=Dobell, Sir Charles Macpherson, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O.= (Quebec City),

Lieutenant-General of the British Army, is a son of the late Hon. R. R.

Dobell, lumber merchant, of Quebec, and a grandson of Senator Sir David

Macpherson, at one time Speaker of the Canadian Senate. He is a native

of Quebec, having been born on June 22, 1869. Receiving his elementary

education at the Rev. Canon Von Iffland’s Private School, he became a

student at the Quebec High School and later at the Charterhouse School

in England, previous to his entering the Royal Military College at

Kingston, Ontario. From that institution he graduated in 1890. After

serving as a Lieutenant in the Hazara Expedition, wherein his bravery

was mentioned in dispatches and by the award of a medal and clasp, his

advancement has proceeded steadily with his experience in active

service. He took part with the International Forces in the occupation of

the Island of Crete, and was there raised to the rank of Major. During

the South African War, he joined the Canadian Contingent, and won his

D.S.O. with other honors, during the several engagements of the

campaign. In command of a regiment of mounted infantry he shared in

conflict after conflict with the Boers, taking part in the relief of

Kimberley, and in the engagements of Paardeberg, Poplar Grove,

Prefontaine, Johannesburg, Pretoria and Diamond Hill, and many others.

After serving in Nigeria, he was given the rank of Lieut.-Colonel, his

name from time to time occurring in the dispatches to the War Office. As

an interruption to his service in Nigeria, he was called to China during

the Boxer uprising, and was present at the relief of Pekin by the

International Forces. On his return from China, he was appointed by the

War Office to the South African Intelligence Department, and became an

A.D.C. to the King. Later on he was gazetted as Inspector-General of the

West African Field Force, with the rank of Brigadier-General, a position

he was holding when Germany declared war in 1914. Since then he has

gained further distinction and promotion. With a combined force of

French and English troops numbering nearly ten thousand, he shared in

the conquest of the German Colony of the Cameroons, a territory covering

an area in all of 300,000 square miles. On New Year’s Day, 1916, the

order of C.M.G. was bestowed upon him by King George, and eventually, at

the close of the Cameroon Expedition, he received the honor of K.C.B.,

as well as the Legion of Honor from the President of the French

Republic, being at the same time gazetted as a Major-General of the

British Army. A still later event in his career as a “soldier of the

king” led to his being placed in command as Lieut.-General of the Coast

Forces that were to advance from the Suez Canal into Palestine.

Altogether Sir Charles Dobell’s career has been a splendid one. Hailing

as he does from a district in Canada that has provided several military

officers of high rank to the forces of the Motherland, his

fellow-Canadians cannot but be proud of the record made by one of their

own as a soldier and commander. He was married in 1908, to Mrs. (Elsye

Bankes) Campbell, daughter of the late Lieut.-Colonel Meyrick Bankes, of

London, and widow of Captain F. L. Campbell, R.N. His two brothers, Mr.

William Molson Dobell, lumber merchant, and Mr. Alfred Dobell, advocate,

as well as his uncle, Mr. William Molson Macpherson, banker, are

prominent citizens of the city of Quebec.

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=Garneau, Sir George=, formerly Mayor of Quebec City, and one of the

prominent merchants and capitalists of that city, who has been for many

years President of the National Battlefields Commission, is a son of the

late Hon. Pierre Garneau, Member of the Legislative Council of the

Province of Quebec, and several times member of the Provincial Cabinet.

On the mother’s side he was a grandson of Mr. Edward Burroughs, the

Prothonotary. Sir George is a native of Quebec, having been born on

November 19, 1864. He received his earlier education at the Quebec

Seminary, afterwards entering as a student the Montreal Polytechnic

School, where he graduated as Civil Engineer, in 1884. Four years

afterwards he took the degree of Bachelor of Applied Science in Laval

University, where for a period he was Titular Professor of Analytical

Chemistry. For a time he held the position of assistant engineer on the

construction staff of the Quebec and Lake St. John Railway, previous to

his being taken in as a partner in his father’s wholesale dry goods

establishment. Aside from his business pursuits, he identified himself

with civic affairs, and on being elected alderman, he was chosen as

Mayor in 1906, and at the close of his term was unanimously re-elected

for a second term of two years. It was while he was Mayor that he became

Chairman of the National Battlefields Commission, in 1908. During that

year there occurred the Tercentennial Celebration of the founding of

Quebec. In association with Earl Grey, he was prominently identified

with the supervision of the preliminaries to that Celebration, and has

since deeply interested himself, with his associate Commissioners, in

the laying out of the Battlefields Park, which is still in course of

completion as one of the most striking of Canada’s historic landmarks.

His zeal as an overseer of that enterprise and the interest he took in

the events of the Celebration, graced, as it was, by the presence of the

Prince of Wales, now King George V, and other notables of Canada and the

Motherland, was signalized by the honor of knighthood at the hands of

King Edward VII, an honor subsequently supplemented by the President of

the French Republic, in the bestowal of the Legion of Honor. On the

creation of the Quebec Public Utilities Commission, in 1910, he was

appointed member of the same and acting President, the appointment being

extended for a period of ten years. His career has been marked by the

holding of many other high positions connected with the progress of his

native city. For a time he was a Director of the Railway Company, under

which he had been in his earlier years a civil engineer. He has been

Director of the Prudential Trust Company, a Director of the Quebec

Steamship Company, a member of the Advisory Board of the Richelieu and

Ontario Navigation Company, a Director of the Quebec Land Company, and a

Governor of Laval University. His brother, the Hon. E. B. Garneau, was

appointed to the Legislative Council on the death of his father. Since

the demise of both of them, Sir George has continued to be President of

the firm of “Garneau Limited.” He was married in 1892, to Miss Alma

Benoit, daughter of Alphonse Benoit, for many years Secretary of the

Department of Militia and Defence of Canada. His family consists of five

sons and three daughters. In these later years Sir George has taken a

deep interest in the Entente Conferences for the promotion of unity

between the two distinctive races of Canada; and during the Toronto

Conference, he was received at a special Convocation of the University

of Toronto, and had the honor of LL.D. conferred upon him. The ancestors

of the Garneau family came originally from France in 1663; and the

subject of this sketch as a French-Canadian, using the French and

English languages with equal facility, has never failed to acknowledge

himself as an all-Canadian, devoted to the cause of a common

Canadianism, under the aegis of the British Empire. He also served in

the Canadian Militia, from which he retired with the rank of Captain of

Field Artillery in 1894.

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=Cox, Herbert Coplin= (Toronto, Ont.), son of the late Hon. George A.

Cox, Senator, and Margaret (Hopkins) Cox, was born at Peterborough,

Ont., on June 29, 1873, and received his education at Jarvis Street

Collegiate Institute and Victoria University, Toronto. Mr. Cox was

trained to business life and in an extensive experience under his father

early developed aptitude and ability as a financier. In July, 1895, he

married Louise Bogart Brown, daughter of Charles Brown, Toronto. On

completing his education Mr. Cox entered the service of the Canada Life

Assurance Company and rapidly rose to the management of the company’s

largest branch. He entered into partnership with his father under the

firm name of George A. & H. C. Cox, in the management of the Eastern

Ontario and Michigan branches of the company in July, 1899, and became

sole manager of the business of that territory upon his father’s

appointment to the presidency. In October, 1912, he was invited to

accept the presidency of the Imperial Life Assurance Company, where he

obtained an invaluable experience in executive work. He retired from

this position in August, 1914, to become President of the Canada Life

Assurance Company on the death of his brother, E. W. Cox. He also

assumed the responsibility of various other offices and directorates

held by his late brother. While, however, his career as an insurance man

and financier has been such as very few men of his age have attained,

that represents but one side of a character remarkable for activity and

public spirit, as well as ability. In movements toward the betterment of

conditions in the life insurance business Mr. Cox has naturally taken a

keen interest, but his pursuits outside of business, especially in the

field of social betterment, are varied and important. He took a deep and

active interest in the erection of Toronto’s General Hospital, serving

upon several committees in this connection. He is a director of the

Toronto Conservatory of Music and is a member of the Music Committee of

the Metropolitan Church, of which he is also a trustee. He is likewise

chairman of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and Honorary Colonel of the

Mississauga Horse. Mr. Cox is President and General Manager of the

Canada Life Assurance Company, President of the Imperial Guarantee and

Accident Company, President of the Toronto Savings and Loan Company,

President of the Provident Investment Company, Vice-President of the

Central Canada Loan and Savings Company, Director of the Dominion

Securities Corporation, Director of the National Trust Company, Director

of the Canadian General Electric Company, Director of the British

American Assurance Company, Director of the Western Assurance Company,

Director of the Dunlop Tire and Rubber Company, and Director of the

Robert Simpson Company. He is a member of the following clubs: Toronto,

York, Toronto Hunt, Toronto Golf, Mississauga Golf, Royal Canadian

Yacht, National, Ontario, Arts and Letters. In religion Mr. Cox is a

Methodist.

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=Carew, John, M.L.A.= (Lindsay, Ont.), born Jan. 5, 1862, at Emily

Township, County of Victoria, son of John Carew and Jane Wilson, both

Irish. He was educated at Lindsay Public School. Married, Feb. 11, 1885,

to Margaret, daughter of Francis and Margaret Kelly, of Red Rock,

Verulam Township, County of Victoria, and is father of the following

children: Hazel May, Lieut.-Col. Francis John Carew, Annie, Ethel,

Gertrude J., Charles Lawrence, Arthur W. and Roberta Grace. Mr. Carew

has been successfully engaged in the lumber business at Lindsay for

about thirty years and is a large employer of labor. He is President and

General Manager of The John Carew Lumber Company, Limited;

Vice-President of Horn Bros. Woollen Mills; Vice-President Hodgson Bros.

Chemical Co.; Vice-President The Halton Brick Co.; Vice-President The

Canada Sand Lime Brick Co. Was elected a member of the Ontario

Legislature at the general elections in 1914 as the Conservative

representative for South Victoria. Mr. Carew is a Presbyterian in

religion, a member of the Masonic Order, and of the Independent Order of

Oddfellows. He is a Governor of the Ross Memorial Hospital at Lindsay, a

member of the Board of Education of the town, and President of the

Lindsay Central Exhibition. Mr. Carew is an enthusiastic member of the

Lindsay Curling Club. He is recognized as one of the country’s most

public spirited and progressive citizens.

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=Casgrain, Philippe Baby= (Quebec City), lawyer, parliamentarian and

author, is of an old and distinguished family, which includes in its

record besides himself, the late Abbé P. H. Casgrain, of literary fame;

the Hon. Senator Charles E. C. Casgrain, M.D.; the Hon. Thomas Chase

Casgrain, the distinguished lawyer and Minister of the Crown, and the

Hon. Senator J. P. B. Casgrain. The subject of this sketch was born in

the city of Quebec, on the 30th December, 1826. He is the son of Mr. C.

E. C. Casgrain, who was at one time the Deputy Commissioner of Public

Works. His mother’s maiden name was Miss Anne Baby, a daughter of the

Hon. James Baby, Cabinet Minister. He had his earlier education at St.

Anne’s College. In 1850 he was called to the Bar, and was given his K.C.

in his thirty-third year, after being associated as a law-partner with

the Hon. Mr. Cauveau, the Solicitor-General of his time. After this he

was given a position as assistant in the Prothonotary’s Office, and was

later on chosen Clerk of the Circuit Court. Subsequently he was elected

a member of the House of Commons for the constituency of L’Islet, which

he continued to represent from term to term for nearly twenty years. It

was not until 1891 he was defeated by Mr. Georges Desjardins. During his

parliamentary days he was ever diligent in assuming his share of

committee work, having taken a prominent part in the Royal Commission

appointed to investigate the administration of public affairs in the

constituency of Rimouski. Two years after his defeat in L’Islet, he was

given the presidency of a second Royal Commission to enquire into the

affairs of the Montreal and Sorel Railway. During his long term of

office in the Court House, he gained a prominence as a writer and

investigator of the traditions that fringed the historical atmosphere of

his native city. He was elected for a term of two years President of the

Literary and Historical Society in 1898, and seven years afterwards he

was chosen for the same position a second time. He also was a member of

the Navy League, and took an active part in securing the Plains of

Abraham as a federal asset, thus preparing the way for its becoming a

permanent acquisition of the National Battlefields Parks Commission. In

1907 he was elected Vice-President of the Canadian Landmarks

Association, and was later awarded a diploma from the Royal Society of

Canada for his zeal in archæological research. The Transactions of the

Royal Society and of the Literary and Historical Society bear testimony

to his industry in preparing historical and antiquarian matter for

publication, which otherwise might have been lost. For instance, he

successfully located the site of the fountain from which the founder of

the colony, Samuel de Champlain, had water drawn to supply his

habitation, as well as the site of the house in which General Montcalm

lived during his sojourn in Quebec, and the house in which he died; the

site of the place of abode of Abraham Martin, whose name is perpetuated

in the name of the historic battlefield; the site of Dumont’s Mill, near

the baylet curvature of the St. Lawrence known as Wolfe’s Cove; the

location of Claire Fontaine, that gave its name to the street which, as

an elevated pathway on the brow of Perrault’s Hill, saw the marshalling

of Montcalm’s troops in three divisions; besides the locations of many

other historical landmarks in the Ancient Capital. Learned in the law,

he was held in high respect as an official of the Palais de Justice. His

long tenure of office in Parliament and out of it has always been

characterized by integrity of purpose in dealing with public matters.

