=Brock, William Rees=, the late, was born on February 14, 1836, in the

Township of Eramosa, near Guelph, Ontario. His father Thomas Rees Brock,

was of an ancient English family who were landed proprietors near

Colchester in the County of Essex. His mother was Eleanor Thompson,

daughter of Thomas Thompson, of Rusheen, Queen’s County, Ireland. The

young couple, aged respectively 17 and 21 years, were married at the

Parish Church in Guelph and after the ceremony rode on horseback to

their new home five miles away in “the wild woods.” After a few years of

life on the farm Mr. Brock was persuaded that a man of his education and

attainments could do better in the town and he removed to Guelph where

he held several appointments as Town Auditor, Secretary of the School

Board, Superintendent of the Government Road and Surrogate Court Clerk.

In the fall of 1850, while out shooting in the woods, he was

accidentally shot and died at his residence, Park Place, a few days

afterwards, aged thirty-eight years, leaving his widow with nine

children surviving. The stone house he built on the York Road is still

standing. The subject of this sketch was the second child and eldest

son. He immediately left the Guelph Grammar School and went into the law

office of the Hon. Ferguson Blair, where he remained about a year,

deciding to enter commercial life, in which he achieved so conspicuous a

success. His first employment was in a general store in Caledonia. About

1854 he located in Toronto, being engaged with Scott & Laidlaw. He

married on the 23rd of September, 1857, Margaret Anna, second daughter

of Captain John Segur Diamond, formerly of Clonenagh, Queen’s County,

Ireland, who came to Canada in 1834, and served through the rebellion of

1837 as Adjutant of the 2nd Gore Regiment. Capt. Diamond was at one time

in the Royal Irish Constabulary and after his arrival in this country

was engaged in business with Colonel Chisholm, of Oakville, and others,

as lumbermen and vessel owners. He had died some nine years previously

to his daughter’s marriage. After his marriage, Mr. Brock went into

business in Guelph, but later sold out and entered the service of

McArthur & Co., of Bowmanville, where he remained about four-and-a-half

years, subsequently went to Ogilvy & Co., Montreal, wholesale merchants,

was English buyer for that firm for some years; was made a partner and

came to Toronto in 1871, and opened Ogilvy & Company’s Toronto branch.

In 1877, in partnership with his brother, J. H. Brock, he started the

business of W. R. Brock & Brother, at the corner of Bay and Wellington

Streets, Toronto. In 1879 a partnership was formed with Messrs. F. Wyld

and H. W. Darling, as Wyld, Brock & Darling. Mr. Darling retired in

1883, and Mr. Wyld in 1887. The firm of W. R. Brock & Company was turned

into a joint stock company in 1897. The Montreal branch was started in

1899, and the branch at Calgary in 1905. Besides being President of the

W. R. Brock Company, Ltd., he was a director of the Dominion Lands

Colonization Co., the British Canadian Loan and Investment Co., Toronto

Electric Light Co., Electrical Development Co., Ontario Accident

Insurance Co., Toronto General Trust Corporation and the Dominion Bank.

He was also President of the British American and Western Assurance

Companies, the Stanstead Granite Quarries Company, London Electric Light

Company, and the Canadian General Electric Company. Mr. Brock was one of

the founders of the “Empire” newspaper, Toronto, and served as President

of the company until its amalgamation with “The Mail” in 1895. For years

he was President of the Toronto Conservative Association and sat in the

House of Commons for Centre Toronto in the Conservative interest from

1900 to 1904. Mr. Brock was also a director and a leading spirit in many

philanthropic organizations. He was a founder and President of the

Toronto Humane Society, a life member of the Council of Trinity

University and of Upper Canada College, and benefactor of both

institutions. He was a member of the congregation of St. James’

Cathedral, and from 1883 to 1890 was a churchwarden. His clubs were:

Toronto Club, York Club, Albany Club, Toronto Hunt Club, Toronto; The

Rideau Club, Ottawa; and St. James’ Club, Montreal. His surviving

children are Lt.-Col. Henry Brock, Lt.-Col. R. A. Brock, Mr. W. L.

Brock, and the Misses Lilian, Gertrude, and Muriel Brock. Mr. Brock died

at his residence, 21 Queen’s Park, Toronto, on November 1, 1917. He was

almost eighty-two years of age, and actively engaged in business up to

within a few days of his death. Although advanced in years Mr. Brock

retained his keen business acumen right through and served to the last

in an advisory capacity to the directors of the W. R. Brock Company. By

virtue of exceptional ability, organizing genius, hard work,

adaptability, generosity and an appreciative attitude toward those in

his employment, he was able to develop one of the outstanding mercantile

houses of the Dominion. He held the esteem of the merchants in

practically all the primary markets of the world. In Canadian industry

he was declared to be an international figure. The memory of William

Rees Brock will long live as a man noted for his commercial integrity,

splendid philanthropy, and public enterprises. He was endowed with a

winning personality, and his influence in public affairs was always for

good. He was a staunch supporter of British Connection, and believed in

promoting closer trade relations between Canada and the Mother Country.

He lived a long, useful, and upright life, an inspiration to others, who

would merit the approval of their fellows, and the close of a career so

full of years and honors was regarded as a public loss.

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=Dwyer, William Henry=, President of W. H. Dwyer Co., Ltd., general

grain and produce dealers and exporters, 49 Metcalfe Street, Ottawa, is

one of the capital’s busiest and most active men. His early life was

spent on the farm at Thurso, Que., entered the employ of W. C. Edwards &

Company, Limited, at Rockland, Ont., in 1882, to learn the lumber

business, in whose employ he remained until May, 1890, when he left this

company and removed to Thurso, Que., where he operated, successfully, a

steam ferry and cartage business, which developed in 1902 into a hay and

grain business, in a small way. The growth of this business made it

necessary in 1898 for him to move to Ottawa. The increased business,

occasioned principally by the South African War in 1900 and 1901, made

it necessary to form a limited company, viz., the W. H. Dwyer Co., Ltd.,

which was formed in 1901, and since that time has developed to such an

extent that some years ago offices were opened at Montreal and Fort

William and, in 1917, a subsidiary company was formed in Winnipeg under

the name of McGaw-Dwyer, Limited, to take care of the Western business.

Mr. W. H. Dwyer was born at Bell’s Corners, County of Carleton, Ontario,

May 6, 1861. He is the son of Dennis and Jane (Hall) Dwyer, and was

educated at Thurso, Quebec. In 1885 he married Sara McDonald,

Cumberland, Ontario, and has four daughters. He is President the Dwyer

Elevator Co., President and Managing Director the Slinn-Shouldis Co.,

Ltd., Ottawa; President Forwarders, Ltd., Ottawa; Vice-President the

Saskatchewan Lumber Co., Ottawa; Vice-President Prince Rupert Timber and

Lumber Co., Ottawa; Vice-President and Managing Director Continental Bag

and Paper Co., Ottawa; Vice-President Lawrence Dairy Supply Co., Ottawa;

Vice-President Ottawa Contractors, Ltd., Ottawa; Director McKellar

Townsite, Ltd., Ottawa; Vice-President McGaw-Dwyer Co., Ltd., Winnipeg;

Vice-President J. W. Hennessy, Incorporated, Buffalo, N.Y. For the years

1913-1914 he was President of the Ottawa Board of Trade, and is a life

Governor of the Protestant Hospital. He has supported the Red Cross and

Patriotic causes in many ways during the war. He is a member of the

Laurentian, Canadian and Rivermead Clubs. In politics he is Independent.

In religion a Methodist, and his address is 91 McLaren Street, Ottawa,

Ontario.

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=Bristow, Michael George=, son of the late Rev. Ernest Bristow, of St.

Paul’s Cathedral, London, England, arrived in Ottawa in 1893. He was

born at Bath, England, in 1879, where his mother still resides. His

brother, Rev. Walter Bristow, soon after the opening of hostilities in

the Great War brought about by Germany’s treachery, became Chaplain with

the Imperial forces and started for France, while his sister Ethel

offered her services and started to do her share as a nurse in a

Military Hospital in France. In 1892 Mr. Bristow made Ottawa his home

and took a position in the Civil Service. Ambitious, and feeling that

such employment did not offer sufficient possibilities, he resigned and

went into the typewriter business. Success crowned his first efforts and

he built up a large volume of trade. In 1897 Mr. Bristow became the

representative in Ottawa, Ont., of the Underwood Typewriter and dealer

in typewriters’ supplies. He was one of Ottawa’s best-known business

men. Being a lover of music, and possessing a fine voice, soon after his

arrival in Ottawa Mr. Bristow became a member of St. John’s Anglican

Church choir and, later, its president, and always, when solicited,

freely gave his services as a singer for patriotic and charitable

purposes. He was an all-round athlete, and gained fame in cricket and

bowling; was the founder of the Ottawa Cricket Club, and president of

the Bowling Club at Chelsea, Quebec; also president of the Chelsea

Athletic Association. In 1905 he won the Massey-Harris Cup for all

Canada in the National Tennis Competition, in which he represented the

Ottawa Tennis Club. With marked ability as an amateur minstrel he

organized and was head of a local Minstrel troop that has already given

many concerts of exceeding merit. He was president of the Orpheus Glee

Club, and a prominent member of the Masonic Order Sports. Before the

departure of the 207th Battalion for Overseas he arranged a big concert

for its benefit. To other organizations he rendered similar services,

and was elected President of the War Veterans’ Choral Society. In 1897

he married Beatrice Bristow, daughter of Arthur Bristow, who came from

England and joined the Dominion Civil Service. Three children have

blessed the union—Joan, Reggie and Marjorie. Mr. Bristow died on

December 19, 1917.

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=Braithwaite, Edward Ernest= (London, Ont.), President of Western

University, son of Mark Mell Braithwaite and Elizabeth Eckardt; born at

Unionville, Ont., March 14, 1865. Educated at Markham High School and

Toronto University, McGill University, B.A. (with first class honors in

Philosophy, ’86), Oberlin College, Ohio, (B.D., ’90), University of

Chicago, and Harvard University, where he obtained the degree of M.A.,

1901, and Ph.D., 1904. Married, November 10, 1892, to Ida Minnie Van

Camp, daughter of Rev. Albert and Isabella Van Camp, of Cleveland, Ohio.

Is the father of the following children: Harold Albert, born August 28,

1893; Lloyd Mell, born October 22, 1896; Ernest Scott, born December 8,

1899; Percy Bryant, born March 9, 1905; Carol Isabel, born December 25,

1906. Dr. Braithwaite is a noted educationalist, and has occupied many

important positions in the prominent seats of learning in Canada and the

United States, and has also filled many pastorates, among which may be

mentioned the following: 1890-95, Pastor St. Louis, Mo. (Fountain Park

Congregational Church); 1896-97, Graduate Student University of Chicago

(working mainly with that eminent teacher, the late President Harper in

the Department of Oriental Languages); 1897-1900, Pastor Tabernacle

Church, Yarmouth, N.S., and Chairman of the Congregational Union of the

Maritime Provinces, also Missionary Superintendent for the Provinces of

Nova Scotia and New Brunswick; 1900-1901, began Ph.D. course in the

Graduate Department of Harvard University, and at the end of the first

year was called to Oberlin owing to the illness of Hebrew Professor.

Returned to Harvard University the following year; 1901-02, Acting

Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament Literature, Oberlin College, Ohio;

1902-03, Graduate Student, Harvard University, from which he received

the degree of Ph.D. in 1904 and was appointed Williams Fellow; 1903-08,

Pastor of West Somerville, Mass.; 1908-11, Pastor of Northern Church,

Toronto; 1912-13, Dean of Calgary College, Calgary, Alberta; 1914, was

appointed President of the Western University of London, which position

he now holds. Dr. Braithwaite is a member of the Rotary and Canadian

Clubs, and has been a Liberal in politics although not especially

identified with any parties. He is Chairman of the Military Committee of

the C. O. T. C. of the Western University and takes great interest in

Military matters and all amateur sports. He is also one of the Board of

Directors of the London Chamber of Commerce and several other local

organizations.

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=Bell, John Howatt, M.A., K.C.=, Barrister, Summerside, Prince Edward

Island; was born at Cape Traverse, Prince Edward Island, on the 13th of

December, 1846. His father, Walter Bell, emigrated from Dumfries,

Scotland, in 1820, and settled at Cape Traverse. His mother was

Elizabeth Howatt, daughter of Adam Howatt. Mr. Bell received his

education at the Prince of Wales College, Charlottetown, Prince Edward

Island, and at Albert University, Belleville, Ont., at which latter

institution he took the degrees of B.A. and M.A. He studied law as a

profession with Thomas Ferguson, Q.C., Toronto, and was called to the

bar of Ontario in 1874. He then went to Ottawa, and in partnership with

R. A. Bradley, practised his profession for eight years in that City. In

1882, Mr. Bell removed to Emerson, Manitoba, and was admitted a member

of the bar of Manitoba in 1882, and practised in Emerson for two years.

