leading Liberal statesmen of Canada, was born at Halifax, N.S., November
24, 1848, the son of Charles and Sarah (Ellis) Fielding. He was educated
in the public schools of Halifax, and at the age of sixteen entered the
office of the “Chronicle” of that city as a reporter, and ultimately
became managing editor, a post from which he retired in 1884. He early
developed a rare talent as a public speaker, with a special aptitude for
the handling of financial topics. At the Nova Scotia elections of 1882
he was elected to the Legislature for Halifax County as a Liberal, and
two years later became Premier and Provincial Secretary. He was
successful in carrying his party to victory in the general elections of
1886, 1890 and 1894, gaining an ever-increasing fame as an orator and
administrator. When Sir Wilfrid Laurier, became Prime Minister of
Canada, after the Federal elections of 1896, he induced Mr. Fielding to
leave the provincial arena and become Minister of Finance in his
cabinet. The new Minister was elected to the House of Commons for the
riding of Shelburne and Queens by acclamation on August 2, 1896, and was
re-elected at the general elections of 1900, 1904, and 1908. In 1911, he
was personally defeated in the contest which resulted in the general
defeat of the Laurier administration on the reciprocity issue. The great
historic act of Mr. Fielding’s career as Minister of Finance was his
establishment of an Imperial British trade preference in 1897, which has
since become a permanent factor in Canadian tariff policies, and which
won him fame throughout the Empire. In 1907, he also negotiated a
reciprocity treaty in certain commodities with France; and during the
fifteen years that he was Minister of Finance was a notable figure at
Colonial and Imperial conferences in London. In 1910, he conducted on
behalf of Canada the negotiations with President Taft to avert tariff
war between Canada and the United States, and in the spring of 1911 was
one of the commissioners who negotiated the reciprocity agreement with
the United States, which, in the following September was rejected at the
polls, and which became known as the Knox-Fielding pact. On the defeat
of the Laurier administration, he re-entered journalism as President and
Editor-in-Chief of the “Journal of Commerce,” Montreal. In 1917, he
returned to politics as an Independent Liberal, supporting the Union
Government on the question of conscription, and was elected by
acclamation for his old constituency. At the National Liberal Convention
of August, 1919, his election to the party Leadership was strongly urged
by supporters in all parts of Canada; and despite his reluctance to
accept the honour he was only defeated by the narrow majority of 38 in a
poll at which more than 900 votes were cast. In religion Hon. Mr.
Fielding is a Baptist, and on September 7, 1876, married Hester,
daughter of Thos. A. Rankine, of St. John, N.B., by whom he had four
daughters and one son. He resides at 286 Charlotte Street, Ottawa.
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=Nash, Charles William= (Toronto, Ont.), Provincial Biologist, is an
Englishman who came to this country to engage in farming, and was called
to the Manitoba Bar in 1883. Since January, 1899, he has been a Lecturer
in Biology of the Farmers’ Institutes Bureau, Department of Agriculture,
Ontario, and is Biologist of the Provincial Museum, Department of
Education. He has been a frequent contributor to Canadian Magazines, as
also to “Farming World,” of which he was Associate Editor, writing
regularly for many years under the title “Nature About the Farm.” Among
other publications he is the author of “Birds of Ontario in Relation to
Agriculture” (5th edition, 1913); “Check List, Birds of Ontario”; “Birds
of the Garden”; “Ways of the Woodcock”; “Passing of the Pigeons”;
“Migration of Birds”; “Humming Birds of Ontario”; “Wild Fowl of
Ontario”; “The Bass of Ontario”; “Farmers’ Handy Book”; “Manual of
Vertebrates of Ontario”; “Fishes of Ontario”; “Reptiles and Batrachians
of Ontario”; “Mammals of Ontario”; and “Fishes of Toronto Region.” He
has presented collections of Birds and Fishes of Ontario to the
Provincial Museum, and is a member of the American Ornithologists’
Union; as also a Director of the Entomological Society of Canada. Mr.
Nash was born at Bognor, Sussex, Eng., August 15, 1848, the son of Wm.
H. and Louisa L. H. Nash, and received his education in England and the
Isle of Jersey. He married Harriette B., daughter of Judge E. C.
Campbell, Niagara, February, 1877, and has two daughters, Mrs. Eleanor
E. Lacey and Mrs. Isabella L. Sweatman. He is an Anglican in religion,
and a Conservative in politics.
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=Foran, Joseph Kearney, K.C., Litt. D., LL.B.=, Montreal and Ottawa, is
one of the legal staff of the House of Commons, and also one of the
leading litterateurs of Canada. He was born at Aylmer, Que., on
September 5, 1857, the son of John Foran, a prominent lumberman, and his
wife, Catharine F. Kearney. The latter was a lady of pronounced literary
talent, and in her younger days was on the staff of the Dublin “Nation.”
After coming to America, she for a time edited the “Ladies’ Literary
Journal,” of Philadelphia. The subject of this sketch was educated at
St. Joseph’s College, now known as Ottawa University, graduating in
1877. He then entered Laval University, Quebec, to equip himself for the
practice of law, and in 1880 received the degree of Bachelor of Laws.
During this three-year term he also obtained practical experience of his
profession in the offices of Andrews, Caron, Andrews and Fitzpatrick, of
which the late Sir Adolphe Caron and Sir Charles Fitzpatrick, formerly
Chief Justice of Canada, were members. From 1880 to 1883, he practised
law at Aylmer, Quebec, but in the latter year ill-health compelled him
to spend three years in the woods of the north. In 1886 he was
sufficiently restored in health to return to civic conditions, and for
two years he acted as secretary to the Speaker of the House of Commons.
He also became active as a writer of poems, essays and other forms of
literary effort which were accepted by numerous Canadian and American
publications, and in 1891 he became editor of the “True Witness,” of
Montreal, which won an honorable place in Catholic journalism by the
literary distinction of its contents and the breadth of its outlook. At
the same time he began to acquire fame as a speaker and lecturer, and
has been heard in many parts of Canada and the United States. His
addresses are marked not only by rare eloquence, but by a spirit of
toleration that makes them acceptable in all assemblages. In 1894, the
University of Ottawa conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Letters,
and his address on that occasion won tributes from the Earl of Aberdeen
and other distinguished men who were present. He also speaks with equal
facility in French and English. He has published a number of volumes,
including “Obligations,” a legal treatise; “Poems and Lyrics”; “Simon
the Abenakis,” a novel; “The Spirit of the Age,” an historical and
philosophical essay; and “Irish Canadian Representatives.” The latter
publication won high tributes from both Sir John A. Macdonald and Sir
Wilfrid Laurier. He is a strong advocate of the cause of Irish freedom
and in 1882 drafted the first Home Rule resolution presented in the
House of Commons, for which the late Hon. John Costigan stood sponsor.
In 1902 he entered the office of the Secretary of the Law Branch of the
House of Commons as English translator; in 1908 he became Assistant Law
Clerk; and in 1912, when the Parliamentary Counselship was created he
was attached as Legal Officer to the Law Branch. In 1911 he was created
King’s Counsel, and in 1914 appointed a Commissioner of the High Court
of Ontario Dr. Foran is a Roman Catholic in religion; and in 1892
married Louisa, eldest daughter of the late Edwin Davis of Ottawa, who
built many of the lighthouses on the Great Lakes. Mrs. Foran is a lady
of literary culture who has been of great assistance to her husband in
his work. They have two surviving children, Lieut. Herbert P. Foran, a
student of McGill University, and Miss Ethel U. Foran.
[Illustration: J. G. Brennan, Ottawa
John L. Garland, Ottawa]
=Easson, Robert Henry= (Toronto, Ont.), is one of the most prominent
figures in the musical manufacturing industry of Canada. He is
Vice-President of the Otto Higel Company, Ltd., manufacturers of piano
actions and keys and pneumatic actions for player-pianos, with factories
at King and Bathurst Streets, Toronto, and also Vice-President of the
Otto Higel Company, Inc., of New York City, N.Y. With its Canadian and
American branches, this enterprise is one of the largest industries of
its kind in America. He is also President of the Canada Action & Key
Company, Ltd., Toronto. Mr. Easson was born in Toronto, January 10,
1873, the son of Robert F. Easson, one of the pioneer telegraphers of
this country, identified with the Great Northwestern Telegraph Company
from its earliest days, and his wife, Millicent Easson. He was educated
at the Toronto public and high schools, and began his business career as
cashier and office assistant in the firm of M. & L. Samuel, Benjamin &
Company, wholesale hardware merchants, Toronto, in 1890. He continued
with this firm for ten years when he became manager of the Audit
Department of Jenkins & Hardy, assignees and chartered accountants,
Toronto. In 1904, he retired from that position to associate himself
with the growing business of the Otto Higel Company, and became
Vice-President in 1906. Since then the business of the Company has been
greatly extended. The musical industries of Canada are now splendidly
organized institutions for the development of music in the home, and Mr.
Easson has been one of those most influential in bringing about this
spirit of co-ordination. He is a member of the National Club and the
Royal Canadian Yacht Club, and also of the Masonic order. In politics he
is a Liberal, in religion a Presbyterian, and his recreations are
bowling and motoring. On December 28, 1904, he married Winnifred,
daughter of the late John Garvin, and has two sons and one daughter. He
resides at 407 Palmerston Boulevard, Toronto.
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=Hunter, Major W. E. Lincoln=, of Hunter & Deacon, Barristers and
Solicitors, 2 Toronto Street, Toronto, was born in London, Ont., January
13, 1870, the son of Rev. W. J. Hunter, M.A., D.D., and Mary J.
(Robinson) Hunter. He was educated at Hamilton Collegiate Institute and
Osgoode Hall, graduating as barrister at the age of twenty-one. He
joined the firm of Ince & Hunter, 1891, continuing this connection for
four years, when he became associated with former Mayor A. R. Boswell,
K.C., who is now Superintendent of Insurance for the Province of
Ontario. He formed his present partnership in 1900. In 1901, he was
appointed Census Commissioner for Centre Toronto. He married June 1,
1904, Mary Edith, daughter of Henry Smith, Superintendent of
Colonization Roads, Toronto, and has four daughters—Kathleen, Madeline,
Norah and Aileen. He is an ex-Vice-President of Centre Toronto Reform
Association, and ex-President North Toronto Liberal Club. He is the
author of “The Woman in Blue,” a satirical novel published in 1895. His
military career began at an early age, and he was gazetted Lieutenant in
the 10th Regiment, Royal Grenadiers, in 1901, became Captain in 1907,
and Major 1915, being now second in command. When war broke out, he at
once became active in every way at his command, speaking constantly at
recruiting meetings, associating in many other military and patriotic
activities. For two years he was constantly in khaki, and for nearly a
year was in command of Filtration Guard, with over 300 men under him. In
his patriotic work, he had a most enthusiastic associate in Mrs. Hunter,
who is Regent of the Royal Grenadier Chapter, I.O.D.E., whose efforts on
behalf of the boys overseas were unceasing and indefatigable. On August
18, 1919, a formal ceremony took place in the Armouries, when the colors
of the Regiment were handed over to Major Hunter, who accepted them on
behalf of the Regiment, from Major Andrew Duncanson, D.S.O., commander
of a guard of 100 men, all of whom had been overseas. These colours were
carried by the guard of honour for the Prince of Wales, Colonel in Chief
of the Regiment, on his visit to Toronto in August, 1919. Major Hunter
has large real estate interests in the city. He is a member of the Royal
Canadian Yacht Club, the Ontario Club, Military Institute, Mississauga
and Scarboro Golf Clubs, Lake Shore Country Club, Toronto, and the
Junior Army and Navy Club, London, England. He is a Liberal and an
Anglican. The family reside at 113 Walmer Road, Toronto.
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=Henry, Hon. George Stewart, M.P.P., B.A., LL.B.=, Minister of
Agriculture for the Province of Ontario, is not only a practical farmer
but an agricultural expert of wide academic training. He was born at
King Township, York County, Ont., on July 16, 1871, the son of William
and Louisa Henry, the mother’s parents being from Ulster, as was also
his father. The subject of this sketch was educated at the public
schools of Toronto, Upper Canada College and the University of Toronto,
of which he holds the degrees of B.A. and LL.B. He also spent a year at
the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, Ont., and though equipped for
a professional career decided to adopt the vocation of farmer in East
York, near Toronto. In this field he proved himself extremely
successful, and as a young man took an active part in the public affairs
of his district. He was a member of York Township Council from 1903
until 1910, holding the position of Reeve during the last four years of
that interval. This carried with it membership in the York County
Council, and in 1909 he was elected by his colleagues warden of York, an
old and historic office. A vacancy in the Ontario Legislature for the
riding of East York necessitated a by-election, and he was nominated in
the Conservative interest. He was returned at the head of the poll on
September 8, 1913, and at the general elections of the following June
was again successful. In the spring of 1918, Sir William Hearst, Prime
Minister of Ontario, invited him to enter the Ontario cabinet as
Minister of Agriculture, a portfolio he had himself filled for some
months after the death of the late Hon. James Duff. This necessitated a
by-election in the summer of that year. Mr. Henry was again elected for
East York, for the third time in five years. In that office he has
pursued a vigorous progressive policy, not only with regard to the
development of agriculture in the outlying districts, but in stimulating
production in the older settlements. He has also been a leader in the
Good Roads Movement; he is a member of the Toronto and York Roads
Commission, and is Secretary-Treasurer of the Ontario Good Roads
Association. He was also a prominent figure in the All-Canada Roads
Conference held at Quebec under the Presidency of Sir Lomer Gouin in
May, 1919. In addition to conducting a farm of a model character, Mr.
