=Champagne, Napoleon.= Controller Napole_A Cyclopædia of Canadian Biography Brief biographies of persons distinguished in the professional, military and political life, and the commerce and industry of Canada, in the twentieth century

years ago, became well known to the citizens of Ottawa. Well educated,

talented, aggressive, ambitious and persistent, he has year after year

kept himself in the public eye, and has been, and deservedly so,

accorded public recognition. On several occasions he was selected by the

Conservatives of Ottawa as their candidate for political honors in the

Federal Parliament, and on each occasion he made a gallant fight to

achieve success. When, in the early part of 1918, the famous Blue Devils

of France, those brave fellows who made themselves famous in many

battles during the terrible world war by their dare-devil conduct,

reached Ottawa, Controller Champagne was selected to receive and welcome

them. His address of welcome was one of the finest gems of oratory heard

during the war. Mr. Champagne is the son of Seraphin Champagne, grocer,

and Melina Duchene. His brother, Albert Champagne, is the member for

North Battleford, Saskatchewan, in the House of Commons. He was born in

Ottawa, May 4, 1861, and was educated in the Christian Brothers School.

He has been a frequent contributor to both English and French newspapers

and French magazines. In civic life, Controller Champagne has had a

phenomenal career. He has served in the City Council as alderman for the

years 1892-3-4-5-6-9, 1900-1-2-3-4-5-6-7, fourteen years, and as

Controller for the years 1908-9-10-11-14-15-16-17-18-19, ten years.

During the latter part of 1908, Controller Champagne, owing to the

resignation of Mayor Scott to accept a position on the Dominion Railway

Commission, became acting mayor, and held the office with much dignity.

Since Controller Champagne first entered into civic life as one of the

city’s representatives, he has rendered effective service on the

following committees: Fire and Light, Waterworks, Board of Health,

By-Laws, Printing, Library, and Finance, of which he was chairman for

several years. He was also a member of the following special committees:

Conduit, City Charter, Street Lighting, and Water Power. Controller

Champagne is a member of the Union St. Joseph Society and the Artisans

Canadiens Français. Mr. Champagne is a brilliant and successful lawyer,

and has distinguished himself in several important law cases,

particularly in two murder cases, in which his handling of the witnesses

and his ability in cross-examination created quite a stir, and placed

him in the front ranks of the legal profession in Ottawa. He practises

law in both provinces—Ontario and Quebec—and has a large clientele in

each. In 1911, Mr. Champagne was elected to the Ontario Legislature. He

was slated for, and had he not been defeated at the election of 1914,

would have become a member of the Provincial Government. He never

married. In religion he is a Roman Catholic, and in politics a

Conservative. His law office is at 30 Rideau Street, and he resides at

184 Osgoode Street, Ottawa, Ont.

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=Sifton, Hon. Arthur Lewis, M.A., LL.B., D.C.L., K.C.=, was born in St.

John’s County, Middlesex, Ontario (about six miles from London,

Ontario), October 26, 1858, of Irish descent. He is the son of the late

Hon. John W. Sifton, formerly Speaker of the Manitoba Assembly, who, in

1875, with his family left Ontario for Manitoba, where he executed a

number of public contracts and conducted an extensive wheat farm near

Brandon, and Kate Sifton, and a brother of Hon. Sir Clifford Sifton,

ex-Minister of Interior and Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs in

the Laurier Cabinet. Mr. Sifton was educated in various public schools,

in Wesley College, Winnipeg, Manitoba, and in Victoria University,

Cobourg, Ontario. In 1880 he was awarded his B.A., and in 1888 his M.A.

and LL.B. degrees. In 1880, Mr. Sifton began the study of law in

Winnipeg, and was admitted to the bar of Manitoba in 1883. In 1882 he

was elected a member of the first municipal council, and, the following

year, in 1883, commenced his legal practice in Brandon, Manitoba. He

remained in Brandon until 1885 when he removed to Prince Albert,

Saskatchewan, where for a few years he continued his practice, and then

removed to Calgary, Alberta, in 1889. In 1898, Mr. Sifton was elected to

the North-West Assembly. In 1901 he was created a K.C. In the same year,

having been re-elected a member of the North-West Assembly, Mr. Sifton

became Treasurer and Commissioner of Public Works in the Haultain

Administration. In January, 1903, he resigned his portfolio to accept

the position of Chief Justice of the Superior Court of the North-West

Territories. In 1905, when the new provinces—Saskatchewan and

Alberta—were established, Mr. Sifton was appointed Chief Justice of the

Superior Court of the Province of Alberta. May 26, 1910, when the

Rutherford government resigned, Mr. Sifton also resigned his position as

Chief Justice to accept the call of the Lieutenant-Governor of the

Province to form a new Provincial Government, and was sworn in as Prime

Minister. He also assumed the portfolios of President of the Executive

Council, Provincial Treasurer, and Minister of Public Works. In 1911,

Mr. Sifton attended the coronation of their Majesties King George and

Queen Mary, and, in June of that year, was presented to King George at

St. James’ Palace. December, 1911, in addition to the other Cabinet

portfolios which he held, Mr. Sifton was appointed Minister of Railways

and Telephones. February 29, 1912, he was appointed a member of the

Commission of Conservation as one of the representatives from the

Province of Alberta. At the Provincial election in 1913, he was

re-elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Vermilion. In

1917, when, owing to the serious circumstances that had arisen in Canada

and throughout the world resulting from the effects and requirements of

the terrible world war that was then raging it was found necessary to

cut out political party differences, and to have, politically and

otherwise, a united Canada in the conduct of Dominion political,

commercial, financial, and all public and private affairs, Mr. Sifton

consented to join Sir Robert Borden, the Prime Minister, in the

formation of a Union Government, and resigning his office as Prime

Minister of the Province of Alberta, was sworn in as Minister of Customs

in the Dominion Cabinet, which position he still holds. In 1918, Mr.

Sifton accompanied Sir Robert Borden to the Peace Conference at Paris

and Versailles, as one of the Canadian delegates to that memorable

assembly in whose hands was placed arrangements and terms for the

present and future peace of the world; and it is noteworthy to state

that while there he rendered distinguished services by his advice and

otherwise in the preparation and final agreement of terms that were

placed before the Teutonic nations to accept and sign. On Sept. 20,

1882, Mr. Sifton married Mary H. Deering, daughter of William Deering,

of Cobourg, Ontario. He has two children—one girl and one boy—Nellie

Louise and Lewis Raymond. He is a member of the following clubs:

Ranchmen’s, Calgary; Edmonton, Edmonton; and the Rideau and County,

Ottawa. In politics, Mr. Sifton was formerly a Liberal, but is now a

Unionist, and in religion a Methodist. His office is in Connaught Block,

Sussex Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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=Proudfoot, William, K.C., M.P.P.=, for Centre Huron and Leader of the

Opposition in the Ontario Legislature, is a barrister practising both at

Toronto and at Goderich, Ont. He was born in Colborne Township, Huron

County, on February 1st, 1859, the son of Robert and Margaret

(Darlington) Proudfoot. His mother came from Wicklow, Ireland, and his

father, a native of Perthshire, Scotland, was one of the family which

won considerable distinction in Ontario. One of his brothers was

Vice-Chancellor of Ontario, and another was Rev. Dr. Proudfoot, a leader

of religious thought. The subject of this sketch was educated in the

Public and High Schools of Goderich, Ont.; and qualified for the law as

a student in the office of James (afterward Mr. Justice) Garrow, K.C.,

and at Osgoode Hall. On being called to the bar in 1880 he commenced the

practice of law at Goderich, Ont., as a member of the firm of Garrow &

Proudfoot and he is now head of the firm of Proudfoot, Killora & Cooke

in that town. He is also a member of the firm of Proudfoot, Duncan,

Grant & Gilday, barristers and solicitors, Confederation Life Building,

Toronto, which he joined in 1902. He was created a King’s Counsel in

1902 and has long been Treasurer and Secretary of the Huron Law

Association, and is a Bencher of the Ontario Law Society. His business

interests include Directorship in the Goderich Elevator and Transit

Company, Ltd. and the Dominion Road Machinery Co’y. Ltd. Despite a large

practice throughout Huron county Mr. Proudfoot found time to take an

active part in politics and was for many years President of the West

Huron Liberal Association. In his younger days his partner, the late Mr.

Justice Garrow, was long an honored member of the Ontario Legislature,

and on the elevation of the latter to the bench, the Liberal party

naturally tendered the nomination to Mr. Proudfoot, who had already

rendered valuable municipal service as Reeve of Goderich town. He was

elected for the newly constituted riding of Centre Huron in 1908 and

re-elected at the general elections of 1911 and 1914. As a member of the

small band of Liberals sitting opposite to Sir James Whitney he soon

made his mark in debate and proved one of the most discerning and

aggressive critics of the Government, though giving his support to wise

measures. When in 1917 Hon. N. W. Rowell retired from the Leadership of

the Opposition to enter Federal politics Mr. Proudfoot was his logical

successor, a decision which was ratified by the Liberal caucus in Jan.,

1918. The war being then in progress Mr. Proudfoot took the

statesmanlike position that there should be no party contests during the

duration of the conflict and agreed to support the Government in all

reasonable measures looking exclusively to the unification of the

country for the prosecution of the war. Nevertheless a large body of

independent support rallied to his support and the signing of the

armistice found him in a stronger position both in point of followers

and as a parliamentary leader than when he accepted office. In religion

he is a member of the Church of England and was married on June 23,

1886, to Marion F. Dickson. He has two children. Isobel, now the wife of

Lieutenant E. H. Jordan, who went overseas in October, 1914, was wounded

twice and invalided home in February, 1919. Lieut. Jordan was with the

18th Field Battery, saw much service, and was decorated with the M.C.

Capt. W. Proudfoot, M.C., was a member of the 15th Battalion, was

wounded several times, and is a member of his father’s legal firm in

Toronto.

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=Machado, Jose Antonio, B.A.=, is Vice-President of the American Bank

Note Company, and Chief Executive Officer of its Canadian Branch, with

headquarters at 208-228 Wellington Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; and

is also a Director of the American Bank Note Company, New York. Mr.

Machado is a son of the late Juan Francisco Machado, gentleman (A.B.

University of Havana), and Elizabeth Frances Jones, and was born at

Camaguey, Cuba, January 20, 1862. He was educated in Salem, Mass.,

U.S.A., and at Harvard University, and graduated as Bachelor of Arts in

1883. After graduation, Mr. Machado took a special course in mechanical

engineering, and later acquired his business training in New York City,

and during that period travelled somewhat extensively in Europe, the

West Indies, and Mexico. On May 16, 1893, Mr. Machado was married to

Eleanor Esmond Whitman, daughter of the late Alfred Whitman, merchant,

of New York City, and a native of Annapolis Royal, N.S. There are four

daughters and two sons, viz., Eleanor Whitman (now Mrs. Lawrence M.

Mead), Jose Antonio, Jr., John Zaldivar, Angela Andrews, Salome Cecilia,

and Theodora. Both sons have been in active service overseas during the

great war. In January, 1902, Mr. Machado came to Ottawa and took charge

of the American Bank Note Company’s Canadian plant and business, which

includes the preparation of the Dominion of Canada bank notes, postage

stamps, and inland revenue stamps, as well as the larger part of the

bank notes for the chartered banks of Canada. The company also prepares

engraved bonds, stock certificates and other securities for various

Canadian corporations. The business has kept pace with the general

development of the business of the Dominion, so that additional

buildings have been erected from time to time, until the plant now

comprises a large group of modern fire-proof buildings. The plant is a

model one in every respect, and no expense or thought has been spared

for the comfort and well-being of the employees of the company. Mr.

Machado is a member of the Finance Board of the Presbyterian Church in

Canada; President of the Canadian Association for the Prevention of

Tuberculosis; a member of the International Committee of the Y.M.C.A.

New York; a member of the Canadian National Council of the Y.M.C.A., and

of the Military Committee of same, which has dealt with the Y.M.C.A.

work of Canadian soldiers at home and overseas; a Vice-President of the

International Daily Vacation Bible School Association (U.S. and Canada).

As regards Ottawa activities, Mr. Machado has been for many years

interested in and President of the Ottawa Anti-Tuberculosis Association,

which secured the building of the Royal Ottawa Sanatorium for the

treatment of pulmonary consumption, and is a member of the Board of

Governors of this institution. He is Hon. President of the Ottawa

Y.M.C.A.; President of the Ottawa Welfare Bureau, and vice-chairman of

the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra. Recently, Mr. Machado was appointed a

member of the Ottawa Housing Commission, formed to take advantage of the

new legislation of the Province of Ontario for improvement in housing

conditions. Mr. Machado is a member of the following clubs: Harvard (New

York), Rideau, Royal Ottawa Golf, Rideau Curling, Lake Bernard Fishing

Club, and is a Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute, London, England.