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=Gibson, Theron= (Toronto, Ont.), Valuator and Financial Agent, began

his career as an accountant with John Hogg, dry goods merchant, Guelph,

Ont., in 1875, after an early education in the Public Schools and

British American Business College. He was successively, Treasurer of the

Guelph Lumber Company, 1878-1880; Office Manager, John Hogg & Son,

Guelph, 1880-1885; Financial Manager, A. R. McMaster & Bro., Toronto,

1885-1886; Accountant, Freehold Loan & Savings Co., Toronto, 1886-1887;

Inspector of the same, 1887-1898; and Inspector, Canada Permanent &

Western Canada Mortgage Corporation, 1898-1903. Since when he has been

engaged in business on his own account valuing real estate for

investors, conducting arbitrations, managing estates, in addition to

negotiating investments and fire insurance. He is interested in State

Consolidated Oil Co., and a director both of Wm. Cane & Sons Co.,

Newmarket, and of Fire Insurance Exchange Corporation, Toronto. Mr.

Gibson has always taken a prominent part in church and benevolent work.

For some years he was President of the Guelph Y.M.C.A. and Treasurer and

Member of the Board of the Toronto Y.M.C.A. For thirteen years he has

been Superintendent of Central Presbyterian Sunday School, and for seven

years Treasurer of the Ontario Branch of the Dominion Alliance. Since

1905 he has been a member of the Executive of the Provincial Sunday

School Association, and is to-day Vice-Chairman of that body, as also a

member of the Executive Committee and Board of Trustees of the

International Sunday School Association, and Secretary of that board and

life member of the Association; Treasurer and Member of the Executive

Committee, Presbyterian Sunday School Association; Vice-President of the

Toronto Sunday School Association, and director of the Upper Canada

Bible Society. He has been an elder in the Presbyterian Church since

1883. Mr. Gibson was born in Huron County, Ont., February 19, 1852, the

son of David and Sarah Jane Gibson, and married Mary Jean, daughter of

the late John Stephen Holmwood, Flamboro W., Ont., September 11, 1877.

He has five children, David Holmwood, Norman Rothwell, William Ernest,

Douglas and Jessie Winnifred.

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=Murphy, Hon. Charles, B.A.= The son of James Murphy of Birr, King’s

County, Ireland, and Mary Conway, of Limerick, was born in Ottawa,

December 8, 1863. He was educated in the Separate Schools, the

Collegiate Institute and Ottawa University (B.A.), and Osgoode Hall,

Toronto. He is a Barrister-at-law and has been for several years

honorary solicitor for the Christian Aid Society. In September, 1908,

upon the retirement from the Cabinet of Hon. R. W. Scott, Secretary of

State, Mr. Murphy was chosen to succeed him and was sworn in on October

10. This office he held until the resignation of Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s

Cabinet, October 6, 1911. He was nominated by the Liberals of Russell

County as their candidate for the House of Commons, and at the general

election of 1908 was elected by a large majority. He was re-elected at

the general election of 1911. He is recognized throughout Canada as one

of the most persistent advocates of Home Rule for Ireland, and his

efforts and eloquence have ever been prominently evident in that cause.

He is a member of the Laurentian, University and Rivermead Golf Clubs,

Ottawa, and the Ontario Club, Toronto. He is a Roman Catholic, a Liberal

in politics, and resides at 174 Maclaren Street, Ottawa. His father, the

late James Murphy, was a well-known contractor and built, among other

important public works, the Pembina branch of the Canadian Pacific

Railway.

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=Cole, Wilmot Howard, ex-M.L.A., Colonel= (Brockville, Ont.), was born

at Brockville, February 16, 1834. The patronymic Cole is of very ancient

Saxon origin: It appears in the “Domesday Book.” The public records show

that in the year 1640, Sir John Cole, of Shenley, in Hertfordshire,

England, was a landed proprietor. His son, Adam, married and had issue a

son, Cornelius. This Cornelius Cole emigrated to America in the year

1708; in 1711 he became a justice of Albany County comprised within the

limits of what was called “Livingston Manor.” His land was next to that

of W. T. Livingston, and extended from the Manor House road to Jansens’s

Kill, or creek, and was one of the finest farms in the Manor. He had

three sons, named Nicholas, John and Adam. On the breaking out of the

rebellion, Cornelius Cole and his sons, John and Adam, espoused the

cause of England, and the sons joined the Royalist forces. As the war

proceeded the feeling ran so high against the “Tories,” as the Royalists

were called, and Cornelius Cole, although an old man, was seized and

imprisoned, where he died a victim of fidelity to Motherland. His

property was confiscated, and his sons forced to seek a home in the

wilds of Canada. In 1773 John and Adam Cole with his wife and her two

brothers, Jonathan, Jr., and Abel Fulford, left with other United Empire

Loyalists for Canada, and passing up the St. Lawrence, they landed and

settled in the County of Leeds, in that part now called the Township of

Elizabethtown, at a point on the River St. Lawrence about five miles

west of the present town of Brockville, which place is still called

“Cole’s Ferry.” Here Adam Cole settled, being, as he was frequently

heard to say, the first person to begin a settlement in the Township of

Elizabethtown. Some years after the close of the war, Peter, a son of

John Cole, returned to his grandfather’s old home in Ulster County, to

ascertain whether he could recover some of the family estate, which had

been confiscated, but failed, as the authorities had granted the

property to other persons. Adam Cole’s wife was Thankful Fulford, also

descended from Loyalist stock. Her father, Jonathan Fulford, sen., with

the rest of his family came in 1784, and settled in the same

neighborhood, and left numerous descendants. Adam Cole’s family, in

1812, consisted of nine sons and seven daughters, besides four who died

in infancy. Five of the sons served in the War of 1812, the eldest,

Peter, having assisted in the capture of Ogdensburg, and subsequently

held the rank of captain. The house of Adam Cole was the general

headquarters of the military, when they were in that section of country,

or when moving between Montreal and Kingston. It is related of Peter

Cole, the eldest son, that in the year 1810, the mail carrier was taken

sick at his father’s house, and Peter took the mail to Kingston, where

he received that from Toronto and carried it back to Montreal. At

Montreal he took charge of the mail for the west, which had been

accumulating for a month and weighed upwards of sixty pounds, and

carried it to Kingston. He accomplished the whole trip, going and

coming, of 430 miles on foot, in fourteen days, and this was in March,

when the trail most of the way was through the forest and very

difficult. He received for this service, from the Government the sum of

fifteen dollars. Abel Cole, who was the youngest son of Adam Cole, died

December 9, 1893, aged 88 years. His wife, Catherine Seaman, a

grand-daughter of Caleb Seaman, died Nov. 2, 1893, aged 83 years, being

one of the sons of Caleb Seaman who was with Lord Cornwallis at York

Town. Wilmot Howard Cole, second son of Abel Cole, was educated at

Brockville. He commenced mercantile business in 1855, and continued in

the same until 1882. The old spirit of loyalty which he inherited,

prompted him upon the organization of the Volunteer Militia of Canada in

1855, to become a member of the old “Brockville Rifle Company,”

commanded by Major Smythe (later of the 100th Regiment, British Army).

The late Col. James Crawford, William Fitzsimmons (a former postmaster

of Brockville), the late Samuel Ross, William Morris, Thomas Camm and

other business men of Brockville, shouldered their muskets and learned

the drill at the same time. Wilmot Howard Cole filled every position in

rank from private to colonel of battalion. In December, 1864, he went

with the Brockville Rifle Company, as lieutenant, to Amherstburg, in the

County of Essex, remaining there on duty until the following May. In

November, 1865, the fear of a Fenian Raid was so strong in the vicinity

of the River St. Lawrence, that the officers of the Brockville Rifle

Company (who were at the time, the late Col. Crawford in command, Lieut.

Cole, Lieut. Robert Bowie, and the late Lieut. Windeat), offered their

services without pay, and to increase their company to 100 men to do

duty for the protection of Brockville and vicinity, by drilling the men

and mounting a heavy guard every night, with sentries posted in

different parts of the town, the men only being paid twenty-five cents

per day. The offer was accepted by the government and that duty

performed until the ensuing March, when a large portion of the volunteer

force were called out, and a provisional battalion formed at Brockville,

under command of Col. Crawford, Lieut. Cole assuming command of the

Brockville Rifle Company, with which he remained on duty until the next

November, part of the time at Brockville and part at Cornwall. Again in

1870, as major of the 41st battalion, he was on duty at Cornwall during

the Fenian excitement. On June 28, 1871, he was appointed to the command

of the 41st battalion; on June 28, 1898, he resigned, having held the

command for 27 years, and was a member of the active force for 43 years.

In 1913 the Militia Department honored him with the full rank of

Colonel. Col. Cole occupied various positions of trust and importance in

the gift of his fellow-citizens. He was a member of the Town Council of

Brockville for fourteen years; a director for many years, and president

of the Johnstown Mutual Fire Insurance Company; a member of the

Independent Order of Oddfellows for many years, filling various offices

in the local lodge and also in the Grand lodge and Grand Encampment. He

was chosen by his brethren to fill the position of Grand Master the year

the Sovereign Grand Lodge met in Toronto, in September, 1880, who were

entertained by their Ontario brethren. He always took an active part in

everything that would advance the interests of his native town. In

connection with the late Allan Turner, he worked for many years to

obtain a system of waterworks for Brockville, and in 1881 they organized

a company, consisting of Allan Turner, John McMullen, Thomas Gilmour,

George A. Dana, and Wilmot H. Cole, to construct waterworks; and as a

result of the efforts of these gentlemen, Brockville has now a most

excellent system of water supply for all purposes. Colonel Cole was

elected a member of the Legislature of the Province of Ontario for the

Brockville riding, in the Liberal interest, at the general elections in

1875, and was a warm supporter of the Mowat Government. He received the

appointment of Registrar for the County of Leeds in February, 1882. He

was president of the Brockville Loan and Savings Company. Col. Cole was

a member of the Methodist Church, and for over fifty years a trustee of

the Wall Street Church in Brockville, and was looked upon by his fellow

church members as ready to assist in carrying forward all enterprises

for the benefit of the church. Col. Cole married Jane Adelaide, youngest

daughter of the late Abram Philips, of New York. Their family consisted

of four children, two sons and two daughters. The sons, following the

traditions of the family, entered the volunteer force very early. The

elder, Eugene Maurice Cole, was bugler in the Brockville Rifle Company

in 1866, and did duty with that company whenever on service; he

subsequently became lieutenant, after which he resigned, having removed

from Brockville. The youngest son, Capt. George Marshall Cole, was

captain of No. 4 company, 41st battalion. The latest enterprise which

Col. Cole had been connected with and will eventually benefit his native

town more than all the others, was the Brockville, Westport and Sault

Ste. Marie Railway. The idea of a railway from Brockville to Westport

had been entertained, and a charter was procured, but nothing further

was done, and after a time the charter expired. Subsequently, Eugene M.

Cole, who was in business in New York City, and enjoyed commercial

relations with gentlemen interested in building railways and other

public works, conceived the idea that a line of railway from Brockville

to Sault Ste. Marie would prove an advantageous route in many ways, and

at the same time benefit his native town. After much labor in gathering

statistical information, he laid the whole matter before his father, who

had it brought before the leading men of the County of Leeds, and the

proposition made that if the municipalities would bear the expense of

preliminary survey and obtain the charter, and grant aid by way of bonus

to the extent of $125,000, Eugene M. Cole would work up the scheme and

obtain the capital and contractors to build at least the first section

of the road to Westport. This was agreed to, the last bonus by-law being

passed on July 15, 1885, and work on the construction of the railway

commenced on January 13, 1886. Although ably assisted by many persons in

the County of Leeds in connection with the enterprise, the credit of the

inception of the scheme, and the labor in working it up materially and

financially, belong to Eugene M. Cole. Colonel Cole died December 13,

1915, in his eighty-second year, being pre-deceased by his wife by about

two months.