Henry is President of the Farmers’ Dairy Company, Ltd., of Toronto. He
is a Methodist in religion, and on January 29, 1902, married Anna Ketha,
daughter of Rev. F. W. Pickett, of the Toronto Methodist Conference. He
resides at Todmorden, on the outskirts of Toronto.
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=Butler, Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Page, K.C., B.C.L.=, is one of the
leading advocates of Montreal, where he practises at 81 Union Avenue. He
was born at Kingsey, Que., on August 3, 1845, the son of the Rev. John
Butler, M.A., and educated at the University of Toronto and McGill
University, Montreal, taking the B.C.L. degree in 1865 and receiving
that of D.C.L. in 1880. During 1862 and 1863, he acted as Private
Secretary to Sir John Abbott, afterward Prime Minister of Canada, and at
that time Solicitor-General of Quebec Province. He was called to the
Quebec Bar in August, 1866, and created Queen’s Counsel in 1887. He was
first associated with the firm of Rose (late Sir John Rose) & Ritchie,
Advocates, Montreal, and later with the late E. J. Hemming, Q.C., at
Drummondville, Que. After residing at Melbourne, Que., for a time, he
returned to Montreal in 1870, where he has ever since practised. Until
1881 he was in partnership with the late John Monk, and since then has
practised for the most part alone. He was Councillor for the
municipality of Longueuil from 1874-77, and also served as School
Trustee there. Col. Butler long took an active part in military affairs,
and commanded the Prince of Wales’ Regiment from 1889 to 1898. He
organized and became the first president of the Montreal Amalgamated
Rifle Association and the Montreal Military Institute. In politics he is
a Conservative, and in religion an Anglican, having been a member of the
Diocesan and Provincial Synods over thirty years. In Free Masonry, he
was Grand Master in 1894, and has been for many years Chairman of the
Committee on Jurisprudence of the Grand Lodge of Quebec. In August,
1870, he married a daughter of the late Valentine Cooke, of
Drummondville, Que., and his home address is 52 Fort Street, Montreal.
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=McEvoy, John Millar, B.A., LL.B.= (London, Ont.), is one of the best
known barristers in the Western section of the province, and a man of
unusual scholastic attainments. He was born at Caradoc, Middlesex
County, in 1864, the son of A. M. and Sarah (Northcott) McEvoy—his
father coming of a family in County Down, Ireland. He was educated at
the Strathroy Collegiate Institute, the University of Toronto, and the
Ontario Law School, taking the B.A. degree in 1892 and LL.B. in 1893. As
a student, he was a marked man among the faculty, because of his
originality of mind and intellectual power, and on graduation was
elected a Fellow in Political Science at Toronto University, and in that
capacity taught Canadian constitutional history there. On the retirement
of Prof. W. J. Ashley, who had been at the head of the Political Science
Department, he was placed in temporary charge pending the arrival of
Prof. Mavor, the new incumbent from Scotland. He afterward continued as
lecturer under Prof. Mavor for one year. At this period he was a
prolific writer of pamphlets and magazine essays. He is the author of
“The Ontario Township: a History of the Growth of Municipal Institutions
in the Province,” printed under Government auspices as the first of the
Toronto University studies in political science. He also wrote an “Essay
on Currency and Banking,” which was awarded the Ramsay Scholarship and
printed at the request of the leading bankers of Canada. Another essay
of his on “Karl Marx’s Theory of Value” was declared by Prof. Ashley to
be the ablest exposition of the abstract theory of value that it had
been his good fortune to have heard or read on any occasion. At the
invitation of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, he
contributed a series of articles to their publication, “Annals,” upon
subjects of economic and historical importance—to Canadians especially.
On giving up his academic career in the middle nineties he returned to
Middlesex County, and settled down to the practice of law in London,
Ont., where he has ever since resided. As a barrister, he has been
identified with many important cases. He was associated with the late E.
F. B. Johnston, K.C., in the defence of Gerald Sifton, charged with the
murder of his father, which ran through three trials and finally
resulted in the acquittal of the accused. He was also associated with
Mr. Johnston and Mr. W. R. (now Justice) Riddell, K.C., as one of the
counsel for Hon. J. R. Stratton in the Royal Commission to investigate a
charge of attempted bribery, preferred by the late R. R. Gamey, M.P.P.
for Manitoulin. This was a political _cause célèbre_, and resulted in a
victory for the defence. For a quarter of a century, Mr. McEvoy has been
intimately associated with the fortunes of the Liberal party in his
district. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the House of Commons in
East Middlesex in the general elections of 1904, and for London in the
general elections of 1911. At the Ontario elections of 1908 he also
contested the London seat against Sir Adam Beck, but was defeated. Mr.
McEvoy is a strong advocate of the tariff-for-revenue-only principle and
of an Anglo-Saxon alliance, and is a member of the Ontario Club,
Toronto, a headquarters of Liberalism. In 1894 he married a daughter of
John Anderson, of East Williams, Ont. He has one son, Captain A. M.
McEvoy, of the C.E.F., and one daughter, Miss Gladys, at home.
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=Chambers, Col. Ernest John.= Col. Ernest John Chambers, Gentleman Usher
of the Black Rod, was appointed to that position March 1st, 1904. He is
the son of Edward Thomas and Louisa Percy (Davies) Chambers and was born
in Penkridge, Staffordshire, England, April 16th, 1862, coming to Canada
in 1870. He was educated at the Prince Albert School, St. Henri, Quebec,
and the Montreal High School. Col. Chambers belongs to the same family
as Captain Chambers, R.N., who commanded the flotilla on Lake Champlain
during the Revolutionary War with the now United States of America.
Captain Chambers, afterwards Admiral, served as a midshipman under
Captain Cook at the great siege and taking of Quebec. Another of the
same family was an officer in the British Army, took part in most of the
fighting in the Niagara Peninsula, 1812-13, and was taken prisoner.
When, February 3, 1916, fire destroyed the Parliament Buildings at
Ottawa, the Black Rod, the emblem of authority carried by the Gentleman
Usher of the Black Rod, was burnt, and Col. Chambers was ordered to
procure a new one. The new emblem, which was subscribed for by the
members of the United Kingdom Branch of the Empire Parliamentary
Association, is similar to the Black Rods of the House of Lords and the
Senates of Australia and South Africa, is made of ebony with the “Lyon”
crest, butt piece and knob of solid gold, and bears wreaths of maple
leaves. The shield is engraved with the royal monogram, and the butt
piece contains a sovereign of the year 1904, when Col. Chambers was
appointed, and the coin is to pass to his family as an heirloom. In 1885
Col. Chambers acted as field correspondent for the “Montreal Star”
during the Riel insurrection, and served as a volunteer galloper to
General Middleton at Batoche and Fish Creek, and wears the medal and
clasp, the Long Service Medal, and the Colonial Auxiliary Forces
Officers’ Decoration. He participated in the operations against Big
Bear’s band of Indians. In 1888-9 Col. Chambers was Managing-Director
and Editor of the “Calgary Herald,” and for two years was joint
proprietor and editor of the Canadian “Military Gazette.” Since 1912
Col. Chambers has been Secretary of the Canadian Branch Empire
Parliamentary Association. Since 1908 he has been editor of the Canadian
Parliamentary Guide. He has done good work in the field of Literature
and is the historian of several of our most distinguished Canadian
Regiments. In fact he has been a prominent and clever contributor to a
variety of publications on Parliamentary, historical, military, hunting
and yachting subjects. He is the author of many books on historical and
military subjects. He was connected with the Canadian Militia for many
years. When but a boy Col. Chambers commanded the Montreal High School
Cadet Rifles. Later, in 1902, he became Captain and Adjutant of the 6th
Fusiliers, Montreal, now the Grenadier Guards of Canada. In 1910 he was
appointed District Intelligence Officer, Montreal, with the rank of
Captain in the Corps of Guides and was promoted to Major in 1911,
Lieut.-Col. in 1915, Colonel in 1917. In August, 1914, at the outbreak
of the great war, Col. Chambers was appointed Censor at the Military
Headquarters in Ottawa, and July 15th, 1915, Chief Press Censor for
Canada, and continued to perform his duties as such. In the discharge of
his duties he proved an ideal officer, and his name was brought to the
attention of the Secretary of State for War for distinguished service.
August 31, 1898, Col. Chambers married Bertha Macmillan, of Kingston,
Ontario. He has one son and one daughter. He is a member of the Royal
Ottawa Golf, the Rivermead Golf and the Coulonge Fish and Game Clubs.
For recreation he indulges in shooting, fishing, yachting, and golf. He
resides at 325 Daly Ave., Ottawa, Ontario.
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=Elliot, Maj.-General Harry Macintire, C.M.G.=, Master-General of
Ordnance, Headquarters Staff, Ottawa, is one of those officers
originally trained in the Imperial Army, who did much to create the
machinery which enabled Canada to play her part as a fighting element
from the earlier stages of the great war. He is a son of General Elliot,
a retired officer of the Imperial Army, and was born at Bangalore,
India, where his father was at that time stationed, on December 3, 1867.
He was educated at Carshalton School, England, and the Royal Military
Academy, Woolwich. He was gazetted as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal
Artillery, February 17, 1888, and a Lieutenant three years later. He was
promoted to the rank of Captain in the Royal Artillery on August 17,
1898. He saw active service in South Africa 1900, and China (Boxer
Rebellion) 1900-1901. On return to England he was appointed Instructor
in Gunnery, Chatham (Eng.), in 1901, and on June 1, 1905, was made an
Instructor of the First Class, continuing in that capacity until March
29, 1906, when he was attached to the Military Forces of Canada as
Instructor in Gunnery. He continued in that capacity until March 29,
1909. On June 9, 1908, he was promoted simultaneously to the rank of
Major in the Royal Artillery (Imperial) and the Canadian Permanent
Forces. He returned to England in 1909, and was stationed in Ireland
till 1911. On May 1, 1911, he became Director of Artillery on the
Headquarters Staff, Ottawa. He was promoted to the rank of
Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel, on June 9, 1912, and became
Assistant-Adjutant General of Military District No. 2 (Toronto) on March
1, 1913. On May 17, 1915, he became full Colonel, and on March 31, 1916,
was appointed Master-General of Ordnance with the rank of
Brigadier-General. On November 29 of the same year he became temporary
Major-General. During the war he was for a short time on active service
overseas, and was honoured by his Majesty with the decoration of a
Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George.
On January 10, 1899, General Elliot married a daughter of Dr. W. N.
Wickwire, of Halifax, N.S. Mrs. Elliot died in 1911, leaving four
children—Irene (b. 1900, died 1916), William (b. 1902), Aileen (b.
1905), Violet (b. 1908). His favourite recreations are riding and
golfing, and he belongs to the Army and Navy Club (London, Eng.) and the
Rideau and Country Clubs (Ottawa). In religion he is an Anglican.
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=Duclos, Arnold Willard, B.A., B.C.L., K.C.= (Ottawa, Ont.),
Deputy-Registrar of the Exchequer Court of Canada, is the son of Rev. R.
P. Duclos (Canadian) and Sophie Jeanrenaud, of Geneve, Switzerland. He
was born at Ste. Hyacinthe, Quebec, April 7, 1873, and was educated at
the High School and McGill University, Montreal, and graduated in arts
in 1894 and in law in 1897, and received the degrees of B.A. and B.C.L.
Called to the Quebec Bar in 1898, he practised in Montreal for a short
time and then left for Ottawa, where he practised with Mr. Henry Aylen,
K.C., under the firm name of Aylen & Duclos, barristers, advocates,
etc., and was associated with Mr. Aylen in several important cases in
the districts of Ottawa and Pontiac. He was made a King’s Counsel in
1911. In 1915, Mr. Duclos joined the legal firm of Devlin & Ste. Marie,
Hull, Quebec, and in 1918 assisted, in various professional capacities,
in the matter of exemptions in the Central Court of Appeal (Judge Duff).
In January, 1919, he started to practise alone, and in the following
June was appointed Deputy-Registrar of the Exchequer Court of Canada,
and Official Law Reporter of the Exchequer Court Reports. Mr. Duclos
practised before the Supreme and Exchequer Courts, and acted as counsel
in divorce matters before the Senate Divorce Committee. From 1905 to his
appointment as Deputy-Registrar, he was Assistant-Editor of Official
Reports of the Province of Quebec. He also revised and edited the sixth
edition of “How Canada is Governed,” by Sir J. G. Bourinot. Having
previously held various other offices, in 1918 Mr. Duclos was elected
President of the Ottawa Valley Graduates Society of McGill. He is an
officer of the University Club of Ottawa, President of St. Andrew’s
Church Choir; a Director of the Ottawa Choral Society, and a prominent
figure in the several musical organizations of Ottawa, and is a member
of the Rideau Lawn Tennis Club. Hon. Mr. Justice Duclos is a brother.
