Que., was born in that city, April 17th, 1847. His father, Adam
Drysdale, a native of Dunfermline, Scotland, settled in Canada during
the first half of the nineteenth century and for a long period held a
post in the civil service conferred on him by Lord Elgin, during the
period when that celebrated British pro-consul was Governor of the old
Province of United Canada. The father of Adam Drysdale was one of the
first persons to engage in the shipping trade between Canada and
Scotland and was one of the earliest shippers to make use of the Port of
Montreal. The subject of this sketch was educated at Montreal in the
private school of Mr. Hicks (who later became the first principal of the
Normal School in that city), and received a thorough commercial
training. On leaving school he entered the employ of the late John
Dougall, who was at that time publishing the “Weekly Witness” and also
engaged in the book business. The aptitude of young Drysdale was such
that he was almost immediately placed by Mr. Dougall in charge of the
book department. After a short time his services were sought by Mr.
Grafton, another bookseller, with whom he remained as confidential
manager until 1874 when he founded a book business of his own, which
became a celebrated institution in Montreal. Owing to his excellent
training and personal popularity he soon built up a business second to
none in the Dominion. Mr. Drysdale also rendered a public service in
publishing a number of Canadian works which are now of great historic
value. Later he retired from business to accept his present post with
the Customs Service. As a citizen he gave his support to all movements
looking to public betterment, and to philanthropic institutions. He is a
Life Governor of the Boys’ Home and a member of the executive of the
Natural History Society, Prison Aid Association, Charitable Committee of
St. Andrew’s Society Canadian Club, Montreal Art Association, Imperial
Home Re-union Association, Numismatic and Antiquarian Society. He is a
life member of the Mechanics’ Institute, Governor of the Montreal
Dispensary, and one of the most active supporters of the Protestant Home
for the Insane. He has long been a member of the Montreal Board of Trade
and an elder of the Presbyterian Church, who has frequently been
commissioner to the General Assembly. Mr. Drysdale was first married in
1880 to Miss Mary Maltbee Wales, daughter of the late Charles Wales,
merchant of St. Andrew’s East. The first Mrs. Drysdale died in 1891
leaving him two sons, William Flockhart Drysdale, Mechanical Engineer
with the American Locomotive Sales Corporation; and Charles Wales
Drysdale, Geologist to the Dominion Geological Survey, Ottawa. He was
married a second time in 1893 to Miss Mary McIntosh of Sherbrooke, who
died in 1907; and thirdly in 1916 to Miss Jean Parker, daughter of
Archibald Parker of Glasgow, Scotland. He resides at “The Grosvenor,”
756 Sherbrooke St., Montreal. Duncan MacGregor Crerar, a New York poet,
sums up Mr. Drysdale’s character in the following lines:—
Some are while careful of their own affairs,
And when successfully amassing wealth,
Who oft-times will withdraw, as if by stealth
To render good to others unawares.
Well known to them the haunts of poverty.
Clothed are the naked, and the hungry fed,
Oft take they place beside the patient’s bed
To cheer sad hours; to soothe keen agony.
These are earth’s salt—they labor with a mind,
Distress relieving, lessening human woe;
In all their actions earnest, gentle, kind,
Leaving sweet impress whereso’er they go.
Theirs Heaven’s reward; a crown upon each brow,
Warm hearted DRYSDALE! such a man art thou!
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=Walker, William Simpson, K.C.= (Montreal, Que.), is the son of the late
John and Janet Simpson, Scotland, Ont., and was born in Brantford, Ont.,
April 13, 1849. He was educated at Scotland Grammar School and McGill
University, from which he graduated with the degree of B.C.L. in 1874,
and married Sarah, youngest daughter of the late David Perney,
Waterford, Ont., by whom he has three children, Grace E., Fred. W., now
Vice-President and Managing Director of the Hudson Bay Ins. Co.,
Vancouver, B.C., and Helen E. Walker. In his early years Mr. Walker
taught in the Public Schools of Brant and Norfolk Counties, Ont., and in
the Montreal Academy, also acting as legal reporter for the “Montreal
Herald.” Among other offices held by the subject of this sketch at
various times are those of Secretary of the Royal Commission on the
Paper Combine; Secretary-Treasurer to the Protestant School
Commissioners, Town and Parish of Longueuil, Que.; Secretary of the
McGill University Literary Society; President of the Longueuil Boating
Club; Hon. President of the Longueuil Cricket Club; Member of the
Westmount Lawn Bowling Club; First Vice-President of the Caledonian
Society, Montreal; Treasurer of the Mechanics’ Institute, Montreal; for
many years Secretary of the Young Men’s Reform Association and latterly
of the Reform Club, Montreal; a Freemason of high degree, and a P.D.D.
of both the Independent Order of Foresters and the Canadian Order of
Foresters. A member of the Church of England. Mr. Walker is a Liberal in
politics and an “out and out believer in the late Sir Wilfrid Laurier.”
He was called to the Bar of the Province of Quebec in July, 1874, as an
Advocate and Barrister, having been articled to Sir Charles Davidson,
ex-Chief Justice Province of Quebec, and successfully practising his
profession in the city of Montreal since that time. Has delivered
lectures and read papers before numerous societies in Montreal, amongst
others, upon the following subjects: “Nothing New,” “People I Have Met,”
“Woman as An Inventor,” “Lord Elgin in Canada,” “Scottish Superstition,”
“Scotsman in Canada,” “What We Want,” “The Fathers of Confederation,”
“Masonry and Its Philosophy” and “Universal Language.” In 1897 he was
appointed head of the English Department of Judgments, Superior Court,
and Deputy Prothonotary of the Superior Court, Montreal. Three years
later he was appointed Deputy Registrar of the Exchequer Court by the
Dominion Government, and Commissioner Supreme Court of Canada; was named
King’s Counsel in 1913, in which year he also received the appointment
of Registrar of Deeds for the Western Division of the City of Montreal
(Montreal West) and is, to-day, a Justice of the Peace for the District
of Montreal. Mr. Walker has been in partnership, successively, with the
late Joseph Doutre, Q.C., John A. Perkins, Hon, J. E. Robidoux, Hon. M.
Hutchinson and D. MacMaster, K.C., 90 Arlington Ave., Westmount. “A man
highly respected”—_Montreal Star_.
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=Hopkins, Innes=, 3738 Selkirk Avenue, Shaughnessy Heights, Vancouver,
B.C., Managing Director of the B.C. Marine Limited, one of the oldest
established ship-repairing firms on the Pacific Coast, is a son of John
Castell Hopkins, who was born and educated in Edinburgh, a direct
descendant of Samson Hopkins of Coventry, Co. Warwick, who died in 1662,
and Sir William Hopkins, Knight of Coventry, Isle of Wight, knighted at
Whitehall, 1623—Motto, Suavitate. Aut. Vi.—(other particulars see
“Armory and Lineage of Canada, 1913”). His mother is Trianda Phelia Boyd
Heu de Bourck, daughter of Rev. W. H. Heu de Bourck of Tiverton,
England. The subject of this sketch was born at Douglas, Wellington Co.,
Ont., and was educated in private schools. He has been a resident of
Vancouver since 1914, at which time he became interested in the B.C.
Marine Limited. He is also President of the Vancouver Forge Co. Ltd.; a
member of the Vancouver Board of Trade, Manufacturers Association,
Employers Association of B.C., Vancouver Automobile Club, Vancouver Club
and Terminal City Club, and a member of the Masonic Order. His
recreations are motoring and tennis, and in politics he is a
Conservative. In religion, Mr. Hopkins is an Anglican, and on Feb. 3,
1909, married a daughter of Mr. R. W. F. Martin, broker, of Seattle,
Wash., by whom he has two children, Alice Cecil, born Dec. 13, 1910, and
Robert Innes, born Oct. 19, 1912.
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=Rose, William Oliver, J.P., M.D., M.P.P.= for Nelson in the British
Columbia Legislature, is a native of Lakeville, Prince Edward Island,
where he was born, February 10, 1870, the son of William and Charity
(Baker) Rose. His father was a farmer and he was educated at Prince of
Wales College, Charlottetown, P.E.I., and McGill University, Montreal.
From the latter institution he graduated in 1898 with the degree of
M.D.C.M. and was also Holmes Gold Medallist in this year. For twelve
months he filled the post of Senior House Surgeon at the Royal Victoria
Hospital, Montreal, and in 1899 went to British Columbia as
Superintendent of the Kootenay Lake Hospital at Nelson, B.C. In 1900 he
entered general practice at Nelson as a member of the firm of Rose &
Hall, Physicians and Surgeons, which subsequently, in 1908, became Rose
& Hartin, as at present. He was elected Mayor of his city in 1903 and,
subsequently, in 1907, returned to municipal life as an Alderman, an
office he has filled ever since. At the Provincial Elections of Sept.
14, 1916, he was Conservative candidate for the riding of Nelson, and
carried the constituency. He has been a Justice of the Peace for his
district since 1903 and for a time was Medical Officer of the 102nd
Royal Mounted Rifles. His recreations are motoring and boating, and he
is a member of many fraternal orders including the K.P., L.O.L., S.O.E.,
C.O.F., I.O.F., B.P.O.E., etc. He is a Baptist in religion and on August
28, 1901, married Azza Jean, daughter of John Brownell of Worcester,
Mass. He resides at 907 Vernon St., Nelson, B.C.
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=McQuarrie, William Garland, K.C.=, M.P. for New Westminster, B.C., is
regarded as one of the most able and aggressive of the younger members
of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born at Ottawa, July 26th,
1876, the son of Lachlan and Mary McQuarrie. When he was but a child his
father, who was a prominent contractor, moved to the West, residing
first at Winnipeg and later at New Westminster; and the education of the
subject of this sketch was obtained at the public and high schools of
those cities. Subsequently he studied law at Osgoode Hall, Toronto, and
was called to the Bar of British Columbia in 1900. He first practised at
Ashcroft, B.C., with Mr. Denis (now Mr. Justice) Murphy, but returning
to New Westminster in 1902, became a member of the firm of Morrison,
Whiteside, McQuarrie & Briggs, of which the senior partner was Mr. (now
Mr. Justice) Morrison. Later the firm became known as Martin, Weart &
McQuarrie, and was headed by Hon. Joseph Martin, K.C., for a time
Premier of British Columbia and afterward a member for St. Pancras in
the British House of Commons. Subsequently Mr. F. C. Wade, K.C., the
present Agent-General of British Columbia in London, became head of the
firm, which was then known as Wade, Whealler, McQuarrie & Martin. In
1912 Mr. McQuarrie founded his present firm which is known as McQuarrie,
Martin, Cassady & Macgowan. Mr. McQuarrie is a well-known expert in
municipal law and is solicitor for the City of New Westminster and for
the municipalities of Burnaby, Coquitlam, Delta, Kent and Surrey. He has
frequently been heard before the Dominion Railway Commission, both in
British Columbia and at Ottawa, and represented New Westminster in the
big litigation over the Coquitlam dam, in which the city’s water supply
was at stake. One of his most notable battles was that in which he
represented his city and other municipalities in a demand on the
Canadian Northern Railway for back taxes, in which nearly a quarter of a
million dollars was involved and in which he was victorious. He has also
figured as counsel in several important murder and treason trials as
Crown Counsel. In the latter capacity he has acted very frequently ever
since 1904 and his abilities as a criminal lawyer have proven
exceptional. In January of the present year (1919) he was created King’s
Counsel by the Oliver Government though an opponent of it in politics.
Mr. McQuarrie is a Conservative Unionist, and was President of the New
Westminster Federal Conservative Association in 1916 and 1917. In the
latter year he accepted the Unionist nomination for New Westminster and
scored a victory at the polls. Since entering the House of Commons he
has made his mark as a sound and effective speaker and is generally
regarded as a coming man in Canadian politics. His chief recreation is
golf and he is a member of the Westminster Club; the Vancouver Club;
Jericho Country Club (Vancouver); Vancouver Golf and Country Club;
Rideau Club, Ottawa; Societies: A.F. & A.M., I.O.O.F., and the Sons of
Scotland. In religion he is a Presbyterian. On Feb. 18th, 1907, married
Elsie Owen, daughter of D. H. Macgowan, Coal Merchant, New Westminster,
B.C. His children are Mary F. C., born July 12th, 1908, and Colin D.,
born Nov. 2nd, 1911. His address is 207 3rd. Ave., New Westminster, B.C.
