=Wilmot, Hon. Robert Duncan=, Fredericton, New Brunswick. Hon. Mr.

Wilmot, late Lieutenant-Governor of the province of New Brunswick, was

born at Fredericton, N.B., on the 16th October, 1809. His grandfather

was the late Major Lemuel Wilmot. His father, the late John M. Wilmot,

represented St. John county for many years in the New Brunswick

legislature; and his mother, Susan Harriet, was a daughter of the late

Samuel Wiggins, a prominent merchant of St. John. When about five years

of age the future lieutenant-governor removed with his parents to St.

John, where he received his education. On reaching manhood he entered

into business with his father, who at that time was a prominent merchant

and shipowner. In 1833 he was married to Miss Mowatt, of St. John, and

shortly after this event removed to Liverpool, England, where he resided

for five years. On his return he began to take an interest in municipal

affairs, and for some time he sat as alderman in the city council, and

afterwards became mayor of the city. In 1846 he entered the arena of

politics, and on presenting himself for parliamentary honors was elected

to represent the county of St. John in the New Brunswick legislature,

and this constituency he continued to represent, with the exception of

one term, until the confederation of the provinces. He was appointed

surveyor-general of New Brunswick in 1851, and held the office until

1854. In 1856-7 he was provincial secretary, and became premier of the

government formed in 1865. He was also a member of the government of

1866-7. This year he was a delegate to the conference held in London,

England, to discuss matters relating to confederation. On the 1st of

July, 1867, he was called by royal proclamation to a seat in the Senate

of the Dominion of Canada. Upon the formation of Sir John A. Macdonald’s

government, in 1878, he was sworn in a member of the Privy Council

without portfolio, and shortly afterwards was appointed speaker of the

Senate, as successor to the Hon. David Christie. This office he held

until the time of the death of Lieutenant-Governor C. B. Chandler, when

he resigned the speakership, and on the 11th February, 1880, was

appointed lieutenant-governor of his native province. In this position

he faithfully served his country until the 11th November, 1885, when he

was succeeded by Sir Leonard Tilley. In 1851 the Hon. Mr. Wilmot left

the city of St. John to reside in Sunbury county, on a farm known as

“Belmont,” owned by his grandfather and father, and on the expiration of

his term of office at Fredericton, he again selected Belmont as his

home, and here he now resides. In politics, he is a Conservative, and

for many years was a leader of this party in New Brunswick. In religion,

he is a member of the Church of England. Few men are more respected than

the Hon. Mr. Wilmot, and all hope he may be long spared to enjoy the

honors he has earned, and of which he is most deserving.

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=Rogers, Lieutenant-Col. Robert Zacheus=, Grafton, Ontario, is a younger

brother of Henry C. Rogers, who is referred to at length on page 147. He

was born at Grafton, Northumberland county, Ontario, 29th March, 1842.

His education was completed at Upper Canada College in 1859, and soon

afterwards he was entrusted with the management of the farm and business

of his father, whom he succeeded. He was among the first to take

advantage of the military training offered by the School of Instruction

established by the government at Toronto in 1864, and subsequently took

an active part in the volunteer movement of 1866, serving as a

lieutenant during the Fenian raids of that year. After nineteen years’

service as a captain in the 40th Northumberland battalion V.M., he

assumed the command of the same in compliance with the request of his

brother officers, some of whom were senior to him. In politics, he has

always taken an active part on behalf of the Conservative party, and for

eight years was the chosen leader of the county organization in support

of the government of Sir John A. Macdonald. In the spring of 1880 he

organized an expedition to colonize and develop the valley of the Souris

river, in the Canadian Northwest, which had been partly surveyed the

previous season and most favorably reported on. The point selected as

the business centre was called Millford, near the mouth of the

Souris—at which place he started a saw mill in June of that year, and

erected the first frame building west of the old province line, range 13

west of Winnipeg, and south of the present main line of the C. P.

Railway. The following year he added the pioneer flour mill of the

district to his establishment, and for five years carried on an

extensive business, and in many ways took an important part in promoting

the advancement of that very promising agricultural district. This

enterprise, however, did not prove a financial success, and Mr. Rogers

was forced reluctantly to abandon the idea of making that his future

home. In September, 1867, he married Isabella, eldest daughter of the

late Sheriff Waddell, of Chatham, Ontario, and granddaughter of the late

Captain William Waddell, of the 1st Royal Dragoons, a veteran of

Waterloo fame.

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=Bourgeois, George A.=, M.D., C.M., Three Rivers, was born at St.

Grégoire, county of Nicolet, P.Q., on the 1st of October, 1822. His

father was Jacques Bourgeois, a farmer, and his mother Magdeleine

Bourke. He took a classical course at the Seminary of Nicolet. He

adopted the medical profession, received his license to practise on the

1st of March, 1844, and began his professional career in his native

parish, where he practised from that year till 1867, inclusively. He

then entered the civil service and was deputy commissioner of crown

lands for the province of Quebec from the 2nd of November, 1867, to the

2nd of October, 1869, during which period he resided in the city of

Quebec. He was director of the cadastral operations in the district of

Three Rivers, from the 1st of August, 1870, to the 1st of September,

1878. He was inspector of the post offices of the Dominion of Canada in

the postal division of Three Rivers, from the 26th of July, 1879; and

also in the Quebec postal division from the 12th of February, 1886, to

the 12th of July, 1887. He has been a resident of Three Rivers since

May, 1872. Dr. Bourgeois travelled in Europe during the years 1869 and

1870, and visited England, Ireland, Belgium, Germany, France and Italy.

On the 27th of April, 1886, he was created Knight Commander of the

religious and military order of the Holy Sepulchre, and also an honorary

member of the order of the Chevaliers Sauveteurs des Alpes Maritimes, on

the 11th of July of the same year. In May, 1885, he received from the

Victoria University the degrees of M.D. and C.M. He was married on the

24th of September, 1844, to Mary Esther Lucinda Whitney, who died on the

14th of September, 1868. He was again married to Mary Malvina Ernestine

Rivard Dufresne, on the 22nd of October, 1870. In religion Dr. Bourgeois

is a Roman Catholic.

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=Brooks, Hon. Edward T.=, Sherbrooke, Judge of the Superior Court of

Quebec, was born at Lennoxville, county of Sherbrooke, on the 6th of

July, 1830. His father, Samuel Brooks, was a native of Massachusetts,

and a member of the Brooks family with which the Adamses of that state

are connected. He was a member of the Canadian assembly for Sherbrooke

for many years, the last term being from 1844 until his death in 1849.

His mother was Elizabeth Towle. The subject of this sketch was educated

at Dartmouth College, from which he graduated in 1850; studied law with

Judge J. S. Sanborn, of Sherbrooke, and Andrew Robertson, Q.C., of

Montreal; was admitted to the bar of Lower Canada in 1854, created a

Queen’s counsel in 1875, and elected _bâtonnier_ of St. Francis bar the

same year. He has always had an honorable stand at the bar of his

district, and has done a highly remunerative and straightforward

business. In ability he stands in the front rank in his part of the

province. He was vice-president of the International and Waterloo, and

Magog Railways; president of the Sherbrooke Rifle Association; the Fish

and Game Protection Society, and the Plowmen’s Association; solicitor

for the Eastern Townships Bank, the head-quarters of which are at

Sherbrooke, and trustee of Bishop’s College, Lennoxville. He is a man

with a great deal of public spirit and very highly prized as a citizen.

He was first elected to parliament for his present seat by acclamation

in 1872, and was re-elected in the same manner in 1874, and again at the

general election in September, 1878. He was the author of the amendment

to the law of libel, passed in 1874, and seconded Sir John A.

Macdonald’s motion condemning the act of Lieutenant-Governor Letellier,

of the province of Quebec. He was a Conservative, and a steadfast and

earnest supporter of the policy of that party, believing the best

interests of the country are promoted by protecting home industries and

encouraging internal improvements. These were his views, as many of his

friends know, long before they were embodied in the so-called “national

policy,” and were made a distinct party issue. Mr. Brooks was elevated

to the bench of St. Francis district on the 1st October, 1882. He was

married in 1856, to Sarah Louise, daughter of Eleazer Clarke, revenue

inspector and high constable, Sherbrooke, and they have three children.

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=Cooke, Richard S.=, Advocate, Three Rivers, was born at Three Rivers,

province of Quebec, on the 23rd of January, 1850. He is the son of the

late John Richard Cooke, a saddler by trade, and Marie Emilie Cloutier,

and nephew of the late Right Rev. Thomas Cooke, first bishop of the

diocese of Three Rivers. Mr. Cooke received his early education at the

Christian Brothers’ School, and went through a regular course of

classical studies at the St. Joseph College, taking first prizes every

year at both institutions, and distinguishing himself among his

schoolmates by his talented application. He was admitted to the bar in

July, 1874, and has practised his profession without interruption since

then, making a specialty of commercial law business. From 1874 to 1879

he practised with the Hon. H. G. Malhiot (then a member of the Quebec

government, and now mayor of Three Rivers), under the name and title of

Malhiot & Cooke. Mr. Cooke was an alderman of the council of Three

Rivers from 1880 to 1885, and was chosen as pro-mayor and president of

the finance committee. He has been connected with nearly every amateur

association of his native city, and founded the Three Rivers Fish and

Game Club, duly incorporated and holding fishing rights on Lake Archange

and others in the province of Quebec. He has taken a prominent and very

active part in all political and municipal matters, and has always been

an independent supporter of the Conservative party, and an earnest

advocate of progress in municipal affairs. Mr. Cooke is an eloquent and

impressive speaker, and as such is highly appreciated and generally

considered to be an undoubted authority on financial matters. He has

visited nearly every important place in Canada, the United States and

Europe. He belongs to the Roman Catholic church, of which he is a strict

member, but thoroughly liberal in his views, and in no way given to

bigotry. Mr. Cooke married on the 23rd August, 1877, Louisa Lajoie, only

daughter of the late J. B. Lajoie, first mayor of Three Rivers, but

unfortunately lost both his wife and newly-born child the following

year. His efforts and energy greatly assisted in the building of the

Lower Laurentian Railway, extending from the Piles branch of the

Canadian Pacific Railway towards Lake St. John, on part of which trains

are running through the parishes of St. Tite and St. Thècle. Still in

the prime of life, and possessing an unusual amount of energy and

talent, Mr. Cooke will no doubt occupy a prominent position in the

affairs of his country.

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=MacGillivray, Hon. Angus=, of Antigonish, N.S., was born at Bailey’s

Brook, Pictou county, N.S., on the 22nd January, 1842. He is of Scottish

extraction, his grandfather, Angus MacGillivray, having emigrated from

Arisaig, in Inverness-shire, Scotland. His father and mother were named

John and Catharine MacGillivray. When a mere lad, Angus removed, in

1845, with his parents to Antigonish, where he has since resided. He

received his education at St. François-Xavier College, Antigonish—where

his studies embraced the languages, mathematics, and philosophy—and

from this institution he graduated with the degree of M.A. The counties

of Antigonish and the eastern portion of the county of Pictou are

largely peopled with Scotch Catholics, and a man of Mr. MacGillivray’s

abilities would naturally possess a great influence among his

coreligionists. The inhabitants of Pictou county are said to be more

Scotch than the Scotch, no less an authority than the late Rev. Norman

McLeod, the eminent Scottish divine, having pronounced them to be as

tenacious of Scotch prejudice and national custom and turn of thought

and speech as any section of the people in old Scotland. Gaelic is

commonly spoken by all classes; original Gaelic poems are often to be

seen in the weekly newspapers of Pictou and Antigonish; and Highland

gatherings, those nuclei of national sentiment and national manly

contests, are celebrated every year in either of the eastern counties or

in Prince Edward Island. “Tigh-Dhe” (House of God) is the inscription

cut in the granite over the portal of the great cathedral in Antigonish,

which edifice is considered to be the largest and handsomest religious

structure in Nova Scotia. After graduating, Mr. MacGillivray entered

upon the study of the law in the office of H. (now judge) Macdonald, and

finished in the office of Blanchard & Magher, Halifax, was called to the

bar on the 22nd of July, 1874, and immediately afterwards formed a

partnership with A. McIsaac (now judge of the County Court). A

dissolution taking place on the elevation of Mr. McIsaac to the bench,

Mr. MacGillivray formed another partnership, and is now head of the law

firm of MacGillivray & Chisholm, barristers, etc. Being a most popular

man in his professional and social relations, he was returned to the

House of Assembly by acclamation at the general election in 1878, and

was re-elected in 1882. In February, 1883, he was elected speaker of the

house, and discharged the duties of that responsible office with great

discrimination and acceptance until the dissolution in May, 1886. Being

again nominated by his constituents, he contested the county at the

general election on the 15th June, 1886, and was returned at the head of

the poll, the vote standing—Angus MacGillivray, 1,378 votes; C. F.