In 1884 he went to Prince Edward Island, and having passed the necessary

examination, he became a member of the bar of that Island, and has since

resided at Summerside successfully engaged in his profession. For four

years, he represented East Prince in the Federal Parliament, and in

1915, became a candidate for the Fourth District of Prince in the Local

Legislature and being re-elected, was chosen Leader of the Liberal

Opposition. On the 7th of April, 1882, he was married to Helen, daughter

of Cornelius Howatt, of Summerside, Speaker of the House of Assembly of

Prince Edward Island. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and a

member of the Masonic Order.

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=Gillespie, Professor Peter, M.Sc., C.E.= (Toronto, Ont.), was born at

Grafton, Ont., April 17, 1873, the son of Peter Gillespie, proprietor of

the Vernonville Flour Mills, who died in 1873, and his wife, Eliza

Hossack, a native of Cromarty, Scotland, who still survives. Prof.

Gillespie was educated at the Cobourg Collegiate Institute, the

University of Toronto and at McGill University, Montreal. His academic

connection with the University of Toronto began in 1904, when he became

Demonstrator in Applied Mechanics in the School of Practical Science,

now the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering. Subsequently he

became Lecturer and, in 1911, Associate Professor in the same

Department, the position which he at present occupies. Since 1908 he has

been a member of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, now the

Engineering Institute of Canada, is at present a Councillor thereof and

Chairman of the Toronto Branch. During the years of its active

existence, 1908-1912, he was President of the Canadian Cement and

Concrete Association, an organization devoted to the dissemination of

authentic information concerning the uses of Portland Cement in building

construction. To the transactions of the Canadian Society of Civil

Engineers and to the Technical press generally, Mr. Gillespie is an

occasional contributor. In addition to the duties of his academic

position, he devotes a part of his time to the practice of engineering

and as designer or consultant has been identified with engineering

projects in various parts of Canada. He has of late been actively

engaged in the training of returned soldiers for the Invalided Soldiers’

Commission of Canada. In 1910 he married Mary Hope, daughter of Mr. M.

O. Merritt, U.E.L., of Smithville, Ont., a retired farmer whose forbears

came from Fishkill, Duchess County, New York, at the time of the United

Empire Loyalist migration following the close of the American

Revolutionary War. They have two children, Mary Elizabeth and Robert

George. In religion Mr. Gillespie is a Presbyterian and in politics

inclines toward Liberalism. He resides at 358 Davenport Road.

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=Grange, Edward Alexander Andrew=, Toronto, Principal of Ontario

Veterinary College, 110 University Avenue, Toronto, was born in London,

England, April 9, 1848. His parents were the late Lt.-Col. George John

Grange, Sheriff, County Wellington, and Mary, daughter of Capt. Dawson.

Although born in England, Mr. Grange’s education was obtained entirely

in this country, first by private tuition, then at Dr. Tassie’s School,

Galt, Ontario, and finally at Ontario Veterinary College where he

graduated with the degree of V.S. in 1873, obtaining his M.S. in 1908,

at Michigan Agricultural College. An ardent Imperialist, Mr. Grange was

for many years a staff officer of Wellington Field Battery and Brigade

of Artillery, and is a present member of the Canadian Military

Institute, the Empire Club and the Canadian Club. In his profession he

has always distinguished himself. From 1875 to 1882 he was a lecturer at

Ontario Agricultural College; from 1883 to 1897 he was a professor

Veterinary Science, Michigan Agricultural College; 1897 to 1899 he was

principal Detroit Veterinary College; from 1899 to 1908 he was engaged

in veterinary research work in New York State, and since then has been

principal of Ontario Veterinary College, Toronto. He is a member of

numerous veterinary and other scientific societies, a Fellow of

A.V.M.A., a member of N.Y. Veterinary College Alumni Association, and an

honorary member of Alpha Phi Society of Cornell. An Anglican in

religion, Mr. Grange is married to Bessie, daughter of Lt.-Col. James

Webster, registrar, Wellington County. Their union was blessed with

three children, James Webster (deceased), Flight Commander E. Rochfort,

D.S.C., R.N., holder of Croix de Guerre; and daughter, Maynard.

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=Morin, Victor, LL.D.= (Montreal, Que.), is the son of Jean Baptiste

Morin, a lumber merchant of St. Hyacinthe, was born at St. Hyacinthe,

Que., August 15, 1865, is a Notary and Professor of Law at Laval

University, was educated at St. Hyacinthe College, Que., and Laval

University, Montreal, graduating 1884, 1888, 1909 with the degrees of

A.B., LL.D.; is the author of several books and articles on historical,

literary, scientific, social and business subjects, and is a member of

the Royal Society of Canada, President of the Société Nationale des

Beaux-Arts, and Vice-President of the Montreal Library Commission,

President-General of the St. Jean Baptiste Society, President of the

Association du Notariat Canadien, President Montreal Historical Society

and Heraldic College, also member of the Antiquarian and Numismatic

Clubs, of which he is vice-president, besides belonging to the Reform

Club, Cercle Universitaire, St. Dennis Club, and several others; his

favorite recreations are the study of books and curios. He is a member

of the Roman Catholic Church and Liberal in politics; Past Supreme Chief

Ranger of the Independent Order of Foresters, and member of many other

fraternal societies. In business circles he is very active, being

President, Vice-President or Director of several business and financial

corporations. On January 12, 1893, he married Fannie Cote, the daughter

of Hon. Daniel Cote, of Biddeford, Maine, and after her death married

Alphonsine Cote, on May 5, 1896, the daughter of Victor Cote, of St.

Hyacinthe, Que.; he is the father of the following children, namely,

Lucien, Reginald, Marc, Andre, Gisele, Claire, Marie, Renee, Roland, Guy

and Roger, besides two deceased.

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=Hastings, David= (Dunnville, Ont.), is the son of John and Mary Jane

Hastings, born in Toronto, Ont., October 3, 1860. He received his

education at the Toronto and Hamilton Public Schools and Hamilton

Collegiate Institute. Mr. Hastings is the editor and publisher of “The

Gazette,” the oldest paper in the County of Haldimand, which was

established in 1852. It is a Conservative journal, published at

Dunnville. In February, 1915, Mr. Hastings was appointed Police

Magistrate for the Town of Dunnville and adjoining townships in

succession to the late Dr. S. W. Brown. He is a member of the

Typographical Union, the Masonic Order, Independent Order of Oddfellows,

Independent Order of Foresters and also of the Orange Order. In religion

Mr. Hastings is a Methodist. He married Rose, daughter of Frederick

Shepheard, of Toronto, and is the father of two children: Frederick

Clarke, born April 21, 1896, and Edward George, born Oct. 22, 1900.

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=Anderson, Frederic William=, of Kamloops, B.C., eldest son of the late

William Anderson, who was Manager of the J. R. Booth Lumber Company for

a number of years, was born at Ottawa, September 28, 1883. Educated at

the Public Schools and Collegiate Institute, Ottawa, and McGill

University, Montreal, from which latter institution he graduated in 1906

with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. After

spending a number of years on large construction works in different

parts of Canada, Mr. Anderson went to Kamloops, where he actively

engaged in the live stock industry and farming, and brought to bear upon

the existing situation his splendid knowledge as a civil engineer, and

being a keen irrigationist, developed and brought under cultivation

large areas of land. He organized and was President of the Heffley Creek

Water Users’ Association. He was elected at the general elections held

in September, 1914, a member of the Legislative Assembly for the

Province of British Columbia, as a Liberal over the former member, Mr.

J. Pierson Shaw, by a majority of 569; was Deputy Whip, session 1917,

and elected chief Government Whip Session 1918. Mr. Anderson married

Marion Claire, daughter of George E. Carbould, K.C., ex-M.P., New

Westminster, B.C., and is the father of two children, Francis Marion

Carbould and William Patrick. He is a Lieutenant, Canadian Engineers,

C.E.F.; a member of the Presbyterian Church, and of the Kamloops Club,

University Club, Vancouver Kappa Alpha Society, and the Masonic Order.

* * * * *

=de Tremaudan, A. H.=, Barrister (Winnipeg, Man.), was born at St.

Chrysostome, Quebec, July 14, 1874. His parents are living at

Montmartre, Sask.; father was a captain in the Franco-Prussian war,

1870, and is a direct descendant of Sire Beaumanoir, by whom he was

related to LaFayette, the great French soldier, famous in American

history. Mr. de Tremaudan was educated at the Clerical College of

Guérande, France, and at Rennes University, France, from which he

graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Letters. He is a gentleman of

fine literary attainments, and has made a special study of all matters

pertaining to the early history of Western Canada, and the Hudson Bay

route. He founded and edited for two years (Dec., 1911, to Dec., 1913)

“The Herald,” published at The Pas, Manitoba, and is chief editor of “La

Libre Parole,” a French Weekly, published at Winnipeg. Mr. de Tremaudan

is the author of numerous magazine articles, and brochures, which have

been favorably received, among which may be noted “The Hudson Bay

Route,” “Pourquoi Nous Parlons Français,” “Les precurseurs.” A number of

addresses are in press under the title of “Le Sang Français.” A

forthcoming work is entitled “The Riel Legend.” On Feb. 18, 1901, Mr. de

Tremaudan married Madeleine, daughter of the late C. H. Bastien, a

stained-glass decorative artist, who painted some of the priceless

windows in the world-famous Cathedral of Rheims, France. His children,

three sons and two daughters, are: Jean (1903), Alain (1905), Gilles

(1909), Andree (1906), and Renee (1910). Mr. de Tremaudan is a Roman

Catholic in religion and a member of “Le Canada” Club of Winnipeg. He is

a Liberal in politics, has travelled extensively, and is widely read and

well informed on all questions of National importance; a man of mature

judgment and ripe experience.

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=Bethune, the Rev. Charles Jas. Stewart, M.A., D.C.L.=, the

distinguished subject of this sketch, was born at West Flamboro’,

Ontario, on August 11, 1838. He is the third son of the Right Rev.

Alexander Neil Bethune second Bishop of Toronto, and Jane Eliza, eldest

daughter of the late Hon. James Crooks. The Bethune family traces its

lineage very far back in Scottish and French historical records. The

first of the name who left Normandy for the British Isles came to

Scotland in the reign of Malcolm the Third, a contemporary of William

the Conqueror, in the eleventh century. The first of the family to come

to Canada was the Rev. John Bethune, a U.E. Loyalist from North

Carolina, and chaplain to a Highland regiment, who settled with his

comrades in the county of Glengarry, Ontario, towards the end of the

18th century. He was the father of the late Bishop of Toronto and Dean

Bethune, of Montreal, and grandfather of the subject of this sketch.

Young Bethune was educated at private schools at Cobourg and Upper

Canada College, Toronto. After leaving the latter institution he entered

Trinity College, Toronto, and graduated therefrom in 1859 with

first-class classical honors and the B.A. degree. He took his M.A. in

1861, and received the honorary degree of D.C.L. from his Alma Mater in

1883, in recognition of his zealous and worthy services at Trinity

College School. He was ordained deacon in 1861 and priest in 1862, by

the late Bishop Strachan of Toronto. He was curate until 1866, with his

father, then Rector of Cobourg, with the exception of a short period

spent in England in 1863-64, when he was curate at Carlton, near Selby,

in Yorkshire. In 1866 he was appointed to the charge of the Credit

Mission in the County of Peel, Ont., where he was instrumental in

building the churches at Dixie and Port Credit. In September, 1870, he

was appointed Head Master of Trinity College School at Port Hope. From a

very small beginning he raised up this school to be one of the most

widely known and successful in the Dominion. He had a staff of eight

assistant masters, about 140 pupils, and large and handsome buildings

with extensive grounds. He resigned the headmastership in 1899, and

removed to London, Ontario, where he remained for seven years. During

the greater part of that period he was curator and librarian of the

Entomological Society of Ontario. He assisted in forming the London

Horticultural Society and was its president for two years. Dr. Bethune

gave much of his attention to scientific pursuits and he is well known

in the United States and Great Britain, as likewise in Canada, as an

entomologist. He was one of the founders of the Entomological Society of

Ontario and its Secretary-Treasurer for seven years. He was president of

the same society from 1870 to 1875, and has continued since to be a

member of its council. He was entomological editor of the “Canada

Farmer” for nine years, and editor of the “Canadian Entomologist” from

its inception in 1868 to 1873, and from 1887 to 1909, when he was

elected editor emeritus. He has written a large number of papers on

Practical and Scientific Entomology in these and other publications, and

contributed repeatedly to the annual report on insects presented to the

Legislature of Ontario. He is a Fellow of the American Association for

the advancement of Science and has attended its meetings at various

places in the United States, is a member of several Canadian scientific

societies and a corresponding member of scientific societies in New

York, Philadelphia, Boston, Buffalo, Davenport, Brooklyn, Halifax, and

other places. He is also a member of the Corporation of the University

of Trinity College. He was Honorary Clerical Secretary of the Synod of

the Diocese of Toronto from 1869 to 1871, and has been repeatedly

elected a representative of the diocese at the meetings of the

Provincial Synod in Montreal. He was a delegate from the diocese of

Toronto to the general synod of the Church of England in Canada at

Winnipeg in 1896, and was appointed clerical secretary of the Lower

House in 1902, holding that position at the meetings in Montreal and

Quebec and resigning at the Ottawa meeting in 1908; elected Fellow of

the Royal Society of Canada in 1892, and became President of Section 4

in the year 1900; was one of the original promoters of the Sisterhood of

St. John the Divine in Toronto and filled the position of Warden for

some years. On the first of June, 1906, he was appointed Professor of

Entomology and Zoology at the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph,

which position he still holds. He assisted in the formation of the

American Association of Economic Entomologists and of the American

Entomological Society; of the latter he is one of the original Fellows.

