of Iberville,

and when not so employed has been entrusted with the defence in all the

important cases which came up before the assizes of that judicial

division. He obtained great success in several murder cases. He is

considered as an authority on criminal matters. He is also acknowledged

to be one of the most eloquent and forcible speakers in the province of

Quebec, and perhaps the most correct and eloquent of our French orators.

As such he has taken an active and prominent part in numerous political

contests throughout the province, and greatly contributed to the success

of his friends in many electoral strifes. The St. John’s _News_ of the

18th November, 1887, thus kindly speaks of him on the occasion of his

elevation to the bench:—

News was received in St. John’s last Friday that Mr. A. N.

Charland, Q.C., of this place, had been appointed judge of this

district, in place of the Hon. Mr. Justice Chagnon, resigned.

While general regret was expressed at the resignation of the

latter gentleman, the appointment of Mr. Charland as his

successor gave the most unqualified satisfaction to our

community at large, and even many of those who had recently been

most strictly opposed to him on political ground, were among the

first to congratulate him on his preferment. We do not hesitate

to say that Judge Charland will be an honor to the bench. Years

ago he distinguished himself at the bar as a gifted pleader and

as a clear, incisive, and brilliant reasoner. Along with a

dignified and polished manner, he possesses that _savoir faire_

which so greatly adds to the charm of an intellectual man, and

is so especially becoming to the occupants of high positions.

Judge Charland first married, in 1865, Aglaë Ouimet, sister of the Hon.

Justice Ouimet. His second marriage was to Mary Lareau, of St. John’s,

eldest daughter of L. Lareau, manufacturer, proprietor of the St. John’s

foundry, and for a long time a councillor of said town.

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=Lefebvre, Guillaume=, Waterloo, P.Q., was born at Laurenceville, in the

province of Quebec, on the 19th of February, 1856. He was educated at

the Knowlton academy, afterwards taking a course at Bryant & Stratton’s

business college, in Montreal. He was in the lumber trade from 1873 to

1877, with his brother, Joseph H. Lefebvre, and then bought him out. His

business as lumber dealer and furniture manufacturer, at Waterloo,

Quebec province, has continued to increase, and is now in a most

prosperous condition, employing a large number of hands. He was married

on the 16th of June, 1885, to Alphonsine Maynard, of St. John’s, Quebec,

and they have one child.

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=McIlwraith, Thomas=, Hamilton, Ontario, Coal Merchant, and the leading

Ornithologist in Canada, was born in Newton, Ayr, Scotland, on the 25th

of December, 1824. He received an ordinary education at the schools

there, and early in 1846 went to reside in Edinburgh, where he remained

till about the close of 1848. Returning at that time to his native town,

he remained there till the latter part of 1853, when he arranged to come

to Hamilton, Canada, to superintend the gas works of that city. In

October of that year he married Mary, daughter of Bailie Hugh Park, a

friend of his school days, and he and his bride landed in Hamilton, on

the 9th November, 1853, at a point very near the property he has since

purchased, and where he now resides with his family. He remained in the

position of manager of the gas works till 1871, when he bought the

Commercial Wharf, with the coal and forwarding business then being

carried on by John Procton, and has since continued to carry on this

business in the same premises. He has been successful in business, and

has brought up four sons and three daughters, the youngest of the

family, K. C. McIlwraith, who partakes largely of his father’s love of

nature, being now attending the University in Toronto. In politics Mr.

McIlwraith has always been a Liberal, but he has never taken an active

part in political contests. Since attaining manhood he has been a member

of the Presbyterian church. He has held many prominent positions in the

directorate of banks, insurance companies, etc., and was for many years

president of the Mechanics’ Institute, and in 1878 represented the ward

in which he resides in the city council. But it is as a naturalist that

he is best known in Canada. Possessing from early childhood a strong

love of nature in all its forms, the insects, plants, and specially the

birds of Scotland were familiar to him at an early age. His first summer

in Canada was therefore to him the entrance to a new world. The liberty

of roaming at will through the woods without such restraints as exist in

older lands; the new and varied forms of plant and bird life which he

met were a continual source of delight, and made an impression which

time has not been able to efface. His attention was now specially

directed to the birds, and there being no published books to serve as

guides to the identifying of the species he might find here, he prepared

a paper on the subject, with a list of such birds as he had obtained,

and read it before the Hamilton Association, which was organized about

that time for the study of scientific subjects. The list appeared in the

_Canadian Journal_ for July, 1860, and the paper in the same journal in

January, 1861; they attracted the attention of ornithologists in the

United States, and in 1865 he prepared, by request, an extended list of

birds observed near Hamilton, which list appeared in the proceedings of

the Essex Institute for 1866. During the years that succeeded, the study

still occupied many of his spare hours, and was the subject of

occasional notes to the magazines. In 1883 he attended by invitation a

meeting of the leading ornithologists of the United States. This

meeting, which was held in the library of the Central Park Museum, New

York, was called to consider and revise the classification and

nomenclature of American birds, resulted in the organization of the now

well-known American Ornithologist Union, of which he had thus the honor

of being one of the founders. In this connection he was appointed

superintendent of the district of Ontario for the migration committee of

the union, and did considerable work in appointing observers throughout

Ontario to note the arrival and departure of the migratory birds. There

being still a want of a suitable text book for beginners in the study of

ornithology, he was urged by many to give the public the benefit of his

knowledge on this subject. This he did in a book of 300 pages, in which

upwards of 300 species of birds, with their nests, eggs, etc., are

minutely and correctly described, the MS. of which he presented to the

Hamilton Association. Sir William Dawson has highly spoken of it, and

Dr. S. P. May, superintendent of Mechanics’ Institutes and Art Schools

for Ontario, says:—“I have carefully examined the ‘Birds of Ontario,’

by Mr. McIlwraith, superintendent of the district of Ontario for the

migration committee of the American Ornithologist Union. It contains a

most graphic description of Canadian birds, their habits, nests and

eggs, and distribution, and will be of valuable assistance to persons

interested in the study of natural history. I may mention that, as an

ornithologist, I have frequently been associated with Mr. McIlwraith

during the past twenty-five years, and I consider him to be one of the

most practical and best authorities on Canadian birds on this continent.

The book should be in every mechanics’ institute and public library in

this country, and I have great pleasure in recommending it for that

purpose.” Mr. McIlwraith’s strong love of the subject led him at an

early date to preserve and mount his own specimens. His thorough

knowledge of the attitudes of the birds when in life enabled him to do

this most successfully, and he has now one of the largest, if not the

largest, and best prepared private collections in the Dominion. And what

is more, he is always pleased to show it to those interested. He has

confined his attention chiefly to birds of Britain and America, but has

also a few from the far off islands of the sea.

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=Fiske, Edward=, Lumber Merchant, Joliette, Quebec, was born at

Abbotsford, Quebec province, on the 5th September, 1841. His parents

were Ebenezer Fiske and Eliza Bradford. He was educated in his native

place, and received a sound commercial education. Adopting commerce as a

profession, he was very successful, and is now possessed of large means.

He holds land property in Montreal and St. Jerome, and at the latter

place has a hardware store, conducted under the firm name of Treffle,

Cote & Co., and in which a paying business is done. He is also owner of

two saw mills in which a large quantity of lumber is shipped to the

Montreal and other markets in Canada. In Joliette he has erected a

handsome block of buildings, known as the “Fiske Block,” and this has

turned out a good investment. In short Mr. Fiske may be classed among

what some people call the “lucky ones,” but we are rather inclined to

the belief that his luck has come from close attention to business, and

making the most of favorable circumstances as they presented themselves,

rather than from what he could not control. He went to Montreal in 1860,

and was employed in a wholesale hardware store until 1865, and from

there he went into the cotton business in Georgia and Florida for two

years, and then returned to New York state, where he continued business,

and remained until 1869, and since then at Joliette. Last year (1887)

Mr. Fiske crossed the Atlantic, and visited Glasgow, London, Belgium,

Germany, Switzerland, France, etc.; during those travels he was very

observant, and picked up a store of useful information. On the 2nd

October, 1867, he was married to Emma E. S. Elliott, daughter of John

Elliott, wholesale grocer, Montreal.

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=Barry, Denis=, B.C.L., Barrister, of Montreal, takes rank among the

most distinguished Irishmen of Canada. Born in the city of Cork in the

year 1835, he, early in life, emigrated from Ireland to America with his

father, James Barry, who is still living at Rockwood, Ont. The Barry

family is one of the oldest in the south of Ireland, and has furnished

many brave and able men to the army and navy, the bench and the bar, and

the other liberal professions of the United Kingdom. The father of the

American navy, Commodore Jack Barry, belonged to that branch of the

Barry family from which the subject of this sketch is descended. His

mother, Hannah Kelleher, was a daughter of Captain Kelleher, who served

with distinction in the service of the Hon. East India Company. Mr.

Barry began his education at the common school and continued his studies

at Rockwood Academy. Subsequently he went through a classical course at

Regiopolis College, Kingston, Ont. Studied theology for some time at the

Grand Seminary and at Laval University, and law at McGill University,

where he graduated as B.C.L. Entered the volunteer service of Canada as

lieutenant in the St. Jean Baptiste Company, Montreal, M. W. Kirwan,

captain, in 1877; was promoted to the captaincy of the same company and

remained in command thereof till the corps was merged in the 85th

battalion, when he retired, went through the Military School, Montreal,

and obtained the certificate that entitled him to his rank. Is now joint

fire commissioner for the city of Montreal. Has been president of St.