McIsaac, 1,273, defeating C. B. Whidden, 900; and R. McDonald, 487. He

was appointed a member of the Executive Council in the Hon. Mr.

Fielding’s cabinet, on the 28th June, 1886. Yielding to the urgent

solicitations of his party, he resigned his seat in the Nova Scotia

legislature in January, 1887, in order to run for the House of Commons

at Ottawa at the general election, his opponent being the Hon. John S.

D. Thompson, minister of justice. Even against so strong a man, the Hon.

Mr. MacGillivray polled 1,207 votes, being defeated by only 40 votes.

However, being again nominated for a seat in the local house, there was

no one bold enough to take the field against him, and he was returned by

acclamation on the 1st March, 1887. On the 7th March following he was

reappointed a member of the government. Hon. Mr. MacGillivray was one of

the commissioners appointed by the government in 1878 to investigate the

claims of laborers and others against absconding and insolvent

contractors on the Eastern Extension Railway; and in October, 1887, he

was one of the delegates to the Inter-Provincial Conference held at

Quebec. He is connected with improvements relating to agriculture, and

takes part in the better encouragement of that industry. In religion he

is a Roman Catholic, and in politics a Liberal. He married, on the 5th

February, 1878, Maggie, daughter of the late Alexander McIntosh, of

Antigonish. This lady died on the 8th September, 1879. On July 15th,

1884, he married May E., daughter of John Doherty, of New York.

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=Castle, Rev. John Harvard=, D.D., Principal of McMaster Hall, Toronto,

was born in Milestown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1830. He received his

early education at the Central High School of Philadelphia. In the year

1847 he entered the University of Lewisburg, Pa., where he graduated

with honors in 1851, and from that institution of learning he received

the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1866. He completed his ministerial

studies at Rochester Theological Seminary, N.Y., in 1853, and was

licensed to preach by the Broad Street Church, Philadelphia, the same

year. He was ordained at Pottsville, Pa., where he labored for two years

and a half, after which he took charge of the Baptist Church at

Newburgh, N.Y. In 1859 he returned to his native city and entered upon

the pastorate of the First Baptist Church, West Philadelphia, where he

remained for fourteen years, universally beloved by the members of his

church and community. Here he gave much time and labor to the missionary

cause and educational interest, serving on the boards of the publication

and education societies, and the general association. He was also a

trustee of the University at Lewisburgh, and of Crozer Theological

Seminary. He served as moderator of the Philadelphia Baptist

Association, and was also elected president of the ministerial

conference. In the spring of 1871 he commenced a tour of Europe. In 1872

he was urgently invited to take charge of the Jarvis Street Baptist

Church of Toronto, Ontario, which invitation he accepted after mature

consideration, and commenced his pastorate on 1st February, 1873. In

this field of labor he remained in close and affectionate relations with

his congregation for years, although strongly urged to accept the

principalship of the Woodstock College. When its Theological department

was removed to Toronto on the completion of McMaster Hall, the leading

men of his denomination turned to him as eminently fitted to become the

principal. This position he accepted, and has filled, as also the chair

of systematic theology and pastoral theology, with that success which

was expected of him. A secular journal of Toronto, under date of October

5th, 1877, thus speaks of him: “Into the work of the denomination and

all Christian movements he has thrown himself with all his heart and has

become a leading spirit therein. His congregation has increased rapidly,

and erected a handsome church building at the cost of $100,000, of which

the Hon. Senator McMaster contributed $35,000 towards it; this building

is now one of the recognized sights of the city. He is a strong

temperance advocate, and a consistent enemy of frivolity of all

descriptions. His oratorical powers are of a high order, his enunciation

being singularly distinct, and his manner graceful and effective. Though

an earnest upholder of the doctrines of his denomination, he seldom

gives utterance to any remarks which members of other communions cannot

listen to without impatience. Never slow to do battle when controversies

arise, he proves an adept in polemics, but is ever ready to recognize

and admire all that is Christ-like beyond his own ecclesiastical

boundaries.” Mr. Castle was joined in wedlock on the 15th of September,

1853, to Mary Antoinette Arnold, of Rochester, N.Y., by whom he has five

children, two daughters and three sons.

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=Ball, George=, Lumber Manufacturer, Nicolet, Quebec province, was born

at Champlain, Quebec, 11th September, 1838. His parents were Reuben Ball

and Flavia Fontaine. Mr. Ball is one of our many self-educated men, as

in his early days schools were not as numerous as they are now, and he

had to satisfy himself with a few months at a grammar school. In early

life he decided to enter into mercantile business, in which he soon

evinced marked ability, and his future success fully proved the wisdom

of his choice. He is now one of the largest lumber manufacturers in the

province of Quebec, his mills at Nicolet having a capacity of over

10,000,000 feet of lumber per annum. He has taken an active part in the

municipal affairs of his town, and in 1885 was elected mayor, being

re-elected to the same office in 1887, and is held in the highest esteem

by his fellow-townsmen and all who know him. In politics Mr. Ball is a

Conservative. He was married in 1864 to Eliza Thurbar.

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=Boulton, D’Arcy Edward=, Cobourg, Ontario, Lieutenant-Colonel of The

Prince of Wales’ Canadian Dragoons, headquarters at Cobourg, was born at

York, Upper Canada, on the 2nd of February, 1814. He is the present

surviving son of the late D’Arcy Boulton and Sarah Robinson, of The

Grange, Toronto, nephew of Sir John Beverley Robinson, and grandson of

the late D’Arcy Boulton, one of the judges of the Queen’s Bench of then

Upper Canada, at that time a Crown colony, all of that party known as

the Family Compact. Judge Boulton brought his young family to Canada in

1796, and on a voyage to England a few years after, the vessel he was in

was captured by a French frigate after an engagement, in which Mr.

Boulton received a cutlas wound, and was carried a prisoner of war to

France, where he remained on his patrol of honor at Verdun for three

years prior to Bonaparte’s march to Moscow. The wound on his arm grew so

as to affect the circulation of the blood, so much so that he went to

England in 1830, and an operation by Sir Benjamin Brodie removed the

part, by cutting out a pound of flesh at the risk of life. He afterwards

returned to Toronto cured of this trouble. The subject of this sketch

was educated first under the late Bishop Strachan, and in 1829 went to

complete his education in England, at Tiverton, Devon, in Blundell’s

school. He returned to Canada in 1832, and adopted the profession of the

law. He was made a barrister in 1837, and practised in the profession

from that date at Cobourg, his place of residence. In 1836 he was

elected a member of the board of police, and sat for years in it, and

afterwards as a member of the town council; he was also a member of the

county council. He was mayor of Cobourg in the year 1853 and three

following years, and devoted himself to the promotion of harbor

extension and the construction of gravel and plank roads leading from

Cobourg into the country, east, west, and north to Rice Lake, and in

1855 carried through the legislature a charter to build the railway to

Peterboro’, as a feeder to the Grand Trunk Railway. He was afterwards

largely interested as shareholder and director in the Midland Railway,

and for a period was president of the company. He was a commissioner of

the Cobourg Town Trust, and in 1883 was appointed by the Dominion

government one of a Royal commission with George M. Clarke, judge, and

Frederick Broughton, manager of the Great Western Railway, to

investigate numerous old standing claims by contractors against the

Dominion government, amounting to several millions of dollars. This

inquiry was very thorough, extending over a period of about two years,

till every claim was disposed of. In 1854 he was engaged by Col. Sloo,

possessor of a Mexican grant or charter, confirmed by treaty between

Mexico and the United States of America, to procure English contractors

to build a railway from Vera Cruz on the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific

ocean, known as the Tehuantepec Railway, and to assist at Washington in

getting a confirmation of the treaty by Congress. The result of his work

was a contract with Messrs. Sykes, of England, to advance $600,000 to

Mexico, the price of the charter, and to build the railway, for which

service he was handsomely rewarded by the railway company, of which

Colonel Sloo was president. The contract afterwards fell through, by the

loss of the senior Sykes, with engineers and full staff, who were lost

in the steamer _Arctic_, which went down at sea with all hands. In 1854

Mr. Boulton was named by a Conservative convention to contest the West

Riding of Northumberland, but was defeated by the corrupt expenditure of

very large sums of money. He was a consistent Conservative, and

president for several years of the Liberal-Conservative Association from

its first organisation. At the beginning of the rebellion in 1837 he

joined the order of Loyal Orangemen, and in 1846 entered the Masonic

order and the order of Oddfellows, Manchester Unity, about the same

period; and is now one of the oldest members of the Masonic and Orange

fraternities, is one of the senior members of the bar, and is senior

officer of the active militia service on duty. In 1837 he raised a

company of infantry and volunteers, and as captain, was enlisted with

his men—into the incorporated regiment of the Queen’s Own, under

Colonel Kingsmill, and served in Toronto and on the Niagara frontier

till the troubles were over. When the active militia was reorganised in

1855, Captain Boulton raised a volunteer cavalry troop, known as The

Prince of Wales’ Canadian Dragoons, wearing the scarlet uniform of the

English regiment. This troop was increased to a squadron in 1857, when

the captain was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in November of that year,

and in 1875 the corps was increased to a regiment, with head-quarters at

Cobourg, and has always been efficient for duty. From his birth a member

of the Church of England, he has served at different periods as

churchwarden and delegate to the Synod. In 1826 he rode on horseback

with his brother William from Toronto to Peterboro’ to visit the located

site of the town, it being founded by his uncle, the Hon. Peter

Robinson, commissioner of crown lands, who brought the first Irish

emigrants as colonists to Upper Canada. At that time the townships north

of Port Hope were receiving their first settlers, and a dozen or so log

huts were erected on the banks of the Otanabee river to receive the

immigrants prior to going upon their lands. Colonel Boulton in 1838

married Emily Heath, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Heath, of

the East Indian Company’s service, who died in India when his three

children were in childhood. His widow spent many years on the continent,

in Italy and Paris, where she educated her children, and in 1836 brought

them to Toronto, Canada. The mother died in 1874 at Cobourg. Her son,

Charles Wallace Heath, of Toronto, and her two daughters, are still

living. Colonel Boulton’s family consists of three sons and four

daughters living. The eldest son, Major Boulton, entered the army,

receiving a commission in the first organization of the Royal Canadian

regiment. He was stationed at Gibraltar and Malta for some years, and

returned with his regiment to Canada. He sold out, and joined the active

militia; and in 1885, when settled in Manitoba, he raised and commanded

the corps known as Boulton’s Scouts, and did good service quelling the

Indian rebellion. After entering into the organization and business of

railways, Colonel Boulton in 1865 ceased the practice of his profession,

and devoted his latter life to agriculture. He organised the first

Farmers’ Institute in his riding, over which he was elected to preside.

He has been for years a member of the local Agricultural Association,

and was one of the originators of that association in 1835 or

thereabouts. He was a zealous supporter of the turf and the hunt, and is

now a breeder of thoroughbred stock of horses, short-horns, and

Shropshire Down sheep, and still pursues an active, busy life. Two sons

and four daughters are married, and have families growing up.

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=Baptist, George=, Three Rivers, Quebec. The late Mr. Baptist was born

in the town of Coldstream, Berwickshire, Scotland, 7th January, 1808,

and came to Canada, after arriving at the years of manhood. Being

possessed of great natural talent and a practical machinist as well as a

millwright, he was entrusted with the management of the Etchemin saw

mills, owned by Sir John Caldwell, then the largest lumber merchant at

the time in Canada. After spending some years as manager of those mills,

he leased the Point Levi mills from the government, and here he

continued till his final removal to the town of Three Rivers, in 1846.

On his arrival there he bought the Cache mill situated on the river St.

Maurice. Feeling that the amount of business being done at the mill was

not nearly as large as the demand required, he went on a prospecting

tour, and finding an eligible location for a more extensive business,

built what was known as the grey mills, with a capacity of 12,000,000

feet of lumber. Finding that this mill was not large enough for his

still growing trade, he built another mill adjoining the first, which

enabled him to cut double the quantity produced by the first mill; this

mill was however destroyed by a freshet in 1873. He then built a steam

saw mill on Baptist Island, with a capacity of 15,000,000 feet of lumber

annually. In consequence of the large volume of business transacted in

connection with the mills established by Mr. Baptist necessitating the

employment of a large staff of men and material, the present location

which is still in possession of his sons—a place which was once a

barren wilderness—has been transformed by his enterprise and industry

into a well populated district of villages and fine cultivated farms.