September, 1900, Mr. Duclos married Grace Van Dusen, daughter of the
late Thomas J. Gillelan, of the American Bank Note Company. They have
two daughters, Elise Adrienne and Madeleine G. For recreation, he takes
pleasure in tennis, fishing, and music. He is a Presbyterian in
religion, and his residence is 152 James Street, Ottawa, Ontario,
Canada.
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=Hogg, William Drummond, K.C.=, barrister-at-law, Ottawa, is one of the
most distinguished figures in Canadian legal circles. He was born at
Perth, Lanark County, Ont., on February 29, 1848, the son of David Hogg,
a prominent furniture manufacturer of that town. His father was a son of
Lieut. David Hogg, of Edinburgh, Scotland, who became an officer of the
Royal Artillery, and in that capacity took part in the siege of
Copenhagen, and was present at the Battle of the Pyramids, the Battle of
the Nile, and other historic engagements of the Napoleonic wars. James
Hogg, the Scottish poet and the “Ettrick Shepherd” of “Noctes
Ambrosianæ,” was a relative. David Hogg (who died in 1882) came to
Canada just fifty years previously and became one of the pioneer
settlers of Lanark County, where, at the village of Perth, he
established the industry above-mentioned. The mother of the subject of
this sketch, Isabella Inglis, was a native of Clackmannan, Scotland, who
came to Canada in 1831 and settled with relatives in Lanark village.
These relatives were the Hall family, with branches in many parts of
Upper Canada, and whose name is identified with the early history of
such towns and cities as Peterboro, Sarnia, Brockville, and Perth. She
died in 1881. Mr. Hogg was educated at the High School, Perth, Ont., and
commenced the study of law in the office of E. G. Malloch, Crown
Attorney for Lanark County. Subsequently, he spent several years in the
offices of Paterson, Bain & Paterson, Toronto, and was called to the
Ontario Bar at Hilary term, 1874. He commenced practice at Ottawa in
1875 in partnership with the late Daniel O’Connor. For some years after
the death of the latter he practised alone, but on the admission of his
son to the Bar the firm became Hogg & Hogg. The practice of Mr. Hogg has
largely lain in the Supreme and Exchequer Courts of Canada, and he is a
recognized authority on questions of prerogative and constitutional law.
Though a Conservative in party leanings, he has never sought political
office, and one of the convincing proofs of his professional standing is
the fact that during the Liberal _régime_ of Sir Wilfrid Laurier his
services were frequently sought in connection with important and
intricate Government litigation. He is a member of St. Andrews Society
of Ottawa, and was for many years solicitor of that body. He has also
had the honour of being elected by his fellow barristers a Bencher of
the Law Society of Upper Canada and is now a life Bencher of that
Society, and was some years ago created King’s Counsel. When the late
James Bethune, K.C., of Toronto, a relative by marriage, passed away, a
long friendship of the most intimate personal, and professional
character was severed. Mr. Hogg holds very strong views on the subject
of temperance, and at various times held all the executive offices of
the Sons of Temperance. He married Louisa Agnes, daughter of Dr. Charles
Rattray, of Cornwall, Ont., and has two sons. His business address is
the Trust Building, Ottawa.
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=Gwynne, Brigadier-General Reginald John, C.M.G.=,
Deputy-Adjutant-General for Canada, Headquarters Staff, Ottawa, is a
native of the motherland, but has been intimately identified with the
marvellous development of Canada’s military power during the past few
years. He was born in London, England, on September 16, 1863, the son of
the late J. E. A. Gwynne, J.P., F.S.A., F.R.S., etc., of Folkington
Manor, Polegate, Sussex, England, and his wife, Mary Earle Purvis. He
was educated at Cheam, Eton, and Pembroke College, Oxford. After coming
to Canada, he became identified with the Active Militia of this country,
and commanded the 16th Horse, a Western organization, from 1907 to 1911.
In 1911 and 1912, he was in command of the 7th Cavalry Brigade, and in
1913 he was appointed to the Headquarters Staff at Ottawa as Director of
Cadet Services for the Dominion. In 1914, the year of the outbreak of
the great war, he became Director of Mobilization, with the rank of
Brevet-Colonel and in that capacity performed very important services in
connection with the organization of Canada’s overseas forces. In 1916,
he was promoted to the rank of Director-General of Mobilization, a post
he filled until the close of the war, and in the following year raised
to the rank of Brigadier-General. In 1919 he was appointed
Deputy-Adjutant-General for Canada. In recognition of his services he
was created by His Majesty a Companion of the Most Distinguished Order
of St. Michael and St. George. On May 16, 1894, he married Mary Mayall,
daughter of S. Taylor, J.P., and Janet Mayall Taylor, of Hathershaw,
Oldham, England, and has one daughter, Evelyn Violet. In religion he is
an adherent of the Church of England, and he is a member of the Rideau
Club, Ottawa.
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=King, Hon. William Lyon Mackenzie, C.M.G.= (Ottawa, Ont.), Leader of
the Liberal Party of Canada, was born at Berlin (now Kitchener), Ont.,
on December 17, 1874, the son of John King, K.C., and his wife, Isabel
Grace, daughter of William Lyon Mackenzie. He was educated at Toronto
University (B.A. 1895; LL.B. 1896; M.A. 1897), the University of
Chicago, and Harvard University (A.M. 1898; Ph.D. 1909). He was one of
the first Canadian students to specialize in social science. For a time
he was a reporter on various Toronto newspapers. In 1900, when Sir
William Mulock, then Postmaster-General in the Laurier Cabinet,
established the Federal Department of Labour, Mr. King was chosen as
Deputy-Minister to organize it. In 1908, he was elected to the House of
Commons for the riding of North Waterloo, and subsequently was promoted
by Sir Wilfrid Laurier to the post of Minister of Labour. He was
defeated, in company with the majority of Liberal candidates, in the
Federal elections in 1911. During his years of service in the Labour
Department, Mr. King was responsible for much important permanent
legislation with regard to industrial disputes, immigration, and the
opium traffic, and served on numerous Royal Commissions on matters
pertaining to Labour and to the problem of Oriental Immigration. On
different occasions, he represented Canada on important missions to
England. In 1909, he was appointed by the Imperial Government one of the
British representatives on the Anti-Opium Commission, which met at
Shanghai, China. In June of 1914, he was appointed Director of an
Investigation of Industrial Relations under the auspices of the
Rockefeller Foundation. In this position, he was instrumental in
bringing about better relations between employers and employees in the
coal mines of Colorado, where for years there had been serious
industrial strife. Throughout the period of the War, he rendered a like
service to several other of the largest industries in America engaged in
the production of war necessities. His researches were subsequently
incorporated in a volume entitled “Industry and Humanity,” which has
obtained international recognition as one of the most searching and
advanced considerations of an all-important question. Mr. King has
always maintained his connection with the Canadian Liberal Party. From
1911 to 1914, he was President of the Ontario Reform Association. In
December, 1917, he was the Liberal candidate in North York. At the
National Liberal Convention, held in Ottawa, August, 1919, he was
elected Leader of the Liberal Party in succession to the late Sir
Wilfrid Laurier. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a
member of the following clubs—Rideau (Ottawa), Ontario (Toronto),
Century (New York), Harvard (Boston and New York). He is a Presbyterian
in religion and unmarried.
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=Hanna (the late), Hon. William John, K.C., M.P.P.= (Sarnia Ont.), was
born in Adelaide township, County of Middlesex, Ont., on October 13,
1862, the son of George and Jane (Murdock) Hanna. The son of a farmer,
he was educated at the local schools and soon developed great capacity
as a student, and decided to put himself through for the legal
profession, graduating from Osgoode Hall, Toronto. He was called to the
Bar in 1890, and commenced the practice of law as a barrister at Sarnia,
Ont., eventually becoming head of the firm of H. Le Sueur and McKinley
of that place, and was created a K.C. in 1908. He soon became active
with the Conservative party, and in 1896 became the candidate of that
party for the House of Commons in West Lambton against the late Justice
Lister, and was defeated. His party still had confidence in him, and in
1900 he was again nominated for the Federal House and again defeated,
West Lambton always having been a great Liberal stronghold. Two years
later, in 1902, Mr. Whitney, then leader of the Opposition in Ontario,
in looking for a strong man to help him in Western Ontario, prevailed
upon Mr. Hanna to run for the Provincial Legislature and undertake the
work of organizing Western Ontario. He accepted, made an amazing
turnover in that portion of the Liberal stamping grounds, was elected,
and came to Toronto in 1905. When the Conservative government came into
power, Mr. Whitney invited him to become one of his cabinet, and he
chose the portfolio of Provincial Secretary, as in this position his
duties would neither come in contact or conflict with the position he
held as chief legal adviser to the largest oil corporation in Canada.
His public life was free from reproach of mixing up private interests
and friendships with his public duties, and as a legal practitioner an
extraordinary fact is recorded of him: that while representing one of
the most important corporations in the country, no case he had to handle
ever went into court; he had a singular and commendable theory that it
was the duty of a lawyer to keep his clients out of court. He was
elected again to the Ontario Legislature in 1908 and 1911, and appointed
a member of the Inter-Provincial Conference held at Ottawa in 1910. His
desire for a rest and to complete his great work in connection with his
pet hobby of prison reform led him to decline a portfolio when the
Hearst government was formed, although he remained in the cabinet as
minister without portfolio; and in connection with his services as a
public servant in Ontario, it may be said that, though not a
prohibitionist by conviction, he was the most efficient administrator of
the liquor license system that this country has ever known. He created
the machinery for the administration of the prohibition law, which has
proved as effective as was possible. His natural taste for politics did
not die out on his retirement from office, and he became one of Sir
Robert Borden’s most trusted private advisers on public policy. He
perfected a system of prison reform which, perhaps, is the most sensible
and humane prison system in the world; in fact, his ten years or more of
service given to the Province of Ontario as administrator of its public
charities, its license laws, its prisons, asylums, and other
institutions, constitute a record so progressive and enlightened that
the full value of his services will long continue to be recognized by
sociologists with a habit for research. In 1917, Sir Robert Borden
induced him to accept the post of Food Controller of Canada; and Mr.
Hanna at once applied himself to the task of organizing that department,
making his single aim the increase of production and the conserving of
foodstuffs in order to ensure a steady supply to the soldiers in the
field and the civilian populations of Britain, France and Italy. He
encountered great difficulties owing to the misapprehension of the
public, which demanded a reduction of prices, a measure that, by
increasing consumption, would have defeated the above-named object. He
however, refused to be moved by popular clamor, and in co-operation with
Mr. H. H. Hoover rendered great service toward relieving the overseas
populations of the danger of starvation. His exertions told on his
physique, and early in 1918 he resigned this office, leaving it well
organized for his successor. On the retirement of Mr. Walter C. Teagle
from the post of President of the Imperial Oil Company to become
President of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, Mr. Hanna was
elected his successor. In that capacity, he, in December, 1918,
introduced the Industrial Relationship plan in all the plants of the
Company from coast to coast, and also a series of sickness, death and
insurance benefits for workmen. Grief at the death of his only son,
Flight-Lieutenant Neil Hanna, who was killed by accident in Italy in
November, 1918, a few days after the signing of the armistice,
undermined his health, and on March 20, 1919, he died suddenly while on
a vacation in Georgia. When he was borne to his last resting-place at
Sarnia, his funeral was attended by public men from all parts of Canada
and many sections of the United States. The late Mr. Hanna was twice
married: first to Jean J. Neil, who died in 1891, leaving one son, the
late Neil Hanna; and secondly to Maud McAdams, by whom he had two
daughters. In religion he was a Methodist, and a member of many
important clubs and philanthropic organizations.
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=Gale, Robert Henry=, one of the leading public men of Vancouver, of
which city he has been a resident for nearly a decade, is a native of
the city of Quebec. After an excellent business training in the ancient
capital of Canada, he went to British Columbia in 1910, and located at
Vancouver. He engaged in business as a contractor, and is at present
manager of the British Columbia Contractor’s Supply Company, Limited,
one of the largest enterprises of its kind in the province. Less than
five years ago he entered municipal politics, and was elected alderman
for 1916 and 1917. His services during his comparatively brief term on
the City Council made him so widely popular that his friends urged him
to run for Mayor in 1918. He accepted the nomination, and in January of
that year was elected over the retiring mayor, Mr. Malcolm McBeath, who
had sought re-election, by a majority of 300, the largest ever given to
a mayoralty aspirant in the history of Vancouver. In January, 1919, he
was re-elected by acclamation, it being generally conceded that it would
be futile for any rival to contest the office with him. In April of
1919, the provincial government of which Hon. John Oliver is the head
appointed him to the newly-created office of Public Utilities
Commissioner for British Columbia. By the tax-paying public, the
appointment was considered an admirable one, because of the high
capacity Mr. Gale had revealed as a municipal administrator. The Great
War Veterans’ Association, however, made a vigorous protest on the
ground that all new offices within the gift of the government should go
to returned soldiers. The Oliver administration deemed it necessary to
yield to the agitation, and cancelled the appointment of Mr. Gale,
accepting the nominee of the G.W.V.A., Lieutenant-Colonel Retallick, a
civil engineer by profession, who had rendered excellent service
overseas. Under the circumstances, the cancellation of the appointment
was in no sense a reflection on the character or capacity of Mr. Gale.
