=O’Hara, Francis Charles Trench=, Deputy Minister of Trade and Commerce

for Canada, and one of the best known citizens of Ottawa, was born at

Chatham, Ont., November 7, 1870, the second son of Robert O’Hara, Master

of Chancery in that city, and Maria S. (Dobbs) O’Hara. He was educated

at the Chatham Collegiate Institute and in 1888 entered the service of

the Canadian Bank of Commerce. His inclinations led him to literary

pursuits, however, and in 1891 he left the service of the bank to enter

newspaper work in Baltimore, Maryland. In this field he showed great

promise, but in 1896 Rt. Hon. Sir Richard Cartwright, having entered the

first Laurier cabinet as Minister of Trade and Commerce, persuaded him

to return to Canada and become his private secretary. Since then Mr.

O’Hara has continued to reside in Ottawa, and has been a vital factor in

the Department of Trade and Commerce, of which, since 1908, he has been

Deputy Minister. He was Superintendent of the Trade Commissioners

Service, to extend Canada’s markets in various parts of the world from

1904 to 1911, and from 1908 to 1911 Chief Controller of Chinese

Immigration. During the late war he rendered very important service as

Chief Canadian officer in charge of British and United States Import and

Export Trade Restrictions; until that work was assumed by the War Trade

Board in 1918. He was also a member of the Ships Licence Committee, the

Editorial Committee on Government Publications, and officer in charge

under H.M. Ministry of Munitions of the distribution in Canada of

Industrial diamonds. Since June, 1918, he has been also Deputy

Commissioner of Patents. He is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society

and of the Royal Colonial Institute. In 1907 the late Earl Grey, then

Governor-General of Canada, induced him to become Honorary Secretary of

his Musical and Dramatic Trophy Competitions, which for six years did

admirable service in stimulating public interest in these arts. In

1914-16 he was Local Officer for Canada for the Dominion Royal

Commission to inquire into there sources of the Overseas Dominions. Mr.

O’Hara wields a skilful pen as evidenced by numerous magazine and

newspaper contributions. He is also a Captain of the Corps Reserve of

the Governor-General’s Foot Guards. His recreations are golf, fishing

and shooting, and he is a member of the Rideau, Country and Royal Ottawa

Golf Clubs, Ottawa. He married Helen R., a daughter of the late Senator

Corby of Belleville, Ont., and has one daughter. His residence is at 125

Wurtemburg Street, Ottawa.

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=Henderson, William Andrew=, Barrister, Toronto, Ontario, was born at

the Provincial Capital on August 10, 1878, his parents being Andrew

Henderson and Mary Elizabeth (Carpenter). On his mother’s side he is of

United Empire Loyalist stock. A portion of the Crown grant made to his

mother’s great grandfather by George the Third, of land in Halton County

is still in the possession of the family. Educated at the Toronto Public

Schools, Jarvis Collegiate Institute, Trinity University and Osgoode

Hall. Studied law under James Milton Godfrey and Thomas Cowper

Robinette, K.C., and on being called to the Bar in 1908 became a member

of the firm of Robinette, Godfrey, Phelan and Henderson, and so

practised until 1913 when he formed a partnership with Austin G. Ross,

under the firm name of Henderson and Ross, which continued until 1915

when he practised alone until 1918 when he entered into partnership with

W. N. Irwin (Henderson & Irwin). Mr. Henderson has achieved a marked

distinction in his professional conduct of famous criminal cases and has

probably defended more people, since commencing practice, charged with

capital offences than any other Ontario Counsel in recent years. Among

the notable trials which greatly enhanced Mr. Henderson’s fame as an

able advocate may be mentioned, the baby adoption case, in which Mabel

Turner was indicted on a charge of murder; Peter Snider, Krystik and

Strinkaruk, known as the Rosedale mystery; Hassan Neby (Tucker murder);

Archie McLaughlin (the Uxbridge tragedy); a cause celebre. Mr. Henderson

has defended no less than nine persons charged with murder and many

others charged with serious offences and has a wide reputation as a

successful criminal lawyer. He has held numerous briefs in civil cases,

particularly those involving Mercantile law, being solicitor for several

large corporations. A sound lawyer with an incisive style of

cross-examination, he is able to present the law and the facts to the

Court or Jury in a convincing and effective manner. An Anglican in

religion and a Conservative in politics. He is a member of the Masonic

Order. Married July 6, 1918, to Beatrice Helen, daughter of Donald

Graham, of Toronto. Mr. Henderson has always been interested in amateur

sports and prominent in local baseball circles. He is also proficient in

boxing and swimming. A native of Toronto he is widely known and regarded

as one of the most prominent and popular members of the Ontario Bar.

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=Earle, Rufus Redmond, LL.B., K.C.=, 1995 19th Ave. West, Vancouver,

B.C., was born May 8, 1873, in Winchester Township, Dundas County, Ont.,

the son of Rufus Earle, a farmer, and his wife Catharine Redmond, a

distant relative of the late John and Major William Redmond, the noted

Irish parliamentary leaders. He was educated at the public schools of

Winchester Tp., Morrisburg High School, Ottawa Normal School, and

Ontario High School Teachers’ Institute, Toronto. He taught school at

Cass Bridge, Ont., 1892-3, and Morrisburg Model School, 1894-5. In 1896

he went to Manitoba and was principal of the Killarney High School for

three years, subsequently entering Manitoba University and taking up the

study of law with the present Mr. Justice Metcalfe, of the Court of

King’s Bench, Winnipeg, and the late Hon. J. H. Agnew, Provincial

Treasurer of Manitoba, Virden. He was called to the Manitoba Bar in

1904. Removing to Saskatchewan in 1905, he was immediately called to the

Bar of that province and that of Alberta also. He began practice in

Battleford, Sask., in partnership with ex-Chief Justice McGuire, of the

Bench of the North-West Territories, and played a prominent part in

public affairs. He was elected Mayor of Battleford in 1912, having

previously served as a member of the School Board and a Director of the

General Hospital there. In 1914 he was chosen President of the

Battleford Board of Trade, and military affairs also claimed his

attention. In 1911-12 he was Provisional Major and O.C. of “D” Squadron

22nd Saskatchewan Light Horse. He was also a Director of the

Saskatchewan Anti-tuberculosis League and a Bencher of the Law Society

of the province. President of the Law Society of Saskatchewan 1917. In

1918 he removed to Vancouver, where he was called to the bar of British

Columbia and at once took a prominent place in legal circles. He is a

member of the Terminal City and Canadian Clubs, Vancouver; of the

Shaughnessy Heights Golf Club and the Masonic Order. His recreations are

golf, tennis, swimming, motoring, and all outdoor sports generally. He

is a Presbyterian in religion, a Liberal in politics, and was married on

December 26, 1908, to Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Barry, Morrisburg,

Ont. He has two daughters, Mona Redmond and Marjory Kathleen, and two

sons, Barry Redmond and Max Redmond.

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=Buckles, Daniel, K.C.=, Barrister and Solicitor (Swift Current,

Saskatchewan), was born at Margaree, Nova Scotia, April 11, 1876, son of

Archie and Bridget Buckles. His father was a farmer. Mr. Buckles was

educated at the Public Schools of Margaree and Dalhousie University,

Halifax. On graduation, he taught school for a number of years in Nova

Scotia. Admitted to the Bar of Nova Scotia, September 24, 1907, and

successfully practised his profession at Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia,

until July, 1911, when he removed to Swift Current, and is at present

head of the firm of Buckles, Donald, McPherson, McWilliam & Thompson,

which was formed in 1913. Appointed Crown Prosecutor, 1913, for the

Judicial District, Swift Current. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Colonial

Institute, 1916. Appointed King’s Counsel 1919. Mr. Buckles, who is a

Liberal, has taken a prominent part in politics as a speaker and

organizer, and has been active in Red Cross work, and has addressed

recruiting meetings in different parts of the Province of Saskatchewan.

He is deeply interested in educational matters and is a member of the

Swift Current School Board. On January 4, 1912, he married Edna I.

Murray, daughter of S. Murray, of Milton, Nova Scotia. He is a member of

the following clubs and societies: The Canadian Club, Knights of

Columbus, C.M.B.A., F.O.E. and the Royal Colonial Institute. He is a

Roman Catholic in religion. His recreations are walking, shooting and

skating.

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=Jarvis, Ernest Frederick=, is one of the important officials of the

civil branch of the Department of Militia and Defence, Ottawa, in which

he holds the offices of Assistant Deputy Minister and Secretary of the

Militia Council. He was born at St. Eleanor’s, Prince Edward Island, on

September 16, 1862, the son of Edward Fitzgerald Jarvis, M.D., and Lucy

DesBrisay Harding, his wife. He was educated at Summerside, P.E.I., and

entered the public service of the Dominion on March 23, 1881, before he

had completed his nineteenth year. In 1892 he was appointed Secretary to

the late Hon. J. C. Paterson, Minister of the Crown in the cabinets of

Sir John Thompson and Sir Mackenzie Bowell, and remained with him until

Mr. Paterson was sent to Manitoba as Lieut.-Governor in 1895. Continuing

in the civil service Mr. Jarvis was appointed Chief Clerk of the

Department of Militia and Defence by Sir Frederick Borden in January,

1903. He became Secretary of the Militia Council on November 28, 1904,

and Assistant Deputy Minister on September 1, 1908. His expert knowledge

of departmental organization was recognized when the administration of

Sir Robert Borden appointed him a member of the Royal Commission to

inquire into the state of records in the public departments of the

Dominion, 1912-14. During the late war and the demobilization period Mr.

Jarvis whose duties were enormously augmented has given proofs of his

great abilities as a departmental officer. He was appointed a Companion

of the Imperial Service Order on June 3, 1918. He is an Anglican in

religion and in 1892 married Ethel Colborne, daughter of the late E. A.

Meredith, LL.D., of Toronto. He resides at 347 Stewart Street, Ottawa.

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=McCuish, Robert George= (Regina, Saskatchewan), was born at Parkhill,

Ont., April 12, 1877, the son of Donald John and Flora McCuish. His

father was a farmer and, the family moving to the West when he was a

child, Mr. McCuish was educated at Morden (Man.) High School and at

Manitoba University. In 1898 he joined the staff of the Winnipeg

“Tribune,” and served as Sporting Editor for some years. From 1901 to

1905 he published the “Chronicle,” of Morden, Manitoba, and in 1905

founded the Fort William “Evening Herald,” which he continued to conduct

until 1907, when he decided to enter the life insurance business in

Winnipeg. He was Manager of the Ætna Life for two years, and then became

Manager of the Manufacturers Life, and in 1912-13 served as

Vice-President of the Dominion Life Underwriters’ Association. In the

latter year he came East and became Montreal Manager of the

Manufacturers Life Insurance Company, and on July 1, 1915, accepted the

position of Manager for Saskatchewan of the Canada Life Assurance

Company, with headquarters at Regina, a post he at present holds. Among

the many important offices identified with his name are those of

President of the Regina Liberal Association; Past President of the

Regina Life Underwriters; Honorary Life Member and Past President of the

Western Canada Press Association. He is a member of the Council of the

Regina Board of Trade. Clubs: St. George and National of Montreal, the

Wascona Country Club, Regina, and Assiniboia Club, Regina. His

recreations are curling and golf. He is a Knight of Pythias and a Mason;

at the present time is Deputy Supreme Chancellor for Saskatchewan of the

order K. of P., and a P.G.C. of the order for Quebec. He is a

Presbyterian in religion and on Sept. 14, 1904, married E. Maud,

daughter of Andrew Macfarlane, for many years Superintendent of the

William Hamilton Foundry, at Peterboro, Ont. He has one son, Donald

Emmerson McCuish.

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=Patrick, John Alexander Macdonald, K.C.= (Yorkton, Saskatchewan), one

of the best known barristers of that province, was born at Ilderton,

Ont., June 28, 1873, the son of George B. and Alecia Patrick, both

deceased. His father was a farmer and the son was educated at the

Collegiate Institute and Model School, London, Ont. Later he took a

course at the Normal School, Regina, in 1896, and taught school for six

years, concurrently taking up the study of law with Mr. Gifford Elliott,

of Yorkton, in 1899. Subsequently, in 1903, he entered the office of

George W. Watson, Yorkton, and in 1904 that of the late Hon. G. W.

