A Cyclopædia of Canadian Biography (part 4 of 4)

A Cyclopædia of Canadian Biography (part 4 of 4)

=Reid, William Brown=, President and Managing Director of United Cigar Stores, Ltd., of Canada, with head office at 284 King Street West, Toronto, Ont., was born in Rothes, Scotland, April 7, 1866, the son of Alexander and Helen (Simpson) Reid. His father was an extensive and prosperous farmer, and this afforded the subject of this sketch the opportunity of exercising in his boyhood his innate love of horses which he still retains. While afforded, like other members of his family, all the facilities for pursuing the highest educational course, he was satisfied with that of the common schools which have produced so many successful Scotchmen. He served with the Rothes (Elginshire) Volunteers from 1882 till 1888, when he came to Canada, and shortly afterwards joined the 48th Highlanders, serving for five years. After leaving school he pursued his own inclinations, and before coming to Canada had gained practical experience in a general way, besides having considerable knowledge along useful technical lines as a reserve to fall back on. In 1888, he became connected with the Empire Tobacco Co., with which he remained as Toronto representative till 1897, when he established in Toronto the wholesale tobacco and Cigar firm of W. B. Reid & Co., which was the foundation of the present extensive corporation of which he was the originator, and has always been the head and controlling genius. The firm was incorporated as the United Cigar Stores, Limited, in 1902, with a capital of $20,000, and opened several cigar stores in Toronto. In May, 1914, the company’s capital stock was increased to $250,000, and the number of stores largely increased and extended to outside cities. A year later, United Cigar Stores, Limited, of Canada was incorporated with a capital of $3,800,000, with Mr. Reid still in full control. The Company now has 164 stores, extending from Quebec City to Port Arthur, including 39 in Toronto, 13 in Ottawa, 11 in Hamilton, and one or more in almost every important town in the province. Remarkable as this achievement is in so short a time, it falls far short of the goal set by Mr. Reid, who intends to have stores in every city and town of consequence in the Dominion, and no doubt would have already made this goal an established fact before now if the war had not put a temporary stop to further expansion. Besides operating this great chain of stores, the company has two large cigar factories, and as a holding company, also controls a chain of Drug Stores with about a dozen branches, and a constantly and rapidly increasing business. The annual turnover of the cigar stores and cigar factories is between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000, all directed by Mr. Reid personally from the head office. This immense volume of business enables the company to buy goods in such large quantities that it obtains better terms than are available by small purchasers, and at the same time minimizes the percentage of overhead expenses. Mr. Reid married Edith E. Rogers, daughter of A. C. Rogers, Newmarket, Ont., November 8, 1896. He is a member of the Toronto and Montreal Boards of Trade, of the Scarborough Golf Club, Lakeview Golf, Mississauga Golf and Ontario Clubs; member of the A.F. & A.M., a Presbyterian, and independent in politics. His chief recreations are bowling and golf. He resides at 42 Lakeview Ave., Toronto. Mr. Reid is genial in manner, a systematic organizer, with sufficient of the imaginative faculty to prompt enterprise and enough determination and reserve force to ensure the carrying out of anything to which he lays his hand. He was the first man in the province of Ontario to place on the market the product of Canadian grown tobacco, and the expansion of this business has proven his foresight beyond question. The great war made heavy drafts on the staff of the Company, but Mr. Reid is too good a Britisher to complain of that; in fact, in addition to contributing thousands of dollars to patriotic purposes, so strong along this line is he that he never has allowed any foreign element to obtain a footing in his company, which he says will be strictly Canadian, without outside influence, so long as he is at its head—and that means as long as he desires to remain in active business.

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=Johnson, Hon. Thomas Herman, B.A., LL.D.=, Attorney-General of Manitoba, is a type of those Icelandic Canadians who, going into the West in the early days, have done so much for its development. He was born in Iceland on February 12, 1870, the son of John and Margaret Johnson. When he was a boy of eight years old his father resolved to try his fortunes in the virgin country of Western Canada, and settled in Manitoba as a farmer, bringing his family with him. The subject of this sketch was from early boyhood bent on a professional career. He attended the public schools of Winnipeg, and later took a course at Gustavus Adolphus College, Minnesota, from which he graduated in 1895 with the degree of B.A. As a youth he taught school during the summer in the Glenboro district to secure funds to continue his studies during the winter. After obtaining his degree he entered the legal offices of Richards (afterwards Mr. Justice Richards) and Bradshaw, with a view to qualifying himself for the law. He was admitted to the Manitoba Bar in 1900, and immediately commenced practice at Winnipeg. His abilities and knowledge of the different races of Manitoba were such that in 1901 the Laurier administration appointed him census commissioner for Manitoba to take the decennial census of that year. In 1904 he was elected as member of the Winnipeg School Board, and continued to act until 1907, when he resigned to stand as Liberal candidate for the Legislature in the riding of West Winnipeg. He was successful, and was also re-elected in 1910. At the general elections of 1914 he was Liberal candidate in Centre Winnipeg, and was again successful. As a prominent member of the opposition, he took an active part in the campaign which resulted in driving the Roblin administration from office. In 1915, when the Liberals, under Hon. Mr. Norris, came into power, he was again elected for Centre Winnipeg, and on the formation of the Norris government was offered, and accepted, the post of Minister of Public Works. Subsequently, he was transferred to the more important portfolio of Attorney-General. Mr. Johnson is a fine public speaker, and his shrewdness and judgment on all public questions are highly esteemed by his fellow citizens and colleagues in the Legislature. He is a Lutheran in religion, and his chief recreation is golf. On June 21, 1898, he married Aurora, daughter of F. Frederickson, merchant, Glenboro, Manitoba, and has three children, M. Ethel, Elswood B., and Cecil F. Johnson.

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=Farrow, Robinson Russell=, Assistant Commissioner of Customs, was born at Bluevale, Huron County, Ontario, March 7, 1864, and was educated at the public schools in Huron. He is the son of Thomas Farrow, (who came to Canada from England in 1849, and for years was Superintendent of Schools for Wawanosh, Morris and Turnberry, and who, establishing himself in business, made progress and prospered as the country advanced in population, industry and wealth), and Mary Macdonald, of London, Ontario. His father also became popular in the County of Huron, and at the general election in 1872 was chosen to represent North Huron in the House of Commons. He was re-elected at the general election in 1876, and again at the general election in 1882 was the successful candidate for East Huron. June 1, 1881, Mr. Farrow first entered the Civil Service of Canada in the Customs Department, and May 8, 1907, was appointed Assistant Commissioner. In lawn bowling and curling, Mr. Farrow holds a prominent station for competency, and is ever sought when championship contests are listed. He usually carries his team to victory. He is honorary President of the Ontario Lawn Bowling Association; member of the Executive of the Dominion Lawn Bowling Association; Past President of the Ottawa Lawn Bowling Club; and a member of the Finance Committee of the Ottawa Curling Club. In his official capacity as Assistant Commissioner, he is one of the busiest men in the Civil Service, and one of the most competent, coupled with which there is an ever evident promptness in action and courtesy in manner. January 5, 1887, Mr. Farrow married Miss R. J. Bradley, daughter of Samuel T. Bradley, a mill owner, and Margaret Alexander, of Huntley, Ontario. Mr. Farrow has one daughter—Ethel, B.A. (now Mrs. C. H. Bland), whose son, Corpl. C. H. Bland, B.A., served during the world war in the 20th Battery, Overseas Forces, and was with the army of occupation in Germany; and Bombdr. Russell Farrow, who, with the 20th Battery, C.E.S., served in France, Belgium, and with the army of occupation in Germany. Mr. Farrow belongs to the Laurentian Club, and is a member of the following societies: Scottish Rite Masons; A.F. & A.M.; Oddfellows; A.O.U.W.; Canadian Order of Foresters; Sons of England. He resides at 7 McLeod Street, Ottawa, Ont., and he attends the Methodist Church.

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=Veale, Philip Henry=, Assessment Commissioner for the City of Ottawa, was appointed to that position February 5, 1917. He is well known among Canadian municipal officials and civic legislators as a reliable authority on assessments, both as to the application of the Ontario Assessment and Local Improvement Acts, and as to land values, of which he has been a close student. Prior to his appointment as Assessment Commissioner, there were, besides the Commissioner, an Assistant Commissioner; and when Mr. Veale was appointed the latter position was abolished, the civic government considering that in the new appointment they had secured a man who was competent to perform the duties alone, although the responsibilities and duties of the office had increased considerably, and were daily increasing. That they were not mistaken is amply proved by the fact that the affairs of the Assessment Commissioner’s office were never working in such regular clock-like form as they are to-day. When Mr. Veale first became an employee in the Assessment Commissioner’s Office in 1892, the taxable assessment of the city of Ottawa was but $18,236,160, and the population only 43,942. In 1919—twenty-seven years later—the taxable assessment had increased to $114,392,261, and the population to 104,007; and, strange to say, of all the aldermen who were in the city council at that time, but one man, Alderman (now Controller) Napoleon Champagne, is still in civic life, and most of the others have crossed the line and joined the great majority. Mr. Veale has contributed largely to newspapers and magazines on assessment and other like important subjects, and few, if any, are better able to handle such subjects in newspaper discussion than he. It was in the re-organization of the civic assessment department in 1892 that Mr. Veale was appointed to a clerkship. It was not long before he was appointed chief clerk, and then Assistant Commissioner; and when Mr. William Stewart retired in 1917, Mr. Veale was called upon to assume the duties and responsibilities of both offices. Besides being an authority on real estate values, Mr. Veale is well known in Eastern Ontario as a breeder of White Wyandotte chickens, as a consistent exhibitor and prize-winner. At his summer home. River Park, every year he raises hundreds of thoroughbred fowl. Mr. Veale is the son of Philip Veale, who for many years was manager of the Dominion Fisheries at Ottawa, and Jane (Smith) Veale. He was born at Merrickville, Ontario, January 7, 1865, and was educated in the public school, New Edinburgh, now a portion of Ottawa. On April 27, 1887, Mr. Veale married Emma M. Payne, daughter of Abraham Payne, civil servant, Ottawa, resulting in a fine family of nine children—seven girls and two boys—Ethel Alberta, Mabel Mildred, Kathleen Gwendeline, Philip McDougal, Beatrice Jean, Albert Newell, Annie Edna, Lois Evelene, Constance Winifred. Mr. Veale is a member of the following clubs and societies: St. George’s, Sons of England, Knight of the Maccabees, and St. Matthew’s Church Men’s. In religion he is an Anglican, in politics a Conservative, and his recreations are fishing, and amateur gardening. His residence is at Woodroffe, Ont.

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=Finlayson, George Daniel, B.A., A.I.A.=, is the son of Edward Finlayson, a farmer who was born at Merigomish, N.S., and Catherine (Smith) Finlayson, and a brother of Professor J. N. Finlayson of Dalhousie University, Halifax. Mr. Finlayson was born in Merigomish, Pictou County, Nova Scotia, December 31, 1882, and received his education in the country school, Merigomish, Pictou Academy, and Dalhousie University, graduating in 1907 with B.A. and great distinction. On May 6, 1907, Mr. Finlayson entered upon his duties in connection with the Dominion Insurance Department, and at once became a valuable acquisition to the staff of that branch of the Civil Service. It was not long before his great ability as an authority on, and his general knowledge of, all phases of insurance brought him prominently to the notice of the Ottawa authorities and the heads of insurance companies throughout Canada, and his promotion, as a consequence, was rapid. Seven years later, from the time he entered the service on September 1, 1914, and at the early age of 32 years, he was appointed to the highest position in the Insurance Department, viz., that of Superintendent, which position he holds to-day. In the execution of his duties, he is noted for his courtesy to all who seek information from him. In 1914, Mr. Finlayson married Isabel M. Grant, daughter of A. M. Grant, of Moncton, New Brunswick, and has one daughter, Catherine Smith Finlayson, and one son. Mr. Finlayson is a member of the Canadian, University, and Riverside Golf clubs. For recreation he indulges in tennis, golf and walking. He is a Presbyterian in religion, and his residence is 200 Carling Avenue, Ottawa.

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=McLean, Angus Alexander, LL.B., K.C., Ex-M.P.=, Controller of the Royal North-West Mounted Police, since 1917, was born December 17, 1854, at Belfast, Prince Edward Island, and received his education at the Prince of Wales College, Charlottetown, P.E.I., and Harvard Law School. He is the son of William and Flora McLean, both of Prince Edward Island. Having read law in the office of the late Chief Justice, Hon. Sir William Sullivan, Mr. McLean was called to the bar in 1876, and became a partner in the law firm of Sullivan, McLean & Morsen. Afterwards he was senior member of McLean & McKinnon, barristers and solicitors, Victoria Row, Charlottetown, P.E.I. In June, 1894, he was appointed Q.C., and revising officer for East Queen’s, and was elected President of the P.E.I. Law Society. For eight years, Mr. McLean was law clerk for the P.E.I. Legislature, and was Official Assignee under the old Dominion Insolvent Act for five years. During 1888, 1889 and 1900, Mr. McLean represented the constituency of Belfast in the P.E.I. Legislature. He was a candidate at the by-elections of 1902 and 1904 for the House of Commons, and was elected at the General Election of 1904. In the General Election of 1908 he was defeated, but in 1911 was elected by a large majority. October 15, 1917, he was appointed controller of the Royal North-West Mounted Police. In June 14, 1882, Mr. McLean married Leah Yeo, daughter of the late John Yeo, of Charlottetown. She died in 1897. In 1898, he married Frances H. Longworth, daughter of the late Henry Longworth, of Charlottetown. He has two sons, both of whom served with distinction in the Overseas forces during the great world war. In religion Mr. McLean is a Presbyterian, in politics a Liberal-Conservative, and he is a member of the A.F. & A.M.; the I.O.O.F.; and the S.O.S. Societies. He resides at 312 Cooper Street, Ottawa, Ontario.

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=Robertson, Hon. Gideon Decker, P.C.=, Federal Minister of Labor, was the first actual representative of organized labor to be called to either the Dominion Cabinet or the Senate of Canada, He was born at Welland, Ont., on August 26, 1874, the son of Gavin E. Robertson and Laretto Goring, both native Canadians. His paternal grandfather was a native of Scotland, who became a member of the bar and later went to Jamaica, where he took an active part in the agitation for the abolition of slavery, which became a fully accomplished fact in 1838. In this movement Robertson was in correspondence with Clarkson, Macaulay (father of Lord Macaulay), Wilberforce and others active in freeing the British Empire from this reproach. Later, he came to Canada, where Gavin Robertson, father of the subject of this sketch, was born, and where he became a farmer and school teacher on the Niagara peninsula. Gideon Decker Robertson was educated at the public and high schools of Welland and as a youth took up telegraphy in connection with railroad work. A strong believer in trades unionism, he soon became active in the Order of Railroad Telegraphers, an international body, of which he was some years ago elected Vice-President, an office he still holds. His duties brought him in contact with the chiefs of organized labor on this continent, and he won a high reputation for clear thinking and executive ability. In 1917, when Sir Robert Borden decided to abolish party lines and form a Union Government, he offered Mr. Robertson a position in the Senate and a seat in his Cabinet. The offer was accepted, and in the autumn of that year he was sworn in as a member of the Privy Council and a Minister without Portfolio. In May, 1918, he was appointed Chairman of the sub-Committee of the Council on Labor Problems, and also Chairman of the National Registration Board in connection with the war. On November 7, 1918, he was sworn in as Minister of Labor in succession to Hon. T. W. Crothers, who had announced his intention of retiring some months previously. The appointment was made just at the psychological moment, for the armistice, which had been signed just one week previously, created a host of labor problems more serious than Canada had ever previously been called upon to face; and only a statesman enjoying practical knowledge and the confidence of organized labor could have dealt with the situation. In the spring and summer of 1919 he was called upon to combat a conspiracy affecting all Canada to introduce a modified form of Russian Bolshevism, fathered by the Industrial Workers of the World, known as the “One Big Union.” The aim was to unite all existing labor organizations in one body, and by sympathetic strikes and a policy of terrorism destroy capitalism, and reduce all other classes to subjection. This movement came to a head with a general strike called in Winnipeg early in May, on the pretext of a dispute between the metal workers and their employers. Winnipeg was chosen as a strategic point, because of its peculiar geographical position as the chief divisional point of three transcontinental railways. The aim was to cut Canada in two in the matter of communications, and then by broadening the strike Eastward and Westward secure complete control of Canadian transportation and industry, after which the movement was to be carried into every section of the United States. Senator Robertson himself went to the scene of operations, and by his fearless, though moderate handling of the situation, and his influence with the saner labor elements, rendered the conspiracy abortive so far as the rest of Canada was concerned, and fruitless in Winnipeg. He thus secured a triumph for legitimate trade unionism, of which he is the chief sponsor in Canada. He is a Freemason, a Presbyterian, and in politics a member of the Independent Labor Party. On June 10, 1896, he married Mary Berry Hay, daughter of Alexander Hay, Watford, Ont., and has six children—Edwin J., John McElroy, Gain Elliot, Alexander Lorne, Mabel Letitia, and Alma Lauretta. He formerly resided at Welland but his home is now at Ottawa.

=Hutchison, Col. William= (Ottawa, Ont.), the subject of this sketch, was born in New Edinburgh in 1843, a suburb of the city of Ottawa. He was educated in the Public and Grammar Schools. When about seventeen years of age Col. Hutchison commenced to learn the Milling business with his uncle, the late Thos. McKay, who was then owner of the McKay Mills at the Chaudiere and also a partner in the New Edinburgh Mills. At the age of twenty Col. Hutchison left for the United States where he followed the milling business for several years. On his return he took charge of his uncle’s business and shortly afterwards was made a partner. In 1885 he was elected to City Council, and served for seven years. It was during Col. Hutchison’s service in the City Council that the question of the proper drainage of the city attained its greatest importance, and it is owing to his keen foresight and wise counsel and persistence that Ottawa to-day has the excellent drainage system of which it now boasts, and that is but one of the many happenings for the benefit, progress and beautification of Ottawa that were brought into existence through his instrumentality during his term of office in the City’s Civic affairs. From 1888 to, and including the year 1905, a period of eighteen years, Col. Hutchison was a member of the Board of Directors of the Central Canada Exhibition Association, and from 1895 to 1905, 10 years, he was President. On retiring in 1906 he was elected Honorary President of the Association and has been re-elected to that position every year since. Col. Hutchison, with the assistance of Messrs. Ahearn and Topper, was instrumental in converting the old horse car line to electric, giving Ottawa one of the best street car services on the continent. He ran for the Dominion House in 1896, with the result that both he and his French colleague, Napoleon A. Belcourt, were elected by a sweeping majority. At the time the Conservatives felt that they had a serious grievance, but ere long the good-hearted, good-natured and genial new Member became the friend and companion of both Liberals and Conservatives in the House of Commons. In 1901, when Sir Wilfrid Laurier needed a competent man to travel to all parts of the world to exhibit Canada’s mineral, cereal and industrial resources, Col. Hutchison was asked to accept the position of Canadian Exhibition Commissioner. He accepted and since his appointment he has had charge of Canada’s exhibits at the following times and places:—1901, Buffalo, U.S.A.; 1902, Osaka, Japan; 1903-04 St. Louis, U.S.A.; 1905, Liege, Belgium; 1906, Milan, Italy; 1907, Dublin, Ireland; 1908, Shepherds Bush, London, England; 1909, Seattle, U.S.A.; 1910, Brussels, Belgium; 1911-12, Crystal Palace, London, England; 1913, Ghent, Belgium; 1914-15, San Francisco, U.S.A.; 1916-17, San Diego, U.S.A. The great world war has caused a cessation of the valuable exhibits, but the whole display is located in commodious quarters on Wellington St. in Ottawa, under Col. Hutchison’s special care, waiting and ready to be shipped at a moment’s notice. In 1902 Col. Hutchison was decorated by the Emperor of Japan with the Order of the Rising Sun (with rank of Colonel in the Army). In 1905 he was decorated by the late King Leopold II. of Belgium, with the Order of Leopold, and in 1906 by the King of Italy with the Order of the Crown of Italy, in 1910 he was made Commander of the Order of the Crown of Belgium by King Albert I. Col. William Hutchison is the son of the late Robert Hutchison of Ayrshire, Scotland, who came to Canada in 1830 and in New Edinburgh married Mary McKay, niece of the late Hon. Thos. McKay, who was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. In September, 1874, he married Electa Blanche, daughter of S. T. Willett of Chambly, Quebec. Two sons have blessed the union. In religion he is a Presbyterian, and in politics a high tariff Liberal. He is also a member of the Rideau Club, Ottawa, and his residence is 443 Albert St., Ottawa.