He was elected President of the Entomological Society of Ontario for its

Jubilee year, 1913. He is Honorary President of the Wellington Field

Naturalists’ Club, of the Guelph Horticultural Society and of the

Trinity College School Cricket Club. Since going to Guelph he has

published bulletins on insects affecting fruit trees and vegetables of

which several editions have been issued by the Department of Agriculture

of Ontario. He has frequently visited England and travelled in the

United States and Europe. Dr. Bethune has always been a member of the

Church of England and associated with the “High Church” school of

thought. He married on April 21, 1863, Alice, second daughter of

Lieut.-Colonel Forlong, K.H., of Toronto, late of Her Majesty’s 43rd

Regiment of Light Infantry, and his wife, Sophia, daughter of the Hon.

Henry John Boulton, of Holland House, Toronto. Mrs. Bethune died in

July, 1898. Dr. Bethune has four children living. His eldest son, Arthur

M. Bethune, is Manager of the Hamilton Branch of the Dominion Bank, and

Reginald A. Bethune is an officer in the Civil Service at Kamloops, B.C.

The two daughters are unmarried. An earnest and able worker for his

church, a learned and deeply skilled votary in a wide and important

branch of science, it has been given to few men whose names are written

in this volume to accomplish so much and to accomplish it so well.

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=Kyte, George William= (St. Peters, Richmond County, Nova Scotia), son

of John Kyte, native of Templemore, County of Tipperary, Ireland, and

Elizabeth Robertson, English parentage, born July 10, 1864, at St.

Peters. Educated at the public school of St. Peters, and at the

University of St. Francis Xavier, Antigonish, N.S., from which seat of

learning he graduated. Studied law in the office of Colin F. McIsaac

(for several years one of the Transcontinental Railway Commissioners, at

Antigonish, N.S.), and was admitted to the bar Nov. 16, 1891. Married,

July 5, 1893, to Tena, daughter of Valentine and Lydia Chisholm, of

Heatherton, N.S. Appointed Clerk-Assistant of the Legislative Assembly

of Nova Scotia, in Feb., 1892; re-appointed in 1895, 1898 and 1901;

appointed Chief Clerk, Dec. 3, 1903. Resigned this appointment to become

a candidate for the House of Commons for Richmond County at general

election of 1908 and was elected; re-elected at general election in

1911. Created a King’s Counsel by the Government of Nova Scotia, April

16, 1908. Solicitor for the Municipality of Richmond County; school

trustee for nine years, and is a member of the Board of School

Commissioners for the County of Richmond. A Roman Catholic in religion

and a Liberal in politics.

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=Clark, John Murray, M.A., LL.B., K.C.= (Toronto, Ont.), born at St.

Mary’s, Ont., July 6, 1860, of Scottish descent, his parents being James

and Isabella Clark. Educated at St. Mary’s Collegiate Institute, Toronto

University and Osgoode Hall. His career at the University was

particularly brilliant. He won the prize in Logic awarded by the late

Professor J. P. Young, the Blake Scholarship on Constitutional Law,

Economics and Jurisprudence, the McMurrich Medal in Natural Science and

Gold Medal in Mathematics and Physics, and the prize on Minority

Representation, graduating with the degree of B.A. in 1882, M.A. 1884,

LL.B. 1891, and being called to the Bar in 1886, with honours, and

winning the Law Society’s Gold Medal, since which time he has practised

in Toronto where he is recognized as one of the leaders of the Bar and

is head of the firm of Clark, McPherson, Campbell & Jarvis. Has been

retained as Counsel in a large number of cases of great magnitude and

importance, such as the Quaker Case, Ontario Express Company, Fisheries

Case, and the Ophir case, and has frequently pleaded before the Privy

Council in England. Appointed a K.C. in 1889; in early life was

Mathematical Master of St. Mary’s Collegiate Institute and for several

years Examiner in Physics, Toronto University, of which he was appointed

as Senator in 1892. Is also Vice-President Toronto University Alumni

Association. Formerly President Mathematical and Physics Society and

University College Literary and Scientific Society. Few men in Canada

have exhibited more scholarly attainments than the subject of this

sketch, whose versatility in Science, Literature, as well as original

research has been remarkable, and of great benefit. Notwithstanding the

high place which Mr. Clark occupies in the field of letters and the wide

knowledge he has of science and literature, he is widely known on

account of his great abilities as a lawyer which have placed him in the

front rank of the legal profession in Canada. Many of his cases have

been of first-class importance and some of them of great public

interest. Among the first in which he won a signal victory was that of

Dorland and Jones, the famous Quaker Case from Prince Edward County,

Ontario. The recent decision of the House of Lords, giving the “Wee

Frees” the property of the Free Church of Scotland recalls the Quaker

Case here. Mr. Clark argued before the Supreme Court at Ottawa that the

Church had the right to make changes in its Constitution, even though

that Constitution itself did not specifically authorize it to do so. The

view was adopted by the United Free Church lawyers in Edinburgh in the

case arising from the union of the Free and United Presbyterian Churches

of Scotland, and the Court of Session, the High Court of Justice

sustained that view. The “Wee Free” (as the Free Church minority was

commonly called), appealed to the House of Lords, and contrary to all

expectation, won, and obtained possession of the vast property of the

Church. The situation was so tense that a special Act of Parliament was

passed to adjust conditions. In quite a number of constitutional cases

reaching through the Canadian Courts to the Privy Council, Mr. Clark has

figured, and invariably with success. The same is true regarding

commercial cases and large mining cases in which a long and extended

experience has given him such a mastery as few of his compeers possess.

Quite recently the “Ophir” mining case, which he brought to a successful

conclusion, through a tedious and tortuous course of litigation, ending

in the Privy Council, has excited the attention of the legal profession

and of the public, both because it decided the question of the Indian

title so far as Ontario is concerned, and because a similar situation is

becoming acute in British Columbia. Mr. Clark has made several notable

speeches in England where he is regarded as an accomplished jurist, and

few men are so well versed in the political and constitutional history

of this Dominion or more fully seized of its great resources. The London

“Times” and several other prominent English papers a few years ago

referred in high praise to Mr. Clark’s speech on “Canada and the Navy”

delivered before a notable gathering, including Lord Strathcona the late

High Commissioner for Canada. Mr. Clark is one of the foremost

mathematical authorities in Canada and his work has been commended by so

high an authority as Lord Kelvin, while he is regarded both in this

country and in England as an authority on Constitutional law. He has won

distinction as an author, and has written several standard works and

papers, among which may be mentioned “Law of Mines in Canada,” which was

written in collaboration with the Hon. W. D. McPherson, Provincial

Secretary of Ontario. “Company Law,” “The Ontario Mining Law,”

“International Arbitration,” “Canada’s Future and the Empire,” “History

of the Theory of Energy,” and “The Functions of a great University.” Has

lectured on the “Value of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council,”

“Canada and the Navy,” etc. The work on Mining Law referred to is

recognized as an authority on the subject dealt with, and has been

highly praised by the Harvard Law Review of the Law Magazine of England

as well as by the Canadian Press. The “Mining Journal” stated that “the

book had the impress of clear and legal learning,” and the work has also

been described as a monument of research, care and industry. Recently

Mr. Clark has been elected President of the Royal Canadian Institute,

founded by Sir John Lefroy (whose grandson, Lieut. Lefroy, gallantly

fell on Vimy Ridge). In referring to the new President’s appointment

“The Mail and Empire” said: “Mr. Clark well represents the best that we

have in character, intellect, scholarship and public spirit. A

distinguished graduate of Toronto University, the new President, far

from leaving the avenues of learning, as some do when they graduate, has

ever increased his stores, and has successfully striven not only to

broaden and deepen his knowledge, but to devote it to the service of his

fellow-men, as witness Mr. Clark’s strong and convincing advocacy of the

Canadian Government availing itself of the great scientific attainments

and progressive scholarship of men like Professors Macallum and

McLennan. For many years one of the foremost advocates in Canada of that

great constitutional change in Imperial relations which is to-day being

forged on the anvil of war, Mr. Clark has been a powerful and sagacious

leader in that movement on this side of the water. In the prosecution of

that enterprise he has deservedly won the regard and friendship of some

of the leading scholars and statesmen of our Empire.” The “Globe,” in

the course of a favorable review, said that his Presidential Address on

“The Reign of Law,” “will appeal to thoughtful readers as a scholarly

contribution to a subject which derives fresh interest from the war.”

Mr. Clark has given considerable study to the question of our gold

supply which has proved a potent factor in the financing of the great

war, and will be even a more important factor in the reconstruction

period after the war according to the viewpoint of Mr. Clark, who takes

the position that the increase in the production of gold be encouraged

in every practical way. Politically, Mr. Clark has always been a member

of the Liberal Party, and was formerly President of the Young Men’s

Liberal Club of Toronto, but, in the Federal general elections of 1917

he supported the Union Government. He favors Canada remaining an

integral portion of the British Empire, the utmost practicable extension

of the principle of free trade, and the development of a vigorous

Canadian National Sentiment. Married first Greta Helen Gordon, daughter

of Rev. D. Gordon, and sister of “Ralph Connor,” 1890 (deceased 1894);

second, Annie Macleod Anderson, daughter of late W. N. Anderson,

Toronto, 1899 (deceased, 1910); third, Caroline Chaplin, daughter of

late William Chaplin, St. Catharines; has three daughters, i.e., Mary

Gordon (now Mrs. W. A. Riddell), Margaret Macleod, and Katie H. Burn. Is

a member of the following clubs: Toronto, Ontario, British Empire

(London), Engineers’ Club (Toronto), and belongs to A.F. & A.M.

(Scottish Rite, Zetland). A Presbyterian in religion. Recreation, golf.

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=Flint, Thomas Barnard, M.A., LL.B., D.C.L.=, Ottawa, Ont., ex-clerk of

the House of Commons, was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, April 28, 1847,

and was educated at Yarmouth and Mt. Allison University, Sackville, New

Brunswick. He received his B.A. in 1867; his M.A. in 1872; also LL.B. of

Harvard University, 1871. He was called to the Bar in 1872; was

appointed a commissioner of the Supreme and County Courts in 1873; was

Sheriff of Yarmouth County from 1883 to 1887, and Assistant Clerk of the

Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1887 to 1891. In 1891 he was elected

to the House of Commons and was re-elected at the elections of 1896 and

1900. He was appointed Clerk of the House of Commons, Nov. 11, 1902, and

retired from that position at the beginning of session of 1918, owing to

failing eyesight. In 1903 he received the honorary degree of Doctor of

Civil Law. He edited the 3rd and 4th editions of Bourinot Parliamentary

Procedure. In 1874 he was married to Mary Ella Dane, a daughter of the

late Thomas B. Dane, who for many years was an influential citizen of

Yarmouth. Personally, Dr. Flint, an honorable man, with high ideals of

the amenities of public life, liberally educated, and endowed with

cultivated taste, entirely without prejudice of race or religion, well

posted on public affairs, an efficient, unassuming, practical man,

commanded the respect of Liberals and Conservatives alike, both as a

member of the House of Commons and as clerk. Dr. Flint at one time was

Vice-President of the Dominion Prohibition Alliance, and was one of the

founders, and for many years vice-president of the Yarmouth Building and

Loan Society, a most successful local business. After he was admitted to

the Bar he rapidly became one of its leaders in his district. As a

member of the House of Commons Dr. Flint was Chairman of Standing Orders

from 1898 to 1902. During the Session of 1894-5 he moved resolutions in

the House of Commons in favor of prohibition. In 1907 he was elected

President of the Ottawa Literary and Scientific Society. As a speaker,

Dr. Flint proved to be a leading debater, forceful and pleasing in

manner, ever giving evidence as an authority on every question which he

took up. He is of New England ancestry, and the son of the late John

Flint, ship owner, and Anne (Barnard) Flint. He is an Anglican in

religion and a Liberal in politics. From 1897 to 1899 he was Grand

Master of the Grand Lodge of Masons, of Nova Scotia. Upon his retirement

from the Clerkship of the House of Commons Dr. Flint was by resolution

of the House made an honorary official of the House and granted an

annuity in recognition of his public services. He now resides in

Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.

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=Chrysler, Francis Henry, K.C.= (Ottawa), is a son of the late Gordon

Harvey Chrysler and Jane Chrysler, daughter of Captain James Mackenzie,

R.N., who was on service on Lake Ontario under Commodore James Yee,

R.N., during the war of 1812. He is a grandson of Colonel John Chrysler,

of Chrysler’s Farm, for sixteen years member for Dundas in the

Parliament of U.C. He was born in Kingston, Ont., educated at Bath

Academy and Queen’s University, Kingston. Married in 1876 to Margaret

Isabella, daughter of Donald A. Grant, of Ottawa. He became a barrister

in 1872; K.C., 1890; has practised continuously in Ottawa and is one of

the leaders of the Bar of Canada, and one of the life Benchers of the

Law Society for the Province of Ontario. He is Counsel for many railways

and other corporations. Has declined appointment to the Canadian Bench.