Patrick’s Society of Montreal, for four years consecutively. Is

past-president of the Young Men’s Reform Club of Montreal. Has taken an

active part in political contests, both provincial and federal; also in

municipal affairs, having been an unsuccessful candidate for alderman in

St. Ann’s Ward, Montreal, in 1882. Mr. Barry is of the same faith as his

forefathers—a Roman Catholic—and has never changed his religious

views. Mr. Barry had experience of backwoods life as a settler on a free

grant farm on the Hastings road in 1856, at that time one of the wildest

parts of Upper Canada, but now a beautiful and prosperous region. He

also engaged in the lumbering business for some time on the York branch

of the Madawaska river, Ontario; subsequently he was engaged in the

crown lands office, on the Opeongo road, with Mr. T. P. French, now

post-office inspector, Ottawa district. Since his adoption of the

profession of the law, Mr. Barry has resided at Montreal, where he has

achieved a very high position. He is particularly noted as a _nisi

prius_ practitioner, and has conducted a large number of famous cases

successfully. As a speaker, Mr. Barry is not surpassed at a bar

distinguished for the oratorical abilities of its members, while, in his

addresses before popular audiences, he comes up to the best standard of

the times. Personally, the writer of this sketch can bear testimony, he

is one of the most genial and kind-hearted of men. Ever foremost in all

good works, and as the champion of his less fortunate countrymen, Mr.

Barry is endeared to all who know him, and beloved in all the relations

of home and friendship. He married, in 1869, Kathleen, daughter of the

late Michael Morgan, merchant, of Sorel, P.Q., a lady distinguished as

much for amiability and goodness as for her charming personality. The

union has been blest with a large family.

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=Pettit, Rev. Charles Biggar=, M.A., Rector of Cornwall, was born at

Grimsby, Ontario, in 1827. His father, Andrew Pettit, was an honest and

successful farmer, a leading churchman and a tory of the old school. His

grandfather was a United Empire loyalist, and one of the first settlers

in the township of Grimsby. He was educated at King’s College, Toronto,

graduated at McGill College, Montreal, and was ordained from the

Diocesan Theological Institution, Cobourg, by the first bishop of

Toronto. His first mission was that vast field lying between Guelph and

the northern shores of Lake Huron—then almost a dense wilderness, now

thickly settled and studded with churches. In 1852 he was admitted to

priest’s orders, and appointed to Burford, in the county of Brant. In

1855 he was presented to the rectory of Richmond, in the county of

Carleton, where he ministered for more than twenty-two years, and where

he took an active part in the educational work of the county, and with

what success an address presented to him in 1877 by one hundred and four

leading men of the city of Ottawa and of the county of Carleton,

accompanied by a large purse, only slightly indicates. In 1877 he was

presented to the rectory of Cornwall, and also to a canonry in St.

George’s Cathedral, Kingston, and shortly after appointed rural dean of

Stormont. The most interesting event to the public in his parochial

career at Cornwall was the consecration of the Bishop Strachan Memorial

Church, which partook of a state ceremony and was attended by his Honor

J. B. Robinson, lieutenant-governor, who read the _mandate_; by the Hon.

George A. Kirkpatrick, speaker of the House of Commons; by the clergy of

the town, by the judges, the sheriff, the mayor and members of the town

council, and by a very large number of parishioners. In 1852 he married

Helen Clara, only daughter of the late Colonel Thomas Parker, of

Belleville, by whom he has three sons and five daughters.

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=Dunbar, James=, Q.C., Quebec, is one of the leading members of the

Quebec bar, at which he has been a successful practitioner for upwards

of thirty years. As his name indicates, he is of Scottish extraction.

His father, the late Ferguson Dunbar, was paymaster of the 74th

Highlanders, and married while serving with his regiment in Ireland,

where our subject was born in the year 1833. Educated in the Gosport

Naval Academy, and other well-known schools of the United Kingdom and at

the Quebec High School, Mr. Dunbar turned his attention early in life to

journalism, and for a time was editor of the Quebec _Morning Chronicle_,

then the leading daily of the ancient capital. The period was one of

great political excitement in Canada. The public mind was agitated by

questions of such burning importance as the secularization of the clergy

reserves, and the abolition of the seigniorial tenure in Lower Canada.

As a journalist at the head of one of the chief newspapers of the day,

Mr. Dunbar not only distinguished himself as a terse, critical and

vigorous writer, but as such did much to shape the course of events and

of legislation. He always, however, evinced a taste for the law, and

after occupying the editorial chair of the _Chronicle_ with marked

success for about five years he gave up newspaper life to devote himself

to the study of Blackstone and Pothier. In his new profession he made

rapid headway under the tuition of the late Mr. Secretan, a well-known

practitioner at Quebec, and at the age of twenty-two was duly called to

the Lower Canada bar, when he formed a partnership with Mr. Secretan,

which subsisted until the latter’s death. Thenceforward his success was

assured, but it was not won in a day. Gradually the talented and

energetic young lawyer worked his way, not only in public estimation,

but into the front ranks of the profession, and in 1873, simultaneously

with his commission from England as registrar of the Vice-Admiralty

Court at Quebec, he received from the Dominion government one of the

great objects of professional ambition, the silk gown of a Queen’s

counsel, in recognition of his abilities and standing at the bar. These

were further acknowledged in 1878 by his appointment as Crown prosecutor

for the district of Quebec. In this prominent and responsible position,

which he filled with general acceptance down to 1887, he distinguished

himself as much by his humanity as by his ability, and his name remains

honorably connected with the administration of criminal justice in

Quebec, and with all the cases of importance which were tried before the

courts of the ancient capital during a period of nine years. Always

conspicuous for his sound judgment, thorough knowledge of the law and

keen perception of the intricacies of the case, his manner of examining

witnesses was especially admirable, his questions being always to the

point and put in such a way as to bring out the needed answer even from

the most reluctant witness in the box, while his addresses to the jury

were always clear, precise and remarkable not only for their logic but

for their skill in sifting and summarizing evidence. He is a good

speaker, his manner being pleasing but forcible, and his deportment

always gentlemanly. As an exponent of maritime law he is admitted to

have few equals at the bar of Canada. In 1875 his colleagues of the

Quebec bar paid him the compliment of electing him their _bâtonnier_,

and he has been for some years chairman of the board of examiners of law

students. A churchman of broad views, he has been a delegate to the

diocesan and provincial synods of the Church of England, in which

capacity he has always maintained his own. His masonic record is

prominent. He has filled all the principal offices of the craft in the

Blue lodge, and is now a past grand principal of the Grand Chapter of

Royal Arch Masons of Canada, and past grand master of the Grand Lodge of

Quebec. In 1862 he married Emma Amelia, daughter of James Poole, jr., of

the Commissariat department, Montreal, and by her has had issue a son

(who is now also a Quebec barrister and LL.M. of Laval University), and

two daughters. Mr. Dunbar is an indefatigable worker, estimable as a

citizen and agreeable and cordial in manner. He has never entered public

life, but his politics are understood to be moderate Conservative.

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=Meek, Edward=, Barrister, Toronto, was born in the village of Port

Stanley, Ontario, on the 27th December, 1845. His father, James Meek,

came to Canada at the early age of three years with his parents, in

1817, from Ballymena, North of Ireland, and they settled in the same

year in Talbot district, and took up a large tract of land near Port

Stanley, being one of the earliest pioneers of that part of the country.

At the time of Edward’s birth his father was conducting a foundry, which

he carried on successfully for a number of years; but owing to a

disastrous conflagration, which destroyed the whole of the extensive

establishment, he returned to his farm again, on which he has remained

till the present time. Edward received his early education at the Port

Stanley school, and afterwards at the Grammar School, St. Thomas. After

leaving school, at the age of seventeen, he was granted a certificate to

teach, which occupation he followed for three years. He then accepted a

position as bookkeeper in a grain warehouse, at which he continued for a

short time only; but thinking a short journey among strangers would

improve his prospects, he went to Boston and engaged with the publishing

house of a prominent firm there. After a short sojourn he returned to

London, Ontario, and there commenced the study of law. In 1873 he

removed to Toronto, where he continued his studies and finished his law

course in the office of Harrison, Osler and Moss, three gentlemen who

afterwards became distinguished judges. He was called to the bar of

Ontario in the spring of 1874, and he then formed a partnership with the

Hon. John O’Donohoe, which continued for three years, when it was

dissolved. He then opened an office of his own until he formed a

partnership with William Norris, of Woodstock, which lasted till Mr.

Norris returned to Woodstock. In 1877 he commenced to take an active

part in the politics of the country, and especially in the promotion of

the national policy; in fact he was one of the originators of the work,

and travelled over Ontario assisting in the formation of political

organizations to enable the government to carry their national policy to

a successful issue. He continued from that time to take an active part

as one of the leading political writers and speakers on the platform

until the winter of 1884, when he and a number of other politicians

conceived the idea of forming a coalition government for the province of

Ontario, their object being to do away with partyism in the local

legislature. Others were brought into the scheme who were impatient of

the slow method of bringing about the change by argument, and thought

that a sufficient number of the members of the legislature could be

secured by offers and promises to at once defeat the Mowat government,

when the coalition could be immediately formed during the spring session

of 1884. The plans were disapproved of by the originators of the idea,

but the hot heads could not be kept under control, and the public know

the result of the unfortunate conspiracy case which sprung from it,

involving those more actively concerned in the long and tedious

investigation and prosecution before a Royal commission and in the

criminal courts. The Royal commission brought in a divided report, which

the house never acted upon. The verdict of the jury in the criminal

court, in the trial of May, 1885, acquitted the accused. Since that time

Mr. Meek has devoted himself strictly to the practice of his profession

in Toronto, and the promotion and formation of joint stock and other

companies. Mr. Meek was joined in marriage on the 30th June, 1873, to

Anna Margaret McBride, daughter of Samuel McBride, of London, Ontario,

by which union they have issue two sons and one daughter. Mr. Meek and

family are members of the Church of England.