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=Gibson, Brigadier-General Sir John Morison, K.C.M.G., M.A., LL.D., K.C.=, born January 1, 1842, township of Toronto, in the County of Peel, and is therefore a “Peel Old Boy.” His father, William Gibson, a farmer, came from Glamis, Forfarshire, Scotland, in 1827. His mother, Mary Sinclair, was born in Scotland. Her people had settled in the township of Nelson, in the County of Halton. The family removed from Toronto township when the subject of this sketch was only eight or nine years of age to the County of Haldimand, where he had some experience in the Log School House education of the primitive settlements of that County in the early 50’s. He afterwards went to the Central School in Hamilton, the late Dr. Sangster then being Superintendent and Head Master. In due course, and working against great disadvantages, he became head boy of the public schools of Hamilton, a position which he maintained until he passed the matriculation examination of the University of Toronto in 1859. As head boy of the school, he with the second boy, was selected to open the waterworks system of the city of Hamilton in 1858. His course at the University was a very successful one, taking scholarships all the way through the various years, and graduating in 1863 as the highest honor graduate with the Prince of Wales Prize, then given for general proficiency, including honors at graduation, the Silver Medals in Classics and Modern Languages, and the prize in Oriental languages, including Hebrew, Chaldee and Syriac. After taking his B.A. degree, he commenced the study of law in the office of the late Sir George Burton in Hamilton, at the same time taking the law course of the University, and receiving the degree of LL.B. in 1869 with the gold medal. One thing of note in connection with General Gibson’s life is that he has always endeavored to repay the educational institutions from which he received his education. For many years he was a member of the Board of Education in Hamilton, and was its Chairman for two years. During that time the Collegiate Institute was brought into prominence as one of the leading secondary educational institutions of the country. He served as a Senator of the University of Toronto, being elected at the first election of graduates in 1873 and re-elected in 1878 and 1883. He subsequently founded a general proficiency scholarship for matriculation candidates. When a student of the University during the Trent affair, he joined the University Rifles, being one of the first to sign the roll of that company in 1860. He has been in the Militia ever since, for now nearly 59 years, and at the present time is the senior officer in the Canadian Force among all who are not following military life as their regular occupation. In 1863, he transferred to the 13th, and has served from private up through all the ranks to the position of commanding officer, which position he held for 9 years, and at the present time is the Honorary Colonel of that corps. He was present at Ridgeway as a lieutenant. He subsequently commanded the 15th Brigade, having headquarters at Hamilton, and later on at the beginning of the great war received the rank of Brigadier-General. As a marksman he always has had a very high reputation, having been a member Canadian Wimbledon teams in 1874, ’75, and ’79, being a frequent prize winner, and taking the much coveted Prince of Wales prize in the last-named year. He took part in several of the early international long range rifle contests with British, Australian, and American rifle teams. In 1881 he commanded the team which defeated the British team in the competition for the Kolapore Cup. He was president for three years of the Ontario Rifle Association, was also President of the Canadian Military Rifle League, and from 1893 for thirteen or fourteen years was President of the Dominion Rifle Association. In 1907 he again commanded the Canadian rifle team at Bisley. He has also been President of the Canadian Military Institute, and was President of the Canadian Red Cross Society from its original organization throughout the South African War, and subsequently for a period of about 14 years, and has been throughout the recent great war one of the most active members of the Executive Board. He was for two years President of the Hamilton St. Andrew’s Society. From an early age he has been a very prominent Freemason—was Grand Master of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Canada during the years 1892 and 1893, being now the representative of the Grand Lodge of England, and for nine years was Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite Masons in Canada. He has always taken a prominent part in politics. As a young man he was Secretary of the Hamilton Reform Association, which position he held for many years. He was first returned to the Legislature in 1879, representing Hamilton for a period of 19 years, and afterwards East Wellington for 7 years. He entered the Government as Provincial Secretary in 1889, became Commissioner of Crown Lands in 1896, and Attorney-General in 1899. He was an honorary A.D.C. to their Excellencies, Lord Aberdeen and Lord Minto, when Governors-General, and in 1897 was selected by the Militia Department to proceed to England in connection with the celebration of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee; was present by invitation, at the coronations in Westminster Abbey of the late King Edward VII, and of the present King George V. He has always taken a leading part at the Bar, and was made a Queen’s Counsel in 1890, is a Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada, and as a young man was an examiner in the Faculty of Law at Toronto University. In 1903 he received the honorary degree of LL.D. from that institution, and subsequently also from McMaster University. In 1908 he became Lieut.-Governor of the Province of Ontario, being the last to occupy the old Government House on King Street West, Toronto, continuing for over six years. During his term, on the recommendation of His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught, then Governor-General of Canada, he was created a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. As a public man he shrank from prominence in the public eye; he was most industrious and faithful in the performance of any duties he undertook to discharge. He had an excellent training for many years under the greatest of law makers this country has ever produced, Sir Oliver Mowat. While a private member of the Legislative Assembly he was selected as Chairman of the Private Bills Committee, which for fifteen years he presided over with eminent ability, fairness and impartiality. During the short period when the license branch was under his control some of the most advanced measures of temperance legislation were introduced by him, including the local option law, the validity of which was stoutly contested, but in the end affirmed by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Though not himself a practical sportsman, almost immediately after entering the legislature he led a movement for better protection of game birds and fur-bearing animals, first securing the abolition of spring shooting and other improvements in the law, and afterwards the appointment of a Royal Commission followed by a thorough revision of the game laws and the establishment of a departmental branch, with a chief game warden and other provincial wardens entrusted with the enforcement of the laws relating to game protection. While Provincial Secretary he was always an industrious legislator. The laws relating to Joint Stock Companies were thoroughly revised, modernized, and simplified by him. The old laws relating to building societies and loan companies were completely overhauled, and became the present Loan Corporations Act. It was at this time also that he undertook to stem the tide or flood of benefit societies, many of them of the fake order, which threatened to inundate this Province—a subject of legislation requiring at the time very cautious and skilful handling, but which, with the able assistance of Mr. J. H. Hunter, M.A., was ultimately put on a very satisfactory footing. One of the most important laws of comparatively recent years owes to him its existence, and has generally been referred to as the “Gibson Act”—the Act relating to neglected and dependent children—and the establishment of the Children’s Branch, with Mr. Kelso as its chief officer. This law has been most beneficial in its operation, and has been followed more or less closely in most of the other Provinces. During his comparatively short incumbency as Commissioner of Crown Lands he introduced and carried through the House the important legislation prohibiting the exportation of saw logs—a measure affecting very large interests but meeting the entire approval of the public. He also dealt with important changes in the mining laws during a period of great mining excitement in the Province. It is probably not generally known that while Commissioner of Crown Lands he introduced a short but very important measure preventing any absolute alienation by the Crown of Provincial water powers, and providing for leasing same for short renewable terms of years subject to conditions in the public interest. It is somewhat singular that a public man who has often been unfairly criticized as a champion of monopolies should never have been credited with this act directly aimed against and prohibitive of monopoly. In the matter of forest preservation or reforesting, Mr. Gibson aimed at carrying out a programme which probably time would justify as the most effective and productive policy possible. He aimed at the selection and setting apart every year a portion of the Crown domain unfit for agricultural purposes as a timber growing reserve. Many such sections in Northern Ontario, which have been cut over or burnt over, and now more or less covered over by new growth, could be set apart and treated as territory to be guarded as timber growing areas. In the Eastern part of the Province certain old limits were repurchased from the license holders and so set apart, and again another area in Western Ontario. The plan of year after year reserving areas in this way would in a generation or so result in well defined sections of the Province producing a new crop of timber which would not fail to become an extremely valuable asset to posterity. It was in Sir John Gibson’s time that the first steps were taken for the establishment of the Temagami Reserve very effectively carried out by Mr. Davis, his successor. As Attorney-General he had, of course, the responsibility of legislation generally. The assessment laws had been the subject of investigation and report at the hands of two Royal Commissioners, and amid the distressing conflict of opinion on the various questions which arise whenever this subject is touched, the difficulty of framing a generally acceptable measure seemed insuperable. Whatever may be thought of the present act, Sir John Gibson’s tact as a legislator was mainly instrumental in having it passed through the House, and probably as time has passed and the public have become more and more familiar with its provisions it may be considered to give general satisfaction. The collection and revision of Imperial Statutes in force in this Province in the shape of a brief third volume of the Revised Statutes carried out with the aid of a committee of the judges has been a boon to law students, and a great convenience to the legal profession. (The foregoing facts and observations regarding Sir John’s career have been contributed by Mr. James Innes Macintosh, who was for several years his private secretary when a Minister of the Crown.) He was one of the pioneers, along with the late John Patterson and the late John Moodie, in introducing Hydro-Electric power and long distance transmission of same in this country utilizing surplus water from the Welland Canal, and transmitting the power to Hamilton, where very soon many of the industrial and electric railways adopted the same, to the great advantage of the companies. For many years he was President of the Cataract Power Company. He is a Director of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, the Canada Life Assurance Company, the Toronto General Trusts Corporation, the Toronto Conservatory of Music, the Homewood Retreat at Guelph, the Dominion Power and Transmission Company, the Canadian Westinghouse Company, and several other industrial companies in Hamilton. He was married first in 1869 to Emily Annie, daughter of the late Rolph Birrell, of London, who died in 1874; second, in 1876 to Caroline, daughter of the late Senator Adam Hope, who died in 1877; and third, on May 18, 1881, to Elizabeth, daughter of the late Judge Malloch, of Brockville. He had six children, viz., John Gordon Gibson, who died shortly after taking his B.A. degree at the University of Toronto; Eugenia Elizabeth Emily; Margaret Mary Stewart, wife of Robert S. Waldie, of Toronto; Archibald Hope Gibson, Barrister; Captain Colin W. G. Gibson, of the Royal Fusiliers, who was twice severely wounded; and Francis Malloch Gibson, who went to the front as an officer of the 48th Highlanders at the commencement of the war and was killed in action near Armentieres. Sir John’s manner is dignified but affable, his style of speech clear and precise; in his movements he is deliberate, but with the elasticity of well-preserved middle age, while his expression is kindly but alert, with evidence of unlimited determination and unmistakable inclination and power to lead. When an active officer of the Militia he was recognized by his fellow-officers as a master of field manœuvres. The beautiful family residence, “Ravenscliffe,” is delightfully situated on the lower slope of the mountain, looking down Ravenscliffe Avenue, through a vista of stately elm trees.

=Mitchell, The Hon. Walter George= (Quebec City), Treasurer of the Province of Quebec, was born at Danby, in the County of Drummond. He is the son of the Hon. Senator William Mitchell, his mother’s maiden name being Miss Dora Goddard. His early education was matured at the Montreal High School and at the Bishop’s College school of Lennoxville. Thereafter he entered McGill University as an undergraduate, finally taking his degree of B.C.L. in 1901. On being admitted to practice at the Bar, he became connected with the law firm of Greenshields, Greenshields & Heneker. Two years after he became a prominent member of the firm of Laflamme, Mitchell and Callaghan, receiving his K.C. in 1912. In view of his being chosen by the Lieutenant-Governor to assume the duties of the Hon. P. S. G. Mackenzie, who had died suddenly, he was subsequently elected by acclamation as representative of the constituency of Richmond, a county which he continues to represent as Member of the Provincial Parliament, after a second election by acclamation. Prior to his assuming the office of Provincial Treasurer, Mr. Mitchell was in possession of a large and lucrative practice in Montreal. While actively engaged with his professional duties, as a leading lawyer, he did not fail to take an active interest in political affairs, and came into public prominence in the administration of the Montreal Reform Club. Through his efforts in co-operation with his associate members, new and attractive quarters for that club were erected on Sherbrooke Street; and, in 1913, he was chosen, by way of reward for his active services, the President of that flourishing institution, and in the following year was re-elected to the same office. From the date of the famous Drummond-Arthabaska election contest in 1910, Mr. Mitchell became more and more intimately identified with the political life of the Eastern Townships and its various electoral movements. During the winning of the constituency of Drummond-Arthabaska back to the Liberal interest in 1910, he was associated with Dr. Beland, later a prisoner of war in Germany, and was acclaimed everywhere as an eloquent and persuasive pleader in behalf of the naval policy of Sir Wilfrid Laurier. In fact, in 1911, it was to a large extent through Mr. Mitchell’s influence as an organizer, not to speak of his father’s unbroken popularity as a public man, and other influences, that the constituency of Drummond-Arthabaska was won over to the Liberal interest. As Provincial Treasurer, Mr. Mitchell has made a name for himself as a most successful financier, taking a prominent rank almost immediately as a parliamentary debater. Nor has he failed to share in remedial legislation, whenever such came up for consideration in the Provincial Parliament. He has interested himself particularly in modifying the Quebec License Law, fathering amendments to that law restricting the number of licenses, increasing the license fees, prohibiting treating, increasing the age limit, shortening the hours of sale, and urging an enactment to abolish the bars on the 1st of May, 1918, with immediate sanction to the Minister of Militia and Defence to declare any or all districts throughout the Province of Quebec “out of bounds” for soldiers and sailors. At his instance also the Quebec Insurance Act has been amended from time to time, so as to give better protection to the public. One of his most notable and highly patriotic acts in parliament since the war in Europe began, was his presentation of a Bill, asking authority to subscribe out of the public revenues in behalf of his native province a million of dollars to the Canadian Patriotic Fund—a proposal which met with an instant and unanimous approval from both chambers. Under his mature financial advice the Province of Quebec has spent millions of dollars in constructing and improving highways of nearly every district. And yet so prudently have the finances of the province been husbanded under his judicious oversight, that the provincial debt has virtually remained as easy a burden on the people as it ever has been, notwithstanding the large amounts spent on the highways, and the large increase in the grants to education, agriculture, and public works. Altogether Mr. Mitchell has won the highest credit as a parliamentarian and a financier, enjoying the full confidence of his colleagues and of many of his fellow legislators, irrespective of party lines. He was married on February the 4th, 1907, Mrs. Mitchell’s maiden name having been Miss Antonia Pelletier. Their family comprises two sons and three daughters.

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=Lesperance, Albert Paneran= (Montreal, Que.), General Manager, was born at Longueuil, Que., on September 17, 1860, and was educated at Longueuil and Montreal Business College, he is the Executor of the Estate of Henry Hogan, also the Estate Masson; is a Roman Catholic in religion and styles himself an Independent in politics; is a member of the Canadian Club, Montreal Board of Trade, and Chambre de Commerce, also Governor of Notre Dame Hospital. On May 10, 1890, he married Delima Bovin, the daughter of Leonard Bovin, a merchant, of St. Hyacinthe, Que., and has ten children: Juliette, Henri, Germain, Annette, Arthur, Simmonne, Irene, Therese, Suzanne and Paul.

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=Parsons, S. R.= (Toronto, Ont.), President of the British-American Oil Co., Ltd., Oil Refineries, was born in Port Hope, Ont., in 1854. Son of William and Margaret (Trick) Parsons. He received his education in the Public and Grammar Schools of that town and began business with the firm of James Campbell & Son, at that time extensive manufacturing stationers, and publishers of Toronto. After six years’ association with this firm he removed to Winnipeg and subsequently engaged in the wholesale stationery business as senior partner in Parsons, Bell & Co., which afterwards merged with the Consolidated Stationery Co., Ltd., of which he was President for a number of years. In 1882 Mr. Parsons married Anne Kate Helliwell, daughter of Rev. Thomas Lord Helliwell of Winnipeg, and has three daughters, Mrs. Chas. A. Withers, Mrs. Henry F. Gooderham, and Mrs. Errol A. Hethrington, all of Toronto. After sixteen years of successful business in Winnipeg, Mr. Parsons was compelled to leave the northern climate in the interest of his health and returned to Toronto where in 1906, along with others, he established the extensive business of which he continues the moving spirit. He has always taken an active interest in religious, social and philanthropic work and for many years has been a director of the Methodist Union. Since 1900 he has been Chairman of the Ontario Board of Directors, Canadian Fire Insurance Co., and is a member of the Northern Ontario Fire Relief Committee, and the Organization of Resources Committee of the Province of Ontario, also of the Ontario Executive of the Bonne Entente at whose meeting in the Chateau Frontenac, Quebec, in 1916, he was one of the principal speakers and put forward this three-plank platform: First—We ought to live together in sincerity, friendship and justice; Second—We ought to strive for a cleaner public life; Third—We ought to help maintain the integrity and strength of our great Empire. But it is in connection with his work in the Canadian Manufacturers Association that Mr. Parsons has come most prominently before the public, for though naturally being far from an aggressive man, when the burden of office was laid upon him he realized his responsibilities to the full and has frequently from the platform, in the press and in action given evidence of the reserve force that was in him. He was elected for four successive years (1911-1915) Chairman of the Transportation Committee of the Association; Second Vice-President in 1915, First Vice-President in 1916, and President at the Annual Meeting of the Association in Winnipeg in 1917. He was Chairman in 1917 of the Committee of Employers of Labor for the Province of Ontario to secure men to help in the harvest fields, an organization responsible for the saving of many millions in food stuffs. On assuming office as President of the C.M.A. Mr. Parsons delivered an inspiring inaugural address of a thoroughly business character, but progressive, loyal, ethical, liberal and humanitarian as well. In 1918 he was appointed a representative of the C.M.A. on the Federal Board for the settlement of Labor disputes. Writing of him on this occasion, “The Monetary Times” says: “He is a capable, energetic business man, with a frank and alert manner that wins confidence. The welfare of the Canadian Manufacturers Association is in good hands under his care. He is a type of Association President well able to smooth out many of the difficulties between capital and labor, having appreciation of the problems met by both.” Mr. William Lewis Edmonds writes at the same time in “Industrial Canada”: “While Mr. Parsons is strong as a business man, and particularly in the quality of executive ability, that is not the only direction in which his strength lies. He is a strong man all the way round. He is a man of strong opinions and particularly on subjects that approach the ethical in character, and having cultivated the habit of looking at controversial subjects from the other fellow’s perspective as well as his own, it is not a difficult thing to persuade him to change his attitude, provided the other fellow is right and he is wrong, but when once after carefully weighing the pros and cons, he is persuaded that he is right he’ll not surrender principles, although where non-essentials are the issue he will readily agree to a compromise. In judgment he is sound, and in insight keen and quick. Although not connected with either political party, Mr. Parsons takes a keen interest in public affairs, and practical movements which have for their object a betterment of conditions in state and society have his warm, and in many instances, his active sympathy.” Writing in the “Toronto Star Weekly,” Arthur Hawkes says: “Mr. Parson’s service in the Manufacturers Association has been real service, and not a still hunt for glory. In committee he is as cautious as strong, and as strong as wise. He looks often before he leaps and he can take a pretty good leap—the fundamental condition of which is that he shall have examined the jumping-off place and surveyed the spot where he intends to land. When he has made up his mind he doesn’t change it, which is because he is sound in judgment.” In concluding his quite lengthy sketch and referring particularly to Mr. Parsons’ political platform he says: “This is a pretty good creed. It is just like Parsons. If you know him you know an honest manufacturer, a broad Methodist, and a friend who is with you till daylight.” Of him, “Motoring” says: “He presented an excellent report to the C.M.A. convention as Chairman of the Special Committee on the Co-ordination of recruiting and production. He is a clear thinker and speaker and could probably quote from half a hundred authors. He is a keen business man and one who puts his best efforts into all he undertakes.” Mr. Parsons is not only a clear thinker but an apt phraser as may be judged from this clause in his inaugural address as President of the C.M.A.: “These are surely days for plain living and high thinking, days when there is a compression of life, and days which summon all that is heroic within us to stand like men in meeting our duties, whether they be personal, social, local or national.” In a speech before the Canadian Club of Orillia, in February, 1918, on “War-Time Business and Profits” which was endorsed by the C.M.A. Executive and published in the principal papers of Canada, Mr. Parsons said: “Canadians, let us know each other better, let us understand and sympathize with each other’s problems, for in that knowledge lies increased production, good feeling between city and country, prosperity in reason and fair play to all.” A strong desire for fair play and justice to all is the outstanding characteristic of Mr. Parsons’ whole attitude towards any question, and, while conservatively progressive he is so liberally and humanely so that his influence in the important association of which he is President cannot fail to be productive of better feeling between employer and employees. In manner Mr. Parsons is genial and easy of approach, a good conversationalist, well-read and with a ready and apt style of expression, but views every question apparently through ethical spectacles—a habit unfortunately not generally in vogue. He is a member of the National Club, Canadian Club, and Toronto Board of Trade. He is a Unionist in politics, and a member of the Methodist Church. His office is the 13th floor of the Royal Bank Building and his residence 139 Crescent Road, Toronto.

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=Forman, James C.= (Toronto, Ont.), Assessment Commissioner, a son of the late James Forman, one of the 93rd Highlanders, was born November 23, 1851, and received his education in the Public and Model Schools and British-American Commercial College. He occupied a position in a broker’s and insurance office for about two years, and then entered the employ of the wholesale dry goods firm of Dobbie and Carrie, remaining there for over four years. Mr. Forman, afterwards, while in the employ of the late George Warin, was offered a temporary position in the City Hall by the late Stephen Radcliff, City Clerk. He was permanently appointed in 1878 as Assessment Clerk, and gradually worked his way up the ladder until he assumed his present position in 1905, succeeding Mr. R. J. Fleming on the latter’s resignation. Mr. Forman has taken a close interest in assessment matters, having read papers before the Ontario Municipal Association and International Tax Association and is frequently selected to represent the City Council at their meetings. In 1903 he was in close touch with former Attorney-General Sir John Gibson in the preparing of the new Assessment Act. In October, 1908, he read a paper before the Internation Tax Association on “Business Assessments as a Substitute for Personal Property.” He takes the deepest interest in town planning and represented the City Council at Philadelphia, May, 1911, and the Board of Trade at Boston, reading a short paper at the latter city in May, 1912. He has prepared a report on the Single Tax Situation as he found it in the West, from Winnipeg to Victoria. Mr. Forman is in every respect a man who has done his share toward placing Toronto on its present high pinnacle of fame, and has won the esteem of all citizens by his safe and able administration of the office of Assessment Commissioner. He is a man of undoubted integrity, with keen instinct and a pleasing countenance. He is a warm adherent, an active worker and for several years occupant of the post of “People’s Warden” of St. Matthew’s Church, First Avenue. He has refused several flattering offers from the leading real estate concerns of this city, preferring to remain in his present position.

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=Foster, Thomas Wilfred= (Kirkland Lake, Ont.), was born in Dundalk, County of Grey, Ontario, on February 25, 1885, and educated at the public school of that village, his parents being John and Christina Foster, who moved to Alberta where the father of the subject of this sketch died in June, 1916, at Wainwright. A brother, David Albert, enlisted in the 51st Battalion from Edmonton, in the Canadian Expeditionary Forces. Mr. Foster carries on the business of a general merchant at Kirkland Lake, Ont., of which place he is the Police Magistrate and postmaster. He married Mary Greer, daughter of James and Sofia Greer, and is the father of the following children: Leonard, Ralph, Vivian and Irene. Mr. Foster has been for some years prominently identified with the Masonic Order, being Past Master for Porcupine Lodge, and also is a member of the Orange Order. In religion, he is a Methodist and politically, is a Conservative.