In politics the latter is a Liberal, but has never sought election as a
political candidate. During the general strike that was started in
Vancouver during the early summer of 1919 as an outgrowth of a general
strike at Winnipeg and other Western towns, Mr. Gale showed great tact
and firmness in handling a very difficult situation, so that the attempt
to disorganize municipal government and upset the present economic
system was of comparatively brief duration.
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=Elson, John Melbourne= (St. Catharines, Ont.), was born in Byron, Ont.,
Dec. 25th, 1880. Son of George and Charlotte (Wilkin) Elson. Educated at
London, Ont., Collegiate Institute and Western University of that city.
He entered journalism in 1903 as a member of the staff of the London
“News,” since merged, and thereafter his rise was rapid. Shortly joined
the staff of the Montreal “Gazette” and in 1905 during the late Joseph
Chamberlain’s Tariff Reform Campaign he went to Great Britain to study
political and economic conditions and wrote special articles thereon to
Canadian papers. On his return to Canada he became a member of the staff
of the Toronto “Globe” and in 1907 was appointed editor of the Toronto
“Sunday World.” Subsequently in 1909 he became Assistant Managing
Director of the World Publishing Company, and in 1910 purchased the St.
Catharines “Evening Journal” which he has ever since conducted. Mr.
Elson is a terse and gifted writer, with a wide fund of information. He
has travelled considerably on this continent and abroad, and is a gifted
public speaker. When acting as a newspaper correspondent he secured the
only interview granted by Baron Komura, the Japanese plenipotentiary,
who negotiated the peace treaty between Japan and Russia at Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, except the official statement given to the Associated
Press in the United States. Since becoming a resident of St. Catharines,
he has been active in public affairs, and in patriotic objects like the
Red Cross and the Canadian Patriotic Fund. He was elected Mayor of St.
Catharines, Jan. 1st, 1919, by an unusually large majority. He is a
member of the Council of the Board of Trade; and has served as President
of the St. Catharines Canadian Club, and was for seven years President
of the Lincoln County Liberal Association. He was formerly
Vice-President of the Niagara District Hydro Radial Union, and has been
an active member of Soldiers’ Aid Commission ever since it was organized
in St. Catharines in the early part of war. He is a member of the
Masonic Order. In 1911 he published a brochure, “Reciprocity, The
Outcome of Evolution” which had a wide circulation in Canada and the
United States. For two years he was a member of the Collegiate Institute
Board. Was made member of the Advisory Council of the Repatriation
Committee of the Dominion of Canada. In religion he is an Anglican and
in September, 1907, married Wilhelmina M., daughter of W. M. Faulds of
Mount Brydges, Ont., and has two children: a son and a daughter.
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=Gill, Robert=, of Ottawa, a gentleman well known to the seniors of
Canadian finance, is one of the best known citizens of the Canadian
capital, where he has resided since 1876. He has been especially
identified with the history of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, of which
institution he was a trusted officer for over forty years. He was born
at Dundas, Ont., on September 30, 1851, the son of William and Alison
(Sanderson) Gill, both his parents being of Scottish Border origin. He
was educated at Upper Canada College, Toronto, and entered the service
of the Bank of Commerce at the age of nineteen. This was in 1870, and
the Bank was but three years old. In its expansion during the next few
years Mr. Gill actively participated; his promotions were rapid, and in
1874 he was appointed manager of the Galt, Ont., branch. In 1876 he was
transferred to the Ottawa branch, which was regarded as one of the most
important in the Bank of Commerce chain of agencies. In 1880 he was
appointed an Inspector of the Bank and retained that position until 1887
when he was appointed Manager of the Ottawa branch, which had attained a
very important position in the financial life of the capital. Under his
regime it attained a wide expansion of business and he continued to
direct its affairs until 1911, when he retired on pension after
forty-one years’ service. During his career with the Bank of Commerce he
proved himself not only a practical banker with a complete understanding
of the needs of the business community, but an able thinker and essayist
on financial questions. Among his publications was one on the subject of
Post Office Savings Banks reprinted in the “Canadian Banker’s Journal”
for the use of the United States Currency Commission. Since his
retirement from active business he has lent his services and influence
to the promotion of patriotic and other objects of public welfare, and
during the late war was Vice-President of the Executive of the Ottawa
branch of the Canadian Patriotic Fund. He is also a Life Governor and
Vice-President of St. Luke’s Hospital in that city, and in June, 1916,
was appointed a member of the Military Hospitals Commission. From 1899
to 1906 he was honorary captain and paymaster of the Governor-General’s
Foot Guards. He is a prominent figure in the social life of his chosen
city, and in 1914 was elected President of the Rideau Club of Ottawa, a
position he still holds at the time of writing. He is also a member of
the following other clubs: Country (Ottawa), St. James (Montreal), York
(Toronto), Ottawa Golf, R.C.Y.C. (Toronto) and the Constitutional
(London, Eng.). He is a Past President of the Ottawa Literary and
Scientific Society, member of St. Andrew’s Society (Ottawa), the Royal
Canadian Institute and the Archæological Society of America, and a life
member of the Royal Colonial Institute (England). His recreations are
golf and angling; in religion he is an Anglican and in politics, a
Conservative. Mr. Gill was first married on September 20, 1881, to
Caroline, daughter of John Gilmour of “Marchmont,” Ottawa, by whom he
has one surviving son, Major Allan Gilmour Gill, who during the late war
commanded the 45th Battery, Canadian Field Artillery, overseas. This
lady passed away on April 19, 1884, and Mr. Gill married again on
November 20, 1899, Anna Louise, daughter of the late W. R. Thistle, by
whom he has three sons, Henry Robert Thistle, Evan William Thistle and
Francis Egan Thistle. His permanent residence is at 281 O’Connor Street,
Ottawa, and he has a summer residence, “Gillcairn,” at St. Andrew’s,
N.B.
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=Wright, Alexander Whyte=, late Vice-Chairman Workmen’s Compensation
Commission of Ontario, was born in the township of Markham, York County,
Ontario, December 17, 1847, the son of George and Helen (Whyte) Wright,
who came to Canada from Glasgow, Scotland, some years previously. He was
educated in the public schools of New Hamburg, and after a short time in
a drug store, learned the woollen business, later engaging in the
woollen manufacturing business at Linwood, Waterloo County, and
subsequently in Preston, St. Jacobs and Guelph. At an early age he
joined the 29th Battalion, and responded to the call to arms for the
Fenian raid. When the first Riel rebellion broke out he joined the Red
River Expedition under General Sir Garnet Wolseley (afterwards British
Commander-in-Chief Earl Wolseley), serving as a sergeant. On returning
he rejoined the 29th Battalion as sergeant-major. In his later teens and
early twenties he had quite a local reputation as a fine lacrosse player
and fast runner. He had always been a great reader and taken an interest
in politics, and in 1873 left the woollen business to become a reporter
on the Guelph “Herald,” soon after being engaged as editor of the
Orangeville “Sun.” He next edited the Stratford “Herald,” then the
Guelph “Herald.” In 1878 he came to Toronto as editor and joint
publisher of “The National,” making it an ardent advocate of the
national policy, which the late Sir John A. Macdonald had adopted as his
platform after having been urgently pressed to do so by a deputation
consisting of the late Hon. Isaac Buchannan of Hamilton the late William
Wallace, M.P. for Simcoe, the late John Maclean (father of W. F.
Maclean, M.P. of the “World”), the late Thomas Cowan of Galt, the late
W. H. Fraser and Mr. Wright. During the election campaign, he wrote many
articles in the “National” that were extensively quoted by the
Conservative press. Shortly after his return to power, Sir John A.
Macdonald wrote Mr. Wright a letter in his own hand, in which he
said:—“I wish to thank you most sincerely for your splendid work in the
campaign which has just ended so satisfactorily. Your speeches and
writings did more, I believe, than anything else to convert the people
to protection. I only had the good fortune to hear you once—in the
amphitheatre—but I was then struck with your wonderful grasp of the
question and the extraordinary fund of information you possessed, and no
less struck with the admirable way in which you marshalled your facts
and presented your arguments. I hope to be able to express my gratitude
to you in a more substantial way, and will be delighted if you will give
me an opportunity to do so.” Mr. Wright returned to Guelph in 1879 as
editor and joint publisher of the “Herald.” The proposed Government
agreement for the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway did not meet
with Mr. Wright’s approval, and, as the “Herald” had always been a
Conservative paper, he gave up his interest in it, and wrote a series of
articles published in the “Mercury,” advocating its being built and
owned by the Government and paid for by a national currency—not notes
or promises to pay, but bills of different denominations, reading “Legal
tender for all debts, public and private.” He called a meeting to
explain his plan in Guelph city hall, which was packed. At the
conclusion of his address he moved a resolution calling on the
Government to adopt the plan. On sitting down, the late Mr. Donald
Guthrie—father of Hon. Hugh Guthrie, and at that time member of the
legislature—arose and said that he had attended for the purpose of
opposing the scheme, but Mr. Wright’s explanation had so clearly
demonstrated its feasibility and incalculable value that he was
converted to it, and had much pleasure in seconding the resolution. On
those in favour being asked to raise their hands, the audience, with the
exception of one man, rose to their feet and cheered for several
minutes. In thanking the audience for their almost unanimous endorsation
of this plan, Mr. Wright declared that the one exception was an
unlooked-for further compliment. For his independent thought and action
the “Mail” undertook to read Mr. Wright “out of the party.” Sir John A.
Macdonald wrote Mr. Wright, repudiating its assumed authority,
recognized his right to personal opinion, good standing as a
Conservative, and assured him of his personal friendship, and continuing
said: “I have read a report of your speech at Guelph, and, while I am
sorry you saw occasion to make it, I confess I was struck with the plan
you outline for the building of the railway. Possibly, under different
conditions it might be practicable, but do not think it could be carried
out now.” His ideas, however, were over a generation in advance of the
people’s desire for public ownership, and, as a consequence private
capitalists draw some $40,000,000 in bond interest and dividends yearly,
besides adding large sums to reserve, which the people pay; while the
people are out a huge land and money bonus, have neither the national
railway nor a national currency, but instead a huge octopus of
capitalists that dominates our legislation and is an ever-watchful and
valiant defender of “vested rights”—whether rightly or wrongly
obtained. Mr. Wright was invited to speak at the convention of the U.S.
Greenbackers in Chicago in 1880, and accepted, as well as during the
subsequent campaign. He returned to Toronto in 1881, and became
editorial writer on the “World.” The following year he became Secretary
of the Canadian Manufacturers Association, continuing till 1886, when,
owing to the lines of cleavage between capital and labor becoming
marked, he resigned and established the “Labor Reformer,” the first
paper in Canada to advocate public ownership and a workmen’s
compensation act. While secretary of the Canadian Manufacturers
Association he drafted a factory act which he urged the Dominion
Government to pass, providing equal protection and conditions to the
workers in all provinces, as well as for manufacturers against unequal
labor conditions. This the Government failed to adopt. The draft,
however, was made the basis of the Factory Act passed by the Ontario
Government shortly after; but this, of course, could give no protection
to the Ontario manufacturer (and indirectly to the workers as well)
against the longer hours and lower labor conditions obtaining in the
Province of Quebec. In 1886, he was appointed Dominion Government agent
for the Antwerp and the Indian and Colonial Exhibitions, and acted as
one of four commissioners representing Canada in London at the latter.
In 1887, he represented Toronto District Assembly at the General
Assembly of the Knights of Labor, and was the first Canadian elected
member of the General Executive Board, and immediately after was
appointed editor of the “Journal of the Knights of Labor,” Philadelphia,
official organ of the order, continuing to hold both positions till
1892, when he removed to New York as editor of “The Craftsman.” In 1896,
he was appointed by the Laurier Government special commissioner to
investigate and report on the sweating system in Canada, and was
subsequently asked by that Government to investigate and report on the
Japanese difficulties in British Columbia, but was unable to accept.
From 1898 to 1904, he was organizer of the Conservative party in
Ontario, engaging in three campaigns, being in charge of the campaign
that resulted in Sir James Whitney becoming Premier. For a number of
years he was president of the Canadian Public Ownership League, which
did valuable work in educating the public as to the advantages of the
idea now so firmly rooted in the Province of Ontario. He was a candidate
for the Ontario Legislature in West Toronto, on the public ownership
platform in 1908, but was defeated in the three-cornered contest. In
1910-11, he spent about eight months in Britain writing and speaking in
the interest of Imperial preferential trade. On the Ontario Government
in 1914 constituting a commission to put in operation the Workmen’s
Compensation Act, Mr. Wright was appointed Vice-Chairman of the Board,
his appointment said to be the last in which Sir James Whitney took any
personal interest. The appointment met with the unanimous approval of
organized labor. During the recruiting campaign, Mr. Wright took a very
active and effective part in speaking throughout the city and elsewhere.