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=Scott, James Guthrie=, the prominent railway manager of Quebec City,

was born in that city on February 13, 1847, the son of Hugh Erskine

Scott. His mother’s maiden name was Margaret Chillas. The family of the

Scotts has filled an important place in the community since the days of

Mr. Scott’s grandfather, who came from Scotland. Mr. Henry S. Scott,

hardware merchant, was his uncle, and Mr. William C. Scott and Mr.

Charles Scott, his brothers, all of whom took an active interest in the

progress of the city, as has their distinguished relative. The latter

received his early education at the Quebec High School. In his

seventeenth year he had his first start in business in the offices of

the Montmorency Lumber Mills, where he eventually became head of one of

the departments. In 1879, he entered the service of the Quebec and Lake

St. John Railway, becoming, in time, its general manager and assuming

the onerous task of having that line completed as far as Chicoutimi and

extended, under the name of the Great Northern, to Hawkesbury, Ont.,

across the Ottawa, a distance in all of five hundred miles. But for Mr.

Scott’s supervisory tact and engineering skill, Quebec would hardly have

become the important railway terminal that it now is, not only of the

Canadian Northern System, but of the National Transcontinental. During

the earlier operations of the Quebec and Lake St. John Railway, Mr.

Scott and his Board of Directors organized a system of assisted

colonization that peopled the parishes all along their line, as many as

from ten to twelve thousand families being induced to take up homesteads

in the districts opened up for settlement. For twenty-five years Mr.

Scott was _facile princeps_ in these beneficent operations; and it was

only when the Canadian Northern Railway Company took over the properties

supervised by him in 1908, that he decided to retire from office to take

up other work involving the commercial advancement of his native city.

In 1916 he was elected President of the Quebec Board of Trade, after

many years of active service as one of its members, and is also

President of the British Columbia Skeena Coal Company. For many years he

has been a member of the Quebec Geographical Society and other

associations; and his contemporaries can look back with satisfaction at

the civic progress he awakened as a railway projector and business man,

and the manufacturing centres he succeeded in locating from the time he

undertook to complete the Lake St. John Railway. In June, 1908, upon his

retirement from the management of the railway, he was given a banquet by

the citizens of Quebec at the Chateau Frontenac, in recognition of the

enterprising and successful work he had done while completing extensions

north and west from the city, and at the same time was presented with

testimonials of value. And in addition to the story of his life as a

railway manager and projector, Mr. Scott has to his credit twelve years’

service in the Militia, having been called out to frustrate the advance

of the enemy in certain border raids near Windsor, Ontario, in 1865, as

well as to protect Canada from the Fenian Raids, during the four years

succeeding that date. In 1873 he married Miss Sophy Mary Jackson; and in

1901 was married, for a second time, to Miss Cordelia Mary Jackson,

daughter of Dr. Alfred Jackson, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Laval

University. By his first marriage he has had two sons and a daughter,

and by his second, one son and one daughter.

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=Bender, Prosper, M.D.=, and Litterateur (Quebec City), was born in

Quebec on July 30, 1844. He was the son of L. P. Bender, Advocate, his

mother’s maiden name having been Miss Jane McMillan. His school

education began at the Quebec Seminary and was continued at Laval

University, where he went through a successful course in _belles

lettres_ and collateral studies. Thereafter he entered McGill

University, where in 1864 he took his degree of M.D. On the following

year he entered upon his career as a medical man in his native city,

where, in 1868, he married Miss Amelia Scott, daughter of A. S. Scott.

At the time of his graduation, the Civil War between the Northern and

Southern States of the American Republic was nearing its climax, and in

the excitement of events an opportunity offered itself to the young

student to mature his skill in surgery and the healing art on the

battlefield. He was given employment in the army in North Virginia,

which was then under the command of General Ulysses Grant. As an

assistant surgeon he remained with that army up to the time of General

Lee’s surrender, his faithfulness and skill bringing him to the notice

of his medical associates and eventually to the notice of the General in

person. After the war, Dr. Bender proceeded to New York to gain further

professional experience in the hospitals, before entering upon the first

period of his residence in Quebec as a medical practitioner. During that

period he came into touch with several of the rising public men of the

town, who made a kind of literary rendezvous of his residence, much as

years afterwards the Circle de Dix used to hold their seances out at

Spencer Wood, under the hospital auspices of Sir Adolphe Chapleau. The

social gatherings at Dr. Bender’s had no doubt the effect of turning the

attention of the successful physician to literary work, leading him to

publish two volumes, respectfully titled, “Literary Sheaves,” and “Old

and New Canada.” In 1884 he removed to Boston, where he practised as a

homeopathist, and won a reputation among the literary men of that city,

as a contributor to the magazines and reviews. Within the last ten years

preceding his death in 1917, he had his residence again in Quebec.

During these years he published in amplified form a series of sketches

about the friends of his earlier comradeship. These sketches embodied

the characteristics of the brilliant literary guests who had once met

round his table, and were read with the greatest of interest by the

public as they appeared from time to time, as an illustration of the

author’s geniality of spirit and literary acumen. Altogether, Dr.

Prosper Bender’s professional and literary career stood as a blend of

duly recognized medical skill and critical literary insight, holding

always the confidence of his patients and being widely esteemed for his

bonhomie and intellectuality as a writer of books worth reading.

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=Girard, Joseph= (St. Gideon, Que.), son of Patrice Girard and Marie

Tremblay, his wife, both French-Canadians. Born at St. Urbain, County of

Charlevoix, Aug. 2, 1854. Educated at the Seminary of Quebec. Came to

Lake of St. John in 1880 as a settler, cleared his land and lived on it

all the time, and has been one of the most progressive and influential

farmers of the district. Was President of the Dairy Society of Quebec

Province and President of the School Commission. On April 5, 1875, Mr.

Girard was married to Emma Cote, daughter of Vitol and Ursule Cote, and

is the father of the following children: Meridee, Philippe, Tanevide and

Marie Louise. First elected to the Quebec Legislative Assembly for Lake

St. John District at the general elections of 1892 and re-elected in

those of 1897. In 1900 he was elected to the House of Commons at the

general elections, for Chicoutimi and Saguenay, which includes the local

riding of Lake St. John; he was re-elected for the House of Commons in

the general elections of 1904, 1908 and 1911. Mr. Girard is a member of

the following societies: Dairy Society of Quebec, Agricultural Society

of Lake St. John and Farmers’ Club of St. Gideon; he is also a member of

the Automobile Club of Chicoutimi. In religion Mr. Girard is a Roman

Catholic and in politics is an Independent Conservative.

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=Dawson, Arthur Osborne= (Montreal, Que.), was born at New Borden, N.B.,

March 28, 1864, son of Richard Dawson and Mary Lockhart, his father

being a farmer and a grindstone manufacturer. Rev. G. F. Dawson, M.A.,

St. John, N.B., and W. J. G. Dawson, M.D., Eldridge, Cal., U.S.A., are

brothers, and Rev. James Henderson, D.D., pastor of the Timothy Eaton

Memorial Church, Toronto, is father-in-law of Mr. Dawson, who was

educated at Campbellton, N.B., and Montreal. Married, June 30, Mary A.

Le Rossignol, step-daughter of Rev. Dr. Henderson of Toronto, mentioned

above. Five children are the fruit of the union, viz., Ruth, Howard,

Katharine, Isabel and Olive. Mr. Dawson is a Methodist in religion, a

Conservative, a member of the Montreal Club and a Justice of the Peace

for the District of Montreal and connected with the following large

business enterprises, Vice-President and Managing Director Canadian

Cottons, Limited; President Belding, Paul, Corticelli, Limited;

Vice-President D. Morrice Co., Limited; President Inter-provincial

British Company of Canada, Limited, Toronto; Vice-President Gowland

Optical Company, Limited, Montreal. Recreations, fishing, tennis and

boating.

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=Douglas, James= (Hepworth, Ontario), son of James Douglas, Roxborough,

Scotland, and Isabella Dixon, Lauderdale, Scotland, was born in the

township of Brant, Bruce County, in August, 1858. Here he spent his

early days, receiving his education in the public schools. For a time he

followed farming as an occupation. However, he was inclined towards

mercantile pursuits and gave up the farm to become a general merchant at

Dobbington, in the township of Elderslie. The lumbering business

attracted his attention and he gave up the store for that occupation,

which was extensively carried on in those early days in Bruce. In 1902

he moved to the village of Hepworth, where he became Vice-President of

the Hepworth Manufacturing Co., and also manager. Here he has resided

ever since, successfully conducting the business he is connected with.

Beside this he is interested in a number of other enterprises, being a

director of the Canada Beds Co., of Chesley, and a shareholder in the

Vincent Steel Process Co., of Detroit. He has always had a love for

municipal life, and for eight years has served the village of Hepworth

as reeve in a most competent manner. As a member of the County Council

he has served on most of the prominent committees, but the Educational

Committee has always been his favorite. Being a self-educated man, he

strove hard for the vast fund of knowledge he has acquired. This has

made him a warm friend toward all branches of education, and he is ever

ready to forward its best interests. His ripe business judgment has ever

been recognized by his colleagues in the County Council. He is a man of

genial disposition and well liked by all. He is a member of Burns Lodge,

No. 436, A.F. & A.M., Hepworth. In religion he is a Presbyterian, and in

politics he is a Liberal. He was twice married, his first wife being

Francis Bradley, daughter of John Bradley, of Greenock township.

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=Cross, Charles Wilson= (Edmonton, Alta.), Attorney-General for the

Province of Alberta, was born in Madoc, Ont., November 30, 1872, the son

of the late Thomas and Marie Cross. He was educated at Upper Canada

College, Toronto University and Osgoode Hall, graduating in 1895 as

B.A., and the following year as LL.B. He married Annie Louisa, daughter

of Frederick and Isabella Lynde, in 1900, by whom he has three

children—Thomas, Helen and Margaret. Becoming a barrister in 1898, he

has since practised his profession at Edmonton, and is a member of the

firm of Short, Cross, Maclean, Ap’John & Laidlaw; his present office as

Attorney-General of the province he has held since 1905, sitting as

member for Edmonton and Edson in the Legislature. While at college he

was a famous lacrosse player and is Vice-President of the Canadian

Amateur Athletic Union for Alberta. He was a member of the Ottawa and

Quebec Interprovincial Conferences in 1906, is a Liberal in politics and

a Presbyterian in religion.

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Ottawa]

=Pardee, Frederick Forsyth, K.C., M.P.= (Sarnia, Ont.), son of the late

Hon. Timothy Blair Pardee and Emma K. Pardee, _née_ Forsyth, was born at

Sarnia, Ontario, on December 29, 1867, and was educated at the Sarnia

School and at Upper Canada College. He subsequently entered the study of

Law and graduated at Osgoode Hall, being called to the Bar in 1890. He

was created a King’s Counsel in 1908, and became head of the law firm of

Pardee, Burnham & Gurd. In his student days and in the earlier years of

his professional career he took a keen interest in various athletics and

was a cricket player of note. He married, on December 31, 1892, Mary E.

Johnston, daughter of Hugh Johnston, and to them was born one daughter,

Pauline L. Early in life Mr. Pardee began to interest himself in public

problems and public affairs, and in 1898, when but 31 years of age, he

was chosen as Liberal candidate for the provincial riding of West

Lambton, being elected to the Legislature of Ontario the same year. He

sat in the Provincial House until 1902, when he was defeated by Hon. W.

J. Hanna, who subsequently became Provincial Secretary in the first

cabinet of Sir James Whitney. In the Dominion by-election of November

22, 1905, made necessary by the death of Dr. Johnston, the sitting

member, Mr. Pardee was chosen by the electors of West Lambton to

represent them in the Dominion House of Commons. He was re-elected at

the general elections of 1908 and 1911. In November, 1909, on the

nomination of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, then Prime Minister of Canada, he was

unanimously chosen as Chief Government Whip, and still retains the

important position of Chief Liberal Whip to the present time (1917). In

the Dominion Parliament, as well as throughout the country, Mr. Pardee’s

public work soon won him a position of usefulness and responsibility. He

is a forceful and effective public speaker, and few public men are so

universally popular and so highly esteemed. During his parliamentary

career he has presided over, and served upon, many of the most important

legislative committees of the House of Commons and Senate. In 1910 he

was chosen by Sir Wilfrid Laurier to accompany him on his memorable tour

through the Canadian West, making the first visit with the then Prime

Minister to the new Pacific port of Prince Rupert. When, in 1911, the

Administration of Sir Wilfrid Laurier was defeated at the polls upon the

issue of reciprocal trade in natural products with the United States,

and the Liberal party passed into Opposition, Mr. Pardee continued as

Chief Whip and had a large share in the arduous parliamentary and

organization work which ensued. Following the outbreak of the great war

it was he who defined in Parliament, amid hearty approval from both

sides of the House, the patriotic obligations which devolved upon

Government and Opposition. He devoted his time and energy, both in the

House and out of it, to patriotic endeavor, addressing recruiting

rallies and contributing to the various national efforts of service and

sacrifice. He moved in Parliament for the appointment of a special

committee to consider national steps to recompense and aid returning

wounded and maimed soldiers and was named by the House as a member of

that committee. In 1918 he resigned the post of Liberal Whip and

supported Sir Robert Borden on the question of Conscription, but

declined a portfolio in the Union Government. In the general elections

of that year he was again re-elected for West Lambton by a handsome

majority. Mr. Pardee is strongly democratic in spirit, and during the

parliamentary session of 1913-14, made a vigorous plea to the House

against the indiscriminate bestowal of titles in Canada, and issued a

warning against the danger of creating a pseudo-aristocracy in this

young Dominion. In religion he is an Anglican and is a member of St.