He acted as Counsel for the Dominion Iron and Steel Company in their

action against the Dominion Government to recover bounties for the

manufacture of liquid pig iron; for the Government of Canada in drafting

and settling the contracts and legislation for the construction of the

National Transcontinental Railway; for the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway

Company in drafting and settling their mortgages upon which securities

were issued for the construction of the railway from Winnipeg to Prince

Rupert; for all the railway companies of Canada in framing and settling

The Railway Act of 1903, under which the Railway Commission was

appointed; for various railway companies, principally the Canadian

Pacific Railway, in the general enquiry before the Railway Commission

into railway rates in Canada; for the Dominion Express Company in the

general enquiry into express tolls and contracts; for the Canadian

Pacific Railway Company upon the general enquiry into telegraph tolls

and contracts; for the Special Committee of the House of Commons

appointed to enquire into the question of telephone rates and systems,

and for the Railway Companies of Canada as Counsel before the general

committee appointed by the House of Commons in the Session of 1917, to

revise and consolidate the Railway Act and Amending Acts. He has had an

extensive experience and practice as a Parliamentary Counsel, before the

Railway Commission and in the Supreme Court. His clubs are: The Rideau,

Country and Royal Ottawa Golf, Ottawa; Metis Golf Club, Little Metis,

Que. His address is 87 Catharine Street, Ottawa. Mr. Chrysler has four

children, two sons and two daughters. The elder son, Geoffrey Gordon,

was for some years in the Royal Canadian Regiment of Infantry, retiring

in 1912, with the rank of Captain. He enlisted for service in the war

with Germany, going with the first contingent as a Captain in the Second

Battalion of Infantry, of which he is now a Major. He has been three

times severely wounded and has received the Military Cross for

conspicuous valor. The younger son, Philip Harvey, qualified as a

Lieutenant of Artillery and served in France in the 3rd Divisional

Ammunition Column from 1915 until October, 1917, when he was discharged

as being physically unfit for further service. Mr. Chrysler’s elder

daughter, Margaret Gordon, Mrs. Frederick H. Emra, is married to a civil

engineer, who is now a Captain, first in the Second Pioneers and

afterwards in the Engineers, and has been wounded in France. He is now

doing engineering work for the Royal Navy. His younger daughter,

Constance Harvey, is married to Dr. Ernest W. MacBride, LL.D., F.R.S.,

formerly Professor of Biology in McGill University and now Professor of

Biology in the Royal College of Science, South Kensington, London,

England, where Professor and Mrs. MacBride with two young sons reside.

Mr. Chrysler is by temperament a student and has never occupied any

public office; a prominent member of St. Andrew’s Church, Ottawa, of

which congregation he is an officer. A lover of music, having been for

many years an active member and President of the Orchestral Society; a

keen golfer, golf being his principal recreation. Although for many

years a leading member of the Liberal Party, he is at present a strong

advocate of the policy of carrying on the war by means of a united

Canadian party.

[Illustration: HON. WILFRID GARIEPY

Edmonton]

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=Aikins, Lt.-Col. Sir James Albert Manning, Kt., M.A., K.C.=,

Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba, was born in Peel County, Ont., December

10, 1851, the son of Honorable James Cox Aikins, who was appointed a

Senator at Confederation, and, on December 9, 1869, Secretary of State

and Registrar General in Sir John A. Macdonald’s administration, and

afterwards Minister of Inland Revenue, and later in 1882, appointed

Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Manitoba, and of the District of

Keewatin, and upon the expiration of his term of office, a second time

called to the Senate of Canada in 1896, and his wife Mary Elizabeth

Somerset. Educated at Brampton High School, Upper Canada College and

Toronto University (B.A., 1875, M.A., 1877), M.A. Ad eundem, Manitoba

University, studied law in the office of Matthew Crooks Cameron and also

Mowat, Maclennan and Downey, admitted to the Bar of Ontario, 1878, and

to the Bar of Manitoba, 1879, in which year he went to Winnipeg, where

he soon established himself as one of the leaders of the profession in

the Province and few members of the Western Bar have held more

responsible solicitorships. Sir James was solicitor and counsel for the

Canadian Pacific Railway throughout the western division since its

organization until he withdrew in 1911, to contest the constituency of

Brandon in the House of Commons, for which he was returned by a large

majority, retaining the seat until the general elections in 1917, when

he was succeeded by Dr. H. P. Whidden (Conservative-Unionist). He was

also counsel for the Dominion Express Co., Imperial Bank, Bank of

Ottawa, Canadian Fire Insurance Co., Great West Life Assurance Co.,

Canada Permanent and Western Canada Land Co., Manitoba Northwest Land

Co., Scottish American Investment Co. He is a director of the Northern

Trusts Co., the Canada Fire Insurance Co., and numerous other financial

corporations. From 1879 to 1896 he acted as counsel for the Department

of Justice, and, in 1880, he was appointed by the Dominion Government

one of the Royal Commissioners to investigate and report on the

administration of Justice in the North-West Territories; was chief

counsel for the Province of Manitoba during the administration of Hugh

John Macdonald, drafting the Manitoba Liquor Bill, which, on appeal was

sustained by the Privy Council in England and decided to be

constitutional, and has been a model for similar legislation in other

Provinces. Appointed K.C. in 1884, and created Knight Bachelor in June,

1914, Sir James Aikins is the senior of the Manitoba Bar and President

of the Canadian Bar Association, President of the Conference of

Commissioners on Uniformity of Law. Aug., 1916, appointed

Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba. Was elected bencher of the Law Society

of Manitoba in 1886, and has filled a large number of other prominent

positions and offices, i.e., President of Y.M.C.A.; The Canadian Club;

Chairman, Wesley College, Manitoba; Honorary Bursar, Manitoba

University; President Law Society of Manitoba. In June, 1912, was

appointed to represent Canada at the second International Moral

Education Congress, held at The Hague from August 22 to 27 of that year.

A director of the Manitoba Agricultural College, Sir James takes great

interest in all educational matters. Presented silver cup to Manitoba

Mounted Rifles for general efficiency 1907; appointed Honorary

Lieut.-Colonel 90th Regiment, Winnipeg Rifles December, 1910; is also

Col. (Honorary) of the 99th Regiment, Brandon. A Methodist in religion,

the subject of this sketch has always displayed much interest in the

affairs of his church; was a member of the 20th Century Thanksgiving

Fund, and of the Methodist Church Union Committee, and in 1896 carried a

resolution in Grace Methodist Church, Winnipeg, heartily favoring

organic union of Presbyterian, Congregational, and Methodist Churches of

Canada. Sir James has been twice married—(first) to Mary B. McLellan,

in 1884, (second) to Mary F. Colby, in 1889, and has three children,

Gordon Harold Aikins, Barrister-at-Law, married to Myrtle Clint; Mary

Helena Alberta Aikins; Elizabeth Grace Colby Aikins. Sir James has

always taken a very prominent part in the affairs of the Dominion and

that the success which has come to him early in life has been the reward

of merit is generally admitted. He is a strong platform speaker, a

brilliant advocate and sound lawyer, and at critical periods in the

country’s history has shown much dominant force as a political factor.

Sir James is extremely popular with the members of his profession with

whom he has a Dominion-wide acquaintance, and has received every honor

at the hands of his fellow-practitioners. He is a member of the

following clubs: Manitoba, St. Charles Country, Adanac, of Winnipeg,

Rideau Club of Ottawa, and Brandon Club, Brandon, Manitoba, and head of

the following law firms: Aikins, Loftus, Aikins and Fisher, and Aikins,

Loftus, Aikins, Bell and Bridgman, of Winnipeg.

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=Pope, Major William Walter=, is of United Empire Loyalist descent, was

born in the County of Compton, in the Province of Quebec, in 1854, and

educated there. Entered the service of the Boston, Clinton and

Fitchburgh Railway, Boston, Mass., when a young man, and later he went

to Belleville, Ontario, where he studied law. Was assistant to the late

John Bell, K.C., Solicitor for the Grand Trunk Railway, 1881 to 1904,

when he was transferred to Montreal as assistant to W. H. Biggar, K.C.;

while at Belleville was alderman for two years, also Major with the 15th

Regiment, retiring retaining rank in 1909, holds long service

decoration, also medal with one clasp for the Fenian Raid, 1866. Since

September, 1909, has been Solicitor and Secretary of the Hydro-Electric

Commission of Ontario, and is recognized as a man of great practical

ability. His present address is 117 Bedford Road, Toronto. The Hon. John

Henry Pope, late Minister of Railways, was an uncle. Mr. Pope married,

October 20, 1875, a daughter of Stephen White, Belleville, manufacturer,

and has one son, W. W. Macaulay Pope. He is a member of the Victoria,

Royal Canadian Yacht Club, Canadian Empire and United Empire Loyalist

Clubs, Canadian Military Institute, Albany, and the Masonic Order, also

a member of the Anglican Church and a Conservative. His principal

recreations are golfing, bowling, and curling.

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=Pratt, Edward Courtney= (Montreal, Que.), General Manager of The

Molsons Bank, is the son of George Henry Pratt, of Monteath, Ireland. He

was born in Ireland, on October 22, 1864, and educated in Dublin. On

October 16, 1889, he married Edith Augusta White, the daughter of Wm. J.

White, K.C., of St. Thomas, Ont., and has six children. Is a member of

the Mount Royal, Montreal and Beaconsfield Clubs, and a member of the

Anglican Church.

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=Riddell, Hon. William Renwick= (Toronto, Ont.), Justice of the Supreme

Court of Ontario, descended from the family of “Riddell of that Ilk,” a

son of the late Walter and Mary Renwick Riddell; born in Township of

Hamilton, County of Northumberland, April 6, 1852. Educated Cobourg

Collegiate Institute and Victoria University; B.A. (1874), Prizeman in

Chemistry and Mathematics, B.Sc. (1876), LL.B. (1878), L.H.D. (Syracuse

University), J.U.D. (Trinity University, Hartford), LL.D. University of

Toronto, McMaster, Lafayette, Northwestern, Wesleyan, Rochester and Yale

Universities; graduated at Law School, Osgoode Hall. (Gold Medal and

first in all examinations); called to the bar 1883, elected Bencher Law

Society of Upper Canada 1891, re-elected until 1906, created a King’s

Counsel 1904. Successfully practised at Cobourg and Toronto, and on

removal to Ontario’s capital, enjoyed large counsel practice, civil and

criminal; was retained during Toronto Municipal Investigation in 1904.

Before taking up the study of the law was Mathematical Master of the

Normal School, Ottawa, and afterwards Chairman of the Cobourg Collegiate

Institute; President, Educational Society, Eastern Ont.; Pres., Alumni

Association Victoria University, and member of the Board of Regents.

Senator of Toronto University; a Governor, Western Hospital, Toronto. In

October, 1906, the subject of this sketch was appointed one of the

Judges of His Majesty’s Supreme Court for the Province of Ontario, (the

last to be appointed to the King’s Bench Division), a position which he

has since occupied with great distinction. His judgments are models of

beautiful diction, in which the exposition of the law is clear and

illuminating, while his grasp of the facts makes for that clarity of

deduction which always characterizes his Lordship’s deliverances. Mr.

Justice Riddell has been a generous contributor to various American and

Canadian magazines and law journals, and the author of “The Canadian and

American Constitutions.” As a lecturer he is recognized as possessing

high gifts; his ripe erudition and polished style making his addresses

of more than passing interest. During the past few years, among the

addresses delivered and magazine articles contributed by His Lordship

may be mentioned: The Dodge Lectures, Yale University; Robert Fleming

Gourlay; La Rochefoucauld’s Travels in Canada, 1795; The First Judge at

Detroit and His Court. Since the outbreak of the war Mr. Justice Riddell

has taken a deep interest in recruiting and everything tending to

forward the cause of the Allies and has given very largely of his time

and great ability, presiding at many meetings and speaking at others in

the interest of recruiting. A member of the Toronto, York, and Rosedale

Golf Clubs. Mr. Justice Riddell finds recreation in the study of

Canadian History, upon which he is an authority. He is Honorary Member

of the Bar Associations of the States of Georgia, Missouri, Illinois,

Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin and New York, and of the Lawyers’ Clubs of

Buffalo and New York; he is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

and of the Royal Historical Society. He is a Freemason, a Presbyterian,

and was formerly a Liberal. Married, March 5, 1884, Anna Hester Kirsop

Crossen, youngest daughter of the late James Crossen and Margaret Hayden

Crossen, of “Cedar Hedge,” Cobourg.