His favorite recreations are golf, fishing, and curling. Several years

ago Mr. Machado became a Canadian citizen and a British subject. In

religion he is a Presbyterian, and attends St. Andrews Church, and his

place of residence is 169 Daly Avenue, Ottawa, Ont.

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=Levy, Gabriel Herman, B.A., LL.B.=, Barrister, member of the firm of

Gibson, Levy and Gibson, Bank of Commerce Chambers, 4 Hughson Street

South, Hamilton, Ont., was born in Hamilton, August 12, 1874, the son of

Herman Levy, President of Levy Bros. Co., Limited, wholesale jewellers,

Hamilton, and Camilla Levy, his wife. He was educated at the Central

School and Collegiate Institute, Hamilton, Toronto University, and

Osgoode Hall, taking his degree of B.A. at the unusual age of under

twenty, and that of LL.B. two years later. In the year of his graduation

he was elected Vice-President of Varsity Literary Society at the last of

the “old style” contests, which will never be forgotten by those who

participated therein. He also engaged in post-graduate studies in

Europe. He studied law with Sir John Gibson, and entered into practice

in 1898 with the firm of Gibson, Martin & Osborne, and has retained his

connection with Sir John Gibson under various firm names up to the

present of Gibson, Levy and Gibson. He is largely engaged in corporation

practice, the firm being counsel for, among other corporations, The

Dominion Power & Transmission Co., Limited, Hamilton Street Railway,

Hamilton Radial Electric Company, Canadian Westinghouse Co., Limited,

National Steel Car Co., Limited, Landed Banking and Loan Company and The

F. F. Dalley Corporations, Limited. Mr. Levy is interested in numerous

enterprises, and is Vice-President of McKittrick Properties, Limited, a

director of Canada Crushed Stone Corporation, Hamilton Hotel Company,

Limited, and is Vice-President of Levy Bros. Co., Limited, the oldest

and one of the most extensive wholesale and manufacturing jewellery

firms in the Dominion. His reputation as a lawyer and a man is high with

those who know him; “but,” as an intimate friend facetiously remarked,

“it’s in bridge whist that he really shines.” And he was in charge of a

team who held the Canadian Whist Championship for a number of years, and

was a member of a team of the New York Bridge Whist Club that won the

Atlantic Whist Trophy, one of the most important contests in America.

His other recreations are golf, chess and fishing. He married on March

29, 1909, Blanche Ruth Shire, daughter of Adolph Shire, of Chicago,

Ill., and has a daughter, Marion Louise, born in 1912, a son, Gabriel

Herman, in 1915, and a son, John Gibson, in 1919, and enjoys life with

them at his pleasant home, 193 James Street South. His clubs are

Hamilton Club, Hamilton Golf and Country Club, Caledon Mountain Trout

Club, Buffalo Club, Buffalo, N.Y., University Club, Toronto, New York

Bridge Whist Club. He is a member of A.F. & A.M., Murton Lodge of

Perfection, Moore Consistory, was T.P.G.M. of Murton Lodge of Perfection

for years 1908-9. He is independent in politics.

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=Blondin, Hon. Pierre Edouard=, Senator and Postmaster-General, was born

at Saint François du Lac, County of Yamaska, Quebec, December 14, 1874,

and is the son of Louis M. and Elodie (Barnard) Blondin. He was educated

in the Seminarie de Nicolet and Laval University. In 1900, Mr. Blondin

was admitted to the practice of the notarial profession, and was

appointed Clerk of the Circuit Court of County of Champlain. For two

terms he was alderman in the Grand Mere Municipal Council. Having

distinguished himself in law and municipal activities, he was nominated

and elected to the House of Commons in 1908; was re-elected in 1911, and

became Deputy-Speaker of the House. October 20, 1914, Mr. Blondin was

appointed a member of the Privy Council of Canada, and was sworn in as

Minister of Inland Revenue. October 6, 1915, he was appointed Secretary

of State, and Postmaster-General January 8, 1917. Realizing that the

serious turn the great world war had taken called for Canada’s best

efforts to be evident in the firing line, and satisfying himself in the

decision that all who could should give the best mental and manual

assistance they possessed to the Entente forces, on March 21, 1917, Mr.

Blondin resigned his portfolio as Postmaster-General, raised the 258th

Battalion, of which he became Lt.-Colonel, and with his regiment started

overseas, where he remained until July, 1918, when he returned to

Canada. Landing at Halifax, July 8, 1918, Mr. Blondin was accorded a

cordial reception and hearty congratulations in recognition of the

valiant services he had rendered while on military duty in France and

Italy. Having been defeated in his candidature for re-election to the

House of Commons at the general election in 1917, notwithstanding that

he had resigned his office as Postmaster-General and had voluntarily

donned the King’s uniform to serve abroad in the cause and defence of

Canada and the Empire, on July 21, 1918, on his return to Ottawa, Mr.

Blondin was requested by Sir Robert Borden to assume his duties as

Postmaster-General, and to accept a Senatorship in succession to the

late Senator Sheyn. July 2, 1902, Senator Blondin married Marie Rose

Buisson, daughter of Louis L. F. T. Buisson, of Saint François du Lac,

Quebec, and has one daughter. Clubs: Canadian Club of New York, Rideau

Club, Ottawa. Commander of the Legion of Honor. A Roman Catholic in

religion and a Unionist in politics, his home address is Ottawa, Ont.,

and his official address as Postmaster-General, Ottawa, Ontario.

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=Pedley, Frank, B.A.=, ex-Superintendent of Immigration and Deputy

Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs, entered the Civil Service as

Superintendent of Immigration in 1897, and in 1902 was promoted to the

position of Deputy Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs, which

position he held to the end of the Laurier administration and for some

years after the Borden Government had come into power in 1911, when he

resigned to resume his practice as a barrister, etc. During Mr. Pedley’s

terms of office in the public service, Canada and Canada’s great natural

resources and opportunities, the fertility of the soil, and the millions

of acres awaiting the attention of the husbandman, and the open door to

success and happiness that was in store for all who came to Canada to

help in her development, were made known throughout the world by

advertising and specially appointed agents and exhibition displays in a

manner that was never before anticipated, and with the result that the

peoples from all quarters of the globe, including hundreds of thousands

from Great Britain and the United States, left to make Canada their

future home. Mr. Pedley is the son of Rev. Charles and Sarah (Stowell)

Pedley, of Hanley, Staffordshire, England, and was born at St. John’s,

Newfoundland, June 25, 1858. He was educated at private schools in St.

John’s, the public and high schools in Ontario, and at McGill

University, Montreal, where he graduated in 1886 a B.A., with first

class honors. He practised law at Toronto until 1897, when, at the

invitation of Sir Clifford Sifton, he entered the Civil Service. On Aug.

28, 1895, Mr. Pedley married Helen Louise Hobart, daughter of Sidney and

Mary Ann Hobart of Cobourg, Ontario. Mr. Pedley is a member of St.

George’s Society. In politics he is a Liberal. He resides at 483

Maclaren Street, and his office is at 46 Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario.

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=Miller, Frederick Robert= (Western University, London, Ont.), son of A.

F. Miller and Elizabeth Crean. Was born at Toronto. Educated at Jarvis

Street Collegiate Institute, Toronto, and at the University of Toronto,

graduating in 1907, holding degrees of M.A., M.B. Was Assistant in

Physiology in Cornell University for two years. Demonstrator of

Physiology in the University of Toronto 1907-10. Studied in Munich

1910-1911, where he obtained the degree of M.D. from the University of

Munich. Took a post-graduate course in the University of Strasbourg, and

afterwards spent some time attending clinics in Paris, France.

Afterwards studied for a year at the University of Liverpool with Prof

C. S. Sherrington. Was Lecturer on Physiology, McGill University,

1912-1914. Studied in University of Oxford during summer of 1914.

Appointed Professor of Physiology at Western University, London, Ont.,

1914, which position he still fills with distinction. Dr. Miller is an

Anglican in religion, and holds a commission as Captain in the Canadian

Army Medical Corps. He has contributed a number of articles to British

and American journals on physiological subjects. He has travelled

extensively, visiting the most important educational centres both in

Europe and America.

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=Jenkins, Lieut.-Col. Stephen Rice Jenkins, M.D., F.A.C.S., M.P.P.=, of

Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, during the late war, proved himself

one of the ablest members of the Canadian Army Medical Corps. He was

born at Charlottetown on November 12, 1858, the son of John T. and

Jessie Esther (Rice) Jenkins. His paternal grandfather was Rev L. C.

Jenkins, and his maternal one, Captain the Hon. Stephen Rice. His father

John T. Jenkins, M.D., M.R.C.S. (Eng.), was a member of the Canadian

House of Commons from 1884 to 1887. The subject of this sketch was

educated at King’s College, Windsor, N.S., and at the University of

Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, U.S.A., from which he graduated with the

degree of M.D. in 1884. Returning to Charlottetown, he entered on the

practice of his profession, and became one of the best known physicians

in the Maritime Provinces. He is a member of the Dominion Medical

Council. In 1912, he was elected to the Legislature of Prince Edward

Island as Liberal-Conservative member for Charlottetown, and was

re-elected at the general elections in 1915. In September of the latter

year, he also became a member of the provincial cabinet, without

portfolio. He was on active service in connection with the late war from

March, 1915, until his discharge in April, 1919, holding the rank of

Lieut.-Col. in the Canadian Army Medical Service, and had charge of the

Military Hospital at Rockhead, Halifax, N.S., in 1915. He was a Roman

Catholic in religion, a Conservative-Unionist in politics, and a member

of the Q.G.D., and the Charlottetown Club. In October, 1886, he married

Ellen J., daughter of Patrick Sweeney, merchant, of Charlottetown, and

has nine children. His eldest son, Lieut.-Col. John S. Jenkins, D.S.O.,

had a distinguished career overseas during the late war; also his second

son, Henry G., served overseas with the 3rd Bn. C.E., 1st Division, as

Capt.; and his other children are, Mary E., Helen J., Nora I., Margaret

L., Hilda, Louis C., and M. Stephanie Jenkins.

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=Farris, Hon. John Wallace de Beque, M.P.P.=, Attorney-General and

Minister of Labor for British Columbia, has for some years been

recognized as one of the leading lawyers on the Pacific Coast. He is,

however, a native of New Brunswick, and was born at White’s Cove in that

province on December 3, 1878. His father, Hon. L. P. Farris, was

formerly Minister of Agriculture for New Brunswick. The subject of this

sketch was educated at St. Martin’s Seminary and Acadia University,

N.B., graduating with the degree of B.A. in 1899. Subsequently, he took

a course at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating with the legal

degree of LL.B. in 1902. In connection with both degrees he took honors.

In the same year he went to Vancouver, British Columbia, and, having

been called to the bar of the province, commenced the practice of law in

that city. Within two years he was appointed City Prosecuting Attorney,

a post he filled from 1904 to 1906. At the same time he became prominent

in politics, and served as President of the Vancouver Liberal

Association. In the political upheaval of 1916 he fought strongly for a

change of government, and himself stood as one of the Liberal candidates

for the Legislature in Vancouver city. He was elected, and proved one of

the ablest of the new members that the contest brought into the House.

In 1917, the Hon. Mr. Brewster, then Prime Minister, asked Mr. Farris to

take the portfolio of Attorney-General and that of Minister of Labor as

well, and the latter accepted. Though young in parliamentary experience,

Mr. Farris is looked upon as one of the coming men in Canadian politics.

In religion he is a Baptist; and is a member of the Terminal City Club,

Vancouver, and of the Union Club, Victoria, B.C. He married, in 1905,

Evelyn F., daughter of Prof. E. M. Keirstead, D.D., of McMaster

University, Toronto, and has four children, Katherine H., Donald F.,

Ralph K., and John L. Farris. Mr. and Mrs. Farris, until 1918, made

their home in Vancouver, but now reside in Victoria, B.C.

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=Smith, Hon. Ernest Albert, M.P.P.=, Minister of Lands and Mines for the

Province of New Brunswick, resides at Shediac, N.B., where he is also

engaged in lumbering and general mercantile business. He was born at

Shediac on June 20, 1864, the son of Edward J. and Amelia E. Smith. His

father was formerly a prominent member of the New Brunswick Legislature,

to which he was elected in 1884, and founded the commercial business now

carried on by the subject of this sketch. Sir Albert J. Smith, Minister

of Marine and Fisheries for Canada in the government of Hon. Alexander

Mackenzie from 1874 to 1878, was an uncle. Hon. E. A. Smith was educated

in the High School and also at a private school in Charlottetown,

P.E.I., and originally adopted the profession of dentistry, graduating

with the degree of D.D.S. in 1887. On leaving college he went to British

Columbia, where he practised for two years, and subsequently practised

for a year in New Brunswick. He entered his father’s business in 1891,

and since 1912 has conducted it under his own name. In 1916, he was

induced to follow the family tradition and enter politics, and was

elected to the Legislature as Liberal for Westmorland County, defeating

Hon. P. J. Mahony, Minister of Public Works. At the general elections of

1917, he was again elected, and was selected as a member of the Foster

government, taking over the portfolio of Lands and Mines, for which his

business experience amply qualified him. He has since given an effective

business administration to the department which was sorely needed, and

by his policies has materially added to the public revenues. Sat in Town

Council, Shediac, for several years as Alderman, and elected Mayor for

1906 and 1907, by acclamation; President of Liberal Association for

County of Westmorland from 1894 to 1911; President of Provincial Liberal

Association several years, which position is still held. He is an

Anglican in religion, and a Past Master, A.F. & A.M. His recreations are

salmon and trout fishing and shooting of small and big game. On

September 30, 1896, he married Euphemia, daughter of Mr. Colin Russell,

of the Customs Department, Ottawa, and has four children: Gladys, born

1897; Russell, born 1899; Donald, born 1902; and John, born 1911. Though

Mr. Smith’s official duties compel his presence in Fredericton, N.B.,

for the greater part of his time, he still makes his home at Shediac.