He married, January 26, 1876, Elizabeth R., eldest daughter of the late
Robert Simpson, at that time of Guelph, but formerly and latterly of
Toronto. Mrs. Wright died in 1913. He is survived by his daughter, Mrs.
W. E. Hunter of Toronto, a grandson and granddaughter, and a brother,
Daniel W., of Cashmere, Washington, U.S. For some time he had been
troubled with blood pressure and in September, 1918, sustained a slight
stroke at his place in Niagara-on-the-Lake, where he delighted in birds,
flowers, and fruit, in the cultivation of which he was well versed. In
April he had a severe attack of neuritis, which, together with heart
trouble, resulted in his death, June 12, 1919, at his home, 105
Macdonnell Avenue, Toronto. Of him, Dr. James L. Hughes wrote: “A. W.
Wright was a vitally progressive force in Canada for half a century. He
was a true democrat who recognized the right of women as well as men to
freedom. Few men of his time so fully represented and so powerfully
expressed justice and consideration for others as the basis of
brotherhood. He was a charming comrade, a faithful friend, and an
eloquent orator. All who knew him were better for his influence. No man
could think a mean or base thought in his presence.” In a touching
letter to Mrs. Hunter from Washington, D.C., T. V. Powderly, formerly
General Master Workman of the Knights of Labor, wrote, in answer to a
notification of Mr. Wright’s death:—“It was withheld from me until this
morning; for a good reason, I suppose. . . . Anyway, I want to remember
your father as I last saw him at my home here four years ago. His going
was a blow to you and all his friends. He drew his sunshine from no
niggard store, and spread more of it across life’s dark pathway than any
man I ever met. His picture, framed, had a vase of Marie Pavia roses
before it this morning. I understood—for your father gave that rosebush
to me thirty years ago, and when we moved here from Scranton in 1899 we
took it with us; we call it Marie Pavia Wright. I have known your father
for forty years, and though for part of that time we were officially
associated in the K. of L., our friendship was confined within no
official band. . . . For years I had a dream. It was that some day I
could so manage as to live close to your father and John Devlin. D. died
a year ago. Perhaps we may live together yet—who knows? Soon I shall
take up the journey they have begun, and when that hour comes I hope it
may be said of me as I now say of your father:—
“Out through the portals of death he passed
To that ultimate, Unknown land;
The chart of right and of deeds well done,
Held in his cold, dead hand.
For the words he traced to his latest breath
Are unclouded by wrong or ruth;
And stamped on all, as he met his death,
Was the seal of love and truth.”
Writing in the “World,” W. F. Maclean, M.P., said “The late A. W. Wright
was an able man who played a leading part in making the destiny of
Canada. . . . He had wit, a beaming way, and a radiant kind of
sociability.” The “Hamilton Herald” said:—“Few Canadians of the last
generation contributed more to the upbuilding of Canada than A. W.
Wright. Much of the success of the Workmen’s Compensation Act is due to
his sagacity and clear, swift insight. As a newspaper writer Alex.
Wright was one of the most forceful of his time. As a platform speaker,
when dealing with a subject with which he was familiar, he was
unsurpassed. He had bright, incisive style and a talent for keen
analysis. He was at his best when heckled. He courted interruption, for
no one could get the better of him in a clash of wits.” In a review of
his career, “Saturday Night” spoke of him as “a man of remarkable
intellectual powers and charming personality,” and of his youth, “he
made a hobby of economics and by the time he was thirty was recognized
as one of the ablest writers and speakers on such subjects in this
country.” When nickel was discovered in Ontario he urged on the
government to establish a customs smelter to treat it, to sell at cost
to actual users of it in Canada, and to place a heavy export duty on it,
thereby giving Canadians a great advantage in manufacturing high-grade
machinery of nickel steel, thus greatly stimulating industry here, and
assuring Canada millions of dollars annually from export duty on nickel
which outsiders must have at any cost. Instead of this a foreign concern
was given a practical monopoly to refine Canadian nickel in the U.S.
with the right to sell to Germany or any other enemy of Canada and the
empire. Both as writer and speaker he was keenly analytical, logical,
and constructive in his chosen style, but in dealing with an unfair
opponent he was equally at home in using forceful denunciation, bitter
irony, scorching sarcasm, or ludicrous burlesque, while in flashing and
apt repartee he was unrivalled. He was widely read in prose and poetry,
and, possessing a remarkable memory and facile power of expression, was
a charming conversationalist, usually the centre of a group of
appreciative auditors in any informal gathering. As raconteur he was
inimitable. Continual optimism, constant cheerfulness, and unvarying
kindliness were his outstanding characteristics, and won for him the
friendship of all who knew him.
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=Roche, Francis James= (Toronto, Ont.), Clerk of Assize of the Supreme
Court of Ontario, was Conservative candidate for Parliament in West
Ontario in 1900, as also for North Toronto 1904, opposing Sir William
Mulock, then Postmaster-General. He practised law in Toronto for several
years, and served as a member of the Collegiate Institute Board of
Trustees of Toronto from 1902 to 1905. He was appointed Official Referee
of the Supreme Court in 1914. Mr. Roche was born at Whitby, Ont.,
October 10, 1865, the son of John R. Richmond Roche, M.A., and Sarah
Danford Bryan Roche. He was educated at the Toronto Collegiate Institute
and University College, graduating as B.A. in 1886 and as M.A. with
honours in Natural Sciences in the following year. He married Lena,
daughter of Hon. Theodore Bruere, attorney-at-law, St. Charles, Mo.,
U.S.A., and State Senator of Missouri, November 28, 1894. Mr. Roche is a
Past-President of the United Irish League of Toronto, and is a member of
the Canadian Military Institute and Empire Club of Toronto. He joined
“K” Company, Queen’s Own Rifles in 1882, and served later in the
Cavalry, retiring in 1910 from the Governor-General’s Body Guard with
the rank of Major. An Anglican in religion and a Conservative in
politics.
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=Whitney, Edwin Canfield= (Ottawa, Ont.), one of the leading capitalists
of that city, and especially identified with the Canadian lumbering
industry. He was born at Williamsburg, Ont., in the St. Lawrence Valley,
on October 29, 1844, the son of Richard Leet and Clarissa Jane (Fairman)
Whitney. The Whitney family is of United Empire Loyalist stock and
descended from Henry Whitney, who came to New England from
Herefordshire, England, in 1640. The late Sir James Whitney, Prime
Minister of Ontario from 1905 to 1914 was an elder brother of the
subject of this sketch. Edwin Canfield Whitney was educated at the
public schools of his district, and subsequently moved to Minneapolis,
Minn., where he engaged in the lumbering industry, and in the course of
years built up a substantial fortune. He later removed to Ottawa, where
he engaged in the lumber business as General Manager of the St. Anthony
Lumber Company, Ltd., until 1912, when he retired from active business
with the winding up of the company. He is also Vice-President of the
Crow’s Nest Pass Coal Company. He was also one of the directors of the
Keewatin Flour Mills Company, Ltd. He is a Director of the Bank of
Ottawa and of the Toronto General Trusts Company, Ltd. The
philanthropies of Mr. Whitney have been of a most enlightened character.
He is one of the Governors of Protestant General Hospital, Ottawa, and
in 1905 erected at an expense of $68,000 and presented to the University
of Toronto a residence for male students. In the same year he was
appointed a Trustee of the University Residence Fund, and in 1906 became
one of the Governors of the University proper. Among his other gifts to
the institution have been a valuable collection of works on Egypt and
its antiquities, now in the University library. In 1911, he made a
standing offer of $30,000 toward the erection of a general hospital in
Ottawa, if the balance of the required sum could be raised. The
good-heartedness and generosity of Mr. Whitney in connection with
charities is indeed proverbial with all who know him, and during the
great war his gifts to patriotic and other funds were on a generous
scale. In association with Mrs. Whitney, he gave $5,000 to Trinity
University (of which his brother, Sir James Whitney, was a distinguished
graduate), and also a memorial church to the Anglican parish of
Williamsburg, Ont., of which he was a member when a boy. Mr. Whitney is
an adherent of the Anglican communion, and has on many occasions been a
delegate to the Synods of that church. In March, 1879, he married Sarah,
widow of the late Glossop McQuire, C.E., and daughter of the late J. P.
Chrysler, M.P.P. Mrs. Whitney is also interested in philanthropic
effort, and has been especially active in the Ottawa Humane Society. In
politics Mr. Whitney is an independent. He is a member of the Masonic
order and of the Country and Hunt Clubs, Ottawa.
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=Vaughan, Marshall= (Welland, Ont.), is one of the leading business men
of the Niagara peninsula, and was born at Elcho, Gainsboro township,
Lincoln County, Ont., on March 16, 1884. His father was Wilford Vaughan,
and his mother’s maiden name was Orpha Augusta Evans. The Vaughans and
the Evans were United Empire Loyalists, who came to Canada from New
Jersey and Virginia after the American Revolution, and the names in both
cases indicate Welsh descent. The subject of this sketch was educated at
Smithville Collegiate Institute, and later commenced his business career
in Welland, where his firm deals extensively in wholesale seeds and are
growers, re-cleaners and exporters of those commodities. Mr. Vaughan has
also taken an active part in the municipal affairs of Welland. He had
the honour of being elected Mayor of that municipality for 1917, the
year in which it achieved the status of a city, and on July 1, of that
year presided over the inauguration proceedings in connection with that
happy event. He also filled the office of Mayor for the year 1918,
having been re-elected by acclamation. He takes an active part in all
movements for the advancement of Canada from every standpoint, and is
especially interested in proposals to obtain increased agricultural
production. Mr. Vaughan is an Anglican in religion, and a
Conservative-Unionist in politics, and during the great war was the
representative of the Royal Flying Corps for the promotion of recruiting
in his district. He is a member of the Masonic and Orange orders, and
also of the Knights of Pythias, and belongs to the Welland Club, the
Temple Club, the Country Club of Lawrence County, N.Y., and the Buffalo
Automobile Club. On December 13, 1911, he married Evelyn Maud, daughter
of Albert House, of Ancaster, Ont.
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=Wylie, Newton= (Toronto, Ont.), Journalist and Student of and Lecturer
on Social and Political Economy and Affairs, son of John H. Wylie and
Mary Jane Bernhardt, was born on September 12, 1892, at Toronto, and
received his education at the Orangeville High School, Calgary Normal
School, University of Toronto and Harvard University, graduating in
1917. When but a boy in his early student days, he interested himself in
public affairs, and early gave evidence of talent both as a writer and a
public speaker. Mr. Wylie is noted particularly for his work as a
prohibition propagandist. He was the chief instrument in organizing the
Ontario Young Manhood Association, which in 1914 presented a petition
signed by 10,000 young Conservatives in Ontario to the late Sir James P.
Whitney, then Prime Minister of the Province, asking provincial
prohibition, and which contested unsuccessfully the constituency of
Parkdale in the general election of June in that year. Mr. Wylie is also
credited with having originated the Citizens’ Committee of One Hundred,
of which he became General Secretary, and organized the six months’
whirlwind campaign throughout Ontario which resulted in the passing of
the Ontario Temperance Act in March, 1916. Previous to that he had
participated in the provincial prohibition campaign in Alberta in 1915,
touring that Province and speaking in all the chief cities, as well as
invading some of the mining districts. Mr. Wylie is a close personal
friend of “Billy” Sunday, and has spoken on “No Booze” in the noted
evangelist’s tabernacles in Trenton, Baltimore, and Boston. For some
years he was a member of the staff of the “Globe,” Toronto, and wrote
over the pseudonym of “Will Silo.” He has also contributed to several
other newspapers and magazines. Twice since the outbreak of the war he
offered his services to the army, but each time was rejected on account
of injuries received in a serious automobile accident in 1913. He has,
however, taken a prominent part in recruiting work, giving his services
freely as a speaker and as an organizer in various schemes for raising
funds, especially in connection with the 126th, 182nd and 201st
Battalions. He is a member of the following clubs:—Canadian Club,
Toronto Board of Trade, Walt Whitman, Harvard Union, Toronto Press Club,
Toronto Canoe Club, Ontario Young Manhood Association, Citizens’
Committee of One Hundred, Canadian Suffrage Association, National
Brotherhood Federation, Social Service Council of Canada, Canadian Red
Cross Society, Canadian Patriotic Fund Association, Y.M.C.A., A-R Men’s
Association. In religion Mr. Wylie is a Presbyterian, and in politics an
independent.