Brown, ex-Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan. In the latter year he was

called to the bar and since 1905 has practised in Yorkton. He is at

present head of the firm of Patrick, Doherty, Killam & Walton. He was

created King’s Counsel in 1913, is ex-President of the Law Society of

Saskatchewan and has been a Bencher of that body since 1906. He is also

a member of the Executive of the Canadian Bar Association. Mr. Patrick

has also taken a prominent part in public affairs and was Mayor of

Yorkton for four terms, 1908-9 and 1913-4, and President of the Board of

Trade from 1910 to 1913, inclusive. Earlier he held the post of Public

School Trustee from 1906 to 1909, inclusive. He is a Conservative in

politics and was an unsuccessful candidate for the Legislature at the

provincial elections of 1917. He is also a member of the Executive of

the Navy League of Saskatchewan, and of the Executive of the Canadian

Patriotic Society for that province. In religion he is a Methodist and a

Governor of Regina College, affiliated with that religious body. He is a

Past Grand Master for his province of the I.O.O.F., and his recreations

are big game hunting and farming. On Oct. 15, 1905, he married Sadie

Pearl, a daughter of the late William A. Hawkins, retired contractor, of

Yorkton, Sask., and has six children, William Alexander, John Arden,

Ethel Cecilia, Sadie Alecia, Hugh-Arthur and Mona Ione.

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=Hogg, Andrew Brydon=, Barrister (Lethbridge, Alberta), was born at

Flesherton, Ont., on January 24, 1883. Educated at the Public and High

Schools of Toronto and Toronto University, at which latter seat of

learning he graduated with the degree of B.A. in 1904 and in 1916

received the degree of LL.B. from Alberta University. Studied law with

the Hon. Arthur Meighen, Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, afterwards

Solicitor-General of Canada, with whom he subsequently formed a

partnership, and with whom he practised law from 1908-10, the firm being

known as Meighen and Hogg. From 1910-14 he practised alone at Carmangay,

Alberta. In 1914 he formed a partnership with Mr. Russel, the firm name

being known as Hogg & Russel, removing to Lethbridge in 1916, where he

practised alone, and in 1917 he formed a partnership with C. F.

Jamieson, the firm style being Hogg and Jamieson. On May 10, 1917, he

married Ada Wright, adopted daughter of D. H. Elton, Barrister,

Lethbridge. He is an adherent of the Presbyterian Church and a

Conservative in politics, and a member of the Masonic Order. Mr. Hogg’s

recreations are golf and motoring.

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=Todd, John Lancelot= (Montreal), son of the late Jacob Hunter Todd and

Rosanna (Wigley) Todd. Was born in Victoria, B.C., December 10, 1876.

Educated at Upper Canada College and McGill University, B.A., 1898;

M.D., C.M., 1900; M.R.C.S., London, 1907; D.Sc. (Hon.) Liverpool

University, 1909; a member of the staff of the Royal Victoria Hospital,

Montreal, 1901. Sent by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine to Gambia

Protectorate and to Senegal to study trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness)

and report on sanitation, 1902. Sent by Belgian Government and Liverpool

School of Tropical Medicine to Congo Free State to study the same

disease and report on sanitation of the Free State posts, 1903; Director

of the Tropical Research Laboratories, Liverpool School of Tropical

medicine at Runcorn, 1905-7; has published observations on

trypanasomiasis in men and animals, on spirochactoris (tick fever), and

on other tropical and insect-borne diseases; decorated commander of the

Order of Leopold II, by the King of the Belgians in recognition of his

scientific services, 1905; awarded Mary Kingsley Gold Medal by Liverpool

School of Tropical Medicine, 1910. Since June, 1907, has been Associate

Professor of Parasit., McGill University; author of reports and papers

in association with the late J. Everett Dutton (embodied in the memoirs

of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and elsewhere). Married M.

Clouston, a daughter of Sir Edward Clouston, Bart., Montreal. Is a

member of the Mount Royal Club, University Club, Montreal, and York

Club, Toronto. Dr. Todd holds the rank of Major in the Canadian Army

Medical Corps, and is a member of the Board of Pension Commissioners for

Canada.

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=Adamson, John Evans, B.A.= (Winnipeg, Man.), was born at Nelson,

Manitoba, on Sept. 9, 1884, and is the son of Alan J. and Julia Adamson.

He was educated at the public schools of Manitoba and Saskatchewan and

graduated from St. John’s College, Winnipeg, with degree of B.A. in

1907. Called to the Bar in 1910. Member of the law firm Adamson &

Lindsay, Winnipeg. Married Mary Turriff, daughter of Senator J. G.

Turriff, Ottawa, on April 8, 1912, and is the father of two children. Is

a member of the Carlton and St. Charles Country Club and also a member

of the Masonic Order. In religion he is an Anglican and a Liberal in

politics. His recreations are golf and motoring.

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=Peuchen, Lieut.-Col. Arthur Godfrey=, Capitalist, retired Manufacturer,

son of Godfrey E. Peuchen and Eliza Eleanor Clarke of Hull, Eng. born in

Montreal, April 18, 1859; educated in private schools there. His father

was a Railroad Contractor in South America and built a railroad from

Laguero to Caracas, Venezuela; his grandfather was manager of the

London, Brighton and Midland Railway in England. Canada is indebted to

Col. Peuchen for his ingenuity in being the first man to grasp the

possibility of utilizing the unmarketable portions of our hardwood

forests in a scientific way. In travelling he observed that England and

France had virtually no forests, and knowing that the Canadian lumberman

was only taking from our woods the flotable timber, leaving the

unmerchantable coarse hardwood, he conceived the idea of turning this

waste into the manufacturing of valuable chemicals: Acetic Acid, Acetate

of Lime, Acetone, Wood Alcohol and Formaldehyde, the latter being so

important for the successful growing of wheat in Canada, and the former

for the dyeing industry; also benefited the English War Office by being

the first man under the British Flag to produce acetone direct from

wood, which he supplied the Admiralty in large quantities for the

manufacture of high explosives, such as cordite. Introduced our present

system of charcoal distribution in paper bags. With Sir Wm. McKenzie and

others he organized the Standard Chemical Company with a small capital,

which he gradually through his unbounded energy increased to five

millions—beginning in 1897 by distilling only 22 tons of wood per day,

eventually by 1913 this distillation was increased to over 1,000 tons.

The production of these chemicals meant a tremendous export trade. He

erected factories at: Fenelon Falls, Deseronto, Longford Mills, South

River, Sault Ste. Marie, Fassett and Cookshire, and operated factories

at Thornbury, Parry Sound and Mount Tremblant; erected refineries in

Montreal, London, England, France and Germany, where crude alcohol was

shipped and refined; bought and operated blast charcoal furnaces at

Deseronto, and built one at Parry Sound. Was President and General

Manager of the Standard Chemical Company from 1897 to 1914. Was active

in military circles: Lt., Q.O.R., 1888; Captain, 1894; Major, 1904;

Lieutenant-Colonel, May 21st, 1912. Went to England with the Queen’s Own

in 1910 as Major, for the Imperial Fall Manœuvres at Salisbury Plain,

and part of this period was in charge of the regiment under General

French. Was Marshalling Officer in command of escort of officers of

Indian Cavalry, Royal Procession, Coronation of King George, 1911;

Officer Commanding Home Battalion Q.O.R., 1914 and 1915. Officer’s long

service decoration. Was in the “Titanic,” disaster, of which he was one

of two only surviving males in Canada. President of the Imperial Land

Co.; owner, McLaren Lumber Company, of Blairmore, Alberta, which

controls all the large green timber in Southern Alberta, also saw mills

and branch retail yards. Clubs: National, Toronto Hunt, Ontario Jockey,

Life Member Military Institute; ex-Flag Officer and Life Member of Royal

Canadian Yacht Club, having held the positions of vice and rear

Commodore. Was owner for several years of the famous yacht “Vreda,”

which crossed the Atlantic under her own canvas and won more races in

her class than any other yacht in Canada. Member of St. Paul’s Anglican

Church and a Governor of Grace Hospital. In politics a Conservative.

Col. Peuchen has a strong personality, frank and genial in manner, easy

and interesting in conversation; has crossed the Atlantic 30 odd times

and travelled extensively in many lands. Recreations, golf, riding,

yachting. He married Margaret Thompson, daughter of John Thompson, of

Orillia, 1893. One son, Lieutenant Godfrey Alan Peuchen, Imperial Royal

Field Artillery, Asst.-Adjt. H.Q. to the 26th Brigade of Artillery

during the War; daughter, Jessie, married Lieutenant Harry C. Lefroy,

M.C., of the Imperial Royal Field Artillery. Residence during the War:

Queen Anne’s Mansions, St. James Park, London, England; summer home,

“Woodlands,” one of the most picturesque spots on Lake Simcoe.

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=Forin, John Andrew= (Nelson, B.C.), Judge of the County Court of West

Kootenay, is a son of John Forin, Architect, of Belleville, Ont., where

he was born on July 20, 1861. He was educated at Albert College,

Belleville, and at Osgoode Hall, Toronto, and was called to the Bar of

Ontario in 1885. He saw service in the North-west Rebellion of that year

as a private in the Queen’s Own Rifles of Toronto, and holds the medal

and clasp for that campaign. Later he practised in British Columbia and

received his present judicial appointment in 1896. He still retains his

connection with military affairs and at the time of writing is Officer

Commanding of the 107th Regiment, B.C., with the rank of Major. Since

1915, the Internment camp at Morrissey, B.C., and the guards at the

Trail, B.C., Smelter have been details of the regiment mentioned. He has

also devoted some attention to literary pursuits and has published

essays on legal and sociological subjects. His recreations are curling

and golf; he is a member of the Nelson and Rossland Clubs and of the

Scottish Clan Society. In religion he is a Presbyterian, and on May 18,

1895, was married to Mary, daughter of Peter T. Dunn, merchant, of

Vancouver, B.C. He has five children, Jean Victoria, Isabel Dunn, John

Douglas, Peter McLaren, and Mary Edith Forin.

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=Coburn, John W.= (Nanaimo, B.C.), one of the leading lumbermen of the

Pacific Coast, was born at Harvey, New Brunswick, the son of A. W.

Coburn, farmer and contractor, and Elizabeth Messer, his wife. He was

educated in the public schools of his native province and, later, in

private schools in British Columbia. As a youth he took up railroading

and had sixteen years’ experience therein, principally as a passenger

conductor. Subsequently he went into the lumber business and was

extremely successful. His interests are now very extensive. He is

President of the Ladysmith Lumber Co., of Nanaimo; the Ladysmith

Hardware Co., and of the Last West Lumber Co., which latter corporation

does retail business in the Western Provinces. He is also a director of

the Shawinigan Lake Lumber Co. He has shown a progressive and energetic

spirit in public affairs and is an ex-President of the Nanaimo and

Ladysmith Boards of Trade. He has also filled the following municipal

offices: Mayor of Wellington, B.C., and of Ladysmith, B.C. (for three

terms) and School Trustee and Alderman for three terms, when his

business interests prevented him continuing in further civic affairs in

Nanaimo. He is a member of the Masonic Order, is a Presbyterian in

religion and a supporter of Union Government. On Feb. 8, 1899, he

married Ellen Cowie (his second wife), a daughter of Alexander Cowie,

Elora, Ont., by whom he has three children, Wallace, Gordon and Lorna

Maud.

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=Ingram, George C., B.A.=, 1167 2nd Ave. N.W., Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan,

one of the well known business men of that province, was born in

Aberdeen, Scotland, on October 16, 1867, the son of James and Elizabeth

(Leith) Ingram. When nine months old his parents emigrated to Tipton,

Iowa, where the subject of this sketch spent twenty years on a farm. He

was educated in the local schools of Tipton and later took a course at

the Northern Indiana Normal School, Valparaiso, Indiana, taking the

degree of B.A. In 1890 he removed to Minnesota, where he practised as a

surveyor for two years, after which he founded the Ingram Lumber Co., of

Sank Centre, Minn., continuing in business there until 1910. In the

latter year he moved to Saskatoon, Sask., as special representative of

the Western Retail Lumbermen’s Association, a post he held until 1912,

when he became General Manager, Director and Secretary of Security

Lumber Company, Limited, of Moose Jaw, a position he still holds. While

a resident of the United States he was President (1905-6) of the

Northwestern Lumbermen’s Association, Minneapolis. He has served as an

Alderman and is a Liberal in politics. His recreation is golf and he

belongs to the Prairie Club, Moose Jaw, and to the A.F. & A.M.

(Shriner). On Sept. 22, 1896, he married Lulu, daughter of the late

David Wilcox, and has three children, Howard C., Hildred and George L.

Ingram.

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=Shepherd, Simpson James=, 614 11th Street South, Lethbridge, Alberta

Barrister-at-law, is a native of Uttoxeter, Lambton County, Ont., where

he was born February 6, 1877, the son of James and Mary (Dowler)

Shepherd. His father was a farmer and he was educated at Forest High

School, and later at McGill University. He had a brilliant career in the

latter institution and graduated in 1906 with the degree of B.C.L.,

capturing a Macdonald travelling scholarship in law. After graduation he

was thus enabled to spend one year in France, and later decided to

settle in the West, going to Lethbridge in 1908, when he was called to

the Alberta Bar and formed a partnership with Mr. W. C. Simmons. The

latter was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of the province in

1910, and Mr. Shepherd then formed a partnership with Mr. Allen E.