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=Turgeon, Hon. William Ferdinand Alphonse, K.C., M.P.P.=,

Attorney-General of the Province of Saskatchewan, is one of the best

known leaders of the legal profession in the Canadian West. He was born

at Bathurst, New Brunswick, on June 3, 1877, the son of Onesiphore

Turgeon, a French-Canadian journalist, and his wife Margaret Eulalia

Baldwin, a lady of English descent. Politics comes naturally to him, for

his father is a member of the House of Commons for Gloucester County,

New Brunswick, and has long been a prominent figure in the public life

of that province, while his brother, J. G. Turgeon, M.P.P., is a member

of the Alberta Legislature. The subject of this sketch was educated in

New York City, and later at Laval University, Quebec, graduating in Arts

in 1899 with the degree of B.A., and in law in 1902. Shortly afterwards

he went to the West, and was called to the bar of Saskatchewan. He also

became prominent as a leader in the Liberal party, and at a by-election

on October 12, 1907, was elected to the legislature for Prince Albert.

At the general elections of August, 1908, he contested two ridings in

behalf of his party—Prince Albert and Duck Lake. He was defeated in the

former, but elected to the latter. At the general elections of 1912, he

stood for the riding of Humboldt, and was successful, and has ever since

represented that riding. Hon. Mr. Turgeon joined the Ministry of Hon.

Walter Scott as Attorney-General on September 23, 1907, shortly before

his first political contest in Prince Albert. He has ever since

continued to hold that portfolio, and for some years filled that of

Provincial Secretary as well. His oratorical powers are exceptional, and

he speaks with equal facility both in French and English. He is a Roman

Catholic in religion; and on February 18, 1901, married Gertrude,

daughter of Gerome Boudreau, Petit Rocher, New Brunswick. He has five

children: Alice, born May 13, 1902; Cecile, February 19, 1907; Wilfrid,

August 20, 1910; Eveline, November 16, 1913; and Frances Regis, July 12,

1918. He resides at 2320 Angus Street, Regina, Sask.

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=Pritchard, Henry Thomas=, who was born in London, England, February 26,

1852, came to Canada, locating in Ottawa in 1875, and started in

business as an engraver. Three years later, in 1878, he formed a

partnership with J. E. Andrews, under the firm name of Pritchard and

Andrews. Being exceptionally clever engravers, their business so

increased that in 1897 a joint stock company was formed, and is now

established and known as “The Pritchard-Andrews Company of Ottawa,

Limited,” with J. A. Seybold as President and Henry Thomas Pritchard as

Secretary-Treasurer and Manager, with their head office at 264 Sparks

Street, Ottawa. Mr. Pritchard is the son of William Pritchard, cabinet

manufacturer, of Bishopgate Street, London, England, and Elizabeth Ann

(Thompson) Pritchard, and received his education in a boarding school in

London. Having served his time to engraving in England, he crossed the

Atlantic Ocean, and, arriving in Ottawa, Ontario, has made that city his

home ever since. In 1887, Mr. Pritchard married Margaret Ramsay Black,

daughter of John Black, of Hamilton, Ontario. Four sons and four

daughters have blessed the union—Walter, Elizabeth Ann, Harold, Ernest,

John, Margaret, Emily and Edith. Mr. Pritchard is an Anglican in

religion and a Unionist in politics. He resides at Eastview.

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=Arsenault, Hon. Aubin E.= (Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island), son of

Hon. Joseph O. Arsenault, Senator, and Gertrude Arsenault, his wife.

Born at Egmont Bay, P.E.I., on July 28, 1870. Educated at St. Dunstan’s

College, Charlottetown, and St. Joseph’s University, Memramcook, N.B.

Studied law with McLeod, Morson & McQuarrie, barristers, Charlottetown,

and with the Hon. (now Sir) Chas. Russell, London, England. Called to

the bar in 1899, and has successfully practised his profession at

Charlottetown and Summerside, P.E.I. Was first elected to the

Legislature of the province of P.E.I. in 1908. On the accession of

Liberal-Conservative Government in 1911 appointed a member of the

Government. Re-elected in 1912 and 1915. On elevation of the leader of

the Government, Hon. J. A. Mathieson, to the Supreme Court Bench of the

Province, was called on by the Lieutenant-Governor to form a Government,

which he did, and became President-in-Council and Attorney-General.

Re-elected in 1917. The subject of this sketch was married on November

5, 1907, to Bertha R., daughter of Captain Frank Gallant, of Tignish,

P.E.I., and is the father of six children. He is a Roman Catholic in

religion, and a member of the Conservation Commission of Canada.

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=Dunning, Hon. Charles Avery, M.P.P.=, is Minister of Agriculture and

Provincial Treasurer for the Province of Saskatchewan, and one of the

youngest and ablest of the public men of the West. He was born at Croft,

Leicestershire, England, on July 31, 1885, the son of Samuel and

Katherine (Hall) Dunning. His father was a farmer, and he was educated

in the public schools of the Motherland. In 1903, as a boy of seventeen,

he settled in Saskatchewan, and engaged in farming at Beaverdale in that

province, an industry which he has ever since conducted on a large

scale. He is one of the most prominent of those who organized the

movement in the West for the betterment of agricultural conditions, and,

in 1910, became a Director of the Saskatchewan Grain Growers’

Association. He was also its Vice-President from 1911 to 1914. In 1911,

he organized the Saskatchewan Co-operative Elevator Company, and acted

as general manager of this remarkably successful enterprise from its

foundation until 1916. From 1911 to 1916, he was a member of the

Executive Board of the Canadian Council of Agriculture, and, in 1918,

served on the Canada Food Board organized in connection with the war as

Director of Food Production. Earlier, in 1913, he was a member of the

Royal Commission appointed by the Government of Saskatchewan to

investigate the question of agricultural credits, and also that of grain

markets in Europe. He has also been a frequent contributor to the press

on such subjects, his vast fund of expert knowledge making him an

especially welcome contributor. In 1916, he resigned his position as

general manager of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Elevators to enter the

Legislature of that Province. He was elected for the riding of Kinistino

by acclamation. At the general elections of 1917, he was returned for

Moose Jaw County. After his first election he was appointed Provincial

Treasurer in the Martin administration, having been sworn in on October

20, 1916. Exactly one year later, he was also appointed Minister of

Railways, and in addition on May 16, 1918, he became Minister of

Telephones. On the rearrangement of portfolios, February 15, 1919, he

retained his old portfolio of Provincial Treasurer, and became Minister

of Agriculture as well, a step that was applauded by the whole farming

community. He is a Liberal in politics and a Presbyterian in religion,

and a member of the Assiniboia Club, Regina, and the Wascana Country

Club. His favorite recreation is golf. On July 3, 1913, he married Ada,

daughter of John Rowlatt (deceased) of Nassington, Northants, England,

and has one son and one daughter. His home is at 2150 Retallack Street,

Regina, Sask.

[Illustration: RT. HON. SIR W. T. WHITE, P.C., M.P.,

Ottawa]

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=Williams, the Right Rev. Lennox Waldron, Lord Bishop of Quebec, M.A.

(Oxon.), D.D.=, is the only son of the late Right Rev. J. W. Williams,

D.D., fourth Bishop of the same diocese. He was born at Lennoxville,

while his father was headmaster of Bishop’s College School, on November

12, 1859. His mother’s maiden name was Miss Anna Maria Waldron. He

received his earlier education at Bishop’s College School, from which

institution he went to St. John’s College, Oxford, where he received his

degree of B.A. in 1882, and his M.A. in 1887. In 1899 he received the

degree of D.D. from Bishop’s College University. His first charge as a

clergyman was that of curate in St. Matthew’s Church, of Quebec, while

the Rev. Charles Hamilton (afterwards Bishop of Ottawa and

Archbishop)—was its rector. A vacancy occurring in the rectorship of

that charge, the Rev. Lennox Williams was selected to fill it. In 1899

he was promoted to be Dean of the Cathedral and Rector of Quebec. In

1890 he was unanimously elected Coadjutor Bishop of Ontario, but felt

obliged to decline. On the death of Bishop Dunn, he was elected Lord

Bishop of the Diocese of Quebec. As a native of the Province of Quebec,

he has been identified with the religious life of Quebec and the Eastern

Townships during his lifetime. During his ministry he has always taken

an active interest in the schools and colleges of the diocese, having

been for years a member of the corporation of Bishop’s College,

Lennoxville, Chairman of the Protestant Board of School Commissioners of

Quebec City, and a Director of the High School. While he was Dean of the

Cathedral, he was chosen a delegate to the Pan-Anglican Congress held in

London, England, in 1908; and, in 1910, he again took part in the

Anglican Church Congress held at Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 1887 he

married Miss Caroline Annie Rhodes, daughter of the late

Lieutenant-Colonel William Rhodes, at one time Minister of Agriculture

for the Province of Quebec. The Bishop and Mrs. Williams had four

children, viz., James William, who, after taking his degree at Oxford,

joined the Canadian Army in the great war, and was killed in action at

the battle of the Somme; Violet Mary; Gertrude, wife of Colonel R. O.

Alexander, D.S.O.; Sydney Waldron, gentleman cadet at R.M.C., Kingston.

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=Margeson, Joseph Willis, Lieut.-Col.= (Bridgewater, Nova Scotia) son of

Otis A. Margeson (English) and Jennie Cahill (Irish). Was born on April

2nd, 1880, at Harborville, King’s County, Nova Scotia. Educated at

Berwick High School; the Provincial Normal School, Truro; Acadia

University, Wolfville; and Dalhousie Law School, Halifax, from which

latter institution he graduated in 1908 with the degree of LL.B. Was

principal of Berwick High School 1903-4. Also taught at South Berwick,

Waterville and Lakeville. Married Sept. 16, 1908, to Mary Gertrude,

daughter of Duncan McIntosh of Truro, Nova Scotia, and has two

daughters, Doris Gwendolyn and Olive Gertrude, born Sept. 26th, 1910,

and Nov. 10th, 1911, respectively. He is a barrister-at-law, and High

Counsellor of the Independent Order of Foresters. He is also a member of

the Masonic Order, the Loyal Order of Moose and the Ancient Order of

Foresters. In religion he is a Baptist. He contested the riding of

Lunenburg in November, 1909, against the Hon. A. K. MacLean,

Attorney-General, at a by-election for the Provincial Legislature, but

was defeated. First elected to the Provincial Legislature at the general

election June 14th, 1911, and re-elected in 1916 with a largely

increased majority. He resigned his seat in November, 1917, to contest

his constituency as a Unionist candidate for the Federal House, but was

defeated after one of the most bitter contests in the Province of Nova

Scotia. Col. Margeson polled the largest vote he ever received. His

opponent was a strong anti-conscriptionist. He has been prominently

identified with the Canadian Militia, being Lieutenant of the 75th

Regiment, 1910, Captain in the 25th Nova Scotia Overseas Battalion,

December 1914, with which unit he went to France. Promoted to the rank

of Major, June, 1916, and appointed Inspector of Pay Accounts and

Records, C.E.F. In April, 1917, Lieut.-Col. Margeson was appointed

President of “The Pay and Allowance Board,” with headquarters at Ottawa.

In December, 1918, he was promoted Lieut.-Col., and in January, 1919,

his name was brought to the notice of the Secretary of State for War for

valuable services rendered in connection with the war. He is a Director

of The News Company, publishers of “The Daily News” and “The Weekly

News,” Lunenberg, Nova Scotia. He is also Vice-President of the

G.W.V.A., Ottawa.