George’s Church, Sarnia.

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=Hinds, Leonard D’Arcy Bernard=, Judgment Clerk of the Supreme Court of

Judicature for Ontario, born Oct. 19, 1868, at Barrie, Ontario. Educated

at Barrie Collegiate Institute, St. Michael’s College, Toronto, and

Osgoode Hall Law School, of Toronto. Past President of the Toronto

Liberal-Conservative Club. Secretary of the Toronto Branch of the United

Irish League. Appointed to present office by the Whitney Government in

1905. Son of the late Bernard Hinds of Barrie, a native of Omagh, County

of Tyrone, Ireland (whose father, Bernard Hinds, Irish “Aidhne,”

pronounced Aion, anglicized the name to Hinds, and settled with a large

family in Vespra Township, Simcoe County, in the year 1842), and Anna

Leonard, formerly a teacher in the French settlement public school at

Penetanguishene. Married Pauline Matson, the daughter of R. H. Matson,

founder of the National Life Insurance Co. of Canada. Holds commission

as Captain and Paymaster in the 110th Irish Regiment, Toronto, which

Regiment he was authorized to establish in 1914, by Sir Sam Hughes, then

Minister of Militia. Captain Hinds largely helped to establish the 208th

Canadian Irish Bn. C.E.F., in which he was also appointed Paymaster with

the rank of Captain. He was forced to withdraw from the 208th, on

account of an injury which he received at Camp Borden. He has one son,

Paul I. Bernard, who is on active service as an officer in the British

Expeditionary Force. Captain Hinds is an ardent student of Gaelic

Literature, Language and Art, and possesses one of the best Erse

Libraries in Canada. He is a Catholic in religion. Address: Osgoode

Hall, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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=Clute, Arthur Roger= (Toronto, Ont.), was born in Belleville, Ont., on

August 24, 1874. He attended the Belleville Collegiate Institute, from

which he matriculated with honors in 1892, and thereupon entered the

University of Toronto, from which he graduated as Bachelor of Arts in

1896, with first-class honors, in the Department of Political Science

and History, having been awarded during his course one of the Alexander

Mackenzie Scholarships in that department. In 1901 he received from his

Alma Mater the Degree of LL.B. He was articled as a student at law to

his father, the Honorable Justice Clute, in 1896; and studied law at the

Law School at Osgoode Hall, Toronto, where he obtained first-class

honors and was awarded a scholarship in each year of his course,

together with medal upon his call to the Ontario Bar in June, 1899.

Since that time Mr. Clute has practised his profession in the city of

Toronto, and has acted for several years as examiner at the University

of Toronto, and at the Law School, and is now also a Lecturer at the

University of Toronto. In politics he is a Liberal.

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=Goodeve, Hon. Arthur Samuel= (Ottawa), Dominion Railway Commissioner,

English and Canadian origin, son of Arthur Henry and Caroline Goodeve,

born at Guelph, Ont., Dec. 15, 1860, where he received his education at

the Public Schools and Collegiate Institute. A graduate of the Ontario

College of Pharmacy. Mayor of Rossland, B.C., 1889-1900. Appointed

Provincial Secretary in the first Conservative Government in British

Columbia, June, 1903, the McBride Administration; resigned portfolio,

returned for Kootenay District, in the House of Commons, general

elections 1908, appointed a member of Timber and Forestry Commission,

B.C., 1909-10, a Conservative Whip, House of Commons, 1910; resigned

seat on being appointed a Dominion Railway Commissioner. Married, April,

1884, Ellen Elizabeth Spence, daughter of James Spence, Toronto; father

of four boys and two girls. Member of following clubs: Rideau, Ottawa,

and Rossland, B.C.; and the Masonic order, Blue, Chapter and Commandery.

A Presbyterian in religion. Before accepting his present office, Hon.

Mr. Goodeve was recognized as a formidable campaigner and painstaking

representative.

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=Guilbault, Joseph Pierre Octave, B.A., LL.D.= (Joliette), Notary, was

born Sept. 3, 1870, at St. Paul de Joliette, Province of Quebec, son of

Joseph Guilbault and Adelaide Renaud, French-Canadians; educated at

L’Assomption College, P.Q., and Laval University, Montreal. Married,

Sept. 20, 1898, Clementine, daughter of Urgel Richard, of St. Jacques de

L’Achigan, has one son, Fernand, and one daughter, Germaine. For ten

years Secretary-Treasurer of Commissioners for Schools in Joliette,

where he practices his profession of a Notary. Elected to the House of

Commons for the constituency of Joliette in 1911. A Liberal-Conservative

in politics. Mr. Guilbault has not been defeated—sickness prevented him

from being a candidate in the election of 1917. In religion Mr.

Guilbault is a Roman Catholic.

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=Bronson, Henry Franklin= (Ottawa, Ont.), the one man, it has been said,

who understood the feasibility of converting the large lakes and furious

foaming falls of the Ottawa River into a channel for the driving of

saw-logs, was born in the town of Moreau, Saratoga County, New York

State, on February 24, 1817. His parents were Alvah Bronson and Sarah

Tinker. Mr. Bronson is of mixed Scottish and Welsh descent, and the

family, which is now scattered through most of the Northern States, at

an early period settled in New England. Members of this enterprising and

clever family were the Hon. Greene C. Bronson, of the New York bench,

and the Rev. Asa Bronson, who was for many years pastor of the First

Baptist Church, at Fall River, Massachusetts. The first of the family to

find his way to Canada was the subject of our sketch, and shortly after

he came here he led off in the lumber business. H. F. Bronson spent his

youthful days at Queensbury, Warren County, New York, in the family of

the late J. J. Harris, and he concluded his education at the Poultney

Academy, of Vermont. “Young Bronson,” says a reliable authority, “became

an apt scholar in agricultural sciences, but soon showed a preference

for woodland foraging, pre-destined, as he was, to become a great

marauder of pine forests.” In 1840, Mr. Harris, already alluded to,

purchased extensive pine tracts, erecting mills on one of the upper

Hudson lakes. He formed a partnership with his young and trusted friend,

Mr. Bronson, “whose assets consisted of a sound constitution, a resolute

will, unbending integrity, skill with the hand, and a mind to work.” The

partnership continued for twenty-two years, and during the last ten

years of the association, the greater portion of the business

responsibility fell upon our subject, owing to the failure of Mr.

Harris’ health. It soon became plain that the pine was rapidly

disappearing from the upper Hudson; therefore, in 1848, Mr. Bronson

passed over to Canada, proceeding along the Ottawa Valley till the

thunder of the Chaudiere Falls burst upon his ears. At once he was

satisfied that here was an excellent place to begin lumber operations;

for the timber seemed inexhaustible, and the water power magnificent. He

returned home, but in 1852 he persuaded Mr. Harris to accompany him to

the Ottawa Valley. When they reached again the region of kingly pines

and booming waterfalls, they were everywhere met with testimony from

river experts, saying that the Ottawa was not suitable for the safe

driving of saw logs, but Mr. Bronson recommended to his partner the

purchase of hydraulic lots at the Chaudiere Falls, then held by the

Crown. At the sale of the lots, made by Mr. Horace Merrill, general

superintendent of the Ottawa River works, a purchase was made, and here,

under the personal supervision of Mr. Bronson, their mills were built

within sound of the thunder of the falls. The mills having been erected,

Mr. Bronson removed his family to Ottawa, and there they were

established permanently. The relation of Mr. Bronson to the sawn lumber

trade of the Dominion of Canada will be better understood when it is

learned that his was the first movement in the Ottawa District for the

manufacture of sawn lumber for the United States market. The original

mill embodied all the modern improvements of the times, including iron

gates of novel model, a contrivance planned by Mr. Bronson himself, and

afterwards used in most of the gang saw mills on the Ottawa River.

Several other gentlemen, stimulated by the enterprise and success of Mr.

Bronson and his partner, likewise set out for Ottawa; and, after a time,

chiefly owing to the persistency of Mr. Bronson, a series of costly

river improvements were constructed, which made the driving of logs upon

the Ottawa a matter of greater convenience than upon many a smaller

stream, which has no large lakes to act as a reservoir for checking the

fury of the spring freshets. In 1864, Mr. Harris retired from the

business, Mr. Bronson still continuing the extensive manufacture of sawn

lumber, and owing to his splendid abilities as a manager, his operations

not alone maintained their ground, but gradually increased. The present

firm at Ottawa is known as The Bronson Company. Mr. Bronson married, on

November 5, 1840, Editha E. Pierce, of Bolton, N.Y., and had four

children. Gertrude, the only daughter, is the wife of Levi Crannell. The

sons are Erskine Henry, Frank P., and Walter G. The family are members

of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Bronson, like another great prince of

business men, Sir Hugh Allan, did not care for political life, and held

himself aloof from parties, but he was connected with several benevolent

institutions and business enterprises. In 1889, death called this

pioneer Canadian lumberman and high-principled citizen. His private and

social relations had won for him everywhere good will and highest

regard. Men had learned to esteem the man because of his tested and

sterling worth. In the commerce of Canada Mr. Bronson’s name will go

down in history as the first lumberman in the Ottawa Valley to

manufacture sawn lumber for the American market, and as a pioneer in the

development of the resources of that section of Canada to the point

where its principal city was deemed worthy of being named as the Capital

City of the Dominion. Business courage and keenness of perception were

required to accomplish these ends, but in more ways than one Mr. Bronson

had shown himself to be a man of practical vision and rare foresight. To

men like the late Henry Franklin Bronson, Canada and in particular the

business life of the Capital, must ever remain in debt.

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=Lemieux, Auguste, K.C., F.R.C.I., LL.B.= Few barristers in Ottawa are

better known or more popular than the subject of this sketch, who

occupies offices at No. 30 Rideau Street. Mr. Lemieux was born in

Montreal, February 20, 1874. His father, H. A. Lemieux, was Inspector of

Customs for the Province of Quebec until 1911. Some of his elder

brothers are Hon. Rodolphe Lemieux, K.C., P.C., M.P.,

ex-Postmaster-General and Minister of Marine and Fisheries in the

Laurier Cabinet; Dr. L. J. Lemieux, Sheriff of Montreal, and Chairman of

the Board of Censors of the Province of Quebec, and Dr. Gustave Lemieux,

M.L.A., for Gaspé, P.Q. Mr. Auguste Lemieux received his education at

L’Assomption College and St. Mary’s College (Jesuits), Montreal,

graduated from Laval University with honors and was conferred the degree

of Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) in 1898. He was called to the Quebec Bar in

the same year and to the Ontario Bar four years later. In 1908, at the

early age of 34, he was created K.C., and practised, successfully, his

profession in Montreal from 1898 until 1902, when he located in Ottawa,

and has since established a wide and ever increasing clientele in that

city. His brilliant defence saved Laderoute from the gallows in the

Bryson murder trial of 1906, and Blondin (charged with murdering Dr.

Empey) at L’Orignal, in 1910. He was Councillor of the Ontario Bar

Association from 1910 to 1913; President of L’Institut Canadien

Français, of Ottawa, 1903 to 1905; President of La Société du Monument

National, Ottawa, 1909 to 1910; President of the Belcourt (Liberal) Club

for several years; Vice-President of the Ottawa Reform Association, 1904

to 1906; President of Le Club Littéraire Canadien Français, Ottawa, 1911

to 1918. He is a member of the Y.M.C.A., and also a member of the

Ontario Club of Toronto. Mr. Lemieux has been frequently mentioned as

candidate for Parliament. He is the author of the work on the Quebec Law

of Landlord and Tenant and writes frequently for the French and English

Press. In April, 1914, the French Government, in recognition of Mr.

Lemieux’s proficiency in French literature, conferred on him the

decoration of “Officier d’Académie” (Academic Palms), through Monsieur

Réné Viviani, then Minister of Public Education of France. He was also

elected, in 1913, Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute of London,

England, for life. Mr. Lemieux is an eloquent platform speaker and has

frequently rendered services to his party. He married Esther Barbeau,

daughter of the late Henry Barbeau, General Manager of the City and

District Savings Bank and Assistant Receiver-General, Montreal, in

October, 1899, and has one son and two daughters. He resides at 16

Somerset Street West.