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=Regan, Frank= (Toronto, Ont.), son of the late Denis H. Regan and Mary
(Hennessy). Born at Murray Township, County of Northumberland, Ont., on
November 27th, 1885. Educated at Trenton High School and Osgoode Hall,
Toronto. On being called to the Bar in 1916, having studied in the law
office of A. Abbott, Trenton, and Corley, Wilkie & Company, Toronto, he
entered into partnership with the late Leon LeVernois, the firm being
known as Regan & LeVernois, which partnership continued until Mr.
LeVernois left to enter a legal firm in Perth, Ont., in 1918, since
which time Mr. Regan has practised on his own account. He is well versed
in commercial law and enjoys a lucrative practice, being solicitor for
several well known corporations. Mr. Regan is a Roman Catholic in
religion and a member of the Knights of Columbus and has long been
identified with the Liberal party. Mr. Regan was a prominent worker in
all patriotic movements during the war and was an active committee man
and canvasser in the Red Cross and Sailors appeals and the Victory Loan
drives. Mr. Regan was a great admirer and a personal friend of the late
Sir Wilfrid Laurier, and was a representative of the Central Liberal
Association at the public funeral of the Great Statesman in February of
1919. He is a member of several Clubs and Secretary of the Central
Liberal Association. Mr. Regan is interested in the Agricultural
industry, his father having been a prominent farmer of Northumberland
County, and finds recreation in motoring, hunting and golf. He is a man
of good address and remarkable energy and is extremely popular among a
very large circle.
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=Hamilton, Ralph Bergen, M.E.= (St. Catharines, Ont.), was born at
Toledo, Ohio, on April 11th, 1875, son of John Allen and Harriet Hale
(Rowland) Hamilton. His early education was obtained at the Public
Schools at Saginaw, Mich., and, deciding to acquire a knowledge of
mechanical science he took a course at the Polyteknik, Dresden, Germany.
This was supplemented by an engineering course at Cornell University,
Ithaca, N.Y., from which he graduated in 1896 with the degree of M.E. In
the same year he began his professional career as a draughtsman with the
Buffalo Engineering Co., Buffalo, N.Y., and his successive appointments
have been as follows: Assistant Engineer, Howard Iron Works, Buffalo,
1897-8; Assistant Manager Iroquois Iron Works, Buffalo, 1899-1900;
Acting Manager Packard Electric Co. Ltd., St. Catharines, Ont., 1901;
Secretary-Treasurer and General Manager, 1901, 1912; and the latter year
he became President of the Packard Electric Co., Ltd., retaining the
post of General Manager. He is a former director of the Rochester
“Times” Publishing Co., and also of the McMillan Springs Co. After
coming to St. Catharines to reside he soon began to take part in public
affairs. He was President of the St. Catharines Board of Trade, 1906-7,
and during the recent war was prominent in the promotion of patriotic
objects. He was a member of the Finance Committee of the Patriotic
League, Chairman of the Manufacturers’ Committee of the Recruiting
League, and was appointed by the Imperial Munitions Board, a special
representative on investigation pertaining to the manufacture of
munitions. He is an ex-member of the Executive Board of the Canadian
Manufacturers Association. In addition to the business interests already
mentioned he is President of the Precision Manufacturing Company, St.
Catharines; President of the Cary Safe Co., Buffalo, N.Y., and President
of the Packard Fuse Co., Ltd., St. Catharines, and President of Canadian
Standard Products, Limited, St. Catharines. Mr. Hamilton is a member of
the following Clubs: National, Toronto; University, Buffalo; Alpha Delta
Phi, New York; Ellicott, Buffalo; Little Saguenay Game and Fish Club. He
is also a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and an
Associate of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. In 1899 he
married Edith Raphael, daughter of Gersham A. Seixas, New York, and has
three sons and one daughter.
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=Connolly, Bernard Gervase, M.B., M.C.P.S.O.=, Gen’l Manager of the
Capital Trust Corporation of Ottawa, and Medical Referee of the Capital
Life Assurance Co., was born in Trenton, Ont., December 5th, 1865,
educated at the Roman Catholic Separate School and the High School and
subsequently graduated with degree of M.B. in 1896 from Toronto
University. He is the son of Bernard and Catharine (Murray) Connolly.
Dr. Connolly started life as a teacher in the Public Schools in Ontario
and later as a teacher in the Institution for the Blind, Brantford,
where he remained for four years. He followed the Medical Profession at
Renfrew for seventeen years, where, despite his large practice, he found
time for various other activities. He was Coroner, served on the
Collegiate Institute Board, Library Board, Hospital Board, and any
movement for the improvement of the community got his ready and hearty
support. Being an enthusiastic Liberal, he was chosen Standard Bearer of
the Reform Party in the Provincial Elections of 1908, when, although
defeated, he polled a large vote. In 1906 and 1907 he was Provincial
Chief Ranger of the Catholic Order of Foresters. He served as Medical
Officer of the 42nd Regiment of Infantry for some years, retiring with
the rank of Captain. Since his arrival in Ottawa and as General Manager
of the Capital Trust Corporation, Dr. Connolly’s career has been
conspicuously successful. Under his capable management the Capital Trust
Corporation has made rapid progress and is to-day one of the leading
financial institutions in the Capital of the Dominion of Canada. In 1900
he married Anna Mary Devine, daughter of Felix Devine of Renfrew. In
religion he is a Roman Catholic; in politics a Liberal, and he resides
at the Roxborough Apartments, Ottawa.
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=Callahan, John= (Toronto, Ont.), son of Thomas Henry Callahan and
Henrietta (McKanna) of Wooler, Ont., was born at Murray Township, County
of Northumberland, Ont., April 7th, 1891. Educated at the Wooler Public
School, Trenton High School and Osgoode Hall, Toronto. On being called
to the Bar in May, 1916, he entered into partnership with Messrs.
Douglas & Gibson, the firm being known as Douglas, Gibson & Callahan,
which partnership continued until November, 1919, when he commenced
practice on his own account. Mr. Callahan, although under thirty has
already attained an assured position in his chosen profession. He has
paid special attention to Company law and is solicitor for several large
commercial corporations. Mr. Callahan is a Roman Catholic in religion
and has for some years been identified with the Liberal party, taking a
considerable interest in Federal politics. Having a pleasing address and
good platform ability, his services were frequently requisitioned by his
leaders. He is a member of the Ontario Club, Knights of Columbus;
President of The Newman Club and ex-President of the Alumni, President
of Ward Four Liberal Association. Always interested in amateur sports,
Mr. Callahan was prominent in football circles. He finds recreation in
motoring, boating, bowling and golf. Mr. Callahan is related to Senator
McCall of Australia and Mr. Justice Sharp of the Supreme Court of the
State of Michigan, U.S.A.
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=Crowther, William H.= (Welland, Ont.), was born at Walsall, England,
March 10th, 1868, and educated in the Public Schools of that place. Son
of Job and Sarah Crowther, his father being manager of the Rolling Mills
at Walsall, England. He is one of the most progressive manufacturers of
the City of Welland and also operates a farm. Married in October, 1895,
to Margaret Byers, daughter of Thomas Byers, of Hampden, County of Grey,
Ont. Father of three sons. William Crowther, the eldest, was killed in
action in the Great War on October 31st, 1917, at the age of twenty-one.
As a Lieutenant in the 10th Royal Flying Corps, he was engaged in
photographing and observation work near La Bassee when he was shot down;
Wilfred, in the Royal Air Force, was billeted for France when the
Armistice was signed; Thomas Albert, and a daughter Dora Isabel. Mr.
Crowther is a Presbyterian in religion and a Liberal in Politics and
belongs to the following societies: The Masonic Order, Sons of England,
Ancient Order of United Workmen, Canadian Order of Foresters. He was a
member of the town Council of Welland for twelve years and was Mayor for
Welland for two years, 1909-10. Was an active member of the Patriotic
Campaign Committee during the war and has been largely instrumental in
contributing to the present prosperity of Welland, being Chairman of the
Waterworks and Sewers Committees for two years, in each case. Ex-Mayor
Crowther is recognized as one of Welland’s most public spirited and
enterprising citizens. His recreations are lawn-bowling, he being a
member of the Welland Club.
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=Davidson, James Wheeler, F.R.C.S.=, 801 Royal Avenue, Calgary, Alberta,
is one of the contributing causes of the entente cordiale between Canada
and the United States. In other words, he is an American who has “made
good” in Canada, as he has elsewhere. Mr. Davidson was born at Austin,
Minnesota, on June 14, 1872, his father being C. H. Davidson, a
newspaper man, and later, a banker. He was educated at Northwestern
Military Academy, Highland Park, Illinois, where he graduated as Second
Lieutenant in 1891. Mr. Davidson almost immediately embarked on a career
of travel and adventure which was to bring him many honors. He was a
member of the Peary Arctic Expedition of 1893 and 1894, a war
correspondent for the New York Herald with the Chinese army, and later
with the Japanese army during the Japanese-Chinese war of 1895-1896, and
a member of the American foreign service stationed in Formosa, China,
Manchuria, also American Consul-General at Shanghai and a special agent
department of state between years 1896-1906. It was at this time that he
became a member of the “Order of the Rising Sun” (Japanese), an honor
not often accorded to foreigners. He was granted leave by the Department
of State to serve on a special mission for the Russian Communication
Department in Siberia, and was decorated by the Emperor of Japan for
services rendered the Japanese army in the capture of the capital
(Taipehfu) of Formosa. Under the Roosevelt administration he was a
special agent of the Department of State, sent to Manila prior to
Dewey’s expedition to determine probable attitude of Philippine
revolutionary party towards Americans. His knowledge of these countries
enabled him to write an authoritative book on “The Island of Formosa,
Past and Present,” published by MacMillan & Co. He has also been a
contributor to the Century Magazine on Siberia and Manchuria. Mr.
Davidson is now treasurer of the Calgary Colonization Company, and
Manager Beiseker & Davidson Company, of Calgary. He is a member of the
Ranchmen’s Club, Calgary; the Manitoba Club, of Winnipeg; the Royal
Geographical Society; the Explorer’s Club, New York, and the Authors,
London. He is a Protestant in religion, and professes no political
creed. In 1906 he married Mabel Lillian Dow, daughter of George A. Dow,
of San Francisco, president of the George A. Dow Pumping Engine Company.
He has one child, Marjory Dow, born February 10, 1915.
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=Mackay, Hon. Col. Alexander Howard=, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, is one of
Canada’s most prominent educationists. Born of Scotch-Canadian parents,
John Mackay and Barbara Maclean, at North Mount Dalhousie, Pictou
County, Nova Scotia, on May 19, 1848, Colonel Mackay early demonstrated
his educational ability. He began his education in the public schools,
then went to Pictou Academy, to Normal College, and to Dalhousie
University, from which he graduated with a B.A. degree in 1873. He
received his degree of B.Sc. at Halifax University in 1880; his LL.D.
from Halifax in 1892, and from St. Francis Xavier University in 1905. In
1882 he married Maude Augusta, daughter of Dr. George Moir Johnstone of
Pictou, N.S., and has two children, George Moir Johnstone and Barbara
Lois, born in 1883 and in 1886 respectively. Colonel Mackay is a life
member of the Royal Colonial Institute, London, England; a member of the
Author’s Club, London, England, and of the Halifax Club, Nova Scotia. He
is also a member of the Royal Society of Canada and of the Biological
and Geographic Boards of Canada. In religion he is a Presbyterian, of
the United Church of Canada, and in politics he is non-partisan, but a
strong Imperialist. He was made an honorary colonel in 1912 and was a
member of the Dominion Cadet Committee which had the honor of
introducing the present military training system into the schools of
Canada in 1908. Colonel Mackay is now superintendent of education for
the province of Nova Scotia. He began as a teacher in the public schools
of Pictou and then became lecturer in biology at the medical college of
Dalhousie University, and his subsequent career is a long list of
educational honors. He is Past President of the Educational Association
of Nova Scotia, of Dominion Educational Association, of Summer School of
Science for Atlantic Provinces, of Nova Scotia Institute of Science, of
Section IV. of the Royal Society of Canada; President of Victoria School
of Art and Design; Vice-President of Simplified Spelling Board; member
of the Geographic Board of Canada; of the Biological Board of Canada,
Governor of Dalhousie University, of Halifax Ladies’ College; Senator of
Presbyterian College; sometime editor of “Dalhousie Gazette,” “Acadia
Scientist,” “Educational Review”; editor of “Journal of Education,”
etc., represented the province of Nova Scotia at the official Imperial
educational conferences of the Education departments of the Empire in
1907 and 1911. Colonel Mackay has written extensively on educational
subjects for a number of important magazines and periodicals.