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=Paisley, Jas. K.= (Ottawa). One of the best known and highly respected

citizens in the Capital of the Dominion and in many other parts of

Canada, both east and west, is the subject of this sketch. Following in

his father’s footsteps, who owned and successfully ran a popular hotel

in Orangeville, at an early age he became, and for years remained,

cashier of the well known hostelry—the Walker House, Toronto. His

experiences in that popular public resort and his popularity prompted

aspirations and ambitions which caused him to launch out in enterprises

of his own, and he soon became proprietor of several of the best hotels

in the principal cities and summer resorts in Canada. In 1902 he was one

of the owners of the New Royal in Hamilton where business success and

increased patronage prompted the owners to remodel it in 1907. He took

management of the Penetanguishene Hotel at Penetang and made it one of

the attractive features of the place. He reached out and got management

of the Sans Souci at Moon River, the Belvidere in Parry Sound, the

Iroquois Hotel in Toronto, the Victoria Hotel at Aylmer, Quebec, the

Grand Union, Ottawa, and, with the late Daniel O’Connor, built the

Temagami Inn at Temagami, Ontario. In each and all these ventures

success and popularity followed in his train and created for him

unstinted fame as an enterprising, progressive and popular hotel

proprietor and manager. And while so actively engaged in the hotel

business Mr. Paisley, being an enthusiastic lover of the horse, found

time to give to that noble animal the most assiduous care and attention,

and much of his time for years was devoted to the purchase, the raising,

and the training of some of the finest saddle, harness and trotting

steeds to be found in any part of Canada. They established, for their

owner, on many a race track and at many a horse show enviable records.

His Sealskin Joe was one of those that won distinction on the Winnipeg

racecourse many years ago. Later his saddle horse, Jardie, was accorded

the admiration of all. Shortly after his arrival in Ottawa, where he

first established himself as proprietor of the Grand Union Hotel, he

became interested in such affairs—public, charitable, patriotic and

social—as had for their goal the prosperity of the city and the

happiness and betterment of its people, and his many years activity in

these lines are well marked in the memory of thousands. Mr. Paisley,

never allowing his enthusiasm for the horse to die, took a keen interest

in, and became one of the original members of, the Ottawa Hunt Club; was

Treasurer of the Horse Show while it exhibited here; became Chairman of

the Construction Committee that built the Connaught Park Jockey Club

Track, and is now a director and one of the Management Committee of the

Connaught Park Jockey Club. For years Mr. Paisley has been a Director of

the Central Canada Exhibition Association, and held the office of

Vice-President, and for a considerable time was Chairman of the Special

Attraction Committee. In 1915, owing to the resignation of Mr. Edward

McMahon, who had held the position of Manager and Secretary of the

Central Canada Exhibition Association for over twenty years, and to

replace whose efficient management the Association had to select a

competent and reliable successor, Mr. James K. Paisley was chosen, with

the result that up to date the fair has been an increased success

financially and in attendance. In his management of the Exhibition’s

affairs he carries with him a geniality and a business acumen that

attracts, establishes confidence, and produces good results. When the

Great War broke out, Mr. Paisley’s son, familiarly known as “Pep”

Paisley, who had graduated from McGill as an architect, enlisted with A.

Battery, R.C.H.A., as a gunner and was soon, owing to meritorious

conduct at the front, promoted to a Lieutenancy. His valor and good work

at the firing line received much praise from his superior officers. Mr.

James K. Paisley is the son of John Paisley and Mrs. M. J. Kenniston of

Orangeville, Ontario. He was born in 1858 and was educated in

Orangeville High School and Rockwood Academy. In 1888 he married Minnie

Bairdsall Harris, daughter of the late Isaac Harris. He has one son and

two daughters. His recreations are sports of any kind. He is an active

member of the Elks, the Knights of Pythias, and the Foresters, and an

executive member of the Hotelmen’s Mutual Benefit Association of America

and Canada, Ex-President of the Ontario Hotel Keepers’ Association, and

Ex-President of the Ottawa Hotelmen’s Association. In religion he is a

Protestant, English Church. In politics a Conservative, and his address

is Kenniston Apartments, Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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=Cowan, William Frederick, The Late=, who died on October 28, 1918, at

his home in Oshawa, Ont., was long one of the noted industrial and

financial leaders of Ontario. He was born in 1832, at Fintona, County

Tyrone, Ireland, the son of Thomas and Charlotte Cowan. In 1841, his

parents having decided to remove to Canada, he made with them the long

sailing and overland voyage to Toronto, the journey occupying some

months. Shortly after the family’s arrival the father died and the

mother of the subject of this sketch was left with five young children.

She managed, however, to give her boys a good education at Boyd’s

Academy, Bay St., Toronto (conducted by the father of the late

Chancellor Sir John Boyd) and one of the pioneer educational

institutions of Toronto. On leaving school, W. F. Cowan first found

employment with “The Colonist,” a newspaper founded by Sir Francis

Hincks, an eminent statesman of the mid-nineteenth century. Subsequently

he entered the employ of Alexander Laurie & Co., dry goods merchants, at

the south-west corner of King and Yonge Sts., Toronto. Later he served

with Walter McFarland & Co., dry goods merchants, on Market Square, King

St. East, Toronto, then the heart of the retail district. In 1856 he and

his brother John founded a dry goods business of their own, at the

south-west corner of Yonge and Richmond Sts., Toronto. In 1862 he

removed to Oshawa, establishing a large general store, and with a branch

at Prince Albert some twenty miles north of the town. A few years later

he acquired an interest in the A. S. Whiting Mfg. Co. of Cedar Dale,

manufacturers of scythes, forks, hoes, etc., the firm becoming Messrs.

Whiting & Cowan. Largely through Mr. Cowan’s modern methods of business

organization, the wares of this firm became known throughout America;

and Mr. Cowan was also successful in developing a large market for them

in Great Britain. In 1872, in conjunction with Messrs. Wood &

Winterbourne, of Albany, N.Y., he founded the Ontario Malleable Iron

Co., of which Mr. D. S. Wood was the first president, and on his death

was succeeded by Mr. Cowan’s elder brother John. On the latter’s death

Mr. W. F. Cowan succeeded to the Presidency. He had been a director of

the company since its inception. He was largely instrumental in making

Oshawa one of the leading industrial centres of the province. In 1893 he

established Fittings, Ltd., of Oshawa, of which he was also President at

the time of his death. Altogether his interests furnished steady

employment to about 1,000 citizens of the town, of which he was

recognized as the industrial leader. Mr. Cowan’s financial interests

were even more widely extended. In 1875 he became Vice-President of the

newly formed Standard Bank of Canada, and in 1883, on the death of the

President, the well-known capitalist, Hon. T. N. Gibbs, succeeded to

that office, in which he continued until his demise, making weekly

journeys to Toronto to attend meetings of the board until within a few

days of his death. In 1886, in company with Mr. T. H. McMillan, he also

established the Western Bank of Canada, which, after twenty-six years of

active life, was amalgamated with the Standard Bank in 1912. Though

often pressed to enter Federal and Provincial politics, he contented

himself solely with municipal service and held the post of Reeve of

Oshawa, and of Mayor, after its incorporation as a town, for some years.

He was a steadfast adherent of the Anglican Church in religion, and a

Conservative in politics. In 1864 he married Susan, daughter of the late

John Groves, a well-known citizen of Toronto. On his death he left one

son, Mr. Frederick W. Cowan, of Oshawa, who succeeds to his interests,

and one grandson, Major R. C. Cowan, who has been overseas for the past

three years.

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Ottawa]

=Reid, Frank= (Simcoe, Ont.), Barrister and Solicitor, was born at

Vittoria, Norfolk County, February 22, 1862, the son of the late

Archibald Reid, a cabinet maker, and Elspit Shand. He was educated at

the Vittoria Public School, Simcoe High School and Osgoode Hall. He

married Katherine C. Ferguson, September 17, 1890, the daughter of the

late Alexander Ferguson, railway agent, of Simcoe, and has one son,

Francis Macdonald Reid. In politics he is a Conservative, is a member of

the Ancient Order of United Workmen and a Mason. Mr. Reid is Town

Treasurer of Simcoe, a member of the Presbyterian Church, and takes a

great interest in golf as a pastime.

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=Minehan, Rev. Lancelot= (Toronto, Ont.), was born in Killaloe, County

Clare, Ireland, son of Michael Minehan and Hanna Skehan. He was educated

at All Hallows’ College, Dublin, came to Canada in 1884, and was

ordained at Montreal. Served as Assistant Priest at Thornhill, House of

Providence, Adjala, St. Helen’s, St. Mary’s, St. Paul’s, St. Michael’s,

Toronto. Was Chaplain for two and a half years at Penetanguishene,

transferred to Toronto, and appointed R.C. Chaplain of the Central

Prison, Mercer Reformatory and Toronto Asylum; later, was pastor at

Schomberg, Ont., where he spent three and a half years, following which

he was first parish Priest of St. Peter’s Toronto, where he built a

splendid new church and where he ministered for over eighteen years; he

is now parish priest of St. Vincent’s Church, on Roncesvalles Avenue,

Toronto, which will be one of the finest edifices in Toronto diocese.

For twelve or more years Rev. Father Minehan has been connected with

“The Catholic Register,” and has been identified with various

organizations for the promotion of temperance, social welfare and the

moral uplift of the city. He is Vice-President of the Ontario Branch of

the Dominion Temperance Alliance and Vice-President of the Moral and

Social Reform League. Father Minehan is as famous for his gifts as a

pulpit orator as for his eloquence as a platform speaker. His magnetic

personality, frankness and loyalty have given him an assured place in

the esteem of all classes. He is a man of indefatigable energy, opposed

to intolerance and bigotry, with a mind fixed on the promotion of the

highest ideals in all walks of life. He is a frequent contributor to the

press, and is a writer of force and choice diction. His reverence favors

a Canadian Navy and the development of a policy of protection under the

British Flag. He exercises a wide influence both as a clergyman and a

private citizen, and at his Silver Jubilee, in 1909, was presented with

many proofs of his personal worth, and great popularity. Of him it has

been said that he is “truly Catholic in spirit and in service and

charity.”

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=L’Esperance, Hon. David Ovide= (Quebec City), Member of the Senate and

Chairman of the Harbor Commission of Quebec, was born in the thriving

town of Montmagny, in the County of Montmagny, in the Province of

Quebec. He is the son of Edouard L’Esperance, his mother’s maiden name

having been Morin. His career as a business man, banker and broker, has

been a successful one, his connection with sundry influential exploiting

firms having given him an influence in public circles which has been

enhanced by his acumen as a parliamentarian. He has been for years a

Director of the Quebec Railway Light, Heat and Power Co., a Director and

President of the Quebec Exposition Board, President of the Grande Allee

Apartments Company, and President of L’Evenement Publishing Company. He

is President of the Amable Belanger, Ltd., Manufacturing Co., Montmagny,

and of the General Car & Machinery Works of the same place. His

prominence as a successful business man and his influence as a

public-spirited citizen, did not fail to bring him into touch with the

political circles of the Conservative Party; and in the year 1911 he was

elected a Member of the Federal Parliament for Montmagny. While a member

of the House of Commons, his influence as a deliberate speaker and his

industry as a member of committees were acknowledged by all associated

with him in parliamentary work; and, when the vacancy occurred on the

Harbor Commission of Quebec, on the withdrawal of Sir William Price, he

was selected to succeed the latter as Chairman of that Board. In July,

1917, he was called to the Senate. His efforts to improve the harbor

facilities of the port of Quebec have been appreciated and seconded by

the Federal Government and his associates in office, with due

recognition of his public spirit and energy by his fellow-citizens and

the country at large. In 1888, he married Miss Clara Dionne, of Ste.

Anne de la Pocatiere, of the Province of Quebec. Their family residence

is on Ste. Genevieve Avenue, and their summer residence at Percé, Co. of

Gaspé. Mr. L’Esperance has won for himself a prominence in all the

movements that have had for their purpose the advancement of the city in

which he has his home. He is a loyal Quebecer. As a Conservative, he has

won an influential place in his party. And as a philanthropist he has

won the good opinion of his fellow-men and co-workers.

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=O’Reilly, His Honor James Redmond=, is the eldest son of the late James

O’Reilly, Q.C., M.P., and Mary Jane (Redmond), born at Kingston,

Ontario, February 14, 1862, and educated at Regiopolis College,

Kingston, Collegiate Institute, Kingston, St. Mary’s (Jesuit) College,

Montreal, and Queen’s University, Kingston, from which latter

institution he graduated with the degree of B.A., and Gold Medal in

Political Economy in 1882. Called to the Bar, May, 1885. Created a K.C.,

1899, successfully practised his profession at Prescott for several

years until his appointment as Senior County Judge for Stormont, Dundas

and Glengarry, in March, 1900. His Honor was formerly a Liberal.

President of the South Grenville Liberal Association for 13 years.

Married December 31, 1889, Rose Mary, fourth daughter of the late James

Bermingham, and is the father of two children: James, born November 16,

1891, and Wm. H., born December 26, 1896. In religion the Judge is Roman

Catholic. He resides at Cornwall, Ont., and is a member of the Cornwall

Club. In earlier years Judge O’Reilly had some military experience,

being Bombardier in Wellington Field Battery.