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=Lawlor, H. W.= (Hawkesbury, Ont.), was born at Hawkesbury, September

12, 1863, of Irish and American parentage. The son of Richard Lawlor, of

Hawkesbury, for many years Coroner of this district, and grandson of

William Lawlor, for over forty years manager for Hamilton Bros., and

Sarah Hersey, daughter of Z. S. M. Hersey, a New England pioneer, who

settled in Hawkesbury shortly after the British-American War of 1812,

and who at the time of his death was the town’s most prominent citizen;

he was educated in the Provincial Schools and graduated from Osgoode

Hall in law in 1890. In 1896, was appointed agent for the Justice

Department in his district, and has conducted some important litigation

on behalf of the Crown, the most prominent being the Exchequer Court

Case of Stewart vs. King, in which the late B. B. Osler made his last

public appearance. He has been Police Magistrate of Hawkesbury for over

eighteen years and has never had a conviction appealed or quashed. Has

been Local Solicitor for the Canadian Northern Railway since the date of

its construction; is Town Solicitor and also Solicitor for the several

banking institutions. Has never entered Municipal politics, but has sat

on the Board of Education; was first President of Hawkesbury Board of

Trade. Is a Presbyterian and a Liberal-Unionist.

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=McNeillie, James Richardson=, Clerk and Treasurer, County of Victoria,

Lindsay, Ont., was born in the Parish of Johnstone, Dumfries-shire,

Scotland, July 18, 1846, and came to Canada with his parents, Rachel

Kerr and James Richardson McNeillie, public school teacher, in 1853, who

settled in the County of Durham, where he was educated in the Public

School. He spent eleven years, from 1861 to 1872, in the village of

Omemee, where he was associated in the drug business and in municipal

work with Mr. Thomas Matchett, who was the first member of the

Legislative Assembly for South Victoria after Confederation. From 1872

to 1875 he was engaged in the business department of the Montreal

Telegraph Company at Toronto, but returned to the County of Victoria on

the invitation of the Hon. S. C. Wood, to become his assistant in the

office of Clerk and Treasurer. When the latter became Provincial

Secretary, Mr. McNeillie retained the same position under Mr. Matchett

from 1875, until his own appointment as Clerk and Treasurer of the

County, in 1900. When the Ross Memorial Hospital was founded by the late

James Ross, of Montreal, in 1902, he was appointed a Governor under the

Act of Incorporation, and is Secretary-Treasurer of the Trust. He is

also a member of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian

Church, and was Chairman of the Board of Education of the Town of

Lindsay for nine years, following on nineteen years’ service as member.

Always taking an active interest in movements for the betterment of the

criminal and mentally enfeebled classes of the Province, he was

President of the Canadian Conference of Charities and Correction for the

year 1909. In politics he is a Conservative, and in religion a

Presbyterian. He married Esther (deceased), daughter of William Thorton,

of Emily, January, 1872; and Loretta, daughter of Ralph Gardiner, of

Morpeth, 1882. He has three sons, James Kerr, Ralph Gardiner and George

Gardiner, and one daughter, Alice Gardiner. J. K. McNeillie has been

successively, Divisional Superintendent of the Canadian Pacific Ry.,

General Superintendent of the Canadian Government Railways, and now

Superintendent of the Susquehanna Division of the Delaware and Hudson

Railway. R. G. McNeillie is Assistant General Passenger Agent of the

Canadian Pacific Ry. at Winnipeg, Man., and G. G. McNeillie is a member

of the Albert Kerr Company, Limited, Toronto.

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=Chadwick, Edward Marion, K.C.= (Toronto, Ont.), was born at Cravendale,

Township of Ancaster, Ont., Sept. 22, 1840, and is the third son of the

late John Craven Chadwick, Guelph, Ont. He received a thorough

scholastic training. The bend of his mind being in the direction of the

law, he pursued his studies therefor, and was called to the Bar and

associated himself with the late W. H. Beatty, and has been a partner in

the firms successively formed by him in which many prominent members of

the legal profession have been partners, during a period of more than

fifty years, the firms being recognized as among the most important

engaged in their profession in Ontario. While perhaps it is unnecessary

to say anything here as to Mr. Chadwick’s ability as an author, we

cannot refrain from noting the publication of a work entitled “Ontarian

Families” (1894), being the genealogies of United Empire Loyalist and

other pioneer families of Upper Canada; he has also been a writer for

magazines on heraldic subjects, in which he is reputed to be the leading

authority on this side of the Atlantic. Mr. Chadwick was for a number of

years an officer in the Queen’s Own Rifles, retiring in 1882, with the

rank of Major. For the last forty years Mr. Chadwick has been identified

with church work, being an indefatigable worker, and he at present holds

the important office of Treasurer of St. Alban’s Cathedral.

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=Hackett, Edward= (Orangeville, Ont.), was born at Ballinasloe, County

Galway, Ireland, son of the late William and Mary Hackett. He was

educated at Ranelagh School, Athlone, and at Santry School, Dublin,

graduating from the Royal University in the Irish Capital in 1905, with

the degree of B.A., and is recognized as being one of the prominent

educationalists of the Province of Ontario. Mr. Hackett came to Canada

in 1908, and before leaving Ireland, was Senior Mathematical Master in

the Blue Coat School, Dublin, an institution which was established by

Charles the Second. He attended the Faculty of Toronto University, and

taught mathematics in the Galt Collegiate Institute for the year

1909-10, also at Meaford High School for four years (1911-15), and

succeeded as principal the late Alexander Steele, who had been the head

of the Orangeville High School for upwards of thirty years, the present

staff consisting of five teachers and the splendid standing and prestige

of the school being maintained under his principalship. In 1914,

Principal Hackett married Winnifred, the daughter of Dr. J. G. Clarke,

of Meaford. He is a member of the Canadian Club of Orangeville, and

Chairman of the Public Library Board, and is a member of the Masonic,

Oddfellows and Orange Orders. He is an adherent of the Church of

England, and a Liberal-Conservative in politics. Recognizing the

usefulness of the Cadet movement he has taken the course prescribed for

instructors and the Orangeville High School Cadets have attained much

efficiency under his direction. Principal Hackett is a man in the prime

of life, well informed on all matters of national importance, and gives

generously of his time and talents in the promotion of the best

interests of the community, in which he occupies so important a

position. His chief recreation is motoring.

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=Hunter, Lt.-Col. A. T.= (Toronto, Ont.), was born on the 25th of

October, 1869, and after having received a thorough primary and

elementary education at the public and high schools, he entered the

Toronto University where, in 1890, he had the distinction of having the

degree of LL.B. conferred upon him. He was duly admitted to the Bar in

1892 and at once embarked in the active practice of his profession, in

which, he has been very successful. He maintains a handsome suite of

offices at 706 Temple Building, Bay and Richmond Streets, where he

enjoys a large and lucrative practice, his services being constantly

retained by some of the leading firms and corporations of the city and

province. Colonel Hunter is prominently identified with the Masonic

craft, and is an active and influential member of the I.O.F., A.O.U.W.,

and a Past Master of L.O.L. No. 613. As an author Colonel Hunter is well

known, and among the works emanating from his pen may be named “Power of

Sale Under Mortgage,” “Foreclosure Under Mortgage,” and “Real Property

Statutes.” The Colonel, prior to this war, was courageous in pointing

out in speeches and contributions to the “Military Gazette,” absurdities

in our military organization. Colonel Hunter has devoted some time to

politics and was candidate for the riding of West Toronto in the

Dominion House, of the McCarthyites in 1896, and of the Liberals in

1904. In 1914, when war was declared by Germany on England and her

colonies, Colonel Hunter at once responded to the call to duty, laid

aside his business and other connections, and went overseas with the 4th

Battalion C.E.F. On April 23, 1915, he was wounded in the battle of St.

Julien, but returned to duty in time for the battle of Festubert; after

this he was placed on duty in England, and later returned to Canada on

leave of absence; while in Canada he acted as Brigade-Major at Camp

Borden in 1916. He again returned to England on active service, and in

February, 1917, was attached to the Princess Patricias on service in

France and was present with them at Vimy Ridge. He returned to Canada in

November of same year and has been gazetted Lt.-Colonel of the 12th

Regt. York Rangers.

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=Groves, Abraham, M.D.= (Fergus, Ont.), was born in the town of

Peterboro’, on Sept. 8, 1847. He is a son of Abraham Groves, and

Margaret, daughter of Gideon Gibson, one of the early pioneers of

Canada, who served through the war of 1812-15, and fought at Lundy’s

Lane. Mr. Groves came to this country with his parents from the County

of Wicklow, Ireland, about 1826, and settled in the vicinity of

Peterboro’. In 1856 Mr. Groves removed to the County of Wellington,

taking up his abode in the Township of Garafraxa, where he pursued the

occupation of farmer. During the Mackenzie Rebellion Mr. Groves took

part on the Loyalists’ side. The fruit of the marriage was thirteen

children, the subject of this sketch being the second eldest of the

family. He at first attended the common schools, but afterwards entered

the High School at Fergus. Some time after leaving school he resolved to

study medicine, and in 1868 entered the Toronto School of Medicine,

where he remained until 1871, graduating M.D. in the same year, from the

Toronto University. After graduation he at once went to Fergus and

entered into partnership with the late Dr. Munro, under the firm name of

Munro & Groves, which partnership existed two years. After dissolution

Dr. Groves practised by himself until 1874, when he took into

partnership Dr. John Wishart, now lecturer at the Western University, at

London, Ont., which partnership existed one year, Dr. Wishart then

retiring. However, again in 1879, he took into partnership Dr. Thomas

Chisholm, the association continuing for a year. In 1882 he again took

another partner, Dr. J. F. McMahon, now of Toronto, but this combination

too dissolved in 1883, and since that time Dr. Groves has singly

conducted one of the largest practices in Fergus. In 1869 he graduated

from the old Toronto Military School; in 1882 he was elected to the

Village council of Fergus, and was re-elected for the years of 1883 and

1884. He was elected reeve for 1885, but owing to his position of

surgeon of the county poor house, he could not retain his seat. Dr.

Groves is largely interested in real estate in the village, owning some

of the finest buildings there, among which structures may be mentioned

the Royal Bank building, constructed of brown stone. He is a member of

the Mercer Lodge, A.F. and A.M., No. 347; is surgeon and member of the

Oddfellows’ lodge No. 73, and has held all of the offices in that order.

He is also a member of the Royal Templars, and physician to lodge No.

124. In 1878 Dr. Groves was appointed physician and surgeon to the Grand

Trunk Railway at Fergus, which position he still holds. In 1882 he was

appointed physician and surgeon to the Wellington County House of

Industry, and this office he still likewise retains. In politics he has

held aloof from parties, though sincerely interested in the welfare of

the country. He is a member of the Church of England, and has been

churchwarden for twelve years of St. James’ Church, Fergus. He married

in 1874, Jennie, daughter of the late William Gibbon, of Elora, and by

this lady has a family of two children; she died in 1886. On January 29,

1910, he married Ethel May Burke, only daughter of the late D. S. Burke,

Esq., of Fergus. Dr. Groves enjoys the repute of being a very skilful

surgeon, and he was the first to perform in Canada the operation

technically known to the profession as _supra pubic lithotomy_. In

January, 1901, he established, in Fergus, the Royal Alexandra Hospital,

which has already become widely known throughout Western Ontario. He

also installed the Fergus and Elora Electric Light Plant, since taken

over by the Hydro-Electric. In 1911 he was tendered by unanimous vote

the Conservative nomination for the House of Commons for the South

Riding of the County of Wellington, but the pressure of his professional

work prevented his accepting.

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=Grange, Edward Wilkinson= (Ottawa, Ont.), was born at Napanee, July 4,

1876, a son of Alexander W. Grange and his wife, Annabella Daly;

educated at Napanee Collegiate Institute and Victoria University, taking

an Honor Course in Modern Languages at the latter institution, from

which he graduated with a degree of B.A., in 1899, upon which he took up

journalism as a profession and has since had a very extended experience,

serving first on “The Toronto News” for three years, afterwards on “The

Mail and Empire.” Was in charge of “The Globe’s” Ottawa Bureau and

contributor to editorial columns. During Mr. Grange’s University course

he was editor of the “Acta Victoriana,” in his final year; and President

of Athletic Union and first holder of the college “Athletic Stick”; was

editor of Eastern Press Service, serving all papers in the Maritime

Provinces during Parliamentary sessions, made Honorary Lieutenant in

Canadian Expeditionary Forces and had charge of daily press bulletin

service to troops Overseas; has been Ottawa correspondent of Toronto

“Globe” since 1907, also of “The Chronicle,” Halifax; “Telegraph,” St.