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=Thornton, Hon. Robert Stirton, M.P., M.B., C.M., LL.D.=, Minister of

Education for the Province of Manitoba, is one of the educational

leaders of Western Canada, though not a native of this country. He was

born at Edinburgh, Scotland, on May 8, 1863, the son of David and Mary

(Gavin) Thornton. His parents decided that he should adopt the career of

a physician, and after a good general education in his native city at

Heriot’s Hospital school, he entered Edinburgh University, and graduated

in 1884 with the degree of M.B., C.M. In the same year he came to

Canada, and commenced the practice of his profession at Deloraine,

Manitoba. He became well-known throughout the province, and, in 1896,

was elected President of the Manitoba Medical Council; and, later,

President of the Medical Council of Canada. Among other matters in which

he interested himself was that of horticulture, a neglected pursuit in

the western country, and became recognized as a pioneer horticulturist

of the prairies, and an inspiration to others to adopt such a hobby. He

became identified with the Liberal party, and, in 1907, was elected to

the Manitoba Legislature for Deloraine. Though defeated in 1910, he was

again elected in 1914, and also in the general elections of 1915, which

resulted in the overthrow of the Roblin administration. He had taken a

very strong stand against the indifference of the authorities to school

problems; and when Hon. Mr. Norris was called upon to form a government,

he entrusted to Dr. Thornton the portfolio of Education, which, under

the peculiar circumstances of the case, was perhaps the most important

within the Premier’s gift. In no section of the world is the problem of

education more difficult, owing to the great number of nationalities

represented in the numbers of unlettered immigrants that poured into

Manitoba in the years preceding the great war. With the problem of

making the children of these newcomers good Canadians, conversant with

the language and institutions of the land of their adoption, Dr.

Thornton grappled, in 1915, and three and a half years later it was the

testimony of the Winnipeg “Tribune,” that the change of government had

been worth while, if only for what had been accomplished in making the

schools of Manitoba Canadian. Before he became Minister of Education,

large numbers of the public schools were nondescript, and breeding

centres of foreign speech and ideals. In a determined and unflinching

way, Dr. Thornton put into action, through the machinery of the schools,

the ideals of true Canadianism, and for the first time enforced the law

with regard to an English education for every child of school age in

Manitoba. As a result of his policies, other western provinces have

followed his example, and many educationists of the western United

States look to Manitoba’s system of dealing with the foreign problem in

education as a model. Latterly, Dr. Thornton has taken a strong stand

against immigration of the old indiscriminate sort, and proclaims the

doctrine that anyone who comes to Canada must be prepared to shoulder

all the responsibilities, with the privileges, duties, and rights of

Canadian citizenship. By the many advocates of these new views he is

looked up to as a leader. In recognition of his services, Queen’s

University (Kingston) some time ago conferred on him the honorary degree

of LL.D. Dr. Thornton is a Presbyterian in religion, and a member of the

Masonic Order. On April 30, 1889, he married Mary, daughter of Robert

Johnston, Princeton, Ont., and has no children. He resides at Winnipeg

and at Deloraine, Manitoba.

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=Bailey, Charles Frederick=, Agricultural Commissioner for the Province

of Ontario, is, singularly enough, a native of the Maritime Provinces.

He was born at Kentville, Nova Scotia, in 1880, and his mother, who

still survives, is now Mrs. P. Innes of that town. He was educated in

King’s County High School, Kentville, and had a practical insight into

agriculture as a lad on a Nova Scotia farm. In 1902 he resolved to

qualify himself on the scientific side of agriculture and entered

himself at the Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph, Ont., which holds

a standard position throughout North America. From 1904 to 1907 he was

engaged largely in commercial work related to this basic interest of the

country’s prosperity and returned to the O.A.C. in the latter year. In

1909 he received from its affiliated Institution the University of

Toronto, the degree of Bachelor of Scientific Agriculture. At that time

the Ontario Department of Agriculture was looking about for expert young

men to carry on the work of agricultural instruction and development and

on receiving the above degree Mr. Bailey was in June, 1909, appointed

Live Stock Specialist for Ontario. He brought a great deal of enthusiasm

and knowledge to bear on his task and in 1912 was promoted to the post

of Assistant Deputy Minister of Agriculture by the late Hon. James Duff.

A few years later the office of Commissioner of Agriculture was created

in order to place a permanent official of expert knowledge in charge of

policies for the betterment of agriculture in this province. Mr.

Bailey’s grasp of all the problems of his subject is exceptional and he

holds a high reputation as an expert in other states and provinces. As a

young man he was a Captain in the King’s County (N.S.) Regiment, but has

always eschewed politics. In religion he is a member of the Church of

England, and some years ago married Louise D., daughter of David Hogg,

Perth, Ont. He has had three children, of whom one, a boy born in 1915,

survives. His address is 164 Walmer Road, Toronto.

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=Dalley, Frederick Fenner=, President of the F. F. Dalley Corporations,

Limited, Hamilton, Ont., and subsidiaries, was born in Hamilton, April

11, 1883, the son of Fenner Frederick Dalley (former President of the F.

F. Dalley Co., Limited), who died in 1913, and his wife, Mabel (Forster)

Dalley. He received his education at the Hamilton public schools and

Collegiate Institute. He married Ethel Hazel Gibson, daughter of the

late Samuel Gibson, of Caledonia, February 21, 1914, and has two sons,

Fenner Frederick Dalley, born June 1, 1915, and Samuel Gibson Dalley,

born September 17, 1916. Mr. Dalley is President of the F. F. Dalley

Corporations, Limited, Hamilton (the parent organization); President

Dalley Products, Limited, Hamilton; President of F. F. Dalley Co. of

Canada, Limited, Hamilton; President of F. F. Dalley Co. of New York,

Inc., Buffalo, N.Y.; President S. M. Bixby & Co., Inc., New York (plants

Brooklyn, N.Y. and Indianapolis, Ind.); Director and Treasurer The

Thermokept Products Corporation, New York; Chairman and Treasurer

Perfect Vacuum Canning Co., New York; and Chairman and Treasurer

Thermokept, Limited, Hamilton, Ont. As parent Company, the F. F. Dalley

Corporations, Limited, control in the Dalley Co., founded in 1846,

manufacturers of the well known “2 in 1” shoe polishes and other

specialities, and the Bixby Company of New York, founded in 1864, the

two largest individual manufacturers of shoe polish in America, in

addition to which they control many other specialities and staple lines.

The Corporation conducts five factories and eighteen branch offices,

extending from coast to coast in Canada and the United States. The

Corporation’s spacious offices are centrally situated at No. 50 James

Street South. Mr. Dalley’s clubs are: Hamilton, Thistle, Tamahaac, Royal

Hamilton Yacht, Caledon Mountain Trout, Hamilton Golf and Country,

Seaview Golf, Absecon, N.J., Buffalo, Buffalo, N.Y., Canadian, New York

City. He is a member of the Hamilton Board of Trade and of the Canadian

Manufacturers Association; of St. George’s Society, and the A.F. and

A.M.; and is an Anglican. Mr. Dalley has a pleasing personality and

great efficiency, necessary in the direction of a business with such

extensive ramifications as that of which he is the head. He held a

commission as Lieutenant in the Thirteenth Royal Regiment in 1906. Golf

is his chief recreation. His residence is at “Wynnstay,” Ancaster, Ont.,

on the mountain a short distance out of Hamilton.

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=Stapells, Richard A.=, is one of the best known figures in the business

and social life of Toronto, where he was born on February 12, 1879, the

son of Richard George and Susan (Carruthers) Stapells. He was educated

in the Toronto Public Schools and commenced his business career with the

firm of Caldecott, Burton & Spence, from which so many successful

Canadian business men have graduated. About 1900 he left the employ of

that firm to pay a visit to England and engaged in the commission

business in London for some two years. On his return to Toronto in 1902

he purchased and incorporated the business now known as the McElroy

Manufacturing Company, Limited, makers of “Royal Garments,” with offices

at 47 Simcoe Street, Toronto, of which he is President and Managing

Director. Despite the fact that he is a most successful business man who

had won success at an age when many men are but on the lower rungs of

the ladder, Mr. Stapells’ general interests are remarkably wide and his

artistic tastes exceptional. His chief hobby is music, for which he has

a great natural talent. As a boy he was an accomplished violinist and a

member of the Toronto Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by the late Dr.

F. H. Torrington. At the age of fifteen he was a member of the violin

section of the great orchestra formed for the Festival in connection

with the opening of Massey Hall in 1894. Later he obtained vocal

instruction with the best masters in London, England, and New York, and

for several years has been baritone soloist of the Church of the Messiah

(Anglican), of which he is a member, and a lay delegate to the Anglican

Synod, representing Church of Messiah. He was for some years also a very

enthusiastic member of the executive of the National Chorus, a

celebrated Toronto choral organization. In social and patriotic work he

is equally active. He has long been a prominent member of the Empire

Club of Canada, Toronto; was one of its vice-presidents in 1913-14 and

President 1918-19. In the latter capacity he has induced many eminent

men to come to Toronto and address the public on questions of the day,

and made the Club one of the most vital organs of opinion in the

Dominion. He is a life member of York Pioneer and Historical Society;

life member of St. George’s Society; life member of the Canadian Red

Cross Society, member of the Executive Committee, Canadian Defence

League; member of the Executive, Overseas Club, and member of the Navy

League of Canada, in connection with all of which he was active in

promoting patriotic movements during the war and the succeeding

repatriation period. Is a Trustee of Queen’s University. He is also a

member of the Toronto Board of Trade, member of the Canadian

Manufacturers Association (an Executive officer thereof in 1914), member

of the Royal Colonial Institute and the Canadian Institute; a past

president of the Dufferin School Old Boys’ Association; and belongs to

the following clubs: Strollers’, National, Royal Canadian Yacht, and

charter member of the Eastbourne Golf Club. With all his manifold

activities Mr. Stapells is one of the most affable and well-poised men

in the city of Toronto. In politics he is a Conservative-Unionist. In

July, 1902, he married Pauline Edwina, daughter of William C. Harvey,

and has two sons and four daughters. He resides at 99 Roxborough St.

East, Toronto, and has a summer home, “Deancroft,” at Jackson’s Point,

Lake Simcoe, Ont.

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=Weld, Edmund= (London, Ont.), Barrister, is the member of a well-known

English county family, his grandfather having been the Rev. Joseph Weld,

Rector, Tenterden, Kent. His father, the late Wm. Weld, was the founder

and owner of the “Farmer’s Advocate,” London, Ont. The subject of this

sketch was born at Delaware, Ont., in 1859, and educated at London,

Ont., where he became a Barrister, in 1884, and successfully practised

his profession, as also at Toronto. He has been an Alderman and a member

of the Public Library Board of his native town, also President of the

Western Ontario Bowling Association. In 1907 Mr. Weld was appointed to

his present position as Deputy Clerk of the Crown, Registrar of the

Surrogate Court and of the County Court, Middlesex County, Ont. He

married Gertrude Isobel, daughter of Richard Gibson, Delaware, Ont., in

1890. He has a family of five, viz.: Helen G., Constance G., Rowena G.,

Hume G., and Stanley G. He is a member of the London Club, a

Conservative in Politics, and a member of the Church of England.

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=Brodeur, Hon. Louis Philippe=, is one of the Judges of the Supreme

Court of Canada, Ottawa, to which position he was appointed August 11,

1911. Mr. Brodeur was born at Beloeil, Quebec, August 21, 1862. He is

the son of Toussaint Brodeur, a patriot of 1837, and of Justine Lambert.

He was educated in the College of St. Hyacinthe, was graduated LL.B. at

Laval University, and, in 1904, received the degree of LL.D. from that

university. Called to the bar in 1884, he was in 1899 created a K.C. He

has written largely for the press, and, in 1896, was editor of “Le

Soir.” In 1891, Mr. Brodeur was elected to the House of Commons for

Rouville, Quebec. He was re-elected in 1896, and became Deputy-Speaker

of the House, and on his re-election in 1900 was appointed Speaker. He

was re-elected at the next two general elections, viz., in the elections

of 1904 and 1908. Mr. Brodeur gained much prominence owing to his keen

knowledge of parliamentary procedure, and while Speaker was noted for

the able and dignified manner in which he gave his decisions on all

questions that came before him for solution. Before entering Parliament,

Mr. Brodeur had gained an enviable reputation in the legal profession,

and, as a member of the House of Commons—he being a fluent and eloquent

speaker in both English and French, and one who had studiously labored

to acquire a masterly knowledge of parliamentary procedure—he soon rose

in the estimation and confidence of his fellow members; and his

affability in politics, as in social life, made him a great favorite. In

1904, Mr. Brodeur was called to the Laurier Cabinet, and was sworn in as

Minister of Inland Revenue. In 1906, on the death of Hon. Raymond

Prefontaine, Mr. Brodeur was transferred to the Department of Marine and

Fisheries, and when the Department of Naval Service was organized he was

appointed head of it. It was Mr. Brodeur who was the author of the first

Naval Bill introduced in the Canadian Parliament in 1910, calling for

the organization of the Navy. It was Mr. Brodeur who introduced in

Parliament a Bill against the American Tobacco Trust, which proved

successful in checking the methods the Tobacco Company wanted to employ

in Canada. The success resulting from the passing of this legislation

attracted the attention of the people of Canada, and even the United

States press commented favorably upon it. Taking a keen interest in

navigation in all Canadian waters, Mr. Brodeur was instrumental in

having established along the St. Lawrence River innumerable aids to

navigation which have made that river, night or day, or in fog,

navigable. In 1907 and 1911, Mr. Brodeur was a member of the Imperial

Conference at London, and, by Imperial Order-in-Council of August 8,

1907, Mr. Brodeur was appointed by the King one of the

joint-plenipotentiaries to negotiate the first treaty which has been

exclusively negotiated by Canadians or representatives of any other

sister nations of the Empire, viz., the Franco-Canadian Treaty. In 1909,

Mr. Brodeur represented Canada at the Imperial Defence Conference, and

was Canada’s representative to the Washington Conference held in

pursuance of the decision of the Hague Tribunal on the North Atlantic

fisheries. Mr. Brodeur was created an officier of the Legion d’Honneur

in 1908. He is one of the Governors of the Notre Dame Hospital. In 1887,

Mr. Brodeur married Emma Brillon, daughter of J. R. Brillon, notary, of

Beloeil. He has four sons and one daughter. One of his sons was during

the war a Lieutenant in the Imperial Navy. Mr. Brodeur is a member of

the following clubs: Hunt, Rideau, Rivermead, of Ottawa, Montreal

(Montreal), Winchester (Montreal), and Country Club of Montreal. He

resides at 229 Chapel St., Ottawa.