Dunlop, previously of the Nova Scotia Bar. Later Mr. George A. Rice

joined the firm, which is now known as Shepherd, Dunlop and Rice. He is

a member of the Alberta Returned Soldiers Commission, and of the Chinook

and Lethbridge Golf Clubs, as well as the Masonic Order. His recreations

are golf, curling and shooting. He is a Liberal in politics and a

Methodist in religion. On September 7, 1908, he married Ethel M. S.

Dixon, daughter of Mr. John Dixon, merchant of Maple Creek,

Saskatchewan, and has three daughters, Marjorie C., Nancy D., and Joan

Douglas by name.

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=Edwards, Hon. William Cameron= (Rockland, Ont.), was born in Clarence,

May 7, 1844, and is a son of the late William Edwards, a native of

Portsmouth, Eng., who came to Canada about the year 1820, and settled in

the Township of Clarence, County of Russell, Ont., and his wife Ann

Cameron, a native of Fort William, Scotland. He was educated at the

Ottawa Grammar School. Upon the completion of his education he became an

extensive lumber manufacturer, and his business has grown to one of the

largest in Canada. He is known as a successful stock raiser, and takes a

keen interest in agriculture generally, having been President of the

Russell Agricultural Society for many years. He established the lumber

firm of W. C. Edwards & Co., in 1868; is a director of the Canadian Bank

of Commerce; a director of The Toronto General Trusts Corporation,

Toronto, and many other Toronto corporations and companies. After making

a success of his own business interests, he was induced to enter

politics by many of his closest friends, and became the Liberal

Candidate for the House of Commons for Russell at the general election

of 1882, and was defeated, but was later elected at the general

elections of 1891, 1896 and 1900, and became one of the foremost members

in Parliament, and a very close friend of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the then

Premier of Canada. In January, 1885, he married Catherine M., eldest

daughter of the late William Wilson, of Cumberland, Ont., and since

their marriage they have drawn many warm personal friends to them both

at Ottawa and their home town, Rockland. At the outbreak of the War in

1914, between Germany and her Allies, and the British-French-Russian

Allies, Mr. Edwards displayed much generosity, and gave freely both of

his time and money in the interest of the Motherland, and continued his

services until the close of the War. On March 17, 1903, he was summoned

to the Senate, as a reward for the many sacrifices made by him during

his political and business life, and has filled the position with marked

ability.

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=Rust, C. H., C.E.= (Victoria, B.C.), was born in Essex, England, on

Christmas Day, 1852; he received a thorough elementary and technical

education, both in the Mother Country and in Canada. He entered the

service of the City of Toronto, Ont., as rodman in 1877, and continued

in that capacity until 1881, when he was promoted to the position of

assistant engineer, and in 1883 was made assistant engineer in charge of

sewers. Mr. Rust held this position until 1891, and during his

incumbency in this office superintended the construction of 150 miles of

sewer. From 1887 until 1891 he was principal assistant engineer. In 1892

Mr. Rust was made acting chief engineer, and in July, 1898, he was

appointed to the office of Chief Engineer of the city, and filled that

office to the general satisfaction not only of the city, but also of the

citizens. His work entailed much labor. He had charge of sewers,

roadways, sidewalks, bridges and waterworks, besides which all routes of

street cars and style of cars used had to be approved by him. In 1887

Mr. Rust was elected a member of the Canadian Society of Engineers, and

in 1901 he became one of its presidents. In 1899 he was elected a member

of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and was elected one of the

Vice-Presidents in 1913, and he is very prominent in his profession. In

the beginning of 1912 Mr. Rust decided to resign the office of City

Engineer to accept a similar position in the city of Victoria, B.C., and

upon leaving Toronto he was presented with testimonials from all

sections of the community showing the high esteem and appreciation in

which he was held as a public servant and citizen.

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=Barry, Walter H.= (Montreal, Que.), Merchant, is the son of George

Barry and Margaret Bond, and relative of Arthur Barry and John A. Barry;

was born in Toronto, June 14, 1870, and educated at the High School.

Married Isabel L. Logie, daughter of Robert Logie, a merchant of New

York, and has one son, Gerald A. Barry, now Lieut. Gerald A. Barry. He

is a member of the Masonic Fraternity and member of the Royal Victoria

and Montreal Clubs, attends the English Church. His recreations are

golf, fishing and curling.

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=Adamson, Alan Joseph=, is the son of John Evans Adamson, of “Kill

House,” Clifton, County of Galway, Ireland, and Harriette Bell, his

wife, who was a daughter of the Rev. James Bell, of Baragher, Queen’s

County, Ireland. He was born at Kill House, Clifton, on August 1, 1857,

and educated at the High School in Dublin. His father was a landed

gentleman in Ireland and the proprietor of the Kill estate, and the

great-grandson of the fifth earl of Carberry. Mr. Adamson married in the

year 1882, Julia, daughter of Robert Turriff, of Quebec, and a sister of

J. G. Turriff, M.P. (Assiniboia), and is the father of the following

children; John Evans and Christopher Arthur, Barristers, Winnipeg, the

latter of whom was elected as Rhodes Scholar for the Province of

Saskatchewan, in 1907; Allan Bell, Inspector, Winnipeg; James Douglas,

Captain C.A.M.C.; Herbert, Lieut. 27th Winnipeg Battalion; Lily, wife of

Capt. A. S. Bell, Engineer; Harriette, Nurse, Winnipeg General Hospital,

and Gilbert, St. John’s College, Winnipeg. He is a member of the

Manitoba Club, the Canadian Automobile Club, and Colonial Institute,

London, England. He is a member of the Church of England, and the

Masonic Order, and is a Liberal in politics; represented the

constituency of Humboldt, in the House of Commons 1904-1908. The subject

of this sketch was a director of the Northern Bank and of the

Saskatchewan Valley & Manitoba Land Company. He went originally to

Winnipeg and embarked in the grain trade in 1883; was

Secretary-Treasurer of the Manitoba Grand Company in 1896; removed to

Rosthern in 1899; was largely instrumental in attracting American

capital and settlers to that region, and while there organized Canadian

Territories Corporation, of which he was President and Manager. This

body holds the record for the value of its transactions among all the

corporations existing in the west. Is an Anglican in religion and

resides at 160 Mayfair Avenue, Winnipeg, and has also a residence at

“Carberry Hill” Limona, Florida. His principal recreation is golf.

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=Diver, Frederick= (Toronto, Ont.), was born in London, Eng., and came

to this country with his parents when a youth. Mr. Diver learned the

business of electrotyping and stereotyping, engraving, designing and

“The Art Preservative of All Arts,” namely, printing. Some years ago,

Mr. Diver established the Central Press Agency, Limited, of which he is

the President. The head offices of the Company are situated at 110-16

York St., Toronto, and the Company has large business connections

throughout the Dominion of Canada. Mr. Diver owes his success to his

untiring industry, complete knowledge of the details of the various

branches of the work of his Company, and to his practical business

ability. His wife died a few years ago leaving her surviving children:

Lt. F. G. Diver, who was since killed in action at the Battle of the

Somme on Oct. 21, 1917; Ethel May, now wife of Halsey Wells of Detroit,

U.S.A., and Victor Diver, Vice-President of the Central Press Agency,

Ltd. Mr. Diver is a member of the National, Rosedale and Mississauga

Clubs; of the Masonic Order, and also of the Church of England.

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=Bellemare, Adelard= (St. Paulin, Que.), was born March 2, 1871, at St.

Paulin, County of Maskinonge, P.Q., son of François Bellemare and Delima

Julien, both French-Canadians. His grandfather was a teacher in 1845.

Was educated at Three Rivers Seminary. Was formerly professor for three

years at the College de Joliette and St. Laurent. Married, Feb. 2, 1898,

to Parmelia, daughter of Edmond Bourgeois of Joliet, and is the father

of six children: Hector, Lucien, Maria, Albert, Jeanne and Cecile. Was

lecturer for the C. N. d’Economie. Elected to the House of Commons at

the general elections in 1911, as an Independent Conservative, to

represent the constituency of Maskinonge. In religion Mr. Bellemare is a

Roman Catholic.

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=Birkett, Thomas=, was born in Bytown (now Ottawa), February 1, 1844. He

is the son of Miles and Elizabeth (Wren) Birkett, who came to Canada

from Cumberland, England, in 1838, and who saw that he received a good

education at the Public and Grammar Schools, and that he was thoroughly

prepared for commercial business life. That their efforts were not in

vain was shown at an early date, in the rapid and successful progress

that greeted his efforts and ventures. But, and in addition, they had

the good fortune to see their son make his mark in School, Municipal,

Provincial and Dominion and other public affairs and to be elected to

many public offices of trust where he distinguished himself in various

ways and established an enviable record for progressive, reliable and

lasting service. In every public office, to which he was elected he

devoted the attention and care that was made so evident and pronounced

in his private business with the result that he not only made good, but

cemented and enlarged the confidence and esteem of those who had

selected him as their representative. Whether as director or trustee of

a public institution, as member of the city council, mayor of the city,

or as member of Parliament, his conduct was the same and the result the

same, viz., conscientious devotion to duty attended by successful

results. Many a time it has been proclaimed, even by those who were

politically opposed to him, that having rendered to the State the

continuous and valuable public services that he did, and in a manner so

effective, that he would long ago have been called to the Canadian

Senate, and great has been the surprise that he has not been. But being

still robust in health, mentally and physically, and his activities

being as marked as they were in former years, it may not be out of place

to say that a seat in the Senate will be honored by his presence at an

early date. Having served as an apprentice in the hardware trade to Mr.

Isaac, in 1866, Mr. Birkett opened a retail hardware store on Rideau

Street, prospered, and soon had to remove to larger premises. For thirty

years he kept in the retail business, which year by year assumed larger

proportions and supplied goods to the many prosperous and wealthy

manufacturing towns and villages and thriving agricultural districts in

the Ottawa Valley. Finding the demand for his goods still on the

increase in 1896 he converted his private firm into a joint stock

company, of which he became president, his son Thomas M. Birkett,

vice-president, and other members of the family shareholders, and

launched into the wholesale business under the title of Thomas Birkett &

Son Company, Limited, of Ottawa. To-day this wholesale firm is one of

the most extensive, if not actually the largest hardware house in

Eastern Ontario and is known from one end of Canada to the other. The

building forms one of the best business blocks in Ottawa and is most

advantageously situated, the warehouse doors opening direct on the

wharves of the Rideau Canal basin. Mr. Birkett served as School Trustee

from 1869 to 1873; as Alderman, from 1873 to 1878; as Mayor, during 1891

and 1892. Since 1900 he has been Trustee, Ottawa Collegiate Institute.

In 1893 he declined nomination to the House of Commons, but in 1900 he

was elected by a large majority. He ran in 1904 and 1908 and was

defeated. Mr. Birkett is President, Thos. Birkett, Son & Co., Ltd.,

Wholesale Hardware Merchants, Canal St., Ottawa; Director,

Pritchard-Andrews Engraving Co.; Life Director, Carleton County

Protestant Hospital; Life Director, Protestant Hospital for the aged. He

was instrumental in erecting the Lady Stanley Institute for Trained

Nurses; is Honorary Director, Central Canada Exposition Association. In

1871 he married Mary Gallagher, daughter of Thomas Gallagher. She died

in March, 1902. In August, 1904, he married Henrietta Gallagher, his

deceased wife’s half-sister. He is a member of the following clubs:

Ottawa Hunt, Rivermead Golf (director), and of the A.F. & A.M. (32nd

degree), the Oddfellows, and St. George’s Societies. His recreation is

golf. Politics, Conservative. Religion, Methodist, and he resides at 306

Metcalfe Street, Ottawa, Ontario.

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=Anderson, Alexander James= (Toronto, Ont.), was born in Adelaide

Township, Middlesex County, July 1, 1863, and was educated at Strathroy

High School and Osgoode Hall. Toronto is as famous for its Bar as it is

in its commercial and manufacturing industry, and in alluding to its

leading members, prominent mention must be made of the subject of this

sketch. Mr. Anderson started his professional career with J. S.

Fullerton & Co., which partnership continued from 1891 to 1897; from

1894 to 1906 he practised alone; from 1907 to 1909 was a member of the

firm of Anderson & Gray, and entered his present partnership as senior

member of the firm (Anderson & McMaster) in 1910. Having municipal

aspirations, Mr. Anderson was elected to the Council of Toronto Junction

from 1899 to 1902; was corporation solicitor for West Toronto until the

amalgamation with the city in 1909, when he was elected alderman to

represent Ward Seven in the City Council. He was for four years a member

of the West Toronto School Board, and was elected Chairman of that body

in 1899. During the elections in 1904 he was unanimously selected by the

Liberals of South York as the party standard bearer, and though defeated

he made a very creditable showing at the close of the polls. Mr.