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=Whalen, George Frederick= (Vancouver, B.C.), one of the leading figures
in the pulp and paper industry of Canada, was born at Fort William,
Ont., November 13, 1880, the son of Joseph and Alice Whalen. He was
educated in the Separate School and High School of his native city, and
commenced his business career in 1899 as a clerk in the Ontario Bank at
the adjacent town of Port Arthur. After a year’s experience he abandoned
banking for the lumber business, serving as a clerk in the camps of
far-western Ontario from 1900 to 1902, and subsequently a Contractor for
taking out timber from 1902 to 1909. Incidentally he acquired a great
deal of knowledge of the pulp industry, which at that time was beginning
to assume large proportions in Canada, and in 1909 he was appointed
Manager in charge of construction and operation of the Sulphite Mill at
Mill Creek, British Columbia. In that position he remained until 1917
when he became Vice-President and General Manager of the Whalen Pulp &
Paper Mills, Ltd., which has its head offices in the Merchants Bank
Building at Vancouver, B.C., and engages extensively in pulp and lumber
manufacture on the Pacific Coast. The importance of this corporation,
which was organized by the subject of this sketch, may be gauged from
the figures of its capitalization: common stock $8,000,000; preferred
stock (cumulative from January 1, 1918) $2,102,500; Fifteen year Six per
cent. Bonds $2,000,000; Fifteen year Seven per cent. Debenture Stock,
$1,500,000. Though young in years Mr. Whalen is recognized throughout
Canada and the United States as one of the most able and progressive
figures in an industry that enters very largely into the life of every
community. His recreations are golf, fishing, motoring and hunting, and
he is a member of the Vancouver, Shaughnessy Golf, and Burnaby Golf
Clubs. In religion he is a Roman Catholic and on June 1, 1904, married
Mary Geraldine, daughter of Patrick D. Doran, Kingston, Ont. He has
three sons and one daughter, and resides at 1251 King Edward Ave.,
Vancouver, B.C.
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=Cousineau, Joseph Philemon, B.A., K.C., LL.D.=, of the firm of
Cousineau and Lacasse, advocates, 90 St. James Street, Montreal, was
born at St. Laurent, Quebec, in 1874, and is one of the many brilliant
Canadians of French affiliations who have done so much to enrich the
legal history of Canada. He is the son of Gervais and Angelique
Cousineau and was educated at Ste. Therese College, and at Laval
University, where he secured his B.A. in 1894, his LL.L. in 1896 and his
LL.D. in 1901. He read law with J. Beauchamp and with C. R. Charles
Bruchesi. He was called to the Quebec Bar in 1896 and was created King’s
Counsel in 1909. Like many of his compatriots Mr. Cousineau united law
and politics. He began his political career as mayor of St. Laurent, an
office he held from 1904 to 1908. In that year he resigned his mayoralty
to become member of the Quebec Legislature for the district of Jacques
Cartier. He was re-elected in 1912 and in 1915 and 1916 was leader of
the opposition at Quebec. His authorship in 1901 of a brilliant thesis
“Des Corporations” was possibly one of the determining influences in his
appointment to the professorship of “Droit Administrative” at Laval
University, a position he has held since 1903. He is also a member of
the Canadian and the Chapleau Clubs. In 1897 Mr. Cousineau married
Helmina, daughter of L. S. Gendron. He has four daughters, Aline,
Gilberte, Jeanne and Gabrielle. In politics he is a Conservative, and in
religion a Roman Catholic. He still maintains the family residence at
St. Laurent.
[Illustration: GEORGE WRIGHT
Toronto]
=Cutten, George Barton=, of Wolfeville, Nova Scotia, president Acadia
University, is one of the interesting Canadians who have won educational
honor in their own country. Dr. Cutten was born at Amherst, Nova Scotia,
on April 11, 1874. His parents were William Herman Cutten and Abbie Ann
Trefry, and their early training was doubtless responsible for their
son’s brilliant career. At twenty-two he won his B.A. degree from
Acadia, the university he was afterwards destined to govern as
president; at twenty-three he was B.A. at Yale, and from then on he won
in rapid succession his M.A. at Acadia, his Ph.D. at Yale, his B.D. at
Yale, his D.D. at Colgate and his LL.D. at Acadia. In 1898 Dr. Cutten
married Minnie W. Brown, daughter of John Ingerson Brown and Sophia
Zwicker of Westfield, Mass., and his four children are Margarita Joy,
born in 1902; Muriel Grace, born in 1904; Claire, born in 1906 and
William Francis, born in 1908. Dr. Cutten is a member of two Greek
letter fraternities, the Phi Sigma Delta, and the Phi Beta Kappa, is a
Baptist in religion and an Independent in politics, but he is not a
Pacifist, for he has held two military commissions—Captain in the 219th
Battalion, and Major in the 246th. Dr. Cutten is the author of a number
of interesting books: “The Psychology of Alcoholism” (Walter Scott
Publishing Company, London), “The Psychological Phenomena of
Christianity,” and “Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing,” both
published by Scribner’s, New York; “The Case of John Kinsel”
(Psychological Review), and “The Christian Life in a Baptist Church”
(Marriott Press, Corning, New York.).
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=Goring, C. C.=, manufacturer, of 172 Markland Street, Hamilton,
Ontario, is a self-made man, and proud of it. He furnishes one of the
numerous cases we have in Canada of the farmer’s son who gets well up
the ladder by persistent, well-directed efforts along one line of
business. Commencing as an oil salesman on “the road,” Mr. Goring
eventually had charge of the sales force of a large refinery in New York
State. From that he went into the jobbing and export department and
eventually he incorporated a company which has done a successful
business both in the United States and in Canada. He is now president
and managing director of the Ontario Lubricating Company, Limited. Mr.
Goring was born at Homer, Ontario, on March 31, 1878, his parents being
Ransom Goring and Melissa Cushman. He received a Canadian public school
education and went directly from school into business. On January 2,
1907, he married Edith Wildman, daughter of Edwin Wildman, Hamilton,
Ontario. He has two children, Gladys Irene, born February 15, 1909, and
Gordon Hamilton, born January 27, 1915. Mr. Goring is a Protestant, a
Conservative and a Mason.
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=Dinnick, Lieut.-Col. Wilfrid Servington=, one of the leading financiers
and public men of Toronto, was born at Guildford, England, on July 19th,
1874, the son of (Rev.) John Dunn and Charlotte Matilda Dinnick. He was
educated at York School, Brighton, Eng., and came to Canada in 1889. In
that year he obtained a position in the office of the Provincial Loan
Company, Toronto, where he remained for two years, joining the Canadian
Birbeck Investment Security and Savings Co., with which corporation he
remained until 1895. By the time he was twenty-one he had acquired
through his natural aptitude for finance a very complete knowledge of
the Canadian investment field and before he was thirty had become a
prominent figure in Toronto financial circles. He is at present
Vice-President of the Standard Reliance Mortgage Corporation, 84 King
St. East, Toronto; and President of the Sterling Trusts Corporation.
Notable among his business achievements was that of founding and
organizing Lawrence Park, one of the exclusive suburban residential
districts of Toronto, which by virtue of the policy which he adopted in
the matter of planning and building restrictions, is one of the beauty
spots of a city renowned for its palatial homes. His services of a
public character became especially noteworthy during the late war. On
Dec. 21st, 1914, he organized the 109th Regiment in which he holds the
rank of Lieut.-Col. This organization largely through the energetic
methods of Col. Dinnick sent to the front over 200 officers and 5000
men, who served chiefly in the 84th and 169th Overseas Battalions and
seven other quotas also. It also contributed the C.D.F. Battalion for
home defence in Canada. As an organizer of public benefactions Col.
Dinnick also showed indefatigable energy and organizing talent. He was
largely instrumental in securing $2,400,000 for the Toronto and York
Patriotic Fund in 1916; and $3,400,000 for the same object in 1917. He
was also the organizer of the British Red Cross Appeal in 1915 and
raised $550,000, which was increased to $740,000 in 1916. He has
likewise willingly given his services to numerous appeals of a minor
character, and many organizations have profited by his unique abilities
in that field. He has been active in support of schemes of civic
improvement and was the originator of the Back Garden development idea
in Toronto, which has been blessed with excellent results. He is a
Conservative in politics, a member of St. Paul’s (Anglican) Church,
Toronto, and is Honorary Secretary of the Canadian Council of the Pocket
Testament League. His recreations are Motoring and horse-back riding and
he is the President and one of the founders of the Lawrence Park Lawn
Bowling Club. He is also a member of the Albany, National, Toronto Hunt,
Lambton Golf, Rosedale Golf, and Royal Canadian Yacht Clubs, Toronto,
and of the A.F. & A.M. In New York on June 16th, 1905, he married Miss
Alice Louise Conlin and has two sons and two daughters. His residence is
at Bedford Lodge, Toronto.
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=Ewing, William=, one of the best known of the younger business men of
Montreal, was born in that city on May 4th, 1884, the son of William and
Catherine Kinross Ewing. He was educated at Montreal High School and at
L’Assomption College, L’Assomption, Quebec. On leaving college about
sixteen years ago he joined the business of his father, who had
established the firm of William Ewing & Co., Wholesale Seedsmen, at
Montreal, in 1869. When the firm was re-organized as a joint stock
corporation with the title of the William Ewing Co., Ltd., in 1913, the
subject of this sketch became Secretary-Treasurer and also a Director.
Formerly Mr. Ewing was known on the football field throughout Eastern
Canada and is President of the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union and
also of the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association Football Club. He is
an active member of the M.A.A.A. and also of the Caledonian Society of
Montreal. His recreations are fishing and football and he has also
interested himself in military affairs and holds a commission as
lieutenant in the 1st Regiment, G.G. of C. On July 22nd, 1910, he
married Isabel Swanson Forbes, a daughter of Mr. George E. Forbes of the
well-known firm of Forbes Bros., Wholesale Grocers, Montreal. He has two
children, Isabel Graham, born May 10th, 1912, and William, born Dec.
26th, 1914. In religion he is a Presbyterian and resides at 329
Addington Ave., Notre Dame de Grace, Montreal.
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=Kelso, John Joseph= (Toronto, Ont.), Journalist and Social Worker, has
resided in Toronto since childhood, but was born in Dundalk, Ireland,
March 31, 1864, son of George and Anna Kelso, descendants of Scotch
Covenanters. Took up Journalism in 1886 and was for several years member
of the “Globe” staff. Devoted to philanthropy, has written thousands of
columns on Social Welfare. Organized Toronto Humane Society in 1886-7;
Children’s Fresh Air Fund in 1888; Children’s Aid Society, 1891;
Playgrounds Association, 1908; was mainly responsible for educational
propaganda leading to passing of Children’s Protection Act by Ontario
Government, and under its provision was appointed General Superintendent
of Neglected and Dependent Children, and Inspector of Industrial
Schools. In its initial stages Mr. Kelso had much to do with the
inauguration of the Juvenile Court movement, having addressed the Waif
Saving Congress on the subject at the World’s Fair, Chicago, in October,
1893. He was also one of the first advocates of Widowed Mothers’ Aid and
Workmen’s Compensation Boards. In March, 1898, Mr. Kelso addressed the
Legislature of Manitoba and British Columbia and they unanimously agreed
to adopt the Ontario system of child protection. In 1905 he visited Nova
Scotia with the same successful result; in 1908 Saskatchewan, and in
1913, New Brunswick. All Canada now follows the same methods of carrying
on Child Welfare work, Mr. Kelso having organized over two hundred and
fifty Children’s Aid Societies, in addition to Social Settlements, etc.
Started Canadian Conference of Charities and Correction in 1897 and was
elected Vice-President; was also elected Vice-President of National
(U.S.) Conference of Charities in 1902. Represented Ontario at
Conference on Child Welfare called by President Roosevelt and also at
International Prison Congress held in Washington. These Conferences led
to many present-day reforms. In 1903-5 Mr. Kelso performed notable
service for the Province by emptying the Ontario Reformatory for Boys at
Penetanguishene and the Ontario Refuge for Girls, by providing homes and
situations for all the inmates. These institutions were converted into
Hospitals for the Insane. Is still engaged in the work. Was married,
1901, to Irene Madden Martin, of Nashville, Tenn., and has two children,
a son and daughter. Is Elder and S.S. Superintendent of St. James’
Square Presbyterian Church. He resides at 21 Prince Arthur Ave.
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=Douglas, William James= (Toronto, Ont.), Journalist, is the General
Manager of the “Mail and Empire,” one of the leading Canadian dailies
and influential exponent of the Liberal-Conservative thought in Ontario.