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=Smith, Andrew=, F.R.C.V.S. (Eng.), Principal of the Ontario Veterinary

College, Toronto, is a native of the “Land o’ Burns,” having been born

in Ayrshire, Scotland. He received his early educational training in

Dalrymple, his native parish, and going to Edinburgh, entered the

Veterinary College of that city, where he passed a brilliant course of

study, carrying off the highest honors, and five medals. He graduated in

1861, and after coming to Canada settled in Toronto, where he has since

led a busy professional life. He is the founder and principal of the

Ontario Veterinary College, Toronto, and consulting veterinary surgeon

of the Board of Agriculture of Ontario. For three years Professor Smith

occupied the position of president of the Caledonian Society of Toronto;

was worshipful master of St. Andrew’s lodge of A. F. & A. M. during the

year 1874-5, and is a director of the Industrial Exhibition of Toronto.

He is also a member of the executive committee of the Toronto Jockey

Club, and master of the Toronto Hunt. In religion Mr. Smith is a

Presbyterian.

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=Guy, Michel Patrice=, Notary Public, Montreal, was born at Montreal on

the 18th May, 1809. He is a son of Etienne Guy and Catherine Valée. The

Guy family is probably the oldest family in the Dominion, being

descended from the French Count, Guy de Montfort, a general in King

Charles’ army of France, and close relation to the king. The first of

the family to leave France was Pierre Guy, who came to Canada at the

commencement of the seventeenth century, and married Madame de la Lande

in November, 1723. He entered the army as an ensign, under M. de

Beauharnois, who had succeeded de Vaudreuil in the government of New

France, where he served with great distinction. He advanced rapidly,

being made captain in 1748, and greatly distinguished himself at

Louisburg. He died April, 1748. Pierre Guy, his eldest son was born at

Ville-Marie (Montreal,) 11th December, 1738, and educated at the

Jesuits’ College and the _Petit Séminaire de Quebec_. Having a great

aptitude for science, he was sent to France to complete his course; when

he returned to Canada, war was then going on with England. He entered

the army under General de Montcalm, and took part at Oswego and Fort

William Henry in the series of brilliant victories which should always

render his name dear to Canadians. He also took part in the battles of

Carillon and Montmorency, where he was greatly praised for his martial

ardor and bravery. He was also at the battle of the Plains of Abraham,

which was fatal to the French. He returned to France after the

capitulation of Montreal, where he remained until 1764, when he returned

to Canada. After some time he again took up the sword against General

Montgomery. He was made lieutenant-colonel of the militia, and a few

years afterwards, in 1802, was made colonel. He died in January, 1812.

Pierre was buried with military honors by the militia as well as by the

49th regiment, which was then garrisoned in Montreal. Louis Guy was born

on the 28th June, 1768, studied law, and obtained from Sir Robert Shore

Milnes a commission as notary in 1801. In recognition of past services,

Lord Aylmer named him notary to his Majesty (Royal notary) in 1830, a

position now abolished. When the second American invasion came, he took

arms against the enemy. He was then major of the 5th battalion of

militia, and as a recompense for his great military services, Sir James

Kempt appointed him colonel of the militia for the county of Montreal.

On the 23rd February, 1837, through the representations of Sir James

Kempt, William IV. summoned him to the Council. He was most intimate

with Lord Aylmer, who often spent days with him at his house, which was

surrounded with the largest gardens then in Montreal. He died at

Montreal in February, 1840. Hippolyte Guy, son of the Hon. F. Guy and

Dame J. Curot, was born in Montreal on the 3rd July, 1800, and was

educated for the law. He held a great reputation as a jurisconsult, and

was made judge of the Superior Court. Louis Guy, eldest brother of the

above, entered the British army as lieutenant in the 81st regiment of

the line. This command was given him by the Duke of Wellington, in

consideration of his bravery at Chateauguay, where, as captain of the

_Voltigeurs_, he commanded the advance posts. Years before entering the

British army he served in France in the body guards of Charles X. During

some time he was made deputy adjutant-general of the militia of Lower

Canada, in conjunction with the Hon. Juchereau Duchesnay. This charge

being abolished, he was recalled to his regiment, then garrisoned at

Trinidad, in the West Indies. He was hardly returned when he was

attacked with yellow fever, and died on the island of St. Kitts, on 27th

March, 1841. He had served with great distinction in Spain and Malta,

and at the time of his death held the rank of major. The officers of his

regiment erected a large monument to his memory. His eldest sister

married Colonel de Salaberry. Michel Patrice Guy was educated at

Montreal College, where he received a classical education, and

afterwards studied law. He was admitted to the practice of the notarial

profession on the 5th May, 1831. He became lieutenant-colonel in the

10th battalion Montreal militia during the troubles of 1837. He was one

of the promoters of the Montreal wharves, and one of the founders of the

Montreal College. A street, extending over a mile in length, running

through the breadth of the city of Montreal was named after him, and is

now known as Guy street. Mr. Guy was seriously wounded during the

Gavazzi riots in Montreal. He was standing some distance away from the

rioters when he was struck by a ball in the leg, and it was a question

of life or death with him for a long while afterwards, being confined in

his bed for fourteen months. Mr. Guy possesses one of the finest

collections of old family parchments and documents, as well as many

important letters. In politics he is a Liberal, and in religion a member

of the Roman Catholic church. He was married on the 19th of December,

1869, to Dame Julie F. Schiller, sister of the late Charles E. Schiller,

clerk of the Crown. His two sons, E. C. P. and G. L. H. Guy, are the

only remaining members of the family in Canada.

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=Thompson, David=, Northwest Pioneer Geographer.—The late Mr. Thompson

was born in the parish of St. John, Westminster, England, the 30th

April, 1770. He was educated at the “Blue Coat School,” London, and was

perhaps for a short time a student at Oxford. When about nineteen he

must have entered the service of the Hudson’s Bay Company, as in

October, 1789, his journal opens at the company’s establishment at

Cumberland House. An account of various journeys and surveys in the

Northwest Territory of Canada then follows to May 23, 1797, when he left

the service of the Hudson’s Bay Company and entered that of the

North-West Company. After a number of explorations he started on foot,

February 25, 1798, with a dog-team to connect the waters of the Red

River and the Mississippi, thence over to Lake Superior. On April 27th

he reached Turtle Lake, from which flows “Turtle Brook,” which he states

to be the source of the Mississippi, since it is from here that the

river takes the most direct course to the sea. Thus to this

indefatigable, but hitherto almost unknown, geographer, belongs the

honor of discovering the head waters of that great river. The first who

is stated to have travelled through the country north of Red Cedar Lake

was J. C. Beltrami, an Italian gentleman, who accompanied Major Long’s

expedition as far as Pembina. He ascended Bloody (Red Lake) River to Red

Lake, and from thence followed Thompson’s route to Turtle Lake, whence

he descended the Mississippi to its mouth. This was in the summer of

1823, nine years after Thompson had recorded his discoveries on his map

of the North-West Territories of Canada in 1813-14, now in possession of

the government of Ontario. On May 10th he reached Fond-du-Lac House, two

miles and a half up the river from Lake Superior. From here he surveyed

the south shore of Lake Superior, arriving at the Falls of Ste. Marie on

May 28th. After several journeys in the interior, we find him at Isle à

la Crosse, where he was married June 10, 1799, to Charlotte Small, a

young girl who had not yet entered her fifteenth year. After many very

interesting explorations he re-surveyed the northern shore of Lake

Superior in August, 1812. Before October of the same year he had arrived

at Terrebonne, in Lower Canada, where he took up his residence and spent

the two following years in preparing a map of Western Canada for the

North-West Company, on a scale of about fifteen miles to an inch, from

the observations he had made and the places he had visited during the

previous twenty years. From 1816 to 1826 he was engaged in surveying and

defining the boundary line, on the part of Great Britain, between Canada

and the United States. In 1834 he surveyed Lake Francis. In 1837 he made

a survey of the canoe route from Lake Huron to the Ottawa river, and a

few years later he made a survey of Lake St. Peter. His last years were

spent either in Glengarry county, Ontario, or in Longueuil, opposite

Montreal, where he died on the 16th of February, 1857, at the age of

nearly eighty-seven years. His wife survived him by only about three

months. They are both buried in the Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal. He

died in extreme poverty, and it was due to the kindness of some of his

old friends that he received a Christian burial. H. H. Bancroft, who has

collected very many interesting details about the old travellers and

traders in the west, gives the following account of his personal

appearance:—“David Thompson was an entirely different order of man from

the orthodox fur trader. Tall and fine-looking, of sandy complexion,

with large features, deep-set, studious eyes, high forehead and broad

shoulders, the intellectual was well set upon the physical. His deeds

have never been trumpeted as those of some of the others, but in the

westward exploration of the North-West Company no man performed more

valuable service or estimated his achievements more modestly.”

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=Davie, George Taylor=, Levis and Quebec, is one of the prominent

figures in the shipping trade of the port of Quebec, and few men of his

day have done more to promote it, as well as to lessen the perils

incidental to the navigation of the St. Lawrence. He was born in the

city of Quebec, in the year 1828. His parents were both English—his

father being the late Alison Davie, master mariner, of Yarmouth,

England, and his mother Miss Taylor, daughter of the late George Taylor,

of Shields, who came to Canada in 1811, establishing himself at Quebec,

and was for many years a leading ship-builder at that port. In 1827, Mr.