Anderson has many warm friends and supporters in the western portion of

the city, and he will show unexpected strength should he again become a

candidate. He is a Mason and takes an active interest in the welfare of

the Order.

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=Barnard, Hon. George Henry, K.C.=, Member of the Senate of Canada

(Victoria, B.C.), is a son of Francis Jones Barnard, a Canadian who went

to British Columbia from Ontario, when gold was first discovered in the

Fraser River, in 1859, and shortly afterwards became the founder of the

stage and express line from Yale, head of navigation on the Fraser, to

Barkerville, 400 miles to the north. On the famous Yale-Cariboo Road the

elder Barnard long operated a line of stages and carried the mail to the

mountain settlements of the district. The maiden name of the mother of

the subject of this sketch was Ellen Hillman, and he was born at

Victoria, B.C., Oct. 9, 1868. Sir Frank S. Barnard, K.C.M.G.,

Lieut.-Governor of British Columbia, is a brother. He was educated at

Trinity College School, Port Hope, and qualified for the law, entering

practice at Victoria. He was appointed King’s Counsel on Dec. 24, 1907.

Senator Barnard took an active interest in municipal affairs and served

as Alderman, 1902-3. In 1904 he was elected Mayor of Victoria and

continued in office for two years. He was first elected to the House of

Commons for that city at the general elections of 1908, as a

Conservative and was re-elected in 1911. On Oct. 23, 1917, he was

elevated to the Senate of Canada by the newly-formed Union Government of

Sir Robert Borden. Senator Barnard is a prominent social figure both at

Victoria and Ottawa, and is a member of the Union Club, Victoria, the

Vancouver Club, the Rideau Club, Ottawa and the Constitutional Club,

London, Eng. He was married on June 5, 1895, to Ethel Burnham, daughter

of Lieut.-Col. H. C. Rogers, Postmaster of Peterboro, Ont., is an

Anglican in religion and a Unionist in politics.

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=Ashby, Joseph Seraphin Aime, M.L.A.= (Lachine, Que.), son of George

Ashby and Eprosime Messier, both French Canadians; was born at Ste.

Marie de Monnoir, Province of Quebec, April 30, 1876. Educated at the

college of Ste. Marie de Monnoir. Married Hectorine Ste. Marie, daughter

of Pierre Zotique Ste. Marie, of Longueuil, Que., and is the father of

two children, Lucette, born November 7, 1908, and Georgette, born August

7, 1910. Mr. Ashby is a Roman Catholic in religion, and is a member of

the Montreal Reform Club, the Order of Catholic Foresters, the Alliance

Nationale, Union St. Joseph de Lachine, and The Knights of Columbus. Was

elected to the Quebec Legislature as the Liberal representative for the

constituency of Jacques Cartier on May 16, 1916. Mr. Ashby is a Notary

Public by profession.

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=Gariepy, Wilfrid, B.A., B.C.L., K.C., M.L.A.= (Edmonton, Alberta), was

born at Montreal, P.Q., on March 14, 1877. He is the son of Joseph H.

Gariepy, for many years a pioneer and leading merchant in the city of

Edmonton, an alderman and school trustee, and, by the way, a native of

St. Lin, P.Q., where was also born Sir Wilfrid Laurier. In days gone by

the Gariepys and the Lauriers intermingled considerably and Sir Wilfrid

when a boy attended the parish common school along with the grandfather

of the hero of this sketch. It was only natural that our subject should

at his birth be christened after the renowned Liberal Leader, who in

1877 was already in the political limelight. Four generations of

Gariepys were born and lived on the same homestead at St. Lin, three

miles from the parochial church. The mother of Mr. Wilfrid Gariepy,

Etudienne Boissonneault, who is yet living and residing in Edmonton, as

well as her husband, is a daughter of Noel Boissonneault, one of the

founders of the Town of Morinville, Alberta, as he came from the

Province of Quebec with the first contingent of colonists brought west

in 1891 by the late Father J. B. Morin, one of the most enthusiastic

colonization agents of his day. Noel Boissonneault was at one time a

leading Liberal politician in the Eastern Townships and for some years

was the moving spirit of the St. Onge Gold Mining Company, which did

business on the Gilbert River in Beauce County, P.Q. A maternal ancestor

of our subject was among the French-Canadian soldiers who fought for the

British Crown in 1812. On the other hand it is worth noting that another

figured in the uprising of 1837-1838, in favor of constitutional

government, on the shores of the St. Lawrence. Mr. Wilfrid Gariepy was

educated at the Sisters of Providence Academy, “Le jardin de l’enfance,”

on St. Denis Street, in Montreal, beginning in September, 1881; at Notre

Dame College, Côte des Neiges, Montreal, where he spent two years; at

St. Laurent’s College with the Fathers of the Holy Cross, remaining

there until January, 1891, when ill-health compelled him to abandon his

classical studies. He was then in the middle of versification. Deciding

to turn his activities into other channels, he attended the Montreal

Business College for some months and afterwards became a clerk in his

father’s store: first, in general groceries on St. Paul Street,

Montreal, and later in Edmonton, on Jasper Avenue, to which town the

family moved in March, 1893. In Montreal, although very young, Mr. W.

Gariepy indicated his political tastes by being one of the active

members of the “Club Letellier,” one of the oldest Liberal

organizations, and also by taking a hand in a mayoralty campaign in

favor of the Hon. James McShane, the famous “people’s Jimmy,” and by

working for the Hon. Honoré Mercier and his candidates after the famous

“renvoi d’office.” In 1893 Edmonton had just become a town, with a

population of less than 1,000, no modern conveniences, with the

exception of a rudimentary telephone and electric light system. Needless

to say, streets were unpaved and there were not even any sidewalks.

Still the town had a Mock Parliament, and we find our subject a member

of it, with a portfolio in its government. Mr. W. Gariepy was elected

one of the secretaries of the Liberal Club and also became, in 1894, at

its foundation, secretary to the Société de St. Jean Baptiste of

Edmonton. In 1895, with the Hon. Frank Oliver, who had just been

selected as Liberal candidate of Alberta, Mr. W. Gariepy made a tour

north of Edmonton, during which he addressed several meetings. It was in

September, 1895, that Mr. Gariepy found his health and other

circumstances such that he was able to return to the St. Laurent College

to complete his classical course. He stayed in that institution until

June, 1897, during which period he for one year filled the presidency of

the Literary Academy of the college. In the rhetoric bacheloriate on

papers submitted by Laval University, Mr. Gariepy succeeded with great

honors. He next went to the Seminary of Philosophy with the Sulpician

Fathers, to follow a two years’ course in philosophy, which gave him the

degree of Bachelor of Arts of Laval University. He chose the profession

of law and became articled in Montreal to Mr. Matthew Hutchinson, now a

judge of the Superior Court, in Sherbrooke. P.Q., with whom he remained

for three years, in the meantime following the law lectures at McGill

University, from which institution he received, in April, 1902, the

degree of Bachelor of Civil Law. In 1901 Mr. Gariepy had the honor of

being selected by the McGill Faculty of Law to represent it at the Laval

Law Students’ Banquet, at the city of Quebec.

In the federal and provincial campaigns in 1900, Mr. W. Gariepy for

several months addressed meetings, spending the bulk of his time in the

constituency of Terrebonne, at the request of the late Honorables

Raymond Prefontaine and Jean Prévost. At that period, at the formation

of a Liberal Students’ Association in Montreal, he was elected its

Secretary, while the Vice-President thereof was Walter Mitchell, the

present Provincial Treasurer of Quebec. Having been admitted to the Bar

of the Province of Quebec in January, 1903, Mr. Gariepy immediately

secured his enrolment in the Bar of the North-West Territories and

opened an office in Edmonton on the same spot where years before he had

been carrying on work as a clerk in his father’s store. In the following

May a by-election having been called to elect a member for the

constituency of St. Albert, in the North-West Territories Legislature,

at a convention, Mr. Gariepy accepted the nomination but for personal

reasons subsequently withdrew from the contest. For three years Mr.

Gariepy was a member of the law firm of Taylor, Boyle and Gariepy, the

senior member being Judge H. C. Taylor, of Edmonton District, and the

other member, the Hon. J. R. Boyle, now Minister of Education in the

Alberta Government. From 1907 to 1911, Mr. Gariepy was a member of the

law firm of Gariepy & Landry, his partner being Mr. Hector Landry, son

of the late Sir Pierre Landry, of New Brunswick. Mr. Gariepy is now the

senior member of the firm of Gariepy, Dunlop & Pratt. This firm is among

the leading firms of the City of Edmonton, and while his present

political activities prevent our subject from devoting much time to law,

he has always paid great attention to his law practice. He has had the

distinction of figuring as leading counsel in two murder cases—one, the

Gladu Brothers, who were acquitted, and the other the Barrett case, that

life convict who was condemned to capital punishment after having been

convicted of wilfully killing with an axe, Deputy-Governor Stedman, of

the Edmonton Penitentiary. For six years Mr. Gariepy was a member of the

Separate School Board of Edmonton, being chairman of the commission for

two years. It was under his chairmanship that the Separate School on

Third Street was erected. In December, 1906, he was elected an alderman

of the city of Edmonton, and although running for the first time in the

city at large, as there are no wards, he came second on the list, the

first one beating him only by one vote. Two years later Mr. W. Gariepy

was re-elected, this time at the head of the list, having some 300 more

votes than the next man. While an alderman he held the chairmanship of

several important committees and was delegated on two occasions: first,

to Chicago with ex-Mayor J. A. McDougall, to inspect the automatic

telephone system, which was eventually to be installed in Edmonton; and,

second, to Ottawa with ex-Mayor Lee, to interview the Dominion

Government respecting the Dominion’s contribution towards the

construction of the C.P.R. high-level bridge between Strathcona and

Edmonton. It was during Mr. Gariepy’s term of office that the Edmonton

automatic telephone system was installed; that the street railway system

was completed and put in operation; and that the C.P.R high-level bridge

was completed and opened for traffic; and that negotiations for the

amalgamation of Edmonton and Strathcona were begun. In 1910 Mr. Gariepy

was chairman of the civic committee that organized such a splendid

reception as was tendered to Sir Wilfrid Laurier, then Prime Minister,

on the occasion of his visit to the Capital of Alberta, and it was at

that time that Mr. Gariepy secured the adoption of a resolution by the

city council giving to a park the name of “Laurier Park.” Mr. Gariepy

took a leading part in the federal campaigns of 1904, 1908 and 1911. In

1909 he was the unsuccessful Liberal candidate in the provincial

constituency of St. Albert, his successful opponent being also a

Liberal, as there was no Conservative candidate running. In 1911 he was

elected Grand Knight of the Edmonton Council of the Knights of Columbus;

in 1907 he was elected president of the Edmonton Société de St. Jean

Baptiste; in 1912 he was elected vice-president of the French-Canadian

Alberta Convention, held in Edmonton, and by that convention was elected

as the only delegate to represent it at the French-Canadian Congress

held that year in the city of Quebec; in 1913 he was elected president

of the Society du Parler-Français of Alberta, and as such presided over

the French-Canadian congress of Alberta, held at Edmonton in 1914. On

September 9, 1903, Mr. Wilfrid Gariepy married Albertina Lessard,

daughter of Jean P. Lessard and Annie Davidson, of Cranbourne, P.Q., a

sister of the Hon. P. E. Lessard, M.L.A., for St. Paul, and a former

business partner of Mr. J. H. Gariepy. We may note that Mr. P. E.

Lessard had previously married Miss Hélène Gariepy, the eldest sister of

our subject. From the marriage of Mr. W. Gariepy with Miss Lessard have

been born four children: Hormidas, Marcelle, Wilfrid and George. Mr.

Gariepy is a member of the Y.M.C.A. and a lieutenant in the 101st

Edmonton Fusiliers. In 1912 he was elected as president of the Edmonton

Liberal Association; on March 17, 1913, he was elected a member of the

legislature for Beaver River. At the first session of that parliament,

in the following September, he was chosen to make the speech in moving

the adoption of the Speech from the Throne. On November 28, 1913, he was

sworn in as Minister of Municipal Affairs, becoming a member of the

administration headed by the Hon. Arthur L. Sifton. On December 15,

1913, Mr. Gariepy was re-elected for Beaver River, by acclamation. On

December 22, 1913, at the Cecil Hotel, as a compliment on his becoming a

member of the government, his French-Canadian compatriots, numbering

some four hundred, tendered him a banquet. In September, 1915, Mr.