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=Keefe, R. Daniel= (Penetanguishene, Ont.), Principal of the High School

of that town; was born at Iroquois, Ont., June 10, 1877, and is the son

of Patrick Keefe, a native of Cork, Ireland, who came to this country

when a child and later settled on the St. Lawrence in the Town of

Iroquois and became a builder and contractor, erecting a large planing

mill, installed an electric light plant for the Town and bought the

waterworks system which was afterwards sold to the municipality.

Principal Keefe’s mother was of United Empire Loyalist descent. He was

educated at the Iroquois High School, McGill University, Montreal, and

the University of Toronto, and the School of Pedagogy, Hamilton.

Graduated in 1901 with the degree of B.A., Toronto University. On

graduating, taught successively in the High Schools of Port Elgin,

Colborne and Gananoque, and was then appointed Principal of the

Penetanguishene High School, where he has been for over twelve years

teaching Science and Classics. Principal Keefe has the reputation of

being one of the best after-dinner speakers in Northern Ontario. Besides

the father, one brother, W. S. Keefe, a School of Science graduate in

Electrical Engineering, survives. Principal Keefe has been an active

member of the Carnegie Library Board, having acted as Secretary and

Chairman of the Buying Committee for several years. Is President also of

the Penetanguishene Hospital. Married in 1905 to Ethel Madeline,

daughter of Norval Manning, of Toronto, and is the father of two

children, Beverley Hartle, born 1913, and Wilbur Neville, born 1916. He

is a member of the Masonic order, being Past Master of Georgian Lodge,

No. 348, and Past Z. of Kichikewana Chapter No. 67, Midland; P.G.S. of

the Grand Lodge of Canada. Is keenly interested in all manner of sports

and prominent in Association football, hockey and curling. Has played

football in the Champion team of Eastern Ontario and the Champions of

Hamilton District League, winning the Spectator Cup. Has managed several

hockey teams and is a Past President and Past Secretary-Treasurer of the

Penetanguishene Curling Club, and has been one of the District Tankard

Skips for the past four years. In religion, Mr. Keefe is a member of the

Methodist Church, and politically, a Liberal.

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=MacLean, Archie=, R.R. No. 4, Paisley, Ont., was born in Bruce

Township, County of Bruce, in 1868, of Highland Scotch parents, and

glories in the fact that he has Highland Scotch blood flowing through

his veins. He attended the public school in the section in which he

lived until he was about thirteen years of age, when, being the eldest

of the family, he had to leave school to assist on the farm. His

ambition for an education was unquenched and he studied at home, and at

the age of twenty-one took a three-months’ course in the public school,

secured his matriculation. He went to Port Elgin and Walkerton High

School and succeeded in creditably securing a second-class certificate.

He taught school for a few years, but the profession at that time not

being over-remunerative, he again took up farming, and also engaged in

grazing and shipping cattle, which occupation he still successfully

follows. In 1901 he was elected to the Township of Bruce Council, where

he served for two years. In 1903-4 he was elected to Reeveship of the

Township. In 1910 he again contested the Reeveship successfully and held

the office until 1912. This office he did not covet for office sake, but

being enthused with the true spirit of co-operation for the benefit of

all he set the log rolling for the establishment of a municipal

telephone system, for the benefit of nine different municipalities, his

own native township being the initiating one. This enterprise is now

looked upon as the greatest example of co-operation in the whole county.

In his efforts he was ably seconded by men who caught his vision. He is

at present one of a commission of three, the other two being, D.

McNaughton, Ex-M.P.P., and J. J. Hunter, who handle the business of this

system. Mr. MacLean is a man of splendid executive ability, which has

been shown by his able judgment in all public enterprises with which he

has been connected. It has been said that the farmer needs ideas. In his

case he has ideas—big ones—and is not afraid to champion them even in

the face of strong opposition. He is a leader and a safe one to follow,

because of his canny Scotch nature. He is a good public speaker and has

such splendid control of himself that he has never been known to show

anger even under trying circumstances. In patriotic endeavor he is

always to the fore, having done his part ably and conscientiously ever

since the war began. As yet he has not taken unto himself a wife. He is

a Liberal in politics, and his name has often been mentioned in

connection with Parliamentary honors. He is a member of Port Elgin

Lodge, No. 429, A.F. & A.M., Camp McCrimmon, S.O.S., and the I.O.O.F.

His genial good nature, wide knowledge of municipal affairs and splendid

physique, make him an outstanding farmer in any company.

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=Heaton, Ernest= (Toronto, Ont.), born in 1861, at Bellws-yn-Rhos, North

Wales. Is the son of Rev. Hugh E. Heaton, of Plas Heaton, Denbighshire,

North Wales. Educated at Marlborough College and University College,

Oxford (B.A., 1884). Came to Canada on his graduation and was called to

the bar of Upper Canada at Osgoode Hall, 1887. Successfully practised

his profession in Toronto till 1892, when he removed to Goderich;

returned to Toronto in 1900. Now manager of Heaton’s Agency, Toronto.

Founded a semi-official system of publications, including Heaton’s

Annual, Heaton’s Provincial Booklets and Heaton’s Handbooks of Canadian

Resources. Has contributed many articles to Canadian and English

magazines and is the author of “Canada’s Problem” (1895); “The Trust

Company Idea and Its Development” (1904); and also editor of the

“Commercial Handbook of Canada.” Married Grace, daughter of H. G.

Attrill, of Baltimore and Ridgewood Park, Goderich, and is the father of

the following children: Helen Grace, born 1891, married Capt. Ruggles

George; Hugh Attrill, born 1893; Thomas Gilbert, born 1900; Catherine

Mary, born 1893. Mr. Heaton is a member of the Toronto Golf Club,

Toronto Hunt Club and Albany Club; is an adherent of the Church of

England, and has been a delegate to its Synods. He is a Conservative in

politics.

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=Jones, Henry Victor Franklin= (Toronto, Ont.), Assistant General

Manager of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, son of the late Charles S.

Jones and Helen (MacDougall); mother sister of the late Honorable

William MacDougall, C.B., one of the “Fathers of Confederation.” Born at

St. Mary’s, Ontario, September 28, 1871; educated at Toronto; married

June 4, 1904, Bunella, daughter of the late E. W. Rathbun, Deseronto,

Ontario. Entered the service of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, December

13, 1887. Was at head office and New York branch, and manager of the

London, England branch of this bank. Chairman Editing Committee Journal

Canadian Bankers Association, member Ontario Provincial Housing

Committee. He is a member of the City Club and Conservative Club, and

the Royal Colonial Institute, London, England; Richmond Country Club,

New York; The York, Toronto, National, Racquet, and the Toronto Golf

Clubs. Mr. Jones is the father of four children, three girls and one

boy. His principal recreation is golf, racquets, fishing, shooting.

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=Middlebró, William S., K.C.= (Owen Sound, Ont.), son of John and

Margaret Middlebró. Born, October 17, 1868, at the town of Orangeville,

Ont. Educated at the Owen Sound Collegiate Institute and Osgoode Hall,

Toronto; called to the Bar, 1892, and created a King’s Counsel in 1910;

Mayor of the city of Owen Sound, 1889, and 1900. Married, September 2,

1903, to Laura J. Trethewey, who died April 21, 1907, leaving no

children; on October 22, 1913, married Pearl Irene, daughter of G. B.

Ryan, of Guelph, Ont. Mr. Middlebró, who enjoys a large legal practice

in the city of Owen Sound, was first elected to the House of Commons in

1908; re-elected in 1911 and again in 1917, by a majority of 2,291, to

represent the constituency of North Grey. He has been a prominent member

in the House since his first election to Parliament and has been

Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee and Chairman of the Special

Committee appointed to investigate Army boots in 1915, and also chief

Government Whip of the former Borden Government and of the Union

Government. Mr. Middlebró is a fluent platform speaker and well versed

in all questions of National importance. He is a member of the Church of

England, and belongs to the Sydenham Club of Owen Sound, and has one son

by his second marriage, William George.

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=Marsh, Lieutenant-Colonel Lorne Wilmot= (Belleville, Ont.), born at

Frankford, Ont., June 29, 1871, son of John Secord Marsh and Lydia M.

(Hunt), U.E. Loyalist descent. Educated at the Public and High Schools,

Belleville. Matriculant of Toronto University and an Undergraduate.

Married, February 13, 1894, Euretta M., daughter of John and Isabella

Smith, Point Fortune, Quebec. Father of one son, John Edward, born June

16, 1900. Is a member of the Masonic Order and a Past Master, and a

Member of The Chapter, a Knight Templar, A.O.M.S., also the I.O.O.F. and

the I.O.F. Interested himself in the Municipal affairs of the city of

Belleville, and served as Alderman five years, 1903-1907, inclusive, and

elected Mayor in 1909 and 1910, Took active interest in military

matters: Served in the ranks of the 15th Argyll Light Infantry.

Lieutenant, 1898-9; Captain, 1899, and by gradual promotion rose to the

rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and Commanding Officer of the Battalion. Has

been a successful manufacturer since 1897, when he took over the

manufacturing business of the defunct G. & J. Brown Manufacturing

Company, with the late W. H. Henthorn, which was incorporated in 1908

and conducts the manufacture incident to a foundry, machine shop and

boiler shop, specializing in hoisting machinery, steel tanks and general

contractors’ machinery, and has recently built a $75,000.00 plant to

take care of the rapidly increasing output. The nomenclature of his

business is “Marsh Engineering Works, Limited.” Lieutenant-Colonel Marsh

is a Methodist in religion, and has been classed as an Independent

Liberal.

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=Hebert, Zepherin=, President, Hudon, Hebert & Co., Ltd., Montreal,

Quebec, Wholesale Grocers and Wine Merchants, importing direct from

manufacturers in Europe, China, Japan, Asia Minor and United States.

Born in the city of Montreal on February 6, 1866, the son of Charles P.

and Rose (Busseau) Hebert, the subject of this sketch is in the prime of

life. Having attended the Catholic Commercial Academy and St. Mary’s

College, Mr. Hebert received a liberal education, and to this fact,

marked business ability, which he displayed at an early age, and a

winning personality are due his rapid rise, and present recognized

position in the Eastern Metropolis. Mr. Hebert’s business career and his

advancement is worthy of note. He joined his present firm as clerk in

1883, when but seventeen years of age; admitted partner ten years later;

became Director and Assistant Manager, 1906; elected Vice-President,

1908; President, 1911. This business was established, 1839, under the

name of E. & V. Hudon; later, V. Hudon, J. Hudon & Co.; Hudon, Hebert &

Cie, 1883; incorporated under present name, 1906, the late C. P. Hebert

being first President. They now employ a staff of 170, and have 25

travelling salesmen constantly visiting all Canada and selling their

goods from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans; their turn-over ending

January 31, 1913, was $4,000,000, an increase of $1,000,000 over the

past two years’ business. For the last twenty-five years Mr. Hebert has

been a member of the Montreal Board of Trade, second Vice-President in

1915, first Vice-President in 1916, and in 1917 was accorded the honor

of being elected President of that influential body, being the first

French-Canadian upon whom such a signal mark of distinction has been

conferred. He was appointed a member of the Council in February, 1913;

elected member Transportation Bureau December, 1913; has held most of

important offices, Dominion Grocers’ Guild, and is now President;

Chairman, Prize Committee, Province Quebec; President Montreal Wholesale

Liquor Association; Treasurer and Governor, Notre Dame Hospital;

Governor Montreal General Hospital, Governor Laval University. Mr.

Hebert is a dominant force in the cultivation of harmonious relations

between the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec, and was one of the

promoters of the Bonne Entente movement, having presided as Chairman at

the Conference when the idea was first crystallized, which led to such

happy results, and is at present a member of the executive. Of broad

opinions, and liberal views, he has been described as “a thorough-going

Canadian.” He is an ardent admirer of British institutions, with a fine

pride of his own race and its splendid traditions. His opinions on

economic questions, of which he has been a close student, are held in

the highest regard and his addresses before the Canadian Credit Men’s

Association on “Credit and Co-operation,” and before the Wholesale

Grocers’ Guild, on “Evolution of a Credit Plan” were considered masterly

expositions of the subjects dealt with. Mr. Hebert has had a

distinguished military career. He served with the 65th Regiment, Mount

Royal Rifles, as private, 1882; saw active service in the North-west

Rebellion, 1885; promoted to Sergeant and Captain, and retired with the

rank of Major, after eighteen years of service. With such a fine record

he is enthusiastic on the winning of the war, and prominent in all

undertakings of a patriotic nature. With admirable diction he is able to

speak English and French, and has all the courtesy and charm of manner

which characterizes the educated French-Canadian. He married Blanche

Robidoux, daughter of J. O. Robidoux, Oct. 9, 1894; has two sons,

Charles P. and Jacques Robidoux, and two daughters, Marielle and

Gertrude. He belongs to the following clubs: Canadian, Jockey.

Recreations: General, military affairs. Politics, Independent Liberal.

Religion, Roman Catholic. Address, Montreal, Quebec.

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Hugh Paton, Montreal.]