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=Mackenzie, Daniel D., M.P.= for the riding of North Victoria, Cape
Breton, Nova Scotia, is one of the most prominent representatives of the
Liberal party in the House of Commons, and served as Parliamentary
leader of that party following the death of Sir Wilfrid Laurier in
February, 1919, until the return to the House of Hon. W. L. M. King, the
leader elected by the National Liberal Convention which assembled in the
summer of the same year. He was born on January 8, 1859, at Lake
Ainslie, in the heart of the Highland Scottish settlements of that
island, the son of Duncan and Jessie (McMillan) Mackenzie. He was
educated at the Public Schools and at the Sydney (C.B.) Academy, and
became a barrister and attorney-at-law, practising at North Sydney. He
early became prominent in politics, and has been a most successful
candidate. In nearly a score of elections, municipal, provincial and
federal, where he has been a candidate, he has never met defeat. He
served as Commissioner of Schools for Cape Breton for a time, and was
elected ten times to the Municipal Council of North Sydney, serving as
Mayor for five years. He was elected to the Nova Scotia Legislature in
1900 as a Liberal, and again at the general elections of 1901. Prior to
the general elections for the House of Commons in 1904, he resigned his
seat in the Legislature to become a Federal candidate and was elected.
He resigned, and was appointed Judge of District No. 7, County Court of
Nova Scotia, on February 16, 1906, continuing in that office until
October 15, 1908, when he retired and became again a candidate for the
House of Commons. He was elected, and was equally successful at the
general elections of 1911 and 1917. When the House assembled after the
latter contest, he was the chosen desk-mate of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, then
leader of the Opposition; and on the death of that statesman was elected
by the Liberal caucus to the Parliamentary leadership. At the National
Liberal Convention of August, 1919, he unwillingly allowed his name to
go before the delegates chosen to elect a leader, yielding to pressure
from his Scottish friends in Nova Scotia, but on the election of Mr.
King extended to the latter his heartiest co-operation and support. At
the conclusion of the regular Parliamentary session of 1918-9, he had
the honour of seconding Sir Robert Borden’s resolution of thanks to the
Canadian troops who had fought and died on the battlefields of France
and Flanders. In religion he is a Presbyterian, and on January 28, 1891,
he married Miss Florence N. McDonald, by whom he has one son, Charles
Russell Mackenzie, born May 5, 1895. His home is at North Sydney, C.B.
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=Coristine, Major Stanley B.=, is a member of the Board of Pension
Commissioners for Canada, with headquarters in Ottawa, and had a
distinguished career in the great war. He was born at Montreal, Que.,
the son of James Coristine, a prominent business man of that city; was
educated at the Royal Military College, Kingston, Ont., from which he
graduated in 1906, and also took a course at McGill University,
Montreal. After graduation he was for a time connected with James
Coristine & Co., Ltd., but on the outbreak of the war immediately
offered himself for service overseas, and on September 10, 1914, was
gazetted Captain of the 5th Royal Highlanders of Montreal, becoming
Adjutant of the regiment on October 1 of that year. On permission being
granted to organize the 42nd Battalion, R.H.C., he was appointed
adjutant for the period of organization and when the Battalion went
overseas was at his own request placed in command of a company. The 42nd
Battalion was transferred to France in October, 1915, and took part in
much heavy fighting. In June, 1916, during the heavy fighting at Ypres,
known as the “June show” he was seriously wounded and after two months
in hospital was sent home to Canada. In April, 1917, he was discharged
as permanently unfit for further service at the front, and in May of
that year was appointed Secretary of the Pensions Board of Canada. He
showed a very exceptional capacity for dealing with the problems which
came before the Board, and his military record gained him the confidence
of the many injured soldiers with whom his duties brought him in
contact. In 1918 he was appointed a Commissioner to fill the vacancy
created on the Board by the resignation of Major J. L. Todd, and the
choice was generally approved in military circles throughout Canada. He
is a Protestant and a member of St. Paul’s Lodge, A.F. & A.M. His
recreations are golf and tennis, and he is a member of the following
clubs: St. James and University, Montreal; Rideau, and Country, Ottawa.
In 1909 he married Nina, daughter of John McLean, Montreal, and has
three sons: Philip, born 1910; Edward, born 1912; and James, born 1918.
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=Watson, Senator Robert=, moved from Ontario to Portage la Prairie,
Manitoba, in 1876, where he built a mill, and later built another mill
at Stonewall. He prospered, became popular, and was well received and
appreciated by the entire community, irrespective of politics. Owing to
his enterprising activities, his generosity, and his sympathetic and
tangible conduct towards those less fortunate than he, he was soon
elected to the Municipal Council, and as a councillor was instrumental
in the adoption of municipal measures that aided in a marked degree the
progressive and harmonious state of affairs in that thriving town. The
Provincial Government and the Province’s representative in the House of
Commons had been Conservative from the time, July 15, 1870, the Province
entered Confederation, and with the return of the Conservatives to power
at Ottawa in 1878, and Hon. John Norquay as Prime Minister, President of
the Council, and Provincial Treasurer at Winnipeg, and four Conservative
spokesmen for the Province occupying seats in the House of Commons, the
young Province was but a helpless political toy in the hands of those
who were elected to, and should have, looked after its best interests.
Suffering for want of proper railway facilities, the situation became
unbearable. Led by Hon. John Norquay, Provincial railway charters were
being issued, only later to be disallowed by the Dominion Government,
all of which, while the public was being led to believe differently, was
fully understood and agreed upon beforehand by both Governments.
Something had to be done to save the Province, and to place it on a
higher plane. An agitation arose, several indignation meetings were held
and finally, in the town of Portage la Prairie, the Provincial Rights
Party was born, and Robert Watson, Portage la Prairie’s millwright,
became the ideal candidate of the party to carry the banner for
Marquette at the general Dominion election. In each of the five Manitoba
Dominion constituencies (a new constituency for the Province had been
created by the Dominion Government), a Provincial Rights Party candidate
was nominated, and three of the five were elected, Winnipeg and
Provencher, with Captain Thos. Scott and Joseph Royal, remained
Conservative, but Lisgar, Marquette and Selkirk, with A. W. Ross, Robert
Watson and Hugh Sutherland, became Provincial Rights constituencies. Out
of these three, however—Ross, Watson and Sutherland—from and including
1882 and 1887, Mr. Watson was practically the only Liberal member in the
House of Commons west of Lake Superior, and he is just as true and
reliable to-day as he was when he first entered political life in 1882.
Senator Robert Watson is the son of the late George Watson, of
Edinburgh, Scotland, who came to Canada in 1847, and his wife Elizabeth
McDonald, of Inverness-shire, Scotland. He was born at Elora, Ontario,
April 29, 1853. In 1876, he moved to Manitoba, and was elected to the
House of Commons for Marquette at the general elections in 1882, 1887
and 1891. He resigned to accept the portfolio of Minister of Public
Works in the Greenway Administration, 1892, and was elected at the
general elections of that year to the Legislature for Portage la
Prairie, and again at the general election of 1896. At the general
election of 1899 he was defeated. January 29, 1900, he was summoned to
the Senate. July, 1880, Senator Watson married Isabella, daughter of
Duncan Brown, of Lobo, Ontario. He is a Presbyterian, and his home
address is Portage la Prairie, Manitoba.
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=Sutherland, Fred C.=, Stock Broker, 12 King St. East, Toronto, was born
March 17, 1880, in West River, Nova Scotia, and received his education
at Pictou Academy. He entered his present business in 1909 and became
actively engaged in the development of Northern Ontario’s natural
resources, being instrumental in bringing in hundreds of thousands of
dollars for the advancement of mining interests in the districts of
Porcupine, Kirkland Lake, West Shining Tree and Fort Matachewan. The
firm of F. C. Sutherland & Co. is one of the largest of its kind in
Canada, besides its large and finely appointed head office, having
branch offices in Montreal, Boston, Springfield, Buffalo, Detroit and
New York. He has surrounded himself with a staff of the most capable
mining experts, and his sound judgment, based on first-hand information
has proven of great value to his large clientele of investors. Though
his time is constantly in demand by his clients and the investing public
as well as in directing both internal and external affairs of his
extensive interests he is invariably genial and unruffled, having the
happy faculty of being able to divert his attention rapidly from one
subject to another yet keeping closely in touch with each till disposed
of. He is a member of The Board of Trade, the Lambton Golf Club, a
Protestant, a Unionist in politics and the possessor of an unusually
pleasing personality.
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=Taylor, Lt.-Col. Hon. George= (Gananoque), the second son of the late
William Taylor and his wife Ann Graham, both of the north of Ireland.
Was born at Lansdowne, County Leeds, Ontario, March 31, 1840, and has
been for years one of the most popular figures in the public life of
this Dominion. Educated in the Public Schools of Lansdowne, the Hon. Mr.
Taylor began life in the mercantile business as a clerk in a country
general store at the age of eleven years, where he worked for £1 a
month, and continued with the same firm as partner over twenty-five
years. On retiring from the mercantile business above mentioned, the
Hon. Mr. Taylor re-organized the Ontario Wheel Company, to manufacture
carriage wheels, and has been President of the Company for thirty years.
He has been Reeve of Gananoque for seven years, and Warden of the United
Counties of Leeds and Grenville, of which he was County Auditor, 1881.
Was first elected to the House of Commons as a Conservative candidate
for the County of Leeds in the general elections of 1882, and was
re-elected at every general election held since up to 1911 when he
resigned his seat to create a vacancy for Sir Thomas White, who had been
appointed Minister of Finance in the Borden Cabinet. During his long
parliamentary career Hon. Mr. Taylor was chief Whip of the Conservative
party for twenty-five years under Sir John A. MacDonald, Sir John
Abbott, Sir John Thompson, Sir Mackenzie Bowell, Sir Charles Tupper and
Sir Robert Borden. Shortly after his retirement from the House of
Commons, on November 17, 1911, the subject of this sketch was summoned
to the Senate, and since his appointment to the Upper Chamber has taken
an active part in its deliberations. On retiring from the House of
Commons, he received a handsome testimonial of esteem from his
colleagues. Hon. Mr. Taylor, during his career in public life, has
always received the good will of all classes of citizens. He is the soul
of good humor, broadminded, generous and a liberal gentleman, and has
been called “The John Hampden” of this Dominion. He is the Honorary
Colonel of the 156th Battalion of Leeds and Grenville and President of
the Peace River Land Company and a member of the following societies:
Orange, Masonic, Oddfellows, United Workmen, Royal Arcanum and
Foresters. Senator Taylor was married on September 10, 1863, to Margaret
Ann Latimer, daughter of James and Ellen Latimer and ward of Major James
Kirker of Gananoque. They celebrated their golden wedding Sept. 10,
1913. Mrs. Taylor died Mar. 12, 1917. Mr. Taylor afterwards married
Lilian Coleman, daughter of the late Mr. Anson Clark Coleman and his
wife Hannah Witton, of Delta, both Canadians of English descent.
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=Richardson, John= (Toronto, Ont.), was born in Scarboro Township,
County of York, Ontario, in 1843, on the farm of his father, the late
Ezekiel Richardson. He received his education at the Public School,
Scarboro Village, at the Grammar School, Markham Village, and at
Victoria College, Cobourg. After completing his education he returned to
his old home and engaged in the business of farming until 1894. Early in
life he took an active interest in public affairs in his native
township. In 1875 he was induced to accept nomination and was a
successful candidate for a seat in the Township Council and was
re-elected for nineteen years consecutively, three years as Councilman,
two years as Deputy Reeve and fourteen years as Reeve. In 1885 he was
elected Warden of the County of York, the highest municipal position in
the County. The City of Toronto and the County of York are united for
judicial purposes. Mr. Richardson was for many years Chairman of the
Legislation Committee and as such had much to do with framing
legislation beneficial to the Metropolitan City and County. In December,
1894, he retired from the Reeveship of Scarboro, he having been elected
by the constituency of East York as their representative in the Ontario
Legislature, which position he held for ten years, being re-elected in
1892 and 1902. He was a Liberal in politics and was a supporter of the
administrations of Sir Oliver Mowat, Hon. A. S. Hardy and Sir George W.
Ross. In 1902 he lost his health, the strenuous life of a politician was
too severe for him. In 1904 he was compelled to forego his political
ambitions and withdraw from political life. In December of that year Sir
George W. Ross, then Premier of Ontario, appointed him to the position
of Clerk of the County Court of the County of York, which position he
held until his death. Mr. Richardson’s father emigrated from the North
of Ireland in 1824, and settled in Scarboro. In 1831 he married Miss
Mary Hunter, an English girl. Their descendants being five sons and four
daughters. James and Ezekiel, who were ordained Methodist Ministers, and
Joseph and Samuel, who graduated in medicine, now deceased. Three
sisters survive—Mrs. A. Barber, Bowmanville; Mrs. E. Draper and Mrs. H.
Aylard, of Toronto. He was a Director of the York Fire Insurance Co., a
member of the Acacia Lodge A.F. & A.M., and a Methodist in religion. He
was a philanthropist, in a quiet way, many owing their success in life
to his generosity. By his honest and straightforward actions in both his
political and private life, he won the confidence and respect of the
community at large. Mr. Richardson died at Toronto, in September, 1914,
after a very active career.