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=Shortly, Orville Benjamin=, began his career with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company on July 6, 1903. In 1904 he was appointed Superintendent of the Ottawa district. Arriving in Ottawa he immediately entered upon his duties in that capacity. It was not long before he had secured for his company a large number of policy-holders who, as the days, months and years passed by, grew larger and larger in numbers until, up to 1918, his large and greatly increased staff of employees at the head office, The Metropolitan Life Building, corner Metcalfe and Queen Streets, Ottawa, and his numerous agents, are kept busily and industriously employed. Previous to his arrival in Ottawa the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company had failed to make itself well established. His advent in the Capital of Canada, however, changed all this and activity and progress began and has been in operation ever since. As a recognition of the value of his services, in March, 1918, the General Management of The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company promoted him to the Chief Agency for the whole of Canada—a well-deserved and well-earned promotion, while he still retained the Superintendency of the Ottawa district, which up to the date of his promotion controlled no less than forty-three thousand policyholders. On October 28, 1918, Mr. Shortly was again promoted by his company, having been transferred from Ottawa to take charge of the Toronto district of the Metropolitan Life. He resides at 15 Whitney Ave., North Rosedale, and his office address is 4 Richmond St. East. Although Mr. Shortly only came to reside in Toronto on October 28, 1918, he has already been placed on the executive of the Life Underwriters’ Association of Toronto; has been made a member of the Association of Life Managers, and been elected to membership in the Ontario Club, the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, the Canadian Club, and the Scarborough Golf Club. Mr. Shortly is the author of several essays on Life Insurance Salesmanship, and has given addresses before several Life Insurance associations. He is a past President of the Life Underwriters’ Association of Ottawa. He is an enthusiastic sportsman. In his earlier days, when he was quite an athlete, he was an expert bicyclist and captured many first prizes in racing contests. When, in 1914, the terrible war hostilities commenced, Mr. Shortly placed his services, such as he could give, at the services of the State and forced his way into the midst of the greatest war activities in the City of Ottawa. In collecting funds for the several patriotic objects, and in helping to make the Victory Loans successful he was one of the most active and his services were of inestimable value. Prior to engaging in the insurance business Mr. Shortly was salesman and manager for Eastern Ontario for the Canadian Typograph Company of Windsor, Ontario. He has travelled considerably throughout the continent and Europe. On August 27, 1917, Governor Whitman, Governor of New York State, appointed Mr. Shortly Commissioner of Deeds for the State of New York. Mr. Shortly was born in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, August 13, 1875, and was educated in the Peterborough Public Schools. He is the son of Benjamin and Hattie Robertson Shortly. His father is a merchant in Peterborough and holds the distinction of being in business there longer than any other man. A prominent relative is James E. Kavanagh, 3rd Vice-President of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. On September 28, 1904, Mr. Shortly married Mabel Louise Howe, daughter of Etna D. Howe, 24 Whitney Avenue, Toronto, President Northrop & Lyman Drug Company. Two children have blessed the union—Orville Dean, born August 3, 1905, and John Benjamin, born February 24, 1910. He is a member of the Laurentian, Canadian, the Rivermead Golf, and the Wright Fish and Game Clubs, of the Board of Trade, the Y.M.C.A., Masonic Order, Scottish Rite, Murphy Chapter Rose Croix. For recreation he enjoys golf, fishing and hunting.

=Cotton, Major-General W. H.= (Toronto, Ont.), commanding 2nd Division H.O. at Toronto, was a Lieut.-Colonel Commandant Royal School of Artillery, was born in Montreal on January 7, 1848. He is the eldest son of the late Henry Cotton, of the civil service of Canada. Henry Cotton was the son of William Miles Cotton, of England, and was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1817, coming to Canada in 1836, and serving in the civil service for upwards of forty years. The late Mr. Cotton married in 1847, Eleanor, daughter of David Ross, Q.C., of Montreal, who now survives him. David Ross, who died in Montreal in 1837, aged sixty-seven, married Jane Davidson, daughter of Judge Davidson, of Montreal. Arthur Davidson, afterwards judge, was clerk of the Court of Appeals in the Province of Quebec, in 1778, during the period that His Excellency Sir F. Haldimand was Governor-General of that Province. John Ross, an officer in Wolfe’s army at the taking of Quebec, was the great-great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch. W. H. Cotton was educated at Toronto and Quebec, receiving a general English education, embracing the study of classics. At the time of the organization of the schools of artillery, and the permanent corps connected therewith, Col. Cotton was then (1871) a Captain in the Ottawa Garrison Artillery, having been transferred from the Quebec Garrison Artillery. He was the first Captain of A Battery Regt. C.A., and in 1882 succeeded to his present appointment on the promotion of Lieut.-Colonel Irwin. He twice visited Wimbledon, in connection with the Wimbledon team, in the years 1871 and 1875. Gen. Cotton is a staunch member of the Church of England. He married in April, 1876, Jessie, daughter of the late John Penner, of Montreal, and granddaughter of the late Chas. Penner, of Lachine, who afterwards resided in Kingston. He has six children living, three sons and three daughters, and is a member of Rideau Club, Ottawa, and York Club, Toronto.

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=Nesbitt, Arthur Russel= (Toronto, Ont.), born at Nestleton, County of Durham, Ontario, on November 1, 1884. Son of George M. and Letitia (Hyland) Nesbitt. Educated at Wellesley School, Jarvis Street Collegiate, Trinity College, and Osgoode Hall, Toronto, being called to the Bar in 1910. He commenced practising his profession at the Provincial capital, where he has achieved a marked degree of success. Married on July 16, 1913, to Sadie Harrison, daughter of W. J. Brown, broker, of Toronto. Mr. Nesbitt has taken a deep interest in municipal affairs, and is at present Alderman for Ward Four of the city of Toronto, and Chairman of the Legislative Committee, which position he has held for the last two years. He entered the City Council at the elections in 1915, when he headed the poll, and has had that distinction in the subsequent elections. He is a man of indefatigable energy, and a very valuable member of the city council. He has been prominently identified for several years with the Liberal-Conservative party, and is past Secretary of the Conservative Association of Ward Four of the City of Toronto. He is also prominent in fraternal societies. He is a member of the Masonic and Orange Orders, being Past-Master of McKinley Lodge, L.O.L. He is an Oddfellow, a member of the Independent Order of Foresters, and the Canadian Order of Foresters.

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=Marchand, Pierre= (Ottawa), Controller of Expenditure, Department of Interior, when appointed to a position by Sir Clifford Sifton, who was then Minister of the Interior, took office as an accountant whose talents and ability as such had been well tested and approved on several previous occasions. As accountant in the offices of the Lake Temiscamingue Colonization Railway at Mattawa, Ontario; in his occupancy of a similar position with Leblanc & Lemay, wholesale and retail clothiers and gent’s furnishers, and afterwards with D. V. Ranger, wholesale merchant at Ottawa, he was always found quick and reliable in his work, and, besides gaining and retaining the full confidence of his employers, he firmly established himself as an accountant of enviable reputation. It was in 1899, owing to the increased and rapidly increasing work that the Department of Interior was called upon to handle, attributable to Sir Clifford Sifton’s able and progressive administration, that Mr. Marchand’s services were secured, and the expenditure branch of that Department required carefulness, watchfulness and efficiency, and had to be placed in charge of one whose past record had stamped on it faithfulness and reliability. Since Mr. Marchand’s advent into that part of the Civil Service, the expenditure of the Department of Interior has had a painstaking, reliable and efficient public official, and one whose ever-attentive industry and care has elevated it to a high standard of excellent management. Prior to entering the Civil Service, Mr. Marchand was an active political worker in the Liberal party’s interests in Ottawa. At one time, and for several years, he was Secretary for the Club National, a French-Canadian Liberal organization, and was recognized as a strong and effective political worker. The late Hon. F. G. Marchand, who became Premier of Quebec, was one of Mr. Marchand’s many prominent relatives. Mr. Marchand was born at Ottawa, December 25, 1866, and is the son of Amable Marchand and Adelina Belair. His father was a prominent accountant, who saw that his son received a good commercial and classical education in Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec. Mr. Marchand was twice married. On October 6, 1891, he married at Ottawa, Josephine, daughter of Mrs. O. Lafleur, a widow. She died in May, 1916. On January 10th, 1917, he married in Ottawa, Bertha, daughter of P. Girard, whose residence is at Carillon, Quebec. By this second marriage, his home is blessed with a son and a daughter, Rosaire and Carmen. Mr. Marchand is a member of the Institut Canadien-Français and Monument National. In religion he is a Roman Catholic, and he resides at 81 Stewart Street.

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=Northrup, William Barton, K.C., M.A.= (Ottawa, Ont.), Clerk of the House of Commons, is an eminent lawyer, and was for many years head of the legal firm of Northrup and Roberts, of Belleville, Ontario. For many years he sat in the House as the representative for East Hastings, Ontario, and was noted for his able debates and the eloquent and persistent manner in which he advocated the establishment of divorce tribunals where the poor as well as the rich would be accorded fair play and justice, and the abolition of the costly Senate procedure, which was antiquated, unjust and farcical and unreliable. Mr. Northrup was first elected to Parliament at a by-election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. S. B. Burdell, who was returned to Parliament at the general election in 1891. He was unsuccessful in his candidature in the general election in 1896, but at the general elections of 1900-4-8 and 1911 he was successful. He did not run in the war election in 1917. In 1902 he accompanied the Rt. Hon. Sir R. L. Borden on the North-West tour. Succeeding Dr. T. B. Flint, M.A., LL.B., D.C.L., he was appointed Clerk of the House of Commons in 1918. Like the late Dr. Flint, Mr. W. B. Northrup has had a long experience as a member of the House of Commons, and is an expert in parliamentary practice. His natural geniality and uniform courtesy made him friends on both sides of the House. With distinguished ability, grace and dignity he fills the position of Clerk of the House of Commons. William Barton Northrup is the son of the late A. G. N. Northrup, Deputy-Clerk of the Crown and Pleas, County Hastings, Ontario. He was born in Belleville, Ontario, October 19, 1856, and was educated at the Belleville Grammar School, Upper Canada College, and Toronto University (B.A. with honors 1877, M.A. 1878). June 1, 1879, he married Minnie, eldest daughter of the late J. E. Procter, Brighton, Ontario. She died June, 1905. In June, 1907, he married Mary Schryver, daughter of the late J. C. Fitch, Toronto, and relict of F. C. Clemow. He was created K.C. in 1902, bencher Law Society, 1906, and was re-elected. In the House of Commons in 1892 he moved the address in reply to the Speech from the Throne, and in 1906 seconded the address inviting King Edward and Queen Alexandra to visit Canada. In his youth he was a noted cricketer.

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=Braden, Norman Short= (Hamilton, Ont.), is an electrical engineer by profession and one of the industrial chieftains of that city. He was born at Indianapolis, U.S.A., on June 15, 1869, the son of James Braden, a physician, and Lydia E. Braden. The Braden family are of Scottish descent, and his ancestors emigrated from the North of Ireland to the United States in the eighteenth century. Mr. Braden was educated at the public schools of Indiana and at Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington. After leaving college in 1892 he entered the employ of the Jenney Electric Motor Company of Indianapolis, and seven years later joined the staff of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, of Pittsburgh. Upon the formation of the Canadian Westinghouse Company, Limited, of Hamilton, Ont., in 1903, he moved to the latter city, and was appointed manager of the sales department, in charge of the commercial electrical development and activities of his Company for the entire Dominion. Under his direction the growth of the Canadian Westinghouse Company’s business has expanded with great rapidity, requiring an increase of capital from $1,500,000 in 1903 to $10,000,000 in 1918. It gives employment to upwards of three thousand hands, and is the largest manufacturer of electrical apparatus in Canada. In 1919, Mr. Braden was elected third vice-president of the company with executive charge of its commercial organization. The subject of this sketch is also identified with another of Hamilton’s leading industries, the B. Greening Wire Co., Ltd. On November 29, 1906, he married Mabel, daughter of Samuel Owen and Jennie H. Greening. The Greening family have been prominent manufacturers of wire products in England since the year Columbus discovered America, 1492, and have been established in Hamilton since 1858. Of that company Mr. Braden, who entered the family by marriage, is now a Director. He is a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and of the Jovian Order, and belongs to the Hamilton Club, the Rotary Club of his city; the Golf and Country Club; the Engineers’ Clubs of Toronto and Montreal; the Electric Club of Toronto, and the Transportation Club of New York City. He is a Presbyterian in religion, and his recreations are hunting, golf, motoring, and motor boating. Mr. and Mrs. Braden have three children, Eleanore Greening Braden, William Greening Braden, and Margaret Owen Braden.

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=Bowie, Lieut.-Colonel Henry William= (Ottawa, Ont.), Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Commons and a Commissioner of Parliament, is the son of the late Captain Alexander Bowie, who, during his lifetime, was one of the most popular men residing in the capital of the Dominion of Canada, and Esther Shepherd, and was born at Ottawa, November 10, 1862, and educated in the public and private schools. In 1892, Lieut.-Colonel Bowie married Helen Louise Gouin, daughter of James A. Gouin, who for thirty-three years was postmaster for the City of Ottawa. There are five children, Guy Gouin, Henry William Shepherd, Louis Alexander, Marion Faith, and Adelaide Esther—three boys and two girls. An enthusiast in military matters, at the age of nineteen, in 1881, Lieut.-Col. Bowie became a member of the Canadian Militia, and qualified at the Royal Military College and the Royal School of Artillery, and for several years was a member of the Governor-General’s Foot Guards. In 1882 Colonel Bowie entered the service of the Ottawa River Navigation Company, in which his father was Ottawa Manager, and qualified as Master, Marine Department, Ottawa, in 1884. From 1891 to 1896, and again from 1911 to 1915, Colonel Bowie was Secretary to the Honourable the Speaker of the House of Commons, and from 1891 to 1918 (for 28 years) served as Deputy-Sergeant-at-Arms in that honourable Assembly. On the death of Lieut.-Col. H. R. Smith, I.S.O., C.M.G., J.P., A.D.C., Colonel Bowie was recalled from overseas, and, March, 1918, was appointed as Sergeant-at-Arms. Shortly after the Great War was declared Colonel Bowie made every effort to follow those who had already gone overseas, or to join those who were preparing to go, but, owing to official and other duties over which he had to preside he was unable to leave until 1916, when he went as second major of the 77th Overseas Battalion. In August, 1916, he became attached to the 60th Battalion in France, but was shortly afterwards, October, 1916, called from France to Bramshott, England, to command a Provisional Battalion, C.E.F. It was at this time, October, 1916, that Colonel Bowie’s eldest son, Lieut. Guy Gouin Bowie, left Canada for overseas with the 154th Infantry Battalion, C.E.F. Colonel Bowie remained in command of the Provisional Battalion until July, 1917, when he was seconded for duty with the Imperial Forces and proceeded at once to France. Arriving there he served under the Administrative Commandant, Third Army Railheads, as Staff Officer and O.C., Railheads Detail Detachment, till recalled to Canada in March, 1918. In the meantime his son, Lieut. Guy Gouin Bowie, who was born in Ottawa, October 10, 1892, followed in his father’s footsteps and had quite an eventful military career. He was appointed to the Active Militia, G.G.F.G., as Lieutenant on December 15, 1915, and received his certificate of qualification from the Officers’ Training School, Kingston, on January 20, 1916. On March 5, 1916, he was appointed Lieutenant in the 154th Infantry Battalion, C.E.F., and went overseas with that battalion on October 20, 1916. Arriving in England, October 31, he was appointed Lieutenant in the Imperial Land Forces, and on January 31, 1917, was transferred from the 154th Battalion to the 6th Reserve Battalion at Seaford, Sussex. On August 7, 1917, he was transferred to the 21st Battalion, C.E.F., France, and was dangerously wounded in front line trenches, Lens sector, December 14, 1917. Arriving at Clearing Station, Aubigny, December 14, 1917, he was transferred to the 24th General Hospital, Estaples, France, January 1, 1918, and on February 6, 1918, was transferred to Prince of Wales Hospital, London, England, where he remained until May 6, 1918, when he was invalided home. Lieut. Bowie was married October 10, 1916, at Ottawa to Lily Wright Brigham, daughter of T. G. Brigham, and has two sons, Thomas Guy and James Henry. Col. Bowie is a member of the Wellington Club, London, England, and the Royal Ottawa Golf Club, Ottawa. His home address is 82 Park Avenue, and his official address, House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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=Robinette, Thomas Cowper, K.C.= (Toronto, Ont.), enjoys an enviable reputation as a brilliant criminal lawyer, and as such has appeared with success in many famous cases, notably Macwherrel and Caledon wreck cases at Brampton, Healey and Blythe at Toronto, Mrs. Kyle at Woodstock, Dr. Robinson at Napanee and many others. Mr. Robinette is of U.E.L. descent, his family having come from Pennsylvania to Peel County, Ontario, in 1781. He was born at Dixie, Ont., near Cooksville in 1861, the son of the late Josiah Robinette and Esther J. Goodison. Educated at Public Schools, Strathroy High School and Toronto University, he graduated from the Faculty of Arts in 1884, and from that of law in 1887, with the Governor-General’s Gold Medal. He was Silver Medallist in Modern Languages and English Prizeman, also holding a Scholarship in General Proficiency. Although taking an active part in politics, Mr. Robinette has never yet represented any constituency, having contested Centre Toronto against E. F. Clarke unsuccessfully in 1904 and again in 1908 against Edmund Bristol, also North York, in 1911. He married Edith May Lindsay, of Pickering Township, Ont., in 1899, and has four sons, Thomas, Jr., John, George and Allan, also one daughter, Minnie. Thomas Robinette was made K.C. in 1902, a Bencher of the Law Society in 1911 and 1916; Member of the Royal Colonial Institute, London, Eng., in 1913; Director of the Moral and Social Reform League, Toronto, in 1913; President of the Methodist Young Men’s Association in 1906; President of the University Literary and Scientific Society in 1907; Chairman of the Young Liberal Convention, Toronto, in 1885; also Joint Secretary of the Dominion Young Men’s Association, formed at Montreal in 1886. Mr. Robinette is a Liberal in politics and a Methodist in religion. He is a member of the National Club, Ontario Club, R.C.Y.C., Canadian Club and Empire Club, all of Toronto, also of the Masonic, I.O.O.F., C.O.O.F., A.O.U.W., and Maccabean Societies. An ex-officer of the Queen’s Own Rifles and 34th Regiment, he is to-day engaged in the practice of law at Toronto as head of the firm of Robinette, Godfrey, Phelan and Lawson, in which J. S. Fullerton, K.C., late Corporation Counsel of Toronto, is associate counsel. “As a pleader, energetic, clear and painstaking”—“Toronto News.” “Has a trained mind, is accessible to new ideas, and has unusual gifts for the exposition and enforcement of his opinions”—“Toronto Globe.”

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=Murray, Hon. Robert, K.C.=, Provincial Secretary-Treasurer of the Province of New Brunswick, is one of the best known and widely respected public men of the Maritime Provinces. He was born at Chatham, N.B., where he still resides, on July 17, 1855, the son of Robert and Jane Murray. His father was a millwright, and the younger Robert was educated at the Presbyterian Academy in his native town, from which he graduated in 1871. At school he had shown himself to be of a naturally studious turn of mind, and decided to qualify himself for the bar. He was Police Magistrate for the town of Chatham, N.B., from 1887 to 1891, when he resigned. For upwards of forty years he followed his profession as a barrister in the town of Chatham, and has built up a large practice in the County of Northumberland, where he is held in general esteem and confidence. Subsequently, in 1902, his standing was recognized when he was created a King’s Counsel. In addition, he devoted himself to public and municipal affairs, and was identified with the Liberal party. His first public service was as a member of the County Council of Northumberland, and he was later an alderman of the town of Chatham. In 1905 he was elected by acclamation in a by-election as one of the representatives of Northumberland County in the Provincial Legislature, where he served till 1908. During the past few years, there have been several political upheavals in the province of New Brunswick, and in 1917, when the Conservative ministry, headed by Hon. G. Clarke, sought the franchise of the people, there was a demand for new men. In that contest, Mr. Murray was induced to stand as one of the Liberal candidates for Northumberland, which sends four members to the Legislature. He was elected, and at the same time the Murray administration, of which Hon. J. A. Murray was Premier, was defeated. Hon. Walter E. Foster, who was called upon to form a ministry, at once sent for Mr. Murray and offered him the portfolio of Provincial Secretary-Treasurer, in succession to Hon. D. V. Landry. The offer was accepted, and Mr. Murray has since conducted the finances of the province to the satisfaction of everyone. From his youth Mr. Murray took an active interest in the militia of his district, and retired in 1910 with the rank of Major, receiving the long service decoration. During the late war he played an energetic, useful part in promoting Canada’s military and patriotic effort. In religion he is a Presbyterian, and is a member of the A.F. & A.M., and the I.O.O.F. His recreations are hunting, curling and quoit playing. On June 11, 1889, he married Jane, daughter of Simon F. Simpson, of Negnac, Northumberland County, N.B., and has three children, Nina Helen, Vera Alice, and Robert Blaine, all of whom are now married. Though his public duties compel him to spend much of his time in Fredericton, his home is still at Chatham, N.B., and he continues the practice of his profession there.