Taylor, acting under instructions from the Earl of Dalhousie, then

governor-general of Canada, built at his yard in Quebec, a splendid

gun-brig or frigate named the _Kingfisher_, for the Imperial naval

service. The Quebec _Gazette_ of the 17th May, 1827, reporting the

launching of this vessel three days previously, and the ceremonial on

the occasion, referred in the most commendatory terms to the beauty of

its model, and to Mr. Taylor’s skill and enterprise as a shipwright,

mentioning also the presentation to him, by the governor-general, of a

magnificent silver cup as a memento of the event. This precious

_souvenir_, which is of massive silver, and valued at £40 sterling,

bears the arms of the Dalhousie family and a suitable inscription, and

is surmounted by a cover the handle of which is formed by a beautifully

chiselled figure of the unicorn. The whole is encased in a handsome

mahogany box, and preserved as a cherished heirloom in the family of Mr.

Taylor’s descendants, being now in the possession of his grandson, G. T.

Davie, the subject of this sketch. The _Kingfisher_, which carried

eighteen guns, was afterwards sent to England under the command of

Captain Rayside, who was, later on, deputy harbor-master at Quebec, and,

still later, harbor-master of Montreal. Mr. Davie was educated at Gale’s

boarding school, at St. Augustin, some twenty-five miles from Quebec,

but was taken early from school to learn the trade of the shipwright.

Arrived at the age of manhood, he went into the shipbuilding business on

his own account, and successfully built a large number of ocean vessels,

as well as river, tug and passenger boats; he came into possession of

the patent slip at Levis, opposite Quebec, on the death of his father,

who, in 1832, first introduced it, which bears his name, and which has

proved of such immense advantage to the shipping trade of the St.

Lawrence. This valuable convenience he still runs in connection with his

floating docks and the wrecking business, in which he has been engaged

with the greatest success for some years. Indeed it is no exaggeration

to say that Mr. Davie’s improved appliances for raising and saving

wrecks, and his skill and enterprise in that line, have been the means

of rescuing millions worth of property from total loss in the river and

gulf of St. Lawrence, and fairly constitute him a public benefactor.

Among the more important property of this kind which he has snatched

from destruction on Anticosti, St. Pierre, Miquelon, and elsewhere, may

be mentioned the steamships _Corean_, of the Allan line, _Vendolana_,

_Warwick_, _River_, _Ettrick_, _Colina_, _Douro_, _Amaryllis_,

_Titanic_, and _Lake Huron_. In some instances the salvages of these

vessels was a real feat of skill and daring without parallel in the

history of the wrecking business on the St. Lawrence, and Mr. Davie can

fairly lay claim to the title of the most successful of Canadian

wreckers. The first vessel to be docked and repaired in the new graving

dock was the s. s. _Titania_, which Mr. Davie had successfully hauled

off Anticosti, where it would have been otherwise doomed to destruction,

having been condemned by surveyors and bought from underwriters by him.

The execution of the repairs to this vessel, also by Mr. Davie, further

proved that work of this magnitude can now be done as well in Canada as

on the Clyde. Indeed, Mr. Davie has erected at the Levis graving dock

repair shops, as complete in all respects as the best on the other side

of the Atlantic, and the shipping trade of the St. Lawrence has been

thus provided with an important and long needed facility which must tend

to its increase and prosperity. In other respects, also, Mr. Davie is

known as a public-spirited citizen. He has served for about ten years in

the town council of Levis as the representative of Lauzon ward, and is a

large employer of labor on that side of the river. On the 3rd of

September, 1860, he married Mary Euphemia Patton, daughter of the late

Duncan Patton, of Indian Cove, in his day one of the great lumber

merchants of Quebec, and by her has issue a number of children, who are

still in their teens. He has travelled considerably in Canada, England,

and the United States, but always on business.

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=Kenny, Thomas Edward=, M.P. for the County of Halifax, N.S., was born

in Halifax city on the 12th October, 1833. He is the eldest son of the

Hon. Sir Edward Kenny, knight, former member of the Queen’s Privy

Council for Canada. There were two young Irishmen, Thomas and Edward

Kenny, natives of county Kerry, who came to Halifax in 1824, and there,

four years later, established the wholesale dry goods house of T. & E.

Kenny. Sir Edward Kenny was born in 1800, and married, in 1832, Anne,

daughter of Michael Forrestall. He and his wife are still living in

green old age. He has been for sixty years a leading representative of

the Catholics in Halifax, having been mayor of the city, twice president

of the Charitable Irish Society (the great Irish social organization of

Halifax), a director of the Union Bank, and also of the Merchants Bank

of Halifax, and a commissioner for signing provincial notes. He sat in

the Legislative Council for twenty-six years, during eleven of which he

was president of that body. Upon the forming of Sir John A. Macdonald’s

first government under confederation, in July, 1867, Sir Edward Kenny

was sworn in a privy councillor, and appointed receiver-general in the

ministry. He held this office until October, 1869, when he was

transferred to the presidency of the privy council. He retired from the

cabinet in May, 1870, when he was appointed administrator of the

government of Nova Scotia. He was created a knight by her Majesty in

September, 1872. He never represented a constituency in the House of

Commons, but sat in the Senate from 1867 to 1870, when he resigned.

During all these years he and his brother Thomas carried on the dry

goods business, and on retiring from its management placed it in the

hands of T. E. Kenny, under whom it has grown and prospered. Thomas

Kenny built himself a handsome residence on the borders of Bedford

Basin, not far from the Duke of Kent’s classic lodge. It has recently

been sold to a corporation for the use of the ladies of the Convent of

the Sacred Heart, Spring Garden road, Halifax. The subject of this

sketch was educated at Stonyhurst College, the great educational

institution of the Jesuits in England, and also spent some time at St.

Servais College, at Liege, in Belgium. Having finished his studies and

his travels for that time, Mr. Kenny returned to Halifax, and assumed a

position in the dry goods business. Of late years he has been

extensively interested in shipbuilding, which he carried on in the

counties of Kings, Hants, Colchester, Pictou and Cumberland. He was

especially interested in shipbuilding with Alfred Putnam, of Maitland,

the popular M.P. of Hants county. In 1866 he had built in England the

iron ship Eskasoni, of 1,715 tons. A branch of the firm’s business is

carried on in London, England, under the management of F. C. Mahon. In

dry goods the firm does an extensive wholesale trade at their massive

granite emporium at the corner of Granville and George streets, Halifax,

employing a large staff of clerks and other employés, and keeping a

number of travellers on the circuit in the maritime provinces. Mr.

Kenny, like his father, is a man of great geniality, wit and

common-sense. He has been president of the Charitable Irish Society, and

is president of the Merchants Bank of Halifax, the bank doing, perhaps,

the largest business in the city, excepting the Bank of Nova Scotia. He

has been a warm friend of many new industries, having taken a prominent

part in starting the N.S. Cotton Manufacturing Co., of which he is a

director, as well as a large stockholder in the sugar refinery. When,

two years ago, there was a disposition on the part of some of the

shareholders to sell out the refinery and wind up the concern, Mr. Kenny

took an active part in organizing a new company, and was instrumental in

securing to Halifax the advantages of this great industry. Mr. Kenny is

a director of the North Sydney Marine Railway Co.; a trustee of the

Western Counties Railway Co.; and a member of the Royal Commission on

Railways. His brother and business partner, Edward Kenny, was one of

those Halifax merchants who were lost in the _City of Boston_, the Inman

liner, which left Halifax in the early part of 1869, and was never

afterwards heard of. Another of the family is a member of the Society of

Jesus, who began life as a successful lawyer, but entered the

priesthood. The youngest brother, Jeremiah F. Kenny, does business in

Halifax as an insurance agent. A sister of theirs is the wife of M.

Bowes Daly, ex-M.P. for Halifax county, and another is mother superior

of the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Halifax. T. E. Kenny was married in

New York, on the 2nd of October, 1856, to Margaret Jones, daughter of

the Hon. M. Burke, of New York. He has several children and

grandchildren. His eldest son, Captain Kenny, was an officer in the

Halifax battalion which served during the Northwest rebellion in 1885.

Mr. Kenny resides at a charming residence, called Thornvale, on the

banks of the North-West Arm, about three miles from his warehouse in the

city, and it is a lovely spot in summer, having abundant facilities for

boating and bathing. Here, in the enjoyment of every beauty of wave and

sky, surrounded by luxuries of every description, and furnished with

everything that conduces to comfort and repose, the busy merchant and

politician takes his ease. In the _rôle_ of politician Mr. Kenny,

through the absorbing nature of his commercial pursuits, has never until

lately taken a prominent position, but he has made his influence, though

silently, none the less powerfully felt in the sphere of politics for

many years. He has repeatedly been offered the nomination as

standard-bearer in the House of Commons of the Halifax Conservatives,

but, until the nomination was forced upon him, on the eve of the general

election of February, 1887, never accepted. As a well-known Catholic in

the city, his approbation of measures affecting his co-religionists has

always been sought. He and John F. Stairs were the government

candidates, and were opposed by such well-known and experienced men as

the Hon. A. G. Jones, ex-minister of militia, and H. H. Fuller. The vote

stood—Jones, 4,243; Kenny, 4,181, defeating Stairs, 4,099; Fuller,

4,098. Thus Messrs. Jones and Kenny represent Halifax county. Mr. Kenny

distinguished himself during the campaign by his unfailing good nature,

cheery Irish wit and great good judgment. In the Commons the same useful

qualities have secured for him general respect and esteem. Although

getting up in years, Mr. Kenny is possessed of a tall form and

commanding presence, and enjoys vigorous health. He has probably many

years ahead of him, during which honors and emoluments will be heaped

upon him. Electors voted for Jones and Kenny because, according to the

popular cry, they were the best men, quite independently of their

political leanings. Few, if any, counties in the Dominion are better

represented in parliament than Halifax, N.S.