He is a son of the late James S. Douglas, A.M., M.D., Ph.D., and Frances
Boardman, and was born in Hamilton, N.Y., U.S.A., May 28, 1846. After
education at Milwaukee, Wis., he came to Canada in 1877, where he has
held his present position for many years. Mr. Douglas married Eliza,
daughter of Jeremiah Riordan, Surgeon in the Royal Navy, in 1868, and
has four children—William, James S., Howard R. and Amy Douglas. He was
formerly Vice-President of the National Club, and is a Trustee of the
Toronto General Hospital, and of the Canadian Associated Press, of which
he was a promoter. A Presbyterian in religion and a Conservative in
politics. Mr. Douglas numbers among his clubs the National and Albany of
Toronto, the Rideau of Ottawa, the Caledon Mountain Trout Club and the
Cuckoo Valley Fishing Club. Is a Justice of the Peace for the County of
York.
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=Delage, Cyrille F.=, Notary Public (Quebec City, Que.), son of J. B.
Delage and Mary E. E. Fraser, was born in the above place, May 1, 1869,
and received his education at Quebec Seminary and Laval University,
Quebec, from which last he graduated with the degrees of L.B., LL.B.,
and LL.D. In 1894, Mr. Delage married Alice, daughter of Telesphore
Boursseau and Celina Genest, by whom he has four children—Paul-Edouard,
Maurice, Emile, and Marguerite. To-day, this distinguished Canadian
holds the following public offices: Superintendent of Public Instruction
for the Province of Quebec; officer d’Acadamie (France); member, Royal
Society of Canada, French Section; Hon. President of the Quebec
Provincial Exhibition Commission; President, Canadian Patriotic Fund,
Quebec Branch; President National War Saving Committee, Quebec Branch;
Honorary President of Society of Education, Canada; President, Catholic
Committee, Council Public Instruction, Quebec; Member Protestant
Committee, Council Public Instruction; and member Conseil des Arts et
Metiers, Quebec. Council of Agriculture. At the time of his appointment
as Superintendent of Public Instruction, the “Quebec Telegraph” said
editorially: “Undoubtedly the Legislature will lose by his disappearance
from it, but the Province will unquestionably be a large gainer by the
transfer of his abilities, experience, and congenial tastes to the
Department of Public Instruction.” A Liberal in politics and a Roman
Catholic in religion, Mr. Delage is a member of the Canadian and
Garrison Clubs of Quebec City, in addition to the Union St. Joseph, St.
Roch; Union St. Joseph, Beauport; Artisans Canadiens-français; Alliance
Nationale; Royal Arcanum, and the Independent Order of Foresters.
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=Hocken, Norman Cecil= (Otter Lake Station, Ont.), Lumberman, the son of
Henry Hocken and Lucina Soper, was born in Bowmanville, Ont., November
28, 1880, and educated at the Bowmanville Public School. His father
being in the lumber business, he naturally came much in contact with
that line of business, so deciding to strike out for himself in 1903, he
became connected with the Victoria Harbor Lumber Company, and the
Charlton Sawmill Company, finally going into business for himself and at
the present time is owner of four sawmills and upwards of fifty square
miles of timber limits. In politics he is a Reformer and was nominated
by the Liberal party as their standard-bearer for the constituency of
Parry Sound, for the House of Commons, to represent them at the next
Dominion Election. Mr. Hocken is a member of the Methodist Church, of
the Board of Trade of the City of Toronto, of the Ontario Club, Toronto,
and of the Masonic Order. He married the daughter of James Kydd, and has
five children—Bernice, Melvin, Loydd, Ralph and Robert.
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=King, Hon. James H., M.D., C.M., F.A.C.S.=, Physician and Surgeon,
Cranbrook, B.C., President, King Lumber Mills, Ltd., Cranbrook, B.C.
Born Chipman, N.B., January 18, 1872, son of Hon. G. G. and Ester Briggs
King. Educated St. Martin’s Academy and McGill University. Practised
Andover and St. John, N.B., 1895-1898. Came to British Columbia 1898;
practised Cranbrook since. Vice-President Graduates Society, McGill
University, 1908. Attended World Congress of Medicine and Surgery,
Budapest, Hungary, 1909, and on this occasion was presented at the
Austrian Court. Represented Cranbrook, British Columbia Legislature,
1903, 1907; unsuccessful candidate for Kootenay to House of Commons,
1911; elected to British Columbia Parliament, September 14, 1916;
accepted portfolio of Public Works in the new government formed November
29, 1916; one of the original Founders and Governors of the American
College of Surgeons at Chicago, 1913. Married Nellie Sadler, Maple View,
N.B., 1907. Societies: A.F. & A.M., I.O.O.F., K. of P. Liberal, Baptist.
Residence, Victoria, B.C.
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=Oliver, Hon. John= (Victoria, B.C.), son of Robert Oliver, of
Derbyshire, England, and Emma Lomas, his wife, of Staffordshire. Was
born on July 31, 1856, at Hartington, Derbyshire, England. In April,
1870, his parents, with eight children, of whom the subject of this
sketch was the eldest, left the Motherland, and eventually settled on a
farm in Wellington County, Ontario. There he worked on his father’s farm
in the summer and went to the woods in the winter, and, in his spare
time, picked up stone masonry. In 1877, the future premier set out for
Victoria B.C., with only a few dollars in his pocket and no particular
job in sight. Twenty-three years later he returned to the capital as a
member of the Legislature, and forty years afterwards he became head of
the Provincial Government. Shortly after going to British Columbia, Mr.
Oliver took up land in the Delta municipality, and to-day he is the
proprietor of one of the finest farms in the province. Mr. Oliver has
always evinced a genius for public service, and has always taken a keen
and intelligent interest in public questions. He had not been long in
the west before he was elected a member of the Delta Municipal Council,
and was later reeve for several terms. He was first elected to the
British Columbia Legislature at the general elections in 1900, and
re-elected in 1903 and 1907. At the general elections in 1909, as leader
of the Opposition, he contested two constituencies, Victoria and Delta,
and was defeated in both. A similar experience awaited him in 1911, and
again in the campaign in 1912. In 1916, upon the formation of the
Brewster cabinet, he was appointed Minister of Railways and Agriculture.
On the death of Premier Brewster, after one session in office, Mr.
Oliver was called upon by the Lieutenant-Governor to form a Government,
which he did, retaining his former portfolios, besides acting as
Premier. His reputation as a parliamentarian of the first rank was
firmly established by the part he played in the exposure of what was
known as the “Columbia and Western Railway Scandal.” He was chiefly
instrumental in having grants for some 650,000 acres of coal mining land
in the Kootenay district cancelled. Premier Oliver was married on June
20, 1886, to Elizabeth, daughter of William Woodward, of Mud Bay,
British Columbia. He is the father of the following children: Robert,
William Arthur, John Thomas, Charles Edward, Joseph, Elizabeth Alice,
Sarah Ellen, Mildred Emma. Premier Oliver has for years been known as
“Honest John,” and his long record for probity and fair dealing justly
entitles him to this distinction. Although somewhat handicapped in early
life by lack of scholastic training, the Premier was by nature a
student, and he became a wide reader. He is a man of rugged honesty,
industrious and aggressive, and enjoys a measure of public confidence
which is indicated by the title conferred upon him by the people of his
province. The Premier’s candour and courage are recognized as his
greatest assets, while his long association with public affairs and
foremost position in the Liberal party has made his name a household
word in British Columbia. The Premier possesses sufficient property,
acquired by his own industry, to make him independent of political
fortunes. He is undoubtedly one of the most interesting and picturesque
figures in Canadian public life.
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=Ferguson, Hon. George Howard, B.A., LL.B., K.C., M.L.A.= (Toronto,
Ont.), son of Dr. Charles Frederick Ferguson (Scotch), and Elizabeth
Wallace Bell, his wife (Irish). Was born on the 18th day of June, 1870,
at Kemptville, Ont. Educated at Kemptville High School, Toronto
University, and Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto. Called to the bar in
1894. Married April 14th, 1896, to Ella Cumming, of Buckingham, Quebec.
Was a councillor for three years and a reeve for three years of the
village of Kemptville. His father, Charles F. Ferguson, M.D.,
represented the constituency of North Leeds and Grenville in the House
of Commons from 1893 to 1896, when he retired. First elected to the
Ontario Legislature at the general elections as the member for
Grenville, 1905. Re-elected at the general elections 1908, 1911, 1912
and 1914. A member of the Executive Council of the Hearst Administration
as Minister of Lands, and Forests and Mines, December 22nd, 1914.
Re-elected after assuming the office by acclamation, January 7th, 1915.
He is an Anglican and a member of the Masonic Order; the Odd Fellows;
Independent Order of Foresters; Orangemen and Maccabees. The Honorable
Mr. Ferguson is a man of fine address and good oratorical ability. He is
extremely popular with all members of the Legislature.
[Illustration: Hon. Adelard Turgeon, Quebec.
R. W. Breadner, Quebec.]
=Grant, Gordon=, is the son of Peter Grant, a distinguished Civil
Engineer who was employed on the construction of the Caledonia and Great
North of Scotland Railways, who came to Canada in 1868, and who was from
that date to its completion in 1876, employed on the construction of the
Intercolonial Railway and subsequently on the Canadian Pacific Railway
until its completion in 1885, and Helen (Gordon) Grant. Mr. Grant was
born in Dufftown, Banffshire, Scotland, January 2nd, 1865, and came to
Canada in 1872. He was educated in the Ottawa Business College and the
Ottawa University. In 1882 Mr. Grant was invited to join the staff of
his uncle, the late William B. Grant, C.E., who was then Chief Engineer
of the Great Southern Railway in the Argentina Republic, and remained a
member of his staff for six years, during which time he was employed on
the construction of several hundred miles of railway. In 1887 there was
a severe depression in the public works in that republic and railway
construction came to a stop. Returning to Canada Mr. Grant was employed
on the construction of the Sydney extension of the Intercolonial Railway
until 1890. In July of that year he joined the staff of the late P. A.
Peterson, then Chief Engineer of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and
remained with him until July, 1893, when he accepted a position as
Division Engineer of Construction on the Palm Beach extension of the
Florida East Railway, and remained there until its completion in 1895,
when he joined the Construction Department of the Canadian Pacific
Railway, and was employed on the construction of the Crow’s Nest Pass
and other Western branch lines until 1905, when he joined the staff of
Mr. Hugh D. Lumsden, recently appointed Chief Engineer of the National
Transcontinental Railway Commission. He was appointed Assistant District
Engineer in May, 1906, Inspecting Engineer over the whole line in May,
1907, and on the resignation of Mr. Lumsden in July, 1909, was appointed
by the Government to the position of Chief Engineer and remained in that
position until the completion of the Railway, when he was, in January,
1917, appointed consulting Engineer to the Department of Railways and
Canals, and also had charge of the work of completing the Quebec &
Saguenay Railway from Quebec to Murray Bay, a very difficult piece of
railway construction. In December, 1906, Mr. Grant married Katherine
McCarthy, daughter of William McCarthy, Civil Engineer, and has two sons
and two daughters. Mr. Grant is a member of the Canadian Society of
Civil Engineers, a member of the American Railway Engineers’
Association; and a member of the Rideau, Royal Ottawa Golf and Rivermead
Golf Clubs. In religion Mr. Grant is a Catholic. His residence is 58
Sweetland Ave., Ottawa, Ont.
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=Rawlings, Henry Edward=, of 115 Crescent Street, Montreal, is a
prominent Fidelity and Surety Underwriter in Canada and in the U.S.A.,
and is the President and Managing Director of the Guarantee Company of
North America, the “pioneer company” in its particular field on this
continent. He was born in Montreal on September 25, 1875, the son of
Edward and Lucretia (Carter) Rawlings, and was educated at Lennoxville
Academy and in other institutions. His late father, Edward Rawlings, was
the founder of the Guarantee Company of North America in 1872, and the
son was brought up with a most complete knowledge of its business. He
went to the United States in 1897, and entered various branch offices of
the G.C.N.A. and its affiliated institution, the United States Guarantee
Company of New York. About 1905 he was appointed Vice-President of the
American Company and in 1909 returned to Montreal to assume executive
control of the parent institution, the Guarantee Company of North
America. At this time he took the title of Assistant-Manager and on the
demise of his father succeeded him in the positions, President and
Managing Director. He was also appointed to succeed the elder Rawlings
as a Director on the Board of the Montreal Telegraph Company. Mr.