From the time of Mr. Baptist’s first settlement on the St. Maurice his

business progressed with remarkable rapidity, and is still another proof

of what can be accomplished by perseverance, joined with industry and

shrewdness, aided by a thorough practical knowledge of the mechanical

part of his business acquired in his native land. He founded a lumber

business in the province of Quebec, which still rivals that of any in

Canada, and to-day his son, Alexander, is one of the largest dealers and

exporters on the continent. Mr. Baptist was married at Point Levi, in

the year 1834, to Isabella Cockburn, who was born in the same town as

himself. Mrs. Baptist was of great assistance to her husband in his

efforts to achieve the success which he so successfully won. In politics

he was a Liberal-Conservative. He always took an active part in local

contests, and at one time contested the Senatorial division of

Shawinigan in opposition to the Hon. Dr. Malhiot. Mr. Baptist was a

member of the Presbyterian church. He died on the 11th May, 1875, well

beloved by his fellow townsmen for his genial, reliable, and strictly

upright character. His family consists of two sons and five daughters.

The property left by Mr. Baptist to his heirs amounted to half a million

dollars.

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=Klein, Alphonse Basil=, Barrister, Walkerton, Ontario province, was

born on the 11th of September, 1851, at the town of Berlin, county

Waterloo, Ontario. His father was John Klein, a well-known newspaper

writer, and his mother was Ludovika Lang, and were both natives of

Baden, Germany, who settled in Canada many years ago. Mr. Klein was

educated by his father and in the Berlin Grammar School, and speaks and

writes the German language. He commenced to study law in 1868, was

admitted to practise as attorney and solicitor in May, 1874, and called

to the bar in 1879. He began practice in 1874 in Walkerton, in

partnership with W. Barrett, now junior judge of Bruce. The same year he

joined the 32nd battalion, Bruce Volunteer Militia, and received the

commission of paymaster in the same battalion in June, 1881. During the

North-West rebellion, in 1885, his battalion was called out, but after

laying at Southampton for a week, it was ordered to return home. Mr.

Klein was public school trustee for Walkerton from 1876 to 1883, and was

chairman of the board in 1882. He was elected mayor of Walkerton for

1883, and re-elected by acclamation to the same office in 1884. He has

been president of the Walkerton Horticultural Society for the last four

years. Is a member of Branch 46, C.M.B.A., located at Walkerton. Was

president of the South Bruce Liberal-Conservative Association in 1884,

1885, 1886; and secretary-treasurer from 1874 until 1884, of the same

association. He received the unanimous nomination of the

Liberal-Conservative party to contest South Bruce in the local elections

in 1886 against Mr. O’Connor, the Liberal candidate, but failed to

secure his election. In politics Mr. Klein is a Liberal-Conservative,

and in religion a Roman Catholic. He was married on the 9th September,

1879, to Sophia A. Klein, daughter of the late Richard Morden, one of

the first settlers in Brant township, near Walkerton. Her father’s

family were U. E. loyalists, and are of Welsh descent, and in former

times were Quakers. Her mother was born in England. The fruit of this

marriage has been one daughter.

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=Honey, John Sleep=, Montreal, Joint Prothonotary of the Superior Court

of Quebec, and Joint Clerk of the Circuit Court of the same province,

was born in the borough of Callington, county of Cornwall East, within

three miles of the river Tamar, on the borders of Devonshire, England.

His father was a master builder, and for many years was extensively

engaged as such. He was a man distinguished for his industrious habits

and high probity of character. At the age of thirteen John S. Honey

entered the office of a distinguished lawyer in his native borough as

clerk, and continued in this employment for four years. In the month of

July, 1832, the family sailed from Plymouth for Canada, and fortunately

arrived in Montreal in the month of September, just as the cholera,

which had been so fatal that year, had begun to abate. Mr. Honey was

favored when leaving the office of his patron in Callington, and through

his influence, with a kind letter of introduction from Sir William

Pratts Call, baronet, to Lord Aylmer, then governor of Lower Canada. In

December following his arrival, Mr. Honey had the good fortune to find

employment in the office of Monk & Morrough, the joint prothonotaries of

the then Court of King’s Bench. He was first employed as enquette clerk,

and at the end of the engagement, which lasted only about a week, he

became clerk in the inferior term of the Court of King’s Bench, whence,

after two weeks’ service in this office, he was promoted to the

permanent staff of the Court of King’s Bench. In six months after his

promotion he was articled for five years as a law student in the office

of the prothonotaries, who were both lawyers, and at the end of his term

was duly admitted to the bar, but as his services in the department were

considered valuable by the prothonotaries, and his salary having been

handsomely augmented, he declined to enter upon the practice of his

profession. In the course of four years Mr. Honey’s administrative

capacity effected many important changes in the office, which continue

in operation to the present period. The most valuable of these

improvements was the introduction of the Court Book, known as the

“Repertoire,” in which he embodied particulars of the cases which had

been instituted since 1827. This laborious work was performed after

office hours, and extended over a period of twelve months. It was

presented to the prothonotaries on the 1st of January, 1837, and was so

highly appreciated by the authorities of the court, the bar and even the

mercantile community, that a handsome gift in money was handed by the

prothonotaries to Mr. Honey. In 1850 the fees of the court in Lower

Canada were ordered by law to be funded. About the same period, under

another enactment, further decentralization of the administration of

justice took place, which, by establishing several courts in new

localities, so reduced the fees in all the old districts that the

government was obliged to pay from the general revenue a large amount

annually to meet deficiencies. In order to remedy this defect in the

working of these several courts, Mr. Honey submitted to the government

in the year 1860 a re-adjustment of the Montreal tariff of fees for the

Superior Court, which was adopted in 1861, and extended uniformly to all

the districts. As a result of this change, instead of a deficiency in

the district of Montreal of $5,932 in the year 1857, there was an annual

surplus, the amount of the year 1874 not being less than $6,825. In the

year 1862 Mr. Honey rendered important services to the legal profession

by the publication of a “Table of Fees and Disbursements Payable to

Attorneys and Officers of the Courts in Suits at Law”; also “Rules of

Practice of the Court of Queen’s Bench, and Tariffs of Fees for

Registrars, Advocates, and Officers of the Courts, including Schedule of

Taxes upon Proceedings in Courts of Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction in

Lower Canada.” In the year 1834, on the death of Mr. Morrough, he was

appointed deputy prothonotary of the Superior and Circuit Courts, and so

continued till the year 1865, when, upon the demise of Mr. Monk, he

received the appointment of joint prothonotary, and this office he still

continues to fill.

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=Dessaint, Major Alexander=, LL.B., Kamouraska, Quebec province, M.P.

for Kamouraska, was born at Kamouraska, on the 16th July, 1847. He

received the beginning of a first-class collegiate training in the

College at St. Anne’s, whence he graduated to the larger and more

advanced institution at Three Rivers, proving himself an apt scholar.

His parents determined to fit him for the practice of the law, and he

entered upon the reading for that profession at Laval University. He

completed his college course in Victoria University. He was called to

the bar of his native province when but twenty-one years of age, and

began practice in Kamouraska. In 1873 he married Marie Blanche Henriette

Paradis. His father, having been a prominent merchant of Kamouraska, Mr.

Dessaint, from his entrance upon man’s estate was one of the leading

citizens of the place, and his natural abilities enabled him to improve

the advantages of his position. Having a taste for military affairs, he

connected himself with the 88th battalion, of which, he soon became

major, which rank he still retains. He has been over and over again

elected mayor of Kamouraska, and is a commissioner of the Superior Court

for the county. Being a public-spirited citizen, he naturally took an

interest in public affairs. He allied himself with the Liberal party, of

which he soon became one of the leading spirits for the district. The

county had for a long time been a close one, and the contests were

proportionately arduous. In 1882, Mr. Blondeau, a Conservative, was

elected and sat out his term; but when the general election of 1887 was

called, Mr. Dessaint was nominated as the Liberal standard-bearer. Being

successful in the contest, he entered parliament with the _éclat_ of one

who had “redeemed” a seat from the opposing party. In his brief

parliamentary career, Mr. Dessaint has proved himself one of the most

scholarly and thoughtful members of the Liberal opposition. He is an

able speaker also, as was shown by his contribution to the debate on

unrestricted reciprocity with the United States, which took place during

the session of 1888.

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=Honan, Martin=, Barrister, Three Rivers, Quebec province, was born in

1845, at Fermoy, Cork county, Ireland. His parents were Kernon Honan,

and Mary Burns. His father was a corporal in the 94th regiment of foot,

and served for twenty-one years in the army. The parent pair with their

three children, Patrick, Martin and Margaret, all under eleven years of

age, emigrated to Canada in 1848. A short time after their arrival in

Montreal—having been taken sick on the boat while on the passage from

Quebec to that city—father and mother and little sister died, and

Patrick, eleven years of age, and Martin, the subject of our sketch,

three years of age, were left to the tender mercy of the world. They

were at first taken to the hospital, and afterwards conveyed by a

Catholic priest (now Monsignor Marquis of St. Celestine, county of

Nicolet, P.Q.) to Becancour, in the latter county. The little party

taken to the country at this time consisted of fourteen orphans, and all

were adopted by French-Canadian farmers. Patrick was adopted by Nazaire

Comeau, and Martin by Olivier Tourigny. He remained three years and

three months at Nicolet College, and on the 1st of May, 1862, having

completely forgotten the English language, he went to St. Patrick’s

Hill, in the township of Tingwick, county of Arthabaska, and settled in

the midst of an Irish settlement to pick up again his native language.

Here he hired as a clerk in a store, where he remained four months. He

then resolved to adopt a profession, and in July, 1861, began to study

for the position of notary public. In 1863, having been retained by the

late Mr. Parker, a celebrated lawyer of his day, to take notes of the

evidence in a celebrated murder trial then going on, he was so impressed

with Mr. Parker’s eloquent address to the jury, that he decided to

abandon the notaryship and begin the study of law. But having had only

three years of a classical course, he found he could not be admitted to

study without further education. Nothing daunted he bought a lot of

books, and perused his studies alone, and when he thought he could pass

an examination he went to a person authorised by our law and passed his

examination. Having received from him the necessary certificate of

qualification, he went to Quebec, passed his examination before the

Board of Examiners, of which Mr. Parker was a member, and was admitted

to the study of law. He studied hard, and had the satisfaction of being

admitted to the bar of Lower Canada on the 5th of August, 1867, and

began the practice of his profession at Arthabaskaville, where he

remained until the 2nd of October, 1872, when he removed to Three

Rivers, where he now successfully does business. Mr. Honan was deputy

registrar of deeds at Arthabaskaville, in the county of Arthabaska, from

the 7th September, 1862, to December, 1865, and from the latter date to

October, 1866, clerk in the prothontary’s office. From this time to

June, 1867, he followed the law lectures at St. Mary College, Montreal,

and studied under the Hon. Senator Trudel. He is a Liberal in politics,

and has taken part in all political contests since 1867. He was married

on the 6th September, 1868, to Marie Louise Annabella Stein, second

daughter of Adolphus Stein and Marie Genevieve Buteau. Mrs. Honan’s

father emigrated from Germany when only seventeen years of age.