=McMahon, Edward= (Ottawa), arrived in Canada from Ireland in 1882, and

immediately entered into the real estate business as agent for the

owners of By Estate. In 1891 he was appointed to the Secretaryship of

the Central Canada Exhibition Association, and held that position until

1916, when he retired. During this period he remained in the real estate

business and was also Secretary-Treasurer for Registered Sale Pure Bred

Cattle. Mr. McMahon is a member of the firm of Bate & McMahon, builders

of Connaught Rifle Range, South March (1913), and member of the firm of

Bate, McMahon & Co., Contractors with the Dominion Government for the

construction of Valcartier Camp, Quebec; Camp Sewell, Manitoba; and Camp

Hughes, Alberta; Camp Borden, the largest Military Camp in the world;

also builders of Aviation Camps, viz., Borden, Mohawk and Leaside, under

contract with the Imperial Munitions Board. Mr. McMahon is also senior

member of the firm of E. McMahon & Son, Insurance and Real Estate

Agents, and is on the Board of Directors of the following companies,

viz., Dominion Hardwoods, Limited; the Ottawa Construction Company; the

Standard Paving Company, and the Ottawa Artificial Ice Company. It was

owing to Mr. McMahon’s marked business and executive ability during the

twenty-five years that he held the Secretaryship and, practically, the

General Management, that the Central Canada Exhibition Association, next

to Toronto, is now the best institution of the kind in Canada. Each

year, from the time of his appointment, it grew stronger, more

attractive and more valuable, until to-day it is second only to

Toronto’s Great Annual Exhibition. Mr. McMahon came to Canada from

Monaghan, Ireland, where he was born, January 17, 1862. His father and

mother were Edward McMahon, farmer and accountant, and Jane Mitchell. He

was educated at the National and Collegiate Schools and graduated with

honors. He married Susan Jane Haram, daughter of Robert Haram, Ottawa,

and has two sons and one daughter, viz.: H. E. McMahon, Lillian M.

McMahon and Robert M. McMahon. He is a member of the Loyal Orange

Institution and a Mason; is a Conservative in politics and a Protestant

in religion. He resides at 87 James St. and has offices in the Central

Chambers.

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=Jacobs, Samuel W., K.C., M.P.=, senior member of the legal firm of

Jacobs, Couture & Fitch, Montreal, Que. Has been President of the Baron

de Hirsch Institute, 1912-1914, and is a member of the Canadian

Committee of the Jewish Colonization Association of Paris, which

administers the Baron de Hirsch Fund. He is an Honorary Vice-President

of the Jewish Publication Society of America, and was a director and

member of the governing board of the Montreal Reform Club for many

years. Mr. Jacobs has contributed numerous papers on legal subjects to

various law Reviews, and is the author of “Railway Law of Canada,” also

joint editor of Jacobs and Garneau’s Code of Civil Procedure. He was

born in Lancaster, Glengarry County, Ontario, the son of William and

Hannah Jacobs, and received his early education at Montreal High School,

graduating from McGill University in 1893, as B.C.L., with first rank

honors, and from Laval University in the following year as LL.M. cum

Laude. He was elected to the House of Commons at the general elections

in 1917 for the George Etienne Cartier Division of Montreal by over

6,000 majority, defeating two opponents. In 1906 he was created a King’s

Counsel. Mr. Jacobs married Miss Amy Stein, daughter of the late Michael

Stein of Baltimore, Md., in April, 1917, and they have issue one

daughter, Hannah, born in 1918. He is a member of the Jewish religion,

and a Liberal in politics.

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=Boyer, Major Gustave=, son of Benjamin Boyer and Angelique Latour (both

French-Canadians), born November 29, 1871, at St. Laurent, Jacques

Cartier County, near Montreal. Educated at St. Laurent College and Laval

University. Married April 10, 1907 to Pamela, daughter of François

Rheaume of Montreal. Formerly a public lecturer on agriculture for the

Quebec Government. Has been connected with both “La Patrie” and “Le

Canada,” as agricultural editor. Founded the “Echo de Vaudreuil,” 1897;

was alderman and mayor of the town of Rigaud for nine years. Has had an

active military career, being Major and Second in Command of the 17th

Regiment Duke of York’s Royal Canadian Hussars, of which he organized B.

Squadron in Vaudreuil County, and afterwards organizer and first

commanding officer of the 33rd Regiment of Hussars, Vaudreuil and

Soulanges. First elected to the House of Commons as a Liberal at the

general election of 1904, and re-elected in 1908, 1911, and 1917. Major

Boyer is recognized as an authority on all matters pertaining to

agriculture.

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=Crothers, Hon. Thomas Wilson, B.A., K.C.=, son of William and Nancy

(Grey), was born at Northport, Prince Edward County, Ontario, January 1,

1850. Educated at the Public School, Northport, and Albert College,

Belleville, and graduated from Victoria College with the degree of B.A.

in 1873, taught public schools in Lennox and Prince Edward for two years

and was head master of Wardsville High School 1874-75-76. Studied law in

the office of Foy, Macdonald & Tupper, and Messrs. Bethune, Osler &

Moss, in 1877-78-79. On being called to the Bar, began practice of Law

in St. Thomas in 1880 and for a number of years was in partnership with

Samuel Price, formerly Mining Commissioner for Ontario, under the firm

name of Crothers & Price. Appointed a K.C. in 1906; contested West Elgin

as Liberal Conservative candidate for a seat in the Legislative Assembly

for Ontario at the general elections in 1879, was defeated by the late

Dr. Cascadden, who was elected by a majority of 7. Was Chairman of the

Text Book Commission appointed by the Ontario Government in 1906 to

enquire into the price of Public and High School Text Books, which

enquiry resulted in the price being very greatly reduced, when he

declined to receive any emolument for his services; appointed governor

of Toronto University 1908. First elected to the House of Commons at the

general elections in 1908 as a Conservative member for West Elgin, and

re-elected at the general elections in 1911 and sworn in as Privy

Councillor and appointed Minister of Labor in the Borden Government,

Oct. 10, 1911. In 1917 elected as a Unionist and retained the portfolio

of Minister of Labour until November last, when he resigned owing to ill

health. Upon accepting this office was returned by acclamation. The Hon.

Mr. Crothers accompanied Premier Borden on his western tour June, 1911,

and is recognized as a platform speaker of splendid presence and much

force. Married July 26, 1883, Mary E., daughter of the late Dr. J. A.

Burns, of St. Thomas. The Minister is a member of the First Methodist

Church, St. Thomas.

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=Pyne, Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. Robert Allan, M.D., LL.D.=, Minister of

Education for the Province of Ontario, was born at Newmarket, Ontario,

October 29, 1853; son of Thomas Pyne, M.D., and Hester Jane Roberts,

cousin of Field-Marshal Earl Roberts; educated at public schools,

grammar school and University of Toronto; physician and surgeon; M.B.,

M.D. College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, of which he was for

many years secretary and registrar; LL.D. (hon.) University of Toronto,

1905, and Queen’s University, Kingston. Married Mary Isobel, daughter of

His Honor Judge Macqueen, County of Oxford; has issue: Mona Aileen,

Frederick Roberts, Frank Herbert. As a youth played football and cricket

as member of the Toronto Cricket and Lacrosse Clubs. Practised his

profession in Toronto and took active part in public affairs as member

of Toronto School Board, Public Library Board and Toronto Board of

Health. While resident of Haldimand County served in the 37th Haldimand

Rifles and was subsequently Assistant Surgeon, Royal Grenadiers,

Toronto. Having been prominent in politics, was elected to Ontario

Legislature as Conservative member for East Toronto, at the general

elections of 1898, and on the redistribution of the city in 1914 was

chosen to represent North-East Toronto, which seat he resigned in 1918.

Recently appointed a Governor of the University of Toronto. On the

formation of the Whitney Administration (1905-1914) was appointed

Minister of Education, and reappointed to the same office in the Hearst

Administration (1914—). In 1918 he resigned to give place to Hon. Dr.

Cody and accepted the post of Clerk of York County. During his term of

office the educational system was greatly developed, the legislative

grants to schools largely increased, the policy of cheap text-books

inaugurated, and a complete organization for technical training and

agricultural teaching in elementary and secondary schools effected. The

successful expansion of the Provincial Schools for Deaf Children (at

Belleville) and for blind children (at Brantford), is due in great

measure to his encouragement and his knowledge as a physician. In 1915

he was requested by the Ontario Government to visit England in

connection with the gift by the province of a Military Hospital for

wounded soldiers, and gazetted a lieutenant-colonel in the Canadian

Army. The hospital was built at Orpington, Kent, England, under his

supervision, and has been pronounced the best equipped and organized

institution of its kind erected during the war. Has twice visited the

Canadian forces on the battle line in France. Is prominent in a number

of societies, including the Masonic Order, the Orange Association, Sons

of England, etc., etc. In religion a member of St. Paul’s Church of

England. Clubs: Toronto, Albany, Royal Canadian Yacht, Canadian Military

Institute, Riverside Athletic Club. Residence, 21 Dunbar Road, Toronto.

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=Shier, Walter C., M.D.= (Uxbridge, Ont.), is the son of James Shier and

Mary Ann Mooney, and was born at Leaksdale, Ont., June 23, 1869, and

educated at one of the Public Schools of Scott Township and the High

School of Uxbridge, in the County of Ontario, and also at Toronto

University, graduating in Arts with the degree of B.A. in 1897, and in

Medicine with the degree of M.B. with honors, in 1907. Doctor Shier’s

grandfather, John Shier, was one of the early settlers of the Township

of Brock, where he located in 1827, a little north of the present West

Brock Anglican Church, and was of Irish Palatine stock. His

great-great-great-grandfather was driven out of the Palatinate by the

wars of Louis XIV of France. He left his native country in 1709 and

among thirteen thousand of his countrymen, threw himself upon the

generosity of the British Government. After living one summer in

England, he settled at Balligarane in Limerick County, Ireland, August,

1709, on the estate of Lord Southwell. The Doctor’s progenitors were all

of the farming class. The story of the expulsion of his ancestors from

that portion of France which is now known as the Provinces of

Alsace-Lorraine, is of absorbing interest. Dr. Shier after considerable

trouble and research, has traced the history of his forefathers during

the interesting period referred to, and has written a book entitled “A

Family from Balligarane,” being a history of the Irish Palatines. Dr.

Shier was married on the 4th of February, 1908, to Martha Kaufmann,

daughter of the late Henry Kaufmann, of Wellesley, Ont., and has one

adopted daughter, Elsie Grace Ball, age 7. He is a member of the

Oddfellows and of the Masonic Order, being Past Master of Zeredatha

Lodge, A.F. & A.M., Uxbridge. In religion he is a Presbyterian and a

Conservative in politics. The Doctor has been Coroner of the County of

Ontario for some years and Surgeon of the G.T.R. He devotes his

attention very closely to his profession and specializes on Eye, Ear,

Nose and Throat, Consultations and Anæsthetics. He is an ardent motorist

and expert marksman. The Doctor is a man of fine literary tastes and

exceedingly well posted on all matters of national importance. He

entertains very decided opinions on public questions and is never afraid

to have them known.

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=Robertson, Wm. John= (St. Catharines, Ont.), son of John and Emma

(Rudsdale) Robertson. Father, a Scotch Canadian; mother, a native of

Yorkshire, England. Born Westmeath, County Renfrew, Ontario, Sept. 12,

1846; educated Perth High School, Toronto University (B.A. with gold

medal in metaphysics, ethics and civil polity; silver medal in

mathematics; 1st honors in history and Prince of Wales prize for highest

standing in 1873); and Victoria University (LL.B., 1883). Married, 1887,

Margaret K., youngest daughter of John Junkin, St. Catharines, Ontario,

for a time assistant to late Professor Kingston, Meteorological Bureau,

Toronto, and 38 years as chief teacher of mathematics and history, St.

Catharines Collegiate Institute; for 7 years was examiner in

metaphysics, ethics, modern history, and political science, Toronto

University; was also examiner for Upper Canada College and McMaster

University; was Ontario Representative on the Committee of the Dominion

Education Association for securing and revising Canada manuscripts from

a Dominion standpoint, 1892; first President Canadian History

Association, 1895; founded Robertson Prize in Canadian Constitutional

History, Toronto University; formerly a Senator Victoria University;

Pres. Ontario Library Assoc., Mathematics Assoc., and chairman St.

Catharines Free Library Board, also Vice-Pres. Y.M.C.A. Ont. and Quebec;

Pres. Canadian Club, St. Catharines, and Pres. Local St. Andrews

Society. Member of the St. Catharines College Institute Board, Pres. of

the Local Branch Bible Society. Author, sketch of “Canadian Banking and

Currency since 1867,” “The Teacher’s Relation to the State,” “A

Comparison of the Political Institutions of Canada with those of Great

Britain and Ireland, and with those of the United States,” “The Growth

of the Canadian Constitution,” “The High School History of England and

Canada,” “The Public School History of England and Canada,” for many

years of other authorized Text Books in Ontario and other provinces, and

of numerous other works of a like nature and reputation. In politics an

Independent Liberal; a Methodist in religion. A member of the Methodist

Board of Education, and for 32 years a Delegate to the General

Conference and member of Superannuation Fund Board of the Church; a

believer in Free Trade as far as it can be obtained; the development of

a Canadian sentiment and literature; and the moderation of party

feeling. Member of the Golf Club, St. Catharines, and of the Canadian

Club.