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=Côté, Narcisse Omer, I.S.O.=, Controller of the Lands Patents Branch

and Registrar of Dominion Lands Patents, Department of Interior, is a

descendant of Jean Côté, a native of France (being the eighth generation

of this ancestor residing in Canada), one of the first settlers of

Quebec, having been married there in 1635, to Anne, daughter of Abraham

Martin, the owner of a piece of ground in Quebec known as the plains of

Abraham. Entering the Department of the Interior in the Canadian Civil

Service in 1879, which Department was then presided over by the late Rt.

Hon. Sir John A. Macdonald, K.C.B., Prime Minister and Minister of

Interior, Mr. Côté soon made himself an attentive, valuable and trusted

employee. He rapidly rose from one station to another until 1904 when he

became chief clerk, in 1906 registrar of Dominion Land Patents and chief

of the Lands Patents Branch, and in 1913 controller. Mr. Côté was a

member and secretary of the Royal Commission on the claims of

half-breeds in the North-West Territories, now comprising the Provinces

of Saskatchewan and Alberta, during 1885, 1886, 1887, and chairman in

1900 of the Royal Commission on claims of the half-breeds of the

Provisional District of Saskatchewan, and of persons who had served as

scouts, or otherwise, during the Rebellion of 1885. Mr. Côté is the

author of many valuable publications, some, if not all, of which will

remain for all time to come as useful reference for historical,

parliamentary, and other purposes, and which, as the years pass, will

increase in value and become indispensable. The following are to be

found among his literary works already published: “Political

Appointments, Parliaments, and the Judicial Bench in the Dominion of

Canada 1867 to 1895,” published in 1896; Supplement thereto up to 1903,

published in 1903; Volume II. to the original work, for period 1896 to

1917, published in 1917; “Appendix 1865 to 1867 and Index,” published in

1918, to his father’s work published in 1866, entitled “Political

Appointments and Elections in the Province of Canada from 1841 to 1865.”

The whole series providing an indispensable record for present and

future reference of public men and public events in Canada during the

last seventy-six years, 1841 to 1917. Mr. Narcisse Omer Côté, I.S.O.,

was born in Quebec, September 14, 1859. He is the son of the late Joseph

Olivier Côté, a notary public for the Province of Quebec, and clerk of

H.M.’s Privy Council for Canada, and Marie Julie Léocadie Leprobon. He

was educated at de la Salle Commercial Academy, Ottawa, and the

University of Ottawa. On the occasion of the coronation of His Majesty

King George the Fifth, in 1911, Mr. Côté was created a Companion of the

Imperial Service Order. In 1907, Mr. Côté married Mabel Edna, daughter

of the late Hon. Désiré Girouard, D.C.L., Puisne Judge of the Supreme

Court of Canada. For several years, Mr. Côté was connected with the

Canadian militia; and was formerly captain in the Governor-General’s

Foot Guards. Mr. Côté is a member of the Rideau Club and the Royal

Ottawa Golf Club. He is a Roman Catholic in religion and resides at 54

Russell Avenue, Ottawa, Ont.

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=Bole, David W.=, President National Drug and Chemical Company of

Canada, Limited, with head office in Montreal, was born in the county of

Lambton, Ont., February 15, 1856, the son of James Bole, a farmer, and

Ann Murdock Bole, his wife. He was educated at the Watford Public School

and Woodstock College, and graduated from the Ontario College of

Pharmacy in 1880, and on March 3 of that year married Isabella Lennox,

daughter of Thomas Lennox, merchant, of Thedford, Ont. He has three

children, the sons being Frederick H. Bole and David L. Bole, President

and Managing Director respectively of the Mutual Elevator Co., Fort

William, Ontario, and a daughter, Florence, wife of W. D. Muirhead, of

Fort William. Mr. Bole moved to Regina, Sask., in 1882, and established

the first drug store in the north-west between Brandon, Man., and

Kamloops, B.C. He was a member of the Provisional School Board in Regina

before schools were established by law, and also President of the Board

of Trade. In 1889, he moved to Winnipeg where he established a wholesale

drug house, and built up an extensive business. He was elected in 1906

President National Drug and Chemical Co., with head office in Montreal,

and branches in all of the leading cities of Canada. This company is one

of the largest drug concerns in the British Empire, employing about

$5,000,000 active capital. He was elected by acclamation to the Winnipeg

School Board for eight years, during three of which he was chairman. For

thirteen years he was a member of the Council of the Winnipeg Board of

Trade, and one year its President. Mr. Bole was elected member of the

House of Commons for Winnipeg at the general election in 1904, but

declined to be a candidate in 1908. Since taking up his residence in

Montreal, he has accepted no public office, except as a member of the

Council of the Board of Trade. He is a member of the Montreal Club.

Presbyterian; Liberal. His address is 34 St. Gabriel St., Montreal,

Quebec.

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=Wetherell, James Elgin, B.A.= (Toronto, Ont.), born at Port Dalhousie,

Ont., September 20, 1851. Son of James S. Wetherell and Jane (Hilts)

Wetherell, both of U.E. Loyalist descent, his mother being a sister of

the Rev. Joseph H. Hilts, the well-known pioneer preacher. Mr. Wetherell

was educated at the Newmarket Public and High Schools and at the

University of Toronto (B.A. 1877 with medal in classics). After

graduation he was Professor of Latin for two years at Woodstock College.

In September, 1879, he became the first Principal of the newly created

Collegiate Institute at St. Marys. In 1884 he moved to Strathroy, where

in 1885 he became the first Principal of the newly created Collegiate

Institute of that town. For five years he was Principal of the Strathroy

Training Institute for High School teachers. He was President of the

Ontario Classical Association in 1896, and President of the College and

High School section of the Ontario Teachers’ Association in 1902. In

1905 he was elected a Senator of the University of Toronto to represent

the High School teachers of the Province. This position he resigned in

1906 when appointed Inspector of High Schools and Collegiate Institutes

for Ontario to succeed Dr. John Seath. During the ten years of his

inspectorship he travelled extensively, not only in Ontario, but also in

the United States and Europe. In January, 1917, he was appointed General

Editor of Text-Books for the Ontario Department of Education. He has

edited many High School text-books in Latin and English, as follows:

Virgil, Book I.; Virgil, Book V.; Cicero, Cato Major; Cicero against

Catiline; Scott, Lay of the Last Minstrel; Selections from Longfellow;

Selections from Wordsworth. After visiting Tennyson’s homes and haunts

he edited in 1890 the first annotated edition of selections from

Tennyson in Canada—a work which called forth a letter of appreciation

and thanks from the poet. He has edited also four anthologies: Later

Canadian Poems (1893); Later American Poems (1896); Poems of the Love of

Country (1905); and the Great War in Verse and Prose (1919). He is also

the author of two books, “Over the Sea,” and “Fields of Fame in England

and Scotland” (1914). He has contributed numerous articles and

occasional verse to magazines and journals, and was at one time a

regular contributor of unsigned articles to a Toronto newspaper. He has

often lectured on educational and literary topics. Mr. Wetherell married

(1) Rebecca Randle, daughter of William Nason, Weston (died May, 1912);

and (2) Margaret, daughter of Henry Smith, Thorold. He has three

children, two sons and a daughter. He is a member of the Canadian Club

and a charter member of the Champlain Society. He attends St. Paul’s

Anglican Church.

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=Hamilton, Frank Kent, LL.B.=, General Manager of the McKittrick

Properties, Limited, Hamilton, Ontario, was born in Stratford, Ont.,

March 19, 1887, and received his education in the local public and high

schools and University of Manitoba, from which he graduated with the

degree of LL.B. in 1910, and in the following year he graduated as a

barrister. He married October 6, 1915, Fannie Irene Moodie, daughter of

Honorary Lieut.-Col. J. R. Moodie, an extensive manufacturer, of

Hamilton, Ont., and has a daughter, Fannie Margaret, born February 14,

1917, and a son, Kenneth Moodie, born June 29, 1918. He is a member of

the Hamilton Golf Club, the Hamilton Club, the Glendale Golf Club, and

his principal recreations are golf and tennis. He is a Presbyterian, and

a Unionist-Liberal. With the exception of one year, his boyhood days

were spent in Stratford, Ontario. This year was spent in Syracuse, New

York, where his father went in November, 1897, to go into the wholesale

shoe business. He died there in June, 1898, and his widow and four

daughters and son returned to live in Stratford. His widow died in

November, 1913. After matriculating in 1904, Mr. Hamilton spent two

years in the men’s clothing business at Stratford, and left in May of

1906 for Western Canada, where he felt the prospects were better for

working his way through for law. He articled to Norman P. Buckingham,

then practising at Boissevain, Manitoba. In July, 1908, he went to

Winnipeg, where he studied for a short time under Lieut.-Col. A. W.

Morley, and from 1909 till 1911 he studied under the firm of Aikins,

Robson, Fullerton & Coyne, the senior member of the firm being Sir James

Aikins, the present Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba. Mr. Robson later

became Judge of the King’s Bench of Manitoba, and is now general counsel

for the Union Bank of Canada. Mr. Fullerton is now Judge of the Court of

Appeal, while J. B. Coyne is one of Manitoba’s most prominent counsel.

Graduating in 1911, the partnership of Coyne & Hamilton was formed in

January, 1912, which firm later became Coyne, Hamilton & Martin.

Successful law practice was carried on under this name until May, 1918,

when Mr. Hamilton came East to accept the General Managership of the

McKittrick Properties, Limited, owners of some 700 acres of land within

the limits of the city of Hamilton, which is now in the course of

development as a residential area. In the winter of 1904 and 1905 he was

one of the members of the Stratford Junior Hockey team, which won the

Junior Championship of the Province of Ontario. In 1910 he was a member

of the Varsity Hockey team of Winnipeg, holders of the Championship of

Manitoba. The team challenged for the Allen Cup, emblematic of the

Amateur Championship of the World, then held by St. Michaels’ of

Toronto, but spring came before dates could be arranged for a play-off.

He also belonged to the Law Hockey team, winners of the Inter-Collegiate

Championship of the University of Manitoba, and though he has given up

active athletics, still bears the stamp of an athlete. He is tall, fair,

active, affable and enterprising in a marked degree. The family reside

at 407 Queen Street South, Hamilton, Ontario.

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=Barnard, Sir Frank Stillman, K.C.M.G.=, Lieutenant-Governor of British

Columbia since 1914, is a native of the city of Toronto, but a British

Columbian since early childhood. He was born on May 16, 1856, the son of

the late Francis J. Barnard, who settled in that province during the

Fraser River gold rush of 1859, and brought his family to permanently

reside there in 1860. The elder Barnard subsequently became one of the

strongest advocates of Confederation with the Dominion of Canada, and

later, from 1879 to 1887, sat in the House of Commons as Conservative

member for the old constituency of Yale-Kootenay. The maiden name of the

mother of the subject of this sketch was Miss Ellen Stillman. He was

educated at Hellmuth College, London, Ont. On returning to B.C., he, in

1879, became associated with the British Columbia Express Company of

Victoria, B.C., and was promoted to the post of general manager in 1881,

and president in 1882. For a considerable period he was prominent in

connection with transportation interests. He was President of the

Consolidated Railway Company of Vancouver, 1894-96, and Managing

Director of the British Columbia Electric Railway Company, Limited, of

London, Eng., 1898-1906. In 1906 he retired from active business.