Rawlings’ business duties, which are international in scope have
engrossed much of his time but he has published one important guide to
business corporations entitled “How to Prevent Defalcations.” When the
war broke out he entered the Home Guard as a full private and qualified
himself by military drill. His recreations are described as “motoring,
golf, and a little of everything else.” In religion he is an Anglican
and in politics a Conservative, and is a member of the following Clubs:
Mount Royal, St. James, Montreal, Montreal Hunt, Forest and Stream,
Royal Montreal Golf, Beaconsfield Golf, Indoor Tennis Club, Winter Club,
Automobile Club of Canada, St. Paul’s Lodge, A.F. & A.M. and the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Mr. Rawlings was married in
1907 to a daughter of Hon. James Bunting Snowball, Senator and former
Lieut.-Governor of New Brunswick, and one of the pioneer lumber
merchants of that Province. The union has been blessed with two
children, Margaret Snowball, and Henry Miller Fitzwilliam Rawlings.
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=Hara, Frederick North= (St. Catharines, Ont.), was born in that city on
April 28, 1856. Son of John and Charlotte A. (Phelps) Hara. Educated at
the Public Schools of St. Catharines and began his business career in
1874 as an office boy with S. Atkinson & Sons, Toronto. With said firm
he subsequently became book-keeper and in 1878 returned to St.
Catharines to accept a similar position with H. Patterson & Co. In 1884
he was promoted to the position of office and business manager and in
1893, when the firm name was changed to E. H. Phelps & Co., he purchased
a partnership interest in the business and continued to act as business
manager. In 1901, when the enterprise was re-organized and incorporated
as the Canada Wheel Works, Ltd., he became its President and General
Manager. In 1914 another change was effected when an amalgamation was
arranged with the Windsor Turned Goods Co., Ltd., and the new
corporation became known as the Canada Pole and Shaft Co., Ltd., of
which Mr. Hara was appointed and still is President. His other business
and industrial interests are extensive. He is President of the St.
Catharines Steel and Metal Company, Ltd.; Vice-President of the Marathon
Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.; President of the United Gas Co., Ltd.; a
Director of Industrials, Ltd., St. Catharines; a Director of the Port
Arthur Wagon and Implements Co., Ltd.; and is also interested as a
shareholder in many other companies. During the recent war his business
energy was sought in connection with Red Cross and Patriotic Funds and
he became an ardent worker and supporter of them, and was a member of
the local executive in connection therewith. Though on many occasions
his fellow citizens have desired that he take public office, his only
experience of the kind was thirty years ago when he served two years as
a school trustee at Merritton. His recreations are motoring and golf,
and he is a Past President of the St. Catharines Club; Vice-President
(1918) of the St. Catharines Golf Club and a member of the Laurentian
Club, Ottawa. He is also a member of the A.F. & A.M., and is a Liberal
in politics. On June 5, 1905, he married Emma Catherine, daughter of Mr.
John Baillie.
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=Hough, John Atwell= (Matheson, Ont.), Police Magistrate, was born in
Ireland in 1882, and received his early education in England and
Scotland, but migrated to Canada at an early age. He was appointed
Mining Recorder, Larder Lake Mining Division, with headquarters at
Larder Lake, Ont., in March, 1907; four years later, however, the
boundaries of the Division were enlarged and the head office moved to
Matheson, where he now resides. As Police Magistrate for the Town of
Matheson and part of the District of Temiskaming, Mr. Hough was placed
in charge of all relief work from Ramore to Porquis Junction, after the
great fire which devastated Northern Ontario on July 29, 1916, and many
stricken families have reason to be thankful for the energy and public
spirit with which he discharged this difficult task. John Hough is a
Conservative in politics and a member of the Masonic Order. By his wife,
Myrtle, daughter of M. Donaghue of Windsor, Ont., he has two children.
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=Fifield, Albert Frank= (St. Catharines, Ont.), was born at Lowell,
Mass., on Feb. 8, 1876. Son of Frank and Abie Mary (Cummings) Fifield,
of Ashland, N.H. Educated at the Public Schools of New Hampshire and
commenced his business career operating a machine shop in Ashland, in
1896. This he continued until 1905, when he accepted a position as
Construction Superintendent of the Jenckes Machine Company, Quebec, and
has ever since been a resident of Canada. In 1907 he set up business at
St. Catharines and engaged in buying and selling machinery until 1910.
He established the Reo Sales Company for the sales of Reo motor cars in
Canada, and, during this period, organized and fully carried out a coast
to coast motor trip in a Reo car. This was the first trip of the kind
made in Canada and Mr. Fifield furnished the car and men. In 1914 he
organized and became the first General Manager of the Metal Drawing
Company, Ltd., of St. Catharines. In pursuance of his policy of building
up new industries in the city of his adoption, Mr. Fifield, when the
demand came for shells from the British War Office, sold out his other
interests and engaged in the manufacturing of munitions on a large scale
with great success. In fact, he was one of the most prominent figures in
this industry during the Great War. He also organized the American
Patriotic Fund among former residents of the United States living in St.
Catharines, part of whose revenues were subsequently diverted to the
associated charities of the city, of which he was for a time chairman
and is now a member of the executive. He also served as a member of the
Executive Committee of the Local Branch of the Canadian Patriotic Fund.
He is Independent in politics, a Protestant in religion and a member of
the A.F. & A.M. His recreations are motoring, angling and hunting and he
belongs to the following clubs: St. Catharines, Niagara (Niagara Falls,
N.Y.), Buffalo Motor, St. Catharines Golf, and St. Catharines Canoe. On
May 25, 1904, he married Velma Faunee, daughter of A. N. Linscott,
Damarscotta Mills, Maine, and has two daughters.
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=Wright, Harry George= (Hamilton, Ont.), Manufacturer, is the surviving
partner and President of the E. T. Wright Company, Ltd., Tinware,
founded in 1883, Mr. E. T. Wright having died in 1908, with whose
passing the firm suffered the loss of a man whose practical knowledge
and mechanical ability had done much to lay the foundations of the
present flourishing business. Mr. H. G. Wright is well known throughout
Canada, having represented the firm for many years on the road, where
the many friends made in his younger days still know him best as
“Harry.” Energetic and aggressive, he has always been the life of the
concern since its inception. Coming as he does of good Devonshire
fighting stock, it is not surprising to find that two of Mr. Wright’s
sons are taking an active part in the Great War. Captain George Craig
Wright, Vice-President of the firm, has just returned from the front,
having served from the first and being the first officer to enlist in
the Fourth Battalion of the City of Hamilton in 1914. He was the only
officer of that battalion left at the battles of Langemarcke and Ypres,
who was not either wounded, captured or killed. For efficient conduct he
was promoted to his present rank and, although home on furlough, is
acting as Brigade Major to the Sixth Brigade on the Niagara Peninsula.
Mr. Gordon Wright, the Treasurer, has received his commission as a
Lieutenant in the Thirteenth Royals. The subject of this sketch was born
at Bethany, Pa., December 11, 1855, the son of Thomas W. Wright, and
came to Hamilton five years later, where he received his education in
the Public School and Commercial College. In 1889 he married the
daughter of George Craig, of R. Hay & Company, Toronto, Ont., and has
five children—George Craig, Kate, H. Gordon, Phyllis and Jack Edwin.
Mr. Wright is a Liberal in politics and a Methodist in religion. His
recreations are golf and bowling, and he is a member of the following
clubs: Hamilton, Commercial, Royal Yacht and Victoria Curling, all of
Hamilton, and the Ontario, of Toronto.
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=Robertson, William Robert= (St. Catharines, Ont.), son of James J. and
Elizabeth Robertson. Was born at Hamilton, Ont., on June 28th, 1875,
where he received his education. Married September 17th, 1905, to Maud,
daughter of P. J. O’Neil, of Merritton, Ont., and has one son (William.)
Is the Superintendent of the Niagara, St. Catharines and Toronto
Railway, and a member of the Masonic Order, Engineer’s Club, Toronto,
and St. Catharines Club. Mr. Robertson has always been interested in
amateur sports and was manager of the St. Catharines Hockey Team
1908-13; President of the Niagara District Baseball League, 1910-14. He
has been identified with all patriotic movements and took a leading part
in raising funds for war purposes. He is Secretary-Treasurer of the
Soldiers’ Aid Commission; Secretary of St. Catharines Recruiting League
and was Military Representative on the Conscription Tribunal at St.
Catharines. Mr. Robertson holds the rank of Lieutenant in the Provincial
Corps Guides.
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=Innes, Hugh Patterson, K.C.=, Barrister-at-Law of Simcoe, Ont., is a
prominent figure in the politics of Western Ontario. He is a son of
William P. and Marion (Livingstone) Innes and was born at Dundas, Ont.
on Sept. 14th, 1870. His father is an eminent manufacturer and
capitalist who was one of the pioneers of the canning industry in this
country, and is now a Director of Dominion Canners, Limited. The subject
of this sketch was educated at the public and High schools of Simcoe,
Norfolk county, and studied for the legal profession at Osgoode Hall,
Toronto. He was called to the Bar of Ontario on graduation in 1893, and
has since practised at Simcoe, where he acts as Town solicitor and legal
adviser for the Molsons Bank, Dominion Canners, Ltd., and other
important institutions. He has also been a public and High school
trustee for the town and was made a King’s Counsel in 1908. In the
latter year he was the candidate of the Conservative party at the
general elections for the Ontario Legislature and was elected.
Subsequently he voluntarily resigned his seat to become the candidate of
his party for the House of Commons in the Federal riding of Norfolk and
was nominated in the spring of 1915, the date of the contest at that
time being uncertain. In the autumn of 1917, however, after Union
Government was formed it was necessary for Sir Robert Borden to ask
certain Conservative candidates to make the sacrifice of withdrawing
from the field in order to permit the election of prominent Liberals who
had given their support to Union Government. Mr. Innes was one of these
and his course in stepping aside assured the election of Hon. W. A.
Charlton as a Liberal-Unionist representative of Norfolk. Nevertheless
his election to the Commons at some future day may be regarded as a
certainty. Mr. Innes is a Presbyterian and a member of the following
lodges: Norfolk No. 10; A.F. & A.M. and Past Master Ezra Chapter, No.
23; Royal Arch Masons. On June 29th, 1898, he married Mabel M., daughter
of His Honor Judge Livingstone of Norfolk County and has eight children,
Margaret Livingstone; Hugh Paterson, Jr.; Robert T. L.; Helen M.;
Constance M.; Grace L.; James S.; and Edith V. Innes.
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=Williams-Taylor, Sir Frederick, LL.D.= (Montreal, Que.), General
Manager Bank of Montreal, is one of the outstanding figures in the
financial world of Canada. During his eight years as Manager of the
Bank’s London, England Branch, Sir Frederick was notably successful in
financing many Canadian municipal and corporate undertakings in that
market. Recently his abilities have been devoted to war-time financing
in Canada. On both sides of the Atlantic, therefore, he has had wide
experience in the flotation of high-class Canadian issues. In addition
to being expert in all financial matters, Sir Frederick is possessed of
marked personality and exceptional social charm. Born at Moncton, New
Brunswick, October 23, 1863, the son of Ezekiel Moore Taylor and
Rosalind Beatty. Sir Frederick entered the service of the Bank of
Montreal in 1878; since then he has been successively Assistant
Inspector, Head Office, 1897; Joint Manager, Chicago, 1903; Manager,
London, Eng., 1906, and General Manager, November, 1913. The
distinguished subject of this sketch was awarded a silver medal by the
Royal Society of Arts for his paper, “Canadian Loans in London,” before
the Royal Colonial Institute, 1912; was knighted, 1913, and received the
honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of New Brunswick,
1915. As a young man he won distinction in many forms of athletics,
including rowing, tennis, squash and snow-shoeing. Sir Frederick married
Jane Fayrer, daughter of Joshua Henshaw, Esq., Montreal, 1888, by whom
he has one son, Lieutenant Travers Williams-Taylor, 13th Hussars,
B.E.F., and one daughter, Mrs. Frank Duff Frazier, of 17 West 57th
Street, New York, N.Y., and “Uplands,” Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass. In
addition to being General Manager of the Bank of Montreal, Sir Frederick
is a Director of the Allan Steamship Company, Ltd., and the Liverpool
and London & Globe Insurance Company, Ltd.; Director and member
Executive Committee, Royal Trust Company, and Vice-President of the
Canadian Bankers’ Association. His clubs include Mount Royal, St. James
and University, Montreal, Que.; Rideau, Ottawa, Ont.; York, Toronto,
Ont.; Metropolitan and Down Town, New York, N.Y.; St. James, Bath, City
of London, Ranelagh and Swinley Forest Golf, all of London, Eng. Sir
Frederick resides at 686 Mountain Street, Montreal.