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=Gilmour, Lieut.-Col. Arthur H.=, Banker, Stanbridge East, province of

Quebec, was born at “The Manor,” Nicolet, Quebec. His grandfather was

the late Assistant Commissary-General Gilmour; and his father the

widely-known Dr. Gilmour, master of surgery, F.R.H.S., Glasgow,

Scotland, and now located as a practising physician and surgeon at

Waterloo, Quebec. His mother was a de Cressy, daughter of the late

Michael de Cressy, seignior, of Nicolet. His parentage, therefore, is

half Scotch and half French. Colonel Gilmour, the subject of the present

sketch, received his education principally in the French College,

Nicolet, and is equally conversant with the French and English

languages. In 1864 he entered the Military School in Quebec city, where

he took a full course of instruction, and passed a highly creditable

examination, receiving a first-class diploma, and was immediately

gazetted as captain in the militia service of Canada. The following year

he received his commission of lieutenant in the 52nd (Brome and

Shefford) battalion, in which he served about four years, during which

time he was called to the front with his company on the occasion of a

threatened invasion by Fenians. He was afterwards transferred to the

60th (Missisquoi) battalion, with the rank of senior major, and was

shortly afterwards elevated to the rank of lieutenant-colonel, a

position which he now holds. Colonel Gilmour also holds a prominent

position in the Masonic order, having entered the Sussex Encampment,

Dunham, in 1874, and was installed and proclaimed knight-preceptor of

the Order of the Temple in 1877, and past eminent preceptor in 1883. He

is a director of the Montreal and Vermont Junction Railway Company, and

secretary-treasurer of the board. He is also vice-president of the M. P.

and B. Railway, and, besides, holds several important local positions,

such as president of the Stanbridge Agassiz Association, president of

the Missisquoi County Ploughing Association, and vice-president of the

60th battalion Rifle Association. In June, 1885, the two latter

associations united in a grand demonstration in his honor, to show their

appreciation of the valuable services he had rendered these bodies

during his connection with them. The event was one long to be remembered

by the hundreds who participated in it, and was the grandest affair of

the kind ever held in the township. Colonel Gilmour is now the owner of

the most valuable real estate properties in Missisquoi county, having in

his possession about one thousand acres of extra tillable land. He is

also the proprietor of the _Missisquoi Record_ newspaper, published in

Stanbridge East, a journal established June 5th, 1885, and devoted to

the interests of the Eastern Townships of Canada. His banking

institution was established in 1867 by J. C. Baker, his late

father-in-law, to which he succeeded in 1880. Since Colonel Gilmour

assumed control of its affairs the business of the bank has nearly

doubled. Although a private and non-incorporated institution, “Gilmour’s

Bank” is known far and wide, and its numerous customers are among the

best and most prominent people and firms in the province.

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=Deschenes, Geo. Honore=, St. Epiphane (oû Viger), province of Quebec,

M.P.P. for Témiscouata, was born at Cacouna, on the 16th August, 1841.

He is a farmer and takes an active interest in public affairs. He has

been for thirteen years secretary-treasurer of his municipality and of

the school board of the parish. He is also a director of the St.

Lawrence & Témiscouata Railway Co. He has always taken a part in the

management of the Agricultural Society of Témiscouata county, and is its

vice-president. In 1875 he was returned to represent Témiscouata in the

Legislative Assembly, and was re-elected in 1882 by acclamation. He was

again elected at the last general election. In politics he is a

Conservative, and in his county is held in high esteem. On 26th January,

1864, he married Susan Michand.

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=Duchesnay, Lieutenant-Colonel Henri Jules Juchereau=, was born in

Quebec on the 6th July, 1845, and in his unexpected and untimely death,

not only those who know him lost a true friend, but the parliament of

Canada lost a member who, had he lived, would doubtless have taken a

leading part in the councils of the nation. He was a descendant of some

of the most distinguished French families of the province of Quebec, the

Duchesnays having settled in Canada in 1645, and held several

seigniories, including Beauport, Gaudarville and others. His father was

a member of the Dominion senate, and the mother of the present sketch

was of the famous Taschereau family, which has given to Canada its first

cardinal and one of its greatest politicians and most able judges. Young

Duchesnay received a liberal education, studying both at Laval and

McGill Universities, after having passed through a sound preliminary

training in the Seminary of Quebec. After reading a course in law, he

was, at the age of twenty-one years, called to the bar of the province

of Quebec. Being in a position to do so, he gave a great part of his

time and attention to public affairs and to great public enterprises. He

identified himself with the 23rd (Beauce) battalion of the active

militia, and became lieutenant-colonel of the regiment, a position which

he was eminently fitted to hold. In 1869 he married Caroline Tetu,

daughter of C. Tetu, a well-known member of the old family of that name.

He served several terms as mayor of St. Mary, Beauce, and also as warden

of Beauce county, in which positions he qualified himself to engage in

the higher legislative duties which he was afterwards elected to

perform. He was for a time president of the Levis and Kennebec Railway

Company, of which enterprise he was one of the most active promoters. In

the general election of 1877 he was nominated as the nationalist

Conservative candidate, and succeeded in defeating his opponent by about

five hundred majority. During the short time he was in parliament he

made many friends, and his untimely death, a short time after the

session of 1878, was a subject of general regret among his

fellow-members.

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=Duclos, Silas T.=, of the firm of Duclos & Payan, St. Hyacinthe, is the

third living son of Antoine Duclos, J.P., and Julie Philibothe, of St.

Pie, county of Bagot, province of Quebec, and was born the 23rd of May,

1846. He went through the elementary schools of his parish, then was

sent to the mission school of Pointe aux Trembles, and for one year

attended the commissioners school, in Montreal, with a view of learning

English and qualifying himself for business, for which he showed an

early disposition. In 1864 he became a clerk with Mr. Williamson, dry

goods merchant; later on he entered the establishment of Henry Morgan &

Co., Montreal; then he went to H. Vallee’s store in Ogdensburgh, New

York state. In 1868 he returned to Montreal, and again found employment

with Henry Morgan & Co. Finding that little money could be made in

clerking, and having no means to start business as a drygoods merchant,

he resolved to seek some other means of earning a livelihood. Several of

his friends and acquaintances were doing well in the bark business, so

he made a temporary arrangement with J. Daigneau, then largely engaged

in this line of business. When the engagement expired, he visited

Europe, and on his return entered into partnership with Paul F. Payan.

They soon got tired of the risky bark business, not having enough

capital to exert an influence on the market. In 1873 they decided to go

into the tanning business, secured a lot, and put up a building 75 feet

long. During their first few years in business they suffered heavy

losses by the failure of some of their customers, and the capital with

which they started was considerably reduced. But they worked steadily

on, nevertheless, having adopted the motto, “Honesty is the best

policy.” Mr. Payan devoted all his attention to the shop, and Mr. Duclos

to the finances, and they soon got out of difficulty. In 1876 their

goods got a first prize at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. In

October of the same year, Mr. Duclos was married to Elizabeth Finley.

Better days began to dawn on him and the firm he belonged to. In

steering safely through the hard times, without wrecking, while so many

apparently stronger were failing on all sides, they won for themselves

the enviable reputation of an honest and well managed firm. In 1875 they

bought a rival tannery of V. Coté, and in 1882 they doubled the size and

tripled the capacity of their own tannery. With the property came the

influence in local affairs. In 1880 Mr. Duclos was elected councillor,

which position he has held ever since to the great satisfaction of the

electors. During his effective administration the city of St. Hyacinthe

underwent several important improvements; a public park was created, a

fine police station built, an effective fire service organized, the

granite mills, and a large boot and shoe factory started, and a gas

company put on a working footing. Thanks to his influence, a tannery for

the manufacture of morocco leather was started in St. Hyacinthe, and its

proprietors are now doing a good business. Mr. Duclos was brought up a

Protestant, his parents having seceded from the Church of Rome in 1840.

He and his family belong to the Presbyterian church.

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=Robertson, Norman=, Treasurer of the County of Bruce, Walkerton,

Ontario, was born on the 27th June, 1845, in Belleville, Ontario. His

father, Peter Robertson, merchant, was born in Scotland; and his mother,

Sarah Ross, was born in England. His grandfather on the paternal side

was David Robertson, a Presbyterian minister; and his mother’s father

was one of those who entered England with Prince Charles Edward Stuart

in 1746. Norman Robertson, the subject of our sketch, was educated at

the Belleville Grammar School, where at an early age he gave evidence of

the talent and ability which afterwards distinguished him in commercial

pursuits. He left school when only eleven years of age; and from 1856 to

1863 was engaged in his father’s shop at Kincardine; from 1863 to 1869

with Lewis, Kay & Co., wholesale dry goods, Montreal; from 1869 to 1874

with John Birrell & Co., London, Ontario, as English buyer; from 1874 to

1877 English buyer for Robertson, Linton & Co., of Montreal, and from

1877 to 1887 he carried on business on his own account in Kincardine. He

became a member of the Kincardine company of volunteers at the time of

the _Trent_ affair; and in 1866 joined the Victoria Rifles of Montreal,

and went to the front with them that year. Mr. Robertson commenced his

present official duties on May 6th, 1887, prior to which he resided in

Kincardine, and sat for three years at the School Board. He was

president of the Board of Trade there for two years, one year town

councillor, and was also superintendent of the Sunday school for nine

years. In all of these capacities he acquitted himself with perfect

satisfaction to all concerned. In politics he was a Reformer until the

initiation of the national policy, in 1878, but since then he has been a

supporter of this policy. As buyer for the two wholesale dry goods

houses noted above, he frequently visited the British markets, and has,

during his lifetime, crossed the Atlantic no less than twenty-four

times. He is thoroughly familiar with Canada and its needs, having

during his commercial career visited nearly every town in it from Sarnia

to Halifax. In religion he is a Presbyterian. Comments on the career of

Mr. Robertson are needless, as the above facts speak for themselves, and

he ought to be proud of being, in the true sense of the word, “the

architect” of his own fortunes. He was married in Montreal on August

3rd, 1871, to Lilla May Warren, daughter of S. R. Warren, organ builder,

afterwards of Toronto, and has a family of four children, two girls and

two boys.

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=Gibsone, William Cuppage=, Advocate, Quebec, is a leading member of the

Quebec bar, in large practice. He was born at Quebec on the 12th March,

1841, and is a son of the late George Farar Gibsone, merchant, of that

city, and his wife, Elizabeth Cuppage. On the father’s side he is of

Scotch, and on the mother’s Welsh descent. He was educated classically

at the Quebec High School under the late Doctors William Stewart Smith

and Wilkie, and studied law in the office of Campbell & Kerr. On his

admission to the bar, in 1862, he entered into partnership with his

patron, Mr. Archibald Campbell, now one of the prothonotaries of the

Superior Court at Quebec, and rapidly rose to distinction in his

profession as much by his industry and application as by his talents and

high character. On the retirement of Mr. Campbell, he formed a new

partnership with the late Mr. Leveson Lewell, and on the death of the

latter, with his present associate, T. C. Aylwin, a nephew of the late

Judge Aylwin, and one of the city councillors of Quebec. His practice is

now one of the largest in the Quebec district, and he enjoys in a high

degree the regard of his colleagues of the bar, and the esteem and

confidence of the public. He has been a member of the council of the

Quebec bar for a number of years, and has in addition filled the offices

of syndic and delegate of the same. He is an active member of the Church

of England; and in politics, an Independent Liberal. In September, 1871,

he married Elizabeth Primrose, and has had issue eight children, all of

whom are still young.

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=Farrell, Edward=, M.D., Halifax, Nova Scotia, is a native of Halifax,

where he was born about forty-five years ago. He is the son of Dominick

Farrell, of Dartmouth, N.S. His boyhood was spent in Halifax, where he

received his early education at St. Mary’s College of that city. Having

resolved to devote his life to the profession of medicine, he entered

the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, and achieved great

distinction in his studies. He is especially remarkable for sureness of

touch, great strength of nerves, and cool self-reliance and good

judgment in critical cases. He graduated as M.D. from the College of

Physicians and Surgeons in New York in 1864; was two years on the house

staff of Bellevue Hospital, New York, and commenced practice in Halifax

in 1866, where he rapidly came to the front as a leading physician, and

worked up for himself an extensive and lucrative business. His office

for some years was in Argyle street, a central part of the city; but he

now lives in a handsome residence in South Park street. His wife was

Miss Walsh, daughter of the late Thomas Walsh, of Halifax, and they have

several children. In religion he is a member of the Roman Catholic

church. Politically he is a staunch Liberal, and is a strong believer in

the policy of home rule for Ireland and repeal for Nova Scotia. When the

provincial government was reconstructed, and the Hon. P. C. Hill became

provincial secretary and premier, Dr. Farrell was induced by his friends

to come forward as a candidate at the election of 1874, the ticket being

P. C. Hill, Dr. Farrell and Donald Archibald, now high sheriff of

Halifax county. They were opposed by the Hon. W. J. Almon, now Dominion

senator; Robert Sedgewick, afterwards recorder of Halifax, and now

deputy minister of justice at Ottawa; and Martin J. Griffin, then of

Halifax, now librarian of parliament at Ottawa; but Messrs. Hill,

Farrell and Archibald, succeeded in winning the battle at the polls.