Despite his large commercial interests, he found time to devote to

politics, and in 1886 and 1887 served as member of the Victoria City

Council. In 1888, he was elected to the House of Commons for the Cariboo

district as a Conservative, and continued to sit until 1896. His

brother, Hon. George Henry Barnard, was also at one time a member of the

House of Commons, and is now a Senator. In 1914, Sir Frank was appointed

Lieutenant-Governor of the Province, a post he still holds at the time

of writing, and was later created a Knight Commander of the Most

Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George. During his term of

office Sir Frank has been a leader in the patriotic activities in

connection with the war, and Lady Barnard has proven a most valuable aid

to him in the important social duties of his office. They were married

on November 7, 1883, and prior thereto Lady Barnard was Miss Martha

Loewen, daughter of the late Joseph Loewen, brewer, of Victoria. Sir

Frank is a member of the following clubs: Union, Victoria; Vancouver,

Vancouver; Royal Vancouver Yacht; Victoria Golf; Victoria Tennis; Royal

Automobile, London, Eng.; and the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, Toronto. He

has no children, and his address is Government House, Victoria, B.C.

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=Hodgetts, Col. Charles Alfred, C.M.G., M.D.=, sanitary specialist, is

the third son of the late George Hodgetts, of Toronto, and a grandson of

the late Lt.-Col. Thomas Hodgetts, of His Majesty’s 24th Regiment, and

was born in Toronto, August 23, 1859. In 1896, Dr. Hodgetts married

Elizabeth B. Salter, daughter of W. T. Salter, of St. John’s,

Newfoundland. She died in March, 1909. He has two sons and three

daughters. He was educated at the Provincial Model School, Toronto, and

was awarded the Dufferin Medal at the Ontario College of Pharmacy,

graduating with honours in 1875, at the Victoria University, graduating

in 1886 as an M.D., C.M., and subsequently received the membership of

the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Dr. Hodgetts was

house surgeon at the Toronto General Hospital 1886-7, and resident

assistant surgeon at the Stafford Infirmary, England, 1888, and received

his L.R.C.P., London, 1889. He received the first D.P.H. of Queen’s

University in 1912. From 1891 to 1904 he was Medical Inspector of the

Provincial Board of Health and Secretary and Deputy Registrar General of

the Province of Ontario from 1904 to 1910. In 1910, he was offered the

M.O.H. of the city of Toronto, but declined the appointment;

subsequently he was appointed Medical Adviser of the Public Health

Committee of the Commission of Conservation, with headquarters at

Ottawa. Dr. Hodgetts has held the Honorary Treasurership of the St. John

Ambulance Association, and is at present Honorary Secretary; also the

Honorary Secretaryship of the Canadian Branch of the Red Cross Society

from the time of its organization, and was most active during the war in

South Africa, 1899-1900, in carrying out the work in Canada. He resigned

from the office in 1910, and was elected the first Honorary Life Member.

Sup. Presdt. Sons of England Ben. Soc., Canada, 1900-1; a Fellow Royal

Sanitary Institute, 1905; an examiner, Royal Sanitary Institute, 1906;

Fellow Royal Institute of Public Health; Fellow of the Society of

Medical Officers of Health of Great Britain; Hon. Vice-President

Association Public Vaccinators, Great Britain; Member, International

Commission on Bovine Tuberculosis, 1909; Member, Ottawa Commission to

investigate the best source of water supply for Ottawa, and to suggest a

plan of sewage disposal for that city, 1911; Life Member of the British

Red Cross Society. He has served as 3rd, 2nd, and 1st Vice-President,

American Public Health Association; Hon. Asst., 1903, Esquire, 1910, and

Knight of Grace, 1912, Order of St. John of Jerusalem; Past President,

Conference Executive; Officer, State and Prof. Boards of Health,

Washington; President, Canadian Public Health Association of Canada,

1911-12; gazetted Lieut. A.M.C., present rank, Lt.-Col.; a founder and

charter member of the Canadian Red Cross Society, St. John Ambulance

Association, and the Canadian Public Health Association; author of

numerous contributions to the press and of several pamphlets on public

health. Represented Canada at International Congress on Tuberculosis,

Washington, 1909; International Congress on Maternity and Child Welfare,

Berlin, 1911; Conference on Pollution of International Waterways,

Cleveland, 1912; and British and Overseas Dominion Conference on Child

Welfare, London, England, 1913. The only medical member of the Trustees

holding the charter of the Toronto School of Medicine for the Ontario

Government. He is credited with being one of the foremost public health

authorities in Canada and, as the “Montreal Gazette” has wisely

pronounced, is “regarded everywhere as an authority on all subjects

dealing with public health.” He was prominent with the Conservation

Commission in urging the creation of a Dominion Department of Health,

and carried out a campaign for the better housing of the people and for

town planning. Dr. Hodgetts is thoroughly British, and believes that the

maintenance of British connection is essential for the continuance of

Canada’s progress. On mobilization, at Valcartier in August, 1914, O.C.

in charge of Inoculation Column. Nearly 30,000 troops were inoculated,

being the largest number ever inoculated on mobilization. In October,

1914, Dr. Hodgetts was appointed Hon. Canadian Red Cross Commissioner

overseas, with the rank of Colonel, and left for the front. From London

he organized and directed the activities of the Society overseas in

England, France and the countries of the Entente. He was elected a

member of the Joint War Committee of the British Society and Order of

St. John of Jerusalem for the full period of his residence overseas. In

September, 1917, among the birthday honours conferred by King George at

Buckingham Palace, the C.M.G. was given to Dr. Hodgetts in appreciation

of his work, he having been mentioned in despatches for distinguished

service. In April, 1918, he resigned the Commissionership of the

C.R.C.S., and the Imperial authorities appointed him to the post of

deputy Commissioner of Medical Service under the Imperial Ministry of

National Services—one of the highest positions in the medical services

of the Empire, and he subsequently served in Ireland as Assistant

Commissioner. Dr. Hodgetts returned to Canada the following December,

and was enthusiastically received by the members of the Great War

Veterans’ Association, to whom he had rendered such attentive and

efficient service overseas, that it had received the personal praise of

the Commanders-in-Chief of the British and French armies. He received a

personal letter of thanks from Queen Marie of Rumania, and the badge of

membership of the Serbian Red Cross for his services to those allies.

Dr. Hodgetts is a Protestant in religion, and his residence is 238

Argyle Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Member of the Rideau and

University Clubs.

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Ottawa]

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=Macdonald, Sir Donald Alexander=, the oldest Major-General in the

Canadian Army, upon whom fell the work of equipping the Canadian Forces

during the continuance of the war of 1914, is now on the retired list.

His responsibilities covered a wide field, embracing the clothing and

equipment of all branches of the service, and in addition the housing,

feeding, transport, of the mounted and postal services. Having served

his country faithfully and with marked ability for fifty-four years,

Major-General Sir Donald Alexander Macdonald, I.S.O., C.M.G., K.B., in

January, 1918, retired from active service loaded with honours,

decorations and distinctions, and carrying with him the high estimation

of the Canadian people and of the Empire at large. The record of his

devotion to duty and his ability to do those duties that fell to his lot

will ever hold a prominent place in Canada’s military history. In 1863,

Major-General Sir Donald Alexander Macdonald first became a member of

the Canadian Militia when he joined the Rifle Company of Cornwall as

Ensign. In 1865 he became Lieutenant of the 59th Regiment, and in 1866

Captain, in which capacity he served during the Fenian raids of 1866. In

1869 he became Adjutant, and in 1870 served in the Red River Expedition,

and was awarded a medal and two clasps. In 1871 he became Major, and in

1877 was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel. Then came in 1885 the

North-West Rebellion, in which he distinguished himself, and was awarded

a medal. In 1900 he was promoted to Colonelcy, and, having for some time

been Chief Superintendent of Military Stores, in 1903 was appointed

Director-General of Ordnance for Canada, and received the honour of

I.S.O. In 1904 he was appointed Quartermaster-General of the Canadian

Militia. In 1908 he was promoted to Brigadier-General, and in that year

received his C.M.G., for his services in equipping the South African

Contingent. In 1912 he was made a Major-General, and in January, 1918,

was knighted by His Majesty King George V. In addition to the other

distinctions that were accorded him, Sir D. A. Macdonald holds the Long

Service Decoration and the honour of being the third military member of

the Militia Council. Major-General Sir Donald Alexander Macdonald is the

son of the late Alexander Eugene Macdonald, Deputy Clerk of the Crown

and Registrar of the Surrogate Court of Cornwall, Ontario, and was born

October 31, 1845, in Cornwall, and educated at the County High School.

In 1876 he married Mary, the second daughter of Hon. Justice Hugh

Richardson, formerly of the Superior and Supreme Court of the Canadian

North-West Territories. He has one daughter, the wife of Lt.-Colonel C.

L. Panet, Secretary of the Department of Militia and Defence. He resides

at the Chateau Laurier, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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=Davidson, William McCartney, M.P.P.= (of Calgary), is one of the

leading editors and public men of Alberta. He was born at Hillier,

Prince Edward County, Ontario, on November 12, 1872, the son of James C.

Davidson, a farmer, and Sarah McCartney Davidson, and was educated at

the public school of his district, Picton High School, St. Catharines

Collegiate Institute, and the University of Toronto. From the latter

institution he graduated in June, 1893, with the degree of B.A., and

decided to enter newspaper work. His first experience was as a reporter

on the staff of the Toronto “World” under W. F. Maclean, M.P. A year

later he was invited to join the staff of the Toronto “Star,” then in

the early stages of its career, and shortly afterward became its

representative in the press gallery of the Ontario Legislature. Mr.

Davidson showed a grasp of public issues beyond the ordinary, and during

the seven years he remained with the “Star” made its legislative reports

a definite feature of the newspaper. In 1901 the Canadian West was just

on the verge of the tremendous development which has marked the first

two decades of this century, and Mr. Davidson resolved to try his

fortunes there. In 1902 he established himself at Calgary, then a town

of about 3,000 inhabitants, and founded the “Morning Albertan.” From

comparatively humble beginnings it has developed into one of the most

widely known newspapers in Canada. Throughout its career Mr. Davidson

has retained the position of editor-in-chief and proprietor. He soon

became prominently identified with the Liberal party in the province,

and at the Alberta general elections of 1917 was elected to the

Legislature for the riding of North Calgary. Few members of that body

have as deep a knowledge of public questions and of parliamentary

procedure. Mr. Davidson has travelled extensively, and one of his

favorite pastimes is mountain-climbing. He is a member of St. Andrews

Golf Club, of the A.F. & A.M., and the I.O.F. He is a Senator of the

University of Alberta, and a Presbyterian in religion. He has been twice

married: first, on June 6, 1899, to Christiana Constance Robertson,

daughter of Rev. James Robertson, D.D., of Toronto, Superintendent of

Missions for the Presbyterian Church of Canada. She died in March, 1904,

and on September 10, 1913, Mr. Davidson married Ethel M. Heydon,

daughter of George Heydon, of Yarmouth Centre, Ontario. He has three

children, James R., William M., and Marian C. R. Davidson.

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=Parent, Hon. Simon Napoleon, K.C.=, who was Chairman of the National

Transcontinental Railway Commission from 1905 to 1911, is the son of

Simon Polycarpe and Luce (Belanger) Parent, of Beauport, Quebec, and was

born there September 12, 1855. His education was had at the Quebec

Normal School and Laval University, and between 1881 and 1902 he was

awarded the following degrees and honours: Laval University, LL.L., with

Lorne Gold Medal and Tessier Prize, 1881; LL.D., 1902; D.C.L. (Hon.),

Bishop’s College University, Lennoxville, 1902. In 1881 Mr. Parent was

called to the Bar, and was created K.C. in 1899. In October, 1877, he

married Marie Louise Clara, daughter of the late Ambroise Gendron. Four

sons and four daughters have blessed the union. At present Mr. Parent is

President of the Quebec Streams Commission for the Province of Quebec.

When admitted to the Bar, Mr. Parent successfully practised his

profession in the city of Quebec, and from the start was looked upon as

a practical man and a good and reliable lawyer. He served as an alderman

in the Quebec City Council from 1890 to 1904, and was Mayor of the city

from 1894 to 1905, during which time he built the new City Hall. Largely

through his perseverance and energetic work, the splendid Quebec Bridge

was built, and it was he who originated the park at St. Roch, between

St. Roch and St. Sauveur. Quebec city streets were improved and the

finances of the city placed on a better footing. Mr. Parent sat in the

local legislature for St. Sauveur in the Liberal interest from 1890 to

1905, and served in the Marchand administration as Commissioner of Crown

Lands, Mines and Forests from 1897 to 1900. On Mr. Marchand’s death in

the latter year, Mr. Parent was called upon to succeed him as Prime

Minister of the Province, and held that position up to 1905, when he

resigned at the request of the Right Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier to accept

the position of Chairman of the National Transcontinental Railway

Commission, with headquarters at Ottawa, which Commission had charge and

control of the construction of the Eastern Division of the

Transcontinental Railway, extending from the city of Moncton, N.B., in

the east to the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, in the west, and the

operation thereof until completed and leased to the Grand Trunk Pacific

Railway Company. Mr. Parent was President of the Quebec Bridge Company

from 1897 to 1908, was formerly a director of the Quebec Railway, Light

and Power Company and the Quebec and Lake St. John Railway. During his

whole public career, Mr. Parent has held the reputation for being an

honest and able man; as one of the most industrious administrators of

modern times; as a man of decision, business and legal ability, and rare

enterprise in public matters; unassuming, courteous, and practical. A

Roman Catholic in religion, Mr. Parent has ever been a staunch Liberal,

and one of the late Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s best and most influential

supporters. He is a member of the Rideau, Laurentian, and Ottawa Hunt

Clubs in Ottawa, and of the Garrison Club, Quebec. His Ottawa residence

is at 485 King Edward Avenue.