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=Law, Bonnar B.= (Yarmouth, N.S.), late member of Parliament for
Yarmouth County, N.S., was the son of William and Mary A. Law, of
Yarmouth, and was born in Douglas, Mass., U.S.A., July 29, 1855. After
graduating from the Yarmouth Public School, Mr. Law entered on a
commercial career and was one of the successful merchants in his home
town. For thirteen years he was a Director of the Exchange Bank of
Yarmouth, until its absorption by the Bank of Montreal, and for six and
a half years a town Councillor of Yarmouth. Mr. Law was a Director of
the Canadian Wood Working Co., of the Yarmouth Hospital Society and of
the Yarmouth Cemetery Co., as well as a trustee of the Yarmouth Public
Library and of the Yarmouth Y.M.C.A. Mr. Law lost his life in the
burning of the Parliament Buildings at Ottawa, February 3, 1916. He was
first elected to the House of Commons at a by-election, December 3,
1902, to fill the vacancy caused by the appointment of Mr. Thomas B.
Flint as Clerk of the House of Commons. The fact that the late member
for Yarmouth County was elected to the House of Commons at Ottawa for a
fourth term, with the largest majority ever given a candidate from that
Constituency, testified to the esteem in which he was held by those who
knew his worth. Mr. Law married Agnes M., daughter of Capt. Joseph B.
Lovett, and had an only child, Dorothy I. Law. He was a Methodist in
religion and a Liberal in politics.
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Toronto]
=Hunnisett, James Edward= (Toronto, Ont.), Educationist, is the son of
Frank and Maria Hunnisett, and was born at Toronto, July 14, 1879. He
was educated at Givens Street Public School and Harbord Collegiate
Institute, Toronto, also at Hamilton Normal College, graduating in 1899.
He married Clarice Emley, daughter of Thomas Fussell, construction
contractor, in 1910, and has one daughter, Jean Eleanor, born in 1912.
Having obtained a scholarship from the Public School in Toronto that
gave him free tuition at the High School, Mr. Hunnisett had no
difficulty in realizing his natural bent for educational work, and was
appointed Assistant Master at Palmerston Ave. Public School, Toronto, in
1900. Since then he has been successively, Principal of Cottingham St.
School, Toronto, 1907-09; Clinton St. School, Toronto, 1909-14, and
Givens St. School, Toronto, 1914 to date. As member of a former
championship team in Interfaculty Association Football at Toronto
University, Mr. Hunnisett has always shown a consistent interest in
promoting athletic games at the Public Schools of his city, and was
President of the Toronto Public Schools Athletic Association in 1906.
Mr. Hunnisett is a Conservative in politics and a Methodist in religion.
His only fraternal connection is a life membership of St. Andrew’s
Masonic Lodge, G.R.C. 16. Mr. Hunnisett has always worked along the line
to make the Toronto Public School System second to none on the
continent.
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=Norcross, Joseph W.= (Montreal, Que.), is one of the chief factors in
the Canadian shipping industry, and though still in his forties has
built up a very important position for himself in the Canadian business
world. He was born at Port Colborne, Ont., on May 14th, 1871, the son of
Samuel R. and Susan (Deeks) Norcross. His father was engaged in Lake
transportation and the subject of this sketch after an education at Port
Colborne public school and Welland High School, himself entered the same
calling. As a mere boy from 1890 to 1892 he ran his own boat, S.S.
Varuna on the Bay of Quinte. As he grew older he gradually increased his
interests in connection with transportation on the Great Lakes; on
extensive amalgamations being effected in 1913, became Vice-President
and Managing Director of the Canada Steamships, Ltd., the most important
shipping corporation on Canadian Inland waters, which has much to do
with the handling of this country’s grain crop, and is also a dominant
factor in passenger traffic. In addition to the offices named he is
President of the Canadian Chadwick Metals Co., Ltd.; Vice President of
the Canada West Coast Navigation Co., Ltd. of British Columbia;
Vice-President of the Collingwood Shipbuilding Co., Ltd.; Director of
the Canadian Vickers, Ltd.; Director of the Sterling Bank of Canada; and
Director of the Cluff Ammunition Co., Ltd. During the late war the
Government availed itself of his expert talents by appointing him a
Director of ship construction in connection with the Naval Service
Department. In that capacity he rendered very valuable service to the
Canadian community and refused to accept remuneration therefor. He is
recognized by transportation men everywhere as one of the leading
shipping experts of this continent. He is widely known in all the cities
of the Great Lakes and a member of many clubs including the Albany and
National (Toronto); Travellers’ (London); Montreal and St. James
(Montreal); Mississauga Golf (Toronto); Cleveland Athletic Club;
Kaministiquia (Fort William); and Shunia (Port Arthur). He is also a
member of Montreal Board of Trade, the Toronto Board of Trade and the
Winnipeg Grain Exchange. He is a Protestant in religion and was married
on Jan. 2nd, 1895, to Jessie, daughter of John McCullough, Port
Colborne, Ont., by whom he has two daughters, Jessie Eileen and Helen J.
Norcross.
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=McCarthy, Jesse Overn= (Toronto, Ont.), Vice-President and General
Manager of the Security Life Insurance Co. of Canada, has been somewhat
prominently connected for twenty-five years with the life insurance
business of the Dominion and in the field of Social Welfare and Moral
Reform. Nearly thirty years ago he began giving addresses on Child
Welfare Problems and on different phases of Social Welfare work and
legislation, when to speak on these matters was like “a voice crying in
the wilderness,” and has seen the objects which he so strongly advocated
accomplished to a remarkable extent in legislative and practical effort
by the city and province alike. During that time he has given over two
thousand addresses before churches, Canadian Clubs and municipal
organizations. His entry into the municipal life of Toronto, first as
alderman and then as Controller, was due to the adverse conditions
prevailing at that time in the Isolation Hospital and his desire to see
a thoroughly up-to-date and efficient Health Department established.
Outside authorities and those familiar with the situation have stated
that he was able to strongly interest and influence the Council in all
health and social problems, so that splendid progress was made during
the time that he was connected with that body. A Methodist in religion
and a Liberal in politics, Mr. McCarthy served as Alderman of the City
of Toronto, 1910-1911, and as Controller, 1912-1914. He is a member of
the Board of Trade, the Sons of Temperance, the Royal Templars of
Temperance, the Canadian Order of Foresters, and the Protestant
Benevolent Society, as also of Parkdale Canoe and Lawn Bowling Clubs.
Mr. McCarthy is the son of Charles Calahan and Margaret Frances
McCarthy. He was born in Walpole Township, Haldimand County, Ont.,
November 10, 1867, and was educated in the Public Schools. He married
Mary, daughter of James Grant Davis, Jarvis, Ont., August 10, 1892, by
whom he has two daughters, Lilian Pearl and Mary Vourneen, and one son,
Jesse Davis.
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=Massey, Charles Vincent= (Toronto, Ont.), Lecturer in Modern History,
University of Toronto, and Dean of Residence, Victoria College, Toronto.
The son of Chester D. Massey, Honorary President of the Massey-Harris
Company, Ltd, and Anna (Vincent) Massey. Born in Toronto, on February
20, 1887. Educated at the University of Toronto (B.A. 1910) and Balliol
College, Oxford (2nd Cl. Mod. Hist. B.A. 1913, M.A. 1918). Married 1915,
Alice S., daughter of George R. Parkin, C.M.G., D.C.L., Secretary of the
Rhodes Scholarship Trust, Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England, by
whom he has two sons, Lionel, born July 2nd, 1916, and Hart, born March
30th, 1918. Mr. Massey is a Director of the Massey-Harris Co., and of
the Toronto Housing Co., a member of the Board of Governors, Toronto
General Hospital, and of the Art Museum, of Toronto, Vice-Chairman of
the Massey Foundation, a Governor of the Wesleyan College, Montreal, and
a Director of Ridley College, St. Catharines. He held a commission in
the University of Toronto contingent, C.O.T.C., 1914-1915, was appointed
to Headquarters Staff, Military District No. 2, November, 1915, to take
charge of musketry training, and was promoted temporary Lieut.-Col.
October, 1916. (Mentioned for services). He was appointed Secretary of
the War Committee of the Federal Cabinet, January, 1918, and Secretary
of the Dominion Government Repatriation Committee in December, 1918,
becoming in March, 1919, the Director of the Committee. He is a member
of the York, University, Toronto Golf and Arts and Letters Clubs, all of
Toronto, and of the Savile Club, London, England. A Liberal in politics,
and a Methodist in religion. Residence, Dean’s House, Victoria College,
Toronto.
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=Rowell, Hon. Newton Wesley, K.C., M.P.= (Ottawa, Ont.), is the son of
late Joseph and Nancy (Green) Rowell. Was born in London Township,
County of Middlesex, Ontario, on November 1, 1867, and was educated at
the local Public Schools and the Ontario Law School, Osgoode Hall. He
also holds the honorary degree of LL.D. from The North-Western
University, Chicago (1915). Called to the Bar in 1891 with honors and
medal, and created K.C. in 1902; has successfully practised his
profession in Toronto as head of the law firm of Rowell, Reid, Wood &
Wright, and has for many years been considered one of the leaders of the
Bar. He has been a Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada since
1911, is a Senator of Toronto University, and a Regent of Victoria
University and very prominently identified with the Methodist Church,
and with the Laymen’s Missionary Movement, and also with the Christian
Endeavor movement; formerly Vice-President of the Ontario Dominion
Alliance. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the House of Commons for
East York in 1900, and was first elected to the Ontario Legislature for
the riding of North Oxford in 1911 and re-elected in 1914. Was Leader of
the Liberal Opposition of the Ontario Legislature from 1911 to October,
1917, when he entered the Union Government at Ottawa, as President of
the Privy Council. Honorable Mr. Rowell has a magnetic personality and
is an exceptionally able platform speaker, and has a splendid grasp of
all national matters. He has lectured on “Canada’s Future” and other
national topics, and stands for the highest traditions of public life.
He is a man of untiring energy and a gift of rare eloquence and a genius
for public affairs. He has visited the Canadian soldiers in the trenches
and has brought back messages from the boys at the front which he has
delivered with much fervor. Honorable Mr. Rowell married, in June, 1901,
Nellie, youngest daughter of Rev. Alex. Langford, D.D., of Toronto, and
is the father of three children, William Langford, Mary Coyne and
Frederick Nealon Alexander. He is a member of the following clubs:
Rideau, York, National, Ontario, Rosedale Golf Club, Alpine Club of
Canada. He finds recreation in horseback riding and golf.
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=Sauvé, Arthur, M.L.A.= (Saint Benoit, Deux Montagnes), is leader of the
Liberal-Conservative opposition to the government of Sir Lomer Gouin. As
such he advocates, particularly, the fostering of agriculture and its
allied industries, as also of those questions of social and political
economy which most affect his province at the present time. Born at St.
Hermas, Que., October 1, 1875, the son of Jos. Sauvé, the member for Two
Mountains was educated at St. Therese College and married the daughter
of L. de J. Lachaine, Notary Public. His children are Mercedes, Paul,
Gustave and Pauline Sauvé. He is a Journalist by profession, a member of
the Club Canadien, and the Club Morin, and a Roman Catholic in religion.
Mr. Sauvé was elected a Member of the Legislative Assembly of the
Province of Quebec for the Constituency of Two Mountains, in 1908, by a
majority of 174, and in 1912 by a majority of 276. In the elections of
1916 he was returned by acclamation and chosen as Leader of the
Liberal-Conservative party in the Province.
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=Machin, Lieut.-Col. Harold Arthur Clement, M.P.P.=, who represents the
riding of Kenora in the Ontario Legislature, is one of the ablest and
most aggressive members of that body, and has also had a distinguished
military career in connection with the late war. Although born at
Rochester, N.Y., on May 9, 1875, he is of English descent, the son of
Rev. Canon C. J. Machin and Emma M. L. Machin, both of whom were born in
the Motherland. Col. Machin as a child lived in St. John’s,
Newfoundland, and later in Port Arthur, Ontario, in both of which cities
his father served as an Anglican rector. In 1885 he was sent to England
to be educated at The School House, Beaconsfield, Bucks county. He
returned to Canada in 1893, and to Rat Portage, now Kenora; that town,
despite many prolonged absences, has ever since been his home. He
qualified for the law at Osgoode Hall, Toronto, and, after being called
to the bar, practised in Kenora, and soon became widely known through
that region of far western Ontario. Identifying himself with the
Conservative party, he was first elected to the Legislature in 1908, and
subsequently returned at the general elections of 1911 and 1914. From
early manhood he showed military enthusiasm, and went to South Africa in
1899 as a private in the 1st Canadian contingent under Col. (now Sir
William) Otter. He served as private and n.c.o. until 1901, when he was
given a commission in the South African Constabulary. In 1904 he retired
with the rank of Captain, and returned to Canada, after which he spent
the open seasons of the three successive years in prospecting for
minerals in the Chibogomo and Mistissini districts of Northern Quebec.