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=Seguin, Paul Arthur, B.S., LL.B.= (L’Assomption, Que.), son of Felix

Seguin and Vitaline Noiseux, both French-Canadians. Born October 2,

1875, at Charlemagne; educated at L’Assomption College and Laval

University, from which latter institution he graduated with the degree

of B.S. and LL.B. Married, October 30, 1899, to Marie Anna Rivest,

daughter of François Rivest and Delphine McGoun, and is the father of

the following children: Roland, Rolande, Jeanette, Fernande and Pauline.

Mr. Seguin is a Notary Public by profession and has been

Secretary-Treasurer of the town of Terrebonne from 1900 to 1907, and

Secretary-Treasurer of the Parish of St. Paul l’Ermite from 1907 to

1912, and now practises his profession at the town of L’Assomption, of

which town he is the Mayor, and member of the School Board. Mr. Seguin

was first elected to the House of Commons as a Liberal in 1908 and again

in 1911, and also at the general elections in 1917. He has always been a

staunch Liberal and a member of the Roman Catholic Church.

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=Smith, John Charles, B.A.=, son of William Smith and his wife Sarah

Josephine Whitlow, was born at Kingston, Ont., November 28, 1875.

Educated at Kingston Public Schools, Kingston Collegiate Institute, and

Queen’s University, Kingston, from which latter institution he graduated

with the degree of B.A. in 1898, with honors in Classics. Mr. Smith

taught in the Public Schools in Frontenac County, Ont., and was

subsequently Classical Master in Dutton High School and in Dundas High

School, afterwards Classical Master and Principal in the Wingham High

School, and filled a similar position in the Ingersoll Collegiate

Institute. In 1916 was appointed Inspector of Public Schools for the

Inspectorate of Elgin East. Married Rose, daughter of John Critchley, of

Toronto, and has one child, Hugh Cyprian Whitlow. Mr. Smith is a member

of the Canadian Club and the Masonic and Orange Orders, and of the

Canadian Order of Foresters. He is an Anglican in religion and a member

of Trinity Church, St. Thomas, at which city he resides.

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=Samuel, Sigmund=, one of the most interesting of Toronto’s wholesale

merchants is Sigmund Samuel, son of Lewis Samuel, who, with his wife,

formerly Miss Kate Sickleman, came to Toronto in 1855, where Mr. Samuel

founded his iron, steel and metal business, now located at the corner of

King and Spadina Avenue, Toronto, at 120 Broadway, New York, and 18

Philpot Lane, London, E.C., England, and is also vice-president of the

Metallic Roofing Co. of Toronto. It is now the oldest established firm

in direct succession in Canada in this branch of industry. The present

head of the firm was born in Toronto on October 24, 1868, and educated

at the Model School and Upper Canada College, from which he graduated in

1884. In 1898 he married L. May Mandelson, daughter of L. P. Mandelson,

a retired merchant of London, England, and their family numbers four:

Kathleen May, Lewis Sigmund, Norman Sigmund and Florence May. Of Jewish

religion, in politics Conservative, Mr. Samuel’s chief recreations are

golf and motoring. He is a member of the York Club, Toronto Hunt Club,

the Albany, the Lambton Golf and Country Club, the Caledon Mountain

Trout Club and, in England, of the Carlton Club and the Hanger Hill Golf

Club. He is also a member of the council of the Art Museum of Toronto.

Nor is Mr. Samuel neglectful of philanthrophy, for he is a life member

of the Western Hospital, Toronto, and a governor of the Children’s

Hospital, Great Ormond St., London, England. Mr. Samuel is truly

Imperialistic in maintaining his English connections, and maintains his

English address at 64 Porchester Terrace, London. His Canadian home is

at 140 Madison Avenue, Toronto.

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=Rose, Hon. Mr. Justice Hugh Edward=, (Toronto). Son of the late Hon.

Mr. Justice J. E. Rose, LL.D., Judge of the Supreme Court of Judicature

for Ontario. Born in Toronto the 16th of September, 1869. Educated at

Toronto Collegiate Institute and the University of Toronto, from which

latter institution he graduated in 1891 with the degree of B.A., and

received the degree of LL.B. in 1892. Called to the bar in 1894. Created

K.C. in 1908. Before his elevation to the Bench, was a member of the

firm of Fasken, Cowan, Chadwick & Rose. Some time Examiner in Law,

Toronto University, and one of the examiners of the Law Society of Upper

Canada. Appointed to the Bench the 4th of December, 1916. Member of the

following clubs: Toronto Club, and Toronto Golf Club. In religion, Mr.

Justice Rose is a member of the Church of England.

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=Mills, Charles Henry, M.L.A.= (Kitchener), was born at Clinton, Ont.,

October 27, 1861; son of Rev. John Mills and his wife, Eliza Coleman.

Educated at the Grimsby High School. Was President of the Kitchener

Board of Trade, 1904-5, and Alderman for the City, 1911-12. Has been

member of the following boards in the City of Kitchener: Parks

Commissioner, Light and Power Commission, and Collegiate Institute. Was

first President of the Canadian Club in his home City in 1908. First

elected to the Ontario Legislature at a by-election, October 28, 1912,

as the Conservative representative for the constituency of North

Waterloo and again returned in the General Election of 1914 by a

majority of 1454, being the largest majority ever given a Conservative

candidate in the riding. In religion, the member for North Waterloo is a

Methodist. He married Bernice Mitton, daughter of William J. Mitton of

Dutton, September 7, 1898, and is a member of the Kitchener and Waterloo

Clubs and of the following societies: Masonic, Canadian Order of

Foresters, and Knights of Pythias.

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=Hazen, Hon. Sir John Douglas, K.C.M.G., K.C., LL.D., O.C.= (St. John

City and County). Descended from Edward Hazen, who moved from

Northumberland, Eng., to Massachusetts in 1648, and more immediately

from John Hazen, who, with his brother William, came from Haverhill,

Mass., and settled at Portland, New Brunswick, in 1775. Son of the late

James King Hazen, mother a daughter of the late Hon. John A. Beckwith.

Maternal grandfather was Provincial Secretary of New Brunswick and

member of the Legislative Council. Paternal grandfather was an officer

in H.M. Army, and Sheriff of Sunbury County for over 25 years. Born at

Oromocto, Sunbury County, New Brunswick, June 5, 1860. Educated at

Collegiate School, Fredericton, and University, New Brunswick; degrees,

B.A., B.C.L., LL.D., University New Brunswick. Married Sept. 22, 1884,

Ada C., daughter of James Tibbits, of Fredericton. Five children:

Douglas King, Katie Elizabeth, Frances Edith, James Murray (Lieutenant

C.E.F., died of wounds in France) and Ada A. A barrister-at-law.

Director of the Eastern Trust Co., Senator of the University, New

Brunswick and ex-President Alumni Society thereof. Ex-President of the

Barristers’ Society, New Brunswick. Was Alderman of Fredericton for

three years and Mayor too. Removed to St. John, 1890. President of

Horticultural Society. Returned to House of Commons, general election,

1891, for St. John city and county. In 1891, moved address in reply in

House of Commons; an unsuccessful candidate 1896; elected to House of

Assembly 1899-1903 and 1908 (Sunbury County). Chosen 1899 Leader of the

Opposition. The Opposition Party under his leadership administered a

crushing defeat to the Robinson Government at the general election,

March, 1908, and at the close of the polls he found himself at the head

of a contingent of 31 supporters, as against 12 adherents of the

government. Upon the resignation of Premier Robinson and his colleagues,

Mr. Hazen was summoned by His Honor the Lieut.-Governor to form a

government, which he did, assuming the portfolio of Premier and

Attorney-General. The Cabinet was sworn in, March 24, 1908, and all the

members thereof re-elected by acclamation April 7. Retained office until

Oct. 10, 1911, when he was sworn of the Privy Council and appointed

Minister of Marine and Fisheries in Premier Borden’s Cabinet. Dr.

Daniel, the M.P. elect for St. John City and County, retiring, Mr. Hazen

was placed in nomination and elected by acclamation. Member of

Inter-Provincial Conference, Ottawa, and of Maritime Provincial

Conference (1910), attended coronation of King George and Queen Mary

(1911) as representative of the Province of New Brunswick. Delegate to

Washington on two occasions in connection with the Hague Award _re_

North Atlantic Fisheries and delegate to England with Premier Borden,

_re_ Naval affairs (1912). In the latter part of 1917 he became Chairman

of the Canadian Section of the International Fisheries Commission to

settle all outstanding fisheries questions between Canada and the United

States; appointed Chief Justice New Brunswick November, 1917. Created a

K.C.M.G. for public services same year. Member of Union Club, St. John;

Mount Royal Club, Montreal; Rideau Club, Ottawa; Royal Colonial

Institute, London Eng., and of the following societies: St. George’s,

Loyalist, New Brunswick, Historical, and Natural History, St. John, N.B.

Recreation, golf and motoring. Member of St. Paul’s (Anglican) Church,

St. John, New Brunswick. Address, St. John, N.B.

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=Sinclair, Victor Albert, B.A., LL.B.=, born May 16, 1872, at

Tilsonburg, Ont., son of Dr. Lachlin C. Sinclair and Roxilana Nan

Norman, both Canadians. Dr. Sinclair contested North Norfolk on three

occasions in the Conservative interests against the late Hon. John

Charlton. Educated at the Public and High Schools of Tilsonburg, the

University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall; graduated B.A. in 1892 with

first-class honors in Political Science and English, took degree of

LL.B. with honors in 1894; called to the Bar at Osgoode Hall, in 1895,

receiving medal. Commenced practice at Tilsonburg with W. A. Dowler,

K.C., as Dowler & Sinclair, has practised alone for past eight years,

entered Municipal Council of his native town in 1896, and served three

years as councillor and two years as Mayor, was high school trustee from

1910 until 1919, member of Council, Board of Trade. President of

Tilsonburg Conservative Club, President Tilsonburg Horticultural Society

1910-1919, Vice-President Bowling Club, Vice-President Tilsonburg Shoe

Company, Limited. The subject of this sketch was first elected to the

Ontario Legislature for South Oxford at the general elections of 1914 by

a majority of four over Colonel T. R. Mayberry; on recount this majority

was increased to five, and on appeal reduced to one. Mr. Sinclair is

recognized as a valuable member of the Legislature, he was acting

Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee during the session of 1916, he

is a member of several fraternal societies, including the Masonic, of

which he is now Worshipful Master, C.O.F., A.O.U.W., also O.C.H.C., of

which he is Supreme Leader for Canada, and has made a special study of

Municipal and Company law. He enjoys a large practice, and is the

solicitor for several townships in the counties of Oxford, Elgin, and

Norfolk. Married February 6, 1901, to Gertrude L., daughter of George

Draper, of Listowel, and is father of two children: Mildred Roxilana,

and Gertrude Helen. In religion the member for South Oxford is a

Methodist. His chief recreation is bowling and horticulture.

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=Robertson, Norman= (Walkerton, Ont.), author of “The History of the

County of Bruce,” and Treasurer of the County of Bruce, Walkerton, Ont.,

was born on June 27, 1845, in Belleville, Ontario. His father, Peter

Robertson, was a merchant of Scottish birth and the son of a

Presbyterian minister, at Kilmaurs, Ayrshire. Mr. Robertson’s mother,

Sarah Ross, was born in England, although of Highland descent, her

grandfather being one of those who followed “Bonnie Prince Charlie” into

England in 1745. Norman Robertson attended the Grammar School at

Belleville, but left school when only eleven years of age, that he might

accompany his father and assist him in his business when he came to the

County of Bruce and settled at Kincardine in 1856. The disadvantage

arising from leaving school at so early an age was in part overcome by

private study and tuition. In 1863 he went to Montreal, taking a

position in a wholesale dry goods warehouse, rising to the position of

English buyer. In 1877 he returned to Kincardine and took over the

business of his father, who retired. He was married at Montreal in 1871,

to Lilla M. Warren, daughter of S. R. Warren, builder of church organs

at Montreal, and afterwards at Toronto. His family consists of three

sons and two daughters. In religion Mr. Robertson is a Presbyterian, and

has been an active worker in Sunday School work for over fifty years. In

politics he is a Conservative. The position of Treasurer of the County

of Bruce became vacant in 1887, and Mr. Robertson was chosen from among

twenty-five applicants. A desire to have put in book form and so

preserved, the records of the settlement of the County of Bruce, induced

the County Council in 1896 to offer a prize for a Historical Sketch of

the County. The sketch prepared by Mr. Robertson carried off, jointly

with another, the prize. This initial effort was followed in 1906 by a

volume of 560 pages bearing the title “The History of the County of

Bruce.” This work has been very favorably commented upon and classed as

one of the best of the County Histories of the Province that have been

published. Mr. Robertson was with the Victoria Rifles, of Montreal, when

that regiment went to the front at the time of the Fenian Raids in 1866,

and has received his military medal therefor.

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