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=Doughty, Arthur George, M.A., C.M.G., Litt.D., LL.D., F.R.S.C.,
F.R.C.I.=, Archivist for the Dominion of Canada, is perhaps the greatest
living authority on Canadian history, and a scholar of international
repute. He was born at Maidenhead, England, on March 22, 1860, the son
of William John Doughty. He was educated at the public schools,
Maidenhead, Lord Eldon College, London, New Inn Hall, Oxford University,
and Dickenson College, Carlisle, when he was awarded the M.A. degree in
1890. Ten years later he became Docteur de Lettres of Laval University,
Montreal, and in 1912 received the Honorary Degree of LL.D. at Queen’s
University, Kingston, Ont. As a young man Dr. Doughty contemplated
entering the Church, and was engaged in religious work at All Hallows
Mission, Southwark, London, and in other institutions. Circumstances,
however, altered this intention and in the nineties he came to Canada
and was engaged for a time in commercial pursuits at Montreal, utilizing
his leisure for literary work. In 1897 he was appointed Private
Secretary to the Minister of Public Works at Quebec, and in 1899-1901
served in a similar capacity with the Provincial Treasurer of Quebec. In
the latter year he was appointed joint librarian of the Quebec
Legislature, and on May 16, 1904, became Dominion Archivist and Keeper
of the Records for Canada, with headquarters in the Archives Building,
Ottawa. His indefatigable labors in that office have raised it to very
large importance. In 1907 he was appointed a member of the Canadian
Historical Manuscripts Commission, and in 1908 a member of the literary
committee of the Quebec Battlefields Commission. In 1909 he became a
member of the Dominion Geographic Board. One of the greatest historical
services he has been able to render Canada was at the conclusion of the
great war in 1918 when he went to Great Britain and France and secured a
magnificent collection of war trophies as the permanent possession of
Canada, to be apportioned among various Canadian cities. Dr. Doughty
early acquired rare skill as an illuminator on vellum and decorated the
book presented to the present King and Queen on their visit to Quebec in
1901. He is also an expert in shorthand, and has published an edition of
Tennyson’s “In Memoriam” in that script. At the same time he has been
prolific in many forms of literary effort, as the following list of
publications shows: “The Life and Works of Lord Tennyson,” 1893; “Rose
Leaves,” 1894; “The Song Story of Francesco and Beatrice,” 1896; “Nugæ
Canoræ,” 1897; “The Site of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham,” 1918;
“The Siege of Quebec,” in six volumes, 1901-2 (written in collaboration
with George W. Parmalee); “The Struggle for Supremacy,” 1905; “Documents
relating to the Constitutional History of Canada” (with Prof. Adam
Shortt), 1907; “The Cradle of New France,” 1908; “Index and Dictionary
of Canadian History” (with L. J. Burpee), 1911; joint editor of “Canada
and Its Provinces,” in twenty-two volumes; joint editor of “Documents
Relating to the Constitutional History of Canada from 1791 to 1818,”
published 1914; Editor of General Knox’s “Journal of Campaigns in North
America,” published in three volumes by the Champlain Society, 1914;
“The Acadian Exiles,” 1915; “A Daughter of New France,” 1915. Dr.
Doughty has also contributed to the Encyclopedia Brittanica,
Encyclopedia Americana, the Catholic Encyclopedia, and to many magazines
and historical journals. His lighter efforts have included the libretto
of a comic opera “Bonnie Prince Charlie.” He is a member of the Canadian
Society of Authors, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Fellow of the
Royal Colonial Institute, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of
Great Britain, and a member of the Literary and Historical Society of
Quebec. In 1905 he was honored with the decoration of C.M.G. He married,
first, Bertha Van Kehrweider, in June, 1886, who died January, 1910;
secondly, Kathleen Rathbun Browne, daughter of George A. Browne,
Montreal, in June, 1911. In religion he is a Roman Catholic, and is a
member of the Rideau Club, and the Ottawa Golf Club. He resides at 490
Wilbrod St., Ottawa.
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=McFall, Robert James, B.A., A.M., Ph.D.=, of Ottawa, Ont., is one of
the best known economists and statisticians of Canada. He was born at
Somerset, Nova Scotia, on January 7, 1887, the son of Rev. Thomas
McFall, a Reformed Presbyterian clergyman, and his wife, Anna Lyons. His
education was remarkably complete. After studying at the public schools
of Nova Scotia he went to Geneva College, Beaver Falls, Penna.,
graduating with the degree of B.A. in 1912. This was followed by
post-graduate courses at Glasgow University, Scotland, and Columbia
University, New York City. He took a scholarship at the latter
institution in 1913, and in 1914 captured the Garth Fellowship in
Political Economy—a much-coveted honor. He received the degree of A.M.
in 1914 and Ph.D. in 1916. For two years, 1915-17, he had charge of the
work in Transportation and Commerce in the Department of Economics at
the University of Minnesota, and in 1917 returned to Canada to become
Chief of the Internal Trade Division, Dominion Bureau of Statistics, at
Ottawa. In August of that year he also became statistician of the Canada
Food Board, an office he held until February, 1919. He served also as
Cost of Living Commissioner from May, 1918, to August, 1919, when the
work of this office was merged in that of the Board of Commerce. During
his tenure of office as Cost of Living Commissioner Dr. McFall proved
most efficient and won high encomiums for his fearless performance of
his duties. Among his publications is a valuable treatise on the
transportation question “Railway Monopoly and Rate Regulation,”
published in 1916 by Longmans, Green & Company. In addition to various
official reports he has written numerous magazine and newspaper articles
on the subject of transportation and food supplies, for American and
Canadian publications. He is a member of the American Economic
Association and of the Canadian Club, Ottawa. In religion he is a
Presbyterian, and in politics, independent. On September 29, 1917, he
married Marjorie, daughter of Rev. E. S. Carr, D.D., Peoria, Ill., and
has one daughter, Alice, born November 6, 1918. His residence is at 353
Frank St., Ottawa.
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=Amyot, Lieut.-Col. John A., C.M.G.=, Deputy Minister of the Federal
Department of Public Health, Ottawa, is an authority on the subject of
public sanitation and the prevention of disease. He was born at Toronto
on July 25, 1867, the son of John F. Amyot, a railroad man, and his
wife, Sophie Féré. He was educated at the separate schools, St. Thomas,
Ont., Assumption College, Sandwich, Ont. and at the University of
Toronto, from which he graduated with the degree of M.B. in 1891. He was
immediately appointed a house surgeon of Toronto General Hospital,
serving for one year; and from 1892 to 1900 was Demonstrator in
Pathology on the University of Toronto Medical Faculty. From 1894 to
1898 he was Assistant Surgeon at St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, and
from 1898 to 1900, Surgeon. Among other professional offices he filled
were those of Lecturer in Comparative Physiology at the Ontario
Veterinary College, 1898-1908; Director of the Laboratory of the
Provincial Board of Health, Ontario, 1900-1918; Associate Professor of
Pathology, University of Toronto, 1900-09, and Professor of Hygiene at
the same institution, 1909-1918. A year before the outbreak of the great
war he had become identified with the Canadian Army Medical Corps and
held the commission of D.A.D.M.S. (Sanitation) for the 2nd Canadian
Divisional Area, from 1913 to 1915. In that capacity he had much to do
with preserving the health of large bodies of troops who were placed in
training in that area after the outbreak of the war in 1914. In the
spring of 1915 he went to England on staff of No. 4 Can. Gen. Hospital,
was made officer in charge of Sanitation, 2nd Canadian Division whilst
in England, and in the latter part of that year was transferred to
France as O.C. of the Sanitary Section of the 1st Canadian Division. In
1916 he became Chief Adviser in Sanitation with the Canadian Army Corps
in France, and later in the same year was seconded to the Imperial
forces as D.A.D.M.S. (Sanitation) with the 2nd British Army in France.
From 1916 to 1918 he was also Consultant in Sanitation with the Canadian
Overseas Forces, England. The low percentage of deaths from communicable
disease in the British and Canadian armies during the war, was regarded
as miraculous when compared with the statistics of all past wars, and to
this desirable condition, which greatly aided in the victory,
Lieut.-Col. Amyot is considered as having largely contributed. He was
twice mentioned in despatches for service under fire while in France in
1916, and three times won similar recognition for his zeal in combatting
disease among the troops in England. In recognition of his abilities he
was personally decorated with the C.M.G. by His Majesty. In July, 1919,
he was appointed by the administration of Sir Robert Borden, Deputy
Minister of the newly created Department of Public Health, and entrusted
with the work of organizing it on modern lines. Col. Amyot’s writings
include various papers on questions of public health published in Canada
and the United States. He has also collaborated on Technical commissions
in connection with the United States and Canadian Public Health
Associations, and the Ontario and Canadian Medical Associations. He is
also a co-director of the International Waterways Commission, and in
that capacity has conducted investigations on the pollution of the
waters of the Great Lakes. He is a Roman Catholic in religion and a
member of the Toronto Board of Trade, the University and Canadian Clubs,
Toronto, and the Faculty Union of Toronto University. On May 21, 1895,
he married Mary J. Keller, daughter of Francis and Mary (Stuart) Keller,
Whitby, Ont., and has five sons and two daughters, John Francis, Gregory
Féré, William Keller, Joseph, Mary, Francis and Sophie. His residence is
at Slater St., Ottawa.
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=Owens, Edward W. J., K.C., M.P.P.= for South-East Toronto, has
represented that constituency for two parliaments, having been
re-elected by a handsome majority at the general elections in 1914. He
was born in Dublin, Ireland, and received his early education there, in
Manchester, England, and in the Forrest City. He became a student-at-law
in the office of Cronyn and Greenlees, of London, and shortly after
passing the bar removed to Toronto, where he joined the firm of Leys,
Reid and Owens, the head of the firm being the late John Leys, Q.C.,
M.P.P. He later practised for a number of years by himself, subsequently
forming the firm of Owens, Proudfoot, and Cooke, with offices at 32-34
Adelaide Street East. He is now head of the firm of Owens and Goodman at
the above address, and enjoys an extensive and constantly growing
practice. His manner is extremely affable, never ruffled, and constantly
active. Since coming to Toronto, he always took an active part in the
Conservative interest, and for years was President of the Central
Conservative Association before being elected member of the Legislature.
He can speak well and to the point when occasion demands, but has earned
the reputation of taking up less time on the floor of the house than any
other member of equal ability. He is unmarried, but has none of the
crotchety characteristics sometimes attributed to the bachelor of middle
age.
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=Hook, Thomas, M.P.P.= for South-East Toronto was born in England, and
when a very small boy came to Canada with his parents about the time of
Confederation. The family settled in London, Ont., where his father
engaged in business as a contractor. The firm of Hook and Toll built the
Military School in London as well as other buildings well known in that
city and vicinity. On leaving school, the subject of this sketch spent
three years in the office of E. Jones Parke, Q.C., and then joined the
staff of the Dominion Savings and Investment Society. He resigned his
position in this company some twenty years ago, and removed to Toronto,
where he became engaged in the real estate business, which he still
conducts at 79 Victoria Street. At an early age he took great interest
in politics, and on his arrival in Toronto soon became a well known and
active worker for the Conservative party in the city. For years he held
different offices in the local Conservative organizations, and in 1907
he was elected President of Ward 3 Conservative Association, holding
that position for the unprecedented period of seven years, till elected
to his present position in 1914 for seat “B” in South-East Toronto by a
large majority. During the war he was untiring in his recruiting
efforts. He is a fluent and forceful speaker, with marked executive
ability, a genial manner, and sociable disposition. Though a straight
party man, he is independent and outspoken, and may be expected to leave
the impress of his personality on the Legislature in the not distant
future. The family—including a son recently returned from service
overseas—reside at No. 1 Rathnally Ave.
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=Donovan, Albert Edward, M.P.P.=, representative of the riding of
Brockville in the Ontario Legislature, is one of the most widely known
publicists of that province, and is also known throughout the Dominion
as an insurance expert. He was born at Portland, Leeds County, Ont., on
February 5, 1859, the son of John and Margaret Donovan. His grandfather
was a native of Tipperary, Ireland, who adopted the profession of law,
and coming to Canada settled at Forfar, Leeds County, where he became
the first legal practitioner in that district. His father was a mechanic
and ship’s carpenter. The subject of this sketch was educated at the
public and high schools of Athens, Ont., and afterward taught school for
a number of years. Subsequently, he entered the life insurance business,
and became one of the most successful writers of policies in America. In
the early nineties, he represented the Sun Life Assurance Company of
Canada in Great Britain for two years, and subsequently returned to this
country to associate himself with the Mutual Life Insurance Company of
New York, the oldest Company of its kind in America. He was appointed
Superintendent of Agencies for the Maritime Provinces, with headquarters
at Halifax, and subsequently moved to Toronto as Superintendent for
Ontario. In 1905 he became manager for this province, a position he
still holds. He has become largely identified with the financial
interests of the province, and is one of the greatest authorities on
life insurance as an investment proposition in this or any other
country. The sum total of the policies he has written would run into
millions, and many of them have reached large sums like $100,000 or
$200,000. After moving to Toronto, he still maintained a home at Athens,
Ont., where he became largely interested in agriculture, and at one time
owned farm property in the Brockville district. It was because of his
loyal attachment to the county of his birth that in 1905 the
Conservatives of Brockville riding tendered him the nomination for the
Legislature in opposition to the sitting member, Hon. George P. Graham,
at that time a member of the Ross Government. Though his party was
successful at the polls, Mr. Donovan was unable to overcome the personal
following of Mr. Graham in the Brockville district. Subsequently, in
1907, when Mr. Graham retired from the Ontario Legislature to join the
Laurier cabinet at Ottawa, Mr. Donovan was again nominated and at a
by-election in October, 1907, was successful in redeeming the riding by
a large majority. His victory was the more signal, inasmuch as
Brockville had sent a Liberal member to the Legislature at every
election for many years, and was regarded as impregnable by that party.