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=Wood, Rev. William Robertson= (Winnipeg, Man.), General Secretary of the Manitoba Grain Growers’ Association. Was born on June 6, 1874, at Weir, Orkney, Scotland. Son of William Wood and Margaret Robertson. Came to Canada in 1887. Educated at primary school in his native island, and at Port Elgin High School, Owen Sound Model School, Toronto University and Knox College. From this latter institution he graduated in 1904. On his ordination, he served the Presbyterian Church as Minister in Dunbarton, Ont., 1904-8; Claremont, Ont., 1908-13; Franklin, Man., 1913-16. Opposed Hon. J. H. Howden, Attorney-General for Manitoba, for the constituency of Beautiful Plains, Man., and was defeated by thirty-two votes. First elected a member of the Manitoba Legislature for Beautiful Plains, August, 1915, opposing J. H. Irwin, Neepawa. General Secretary of the Free Trade League of Canada, 1916-17. Became Secretary of the Manitoba Grain Growers’ Association, August, 1917. Married, in June, 1904, to Margaret, daughter of Andrew and Ellen Workman, of Rothsay, Ont., and has one daughter, Rhoda Marguerite, born in December, 1906. In politics Rev. Mr. Wood is an Independent Liberal.

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=Weld, John=, publisher (London, Ont.), was born on a farm in Middlesex County, Ont., on September 7, 1854. His father, the late William Weld, son of an Anglican Church clergyman, emigrated from Tenterden, Kent, England, in 1843, and made a home for himself amid the forests of Delaware Township. After living the life of a pioneer farmer for twenty years, he founded “The Farmer’s Advocate” of London in 1866 as a means of assisting other settlers who were continually coming to him for advice, and it is through his long association with this journal and its colleague, “The Farmer’s Advocate and Home Journal” of Winnipeg that the subject of this sketch became so widely known. After receiving his early education in the London schools, Mr. Weld learned the printing business in a local shop and completed his apprenticeship with a short post-graduate engagement with a large New York publishing house. Returning to Canada, he was attracted by the West, which was then opening up for settlers, and he staked his claim in Saskatchewan, where he “proved up” on a half-section in 1885. The growth of “The Farmer’s Advocate” then necessitated his return to London, where he became business manager of the publication until his father’s death on January 3, 1891. He then became general manager, and when the Wm. Weld Company, Ltd., was organized and incorporated in July of the same year, he acquired a controlling interest in the firm, which he has since held. The first issue of “The Farmer’s Advocate” of Winnipeg appeared in 1890. It was edited in the West, but a separate company was not organized until July 31, 1905, when The Farmer’s Advocate of Winnipeg, Ltd., was incorporated with Mr. Weld as President. A building was erected on Princess Street in that year, but it proved inadequate to meet the ever-growing requirements of the business, so it was sold in 1911, and a five-story concrete, fire-proof building was constructed at the corner of Notre Dame and Langside Streets. In order to keep the two publications inseparably linked with practical and progressive farming, as well as to provide means whereby the editors might keep constantly in touch with varying agricultural conditions, a farm was purchased in the neighbourhood of London, and, incidentally, a separated portion of this is a part of the Weld homestead which has always been owned by the family under the original Crown grant. The subject of this sketch spends many enjoyable hours on Weldwood Farm, where pure-bred Yorkshire swine and one of the largest herds of pure-bred dual-purpose Shorthorns in Canada are maintained. The Bryant Press, Toronto, of which Mr. Weld is President, was acquired in 1903, and he is also President of the London Printing and Lithographing Company, Ltd. He has held various offices in the Canadian Press Association, and was the only representative of the Agricultural Press to visit Britain and the war zone in company with Canadian publishers and editors, the party being the guests of the Imperial Government in the summer of 1918. He is a member of the Anglican Church, and a life member of the Masonic Order, Tuscan Lodge 195, A.F. & A.M.

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=Foster, Hon. Walter Edward=, Premier of New Brunswick, is also one of the most prominent business men of that Province. He was born at St. Martins, N.B., on April 9, 1874, the son of Edward H. and Elizabeth (Pattison) Foster, and educated at the public and grammar schools of St. John, N.B. As a boy of fifteen he entered the Bank of New Brunswick as a junior clerk, and remained in its service until 1899, when he became a member of the firm of Vassie & Co., Ltd., wholesale dry goods merchants, St. John. Of this firm he is now Vice-President and Managing Director. He is also actively connected with transportation and shipping interests, and is President of the St. Martins Railway Co. He was Vice-President of the St. John Board of Trade in 1906-7, and President in 1908-9. He was Third Arbitrator and Chairman of the Conciliation Board which successfully settled differences between the longshoremen of the Port of St. John and the Shipping Federation, 1913. In the autumn of 1915 differences having again arisen between the Longshoremen’s Association and the shipping companies at St. John, he was appointed Chairman of the Conciliation Board by the Minister of Labor of Canada, and succeeded in effecting an agreement for two years. Coming as it did in the midst of the war, this settlement was of the highest importance in a military sense. Hon. Mr. Foster was formerly an officer in the New Brunswick Regiment, Canadian Artillery, retiring with the rank of Captain in 1903. He has been for a good many years identified with the Liberal party, and is a Past President of the Young Liberals Club of St. John, but not until comparatively recently did he become a candidate for political office. In 1916 the Liberal party in the Legislature decided on reorganization, and offered the leadership of the Opposition to Mr. Foster. He accepted, and at once threw himself with energy into the task of putting the party on a fighting basis. At the general elections of February 24, 1917, he was victorious at the polls, and he was shortly afterward sworn in as First Minister. His business-like and economical administration in a difficult period has given satisfaction to all classes of citizens. He is a member of the Union Club, St. John, and was President of the Cliff Club, 1915-7. In religion he is an Anglican. On January 18, 1900, he married Jehan Mary, daughter of William Vassie, St. John, and has one son and three daughters. His residence is at 36 Cobourg Street, St. John, and his summer residence at Rothesay, N.B.

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=Charlesworth, Hector=, journalist (Toronto, Ont.), was born at Hamilton, Ont., September 28, 1872, the son of Horatio G. and Charlotte (McEachern) Charlesworth. He is a Canadian of several generations, some of his forbears having come to Quebec after the British conquest in the eighteenth century. His maternal grandfather, John McEachern, whose parents went to Manitoba with Lord Selkirk’s party, was born at Fort Garry on the site of the present city of Winnipeg, in 1811. When he was but very young, his parents travelled in canoes through the waterways of Northern Ontario to Montreal, and later made their home at Chateauguay Basin, Que. Mr. Charlesworth has lived in Toronto since 1876, and was educated at Wellesley School and Jarvis Street Collegiate Institute. His father was a shoe manufacturer; and in 1887 he was articled as a chartered accountant with a view to his ultimately becoming office manager of the firm. At seventeen he commenced writing anonymously under the nom de plume of “Touchstone” for Toronto “Saturday Night.” In 1891 Mr. E. E. Shepherd, editor of the journal, inserted an advertisement asking the contributor to disclose his identity, and on learning it offered him a position on the staff of that journal. He remained with Mr. Shepherd for a year, and then resolved to qualify himself by practical experience as a reporter. During the next eighteen years he worked on several daily newspapers, including “The World,” “The News,” and “The Mail and Empire,” of which latter journal he was City Editor from 1904 to 1910. Shortly after the reorganization of “Saturday Night” as a national weekly he was offered and accepted the post of Assistant Managing Editor, which he still holds. Though he has been a copious writer on political, financial and social topics, he is perhaps best known as a musical and dramatic critic. He acted as Chairman of the Board of Judges at the Earl Grey dramatic competitions, Toronto, 1911, and of Winnipeg, 1912, and eliminating judge in the Duke of Connaught’s competition, 1913. He was also chief judge in the “Collier’s Weekly” competition to secure suitable English words for “O Canada” in 1909. He has written essays and sketches for many publications, including the “International Studio,” the “New York Evening Post,” “Christian Science Monitor,” “New York Times,” the “Canadian Bankers’ Journal,” and the “Canadian Magazine.” His name appears among the contributors to volume one, number one, of the latter publication. He was one of the special writers engaged in connection with the Victory Loan Campaigns of 1918 and 1919, his work being syndicated throughout Canada, and has edited and contributed to many Canadian books of reference. His other published work includes a treatise on modern methods of treating tuberculosis published by the National Sanitarium Association, and the narrative introduction to Dr. Herbert A. Bruce’s controversial book “Politics and the Canadian Army Medical Service.” In 1900 he was personally thanked by the family of the late Robert Louis Stevenson for two sonnets protesting against a movement to remove the remains of that author from Samoa, which have since been reprinted in the “Oxford Book of Canadian Verse.” He was also one of nine accredited Canadian correspondents who accompanied the present King and Queen (then Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York) on the Royal tour of 1901, and later reported His Majesty’s visit to the Quebec Tercentenary in 1908. On February 15, 1897, he married Katherine, second daughter of Peter Ryan, Toronto, and has two children, Constance Charlotte (born 1904) and Lionel Victor (born 1906).

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=Bennett, Richard Bedford, K.C., LL.B.= (Calgary, Alta.), is one of the leading barristers and publicists of the Canadian West. He was born at Hopewell, Albert County, New Brunswick, on July 3, 1870, the son of Henry J. and Henrietta (Stiles) Bennett. His father was of U.E. Loyalist stock, and his mother’s people settled in Canada immediately after the British conquest of 1759-60. On both sides Mr. Bennett represents the ninth generation born on this side of the Atlantic. He was educated in the Public and High Schools of New Brunswick and at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he qualified for the law and received the degree of LL.B. He was called to the New Brunswick Bar in 1893, and for a time practised at Chatham, N.B., as the partner of the late Hon. L. J. Tweedie, afterward Prime Minister and Lieutenant-Governor of the Province. In 1897 he removed to Calgary, and was called to the Bar of the North-West Territories, forming a partnership with Mr. (now Sir) James Lougheed, at present Government leader in the Dominion Senate and Minister of Civil Re-establishment, a partnership which has continued ever since. In 1907, Mr. Bennett was created King’s Counsel. In 1898, one year after his arrival in the West, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the North-West Territories for West Calgary, and sat in that body until its dissolution in 1905, on the granting of autonomy to Alberta and Saskatchewan. In 1909, he was elected for his old constituency to the Alberta Legislature, and was recognized as the ablest debater in that body. Among his public services was the exposure of the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway transaction, which led to a change from the Rutherford to the Sifton administration and Cabinet reconstruction. At the Federal elections of 1911 he resigned from the Alberta Legislature to run for the House of Commons as Conservative candidate for Calgary. He was elected, and the same campaign placed Sir Robert Borden in power. At Ottawa, Mr. Bennett was at once recognized as one of the leading figures on the Government benches, and in the trying period which followed the outbreak of the war in 1914 proved a source of strength to the administration. Actively identified with the Canadian Patriotic Fund and Red Cross Society. President of the Alberta Provincial Branch of the latter, member of Central Council and of Executive of Patriotic Fund. He accompanied Sir Robert Borden to Great Britain and France in 1915 on the occasion of the Prime Minister’s first visit of inspection to the Canadian army overseas, and later became Chairman of the National Service Commission to report on Canada’s war possibilities in men and resources. At the general election of 1917 declined re-nomination, but supported Union Government. In addition to his renowned forensic abilities, Mr. Bennett has a deep grasp of commercial and development questions. Shortly after going to the West he became identified with the irrigation projects of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. He resigned his position as counsel to that company in Alberta on being elected to the House of Commons. He is to-day interested in and director of several industrial and financial corporations, including the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company of New York. In religion he is a Methodist, and in politics an Independent. He is a Bencher of the Law Society of Alberta, Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute, and a member of the following clubs: Ranchmen’s and Golf and Country, Calgary; Rideau and Country, Ottawa.

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=Butterworth, John George Bissett=, Ottawa’s premier coal merchant, was born at Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia, in 1848. His ancestors can be traced back to the Huguenots of France, whose lives were in constant danger in the 16th and 17th centuries, who were constantly involved in war, who were persecuted and suffered severely in the reign of Francis I. and his successors, and of whom from 25,000 to 30,000 suffered death at the massacre of St. Bartholomew, August 20, 1572. In 1685, hundreds of thousands of these Puritans went into exile, going to Prussia, Holland, Switzerland, England, Scotland, and America, and Mr. Butterworth’s ancestors found a resting-place, a place of safety, in England, where they remained and industriously added to the wealth of the country, and took part in the Peninsular War at the beginning of the 19th century. Being seafaring, enterprising, and ambitious men, and with a desire to make their mark in the new world, where they would have large scope to exercise their talents, they left the old country and arrived at Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia, where, eventually, they became builders and owners of merchant ships and captains in the merchant fleet, and married into United Empire families. Tiring of seafaring life, and in compliance with the wishes of the sons, and at the suggestion of the mother, Mr. Butterworth, Sr., sold out his shipping interests and the valuable lands and wharves which he owned at Port Hawkesbury, and with his wife and family arrived in Ottawa, which was then in its infancy, having been incorporated just one year, previously. When they grew up, Mr. Butterworth and his two brothers, E. B. and C. A. Butterworth, following in the ambitious footsteps of their ancestors, not satisfied with their then existing opportunities for advancement, left for the United States, and engaged in business and met with success. Their love for the British Empire, however, was still dominant within them, and they decided to sell out, return to Canada, and make it their future home. In 1874, they entered into business in Ottawa as hardware merchants and metal workers, and later, in 1881, started in the coal business. Eventually, C. A. and E. B. retired from the coal business and continued in the hardware business, while J. G. B., the subject of this sketch, retired from both of these and remained alone as the coal merchant, which business he has carried on to this day most successfully, and which to-day holds the lead of all others. Mr. Butterworth has three plants, with large storage capacity sufficient to hold at any one time 25,000 tons, and enabling him to constantly carry a heavy stock of coal during the summer to provide against delays in winter transportation and during the winter season. Over $100,000 is invested in these plants. In the severe winter of 1917, had it not been for the provision made by and the ability of Mr. Butterworth to supply large quantities of coal, there would have been great hardship in not only Ottawa, but in Carleton Place, Perth, Almonte, Arnprior, Renfrew, and many outside places in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec, to which points he was able to and did ship thousands of tons of coal. He, in that terrible winter, became the great provider of the people of Ottawa and her surrounding neighbours by supplying them with the coal they needed. For 1918 he was equally prepared to meet any emergency that might arise, but, luckily, the winter was not of a nature so severe as that of the previous year. In 1917, in order to cope with all demands that were likely to be made, Mr. Butterworth practically took care of the coal trade. He took the whole output of the Independent Coal Mine in Pennsylvania, shipped the small sizes to N.Y. and N.J. to the textile and munitions factories, and the prepared sizes into Canada. In so doing he secured large quantities of coal which otherwise could not have been obtained, and his foresight and enterprise prevented a serious coal famine in Ottawa and the other places before mentioned. The name of John George Bissett Butterworth will always be held high in gratitude and esteem by the people of Ottawa and of many other cities and towns in the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Mr. Butterworth is the son of William and Matilda Catherine (Bissett) Butterworth. He is President and Managing Director of the Ormstown Brick and Terra Cotta Co., of Ormstown, Quebec; ex-Vice-President of the Montreal Terminal Railway; ex-President of the Capital Power Company, of Deschene; ex-President, Ottawa Cartage Company; and ex-President of the Capital Fuel Company. In 1879, Mr. Butterworth married Elisabeth J. Shaw, daughter of James Shaw, Shawville, Quebec, a merchant in that place. He has two sons and two daughters—Grace Winifred, John George Hawthorne, Ethel Gertrude, and Wilfred Rosamond. One of his sons served as a lieutenant in the European War. Mr. Butterworth is an Anglican in religion, and resides at 225 MacLaren St., Ottawa, Ont.

=Bell, John Percival=, General Manager of the Bank of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ont., is recognized as one of the ablest of Canadian financiers. He is a native of the city in which he resides, and from early youth has grown up with the institution of which he is now the executive head. He was born on June 8th, 1872, the son of John and Jane (Park) Bell, and was educated in the public and high schools of Hamilton. In 1888, as a lad of sixteen he entered the service of the Bank of Hamilton as a junior clerk, and during the ensuing twelve years learned every phase of the banking business. In 1900 he was appointed manager of the Georgetown branch, and two years later was transferred to the Berlin (now Kitchener) branch in a similar capacity. In 1904, he became manager of the Brantford branch, one of the most important in the territory of the institution, and remained there until 1909, when he returned to Hamilton to become manager of the main office in that city. In 1914, he was promoted to the position of General Manager on the retirement from that position of Mr. James Turnbull, who, by a coincidence had become General Manager of the Bank in the same year (1888) that Mr. Bell entered its service. The five years of Mr. Bell’s incumbency as General Manager have been the most difficult in the history of Canadian finance, owing to the disruption caused by the great war, and he has proven a brilliant success. He has carried on the policy which has specially endeared the Bank of Hamilton to its clientele, by caring for the interests of the business man of moderate resources with the same zeal as is bestowed on those of the great corporations. Mr. Bell is thoroughly in touch with the great and constantly expanding business interests of his native city; and his regime has been marked by an expansion of the Bank’s Toronto custom, as witnessed in the taking over of the great office building and premises of the now extinct Traders’ Bank in that city. He was elected a councillor of the Hamilton Board of Trade in 1911, and during the war acted as Treasurer of the Patriotic Fund for his district. His recreations are golf, bowling and curling, and he is a member of the following clubs: Hamilton; Hamilton Thistle; Hamilton Jockey; Royal Hamilton Yacht; Hamilton Golf; and the Toronto Club (Toronto). In politics he is independent, and in religion an Anglican. On Oct. 11th, 1900, he married Rosalind, daughter of Rev. Arthur Boultbee, Toronto, and has two sons and three daughters. Mr. and Mrs. Bell reside at 78 Chedske Ave., Hamilton.

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=Noyes, John Powell=, Prothonotary Superior Court (Cowansville, Ont.), was born at Potton, Brome County, Que., September 15th, 1842, the son of Herman B. Noyes and Sarah Powell. Receiving his education in Bangor and Fort Covington, N.Y., and St. Mary’s College, Montreal, from which last he graduated in 1866, he studied law with the late Hon. L. S. Huntington, Q.C., and the late Judge Laframboise. Mr. Noyes practised his profession at Waterloo, Que., where he was also editor of the “Advertiser,” and meeting with gratifying success became Batonnier of Bedford District and K.C. in 1886; also Batonnier-General for the Province of Quebec in 1887. In 1889 he was appointed a Royal Commissioner to investigate the claim of the Hereford Railway Employees, and in 1891 Joint Prothonotary Superior Court, Joint Clerk of the Circuit Court, and Joint Clerk of the Crown and Peace for the District of Bedford. In 1887 he was nominated for Shefford (Local) Constituency in the Liberal interest but withdrew before the contest; his name has also been mentioned as a candidate for the Judiciary. Mr. Noyes was the first Mayor of the Town of Waterloo and for an extended period Secretary-Treasurer of the Stanstead, Shefford & Chambly Railway Co., of which he is now a director. He is the author of “Canadian Loyalists and Early Settlers in the District of Bedford,” published in 1901, also of “Some Pioneers of Shefford,” is a director of the Historical Society of Missisquoi, and was elected President in 1904. He has been a Freemason since 1866, having been a member of and sat in the Grand Lodges of Canada and Quebec; he was grand Superintendent R. A. Masons, Eastern Township District, in 1883; Grand First Principal, Grand Chapter of Quebec in 1886-7; Deputy Grand Master, Grand Lodge of Quebec, in 1893, and Grand Master of the above in 1894. Mr. Noyes married Lucy A., daughter of Joseph Merry of Magog, Que., in 1867, and has six children—Egbert S., Jessie C., Laura M., Bertha A., Emily M. and Ralph M. Noyes, of whom four survive. In 1913 he was named sole Prothonotary of the District of Bedford and in 1916 was tendered a banquet by the Judges, Bar and Court Officials of the District on the anniversary of his admission to the Bar fifty years before, and of his appointment as Joint Prothonotary twenty-five years before.