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=Rose, George Maclean=, Printer and Publisher, Toronto. A writer in “The

Scot in British North America,” says that Mr. Rose has been so long and

prominently associated with the development of Canadian literature that

his name may well be introduced in this connection. He was born in Wick,

Caithness-shire, Scotland, on the 14th of March, 1829, and learned the

printing trade in the office of the _John O’ Groat Journal_. A year

after he had attained his majority the family settled in Canada. He

entered the employ of the late John C. Becket, of Montreal, who was then

engaged in the publication of the Montreal _Witness_ and other journals.

After the death of his father, which took place in 1853, the care of the

family devolved upon him. The means at his command were but scanty, but

in partnership with his elder brother, Henry, he started a small

job-printing office, in Montreal, and by strict industry and economy

they obtained a fair measure of success. In 1856 they dissolved

partnership, George having become convinced that Western Canada offered

more scope for his energies than Montreal. In connection with John Muir

he established the _Chronicle_, in the village of Merrickville, but he

did not remain there any length of time. Among his other engagements

about this period, was that of city editor of the London _Prototype_. In

1858 he came to Toronto as manager of the printing office of Samuel

Thompson, for whom he published the Toronto _Atlas_, started in

opposition to the _Colonist_, which had taken ground adverse to the

government of the day. Mr. Thompson having obtained the contract for

government printing, Mr. Rose was assigned to take the management of the

office in Quebec, whither he removed in 1859. This arrangement did not

long continue. Mr. Thompson found himself unable financially to carry

out his contract alone, and a company was organized for the purpose,

including Mr. Rose and Robert Hunter, an experienced accountant. Mr.

Thompson retired from the business altogether soon afterwards, leaving

it to the new firm of Hunter, Rose & Co., who completed the contract and

secured its renewal. On the removal of the seat of government to Ottawa

in 1865, the firm of course followed. A large and lucrative business was

soon built up, and in 1868 a branch was established at Toronto, the firm

having secured a ten years contract for the printing of the Provincial

government. In 1871 their relations with the Dominion government

terminated, and the business was consolidated in Toronto. The firm now

entered extensively into the business of publishing Canadian reprints of

English copyright books, principally the popular novels of living

writers, for which a ready market was found. The firm honestly

compensated the authors whose works they reproduced, although this of

course placed them at a disadvantage as compared with the piratical

publishers of the United States. Another and probably a greater service

to the intellectual progress of the country rendered by this

enterprising firm, was the publication—at first for others, but

latterly at their own risk—of the “Canadian Monthly,” the last and by

far the best literary magazine ever issued in this country. This venture

unfortunately did not prove pecuniarily successful, and though sustained

for many years with a liberality and public spirit highly creditable to

the publishers, was at length discontinued. In 1877 the death of Mr.

Hunter left Mr. Rose the sole member of the firm, and a year afterwards

he took his brother, Daniel, into the concern, the well-known firm name

being still retained. Widely as George M. Rose is known to the Canadian

people as a successful and enterprising publisher, he has acquired a

still more extensive reputation by his unselfish exertions in the cause

of temperance and moral reform. A life-long total abstainer and

prohibitionist, he has taken an active part in temperance work in

connection with various organizations. He has attained the highest

offices in the gift of the Sons of Temperance in the Dominion, having

been several times chosen to fill the chair of grand worthy patriarch of

the order both in Quebec and Ontario, and has also held the second

highest position conferrable by that order for the whole continent,

having been most worthy associate of the National Division of America.

His heart and purse are always open to the appeals for the advancement

of the Temperance cause, which he regards as being of vastly more

importance than mere party issues. Though a Liberal, politically, he

regards all public issues from the standpoint of Temperance reform.

Personally Mr. Rose is genial, sociable and unassuming. As his career

shows, he has abundant business capacity, and the enthusiasm which forms

so strong a feature of his character is well regulated by a fund of

practical common sense. For a number of years Mr. Rose has been an

active member of the Board of Trade. In 1881 he was elected

vice-president of the board, and the following year (1882) was chosen

president. On the expiration of his term of office, in 1883, he was

elected treasurer, and has been annually re-elected to fill this office

ever since. For a number of years he has also been a director of the

Ontario Bank. In politics Mr. Rose is a prohibitionist, and in religion

a Unitarian. In 1856 he was married to Margaret C. J. L. Manson,

daughter of the late William Manson, farmer, Oxford county, and has had

a family of ten children—nine of whom survive, six sons and three

daughters.

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=LaRocque, Basile=, M.D., St. John’s, province Quebec, was born at

Chambly, January 10th, 1813, of the marriage of Joseph Henry LaRocque, a

respectable and intelligent farmer of that locality, having for wife a

Miss Lafontaine, allied to the same family which has furnished to the

country the Hon. Sir Louis H. Lafontaine, whose political _rôle_ belongs

to history, and whose career at the bar was sufficiently brilliant to

make him chief justice of the Queen’s Bench for the province of Quebec.

Dr. LaRocque is the third son of a family of seven brothers, of whom the

eldest became the distinguished bishop of the diocese of St. Hyacinthe,

P.Q. The doctor completed his classical course at the College of St.

Hyacinthe, in 1828. Among the number of his schoolfellows was Louis

Antoine Dessaulles, a man of talent, a remarkable writer, author of

several works, legislative councillor under the union, and afterwards

registrar for the Crown for the district of Montreal at the end of his

career in this country. His course terminated, the doctor began his

medical studies under Dr. Vimbler at Chambly, and at Marieville under

Dr. Davignon, who played a notable part in Canadian politics, but

removed from there to the University of Vermont, at Woodstock, then in

great repute owing to its scientific professors. He ultimately settled

at Burlington, where he was prosperous and successful. On the 1st July,

1837, our subject successfully passed his examinations at Quebec, and

was admitted to the practice of medicine. He commenced his medical

career at St. John’s, but in a short time left there and settled at

Acadie, where his brother was then curate and afterwards became bishop.

Here he lived for thirty years, occupying at different periods many

prominent positions of trust and confidence, such as justice of the

peace, school trustee, judge of summary causes, etc., etc., and being

offered on several occasions by the leading men of the parish and of the

county of St. John’s, parliamentary candidature. The doctor preferred a

calm, quiet life, practising his profession for the love of science and

duty, and passing his leisure time in the contemplation of nature and

its beauties. After the decease of one of his best friends, Dr. Wright,

he was persuaded by many who fully appreciated his talents to settle at

St. John’s in 1871, where, notwithstanding his advanced age, he

continued the practice of his profession, alike attending poor and rich,

through all the inclemency and rigor of a trying climate, and bringing

hope and comfort to many weary sufferers by his kind, genial manners.

Dr. LaRocque refused on several occasions the honor of being a professor

of the School of Medicine at Montreal, his modest tastes leading him

rather to charitable acts and the pursuit of an unostentatious, useful

life. The doctor married at Acadie, on the 18th January, 1843, Melanie

Quesnel, eldest daughter of Dr. Quesnel, brother of the celebrated

lawyer, Hon. Auguste F. Quesnel, barrister, etc., and an old member of

the Legislative Council under the union. Of this marriage there were

sixteen children, of whom seven are living. One died in holy orders, and

two daughters as nuns. The eldest surviving son is Dr. Henry LaRocque,

practising at Plattsburg, where he holds an enviable position among his

American _confrères_, enjoying a splendid professional reputation;

Emile, a doctor at Malone; Alphonse, surgeon dentist at Worcester; and

Joseph, a doctor at Biddeford; Marine Hector, apothecary at St. John’s,

P.Q.; and William, manager and proprietor of a large commercial house in

St. John’s. Dr. Basile LaRocque is one of those men whose capabilities

and talents have shown themselves in spite of his humility of character

and modest tastes. Those who bear his name have reason to be proud of

it.

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=Black, Thomas R.=, Amherst, Nova Scotia, M.P.P. for Cumberland county,

was born at Amherst, 16th October, 1832. His paternal grandfather was a

native of England, having been born there in 1727, and emigrated to Nova

Scotia in 1774, where he married the daughter of a U. E. loyalist. Mr.

Black, the subject of our sketch, received his education in the Grammar

School in Amherst, and after leaving school turned his attention to

farming and other business pursuits. He first entered the Legislative

Assembly in July, 1884, having been returned by acclamation to fill the

vacancy caused by the retirement of C. J. Townsend, who had been elected

to represent Cumberland county, in the House of Commons at Ottawa. On

the dissolution of the Legislative Assembly in May, 1886, Cumberland was

one of the few constituencies in which the question of the repeal of the

federal compact was not an essential element in the campaign; the

contest was, therefore, run on personal grounds, and at the close of the

poll the popularity of Mr. Black was evinced by the large number of

votes that had been given him. The votes stood thus: T. R. Black, 2,083;

R. L. Black, 2,064; G. W. Forrest, 1,939; C. J. McFarlane, 1,855; and G.

B. Wilson, 341. Mr. Black is a justice of the peace. That he is

public-spirited, we have only to point to the handsome block of

buildings he has lately erected in his native town. The first stone

building erected at Amherst was the passenger station of the

Intercolonial Railway, built by the Dominion government in 1867; the

second the Dominion building, containing the public offices, built by

the government in 1886; but the first erected by private enterprise is

that now under notice. It has a front of 100 ft., is 60 ft. deep, and

has three stories above basement, including Mansard roof, the whole

height being 50 ft. The material used throughout is dark red sandstone

from the quarry of A. B. Black, two and three quarter miles distant. It

is of a darker shade than that in the Dominion building, and from tests

at Ottawa and Boston has been pronounced to have, in addition to its

admirable appearance, all the requisites for a first-class building

stone, as it is easily worked, durable, and fire-resisting. The whole

work was done by day’s work under the immediate superintendence of the

owner and of his son, William, the latter spending all his time at the

building and the quarry; and the judicious manner in which he managed

the erection of derricks, hoisting of stone, and general supervision

being specially noteworthy in one so young. It is considered that if the

work had been let in the ordinary way the building would have cost

$30,000 or upwards, but Mr. Black, by taking two years to build it, was

able with his resources to construct it for a considerably smaller sum.