John; “Standard,” London, Eng. Secretary for three years of the

Parliamentary Press Gallery and President, 1912-13. Resigned from

“Globe” staff, November, 1918, to engage in special work for government

branches connected with re-construction problems and also to look after

private business interests. Mr. Grange is a Liberal and was nominated in

April, 1915, as Liberal candidate for the House of Commons for the

riding of Lennox and Addington. Ran as an Independent-Liberal supporting

Military Service Act in General Election of 1917. Belongs to the

following clubs: Rideau Club, Rivermead Golf Club and Rideau Aquatic

Club, Ottawa. He married, in 1915, Marion McDougall, a daughter of the

late John Lorne McDougall, C.M.G., Auditor-General of Canada, and has

one son, Edward Alexander McDougall, born June 26, 1917.

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=Ferguson, Hon. William Nassau= (Toronto, Ont.), Judge of the Supreme

Court of Ontario, Court of Appeals Division, was born in Cookstown,

Ont., in 1870, the son of Isaac and Emily (Gowan) Ferguson, and received

his education at Upper Canada College and Osgoode Hall, graduating from

the latter institution in 1894. He is a brother of Mrs. Arthur Murphy of

Edmonton—better known by her pen name of “Janey Canuck”—and of Thomas

R. Ferguson, K.C., of Toronto and Winnipeg. He is also a nephew of the

late Lieutenant-Colonel T. R. Ferguson, M.P. for South Simcoe, and a

grandson of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Ogle R. Gowan, M.P. for Leeds

and Grenville, who founded the Orange Order in Canada; also a cousin of

the late Hon. Justice Ferguson of the Supreme Court of Ontario. The

present Mr. Justice Ferguson became King’s Counsel in 1908, was elected

a Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada in 1916, and received his

present appointment in the same year. He has always been prominent in

outdoor sports, having been captain of Upper Canada College and Osgoode

Hall Rugby teams, President of the Ontario Rugby Union and a Director of

both the Toronto Baseball and Lacrosse Clubs. Judge Ferguson is a member

of the following clubs: Albany, Toronto, National, R.C.Y.C., Ontario

Jockey and Toronto Hunt, and also of the Masonic and Orange Orders. He

is a Trustee of the Hospital for Sick Children and a member of the

Executive of the Toronto and York Patriotic Fund, an Anglican in

religion and a Conservative in politics. His recreations are golf,

fishing and motoring. “A lawyer in love with law and enamored of common

sense, the Ontario Judiciary will be strengthened by his ability and

vigor.”—Toronto “Telegram,” December 9, 1916.

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=Burpee, Lawrence Johnston= (Ottawa, Ont.), the son of Lewis Johnston

Burpee and Alice DeMill Burpee, was born at Halifax, N.S., March 5,

1873, and educated at public and private schools. In 1899 he married

Maud Hanington, daughter of the late Rev. Canon Hanington, of Ottawa,

and has five children—Ruth, Lawrence, Margaret, Edward and Arthur. He

is Secretary of the International Joint Commission and has acted as

private secretary to three successive Ministers of Justice in the

Dominion Government, and for several years was Librarian of the Ottawa

Public Library; is the author of several publications, namely: “Canadian

Life in Town and Country” (1905); “The Search for the Western Sea”

(1908); “Flowers from a Canadian Garden” (1909); “Fragments of

Haliburton” (1909); “By Canadian Streams” (1909); “Songs of French

Canada” (1909); “A Little Book of Canadian Essays” (1909); “A Century of

Canadian Sonnets” (1910); “Canadian Eloquence” (1910); “Dictionary of

Canadian History” (1911); “Scouts of Empire” (1912); “Canadian Humor”

(1911), “Among the Canadian Alps” (1913); “Sandford Fleming, Empire

Builder” (1915); “Pathfinders of the Great Plains” (1915); “Soldier’s

Dictionary” (1916); and has in press at the present time, “Journals of

La Vérendrye” (Champlain Society), and “Fur Traders of the West” (Oxford

Press). He has also contributed to Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia

Americana, Canada and its Provinces, Royal Society Transactions, British

Association, etc.; is a member of the Royal Society of Canada, Royal

Geographical Society, Société Archæologique de France, American Library

Institute, Ontario Historical Society, American Library Association,

Champlain Society, Nova Scotia Historical Society, Historical Society of

the Mississippi Valley, Bibliographical Society of America. He is a

member of the Church of England, Conservative in politics, and Captain

in the Governor-General’s Foot Guards, Ottawa, and the 2nd Depot

Battalion, E.O.R. Mr. Burpee is a member of the Royal Ottawa Golf Club,

and also takes a deep interest in chess.

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=Boyer, Louis= (Westmount, P.Q.), the son of a merchant, L. Alphonse

Boyer, M.P., and Alphonsine Meilluer, and relation of Hon. Arthur Boyer

and Hon. George Simard; was born in Montreal, Que., January 23, 1872,

educated at the Normal School, Montreal College and McGill University;

graduated from Laval and McGill with the degrees of B.A., B.C.L., K.C.;

was formerly attorney for the city of Westmount and the town of

Cartierville. Is a member of the Roman Catholic Church, and on November

3, 1898, married Marie Sophie Alice Mathieu, the daughter of Aimé

Mathieu, of Montreal, her father being a merchant of that city. They

have ten children, Jeanne, Marthe, Claire, Simone, Marcelle, Pauline,

Madeleine, Thérèse, Lucienne and Cécile. Mr. Boyer is a member of the

following clubs: namely, University, Montreal Reform, Shawinigan Fish

and Game and the St. George Snow Shoe Club; is a Liberal in politics and

is well known as a prominent speaker and is in great demand at political

campaigns. He is a Director of the Franco-American Chemical Co., also of

the Canadian Inspections and Testing Laboratories, Ltd.

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=Edwards, John Wesley, B.A., M.D., C.M., M.P.=, son of George Edwards of

the County of Norfolk, England, and Elizabeth Jane Lyon, of the County

of Frontenac, Ont., the latter being of U.E. Loyalist stock and among

the first settlers in Frontenac. Born in the County of Frontenac May 25,

1865, and educated at the Sydenham High School, Ottawa, Normal School

and Queen’s University, Kingston; graduated from the latter in Arts and

Medicine in the year 1900. Married August 12, 1890, to Hester Jane

Purdy, daughter of Robert G. Purdy, and is the father of the following

children: Edna, John Worden, Sadie, Evelyn, and Elizabeth. Before

graduating in medicine the subject of this sketch taught school for

several years, and was County Clerk of Frontenac from 1899 to 1909, and

Gaol Surgeon of the County Gaol at Kingston from 1907 to 1909. First

elected to the House of Commons for Frontenac County in the general

elections of 1908 by a majority of 421, re-elected at the general

election of 1911 by a majority of 851, and again returned in the war

time election of 1917 by a majority of nearly 2,000. Doctor Edwards is

regarded as one of the best informed and energetic of the Conservative

members of the House of Commons, and was selected as one of the

Liberal-Conservative whips for Ontario in the Session of 1911 and 1912.

He is a member of the Executive of the Canadian Order of Chosen Friends,

and for the past three-and-a-half years has been the Executive Head of

that Order. He is a prominent Orangeman, being Deputy Grand Master for

Ontario East. In religion he is a Methodist.

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=Beith, Hon. Robert= (Bowmanville, Ont.), was born on May 17, 1843, of

Scotch parentage, and is the son of Alexander Beith and Catharine

McTaggart, of Argyllshire, Scotland, who migrated to Bowmanville many

years ago. He was educated at the public and private schools of that

town and later took a commercial course at Day’s College, Toronto. After

receiving his education he started business life as a farmer, later

becoming one of the largest stock breeders in Ontario, and has imported

much of the finest breeding stock in the country during the past

thirty-five years. As a citizen and public man he is held in the highest

esteem, and has received the highest honors to be had from his home town

and surrounding localities. Having ambitions other than business, he

drifted into public life, and received the nomination as the Liberal

candidate for the House of Commons for West Durham in 1891 and was

elected; was re-elected in 1896, and defeated in 1900. In the

by-election of 1902 he was again elected, and retained his seat up to

1904, when he voluntarily retired. West Durham has been the scene of

many hard fought political battles, and at times was contested by men

high up in the ranks of both political parties, brought in from outside

places, among whom were the late Hon. Edward Blake and Mr. George Tate

Blackstock, one of the most learned legal lights in Canada. It has

always been conceded that Robert Beith was the one man who could win

West Durham for the Liberal Party. On January 15, 1907, he was summoned

to the Senate by Sir Wilfrid Laurier, and is recognized as an able

Senator. He is a bachelor, and in religion a Presbyterian. On all

occasions, during the world-wide war, he was ready to help Canada do her

share, and contributed in many ways that will never be known to the

public at large, in helping the Motherland and her Allies to keep flying

the flags that stand for freedom against Prussianism.

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=Dymond, Allan Malcolm= (Toronto, Ont.) was born at Brixton, Surrey,

England, September 25, 1864, came to Canada with his parents in 1869 and

received his education at Upper Canada College. He studied law in the

office of Blake, Kerr, Boyd & Cassels, and subsequently with the Hon. A.

S. Hardy, and Henderson & Small, and was called to the Bar in 1885. He

practised law in Toronto until 1889, when he entered the service of the

province as Law Secretary to the Attorney-General; was appointed Law

Clerk of the Legislative Assembly in 1890. In November, 1890, he married

Emma Stanton Mellish, Mus. Bac., eldest daughter of the late Rev. H. F.

Mellish, Rector of Caledonia, Haldimand County, Ontario. Was a member of

and acted as Secretary to the Commission for the Revision of the

Statutes in 1897, and the Commission (1906-1914) which prepared the

Revised Statutes of Ontario, 1914. Was appointed King’s Counsel by the

Ontario Government in 1902. He is a specialist in the construction of

Statutes and Parliamentary draughtsmanship, and has been concerned in

the preparation or revision of most of the important legislation of the

province since his appointment. Is a member of the Church of England—a

liberal High Churchman.

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=Coyne, James Henry, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S.C.= (St. Thomas, Ont.), was born

at St. Thomas, Ont., October 3, 1849. James H. Coyne is the second son

of William and Christina Coyne, and was educated at the common school in

his native town, until he was eleven years old, when he passed into the

Grammar School, then under the charge of the late Mr. (Rev.) Nelson

Burns, M.A. At fourteen years of age, he matriculated in the University

of Toronto, carrying off the first general proficiency scholarship, and

first-class honors in classics, mathematics, French, etc. Owing to his

extreme youth, he did not enter University College until 1867. He

devoted himself chiefly to classics and modern languages, and, after

gaining numerous scholarships and prizes at the University and college

during his undergraduate course, graduated in 1870, carrying off the

Prince of Wales’ prize for general proficiency, the gold medal in

moderns, a silver medal in classics, the French essay prize, and

first-class honors in history and ethnology. In 1884 he was elected by

his fellow-graduates a member of the Senate of the University, a

position he still holds. After graduating, the subject of this sketch

entered the law office of the late Colin Macdougall, Q.C., at St.

Thomas; interrupted his law studies for a year to take charge of the

Cornwall High School, where he was headmaster during the year 1871;

returned then to Mr. Macdougall’s office for a year, and then removed to

Toronto, where he served for two years in the office of Bethune &

Hoyles. He was admitted to the bar in Michaelmas term, 1874, passing

first without an oral, both as barrister and as attorney; and at once

entered into partnership with his former principal, Mr. Macdougall, at

St. Thomas. The law firm of Macdougall & Coyne existed until 1880, when

it was dissolved. Shortly afterwards, Mr. Coyne entered into partnership

with J. Mann, under the firm name of Coyne & Mann. The partnership

continued until Mr. Coyne’s appointment in Dec., 1888, as Registrar for

the County of Elgin. During the Fenian excitement of 1866, Mr. Coyne

joined the St. Thomas Rifles, and served during three campaigns in that

year: First at London, during March, when some thousands of regulars and

volunteers were brigaded there; then at Port Stanley and Sarnia, in

June; and finally in camp at Thorold in August, where he acted as

quartermaster-sergeant to the Provisional Battalion of volunteers, who

were then brigaded with regulars and other volunteers under Wolseley. He

holds the Fenian Raid medal. The following year he joined the famous

University company of the Queen’s Own Rifles, of which he remained a

member until his graduation, with the degree of B.A., June, 1870. He

received the degree of M.A. (with honors) Toronto University, 1905, and

the degree of LL.D. (honorary) from Queen’s University, Kingston, 1909.