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=Rutherford, John Gunion, C.M.G., V.S.=, Ottawa, Honorary Associate of

the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, Commissioner, Board of Railway

Commissioners for Canada (Ottawa, Ont.) born at Mountain Cross,

Peeblesshire, Scotland, on December 25, 1857, son of Rev. Robert

Rutherford, M.A., and his wife Agnes Gunion. In 1887, he married Edith,

daughter of Washington Boultbee, of Ancaster, Ont., by whom he has three

daughters. He was educated at the High School of Glasgow, and later

spent several years in the practical study of agriculture in the

counties of East Lothian and Selkirk. Coming to Canada at the age of

seventeen, he attended the Ontario Agricultural College in 1875 and

1876, being one of the earliest students at that institution, and later

gained valuable practical experience in agriculture on the famous Bow

Park Farm at Brantford, Ontario. In 1879 he graduated from the Ontario

Veterinary College with honors, winning the gold medal for the best

general examination, and numerous other prizes. He practised veterinary

medicine for several years in Ontario, the United States and Mexico, and

returning to Canada in 1884, settled at Portage la Prairie, Manitoba,

where he engaged in general practice and horse breeding operations. He

served as Veterinary Officer with the North-West Field Force under

General Middleton during the Riel rebellion in 1885, and holds medal and

clasp for that campaign. During his residence in Portage la Prairie he

was for several years President of the Horse Breeders’ Association of

Manitoba and the North-West Territories; President of the Manitoba

Veterinary Association; President of the Manitoba and Lakeside

Agricultural Society; the Island Park Racing Association, and the St.

Andrew’s Society of Portage la Prairie. In 1884 he was appointed

Veterinary Inspector for the Manitoba Government, an appointment which

he held until 1892, when he was elected to represent the constituency of

Lakeside (Portage Plains) in the Manitoba Legislature, in which body he

was Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture. He was re-elected by

acclamation in 1896, but after one session resigned to enter Dominion

politics as representative for the constituency of Macdonald, which then

comprised over one-sixth of the province of Manitoba. He sat as member

for this constituency in the Dominion House until 1900, and in 1901 went

to Great Britain as special Quarantine Officer for the Canadian

Department of Agriculture. In 1902, he was appointed Chief Veterinary

Inspector, and in 1904, after organizing the Health of Animals Branch,

he became Veterinary Director-General. In 1906, he also took over the

office of Live Stock Commissioner, and in the same and the succeeding

year organized the present Meat and Canned Foods Inspection Service.

During his tenure of office many original and radical departures were

made in connection with the control and eradication of contagious

diseases among the live stock of the Dominion, the results achieved

being eminently satisfactory. Under his direction, the work of the Live

Stock Branch was very considerably extended, and brought into close

correlation with that of the Health of Animals Branch, joint supervision

over the work of both branches being in a number of cases exercised by

the same officers, especially in those provinces farthest from Ottawa.

In 1908, he went twice to Rome as delegate for Canada to the

International Institute of Agriculture, and in the same year was

appointed to represent the Dominion at the International Congress on

Tuberculosis at Washington, D.C. He was President of the American

Veterinary Medical Association in 1908-09, and Chairman since its

inception of the International Commission on the Control of Bovine

Tuberculosis. He was for several years President of the St. Andrews

Society of Ottawa, and from 1909 to 1911 President of the Civil Service

Association of Canada. He was created a C.M.G. in 1910. In May, 1911, he

resigned from the Dominion service, but at the request of the Government

retained office until March, 1912. Immediately thereafter, he was

engaged by Lord Shaughnessy, then President of the Canadian Pacific

Railway Company, to undertake a campaign for the general development of

the live stock industry and the encouragement of mixed farming in the

three prairie provinces. In the organization of the campaign he found it

advisable to co-ordinate this special work with that of the Company’s

Department of Natural Resources at Calgary, Alberta, and in the

following spring (1913) he was appointed Superintendent of Agriculture

and Animal Industry, a position involving full responsibility for all

the agricultural operations of the Company, including the educational

and experimental activities in connection with its irrigation projects

in Alberta. From 1913 to 1919, he was President of the Western Canada

Live Stock Union, an organization in the creation of which he was

largely instrumental, and which comprises in its membership all live

stock associations and other bodies interested in the production of live

stock in the four Western Provinces. In December, 1918, his portrait in

oils was added by the live stock men of Canada to the collection of

similar pictures of live stock celebrities in the Saddle and Sirloin

Club of Chicago. He was a member of the Dominion Economic and

Development Commission, as also a member of the Saskatchewan Royal Live

Stock Commission, and has since its inception been Chairman of the Joint

Committee on Commerce and Agriculture. While resident in Alberta he was

Vice-Chairman of the Provincial Board of Agricultural Education, as also

President of the Alberta Thoroughbred Horse Breeders’ Association,

besides holding office in numerous other live stock and kindred

organizations. He has had exceptional opportunities of acquiring a

practical knowledge of Canadian agriculture, having actually farmed,

more or less extensively, in every province of the Dominion except

Prince Edward Island, his own farm being situated in the Chilliwack

Valley in British Columbia. He was appointed to the Board of Railway

Commissioners for Canada in November, 1918, and assumed office in

February, 1919. Dr. Rutherford is a member of the following clubs:

Ranchmen’s (Calgary), Rideau (Ottawa), University Club (Ottawa), Royal

Ottawa Golf Club (Ottawa), and his home address is 218 MacLaren Street,

Ottawa, Ont.

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=Breithaupt, John C.=, of Kitchener, Ont., is one of the most widely

known business men of Canada, and has been particularly identified with

the leather industry. He was born at Buffalo, N.Y., on February 27,

1859, the son of the late Louis and Catherine (Hailer) Breithaupt; but

his parents removed to Kitchener, then known as Berlin, Ont., when he

was very young. He was educated in the public and high schools of that

thriving manufacturing city and later at the North-Western College,

Naperville, Ill., of which despite his Canadian citizenship, he has in

later life been a Trustee for upwards of twenty years. In Berlin, Ont.,

he became associated in the tanning business of his father, which of

late years has grown to great dimensions. He is Secretary of the

Breithaupt Leather Company, Ltd., with tanneries at Kitchener,

Penetanguishene and Woodstock, Ont., and President of the Hastings

Tannery Company, Ltd., with head office at Kitchener and tannery at

Hastings, Ont. In addition to his widespread commercial interests Mr.

Breithaupt has shown unselfish activity in public affairs. While his

city was still known as Berlin he was a member of the Municipal Council

for six years, first as Councillor, then as Reeve, and later, in 1896-7,

as Mayor. He has been a member of the Board of Water Commissioners of

the city since 1899 continuously, and Chairman for every year of that

period but one. He held the office of President of the Local Board of

Trade for a term, and is also a member of the Toronto Board of Trade,

with which he has been connected since 1891. In all municipal movements

for the betterment of civic government he has been a leader, and his

voice has frequently been heard in the cause of progress in the province

at large. He was President of the Berlin and Waterloo Hospital for

several years and takes a deep interest in religious matters. He is a

member of the Evangelical Association, and has been a member of various

Boards and Commissions of the Church, having been delegate to the

General Conference in 1911 and again elected in 1919 in a similar

capacity. He is a member of the following clubs: Lancaster, Grand River

County and Golf, and Ontario Club (Toronto). In 1892 he married Caroline

C., eldest daughter of the late J. S. Anthes, furniture manufacturer of

Kitchener, and has six children: John Edward, chemical engineer of the

various Breithaupt tanneries; Louise Catherine, Carl Louis, who early in

1919 returned from overseas after two years’ service with the Canadian

Engineers in France; Freida Caroline, Walter Hailer, and Helena Esther

Breithaupt.

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=Cronyn, Hume, M.P.=, who represents the city of London, Ont., in the

House of Commons, was born in London on August 28th, 1864, the son of

Verschoyle Cronyn, LL.B., K.C., and Sophy Cronyn. The latter was a

daughter of the late Hon. William Hume Blake, and a sister of the late

Hon. Edward Blake, formerly leader of the Liberal party in the Canadian

House of Commons, and later one of the ornaments of the British House of

Commons as member for Longford, Ireland. The subject of this sketch was

educated at Dr. Tassie’s famous grammar school, Galt, Ont., and at

Toronto University, from which he graduated with the degree of B.A. He

qualified for the law, and in 1889 received the degree of LL.B. from the

same institution, and in that year was called to the Bar. He at once

commenced the practice of law at London, and continued therein for the

next eighteen years. In 1907 he gave up practice to take up the post of

General Manager of The Huron and Erie Mortgage Corporation, a position

he still holds in combination with the office of Vice-President. He is

also General Manager of the Canada Trust Company, London, and a Director

of the Mutual Life Assurance Company of Canada. Though long identified

with the Liberal party, both from conviction and family association, Mr.

Cronyn always declined public honors until the political crisis

attendant on the adoption of the policy of conscription by Sir Robert

Borden arose in 1917. Mr. Cronyn was one of many Ontario Liberals who

decided to support the Prime Minister in forming a Union Government to

carry out that policy, and when the general elections were announced on

this issue, accepted the nomination as a Unionist candidate for the

riding of London. The Laurier Liberals decided to make London one of the

chief arenas of their battle against conscription, by nominating Mr.

George S. Gibbons who had also been prominent in the politics of that

city. After one of the most hotly contested campaigns of that momentous

election, Mr. Cronyn was elected by a majority of over 4,000. In his

younger days, he had been prominent in military circles; while a student

at Toronto University he had enlisted in the Queen’s Own Rifles and

served with that famous regiment in the North-West Rebellion of 1885,

taking part in the engagement of Cut Knife Creek, for which he holds the

medal and clasp. On returning to London, he joined the 7th Fusiliers,

and served as Major in that battalion from 1899 to 1907, when he

retired. During the late war he was active in promoting all patriotic

causes. He is a member of the following clubs: London; London Hunt and

Country; Toronto; Rideau (Ottawa); Royal Societies and the Zeta Psi

fraternity. In religion he is an Anglican, and on September 6, 1892,

married Frances A., second daughter of John Labatt, of London. He has

three sons and two daughters, and his residence is at 580 Dundas Street,

London, Ont.

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=Davis, Albert Mayno=, President of the McAuliffe-Davis Lumber Company,

Limited, lumber manufacturers and dealers, with head office on Duke

Street, Ottawa, and a capital of $300,000, has been in the lumber

business in Ottawa for over twenty years, first with the Export Lumber

Company, later as manager of the Chaudiere Lumber Company, and for seven

years as manager of the McAuliffe-Davis Lumber Company, Limited, of

which he is now President. Mr. Davis is not only recognized as one of

the leading retail lumbermen of eastern Ontario, and one with entire

knowledge of trade conditions in Ottawa and throughout the valley, but

is known to be one of the leaders among the younger business element in

the city. In the Company, Mr. Davis has associated with him Mr. W. Allen

Taft, Jr., of Boston, Vice-President, who is also President of the

Export Lumber Company; Mr. W. J. Armstrong, Secretary-Treasurer; and the

following constitute the Board of Directors: Messrs. Albert Mayno Davis,

W. H. McAuliffe, George I. Dewar, W. A. Taft, and W. Allen Taft. Mr.

Albert Mayno Davis is the son of C. W. Davis, Burlington, Vermont, and

Jennie Taft, of the same place, and was born at Burlington, October 3,

1878. He was educated at the Burlington High School and the University

of Vermont. June 23, 1903, he married Adele Sylvain, daughter of L. P.

Sylvain, of Ottawa, Chief Clerk in the Library of Parliament, with which

he has been connected since 1878. Two daughters and one son—Margaret,

Philip, and Adele—add joy and lustre to the home. Mr. Davis is a member

of the Laurentian, Royal Ottawa, Rivermead and Rideau Tennis Clubs. His

recreations may be classified as outdoor sports. His residence is at 24

Clemow Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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=Bâby, Wolstan Alexander Dixie=, Collector of Inland Revenue for the

Division of Hamilton (Ontario), is one of the most widely known and

respected of Federal Government officials. Moreover, he comes of one of

the oldest of all Canadian families and his ancestry dates back almost

to the beginnings of white settlement on the continent of North America.