When the great war broke out, the old spirit of patriotism and adventure
came over him again, and in 1915 he raised and became the O.C. of the
94th Battalion, with headquarters at Port Arthur. He went overseas with
his Battalion in 1916, and shortly after his arrival in England was
directed to raise and command the Canadian Labor Battalion for service
in France. He went to the fighting area with this battalion, and served
six months at the advanced base and with the 4th British Army between
Peronne and St. Quentin. In 1917, he returned to Canada on leave, and
was retained for duty as a member of the Military Service Council,
established in connection with the Military Service Act. On the
completion of the work of the Military Service Council in 1918, Col.
Machin became Director of the Military Service Branch of the Department
of Justice, under arrangement with the Department of Militia and
Defence. Both as a legislator and a judicial officer, Col. Machin has
shown a fearlessness and ability in the expression of opinion that have
commended him to persons of independent mind, even when in disagreement
with him. He was one of the few men in the Ontario Legislature with the
moral courage to assail the defects of the Ontario Temperance Act,
though it was fathered by the government of which he is the elected
supporter. His strong utterances against a bigoted attitude toward the
French Canadians of Quebec and Roman Catholics in general, coming from a
Protestant of English descent and education, have also been widely
commended. On December 24, 1918, he was the recipient of an address and
silver rose bowl from the officials who served with him and under him as
Director of Military Service in the Department of Justice at Ottawa.
Their sentiments were voiced by Crown Attorney J. A. Ritchie, who
referred to him as their “guide, counsellor and friend.” He is a capital
speaker, and in the Ontario Legislature his speeches are always hailed
with interest. He is an adherent of the Church of England, and a member
of the Toronto Club, Albany Club, Toronto Military Institute, and the
Canadian Mining Institute. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical
Society of England. On December 8, 1902, he married Miss Ida F. Knight,
of Horner Grange, West Hill, Sydenham, England, and has two daughters,
Ida A. K., born Bloemfontein, South Africa, December 7, 1903, and
Barbara K., born Kenora, Ont., January 7, 1914. Though of late years his
duties have carried Col. Machin far afield, his permanent residence is
at Kenora, Ont.
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=Senecal, Francis Albert= (Plantagenet, Prescott County, Ont.), County
Clerk, is the son of Gedeon Senecal and Rose de Lima Blondin. He was
born at Lefaivre, Ont., January 23, 1882, and received his education at
Plantagenet School and Bourget College, Rigaud, and McDonald
Agricultural College, Ste. Anne de Bellevue. Mr. Senecal has acted as
Reeve of Plantagenet Township and was elected Warden of the County in
1914, County Clerk in 1915, and County Road Superintendent in 1916. He
is the Secretary of the Liberal Association in his riding and is the
owner of “Mountain Side View Farm,” where he specialized in Ayrshire
cattle. In 1906 he married Marie Louise, daughter of J. Bte. Lafrosse,
of Alfred, Ont., and has five children—Alexandrine, Marie Jeanne,
Madeline, Blaise and Jean Paul. He is a Roman Catholic and a member of
the I.O.F., C.O.F., St. Joseph and Artisans Canadien Français Societies.
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=Taylor, Albert William, J.P.= (St. Catharines, Ont.), was born in
Toronto on October 10, 1873, and is the son of the late W. D. and
Charlotte (Lee) Taylor. His ancestry is Scotch. Educated at the Toronto
Model School, Jarvis St. Collegiate Institute, Toronto, and Ridley
College, St. Catharines. He commenced his business career as office boy
with the wholesale grocery firm of Sloan & Crowther, Toronto, in 1890,
and was with them for five years, becoming a clerk and then a commercial
traveller. In 1895 he became an Accountant with the firm of J. Marshing
& Co., New York, and in 1900 became European representative of the Crown
Silver Plate Co., London, England. In 1901 he returned to Canada and
became a member of the firm of Mara & Taylor, stock brokers, Toronto. In
1910 he went to St. Catharines to take his present position as Auditor
of the Welland Vale Manufacturing Co., Ltd., manufacturers of hand
agricultural tools, special forgings and edge tools. He is also Director
and Treasurer of the Metal Drawing Co., Ltd., and Director and Secretary
of the St. Catharines Realty and Building Co., Ltd. He is a Justice of
the Peace for the County of Lincoln, a Director of Ridley College and a
Trustee of the St. Catharines Tuberculosis Hospital. His recreations are
golf, angling and shooting and he is a member of the St. Catharines
Club; the St. Catharines Golf Club, Niagara Club (N.Y.), Albany and
Royal Canadian Yacht Clubs, Toronto; the Tourilli Fish and Game Club,
Quebec, and the Big Creek Shooting Club, Toronto. He is a member of the
A.F. & A.M., a Conservative and an Anglican. On January 5, 1904, he
married Jessie, daughter of Mr. J. L. Fenton, Decatur, Ill.
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=Dalton, Hon. Charles, M.P.P.=, Minister without portfolio in the
government of Prince Edward Island, resides at Tignish in that province.
He was born at Tignish, P.E.I., on June 9, 1850, the son of Patrick and
Margaret (McCarthy) Dalton, and was educated in the public schools. His
father was a farmer, and the son has been especially identified with the
raising of black foxes for the fur trade. He engaged in this business
upwards of twenty years ago in a legitimate way, before it became a
field for reckless speculators, and has bred some of the most valuable
foxes in the world. He is President of the Charles Dalton Silver Black
Fox Company, Ltd., one of the pioneer companies in this industry. He
first entered politics 1900, when he was an unsuccessful candidate for
the Prince Edward Island Legislature. Subsequently, in 1912, he was
elected for Prince constituency, and became a member without portfolio
in the Mathieson ministry, since which he has spent a considerable part
of his time at the capital, Charlottetown. Hon. Mr. Dalton is one of the
leading capitalists and philanthropists of his province. He gave a
donation of $60,000 for the erection of a tuberculosis sanitarium at
North Wiltshire, P.E.I., and also a benefaction of $55,000 to St.
Dunstan’s University, P.E.I. Another of his public gifts was that of the
Donald Ambulance, which he equipped for the Canadian Red Cross for use
at the front during the late war. He is a Roman Catholic in religion,
and has been honored with a papal knighthood by His Holiness, Pope
Benedict XV. In politics he is a Conservative, and is a member of the
Knights of Columbus and of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. On June 30,
1874, he married Annie, daughter of Michael and Mary (O’Neil) Gavin, of
Tignish, and has seven children, C. Howard, Joseph Gerald, Winnifred,
Nora, Zita, Edith, and Irene.
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=Perley, Sir George Halsey= (Ottawa, Ont.), Acting High Commissioner for
Canada in England, and Overseas Minister of Militia and Defense in the
Cabinet of Sir R. L. Borden, Premier of Canada, is the son of the late
W. G. Perley, who represented Ottawa in the House of Commons from 1887
to 1890, and was senior member of the well-known lumber firm of Perley &
Pattee. Sir George Perley was born at Lebanon, N.H., in 1857, but coming
to Ottawa in early youth, received his primary education at the old
Grammar School of that city, and later attended Harvard University, from
which he graduated in 1878 with the degree of B.A. In 1900 the present
Cabinet Minister contested the County of Russell unsuccessfully, and was
also unsuccessful in a by-election for the County of Argenteuil, held in
1902. Perseverence, however, and the ability which marked these
campaigns led to his return for the latter County at the General
Elections of 1904, since when he has been twice re-elected in 1908 and
1911. On the re-organization of the Conservative Party Executive, during
its last session in Opposition, Sir George Perley was chosen as Chief
Whip, in which capacity he showed such tact and ability as Mr. Borden’s
Chief Lieutenant, and also in directing the organization for the Ottawa
Valley District during the Reciprocity Campaign, that the latter, on his
accession to power, appointed him a Minister Without Portfolio. After
the death at an advanced age of Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal in 1913,
Mr. Perley was sent to England to replace him, with the title of Acting
High Commissioner for the Dominion of Canada, a position which he has
since filled with such distinction as to earn for him the honor of
Knighthood. In the re-organization of the Department of Militia and
Defense, following the resignation of Sir Sam Hughes, Sir George became
the first Overseas Minister of that Department. He has been for years a
Director and Vice-President of a number of large lumber companies, and
is a Director of the Bank of Ottawa. Nowhere, however, has his executive
ability been more strikingly displayed than in his discharge of the
duties of Chairman of the Relief Committee in connection with the
disastrous fire of 1900 that devastated the cities of Ottawa and Hull.
Sir George Perley married Annie Hespeler Bowlby, daughter of the late W.
H. Bowlby, K.C., Kitchener, Ont., in 1884 (deceased, August, 1910);
secondly, Emily Colby White, daughter of the late Hon. Thomas White,
June 11, 1913.
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=Mather, James=, is one of Ottawa’s oldest, best known, and most
accomplished architects, whose handiwork and skill is seen in almost
every section of Ottawa—in the fine residential, office, department,
business, and public buildings. Mr. Mather is a Director of Beechwood
Cemetery; Director, Pritchard & Andrews Co., Ltd., Ottawa. He was born
at Montrose, Scotland, December 9, 1843, and is the son of James and
Jane (Low) Mather. He received his education in the Bowman Academy,
Scotland. In 1872, Mr. Mather came to Canada, since which time he has
practised his profession in Ottawa. He married Margaret Piper, and has
one daughter. He is a member of the A.F. & A.M.; is independent in
politics; has his office at 110 Wellington Street; and resides at 328
Chapel Street, Ottawa, Ontario.
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=Barrow, Hon. Edward Dodsley, M.P.P.=, Minister of Agriculture for the
Province of British Columbia, is one of those Canadians of English birth
who have risen to high position in their adopted country. He was born at
Ringwood, Hants, England, in 1867, the son of Stephen and Sarah (Barnes)
Barrow. His father was a farmer, and the subject of this sketch was
educated at the public schools of his native place. Coming to this
country, he settled at Chilliwack, B.C., and successfully engaged in
farming. He became widely known in his district, and at the general
elections for the legislature in 1916 he was induced to contest
Chilliwack as a Liberal candidate, and was elected. In 1918, Hon. John
Oliver, the present Prime Minister of British Columbia, on accepting
that office, relinquished the ministry of Agriculture, and asked Mr.
Barrow to enter his cabinet as administrator of that portfolio. Mr.
Barrow accepted, and his conduct of the office has brought much
satisfaction to the agricultural interests throughout the province. He
is a protestant in religion, a Liberal in politics, and a member of
Ionic Lodge, No. 19, A.F. & A.M. His favorite recreations are hunting
and fishing. In 1891, he married Millicent E., daughter of Thomas R.
Knight, contracting builder, of Wickham, Hants, England, and has two
daughters, Dorothy M. and Hilda G. Barrow. Though compelled by his
duties to spend much of his time at Victoria, B.C., Mr. Barrow’s home is
still at Chilliwack.
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=Corrigan, Ambrose Eugene=, is the Managing Director of the Capital Life
Assurance Company, which he organized in 1912, and which, under his able
management, has made rapid advancement in the life assurance business in
Canada, and is now recognized as one of the best and most economically
conducted companies in the Dominion. In 1913, Mr. Corrigan organized the
Capital Trust Corporation, and, in 1914, he organized the Anglo-Colonial
Bureau, London, England. All of these enterprises were organized on a
remarkably firm basis and with much skill, and their success from the
start has more than met with the most sanguine expectation. All of them
are to-day in a flourishing condition, and are growing in both strength
and prestige as they grow older. In that part of western Ontario, now
known as Mount Forest, in the vicinity of Nottawasaga Bay and Lake
Huron, when prairie and forest lands and the adjacent water stretches
were the only attractions, there being no signs of habitation, and no
evidence that, in the near future, even a small settlement would be
established, in 1830, Mr. James Corrigan, the grandfather of the subject
of this sketch, arriving from Ireland, settled, and became the first
settler in that vicinity. With indomitable pluck and spirit
characteristic of his ancestors, he set to work to cultivate the soil,
to build up a home. The next settlers to arrive were the Martins, the
ancestors of Premier Martin of Saskatchewan, and then came others and
others, and more and more land was tilled and houses built until Mount
Forest became a flourishing agricultural and business centre. But it was
James Corrigan who set the ball rolling, and sounded the clarion call to
the others to follow. It was in Mount Forest, May 28, 1881, that Mr.