From 1877 to 1878 Dr. Farrell was a member of the Hill administration

without office. This was an era of vigorous railway-building in Nova

Scotia, the government giving liberal help to the Eastern Extension

Railway running from New Glasgow, Pictou county, through Antigonish and

Guysborough counties to the Strait of Canso; the Western Counties

Railway, and the Nictaux and Atlantic Railway. The great seal question,

involving the question of the validity of documents which had been

stamped since confederation with the great seal in use previous to

confederation, also challenged much attention in the house and the law

courts at this time. Dr. Farrell frequently addressed the Assembly,

always forcibly, and was listened to with attention and respect. During

this time he had several passages at arms with Douglas B. Woodworth,

member for King’s county, who has since figured in the House of Commons

at Ottawa. At the close of the parliament previous to the general

election of 1878, Dr. Farrell, although strongly urged to again accept a

nomination, declined to do so on the ground that parliamentary work

interfered too seriously with his medical practice. But before he

retired to private life, he, however, addressed to the electorate a

strong letter on the situation, advising them to support the Liberal

ticket. He also advocated in the public press the doctrine of repeal

previous to the Dominion general election of February, 1887.

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=Henderson, David=, Acton, Ontario, M.P. for Halton, was born on the

18th February, 1841, in the township of Nelson. His father, John

Henderson, one of the pioneer farmers of the county, came from

Roxburghshire, Scotland, in 1832, and settled in the township of Milton.

David was educated at the Milton Grammar School and the Normal School,

Toronto. Mr. Henderson has been reeve and councillor of the village of

Acton for about fifteen years. He was appointed to the office of deputy

registrar of the county of Halton in 1866, which position he held until

1873. He then commenced business by opening a general store, which he

still carries on. In connection with this he has a private bank, which

he opened in the autumn of 1881. This institution was one that the

citizens of Acton greatly needed, as they had no banking office nearer

than Guelph. In politics Mr. Henderson is a Liberal-Conservative, and

was elected during the bye-election in 1888 to represent Halton in the

House of Commons. He is an adherent of the Presbyterian church. He

married on Christmas Day, 1865, Alison Christie, daughter of Charles

Christie, late of Nassagaweya, and has a family of six sons and one

daughter.

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=Payzant, John Young=, M.A. (Acadia College), Barrister, Halifax, N.S.,

is a native of Falmouth, Hants county, where he was born on the 9th

February, 1837. He is the descendant of a prominent Huguenot, who fled

from Caen, France, on the revocation of the edict of Nantes. The family

came to Nova Scotia, under Governor Cornwallis, in 1754. After the death

of the great grandfather in the Indian wars of that period, his widow

and children were carried captives to Quebec, and were present at the

fall of that fortress after the heroic attack of Wolfe. They

subsequently returned to Nova Scotia, two of the sons, Louis and John,

becoming eminent preachers in said province. He received his early

education at the Academy and College of Acadia at Wolfville, N.S., his

family being Baptists. Having finished his classical course and

graduated at Acadia, he went to Halifax, N.S., and studied law with the

late Hon. James W. Johnston, afterwards judge in equity of the Supreme

Court. He was admitted to the bar of Nova Scotia 7th December, 1864, and

at once began to practise in Halifax, where his excellent reputation and

family connections enabled him to work up a good business. He has a

large conveyancing and real estate business. He has been for many years

the solicitor of the Nova Scotia Building Society, which carries on an

extensive business in Halifax. He is also an executor of the will of the

late John Young, a leading broker and commission merchant, whose only

daughter is the widow of Sir Albert J. Smith, ex-minister of marine, and

who left a large estate. He married a daughter of William C. Silver, of

Halifax, the well-known dry goods merchant, and has several children.

His two eldest sons are taking the arts course at King’s College,

Windsor. Some years ago Mr. Payzant took exception to certain

regulations and practices of the Baptist church, and published a

pamphlet explanatory of his reasons for severing his connection with it.

He then connected himself with the Church of England and worships in St.

Paul’s Church, in Halifax. He takes a strong interest in all matters

pertaining to the Anglican church. He is a frequent lecturer in Halifax

and other places in his native province. Mr. Payzant began his active

political career in the bye-election of 1884, having reluctantly

accepted the nomination of the Conservative party, opposing Hon. W. S.

Fielding, provincial secretary and premier, who ran for Halifax county,

this gentleman having undertaken to form a government when Hon. W. T.

Pipes, of Amherst, the former premier, retired from the position. Hon.

Mr. Fielding was elected by a majority of about two hundred and fifty.

Mr. Payzant, however, stood so well with the people that his party

determined to nominate him, together with W. D. Harrington, ex-M.P.P.,

and Alderman James N. Lyons, at the general election of May, 1886. Mr.

Payzant was absent from Halifax city at the time of this caucus, and

again reluctantly took the field. The question of repeal was the main

issue before the country, and the Conservatives were unable to make much

headway, although they conducted their campaign with great spirit and

assiduity. The returns were a complete victory for Hon. Mr. Fielding’s

government. In Halifax the vote stood, Fielding, 4042; Roche, 3931;

Power, 3822; defeating Harrington, 2981; J. N. Lyons, 2866; Payzant,

2816. The result was similar throughout the province. Mr. Payzant took

his defeat in good part, and was somewhat consoled by the better showing

of his side at the Dominion election of 1887. In private life he is a

popular man, a keen sportsman, and a scholarly writer. Besides attending

to his large and lucrative practice, he is surrogate and judge of

Probate at Halifax. In 1883 he was appointed lecturer on “Torts” in the

Law School, Dalhousie University, a position which he still holds.

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=Macpherson, Alexander=, Hardware Merchant, Montreal, was born at

Lancaster, county of Glengarry, Ontario, 10th August, 1830. His parents

were Kenneth Macpherson and Mary Rose. Mr. Macpherson received his

education in the schools in Lancaster, and in May, 1850, he went to

Montreal, and found employment in the establishment of the late John

Henry Evans, hardware merchant, where he remained for about five years.

He commenced business in May, 1855, in partnership with the late Walter

Benny, and on the death of this gentleman, Robert Benny, a brother of

the deceased, joined the firm, which has continued to do business up to

this time under the style first adopted, namely, Benny, Macpherson &

Co., and is now one of the leading hardware firms in Montreal. In

politics Mr. Macpherson is a Conservative, but being of a retiring

disposition he has never taken any prominent part in local contests. In

religion he is a Presbyterian, and takes an active interest in church

matters. He has been an elder in St. Paul’s Church, Montreal, for many

years, and on several occasions was appointed a commissioner to the

General Assembly. Mr. Macpherson has devoted himself strictly to

business, and to being upright in his dealings, may be attributed his

success in life. He has been joint executor of some important estates.

He is married to Jessie, daughter of Jacob Oldham and Jane Cochrane.

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=Cooke, Right Rev. Thomas=, late Bishop of Three Rivers, Quebec, was

born at Pointe du Lac, the 9th February, 1792, and was the son of Thomas

Cooke, miller, formerly of Lisle, Ireland, and Isabel Gray, of Pointe du

Lac, Canada. He was ordained and entered holy orders September 11th,

1814, was vicar and secretary to Bishop Panet at Rivière Ouelle, and

afterwards, in 1817, became curate of Caracquette. On 1st March, 1824,

he became curate of St. Ambroise, and in 1835 was appointed to the

curacy of Three Rivers, with the title of vicar-general. On 8th June,

1852, his Holiness Pope Pius IX. appointed him first bishop of the

diocese of Three Rivers, and he took possession of his bishopric on the

18th October of the same year, the day of his consecration. He was a

prelate of commendable piety, indefatigable zeal, and consummate

prudence. In 1858 he had the good fortune to make the imposing and

solemn consecration of his beautiful cathedral, and in 1860 he founded

the College of Three Rivers, which he placed under the special patronage

of St. Joseph, to whom he paid remarkable devotion. Bishop Cooke died on

the 30th April, 1870, aged 78 years. The record of the late bishop is

without blemish. His whole life was devoted to the advancement of his

religion, the strengthening of his church, and he never became wearied

in doing good to all, both rich and poor. His virtues and talents were

of the first order, and place him for all time to come in an enviable

light.

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=Prefontaine, Raymond Fournier=, B.C.L., Barrister, Montreal, M.P. for

Chambly, was born at Longueuil, province of Quebec, on 16th September,

1850. He is a descendant of one of the oldest and most honorable

families in the province, his ancestors having settled in what was then

New France, in 1680. Having the advantage of a good education, and with

natural abilities to enable him to make good use of the knowledge he had

gained, he was singled out by those who knew him, even in early life, as

one of the coming men of Lower Canada. He graduated from the Jesuits’

College, in Montreal, and was called to the bar in 1873, receiving the

degree of B.C.L. the same year from McGill College. He made a brilliant

success in the practice of law, and is now partner in one of Montreal’s

best known legal firms. Like so many young lawyers, he early devoted a

great deal of attention to politics, and became known not only as an

exceedingly active worker in the various campaigns, but as a speaker of

unusual power in influencing the people. In the Quebec general election

of 1875 he was nominated as the Liberal candidate for Chambly, and

carried the county in spite of the fiercest opposition. He had

apparently entered upon a career of great credit and usefulness in the

local house, when he was relegated to private life, being defeated in

the general election of 1878. The check was only temporary, however, for

the successful candidate was unseated and Mr. Prefontaine was re-elected

in June, 1879. But he was again unsuccessful in 1881 when the

Conservative government swept everything before them. During his

membership in the house he was elected mayor of Hochelaga, and was

re-elected in successive years, until 1884. He became an alderman of

Montreal a year later, his legal practice being in that city. The eyes

of the Dominion were turned to him in the memorable contest in Hochelaga

in 1886, during the Nationalist agitation succeeding the execution of

Louis Riel, the government having opened this constituency apparently to

test its strength. The contest was one of the most fiercely fought that

have ever been known in Canada. Mr. Prefontaine succeeded in carrying

the county against all opposition, and the rejoicing of the Nationalists

on the occasion was great. At the general election in 1887, the struggle

was almost again as great, but he succeeded in retaining the seat. In

the house he shows himself full of vigor. He speaks in trenchant style,

and his manner is affable and pleasant, and he ranks high among the

popular members of the house. He is a Liberal and a Nationalist. He was

married on the 20th June, 1876, to Hermine, daughter of the late Senator

J. B. Rolland, of Montreal.

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=Piché, Eugene Urgel=, Barrister, Berthierville, Quebec province, was

born 13th July, 1824, at St. Sulpice, county of L’Assomption, and was

the son of Bonaventure Piché, an old and highly respected merchant, and

Emilie Lefèbre. He received his classical education at the College of

L’Assomption, and was admitted to the bar of Montreal, 13th March, 1846.

He was chief magistrate, and then member for the county of Berthier, in

the Provincial Parliament of Canada for four years, from January, 1858.

He was made a Queen’s counsel, 28th June, 1867, with precedence

immediately after the Hon. G. Ouimet, ex-premier of Quebec. Deputy of

the attorney-general, Sir George Cartier, and the Hon. G. Ouimet, and

representative of the crown before the court of Queen’s Bench from 1864

to 1871, in five districts, Montreal, Joliette, Beauharnois, Terrebonne

and Arthabaska. In 1869, he was appointed a school trustee by the

Council of Public Instruction of the province of Quebec; and in 1871,

one of the twelve commissioners for the taking of the census. In March,

1873, he was made clerk-assistant of the House of Commons; and on the

7th of March, 1874, appointed a special commissioner by the

governor-general to swear in the members of parliament, and swore in

Louis Riel as a member for Manitoba. Some time after, on receiving a

pension, he retired from the House of Commons, and returned to the

practice of his profession in Montreal, and afterwards in the district

of Richelieu, where he resided the first fourteen years of his career,

and where he is still practising. In September, 1872, he was admitted a

member of the bar of Manitoba. October, 1886, he was a candidate as

“National Independent Conservative” against Robillard, Conservative, and

Sylvester, Liberal, at the provincial election for Quebec, the Liberal

carrying the election. Space will not permit us to enumerate the many

important cases Mr. Piché has conducted successfully: the most

celebrated, however, being that of the ladies Dambourgés, daughters of

the brave and gallant Col. Dambourgés, who gallantly defended Quebec

against the invasion of the _Bastonnais_ in 1775. The legal contention

was with one of the most opulent families of the country, having at its

head the eminent Chief Justice Sir L. H. Lafontaine. The contest lasted

for twelve years, several lesser cases growing out of the original, and

occupied the attention of the whole jurisdiction of the province,

especially of Montreal and Quebec. Mr. Piché defended the case alone

against twelve able lawyers employed by his adversaries, and vanquished

them successively, until finally they appealed to the Privy Council of

England; but were again defeated by the subject of our sketch, who wrote

a clever letter to the clerk of the Privy Council, which proved so

convincing, that without any unnecessary delay, the case was decided in

favor of his clients. The justly deserved praise and admiration of the

public was lavishly bestowed upon Mr. Piché, as well as the private

recognition of the highest legal authorities of the Dominion, among the

latter being the then minister of justice, Sir John A. Macdonald. As a

member of parliament, our subject has been equally distinguished, and in

1858, at Toronto, having defeated the Macdonald government on the

amendment against Ottawa becoming the capital of Canada. The encomiums

of the press have fully testified and endorsed Mr. Piché’s remarkable

ability and talent, as well as sound practical judgment, in whatever

public position he has occupied. He was married October 18th, 1846, to

Marie Nina Marion, daughter of Captain Louis G. Marion. There is

scarcely any position, political or legal, that Mr. Piché’s remarkable

talents do not fit him for.