It is the good fortune of Amherst to have citizens like Mr. Black. The

value of building property in town, purchased, built and improved by him

within the last few years must be about $45,000. He too takes a deep

interest in farming and stock-raising enterprises, and has imported a

good number of valuable Hereford stock into his county, which has

benefited the community greatly. Mr. Black is a staunch temperance man,

and strong advocate of all movements that have for their object the

elevation of his fellow men. In politics he is a Liberal, but not an

avowed follower of any party. “Measures before Party” is his motto. He

was married on the 20th March, 1860, to Eunice, daughter of the late W.

W. Bent, who, during his lifetime, was a member of the Provincial

parliament.

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=MacMahon, Hon. Hugh=, Toronto, Judge of the Supreme Court of Judicature

for Ontario, Common Pleas Division, is of Irish descent, and was born in

Guelph, Ont., the 6th March, 1836. The progenitors of the family were

originally from Monaghan, in Ireland, and in the troublous times of the

last of the reigning Stuarts, a number of MacMahons held important

positions in their native country. Colonel Art Oge MacMahon, besides

holding a military command, was King James II.’s lord-lieutenant for the

county Monaghan; while Hugh MacMahon, great-granduncle of the subject of

this present sketch, was lieutenant-colonel of Gordon O’Neil’s

Charlemont regiment of foot. This crack corps, upon its reorganization,

after the Treaty of Limerick (1691), took service in France with the

famous “Irish Brigade.” Reverses of fortune having impoverished the

family, Mr. MacMahon’s father came to Canada in 1819, from Cootehill,

county Cavan, Ireland, and settled in the Niagara district. He brought

with him an excellent library of classical and mathematical works; and,

as he possessed high attainments as a classical scholar, he opened

school at Grimsby, where many of the youth of the western section of

Upper Canada were prepared for the professions. Mr. MacMahon, senior,

was one of the earliest appointed provincial land surveyors, and made

the preliminary surveys of many of the townships in the lately formed

province. His wife, who still survives him, and is now in her 91st year,

is Anne MacGovern, a relative of the late Bishop MacGovern, of the

county of Cavan. In 1853, Hugh MacMahon, our present subject, then in

his seventeenth year, entered the Board of Works department of Canada,

of which the Hon. H. H. Killaly was at the time commissioner, and was

placed on the staff of Colonel W. B. Gallaway, C.E., as second assistant

engineer. In this capacity Mr. MacMahon took part in making surveys and

in preparing estimates for the projected Ottawa Ship Canal between

Ottawa and Aylmer. He was also engaged in the surveys and plans for the

Chats Canal, and was one of the resident engineers during the time these

works were under construction. In 1857, when the monetary crisis of that

year compelled the government to relinquish the latter undertaking, and

when civil engineering was much depressed by the stoppage of public

works, Mr. MacMahon left the service of the department, though strongly

urged to remain at Ottawa by the chief of the staff. The next year,

having become a matriculant of the Law Society, we find him in the law

office of Thomas Robertson, Q.C., then practising in Dundas. Pursuing

the legal profession, he was called to the bar in 1864, when he entered

into partnership with his brother, Thomas B. MacMahon, late judge of the

county of Norfolk, then practising in Brantford. Five years afterwards,

on the elevation of the late John Wilson to a judgeship of the Court of

Queen’s Bench, Hugh MacMahon removed to London, Ontario, where, in a few

years, he built up the largest and most lucrative legal business in the

west. His universally acknowledged acquirements as a commercial lawyer,

sound judgment, and scrupulous honor brought him the confidence of the

mercantile community throughout the country, and he became the solicitor

and trusted adviser of many large firms. In 1876 he was created Queen’s

counsel by the Ontario government, and in 1885 the Dominion ministry

paid him a like high honor. Mr. MacMahon’s talents as an advocate won

for him a successful career at the bar, and he has been retained as

counsel in some of the most important civil and criminal cases before

the courts. In 1877 he was retained by the Dominion government as

leading counsel in the arbitration between the Federal government and

the province of Ontario, in the protracted dispute over the western and

northern boundaries of the province; and in the following year he argued

the case before Sir Edward Thornton, British minister at Washington, and

the Hon. Sir Francis Hincks, arbitrators for the Dominion, and Chief

Justice R. A. Harrison, who represented Ontario. Their award, as our

readers are aware, settled the western boundary of the province. In

1884, Mr. MacMahon was associated with Christopher Robinson, Q.C., and

went to England as one of the counsel for the Dominion, when the

boundary question was submitted to the judicial committee of Her

Majesty’s Privy Council. The decision of this body, it is a matter of

history, virtually confirmed the award of the previous arbitrators. We

now come to a notable incident in Mr. MacMahon’s professional

career—his retention as counsel for the prisoners in the celebrated

Biddulph tragedy case. This _cause célèbre_, it will be remembered,

arose out of the revolting murder of five members of the Donnelly

family, residing in the township of Biddulph, when no less than fifteen

persons were arrested for alleged complicity in the affair, though but

five of them were subsequently prosecuted. Mr. MacMahon was retained as

counsel on behalf of the prisoners, who, in 1880, were indicted by the

grand jury for murder. Subsequently the Crown, deeming the evidence

against James Carroll stronger than against the other prisoners, he was

first brought to trial. The first jury disagreeing on their verdict,

application was made for a change of venue, owing to the intense

excitement over the tragedy at London; but this was refused. Carroll was

again placed on his trial before a special commission, composed of two

judges, and the proceedings extended over a week. The excitement was

still intense; the court-room was thronged daily by great crowds of

people; while representatives of the leading journals came from the

chief cities to report the proceedings. The chief incidents of the early

days of the trial were the skilful cross-examination of the Crown

witnesses by Mr. MacMahon, which resulted in breaking down much of the

case against the prisoner. The interest culminated in Mr. MacMahon’s

singularly able speech for the defence, which created intense excitement

in the court-room, and was favorably commented on by the legal

profession and the press of the country. The Toronto _Mail_ thus

referred to the speech:—“Mr. MacMahon rose to address the jury at 1.40

p.m., and as he took his stand in front of the jury-box, the silence of

death fell upon the immense concourse assembled in the court-room. The

address, which lasted for over two hours, was a fine effort. It was not

characterized by any remarkable flights of eloquence, nor did the

learned counsel try to play upon the feelings of the jurors. It was,

however, a clear, concise and able argument, which left a deep

impression.” The _Globe_, portraying the scene in the court-house prior

to the address of the counsel for the defence, said: “Long before the

half-hour’s intermission had been brought to a close the corridors of

the courthouse were packed with an excited throng, eagerly pressing

forward to gain admission to the court-room, which was already so

densely crowded that not another could be admitted. The scene inside the

court-room was one long to be remembered. It was not the seats alone

that were crowded. The steps leading to the bench, and every vacant

chair within the bar was occupied, while more than half of the standing

room in the aisles were occupied by ladies.” The same journal in the

course of a lengthy report of the speech, observes: “When the judges

took their places on the bench, after the adjournment, Mr. MacMahon rose

to address the jury on behalf of the prisoners. The most absolute quiet

reigned throughout the court-room, and after the learned counsel for the

defence had uttered his first few sentences the crowded court-room was

so hushed that one might almost have heard the fall of a pin. For two

hours the learned and eloquent gentleman enchained not only the

attention of their lordships and the jury, but the vast throng in the

crowded court-room. The address was not what would be called a flowery

one, but it was earnest, eloquent and exhaustive. Not a point that could

be made to tell in favor of the prisoner was overlooked, while the most

favorable and plausible construction was put upon those points that bore

hardest against him. During a part of the address the prisoner sat up in

the dock and listened attentively, while his sister seemed to devour

every word that fell from the speaker’s lips. . . . The learned counsel

for the defence closed his very able and eloquent address with a solemn

and pathetic appeal to the jury on behalf of the prisoner. . . . The

efforts of the defence had been a series of masterpieces, throughout the

long trial; but it was felt that with the eloquent and exhaustive

_résumé_ of the evidence by Mr. MacMahon, these efforts had come to a

close, and that nothing remained as an offset to what the Crown had to

present.” The prisoner was acquitted, and the scene in the court-room

and in the vicinity of the court-house was indescribable. Speaking of

the memorable trial, another Toronto journal subsequently remarked: that

Mr. MacMahon’s address to the jury “is still remembered as one of the

most brilliant efforts of oratory ever heard within the walls of London

court-house.” While a resident of London, Mr. MacMahon was mainly

instrumental, in connection with Colonel James Shanly, in founding the

Irish Benevolent Society in that city, of which both gentlemen, at

various times, were president. This successful national society has been

conducted irrespective of creed, and has been of the greatest possible

good, in allaying religious prejudices and in softening religious

rancour among the Irish residents of the Forest City. At the general

elections of 1872 Mr. MacMahon unsuccessfully contested the City of

London, for a seat in the House of Commons, against the Hon. John

Carling; and again in 1878 he was a candidate for the County of Kent,

against Rufus Stephenson, the then sitting member, but was defeated. Mr.