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=Hughes, Brigadier-General William St. Pierre, D.S.O.= (Ottawa, Ont.). On October 19, 1914, authority was granted to Lieut.-Colonel (now Brigadier-General) William St. Pierre Hughes to organize an infantry battalion to be absorbed into the Second Canadian Contingent for Overseas Service. On the evening of May 5, the 21st was given a rousing send-off by the citizens of Kingston, Ontario, and the following morning the battalion embarked at Montreal on the S.S. Metagama for overseas. Ten days later the 21st disembarked at Devonport, England, and on Sept. 15 it landed on French soil, and, in due time was under fire at Messines, Vis-en-Artois, Neuville Villasse, Mercatel, Amiens, Bouley Grenier, St. Eloi, Sanctuary Wood, Ancre, Vimy Ridge, Courcelette, Mosselmark Village and Polderhook Chateau, Passchendaele, Bapaume, Arras, Quichy-le-Chateau, the village of Damery and Parvillers, Cambrai, and was one of the first battalions to cross the boundary at Bonn into Germany. Before going overseas to serve in the Great War, General William St. Pierre Hughes held the position of Inspector of Penitentiaries, with headquarters in Ottawa. During his absence at the front that office was abolished by Act of Parliament, and the new office of Superintendent of Penitentiaries was established. The value to Canada of General Hughes’ services as Inspector and as a competent and fearless soldier during the war were well known to the Dominion Government, to the members of Parliament, and to the general public, and when the position of Superintendent was made public, members of Parliament, the Press of Canada and the public in general were unanimous in General Hughes’ favor, and he was appointed to the position. When he was appointed to the position the “Montreal Gazette” said: “One of the purposes of the Civil Service Commission is to select for appointment worthy and capable men...... A case in point is the selection of Major-General Hughes for the position of Superintendent of Dominion Penitentiaries...... General Hughes comes of a fighting family in a military sense, and the call of the colors has always found in him a quick response even in the relatively remote days of 1885...... His appointment is still more to be commended by reason of merit and experience. He had long service in the Penitentiaries Branch of the Department of Justice, in which he rose to the rank of Chief Inspector before donning the uniform in defence of the Empire...... The responsible duties of the office will be well discharged by one who never failed in duty.” Brigadier-General William St. Pierre Hughes, D.S.O., Superintendent of Penitentiaries, and brother of Major-General Sir Sam Hughes, was born in Durham County, Ontario, June 2, 1863, and is the son of John Hughes and Caroline Laughlin. From both sides of his family he inherited military tastes, his father being the son of a surgeon-major in the Imperial army who spent eighteen years in India, and his mother the daughter of Colonel Laughlin of the 10th Royal Irish Artillery and the granddaughter of Colonel St. Pierre, one of the most famous of Napoleon’s colonels. General Hughes was educated entirely by his father until his eleventh year, when he went to Toronto where he remained six years. After a year at home he went to Winnipeg, where in 1885 he enlisted with the famous “Little Black Devils.” During his stay in Winnipeg he won the amateur championship of Manitoba and the North-West as a one-mile foot runner. After the Rebellion he returned to Ontario, spending a year at college in Belleville; then a year in Orillia where he played lacrosse with the Orillia team when that team won the championship of Ontario; then to Cornwall, where he played with the famous Cornwall lacrosse team during its years of national triumph. In 1893, General Hughes became Warden’s Secretary and Clerk of Industries in the Kingston Penitentiary, taking up what has become his life’s work. After filling a number of different positions in penitentiary work, during which he took a deep interest in criminology, General Hughes became Inspector of Penitentiaries in 1913. With great earnestness he started to put into effect many cherished plans for prison reform, but the call of 1914 put an end for the time to this work. During all the years of prison work General Hughes has kept in close touch with military affairs. Starting as lieutenant in the old 14th Battalion of Kingston, he, in course of time, became lieutenant-colonel commanding it, and was also brigade-major of the 7th Canadian Infantry Brigade. General Hughes was in the West when war was declared, and on his return in September, 1914, hurried to Valcartier, but was then unable to get a place in the 1st Contingent, which had already been mobilized. He then returned to Kingston and mobilized the famous 21st Battalion. He commanded this battalion continuously until July, 1916, when he was promoted to the command of the 10th Canadian Infantry Brigade, which he commanded in France until the spring of 1917. He then returned to England, where he commanded the Canadian area at Crowborough until it was taken over by the Imperial army. General Hughes then became president of a board for adjusting the financial differences between the Imperial and Canadian authorities as regards barrack damages, etc., and succeeded in writing off over $225,000 of charges made by Imperials against Canadians, and also saving an amount of almost $50,000 which was paid to Canadian Paymaster-General by various units in settlement of these charges. During his service in France General Hughes was awarded the D.S.O., and was twice mentioned in despatches. Owing to a reorganization of the Penitentiary Branch, General Hughes was forced to return to Canada in the summer of 1918, and was appointed Superintendent of Penitentiaries in April, 1919. Prominent relatives of General Hughes, besides Major-General Sir Sam Hughes, are Major John Hughes and Dr. James L. Hughes, brothers. February 5, 1900, General Hughes married Jessie Williams, daughter of William Macleod, of Cornwall, Ontario. He has one son and one daughter, Major Laughlin Macleod Hughes, R.C.H.A., and Mrs. John S. Gzowski, of Montreal, Quebec. General Hughes is a member of the following societies: Masonic, Orange, Odd-fellows and Foresters. For recreation he indulges in all-round sports and big game hunting. He is a Presbyterian in religion, and resides at 155 Stewart Street, Ottawa, Ontario.

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=Smart, Russell Sutherland, B.A., M.E.=, is a member of the firm of Featherstonhaugh & Smart, Patent Solicitors, 5 Elgin Street, Ottawa. He is the son of George A. and Louise Maud (Walton) Smart, of Toronto. His father was a well-known author. Mr. Smart was born at Winnipeg, Manitoba, June 20, 1885, and was educated in the Jarvis Collegiate Institute, Toronto; Toronto University, 1904; School of Practical Science; Queen’s University, 1907; honorary M.E. Toronto University 1913. In July, 1911, Mr. Smart was called to the Quebec bar, and to the Ontario bar in 1914. In May, 1904 he was admitted Patent Attorney. He is joint author of “Fisher and Smart on Patents,” and author of “Smart on Trademarks.” December 24, 1908, Mr. Smart married Emma Louise Parr, daughter of James A. Parr, lumberman, of Ottawa. He has three daughters—Helen Louise, Elizabeth, and Jane Clayton. Mr. Smart is a member of the Rideau, Rivermead Golf, University (Toronto), and Chemists (New York) clubs, and of the following societies: Engineering Institute of Canada, Chartered Institute of Patent Agents, and Patent American Law Association. For recreation, Mr. Smart indulges in golf and tennis. In religion he is a Presbyterian; in politics, independent; and he resides at 15 Linden Terrace, Ottawa.

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=McMahon, James Alexander= (Hamilton, Ont.), Treasurer and Managing Director, Union Drawn Steel Company, Limited, conducted a Commercial College at Beaver Falls, Penn., 1887-1892; was employed with the Swan Electric Company, Cleveland, Ohio, 1892-1893, and with the Union Drawn Steel Company, of Beaver Falls, Penn., 1893-1905, coming to Hamilton in 1905, where he established the present business. He is a member of the Executive Committee, Hamilton Branch, Canadian Manufacturers Association, 1916-17; a member of the Membership Committee of the same for all of Canada, of which latter body he was Chairman in 1911; a member of the Technical Committee Hamilton School Board, and a member of the Hamilton Board of Trade. Mr. McMahon was born in Venango County, Penn., December 18th, 1859, the son of John and Margaret (Wolf) McMahon. He was educated at the Public Schools of Pennsylvania, and took a Commercial Course at Oberlin, Ohio. In 1889 he married Jennie G., daughter of Benjamin F. Beegle, by whom he has one son, Carl A., and one daughter, Alma. He is a member of the A.F. & A.M. also of the Commercial Club, Royal Hamilton Yacht Club, and Canadian Club, Glendale Golf and Country Club, all of Hamilton. In politics he is a Conservative, and a Methodist in religion.

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=Gwatkin, Major-General W. G.= (Ottawa, Ont.), has been connected with the military system of Canada since 1905. Except for rather less than two years—between 1909 and 1911—his service with it has been continuous, and he has been intimately concerned alike with the preparations which were made for the Great War and with the staff work at Headquarters during the course of the war. A Cambridge University man, he joined the Manchester Regiment in 1882, and served as Subaltern, Adjutant, Company Commander and Second in Command; in 1894 he passed the Staff College; and in 1898 he began a long career on the Staff. Early in 1899 he went to the War Office to work in what ultimately became the Mobilization Section, the organ of the War Office which had a great deal to do, first, with the rapid and efficient supply of troops to South Africa, and afterwards with the careful preparations which enabled the regular army to show to such advantage in France. In the War Office during this period he served under Colonel (now Lieut.-General) Sir Percy Lake. In 1904, General Lake came to Canada to be the first Chief of the General Staff, and in 1905 he brought Colonel Gwatkin (who had been serving with his regiment in South Africa) to Ottawa to serve as Director of Operations and Staff Duties—in other words, to be his principal technical assistant. The reorganization of the Canadian Militia which followed the South African War was beginning. In the years between 1904 and 1914 the Militia force was remodelled, and a staff system was founded which proved able to carry through the work of raising and sending overseas an army of half a million men. Colonel Gwatkin’s services were so highly regarded that the Minister of Militia specially asked the War Office for an extension of his services, and he remained in Canada, not for the regulation three years, but for four. After a period of staff service in England his services were again requested by the Canadian Government, and he came to Canada early in 1911. At that time the military authorities of the Empire had become seriously apprehensive of war with Germany, and Colonel Gwatkin’s work largely comprised such measures of organization for this emergency as were undertaken in the circumstances. In particular he drew up complete plans for the raising and despatch of a contingent to England in the event of a war in Europe in which Canada might wish to participate. The plan drawn up anticipated a large number of the points which arose when the war actually came. In November, 1913, he succeeded Major-General C. J. MacKenzie as Chief of the General Staff. He was filling this post when the war came. The work done in the Militia Department in preparation for such an eventuality proved of the utmost service. Cable censorship was established, harbours were closed, dangerous points were guarded, the transition from peace to a war which the general public had not expected was made with remarkable smoothness. When the first contingent sailed General Gwatkin was desired by the Government to stay at Militia Headquarters to keep the machine working. During the entire course of the war he performed enormous labours. To recruit, give preliminary training to and ship overseas so large an army meant administrative ability of a very high order and the discharge of an immense amount of thankless labour. He has done his work to the high satisfaction of the Government of Canada, whose principal military adviser he has been. It showed its appreciation of his services by insisting on retaining him, though the Imperial Government repeatedly expressed a desire to recall him for service in Great Britain or France. The details of his career are as follows:—Major-General Willoughby Garnons Gwatkin, C.B., C.M.G., born August 11, 1859; was appointed Lieutenant Manchester Regiment May 10, 1882; Adjutant, Manchester Regiment, April 18, 1888, to April 17, 1892; Captain, Manchester Regiment, January 17, 1890; Major, Manchester Regiment, April 7, 1900; Brevet Lieut.-Colonel, January 6, 1904; Brevet Colonel November 20, 1907; Major-General, October 21, 1914. Staff appointments—Staff Captain Egypt, January 24, 1898, to April 20, 1898; Staff Captain, Headquarters of Army, March 11, 1899, to January 10, 1900; D.A.A.G., H.Q. of Army (temp.) January 11, 1900 to January 21, 1901; Staff Captain (Mobilization) H.Q. of Army, January 22, 1901, to October 14, 1902; D.A.Q.M.G. (Mobilization) H.Q. of Army, October 15, 1902, to October 31, 1903; Director of Operations and Staff Duties (General Staff Officer 2nd Grade) Canadian Militia, October 5, 1905, to October 20, 1909; General Staff Officer 1st grade Eastern Command, March 5, 1910, to February 28, 1911; General Staff Officer (Mobilization) 1st Grade Militia H.Q., Canada, July 14, 1911, to October 31, 1913; Chief of the General Staff and 1st Military Member of the Militia Council, Dominion of Canada, November 1, 1913. General Gwatkin is the fourth son of the late Frederick Gwatkin of New Square, Lincoln’s Inn, London, W.C., and Grove House, Twickenham, and Louisa Isabella, younger daughter of the Rev. Ambrose Stapleton, vicar of East Budleigh, Devonshire. He was educated at Shrewsbury School, at King’s College, Cambridge, and at R.M.C., Sandhurst. In 1916 he was created C.B. (Civil), C.M.G. in 1918 and Order of St. Sava of Serbia in 1918.

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=Ross, John Theodore, B.A.= (Quebec), is one of the leading capitalists of the city. He was born in that city on Nov. 30, 1862, the son of the late John Ross, a prominent merchant and his wife, Anne Runcie. The late Senator J. G. Ross was his uncle. He was educated at Quebec High School, at Morrin College and at McGill University, Montreal, from which latter institution he graduated with the degree of B.A. in 1883. He entered the wholesale business firm of his father, known as John Ross & Co., in 1884, and was admitted to full partnership in 1887, continuing in this capacity until 1894 when the firm was liquidated. Since then he has been widely engaged in financial and commercial operations. He was elected Vice-President of the Quebec Bank in 1897 and President in 1908. On its amalgamation with the Royal Bank of Canada some years later he became a Director of the latter institution. Among his many other interests is that of President of the Chronicle Printing Company, which publishes the “Quebec Chronicle,” one of the historic newspapers of Eastern Canada. His other commercial interests have at various times embraced the Quebec Steamship Company, the Montmorency Cotton Mills Company, the McArthur Export Company, The Quebec Improvement Company, the Trans-Canada Railway Co., the Pacific Pass Coalfields, Ltd., the Quebec Transport Company, the North Pacific Lumber Company. He has also taken a deep interest in public and philanthropic affairs. He is a member of the Quebec Board of Trade and Chairman of the Quebec High School Board, Vice-President of the Literary and Historical Society, Quebec, President of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and President of the Jeffrey Hale Hospital. In religion he is a Presbyterian, and in politics a Conservative. He is a member of the Garrison Club, Quebec, and his recreations are driving and tennis. On April 15, 1896, he married Mabel Kate, daughter of John Burstall, Quebec, and has two sons and two daughters. He resides on St. Louis Road, Quebec.

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=Rogers, John Morrison= (Ingersoll, Ont.), physician and surgeon, has been active in the Liberal Party for a number of years, being Liberal nominee for the Legislative Assembly in his constituency at the present time. He is the son of Thomas and Margaret Rogers, and was born at Mount Forest, Ont., in 1867, where he received his early education, afterwards graduating from Toronto University in 1893. Dr. Rogers married Edythe B., daughter of J. B. Hambridge, Aylmer, Ont., in 1902, and has three sons: John Reginald, Donald Morrison, and William Parke. He is a member of the Ontario Medical Association, Vice-President Western Liberal Association, the Ingersoll Curling Club, and the Ingersoll Bowling Club. In religion he is a Presbyterian.

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=Colquhoun, Arthur Hugh Urquhart, B.A., LL.D.=, Deputy Minister of Education for the Province of Ontario, was born at Montreal on December 2, 1861, the son of the late Walter Colquhoun (a native of Dumbartonshire, Scotland,) and his wife Jane, daughter of William Clarke, Niagara, Ont., and relict of Charles Richardson, M.P. He was educated at Cornwall Public School, Montreal High School (where he won the Murray Medal for proficiency and the Governor-General’s Medal for literature and history) and McGill University, from which he graduated in 1885 with the degree of B.A., first class honors in English literature and history, and the Shakespeare gold medal. During his student days he took up the calling of journalism and joined the editorial staff of the “Montreal Star” in 1881. In 1883 he was entrusted with the post of editor-in-chief of the “Montreal Weekly Star,” and at the same time edited the “McGill University Gazette.” In 1886 he went to Ottawa and accepted the post of editor of the “Journal” of that city. In 1887, when the leaders of the Conservative government founded the “Toronto Empire” as chief organ of the party, he was appointed assistant editor and has ever since made Toronto his home. In 1891, he was appointed managing editor of the “Empire” and continued in that capacity until its amalgamation with the “Mail” in 1895. In the latter year, he entered the growing field of trade journalism with Col. J. B. Maclean, and until 1902 edited the “Printer and Publisher” and the “Dry Goods Review.” In 1902, he joined the staff of the “Mail and Empire” as editorial writer, and early in 1903, when Mr. J. S. (now Sir John) Willison reorganized the “Toronto News,” he became news editor of that publication, and helped to make the paper temporarily famous for the literary distinction and importance of its news columns. From the outset of the political career of the late Sir James Whitney, Mr. Colquhoun had been his close personal friend and adviser. One of the pledges of that statesman while leader of the opposition in the Ontario Legislature was a reorganization of the educational system from top to bottom, and shortly after his elevation to the post of Prime Minister in 1905 he appointed a Royal Commission of distinguished men to enquire into the affairs of the provincial university at Toronto. At the request of Mr. Whitney, Mr. Colquhoun accepted the position of secretary of the commission, and had much to do with the drafting of its report, which proved to be one of the most important documents of its kind produced in this country. In recognition of his services in this capacity, the University conferred on him the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1906. In the latter year he was also appointed Deputy Minister of Education, a position he still holds, and was largely instrumental in putting into effect the reforms promised by Sir James Whitney. In 1908, he was offered and declined the post of Chief Librarian of the city of Toronto. Among the earlier positions that he held was that of Chairman of the Press Committee of the British Association when it met at Toronto in 1897, an occasion which brought to Canada many of the great scientists of that day. He was also elected President of the Canadian Press Association for 1906-7. Both before and since his retirement from journalism, Mr. Colquhoun has been a frequent contributor, chiefly on historical themes, to magazines and reviews, including “The Canadian Magazine,” “The University Magazine,” “The British Empire Review,” and “Queen’s Quarterly.” On the political history of the provinces of Canada, he is a recognized authority; and his published works include “The History of Canadian Press Association”; the volume on the Fathers of Confederation in “The Chronicles of Canada,” and “Memoir of Senator Gowan, C.M.G.” (which he edited). His books are marked by purity of diction, and shrewd and moderate judgments on men and events. Mr. Colquhoun is a member of the Toronto Club and the Toronto Golf Club, and resides at 342 Walmer Road, Toronto.

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=Miller, Lieut.-Colonel John Bellamy=, Manufacturer (Toronto, Ont.), President of the Polson Iron Works, Limited, and Parry Sound Lumber Company, is the son of John Clausin Miller, Lumberman, Parry Sound, Ont., and Adelaide Augusta Chamberlain; was born at Farmersville (now Athens), July 26, 1862, and received his education at the Model School, Toronto, and Upper Canada College. Following his educational training, Mr. Miller entered the lumber business with the Parry Sound Lumber Co. as clerk, and while holding this position, mastered every detail of lumber manufacturing. In 1883, following his father’s death, John B. Miller took complete charge of the business and was made president of the Company, which position he still holds. He is also president of the Polson Iron Works, Limited, of Toronto, and holds a like position in the Polson Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Co. of Toronto. Added to the above Mr. Miller is president of the Consumers Box Company of Toronto, and was largely instrumental in the formation of the Canadian Lumbermen’s Association, of which he is past-president. Mr. Miller holds membership in the following clubs: National Ontario, R.C.Y.C., Rosedale Golf, Scarboro Golf, Ontario Jockey Club, Canadian Military Institute, Aero Club of Canada, all of Toronto; the Rideau Club, of Ottawa; Junior Army & Navy Club, London, Eng.; Aero Club of America, New York; Royal Colonial Institute, London; Associate of Institute of Naval Architects of London, Eng. Mr. Miller was married October 3rd, 1883, to Hannah Pollock Hunter. Mrs. Miller died in 1893. By this marriage there were two sons, John Clausin Miller and Henry H. Miller. Mr. Miller’s second marriage took place September 22nd, 1897, to Jessie Thompson, of Longford, Ont., a daughter of the late John Thompson, a prominent Lumberman of that place. One daughter survives this union, Margaret Lumsden Miller, together with Capt. H. H. Miller, son of the first marriage. Mr. Miller has the honor of being Lieut.-Col. of the 23rd Regiment of Northern Pioneers, with Headquarters at Parry Sound; is a Liberal in politics and his favorite recreations are golf, shooting and fishing; resides at 98 Wellesley Street, and has his office at Polson Iron Works.

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=Nasmith, Colonel George Gallie= (Toronto, Ont.), who already enjoyed a high reputation throughout Canada as a sanitary expert, has won added distinction in the European War through brilliant services in his special field. He was made Lieutenant-Colonel, August, 1914 (Colonel in April, 1917), and Officer Commanding the Hydrological Corps, in which capacity he had charge of the purification of the water supply at the new Valcartier Military Camp during the mobilization of the First Contingent. He was sent to England as adviser in sanitation in charge of water purifications with the first contingent. While on Salisbury Plain, he was useful in getting the remainder of the contingent inoculated against typhoid; in installing a laboratory for the control of cerebro-spinal meningitis, and in training men in the purification of water. Colonel Nasmith was sent to France in March, 1915, as O.C. No. 5 (Canadian) Mobile Laboratory, where he conceived the idea of a mobile filter unit for purifying any water supply, which has since been adopted by the war office, and is now in general use among the British armies in France, Mesopotamia, and elsewhere. He was present at the second battle of Ypres, and saw the gas being discharged by the Germans for the first time. He diagnosed its composition correctly, and reported it to General Army Headquarters, recommending the use of masks to cover the face and nose, saturated with hyposulphite of soda to absorb the gas. These were adopted until experience enabled a more perfect type to be elaborated. Other recommendations made by him in regard to gas and water purification were also adopted. He was the representative of Canada on the War Allies Sanitary Commission which met in Paris during 1916. In January, 1916, he was mentioned in despatches, and made C.M.G. for services in the field, being decorated by the King. Colonel Nasmith is a Baptist in religion, and a Conservative in politics. He is a member of the Academy of Medicine, of the American and Canadian Public Health Associations, the Arts and Letters Club, and the Engineers Club, of Toronto. Obtained the Diploma of Public Health from Toronto University in 1918. He has published numerous general papers on foods, milk, water purification, and sewage disposal, as well as conducting researches which are embodied in the following papers:—“The Hæmatology of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning,” “Changes Induced in the Blood of Guinea Pigs in an Atmosphere of Coal Gas,” “A Simple Method of Purifying Almost any Water Supply,” “A New Type of Trickling Filter,” “A Mobile Filter of Large Capacity Suggested for Use in the British Army,” “The Chemistry of Wheat Gluten,” and “Wind Driven Currents in the Great Lakes.” He is also author of “On the Fringe of the Great Fight,” published 1918, and “Canada’s Sons and Great Britain in the Great War,” published 1919. Colonel Nasmith is greatly interested in music, painting, and the drama, as well as in horticulture and sailing. From 1903 to 1909 he was Chemist to the Provincial Board of Health of Ontario, and from 1909 to date Director of Laboratories, Department of Health, Toronto. He was born in Toronto in 1877, the son of Mungo Nasmith, of Greenock, Scotland, and Jane Morrow, of Bath, England. He was educated at Jarvis Street Collegiate and the University of Toronto, graduating as a B.A. in 1900 and as M.A. and Ph.D. in 1903, also receiving the Honorary Degree of D.Sc. in 1917 from his alma mater in recognition of his scientific work with the British Army in France. Colonel Nasmith married Mrs. Scott Roff, Principal of the Margaret Eaton School of Literature and Expression, and daughter of the late Rev. James Scott, Owen Sound, Ontario, in 1916.