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=Guevrement, Hon. Jean Baptiste=, Sorel, Senator of the Dominion of

Canada, was born at La Visitation, Isle du Pads, P.Q., on the 4th

September, 1826. He is a farmer, and has always taken an active part in

the politics of the country. In 1854 he was elected to represent

Richelieu in the Canadian Assembly, which he did till 1857, when he was

defeated at the general election that year. In 1858 he was chosen to

represent Sorel in the Legislative Council of Canada, which position he

filled till confederation. In 1867 he was a candidate for Richelieu in

the Quebec Legislature, but was defeated. In the same year he was called

to the Senate of Canada by royal proclamation. The Hon. Mr. Guevrement

is a Conservative in politics. On May 2nd, 1848, he married Marie Anne

Parelhus.

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=Allan, Hon. George William=, D.C.L., Toronto, Speaker of the Senate of

Canada, Chancellor of the University of Trinity College, Toronto, was

born at Little York, now Toronto, on the 9th of January, 1822. His

father, the late Hon. William Allan, was a pioneer settler who took up

his abode in York, during Governor Simcoe’s term of office, and resided

in Toronto till his death in 1853. This gentleman, in his day, held a

very prominent place in public esteem, and being possessed of more than

ordinary ability and a good education, he enjoyed advantages not so

common in those early days as now. He was the first postmaster for York,

and the first custom collector for the port. During the war of 1812-15

he served in the militia as lieutenant-colonel, and his son has still in

his possession the flags of his old regiment. He figured prominently,

too, in commercial life, and was the first president of the Bank of

Upper Canada. He also held a seat in the Legislative Council of old

Canada for several years, and a seat in the Executive during the

administrations of Sir Francis Bond Head and Sir George Arthur. Our

subject’s mother was Leah Tyreer, whose father was Dr. John Gamble, who

belonged to a U. E. Loyalist family, and was a surgeon in the Queen’s

rangers. His corps was raised in Upper Canada after the arrival of

Lieutenant-Governor Simcoe. George William was educated by private

tuition during his earlier years, and was afterwards sent by his father

to Upper Canada College. When the rebellion, headed by William Lyon

Mackenzie, broke out in 1837, young Allan, then in his sixteenth year,

left U. C. College, and entered as a private “the Bank Rifle Corps,” of

which the present Chief Justice Hagarty, Judge Galt, and some others

still living were also members. He returned to the college at the end of

the following year, and remained there until he went up for his

examination as a law student which he passed in the “senior class,” in

Easter term, 1839. He was articled to and began his studies in the

office of Gamble & Boulton, and was subsequently called to the bar of

Upper Canada, in Hilary term, 1846. Before entering upon the active

practice of the law, young Allan was sent by his father to travel

abroad, and in addition to a very extended tour throughout Europe, he

visited many countries which, in those days, were not quite as

accessible as they are now. He went up the Nile to the borders of Nubia,

and afterwards travelled through Syria and the Holy Land, Asia Minor,

Turkey and Greece, meeting with not a few exciting adventures, arising

more particularly from the lawless and unsettled condition, at that

time, of many parts of Syria and Asia Minor. He was elected, not long

afterwards, a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of England. Mr.

Allan early took a part in municipal affairs, his name appearing as one

of the aldermen for St. David’s Ward in 1849. In 1865 he was elected

mayor of the city and served in that capacity throughout the year. In

May, 1856, before again leaving Canada for a lengthened tour abroad, he

was presented by his fellow-citizens with a very complimentary address.

It was done up in neat book form, and is now a most interesting

document, as it contains the signatures of men of all ranks, parties and

creeds, a large proportion of whom have now passed away. Mr. Allan, in

the autumn of 1858, in response to a requisition from the electors of

the York division, for which he was returned by a very large majority,

took his seat for that division in the Legislative Council of old

Canada, which he retained until confederation. Mr. Allan took a

prominent part in the business of the Legislative Council, and filled

the office of chairman of the Private Bills Committee in that body for

many years. In May, 1867, he was called to the Senate by Royal

proclamation, and has ever since taken an active share in its

deliberations, as well as in the business of the Committee of the House,

having been chairman, first of the Private Bills Committee, and

subsequently of the Standing Committee on Banking and Commerce, which he

has now filled for many years. In politics he is a Conservative. Mr.

Allan has always taken a deep interest in the promotion of literature

and science in his native country. He was one of the original members of

the Royal Canadian Institute, and has filled the chair as president,

besides being a contributor to the Journal of the Institute. He has

always been a warm friend to the cause of higher education, and has been

closely connected with Trinity College University (of which he is now

the Chancellor, and from which he received his degree of D.C.L.), ever

since the founding of that Institution in 1852. In all matters connected

with Canadian art Mr. Allan has ever evinced a lively interest. He is

the president of the Ontario Society of Artists, and chairman of the Art

Union of Canada, and is the possessor of a large and valuable collection

of paintings by a Canadian artist, the late Paul Kane, illustrating

Indian life and customs, and the scenery of the great North-West.

Attached to horticultural pursuits himself, Mr. Allan has labored as

president of the Horticultural Society of Toronto, for more than

twenty-five years, to foster a taste for the study and cultivation of

flowers and fruits among his fellow-citizens, and it was with that

object that he presented to the Society, in 1857, the five acres of land

which, with the subsequent addition made fifteen, now forming the

Society’s Gardens. As we have already mentioned, Mr. Allan performed his

first military duty at a very early age. He has always taken a warm

interest in all matters connected with the Volunteers and Militia, and

is himself Lieut.-Colonel of the Regimental Division of East Toronto,

and an honorary member of the Queen’s Own Rifles. A member of the Church

of England, Mr. Allan has for many years borne an active part in the

Synod and other assemblies of his church. He has also filled the chair

as president of the Upper Canada Bible Society for more than twenty

years. In business affairs Mr. Allan fills more than one post of

considerable responsibility and importance. He has been for many years

chief commissioner of the Canada Company as well as president of one of

our largest and most successful loan companies, the Western Canada Loan

and Savings Company. In 1888, on the death of the Hon. Josiah B. Plumb,

Speaker of the Senate, the Hon. Mr. Allan was elected to the office.

While in his twenty-fourth year he married Louisa Maud, third daughter

of the late Honourable Sir John Robinson, Bart., C.B., chief Justice of

Upper Canada, and she died while sojourning at Rome, in 1852. He married

again, in 1857, Adelaide Harriet, third daughter of the Rev. T.

Schreiber, formerly of Bradwell Lodge, Essex, England, and has a family

of six children, three sons and three daughters.

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=Futvoye, Isaac Booth=, Railway Superintendent Northern Division Central

Vermont, and Waterloo and Magog Railway, St. John’s, Quebec province,

was born in London, England, on the 28th November, 1832. His father was

Lieutenant-Colonel George Futvoye, who was for many years deputy

minister of militia, and a resident of Ottawa. The subject of our

sketch, Isaac Booth Futvoye, received his education at the High School

of Quebec, and entered the railway service 1st May, 1857. From that time

until 1st May, 1859, he served in the capacity of roadman (Engineer

corps), on the Stanstead, Shefford and Chambly Railway, when he was

appointed station agent at St. John’s, P.Q. From February, 1865, to May,

1876, in conjunction with this office, he also acted as agent for the

Montreal and Vermont Junction Railway, at the same place. From 24th May,

1876, to the present, he has acted as superintendent of the Stanstead,

Shefford and Chambly and the Montreal and Vermont Junction Railways.

These two railroads are now operated as the northern division of the

Central Vermont Railroad. On the 1st January, 1878, he also became

superintendent of the Waterloo and Magog Railroad. Mr. Futvoye is

considered one of our best authorities in his particular sphere, and is

respected and esteemed by all for his sound, practical judgment in

matters pertaining to railways. In religion, he is a Protestant,

belonging to the Episcopal church. He married, October 20th, 1860, Mary

Anne Doyou, of Granby, P.Q.

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=Leblanc, Pierre Evariste=, Montreal, M.P.P. for Laval, was born at St.

Martin’s, in the county of Laval, 10th August, 1853. His ancestors came

to L’Isle Jesus from Acadia in 1757, after the conquest and dispersion

of its inhabitants by the British army. His father was Joseph Leblanc,

and his mother Adéle Belanger. The subject of our sketch commenced his

education at the Academy of St. Martin’s, leaving it to enter the

Jacques Cartier Normal School, from which he went to McGill University.

He entered into the study of law, deciding to make it his profession,

and was called to the bar of the province of Quebec 11th July, 1879. Mr.

Leblanc has always taken an active part in the politics of his country;

and in 1882, when the Hon. L. O. Loranger was elevated to the bench, he

was elected in his place to represent the county of Laval in the Quebec

legislature. The election being protested, he was unseated on petition,

but was re-elected, and was again elected at the last general election.

In politics he is a Conservative, and is held in high esteem by his many

friends. On the 12th January, 1886, he married Hermine, daughter of the

late Theodore Beaudry, of Montreal, and Catharine Valée.

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=Davis, Donald Watson=, Merchant, Macleod, district of Alberta, M.P. for

Alberta, North-West Territory, was born in the town of Londonderry,

state of Vermont, United States, in 1849. His father and mother were

both natives of the state, but of English and Scotch descent. He

received his education in his native town. He came to Canada, and

settled in Macleod about 1870, where he conducts business as a merchant

and general stock dealer. He was elected to the House of Commons as

representative for Alberta at the last general election, and is a

supporter of the Conservative party. In 1887 he was married to Lillie,

daughter, of James Grier, J.P.

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=Motton, Robert=, Q.C., Barrister, Stipendiary Magistrate and Judge of

Civil Court of the city of Halifax, N.S., is of English extraction, and

is a son of the late Robert Motton, also of Halifax, who did business

there for many years. Mr. Motton was born in Halifax about the year

1831, and received his early education at the Grammar School in that

city. Having mastered the classics, he decided to adopt the profession

of the law, for which the keenness of his mind, his witty and eloquent

tongue, and his knowledge of human nature eminently fitted him. He

studied in the office of Peter Lynch, Q.C., and after pursuing his

studies with diligence was called to the bar of Nova Scotia, on 7th

December, 1856. He began to practise in Halifax, and speedily built up a

large business, especially in criminal cases. He had great weight with

juries, being a polished and eloquent pleader. As a cross-examiner he

excelled. For years he was retained in the most important civil and

criminal cases, and it was admitted that his presence in any of the

courts of the province was an intimation that some important case was

going on, and he was looked upon as a natural adjunct to either one or

the other side. In politics he was for many years connected with the

Conservative party, and rendered them yeoman service in many hard-fought

battles. On the stump he was simply immense, his general humor, power of

word-painting, and acquaintance with the ins and outs of the situation

making him a complete master of his audience. In 1874 he opposed Captain

John Taylor, who offered as candidate of the Liberal party, the

Conservatives agreeing not to oppose, for one of the seats for Halifax

rendered vacant by the death of that brilliant orator and lawyer, Hon.

William Garvie. Mr. Motton represented the Young Halifax party, and

being opposed by the whole weight of the Liberal local government and

the Conservative vote, was defeated, but made, nevertheless, a gallant

fight. He afterwards claimed the seat on the ground of his opponent’s

disqualification, which he established before a committee of the House

of Assembly composed of a majority of Liberals, but who refused him the

seat because they were determined he should not enter the house to

oppose the government. Mr. Motton may have thought that he did not

receive that measure of support from his own party to which his services

entitled him; but however, after this his affection for the

Conservatives cooled, and he gradually became attached to the Liberal

party, among whom he was warmly welcomed, they having a proper

appreciation of his abilities. He was frequently employed in crown cases

by the local government. He was always ready to help any good cause with

the might of his tongue, and especially as an advocate of temperance. He

distinguished himself when the late D. Banks McKenzie started the blue

ribbon movement and the reform club in Halifax, in the summer of 1877.