MacMahon removed to Toronto at the close of the year 1883, where he

successfully practised his profession. His wide legal experience,

forceful and pleasing manner in addressing juries, and great natural and

acquired abilities, made him one of the leading _nisi prius_ lawyers on

the western circuit. On the 30th November, 1887, he was appointed judge

of the Supreme Court of Judicature for Ontario, Common Pleas Division.

Outside of his profession, Judge MacMahon is a man of very considerable

culture and much fondness for art, his judgment as a _connoisseur_ of

paintings being frequently appealed to. His collection of paintings has

been much admired, and indicates a highly educated taste. In 1864 Mr.

MacMahon married Isabel Janet, eldest daughter of the late Simon

Mackenzie, of Belleville, by whom he has two sons.

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=Ryan, Hon. Patrick George=, Caraquet, N.B., M.P.P. for Gloucester

county, was born at Bathurst, N.B., 9th May, 1838. He is of Irish

descent, his parents having come from the Emerald Isle many years ago.

Hon. Mr. Ryan received his early education at the Grammar School in

Bathurst. After finishing his studies he went into business as a

manufacturer of leather, for the preparing and tanning of which Caraquet

possesses exceptional facilities. The town is situated on an inlet of

Baie des Chaleurs, forty-eight miles from Bathurst. It is one of the

most important fishing stations in the Dominion. The lighthouse on

Caraquet Island, at the entrance to the harbor, exhibits a fixed white

light fifty-two feet above the level of the sea. Bathurst, Mr. Ryan’s

native place, is the shire town of Gloucester county, and is situated on

Bathurst Bay, a well-sheltered sheet of water, three and a half miles

long and two miles wide, opening into Baie des Chaleurs. Here an

extensive trade in the salmon fishery is carried on. The Intercolonial

Railway runs near the town. Hon. Mr. Ryan has for many years been a

leading man in his constituency, and is one of the county magistrates.

He has also held the position of warden of the municipality of

Gloucester, and has been chairman of the pilotage commission for the

district of Caraquet. He began political life in February, 1876, when he

was elected to the House of Assembly. Mr. Ryan exhibited in the house

the same forcible business qualities which had caused him to be

respected outside. At the general election of 1878 he was again

nominated, and was a second time elected. At the general election, held

15th June, 1882, he contested his constituency for the third time with

success. His great natural abilities, and his long experience as a

parliamentarian, now entitled Mr. Ryan to a share of honors, and, on the

3rd of March, 1883, he was appointed a member of the Executive Council

and chief commissioner of the board of works. He was considered to be so

sure of his seat in the house that when he went to his constituency no

opposition was offered to him, and he was re-elected by acclamation,

26th March, 1883. Hon. Mr. Ryan, as a departmental officer, amply

fulfilled the expectations formed of him by the premier and

attorney-general, Hon. A. G. Blair. The latest general election was held

26th April, 1886, and the government returned from the country unbroken.

Messrs. Young and Ryan, the sitting members, were opposed by such strong

candidates as T. J. McManus and T. Blanchard; but the former won easily,

the vote standing—Young, 1,212; Hon. P. G. Ryan, 1,177; defeating

McManus, 988; Blanchard, 835. Hon. Mr. Ryan is a staunch Liberal, and

believes in progressive measures. He married, 26th January, 1862,

Margaret, daughter of John Murphy. While yet in the prime of life,

possessed of a good private business, and well to the fore in political

position, he has probably still many years of usefulness ahead of him.

The north shore of New Brunswick, with its extensive forests and

fisheries, will come up as a manufacturing centre. Financial reverses

have to some extent, during the last few years, hindered the prosperity

of the country, but with the increase of railways and the consequent

diversion of travel in this direction, will come a new era of commercial

and industrial activity. Such men as Hon. P. G. Ryan are the backbone

and life of the country.

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=Wainwright, William=, Assistant Manager Grand Trunk Railway, Montreal,

like not a few of the prominent railway men of North America, is a

native of England. He was born in a city which, from its situation and

industrial and commercial importance, could not fail to be closely

associated with whatever was most enterprising in the British railway

movement of from forty to fifty years ago. It was not surprising that a

young man of ability and ambition should be early attracted to a branch

of business which had prizes for those who could win them. Mr.

Wainwright, born on 30th of April, 1840, was not quite eighteen when he

entered the service in January, 1858. He applied himself diligently to

the tasks assigned him, and that he succeeded in mastering them in all

their details was shown by the successive steps of promotion of which he

was deemed worthy by his superiors. He began as junior clerk in the

chief accountant’s office, but in due time rose to the positions of

senior clerk, secretary to assistant-general manager, and general

manager of the road with which he was connected. That line was the

Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, which traverses a most

important portion of central England. In 1862, Mr. Wainwright came to

Canada and obtained a position on the Grand Trunk. For a year, he served

as senior clerk in the accountant’s office. Then he was appointed

secretary to the managing director, and in that capacity he continued

for three years. We next find him filling the office of senior clerk in

the manager director’s department, and taking charge of the car mileage.

Thus passed six years more, and then Mr. Wainwright became general

passenger agent. As such he was widely known and gave general

satisfaction as well to his colleagues and superiors as to the public

that had dealings with him. He remained in that position for upwards of

eight years, until in May, 1881, he received the appointment of

assistant-manager, the duties of which he still so ably discharges. Mr.

Wainwright was also general manager of the North Shore Railway, from

April, 1883, until the transfer of that line to the Canadian Pacific

Railway. Mr. Wainwright is highly esteemed in private life, being as

agreeable in social intercourse as he is assiduous and conscientious in

the discharge of his official duties.

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=Rose, Hon. Justice John E.=, LL.D., Toronto, one of the Judges of the

Court of Common Pleas, was born at Willowdale, county of York, on the

4th of October, 1844. His father, who came from the vicinity of

Kingston, was born in 1806, and is at the present time the oldest

Methodist minister in Canada, and was long and favorably known to the

denomination as the manager for many years of the Methodist book concern

in Toronto. His mother, who belongs to the Street family, was a native

of the Niagara District. Judge Rose received his early education at the

Dundas Grammar School, and after a successful academic course at

Victoria College, Cobourg, graduated there in 1864. Making choice of law

for his profession, he diligently pursued his studies in the offices of

Ross, Bell & Holden, of Belleville, and of Patterson, Beaty, & Hamilton,

of Toronto. In 1866 he took his degree in law, and in the following year

was called to the bar of the province. He commenced the practice of his

profession in Toronto, and was soon successful in building up a large

and remunerative business, the firm ultimately including five partners

and giving employment to about a score of clerks. In 1881 he obtained

his silk gown as Queen’s counsel, and with this merited honor and the

enhanced professional status, came increase of business and the

continued confidence of a large and rapidly extending circle of clients.

He was specially retained by Parkdale to procure from the railway

committee of the Privy Council an order for the construction of the

sub-way on Queen street, which was the first order of the kind made

under the Act, and was obtained in spite of the opposition of four

powerful railway companies. Mr. Rose was equally successful in

conducting the well-known case of Moore v. the Mutual Insurance Company

which eventually was decided in the plaintiff’s favor by the Imperial

Privy Counsel; and in other important suits of a commercial character

his professional abilities have won him deserved honors. From an early

age he took a deep interest in the affairs of the Methodist church, and

became an active and zealous worker in its ranks. He was at first

connected with Elm street Church, Toronto, but on the erection of the

Metropolitan Church he associated himself with those who were the

founders of that edifice, and on Dr. Punshon’s departure for England he

became an official member and trustee of the Metropolitan Church, and

the recording secretary of the board. Mr. Rose is also a member of the

Senate of Victoria University, in whose affairs he takes a warm

interest, and in 1886 that university conferred upon him the honorary

degree of LL.D. In 1883 the Dominion government appointed him to a

judgeship in the Common Pleas Division of the High Court of Justice for

Ontario, rendered vacant by the elevation of Mr. Justice Osler to the

Court of Appeal. The appointment gave universal satisfaction to the

profession, by whom the learned judge is held in high esteem, for to

this elevated and honorable position on the bench of his native province

Mr. Rose brought eminent abilities, a well read, judicial mind,

industrious and pains-taking habits, and a ready faculty of discerning

the essential points of a case and of soundly determining the law. In

not a few of his charges to juries he has shown himself a wholesome and

stern moralist, and determined to exercise for good his high position on

the bench. Judge Rose was a Liberal Conservative in politics. In 1868 he

married Kate Macdonald, of Toronto, by whom he has three children.

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=Macallum, Archibald=, M.A., LL.B., Hamilton, Ontario, was born in the

parish of Killmichell, Argyleshire, Scotland, on the first day of

August, 1824. His parents were Donald and Mary Macalpine Macallum. He

was the third son and the eighth child in a family of eleven. When he

was about six years of age he came with the other members of the

household to Canada, and after a short delay settled in East Hawkesbury,

county of Prescott. He was, during the first fourteen years of his life,

a healthy, active boy, full of life and spirits, and always cheerful and

hopeful. But at the end of that period he had a severe attack of

inflammation of the lungs, which, owing to the heroic treatment then in

vogue, permanently weakened his constitution and probably laid the

foundation of the disease that caused his early and lamented death.

During Mr. Macallum’s boyhood he spent a number of years in attending

school and working at intervals on the farm. The facilities for securing

an education were, in those days, and in that locality, very limited.