Though on each occasion strongly opposed, Mr. Donovan was again elected
by large majorities at the general elections of 1908, 1911 and 1914.
From the occasion of his first speech in the Ontario Legislature, he has
been recognized as an important factor in the deliberations of that
body, his fine oratorical gifts being as marked as the sound
intellectual quality of his deliverances. On many occasions regret has
been expressed that Mr. Donovan’s business interests have precluded his
accepting cabinet preferment. During the late war he turned his
abilities as a speaker to patriotic uses, and is credited with having
recruited more men for the Canadian army than any other member of either
the House of Commons or the various legislatures of this country. His
efforts covered the entire province of Ontario, and in the year 1915 he
individually secured the enlistment of 1,260 soldiers. Personally, he is
popular with men of all shades of opinion, and is a member of the Albany
Club, Toronto, the Brockville Club, and the Canadian Club, Toronto, and
of the Executive of the Empire Club of Canada. In religion he is a
Methodist, and is a member of the A.F. and A.M. and the I.O.O.F. He
married Ella B., daughter of Duncan Fisher, and has two sons, Albert
Edward and John Alexander, and one daughter, Helen M. Donovan. His
residence is at 284 Huron Street, Toronto.
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=Crannell, Levi=, is one of the leading lumbermen of Ottawa, with
interests that embrace both Canada and the United States; and has also
played a prominent part in public affairs at the Canadian capital. He
was born in Albany, N.Y., on October 7, 1842, the son of Henry and Eliza
Crannell. His father was a prominent lumberman of the ante-bellum period
in New York State, and the subject of this sketch was educated in the
public schools of Albany, with a view to taking up the same line of
activity. At the time he attained manhood, Ottawa was, as now, a centre
of the lumbering industry. Coming to Canada many years ago, Mr. Crannell
became associated with the business now known as the Bronson Company,
Limited, ground wood pulp and lumber manufacturers, Ottawa, of which he
is still an active partner. This company is the offspring of an old
lumber firm established at Bytown (the early name of Ottawa) in 1852 by
J. J. Harris and Henry Franklin Bronson, both of whom came from the
United States to operate newly-acquired timber limits. Mr. Harris
retired in 1864, and for over forty years thereafter the business was
carried on under the name of the Bronson and Weston Lumber Company,
until the present title was adopted. Mr. Crannell threw himself heart
and soul into the aspirations of the young Canadian nation, and became a
naturalized citizen in 1875. His interests have expanded with the times,
and now include California as well as the Ottawa Valley. A good many
years ago, foreseeing the growth of the redwood industry on the Pacific
Coast, he acquired timber properties there, and twelve years ago the
Little River Redwood Company, of Budwinkie, California, commenced
manufacturing operations. Of this company Mr. Crannell is President, and
other members of the Bronson firm directors and shareholders. By this
industry Budwinkie has been turned into a happy and flourishing
industrial centre. Direct railroad connections with the mills have been
established, and handsome houses built by the company for all employees,
married or single. For the latter class, the company operates a
community dining room, at which from 350 to 400 meals are served daily.
It is evidence of the growing international importance of the redwood
industry that over one-third of the company’s manufactured product is
exported to other countries, and the demand both foreign and domestic is
constantly growing. It is a cedar of exquisite quality, and in its
finished condition makes a very handsome article. The American interests
of Mr. Crannell have not prevented his playing an important part in
public life. He served as alderman from 1889 to 1892, and sat on the
following municipal committees: Water Works, Board of Health, Printing,
Fire and Light, and Court of Revision. When nominated for mayor of that
city in 1896, his requisition paper was signed by over one thousand
ratepayers, representing all creeds and classes. His integrity, energy
and independence of thought are proverbial among those who know him, and
he is generous in his contributions to philanthropic objects. The
benefactions of the Bronson firm since its earliest days are well known,
and have brought cheer and happiness to hundreds of poor homes at
Christmas time and during hard winters. Mr. Crannell has been an
especially good friend to the Orphans’ Home, the Old Men’s Home, and,
indeed, all hospitals and charitable institutions in Ottawa owe much to
his generosity and initiative. He has twice been married: on the first
occasion on November 11, 1863, to Julia A. Woolcott, and secondly, on
January 26, 1876 to Gertrude E., daughter of the late Henry F. Bronson,
of Ottawa. He has three sons, Edward Wilber, Alfred Raymond, and Levi
Wilfrid, and two adopted daughters, Edith L. and Jennie G. Crannell. In
religion he is a Presbyterian, and in politics a Unionist.
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=Cudmore, Sedley Anthony, B.A.= (Oxon.) is Chief of Educational
Statistics in connection with the Dominion Bureau of Statistics at
Ottawa. He was born at Millstreet, County Cork, Ireland, the son of
Thomas Gardiner Cudmore and his wife, Caroline Ellen Sedley. His
maternal grandfather, Lt.-Col. Anthony Gardiner Sedley was Governor of
the Military Knights of Windsor, a Royal appointment of high
distinction. The subject of this sketch was educated at public schools
of Ireland, and later at the public and high schools of Brampton,
Ontario, the University of Toronto, where he graduated with the degree
of B.A. in 1905, and the University of Oxford, where he took a
post-graduate course and obtained the degree of B.A. in 1907. On his
return from Oxford, he was appointed Assistant Professor in Political
Economy at the University of Toronto, and in 1919 was selected for the
above-named office in connection with the Dominion Bureau of Statistics.
Mr. Cudmore has been active with his pen in connection with economic
subjects. He is the author of “Economics for Canadian Students,”
published by the Shaw Correspondence School of Toronto, and has been a
contributor to the “University of Toronto Review,” the “Review of
Historical Publications,” the “Canadian Magazine,” and other important
journals. In 1910, he married Phoebie Amelia Magee, B.A. (Tor.), a
daughter of John James Magee, well known as a High School teacher at
Port Hope and Uxbridge, and has one son, James Sedley Cudmore, born
1916. He is a member of the University of Toronto Faculty Union, and his
favourite recreations are cycling and tennis. In religion he is an
Anglican, and in politics a Conservative.
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=Marshall, Lieut.-Col. Kenric Reid, C.M.G., D.S.O.=, is the eldest son
of Hon. Col. Noel Marshall, capitalist of Toronto, and his wife, H. T.
Hogg (deceased), born in Toronto, October 13, 1880. He was educated in
private schools and Upper Canada College. At the age of nineteen he
began his business career with the Standard Fuel Co., of which his
father was president, and continued active connection with that company
till the war broke out. He married, October 20, 1909, Marion J.,
daughter of Angus Kirkland, Esq., banker (deceased). He has one son,
Peter K. Marshall. On the outbreak of war Colonel Marshall, who was then
a junior Captain in the 48th Highlanders, proceeded overseas with the
15th Battalion, but was unable to accompany his unit to France owing to
an attack of pneumonia, contracted on Salisbury Plains, which rendered
him unfit for general service for the greater part of 1915, though he
was able to perform light duties in France and England for part of that
year. In May, 1916, he was passed fit for duty, shortly after being
appointed Staff Captain to Brigadier-General Lord Brooke’s Brigade in
the newly-formed 4th Canadian Division, and served under this officer
until Lord Brooke was wounded in September, 1916, and the 12th Canadian
Infantry Brigade came under the command of Brigadier-General J. H.
MacBrien, C.B., etc. Colonel Marshall served with General MacBrien
through the Battle of the Somme, and for his part in this operation
received the Distinguished Service Order. In the early part of 1917 he
was promoted to the rank of Major, and given an appointment under the
late Major-General Lipsett, who commanded the 3rd Canadian Division.
After some nine months’ service with this distinguished commander he was
recommended as qualified to fill the appointment of Adjutant and
Quartermaster-General of a division, and was subsequently promoted to
that post in the 4th Canadian Division under Major-General Sir David
Watson, K.C.B., and given the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, being one of
the first officers who had not passed through the Staff College at
Camberley to become a first-grade Staff Officer in the field. Lt.-Col.
Marshall remained throughout the balance of the campaign in the above
capacity receiving the C.M.G. for his part in connection with the
battles of 1918. He was mentioned in despatches on three occasions.
Lt.-Col. Marshall is President of the Standard Fuel Co. of Toronto,
founded fifty years ago, at present doing a large retail business
throughout Ontario. He is fond of outdoor life, and is a member of
several prominent clubs, The Toronto Hunt, National, Rosedale Golf, etc.
He is an Anglican and Conservative. His favorite recreations are farming
and polo. His city residence is 97 Glen Road, and his country home and
farm at Dunbarton. Col. Marshall is an alert business man, with a very
pleasing personality.
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=Transcriber’s Notes:=
Punctuation and obvious type-setting errors have been corrected without
note. Other corrections are as noted below.
page vii, Cave, James G., 138 was added to the book index
page vii, Chrysler, Francis Henry, 81 ==> Chrysler, Francis Henry, 80
page viii, Elson, John Mebourne ==> Elson, John Melbourne
page viii, Gouin, Sir Jean Lomer, 26 ==> Gouin, Sir Jean Lomer, 22
page ix, Johnson, Ebeneazer Forsyth ==> Johnston, Ebenezer Forsyth
page ix, Jones, James William, 116 ==> Jones, James William, 161
page ix, Macauzay, Thomas Basset ==> Macaulay, Thomas Basset
also relocated in index from after MacLean, Hon. John Duncan
page ix, Lieut.-Col. Kenrie Reid ==> Lieut.-Col. Kenric Reid
page 1, Honorary LL.D., St. Francois-Xavier ==> Honorary LL.D., St.
Francis Xavier
page 10, The enconiums which ==> The encomiums which
page 22, in rank, if ==> in rank with, if
page 39, Toronto Hunt, as also ==> Toronto Hunt, and also
page 69, he has two children ==> he has three children
page 75, member of N.V. Veterinary ==> member of N.Y. Veterinary
page 80, their mortgagees upon ==> their mortgages upon
page 86, Z. of Kichiekewana Chapter ==> Z. of Kichikewana Chapter
page 93, Regina, Wascana County Club, ==> Regina, Wascana Country Club,
page 94, History, St. Johns, N.B. ==> History, St. John, N.B.
page 97, a student, Mr. Saint-Pierre ==> a student, Mr. Sainte-Pierre
page 97, Helene and Jean Saint-Pierre ==> Helene and Jean Sainte-Pierre
page 97, Saint-Pierre is a Liberal ==> Sainte-Pierre is a Liberal
page 97, occasion. Mr. Saint-Pierre is ==> occasion. Mr. Sainte-Pierre is
page 97, securities, Mr. Saint-Pierre ==> securities, Mr. Sainte-Pierre
page 97, these securities. Mr. Saint-Pierre ==> these securities. Mr.
Sainte-Pierre
page 97, province. Mr. Saint-Pierre is ==> province. Mr. Sainte-Pierre is
page 97, skill of Mr. Saint-Pierre. ==> skill of Mr. Sainte-Pierre.
page 97, Johnston, Ebeneazer Forsyth ==> Johnston, Ebenezer Forsyth
page 118, Commerce, pursuaded him ==> Commerce, persuaded him
page 125, son of Francais Bellemare ==> son of François Bellemare
page 129, notably St. Johns, N.B. ==> notably St. John, N.B.
page 143, Alberta Pharmacal Association, ==> Alberta Pharmaceutical
Association,
page 161, on September 31, 1869 ==> on September 21, 1869
page 180, is 329 Chaple Street, Ottawa ==> is 329 Chapel Street, Ottawa
page 191, and from St. Francois Xavier ==> and from St. Francis Xavier
page 250, B. Greening Wire Coy. ==> B. Greening Wire Co.
page 258, Messines, Vis-en-ertois ==> Messines, Vis-en-Artois
page 264, Scarborough Golf and County ==> Scarborough Golf and Country
page 264, Hamilton Golf and County ==> Hamilton Golf and Country
page 271, Beull, Orr, Hurdman & Coy., ==> Beull, Orr, Hurdman & Co.,
page 271, Quarries and Construction Coy. ==> Quarries and Construction Co.
page 288, Elson, John Mebourne ==> Elson, John Melbourne
page 295, James Coristine & Coy., Ltd., ==> James Coristine & Co., Ltd.,
page 298, “Nugae Canorae,” 1897 ==> “Nugæ Canoræ,”