Mr. Motton came to his assistance, and at the mass meeting held in the

rink addressed by such orators as Hon. P. C. Hill, provincial secretary

and premier, Rev. Dr. George W. Hill, of St. Paul’s and others Mr.

Motton made one of the happy efforts of the evening. He is a very

popular lecturer on Reminiscences of the Bar, and other popular

subjects, always drawing crowded houses attracted by his versatility,

solid diction, relieved by fresh and racy incidents, creating roars of

merriment and applause. In the Dominion campaign of February, 1878, when

Hon. A. G. Jones defeated M. H. Richey in the Halifax bye-election, Mr.

Motton was one of the ablest canvassers and hardest workers on the

Liberal side. His name at this time was freely spoken of as a Liberal

candidate for the local house. He resided at this time in Dartmouth, of

which municipality he was stipendiary magistrate and recorder. He

subsequently in 1879 resigned the position, as his increasing practice

in Halifax rendered the step advisable. The acceptance of his

resignation was followed by a most flattering and complimentary

resolution, regretting his withdrawal. Upon the resignation of Dr. Henry

Pryor, as stipendiary magistrate of Halifax city, a post which he had

filled for many years, Mr. Motton was tendered by the provincial

government and accepted the position, all parties agreeing the place

could find no worthier incumbent. His appointment as stipendiary and

judge of City Civil Court is the only one made by the government in Nova

Scotia. It is for life, and removable in the same way as other judges.

The secular and religious press, without any exception, endorsed the

selection. On the occasion of his first presiding in the City Civil

Court, the members of the bar present conveyed to him the gratification

with which his legal brethren viewed his elevation, and tendering him

their most hearty congratulations and best wishes. He has administered

the laws of the city with good judgment, forbearance, and impartiality,

and at the same time has made himself a terror to evil doers. He has

exerted a powerful influence towards suppressing vice in its many forms.

In religion he and his family, consisting of his wife and two sons, are

Methodists. He was appointed Queen’s counsel by the local government in

1876. He was for some time a valued and progressive member of the city

council, a commissioner of the supreme court, a member of the quarter

sessions, and has been prominently identified with every movement of

political and social reform calculated to benefit humanity.

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=Mara, John Andrew=, Merchant, Kamloops, British Columbia, M.P. for

Yale, was born at Toronto, and is the eldest son of the late John Mara

of that city. He was educated at Toronto, and settled in British

Columbia in 1862, where he has followed the business of a merchant. He

has always taken an active part in politics, and sat in the Legislative

Assembly for Kootenay, from the general election in 1871, till 1875,

when he was returned to represent Yale. He was re-elected in 1878, and

sat until the general election, of 1886, when he did not again offer

himself as a candidate. He was speaker of the Legislative Assembly from

25th January, 1883, until the dissolution of the house in 1886. In 1887

he was elected by acclamation to represent Yale in the House of Commons,

at Ottawa. Mr. Mara, in politics, is a Conservative. He is married to

Alice Telfer, the only daughter of F. J. Barnard, ex-M.P.

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=Strange, Thomas Bland=, Kingston, Major-General, retired, Royal

Artillery, has been so conspicuous a figure on the Canadian scene and

filled so large and honorable a place in Canadian history for the last

seventeen or eighteen years that a work of this kind would be incomplete

without a memoir of his gallant and distinguished career in both

hemispheres. Major-General Strange comes of a race that has done good

service to the Empire. Said the Weekly _Globe_ (Toronto), of 24th April,

1885:—“In ‘The Scot in British America’ is an allusion to Robert

Strange, afterwards Sir Robert, the father of English engraving, an art

which he developed while in exile in Italy following the broken fortunes

of the house of Stuart.[10] Having previously fought at the battle of

Culloden, in the body-guard of the prince, he was attainted and sought

refuge in the house of Miss Lumsden, his affianced bride. While with

her, the ‘Seider Roy’ (red soldiers) appeared in the court yard, and the

officer entered to seize the body of the ‘traitor Strange,’ as he was

termed by proclamation. His fair _fiancée_, with womanly simplicity,

lifted the enormous hoops which extended the dresses of the period, and

placed her lover in safety beneath them, while she resumed her former

occupation of playing loyal airs on the spinette. The direct descendants

of Sir Robert Strange and Miss Lumsden have been gallant and

distinguished sailors, soldiers, men of science and law, including

Colonel Strange, Madras Cavalry, subsequently employed on the survey in

India and inspector of scientific instruments; Admiral Strange, whose

son, Lieutenant Vernon Strange, went down in the ill-fated _Eurydice_;

Major Charles John Strange, R.A., distinguished in the Crimea, all sons

and grandsons of Sir Thomas Strange (son of Sir Robert), judge in the

Hon. East India Company’s service. This branch of the family remained in

the mother country; but two collateral branches settled in Canada. Of

one of these, the late Colonel M. W. Strange, who served in the Kingston

Volunteer Rifles during the rebellion of 1837-38, and who was

representative of that city in the Ontario parliament, police magistrate

and district paymaster, as well as a brother-in-law of Sir A. Campbell,

the present lieutenant-governor of Ontario, and Dr. O. S. Strange,

ex-mayor, and now penitentiary surgeon, were the descendants. The last

branch to settle in Canada has done so in the person of Major-General

Strange. * * * * * He represents an old military family of Scotch

origin, and, in the maternal line descent can be traced from Charles

Martel and Charlemagne through a long line of warriors. * * * *

Major-General Strange has in his possession an old Bible (1679) which

contains the records of the birth of Sir R. Strange and of his father

and others in the islands of Orkney. To this sketch, the following

details of interest may be added respecting our subject and his family.

Major-General Strange was born on the 15th September, 1831, in the

cantonments of the 26th Cameronian regiment at Merut, East Indies. His

father, the late Colonel Harry Francis Strange, served in the Cameronian

regiment during the India and China wars, and subsequently commanded the

25th King’s Own Borderers. His mother, Maria Letitia Bland, was a

daughter of Major Bland, of Lake View, Killarney, county Kerry, Ireland,

and connected with the Herberts and other well known county Kerry

families. His paternal grandfather, Captain Alexander Strange, served in

the 13th Light Dragoons in India and at Waterloo, and his father’s

brother, Captain Alexander Strange, 42nd Highlanders, carried the colors

of the “Black Watch” through the battles of the Pyrenees, and died of

wound, received at Toulouse; and Captain Thomas Strange served and died

in the Royal Navy, leaving three sons, Captain Thomas Strange, who was

killed in the Maori war in New Zealand, Colonel H. F. Strange, C.B.,

Knight of the French Legion of Honor, who served with distinction in the

Crimea; and Captain Alexander Strange, of the Osmanli cavalry.

Major-General Strange’s only brother, Major Alexander Strange, served in

India in his father’s regiment, the King’s Own Borderers, and also with

distinction during the war in New Zealand, but died on the homeward

passage. Lastly, Major-General Strange’s own sons have been trained to

the profession of arms. The eldest boy, Lieutenant Harry Bland Strange,

is a graduate of the Royal Military College, Kingston, and after serving

as _aide-de-camp_ to his father during the campaign in the Canadian

North-West, obtained a commission in the Royal Artillery. The second

son, Alexander Wilmot Strange, a graduate of the Ontario Agricultural

College, was in the North-West on the Military Colonization Ranche near

Calgary with which his father is connected, when the rebellion broke

out, and true to the loyal and military instincts of his race, and like

a lad of spirit, at once enrolled himself in the Alberta Mounted Rifles,

with a detachment of which he served until the revolt was suppressed. So

that it may be said that for five generations every male of this family

has served in the army or navy, and the majority of them have died in

the service. Major-General Strange’s own military record has been as

stirring and eventful as any in the history of the family. As an

artillery officer, he takes rank among the ablest in that arm of the

profession, and, as a soldier maintaining the honor of his country’s

flag on the field of battle, his personal gallantry and skill were so

conspicuous as to be mentioned four times in despatches. Indeed, few

officers in the British service seem to have served their Sovereign with

greater loyalty and ardor, or to have taken greater pains to perfect

themselves in their profession. A real love for that profession appears

to have been the mainspring of his whole action from the moment when, on

the 17th December, 1851, as a young man of barely twenty years, he

received his commission as a second lieutenant of the Royal Regiment of

Artillery. Previous to this, he had been educated at the Edinburgh

Academy and the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich—at the former

classically, and at the latter in mathematical and military science.

With his entry into the service, however, came no cessation of his

studies. On the contrary, his life thenceforward for many years seems to

have been one of unceasing application and downright hard work to

perfect himself in all the details of his profession, and especially of

that important branch of it with which he was more directly associated.

Thus we find that between 1852 and 1865, when his opportunities from

foreign or active service in the field permitted, he successfully passed

through the following courses, for three of which he was specially

recommended by the deputy adjutant-general, Royal Artillery, by the

director of artillery studies, and by General F. C. Wilmot, commandant,

and Colonel Fisher, R.A., chief instructor of the Shoeburyness School of

Gunnery: Astronomical Observatory, Woolwich; Musketry Instruction,

Department of Artillery Studies, Chemistry of War Stores, Royal

Laboratory, Royal Gun Factories, Royal Carriage Department, Royal

Waltham Powder Mills, Enfield Small Arms Factory, and Long Course School

of Gunnery, Shoeburyness. The official record of his qualifications

shows further that he carried off the prize at the Royal Military

Academy for military topography and landscape painting; that he mastered

the French, Spanish and Hindostani languages; and that he acquired the

practice as well as the theory of his profession by serving as district

adjutant and quartermaster at Sheerness from 1856 to 1857; as

quartermaster to the artillery division on service, and as acting

commissary of ordnance and acting adjutant and orderly officer in action

from Benares to Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny, in 1857-8; as

Hindostani interpreter at Moultan, from 1859 to 1860; and as

superintendent and gunnery instructor of the Repository branch of the

Woolwich School of Gunnery from 1866 to 1871. His record of foreign

service covers two years and a half in garrison at Gibraltar, nearly two

years in the West Indies, and about six and a half years in India, and a

little over ten years in Canada, or a period of twenty-one years and

eight months in all, making, with his home service of close upon ten

years, a total of thirty-two years in the military employ of his

Sovereign, during which his promotions took place as follows:—First

lieutenant, 1853; second captain, 1858; first captain, 1866;

lieutenant-colonel, inspector of Canadian artillery, with rank of deputy

adjutant-general, 1871; major R.A., 1872; lieutenant-colonel in the army

(local), 1875; lieutenant-colonel R.A., 1877; colonel, July, and

major-general, retired, December, 1881. The breaking out of the terrible

Sepoy rebellion in 1857 furnished to our subject his first experience of

active service in the field, and though he was then only a lieutenant,

his skill, daring and presence of mind were conspicuous. According to

the “Army List,” he was present at the actions of Chanda, Sultanpore,

Dhowrarah, and Moonshejunge, the siege and capture of Lucknow, under Sir

Colin Campbell, the actions of Korsee, Nawab-gunge, Seraigunge, the

affairs of the 22nd and 29th July, the passage of the Gumtee, Oude,

including the engagements of the 25th, 26th, 27th and 28th August, and

at Doudpoor on the 28th October. In all he served in thirteen

engagements, was mentioned four times in despatches, and wears the medal

and clasp for Lucknow. During the mutiny he also received his captaincy,

and among the complimentary references to his gallant services in the

field we note the following in official despatches:—“1st, at

Moonshejunge, March 4th, 1858, Lieutenant Strange, R.A., assisted by

Captain Middleton, 29th regiment, and other officers, enabled the

commanding officer to carry off two captured guns under a heavy

matchlock fire from the loopholes (_vide_ despatch No. 3, as above). On

the same day, after the engineer officer, Captain Innes, Bengal

Engineers (now V.C.), was severely wounded in the attempt, Lieutenant

Strange carried the powder-bag to the gate of the interior entrenchment,

and with the assistance of Captain Middleton, 29th regiment, fired it.