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=Flynn, Edmund James=, Judge of the Superior Court (Quebec City, Que.), is the son of the late James Flynn and Elizabeth Tostivin, and was born in Percé, Shiretown of Gaspé County, November 16, 1847. After a distinguished career at Quebec Seminary and Laval University, he graduated from the latter institution of learning in 1873 with the degree of LL.L., receiving the higher honor of LL.D. in 1878. Mr. Justice Flynn has been prominent in Provincial politics during a public life of some thirty years, during which time he was M.L.A. for the constituencies of Gaspé and Nicolet respectively, and held office successively as Commissioner of Crown Lands, Minister of Railways, Solicitor-General and Commissioner of Public Works in various Liberal-Conservative Administrations; from May, 1896, to May, 1897, he was Prime Minister of Quebec. From 1897 to 1904, he was leader of the Opposition. In 1908, he was candidate for House of Commons in Dorchester Co., but was defeated by a comparatively small majority. Between the years 1874 and 1914 when he received his appointment as Judge, Mr. Flynn was a practising lawyer at the Quebec Bar and Professor of Roman Law in Laval, of which University he is to-day Dean in the Faculty of Law; having also been Batonnier of the Quebec Bar. A Roman Catholic in religion, Judge Flynn married Augustine, daughter of the late Augustin Cote, Editor of the “Journal de Quebec,” in 1875, by whom he has had eleven children; those surviving are Amelia, wife of Lt.-Col. Chauveau, K.C., Edmund, C.P.R. Ticket Agent; Percy, Capt. Adjt., 10th Reserve Batt., C.E.F.; and Beatrice. After the decease of his first wife he married Cecile Pouliot, widow of Eugene Globensky, of Montreal, in 1912.

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=Willis, James E.= (Whitby, Ont.), is one of the best known and progressive citizens of that town. At present he holds the position of police magistrate for the town, but has been identified with public affairs in various capacities for some years past. While still comparatively young in years, he built up a successful position in the business world, and at the time of his appointment to his legal office in 1918, filled the office of President of the Whitby Board of Trade. He has also taken an active part in municipal affairs, and held the office of Mayor of the town for two terms. Another office which he has filled with success is that of Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of the town. It was while Mayor of Whitby that he became identified with the movement to extend the scope and usefulness of the hydro-electric system of Ontario. It was the desire of Sir Adam Beck and his chief lieutenants that the system already so widely used for manufacturing, municipal and domestic purposes should be augmented by a great network of radial railways. Under Mayor Willis’s advice, the town of Whitby was the first municipality in Ontario to avail itself of these proposals by extending municipal support to a hydro-electric radial railway linking up Toronto with the towns of Whitby, Markham and Port Perry; and it is expected that the road when constructed and put in operation will do much for the entire section immediately east of Toronto. Another local enterprise which was in the main due to Mr. Willis’s progressive spirit was the installing of a sewerage system, which was essential to the establishment near the town of Whitby of a great provincial hospital for the insane, which, during the war was turned over to the military authorities, and was the largest soldiers’ hospital in the Dominion of Canada. When the plans which Mr. Willis has done so much to promote are carried out, Whitby will have a close suburban connection by electric railway with Toronto, and it is expected will become an important residential centre for the wealthier families of that city. When the late Major Harper, who had formerly served as police magistrate, passed away in 1918, the Attorney-General of Ontario appointed Mr. Willis his successor; and the choice was applauded not merely locally, but in wider circles where the activities of Mr. Willis for the development of Whitby had rendered his name familiar. He is recognized as one of the most forceful and progressive municipal authorities in Canada. In his younger days he took an active interest in outdoor sports, such as foot racing, cricket, baseball, and was secretary of the Whitby Curling Club for many years, and took part as skip in many Tankard and friendly matches. He has been from his youth a reader, and is one of the best posted men on general and scientific subjects in his native town. It has been his policy to strongly advocate any movement that would be for the good and uplifting of the people as a whole; and he has often been heard to say: “I wish I could do some lasting good for my fellow man, and leave the world a little better than I found it. If I can do no permanent and lasting good, I feel that I have lived in vain.”

=Nicholls, Lieut.-Colonel The Hon. Frederic= (Toronto, Ont.), Dominion Senator; born in England, November 23, 1856. He received his education at Stuttgart, Wurtemburg, Germany, and came to Canada in 1874, where he organized the first electric company—The Toronto Incandescent Electric Light Company—which adopted the first underground system of electric distribution in Canada. Senator Nicholls was elected President of the National Electric Light Association of America in 1896, being the only Canadian to hold that honor, and has since been elected an honorary member. He was for seven years Secretary of the Canadian Manufacturers Association, and founded the “Canadian Manufacturer,” of which he was editor and proprietor until 1893. Senator Nicholls is President and General Manager of the Canadian General Electric Company, Toronto; President and General Manager of the Canadian Allis-Chalmers, Limited; President of the Canadian Sunbeam Lamp Co.; President of the Toronto & Hamilton Railway Company; Vice-President of the Dominion Coal Company; Vice-President of the Dominion Iron & Steel Co.; Vice-President of the Dominion Steel Corporation; Vice-President of the Electrical Development Co. of Ontario; Vice-President of the Sao Paulo Tramway, Light & Power Company; Vice-President of the Toronto & Niagara Power Company; Vice-President of the Toronto Power Company; Vice-President of the Toronto Railway Company; Vice-President of the Toronto & York Radial Railway Company; Director of the British American Assurance Company; of the Canadian Lake & Ocean Navigation Company; of the Confederation Life Association; of the Niagara, St. Catharines & Toronto Railway Company; of the Toronto Electric Light Co.; of the Toronto Hunt, Limited, of the Western Assurance Company, and of The United States Fidelity and Casualty Company. In 1890 Senator Nicholls was President of the Toronto Press Club; in 1893 President of the Athenæum Club; in 1911 F.R.C.L., and in 1914 gazetted Honorary Lieut.-Colonel. He is Consul for Portugal; life member of the Toronto Board of Trade; Honorary Member of the Canadian Press Association; Member of the Executive Committee Canadian Manufacturers Association; and a Justice of the Peace. Appointed to the Senate January 20, 1917, and is Chairman of the Standing Committee on Finance of the Senate. In 1875 he married Florence, daughter of Commander Graburn, who died in 1909. He had two sons on active service: Captain Walter Nicholls, who went overseas with the first contingent, served in France, and after being invalided home was Senior Supply Officer at Shorncliffe, and Lieut. Fred Nicholls, attached to the Horse Transport. Two sons-in-law, Capt. J. E. Proctor and Capt. J. B. Allen, and five nephews also served in the overseas forces. Senator Nicholls’ recreations are hunting, fishing, motoring, yachting and golf. Among his clubs are the Bankers’ Club of America, New York; the York Club, the Toronto Club, Toronto Hunt Club, Albany Club, Engineers Club, Ontario Jockey Club, Rosedale Golf Club, Toronto Golf Club, Scarborough Golf and Country Club, and the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, Toronto, Ont.; the Hamilton Golf and Country Club; Caledon Mountain Trout Club; the Mount Royal Club, Montreal; the Rideau Club, the Country Club, Ottawa; the Manitoba Club, Winnipeg. Since the outbreak of the war he has devoted himself to patriotic work, and is a member of the Executive Committee of the General Council of the Canadian Patriotic Fund; Vice-President and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Toronto Branch of the Canadian Red Cross Society; and President of the Toronto Municipal Loan Association, a society formed to relieve distress.

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=Helmer, Brigadier-General Richard Alexis, C.M.G.=, entered the Canadian Militia in 1883 as a private in the ranks of the 43rd Regiment, D.C.O.R. Eight years later he was made a Lieutenant, and in 1896 was appointed Captain. In 1899, he was promoted to the rank of Major. In 1885, General Helmer graduated as a chemist for the Province of Ontario, and in 1886 for the Province of Quebec. He successfully practised his profession in Hull, Quebec, up to 1904, when he retired therefrom. He was energetic, popular, and progressive, and for twelve years was alderman and twice mayor (1896 and 1900) of the city of Hull. April 27, 1906, be was appointed Deputy Assistant-Adjutant-General for Musketry on the Headquarters Staff, and Assistant Adjutant-General for Musketry, October 1, 1908, which post he held until May 17, 1910, when he was appointed a Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant-Adjutant-General. On January 1, 1911, he was appointed Director of Musketry, and February 24, 1916, Director-General of Musketry. This latter post he still holds, together with that of Acting-Director of Military Training, to which he was appointed September, 1914, and that of Commandant of the Canadian School of Musketry, to which he was appointed in 1907. General Helmer has for years been prominent in rifle shooting in Canada, and has many fine trophies to prove his skill. In 1899, he was Adjutant of the Canadian Rifle Team at Bisley. In 1903, Adjutant of the Canadian Palma Team at Sea Girt. In 1907, Adjutant of the Canadian Palma Team at Ottawa, and in 1912, Commandant of the Canadian Palma Team at Camp Perry. General Helmer is the eldest son of the late Nathaniel and Melissa (Johnson) Helmer, of Ottawa. He was born in Russell, Ontario, October 12, 1864, and was educated at Ottawa and Toronto, Ontario. He married Elizabeth I. Hannum, of Hull, Quebec. Their only child and son, Lieutenant A. H. Helmer, Canadian Artillery, was killed in action, May 2, 1915. General Helmer is in possession of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces long service medal, and for services rendered in the great war was awarded the C.M.G. in 1918. He is a member of the Laurentian Club, and resides at 122 Gilmour St., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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=McCurdy, Fleming Blanchard, M.P.= (Halifax, N.S.), Financier, began business in the service of the Halifax Banking Company, Truro, N.S., in 1890, which he left in 1901 to embark in financial business under the firm name of F. B. McCurdy & Company, which has seven branch offices at the present time. He is a Past President of the Halifax Board of Trade, was elected to the House of Commons in 1911, and was appointed Parliamentary Secretary of the Department of Militia and Defence, July, 1916. His recreations are fishing, hunting, and motoring. Among his clubs are the Halifax City; Wanderers A.A.C., of which he is an ex-President; Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron; Halifax Golf; Halifax Automobile Association (ex-President); St. James, Montreal; Royal Automobile, London, Eng.; Rideau, Ottawa; and Royal Ottawa Golf Club. Mr. McCurdy was born at Old Barns, County Colchester, N.S., February 17, 1875, the son of James and Amelia J. (Archibald) McCurdy, and was educated in the public schools. In 1902 he married Florence Bridgman Pearson, daughter of the Hon. B. F. Pearson, M.P.P., Halifax, and has two sons. Mr. McCurdy is a Conservative and a Presbyterian.

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=Langton, Brigadier-General Joseph Graham=, Paymaster-General of the Militia Department, Ottawa, is the son of Thomas Langton, a merchant, and Fannie McKim Langton, and was born at Toronto, October 14, 1868, where he received his education in the public schools and the Jarvis Street Collegiate Institute. He has had an extensive military career, and has served continuously in the active militia of Canada since 1886. He joined the Queen’s Own Rifles in May, 1886, and served continuously until December, 1896. He served for two and a half years as regimental drill instructor, and in 1895 organized the Queen’s Own Rifle Cyclist section. In 1897, he received a commission as Lieutenant in the 20th Lorne Rifles, was promoted as Captain in 1898, and held appointment as Adjutant until 1903. He was selected by Militia Headquarters to organize No. 2 Company Canadian Army Service Corps, and in 1903 at Niagara Camp commanded the first Army Service Corps unit to go under canvas in Canada. In June, 1905, he was appointed Senior Army Service Corps Officer, Western Ontario Command, on the Staff of Brigadier-General W. D. Otter, C.B., and held that appointment until June, 1911, when the tenure of appointment expired. In 1898, he instituted the first regimental system of messing at the Canadian Militia Training Camps at Niagara Camp. At the Tercentenary Celebration at Quebec, July, 1908, he was appointed as Deputy-Assistant-Quarter-Master-General, and had charge of the railway transportation of troops. A field order issued by the late Lord Roberts conveyed the congratulations of the present King, then the Prince of Wales, to the late Sir Frederick Borden on the success of the transport arrangements. General Langton instituted the first use of mechanical transport by the Canadian Militia at the Fall manœuvres at Toronto in October, 1910. He was appointed railway transport officer for mobilization of the first Canadian contingent at Valcartier in August, 1914, and in co-operation with Sir William Price had charge of the embarkation of the first contingent at Quebec in September of the same year. In December, 1915, he was appointed Inspector of Supplies and Transport for the Second Divisional Area, and by Order-in-Council, February, 1916, he was attached to the Staff of the Inspector-General and appointed as Chief Supply Inspector for Eastern Canada. In the following June he was appointed as Deputy Inspector-General. February 8, 1918, he was appointed as Paymaster-General and as a member of the Militia Council. As Deputy Inspector-General, General Langton had supervision over receipts, supplies, stores, clothing, accounting, regimental funds, mess accounts, and canteen funds. In the matter of canteens, General Langton is recognized as the leading authority in Canada on their administration. The booklet of rules for the management of canteens, regimental funds, etc., issued by the Militia Department as a text-book for the troops, was prepared by him. The branch under his administration effected a saving during the war of over one million dollars without depriving the troops of anything to which they were entitled. In his capacity as Paymaster-General he has entire charge of the finances—separations allowance and assigned pay branch of the Militia Department, etc. General Langton is Vice-President of the Military Service Department of the Young Men’s Christian Association. This department was first attached to the Canadian Military Camps at Valcartier in August, 1914, by General Sir Sam Hughes on the recommendation of General Langton. In recognition of his services General Langton has been recommended for distinguished services in Canada. Until he entered upon his duties as Deputy Inspector-General, General Langton has been engaged in banking and other financial pursuits. General Joseph Graham Langton, on Oct. 7, 1891, married Margaret J., daughter of John Pearey, contractor, of Toronto. Five children have blessed the union: Percy (deceased), Ernest Pearey (deceased), Olive V., Joseph McKim, and Florence Margaret. General Langton is a member of the Rideau Club (Ottawa) and of the Canadian Military Institute (Toronto), Ashlar Lodge A.F. & A.M., No. 249, and St. Paul’s Royal Arch Chapter, No. 65, Toronto. His recreations are curling and lawn bowling. In religion an Anglican. His address is Militia Department, Ottawa, Ontario, Can.

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=Graham, Hon. George Perry= (Brockville, Ont.), is one of the leading public men of Canada, and a former cabinet minister. He was born on March 31, 1859, at Eganville, Ont., and is of Irish descent. He was educated at Iroquois and Morrisburg High Schools in the St. Lawrence Valley. He early became identified with journalism, and as editor and manager of the Brockville “Recorder,” made it one of the best known provincial papers in the Dominion. An earlier newspaper enterprise of his was the Morrisburg “Herald,” which he successfully conducted for eleven years; and he was for a short time associate editor of the Ottawa “Free Press.” As a young man, Mr. Graham became identified with the organization of the Liberal party in his district, and was in great demand as a platform speaker. Entry into public life was a logical outcome of his career as a moulder of public opinion. During his residence in Morrisburg, Ont., he was Reeve of the village and a member of the County Council, and in 1894 the Liberals nominated him for the riding of Dundas against no less an opponent than J. P. Whitney, afterwards Prime Minister of Ontario. At the general elections for the Legislature in 1898 he was Liberal candidate for Brockville, and was more successful, securing election by a substantial majority. He at once achieved a prominent position in the Legislature owing to his wit and skill as a debater. Those were the days when Mr. Whitney was making his long and ultimately successful fight for the overthrow of the Ross Government, and the former contestants in the riding of Dundas frequently crossed swords in debate. At the Legislative elections in 1902, Mr. Graham was re-elected for Brockville, though his party suffered heavy losses elsewhere, and on November 25, 1904, on the resignation of the late Hon. J. R. Stratton from the post of Provincial Secretary, he was called to the cabinet as his successor. At the general elections of the ensuing winter he was again returned for Brockville, but the Ross Government, of which he was a member, was defeated. On January 25, 1907, the Liberal caucus elected him leader of His Majesty’s loyal opposition, but he served in that capacity for only one session of the Legislature. In August of 1907, Sir Wilfrid Laurier induced him to abandon the provincial field, and offered him the portfolio of Railways and Canals in the Federal cabinet. He was sworn in as a member of the Privy Council on August 29, and on September 18, 1907, was elected by acclamation to the House of Commons for the Federal riding of Brockville. He continued as Minister of Railways for four years, and took an active part in the organization of his party in Ontario. In September, 1911, the Laurier administration was defeated at the polls. Mr. Graham was elected in a by-election in South Renfrew, and for the next six years continued to sit in opposition as the desk-mate of Sir Wilfrid Laurier. He did not seek re-election at the general elections of 1917, but has retained active connection with the Liberal party, and in many quarters his name was urged as the fitting successor of Sir Wilfrid Laurier in the party leadership. In addition to his journalistic and political activities, Mr. Graham is widely known in connection with fraternal insurance organizations. He was Grand Master of the Ancient Order of United Workmen for two years, and for a considerable period a member of the Finance Committee of that body. He is President of the Travellers’ Life Assurance Company of Canada, a Director of the Canada Foundries and Forging Company, Vice-President of Delaney Forge Company, and President of the “Recorder” Printing Company. In religion he is a Methodist. In 1882, he married Carrie, a daughter of Nelson Southworth, Morrisburg, Ont., and had two sons, Captain Perry M., who died some years ago, and Captain W. N., who was killed in the Great War.

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=Leonard, Lieutenant-Colonel Reuben Wells=, Corps of Guides (St. Catharines, Ont.). Born at Brantford, Ont., February 21, 1860, son of the late Francis Henry Leonard (one time Reeve of the town of Brantford and Warden of the County of Brant) and Elizabeth, daughter of the late Captain Richard Catton. He was educated at the Brantford Collegiate Institute and Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, from which latter he graduated in 1883, winning the Silver Medal. Lieutenant-Colonel Leonard has had a wide experience in several branches of his chosen profession of engineering, having occupied positions of increasing importance in railroad, hydro-electric, and mining development. After completing his education in 1883, he took service with the Canadian Pacific Railway as instrumentman on surveys and resident engineer on construction of the Lake Superior Division. At the outbreak of the North-West Rebellion in 1885 he was appointed Staff Officer of Transport, and served in other capacities during the uprising. After the Rebellion he re-entered the service of the Canadian Pacific as engineer of surveys and construction in Manitoba and Ontario. From 1886 until 1890, he was chief engineer of the Cumberland Railway and Coal Co., in Nova Scotia. 1890-1891 he was again with the Canadian Pacific Railway on surveys of important branch lines in Ontario, Quebec, and British Columbia. In 1891-92 he was engaged in railway contracting. In 1892-93 he was in charge of the construction of the first hydro-electric development at Niagara Falls, Ont., for the Park and River Railway Co. In 1893-94 he was engineer-in-charge of railway surveys for the Canadian Pacific Railway. From 1895 until 1899 he was chief engineer and manager of construction of the St. Lawrence and Adirondack Railway, and of the Montreal and Ottawa Short Line (C.P.R.) respectively, and consulting engineer for the Canadian Rutland Railway. His next step was again in the field of mining engineering, being engaged as engineer with the Lake Superior Corporation in developing their iron and nickel mines in the Sudbury and Michipicoten districts. In 1900, he returned to railroading as chief engineer and manager of construction of the Cape Breton Railway. From 1902 to 1904, he was engineer in charge of the construction of a hydro-electric plant at DeCew Falls, near St. Catharines, for the Hamilton Cataract Power Co., and in 1905-06 he was engaged in similar work at Kakabeka Falls, near Fort William, for the Kaministiquia Power Co. In 1905, when silver was first discovered in Northern Ontario, Colonel Leonard was one of the first prospectors in the Cobalt district and staked the Buffalo mine, and in the following year he acquired a controlling interest in the Coniagas mine, and promoted the Coniagas Mines, Ltd., of which he is President. This mine has been one of the largest and most consistent producers of silver ore in the rich Cobalt district, and during its ten years of operation has produced 25,000,000 ounces of silver, and is still one of the few silver-producing mines of Canada. In 1908 a subsidiary company—the Coniagas Reduction Co., Ltd., was formed primarily for the purpose of treating ore from the Coniagas mine, but a large custom trade has also been developed in the smelting and reduction of cobalt ores for the production of silver and lesser products. In 1911, Lieutenant-Colonel Leonard was selected by the Dominion Government for the position of Chairman of the National Transcontinental Railway Commission at Ottawa, with jurisdiction over the construction of the Government Railway from Moncton, N.B., to Winnipeg. This position he occupied, at much personal sacrifice, until the practical completion of the railway in 1914. Next to the mining industry, Colonel Leonard’s principal interest would appear to lie in the direction of the steel business, as his name appears on the directorate of several industries engaged in the manufacture of steel and steel products. He has recently promoted the organization of a new steel company, under the name of Electric Steel and Engineering Ltd., which is an amalgamation of several engineering enterprises in which he is interested, and whose different lines of manufacture he found could be co-ordinated to advantage. He is also a Director of the Toronto General Trusts Corporation. It may be said here that he is one of those men of business who are not content to be Directors in name only, but who believe in the principle that a Director should take a part in the actual direction of the enterprises with which he permits his name to become identified, and in conformity with this rule he has consistently declined to accept office as Director of commercial enterprises when he felt he was not in a position to give the necessary time and attention to the affairs of the business. Colonel Leonard has always taken a keen interest in the welfare and advancement of the engineering profession, and is an active member and past vice-president of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers and the Canadian Mining Institute; President Engineering Institute of Canada, 1919-20. He has always been the friend of the young engineer, and ever ready to lend a hand in helping him along the road to success. He is also a past corresponding member of the Council of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, London, England, and a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers. Member Institution of Civil Engineers, London, England. In spite of his many business activities, he finds time to devote to educational interests, and is a close student of all questions involving the well-being and good government of the State. He is a true Imperialist and advocate of closer unity between the component parts of the Empire; and any movement which promises to assist in attaining this end has his moral and financial support. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the University of Toronto; the Kingston School of Mining; Wycliffe College, Toronto; and Ridley College, St. Catharines, Ont. He has recently established scholarships under “The Leonard Foundation” in several of these Institutions to assist in the education and support of sons of clergymen, school teachers and officers and men of the Canadian and Imperial army and navy who require assistance in order to complete their education. His other benefactions are widely distributed and unheralded, and it is safe to say that few appeals on behalf of deserving objects are made to him in vain. A characteristic which strikes one forcibly is his ability to quickly analyse and grasp the essentials of things, and this faculty enables him to get through a large amount of work in a limited time, and also to readily appreciate the merits or demerits of things, whether in business, politics or the various public movements with which he may be asked to become identified. Since the outbreak of war, he has given much of his time and means to patriotic movements and other work tending to promote Canada’s whole-hearted participation in the war. Lieutenant-Colonel Leonard is in command of No. 2 Detachment, Corps of Guides. He is a member of the Mount Royal Club, Montreal; Rideau and Country Clubs, Ottawa; National Club and the Engineers’ Club, Toronto, and the Tourilli Fish and Game Club, Quebec. He is an ardent advocate of all outdoor sports, especially in the woods. He is an independent in politics, and in religion an Anglican. Married in 1889 to Kate Rowlands, daughter of the late John Rowlands, of Kingston, Ont.