Gariepy represented, with the Hon. Mr. Sifton, the Province of Alberta

at a national tax conference held in San Francisco, California. In

March, 1913, Mr. Gariepy was made a King’s Counsel for the Province of

Alberta. In August, 1915, the same honor was conferred on him by the

Province of Quebec. At the date of writing this biography, Mr. Gariepy

has been for over five years a member of the Alberta Government and his

friends predict that he has yet a long public career to fulfil. As

Minister of Municipal Affairs for Alberta Mr. Gariepy has been

responsible for the introduction of legislation which has been a

landmark in the western provinces, namely: The Wild Lands Tax Act and

the Municipal Hospitals Act.

[Illustration: SENATOR W. C. EDWARDS

Ottawa]

=Byrne, Daniel J.=, Vice-President and General Manager, Leonard

Fisheries, Montreal, Que., producers, curers and packers of sea and lake

foods. Entered the employ of that firm as a lad in 1886, and steadily

rose to his present responsible position with a reputation as one of the

leading authorities in Canada on all questions relating to the fishing

industry. Leonard Fisheries, which started business in 1875, and is now

one of the leading concerns in its line, was incorporated under its

present form in 1917, as a result of the consolidation Leonard Bros.,

Matthews & Scott, and A. Wilson & Son. This was brought about largely

through the efforts of Mr. Byrne, with the object of effecting economies

in organization and distribution. The firm has branches in many parts of

the Maritime Provinces, notably St. John, N.B., and Halifax, N.S. The

subject of this sketch was born in Montreal, April, 1871, and married

Mary Louisa, daughter of William Dalt, of Montreal, July, 1900, by whom

he has one son, John W. In 1915 he was called on to address the

Conservation Commission at Ottawa on the subject of “Canada’s

Fisheries.” Mr. Byrne is a member of the following Clubs: The

Engineer’s, Country and Rotary. He is a Roman Catholic in religion and

Independent in politics. His recreation is golf, fishing and motoring.

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=Harper, John Murdoch= (Quebec City), the Canadian educationist and

author, came to Canada in the year of Confederation, 1867, to take

charge of an Academy in New Brunswick. He was born in Johnstone,

Renfrewshire, Scotland, on the 10th of February, 1845, the eldest son of

Robert Montgomery Harper, the founder of the first newspaper published

in that town. His grand-uncle was Robert Montgomery, who was for many

years a mill-owner and manufacturer in Johnstone. From school he entered

the Glasgow E. C. Training College, after taking a Queen’s Scholarship,

and graduated as a teacher from it with the highest certificate of his

year granted by the Lords of the Council of Education, London, and with

special certificates from the Science and Art Department, Kensington.

After coming to Canada he became a graduate of Queen’s University,

Kingston, and thereafter received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy,

from the Illinois University, after completing the three years’

post-graduate course in the section of metaphysical science. In 1881 he

was unanimously elected a Fellow of the Educational Institute of

Scotland, an honor seldom conferred on teachers laboring outside of

Great Britain. For a time he acted as principal of the Model Schools of

Nova Scotia, and afterwards as principal of the Victoria High School of

St. John, New Brunswick. While there he was asked by the Premier of

Prince Edward Island to become Superintendent of Education in that

province, which he declined to accept. But when the Victoria School

buildings were destroyed in the great fire of St. John, he was induced

to accept the principalship of the Provincial Normal School in

Charlottetown and the Supervisorship of the City Schools, while St. John

and its school buildings were being rebuilt. At the end of three years

spent in inaugurating the new system of schools in Prince Edward Island,

he was invited, in face of his inclination to return to his former

position in New Brunswick, to take charge of the Quebec High School as

its Rector; and, accepting the appointment, he thus became identified

with the educational interests of the Province of Quebec, where he has

labored ever since, closing his career as an educationist in active

service as Inspector of the Protestant Superior Schools of that

province. While holding that office he entered upon his vocation as an

author, having been for many years editor-in-chief of the “Educational

Record,” a contributor to the “Educational Monthly” of Ontario, the

“Queen’s Quarterly,” and other periodicals, besides being associated

with Dr. Thomas Morison, of Glasgow, one of the most distinguished of

the educationists of Scotland, in the compilation of sundry text-books.

His earlier essays and addresses on “The New Education,” and “Cause and

Effect in School Work,” led to his issue of “A Manual on Moral Drill,”

in line with his pleadings for an educative “Mental and Physical Drill”

in the schools of the day. His plan for a definite moral training is

thus spoken of by a New York educationist and author of high standing:

“Dr. Harper’s work is entirely original. It is sound. It is eminently

practical and it should be most heartily adopted by all who have the

training of the young in hand, and who earnestly desire that the rising

generation may develop into a ‘coming race,’ in whom moral rectitude

will be natural and spontaneous.” As an author, Dr. Harper has had a

career as full of the best kind of literary work, as has been his career

as an educationist in advice with his co-workers in school progress

throughout Canada. The list of the books he has written is all but

incredibly large. His _chef-d’ouvre_ is unquestionably his drama of

“Champlain,” which has given him rank, as one critic says, as the

greatest of our Canadian dramatic poets since the days of Heavysege. The

late George Murray, of Montreal, a writer of just discrimination,

claimed that Dr. Harper is one of the most versatile and prolific of

Canadian litterateurs. A partial list of his literary output from year

to year includes the following: “The Development of the Greek Drama,”

“The Chronicles of Kartdale,” “Sacrament Sunday and the Bells of

Kartdale,” “The Earliest Beginnings of Canada,” “The Montgomery Siege,”

“The Little Sergeant,” “The Seer of Silver Lake,” “_Domini Domus_, or

the Chateau St. Louis,” “The Songs of the Commonwealth,” and “A Guide to

Good Will in the Empire.” Three uniformly bound volumes of his series of

“Studies in Verse and Prose,” have so far appeared, including “The

Battle of the Plains,” and “The Annals of the War,” supplementary to his

“Champlain, a Drama.” With the influence of his earlier years clinging

to him, he has not failed to produce many pieces that depict the scenes

of the land of his birth; and his poetic status as a versifier in the

Doric of the Scottish Lowlands has been duly recognized by Dr. John D.

Ross in his volume on “The Scottish Poets in America,” as well as by the

gifted author of the book entitled “The Scot in America.” Dr. Ross pays

a high tribute to the author of “Sacrament Sunday,” “Saint Andrew’s

Day,” “The Old Graveyard,” “Auld Jeames and His Crack,” “Horace in the

Doric,” and others of Dr. Harper’s Scottish odes, in such words as

these: “Sweet as the note of a bird in the wildwood, strongly embued

with patriotism, fervent in religious sentiment, eloquent in thought,

pure in expression, and noble in purpose, form a few of the

characteristics of Dr. Harper, the Canadian educationist and author.” In

addition to all this, Dr. Harper is a loyal Canadian. In all his public

utterances and in the pleadings of his prolific authorship in book or

magazine or newspaper, he is a Canadian citizen who upholds as a British

subject the ample patriotism of the British Empire. He has been twice

married, his first wife’s maiden name having been Miss Agnes Kirkwood,

daughter of William Kirkwood of Stanley Muir, near Paisley, and his

second, Miss Elizabeth Hastings, daughter of Andrew Hastings, of St.

John and step-daughter of William Nossack, a former Mayor of Quebec. His

family has comprised two sons and five daughters. His grandson, Major

John Harper Evans, has been a soldier at the front, after his training

at the Kingston Royal Military College.

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=Brennan, John Charles.= In 1854, when but a boy, when Ottawa (then

By-Town) had only some 7,000 inhabitants, when the old Ottawa and St.

Lawrence Railway was just built—the only line of railway connecting

Ottawa with other towns at that time—when houses were few and far

between and when there was no prospect of the place being selected by

Her Most Gracious Majesty the late Queen Victoria as the Capital of the

Dominion of Canada, the subject of this sketch became a member of the

wholesale grocery firm of S. Howell & Co., with which he remained for

twenty-seven years, retiring from business in 1881. While giving his

untiring care to the affairs of the firm, and by his energy and business

tact adding in a marked degree to its advancement—its commercial and

financial success—Mr. Brennan, with full confidence in the future that

he perceived was in store for Ottawa, never lost an opportunity to place

his time, ambition and money in channels leading to its improvement and,

with other enterprising citizens, exerted his every endeavor to

stimulate its growth and importance. To-day, with marked pride, he sees

the seven thousand population increased to one hundred and twenty

thousand, the once fields and uncared-for lanes converted into

beautifully paved streets, parks, and gardens, the costly Parliament

Buildings, standing in all their grandeur upon the hill overlooking the

Ottawa River; huge commercial, financial and office buildings and

apartment houses galore facing the eye at every angle, and handsome

modern residences in abundance. Aside from his other real estate

holdings, Mr. Brennan, on the corner of Bank and Queen Streets, in the

very midst of the Capital’s commercial and financial activities, has

placed that large and solidly-constructed office building, “The

Trafalgar.” Mr. Brennan has ever taken a keen interest in Ottawa’s

hospitals, charitable institutions, churches, etc., and has unstintingly

contributed to their support. Whenever called upon to help advance their

interests he has freely contributed his quota, and more. During the

great war, his moral, physical, intellectual and financial aid have ever

been given to promote the successful operations of the Government, and

to afford the war workers, the boys at the front and the returned

soldiers, material help. Mr. Brennan has grown up with the city and

together both he and it have prospered. Although solicited on many

occasions to enter into public life he has steadfastly refused, being

satisfied in his private capacity as a citizen to do his share in making

general progress his goal. Mr. John Charles Brennan was born at

Frankville, Ontario, January 23, 1839. He is the son of John and Amelia

Maria (Howell) Brennan; he was educated in the Public Schools and

private tuition. June 5, 1899, he married Alice Maud Wilson, daughter of

Zachariah Wilson of “Clandeboye,” late Collector of Customs at the Port

of Ottawa. He has one son and two daughters—John Charles, Amelia

Elizabeth and Jocelyn Maud Wilson. He is a member of the Ottawa Hunt,

Connaught Park Jockey, the Gatineau Fish and Game, and the Rideau Fish

and Game Clubs. For recreation he indulges in hunting, fishing and

travelling. In politics he is a Conservative, in religion a Methodist,

and his place of residence is 150 Cooper Street, Ottawa.

[Illustration: W. BULMAN

Winnipeg]

=Bulman, William John= (Winnipeg, Man.), one of the most prominent and

progressive business men of Manitoba, was born at Toronto on April 5,

1870, the son of William and Frances (Cable) Bulman. He was educated in

the Toronto Public Schools and, on leaving school at the age of sixteen,

learned the art of the lithographer, in which he was employed in his

native city for six years. In 1892 he went to Winnipeg and founded the

business of Bulman Bros., Ltd., Lithographers, of which he is President

and which is one of the most important firms of its kind in Canada. In

promoting the advancement of Winnipeg he has been indefatigable. He was

one of the founders of the Winnipeg Industrial Bureau, and was its

President from 1911 to 1913. He was Hon. Secretary of the Manitoba

branch of the Canadian Manufacturers’ Association for some years and

subsequently became 2nd Vice-President for Canada. At the annual

convention of the C.M.A., held at Winnipeg in the summer of 1918, he was

elected President of that body, an office which is coveted by all

Canadian business men. He is also a member of the council of the

Winnipeg Board of Trade. Mr. Bulman has also been very prominent in

educational affairs and was for a number of years a member of the

Advisory Board of the Manitoba Education Department. He has been a

School Trustee of Winnipeg since 1912 and Chairman of various

Committees. During the great war he was very active in support of

patriotic objects, and was Vice-President of the Manitoba Patriotic

Fund. He is the originator of the Imperial Home Reunion Association,

which aims at assisting the man who desires to make a home for himself

in the West to bring the members of his family to this country. This

idea has had the approval of many eminent Imperial thinkers. He is also

the originator of the movement for citizenship through the schools, now

a national one, with a National Conference to be held in August under

the patronage of His Honor the Governor-General. Winnipeg possesses no

citizen more popular with all classes of the community and he is

Honorary President of the Manitoba Conservative Association. He is a

member of the Carleton and Manitoba Clubs and the National Club,

Toronto, and his recreations are motoring, motor boating, cruising and

fishing at his summer home, Kenora, Ont. He is a Methodist in religion,

and in 1894 married Lily, daughter of Samuel Thompson, of Toronto, and

has five children, Eileen, Bessie, Dorothy, Lillian and John. He resides

at 104 Wellington Crescent, Winnipeg.

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=Freiman, Archibald J.=, who conducts one of the leading department

stores of Ottawa, at 73 Rideau Street, was born at Wirballen, Poland, on

June 6, 1880, the son of H. and Hannah Freiman. His early education was

received in Poland, which was supplemented on his coming to this country

in 1893, by courses in the public schools of Hamilton and at Hamilton

Business College. He commenced his business career in 1899, by

establishing the Canadian House Furnishing Company, at Kingston, Ont.,

in partnership with M. Cramer. In 1902 the business was removed to

Ottawa owing to the limited possibilities for development in Kingston.