The schools in the country sections were of an inferior character, and

books were difficult to obtain, but by availing himself of every

opportunity of securing tuition, and perseverance in private study, he

was enabled, at a comparatively early age, to fit himself, in some

measure at least, for the profession of a teacher, and taught for a few

years in his own vicinity with acceptance and success. Sometimes, in

order to keep ahead of his more advanced pupils, he was compelled to

study with great diligence in the intervals of school work, but he then

formed the habit of constant progress in the search for knowledge which

remained with him for life. He was always advancing in his attainments,

and never satisfied with the progress he had made. Once only did he

yield to the restlessness and love of change that characterize the

average boy. He tried for one winter the life of a lumbering man, and

went to Quebec on a raft during the following summer; but that life was

not to his taste, and he returned to the work of teaching. When the

Normal School at Toronto was about to be opened, the late Dr. Ryerson

proposed that each county council should send one student, who, after

taking the Normal course, at the expense of the council, should return

and illustrate and apply, in a sort of model school, the principles he

had learned in the provincial institution. In accordance with this

suggestion, the council of the counties of Prescott and Russell arranged

for an examination of candidates for this purpose to be held at

L’Orignal. Mr. Macallum was advised to attend this examination. He

succeeded in the competition, and was sent as the leading student of his

county to Toronto. He was one of the earliest pupils of the Normal

School, immediately took a high position, and obtained the first

first-class certificate ever granted by the Educational department of

Upper Canada. He was soon appointed to the position of principal of the

Provincial Model School in connection with the institution in which he

had received his training. Nothing could more fully show the high esteem

in which he was held by the instructors of the school, and by Dr.

Ryerson, who at that time took a direct personal interest in the welfare

of the Normal and Model Schools. It is worthy of remark that Mr.

Macallum’s high sense of honor would not allow him to accept the

distinguished office offered him until he had received the full

permission of the Prescott county council, and pledged himself to refund

all advances made by them on his behalf. He entered upon his duties as

principal with his usual energy, and from the first the Model School was

a success. He secured the respect and affection of his pupils, and

received many tokens of their esteem. He remained in Toronto until the

year 1858, when he removed to Hamilton to take charge of the public

schools in that city. He was principal of the Hamilton Central School

until the passing of the Educational Act of 1874, when he became Public

School Inspector. For twenty years he remained at the head of the school

system of Hamilton, and the marked progress of the institutions under

his care gave evidence of the ability and assiduity with which his

important duties were prosecuted. He died in the midst of the people in

whose service he had spent the richest and ripest years of his life. The

flags flying at half-mast in every part of the city, the distinguished

cortege that followed his remains to their last earthly resting-place,

and the resolutions of sympathy sent to his widow from all the leading

societies, told of the esteem in which he was held. Hamilton mourned for

him as for an honored father. Mr. Macallum’s career as a student kept

pace with his work as an educator. In 1864 he took the degree of B.A.,

in Toronto University; in 1866 he obtained his M.A., and in 1877 his

LL.B. As an author, Mr. Macallum occupied no mean place. His

publications were principally practical works on education. Several

valuable charts, some historical, and one relating to the animal

kingdom, were prepared by him. He was the author of a work on grammar,

and another on history, and in 1878 he published an English Literature

Primer, the merit of which was so universally recognized that in a

single year it ran through five editions. As a lecturer he met with

considerable success, choosing in almost every case scientific subjects.

As a citizen and a man of business Mr. Macallum’s abilities were known

and appreciated. He was a director of the Canada Fire and Marine

Insurance Company, the Canada Loan and Banking Co., the Hamilton Street

Railway Co., and The Hamilton Ladies’ College. In the several patriotic

and fraternal societies which draw men nearer to each other, and foster

brotherly feeling and national sentiment, Mr. Macallum found a worthy

place. As a Scotchman he had that love for his native land that

characterizes every good man and true. At the time of his death he was

the honored president of the St. Andrew’s Society in Hamilton. He was an

organizer, and chief, of the Caledonian Society. He was also a respected

member of Barton lodge, A. F. & A. M. His charities in connection with

these and other institutions were large, and so unostentatiously

dispensed, that their full extent was not known until after his death.

In politics Mr. Macallum was a Liberal. Though he held decided views on

many of the public questions of the day, he was moderate in expressing

them, and kind and considerate towards all who differed from him. He had

deep convictions of the responsibilities and duties belonging to good

citizenship, and he was never led by mere sentiment. He made up his mind

carefully on these as well as on other subjects, and was not to be moved

from his conclusions after having reached them. His piety was deep and

fervent, but undemonstrative. He was not the man to parade his cherished

emotions and experiences before a mixed multitude, yet with those of

kindred spirit he delighted to hold Christian fellowship. His parents

belonged to the Established Church of Scotland, in which communion they

remained to the end of life. Their son found his way, while yet a youth,

to a Wesleyan place of worship, and at the age of sixteen years, he

remained after the public service to a class-meeting led by the Rev.

Franklin Metcalf, and united with that church. To the day of his death

he remained a Methodist, and during his residence in Hamilton he held

the positions of class-leader, trustee, and steward, in the Centenary

Church. He was a consistent, earnest, and thoughtful Christian, and kept

himself unspotted from the world. His sympathies and efforts were not,

however, confined to his own communion, for every evangelical community

found in him a brother and co-worker. The esteem in which he was held by

the Christian public appeared in the fact that he was chosen as the

first Canadian delegate, with the Rev. Dr. Gibson (then of Montreal), to

the International Sunday School Lesson Committee from 1872 to 1879, the

year in which he died. His eminent literary abilities, his rich

scholarship, and his profound acquaintance with the word of God, made

him an exceedingly valuable workman in this important field. In

connection with these duties he visited New York, Baltimore, Chicago,

Indianapolis, Atlanta and New Haven. During the early part of Mr.

Macallum’s residence in Toronto, he married Maria, daughter of the Rev.

Ezra Adams. This union was a very happy one, though not of long

duration. Her early and unexpected death was deeply felt by him. Some

years after, in 1859, he married Mary Biggar, daughter of Herbert

Biggar, of Mount Pleasant, in the county of Brant. Mr. Biggar is still

living at the advanced age of more than eighty years. He was for some

years a member of the old Canadian parliament, and served his friends

nearer home for a length of time in the county council. Mr. Macallum’s

second marriage was an exceedingly happy one. Their home was one of

quiet comfort, made bright and beautiful by mutual kindness. All that a

wise and thoughtful affection could do to aid him in health and soothe

and comfort him during the lingering illness that took him away, was

done. His wife and five children survive him. Though he died at the

early age of fifty-five years, few names were so long and prominently

before the public as an educator. For more than thirty years he occupied

a position amongst the teachers of this province second to none. Largely

self-educated and self-developed, he was a bright example of what may be

done, with little or no aid from others. His life in the home, the

school, the church, and among his fellow-citizens was one of quiet

power. Few men did more for the educational interests of this country in

his day than he did. But his intellectual attainments and

accomplishments were rendered more influential by the unswerving

integrity of his life and the moral beauty of his character.

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=Cooley, Rev. John W.=, Minister of Zion Tabernacle, Methodist Church,

Hamilton, was born in Toronto township, county of Peel, Ontario, on the

7th November, 1852. His parents were Thomas and Ann Cooley. The former

was born on one of the Channel islands, where his father, a British

soldier, was stationed about the date of the battle of Waterloo. He was

brought up near Belfast. His mother was a native of Fermanagh, Ireland,

and the family emigrated to Canada early in life. Mr. Cooley, senior,

was for many years a missionary agent of the American Tract Society

among the sailors on the Welland Canal, and was one of the most active

agents in securing the closing of the canal against Sunday traffic. Rev.

Mr. Cooley, the subject of our sketch, received his education chiefly in

the public and high schools in Thorold, under the Rev. John McNeely,

M.A.; Brampton High School, under John Seath, B.A., now High School

inspector; and in the Galt Collegiate Institute, under the principalship

of the late William Tassie, LL.D. In 1869 he became a public school

teacher in the Central School, Owen Sound. For five years he continued

in the profession, in different places, meanwhile prosecuting his

studies privately, and taking an examination for teacher’s certificate

each year. In the year 1873 he was appointed teacher of the Senior Boys’

School, Guelph. During this year his religious conversion took place,

and he became active in the work of the Methodist church and the Guelph

Young Men’s Christian Association, of which he was secretary. At the

beginning of the year 1874, at the request of the chairman of the

district, coupled with his own convictions, he accepted an appointment

as junior preacher on the Elora circuit of the Methodist church. His

subsequent appointments were, 1874-75, Listowel; 1876, Hamilton, Hannah

street Church; and in 1877, Stratford. In 1878 he was ordained and

stationed at Elmira, county Waterloo. Toward the end of his three years’

term a throat affection compelled his temporary retirement from the work

of the ministry. The greater part of the next two years (1881-82) was

spent in newspaper work, as a member of the editorial staff of the

Winnipeg _Free Press_. In October, 1882, on his complete restoration to

health, he resumed his ministerial work, being appointed to Jerseyville

circuit, near Brantford. Three years were spent thereon. In 1885 he was

appointed to Dunnville, and in 1887 to the pastorate of Zion Tabernacle,

Hamilton, where he now is. In August, 1878, he was married to Emily H.

Keeling, of Guelph, daughter of the late George M. Keeling, the founder

of the _Guelph Mercury_, who died in 1861. This lady was a highly gifted

musician, organist for many years, and subsequently choir leader as

well, of the Norfolk street Methodist Church, Guelph. She was a very

popular vocalist and was widely esteemed for her amiability, good

judgment and energy in social and church work. She died in April, 1885,

leaving two children, one of whom alone is now living. Rev. Mr. Cooley

is a very active and pronounced temperance advocate and prohibitionist,

and takes a deep interest in all other social movements.

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