Ambrose Eugene Corrigan was born, and at the public and high schools
there received his first tuition, which was enlarged at the O.A.C.,
Guelph, Toronto University, and the Ontario Normal School, Hamilton,
Ont. Starting out at the early age of 23 years, Mr. Corrigan, in 1904,
became the teacher of mathematics in the Elora High School. In 1905, he
became attached as a teacher to the Renfrew Collegiate Institute, and,
in 1906, we find him in full harness on the teaching staff of the Ottawa
Collegiate Institute. From 1907 to 1911, Mr. Corrigan was manager of the
Eastern Ontario Branch of the Confederation Life Assurance Company. Mr.
Ambrose Eugene Corrigan is the son of Michael and Ellen (Murphy)
Corrigan. In 1909, he married Rosemary Lunny, daughter of James Lunny,
of Smith’s Falls, Ontario. Five children—three boys and two girls—have
blessed the union. Mr. Corrigan is a Director of the Newman Club,
Toronto, of the Anglo-Colonial Bureau, London, England, and
Vice-President of the Capital Trust Corporation. He is a member of the
Laurentian and the Rivermead Golf Clubs, and of the Knights of Columbus.
Golf is Mr. Corrigan’s favorite recreation. In religion he is a Roman
Catholic. His business office is at 14 Metcalfe Street, and his
residence 301 Laurier Avenue East, Ottawa, Ontario.
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=Daniels, Hon. Orlando T.= (Halifax, N.S.), son of Wellington Daniels
and Lavinia Daniels. Born March 20, 1860, at Laurencetown, Annapolis
County, N.S. Educated at Laurencetown Public Schools, University of
Acadia College, Wolfville, King’s County, N.S. Married on November 29,
1893, to Mary L. Muir, and is the father of one daughter, Ethel M.
Daniels. Barrister-at-law. First elected to Legislative Assembly at a
by-election on March 6, 1906, for Annapolis County. Re-elected at the
general elections, June 20, 1906, and at the general elections in 1911.
Appointed a member of the Executive Council of Nova Scotia without
portfolio, March 16, 1907. Appointed Attorney-General to succeed Hon.
Alex. Maclean; resigned to accept nomination for the House of Commons,
October 10, 1911. He was re-elected in 1917. He is a member of the
Church of England, and a Liberal.
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=Faulkner, Hon. George Everett= (Halifax, N.S.), son of Thomas and
Arabella Faulkner (North of Ireland ancestry). Born January 31, 1855, at
Glenholme, Colchester, N.S. Educated at Glenholme and Pictou Academy.
Married on October 23, 1883, to Laura Guille Denison, daughter of
William Denison, M.D., and is the father of two daughters. He is senior
member of Faulkner & Company, insurance and financial agents, Halifax;
President of The Maritime Trust Corporation; President of The Nova
Scotia Furnishing Co., Ltd.; Director Eastern Canada Savings and Loan
Co.; Director Maritime Telegraph & Telephone Co., Ltd., and other
corporations. Member Nova Scotia Legislature for Halifax, June, 1906;
re-elected, 1911; elected Speaker of Legislative Assembly, February,
1910; re-elected, 1916; appointed to Executive Council for Nova Scotia
without portfolio, June 28, 1911. President Halifax Board of Trade,
1908; appointed to the Board of School Commissioners for the City of
Halifax by the Government of Nova Scotia, 1895. Chairman, Board of
School Commissioners, 1898. Alderman, Halifax, 1896-1901, serving as
Chairman, Financial Committee, and on other important committees. A
Governor, Halifax Ladies’ College; a Governor, School for the Deaf. He
is a Presbyterian in religion, and a Liberal. He belongs to the
following clubs: Canadian (President, 1911), City.
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=Sloan, Hon. William, M.P.P.=, Minister of Mines for the Province of
British Columbia, is also one of the best known capitalists and public
men of the Pacific Coast. He was born in Wingham, Huron County, Ontario,
on September 10, 1867, the son of Dr. R. J. and Elizabeth (McMichael)
Sloan, and was educated in the public schools and at the Collegiate
Institute, Seaforth, Ont. While he was still a boy, his father removed
to Shanghai, China, where the elder Sloan still resides. After two years
in the Orient, the subject of this sketch returned to Canada, locating
in Victoria, British Columbia, in 1887, and later residing at Vancouver
and at Nanaimo, B.C. The mining possibilities of the region soon claimed
his attention, and he was one of the discoverers of the Eldorado Creek
placer gold deposits in the Yukon territory in the later nineties. His
enterprise in that country laid the foundations of a substantial
fortune, and on his return to Victoria, he became Liberal candidate for
the House of Commons for Vancouver Island at the general elections of
1900. He was re-elected both in 1904 and 1908, and became one of the
most popular figures in Ottawa during that period. Shortly after his
election in 1908, he resigned his seat in order that the late Hon.
William Templeman, who had been Appointed Minister of Inland Revenue,
might be elected as his successor. For eight years Hon. Mr. Sloan
remained in retirement, so far as politics were concerned; but in the
political upheaval of 1916 he consented to join forces with those who
were anxious to reform the administration of his province, and was
elected to the British Columbia Legislature for Nanaimo at the general
elections of September 14, 1916. On the formation of a new government,
he was offered, and accepted, the portfolio of Minister of Mines, and
was sworn in on November 29, 1916. His administration has been noted for
progressive business management, and the expert knowledge he is able to
bring to his task. He is married, and has one son, Gordon Sloan. He is a
member of the Vancouver, Union (Victoria), and Rideau (Ottawa) Clubs,
and his favorite recreations are hunting and fishing. In politics he is
a Liberal, and in religion a Presbyterian.
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=Lennox, Lieut.-Col. Thomas Herbert, K.C., M.L.A.= (Aurora, Ont.), son
of Thos. and Margaret Lennox, both Irish. Born on April 7th, 1869, at
the Township of Innisfil, County of Simcoe. Educated at the Barrie
Public Schools and Collegiate Institute and Osgoode Hall, Toronto. Was a
member of the Town Council of Aurora for three years and of the Aurora
School Board for six years. Was first elected to the Ontario Legislature
as the member for North York at the general elections in 1905. For years
North York was the stronghold of the Liberal Party and its final
redemption by Lieut.-Col. Lennox gave him an unique place in public
favor and a strong position in Provincial Politics. He was re-elected at
the general election in 1908, 1911 and 1914, and is to-day the most
popular man in the riding. A few years ago the member for North York
originated the “Lennox Picnic” which has been declared to be the biggest
affair of its kind in the world. Up at Jackson’s Point on the beautiful
shores of Lake Simcoe, his constituents and friends hold their annual
gathering of thirty thousand people. Each year the attendance grows
bigger and the people throng to it from all parts and it is now
recognized as being the most popular out-of-door festival of the year.
Lieut.-Col. Lennox has always taken a keen interest in sports of all
kinds, particularly lacrosse, and played the game himself. He was
elected President of the Canadian Lacrosse Association, following which
he was elected President of The Presidents’ Association. As a sound
lawyer and an able counsel, Lieut.-Col. Lennox enjoys a large and
lucrative practice, being solicitor for the County of York, and several
corporations. He is a Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada and a
King’s Counsellor. On the outbreak of the war, having had previous
Military experience as Lieutenant of the Twelfth York Rangers and later
a Squadron Commander of the Governor-General’s Body Guard, and
subsequently as Major of an Irish regiment known as the 110th,
authorized by the Minister of Militia, he undertook the raising of an
Irish Canadian Battalion. The onerous work of recruiting began on the
17th day of March, 1915, and no finer body of men ever rallied to the
colors in so short a time. Men flocked to the standard of the popular
member for North York, and the battalion, which was known as the 208th
or “The Irish Fusiliers,” was accompanied overseas by Lieut.-Col.
Lennox, where they gave a splendid account of themselves. This battalion
had one of the finest brass and bugle bands in the Canadian forces and
also the fully equipped Brian Boru Irish War Pipe Band, the first of its
kind in Canada, made possible by the splendid generosity of Mrs. Ambrose
J. Small, of Toronto. Lieut.-Col. Lennox was married on June 5th, 1894,
to Louise, daughter of Edward Meeking, of Barrie, and has one son,
Herbert Sidney Lennox. He is a member of the following Clubs and
Societies: Albany, Military Institute; Masonic Order; Sons of England;
Orange Order; Foresters; Odd Fellows and The Workmen. In religion he is
an Anglican. Honorable Mr. Justice Lennox, of the Supreme Court of
Ontario, is a cousin of the member for North York. Lieut.-Col. Lennox
enjoys a very wide popularity among his fellow legislators, and his
constituents in North York. He makes friends everywhere and retains them
by his personal magnetism. He is recognized as one of the best types of
Canadian manhood, and has spared neither time nor energy to always
inculcate a strong National sentiment.
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=Veniot, Hon. Peter John= (Bathurst, N.B.), born October 4, 1863, at
Richibucto, N.B. Son of Captain Stephen Veniot and Mary Morell, his
wife, both French. Educated at Pictou Academy, Pictou, N.S., from which
he graduated in 1882. Married on February 8, 1885, to Cathelene
Melanson, daughter of Raphael Melanson, of parish of Shediac, N.B., and
is the father of six children: Dr. C. L. Veniot, married to Mary Leger;
A. S. Veniot, C.F., married to Jane Gautrear; Dr. J. L. Veniot, dentist;
Lieut. W. L. Veniot, who went overseas with the 132nd Battalion, married
to Mina Cote; Lieut. P. J. Veniot, Jr., formerly of the famous 26th
Battalion; and Francis P. Veniot, attending college. Member of the New
Brunswick Legislature from 1894-1900. Collector of Customs from
1900-1911. Elected a member for the constituency of Gloucester at the
general elections in 1917, and taken into the Foster cabinet, on its
formation, as Minister of Public Works for the province, and re-elected
at by-election on April 23, 1917. He is a Roman Catholic in religion,
and a Liberal. He is a member of the Catholic Mutual Benefit
Association, Knights of Columbus, Assumption, and Artisans. His
principal recreations are curling and boating.
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=Winkler, Hon. Valentine, M.P.P.=, Minister of Agriculture for Manitoba,
is a public man who has been largely identified with the progress and
growth of that province. He was born at Neustadt, Grey County, Ont., on
March 18, 1864, the son of David and Barbara J. (Lang) Winkler. He was
educated at the public schools of his native village, and as a very
young man went to Manitoba in the days of its early development,
settling at Morden, where he became a farmer, and also engaged
extensively in the lumber business. His friends and neighbours induced
him to enter politics at an early age, and he entered the municipal
office, serving as reeve of Stanley. In 1892, the late Hon. Thomas
Greenway, for some years Premier of Manitoba, induced him to run for the
riding of Rhineland, now called Morden and Rhineland, as a Liberal, and
he was elected. He was re-elected at the general elections of 1896 and
also at those of 1899, though the latter contest resulted in the defeat
of his party in many constituencies. In 1900, he was induced by Sir
Clifford Sifton, then the Western leader in the Laurier administration,
to resign his seat in the Legislature, and contest the riding of Lisgar
for the House of Commons at the Federal elections of that year. In this
contest he was unsuccessful, but was immediately re-nominated for the
Legislature in his old constituency of Rhineland, and was returned at a
by-election on November 19, 1900, and has ever since continued to hold
that seat, despite the fact that from 1899 until 1915 his party
continued in opposition. The general elections of the latter year
brought the Liberals back to power, and one of the first acts of the new
Premier, Hon. Mr. Norris, was to send for Mr. Winkler and offer him the
portfolio of Agriculture in his government. Mr. Winkler accepted, and as
an administrator has shown himself thoroughly in touch with all
progressive movements for the benefit of the farming industry. He is
widely popular with both parties in the Legislature, of which he is the
oldest member in point of service. On March 31, 1886, he married
Josephine, daughter of M. B. Rombough, Dominion Land Surveyor, and has
four children, Howard W., Hazel F., Ruth W., and Josephine R. Winkler.
His address is the Parliament Buildings, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
[Illustration: MARSHAL VAUGHAN
Welland, Ontario]