He was a member of the great Reform Convention, at Toronto, in 1883, and

was selected to speak to one of the resolutions passed by the

convention. He also attended the Young Liberal Convention of 1885, as a

delegate. In 1876, owing to a serious illness, he was obliged to give up

work for a year and a half. Eleven months of this vacation were devoted

to a visit to Europe, including England, Scotland, Ireland, Belgium, the

Rhine, Switzerland, France and Italy. On Nov. 21, 1877, Mr. Coyne

married Matilda, third daughter of the late John George Bowes, for

several years Mayor, and M.P.P. for the city of Toronto, and is the

father of four sons and two daughters, viz., James Bowes, Annie

Christine Elliott, John George Bowes, Margaret Adelaide, Henry Everyll

Bowes, and William Gordon Bowes. A member of the following clubs and

societies, viz.: Golf and Country Club, St. Thomas, President Elgin

Historical and Scientific Institute, which he organized in 1891;

President The Veterans’ Association, St. Thomas; The University of

Toronto Alumni Association of the County of Elgin; Honorary President

The St. Thomas Philharmonic Society; Vice-President and Ex-officio

Councillor The Ontario Historical Society; Member of the Council of the

Champlain Society since organization, member of the executive Committee

of the Board of Management of Alma College, St. Thomas; member of the

American Historical Association, and of the National Geographic Society,

member of the Société du Parler Français du Canada, member Methodist

Historical Society; Canadian Folk-lore Society, St. Thomas Horticultural

Society, Corresponding member Buffalo Historical Society, member

Canadian Defence League and the Canadian National Peace Committee; also

of Committee of Memorial to Heroes of 1812-14 Association; Chairman of

the Soldiers’ Aid Commission and member of Council of Serbian Committee

for the County of Elgin and City of St. Thomas. Has held the following

offices besides those mentioned above: Member of Executive Committee of

the University of Toronto; President of The Children’s Aid Society of

the County of Elgin on its organization; President (1882) of the East

Elgin Reform Association; President (1883) of St. Andrew’s Society;

President (1905-8) of the Handel Society; President (1909-10) of the St.

Thomas Operatic Society; Chairman for many years of the Executive

Committee of Board of Management Alma College. He was one of the first

vice-presidents of the University of Toronto Alumni Association (general

organization) and first honorary president of the St. Thomas Liberal

Club. In 1886 he contested West Elgin at the Provincial general

elections, but was defeated by A. B. Ingram, by 43 votes. In 1888,

appointed by the government of Sir Oliver Mowat, Registrar of Elgin, and

in 1892, at the request of the County Council, Local Master of Titles

for the County of Elgin and the city of St. Thomas, on the introduction

of the Torrens System of land registration. In 1897 was elected

President of the Pioneer and Historical Association of the Province of

Ontario, founded by the late Rev. Dr. Henry Scadding, and at once

proceeded to organize it upon a wider basis of membership and with a

much wider scope, under the name of The Ontario Historical Society

(incorporated in 1899 by special Act of the Ontario Legislature). The

presidency of the new society was held by him until 1902, when he was

succeeded by the late C. C. James. Under the auspices of the Society was

held, in 1899, the great Historical Exhibition at Victoria College,

Toronto. In 1906 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He

was President of Section II (English Literature and History) in

1910-1911. In 1892 was member of Central Committee for the celebration

of the Centennial of Upper Canada. Dr. Coyne is a gentleman of

indefatigable energy, ripe scholarship, and possessed of a fine style

and his literary investigations have been of great public value.

Notwithstanding large professional duties, he has delivered many notable

addresses and is the author of several interesting publications, among

which may be mentioned, “The Southwold Earthwork and The Country of the

Neutrals” (1893); “The Country of the Neutrals from Champlain to Talbot”

(1895); “Presidential Addresses to The Ontario Historical Society”

(1898-1902); “First Steps in the Discovery and Exploration of Ontario”

(1899); “A Century of Achievement” (1899) reprinted with some changes

and additions in Methodist Magazine (1901); “Exploration of the Great

Lakes (1669-1670), by Dollier de Casson and de Bréhant de Galinée,

Galinée’s narrative and map with an English version, including all the

map legends” (1903); “Richard Maurice Bucke,” a sketch (1906); “The

Talbot Papers with Preface, Introduction and Annotations” (1909);

“Pathfinders, of the Great Lakes” (1912); “The Indian Occupation of

Southern Ontario” (1916). In religion Dr. Coyne is a Methodist, and

finds recreation in golf.

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=Breithaupt, Louis J.= (Kitchener, Ont.), Leather Manufacturer, is

President of the Breithaupt Leather Company, Limited, with tanneries at

Kitchener, Penetanguishene and Woodstock, and Secretary of the Hastings

Tanning Company, Limited, Hastings, Ont. For years Mr. Breithaupt was a

member of the Berlin—now Kitchener—City Council as Councillor, Deputy

Reeve, Reeve and Mayor, which last office he held for two years. He was

also a member of the Waterloo County Council; Warden of the County in

1898, and a member of the Provincial Legislature of Ontario from 1900 to

1902. His fellow-citizens, in fact, have honored this representative

Canadian with practically every office in their gift, he having also

been Chairman of the Schools and Park Boards, and at various times

President of what was then the Berlin Board of Trade. He has taken an

active interest in the work of the local Canadian Patriotic Fund, of

which he was Vice-President for two and a half years, and afterward

became President. Mr. Breithaupt was on the first board of the

Kitchener-Waterloo Hospital and has been a Director of the Economical

Fire Insurance Company of Kitchener for many years, and also a Director

and member of the Executive Board of the Mutual Life Assurance Company

of Canada, whose head office is at Waterloo, Ont. Louis Breithaupt is

the eldest son of Louis and Catharine (Hailer) Breithaupt, his

grandfather having come to Waterloo County in 1831, where he was one of

the earliest manufacturers and built the fifth or sixth house in the

embryo city of Berlin. At the time of his demise in 1880, after an

active life, Mr. Louis Breithaupt, Senior, was its Mayor. The subject of

this sketch was born at Buffalo, N.Y., March 3, 1855, and was educated

in the Public and Grammar Schools of Berlin (now Kitchener), and in

Toronto. He married Emma Alvarene, second daughter of the late Benjamin

Devitt, J.P., ex-Mayor of Waterloo, by whom he has eight children,

Louise Evelyn, Emma Lilian, Martha Edna, Rose Melvina, Louis Orville,

William Walter, Catharine Olive and Paul Theodore. Among his clubs are

the Grand River, Country and Golf, and Kitchener Clubs, of Kitchener,

and the Ontario, of Toronto. He is a member of the Evangelical

Association in religion, and an Independent Liberal in politics.

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=Best, John= (Shelburne, Ont.), was born in Australia in 1861, of Irish

parentage. His father, John Best, was a farmer, and his mother was

Elizabeth Rolland. The subject of this sketch received his education in

the public school at Whitfield, in the County of Dufferin, and for many

years has been prominent in the municipal life of his township and

county. For 14 years he was a member of the County Council, and for 7

years President of The Dufferin Fire Insurance Company. In 1909 he was

selected as successor to the late Dr. L. John Barr, M.P., as the

Liberal-Conservative candidate for Dufferin in the House of Commons,

being returned by acclamation in 1911. He was again elected on the

Reciprocity issue by the large majority of 1,459. Elected in 1917 by

over 2,600 majority. Mr. Best has proven a most capable and efficient

representative, being thoroughly well versed in all the problems which

especially concern his constituents. A practical farmer, he takes a

lively interest in everything tending to promote the advancement of the

basic interest industry of agriculture. Realizing the importance and

advantage of the governmental scheme of Rural Mail Delivery, and its

necessity and benefit, he advocated its extension and development in his

own riding, where it has now reached the highest degree of efficiency

and service. He is also a liberal supporter of Agricultural Societies.

Mr. Best is well informed on all matters of National importance, and is

a ready and effective speaker. The inclination and ability for public

service is a family characteristic, for two of Mr. Best’s cousins are in

the Imperial Parliament, Mr. James Best, M.P., and Mr. Thomas Best,

M.P., who represents an Irish constituency. In 1887 Mr. Best married

Charlotte, only daughter of Mr. Thomas Thompson, of Thornbury, and has

one son John Chester. The member for Dufferin is prominent in the Orange

Order, being Past County Master. In religion he is a member of the

Church of England. Recreations: Motoring and fishing.

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=Bowell, Sir Mackenzie= (Belleville, Ont.). A name universally known in

Canada is that of the late Hon. Sir Mackenzie Bowell, K.C.M.G.,

ex-Premier of the Dominion and ex-Leader of the Conservative Party in

the Senate. He was born on December 27th, 1823, at Rickinghall, Suffolk,

England, the son of the late John Bowell, a carpenter and builder. He

came to Canada with his parents, ten years later, the family locating at

Belleville, Ont., then Upper Canada, which has ever since remained his

home, and where he was shortly afterwards apprenticed to learn the trade

of a printer in the office of the Belleville “Intelligencer,” a

newspaper of which in after years he became editor and proprietor. As a

young man, Sir Mackenzie became prominent in public affairs. He became

an Ensign in the Belleville Rifle Company, which he assisted in

organizing in 1857, and was one of the corps of observation on service

in Western Ontario during the American Civil War. During the Fenian

Raids of 1866 he was on service at Prescott. In 1874 he retired from the

service with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel of the 49th Battalion. He

also became prominent in the Orange Order and rose to the position of

Grand Master and Sovereign of the Order for British North America and

President of the Tri-annual Council of the Orangemen of the World. He

also took an interest in educational matters and served as Chairman of

the Public and Grammar School Boards, as Vice-President of the

Agricultural and Arts Association of Ontario, and as President of the

Ontario Press Association. A Conservative by conviction, he was a

candidate in North Hastings for the Canadian Assembly, in 1863. He was

defeated. In 1867, he was elected to the House of Commons for the same

constituency and held the seat continuously for twenty-five years, until

his elevation to the Senate in 1892. He was a member of the select

committee of Parliament to inquire into the troubles in the North-West

Territories in 1869-70. When the rebel leader, Louis Riel, was elected

to the House of Commons, shortly afterwards, the subject of this sketch

moved his expulsion as a traitor to the Crown. After the Conservative

victory of 1878, he entered Sir John A. Macdonald’s Cabinet as Minister

of Customs, and held that portfolio for thirteen years. In that capacity

it devolved upon him to carry out the new tariff system known as the

National Policy. On the death of Sir John A. Macdonald, he became

Minister of Militia in Sir John Abbott’s Cabinet, and on the demise of

the latter, Minister of Trade and Commerce in Sir John Thompson’s

Ministry. After the latter’s tragic death at Windsor Castle, England, he

was called on in December, 1894, to form a Cabinet, which he succeeded

in doing, taking the portfolio of President of the Council, and on

January 1, 1895, was made Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished

Order of St. Michael and St. George. When the Manitoba School question

arose, he was a strong advocate of justice to the minority, and after

some differences with his colleagues, he resigned the Premiership on

April 27, 1896. He was succeeded by Sir Charles Tupper, who paid him the

compliment of adopting his policy. In 1893, during his incumbency as

Minister of Trade and Commerce, he went to Australia to promote

inter-Imperial trade and the laying of an all-British Pacific cable

between Canada and that continent. Early in 1896 he went to England to

urge forward the Canadian-Australia or “all-red” cable, now an

accomplished fact, and sat in the third congress on the subject which

met in London, England. In 1896 he resumed the active control of the

“Belleville Intelligencer,” which he had relinquished when he entered

Sir John A. Macdonald’s Cabinet in 1878. In Belleville he was regarded

as the “grand old man,” and no Canadian boasted a wider circle of

friends in the country at large. The amiability of his nature, his large

intellectual capacity and his ability as a public speaker, marked him

for distinction. In religion he was a Methodist, and was married in

December, 1847, to Harriet Louisa, eldest daughter of the late Jacob G.

Moore, of Belleville. His helpmate died in 1884, and he followed her to

the grave in 1918. Of nine children born to them, five survive.

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=Langley, James P.= (Toronto), was born in the Provincial Capital on

June 15, 1864, and educated in Toronto, graduating from the Model School

in 1877. Son of Aylmer Langley and Alice (Thornber), his father being a

native of Ireland and his mother born in New York State. The subject of

this sketch early developed a marked ability as an expert accountant and

was one of the early members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants

of Ontario, an institution which has done much to stimulate the study of

higher accounting and to keep pace with the commercial and municipal

necessities of the day, and is a Fellow of the Institute so founded. Mr.

Langley is recognized as a man with a large and intimate knowledge of

industrial and financial enterprises, and his services are in constant

requisition by such institutions throughout the Dominion. He is retained

annually as the auditor of many leading business concerns, and is

trustee of large estates, his extended experience making his advice

particularly dependable. Mr. Langley married Carrie, daughter of Nathan

Brower, of New Jersey, U.S., and has one son, Clarence Aylmer. He is a

member of the Masonic order and of the Granite and Albany Clubs,

Toronto. He is also a Justice of the Peace; a member of the Church of

England. Politically he is a Liberal-Conservative. Recreations, motoring

and golf. Mr. Langley is one of the best known business men in the

province and enjoys the confidence of the mercantile community in a

marked degree.