In 1905, Mr. Cramer’s interest was purchased by Mr. Freiman, Sr., who

remained in partnership with his son until 1910, when Mr. A. J. Freiman

bought his father out and has since conducted the business in his own

name. He has been a pronounced success from the outset and is recognized

as one of the leading retail merchants of Eastern Ontario. He is an

orthodox Hebrew in religion and president of the Congregation Adath

Eshuroon. He is vice-president of the Zionist Federation of Canada; a

member of the A.F. & A.M., Knights of Pythias and I.O.O.F.; a director

of Perley Home for Incurables; director of Central Canada Exhibition

Association; director of Protestant Hospital; member of Laurentian Club

and Kiwanis Club, Ottawa; and Montefiore and Maimondis Clubs, of

Montreal. Is an enthusiastic motorist and member of the Ontario Motor

League. On August 18, 1903, he married Lillian, daughter of Moses

Bilsky, and has one son and two daughters. He resides at 149 Somerset

Street, Ottawa.

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=Breadner, Robert Walker=, Commissioner of Taxation of the Department of

Finance and Dominion Appraiser, Department of Customs, Ottawa, is one of

the leading economic experts of the Dominion of Canada. He was born at

Athelstan, Quebec, on January 13, 1865, the son of the late Major Joshua

and Beatrice Dudgeon (Walker) Breadner. He was educated at the

Protestant Separate School of his native village, and later at the High

School of Port Henry, N.Y. He entered the civil service of the Dominion

in 1884 as a clerk in the Post Office Department, Ottawa. He was

transferred to the Customs Department in 1892 and in 1894 became chief

Check Clerk of that branch, a post he continued to hold in connection

with other duties until 1908. From 1898 to 1906 he also held the

position of Dominion Appraiser and in the latter year became Inspector

of Customs, holding the position until 1908. Throughout this period he

was also a member of the Board of Customs. It will be seen that few men

had had such a detailed experience in dealing with all the manifold

questions relating to tariffs, and in 1908 the Canadian Manufacturers

Association induced him to leave the service of the Government and

become manager of their Tariff Department. In this position he remained

for four years. In 1912, because of his expert knowledge, the newly

formed Borden Government induced him to return to the Civil Service as

Confidential Tariff Officer, also appointing him to his old position as

Dominion Appraiser and member of the Board of Customs. When during the

war the Government decided on its policy of taxing business profits, Mr.

Breadner was put in charge of the details and has given great

satisfaction by his efficient organization of the difficult task. In

addition to his many other duties Mr. Breadner found time to serve on

the Ottawa Board of Education for four years. He is a member of the

following clubs: Laurentian, Ottawa; Canada Bowling (Toronto), and these

societies: I.O.O.F., I.O.F., L.O.L., A.O.U.W., Royal Arcanum. He is a

Presbyterian in religion and on September 7, 1887, married Nellie,

daughter of Andrew D. Fraser, Ottawa. He has one son and four daughters,

and since his duties compelled his removal to Toronto has resided at 41

Albany Ave. in the latter city.

[Illustration: Gordon Grant, Ottawa

Stewart McClennaghan, Ottawa]

=Black, Henry=, 2322 St. John St., Regina, Saskatchewan, one of the

large realty owners of that city; was born in Grenville County, Ontario,

on February 14, 1875, the son of William John and Elizabeth Black. His

father, who was a farmer, died when the subject of this sketch was

twelve years old. His education was obtained in the Grenville Township

Public School, and as a youth he removed to British Columbia, finally

settling down in Regina, as a builder and contractor. He is now the

owner of two blocks of apartments and of a business block in the capital

of Saskatchewan, and is counted one of her most solid and progressive

citizens. He has taken an active part in municipal affairs, was alderman

in 1915-6-7 and Mayor in 1918 and 1919. On Dec. 15, 1910, he married

Jennie Lanona, daughter of C. W. Barker, and has three children, Henry

Kenneth, Charles Russell and William Franklin. In religion he is a

Presbyterian.

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=Dargavel, John Robertson= (Elgin, Ont.), is the son of Robert Dargavel

and Miriam, his wife, both Scotch, was born May 3, 1864, at the Township

of Crosby, in the County of Leeds. Educated at the public schools of

South Crosby. Is a successful merchant, dairyman and farmer. Married,

September 26, 1870, to Mary Jane, daughter of the late Robert Hopkins,

merchant, of Newboro. Is President of the Eastern Ontario Dairymen’s

Association; Clerk of the Township of South Crosby for the past 30

years; a member of the Elgin School Board for the past 20 years. Is a

member of the Masonic Order being P.D.D.G.M. for Frontenac District,

also a member of the I.O.O.F. Mr. Dargavel has three children, viz.:

Helen, James Sawtell, and Mary. He was first elected to the Ontario

Legislature as a Conservative at the General Elections of 1905, and

re-elected at the general elections of 1908, 1911 and 1914. Has been

Chairman of the Agricultural Committee of the Legislature, where his

knowledge of agriculture and dairying has been very valuable to the

Assembly. Has also served on the Prison Labor Committee and the

Provincial Milk Commission. Is a member of the Church of England and a

delegate to the Diocesan and General Synods.

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=Ethier, Joseph Arthur Calixte=, was born at St. Benoit (Two Mountains),

Quebec, May 26, 1868. Son of J. B. Ethier and wife, Julie Boyer.

Educated at Montreal College. Married, first, Therise Fortier, daughter

of Dr. L. A. Fortier, and secondly, Hedwidge Fortier, also daughter of

Dr. L. A. Fortier, and is the father of the following children: Marie

Therese and Marcelle. Deputy Prothonotary of the District of Terrebonne,

1888-1895. Crown Prosecutor for the District of Terrebonne; Mayor of the

Village of St. Scholastique for six years; Secretary-Treasurer of

Schools, rural municipalities of St. Scholastique and St. Columbin;

Secretary of “La Compagnie d’Assurance Mutuelle de la paroisse de St.

Scholastique.” Is a brilliant Advocate and King’s Counsel; is President

of the Ontario Cobalt Mining Co., Ltd. First elected to the House of

Commons, June 13, 1896, for the constituency of Two Mountains, Quebec;

re-elected in 1900-1904 and re-elected by acclamation in 1911. Appointed

Chairman of Committee on Miscellaneous Private Bills during the Session

of 1907. Mr. Ethier was again re-elected at the General Election held in

1917. He is a Liberal and a Roman Catholic.

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=Grierson, Hon. George Allison=, Minister of Public Works, Winnipeg.

Born, April 11, 1867, at Brantford, Ont. Son of George Grierson and

Margaret Edmundson. Educated at Brantford, Ont., and Winnipeg Public

School and Collegiate Institute. Went to Manitoba in 1879, attending the

Winnipeg Collegiate Institute, 1883-4, obtaining First Class Teacher’s

Certificate; attended Normal School, 1885, and was the first candidate

to pass newly authorized First-Class Teachers’ Professional Course,

1886. Was Principal Minnedosa Public School, 1887-90, 1892-1902.

Married, December 28, 1892, to Christina, daughter of Samuel Matheson,

of Kildonan, Manitoba. A member of the Masonic Order and a Veteran

Oddfellow. Was interested in lacrosse in the earlier days, and at

present finds recreation in curling. Member of the Presbyterian Church.

Was Councillor of the Town of Minnedosa for some years and Mayor,

1914-1915. Was a Liberal candidate for Marquette for the House of

Commons in September, 1911, but was defeated by Hon. W. J. Roche. First

elected to Legislature for the Province of Manitoba, in the general

elections, 1914, as a Liberal candidate for Minnedosa, and re-elected in

1915. Was Liberal Whip in the Manitoba Legislature during the sessions

of 1914-15-16. Was re-elected for the Constituency of Minnedosa at the

last elections and is at present Minister of Public Works in the Norris

Government. The Honorable Mr. Grierson is a gifted speaker and an

indefatigable worker, and thoroughly versed in the details of his

department.

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=Gale, George Charles=, Secretary Gale Manufacturing Company, Ltd.,

Manufacturers, Toronto, was born in Toronto, where he has for some years

successfully carried on business, on the 26th of April, 1874. Son of

James William Gale and Matilda Sophia Pitt. Educated at Jarvis Street

Collegiate Institute, and Upper Canada College. Married, February, 1907,

Etta F., daughter of T. B. Taylor, and is the father of one son, George

Taylor Gale, born May 19, 1913. Mr. Gale always takes a prominent part

in Amateur Athletics and was actively identified for many years with the

Toronto Lacrosse Club, being one of the players of that famous

organization. He is a member of the National Club, Lambton Golf and

Country Club, and the Victoria Club and also the Masonic Order, being a

member of Ashlar Masonic Lodge, St. Paul’s Chapter. In religion he is an

Anglican.

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=Flavelle, William M.=, of Lindsay, Ont., is a sound, progressive

business man, who has played an important part in the development of

that section of Central Ontario adjacent to the home town. He was born

at Peterboro in March, 1853, where he attended the Public and High

Schools. His parents were John and Dorothea Flavelle; Sir Joseph

Flavelle, Baronet, of Toronto, is a brother, as also is Mr. J. D.

Flavelle, of Lindsay, Chairman of the Board of Ontario License

Commissioners. The subject of this sketch is one of the pioneers of the

Cold Storage business in Canada. Over thirty years ago he recognized the

necessity and value of the same as being of untold benefit to the

country, by means of which dairy and other perishable products of the

farm could be garnered in the seasons of their greatest production, and

conserved for future use in the non-producing intervals. The growth of

the enterprise has been of immense benefit to both producer and

consumer, as now many commodities, which would not be otherwise

available, may be freely purchased at any season in the year. The great

advancement of the business from the first simple storage, when natural

ice was used as the refrigerator, to the special brick structure

standing prominently on Lindsay’s main street, equipped with every

modern device and appliance, is the evidence of one man’s splendid

vision, business acumen, and sagacity. A natural adjunct to the Lindsay

Cold Storage Plant has been added in the way of a creamery, the first,

and one of the finest of its kind in Canada. Here the cream is received

from the farmers, tributary to the district, tested and manufactured

into the finest creamery product, to the mutual advantage of the farmer

and the country in general. In 1886 Mr. Flavelle married Mary Helen

Aird, daughter of Robert Aird, of Montreal. Six children blessed the

union, four sons and two daughters, viz.: Aird D., Stewart A., Gordon

A., Guy A., Jena L. and Helen Grace. He is President of Flavelle,

Limited, The Victoria Loan and Savings Company, The Lindsay Cemetery

Company, Dundas & Flavelle, Limited, and a member of the Public Library

Board. With his varied interests, Mr. Flavelle is a very busy man, but

finds relaxation and recreation in golf, motoring and boating. He is a

Methodist in religion, and a Liberal-Conservative in politics. Public

spirited, with a fine business reputation, he takes more than a passing

interest in matters of National importance and is keenly concerned in

all measures which will advance the community in which he has held a

prominent place for so many years.

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=Hore, George Charles= (Hamilton, Ont.), was born in the Township of

West Flamboro, County of Wentworth, July 20, 1868, and was educated at

the West Flamboro Public School, the Hamilton Public Schools and the

Woodstock Baptist College. His father was Francis William Hore, who came

to Canada about the year 1837, when quite a young man, in company with

his parents, brothers and sisters; he was born in Sussex, England, and

was a grandson of Joseph Hore, of North Mundham, Chichester, Sussex,

England; his mother was Sophia Fearman, who in the year 1833, with other

members of their family came to Canada from Norfolk, England, in the New

York Packet ship “Ontario,” being on the ocean six weeks, and two weeks

on the Erie canal to Oswego, N.Y., and from that port took passage on a

schooner to Port Dalhousie; thence to Hamilton in a farmer’s hay rack.

F. W. Hore, father of the subject of this sketch, was a man of

exceptional ability and was one of the earlier settlers who helped to

build up the manufacturing industries of this country to their present

high position, as is shown by the magnificent factory standing to his

credit in Hamilton, known as F. W. Hore & Son, Limited, manufacturers of

Fine Carriage, Waggon and Sleigh Wood-work. Following in his footsteps,

George C. Hore commenced work in his father’s factory at the age of

fifteen years, to learn the business, and with the exception of a short

time at College, has been at it continuously and steadily ever since.

The Company of F. W. Hore & Son, Limited, are extensive manufacturers,

and their product is well and favorably known from the Atlantic to the

Pacific. They have the pleasure of showing in their office, records of

many first prizes and medals taken in the pioneer days of their

business, testifying to the quality of their product. They are believers

in the old saying that “quality will be remembered long after the price

is forgotten.” The business has been established between forty and

forty-five years, and Mr. Hore is ably assisted in the management by his

brother and other officers of the Company. He was married September 21,

1912, to Miss Emma Lenz, of Hamilton. In religion he is a member of the

Church of England; in politics, a Conservative, and is fond of outdoor

sports—being a member of the Victoria Bowling Club and the Hamilton Gun

Club.