He is the son of the late William Duperon Bâby, attorney-at-law and

sheriff of the County of Essex, Ont., and Christina Jane Wilson,

daughter of Captain John Wilson, of H.M. Canadian Militia, Amherstburg,

Ont., and was born at Sandwich, Ont., on April 13, 1858. As a matter of

record it is important to say something of the ancestry and family

history of Mr. Bâby. His forefathers came from France in the earlier

years of French settlement, and settled at Fort Detroit in what is now

the State of Michigan, but then part of the French domain of Canada.

Later they moved across the Detroit River, and took up land in what is

now the town of Sandwich, Ont. The founders of the family on this

continent were Jacques Bâby de Rainville and his wife, Isabeau Robin, of

Monteton, in the Bishopric of Agen, France. Jacques was an officer in

the famous Carignan Regiment and with it came to America in the

seventeenth century. Subsequently, in 1670, he was married a second time

to Jehanne Dandonneau de Sables, of which union were born nine children.

The eldest grandson of this couple was Hon. Jacques Duperon Bâby, who

was born in 1731, and lived until 1796. While he was still a young man,

the British conquest of Canada occurred, and Detroit falling into

British hands in 1760, Jacques Duperon Bâby and his wife, Suzanne de la

Croix Rheaume (who lived until 1812), became British subjects. In all

they had twenty-two children. The name of Hon. Jacques Duperon Bâby is

intimately interwoven with the history of the Essex peninsula. He played

a prominent part in the defence of the Detroit district during the

conspiracy of the Indian chieftain, Pontiac, in 1760. He was a man of

great worth and integrity, who enjoyed the confidence alike of the

French, English, and Indian population, and consequently was able to be

of great assistance to the British government in the establishment of

the new regime. Hon. Jacques Duperon Bâby was the eldest of his many

children. He was born in 1762 and died in 1833, and held positions of

honour and influence in the young colony of Upper Canada. Jean Baptiste

Bâby, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a younger brother,

and served as Treasurer of the newly-organized County of Essex. Two

other brothers entered the British army, one, Daniel, rising to the rank

of Major-General; while four of his sisters married British officers,

one of whom was Lord Bellingham. The eldest son of Jean Baptiste Bâby

was William Duperon Bâby, afterward sheriff of Essex, born at Sandwich

in 1819; and the subject of this sketch was William’s sixth child. Since

most of the various generations had large families, the Bâby family

connection in Western Ontario, and indeed throughout America is

literally enormous, and all have preserved the high tradition of

“noblesse oblige.” Mr. Dixie Bâby was educated at the Separate Schools

and at Assumption College, Sandwich, Ont., and at the Christian

Brothers’ School, Toronto, in 1876. At the age of eighteen he was

appointed to the Inland Revenue service, and detailed to Rae’s

distillery as assistant officer to the late Pierre Ramon. He qualified

himself so well as a vigilant watcher of the government interests in

connection with the important revenue derived from excise that he has

since served in many parts of Canada, including Paris, Woodstock, St.

Catharines, Belleville, Brantford, Portage la Prairie, and

Berthierville, Que. He was first stationed at Hamilton in 1886 as second

officer to the late William Donaghy, and in 1890 transferred to

Berthierville. In 1892 he went back to the Hamilton distillery, and was

appointed officer in charge in October, 1898. On November 21, 1914, he

was appointed Collector of Inland Revenue in charge of the entire

Hamilton division. His duties have always been of a character which

required expert knowledge as well as rigid probity, and during his

forty-three years’ service he has won the unfailing confidence of the

Department, no matter which party was in power. In December, 1880, he

married Mary McDougall, of Belleville, Ont., who was born April 7, 1861.

He has had seven children: Christina Caroline, deceased; Julia Fortier

and Mary Louisa (twins, also deceased); Frances Jeanette, wife of Henri

Bâby, notary public, Lachine, Que.; John Dixie; George Raymond; and

Madeline Cecilia. Capt. George Raymond Bâby, M.D., C.M., who was born at

Berthierville on April 1, 1892, went to France with the McGill

University 1915 unit, Canadian Army Medical Corps, and was awarded the

Military Cross for bravery and devotion to duty during the great British

advance which began August 8, 1918, and only ended when the armistice

was signed. The other son, John Dixie Bâby, is a civil engineer by

profession, who assisted in building the Canton Hankow Railway, China.

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=Bell, Hon. George Alexander=, Chairman of the Local Government Board

for the Province of Saskatchewan, is one of the pubic administrators of

the Canadian West, and in an unusual degree the architect of his own

fortunes. He was born on a farm in Brant County, Ontario, on August 3,

1856, the son of David and Agnes (Melrose) Bell. He was educated in the

public schools of Huron County, and continued on the farm until he was

twenty years old, after which he learned the trade of blacksmith, which

he followed for the next twelve years, four in Ontario and eight in

Manitoba. He moved to the latter province in 1880 on the opening up of

that province by the Canadian Pacific Railway. In 1888 he engaged in the

agricultural implement business as agent for the Massey-Harris Company,

and continued therein for the next thirteen years. In 1903, because of

his exceptional knowledge of the country he was appointed by the

Dominion Government Homestead Inspector for the Land District of

Estevan, Saskatchewan, a position he resigned in 1908 to become a

candidate for the Saskatchewan Legislature, and was elected as a

supporter of the Liberal administration of Hon. Walter Scott. He was

re-elected for Estevan in 1912, and called to the Cabinet and sworn in

as Provincial Treasurer on August 19 of that year. The Government had

established a system of Government-owned telephones, and this portfolio

was shortly combined with his duties as Treasurer. In his second

capacity of Minister of Telephones he was sworn in February, 1913, and

continued to administer both offices until May, 1918, when he resigned

from the Cabinet and Legislature to accept the post of Chairman of the

Local Government Board, an important office, for which his

administrative capacity and thorough knowledge of Western conditions

eminently fit him. Mr. Bell is a Liberal in politics, and a Presbyterian

in religion. He is a member of the Wascana Country Club, Regina (his

favorite recreation being golf), and of the following societies: A.F. &

A.M., I.O.O.F., and C.O.F. On December 6, 1883, he married Elizabeth,

daughter of Johnston and Rachel (Cosgrove) Smith, of Elmwood, Bruce

County, Ont., and has seven children, George Melrose, Ella Mabel,

Gordon, Ethel, Grace Agnes, Lorne David, and Harold Alexander Bell. Mr.

and Mrs. Bell reside at Regina, Sask.

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=Martin, Hon. William Melville, K.C.=, Prime Minister of Saskatchewan,

is a native of the village of Norwich, Oxford County, Ont. He was born

on August 23, 1877, the son of Rev. William M. and Christina (Jamieson)

Martin, both his parents being natives of Scotland. While he was very

young his parents removed to Exeter in Huron County, where his father

served as Minister of the Presbyterian Church for twenty-six years. The

subject of this sketch was educated at Exeter Public School, Clinton

Collegiate Institute, and the University of Toronto, from which

institution he graduated with the degree of B.A. and honors in classics.

He also attended the Ontario School of Pedagogy to qualify as a High

School teacher, and subsequently acted as Classical Master at Harriston

High School for two years, 1899-1901. This however he regarded but as a

stepping-stone to the practice of law for which he qualified at Osgoode

Hall, Toronto. On being called to the bar he went to Regina,

Saskatchewan, and commenced practice in July, 1903. He developed great

talent not only as a lawyer but as a public speaker, and soon became

prominent in the Liberal party. In 1906 he was offered the Liberal

nomination for the House of Commons, for the old riding of Western

Assiniboia, in succession to Hon. Walter Scott (who had resigned his

Ottawa seat to become the first Prime Minister of the newly organized

province of Saskatchewan), but declined. At the general elections of

1908, however, he yielded to the requests of his friends and accepted

nomination, being elected by a majority of 708. At the general elections

of 1911, despite the fact that the Liberal party as a whole met defeat,

he was elected by the increased majority of 1,730. In all he sat in the

House of Commons at Ottawa for eight years and although one of its

youngest members was regarded as one of the most brilliant. In 1916 Hon.

Walter Scott was obliged to resign the Premiership of Saskatchewan owing

to ill health and Mr. Martin’s party friends in the West urged that he

resign from Federal politics and accept the Premiership. He assented and

at a by-election on November 13, 1916, was returned for Mr. Scott’s

seat, Regina City, by acclamation. He reorganized the cabinet and framed

a programme of progressive legislation which proved so acceptable to the

electorate that at the general election of 1917 his administration was

sustained by a very handsome majority. In addition to the offices of

Prime Minister and President of the Council he administers the

portfolios of Minister of Education and Minister of Railways. His

educational reforms, covering as they do many problems of extreme

moment, have been very important, and have attracted wide attention

throughout Canada, and in the United States as well. Generally speaking

Saskatchewan legislation under his regime has won fame for progress and

effectiveness. So widespread is his reputation that on the death of Sir

Wilfrid Laurier, early in 1919, many, both in the East and West,

suggested him as the best available successor to the Federal Liberal

leadership. Many of his friends still predict a Federal career for him,

although Mr. Martin himself prefers to see his own programme of

legislation for Saskatchewan carried out before aspiring to a wider

arena. He is a Presbyterian in religion and a member of the Wascana

Country Club and the Assiniboia Club. On Sept. 26, 1906, he married

Violet Florence, daughter of the late Walter Thomson of Mitchell, Ont.,

and has two sons, Walter M. and Douglas Martin. His home is at 2042

Cornwall St., Regina, Sask.

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=Henry, David Edouard=, founder of Henry’s Shorthand School, 209 Sparks

Street, Ottawa, on January 2, 1913, was born at Clarence Creek, Russell

County, Ontario, April 24, 1874, his parents being Jacques Henry, a

farmer, and Aurelie Laviolette. He was educated in Ottawa at the Grey

Nuns’ Convent and the Christian Brothers’ School. Building it on a sure

foundation—according to the laws of economics, well equipped, and

capably managed by experts—Mr. Henry made his school an enviable

success. At the opening in 1913, the school was located at the corner of

Bank and Gloucester Streets, and within three months, having outgrown

its original premises it was removed to its present premises on the

corner of Sparks and Bank Streets—the Capital’s busy corner—which from

time to time have been enlarged as the requirements of increased

attendance demanded until to-day they are some five times the original

size, and are likely to be enlarged still further at an early date,

although his school is to-day the largest in Eastern Ontario. When the

school was transferred from the corner of Bank and Gloucester Streets to

the corner of Bank and Sparks, Mr. Henry had but 40 day pupils. In 1918,

the number had increased to 562, which students are to-day holding good

positions in the Dominion Government offices, manufacturing and

wholesale establishments, banking houses, etc., all of which bears

tribute to the high standard of efficiency of the school. For eleven

years before Mr. Henry went into business for himself, he was in charge

of the shorthand department of the Willis Business College in Ottawa,

when S. T. Willis was proprietor. In his school, his staff consists of

experts in shorthand, typewriting, business penmanship, practical

English, spelling, punctuation, transcription, correspondence, etc.,

etc., and those who receive instruction in any one of these receive the

best that can be had. At the age of 16 years, Mr. Henry was awarded a

Fourth Form Certificate and honours for composition, spelling and

penmanship. He acquired a systematic course of self-instruction, studied

shorthand (French system) and afterwards English, and made himself

proficient in the Isaac Pitman, Ben Pitman, Graham, Munson,

Scott-Browne, Beale, Calligraphy (a Canadian production), and the Gregg

systems. He studied French, English, German, Greek and Latin, and

received special study in penmanship at the Zanerian College, Columbus,

Ohio. To acquire a practical business education, he had experience as

stenographer and bookkeeper with big business firms such as Perkins &

Fraser, barristers; Alexander Mutchmor, auditor, etc. From 1894 to 1896,

Mr. Henry made a special study of scientific methods for imparting

shorthand and typewriting, and during 1895-6 taught shorthand at the

Capital City Business College, at Ottawa, and had charge of the Y.M.C.A.

classes for several months. In 1896, he attended the Rochester, New

York, Business Institute, to acquire a greater qualification for

teaching, and, in 1899, established a shorthand school, which later he

closed to join the staff of the Metropolitan Business College at Ottawa.

For two years, he attended Rev. Dr. McMeekin’s “Ottawa College of

Oratory,” and gave several successful recitals in the Albert Hall. In

1899, Mr. Henry corrected a text book on Pitman’s shorthand for Messrs.

Powers and Lyons, of Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Henry is a graduate of the

New York College of Phonography; the Phonographic Institute, Cincinnati,

Ohio; and is the only personal graduate in Canada of the well known

Gregg School of Chicago. He holds the Scott-Browne’s Certificate. In his

examination for the Phonographic Institute Teacher’s Certificate, he

made the highest record, viz., 97.2 per cent., thereby defeating more

than 700 candidates. Mr. Henry is a member of the Gregg Shorthand

Association of America, and is the author of two standard works in

shorthand. Mr. Henry is a Roman Catholic in religion, a Liberal in

politics, and, for recreation, spends his time motoring. He resides at

205 O’Connor Street, Ottawa, Ontario.

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