2nd, on March 26th, 1858, at the capture of the Kaiser Bagh, Lucknow,

Colonel Napier (now Lord Napier of Magdala), Bengal Engineers, being

engineer directing the attack, Lieutenant Strange, with assistance,

endeavored to empty a powder magazine in the great square while the

adjacent buildings were on fire. An explosion left that officer the sole

survivor (_vide_ the death of Bombardier S. S. Lever, No. 3 company,

14th battalion, forwarded by General Dupuis, R.A., to adjutant-general,

Horse Guards). 3rd, on 2nd October, 1858, at Doudpoor, Oude, while in

command of right division Q field battery, R.A., and two guns R.H.A.,

under Lieutenant Lyon, Captain Strange captured two guns and sixteen

horses, Brigadier-General Horsford commanding the force. Capture

reported.”[11] To these may be added the testimony, of

Lieutenant-General Sir Hope Grant, K.C.B., who wrote;—“Lieutenant

Strange (now captain) was under my command in Oude, in 1858, during the

mutiny, and rendered very efficient service at the crossing of the

Goomtee in driving the enemy back and covering the crossing of the

force. His two guns, which I sent on in advance, had to be taken in

pieces across on rafts, and the horses had to swim the river. His duty

was performed to my entire satisfaction. He was also staff officer to

the artillery division under Colonel Carleton, at the battle of

Nawab-gunge, when he made himself very useful.” Proofs of the same kind

might be multiplied, but these suffice to show that our subject is not

only an officer of skill and experience, but that he distinguished

himself as much by his gallantry in the field as by his decision and

coolness in the hour of danger. The removal of the Imperial garrisons

from Canada in 1871, and the desire of the Canadian Government, in

pursuance of a plan for the defence of the Dominion, to raise some

batteries of artillery and to organise a scheme of artillery

instruction, introduced him to a new sphere of honorable usefulness.

Endorsed by the highest military authorities in England, including

H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge, commander-in-chief; Sir Hugh Rose,

commanding the forces in Ireland; General Sir Hope Grant; General Adye,

director-general of artillery, and others too numerous to mention, he

came to Canada in that year as lieutenant-colonel and inspector of

Canadian artillery, with rank as deputy adjutant-general, and a

commission to form and command the 1st garrison of Canadian artillery at

Quebec. How successful he was in this task is well known to all

acquainted with the soldierly qualities and discipline of those fine

corps, A and B batteries,[12] and especially to the people of the

ancient capital, who had the best opportunity to witness the

difficulties he had to contend with and overcome, and to appreciate,

during his nine years’ residence in their midst as commandant of their

historic citadel, his admirable qualities as a soldier and a gentleman.

Referring to this phase of his Canadian career, the Toronto _Globe_ of

the 24th April, 1885, during the height of the rebellion in the Canadian

North-West, remarked:—“He established upon enduring foundations the

schools of gunnery in which so many have been trained for service in

different capacities, and especially as artillerists, and the efficiency

of the batteries now at the front is largely owing to the fact that the

Government has adopted the more important recommendations which, as

inspector of artillery, he has seen fit to make.[13] He is a man of

marked will-power, a disciplinarian, and yet one whose commands are not

unkindly enforced. But once, while in command of B battery, was he

called upon to act the soldier’s part in earnest, and that was during

the labor and bread riots in Quebec, in 1878. He acted with a courage

and coolness then which showed how well fitted he was for action in an

emergency.” To this might be with justice added that on this occasion

Colonel Strange also acted with an amount of self-control and humanity

as honorable to him as a soldier as it was creditable to him as a man.

To his firmness the ancient capital owed the prompt suppression of the

trouble, and to his humanity that this stern but needful duty in the

interests of law and order was discharged with the least possible

effusion of blood. The local press, headed by the Quebec _Morning

Chronicle_, were not slow to acknowledge this indebtedness in the

handsomest terms, and the lieutenant-general commanding the Canadian

militia, Sir Selby Smith, recognized it in flattering terms in his

general order of 18th June, 1878. But it is pleasant to know that the

citizens of Quebec have more agreeable recollections of Colonel Strange

than those connected with him as the exponent of military force. During

his residence of nine years amongst them, he and his officers and men

intimately associated themselves with their daily life, and contributed

largely to their entertainment and to the gaiety of the city.[14] It

would require more space than could be afforded within the scope of this

work to do justice to this phase of Colonel Strange’s career in Quebec,

but an idea of it can be gathered from the celebration of the Montgomery

centennial in 1875, which will ever remain an enduring memory with the

Quebecers. On that occasion Colonel Strange thought it his duty to

cement Canadian patriotism by reminding Canadians of both nationalities

of their forefathers’ struggle to repel invasion. For this purpose, in

addition to the valuable historical paper which, as vice-president of

the Quebec Literary and Historical Society, he read before the society

(on the defence of Quebec in 1775 against the attempt made by the

Americans, under Generals Montgomery and Arnold, to capture the

fortress), at the _fête_ in commemoration of the centenary of

Montgomery’s defeat and death, held in the society’s rooms at the Morrin

College, he organized one of the most unique balls imaginable, which

came off with the greatest success at the citadel on the very centennial

itself, the night of the 31st December, 1875. Of this _fête_ the

following graphic account was published at the time:—

The celebration of the centenary at the Literary and Historical

Society was followed by a similar demonstration at the Institut

Canadien of Quebec, on the 30th, which passed off with great

_éclat_, and by a ball at the citadel on the 31st, given by the

commandant, Colonel Strange, R.A., and Mrs. Strange, who

entertained a large number of guests dressed in the costume of

1775. The following verses, contributed by “E. L. M.,” a

Montreal lady, and dedicated to Colonel Strange, were made an

appropriate introduction to the festivities:—

Hark! hark! the iron tongue of time

Clangs forth a hundred years,

And Stadacona on her heights

Sits shedding mournful tears!

Oh! spirits fled, oh! heroes dead,

Oh! ye were slain for me,

And I shall never cease to weep,

Ah! Wolfe, brave soul for thee.

Again the foe are made to know

The force of British steel;

Montgomery and his comrades brave

Fall ’neath the cannon’s peal.

Sudden she sprang upon her feet,

With wild dishevelled hair—

“What are those sounds I hear so sweet

Upon the trembling air?

“The frowning Citadel afar

Is all ablaze with light,

And martial notes, but not of war,

Awake the slumbering night.”

Then on she sped, with airy flight,

Across the historic Plains,

And there beheld a splendid sight—

Valor with beauty reigns.

Where fearless Carleton stood at bay

A hundred years ago,

Under the gallant Strange’s sway

They still defy the foe.

“My sons! my sons! I see ye now,

Filled with the ancient fires,

Your manly features flashing forth

The spirit of your sires!

“Yet here, surrounded by the flower

Of Canada’s fair dames,

Ye are as gentle in these bowers

As brave amidst war’s flames.

“Long may ye live to tell the tale

Transmitted to your mind,

And should again your country call

Like valor she will find.”

One hundred years have passed away, and again soldiers and

civilians in the costume of 1775 move about in the old fortress,

some in the identical uniforms worn by their ancestors at the

time of the memorable repulse.

The Commandant, in the uniform of his corps in 1775, and the

ladies in the costume of the same period, received their guests

as they entered the ball-room—the approaches to which were

tastefully decorated. Half-way between the dressing and

receiving rooms is a noble double staircase, the sides of which

are draped with Royal standards intermingled with the white and

golden lilies of France, our Dominion ensign, and the stars and

stripes of the neighboring republic. On either hand of the broad

steps are stands of arms and warlike implements. Here, too,

facing one when ascending the steps, is the trophy designed by

Captain Larue of the B battery. The huge banners fell in

graceful folds about the stacks of musketry piled on the right

and left above the drums and trumpets; from the centre was a red

and black pennant (the American colors of 1775), immediately

underneath was the escutcheon of the United States, on which,

heavily craped, was hung the hero’s sword—the weapon with

which, one hundred years before this night, Montgomery had

beckoned on his men. Underneath this kindly tribute to the

memory of the dead general were the solemn prayerful initials of

the _Requiescat in Pace_. At the foot of the trophy were two

sets of old flint muskets, and accoutrements, piled, and in the

centre a brass cannon captured from the Americans in 1775, which

bears the lone star and figure of an Indian—the arms of the

State of Massachusetts. On either side of this historical

tableau, recalling as it did so vividly the troublous times of

long ago, telling the lesson so speakingly of the patience and

pluck, the sturdy manhood and bravery of a century gone by, were

stationed as sentries two splendid specimens of the human race,

stalwart giants, considerably over six feet in height, who

belonged formerly to the famous Cent Garde of Napoleon III., but

now in the ranks of B battery.[15] The stern impassiveness of

their faces and the immobility of their figures were quite in

keeping with the solemn trust they had to guard.

Dancing commenced; dance succeeded dance, and the happy hours

flew past till the midnight hour, which would add another year

to our earthly existence. About that time there were mysterious

signs and evidences that something unusual was going to happen.

There was a hurrying to and fro of the _cognoscenti_ to their

respective places, but so noiselessly and carefully were the

preparations made for a _coup de théatre_ that the gay throng

who perpetually circulated through the rooms took little heed,

when all of a sudden the clear clarion notes of a trumpet

sounding thrilled the hearts of all present. A panel in the

wainscoting of the lower dancing room opened as if by magic, and

out jumped a jaunty little trumpeter with the slashed and

decorated jacket and busby of a Hussar. The blast he blew rang

in tingling echoes far and wide, and a second later the weird

piping and drumming, in a music now strange to us, was heard in

a remote part of the barracks. Nearer and nearer every moment

came the sharp shrill notes of the fifes and the quick

detonation of the drum stick taps. A silence grew over the

bright _cortege_, the notes of the band died away, the company

clustered in picturesque groups around the stairs where was

placed the thin steel blade whose hilt one century gone by was

warmed by the hand of Montgomery. The rattle of the drums came

closer and closer, two folding doors opened suddenly, and

through them stalked in grim solemnity the “Phantom Guard,” led

by the intrepid Sergeant Hugh McQuarters. Neither regarding the

festive decorations nor the bright faces around them, the guard

passed through the assemblage as if they were not, on through

saloon and passage, past ball-room and conversation parlor, they

glided with measured step, and halted in front of the Montgomery

trophy, and paid military honors to the memento of a hero’s

valiant, if unsuccessful, act. Upon their taking close order,

the bombardier, Mr. Dunn, who impersonated the dead sergeant,

and actually wore the sword and blood-stained belts of a man who

was killed in action in 1775, addressed Col. Strange, who stood

at the bottom of the staircase already mentioned, as follows:—

Commandant! we rise from our graves to-night,

On the Centennial of the glorious fight.

At midnight, just one hundred years ago,

We soldiers fought and beat the daring foe;

And kept our dear old flag aloft, unfurled,

Against the armies of the Western world.

Although our bodies now should be decayed,

At this, our visit, be not sore dismayed;

Glad are we to see our fortress still defended,

By Canadians, French and British blended,

But Colonel, now I’ll tell you, why we’ve risen,

From out of the bosom of the earth’s cold prison——

We ask of you to pay us one tribute,

By firing from these heights, one last salute.

The grave, sonorous words of the martial request were hardly

uttered ere through the darkness of the night, the great cannon

boomed out a soldier’s welcome and a brave man’s

requiem—causing women’s hearts to throb, and men’s to exult at

the warlike sound. While the whole air was trembling with the

sullen reverberation and the sky was illuminated with rockets

and Roman candles, Colonel Strange responded to his ghostly

visitant, in the following original composition:—

’Tis Hugh McQuarters, and his comrades brave,

To-night have risen from their glorious grave——

To you we owe our standard still unfurled,

Yet flaunts aloft defiance to the world:

God grant in danger’s hour we prove as true,

In duty’s path, as nobly brave as you.

This night we pass, in revel, dance and song,

The weary hours you watched so well and long.

’Mid storm and tempest met the battle shock,

Beneath the shadow of the beetling rock;

When foemen found their winding sheet of snow,

Where broad St. Lawrence wintry waters flow.

Yes! once again those echoes shall awake,

In thunders, for our ancient comrades’ sake;

The midnight clouds by battle bolts be riven,

Response like Frontenac’s may yet be given

If foeman’s foot our sacred soil shall tread.

We seek not history’s bloody page to turn,

For us no boastful words aggressive burn,

Forgotten, few, but undismayed we stand,

The guardians of this young Canadian land.

Oh, blessed peace! thy gentle pinions spread,

Until all our battle flags be furl’d,

In the poet’s federation of the world.