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=Morehouse, Oscar Emery, M.D., M.L.A.= (Upper Keswick, N.B.), son of

Elisha Morehouse, a farmer (English) and his wife, nee Crouse (Dutch);

was born at Upper Keswick, on August 5, 1857, and was educated at common

schools and McGill College (M.D.), (C.M.), Montreal; of U.E.L. stock. He

has been twice married: (1st) to Alberta, daughter of the Rev. William

McKiel, of Fairville, N.B., on June 17, 1890, who died in December,

1902, to whom one child, Dorothy Eunice, was born; (2nd) to Maud,

daughter of Henry Burtt, of Upper Keswick, N.B., to whom three children

were born, Elsie Muriel, Oscar Emery, and Alberta Evelyn. Mr. Morehouse

became interested in public life at an early age, and was first elected

a member of the County Council in 1896, continuing in that office until

1903; was Warden of the County Council when the Duke of Cornwall and

York (the present King George of England) visited Canada, and presented

him with an address at the public reception given in his honor at St.

John, N.B. He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of New

Brunswick on March 30, 1911, with the large majority of 1,215, as a

supporter of the Hazen Government, and was re-elected with the full

ticket on June 20, 1912, their opponents losing deposits. He has acted

as a Coroner in his home locality for the past twenty-five years, and is

looked upon as a leader in his profession throughout the whole Province

of New Brunswick. In the year 1890, he organized the first Board of

Health in York County, and was Chairman of the Board for six years. Mr.

Morehouse has never been associated with Clubs to any extent, but has

taken a keen interest in all work connected with the New Brunswick

Medical Society, as well as the Canadian Medical Association. He has

taken an active interest in all patriotic work since the outbreak of the

War (1914), and has given freely of his time and money. His name will

rank among the first who did their duty at home when the history of the

War is written for future generations. In religion he is an

Episcopalian, and in politics a staunch Conservative.

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=Thoburn, William= (Almonte, Ont.), Woollen Manufacturer, Member of

Parliament and ex-Mayor, came to Canada in the year 1857, from

Portsmouth, England, where he was born on April 14, 1847, and received

his early education at Pakenham School, Pakenham, Ontario. He removed to

Almonte in 1867, and for eleven years was engaged in mercantile

business. For the last thirty-six years he has been extensively

interested in the manufacture of woollens, having built up a large

business and his goods are known the world over. Having made a success

of his own business affairs, he was persuaded to offer himself as the

Conservative Candidate for the House of Commons for North Lanark, and

was first elected in 1908, and re-elected in 1911, and was one of the

few members in his seat in the Chamber of the House of Commons the night

of the terrible fire, when that beautiful building was totally

destroyed, Feb. 3, 1916. Besides his many business and political duties,

he connected himself with many Boards, and is Vice-President of the

Ker-Ben Stove and Furnace Foundry; director of the Trusts and Guarantee

Company, Toronto; director of the Almonte Knitting Company, Almonte;

life director of the General Hospital, Ottawa, and director of the

Rosamond Memorial Hospital, Almonte. He served for several years as a

school trustee and councillor, and was for seven years Mayor, and has

always taken a keen interest in everything pertaining to the good and

welfare of the Town of Almonte. Mr. Thoburn is a widower and has two

children: Annie, married to Percy Jamieson, Almonte, and Mae Elliott,

married to A. M. May, Toronto. He is a member of the Methodist Church,

and much interested in Church and Missionary work; a member of the

Rideau Club, Ottawa, and in politics a staunch Conservative. Mr. Thoburn

took an active part in patriotic work during the war, and was always one

of the first citizens in his district to contribute financially and

otherwise whenever called upon. In his parliamentary duties he is looked

upon as a man of good judgment and his advice on many matters is often

sought by his colleagues.

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=White, Gerald Verner= (Pembroke, Ont.), Member of Parliament for North

Renfrew, Ontario, was born in Pembroke, Ontario, July 6, 1879, the son

of the late Hon. Peter White, P.C., and Janet Reid White. His early

education completed at the Pembroke Public and High Schools, Mr. White

proceeded to McGill University, where he graduated as Bachelor of

Science in Mining Engineering with the class of 1901. As a native of the

Upper Ottawa, however, he turned naturally to lumbering for a vocation,

and his success can be judged from the positions which he now holds as

President of the Cunningham Lumber Co., of Pembroke, and a director of

the Pembroke Lumber Co. Mr. White is also President of the Pembroke

Standard, Ltd., a Director of the Thomas Pink Co., Ltd., of Pembroke,

and of the Pembroke Woollen Mills. The name of White is one

distinguished in the public life of the country and Gerald V. White was

elected to the Federal House of Commons at a by-election, in October,

1906, for the Constituency of North Renfrew, which had been rendered

vacant by the death of his father, the Hon. Peter White, being

subsequently re-elected at the General Elections of 1908 and 1911. Mr.

White married Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Trites, of

New Brunswick, and has two daughters and one son, Muriel Elizabeth, Mary

Jeannette and Gerald Peter. He is a Presbyterian in religion and a

Conservative in politics. Among the Clubs of which he is a member are

the Rideau Club, the Hunt Club and the Golf Club, all of Ottawa. The

Member for North Renfrew takes a strong interest in military matters,

holding a commission as captain in the 42nd Regiment, Canadian militia,

and is at present (1917) in England as Lieutenant-Colonel in command of

the 224th Canadian Forestry Battalion.

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=Crossland, E. F.= (Toronto, Ont.), was born at Port Dover, Ont., in

1866, was educated at Windsor, N.S., came to Toronto in 1886, and two

years later he entered the Steele-Briggs Seed Co., Limited, and is at

the present time the Second Vice-President. Being a man with a practical

knowledge of this business, he has been a valuable asset to the

Steele-Briggs Company, and much credit is due him for the high position

that firm holds in the esteem of the Canadian people to-day. While his

active business career requires considerable of his time and attention,

still he is a citizen of more than ordinary worth, and he takes no small

interest in all measures that have a tendency towards furthering public

welfare, and is also a worthy friend of both religious and charitable

enterprises. He is a Dominion Council member of the Brotherhood of St.

Andrew and an ex-member of the Executive Committee; rector’s warden of

St. Matthew’s Anglican Church, a member of the Toronto Board of Trade,

and Masonic Order. Mr. Crossland is a man who makes many friends by his

pleasing manner. In politics he is a Conservative, but believes that the

future prosperity of Canada largely depends upon her public men,

irrespective of their political leanings.

[Illustration: ZEPHERIN HEBERT

Montreal]

=Dickson, Rev. James A. R., B.D.= (Galt, Ont.), was born in Tranent,

Scotland, on October 22, 1839. His father was David Dickson, a pious

man, who was careful of the godly upbringing of his children, and being

a zealous Free Churchman, instructed them in the standards of that

church. Mr. Dickson came to Canada in the summer of 1857 to an uncle in

Brantford, who was engaged in business there, where he resided for some

time. His uncle attending the ministry of the Rev. John Wood, of the

Congregational Church, he went with him, and under the faithful

preaching of Mr. Wood, experienced the great change which altered the

entire current of his life. He was active in Christian work in the

Sabbath school and Y.M.C.A., but an irrepressible longing for wider

usefulness led him to prepare for the Christian ministry. He took

private lessons in Latin and Greek, attended the Brantford Grammar

School for several sessions, and in 1860 entered the Congregational

College of B.N.A. in Toronto, which was then under the principalship of

Adam Lillie, D.D. While pursuing theological studies here, he attended

classes in Logic, Hebrew, Latin and Greek in University College;

mathematics, metaphysics and other subjects being taken up by special

masters appointed by the board of the Congregational College. In 1864

the college being removed to Montreal, he attended the McGill College,

studying zoology, botany and geology under Sir William Dawson, LL.D.;

Hebrew under Dr. De Sola, and logic, English literature and moral

philosophy under Canon Leach. He graduated in 1865, and was called to

the Congregational Church in London, Ontario, where he remained for six

years. While here he edited for three years _The Gospel Message_, a

monthly, published in Montreal. He published “Working for Jesus,” which

is now and has been for the past thirteen years, issued by the American

Tract Society of New York, and the Religious Tract Society of London.

Also a 32-page tract, “Saved or Not?” and “Counsels for Young Converts.”

In June, 1867, he married Isabella E., eldest daughter of Walter

Fairbairn of London, Ontario. In 1871 he was called to the Northern

Church, Toronto. Here he remained about eight years, till he changed his

ecclesiastical relations, returning to the church of his fathers. While

in Toronto he was honored with the highest position in the gift of the

Congregational churches, being elected Chairman of the Congregational

Union, of Ontario and Quebec in 1877. Here he began to write for the

“Sunday School Times,” “Sunday School World,” and “Canada Presbyterian,”

to which he has been a frequent contributor. He published “Immediately,”

“The Rest of Faith,” “Christian Culture,” “A Good Minister of Jesus

Christ,” tracts which have had an extensive circulation. He was chosen

secretary of the Upper Canada Tract Society in 1874, which he held until

1879. On resigning his charge in Toronto, he visited for five months the

branch societies of the Upper Canada Tract Society. He filled Dr.

Cochrane’s pulpit in Brantford for three months, while the Doctor was in

Britain in 1879. While here he was called to Galt, and settled there on

October 13, 1879. Since his settlement in Galt he has published

“Expository Bible Readings,” “Working for the Children,” and a tract

entitled “A Word in Season.” On the regulations being issued for the

conferring of the degree of Bachelor of Divinity, Mr. Dickson went to

Montreal Presbyterian College, and passing the examinations proper to

the degree, took it in March, 1883. The congregation of Galt built for

him in 1881 one of the handsomest ecclesiastical structures in Canada.

It is mentioned in “Picturesque Canada.” In 1887 the Religious Tract

Society of London, England, published a little volume of Mr. Dickson’s

entitled “How We Are Saved.” In 1891 Mr. Dickson had conferred upon him

the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), by Wooster University, Ohio,

one of the great schools of learning belonging to the Presbyterian

Church in the United States. He attained the degree by a stated course

of special study in Political Economy and Social Science, and by

examinations therein. He prepared also a paper to lay before the faculty

on “Conscience the Living Source of Human Law.” In 1896 the Religious

Tract Society of New York published a volume by Dr. Dickson, entitled

“The Truth that Saves and How to Present It.” In 1904 Dr. Dickson wrote

and published “The History of the Central Presbyterian Church, Galt,”

bringing the story of the church’s life up to that time.

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=Choquette, Philippe Auguste, LL.B.= (Quebec, Que.), Advocate, Senator

and Judge of the Sessions, Quebec, was born on the 6th of January, 1854,

at Beloeil, County of Vercheres. His ancestors came from Amiens,

Picardie, France, in 1643, and settled in Varennes, in the county where

the subject of our sketch was born. His parents were Joseph Choquette,

farmer, and Marie Thais Audet. He received his education at St.

Hyacinthe College, and at Laval University, Quebec, and graduated

B.C.L., from the latter institution in 1880, having previously taken the

silver medal given by the then Governor-General, Lord Lorne, receiving,

in 1899, the degree of LL.D. While he was prosecuting his studies at

Laval, he acted as private secretary to the late Hon. Honore Mercier,

then solicitor-general in the Joly administration, and later on Premier

of Quebec Province. He held for about three years and a half the

position of commercial traveller in a wholesale boot and shoe

establishment in St. Hyacinthe, before he began to study law. He moved

to Quebec in 1887, and entered the office of the Hon. François

Langelier, then a Member of Parliament and Mayor of Quebec (who died in

1915 as Lieutenant-Governor), to study law. After being admitted to the

bar of Lower Canada, in 1880, he removed to Montmagny, where he

successfully practised his profession. Since 1877 he has been a

contributor to “L’Union,” of St. Hyacinthe, director of “Le Soleil” in

1905-06, having before, in 1883, founded “Le Sentinelle,” of Montmagny,

still existing under the name of “Le Courier de Montmagny.” In 1878 he

began to take an active part in politics and in 1882 he ran for a seat

in the House of Commons against A. C. P. R. Landry, now Senator, the

then Conservative candidate, but was defeated by a majority of 120

votes. At the general election held in 1887, he again presented himself

in opposition to Mr. Landry, and this time carried his election by a

majority of 195 votes, and was re-elected in 1911-1916 by large

majorities. Mr. Choquette has travelled through the principal parts of

the United States and Europe. He has been Secretary of the Reform Club

of the County of Montmagny. In politics he is a strong Liberal, a free

trader, and in favor of commercial union. In 1898, was appointed a Judge

of the Superior Court; resigned in 1904 and was called to the Senate. In

1915 was by the local Government named Judge of the Sessions of the

Peace for Quebec District. He is an adherent of the Roman Catholic

Church, but objects to the clergy interfering and mixing in political

contests. On the 29th of August, 1883, he was married to Marie, daughter

of A. Bender, prothonotary of the Superior Court, and granddaughter of

the late Sir E. P. Tache, baronet, A.D.C. to her late Majesty the Queen,

and one of the promoters of Confederation. As recreations he favors

music and sports, and has been President of the Quebec Hockey Club from

1913 to the present time (1917). He resides at 56 Conroy St., Ottawa.