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=Hare, Rev. John James, M.A., Ph.D.=, Principal Emeritus of Ontario Ladies’ College (Whitby, Ont.), is one of the most distinguished of Canadian educationists. He was born in Nepean township, Ontario, on October 3, 1847, the son of Robert and Barbara (Shillington) Hare. His early education was received in the public school of his district, and later he entered Victoria University, at that time situated at Cobourg, Ont., with a view to entering the Methodist ministry. He graduated in 1873 with the degree of B.A., winning first prizes in metaphysics, Hebrew, Scripture and debating, also a scholarship for highest standing in his sophomore year. In 1876, he qualified for the M.A. degree of his alma mater, and subsequently was awarded the degree of Ph.D. by the Illinois Wesleyan University. Incidentally he had served as a public school teacher for two years, and was ordained for the ministry in 1873. For one year he served as a pastor at London, Ont., but in 1874 was appointed principal of the Ontario Ladies’ College at Whitby, Ont., an institution founded for the education of Methodist young women, but by no means exclusively denominational. That position Dr. Hare held continuously for forty-one years. In 1915 he resigned, and was appointed principal emeritus. In 1879 he became governor as well as principal. In the conduct of the institution he has shown rare executive ability, and to this asset, combined with his indefatigable energy and spirit of devotion to the interests of his pupils, the great success of the college is attributable. During his regime, the institution was four times enlarged by the addition of Ryerson Hall, private residence with connecting passage, Frances Hall, gymnasium, swimming pool and hospital to provide against an outbreak of a contagious disease. By a vast number of Canadian women, some of whom are now in middle age, the name of Dr. Hare is held in honor and veneration. His educational attainments were some years ago recognized by his selection as examiner in geology by the University of Toronto. In September, 1874, he married Katherine Isabella, daughter of the late Rev. D. C. McDowell, a well-known Methodist divine, and has one son. Mrs. Hare was for some years lady principal of the college, and discharged the duties of her position with efficiency. His recreations are riding, driving and tennis; and in politics he is an independent. His permanent address is 164 Bird Ave., Miami, Florida.

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=Morin, Pierre Alphonse= (St. John’s, Quebec), Prothonotary Superior Court, was born in St. François, Montmagny, 1st August, 1855, and educated at Montreal College and McGill University, graduating with the degree of B.C.L. He is the son of Louis Edouard Morin and Catherine des Trois Maisons, and married Rachel, daughter of the late Senator J. O. Villeneuve, ex-Mayor of Montreal, by whom he has eight children, Paul, Josephine, Louise, Suzanne, Villeneuve, Lucie, Madeleine and André. After practising as an Advocate for some time Mr. Morin became editor and proprietor of “Le Canada Français,” a Liberal paper which is still in existence, and with which he retained his connection until receiving his present appointments as Prothonotary of the Superior Court of Iberville, and Clerk of the Crown and of the Peace, and of the Circuit Court of the District of Iberville, Com. per dedimus potestatem and Commr. in Extradition. He is a Past Grand Knight of Columbus, a Roman Catholic in religion and a Liberal in politics.

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=Ashton, Major-General Ernest, M.D., C.M.G.=, is one of those Canadian soldiers who won high rank and distinction during the great war, but was originally a physician by profession. He was born at Brantford, Ont., on October 28, 1875, the son of Rev. Robert and Alice Mary Ashton. His father was formerly Principal of the Mohawk Institute, Brantford, and incumbent of His Majesty’s Chapel of Mohawks. He was educated for the calling of a physician at Trinity Medical School, and graduated in 1898 with the following degrees and honours: F.I.M.C., M.D., C.M. of Trinity University, and was medallist of both Trinity Medical School and Trinity University. On graduation he became house surgeon of the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, holding that position for one year, after which he was appointed superintendent of the Muskoka Cottage Sanitarium, near Gravenhurst, Ont., remaining there for two years. In 1901 he returned to Brantford, Ont., and built up a large general practice. He also entered municipal politics and served as alderman and as a member of the Board of Education. He was one of the Board of Governors of Brantford General Hospital and the Brantford Sanitarium. The volunteer militia likewise claimed much of his energy and enthusiasm, and he holds a first class school of infantry certificate. When but eighteen years of age he joined the Dufferin Rifles of Brantford as second lieutenant, and was gazetted on January 20, 1893. He became a full lieutenant in September of that year; Captain on August 7, 1896; Major, December 29, 1902; and Lieutenant-Colonel on January 8, 1907, being at that time one of the youngest militia commanders in Canada. On completing his five years’ tenure on January 7, 1912, he gave up his command, and was transferred to the Reserve of Officers of the Canadian Militia. The following year he was returned to the active list on the organization of the 13th Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery, and raised and on July 1, 1913, assumed command of the 32nd Howitzer Battery, C.F.A., with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. On the outbreak of the great war in the following year he at once offered his services, and on January 2, 1915, was appointed to raise and organize the 36th Battalion, C.E.F., and within six months had so effectively performed his task that he was able to proceed overseas with his battalion on June 19, 1915. On arrival in England, the organization was broken up and sent to France as re-inforcements for other battalions; and its commanding officer was appointed Brigadier of the 9th Reserve Infantry Brigade, and promoted to the rank of Colonel. On November 7, 1916, he was appointed O.C. of the Canadian Training Division, and about the same time acted as one of the Board headed by Surgeon-General Sir William Baptie to investigate the charges preferred by Colonel Herbert A. Bruce against the organization of the Canadian Army Medical Corps. On March 16, 1917, he became temporary Brigadier-General and on April 2 of that year was appointed General Officer Commanding of the 15th Canadian Infantry Brigade. His valuable services were the subject of official mention on February 24, 1917 and August 7, 1917. In the autumn of that year he was recalled to Canada, and on January 1, 1918 appointed Acting-Adjutant-General and Major-General. At the same time he received the honour of C.M.G. from His Majesty the King. On June 8, 1905, General Ashton was married to Helen Margaret, daughter of Oswald Weir, banker, of the Bank of North America, Brantford, Ont.; he has one child, Amy Corcaire Ashton. He is an Anglican in religion, and in politics a man of strongly Imperialistic leanings. He is a member of the Rideau Club, Ottawa, and the Ottawa Golf Club.

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=Duff, Hon. Lyman Poore=, is one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada, and one of the mostly widely-known of Canadian jurists. He was born at Meaford, Ontario, on January 7, 1865, the son of Rev. Charles and Isabel (Johnstone) Duff. He was educated in the public and high schools of the province and at the University of Toronto, from which he graduated with the degree of B.A. in 1887 and first class honors in mathematics and metaphysics. He also took up the study of law at Osgoode Hall, Toronto, and received the degree of LL.B. at Toronto University in 1889. For a time he was teacher of mathematics at Barrie Collegiate Institute, but was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1893, and in the same year to that of British Columbia in 1895. He first practised in Fergus, Wellington County, Ont., for two years, and in 1895 removed to Victoria, B.C., where he built up a large and important practice. He was created a King’s Counsel in 1901, and in that year represented the province of British Columbia in the famous Deadman’s Island case. In 1903, he was one of the counsel in the enquiry into the Columbian and Western land subsidies, a matter which attracted a great deal of attention on the Pacific Coast at that time. In 1903, he had the honor of being associated as counsel with the late Hon. Edward Blake, K.C., and the late Christopher Robinson, K.C., in representing the Dominion of Canada before the joint high commission on the Alaskan Boundary dispute, which sat in London, England. He received appointment as Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Canada in 1904, and in 1906 was elevated to his present position as one of the Justices of the Supreme Court at Ottawa. In that capacity he had made important decisions on questions of the highest moment, and in 1918 was appointed as supreme authority in connection with appeals against the operation of the Military Service Act. He is a man of strong and striking personality as well as of the highest judicial attainments, and in many quarters it has been suggested that he leave the bench to enter political life, which, however, holds out no attraction for him. When in private practice he was a Liberal, and for a time held the position of President of the Victoria Liberal Club. He is a member of the Rideau Club, Ottawa, Ottawa Country Club, Union Club, Victoria, B.C., Vancouver Club. In July, 1898, he married Elizabeth Eleanor, daughter of Henry Bird, Barrie, Ont, and resides on Goulborn Ave., Ottawa.

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=Hurdman, George Charles, M.P.P.=, is a prominent lumberman of Ottawa, and one of the representatives of that city in the Ontario legislature. He was born in Ottawa on September 23, 1870, the son of George and Agnes C. (Fraser) Hurdman. On both sides he is of United Empire Loyalist stock, and is of Irish and Scottish descent. He was educated at the public and Model schools of his native city, and as a lad of nineteen became connected with the wholesale lumber industry, with which he has ever since been identified. He first entered the service of Beull, Orr, Hurdman & Co., with which he was connected for five years; after which he was associated with the lumber firm of Shepherd and Morse, Boston, Massachusetts, for another five years. In 1899 he established the Hurdman Lumber Company, Limited, of which he is the head. He has offices in Canada Life Building, Ottawa, and conducts an extensive wholesale business. He is also Secretary-Treasurer of the Canada Quarries and Construction Co. of Ottawa. From earlier manhood, Mr. Hurdman has taken a strong interest in public affairs, and was for several years an active officer of the executive of the Liberal party in Ottawa. At the general elections for the Ontario Legislature in June, 1914, he was the candidate of his party for the riding of Ottawa West, and succeeded in defeating his opponent, ex-Mayor Ellis, a strong candidate, by a safe majority. As a member of the opposition he has proved most useful, his counsel being especially valued in committee work, and in the party caucus. He has also taken an active interest in military affairs, and as a young man served with the 43rd Regiment, Ottawa, and Carleton Rifles. When the war broke out in 1914, he decided to resume military service, and qualified as an officer in the Princess Louise Dragoon Guards, which sent many recruits to the front. He is a Methodist in religion, and a charter member of the Laurentian Club, Ottawa, and his chief recreation is horsemanship. On June 21, 1899, he married Katherine, daughter of Thomas J. Lynton, Ottawa, and has three sons, George Charles, Thomas Lynton, and Herbert Russell Hurdman. He resides at 412 Daly Ave., Ottawa.

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=Bates, Thomas Nathaniel=, is one of the leading business men of Ottawa, and holds the position of Vice-President and Manager of the International Land & Lumber Company, of 285 Bank Street, in that city. He is also Vice-President of the British Canadian Industrial Company, Limited. He was born at L’Orignal, Ontario, in 1881, and is a son of Joseph Lever Bates. He was educated at the public and high schools of Hawkesbury, Ont., and as a lad of nineteen went into the insurance business as an agent for the New York Life Insurance Company at Ottawa. He proved one of the most successful writers of policies that this country has produced, and in 1904 made the Canadian record for his company by obtaining one hundred and seven applications for insurance in the space of thirty-five days. He was appointed Superintendent of Agencies for the company, and continued in that position until 1907. In that year the International Land and Lumber Company and the British Canadian Industrial Company were organized, and he was connected with them from their inception. Under his energetic and enterprising direction, they have developed a large and substantial business. In politics Mr. Bates is a Conservative, and in religion a Methodist. He is a member of the Laurentian Club; the Britannia Boat Club and the Canadian Club, Ottawa. On September 21, 1909, he married Maud, daughter of Thomas Askwith, Ottawa, and has two sons. Mr. and Mrs. Bates reside at 248 O’Connor Street in the capital.

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=Rose, George Maclean=, President and Manager of the Hunter-Rose Company, Limited, Toronto, comes of a family which has been identified with the printing and publishing industry in Canada since the pre-Confederation era. He was born at the city of Quebec on October 30, 1865, the son of the late George Maclean Rose and his wife, Margaret Levack Manson, both natives of Caithness, Scotland. Sir Oliver Mowat, the famous Liberal statesman, who was for nearly a quarter of a century Prime Minister of Ontario, and held other very important public offices, was a cousin of the late Mrs. Rose. The subject of this sketch was educated at the Model School and the Wellesley School, Toronto, and later took a course at the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, with a view to embarking in a career of scientific agriculture, a project subsequently abandoned. He began his business career with the Williams, Greene & Rome Company, Ltd., manufacturers of men’s wear at Kitchener (then Berlin), Ont., and became secretary and a director of the company. Severing connection with the enterprise, he went to New York, and was engaged in business there for ten years, returning to Canada in 1902 to join the Hunter-Rose Company, established many years previously by his father. He acted as secretary of the company for two years, and in 1904 became President and Manager, the position he holds to-day. The Hunter-Rose Company is one of the historic commercial concerns of Canada. Its founder, the late George Maclean Rose, was a native of Wick, Caithness, who, as a young man in Scotland acquired complete familiarity with every phase of the printing and publishing business. In the middle fifties he came to Canada, and settled in Montreal, but in 1857 went to London, Ont., and in company with the late Hamilton Hunter established the printing firm of Hunter & Rose. This partnership was, however, short-lived, and in 1859, Mr. Rose joined forces with the late Samuel Thompson, of Toronto, who had received the contract to execute the printing for the parliament of Canada. This necessitated removal to Quebec, at that time capital of Canada. It shortly became necessary for Mr. Thompson to retire from business, and to carry on the work of government printing Mr. Rose formed the firm of Hunter-Rose & Company, in the ancient capital, taking into partnership Robert Hunter, a practical accountant. The completion of the parliament buildings at Ottawa in 1865 and the establishment of the government there, necessitated removal to that city, which remained the headquarters of the firm for several years. Confederation, in the meantime, having become an established fact, Hon. John Sandfield Macdonald, the first Premier of Ontario, induced Mr. Rose to establish a branch in Toronto, to take charge of the provincial printing. In 1871, Mr. Rose came to Toronto to reside permanently, and since that time the name Hunter-Rose & Company has been identified with the commercial life of Toronto. In 1877, Mr. Robert Hunter died, and Mr. Rose became sole proprietor. The firm was incorporated under its present name in 1895. Government printing ceased to be the staple of its business many years ago, and book publishing became a very important part of its activities. From its plant have been issued many reprints of the leading authors of the past and present century. Incidentally, it may be mentioned that the first volume of “Representative Canadians,” edited by the late George Maclean Rose, was published in 1886. The present head of the company, who has carried on the historic traditions of the firm, is a member of the Canadian Manufacturers Association and of the Toronto Board of Trade. As a young man, he took a deep interest in military matters, and was a Lieutenant in the 48th Highlanders of Toronto, when that regiment was first established. He was also a lacrosse enthusiast, and played with the old Ontarios of Toronto and the Crescents of Brooklyn, N.Y. His present recreation is golf, and he is a member of the Ontario Club, the Simcoe Club, the Lakeview Golf Club, and the Ontario Jockey Club. In religion he is a Unitarian, and in politics independent.

=Blair, Lieutenant James K.= (Ottawa, Ont.), who was killed in action at the Somme October 2, 1916, was born September 11, 1890, at Truro, Nova Scotia, the only son of Lieutenant-Colonel H. C. Blair, Inspector of Customs, Ottawa, and Grace Ewart Blair. He received his education in the common schools of Truro, and was a commercial traveller when he enlisted at Saskatoon as a private on the outbreak of the war. He was married early in 1916 to Dulcie, daughter of Captain Brooks of the Indian Army, and Mrs. Brooks, and is survived by one son, James K. Blair, whom he never saw. After enlisting, he trained with the 28th Battalion in Winnipeg, and on receiving a commission in February, 1915, joined the 46th Battalion at Moose Jaw, and left for England with a draft from the battalion in July, 1915. He qualified at Hythe as a musketry instructor, and was attached in that capacity to the 32nd Reserve Battalion, where he served for one year. He went to France on August 2, 1916, where he joined the 2nd Canadian Entrenching Battalion, and then went to his old battalion the 28th. The following extract from a letter written by the Commanding officer of the 28th is a tribute to Lieutenant Blair’s military abilities:—“Poor Jimmie Blair never had a chance to do more than show he had the grit to stick the worst the Boche could do. He joined us when we were on our way south, and fitted easily into the very happy family our mess then was. He did what he had to do well, and gave entire satisfaction. As our Battalion was then in a high state of efficiency, that is a good recommendation to any officer. In the big attack of September 15, we only took in half our officers, and Lieutenant Blair was left out, so he did not get the chance which two of the officers of his company got, and which resulted in the award to them of the M.C. We went in again on September 24-25, and Blair’s platoon was in the centre, and was subjected to very severe shelling during all of which he carried himself coolly and bravely, and came through in good shape. After a couple of days back we went in again on another sector to hold. Blair’s company was in Kenora trench, just where it joins Regina trench, of which so much has been said in the papers. This was really a communication trench, but had to be held on account of the command it gave us for future operations. It was, however, badly enfiladed, and we had practically all our casualties there. The battalion we relieved had just captured it, and it was subjected to a good deal of shell fire, and it was during one of these poor Blair was killed by a small shell which landed in the bay in which he was posted. I gave orders that his body be brought out for burial, but a heavy rain and resulting mud, together with the exhausted condition of our men, made this impossible. He was, therefore, given a soldier’s grave near where he fell, and on ground which should be considered sacred to Canadians, as many of our officers and men had fallen, and have fallen since, before Regina trench was finally captured. He died, therefore, as so many have, just ”holding the line,“ nothing spectacular; just a matter of duty well and bravely done under very trying circumstances. He gave promise of doing well, but he was not given the opportunity which the real attack gives. His people, however, will have the satisfaction of knowing that he did his duty well, bore himself bravely in the face of fire, and died like a soldier.” Another officer friend. Captain Quinan, writes:—“I well remember Jim when he left England for France, as full of spirits as old Allan Richardson before him, who, too, has been killed. Jim was full of life, and only asked for a chance to help to avenge his chum. He will, I assure you, always remain in my memory as ‘Jim,’ a very fine and gallant gentleman.” He was a Presbyterian and a Liberal Conservative. Lieutenant Blair was very proud of the Canadians, and in a letter to his parents, said;—“The Canadians have no black marks against them, and do not intend to have.” He had a high reputation both as an instructor and as a soldier. One of Lieutenant Blair’s ancestors, Captain William Blair, fought at the siege of Louisburg in 1745, and his father joined the militia.

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=Bell, Clarence A. H.= (Toronto, Ont.), Clerk in Chambers, Supreme Court of Ontario, Osgoode Hall, son of Alexander Bell, M.D., whose father, James B. Bell, was for many years Registrar of the County of Lanark at Perth. Born at Oshawa, May 3, 1869, removing shortly thereafter to Lakefield, Co. Peterborough. Educated at Lakefield public school and Peterborough Collegiate Institute. He married Louise Ella, daughter of the late John Brown, of Lloydtown, June 24, 1893, and has two children, Sybil Irene and Arthur Armstrong (formerly a signaller in France). He entered the Department of Attorney-General under the late Sir Oliver Mowat, May, 1887, and was transferred to the Central Office, Osgoode Hall, 1896, receiving the appointment of Clerk in Chambers, June, 1917. Mr. Bell is an active member of many fraternal societies, being P.C., Knights of Pythias; High Chief Ranger, Independent Order of Foresters; representative on several occasions at the National Fraternal Congress of America; member of Ionic Lodge, A.F. & A.M. and St. Patrick’s Chapter; member Royal Arcanum; Chosen Friends; L.O.L. and Preceptory, R.B.K. For many years he has been active in church work (Anglican Church), being a member of the Executive Committee, Diocese of Toronto; Dominion President for several years of Anglican Young People’s Association; Secretary of Diocesan Lay Readers’ Association; President many years of Progressive Bible Class—at one time one of the largest Bible classes in Canada. He is publisher of the “Circuit Guide,” a compendium issued half-yearly for the use of judges and lawyers. To the average man, the above-mentioned associations would appear almost sufficient to occupy his spare time; but not so with Mr. Bell, whose activity seems almost infinite, for he is an enthusiastic student of astronomy and the history of ancient Egypt, upon both of which subjects he has given frequent lectures. But the safety-valve of his unusually active life is probably to be found in the even balance he maintains between mental, social, and religious pursuits on the one hand, and an ardent—always ardent and active in everything—love of wild animals, wild birds, wild flowers, camping, woodmanship and canoeing, at which he is an expert. All his available holidays are spent near nature’s heart at his summer house in the northern part of Peterborough County where he breathes in ozone, puts on tan, relaxes and strengthens his muscles, and augments his optimism in preparation for the following season of busy city life. His city residence is 563 Gladstone Avenue.