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=Chamberlain, Theodore F., M.D.=, only son of Asher A. and Eliza Ann

Chamberlain. Born at Harlem, County of South Leeds, Ontario, July 6,

1838. His family came from Birmingham, England, and were in politics,

Cobdenites. The family crest bears the motto “Sapiens et Fidus.” His

father was born in Vermont, U.S., Feb. 12, 1810, and came to Upper

Canada in 1815, locating in the County of South Leeds. After attending

school at Potsdam, N.Y., he entered the Medical College at Fairfield,

N.Y., after which he returned to Harlem, South Leeds, and began the

practice of medicine, which profession he followed with more than common

success, until his death at Athens, on February 20, 1883. He was Past

Master of Harmony Masonic Lodge, Leeds, one of the oldest, if not the

oldest, Masonic lodge in Upper Canada. He was Major in the Eighth

Battalion, Leeds Militia, was a staunch temperance man, a member of the

Methodist Church, and always took an active part in politics, from the

troublous times of the Rebellion of 1836-7 down to the time of his

death. At the time of the Beverly Election Riots in South Leeds, he

nearly lost his life at the hands of the Tory Party under the leadership

of Ogle R. Gowan’s Orangemen. He was one of the deputation from Upper

Canada who went to the rescue of Lord Elgin at the time of the burning

of the Parliament Buildings in Montreal in 1849. His connection with the

Masonic lodge has already been noticed; this lodge he resuscitated at

Farmersville, in 1859, under the name of “Rising Sun Lodge,” and was for

several years its Master; was a Justice of the Peace, Postmaster at

Harlem, and held other positions of trust. Dr. Chamberlain’s mother was

Eliza Ann Toffey, and was born at Quaker Hill, N.Y., Oct. 15, 1803, and

died at Athens, formerly Farmersville, on March 20, 1894. The

grandparents on both sides lived to very advanced years. The doctor has

one sister, born at Harlem, August 2, 1836, and now living (1913) in

Toronto. She is the widow of the late J. C. Miller, ex-M.P.P. for Parry

Sound and Muskoka District, and owner of the Parry Sound Lumber Co. The

early education of the subject of this sketch was gained from parental

instruction at night around the old home fireside, and at the Township

School. He attended the Grammar School at Perth for some months in 1851,

and then served some two years as clerk in the general mercantile

establishment of Henry Laishley, at Elgin, where he gained the business

training and experience that stood him so well in later life. In 1851 he

served as Lieutenant, under Capt. Wm. J. Smith, and Col. Young, in the

8th Battalion of Leeds Militia. Later he took up the study of dentistry

in the office of F. D. Laughlin, Ottawa. After practising his profession

for some time, he went, in the fall of 1857, to New York City, but

later, yielding to solicitations of his father, he returned to his home

in Athens, to take up medicine. He matriculated at Queen’s College,

Kingston, in 1859, and passed the final examination in March, 1862,

receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine and Surgery, and his license

to practice in Canada, from the hands of Governor-General Monk. On the

13th of April following, Dr. Chamberlain located at Morrisburg, County

of Dundas, on the St. Lawrence River, and during the succeeding years

built up a large and lucrative practice. In 1859 he was requested by the

government of Sir Oliver Mowat to take the Inspectorship of Public

Institutions of Ontario. The history of the doctor during these years is

the history of a busy life. Besides following his profession, he served

as Reeve of his municipality, member of the Counties’ Council, and

Warden of the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, Justice

of the Peace, Health Officer, member of the High and Public Board of

Education, Director of the Agricultural Association, and Director of the

Parry Sound Lumber Company. Inspector of schools for County of Dundas.

At the time of the Fenian Raid, he was member of a strong company of

volunteers under Captain I. N. Rose, Superintendent of the Williamsburg

Canals, and with other members of the company was out night and day on

guard at the locks, and in the village, as an attack was daily expected

to be made by General O’Neal. On the 1st of July, the General with 1,600

men appeared on the bank of the river opposite Morrisburg. The

Government of Sir John A. Macdonald, realizing the seriousness of the

situation, and desirous of keeping informed of O’Neal’s movements,

appointed a man to keep in touch with O’Neal’s forces, but this man

failing to accept, Dr. Chamberlain, a strong personal, but not a

political, friend of Sir John’s, was detailed for this duty. He accepted

the appointment, and taking his horses and buggy, and accompanied by a

young man named Leslie Weaver, set out to follow the Fenian force, and

to report as fully as possible their movements and designs. Crossing the

river to Waddington, N.Y., on Capt. Murphy’s Ferry, on July 9, he found

that the Fenians had moved, and he followed them to Malone, about 50

miles distant, over-taking them about dark. Staying over night and

having obtained all information possible, he left the next morning for

Plattsburgh, which place he made that evening. After a wearisome and

anxious night, he left Plattsburgh for Whitehall, at the foot of Lake

Champlain, arriving there the next morning, and at Saratoga in the

evening. He continued the journey to Troy and Albany, and returned

thence to Ogdensburg, Prescott, and home to Morrisburg. The result of

this close espionage, and prompt reports by the scouts, and the careful

guarding of the river, was that the invaders were compelled to abandon

their design of crossing the river, and to turn their faces to the west.

The doctor’s services on this occasion were most effective and valuable,

yet he never applied for nor received land grant, or medal, nor refund

of his expenditure. In 1879, the doctor, as Warden, was appointed by the

Counties’ Council, then in session, to go as their representative to the

eastern boundary of the province, to meet their Excellencies, the

Governor-General, the Marquis of Lorne, and the Princess Louise, and

welcome them to Ontario. Later in the year he presented to their

Excellencies at Government House, Ottawa, an address on behalf of the

inhabitants of the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry.

The doctor has always been an ardent politician, an indefatigable

worker, and a vigorous but generous opponent. He was the candidate of

the Reform Party for the Legislative Assembly for the county in 1879,

and was defeated by 81 votes. In 1882, he was again the party candidate,

this time for the House of Commons, and again defeated by 79 votes.

Nothing discouraged, he again came before the Electors, in 1886, for the

Assembly, and was elected by 25 majority. He was defeated next election

by 28 votes, and again in 1904, was defeated for the Commons. In

conjunction with his brother-in-law, Mr. W. G. Parish, of Athens, he

established in the seventies, the first three cheese factories in

Eastern Ontario. He carried on an extensive drug business in Morrisburg,

from 1886 to 1873, when he sold it to Messrs. Carman and Brown. In 1871,

he received the degree of L.R.C.P.S. from Queen’s College, Kingston, as

well as that of F.B.S. During his practice in Morrisburg he had as

students, Messrs. Hart, McLean, Howes, Musgrove, Lane, Shibbley,

Beckstead and McKay, all of whom became successful practitioners. He was

always a strong advocate of temperance, and a member of the Methodist

Church. He became a member, under dispensation of the Grand Master, of

Rising Sun Masonic Lodge, Athens, in 1857, and joined Excelsior Lodge,

Morrisburg, No. 142, G.R.C., in 1862, and is yet an honorary life

member, having filled every office in the gift of the lodge, and having

received various decorations and gold medals. In 1867 he became a member

of the Grenville Royal Arch Chapter, No. 23, at Prescott. In 1869-70 he

was elected by the Grand Lodge, District-Deputy Grand Master for St.

Lawrence District. In 1885 he received the 95 degrees in the Supreme

Rite of Memphis, known as the Sovereign Sanctuary Degrees. In 1873 the

doctor explored the country east and north of Lake Superior to the

height of land, examining for timber and minerals. In 1878 he explored

the country along the shores of Georgian Bay, the “Soo,” and to the head

of Lake Nipissing. In 1883 he visited part of the southern, middle and

western States, including California, Colorado, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico

and Mexico. In 1889, leaving Montreal, he travelled through the

North-Western Territories, and Victoria, Vancouver, Puget Sound, and

Washington Territory. From 1889 to 1904, he acted as one of the

Provincial Inspectors of Asylums, Prisons, Gaols and Hospitals, serving

in that capacity until 1904, when he resigned, owing to ill health. In

1906 he was appointed by the Dominion Government, under the Public

Health Department, Inspector of all the doctors employed on Public

Works, from the Red River to the Pacific Ocean. In pursuance of the

duties of this position, he had to travel distances of from 1,000 to

1,500 miles at a trip, ford rivers, make his own trail over prairies,

sleep in a tent wherever night overtook him, in that great lone land. In

the winter of 1907, he sent in his resignation, and in the spring of

1908, inspected and estimated the timber on the Dokis Indian Reserve,

Lake Nipissing. The pine timber on this Reserve was sold by the

Government at Ottawa in June, and the doctor bought one of the limits,

and in the fall had buildings, appliances, and materials complete for

lumbering operations. During the winter he took out, and in the spring

sent, 2,300 pieces of board timber, for the English market, by way of

Lake Nipissing to Callender, thence by rail to Kingston, and rafting it

thence to Quebec. He closed up this deal, and in 1910 went to

California, visiting by the way, the principal cities in the West.

During the past 30 years, he has bought and sold large quantities of

pine timber in Ontario, and prospected for and located mines in the

Rainy River and Lake-of-the-Woods Districts, and explored almost every

part of Northern Ontario mining and timber lands. Dr. Chamberlain

married, in 1862, Annetta, third daughter of Arza Parish, Esq.,

merchant, Athens. He has one son, W. P., born at Morrisburg on May 19,

1863, and one daughter, also born at Morrisburg, March 8, 1871. The Dr.

and Mrs. Chamberlain celebrated their golden wedding on July 3, 1912.

They had resided in Toronto since 1890, but the lure of his profession

became too strong, and so the doctor has improved and embellished his

beautiful residence in Morrisburg, fitted it up with all the latest

devices and scientific appliances, and is conducting most successfully a

Sanatorium for the relief and cure of suffering humanity.

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=Chapleau, Major Samuel Edmour St. Onge=, ex-clerk of the Senate, clerk

of the Parliaments and master in chancery, was born at Syracuse, New

York, in 1839. He is the second son of the late Pierre Chapleau, of

Terrebonne, Quebec, and was educated at Terrebonne College. In 1860 he

went to the United States, and at the outbreak of the Civil War, in

1861, entered the regular army of that country and received in

succession, promotion to the ranks of second lieutenant, first

lieutenant and Captain of the 16th Regiment of Infantry. He also

received the rank of brevet-Captain for gallant and meritorious service

at the battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and that of Major for gallant

service during the Atlanta campaign and at the battle of Jonesboro,

Georgia. He was at the battle of Shiloh, at the Siege of Corinth, and at

the battles of Chickamauga and Chattanooga. He was sent to Memphis in

1866 during the riots in that city, and in 1868 was in command of the

troops at Augusta, Georgia, during the riots which took place between

the whites and the colored people on the occasion of the first election

of President Grant. He retired from the United States Army, January 1,

1871, and September 15, 1873, entered the Civil Service of Canada. He

successively held the appointments of Secretary Department of Public

Works, Sheriff of the North-West Territories, and Clerk of the Crown in

Chancery. On January 27, 1900, he was appointed Clerk of the Senate and

held that position until he retired, in the early part of 1917. In view

of his long and faithful service in the Senate, Major Chapleau was

appointed an honorary officer of that house and is allowed entree and

seat at the table on the occasions of ceremony. He married Caroline K.,

third daughter of the late Lieut.-Col. G. W. Patten, of the United

States Army. Major Chapleau declined the honor of C.M.G. tendered to him

in 1914.

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=Aikenhead, Thomas E.= (Toronto, Ont.), was born at Toronto, September

14, 1859, and received his education in that city. In 1873 he entered

his business career with his father’s firm, which was originally

established in the year 1830, and conducted for many years by his late

father, Mr. James Aikenhead and Mr. A. T. Crombie, under the name of

Aikenhead & Crombie. To-day this firm has some 100 employees, and the

subject of this sketch is President and General Manager, under the firm

name of Aikenhead Hardware, Limited, with extensive premises on

Temperance Street. During the earlier days of Canada there were but few

hardware houses of such importance, and Mr. Aikenhead set to work to

build up a business to suit the rapid development of the country and has

to-day made a reputation for himself as a leader in his own particular

branch. Besides his business connections he is an ardent worker in

church circles and a regular attendant of the Timothy Eaton Memorial

Church. He is a member of the Ontario Club, Toronto Bowling Club, Board

of Trade and the Ontario Motor League, taking an active interest in the

good roads campaign of 1910. He is also a director of the Tisdale Iron

Stable Fittings Co. In looking over the extensive buildings erected in

Toronto, one can only imagine the important part Mr. Aikenhead has

played from a business standpoint, and he can truly be classed as one of

the builders of Canada.

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