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=Choquette, Ernest= (St. Hilaire, Quebec), son of Joseph Choquette and

his wife, Thais Lapointe. Born at Beloeil, Vercheres County, Quebec,

November 18, 1862. Educated at St. Hyacinthe’s College and Medical

Faculty of Laval University, Montreal, from which he graduated with the

degrees of M.B. and M.D. Married, October 16, 1889, to Eva Perrault,

daughter of Dr. Perrault of Beloeil. He has been a frequent contributor

to various journals and reviews and is the author of several books, his

chief works being: “Les Ribaud,” “Claude Payson,” “Les Carabinades,” “La

Terre,” and “Madeline Rabaud.” He has successfully practised his

profession for many years at St. Hilaire and has been Mayor of his

parish for a considerable time. First entered the Legislative Council

for the Province of Quebec as a Liberal on March 14, 1910, as the

representative of the Constituency of Rougemont. Is a Roman Catholic in

religion and is the father of the following children: Fernande, Claude,

Lucas, Yves, and Girard.

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=Cave, James G.= James Gilbert Cave is one of those sterling Canadian

business men who are the backbone of this country. Mr. Cave was born in

Weston, Ontario, his parents’ names being Martin Cave and Nancy

Morrison, and graduated from the Weston Grammar School, after which he

entered the wholesale lumber business. He married Margaret B., daughter

of Andrew Henderson, and has ten children: James M., Donald A., William,

Charles, Gordon G., Margaret, Annie, Nora, Nellie and Lillian, three of

whom, James, Charles and William, are serving overseas with the Canadian

forces. Mr. Cave is a Protestant, a Liberal and a Mason, and has been a

member of the Royal Grenadiers and the 48th Highlanders, serving in the

North-West Rebellion of 1885. His present address is 97 Delaware Avenue,

Toronto.

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=Tytler, William, B.A.=, Inspector of Public Schools, Guelph, Ont., was

born on Jan. 5, 1842, in the Township of Nichol, near Elora, Wellington

County, Ontario. His father was William Tytler, and his mother, Jane

Inglis Forbes, aunt of Archibald Forbes, the celebrated special war

correspondent. Mr. Tytler pursued his educational studies in the town of

Elora, attending the Grammar school of that place, after he had passed

the primary departments. A university course was planned, and he

matriculated at the University of Toronto. His course here was

characterized by industry, and he was especially distinguished in

science and classics. He graduated in 1862, taking the gold medal for

natural sciences. Mr. Tytler has likewise something of a military

record. He has been a private in the Queen’s Own, Toronto University

Company, and has been a member of volunteer companies at Carleton Place

and at Smith’s Falls, Lanark County. The City of Guelph was the first to

take advantage of the free libraries act; and in 1862, a library was

established there, Mr. Tytler being secretary and chief worker in

connection with that institution. He married on the 23rd July, 1879,

Martha C. Harrison, younger daughter of Milner Harrison, of St. Mary’s.

He is a member of the Presbyterian Church. We may say that Mr. Tytler at

once turned his attention to the work of teaching upon graduation; and

his record has been a very creditable one since he was head master of

the Carleton Place Grammar School, during 1863 and 1864; of the Smith’s

Falls Grammar School from 1865 to 1868; of the St. Mary’s High School

from 1869 to 1874; and was appointed head master of the Guelph

Collegiate Institute, in February, 1875. Mr. Tytler, it can be said

without any exaggeration, stands in the front rank of the Canadian

teaching profession. He is a sound scholar; and he brings both industry

and enthusiasm into his work. In 1892, owing to ill health, he resigned

his position, and was soon afterwards appointed Inspector of Public

Schools for the city of Guelph, a position which he still holds.

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=Commeford, James W.= (Toronto, Ont.), was born in Toronto, April 6,

1877, and was educated in the public and high schools. Having decided to

follow life as an electrical engineer and contractor he gave

considerable of his time in educating himself along those lines and when

satisfied as to his ability he branched out into business for himself on

College Street, where he is located at the present time. He has been

very successful and has to his credit to-day one of the largest

electrical businesses in the city, carrying a large staff of employees

the year round. Mr. Commeford was induced to offer himself as a

candidate for alderman in Ward Four, many citizens believing that his

expert knowledge as an electrician would be beneficial to the city at

large, and was defeated by a very small margin, meaning a great loss

from a city standpoint, owing to the installation of the Hydro-Electric

System, when his services would have been invaluable. However, youth is

on his side, and Mr. Commeford will not only be elected alderman, but

will fill higher offices should he desire the honor. He is widely known

in yachting circles and acquatic sports, being a member of the Queen

City Yacht Club, National Yacht and Skiff Club, Alexandra Yacht Club and

Rochester Yacht Club. He is honorary president of the Lake Sailing Skiff

Association and President of the Canadian Power Boat Association. He has

donated the Motor Cycle Championship Cup, and the Long Distance

Endurance Cup of the Canadian Power Boat Association. Mr. Commeford has

saved thirty-three lives from drowning in Lake Ontario and received four

medals from the Humane Society for his brave and timely acts. In

politics he is a Conservative and an active party man.

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=Conant, Gordon Daniel= (Oshawa, Ont.), Barrister, was deputy Reeve of

Oshawa, 1914, and Mayor, 1916-1917; Secretary South Ontario Reform

Association, 1915-1916. He is genial in manner, quick and easy in

expression, goes straight to the point of things and is likely to be

heard of in a wider field in the not distant future. Mr. Conant is the

only son of Margaret and the late Thomas Conant, farmer and journalist,

Oshawa, who was an extensive traveller and writer, contributing articles

on travel, history and general subjects to the Toronto “Globe” for

years. The subject of this sketch was born in Oshawa, January 11, 1885,

and was educated at the High School of that place, afterwards graduating

from the University of Toronto in 1905, with the degrees of B.A. and

LL.B. and from Osgoode Hall in 1912, as Barrister-at-Law. He married

Verna Rowena, daughter of Senator the Hon. E. D. Smith, manufacturer,

Winona, Ont., June 25, 1915. He has one son, Douglas Smith, born in

1914, and one daughter, Verna Genevieve, born in 1916. He is a Methodist

in religion and a Liberal in politics. Mr. Conant is a member of The

Thirty and Golf Clubs, Oshawa, Ontario and Royal Canadian Yacht Club,

Toronto, and of the Masonic Order.

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=Perry, Nathaniel Irwin= (St. Catharines, Ont.), Rector of St. Thomas

Church, and Archdeacon of Lincoln and Welland since 1911. Spent fifteen

months in the British Isles, travelling and studying, where he also

represented the Colonial and Continental Church Society and the Church

Missionary Society in different places. He is the President of St.

Catharines Ministerial Association and Lincoln County Clerical Patriotic

Association. Until 1913 he was Chaplain of the 2nd Dragoons. His parents

are Martha and William Perry, farmer, in the Township of King, where he

was born on February 10, 1867. The Rev. Mr. Perry received his education

at the Newmarket High School, University of Toronto, and Wycliffe

College, graduating in Arts as M.A., 1891, and in Theology, 1893. Was

for some time Joint Editor of Church Record Sunday School Publications

and wrote both for the “Empire Magazine,” London, England, and the

“Cambridge Magazine.” On October 12, 1897, he married Jennie B.,

daughter of Dr. J. H. Harris, Yarmouth, N.S., by whom he has two sons,

Karl Raymond, born 1900, and Ronald Harris, born 1902. Mr. Perry is a

clergyman of the Church of England, a member of the Canadian Club, St.

Catharines, and also of the Masonic, Oddfellows, and Orange Societies.

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=Hill, Hamnett Pinhey=, is a member of the legal firm of Greene, Hill &

Hill, solicitors for the Bank of Ottawa, the Bank of British North

America, and other large financial and commercial corporations, and has

established for himself in the legal profession and in other spheres of

life in Ottawa, a valuable reputation. Both the Dominion and the Ontario

Governments recognizing Mr. Hill’s ability as a lawyer, and his

reliability as such, in 1915 sought his services, respectively, as a

Royal Commissioner and Official Arbitrator. In that year, owing to the

charge of the Auditor-General that improprieties had arisen in the

purchase of coal for the dredges fleet in British Columbia, the Dominion

Government appointed Mr. Hill a Royal Commissioner to investigate and

hear evidence _re_ the charge. He performed his duties, on that

occasion, with marked ability. And in the same year, owing to the many

disputes that had arisen in the city of Ottawa between the city and the

owners of land, the Ontario Government appointed Mr. Hill as Official

Arbitrator and in that capacity he is now employed. He has also, on

several occasions, been called upon to act as Chairman of Conciliation

Boards appointed to settle disputes between employers and employees. In

1918 Mr. Hill was appointed a Special Returning Officer under the

Military Voters Act with headquarters in Paris. Mr. Hamnett Pinhey Hill

was born in Ottawa on December 18, 1877, and is the son of the late

Hamnett Pinhey and Margaret (Christie) Hill. He was educated in the

Public and High Schools in Ottawa, and the Toronto University (B.A.,

1898). He read law with McDonald, Shepley, Middleton & Donald, Toronto,

and was called to the Bar in 1902, when he became a partner in the legal

firm of Christie & Green, which is now, owing to the death of Mr.

Christie, known as Green, Hill & Hill. Mr. Hill was President of the

Canadian Club, Ottawa, during 1907-1908; President of the

Liberal-Conservative Association, 1912-1914; is a member of the

Executive of the Board of Trade, and was Honorary Secretary of the St.

John’s Ambulance Association of Canada for the year 1917. He holds the

commission of Lieutenant in the Army Service Corps. In 1917 he was

elected President of the University Club of Ottawa. On September 21,

1907, Mr. Hill married Beatrice Sarah Lindsay, daughter of the late

Arthur Lindsay. One son and two daughters have blessed the union. Mr.

Hill is a member of the Rideau and Royal Ottawa Golf Clubs, and of the

Sons of England and Orange Societies. His recreation is golf, his

politics Conservative and his religion Anglican. His residence is 253

Bronson Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario.

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=Street, Lieut.-Col. Douglas Richmond=, one of the leading figures both

in the business and military life of the Canadian capital, is a native

of New Brunswick. He was born at Fredericton, N.B., on June 10, 1864,

the son of C. F. Street, M.A., formerly of the Finance Department,

Ottawa, and Lucy Audubon (Kendall) Street. His grandfather was the late

Hon. J. A. Street, K.C., one of the prominent public men of New

Brunswick, and for some years Attorney-General of the Province. Col.

Street’s education was received in the Separate Schools of Ottawa and at

Ottawa University. On graduation he decided to adopt a business career

in which he proved very successful; and he is now Secretary-Treasurer of

the Ottawa Electric Company, Secretary-Treasurer of the Ottawa Gas

Company, and Secretary-Treasurer of the Consolidated Light, Heat and

Power Company of Ottawa. Despite his business duties he has long taken

an active interest in the Canadian Militia. As early as 1893 he was

gazetted a second lieutenant in the Governor-General’s Foot Guards, the

crack infantry regiment of Ottawa and became its commanding officer,

with the rank of Lieut.-Col. in 1908. In that capacity he commanded his

regiment at the Quebec Tercentenary celebration of 1908, when a large

body of Canadian troops was assembled to do honor to the Prince of

Wales, now His Majesty King George the Fifth, and at which Lord Roberts,

General Pole-Carew and many other distinguished soldiers were present.

He also commanded his regiment at the Tercentenary Celebration of the

Discovery of Lake Champlain in Plattsburg, N.Y., and Burlington, Vt., in

1909. When the late war broke out Col. Street was one of those who

placed his services at the disposal of the Empire. He organized, trained

and became Commanding Officer of the 77th Overseas Battalion, which he

took to England in June, 1916. In the various engagements which followed

the battalion of Col. Street’s creation rendered most distinguished

service. Col. Street now commands the 8th Infantry Brigade M.D. No. 3.

Col. Street is a member of the Rideau Club, the Ottawa Golf, and the

Ottawa Hunt Club. He is a Roman Catholic in religion and is married to

Elizabeth Bauld, daughter of John H. Christie, Bras D’Or, Cape Breton,

N.S. He resides at 12 Range Road, Ottawa.

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