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=Brossoit, Numa Edouard, K.C.= (Valleyfield, P.Q.), son of Thomas Brossoit, K.C., Advocate, and Rose Anne Sabourin, daughter of late Dr. Moise Sabourin of Beauharnois, P.Q. He is brother-in-law of Hon. Justice Wilfred Mercier; G. A. Marsan, K.C., Advocate; Ludger Codebecq, K.C., Advocate, and Dr. Charles Ovide Ostiguy. Was born at Melocheville on the 23rd of August 1875. Educated at the Seminaire de St. Hyacinthe and McGill University, Montreal, from which latter institution he graduated in June, 1897, with the degree of Bachelor of Civil Law. Married to Hectorine Mailloux, daughter of late Ovide Mailloux, Architect of the City of Montreal, on the 26th day of September, 1899. His wife died on the 31st day of October, 1915. Mr. Brossoit is the father of the following children: Laurette, Hermance, Irma, Pauline Eliane and Marcelle. He belongs to the Knights of Columbus Council 1180, 4th Degree Member; Catholic Order of Foresters; Canadian Order of Foresters; Alliance Nationale; Artisans; Union St. Pierre, and Union St. Joseph. He is Vice-Provincial Chief Ranger of the Provincial Court of Quebec of the Catholic Order of Foresters. He is one of the promoters—and is Vice-President—of the society, “The Fonds de Secours des Foresters Catholiques de la Province de Quebec,” organized on the 17th day of January, 1917 and duly incorporated on September 19, 1918. He is a Roman Catholic in religion and a Liberal in politics. He practised his profession with his father, the late Thomas Brossoit, K.C., from 1897 to June, 1905, and since the death of his father in that year he has practised alone. He has a large practice and is an advocate. King’s Counsel April, 1914. For many years he was one of the editors of “La Revue de Jurisprudence” and is a contributor to “Le Progres de Valleyfield.” Was Crown Attorney for the District of Beauharnois in 1907; Revisor of Electoral List for the city of Valleyfield since 1915 and Recorder of the City of Valleyfield since June 28th, 1909. His principal recreations are motoring, yachting, hunting and fishing.

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=Petrie, Harry David=, is one of the leading barristers and financiers of Hamilton, Ont. He was born at Oakville, Ont., in 1869, the son of Adam and Margaret (Paterson) Petrie. He was educated at the Simcoe (Ont.) High School and the Ontario Law School, Toronto. He read law with C. E. Barber of Simcoe in 1888, and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1893. In 1898 he formed a legal partnership with Lieut.-Colonel Atkinson, M.P.P., at Simcoe, which continued until 1902, when he removed to Toronto, and for two years practised as partner of the late Hon. S. C. Biggs, K.C. Since 1904 he has practised in Hamilton, and has offices at 28 James Street. During his residence in Simcoe, he was a town councillor from 1900 to 1902, but has not since been a candidate for public office. His commercial and financial interests in the Hamilton district are very wide. He is Vice-President of the Ontario Yarn Company, Ltd., and also very extensively interested in real estate. He is director of the following realty companies:—Graham Land Company, Ltd.; the Oakwood Realty Company, Ltd.; the Oakley Heights Realty Company, Ltd.; Bronte Heights, Ltd.; Beechwood and Company, Ltd.; Roxboro Gardens, Ltd.; Lawrence Park, Hamilton, Ltd.; and several other land and building companies. He is a member of the Royal Arch Masons, and of the following clubs:—Commercial, Fernleigh Bowling and Athletic; Canadian (Hamilton), and Country (Burlington). In politics he is a Liberal, and in religion a Presbyterian. In 1896 he married Laura, daughter of the late Jonathan Ellis, Port Dover, Ont., and resides at 322 Queen Street, Hamilton.

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=Bowman, Charles Martin, M.P.P.= (Southampton, Bruce County, Ont.), is one of the veteran members of the Ontario Legislature. He was born at St. Jacobs, Waterloo County, Ont., the son of Isaac Bowman, M.P. and his wife, Lydia Erb, on May 7, 1863. He is of Swiss descent, and his father represented North Waterloo in the House of Commons for several years. He was educated at the public school, St. Jacobs and at the High School, Berlin (now Kitchener), Ont. In 1880 he removed to Southampton, Ont., and engaged in the tanning business under the firm name of Bowman & Zinkan, in which he continued until 1900. From 1880 until 1890 he was also President of the Southampton Lumber Company, Limited, operating on the Bruce peninsula. He was engaged in the contracting business for twelve years, and from 1904 to 1910 was President of the Great Lakes Dredging Company, Limited, of Port Arthur, during which he carried out in the harbour of Fort William the largest contract for dredging ever awarded in Canada. He is a director of the Bell Furniture Company, Ltd., Southampton; of the Stevens Hepener Co., Ltd., manufacturers of brushes and brooms, Port Elgin, Ont., and of the Durham Furniture Co., Ltd., Durham, Ont. In 1894-5 he was a member of the Southampton Council, and afterward Reeve, and was also President of the Southampton Board of Trade, 1894-5. In 1898 he was nominated for the Legislature in the Liberal interest for the riding of North Bruce, and elected. Despite the vicissitudes of his party, he was re-elected at each succeeding election—1902, 1905, 1908, 1911 and 1914. As a member of the Standing Committees of the Legislature dealing with private and municipal measures, he has rendered much valuable service. In 1911 he was chosen Opposition whip by the Liberal caucus, a position he resigned in 1919. He was also named for the leadership of the party in the Legislature, but declined. He has long been a prominent member of the Executive of the Ontario Reform Association, and presided over the Liberal convention held at Toronto in July, 1919, at which Mr. H. H. Dewart, K.C., was elected leader. On October 20, 1886, he married Lulu, daughter of Julius Hesse, Howell, Michigan, and has one son and two daughters. He is a Methodist in religion, and a member of the A.F. & A.M., the I.O.O.F. and the Ontario Club, Toronto. His recreations are curling and bowling.

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=Dewart, Herbert Hartley, K.C., M.P.P.= (Toronto), son of the late Rev. Edward Hartley Dewart, D.D., formerly editor of the Christian Guardian, and was born in St. John’s, Quebec, November 9, 1861. He received his education in Toronto at the Model School and Toronto Collegiate, graduating from the University of Toronto with B.A. degree in 1883. He was called to the Bar in 1887, and created a K.C., in 1899. He was for several years examiner in English at the University of Toronto, and was elected a Senator of the University in 1906. He has been counsel in many big criminal trials, and was junior counsel with B. B. Osier, K.C., in the Ford and Hyans murder trials. Later he prosecuted for the Crown, being appointed Crown Attorney for the County of York in 1891. He held this position until 1904, when he resigned to engage in general counsel work. He was engaged in many big trials, both criminal and civil. Notable among these were the defence of Carrie Davies and McCutcheon brothers. He was also retained in big inquiries, and as Liberal counsel at the small arms ammunition inquiry at Ottawa, had interesting passages with Sir Sam Hughes. He has also written and spoken on law matters. These are regarded as authoritative, and attracted much attention in legal circles. Mr. Dewart has been actively interested in politics for many years, although he has been a member of Parliament but a short time. Mr. Dewart’s first official connection with the Liberal party was in 1887, when he was President of the Young Men’s Liberal Club in Toronto. He held this position also the following year. His first attempt to get into the active arena as a member of Parliament was in 1904, when he contested South Toronto in the Liberal interest. He was defeated by A. C. Macdonell (now Senator) by a majority of 409. The next attempt was in 1911, when he was defeated in Centre York by Tom Wallace, M.P., but was successful in 1916, when he contested Southwest Toronto for the Legislature. He was a familiar speaker “on the hustings” throughout Ontario for years previous, and had taken a keen interest in Liberal organizations. As a lawyer he is famous throughout Canada, and has been in some of the biggest cases in the history of the courts. Success came in the by-election in Southwest Toronto for the Legislature in 1916. The seat had previously been Conservative by a majority of about 4,000. Mr. Dewart, running against Mr. James Norris, turned this into a Liberal majority of over 600. It was the first time in many years that Toronto had elected a Liberal. Mr. Dewart represents this riding in the Legislature at present. Since entering the House he has been one of the foremost in its affairs, and has tackled the Government on many problems. His speeches on the nickel question have received attention all over the Dominion. At the big Liberal Convention in Toronto in June, 1919, Mr. Dewart was selected as the Provincial Liberal Leader, by a most decisive majority, succeeding William Proudfoot, K.C. The new Liberal Leader is a speaker of logic and grace. His genial personality has made him many friends. He is also a good debater, as would be expected after a long and successful legal career. Mr. Dewart is senior member of the firm of Dewart, Harding, Maw & Hodgson, a Bencher of the Law Society of Canada, and also a member of the Bar of Manitoba. He married Emma Smith, daughter of the late H. B. Smith, of Sparta, Ontario. Mr. Dewart lives at No. 5 Elmesley Place, Toronto, and has a country place near Uxbridge.

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=Drayton, Philip Henry, K.C.=, Official Arbitrator and Chairman of the Court of Revision for the city of Toronto, was born in Barbados, West Indies, the son of Henry Drayton, a landed proprietor, and Jane (Holinsed) Drayton. He was educated in England by private tuition at Cheltenham College and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, from which he graduated with honours. On leaving Sandhurst, he was appointed to a commission in the 16th Regiment, from which he exchanged into the Royal Canadian Rifles. On their disbandment by the Imperial Government, he commanded a company in the Army Service Corps at Woolwich, England. Having sold out his commission, he spent some time on his estate in the West Indies, then came to Canada and studied law with the well-known firm of Bethune, Osier and Moss. During his student career he achieved the remarkable record of winning a scholarship in each of four successive years. On graduating, he entered into partnership with the late W. B. McMurrich, who was Mayor of Toronto in 1881-2. He subsequently practised for a number of years as head of the firm of Drayton & Dunbar, and was appointed to his present position in September, 1907. He first married Margaret Coverton, daughter of C. W. Coverton, M.D., by whom he had two sons and four daughters, the eldest son being Sir Henry Drayton, K.C., formerly Chief Commissioner of the Board of Railway Commissioners for Canada, and now Minister of Finance at Ottawa. In 1907, he married Isabel Griffith, daughter of the late W. E. Griffith, of the Ontario Civil Service, the issue being one daughter, deceased. For some time he was alderman for old St. Thomas’ Ward, and for three years chairman of the Board of Health. He was six years lecturer and examiner of the Ontario Law School. He is a member of the Sons of England and of St. George’s Society, of which he is a past-president. His position as official arbitrator is very onerous and responsible. While at college and in the military, Mr. Drayton was an ardent devotee of athletics, and won many prizes in different classes of sport, still retaining his reputation as a crack shot. His recreations are fishing and shooting. The family reside at 296 St. George Street, Toronto.

=Wright, George Craig= (Hamilton, Ont.), Manufacturer, was born in Hamilton, January 11, 1891, the son of H. G. Wright, manufacturer, and Kate Wright. He was educated at the Hamilton Collegiate Institute, graduating from there in 1908. In 1910 he became Lieutenant of the 13th Royal Regiment and, when the war broke out, enlisted with the First Contingent in the 4th Battalion and served continuously in France from February 11, 1915, until wounded in April, 1916. He went to the front as a Lieutenant and was made a Captain, April 23, 1915. Since July 5, 1916, he has been employed on Staff work in Canada. Mr. Wright is a member of the Barton Lodge of Masons, attends the Centenary Methodist Church, and belongs to the Hamilton Golf and Country Club.

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=Detwiler, Noah Bechtel= (Kitchener, Ont.), was born June 3, 1858, at Roseville, Waterloo Township and County, Ontario, the son of the late Rev. Enoch R. Detwiler, preacher and farmer of that place, and Abigail Bechtel. He received his education in the public schools and then took a course in a Toronto Business College. He married, December 14, 1880, Mary, the daughter of the late Jacob Y. Shantz, manufacturer in Berlin (now Kitchener), and a pioneer in the development of the Canadian North-West in the eighties and early nineties, and has one son and three daughters—Elden, Doctor of Osteopathy, London, Ont.; Lenora and Ethel at home, and Elizabeth, the wife of Prof. Herner, of Manitoba Agricultural College, residing in Winnipeg. Mr. Detwiler is a Protestant, worshipping with the United Brethren in Kitchener. In politics he is a real Independent, favoring no party, but always for to support the right man and the right principles if fortunate enough to have the opportunity of doing so. He was an early advocate of public ownership and his brother, D. B. Detwiler, of Kitchener, is the pioneer Hydro promoter in Canada, and is President of the Algoma Power Co., Ltd., and Chairman of the Great Waterways Union of Canada, and the proud father of two sons, with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in France. Mr. Noah B. Detwiler is actively engaged as President and Treasurer of the Hydro City Shoe Manufacturers, Limited, with office and works at No. 117 Weber Street, and as Secretary-Treasurer of the Algoma Power Co., with head office in Kitchener and plant at Michipicoten, Ont. When not engaged in business, Mr. Detwiler’s pursuits lie very largely along the line of social and religious work. He has been a director of the Y.M.C.A. for many years, also for a long time Sunday School Superintendent. Is local Secretary of the Social Service Council of Canada, and has always been an advocate of temperance. His reputation for good judgment and reliability is shown by his being executor or trustee for several estates, and while Mr. Detwiler is mild and affable in manner his clear cut style shows that confidence in him will not be misplaced. The family reside at No. 105 Queen Street North, where at this point the environment is quite in harmony with its name.

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=Pullan, E.= (Toronto, Ont.), wholesale merchant, was born at Telz, Russia, in 1866, the son of Bernard and Emily Pullan. Leaving home at the early age of fourteen, he went to England and migrated to Canada four years later, where he worked in different capacities for two years in various parts of Western Ontario, and started in his present business of dealer in paper stock and sterilized wiping rags in 1888. Mr. Pullan married Bertha, daughter of Abraham Helman, by whom he has ten children: Martha, Harry, Joel, Dora, Bessie, Jennie, Rita, Gordon, Helen, and Emmanuel. He is a Hebrew in religion, independent in politics, and a member of the Board of Trade, of the Jewish Board of Arbitration and of the United Hebrew Charities, all of Toronto.

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=Nicholson, Arthur Edwin, O.A.A.=, of 46 Queen Street, St. Catharines, Ont., is one of the leading architects of the Niagara peninsula. He was born at Buffalo, N.Y., on June 22, 1881, the son of Edwin Charles Nicholson and his wife Alice Richings. The father was a builder and contractor, and the subject of this sketch was educated at the public schools of St. Catharines. Deciding to adopt the profession of architect, he went to Toronto in 1901, and on October 14 of that year was articled for three and a half years to the firm of Gordon & Helliwell, architects of that city. His articles expired in April, 1905, and on the eighth of May in that year he was admitted to membership in the Ontario Association of Architects. Returning to St. Catharines he has built up a large and lucrative practice and designed many of the handsomest buildings and residences in his district. He is a member of the Public School Board in that city, and belongs to the Masonic order, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Sons of England. In religion he is an Anglican, and on June 12, 1906, married Viola, daughter of Archibald MacGregor, a manufacturer, of 236 St. Clarens Avenue, Toronto. He has two daughters, Alice and Viola.

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=Rutherford, Colonel, The Hon. Alexander Cameron, K.C., B.A., B.C.L., LL.D.=, Barrister-at-law (Edmonton, Alta.), is recognized as one of the chief citizens of the Province of Alberta. He was born at the village of Osgoode, Carleton County, Ont., on Feb. 2nd, 1857, the son of James Rutherford, a farmer, and Elizabeth (Cameron) Rutherford. He was educated at the Public School, Metcalfe High School, Woodstock College and McGill University. From the latter institution he graduated in 1881 with the degrees of B.A. and B.C.L. In addition he holds the honorary degree of LL.D. in three universities, McGill (Montreal), 1907; McMaster (Toronto), 1907; and the University of Alberta, 1908. He was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1885 and first practised at Ottawa as a member of the firm of Hodgins, Kidd & Rutherford. In 1895 he decided to go to the West and located in Strathcona (now South Edmonton) where he became Solicitor and Secretary-Treasurer of the Municipality, and Secretary-Treasurer of the School Board, offices he held for a considerable number of years. He was elected to the Legislative Council of the Northwest Territories in 1902 and was Deputy Speaker of that body from 1902 to 1905. In the latter year the Province of Alberta having been created he was elected to the Legislature and became the first Premier of that Province on Sept. 2nd, 1905, administering also the portfolios of Provincial Treasurer and Minister of Education. He represented Alberta at the Inter-provincial Conference of Premiers held at Ottawa in 1906, and was delegate to the Imperial Conference on Education in London, England, 1907. He was responsible for the foundation of the University of Alberta and has been a member of its Senate since its establishment; in 1912 he represented it at the Conference of the Universities of the Empire in London, Eng. On May 26th, 1910, he resigned his position as Premier owing to a division in the ranks of the Liberal members of the Legislature, although as leader he had carried the general elections of 1905 and 1909. Under his regime as Premier all Provincial institutions were established as in the older Provinces of Canada, and in addition to the University he founded a Normal college for teacher-training. He also encouraged railway expansion and the development of the agricultural and coal-mining industries, and since 1909 has been a member of the Conservation Commission of Canada. In 1916 he was appointed a Director of the National Service Board of Canada and he is also Honorary Colonel of the 194th, Edmonton Battalion, a Highland Battalion of the C.E.F. He is a member of the Edmonton Hospital Board and of the Board of Public Welfare, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and the Royal Colonial Institute. His business interests are wide. He is Vice-President of the Great Western Garment Co., Ltd., Edmonton; and a Director of the Great West Permanent Loan Co.; Canada National Fire Insurance Co., the Imperial Canadian Trust Co., and other financial institutions. He is a Liberal in politics, a Baptist in religion, and a member of the A.F. & A.M., I.O.O.F., I.O.F., and St. Andrew’s Society. In 1888 he married Mattie, daughter of the late William Birkett of Ottawa, Barrister-at-law, and has two children, Cecil, who served overseas in the late war as a Lieutenant of artillery, and Miss Hazel Rutherford. His recreation is motoring and he is a member of the Edmonton Club and the Canadian Club of his city.

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=Neill, Charles Ernest= (Montreal, Que.), General Manager of the Royal Bank of Canada, with Head Office at Montreal, was born at Fredericton, N.B., on May 27th, 1873, the son of James Stewart and Eliza Caroline Neill. He was educated by Dr. G. R. Parkin in the Collegiate School of his native town and graduated in 1889. After receiving his education he entered the banking business, and has risen to his present high position by promotion. He was Manager of the Royal Bank at Vancouver, B.C.; Supervisor of B.C. Branches; Chief Inspector Montreal; in 1907 was appointed Assistant General Manager, and in 1916 to his present position. To gain such rapid promotion in one of the largest banking institutions in the British Empire means something, and no person will dispute the qualifications of Mr. Neill to fill the same. He is a man with a large vision, knows business life thoroughly and has keen foresight and action. In October, 1901, he married Mary Louise Crerar, daughter of John Crerar, K.C., of Hamilton, Ont., and has no issue. Mr. Neill is a member of the following clubs:—St. James, Mount Royal, Forest and Stream, Montreal Hunt, Royal Montreal Golf, Montreal Curling, M.A.A.A., all of Montreal. Since the outbreak of the war Mr. Neill has taken an active part in all Patriotic work and has devoted much time and given freely of his money on all occasions. In religion he is a Presbyterian and resides at 503 Sherbourne St. West.

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=Panet, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Louis= (Ottawa, Ont.), son of the late Colonel the Honorable Charles Eugene Panet, who was for many years Deputy Minister of Militia and Defence, and one of a very distinguished French-Canadian family, which has given many distinguished soldiers, judges and legislators to the service of Canada. Born at Quebec City on December 15, 1870. Moved to Ottawa five years later, when his father, who had been a member of the Senate of Canada, resigned that position to accept the above-named office. Educated at Ottawa University, and at the age of nineteen entered the Civil Service of Canada as a junior in the Department of Militia and Defence. In 1904, Sir Frederick Borden, Minister of Militia and Defence, appointed Colonel Panet his private secretary, in which capacity he acted for seven years, attending three Imperial conferences in London, Eng., with his chief. In 1898, he became Secretary of the Canadian Defence Committee. In 1908, he was appointed Secretary of the Department. The outbreak of the war added enormously to Colonel Panet’s responsibilities, and he was officially mentioned in despatches for services rendered in Canada during the war period, 1914-1919. At present he holds the office of Secretary of Department of Militia and Defence and of President of the Pensions and Claims Board. In 1912 he was appointed President of the Board of Enquiry re claims of applicants for the Fenian Raid Volunteer Bounty. Among his brothers are Brigadier-General A. E. Panet, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., Royal Engineers, Imperial Army; Brigadier-General H. A. Panet, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., Royal Canadian Artillery; Brigadier-General E. de B. Panet, C.M.G., D.S.O., Royal Canadian Artillery; Lieutenant-Colonel A. de L. Panet, Canadian Ordnance Corps; and Lieutenant-Colonel A. H. Panet, of the same branch of the service. A. P. E. Panet, another brother, is a barrister. The subject of this sketch was married on October 25, 1899, to Muriel, daughter of Major-General Sir D. A. Macdonald, Kt., C.M.G., I.S.O., etc., and has one son. He is a Roman Catholic in religion, and his recreations are shooting, fishing, and golf. He is a member of the Royal Ottawa Golf, Ottawa Country, and Ottawa Hunt Clubs. His private address is “The Roxborough,” Ottawa.

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=Fielding, Hon. William Stevens, LL.D., D.C.L., P.C., M.P.=, one of the 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.

=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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Punctuation and obvious type-setting errors have been corrected without note. Other corrections are as noted below.

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